Patents by Inventor Shigemi Mandai

Shigemi Mandai 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: 10107501
    Abstract: An object is to realize combustion flame which can further reduce the amount of NOx generation. A combustor (14) includes a pilot nozzle (40); a plurality of main nozzles (44) arranged apart from the pilot nozzle (40) in the circumferential direction on the outer peripheral side of the pilot nozzle (40) and configured to perform premix combustion; a combustor basket (34) surrounding the pilot nozzle (40) and each main nozzle (44); an outlet outer ring (50) provided at a tip end of the combustor basket (34); and a combustion liner (36) fitted, at an inner surface thereof, onto the outer periphery of the combustor basket (34) and surrounding the outlet outer ring (50). The outlet outer ring (50) is formed parallel to an inner wall surface (66) of the combustion liner (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Takiguchi, Mitsunori Isono, Atsushi Yuasa, Eisaku Ito, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 9957893
    Abstract: A combustor (10) according to the invention includes: a combustor basket (14) in which compressed air and fuel are mixed with each other and the mixture is combusted; a transition piece (17) in which a tip portion of the combustor basket (14) is inserted with a gap (C) therebetween; a spring clip (19) that seals the gap between the combustor basket (14) and the transition piece (17); a throttle section (21) that is provided in an opening portion (Ck) of the gap (C) that is opened to the transition piece (17) on the tip side of the combustor basket (14), and narrows an opening area of the opening portion (Ck), compared to the base end side; and cooling device (22) for cooling the throttle section (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Takiguchi, Keijiro Saito, Teruhiro Matsumoto, Kenji Sato, Hidenobu Tamai, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 9719419
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes: an external cylinder (31); an inner cylinder (32) provided inside the external cylinder (31) to form an air passage (30) between the external cylinder (31) and the inner cylinder (32); a pilot nozzle (35) provided in a center part of the inner cylinder (32) along a direction of a combustor axis (S); a plurality of main nozzles (36) provided on an inner peripheral surface of the inner cylinder (32) along a circumferential direction thereof so as to surround the pilot nozzle (35), the plurality of main nozzles (36) premixing fuel with combustion air introduced to the air passage (30) and ejecting the fuel into the inner cylinder (32); and a top hat nozzle (41) provided inside the air passage (30) across a circumferential direction to mix fuel with the combustion air prior to reaching the plurality of main nozzles (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sometani, Satoshi Takiguchi, Shigemi Mandai
  • Publication number: 20160273776
    Abstract: An object is to realize combustion flame which can further reduce the amount of NOx generation. A combustor (14) includes a pilot nozzle (40); a plurality of main nozzles (44) arranged apart from the pilot nozzle (40) in the circumferential direction on the outer peripheral side of the pilot nozzle (40) and configured to perform premix combustion; a combustor basket (34) surrounding the pilot nozzle (40) and each main nozzle (44); an outlet outer ring (50) provided at a tip end of the combustor basket (34); and a combustion liner (36) fitted, at an inner surface thereof, onto the outer periphery of the combustor basket (34) and surrounding the outlet outer ring (50). The outlet outer ring (50) is formed parallel to an inner wall surface (66) of the combustion liner (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Mitsunori ISONO, Atsushi YUASA, Eisaku ITO, Shigemi MANDAI
  • Patent number: 9249977
    Abstract: A combustor includes a combustion chamber and an acoustic liner, wherein through-holes through are formed in a wall of the combustion chamber, a plurality of rows of the through-holes is arranged in a lengthwise direction of the combustor, the through-holes of a first through-hole row are shifted with respect to the through-holes of a second through-hole row so that centers of the through-holes of the first and second through-hole rows adjacent each other are staggered in the circumferential direction, cooling grooves are formed so as to avoid the through-holes inside that is sandwiched between the outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of the combustion chamber, and the cooling grooves include transverse cooling grooves extending in the circumferential direction between rows of the through-holes, and longitudinal cooling grooves extending in the lengthwise direction between the through-holes and connecting the transverse cooling grooves adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keisuke Matsuyama, Satoshi Mizukami, Shinji Akamatsu, Kenji Sato, Hikaru Katano, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 8950190
    Abstract: In a gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine, an air passage (54) that supplies combustion high-pressure air, a pilot nozzle (44), a main fuel nozzle (45), and a top hat nozzle (47) that supply fuel, and openings (64) that supply film air (cooling air) are provided with respect to a combustor inner cylinder (42), and contraction members (71, 72, and 73) are arranged along a circumferential direction on an inner wall surface in a downstream of a flow direction of combustion gas in the inner cylinder (42). The contraction members (71, 72, and 73) are provided in a predetermined area in the circumferential direction excluding penetrating portions (74, 75, and 76), which do not disturb the flow of cooling air, thereby enabling to suppress generation of carbon monoxide and the like and to suppress the occurrence of unstable combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keijiro Saito, Shinji Akamatsu, Kenji Sato, Shigemi Mandai
  • Publication number: 20140013762
    Abstract: A combustor (10) according to the invention includes: a combustor basket (14) in which compressed air and fuel are mixed with each other and the mixture is combusted; a transition piece (17) in which a tip portion of the combustor basket (14) is inserted with a gap (C) therebetween; a spring clip (19) that seals the gap between the combustor basket (14) and the transition piece (17); a throttle section (21) that is provided in an opening portion (Ck) of the gap (C) that is opened to the transition piece (17) on the tip side of the combustor basket (14), and narrows an opening area of the opening portion (Ck), compared to the base end side; and cooling device (22) for cooling the throttle section (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Takiguchi, Keijiro Saito, Teruhiro Matsumoto, Kenji Sato, Hidenobu Tamai, Shigemi Mandai
  • Publication number: 20130139511
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes: an external cylinder (31); an inner cylinder (32) provided inside the external cylinder (31) to form an air passage (30) between the external cylinder (31) and the inner cylinder (32); a pilot nozzle (35) provided in a center part of the inner cylinder (32) along a direction of a combustor axis (S); a plurality of main nozzles (36) provided on an inner peripheral surface of the inner cylinder (32) along a circumferential direction thereof so as to surround the pilot nozzle (35), the plurality of main nozzles (36) premixing fuel with combustion air introduced to the air passage (30) and ejecting the fuel into the inner cylinder (32); and a top hat nozzle (41) provided inside the air passage (30) across a circumferential direction to mix fuel with the combustion air prior to reaching the plurality of main nozzles (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sometani, Satoshi Takiguchi, Shigemi Mandai
  • Publication number: 20120125006
    Abstract: In a gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine, an air passage (54) that supplies combustion high-pressure air, a pilot nozzle (44), a main fuel nozzle (45), and a top hat nozzle (47) that supply fuel, and openings (64) that supply film air (cooling air) are provided with respect to a combustor inner cylinder (42), and contraction members (71, 72, and 73) are arranged along a circumferential direction on an inner wall surface in a downstream of a flow direction of combustion gas in the inner cylinder (42). The contraction members (71, 72, and 73) are provided in a predetermined area in the circumferential direction excluding penetrating portions (74, 75, and 76), which do not disturb the flow of cooling air, thereby enabling to suppress generation of carbon monoxide and the like and to suppress the occurrence of unstable combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keijiro Saito, Shinji Akamatsu, Kenji Sato, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 7832211
    Abstract: In order to realize a stable decrease in NOx, a gas turbine combustor is supplied which can reduce combustion vibration. A combustor (3) is provided with a first box body (30), which is installed outside an object body (20) such as a combustor basket (6), a transition piece (7) or a bypass duct (11) so as to form a first internal space (31) having a predetermined capacity; and a first throat (32) having a predetermined length which has one end (32a) open to a side wall (20a) of the object body (20) and has the other end (32b) open to a first internal space (31); wherein, a first resistive element (33) having a multiple number of through-holes is inserted and engaged to one end (32a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazufumi Ikeda, Shigemi Mandai, Yutaka Kawata, Kuniaki Aoyama, Masaki Ono, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7694521
    Abstract: Pilot fuel injected from fuel injection ports 21 of a pilot nozzle 2 bumps against an inner wall surface of a tapered portion of an inner circumference of a cone 41 of a pilot cone 4. At this time, the position where a pilot fuel from the fuel injection ports 21 hits is located in a range from a middle of the tapered portion of the inner circumference of a cone 41 to a downstream-side tip thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Ohta, Shigemi Mandai, Kuniaki Aoyama, Katsunori Tanaka, Shinji Akamatsu, Hisanari Nakajima, Teruya Tachibana, Koichi Nishida, Wataru Akizuki, Yoshikuni Kasai, Jyunji Hashimura
  • 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: 7360363
    Abstract: A premixing nozzle includes swirler blades for agitating combustion air inside a nozzle body. Each one end of the swirler blades is fitted to the nozzle body, and the other end is connected to a hub, respectively. The tip portion of a fuel nozzle shaft is conical, and a part of the tip portion is arranged inside the hub. A combustion gas flows into the hub from a space between the tip portion of the fuel nozzle shaft and the upstream end of the hub, passes through between the tip portion and the inner peripheral surface of the hub, and flows toward the downstream of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Keijirou Saitoh, Katsunori Tanaka, Wataru Akizuki
  • Publication number: 20070006587
    Abstract: Pilot fuel being injected from fuel injection ports 21 of a pilot nozzle 2 bumps against an inner wall surface of the tapered portion of the inner circumference of a cone 41 of a pilot cone 4. At this time, the position where the pilot fuel from the fuel injection ports 21 hits is located in the range from the middle of the tapered portion of the inner circumference of a cone 41 to the downstream-side tip thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Masataka Ohta, Shigemi Mandai, Kuniaki Aoyama, Katsunori Tanaka, Shinji Akamatsu, Hisanari Nakajima, Teruya Tachibana, Koichi Nishida, Wataru Akizuki, Yoshikumi Kasai, Jyunji Hashimura
  • Publication number: 20060236700
    Abstract: A combustor of a gas turbine, which is composed of an inner tube and a transition pipe connected together, comprising: an internal swirler 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; and an external swirler 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 being disposed within the inner tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keijiro Saitoh, Masataka Ohta, Satoshi Tanimura, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 7032386
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine has an arrangement to form a layer of cooling-air on an inner surface of a liner of a combustion chamber. This layer of the cooling air extends from a fuel nozzle block of the combustor toward a downstream side with respect to the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Katsunori Tanaka, Masahito Kataoka, Keijirou Saitoh, Wataru Akizuki
  • Patent number: 6973790
    Abstract: For the purpose of reduced NOx gas emission, a gas turbine engine comprises a cylinder having a combustion region inside of the cylinder; a resonator having a cavity and provided around the surface of the cylinder and sound absorption holes formed on the cylinder and having opening ends on the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suenaga, Shigemi Mandai, Masaki Ono, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20050223707
    Abstract: In order to realize a stable decrease in NOx, a gas turbine combustor is supplied which can reduce combustion vibration. A combustor (3) is provided with a first box body (30), which is installed outside an object body (20) such as a combustor basket (6), a transition piece (7) or a bypass duct (11) so as to form a first internal space (31) having a predetermined capacity; and a first throat (32) having a predetermined length which has one end (32a) open to a side wall (20a) of the object body (20) and has the other end (32b) open to a first internal space (31); wherein, a first resistive element (33) having a multiple number of through-holes is inserted and engaged to one end (32a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Kazufumi Ikeda, Shigemi Mandai, Yutaka Kawata, Kuniaki Aoyama, Masaki Ono, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6931854
    Abstract: There is provided a combustor comprising a fuel nozzle which is comprised of a rodlike body which has a fuel passage and which is located in an air passage; a plurality of hollow members which are connected to the fuel passage and which extend in radial directions from the rodlike body into the air passage; at least one injection port formed in each hollow member to inject a fuel from the fuel passage into the air passage; and a projection which extends from a farmost inner wall of each hollow member that is most distant from an axis of the rodlike body to the injection port that is most distant from the axis. A hole for leaking fuel that is connected to an air passage may be formed in a farmost inner wall of the hollow member that is more distant from an axis of a rodlike body than the injection port that is most distant from the axis, or may be formed to be adjacent to all the injection ports on an upstream or downstream side in the direction of the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keijirou Saitoh, Takashi Kawano, Hidemi Niinai, Yutaka Kawata, Shigemi Mandai, Kuniaki Aoyama
  • Patent number: 6860098
    Abstract: There is provided a combustor to burn fuel, comprising a bypass passage connected to one side of the combustor to supply air into the combustor; and an annular passage provided around the combustor and connected to the bypass passage, wherein air supplied through the bypass passage passes in the annular passage in the circumferential direction, and is uniformly supplied into the combustor in the circumferential direction thereof through an opening which connects the combustor and the annular passage. Accordingly, compressed air passing through the bypass passage can be supplied uniformly into a tail portion of the combustor, and unevenness of temperature distribution in a cross section of the combustor tail portion can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suenaga, Shigemi Mandai, Katsunori Tanaka