Patents by Inventor Makoto Kishi

Makoto Kishi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200265361
    Abstract: A plant evaluation system is configured to calculate performance of a plant while receiving setting of operating conditions of the plant and devices installed in the plant and simulating a secular change occurring in the plant during an evaluation target period included in the operating conditions. At least one of the devices is added, a selection of a component improving performance of a certain device is received, and an improvement of the performance of the device by the component is expected and the performance of the plant is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicants: Mitsubisi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki SUZUKI, Shintaro KUMANO, Katsuhiko ABE, Keisuke YAMAMOTO, Makoto KISHI, Yukihiko INOUE, Shun NIIZUMA
  • Patent number: 10698398
    Abstract: An alarm display system includes: a database configured to store a plurality of sets of predetermined events, occurrence probabilities of the events, checking situations of the events, and countermeasure policies of the events in association with the sets; an alarm information acquisition unit configured to acquire alarm information indicating that the events occur in monitoring target devices; a support information addition unit configured to add support information for supporting determination of a countermeasure for the alarm information according to information stored in the database, to the acquired alarm information; and a display unit configured to display alarm display information in which the support information is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Satoru Mori, Yuki Nakazawa, Toru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10636224
    Abstract: A characteristic evaluation device is for a gas turbine that includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine includes a processor. The processor calculates, in gas-turbine characteristics including characteristics of at least one of the compressor, the combustor, and the turbine, a correction value for correcting influence due to environmental conditions in which the gas turbine is placed based on operation data of the gas turbine. The processor also calculates the gas-turbine characteristics corrected based on the correction value, and evaluates the gas turbine by comparing the gas-turbine characteristics after correction with a predetermined reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Keita Fujii, Shingo Ito, Junichi Kobayashi, Kwin Malhotra, Naoki Sakagami, Masato Araki
  • Publication number: 20200110393
    Abstract: In an information processing device according to the present invention, an acquisition unit is configured to acquire a plurality of values related to a state quantity of a target device. An extraction unit is configured to extract a state value group constituted by a plurality of values related to an identical state quantity from the acquired plurality of values. A specification unit is configured to specify a value to be used to manage the target device from the state value group based on reliabilities of the values included in the state value group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Kumano, Makoto Kishi, Katsuhiko Abe, Keisuke Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200109671
    Abstract: An operation management device includes a state acquiring unit that acquires a measurement value of a first state amount indicating an operation state of a power generation plant, a state updating unit that updates an estimation value of a second state amount, which indicates the operation state of the power generation plant and is a state amount different from the first state amount, based on the measurement value of the first state amount, and a managing unit that manages the operation state of the power generation plant based on the estimation value of the second state amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamamoto, Shintaro Kumano, Makoto Kishi, Katsuhiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20200103883
    Abstract: An indicator detection system includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire operation data of a machine and operation history data indicating an operation history of the machine; an estimation unit configured to calculate a first estimated value of a parameter of the machine which is to be monitored on the basis of the operation data, the operation history data and an estimation model for estimating a value of the parameter at a time point corresponding to the operation history data for the parameter; and a state evaluating unit configured to evaluate a state of the machine on the basis of a difference between the first estimated value of the parameter from the estimation unit and a measured value or a second estimated value of the parameter included in the operation data acquired by the data acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Shintaro Kumano, Katsuhiko Abe, Keisuke Yamamoto, Yukihiko Inoue, Shun Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20200096984
    Abstract: An alarm display system includes: a database configured to store a plurality of sets of predetermined events, occurrence probabilities of the events, checking situations of the events, and countermeasure policies of the events in association with the sets; an alarm information acquisition unit configured to acquire alarm information indicating that the events occur in monitoring target devices; a support information addition unit configured to add support information for supporting determination of a countermeasure for the alarm information according to information stored in the database, to the acquired alarm information; and a display unit configured to display alarm display information in which the support information is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto KISHI, Satoru MORI, Yuki NAKAZAWA, Toru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200034407
    Abstract: In an information processing device according to the present invention, an estimation unit is configured to estimate each of a plurality of estimation values related to a target state quantity by using a plurality of models for explaining a target device. A probability specification unit is configured to specify each of a plurality of probabilities corresponding to the plurality of estimation values on the basis of a probability distribution of values of state quantities related to the target state quantity. A management value specification unit is configured to specify a value to be used for management of the target device on the basis of the plurality of estimation values and the plurality of probabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Kumano, Makoto Kishi, Keisuke Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20200029135
    Abstract: An acquisition unit is configured to acquire a measurement value of a first state quantity of a target device. A model determination unit is configured to determine a model for estimating a value of a second state quantity of the target device for each evaluation item for management of the target device. An estimation unit is configured to estimate the value of the second state quantity on the basis of the measurement value using the model determined by the model determination unit. A management unit calculates a value of the evaluation item using the value estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Kumano, Makoto Kishi, Keisuke Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Abe
  • Patent number: 10410301
    Abstract: A system for planning operation of a power plant capable of a first mode driving a power generator using a turbine and a second mode not driving the power generator using the turbine over a predetermined period. A determination unit determines whether a predicted power-selling price is higher than a power generation cost; and a planning unit calculates a loss index of the first and second modes in a case where the predicted selling price is equal to the generation cost or less within the predetermined period and formulates a plan to operate the power plant in a mode having a smaller loss index. The loss index of the first mode includes a power-selling loss that is a difference between the predicted selling price and the generation cost, and the loss index of the second mode includes a loss that is caused by not driving the power generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Atsushi Matsuo, Seiji Goto, Yo Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20190080523
    Abstract: A characteristic evaluation device is for a gas turbine that includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine includes a processor. The processor calculates, in gas-turbine characteristics including characteristics of at least one of the compressor, the combustor, and the turbine, a correction value for correcting influence due to environmental conditions in which the gas turbine is placed based on operation data of the gas turbine, calculates the gas-turbine characteristics corrected based on the correction value, and evaluates the gas turbine by comparing the gas-turbine characteristics after correction with a predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto KISHI, Keita FUJII, Shingo ITO, Junichi KOBAYASHI, Kwin MALHOTRA, Naoki SAKAGAMI, Masato ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20180040079
    Abstract: A system for planning operation of a power plant capable of a first mode driving a power generator using a turbine and a second mode not driving the power generator using the turbine over a predetermined period. A determination unit determines whether a predicted power-selling price is higher than a power generation cost; and a planning unit calculates a loss index of the first and second modes in a case where the predicted selling price is equal to the generation cost or less within the predetermined period and formulates a plan to operate the power plant in a mode having a smaller loss index. The loss index of the first mode includes a power-selling loss that is a difference between the predicted selling price and the generation cost, and the loss index of the second mode includes a loss that is caused by not driving the power generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto KISHI, Atsushi MATSUO, Seiji GOTO, Yo AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9664415
    Abstract: A hot-water heat pump that is capable of reducing installation costs and installation space and also reducing the heating time of a hot-water route, and a method of controlling the same are provided. The hot-water heat pump (1) is provided with a hot-water-heat-pump main unit (2) that includes a thermal output heat exchanger that absorbs heat from a heat-source route and outputs heat; hot-water route (5 and 6) that receive heat outputted from the thermal output heat exchanger; a three-way valve (4) provided in the outlet-side hot-water route (6); and a controller that controls the hot-water-heat-pump main unit (2) and the three-way valve (4), wherein the controller controls the size of openings of the three-way valve (4) so that a portion of the outlet-side hot-water route (6) leading out of the thermal output heat exchanger is guided to an upstream side of the thermal output heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Minoru Matsuo, Seiichi Okuda, Masaharu Nitta, Tatsuru Nagai
  • Patent number: 9631559
    Abstract: A fuel control method for a gas turbine with a combustor being formed of at least two groups of a pluralities of main nozzles for supplying fuel, and that supplies fuel from the main nozzles of all groups upon ignition of the combustor (S1), and supplies fuel from three main nozzles of a group A during subsequent acceleration of the gas turbine (S3). Because fuel is injected from a small number of the main nozzles during acceleration, the fuel flow rate per one main nozzle is increased, thereby increasing the fuel-air ratio (fuel flow rate/air flow rate) in a combustion region and improving the combustion characteristics. Accordingly, the generation of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon is reduced, whereby no bypass valve is required and manufacturing costs are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Tanimura, Shinji Akamatsu, Shinsuke Nakamura, Takashi Sonoda, Akihiko Saito, Makoto Kishi
  • Publication number: 20150354467
    Abstract: A gas turbine is provided with a combustor having a pilot nozzle, a first main nozzle, and a second main nozzle. A combustor control device has a load interruption detector which detects load interruption of the gas turbine, a pilot nozzle flow rate control unit which increases the amount of premixed fuel supplied to the pilot nozzle, based on the detection of the load interruption, a first main nozzle flow rate control unit which reduces the amount of premixed fuel supplied to the first main nozzles, based on the detection of the load interruption, and a second main nozzle flow rate control unit which reduces the amount of premixed fuel supplied to the second main nozzles to a predetermined amount, based on the detection of the load interruption, and then further reduces the amount of premixed fuel supplied after the elapse of a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto KISHI, Takashi SONODA, Shinya UCHIDA, Sosuke NAKAMURA, Yoshikazu MATSUMURA, Satoko FUJII, Tetsuya YABE, Ryoichi HAGA
  • Patent number: 8800296
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a fluctuation in the gas-turbine output in a nozzle switching period. In the nozzle switching period during which a first nozzle group that has been used is switched to a second nozzle group that is going to be used, the amounts of fuel supplied through the first nozzle group and the second nozzle group are adjusted by using at least one adjustment parameter registered in advance, the adjustment parameter registered in advance is updated according to the operating condition of the gas turbine, and the updated adjustment parameter is registered as an adjustment parameter to be used next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Akihiko Saito, Takashi Sonoda, Shinsuke Nakamura, Sosuke Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140190176
    Abstract: A fuel control method for a gas turbine with a combustor being formed of at least two groups of a pluralities of main nozzles for supplying fuel, and that supplies fuel from the main nozzles of all groups upon ignition of the combustor (S1), and supplies fuel from three main nozzles of a group A during subsequent acceleration of the gas turbine (S3). Because fuel is injected from a small number of the main nozzles during acceleration, the fuel flow rate per one main nozzle is increased, thereby increasing the fuel-air ratio (fuel flow rate/air flow rate) in a combustion region and improving the combustion characteristics. Accordingly, the generation of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon is reduced, whereby no bypass valve is required and manufacturing costs are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sosuke NAKAMURA, Satoshi TANIMURA, Shinji AKAMATSU, Shinsuke NAKAMURA, Takashi SONODA, Akihiko SAITO, Makoto KISHI
  • Patent number: 8749085
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine control device that is used in a generating facility including a gas turbine and a generator for generating power when at least rotational power of the gas turbine is transmitted, the gas turbine control device including a first control section for obtaining a first fuel control command for causing generator output to follow a generator output set value decided based on a demand load, where the first control section has a feedback control section (60), and the feedback control section (60) includes a subtraction section (62) for calculating a deviation of the generator output with respect to the generator output set value, a PI control section (64) provided in a later stage of control than the subtraction section (62), and a peak suppression section (66) for suppressing a peak in amplitude characteristics of the generator or a utility grid including the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Yasuo Fujishima, Takashi Sonoda, Koichiro Hirato, Yasutsugu Takata, Fuminori Fujii
  • Patent number: 8707671
    Abstract: A fuel control method for a gas turbine with a combustor being formed of at least two groups of a pluralities of main nozzles for supplying fuel, and that supplies fuel from the main nozzles of all groups upon ignition of the combustor (S1), and supplies fuel from three main nozzles of a group A during subsequent acceleration of the gas turbine (S3). Because fuel is injected from a small number of the main nozzles during acceleration, the fuel flow rate per one main nozzle is increased, thereby increasing the fuel-air ratio (fuel flow rate/air flow rate) in a combustion region and improving the combustion characteristics. Accordingly, the generation of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon is reduced, whereby no bypass valve is required and manufacturing costs are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Tanimura, Shinji Akamatsu, Shinsuke Nakamura, Takashi Sonoda, Akihiko Saito, Makoto Kishi
  • Publication number: 20130147208
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine control device that is used in a generating facility including a gas turbine and a generator for generating power when at least rotational power of the gas turbine is transmitted, the gas turbine control device including a first control section for obtaining a first fuel control command for causing generator output to follow a generator output set value decided based on a demand load, where the first control section has a feedback control section (60), and the feedback control section (60) includes a subtraction section (62) for calculating a deviation of the generator output with respect to the generator output set value, a PI control section (64) provided in a later stage of control than the subtraction section (62), and a peak suppression section (66) for suppressing a peak in amplitude characteristics of the generator or a utility grid including the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Yasuo Fujishima, Takashi Sonoda, Koichiro Hirato, Yasutsugu Takata, Fuminori Fujii