Patents by Inventor Masaya Ootsuka

Masaya Ootsuka 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: 9657661
    Abstract: An engine control system is a system configured to selectively switch between first fuel and second fuel and perform an operation control of a single engine, including: a sensor configured to detect an oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas that is exhausted from the engine; and a control device configured to perform an air-fuel ratio feedback control such that an air-fuel ratio becomes a target air-fuel ratio based on an output signal of the sensor, wherein the control device calculates a correction coefficient of an air-fuel ratio feedback control during an operation with the second fuel, and further stores a fuel composition correction coefficient that is a value in a predetermined range and corrects a difference between the calculated correction coefficient and a targeted correction coefficient arising from a change in composition of the second fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Hibira, Shinji Yokoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Makoto Haruta, Noriaki Sumisya
  • Publication number: 20150308361
    Abstract: An engine control system is a system configured to selectively switch between first fuel and second fuel and perform an operation control of a single engine, including: a sensor configured to detect an oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas that is exhausted from the engine; and a control device configured to perform an air-fuel ratio feedback control such that an air-fuel ratio becomes a target air-fuel ratio based on an output signal of the sensor, wherein the control device calculates a correction coefficient of an air-fuel ratio feedback control during an operation with the second fuel, and further stores a fuel composition correction coefficient that is a value in a predetermined range and corrects a difference between the calculated correction coefficient and a targeted correction coefficient arising from a change in composition of the second fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi HIBIRA, Shinji YOKOYAMA, Masaya OOTSUKA, Makoto HARUTA, Noriaki SUMISYA
  • Patent number: 8453451
    Abstract: In a nuclear power plant, thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle by at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam, is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that the temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater is lowered by 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Chaki, Kazuaki Kitou, Motoo Aoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Kouji Shiina
  • Patent number: 8291704
    Abstract: In a nuclear power plant, thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle by at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam, is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that the temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater is lowered by 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Chaki, Kazuaki Kitou, Motoo Aoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Kouji Shiina
  • Patent number: 7997078
    Abstract: In a nuclear power plant, thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle by at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam, is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that the temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater is lowered by 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Chaki, Kazuaki Kitou, Motoo Aoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Kouji Shiina
  • Publication number: 20110162364
    Abstract: In a nuclear power plant, thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle by at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam, is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that the temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater is lowered by 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Masao Chaki, Kazuaki Kitou, Motoo Aoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Kouji Shiina
  • Publication number: 20110162363
    Abstract: In a nuclear power plant, thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle by at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam, is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that the temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater is lowered by 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Masao CHAKI, Kazuaki KITOU, Motoo AOYAMA, Masaya OOTSUKA, Kouji SHIINA
  • Publication number: 20100170246
    Abstract: In a nuclear power plant, thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle by at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam, is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that the temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater is lowered by 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Masao CHAKI, Kazuaki Kitou, Motoo Aoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Kouji Shiina
  • Patent number: 7614233
    Abstract: In a nuclear power plant, thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle by at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam, is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that the temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater is lowered by 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Chaki, Kazuaki Kitou, Motoo Aoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Kouji Shiina
  • Publication number: 20070000250
    Abstract: A nuclear power plant and an operation method of the nuclear power plant, which can uprate plant power without greatly modifying the construction of plant equipment, while keeping a core's pressure loss characteristic, a safety margin, and a design margin in the transient state substantially the same as those before the power uprate. Thermal power in a second operation cycle of a nuclear reactor is uprated from thermal power in a first operation cycle preceding the second operation cycle at least one operation cycle. A proportion of steam extracted from a steam system and introduced to a feedwater heater, which is in particular extracted from an intermediate point and an outlet of a high pressure turbine, with respect to a flow rate of main steam is reduced in the second operation cycle from that in the first operation cycle such that temperature of feedwater discharged from the feedwater heater lowers in the range of 1° C. to 40° C. in the second operation cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Masao Chaki, Kazuaki Kitou, Motoo Aoyama, Masaya Ootsuka, Kouji Shiina