Patents by Inventor Satoshi Tanimura

Satoshi Tanimura 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: 11939915
    Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hidefumi Araki, Satoshi Tanimura, Masakazu Nose, Jun Sasahara, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20230407784
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel supply system including a main ammonia line through which liquid ammonia flows; a vaporizer connected to an end of the main ammonia line and configured to heat and vaporize the liquid ammonia via heat exchange between a heating medium and the liquid ammonia; a gaseous ammonia line connected to the vaporizer, the gaseous ammonia line configured to guide a gaseous ammonia, which is ammonia vaporized by the vaporizer, as fuel to a combustor of a gas turbine; a liquid ammonia line configured to guide liquid ammonia which has not undergone heat exchange with the heating medium at the vaporizer as fuel to the combustor; and a switching device configured to switch an ammonia supply state between a first state in which the gaseous ammonia is guided from the gaseous ammonia line to the combustor and a second state in which the liquid ammonia is guided from the liquid ammonia line to the combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKEISHI, Keisuke MIURA, Keita YUNOKI, Yoshitaka HIRATA, Akinori HAYASHI, Tatsuya HAGITA, Satoshi TANIMURA
  • Patent number: 11725593
    Abstract: A gas turbine including a fuel gas supply system to supply fuel gas via a fuel piping to a gas turbine combustor, a pressure control valve installed halfway along the fuel piping, a flow control valve installed in the fuel piping at downstream of the pressure control valve, and a control device configured that in a case where a flow rate change occurs in the fuel gas flowing through the fuel gas supply system, along with a tendency of change in an opening degree of the pressure control valve or a pressure P1 at upstream of the pressure control valve, a command value of the flow rate of the fuel gas that is determined based on a demand value of a gas turbine load is adjusted so that the change is suppressed in the opening degree of the pressure control valve or the pressure P1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hagita, Keita Naito, Mitsuhiro Karishuku, Masaya Kato, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11702988
    Abstract: An ammonia decomposition facility includes a heating medium line configured to flow a heating medium heated by heat generated by a gas turbine, an ammonia supply line configured to flow ammonia, an ammonia decomposition device, and an ammonia removal device. The ammonia decomposition device is configured to use heat of the heating medium from the heating medium line, thermally decompose ammonia from the ammonia supply line, and generate a decomposition gas containing hydrogen, nitrogen, and residual ammonia. The ammonia removal device is configured to remove the residual ammonia contained in the decomposition gas from the ammonia decomposition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Satoshi Tanimura, Masakazu Nose, Jun Sasahara, Hideyuki Uechi, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20220302800
    Abstract: A motor controller includes a motor control part controlling a motor having a three-phase coil by a control signal, an inverter applying a drive voltage supplied from a power source to the three-phase coil based on an output signal from the motor control part, a drive voltage line supplying the drive voltage to the inverter, a common line electrically connected with a neutral point of the three-phase coil, an inductor electrically connected in series with the drive voltage line, a first capacitor between a portion between the inverter and the inductor in the drive voltage line and a ground, a second capacitor between a portion on an input side with respect to the first capacitor in the drive voltage line and the ground, and a third capacitor between the second capacitor and the ground. The common line is electrically connected between the second capacitor and the third capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi TANIMURA, Takashi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11402098
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is equipped with a nozzle in which an air ejection passage extending along an axis and having an open distal end, and a fuel supply passage extending along the axis and having an open distal end are formed; swirling vanes provided around the nozzle so as to be twisted around the axis of the nozzle; an inner cylinder surrounding an outer periphery of the nozzle and the swirling vanes, and in which compressed air flows through an inside of the inner cylinder toward a downstream side; an outer cylinder which defines an inversion flow path, which inverts the compressed air on an outer periphery of the inner cylinder and introduces the compressed air to the inside of the inner cylinder, between the inner and outer cylinders; and an air introduction pipe having one end connected to a space on an upstream side of the compressed air from the inversion flow path, and the other end connected to the air ejection passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Inoue, Kenji Miyamoto, Kenta Taniguchi, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11371707
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a casing having an air chamber filled with air; at least one mixing passage forming member forming at least one mixing passage which is connected at an inlet side to the air chamber and at an outlet side to a combustion chamber and having an inlet at the inlet side of the at least one mixing passage so as to communicate with the air chamber; and at least one fuel nozzle disposed inside the air chamber and having a fuel injection hole, positioned upstream of the inlet of the at least one mixing passage forming member, for injecting fuel downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20220170681
    Abstract: Provided is an ice-making device that can autonomously perform a series of ice-making operations that include control of a fan motor, without relying on a higher-level device. An ice-making device that is characterized by comprising an ice-making tray, a fan motor that blows air onto the ice-making tray, an ice removal mechanism that removes ice from the ice-making tray, a control part, and a frame that holds the ice-making tray, the fan motor, the ice removal mechanism, and the control part. The ice-making device is also characterized in that the control part controls the operations of the fan motor, the ice removal mechanism, and a water supply mechanism that opens/closes a water supply path that supplies water to the ice-making tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Shunji SAITO, Satoshi TANIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220154646
    Abstract: An ammonia decomposition facility includes a heating medium line configured to flow a heating medium heated by heat generated by a gas turbine, an ammonia supply line configured to flow ammonia, an ammonia decomposition device, and an ammonia removal device. The ammonia decomposition device is configured to use heat of the heating medium from the heating medium line, thermally decompose ammonia from the ammonia supply line, and generate a decomposition gas containing hydrogen, nitrogen, and residual ammonia. The ammonia removal device is configured to remove the residual ammonia contained in the decomposition gas from the ammonia decomposition device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hidefumi ARAKI, Satoshi TANIMURA, Masakazu NOSE, Jun SASAHARA, Hideyuki UECHI, Yukio TANAKA, Atsushi YUASA
  • Publication number: 20220099033
    Abstract: A gas turbine including a fuel gas supply system to supply fuel gas via a fuel piping to a gas turbine combustor, a pressure control valve installed halfway along the fuel piping, a flow control valve installed in the fuel piping at downstream of the pressure control valve, and a control device configured that in a case where a flow rate change occurs in the fuel gas flowing through the fuel gas supply system, along with a tendency of change in an opening degree of the pressure control valve or a pressure P1 at upstream of the pressure control valve, a command value of the flow rate of the fuel gas that is determined based on a demand value of a gas turbine load is adjusted so that the change is suppressed in the opening degree of the pressure control valve or the pressure P1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hagita, Keita Naito, Mitsuhiro Karishuku, Masaya Kato, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20220099021
    Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hidefumi ARAKI, Satoshi TANIMURA, Masakazu NOSE, Jun SASAHARA, Yukio TANAKA, Atsushi YUASA
  • Patent number: 11274832
    Abstract: The present invention is a downstream plate which is provided on a downstream side of an upstream plate includes an air inlet into which cooling air is introduced from a cooling air introduction pipe and a cooling flow path which extends in a direction along a surface of the downstream plate from the air inlet so as to avoid a premix tube and through which cooling air flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11274830
    Abstract: A combustor nozzle includes a nozzle main body extending along an axis. The nozzle main body includes a first fuel passage which extends along the axis and through which first fuel is configured to flow, a first fuel ejection passage which extends to an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle main body toward a distal end side thereof from the first fuel passage and is configured to eject the first fuel from the outer circumferential surface, an air flow passage which extends in an axial direction on a radial outer side of the first fuel passage with respect to the axis and through which purge air is configured to flow, and an air ejection passage which extends from the air flow passage toward a center of a distal end of the nozzle main body and is configured eject the purge air from the center of the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Kenta Taniguchi, Kei Inoue, Shohei Domen, Yuichi Ichikawa, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11175043
    Abstract: A burner assembly for a combustor includes: a plurality of first nozzles arranged in a circumferential direction of the combustor; a plurality of first burner cylinders accommodating the respective first nozzles; and a middle-flow-passage forming portion which is connected to a downstream end of the plurality of first burner cylinders and which forms a middle flow passage through which a combustion chamber of the combustor is in communication with an interior space of each of the plurality of first burner cylinders. The middle-flow-passage forming portion includes an inner peripheral wall disposed on a radially inner side of the combustor and formed such that a distance from a center axis of the combustor to the inner peripheral wall is uneven with respect to the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Takiguchi, Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura, Shinji Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 11156168
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant is provided with a gas turbine, a heating device, a decomposition gas line, and a decomposition gas compressor. The heating device heats ammonia and thermally decomposes the ammonia to convert the ammonia into decomposition gas including hydrogen gas and nitrogen gas. The decomposition gas line sends the decomposition gas PG from the heating device to the gas turbine. The decomposition gas compressor increases the pressure of the decomposition gas to a pressure equal to or higher than a feed pressure at which the decomposition gas is allowed to be fed to the gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Nose, Hideyuki Uechi, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11118465
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine; wherein inclined surfaces are provided on inner surfaces of side walls neighboring in a circumferential direction at downstream end portions of transition pieces of combustors, the inclined surfaces being configured to increase a passage area of the transition pieces, a ratio (S/P) is from 0 to 0.2, where (P) is a pitch dimension of first stage vanes, and (S) is a circumferential dimension from an intermediate point between neighboring transition pieces to an upstream end of a first stage vane closest in the circumferential direction; and a ratio (L/P) is from 0.3 to 0.55, where (P) is the pitch dimension, and (L) is an axial dimension from a downstream end of the transition piece to the upstream end of the first stage vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Satoshi Mizukami, Keisuke Matsuyama, Satoshi Tanimura, Masanori Yuri, Shunsuke Torii, Hiroaki Kishida
  • Patent number: 11079113
    Abstract: A fuel injector including a fuel supply tube (8), a plurality of premix tubes (2), a support plate (3) which supports the fuel supply tube and the plurality of premix tubes, a substrate which supports downstream end portions of the plurality of premix tubes, an outer wall which is cylindrical, which forms a plenum (P) inside, a partition plate which partitions the plenum (P) into a fuel plenum (PF) and a cooling air plenum (PA), a baffle which partitions the cooling air plenum (PA) into an upstream cooling air plenum (PA1) and a downstream cooling air plenum (PA2) and has a plurality of cooling holes formed therein, and a cooling air supply tube configured to supply cooling air to the upstream cooling air plenum (PA1), in which the end portion on the downstream side of the fuel supply tube opens in the fuel plenum (PF), and a fuel introduction hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Kei Inoue, Satoshi Tanimura, Keijiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20210102703
    Abstract: A fuel injector including a fuel supply tube (8), a plurality of premix tubes (2), a support plate (3) which supports the fuel supply tube and the plurality of premix tubes, a substrate which supports downstream end portions of the plurality of premix tubes, an outer wall which is cylindrical, which forms a plenum (P) inside, a partition plate which partitions the plenum (P) into a fuel plenum (PF) and a cooling air plenum (PA), a baffle which partitions the cooling air plenum (PA) into an upstream cooling air plenum (PA1) and a downstream cooling air plenum (PA2) and has a plurality of cooling holes formed therein, and a cooling air supply tube configured to supply cooling air to the upstream cooling air plenum (PA1), in which the end portion on the downstream side of the fuel supply tube opens in the fuel plenum (PF), and a fuel introduction hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi TADA, Kei INOUE, Satoshi TANIMURA, Keijiro SAITO
  • Patent number: 10969151
    Abstract: Provided are an ice making device and a method of inspecting the same. In the ice making device, signal lines extending from a temperature sensor are connected to a drive unit. The drive unit performs an ice removal process of removing ice from an ice making tray when a temperature detected by the temperature sensor is equal to or lower than a set temperature. The drive unit performs a sensor inspection process of automatically inspecting whether the temperature sensor is abnormal based on an inspection execution command issued by an operation of a test switch during general processes including supplying water to the ice making tray and an ice making process. Thus, inspection of a drive mechanism of the drive unit and inspection of the temperature sensor can be performed in a series of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20210088216
    Abstract: A combustor according to the present invention includes: a casing 20 having an air chamber 121 filled with air; at least one mixing passage forming member 131 forming at least one mixing passage 134 which is connected at an inlet side to the air chamber 121 and at an outlet side to a combustion chamber 124 and having an inlet 142 formed at the inlet side of the at least one mixing passage 134 so as to communicate with the air chamber 121; and at least one fuel nozzle 132 disposed inside the air chamber 121 and having a fuel injection hole 133, positioned upstream of the inlet 142 of the mixing passage forming member 131, for injecting fuel downstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi TADA, Keijiro SAITO, Satoshi TANIMURA