Patents by Inventor Shigeki Senoo

Shigeki Senoo 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: 11879353
    Abstract: A blade set of the present disclosure is exposed to a working fluid, which includes a blade main bodies which are disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction about an axis and each extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis wherein a tip end surface is formed on an outer circumferential side of each blade main body and the tip end surface of the blade main body includes a leading edge side region positioned on an upstream side in a flow direction of the working fluid along the axis and a trailing edge side region positioned on a downstream side in the flow direction, and a shroud which is provided on an outer circumferential side of the blade main bodies and covering either the leading edge side regions or the trailing edge side regions of the blade main bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Watanabe, Yuya Fukuda, Shigeki Senoo
  • Patent number: 11821331
    Abstract: This steam turbine comprises: a rotating shaft that extends along an axis; a plurality of rotor blades that are arranged in the circumferential direction and that extend in a radial direction from the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft; a casing body that covers the rotating shaft and the rotor blades from the outer circumference side; and a plurality of stationary blades that extend in the radial direction from a position on the inner circumferential surface of the casing body on the upstream side of the rotor blades and that are arranged in the circumferential direction. A plurality of microgrooves that extend in the steam flow direction are formed on the surface of the rotor blades and/or the stationary blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Soichiro Tabata
  • Patent number: 11691708
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud surrounding the shaft portion and including an inside surface that forms a flow path-forming surface defining a flow path with the shaft portion; a first propeller rotatably provided in the flow path; a second propeller rotatably provided on a downstream side of the first propeller in the flow path; and a motor including a rotor that is fixed to an outer circumferential portion of the second propeller and that is accommodated in the shroud, and a stator that surrounds the rotor via a clearance and that is fixed in the shroud. A portion of the flow path-forming surface on a downstream side of the second propeller decreases in diameter toward the downstream side, and the shroud includes an inlet flow path that is open at a portion between the first propeller and the second propeller of the flow path-forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Yamada, Hideyuki Kudo, Shinichi Isobe, Shigeki Senoo
  • Publication number: 20230126397
    Abstract: A blade set of the present disclosure is exposed to a working fluid, which includes a blade main bodies which are disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction about an axis and each extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis wherein a tip end surface is formed on an outer circumferential side of each blade main body and the tip end surface of the blade main body includes a leading edge side region positioned on an upstream side in a flow direction of the working fluid along the axis and a trailing edge side region positioned on a downstream side in the flow direction, and a shroud which is provided on an outer circumferential side of the blade main bodies and covering either the leading edge side regions or the trailing edge side regions of the blade main bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Watanabe, Yuya Fukuda, Shigeki Senoo
  • Patent number: 11629608
    Abstract: To provide an axial flow turbine that can reduce circumferential pressure differences to reduce loss. The axial flow turbine includes: stator blades arrayed in the circumferential direction; and a diaphragm inner ring having an outer circumferential surface that interconnects the stator blades on their inner-circumference side and constitutes a wall surface of a main flow path. The outer circumferential surface of the diaphragm inner ring has depressed portions. Each depressed portion is formed in an area that is on the downstream side of a throat where the distance between a suction surface of one stator blade of a pair of adjacent blades and a pressure surface of other stator blade of the pair of adjacent blades becomes the shortest, and that lies in the circumferential direction within a range of a throat position on the suction surface of the one stator blade to a downstream edge position of the one stator blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Kazuhiro Momma
  • Publication number: 20230089621
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a pipe forming a flow path through which a first fluid is fed; a pair of partition plates provided at an interval in an extending direction of the flow path to block the flow path, to partition a closed space at a portion of the flow path; a plurality of heat transfer tubes having a tubular shape with both ends being open, extending so as to penetrate the pair of partition plates, and arranged side by side with intervals therebetween; a feeding part configured to feed a second fluid from an outside of the pipe to the closed space; and a discharging part configured to discharge the second fluid in the closed space to the outside of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhide HARA, Koichi TANIMOTO, Shigeki SENOO, Koichiro IIDA
  • Patent number: 11608753
    Abstract: A turbine includes a shaft configured to rotate about a rotor axis; a pair of rotating blade rows, the pair of rotating blade rows including a pair of disks that extend radially outward from the shaft and are disposed at an interval in a direction of the rotor axis, each one of the pair of rotating blade rows including a plurality of rotating blades arranged in a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral end of the disk; and a pair of stator vane rows disposed in a one-to-one manner on a first side of the pair of rotating blade rows in the direction of the rotor axis, each one of the pair of stator vane rows including a plurality of stator vanes arranged in the circumferential direction, wherein a number of the rotating blades on each one of the pair of rotating blade rows is the same, and a number of the stator vanes on each one of the pair of stator vane rows is the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Toshio Watanabe, Sotaro Takei
  • Publication number: 20230017038
    Abstract: A steam turbine according to the present invention comprises: a shaft which rotates about the rotation axis thereof; a plurality of moving blades which extend in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and which are arranged along the circumferential direction; a casing main body which covers the shaft and the moving blades from the outer peripheral side; a plurality of stationary blades which are arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the casing main body; and a substance supply unit which supplies, to the surfaces of the moving blades and/or the surfaces of the stationary blades, a film forming substance that is hydrophobic, wherein the substance supply unit has a storage unit, a supply passage which is formed inside the casing and through which the film forming substance flows, and discharge units which are formed inside the moving blades and/or the stationary blades and which guide the film forming substance to the surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shigeki SENOO, Soichiro TABATA, Tetsuya SAWATSUBASHI, Hiroyuki MITSUI, Kunio ASAI, Ryuichi MATSUBARA, Kiyoshi TATSUHARA
  • Publication number: 20230003143
    Abstract: This steam turbine comprises: a rotating shaft that extends along an axis; a plurality of rotor blades that are arranged in the circumferential direction and that extend in a radial direction from the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft; a casing body that covers the rotating shaft and the rotor blades from the outer circumference side; and a plurality of stationary blades that extend in the radial direction from a position on the inner circumferential surface of the casing body on the upstream side of the rotor blades and that are arranged in the circumferential direction. A plurality of microgrooves that extend in the steam flow direction are formed on the surface of the rotor blades and/or the stationary blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shigeki SENOO, Soichiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20220411035
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud surrounding the shaft portion and including an inside surface that forms a flow path-forming surface defining a flow path with the shaft portion; a first propeller rotatably provided in the flow path; a second propeller rotatably provided on a downstream side of the first propeller in the flow path; and a motor including a rotor that is fixed to an outer circumferential portion of the second propeller and that is accommodated in the shroud, and a stator that surrounds the rotor via a clearance and that is fixed in the shroud. A portion of the flow path-forming surface on a downstream side of the second propeller decreases in diameter toward the downstream side, and the shroud includes an inlet flow path that is open at a portion between the first propeller and the second propeller of the flow path-forming surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Wataru YAMADA, Hideyuki KUDO, Shinichi ISOBE, Shigeki SENOO
  • Patent number: 11519426
    Abstract: A non-positive displacement type pressurizing device for pressurizing a fluid includes a rotor including a rotary blade row including a plurality of rotary blades provided at intervals in a circumferential direction; a casing that accommodates the rotor; a stationary blade row supported by the casing and including a plurality of stationary blades provided at intervals in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of heat exchanging units for cooling the fluid, wherein the heat exchanging units are configured to divide a flow path formed between stationary blades, of the plurality of stationary blades, adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction in a height direction of the stationary blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Norito Katsuki, Takahiro Hidaka, Teppei Hata, Takahiro Yamana, Shigeki Senoo, Yuichiro Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220315181
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the propeller; and a bearing apparatus provided only to the shaft portion, out of the shroud and the shaft portion, and rotationally supporting the propeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shigeki SENOO, Shinichi ISOBE, Wataru YAMADA, Takehiko NISHIDA, Takuyoshi YAMADA, Kazuki HOSONO, Yoshitomo NODA, Takuzo SHIGIHARA, Hiroki TAKEDA, Yuichi SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20220315183
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud having an inside surface with a diameter decreasing from an upstream side toward a downstream side, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller and including a rotor having a ring-like shape fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and fixed in the shroud, in which a plurality of the propellers are provided to be spaced apart in the axis direction, the motors are provided in an identical number to the propellers to correspond to each of the propellers, and of a plurality of motors, the rotor of the motor positioned more on the downstr
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shigeki SENOO, Shinichi ISOBE, Wataru YAMADA, Takehiko NISHIDA, Takuyoshi YAMADA, Kazuki HOSONO, Yoshitomo NODA, Hiroki TAKEDA, Yuichi SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20220315184
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a first propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a second propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud on the downstream side of the first propeller; an outer periphery driving motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the first propeller; and an inner periphery driving motor provided in the shaft portion and configured to rotationally drive the second propeller in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of the first propeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shigeki SENOO, Shinichi ISOBE, Wataru YAMADA, Takehiko NISHIDA, Takuyoshi YAMADA, Kazuki HOSONO, Yoshitomo NODA, Hiroki TAKEDA, Yuichi SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20220315185
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion and having a diameter decreasing from an upstream side on one side in the axis direction toward a downstream side on another side in the axis direction, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller, the motor including a rotor having a ring-like shape and being fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and being fixed in the shroud, in which the motor is a conical motor in which diameters of the rotor and the stator decrease from the upstream side toward the downstrea
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shigeki SENOO, Shinichi ISOBE, Wataru YAMADA, Takehiko NISHIDA, Takuyoshi YAMADA, Kazuki HOSONO, Yoshitomo NODA, Hiroki TAKEDA, Yuichi SEKINE
  • Patent number: 11441428
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a pressure surface and a suction surface each of which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a platform including an end wall to which a base-end portion of the airfoil portion is connected. The end wall includes a concave portion on suction surface disposed at least in a region of suction surface of the end wall, and a convex portion on pressure surface disposed at least in a region of pressure surface of the end wall. The concave portion on suction surface has a bottom point located on an axially upstream side of a tangent point on the suction surface, the suction surface having a tangential line extending in an axial direction through the tangent point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Kazuhiro Momma, Reza Abhari, Anestis Kalfas, Ilias Papagiannis, Vahid Iranidokht
  • Publication number: 20220170372
    Abstract: This steam turbine blade is provided with: a blade body (61) extending in a radial direction and having an airfoil profile in a cross section perpendicular to the radial direction; and a heater (H) including a heating wire disposed so as to extend along a trailing edge (Er) of the airfoil profile in the blade body (61). This configuration makes it possible to further mitigate an efficiency drop due to moisture attached to the surface of the steam turbine blade (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeki Senoo
  • Publication number: 20220106883
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a pressure surface and a suction surface each of which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a platform including an end wall to which a base-end portion of the airfoil portion is connected. The end wall includes a concave portion on suction surface disposed at least in a region of suction surface of the end wall, and a convex portion on pressure surface disposed at least in a region of pressure surface of the end wall. The concave portion on suction surface has a bottom point located on an axially upstream side of a tangent point on the suction surface, the suction surface having a tangential line extending in an axial direction through the tangent point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Kazuhiro Momma, Reza Abhari, Anestis Kalfas, Ilias Papagiannis, Vahid Iranidokht
  • Publication number: 20220003129
    Abstract: A turbine includes a shaft configured to rotate about a rotor axis; a pair of rotating blade rows, the pair of rotating blade rows including a pair of disks that extend radially outward from the shaft and are disposed at an interval in a direction of the rotor axis, each one of the pair of rotating blade rows including a plurality of rotating blades arranged in a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral end of the disk; and a pair of stator vane rows disposed in a one-to-one manner on a first side of the pair of rotating blade rows in the direction of the rotor axis, each one of the pair of stator vane rows including a plurality of stator vanes arranged in the circumferential direction, wherein a number of the rotating blades on each one of the pair of rotating blade rows is the same, and a number of the stator vanes on each one of the pair of stator vane rows is the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shigeki SENOO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Toshio WATANABE, Sotaro TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20210254633
    Abstract: A non-positive displacement type pressurizing device for pressurizing a fluid includes a rotor including a rotary blade row including a plurality of rotary blades provided at intervals in a circumferential direction; a casing that accommodates the rotor; a stationary blade row supported by the casing and including a plurality of stationary blades provided at intervals in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of heat exchanging units for cooling the fluid, wherein the heat exchanging units are configured to divide a flow path formed between stationary blades, of the plurality of stationary blades, adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction in a height direction of the stationary blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Tatsuo ISHIGURO, Norito KATSUKI, Takahiro HIDAKA, Teppei HATA, Takahiro YAMANA, Shigeki SENOO, Yuichiro HIRANO