Patents by Inventor Masanori Yuri

Masanori Yuri 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: 11781445
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a turbine casing comprises a cooling air supply unit configured to supply a cooling air to an interior space of a casing of a gas turbine, and the cooling air supply unit includes: a first supply unit disposed in an upper half of the casing so as to face a first region and configured to supply the cooling air to the first region, where the first region is a region on a radially outer side of a plurality of combustors arranged annularly around a rotor; and a second supply unit disposed so as to face a second region and configured to supply the cooling air to the second region, where the second region is a region on a radially inner side of the plurality of combustors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shimmyo, Shunsuke Torii, Masanori Yuri, Naoya Tatsumi, Shingo Yamasue
  • Publication number: 20220090517
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a turbine casing comprises a cooling air supply unit configured to supply a cooling air to an interior space of a casing of a gas turbine, and the cooling air supply unit includes: a first supply unit disposed in an upper half of the casing so as to face a first region and configured to supply the cooling air to the first region, where the first region is a region on a radially outer side of a plurality of combustors arranged annularly around a rotor; and a second supply unit disposed so as to face a second region and configured to supply the cooling air to the second region, where the second region is a region on a radially inner side of the plurality of combustors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya SHIMMYO, Shunsuke TORII, Masanori YURI, Naoya TATSUMI, Shingo YAMASUE
  • Patent number: 11248466
    Abstract: An axial-direction passage, a forced vortex passage, a first blade array passage, and a second blade array passage are formed in a rotor shaft of a turbine. Cooling air from an air extraction port of a compressor flows through the axial-direction passage which extends in an axial direction. The forced vortex passage is connected to the axial-direction passage and extends outwards in the radial direction relative to an axial line from a connecting portion between the forced vortex passage and the axial-direction passage. The first blade array passage is connected to an end portion on the outer side in the radial direction of the forced vortex passage and guides cooling air to a first blade row among a plurality of blade rows. The second blade array passage is connected to an end portion of the forced vortex passage and guides cooling air to a second blade row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Masanori Yuri, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11118465
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine; wherein inclined surfaces are provided on inner surfaces of side walls neighboring in a circumferential direction at downstream end portions of transition pieces of combustors, the inclined surfaces being configured to increase a passage area of the transition pieces, a ratio (S/P) is from 0 to 0.2, where (P) is a pitch dimension of first stage vanes, and (S) is a circumferential dimension from an intermediate point between neighboring transition pieces to an upstream end of a first stage vane closest in the circumferential direction; and a ratio (L/P) is from 0.3 to 0.55, where (P) is the pitch dimension, and (L) is an axial dimension from a downstream end of the transition piece to the upstream end of the first stage vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Satoshi Mizukami, Keisuke Matsuyama, Satoshi Tanimura, Masanori Yuri, Shunsuke Torii, Hiroaki Kishida
  • Patent number: 10670039
    Abstract: A rotor shaft has: an inlet flow passage through which gas inside a gas compression flow passage flows into an outer cavity of a downstream-side cavity group; a radial flow passage that provides communication between the outer cavity and an axial communication cavity of the downstream-side cavity group; an axial flow passage that provides communication between the axial communication cavity of the downstream-side cavity group and the axial communication cavity of an upstream-side cavity group; another radial flow passage that provides communication between the axial communication cavity and the outer cavity of the upstream-side cavity group; and an outlet flow passage through which the gas inside the outer cavity of the upstream-side cavity group flows out into the gas compression flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Masanori Yuri, Shinya Hashimoto, Junichiro Masada, Yuji Komagome, Masato Araki
  • Patent number: 10544685
    Abstract: A turbine vane (3) includes: a vane body (21); a plate-like inner shroud (22) provided at a radially inner end of the vane body (21); and a plate-like outer shroud (23) provided at a radially outer end of the vane body (21). The vane body (21) includes a serpentine channel (30) which is formed so as to meander inside the vane body (21) in the radial direction and through which a cooling medium flows. The inner shroud (22) includes a cooling path (40) which has one end open at the downstream end side of the serpentine channel (30) and the other end open at a trailing edge (22D) of the inner shroud (22) and through which the serpentine channel (30) communicates with the outside of the inner shroud (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Shunsuke Torii, Masanori Yuri
  • Publication number: 20180209282
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine; wherein inclined surfaces are provided on inner surfaces of side walls neighboring in a circumferential direction at downstream end portions of transition pieces of combustors, the inclined surfaces being configured to increase a passage area of the transition pieces, a ratio (S/P) is from 0 to 0.2, where (P) is a pitch dimension of first stage vanes, and (S) is a circumferential dimension from an intermediate point between neighboring transition pieces to an upstream end of a first stage vane closest in the circumferential direction; and a ratio (L/P) is from 0.3 to 0.55, where (P) is the pitch dimension, and (L) is an axial dimension from a downstream end of the transition piece to the upstream end of the first stage vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuro SAKAMOTO, Satoshi MIZUKAMI, Keisuke MATSUYAMA, Satoshi TANIMURA, Masanori YURI, Shunsuke TORII, Hiroaki KISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180051710
    Abstract: A rotor shaft has: an inlet flow passage through which gas inside a gas compression flow passage flows into an outer cavity of a downstream-side cavity group; a radial flow passage that provides communication between the outer cavity and an axial communication cavity of the downstream-side cavity group; an axial flow passage that provides communication between the axial communication cavity of the downstream-side cavity group and the axial communication cavity of an upstream-side cavity group; another radial flow passage that provides communication between the axial communication cavity and the outer cavity of the upstream-side cavity group; and an outlet flow passage through which the gas inside the outer cavity of the upstream-side cavity group flows out into the gas compression flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Keita TAKAMURA, Masanori YURI, Shinya HASHIMOTO, Junichiro MASADA, Yuji KOMAGOME, Masato ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20170234135
    Abstract: An axial-direction passage, a forced vortex passage, a first blade array passage, and a second blade array passage are formed in a rotor shaft of a turbine. Cooling air from an air extraction port of a compressor flows through the axial-direction passage which extends in an axial direction. The forced vortex passage is connected to the axial-direction passage and extends outwards in the radial direction relative to an axial line from a connecting portion between the forced vortex passage and the axial-direction passage. The first blade array passage is connected to an end portion on the outer side in the radial direction of the forced vortex passage and guides cooling air to a first blade row among a plurality of blade rows. The second blade array passage is connected to an end portion of the forced vortex passage and guides cooling air to a second blade row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Keita TAKAMURA, Masanori YURI, Shinya HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170198594
    Abstract: A turbine vane (3) includes: a vane body (21); a plate-like inner shroud (22) provided at a radially inner end of the vane body (21); and a plate-like outer shroud (23) provided at a radially outer end of the vane body (21). The vane body (21) includes a serpentine channel (30) which is formed so as to meander inside the vane body (21) in the radial direction and through which a cooling medium flows. The inner shroud (22) includes a cooling path (40) which has one end open at the downstream end side of the serpentine channel (30) and the other end open at a trailing edge (22D) of the inner shroud (22) and through which the serpentine channel (30) communicates with the outside of the inner shroud (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita TAKAMURA, Shunsuke TORII, Masanori YURI
  • Publication number: 20140216055
    Abstract: In this gas turbine, at a downstream portion of a transition piece of a combustor, inner surfaces of a pair of lateral walls facing each other in a circumferential direction of a turbine rotor form inclination surfaces that incline down to a downstream end of the transition piece in a direction approaching the transition piece of another adjacent combustor that gradually draws closer as it goes to the downstream side of the transition piece in an axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Keisuke Matsuyama, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Masanori Yuri, Hiroaki Kishida, Shunsuke Torii
  • Patent number: 8596976
    Abstract: The amount of cooling air (cooling medium) can be reduced, and low-temperature cooling air is prevented from being blown out through film cooling holes. Part of a cooling medium impingement-cooling an inner circumferential surface of a blade main body located on a ventral side further impingement-cools the inner circumferential surface of the blade main body located on a dorsal side and is blown out through film cooling holes in the blade main body that are located on the dorsal side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Tomoko Hashimoto, Masanori Yuri, Masamitsu Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20130280094
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine blade capable of improving the heat-conducting capacity of a serpentine channel. In a gas turbine blade (1) including a serpentine channel in which a plurality of cooling channels (12), extending from the base end side to the distal end side of the blade, are provided from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the blade, at least two of these cooling channels (12) being connected in a folded manner at the base end or distal end, the serpentine channel is formed such that the channel cross-sectional area becomes sequentially smaller from the cooling channel (12) provided at the extreme upstream side of the serpentine channel to the cooling channel (12) provided at the extreme downstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Satoshi HADA, Masanori YURI
  • Patent number: 8465255
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine blade capable of improving the heat-conducting capacity of a serpentine channel. In a gas turbine blade including a serpentine channel in which a plurality of cooling channels, extending from the base end side to the distal end side of the blade, are provided from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the blade, at least two of these cooling channels being connected in a folded manner at the base end or distal end, the serpentine channel is formed such that the channel cross-sectional area becomes sequentially smaller from the cooling channel provided at the extreme upstream side of the serpentine channel to the cooling channel provided at the extreme downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Masanori Yuri
  • Patent number: 8079802
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a shaft directional passage provided to a rotating member that rotates along a central axis of a rotor, which is a rotating axis of the rotating member, about the central axis, or a rotating axis of the rotating member, and in which cooling air flows along a direction of the rotating axis of the rotor, a plurality of radial directional passages provided in a circumferential direction of the rotating member, and compressing the cooling air by being provided outwardly from the center of the rotor, in which one end of each of the radial directional passages is communicated with the shaft directional passage and the other end is communicated with exterior of the rotating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Shinya Hashimoto, Masanori Yuri
  • Patent number: 8079815
    Abstract: In a turbine blade in which a tabular rib partitioning the blade into a pressure side and a suction side is provided in substantially the midsection of the blade along a center line connecting a leading edge and a trailing edge, and at least two cavities of which a cavity at the suction side and a cavity at the pressure side do not communicate with each other are provided, a pressure adjustment member for cooling air flowing into and out of the cavity at the suction side reduces the amount of cooling air flowing into the suction side, relative to the pressure side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Tomoko Hashimoto, Masanori Yuri, Keizo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 8079803
    Abstract: The present invention includes an introducing passage that is provided within a turbine stationary blade fixed within a turbine casing and that communicates an interior of the turbine casing with an exterior thereof; a nozzle that is provided in an inner circumference of the turbine stationary blade in a manner that the nozzle communicates with the introducing passage and that includes an outlet facing the opening of the rotor cavity and a swirler at the outlet; and a pressurizing passage that communicates a cooling passage with a rotor cavity. In this arrangement, the outlet of the nozzle and the connecting opening of the pressurizing passage are arranged so that distances of the outlet and of the connecting opening from the central axis line in the radial direction of the rotor are the same distance r.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Shinya Hashimoto, Masanori Yuri
  • Publication number: 20110103971
    Abstract: The amount of cooling air (cooling medium) can be reduced, and low-temperature cooling air is prevented from being blown out through film cooling holes. Part of a cooling medium impingement-cooling an inner circumferential surface of a blade main body located on a ventral side further impingement-cools the inner circumferential surface of the blade main body located on a dorsal side and is blown out through film cooling holes in the blade main body that are located on the dorsal side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Tomoko Hashimoto, Masanori Yuri, Masamitsu Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20110044822
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine blade capable of improving the heat-conducting capacity of a serpentine channel. In a gas turbine blade including a serpentine channel in which a plurality of cooling channels, extending from the base end side to the distal end side of the blade, are provided from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the blade, at least two of these cooling channels being connected in a folded manner at the base end or distal end, the serpentine channel is formed such that the channel cross-sectional area becomes sequentially smaller from the cooling channel provided at the extreme upstream side of the serpentine channel to the cooling channel provided at the extreme downstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Masanori Yuri
  • Publication number: 20100150734
    Abstract: In a turbine blade in which a tabular rib partitioning the blade into a pressure side and a suction side is provided in substantially the midsection of the blade along a center line connecting a leading edge and a trailing edge, and at least two cavities of which a cavity at the suction side and a cavity at the pressure side do not communicate with each other are provided, a pressure adjustment member for cooling air flowing into and out of the cavity at the suction side reduces the amount of cooling air flowing into the suction side, relative to the pressure side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Tomoko Hashimoto, Masanori Yuri, Keizo Tsukagoshi