Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Saeki
Mitsuru Saeki 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).
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Patent number: 11852294Abstract: Provided is a diagnosis technique with high reliability when a state of lubricating oil of a rotary machine such as a wind power generator is diagnosed by a state monitoring sensor. A diagnosis system of lubricating oil includes a lubricating oil utilization device, a lubricating oil tank for storing lubricating oil to be supplied to the lubricating oil utilization device, and a sensor which measures characteristics of the lubricating oil. In this system, the state of the lubricating oil is diagnosed by using sensor data obtained after a time required for air bubbles in the lubricating oil generated at the time of use of the device disappear elapses since the lubricating oil utilization device is regularly or irregularly stopped.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kyoko Kojima, Mitsuru Saeki, Shinichiro Aikawa
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Publication number: 20220316653Abstract: Provided is a diagnosis technique with high reliability when a state of lubricating oil of a rotary machine such as a wind power generator is diagnosed by a state monitoring sensor. A diagnosis system of lubricating oil includes a lubricating oil utilization device, a lubricating oil tank for storing lubricating oil to be supplied to the lubricating oil utilization device, and a sensor which measures characteristics of the lubricating oil. In this system, the state of the lubricating oil is diagnosed by using sensor data obtained after a time required for air bubbles in the lubricating oil generated at the time of use of the device disappear elapses since the lubricating oil utilization device is regularly or irregularly stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Kyoko KOJIMA, Mitsuru SAEKI, Shinichiro AIKAWA
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Patent number: 11209357Abstract: A method for diagnosing the deterioration of a lubricant, and a system and method for monitoring a lubricant of a rotating machine are capable of diagnosing the deterioration of an additive to a lubricant. The concentration of the additive to the lubricant is obtained by using chromaticity data obtained on the basis of measurement data from an optical sensor, and, on the basis thereof, the deterioration of the lubricant is diagnosed. In addition, the system for monitoring the lubricant is provided with an optical sensor, an input device, a processing device, a storage device, and an output device. The storage device stores, in a time series, the concentration of the additive to the lubricant, which is obtained with the optical sensor, and the processing device estimates the time at which the concentration of the additive reaches a threshold value on the basis of concentration data of the additive.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kyoko Kojima, Mitsuru Saeki, Shinichiro Aikawa, Yasuki Kita
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Publication number: 20200292450Abstract: A method for diagnosing the deterioration of a lubricant, and a system and method for monitoring a lubricant of a rotating machine are capable of diagnosing the deterioration of an additive to a lubricant. The concentration of the additive to the lubricant is obtained by using chromaticity data obtained on the basis of measurement data from an optical sensor, and, on the basis thereof, the deterioration of the lubricant is diagnosed. In addition, the system for monitoring the lubricant is provided with an optical sensor, an input device, a processing device, a storage device, and an output device. The storage device stores, in a time series, the concentration of the additive to the lubricant, which is obtained with the optical sensor, and the processing device estimates the time at which the concentration of the additive reaches a threshold value on the basis of concentration data of the additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kyoko KOJIMA, Mitsuru SAEKI, Shinichiro AIKAWA, Yasuki KITA
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Patent number: 10280901Abstract: A wind power generation system comprising: a wind power generation equipment having a rotor which is operative to convert energy of received wind to rotational energy, a rotatable nacelle which supports the rotor, a tower which supports the rotatable nacelle, a floating body which supports the tower and at least a part of the floating body is positioned above the surface of the sea, a fixing member which is installed or fixed on the sea bed, a mooring member which couples the floating body and the fixing member, wherein the mooring member is coupled to the floating body at place upward of the center of gravity of the floating body and the wind power generation equipment, and the floating body is practically supported by one fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Saeki, Takashi Shiraishi, Junichi Sugino
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Patent number: 10125742Abstract: A wind power generation system according to the invention includes: blades configured to receive wind to rotate; a nacelle supporting a load from the blades; a tower supporting the nacelle; a hub supporting the blades and configured to be rotated with the blades; a rotary main shaft configured to be rotated with the rotation of the hub; a gearbox connected to the rotary main shaft and configured to increase a speed of the rotation; and a generator configured to be driven at the rotation speed increased by the gearbox. The rotary main shaft is connected directly to the hub.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Ikuo Tobinaga, Mitsuru Saeki
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Publication number: 20180258917Abstract: To provide a wind turbine blade or a wind power generation device provided with a strain detecting system having a high level of soundness. The blade includes a structural material constituting the blade, plural optical fibers 15A and 15B arranged within or on a surface of the structural material, and an optical cable 16A that connects adjacent ones of the optical fiber sensors, and a length of the optical cable 16A is longer than the shortest distance between the adjacent optical fiber sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Ryo UETA, Mitsuru SAEKI
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Publication number: 20180258916Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a blade for wind power generation or a wind power generation device that can measure the quantity of blade deformation with a simple structure while enhancing the reliability of structure. The blade includes a front tip part 10, a rear tip part 11, and a spar cap 17 configured to contain a fiber reinforcing layer, a shell core 18c arranged at least between the front tip part 10 and the spar caps 17 or between the rear tip part 11 and the spar caps 17, and a non-conductor sensor 12, wherein a concave is formed in a surface of the shell core 18c and the non-conductor sensor 12, and the non-conductor sensor 12 is arranged in the concave.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Takahiko SAWADA, Mitsuru SAEKI
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Publication number: 20180058426Abstract: The purpose is to provide a wind farm that is capable of increasing power generation output or a control method of a wind farm.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Shinichi KONDOU, Masachika NAKATANI, Tomomichi ITO, Mitsuru SAEKI, Kiyoshi SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160177927Abstract: A wind power generation system comprising: a wind power generation equipment having a rotor which is operative to convert energy of received wind to rotational energy, a nacelle which supports the rotor rotatably, a tower which supports the nacelle rotatably, a floating body which supports the tower and at least a part of itself is positioned above the surface of the sea, a fixing member which is installed or fixed on the sea bed, a mooring member which couples the floating body and the fixing member, wherein the mooring member is coupled to the floating body at place upward of the center of gravity of the floating body and the wind power generation equipment, and the floating body is practically supported by one fixing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Mitsuru SAEKI, Takashi SHIRAISHI, Junichi SUGINO
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Publication number: 20150064007Abstract: A wind power generation system according to the invention includes: blades configured to receive wind to rotate; a nacelle supporting a load from the blades; a tower supporting the nacelle; a hub supporting the blades and configured to be rotated with the blades; a rotary main shaft configured to be rotated with the rotation of the hub; a gearbox connected to the rotary main shaft and configured to increase a speed of the rotation; and a generator configured to be driven at the rotation speed increased by the gearbox. The rotary main shaft is connected directly to the hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Kohei TANAKA, Ikuo TOBINAGA, Mitsuru SAEKI
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Publication number: 20140310958Abstract: Provided is an assembly method of a wind power generation system that can enhance the safety of an assembly work, and which can reduce a working time. In order to solve the above problem, the assembly method of a wind power generation system of the present invention includes assembly of the wind power generation system which includes a rotor with a hub and blades, a nacelle for accommodating therein at least a generator connected to the rotor via a main shaft connected to the hub, and a tower supporting the nacelle on a top portion thereof, and having an opposite side thereof to the top portion fixed to a foundation, the tower including separated tower parts. When assembling the wind power generation system, the nacelle and the tower are laterally assembled together by using a carriage, and the rotor is fixed to the laterally-facing nacelle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Juhyun YU, Mitsuru SAEKI, Takahiko SANO, Kouhei TANAKA, Shingo INAMURA
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Publication number: 20140308129Abstract: Provided is a wind power generation system that is less likely to change its cooling performance depending on the wind direction. In order to solve the above problem, the wind power generation system of the invention includes blades adapted to rotate upon receiving wind, a generator for performing a power generating operation by rotating a rotor together with rotation of the blades, a nacelle for supporting the blades via a main shaft, a tower for rotatably supporting the nacelle, a power conditioning system or transformer accommodated in the tower, and a plurality of radiators disposed on an outer peripheral side of the tower for cooling the power conditioning system or the transformer. The radiators positioned substantially at the same height are arranged at substantially equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the tower.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigehisa FUNABASHI, Shingo INAMURA, Yasushi SHIGENAGA, Mitsuru SAEKI
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Patent number: 8716878Abstract: A downwind type wind turbine having a transformer stored in a support post or in a nacelle includes the nacelle which supports a rotor and stores therein a generator, a support post which supports the nacelle and a main transformer disposed between the generator and an electric power system and the main transformer is stored in the nacelle or in the support post.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Matsunobu, Mitsuru Saeki, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kato
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Publication number: 20140091571Abstract: A wind turbine system includes a tower, a nacelle which is supported on the tower, a plurality of blades which are rotatably supported to the nacelle via a hub, and a generator which generates electricity by rotating the blades, wherein in case the tower shifts from vertical direction, the wind turbine system is controlled so that a force with an opposite direction to the tower shifting direction is added by wind.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi HASHIMOTO, Mitsuru SAEKI, Shigeo YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20120057976Abstract: A downwind type wind turbine having a transformer stored in a support post or in a nacelle includes the nacelle which supports a rotor and stores therein a generator, a support post which supports the nacelle and a main transformer disposed between the generator and an electric power system and the main transformer is stored in the nacelle or in the support post.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicants: Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Matsunobu, Mitsuru Saeki, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kato
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Patent number: 8049378Abstract: The invention aims at providing a forced cooling rotary electric machine capable of bringing temperature distribution close to a designed temperature distribution and avoiding becoming a larger size, and employs a wedge formed with ventilation grooves and a wedge not formed with the ventilation grooves to regulate the flow rates of cooling gas passing through air ducts, so that the cooling gas supplied to a part of a stator core, in which temperature is low, can be caused to flow positively to a part in which the temperature is high and the temperature distribution in the axial direction of the stator core can be uniformized. As a result, the temperature distribution in the axial direction of the stator core can be brought close to a designed temperature distribution, and a forced cooling rotary electric machine that need not be made larger in size with a margin can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Tadaaki Kakimoto, Akitomi Semba, Mitsuru Saeki, Mitsunori Sezaki, Takashi Shibata
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Patent number: 7939977Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electrical device to be arranged to face to a stator, comprises a rotor iron core extending axially and including a plurality of slots arranged with a predetermined circumferential interval, a rotor coil contained by the slots, a coil support member of electrically insulating property arranged between parts of the rotor coil at an axial end of the rotor coil, and a retaining ring covering the coil support member and the axial end of the rotor coil, the coil support member has two fitted portions and a connecting portion connecting the fitted portions to each other to form H-shape of cross section and to form a space between the rotor coil and each of opposite sides of the connecting portion, and the coil support member further has a communicating path communicating to the spaces.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Tadaaki Kakimoto, Akitomi Semba, Mitsuru Saeki, Takashi Shibata, Manabu Suzuki, Naomi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20110101801Abstract: The invention aims at providing a forced cooling rotary electric machine capable of bringing temperature distribution close to a designed temperature distribution and avoiding becoming a larger size, and employs a wedge formed with ventilation grooves and a wedge not formed with the ventilation grooves to regulate the flow rates of cooling gas passing through air ducts, so that the cooling gas supplied to a part of a stator core, in which temperature is low, can be caused to flow positively to a part in which the temperature is high and the temperature distribution in the axial direction of the stator core can be uniformized. As a result, the temperature distribution in the axial direction of the stator core can be brought close to a designed temperature distribution, and a forced cooling rotary electric machine that need not be made larger in size with a margin can be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2011Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Tadaaki Kakimoto, Akitomi Semba, Mitsuru Saeki, Mitsunori Sezaki, Takashi Shibata
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Patent number: 7911106Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to present invention comprises a rotor and a stator disposed around the rotor in which the stator includes a stator core having, along its inner periphery region, a plurality of axially extending stator slots and an armature winding wound through the stator slots. In this rotary electric machine, each stator slot contains four radially layered armature bars; each armature winding is formed by electrically connecting at least one of the armature bars in a first slot and at least one of the armature bars in a second slot to each other; and the armature bars of a pair specified in accordance with a required output voltage of the rotary electric machine are connected to each other with a connecting piece.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Masami Sukeda, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori