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).

  • Publication number: 20100269508
    Abstract: A combustion burner 10A according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a fuel nozzle 110; a burner tube 120 forming the air passage 111 between the burner tube 120 and the fuel nozzle 110; swirler vanes (swirler vanes) 130 arranged in a plurality of positions in the circumferential direction on the external circumferential surface of the fuel nozzle 110, each extending along the axial direction of the fuel nozzle 110, and gradually curving from upstream toward downstream; and a liquid fuel injecting hole 133A from which a liquid fuel is injected to a surface of each of the swirler vanes 130. The combustion burner 10A also includes multi-purpose injecting holes 11-1 to 11-3 as a cooling unit that cools a part of a vane pressure surface 132a of the swirler vane 130 on which the liquid fuel LF hits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Saito, Koichi Ishizaka, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20100263381
    Abstract: A premixed combustion burner for a gas turbine is provided that can efficiently premix fuel and air to produce fuel gas having a uniform concentration, while reliably achieving prevention of flash back by making the flow rate of fuel gas substantially uniform. The premixed combustion burner for a gas turbine has: a fuel nozzle; a burner cylinder arranged so as to surround the fuel nozzle and form an air passageway between itself and the fuel nozzle; and swirler vanes that are arranged along an axial direction of the fuel nozzle in a plurality of positions around the circumferential direction of an outer circumference surface of the fuel nozzle and that gradually curve from an upstream side to a downstream side to spin the air traveling within the air passageway from the upstream side to the downstream side. A cutaway section is provided in a rear edge section on an inner circumference side of the swirler vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Koichi Ishizaka, Yutaka Kawata, Satoshi Takiguchi, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20100251718
    Abstract: In a damping device according to the present invention, a damping device 63 is mounted on a bypass pipe 61 that supplies an amount of high-pressure air to a combustor transition piece 33. The damping device 63 includes a fluid introducing unit 71 that forms a fluid introduction space B by covering an outer peripheral portion of the bypass pipe 61, a plurality of acoustic boxes 73a and 73b that forms resonance spaces Da and Db with the base portions connected to the fluid introducing unit 71 and the end portions extending along the outer peripheral portion of the bypass pipe 61 in the circumferential direction, and partition plates 74a and 74b that form resonance ducts Ea and Eb of a predetermined length by partitioning the resonance spaces Da and Db.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Ito, Keisuke Matsuyama, Kazufumi Ikeda, Satoshi Tanimura, Shinji Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 7770395
    Abstract: A sleeve 2e having the length of the side surface thereof made longer at a position away from the compressor outlet 11 is connected to the upstream-side end of an external cylinder 2c. By this sleeve 2e, compressed air flowing along the inside wall surface of a casing 4 flows, making a turn, in a space between the sleeve 2e and the inside wall surface of the casing 4, thereby providing the compressed air flow being introduced from the sleeve 2e to the external cylinder 2c with uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20100132375
    Abstract: In order to reduce a manufacturing cost and a running cost, casings (22) each housing a combustion oscillation detecting device (21) are attached in an alternating manner to cross-flame tubes (17) by which a plurality of combustors arranged annularly in a combustor casing are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Sosuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7673454
    Abstract: In a combustor, divisional fluid passages of a first group, and divisional fluid passages of a second group are present on an inner peripheral side, and divisional fluid passages are also present on an outer peripheral side, and swirl air flows are gushed from the divisional fluid passages. When the total amount of fuel supplied to the combustor is small as in a speed increasing state or in a low load state, fuel is injected only into the divisional fluid passages of the first group. Since a fuel injection region is limited to a position on the inner peripheral side, particularly, a specific position, the concentration of a fuel gas comprising a mixture of fuel and air is lean, but is higher than a flammability limit concentration, even when the total amount of fuel is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura, Atsushi Yuasa, Toshihiko Saito
  • Patent number: 7669421
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor having an inner tube and a transition pipe connected together is provided. The combustor includes an internal swirler and an external swirler. The internal swirler is composed of a cylindrical inward swirler ring disposed concentrically with respect to a central axis of the inner tube, and a plurality of inward swirler vanes provided on an outer peripheral surface of the inward swirler ring. The external swirler is composed of a cylindrical outward swirler ring disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inward swirler vanes and concentrically with respect to the inward swirler ring, and a plurality of outward swirler vanes provided on an outer peripheral surface of the outward swirler ring. The internal swirler and the external swirler are disposed within the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keijiro Saitoh, Masataka Ohta, Satoshi Tanimura, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 7540154
    Abstract: This invention aims to suppress the occurrence of smoke, for example, during a light load operation of a gas turbine, by adopting an air blast method for a pilot nozzle in a dual fuel combustion low NOx combustor. A gas turbine combustor of the present invention is that in a gas turbine furnished with a dual fuel combustion low NOx combustor having a pilot nozzle capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively, and a plurality of main nozzles disposed around the pilot nozzle and being capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively, wherein the pilot nozzle has a gas nozzle portion for injecting the gaseous fuel, and a liquid nozzle portion for injecting the liquid fuel, adopts an air blast method for the liquid nozzle portion, uses combustion air as air for an air blast, and throws the combustion air at a liquid film formed in the liquid nozzle portion to atomize the liquid fuel by use of a velocity difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, H. Lindsay Morton, Robert D. Zangara
  • Patent number: 7540152
    Abstract: By installing a cylinder 53 having a bell-mouth construction to the downstream side of a combustor basket 2a, compressed air flowing between the combustor basket 2a and an external cylinder 2c is throttled. In addition, by having a cross section of the downstream-side end surface of the cylinder 53 shaped in a semicircle and providing a back surface wall 2d having a curvature being equivalent to a curvature of the semicircular curved surface, compressed air flow making 180 degrees turn can be made uniform and free from disturbance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 7540153
    Abstract: By installing a cylinder 53x having a bell-mouth construction to the downstream side of a combustor basket 2a and by providing different level to the downstream-side end of the cylinder 53x, notches 60 are constructed. The notches 60 form fixed vortices in the compressed air, and the vortices enable the compressed air to determine the flow direction thereof so as to flow toward the tips of the main nozzles 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 7523614
    Abstract: A punched metal plate 51 is constructed so as to be in a ring shape covering a space between the outside wall of the combustor basket 2a and the inside wall of the external cylinder 2c and at the same time is constructed to be a perforated plate having a plurality of holes. In addition, ribs 52 are provided in a radial pattern against the axis of a combustor in a manner that both ends of a rib 52 are in contact with the outside wall of the combustor basket 2a and the inside wall of the external cylinder 2c. Additionally, ribs 52 are provided in a plural number, and the plurality of ribs 52 are arranged so as to be equally spaced in the circumferential direction of a combustor and connected to the external cylinder 2c, thereby supporting the combustor basket 2a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez, Yoshitaka Terada, Tadashi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20080289341
    Abstract: A combustor 500 is composed of a plurality of premixed combustion burners 100 each comprising a fuel nozzle 110 provided in a burner tube 120, the fuel nozzle 110 having a plurality of swirl vanes 130 on an outer peripheral surface thereof. Injection holes 133a, 133b are formed in each swirl vane 130. Staging control is exercised such that when a gas turbine is in a full load state, a fuel is injected through the injection holes 133a, 133b of all the swirl vanes 130, and when the gas turbine is under a partial load, the fuel is injected only through the injection holes 133a, 133b of a specific number of the swirl vanes 130 adjacent in a circumferential direction, and fuel injection through the injection holes 133a, 133b of the remaining swirl vanes 130 is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Ishizaka, Eisaku Ito, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20080184708
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a pilot burner, a plurality of main burners disposed around the main burners on the radially outer side. Each of the main burners (2) includes an extension tube disposed at the downstream end. The outlet of the extension tube is shaped to have a radial edge which is parallel to the radial direction. In this manner, occurrence of flashback is effectively prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Moriwaki, Masataka Ohta, Keijiro Saitoh, Satoshi Tanimura, Shinji Akamatsu, Norihiko Nagai
  • Publication number: 20080148736
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle 110 having a plurality of swirl vane 130 on an outer peripheral surface thereof is installed within a burner tube 120, with a clearance 121 being provided. Each swirl vane 130 progressively curves from an upstream side toward a downstream side (inclines along a circumferential direction) in order to swirl compressed air A flowing through an air passage 111 to form a swirl air flow a. Here, curvature of each swirl vane 130 is greater on its outer peripheral side than on its inner peripheral side. By suppressing occurrence of an air streamline heading from the inner peripheral side toward the outer peripheral side, therefore, flow velocity on the inner peripheral side and flow velocity on the outer peripheral side become equal, thus preventing flashback on the inner peripheral side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Ishizaka, Eisaku Ito, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20070227156
    Abstract: In a combustor, divisional fluid passages of a first group, and divisional fluid passages of a second group are present on an inner peripheral side, and divisional fluid passages are also present on an outer peripheral side, and swirl air flows are gushed from the divisional fluid passages. When the total amount of fuel supplied to the combustor is small as in a speed increasing state or in a low load state, fuel is injected only into the divisional fluid passages of the first group. Since a fuel injection region is limited to a position on the inner peripheral side, particularly, a specific position, the concentration of a fuel gas comprising a mixture of fuel and air is lean, but is higher than a flammability limit concentration, even when the total amount of fuel is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura, Atsushi Yuasa, Toshihiko Saito
  • Publication number: 20070199325
    Abstract: A sleeve 2e having the length of the side surface thereof made longer at a position away from the compressor outlet 11 is connected to the upstream-side end of an external cylinder 2c. By this sleeve 2e, compressed air flowing along the inside wall surface of a casing 4 flows, making a turn, in a space between the sleeve 2e and the inside wall surface of the casing 4, thereby providing the compressed air flow being introduced from the sleeve 2e to the external cylinder 2c with uniformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20070199324
    Abstract: A punched metal plate 51 is constructed so as to be in a ring shape covering a space between the outside wall of the combustor basket 2a and the inside wall of the external cylinder 2c and at the same time is constructed to be a perforated plate having a plurality of holes. In addition, ribs 52 are provided in a radial pattern against the axis of a combustor in a manner that both ends of a rib 52 are in contact with the outside wall of the combustor basket 2a and the inside wall of the external cylinder 2c. Additionally, ribs 52 are provided in a plural number, and the plurality of ribs 52 are arranged so as to be equally spaced in the circumferential direction of a combustor and connected to the external cylinder 2c, thereby supporting the combustor basket 2a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez, Yoshitaka Terada, Tadashi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20070199327
    Abstract: By installing a cylinder 53x having a bell-mouth construction to the downstream side of a combustor basket 2a and by providing different level to the downstream-side end of the cylinder 53x, notches 60 are constructed. The notches 60 form fixed vortices in the compressed air, and the vortices enable the compressed air to determine the flow direction thereof so as to flow toward the tips of the main nozzles 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20070199326
    Abstract: By installing a cylinder 53 having a bell-mouth construction to the downstream side of a combustor basket 2a, compressed air flowing between the combustor basket 2a and an external cylinder 2c is throttled. In addition, by having a cross section of the downstream-side end surface of the cylinder 53 shaped in a semicircle and providing a back surface wall 2d having a curvature being equivalent to a curvature of the semicircular curved surface, compressed air flow making 180 degrees turn can be made uniform and free from disturbance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Kurihara, Toshihiko Saitoh, Jose Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20070033919
    Abstract: This invention aims to suppress the occurrence of smoke, for example, during a light load operation of a gas turbine, by adopting an air blast method for a pilot nozzle in a dual fuel combustion low NOx combustor. A gas turbine combustor of the present invention is that in a gas turbine furnished with a dual fuel combustion low NOx combustor having a pilot nozzle capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively, and a plurality of main nozzles disposed around the pilot nozzle and being capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively, wherein the pilot nozzle has a gas nozzle portion for injecting the gaseous fuel, and a liquid nozzle portion for injecting the liquid fuel, adopts an air blast method for the liquid nozzle portion, uses combustion air as air for an air blast, and throws the combustion air at a liquid film formed in the liquid nozzle portion to atomize the liquid fuel by use of a velocity difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimura, H. Morton, Robert Zangara