Patents by Inventor Masahide Kazari

Masahide Kazari 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).

  • Patent number: 11421599
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor including a fuel injector having a plurality of annular fuel injection portions in each of which multiple fuel injection holes are formed, is provided with: an auxiliary fuel introduction passage for introducing an auxiliary fuel that is to be supplied to an auxiliary fuel injection portion that is a part of the plurality of annular fuel injection portions, into the fuel injector; a first main fuel introduction passage provided with a flow regulating valve for introducing a main fuel that is to be supplied to a main fuel injection portion that is an annular fuel injection portion other than the auxiliary fuel injection portion, into the fuel injector; and a second main fuel introduction passage provided with a flow regulating valve for introducing the main fuel that is to be supplied to the auxiliary fuel injection portion, into the fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Masahide Kazari, Kunio Okada, Kazuki Koga
  • Patent number: 10775047
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a combustion liner having a combustion chamber formed therein; and a fuel injector mounted to a top portion of the combustion liner, and including a fuel injection member having a plurality of fuel injection annular portions and an air guide member including a plurality of combustion air annular portions that guide air for combustion. The fuel injection annular portions and the combustion air annular portions are arranged concentrically and alternately. The fuel injector injects fuel and air into the combustion chamber. Each of the fuel injection annular portions includes a plurality of fuel injection holes that are open in a radial direction thereof, and each of the combustion air annular portions includes a plurality of air guide grooves that are open in an axial direction thereof, and guide the air to the fuel jetted from the fuel injection holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, B&B AGEMA GmbH
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Masahide Kazari, Kunio Okada, Junichi Kitajima, Harald Funke, Karsten Kusterer, Anis Haj Ayed
  • Patent number: 10634356
    Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle (31) of the present invention comprises a pre-mixing passage (34) which mixes fuel (103) and air (102) to generate an air-fuel mixture; and an injection port (33) which is located downstream of the pre-mixing passage (34) and injects the air-fuel mixture into a combustion chamber (26). The fuel injection port (33) has a slit shape and a width that is less than a dimension that is twice as large as a quenching distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Kunio Okada, Seiji Yamashita, Masahide Kazari, Takeo Oda
  • Patent number: 10605165
    Abstract: An aircraft engine apparatus (1) includes: a rotating shaft (6); a fan (10) driven by the rotating shaft; a fan case surrounding the fan from outside in a radial direction of the rotating shaft; a nose cone (13) disposed upstream of the fan; a casing (2) that accommodates at least part of the rotating shaft and supports the fan case; a first motive force transmitter (9) that transmits motive force of the rotating shaft to the fan; and a support member (12) disposed inward of the first motive force transmitter in the radial direction, the support member coupling the nose cone to the casing such that the support member supports the nose cone in a stationary state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Abe, Tatsuhiko Goi, Masahide Kazari, Hidenori Arisawa
  • Publication number: 20200080480
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor including a fuel injector having a plurality of annular fuel injection portions in each of which multiple fuel injection holes are formed, is provided with: an auxiliary fuel introduction passage for introducing an auxiliary fuel that is to be supplied to an auxiliary fuel injection portion that is a part of the plurality of annular fuel injection portions, into the fuel injector; a first main fuel introduction passage provided with a flow regulating valve for introducing a main fuel that is to be supplied to a main fuel injection portion that is an annular fuel injection portion other than the auxiliary fuel injection portion, into the fuel injector; and a second main fuel introduction passage provided with a flow regulating valve for introducing the main fuel that is to be supplied to the auxiliary fuel injection portion, into the fuel injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Masahide Kazari, Kunio Okada, Kazuki Koga
  • Patent number: 10570999
    Abstract: In a continuously variable transmission including: a first transmission unit including a first input disc and a first output disc; and a second transmission unit disposed such that a back surface of a second input disc is opposed to a back surface of the first input disc, an input gear shroud covering an input gear disposed between the back surfaces of the first and second input discs, a first input disc side surface shroud integrally provided to a first input disc support supporting the first input disc on a housing of the continuously variable transmission, and a second input disc side surface shroud integrally provided to a second input disc support supporting the second input disc on the housing of the continuously variable transmission, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Hideyuki Imai, Hidenori Arisawa, Masahide Kazari
  • Patent number: 10415690
    Abstract: A toroidal-type stepless transmission includes: at least a pair of an input disc and an output disc; a power roller tiltably provided between the pair of the input disc and the output disc, the power roller being configured to transmit a driving force from the input disc to the output disc; and disc shrouds covering the input disc and the output disc, respectively. Each of the disc shrouds has an outer peripheral portion formed with an oil discharge groove configured to discharge an oil within each disc shroud to the outside, the oil discharge groove penetrating from an inner surface of the disc shroud to an outer surface of the disc shroud and extending in a circumferential direction of the disc shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Hideyuki Imai, Tatsuhiko Goi, Hidenori Arisawa, Masahide Kazari
  • Patent number: 10302304
    Abstract: A fuel injector (23) comprises a cylindrical passage (32) which opens in a combustion chamber (26), a fuel introduction passage (34) which guides fuel to a region of the cylindrical passage (32) which is closer to the combustion chamber (26), and an air introduction passage (35) which guides compressed air to the cylindrical passage (32) at a location that is upstream of a location at which the fuel is introduced to the cylindrical passage (32), wherein the fuel introduction passage (34) guides the fuel in a tangential direction of the cylindrical passage (32) in a transverse sectional view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Kunio Okada, Seiji Yamashita, Masahide Kazari, Takeo Oda
  • Patent number: 10041417
    Abstract: The gas turbine system (GT) includes a combustor (2) having a fuel injection nozzle assembly (4) for jetting hydrogen gas (H) and pure water (W), a reservoir (12) for pooling the pure water (W) to be supplied to the combustor (2), a gas compressing device (10) for boosting the hydrogen gas (H) to be supplied to the combustor (2), a fuel supply passage (6) for guiding the boosted hydrogen gas (H) towards the combustor (2), and a pressurizing passage (16) communicating between the reservoir (12) and the fuel supply passage (6) for pressurizing the pure water (W) by means of the boosted hydrogen gas (H).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Masahide Kazari, Hiroyuki Kashihara, Junichi Kitajima
  • Patent number: 10018053
    Abstract: In a structure for internally cooling a turbine blade, a cooling medium passage is provided in the turbine blade. The cooling medium passage has a shape in which a plurality of cylindrical spaces, each having substantially cylindrical shape, extending in parallel with each other partially overlap each other. A cooling medium supply passage that supplies a cooling medium to the cooling medium passage is connected to a portion of the cooling medium passage that includes a peripheral wall, in a direction that forms an acute angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of the cooling medium passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, B&B AGEMA GmbH
    Inventors: Tomoki Taniguchi, Ryozo Tanaka, Takeshi Horiuchi, Takao Sugimoto, Masahide Kazari, Karsten Kusterer, Dieter Bohn, Gang Lin
  • Patent number: 9945233
    Abstract: A double-jet film cooling structure includes: an injection port, formed on a wall surface facing a high-temperature gas passage; a main passage as a straight round hole to supply cooling medium to the injection port; a pair of branch passages as straight round holes; and communication passages connecting the main passage to the branch passages. The main passage and the branch passages have same constant inner diameters. Each communication passages has an envelope surface obtained by continuously arranging straight round holes each passing a branch point and having the constant inner diameter. Transverse injection angles of the branch passages relative to gas flow along the wall surface are oriented in opposite directions. An angle between axial direction of the main passage and the wall surface is greater than an angle formed between axial direction of branch passage and the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, B&B AGEMA GmbH
    Inventors: Ryozo Tanaka, Takao Sugimoto, Masahide Kazari, Tomoki Taniguchi, Karsten Kusterer, Dieter Bohn, Nurettin Tekin
  • Publication number: 20170362999
    Abstract: An aircraft engine apparatus (1) includes: a rotating shaft (6); a fan (10) driven by the rotating shaft; a fan case surrounding the fan from outside in a radial direction of the rotating shaft; a nose cone (13) disposed upstream of the fan; a casing (2) that accommodates at least part of the rotating shaft and supports the fan case; a first motive force transmitter (9) that transmits motive force of the rotating shaft to the fan; and a support member (12) disposed inward of the first motive force transmitter in the radial direction, the support member coupling the nose cone to the casing such that the support member supports the nose cone in a stationary state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito ABE, Tatsuhiko GOI, Masahide KAZARI, Hidenori ARISAWA
  • Publication number: 20170298817
    Abstract: Provided is a combustor that has an efficient cooling structure. Also provided is a gas turbine engine that is provided with the combustor. A combustor that is for a gas turbine and that is provided with a combustion liner and with a fuel injection part that is provided to one end of the combustion liner so as to pass through the combustion liner. The combustion liner is provided with an inner liner that forms a combustion chamber inside the combustion liner, with a coolant flow path that is an annular space that is formed outside the inner liner, and with a coolant supply means that supplies hydrogen gas to the coolant flow path. In this combustor, the inner liner that is the combustion chamber is cooled by the hydrogen gas that flows in the coolant flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi HORIUCHI, Atsushi HORIKAWA, Seiji YAMASHITA, Masahide KAZARI, Takeo ODA
  • Publication number: 20170299188
    Abstract: A fuel injector (23) comprises a cylindrical passage (32) which opens in a combustion chamber (26), a fuel introduction passage (34) which guides fuel to a region of the cylindrical passage (32) which is closer to the combustion chamber (26), and an air introduction passage (35) which guides compressed air to the cylindrical passage (32) at a location that is upstream of a location at which the fuel is introduced to the cylindrical passage (32), wherein the fuel introduction passage (34) guides the fuel in a tangential direction of the cylindrical passage (32) in a transverse sectional view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi HORIKAWA, Kunio OKADA, Seiji YAMASHITA, Masahide KAZARI, Takeo ODA
  • Publication number: 20170284677
    Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle (31) of the present invention comprises a pre-mixing passage (34) which mixes fuel (103) and air (102) to generate an air-fuel mixture; and an injection port (33) which is located downstream of the pre-mixing passage (34) and injects the air-fuel mixture into a combustion chamber (26). The fuel injection port (33) has a slit shape and a width that is less than a dimension that is twice as large as a quenching distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi HORIKAWA, Kunio OKADA, Seiji YAMASHITA, Masahide KAZARI, Takeo ODA
  • Publication number: 20170254270
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine system 1 comprises a gas turbine engine 2; a purge gas supply line 4 connected to a first connection section P1 on the fuel supply line 3 connected to the gas turbine engine 2; a fuel discharge line 7 connected to a second connection section P2 of the fuel supply line 3 which is located downstream of the first connection section P1; a blowoff valve 72 disposed on the fuel discharge line 7, and a passage switching device 50 which performs switching of the fuel supply line 3 between a fuel supply mode and a purge mode. A check valve 73 and a flame arrester 74 are disposed on the fuel discharge line 7 at locations that are downstream of the blowoff valve 72.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunio OKADA, Atsushi HORIKAWA, Seiji YAMASHITA, Masahide KAZARI, Hikaru SANO
  • Publication number: 20170082291
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a combustion liner having a combustion chamber formed therein; and a fuel injector mounted to a top portion of the combustion liner, and including a fuel injection member having a plurality of fuel injection annular portions and an air guide member including a plurality of combustion air annular portions that guide air for combustion. The fuel injection annular portions and the combustion air annular portions are arranged concentrically and alternately. The fuel injector injects fuel and air into the combustion chamber. Each of the fuel injection annular portions includes a plurality of fuel injection holes that are open in a radial direction thereof, and each of the combustion air annular portions includes a plurality of air guide grooves that are open in an axial direction thereof, and guide the air to the fuel jetted from the fuel injection holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, B&B AGEMA GmbH
    Inventors: Atsushi HORIKAWA, Masahide KAZARI, Kunio OKADA, Junichi KITAJIMA, Harald FUNKE, Karsten KUSTERER, Anis Haj AYED
  • Patent number: 9599411
    Abstract: Provided is a film cooling structure capable of suppressing a cooling medium film from being separated from a wall surface, to increase a film efficiency on the wall surface and thereby-cool the wall surface effectively. One or more pairs of injection holes are formed on a wall surface facing a passage of high-temperature gas to inject a cooling medium to the passage. A single supply passage is formed inside the wall to supply the cooling medium to the injection holes. A separating section is provided between the injection holes in a location forward relative to rear ends of the injection holes to separate the cooling medium into components flowing to the injection holes. An injection direction of the cooling medium is inclined relative to a gas flow direction so that the cooling medium forms swirl flows that push the cooling medium against the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, B&B AGEMA GmbH
    Inventors: Ryozo Tanaka, Masahide Kazari, Takao Sugimoto, Karsten Kusterer, Dieter Bohn, Anas Elyas
  • Publication number: 20170074521
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a combustion liner having a combustion chamber formed therein; a fuel injector mounted to a top portion of the combustion liner, and including a fuel injection member having a plurality of fuel injection annular portions and an air guide member including a plurality of combustion air annular portions that guide air for combustion; and a supplemental burner. The fuel injection annular portions and the combustion air annular portions are arranged concentrically and alternately. The fuel injector injects fuel and air into the combustion chamber. Each of the fuel injection annular portions includes a plurality of fuel injection holes that are open in a radial direction thereof, and each of the combustion air annular portions includes a plurality of air guide groove that are open in an axial direction thereof, and guide the air to the fuel jetted from the fuel injection holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi HORIKAWA, Masahide KAZARI, Kunio OKADA, Junichi KITAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170030439
    Abstract: In a continuously variable transmission including: a first transmission unit including a first input disc and a first output disc; and a second transmission unit disposed such that a back surface of a second input disc is opposed to a back surface of the first input disc, an input gear shroud covering an input gear disposed between the back surfaces of the first and second input discs, a first input disc side surface shroud integrally provided to a first input disc support supporting the first input disc on a housing of the continuously variable transmission, and a second input disc side surface shroud integrally provided to a second input disc support supporting the second input disc on the housing of the continuously variable transmission, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichiro TANAKA, Hideyuki IMAI, Hidenori ARISAWA, Masahide KAZARI