Patents by Inventor Nao Taniguchi

Nao Taniguchi 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: 11965431
    Abstract: A turbine is provided with: a turbine wheel configured to rotate about an axis O1; a turbine housing accommodating the turbine wheel and defining an annular nozzle passage on the outer peripheral side of the turbine wheel; and a plurality of low solidity nozzle vanes 6 arranged in the nozzle passage at an interval in the circumferential direction. Circumferentially adjacent low solidity nozzle vanes 6 are disposed at different radial positions in a connection position of each of the low solidity nozzle vanes 6 with a hub-side wall surface of the hub-side wall surface and a shroud-side wall surface which define the nozzle passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD
    Inventors: Nao Taniguchi, Toyotaka Yoshida, Makoto Ozaki, Nobuhito Oka
  • Patent number: 11835058
    Abstract: An impeller includes: a disk-shaped hub centered on an axis; and a plurality of blades arranged in a circumferential direction and protruding from a surface of the hub facing one side in a direction of the axis. In a cross-sectional view including a blade height direction which is a direction away from the hub toward a tip of each blade, the blade has a recessed surface curved convexly toward a rear side in a rotational direction. In the cross-sectional view, when a distance between an imaginary line connecting a tip-side edge and a hub-side edge of the blade and a midspan of the blade along a direction perpendicular to the imaginary line is defined as a recess amount, the blade has a portion where the recess amount increases from a leading edge side to a trailing edge side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Honda, Nao Taniguchi, Fumito Hiratani, Isao Tomita, Tetsuya Matsuo, Taiyo Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 11732615
    Abstract: A steam turbine hollow stationary blade is able to reduce the amount of water droplets captured on a blade surface. The steam turbine hollow stationary blade, which has a cavity therein, includes a partition wall dividing the cavity into a pressure chamber on a leading edge side and an exhaust chamber on a trailing edge side, at least one steam inlet hole connecting the pressure chamber and an outside of the stationary blade to each other, and at least one pressure conditioning hole connecting the pressure chamber and the exhaust chamber. Total opening area of the pressure conditioning hole is smaller than total opening area of the steam inlet hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Ryo Takata, Nao Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230258104
    Abstract: A steam turbine exhaust chamber for guiding steam after passing through a rotor blade of a final stage of a steam turbine to outside of the steam turbine includes: a casing; a bearing cone; and a flow guide. An inner surface of the casing includes an inner circumferential surface extending along an axial direction of the rotor at a radially outer side of the flow guide and a side wall surface connecting the inner circumferential surface and the bearing cone. A first protruding portion is formed on the side wall surface along the circumferential direction above a horizontal plane including a rotational axis of the rotor. The first protruding portion is positioned at an outer side, in the radial direction of the rotor, of a downstream end of an inner circumferential surface of the flow guide in at least a partial range in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nao Taniguchi, Ryo Takata, Soichiro Tabata
  • Publication number: 20230123100
    Abstract: An impeller includes: a disk-shaped hub centered on an axis; and a plurality of blades arranged in a circumferential direction and protruding from a surface of the hub facing one side in a direction of the axis. In a cross-sectional view including a blade height direction which is a direction away from the hub toward a tip of each blade, the blade has a recessed surface curved convexly toward a rear side in a rotational direction. In the cross-sectional view, when a distance between an imaginary line connecting a tip-side edge and a hub-side edge of the blade and a midspan of the blade along a direction perpendicular to the imaginary line is defined as a recess amount, the blade has a portion where the recess amount increases from a leading edge side to a trailing edge side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Honda, Nao Taniguchi, Fumito Hiratani, Isao Tomita, Tetsuya Matsuo, Taiyo Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20230027258
    Abstract: A turbine is provided with: a turbine wheel configured to rotate about an axis O1; a turbine housing accommodating the turbine wheel and defining an annular nozzle passage on the outer peripheral side of the turbine wheel; and a plurality of low solidity nozzle vanes 6 arranged in the nozzle passage at an interval in the circumferential direction. Circumferentially adjacent low solidity nozzle vanes 6 are disposed at different radial positions in a connection position of each of the low solidity nozzle vanes 6 with a hub-side wall surface of the hub-side wall surface and a shroud-side wall surface which define the nozzle passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Nao TANIGUCHI, Toyotaka YOSHIDA, Makoto OZAKI, Nobuhito OKA
  • Publication number: 20220018265
    Abstract: A steam turbine hollow stationary blade is able to reduce the amount of water droplets captured on a blade surface. The steam turbine hollow stationary blade, which has a cavity therein, includes a partition wall dividing the cavity into a pressure chamber on a leading edge side and an exhaust chamber on a trailing edge side, at least one steam inlet hole connecting the pressure chamber and an outside of the stationary blade to each other, and at least one pressure conditioning hole connecting the pressure chamber and the exhaust chamber. Total opening area of the pressure conditioning hole is smaller than total opening area of the steam inlet hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SASAO, Soichiro TABATA, Ryo TAKATA, Nao TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11174746
    Abstract: A stator vane for a steam turbine includes: a vane body having an airfoil cross section including a pressure-side partition wall having a concave surface shape and a suction-side partition wall having a convex surface shape, the vane body having a hollow section formed between an inner surface of the pressure-side partition wall and an inner surface of the suction-side partition wall; and a first division wall dividing the hollow section into a first hollow section positioned at a leading edge side and a second hollow section positioned at a trailing edge side. The first hollow section is configured to be supplied with a fluid, or as a sealed space, and a slit is formed on at least one of the pressure-side partition wall or the suction-side partition wall, the slit being in communication with the second hollow section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nao Taniguchi, Ryo Takata, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Yuichiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 11162374
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle includes a plurality of blades arranged so as to form a tapered flow passage between each two adjacent blades. A suction surface of each blade includes a curved surface, and a throat of the flow passage is formed between the curved surface of one blade and a trailing edge of the other blade of the two adjacent blades at a throat position. An upstream end of the curved surface is positioned upstream of the throat position, and a downstream end of the curved surface is positioned downstream of the throat position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Nao Taniguchi, Ryo Takata, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Yu Shibata
  • Publication number: 20210010379
    Abstract: A stator vane for a steam turbine includes: a vane body having an airfoil cross section including a pressure-side partition wall having a concave surface shape and a suction-side partition wall having a convex surface shape, the vane body having a hollow section formed between an inner surface of the pressure-side partition wall and an inner surface of the suction-side partition wall; and a first division wall dividing the hollow section into a first hollow section positioned at a leading edge side and a second hollow section positioned at a trailing edge side. The first hollow section is configured to be supplied with a fluid, or as a sealed space, and a slit is formed on at least one of the pressure-side partition wall or the suction-side partition wall, the slit being in communication with the second hollow section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nao Taniguchi, Ryo Takata, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Yuichiro Hirano
  • Publication number: 20200182074
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle includes a plurality of blades arranged so as to form a tapered flow passage between each two adjacent blades. A suction surface of each blade includes a curved surface, and a throat of the flow passage is formed between the curved surface of one blade and a trailing edge of the other blade of the two adjacent blades at a throat position. An upstream end of the curved surface is positioned upstream of the throat position, and a downstream end of the curved surface is positioned downstream of the throat position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nao Taniguchi, Ryo Takata, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Yu Shibata