Patents by Inventor Naoki Shibukawa
Naoki Shibukawa 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: 10301965Abstract: A steam turbine in an embodiment includes a casing, a turbine rotor, a rotor blade cascade, a stationary blade cascade, and a spray unit, the rotor blade cascade and the stationary blade cascade being each arranged at a plurality of stages alternately in an axial direction of the turbine rotor. The turbine rotor is housed inside the casing. In the rotor blade cascade, a plurality of rotor blades are arranged in a circumferential direction of the turbine rotor. In the stationary blade cascade, a plurality of stationary blades are arranged in the circumferential direction of the turbine rotor between a diaphragm inner ring and a diaphragm outer ring. The spray unit sprays spray water to a space located upstream from a rotor blade cascade at a final stage among the rotor blade cascades at the plurality of stages inside the casing.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Naoki Shibukawa, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Junichi Tominaga, Shinichiro Ohashi
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Patent number: 10082035Abstract: An erosion resistant material has a continuous portion and discontinuous portions. The continuous portion has a continuous structure. The discontinuous portions are arranged inside the continuous portion to have a discontinuous structure. The discontinuous portions are formed of particles having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or less. Further, the discontinuous portions are formed of a material having a surface hardness and a Young's modulus higher than those of the continuous portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tetsushi Okamoto, Fumio Sawa, Takashi Harakawa, Kenichi Yamazaki, Hiroaki Cho, Naoki Shibukawa, Tadayuki Hashidate, Yoshihiro Hyodo, Akira Tanaka, Masamitsu Sakuma
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Patent number: 9850781Abstract: A steam turbine 10 according to an embodiment includes rotor blades 22 implanted to a turbine rotor 21, stationary blades 26 making up a turbine stage together with the rotor blades 22, diaphragm outer rings 23 including an annular extending part 24 surrounding a periphery of the rotor blades 22, and supporting the stationary blades 26, and diaphragm inner rings 25 supporting the stationary blades 26. The steam turbine 10 further includes an annular slit 40 formed at an inner surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 between the stationary blades 26 and the rotor blades 22 along a circumferential direction, and communication holes 50 provided in plural at an outer surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 along the circumferential direction, communicated to the annular slit 40 from the outer surface side, and communicated to an exhaust chamber sucking water films via the annular slit 40.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Naoki Shibukawa, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Junichi Tominaga, Shinichiro Ohashi
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Patent number: 9777587Abstract: A sealing device for a turbine has a sealing member provided in a gap between a rotor and a stator arranged to surround the rotor, and a fluid path provided within the stator, to introduce, into the stator, a cooling medium used to cool stationary blades extending radially inward from the stator, and to flow the cooling medium at least to an upstream side of the sealing member.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuki Mimura, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Naoki Shibukawa, Toshio Hirano, Iwataro Sato, Kazutaka Tsuruta
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Publication number: 20160169009Abstract: An erosion resistant material has a continuous portion and discontinuous portions. The continuous portion has a continuous structure. The discontinuous portions are arranged inside the continuous portion to have a discontinuous structure. The discontinuous portions are formed of particles having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or less. Further, the discontinuous portions are formed of a material having a surface hardness and a Young's modulus higher than those of the continuous portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tetsushi OKAMOTO, Fumio SAWA, Takashi HARAKAWA, Kenichi YAMAZAKI, Hiroaki CHO, Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Tadayuki HASHIDATE, Yoshihiro HYODO, Akira TANAKA, Masamitsu SAKUMA
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Publication number: 20160090861Abstract: A steam turbine in an embodiment includes a casing, a turbine rotor, a rotor blade cascade, a stationary blade cascade, and a spray unit, the rotor blade cascade and the stationary blade cascade being each arranged at a plurality of stages alternately in an axial direction of the turbine rotor. The turbine rotor is housed inside the casing. In the rotor blade cascade, a plurality of rotor blades are arranged in a circumferential direction of the turbine rotor. In the stationary blade cascade, a plurality of stationary blades are arranged in the circumferential direction of the turbine rotor between a diaphragm inner ring and a diaphragm outer ring. The spray unit sprays spray water to a space located upstream from a rotor blade cascade at a final stage among the rotor blade cascades at the plurality of stages inside the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Yoshifumi IWASAKI, Junichi TOMINAGA, Shinichiro OHASHI
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Publication number: 20150003969Abstract: A steam turbine 10 according to an embodiment includes rotor blades 22 implanted to a turbine rotor 21, stationary blades 26 making up a turbine stage together with the rotor blades 22, diaphragm outer rings 23 including an annular extending part 24 surrounding a periphery of the rotor blades 22, and supporting the stationary blades 26, and diaphragm inner rings 25 supporting the stationary blades 26. The steam turbine 10 further includes an annular slit 40 formed at an inner surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 between the stationary blades 26 and the rotor blades 22 along a circumferential direction, and communication holes 50 provided in plural at an outer surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 along the circumferential direction, communicated to the annular slit 40 from the outer surface side, and communicated to an exhaust chamber sucking water films via the annular slit 40.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Junichi Tominaga, Shinichiro Ohashi
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Patent number: 8753087Abstract: A turbine rotor assembly 10 comprises a turbine rotor and a plurality of moving blades 20 implanted in a circumferential direction of the rotor. A flow passage is formed between each of the moving blades 20 and a circumferentially adjacent moving blade 20. Each of the moving blades 20 comprises a suction side connecting member 22 protruded on a blade suction surface 21 and a pressure side connecting member 24 protruded on a blade pressure surface 23, wherein the suction side connecting member 22 of each of the moving blades 20 is configured to be connected with the pressure side connecting member 24 of the circumferentially adjacent moving blade 20 to form an intermediate connecting member 30 between the moving blade 20 and the circumferentially adjacent moving blade 20 during a rotation of the turbine rotor. A downstream side end edge 32 of the intermediate connecting member 30 is positioned at an upstream side of a throat S of the flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Naoki Shibukawa, Yoriharu Murata, Akihiro Onoda, Daisuke Nomura, Tomohiro Tejima, Osamu Furuya, Kenichi Imai
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Patent number: 8695345Abstract: In one embodiment, a calculation method of moisture loss in a steam turbine calculates first a wetness fraction at the inlet and outlet of each of stationary blade cascades and rotor blade cascades. Subsequently, the moisture loss is classified into (1) supersaturation loss, (2) condensation loss, (3) acceleration loss, (4) braking loss, (5) capture loss and (6) pumping loss, and a loss for calculation of the moisture loss is selected from the above losses (1) to (6) according to the wetness fraction of steam at the inlet and outlet of each blade cascade. An amount of each selected loss is calculated, and an amount of moisture loss at each blade cascade is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroyuki Kawagishi, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiro Tejima, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Asako Inomata, Naoki Shibukawa
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Publication number: 20140020359Abstract: A sealing device for a turbine has a sealing member provided in a gap between a rotor and a stator arranged to surround the rotor, and a fluid path provided within the stator, to introduce, into the stator, a cooling medium used to cool stationary blades extending radially inward from the stator, and to flow the cooling medium at least to an upstream side of the sealing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuki MIMURA, Akihiro ONODA, Tomohiko TSUKUDA, Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Toshio HIRANO, Iwataro SATO, Kazutaka TSURUTA
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Publication number: 20140020403Abstract: In one embodiment, a sealing device includes seal fins provided on an inner circumferential surface of a stationary body or an outer circumferential surface of a rotating body so as to be adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the rotating body in a gap between the outer circumferential surface of the rotating body and the inner circumferential surface of the stationary body. The device further includes at least one opening member provided on the inner circumferential surface of the stationary body, the opening member being provided at a position between seal fins adjacent to each other in the axial direction, and having holes opened on a side of the inner circumferential surface of the stationary body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Tomohiko TSUKUDA, Yuki MIMURA, Akihiro ONODA, Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Iwataro SATO, Kazutaka TSURUTA
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Patent number: 8419354Abstract: A steam turbine includes two or more rotating blades and a diaphragm outer ring. Each of the rotating blades includes a tip cover, moisture-trapping grooves, a droplet ejection hole, and a drain guide groove. The tip cover is provided to a tip of each of the rotating blades and is connected in contact with another tip cover adjacent to the tip cover. The moisture-trapping grooves are formed in a longitudinal direction of each of the rotating blades. The droplet ejection hole is to connect an outside of the tip cover on a side of the diaphragm outer ring with an inside of the tip cover. The drain guide groove is to connect ends of the moisture-trapping grooves on the side of the tip cover with the droplet ejection hole. The diaphragm outer ring includes a drain pocket which faces the droplet ejection hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Norio Sakai, Naoki Shibukawa, Hiroshi Ikeda, Ryozo Udagawa
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Publication number: 20120099967Abstract: A steam turbine includes two or more rotating blades and a diaphragm outer ring. Each of the rotating blades includes a tip cover, moisture-trapping grooves, a droplet ejection hole, and a drain guide groove. The tip cover is provided to a tip of each of the rotating blades and is connected in contact with another tip cover adjacent to the tip cover. The moisture-trapping grooves are formed in a longitudinal direction of each of the rotating blades. The droplet ejection hole is to connect an outside of the tip cover on a side of the diaphragm outer ring with an inside of the tip cover. The drain guide groove is to connect ends of the moisture-trapping grooves on the side of the tip cover with the droplet ejection hole. The diaphragm outer ring includes a drain pocket which faces the droplet ejection hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Norio SAKAI, Naoki Shibukawa, Hiroshi Ikeda, Ryozo Udagawa
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Publication number: 20120067045Abstract: In one embodiment, a calculation method of moisture loss in a steam turbine calculates first a wetness fraction at the inlet and outlet of each of stationary blade cascades and rotor blade cascades. Subsequently, the moisture loss is classified into (1) supersaturation loss, (2) condensation loss, (3) acceleration loss, (4) braking loss, (5) capture loss and (6) pumping loss, and a loss for calculation of the moisture loss is selected from the above losses (1) to (6) according to the wetness fraction of steam at the inlet and outlet of each blade cascade. An amount of each selected loss is calculated, and an amount of moisture loss at each blade cascade is calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAGISHI, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiro Tejima, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Asako Inomata, Naoki Shibukawa
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Patent number: 8132414Abstract: A steam turbine includes a bucket implanted in a turbine rotor and a nozzle disposed on an upstream side of the bucket and supported by a turbine casing, in which a plurality of stages, each including the bucket and the nozzle, are arranged axially in the turbine so as to define a steam path. A hydrophilic coating portion is disposed in the entire area or an area of at least one portion of a circumferential surface of the turbine rotor, surfaces of the nozzles, surfaces of the buckets, and an inner circumferential surface of the turbine casing.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshiki Niizeki, Akio Sayano, Naoki Shibukawa, Norihisa Saito, Masashi Takahashi
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Patent number: 8105038Abstract: A row of moving blades for a steam turbine has moving blades elongated radially which are arranged peripherally around and secured to a turbine rotor. The row also has an intermediate support structure for holding the blades to each other at a radially intermediate position. The support structure has a shape of a streamline cross section. The support structure may include a tie wire secured to the blades, or lugs protruding from the blades and combined to each other. The support structure may include lugs protruding from the blades to each other, and a sleeve combining the lugs. The shape of a streamline cross section may have an obtuse-angle or acute-angle upstream part.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Fumio Ootomo, Hisashi Matsuda, Asako Inomata, Hiroyuki Kawagishi, Yoshiki Niizeki, Naoki Shibukawa, Hiroshi Kawakami
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Publication number: 20110158810Abstract: A turbine rotor assembly 10 comprises a turbine rotor and a plurality of moving blades 20 implanted in a circumferential direction of the rotor. A flow passage is formed between each of the moving blades 20 and a circumferentially adjacent moving blade 20. Each of the moving blades 20 comprises a suction side connecting member 22 protruded on a blade suction surface 21 and a pressure side connecting member 24 protruded on a blade pressure surface 23, wherein the suction side connecting member 22 of each of the moving blades 20 is configured to be connected with the pressure side connecting member 24 of the circumferentially adjacent moving blade 20 to form an intermediate connecting member 30 between the moving blade 20 and the circumferentially adjacent moving blade 20 during a rotation of the turbine rotor. A downstream side end edge 32 of the intermediate connecting member 30 is positioned at an upstream side of a throat S of the flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Naoki Shibukawa, Yoriharu Murata, Akihiro Onoda, Daisuke Nomura, Tomohiro Tejima, Osamu Furuya, Kenichi Imai
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Publication number: 20090004011Abstract: A row of moving blades for a steam turbine has moving blades elongated radially which are arranged peripherally around and secured to a turbine rotor 9. The row also has an intermediate support structure for holding the blades each other at a radially intermediate position. The support structure has a shape of streamline cross section. The support structure may include a tie wire secured to the blades, or lugs protruding from the blades and combined to each other. The support structure may include lugs protruding from the blades to each other, and a sleeve combining the lugs. The shape of streamline cross section may have an obtuse-angle or acute-angle upstream part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Fumio OOTOMO, Hisashi Matsuda, Asako Inomata, Hiroyuki Kawagishi, Yoshiki Niizeki, Naoki Shibukawa, Hiroshi Kawakami
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Publication number: 20070101719Abstract: A steam turbine includes a bucket implanted in a turbine rotor and a nozzle disposed on an upstream side of the bucket and supported by a turbine casing, in which a plurality of stages, each including the bucket and the nozzle, are arranged axially in the turbine so as to define a steam path. A hydrophilic coating portion is disposed in the entire area or an area of at least one portion of a circumferential surface of the turbine rotor, surfaces of the nozzles, surfaces of the buckets, and an inner circumferential surface of the turbine casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Yoshiki Niizeki, Akio Sayano, Naoki Shibukawa, Norihisa Saito, Masashi Takahashi