Patents by Inventor Ryo Akiyama

Ryo Akiyama 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: 12077149
    Abstract: A vehicle is a series hybrid vehicle that drives drive wheels using a travel motor by utilizing power of a power generation motor, which generates power by being driven by motive power of an internal combustion engine provided with a turbo charger. A method for controlling the vehicle includes executing a fuel cut of the internal combustion engine when excess power is greater than at least power that can be inputted in the system and the internal combustion engine is being supercharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma Iwasaki, Azusa Kobayashi, Hidekatsu Akiyama, Hirofumi Miyauchi, Ryo Onogawa
  • Publication number: 20240240594
    Abstract: A fuel supply system includes: a fuel gas supply line configured to supply a fuel gas to a combustor of a gas turbine; a first off-gas supply device configured to supply a first off-gas generated in a fuel refining plant to the combustor; a second off-gas supply device configured to supply a second off-gas generated in a bio-liquid fuel production plant to the combustor, the second off-gas having a calorific value per unit mass smaller than the fuel gas; a gas mixing device configured to mix the fuel gas supplied by the fuel gas supply line, the first off-gas supplied by the first off-gas supply device, and the second off-gas supplied by the second off-gas supply device; and a mixed gas fuel supply line configured to supply a mixed gas fuel produced by the gas mixing device to the combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Asao, Kazuhiko Sato, Shohei Yoshida, Ryo Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20240175395
    Abstract: A gas turbine cogeneration system includes: a gas turbine; a first fuel supply facility for supplying a first fuel to the combustor; a second fuel supply facility for supplying a second fuel with a calorific value per mass lower than the first fuel; a heat recovery steam generator for generating steam using exhaust gas discharged from the turbine; a steam supply line for supplying steam discharged from the heat recovery steam generator to a steam consumer; a steam extraction line for supplying steam extracted from the steam supply line to both a head end side of the combustor and a turbine side of the combustor; and a fuel control part for controlling the first and second fuel supply facilities so that the amount of the first fuel decreases and the amount of the second fuel increases with a decrease in extraction amount of steam by the steam extraction line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi ASAO, Kazuhiko SATO, Shohei YOSHIDA, Ryo AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240175392
    Abstract: A gas turbine cogeneration system includes a denitration control part for outputting to a denitration device a control command to set the amount of NOx emissions at a heat recovery steam generator outlet not more than a boiler outlet target value. The denitration control part is configured to generate the control command with reference to at least a first addition amount of a reducing agent obtained by calculation based on a NOx parameter which is a parameter correlated with the amount of NOx emissions at a turbine outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi ASAO, Kazuhiko SATO, Shohei YOSHIDA, Ryo AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9863315
    Abstract: A gas turbine having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for taking in compressed air discharged from the compressor, mixing it with fuel, and burning them, and a turbine driven by combustion gas generated in the combustor, comprising: inlet guide vanes installed at a stage near an inlet of the compressor for adjusting a compressor flow rate by changing an attaching angle thereof, a steam injection mechanism for injecting steam to the combustor, a steam adjustment valve for adjusting the steam injection rate, and a steam rate control mechanism for adjusting an opening of the steam adjustment valve, a steam monitoring mechanism for monitoring the steam rate injected to the combustor, an air temperature monitoring mechanism for monitoring an atmospheric temperature, and a control unit for determining whether a restriction value of the steam injection rate using a temperature, an opening of the inlet guide vanes, and the steam injection rate as indexes is satisfied, and controlling at least one of a te
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeda, Ryo Akiyama, Yasuo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9217368
    Abstract: A method of modifying a gas turbine plant which is provided with a one-shaft gas turbine having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating a combustion gas from the air compressed by the compressor and a fuel, and a one-shaft turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor and supported by a rotational axis common to the compressor, and an electric generator for generating electric power by driving force of the one-shaft turbine, wherein: the one-shaft turbine is replaced with a two-shaft gas turbine including a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating a combustion gas from the air compressed by the compressor and a fuel, and a high-pressure turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor and supported by a first rotational axis common to the compressor, and a low-pressure turbine driven by the combustion gas used to drive the high-pressure turbine and supported by a second rotational axis, which is different from the axis for the high-pressu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chihiro Myoren, Ryo Akiyama, Shinya Marushima
  • Publication number: 20140325990
    Abstract: A gas turbine having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for taking in compressed air discharged from the compressor, mixing it with fuel, and burning them, and a turbine driven by combustion gas generated in the combustor, comprising: inlet guide vanes installed at a stage near an inlet of the compressor for adjusting a compressor flow rate by changing an attaching angle thereof, a steam injection mechanism for injecting steam to the combustor, a steam adjustment valve for adjusting the steam injection rate, and a steam rate control mechanism for adjusting an opening of the steam adjustment valve, a steam monitoring mechanism for monitoring the steam rate injected to the combustor, an air temperature monitoring mechanism for monitoring an atmospheric temperature, and a control unit for determining whether a restriction value of the steam injection rate using a temperature, an opening of the inlet guide vanes, and the steam injection rate as indexes is satisfied, and controlling at least one of a te
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki TAKEDA, Ryo AKIYAMA, Yasuo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8613186
    Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is a two-shaft gas turbine that exhibits improved reliability, output power, and efficiency. The turbine operates stably by establishing a balance between the driving force of a compressor and the output power of a high-pressure turbine in the case where the two-shaft gas turbine is applied to a system, in which the flow rate of a fluid flowing into a combustor is higher than a simple cycle gas turbine. A portion of the fluid driving the high-pressure turbine is allowed to flow not into the high-pressure turbine but into a low-pressure turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Shinichi Higuchi, Yasuo Takahashi, Ryo Akiyama, Shinya Marushima
  • Patent number: 8318967
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polysilane-supported transition metal catalysts or a polysilane/inorganic compound-supported transition metal catalysts, wherein various types of transition metals are supported by polysilane compounds, or combination of polysilanes and inorganic compounds. The catalysts of the present invention are hardly soluble in hydrocarbons and alcohols and are useful as catalysts in heterogeneous system for various organic synthetic reactions using the above solvents. Polysilanes supporting transition metals are easily crosslinkable by thermal treatment, microwave irradiation, UV irradiation or chemical methods such as hydrosilylation reaction and are changed to be insoluble in various solvents keeping high catalytic activity. Moreover, the stability and operability of polysilane-supported transition metal catalysts will be improved by the support thereof on inorganic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Hidekazu Oyamada, Ryo Akiyama, Takeshi Naito
  • Patent number: 8110519
    Abstract: The objective is to present compositions obtained by supporting by polymers micro clusters of transition metals and the like that are useful as catalysts in various reactions and, once used, are readily recovered and reused. A polymer-supported metal cluster composition is obtained by supporting a transition metal by a cross-linked polymer, and the polymer-supported cluster composition is characterized by the cross-linked polymer obtained by cross-linking of a cross-linkable polymer containing a hydrophilic side chain and a hydrophobic side chain group having a cross-linkable functional group. This polymer-supported metal cluster composition is, for example, preferably formed by first forming a micelle composed of the metal clusters supported by the cross-linkable polymer in a suitable solution and subsequently subjecting the cross-linkable polymer to a cross-linking reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignees: Japan Science & Technology Agency, Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd., Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Kuniaki Okamoto, Ryo Akiyama, Keiji Ohno, Yoshio Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20110162369
    Abstract: A method of modifying a gas turbine plant which is provided with a one-shaft gas turbine having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating a combustion gas from the air compressed by the compressor and a fuel, and a one-shaft turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor and supported by a rotational axis common to the compressor, and an electric generator for generating electric power by driving force of the one-shaft turbine, wherein: the one-shaft turbine is replaced with a two-shaft gas turbine including a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating a combustion gas from the air compressed by the compressor and a fuel, and a high-pressure turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor and supported by a first rotational axis common to the compressor, and a low-pressure turbine driven by the combustion gas used to drive the high-pressure turbine and supported by a second rotational axis, which is different from the axis for the high-pressu
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chihiro MYOREN, Ryo AKIYAMA, Shinya MARUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 7732638
    Abstract: A novel method of an amidocarbonylation reaction among an aldehyde compound, an amide compound, and carbon monoxide, which comprises using a palladium-supporting crosslinked-polymer composition containing palladium clusters having a major-axis length of 20 nm or shorter to conduct the amidocarbonylation reaction. Thus, an N-acyl-?-amino acid can be more efficiently and selectively synthesized in a dean reaction system. Also provided is a catalyst for use in the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Ryo Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20090320438
    Abstract: Provided is a two-shaft gas turbine with improved reliability that improves output power and efficiency and is stably operated by establishing a balance between the driving force of a compressor and the output power of a high-pressure turbine in the case where the two-shaft gas turbine is applied to a system in which the flow rate of fluid flowing into a combustor is increased compared with a simple cycle gas turbine. A portion of working fluid driving the high-pressure turbine is allowed to flow not into the high-pressure turbine but into a low-pressure turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Tomomi KOGANEZAWA, Shinichi Higuchi, Yasuo Takahashi, Ryo Akiyama, Shinya Marushima
  • Publication number: 20090143607
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polysilane-supported transition metal catalysts or a polysilane/inorganic compound-supported transition metal catalysts, wherein various types of transition metals are supported by polysilane compounds, or combination of polysilanes and inorganic compounds. The catalysts of the present invention are hardly soluble in hydrocarbons and alcohols and are useful as catalysts in heterogeneous system for various organic synthetic reactions using the above solvents. Polysilanes supporting transition metals are easily crosslinkable by thermal treatment, microwave irradiation, UV irradiation or chemical methods such as hydrosilylation reaction and are changed to be insoluble in various solvents keeping high catalytic activity. Moreover, the stability and operability of polysilane-supported transition metal catalysts will be improved by the support thereof on inorganic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Hidekazu Oyamada, Ryo Akiyama, Takeshi Naito
  • Patent number: 7470646
    Abstract: The objective is to incarcerate a Lewis acid metal in a polymer and to make this catalyst recoverable while maintaining its function as a Lewis acid metal catalyst. The present invention is a polymer-incarcerated Lewis acid metal catalyst in which a Lewis acid metal is incarcerated in a crosslinked polymer and the crosslinked polymer is crosslinked using the crosslinking groups contained in a crosslinkable polymer. The polymer incarcerated Lewis acid metal catalyst is characterized by the crosslinkable polymer containing at least one type of monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents and hydrophilic substituents containing crosslinking groups, and the hydrophobic substituents contain aromatic substituents. This crosslinkable polymer preferably comprises at least one type of monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents and hydrophilic substituents containing crosslinking groups and a monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Ryo Akiyama, Nobuyuki Kawai, Masahiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7452181
    Abstract: A plant facility in which lubricant supply equipment for supplying a lubricant to rotor bearings and a speed reducer can be dispensed with. The plant facility comprises a gas turbine rotor of a gas turbine that serves as a prime mover driven by expansion work of a working fluid, a generator rotor of a power generator that serves as load equipment rotated by rotational power transmitted from the gas turbine rotor, a plurality of magnetic bearings for supporting the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor, and an electromagnetic coupling for magnetically coupling the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor and adjusting a speed reduction ratio between the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor in accordance with supplied power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kuroki, Shinya Marushima, Ryo Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20080058200
    Abstract: The objective is to present compositions obtained by supporting by polymers micro clusters of transition metals and the like that are useful as catalysts in various reactions and, once used, are readily recovered and reused. A polymer-supported metal cluster composition is obtained by supporting a transition metal by a cross-linked polymer, and the polymer-supported cluster composition is characterized by the cross-linked polymer obtained by cross-linking of a cross-linkable polymer containing a hydrophilic side chain and a hydrophobic side chain group having a cross-linkable functional group. This polymer-supported metal cluster composition is, for example, preferably formed by first forming a micelle composed of the metal clusters supported by the cross-linkable polymer in a suitable solution and subsequently subjecting the cross-linkable polymer to a cross-linking reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Kuniaki Okamoto, Ryo Akiyama, Keiji Ohno, Yoshio Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20070197765
    Abstract: A novel method of an amidocarbonylation reaction among an aldehyde compound, an amide compound, and carbon monoxide, which comprises using a palladium-supporting crosslinked-polymer composition containing palladium clusters having a major-axis length of 20 nm or shorter to conduct the amidocarbonylation reaction. Thus, an N-acyl-?-amino acid can be more efficiently and selectively synthesized in a dean reaction system. Also provided is a catalyst for use in the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Ryo Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20070191624
    Abstract: The objective is to incarcerate a Lewis acid metal in a polymer and to make this catalyst recoverable while maintaining its function as a Lewis acid metal catalyst. The present invention is a polymer-incarcerated Lewis acid metal catalyst in which a Lewis acid metal is incarcerated in a crosslinked polymer and the crosslinked polymer is crosslinked using the crosslinking groups contained in a crosslinkable polymer. The polymer incarcerated Lewis acid metal catalyst is characterized by the crosslinkable polymer containing at least one type of monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents and hydrophilic substituents containing crosslinking groups, and the hydrophobic substituents contain aromatic substituents. This crosslinkable polymer preferably comprises at least one type of monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents and hydrophilic substituents containing crosslinking groups and a monomer unit containing hydrophobic substituents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Shu Kobayashi, Ryo Akiyama, Nobuyuki Kawai, Masahiro Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20060197345
    Abstract: A plant facility in which lubricant supply equipment for supplying a lubricant to rotor bearings and a speed reducer can be dispensed with. The plant facility comprises a gas turbine rotor of a gas turbine that serves as a prime mover driven by expansion work of a working fluid, a generator rotor of a power generator that serves as load equipment rotated by rotational power transmitted from the gas turbine rotor, a plurality of magnetic bearings for supporting the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor, and an electromagnetic coupling for magnetically coupling the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor and adjusting a speed reduction ratio between the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor in accordance with supplied power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kuroki, Shinya Marushima, Ryo Akiyama