Patents by Inventor Masaru Takamatsu

Masaru Takamatsu 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: 11268409
    Abstract: A power plant system can comprise a first gas turbine having a first efficiency to produce a first exhaust flow, a first electrical generator driven by the first gas turbine, a first heat recovery steam generator to receive the first exhaust flow and generate a first steam flow, a second gas turbine having a second efficiency less than the first efficiency to produce a second exhaust flow, a second electrical generator driven by the second gas turbine, and an exhaust gas conditioning device to reduce temperature of the second exhaust flow, a steam turbine driving a steam electrical generator to receive the first steam flow. The second gas turbine can be selectively operated to generate electricity with the second electrical generator under peak loading conditions when a sum of output from the steam electrical generator and the first electrical generator are less than an electrical demand from a grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc., Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Scott Cloyd, Jiro Asakuno, Toshihiko Toyota, Masaru Takamatsu, Michael Ducker, David Hunt
  • Patent number: 11085335
    Abstract: A remodeling method of a combined cycle plant including gas turbines; heat recovery steam generators provided corresponding to number of the gas turbines and configured to recover heat of flue gas discharged from the gas turbines and produce steam by the recovered heat; ducts configured to guide the flue gas from the gas turbines toward the respective heat recovery steam generators; and a steam turbine configured to be rotationally driven by the steam produced by the heat recovery steam generators. The remodeling method of a combined cycle plant includes: removing gas turbines and ducts; installing, in place of the two gas turbines, a new gas turbine that is higher in efficiency and smaller in number than the two gas turbines; and installing, in place of the ducts, a distribution duct configured to distribute and guide flue gas from the new gas turbine to two heat recovery steam generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Toyota, Kuniaki Aoyama, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20200263569
    Abstract: A power plant system can comprise a first gas turbine having a first efficiency to produce a first exhaust flow, a first electrical generator driven by the first gas turbine, a first heat recovery steam generator to receive the first exhaust flow and generate a first steam flow, a second gas turbine having a second efficiency less than the first efficiency to produce a second exhaust flow, a second electrical generator driven by the second gas turbine, and an exhaust gas conditioning device to reduce temperature of the second exhaust flow, a steam turbine driving a steam electrical generator to receive the first steam flow. The second gas turbine can be selectively operated to generate electricity with the second electrical generator under peak loading conditions when a sum of output from the steam electrical generator and the first electrical generator are less than an electrical demand from a grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Scott Cloyd, Jiro Asakuno, Toshihiko Toyota, Masaru Takamatsu, Michael Ducker, David Hunt
  • Patent number: 10612783
    Abstract: A combustor replacement method and a gas turbine plant capable of efficiently replacing a combustor using an existing facility. The combustor replacement method includes a step of separating, from a plurality of fuel supply systems, a first combustor that includes a plurality of nozzle systems connected to any of the plurality of fuel supply systems and supplied with fuel from the connected fuel supply systems, and removing the first combustor from a gas turbine plant. The method includes a step of attaching a second combustor that includes fewer nozzle systems than the first combustor to the gas turbine plant, and a step of providing communication between the fuel supply systems connected to the same nozzle system of the second combustor by a coupling pipe, and coupling the fuel supply systems and the second combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Fujii, Shin Akazawa, Nobukazu Ishii, Masahiro Matsubara, Masayuki Murakami, Fuminori Fujii, Hiroshi Tanabe, Masaru Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20190178112
    Abstract: Provided is a remodeling method of a combined cycle plant including gas turbines; heat recovery steam generators provided corresponding to number of the gas turbines and configured to recover heat of flue gas discharged from the gas turbines and produce steam by the recovered heat; ducts configured to guide the flue gas from the gas turbines toward the respective heat recovery steam generators; and a steam turbine configured to be rotationally driven by the steam produced by the heat recovery steam generators. The remodeling method of a combined cycle plant includes: removing gas turbines and ducts; installing, in place of the two gas turbines, a new gas turbine that is higher in efficiency and smaller in number than the two gas turbines; and installing, in place of the ducts, a distribution duct configured to distribute and guide flue gas from the new gas turbine to two heat recovery steam generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOYOTA, Kuniaki AOYAMA, Jiro ASAKUNO, Masaru TAKAMATSU
  • Patent number: 9567909
    Abstract: An intake air cooling system 100 for a gas turbine 18 is provided with: an intake duct 12 for leading intake air taken in from an intake-air inlet 22 to a compressor 14 of the gas turbine; a cooling part provided in the intake duct and configured to cool the intake air by heat exchange with a cooling medium which is introduced from an outside; a protruding step part 13 formed in a convex shape protruding from bottom surfaces 12a1, 12a2 of the intake duct disposed on a downstream side of the cooling part; and at least one drain hole 110 formed in the bottom surfaces 12a1, 12a2 of the intake duct disposed on the downstream side of the cooling part so as to discharge drain water, generated on a surface of the cooling part and dropping from the surface, to an outside of the intake duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Fujii, Yasuoki Tomita, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu, Tadakuni Nishio, Tatsunao Nagashima, Katsuhiro Hotta, Masashi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20170030583
    Abstract: A combustor replacement method and a gas turbine plant capable of efficiently replacing a combustor using an existing facility. The combustor replacement method includes a step of separating, from a plurality of fuel supply systems, a first combustor that includes a plurality of nozzle systems connected to any of the plurality of fuel supply systems and supplied with fuel from the connected fuel supply systems, and removing the first combustor from a gas turbine plant. The method includes a step of attaching a second combustor that includes fewer nozzle systems than the first combustor to the gas turbine plant, and a step of providing communication between the fuel supply systems connected to the same nozzle system of the second combustor by a coupling pipe, and coupling the fuel supply systems and the second combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Keita FUJII, Shin AKAZAWA, Nobukazu ISHII, Masahiro MATSUBARA, Masayuki MURAKAMI, Fuminori FUJII, Hiroshi TANABE, Masaru TAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20160326961
    Abstract: A gas turbine cooling system includes an organic Rankine cycle in which a cycle medium repeatedly circulates through condensation and evaporation, an air-extraction line configured to extract compressed air from a compressor of a gas turbine, a cooling apparatus for cooling the compressed air while heating and evaporating the cycle medium condensed in the organic Rankine cycle using heat of the compressed air passing through the air-extraction line, and a cooling air line configured to guide the compressed air cooled by the cooling apparatus to a high temperature section of the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuoki TOMITA, Eiji AKITA, Naoki SAKAGAMI, Takaaki NAGAKAWA, Jiro ASAKUNO, Masaru TAKAMATSU, Shin AKAZAWA, Yasuhiro TAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9458765
    Abstract: An intake air cooling system 100 for a gas turbine 18 is provided with: an intake duct 12 for leading intake air from an intake-air inlet 22 to a compressor 14 of the gas turbine, the intake duct having a vertical duct 12c and a manifold part 12d disposed on a downstream side of the vertical duct; a cooling part 26 provided in the intake duct to cool the intake air by heat exchange with a cooling medium which is introduced from an outside; a filter part 42 provided on an inlet side of the manifold part to remove impurities contained in the intake air introduced through the vertical duct; and a drain catcher 110 constituted by a gutter member provided immediately above the filter part along inner wall surfaces 12c1, 12c2 of the vertical duct, the drain catcher being configured to collect drain water flowing along the inner wall surfaces of the vertical duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Fujii, Yasuoki Tomita, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu, Tadakuni Nishio, Tatsunao Nagashima, Katsuhiro Hotta, Masashi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140290910
    Abstract: An intake air cooling system 100 for a gas turbine 18 is provided with: an intake duct 12 for leading intake air taken in from an intake-air inlet 22 to a compressor 14 of the gas turbine 18; a cooling part 26 provided in the intake duct to cool the intake air by heat exchange with a cooling medium introduced from an outside; a drain discharge line 102 connected to a part of the intake duct below an inlet 14a of the compressor so as to discharge drain water flowing along an inner peripheral surface of the intake duct; and a water seal part 104 provided in the drain discharge line 102 to keep water seal in a part of the drain discharge line 102 by a water pressure at least corresponding to an amount of a negative pressure in the vicinity of the inlet of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Fujii, Kohei Hidaka, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu, Tadakuni Nishio, Tatsunao Nagashima, Katsuhiro Hotta, Masashi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140290911
    Abstract: An intake air cooling system 100 for a gas turbine 18 is provided with: an intake duct 12 for leading intake air taken in from an intake-air inlet 22 to a compressor 14 of the gas turbine; a cooling part provided in the intake duct and configured to cool the intake air by heat exchange with a cooling medium which is introduced from an outside; a protruding step part 13 formed in a convex shape protruding from bottom surfaces 12a1, 12a2 of the intake duct disposed on a downstream side of the cooling part; and at least one drain hole 110 formed in the bottom surfaces 12a1, 12a2 of the intake duct disposed on the downstream side of the cooling part so as to discharge drain water, generated on a surface of the cooling part and dropping from the surface, to an outside of the intake duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Fujii, Yasuoki Tomita, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu, Tadakuni Nishio, Tatsunao Nagashima, Katsuhiro Hotta, Masashi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140290253
    Abstract: An intake air cooling system 100 for a gas turbine 18 is provided with: an intake duct 12 for leading intake air from an intake-air inlet 22 to a compressor 14 of the gas turbine, the intake duct having a vertical duct 12c and a manifold part 12d disposed on a downstream side of the vertical duct; a cooling part 26 provided in the intake duct to cool the intake air by heat exchange with a cooling medium which is introduced from an outside; a filter part 42 provided on an inlet side of the manifold part to remove impurities contained in the intake air introduced through the vertical duct; and a drain catcher 110 constituted by a gutter member provided immediately above the filter part along inner wall surfaces 12c1, 12c2 of the vertical duct, the drain catcher being configured to collect drain water flowing along the inner wall surfaces of the vertical duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Fujii, Yasuoki Tomita, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu, Tadakuni Nishio, Tatsunao Nagashima, Katsuhiro Hotta, Masashi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 6558990
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a SOI substrate (10) comprises the steps of: forming an oxide film (12) at cross-sectional both main surfaces and cross-sectional both end surfaces of a silicon substrate (11); forming a resist layer (13) on the oxide film (12) at cross-sectional both end surfaces of the substrate (11); and removing the oxide film (12) at those portions which are left from the covering of the resist layer (13), to thereby expose the both main surfaces of the substrate (11). Next, the resist layer (13) is removed to thereby leave the oxide film (12) at the both end surfaces of the substrate (11); and oxygen ions (I) are dosed into the substrate (11) from one of the exposed both main surfaces, followed by an anneal processing to thereby form an oxide layer (14) in a region at a predetermined depth from the one main surface of the substrate (11). The oxide film (12) left on the both end surfaces of the substrate (11) is then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corporation, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Takamatsu, Takashi Katakura, Toshiaki Iwamatsu, Hideki Naruoka
  • Patent number: 6449957
    Abstract: A gas turbine generator plant is provided in which, by forming auxiliary equipment, including a starter, a lubricating oil device, a control oil device, and a lubricating oil main tank, into a unit, the auxiliary equipment may be disposed with a building in a unitary manner with a generator and a gas turbine unit. The auxiliary equipment is made unitary to form the unitary auxiliary equipment. The unitary auxiliary equipment, the generator, and the gas turbine unit are disposed first, second, and third, respectively, within the building. Thus, the installed floor area of the plant may be dramatically reduced and in turn, construction costs may also be reduced. Furthermore, the unitary auxiliary equipment can be transported in one piece under a water resistant cover, so that it is possible to limit, all at once, the occurrence of rust on the unitary auxiliary equipment that could result from exposure to salt air during sea transport. The packing may also be high-density so as to reduce transportation costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Takamatsu, Hidekazu Nagai
  • Publication number: 20020023424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas turbine generator plant in which, by forming auxiliary equipment, comprising a starter, a lubricating oil device, a control oil device, and a lubricating oil main tank, into a unit, this may be disposed within a building in a unitary manner with a generator and a gas turbine unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Takamatsu, Hidekazu Nagai
  • Publication number: 20010003242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas turbine generator plant in which, by forming auxiliary equipment, comprising a starter, a lubricating oil device, a control oil device, and a lubricating oil main tank, into a unit, this may be disposed within a building in a unitary manner with a generator and a gas turbine unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 1998
    Publication date: June 14, 2001
    Inventors: MASARU TAKAMATSU, HIDEKAZU NAGAI