Patents by Inventor Masayuki Tobo

Masayuki Tobo 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: 20150184553
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controlling apparatus is a controlling apparatus to control a combined cycle power plant that includes at least a plurality of units, each of the units including a gas turbine; an heat recovering steam generator that recovers heat of exhaust gas from the gas turbine and generates steam from an incorporated drum; and a turbine bypass regulating valve that sends the steam generated from the drum while keeping a predetermined pressure, and comprises a steam header unit that merges together the steam generated from a plurality of the drums; and a steam turbine to which the steam in the steam header unit is supplied. The controlling apparatus comprising a controlling unit that controls a plurality of the turbine bypass regulating valves based on a steam pressure detected in the steam header unit when the plurality of the units are linked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Sayaka AKIYAMA, Masayuki TOBO, Keiko SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20150184552
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controlling apparatus is a controlling apparatus for a combined cycle power-generating plant having a plurality of power-generating plants, each of the power-generating plants comprising: a power generator; a gas turbine that is connected with the power generator; and an heat recovering steam generator that recovers heat of exhaust gas from the gas turbine and generates steam from an incorporated drum. The controlling apparatus comprises a controlling unit that controls the turbine bypass regulating valve. The controlling unit closes the turbine bypass regulating valve in accordance with a predetermined time-dependent change, before the controlling valve is in a full open state. The controlling unit controls the turbine bypass regulating valve based on a pressure of the drum of the power-generating plant subsequently started, when the controlling valve is in the full open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masayuki TOBO, Takahiro MORI, Kazuna SAWATA
  • Publication number: 20150176437
    Abstract: A controlling apparatus to control a combined cycle power-generating plant, the combined cycle power-generating plant including: a gas turbine; an heat recovery steam generator; and a steam turbine includes a controller that controls an output of the gas turbine. The controller controls the output of the gas turbine at a second output value that is greater than a first output value, after a paralleling of a power generator of the gas turbine, the first output value being a gas turbine output when an exhaust gas temperature of the gas turbine falls within a temperature range that is determined based on a metal temperature of the steam turbine. The controller controls the output of the gas turbine at the first output value, in a case where a temperature of the steam generated by the heat recovery steam generator exceeds a temperature based on the metal temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masayuki TOBO, Ba-Dai Cao, Akitaka Ishikawa, Masaru Dejima, Takahiro Mori, Firman Bagja Juangsa, Manabu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9054776
    Abstract: A signal transmission and reception system includes a transmitter adapted to transmit a signal by radio, and a receiver adapted to wirelessly receive the signal from the transmitter and transmit the signal to a monitoring and control device of a plant through a transmission cable connecting the receiver to the monitoring and control device, wherein the transmitter and the receiver are provided in the plant, and wherein the receiver is attached to a cable tray used to lay a cable other than the transmission cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masayuki Tobo, Kenichi Mukoyama, Eiichi Ookuma, Mamoru Fukui, Hiroki Yabu
  • Publication number: 20150020499
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant including a gas turbine and a compressor is provided with a steam turbine plant including a steam turbine and a condenser, and, an exhaust heat recovery boiler. Steam from the exhaust heat recovery boiler is directly flown to the condenser of the steam turbine plant through a bypass control valve. A pressure sensor detects pressure in a turbine bypass system. A controller outputs, based on a set value from an input device and a process value from the pressure sensor, an open level instruction value to the control value so as to make the process value consistent with the set value in a predetermined sampling cycle. A corrector corrects the set value from the input device in a direction in which the open level instruction value decreases when the open level instruction value from the controller becomes a value that substantially fully opens the control valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hironori WATANABE, Masayuki TOBO, Takuji YAMASAKI, Firman Bagja JUANGSA
  • Publication number: 20140000260
    Abstract: There is provided a protection device for a turbine exhaust chamber and a condenser, having, a condenser, a turbine exhaust chamber casing covering the steam turbine and the condenser, an atmosphere discharge disc for discharging atmosphere when a pressure reaches a first predetermined value, a temperature measuring unit for measuring a temperature in the turbine exhaust chamber casing, a first setter for setting a second predetermined value, an output unit for producing an external output, based on the measured temperature and the second predetermined value, when a pressure corresponding to the temperature becomes higher than or equal to the second predetermined value related to pressure or when the temperature becomes equal to or higher than the second predetermined value related to temperature, and a releasing unit for releasing the steam in the turbine exhaust chamber casing to an exterior when the output unit produces the external output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Masayuki TOBO, Kouichi Kitaguchi, Mamoru Fukui, Manabu Tateishi, Takahiro Mori, Toshitada Asanaka
  • Publication number: 20130028291
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a temperature measurement system including: a plurality of thermocouples; a transmission signal conversion unit configured to convert, to a transmission signal, the thermo-electromotive force generated by each of the plurality of the thermocouple and configured to output the transmission signal; a plurality of transmission units configured to transmit the transmission signal outputted from the transmission signal conversion unit; a first connection unit configured to connect between each of the plurality of the transmission units; a second connection unit configured to connect at least one of the plurality of transmission units to a processing unit configured to process the transmission signal; and a housing unit configured to house at least the first connection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masayuki TOBO, Mamoru Fukui, Kazuhisa Watanabe, Hisanari Yoshida, Shigeru Yamaji, Makoto Suto
  • Publication number: 20130028285
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermocouple abnormality detection system including: a plurality of thermocouples each including a plurality of thermocouple wires housed in a sheath; a transmission signal conversion unit configured to convert a thermo-electromotive force generated by each of the plurality of the thermocouple wires to a transmission signal and to output the transmission signal; a transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission signal outputted from the transmission signal conversion unit; and an abnormality detection circuit configured to detect an abnormality of each of the plurality of the thermocouples by comparing, with each other, the transmission signals obtained from the plurality of thermocouple wires provided in each of the thermocouples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masayuki TOBO, Yuma ETO, Mamoru FUKUI, Noboru MOROHOSHI, Shigeru YAMAJI
  • Publication number: 20120240589
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power plant operating method. The method includes calculating by a turbine output calculating unit a turbine output based on an exponential value of a steam pressure measured at an arbitrary point downstream from the repeater, calculating by a power generator output calculating unit a power generator output generated by the power generator, detecting by an output deviation detecting unit a deviation between the turbine output and the power generator output, detecting by a power load unbalance detecting unit power load unbalance when the deviation exceeds a preset value, and outputting by a control unit a rapid close command to regulator valves of the steam turbine when the power load unbalance is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Manabu TATEISHI, Takahiro MORI, Masayuki TOBO, Kouichi KITAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 6530207
    Abstract: A gas turbine system comprises an alarm signal calculation circuit, a shutdown calculation circuit and a flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit. The alarm signal calculation circuit, the shutdown calculation circuit and the flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit are integrated in a combustion monitoring device for monitoring combustion condition of combustion gas in a gas turbine-combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Tobo, Haruo Oguchi, Hajime Yasui, Akira Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20020029557
    Abstract: A gas turbine system comprises an alarm signal calculation circuit, a shutdown calculation circuit and a flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit. The alarm signal calculation circuit, the shutdown calculation circuit and the flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit are integrated in a combustion monitoring device for monitoring combustion condition of combustion gas in a gas turbine-combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA; Minato-Ku, Japan
    Inventors: Masayuki Tobo, Haruo Oguchi, Hajime Yasui, Akira Hasegawa