Patents by Inventor Ryoji Tamai

Ryoji Tamai 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: 11946390
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor blade configured to be implanted in a disc of a rotating body, the rotor blade including a blade root, wherein in a cross-sectional shape of the blade root, the blade root includes at least one stage of protruding parts protruding toward opposite sides with respect to a direction containing a circumferential component, the protruding parts being configured to lock the blade root to the disc, each of the protruding parts has a contact surface configured to come into contact with the disc and inclined so as to extend toward a center part of the blade root from radially inside to radially outside, and each of the protruding parts has a non-contact surface configured not to come into contact with the disc and inclined so as to extend toward the center part of the blade root from the radially inside to the radially outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kurashima, Hirokazu Matsuda, Ryoji Tamai, Ryozo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210324750
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor blade configured to be implanted in a disc of a rotating body, the rotor blade including a blade root, wherein in a cross-sectional shape of the blade root, the blade root includes at least one stage of protruding parts protruding toward opposite sides with respect to a direction containing a circumferential component, the protruding parts being configured to lock the blade root to the disc, each of the protruding parts has a contact surface configured to come into contact with the disc and inclined so as to extend toward a center part of the blade root from radially inside to radially outside, and each of the protruding parts has a non-contact surface configured not to come into contact with the disc and inclined so as to extend toward the center part of the blade root from the radially inside to the radially outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka KURASHIMA, Hirokazu MATSUDA, Ryoji TAMAI, Ryozo TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10968776
    Abstract: Provided is a structure in which nozzles of a turbine of a gas turbine and a shroud of the turbine are supported by a turbine casing. Each nozzle includes an outer circumferential flange having a front end portion and a rear end portion respectively engaged with an inner circumferential portion of the turbine casing, a front end portion of the shroud is engaged with the rear end portion of the outer circumferential flange located frontward thereof, a rear end portion of the shroud is engaged with the front end portion of the outer circumferential flange located rearward thereof, and the nozzle and the shroud are supported by the turbine casing through a support pin penetrating a superposition engagement portion at which engagement portions of the turbine casing, the outer circumferential flange, and the shroud are radially superposed on each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Terauchi, Ryoji Tamai
  • Publication number: 20190024536
    Abstract: Provided is a structure in which nozzles of a turbine of a gas turbine and a shroud of the turbine are supported by a turbine casing. Each nozzle includes an outer circumferential flange having a front end portion and a rear end portion respectively engaged with an inner circumferential portion of the turbine casing, a front end portion of the shroud is engaged with the rear end portion of the outer circumferential flange located frontward thereof, a rear end portion of the shroud is engaged with the front end portion of the outer circumferential flange located rearward thereof, and the nozzle and the shroud are supported by the turbine casing through a support pin penetrating a superposition engagement portion at which engagement portions of the turbine casing, the outer circumferential flange, and the shroud are radially superposed on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji TERAUCHI, Ryoji TAMAI
  • Patent number: 10066489
    Abstract: A rotating body includes a rotating body core, and a plurality of blades provided at an outer or inner circumference of the rotating body core at equal intervals in a circumferential direction, and connected circumferentially via an annular connection portion provided separately from the rotating body core. A resonance frequency under a two nodal diameter number mode of the rotating body is lower than or equal to a rotational secondary harmonic frequency with respect to a rated rotation speed. Where Nd represents an order of a maximum mistuned component among order components of circumferential distribution of mass, rigidity or natural frequency of the blades, arrangement of the blades satisfies Nd?5, and has order components each having ratio less than 1/2, in which the ratio is obtained by dividing the order component by the magnitude of the component of the order Nd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryozo Tanaka, Ryoji Tamai, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Yoshichika Sato, Yoshinobu Sakano
  • Patent number: 9433994
    Abstract: A centering device for a plate-shaped workpiece comprises: a table (21) having a conveyor mechanism (23) for conveying a plate-shaped workpiece (10) in the horizontal direction; a camera (56) for taking an image of the plate-shaped workpiece (10) placed on the table (21); a table movement mechanism (28) for moving the table (21) horizontally in the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction; a table rotation mechanism (60) for rotating the table (21) about a vertical axis; a computation unit (58) for comparing target central position information and information acquired by the camera (56) and computing the movement amount of the conveyor mechanism (23), the movement amount of the table movement mechanism (28), and the movement amount of the table rotation mechanism (60); and a control unit (59) for controlling the conveyor mechanism (23), the table movement mechanism (28), and the table rotation mechanism (60) on the basis of the movement amounts calculated by the computation unit (58).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Oyabe Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Matsuyama, Yuta Suzuki, Susumu Nishimoto, Toshihiko Matsumoto, Masanao Suzuki, Ryoji Tamai, Hiromitsu Kato
  • Publication number: 20160102564
    Abstract: A rotating body includes a rotating body core, and a plurality of blades provided at an outer or inner circumference of the rotating body core at equal intervals in a circumferential direction, and connected circumferentially via an annular connection portion provided separately from the rotating body core. A resonance frequency under a two nodal diameter number mode of the rotating body is lower than or equal to a rotational secondary harmonic frequency with respect to a rated rotation speed. Where Nd represents an order of a maximum mistuned component among order components of circumferential distribution of mass, rigidity or natural frequency of the blades, arrangement of the blades satisfies Nd?5, and has order components each having ratio less than 1/2, in which the ratio is obtained by dividing the order component by the magnitude of the component of the order Nd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryozo TANAKA, Ryoji TAMAI, Toshiyuki YAMAMOTO, Yoshichika SATO, Yoshinobu SAKANO
  • Publication number: 20150314360
    Abstract: A centering device for a plate-shaped workpiece comprises: a table (21) having a conveyor mechanism (23) for conveying a plate-shaped workpiece (10) in the horizontal direction; a camera (56) for taking an image of the plate-shaped workpiece (10) placed on the table (21); a table movement mechanism (28) for moving the table (21) horizontally in the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction; a table rotation mechanism (60) for rotating the table (21) about a vertical axis; a computation unit (58) for comparing target central position information and information acquired by the camera (56) and computing the movement amount of the conveyor mechanism (23), the movement amount of the table movement mechanism (28), and the movement amount of the table rotation mechanism (60); and a control unit (59) for controlling the conveyor mechanism (23), the table movement mechanism (28), and the table rotation mechanism (60) on the basis of the movement amounts calculated by the computation unit (58).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Shinya Matsuyama, Yuuta Suzuki, Susumu Nishimoto, Toshihiko Matsumoto, Masanao Suzuki, Ryoji Tamai, Hiromitsu Kato