Patents by Inventor Satoshi Hada

Satoshi Hada 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: 11286785
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes: a blade body including a pressure surface and a suction surface; and a tip shroud on a tip portion of the blade body, the tip shroud being inclined outward in a radial direction from the pressure surface to the suction surface in an axial direction. The tip shroud includes a fin at a center portion in a circumferential direction, the fin extending radially outward, a pressure-side tip shroud on the pressure surface side, and a suction-side tip shroud. The suction-side tip shroud includes a suction-side contact block at a front edge end of the tip shroud. The pressure-side tip shroud includes a pressure-side contact block at a rear edge end of the tip shroud, the suction-side contact block includes a first surface facing in the circumferential direction, and the pressure-side contact block includes a second surface facing in a direction opposite to the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Norifumi Hirata, Tetsuya Shimmyo, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Shunsuke Torii
  • Patent number: 11242759
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: an airfoil body; a cooling passage extending along a blade height direction inside the airfoil body; and a plurality of turbulators disposed on an inner wall surface of the cooling passage and arranged along the cooling passage. The airfoil body has a first end portion and a second end portion which are opposite end portions in the blade height direction. A passage width of the cooling passage in a suction-pressure direction of the airfoil body at the second end portion is greater than a passage width of the cooling passage at the first end portion. A height of the plurality of turbulators increases from a first end portion side to a second end portion side in the blade height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Wakazono, Keita Takamura, Satoshi Hada
  • Publication number: 20210340877
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes: a root portion fixed to a rotor shaft; and an airfoil portion including a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a top surface connecting the pressure surface and the suction surface, with a cooling passage formed inside the airfoil portion. The top surface of the turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge region located on the leading edge side and formed parallel to the rotor shaft, and a trailing edge region adjacent to the leading edge region. The trailing edge region has an inclined surface inclined radially inward toward a trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki KITADA, Satoshi HADA, Hiroyuki OTOMO, Yasumasa KUNISADA
  • Patent number: 11125090
    Abstract: A first-stage stationary vane of a gas turbine includes: a vane portion including a pressure surface and a suction surface; a shroud wall portion which connects to an end portion of the vane portion and which forms a flow passage wall; a pressure-surface side fillet portion disposed on a corner portion formed by the pressure surface and a wall surface of the shroud wall portion; and a suction-surface side fillet portion disposed on a corner portion formed by the suction surface and the wall surface of the shroud wall portion. The pressure-surface side fillet portion and the suction-surface side fillet portion are separated at a leading-edge side of the vane portion so as not to connect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Miyahisa, Satoshi Hada, Susumu Wakazono, Hitoshi Kitagawa, Takashi Hiyama
  • Publication number: 20210123349
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion, a cooling passage inside the airfoil portion, and a plurality of cooling holes formed in a trailing edge part of the airfoil portion. The cooling holes communicating with the cooling passage and opening in a surface of the trailing edge part. A relation of d_up<d_mid<d_down is satisfied, where d_mid is an index indicating opening densities of the cooling holes in a center region including an intermediate position between a first end and a second end of the airfoil portion in the blade height direction, d_up is an index in a region positioned upstream of a flow of a cooling medium in the cooling passage from the center region in the blade height direction, and d_down is an index in a region positioned downstream of the flow of the cooling medium from the center region in the blade height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshifumi TSUJI, Ryuta ITO, Hiroyuki OTOMO, Satoshi HADA, Susumu WAKAZONO
  • Publication number: 20210115800
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes: a blade body including a pressure surface and a suction surface; and a tip shroud on a tip portion of the blade body, the tip shroud being inclined outward in a radial direction from the pressure surface to the suction surface in an axial direction. The tip shroud includes a fin at a center portion in a circumferential direction, the fin extending radially outward, a pressure-side tip shroud on the pressure surface side, and a suction-side tip shroud. The suction-side tip shroud includes a suction-side contact block at a front edge end of the tip shroud. The pressure-side tip shroud includes a pressure-side contact block at a rear edge end of the tip shroud, the suction-side contact block includes a first surface facing in the circumferential direction, and the pressure-side contact block includes a second surface facing in a direction opposite to the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Norifumi HIRATA, Tetsuya SHIMMYO, Satoshi HADA, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Shunsuke TORII
  • Publication number: 20210071535
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes a blade body including a pressure-side blade wall and a suction-side blade wall. The blade body includes: a serpentine passage composed of a cooling passage separated into a plurality of parts by a partition wall that connects the pressure-side blade wall and the suction-side blade wall and extends along a height direction of the blade body; and a first cooling hole communicating at one end with the cooling passage via a first inlet opening formed in an inner wall surface of the pressure-side blade wall or the suction-side blade wall, and communicating at another end with a first outlet opening formed in an outer wall surface of the pressure-side blade wall or the suction-side blade wall of the blade body. The first cooling hole extends in a leading edge direction from the first inlet opening to the first outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuo MIYAHISA, Satoshi HADA, Susumu WAKAZONO
  • Publication number: 20210062678
    Abstract: A control device controls a temperature of a shaft seal portion provided around a rotating shaft of a rotating machine to an appropriate temperature by adjusting an amount of the cooling air to be supplied to the shaft seal portion. The control device calculates a sensitivity indicated using the temperature of the shaft seal portion with respect to a flow rate of the cooling air supplied to the shaft seal portion and controls the flow rate of the cooling air so that the sensitivity has a predetermined target value on the basis of the calculated sensitivity. When the sensitivity is calculated, the flow rate is varied in a predetermined range having a certain flow rate as a center. The sensitivity of the temperature at the flow rate as a center is calculated from the variation in the temperature of the shaft seal portion with respect to the variation in the flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Takaharu HIROE, Satoshi HADA, Kazunari IDE, Koki TATEISHI, Ryuji TAKENAKA, Koshiro FUKUMOTO, Shinichi YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20210025279
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: an airfoil body; a cooling passage extending along a blade height direction inside the airfoil body; and a plurality of turbulators disposed on an inner wall surface of the cooling passage and arranged along the cooling passage. The airfoil body has a first end portion and a second end portion which are opposite end portions in the blade height direction. A passage width of the cooling passage in a suction-pressure direction of the airfoil body at the second end portion is greater than a passage width of the cooling passage at the first end portion. A height of the plurality of turbulators increases from a first end portion side to a second end portion side in the blade height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Susumu WAKAZONO, Keita TAKAMURA, Satoshi HADA
  • Patent number: 10890073
    Abstract: A turbine blade (43a) is provided with a blade main body (51) and a tip shroud (52). The blade main body (51) is provided with a leading edge-side cooling passage (64), a trailing edge-side cooling passage (67), and a middle cooling passage (65). The tip shroud (52) is provided with a first discharge passage (72), a second discharge passage (73), and a third discharge passage (74). The first discharge passage (72) discharges a cooling medium flowing through the leading edge-side cooling passage (64). The second discharge passage (73) discharges a cooling medium flowing through the trailing edge-side cooling passage (67). The third discharge passage (74) discharges a cooling medium flowing through the middle cooling passage (65).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Satoshi Hada, Hidekatsu Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20200263554
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil body, and a plurality of cooling passages extending along a blade height direction inside the airfoil body and communicating with each other to form a serpentine flow passage. The cooling passages include first turbulators disposed on an inner wall surface of an upstream side passage of the plurality of cooling passages, and second turbulators disposed on an inner wall surface of a downstream side passage of the plurality of cooling passages, the second turbulators being arranged on a downstream side of the upstream side passage. A second angle formed by the second turbulators with respect to a flow direction of a cooling fluid in the most downstream passage is smaller than a first angle formed by the first turbulators with respect to the flow direction of the cooling fluid in the upstream side passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuo MIYAHISA, Susumu WAKAZONO, Satoshi HADA
  • Publication number: 20200190989
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a hollow portion extending along the blade height direction and film cooling holes arranged along the blade height direction, and an insert disposed in the hollow portion along the blade height direction and having impingement cooling holes. The insert includes a first high-density opening region having a higher density of the impingement cooling holes than in other surface regions of the insert. The geometric center of the first high-density opening region is positioned on the suction side of the airfoil portion in the leading-edge-to-trailing-edge direction and on the outer side of the midpoint of the airfoil portion in the blade height direction. The film cooling holes includes upstream film cooling holes disposed in the suction surface of the airfoil portion at a position corresponding to the first high-density opening region or at a position closer to a leading edge than the position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi FUJII, Hidemichi KOYABU, Shunsuke TORII, Satoshi HADA
  • Patent number: 10655478
    Abstract: A blade main body (51) of a gas turbine is provided with a first cooling passage part (58), a second cooling passage part (59), a column part (60), and a plurality of protrusions. The first cooling passage part (58) is provided at the side near to a leading edge (55). The second cooling passage part (59) is provided at the side near to a trailing edge (56). The column part (60) is provided between the first cooling passage part (58) and the second cooling passage part (59), and is continuously formed between a base part and an end part of the blade main body (51). The protrusions protrude from the inner wall surfaces of the first cooling passage part (58) and the second cooling passage part (59).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Satoshi Hada, Hidekatsu Atsumi
  • Patent number: 10641116
    Abstract: A plurality of circumferential blowout passages that communicate with a cavity into which cooling air flows and that open in a circumferential end surface are formed in a shroud of a vane. Of a central region of the circumferential end surface, an upstream-side region of the circumferential end surface, and a downstream-side region of the circumferential end surface, at least the central region has openings of the plurality of circumferential blowout passages formed therein. A density that is the number of the openings of the circumferential blowout passages per unit length in an axial direction is highest in the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Otomo, Satoshi Hada
  • Patent number: 10641101
    Abstract: A blade includes a blade body with a cooling flow passage through which a cooling medium is configured to flow. The blade body includes a top plate, and a thinning which is defined on a top surface of the top plate, closer to a suction side than a camber line, and which protrudes and extends along the camber line. A top plate flow passage is defined inside the top plate and includes an inlet flow passage which is closer to the suction side than the camber line and into which the cooling medium is configured to flow, a main flow passage which extends in a direction intersecting the camber line along the top surface, and an outlet flow passage through which the cooling medium is configured to be discharged to an outside of the blade body from a position closer to a pressure side than the camber line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Izumi, Kazuki Morimoto, Satoshi Hada
  • Patent number: 10633977
    Abstract: An end plate of a blade has a gas path surface facing a combustion gas channel side, an end surface along an edge of the gas path surface, a plurality of channels, and a skirt hole. The plurality of channels extend along the direction of a partial end surface, which is a portion of the end surface, and are arranged in a perspective direction with respect to the partial end surface. The skirt hole opens at the partial end surface. The skirt hole communicates with an inside channel, which is the channel of the plurality of channels that is farthest from the partial end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Saki Matsuo, Yoshifumi Tsuji, Satoshi Hada, Hidekatsu Atsumi
  • Patent number: 10626732
    Abstract: A blade has a flow passage forming plate that defines a part of a combustion gas flow passage. The flow passage forming plate has a plurality of back channels that open in a back end surface. A density of openings of the plurality of back channels in a middle region of the back end surface is higher than the density of openings of the plurality of back channels in at least one side region of a suction-side region and a pressure-side region of the back end surface. The density of openings is a ratio of a length of wetted perimeter of the plurality of back channels to an interval of openings of the plurality of back channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Saki Matsuo, Tomoko Morikawa, Satoshi Hada, Hiroyuki Otomo
  • Patent number: 10612397
    Abstract: An insert assembly (79) includes an insert (80), a reinforcing member (85), and a retaining member (90). The insert (80) is fixed to an end of an airfoil body (51) on one side in a radial direction. The reinforcing member (85) is disposed adjacent to an end of the insert (80) on the other side in the radial direction and enhances the rigidity of the insert (80). The retaining member (90) is fixed to an end of the airfoil body (51) on the other side in the radial direction, and allows the insert (80) to be positioned relative to the airfoil body (51) in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Saki Matsuo, Satoshi Hada, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Yoshifumi Okajima, Kunihiko Waki
  • Patent number: 10605102
    Abstract: Provided is a flow path forming plate having a gas path surface that comes in contact with combustion gas, end surfaces formed at peripheral edges of the gas path surface, a first side passage, and a plurality of end surface blow-out passages. The first side passage extends in a direction along a first end surface that is one of the end surfaces, and cooling air flows through the first side passage. A plurality of passage forming surfaces forming the first side passage includes a first forming surface that faces an opposite-flow-path side and extends gradually farther away from the gas path surface while extending toward the first end surface. The end surface blow-out passages open in the first forming surface of the first side passage and in the first end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Saki Matsuo, Satoshi Hada, Tomoko Morikawa, Kunihiko Waki, Kenichi Arase
  • Publication number: 20200088047
    Abstract: A first-stage stationary vane of a gas turbine includes: a vane portion including a pressure surface and a suction surface; a shroud wall portion which connects to an end portion of the vane portion and which forms a flow passage wall; a pressure-surface side fillet portion disposed on a corner portion formed by the pressure surface and a wall surface of the shroud wall portion; and a suction-surface side fillet portion disposed on a corner portion formed by the suction surface and the wall surface of the shroud wall portion. The pressure-surface side fillet portion and the suction-surface side fillet portion are separated at a leading-edge side of the vane portion so as not to connect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Miyahisa, Satoshi Hada, Susumu Wakazono, Hitoshi Kitagawa, Takashi Hiyama