Patents by Inventor Shoichi Harada

Shoichi Harada 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: 10980109
    Abstract: A printed circuit board has: a first wiring pattern laid in a first layer such that, when a predetermined component is mounted in a predetermined mounting region, a first current path in an open ring shape leading from a first end to a second end is formed; a second wiring pattern laid in a second layer different from the first layer such that a second current path in an open ring shape leading from a third end to a fourth end is formed; a first conductive member formed between the second and third ends; and a second conductive member formed between the first and fourth ends. The first and second wiring patterns are so laid that, as seen in their respective plan views, the directions of the currents flowing across the first and second current paths, respectively, are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashiguchi, Shoichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20200253039
    Abstract: A printed circuit board has: a first wiring pattern laid in a first layer such that, when a predetermined component is mounted in a predetermined mounting region, a first current path in an open ring shape leading from a first end to a second end is formed; a second wiring pattern laid in a second layer different from the first layer such that a second current path in an open ring shape leading from a third end to a fourth end is formed; a first conductive member formed between the second and third ends; and a second conductive member formed between the first and fourth ends. The first and second wiring patterns are so laid that, as seen in their respective plan views, the directions of the currents flowing across the first and second current paths, respectively, are opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashiguchi, Shoichi HARADA
  • Patent number: 10667383
    Abstract: A printed circuit board has: a first wiring pattern laid in a first layer such that, when a predetermined component is mounted in a predetermined mounting region, a first current path in an open ring shape leading from a first end to a second end is formed; a second wiring pattern laid in a second layer different from the first layer such that a second current path in an open ring shape leading from a third end to a fourth end is formed; a first conductive member formed between the second and third ends; and a second conductive member formed between the first and fourth ends. The first and second wiring patterns are so laid that, as seen in their respective plan views, the directions of the currents flowing across the first and second current paths, respectively, are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashiguchi, Shoichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20200022253
    Abstract: A printed circuit board has: a first wiring pattern laid in a first layer such that, when a predetermined component is mounted in a predetermined mounting region, a first current path in an open ring shape leading from a first end to a second end is formed; a second wiring pattern laid in a second layer different from the first layer such that a second current path in an open ring shape leading from a third end to a fourth end is formed; a first conductive member formed between the second and third ends; and a second conductive member formed between the first and fourth ends. The first and second wiring patterns are so laid that, as seen in their respective plan views, the directions of the currents flowing across the first and second current paths, respectively, are opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashiguchi, Shoichi HARADA
  • Patent number: 10470295
    Abstract: A printed circuit board has: a first wiring pattern laid in a first layer such that, when a predetermined component is mounted in a predetermined mounting region, a first current path in an open ring shape leading from a first end to a second end is formed; a second wiring pattern laid in a second layer different from the first layer such that a second current path in an open ring shape leading from a third end to a fourth end is formed; a first conductive member formed between the second and third ends; and a second conductive member formed between the first and fourth ends. The first and second wiring patterns are so laid that, as seen in their respective plan views, the directions of the currents flowing across the first and second current paths, respectively, are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashiguchi, Shoichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20180263110
    Abstract: A printed circuit board has: a first wiring pattern laid in a first layer such that, when a predetermined component is mounted in a predetermined mounting region, a first current path in an open ring shape leading from a first end to a second end is formed; a second wiring pattern laid in a second layer different from the first layer such that a second current path in an open ring shape leading from a third end to a fourth end is formed; a first conductive member formed between the second and third ends; and a second conductive member formed between the first and fourth ends. The first and second wiring patterns are so laid that, as seen in their respective plan views, the directions of the currents flowing across the first and second current paths, respectively, are opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Shingo Hashiguchi, Shoichi HARADA
  • Patent number: 9976478
    Abstract: A solar heat turbine system includes: a compressor which compresses a working fluid, and generates a high-pressure working fluid; a solar heat receiver which heats the high-pressure working fluid with solar heat, and which generates a high-temperature working fluid; a turbine which is rotationally driven by the high-temperature working fluid; a restriction mechanism which restricts a flow of at least one of the high-pressure working fluid and the high-temperature working fluid; a rotation interlocking mechanism which rotationally drives the compressor so as to interlock with the turbine; a bleed mechanism which causes the high-pressure working fluid which is in a process of being generated in the compressor to be bled as a bled working fluid; and a system control unit which causes the bleed mechanism to execute bleeding after the restriction mechanism is caused to restrict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Harada, Kazuya Higashi, Takashi Sonoda, Keisuke Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Tatsuya Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9482210
    Abstract: A solar thermal power generation facility is provided with turbine bypass piping (74) which makes some of compressed air from a compressor (10) bypass a turbine (20), a turbine bypass valve (75) which adjusts the flow rate of the compressed air flowing through the turbine bypass piping (74), and a control device (80) which controls the rotational torque of a turbine rotor (21) by opening the turbine bypass valve (75) before a rotor rotational speed reaches a rated rotational speed in a speeding-up process of the rotor rotational speed by a start-up device (60) and adjusting the flow rate of the compressed air that is made to bypass, by the turbine bypass valve (75). The control device (80) instantaneously fully closes the turbine bypass valve (75) at the time of incorporation in which a power generator (50) is connected to an electric power system (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Harada, Kazuya Higashi, Takashi Sonoda, Keisuke Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Tatsuya Iwasaki, Sumio Toyofuku, Kazuma Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 9441545
    Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus is provided with a plurality of flow-rate regulating valves that regulate the flow rate of fuel flowing in a fuel supply line; a calculating section that calculates a required flow-rate coefficient on the basis of at least a fuel pressure in the fuel flow upstream of the flow-rate regulating valves, a pressure determined in advance as a fuel pressure downstream of the flow-rate regulating valves, and the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to one fuel nozzle among different kinds of fuel nozzles, the required flow-rate coefficient being the coefficient of the flow-rate regulating valve corresponding to the one fuel nozzle; and a valve control section that controls the degree-of-opening of the flow-rate regulating valve corresponding to the one fuel nozzle on the basis of the required flow-rate coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160222882
    Abstract: A solar heat turbine system includes: a compressor which compresses a working fluid, and generates a high-pressure working fluid; a solar heat receiver which heats the high-pressure working fluid with solar heat, and which generates a high-temperature working fluid; a turbine which is rotationally driven by the high-temperature working fluid; a restriction mechanism which restricts a flow of at least one of the high-pressure working fluid and the high-temperature working fluid; a rotation interlocking mechanism which rotationally drives the compressor so as to interlock with the turbine; a bleed mechanism which causes the high-pressure working fluid which is in a process of being generated in the compressor to be bled as a bled working fluid; and a system control unit which causes the bleed mechanism to execute bleeding after the restriction mechanism is caused to restrict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Harada, Kazuya Higashi, Takashi Sonoda, Keisuke Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Tatsuya Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20140360188
    Abstract: A solar thermal power generation facility is provided with turbine bypass piping (74) which makes some of compressed air from a compressor (10) bypass a turbine (20), a turbine bypass valve (75) which adjusts the flow rate of the compressed air flowing through the turbine bypass piping (74), and a control device (80) which controls the rotational torque of a turbine rotor (21) by opening the turbine bypass valve (75) before a rotor rotational speed reaches a rated rotational speed in a speeding-up process of the rotor rotational speed by a start-up device (60) and adjusting the flow rate of the compressed air that is made to bypass, by the turbine bypass valve (75). The control device (80) instantaneously fully closes the turbine bypass valve (75) at the time of incorporation in which a power generator (50) is connected to an electric power system (S).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Shoichi Harada, Kazuya Higashi, Takashi Sonoda, Keisuke Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Tatsuya Iwasaki, Sumio Toyofuku, Kazuma Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 8386147
    Abstract: In a heating apparatus for heating the air sucked into a gas turbine by a heat exchanger, the temperature fluctuation of the heated air is suppressed even in the period, for which a steam source to be fed to the heat exchanger is changed. For suppression, a heat exchanger is fed with both a self-can steam, the feed rate of which is controlled by a self-can steam control valve, and the auxiliary-steam, the feed rate of which is controlled by an auxiliary-steam control valve. At starting time, the quantity of the auxiliary-steam is reduced at a constant rate, and that of the self-can steam is increased while a feedback control and a feedforward control are being made. At stopping time, the quantity of the self-can steam is reduced at a constant rate, and that of the auxiliary-steam is increased while the feedback control and the feedforward control are being made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Shoichi Harada
  • Patent number: 8181439
    Abstract: A gas turbine is driven by a combustion gas produced when BFG compressed by a gas compressor and air compressed by a compressor are burned in a combustor. Steam is generated from a waste heat boiler by utilization of heat of an exhaust gas from the gas turbine, and a steam turbine is driven by this steam. An electric generator generates electricity upon driving of the turbines. A condensing heat exchanger is disposed in an air intake duct, and part of steam from the waste heat boiler flows through the heat exchanger to heat intake air. The amount of steam that flows through the heat exchanger is adjusted by adjusting the degree of opening of a steam control valve by a control device. By so doing, the ignition performance of the gas turbine in a BFG-fired gas turbine combined cycle plant is enhanced even in an extremely cold district.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Harada
  • Patent number: 8141335
    Abstract: Extremely cold (e.g., ?20° C.) air A is heated by a heat exchanger 30, which is supplied with steam S via a control valve 32, and heated air A? is taken into a gas turbine 10. The valve opening degree of the control valve 32 is feedback-controlled so that the deviation between the measured temperature t1 and the target temperature TO of the heated air A? is eliminated. Further, when the number of revolutions, N, of the gas turbine 10 increases, or when an IGV opening degree OP increases, the valve opening degree of the control valve 32 is feedforward-controlled in accordance with the increase in the number N of revolutions or the increase in the IGV opening degree OP. By so doing, the temperature of air A? can be maintained at a temperature enabling stable combustion without delay in control, and intake air can be heated without delay in control, even at the start of the gas turbine or during change in the opening degree of an inlet guide vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Shoichi Harada, Kozo Toyama
  • Patent number: 8128862
    Abstract: The blast furnace gas burning facility prevents a wet type dust collector from freezing under such conditions that the temperature of blast furnace gas does not exceed the freezing lower-limit temperature of the wet type dust collector. The blast furnace gas burning facility 1 burns blast furnace gas discharged from a blast furnace by supplying the gas to a combustor 2 after removing dust with a wet type dust collector 7 and compressing the gas with a compressor 8. A fuel-gas heating channel 12 is disposed between the outlet side of the compressor and the inlet side of the wet type dust collector. When the temperature of the blast furnace gas flowing into the wet type dust collector is lower than a lower limit temperature, a high-temperature, high-pressure gas compressed by the compressor is diverged and supplied into the inlet side of the wet type dust collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Harada
  • Patent number: 8001760
    Abstract: A gas turbine is driven by a combustion gas produced when BFG compressed by a gas compressor and air compressed by a compressor are burned in a combustor. Steam is generated from a waste heat boiler by utilization of heat of an exhaust gas from the gas turbine, and a steam turbine is driven by this steam. An electric generator generates electricity upon driving of the turbines. A condensing heat exchanger is disposed in an air intake duct, and part of steam from the waste heat boiler flows through the heat exchanger to heat intake air. The amount of steam that flows through the heat exchanger is adjusted by adjusting the degree of opening of a steam control valve by a control device. By so doing, the ignition performance of the gas turbine in a BFG-fired gas turbine combined cycle plant is enhanced even in an extremely cold district.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20110146225
    Abstract: A gas turbine is driven by a combustion gas produced when BFG compressed by a gas compressor and air compressed by a compressor are burned in a combustor. Steam is generated from a waste heat boiler by utilization of heat of an exhaust gas from the gas turbine, and a steam turbine is driven by this steam. An electric generator generates electricity upon driving of the turbines. A condensing heat exchanger is disposed in an air intake duct, and part of steam from the waste heat boiler flows through the heat exchanger to heat intake air. The amount of steam that flows through the heat exchanger is adjusted by adjusting the degree of opening of a steam control valve by a control device. By so doing, the ignition performance of the gas turbine in a BFG-fired gas turbine combined cycle plant is enhanced even in an extremely cold district.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20110004389
    Abstract: In a heating apparatus for heating the air sucked into a gas turbine by a heat exchanger, the temperature fluctuation of the heated air is suppressed even in the period, for which a steam source to be fed to the heat exchanger is changed. For that suppression, a heat exchanger (30) is fed with both a self-can steam (S1), the feed rate of which is controlled by a self-can steam control valve (41), and the auxiliary-steam (S2), the feed rate of which is controlled by an auxiliary-steam control valve (51). At the starting time, the quantity of the auxiliary-steam (S2) is reduced at a constant rate, and the quantity of the self-can steam (S1) is increased while a feedback control and a feedforward control are being made. At the stopping time, the quantity of the self-can steam (S1) is reduced at a constant rate, and the quantity of the auxiliary-steam (S2) is increased while the feedback control and the feedforward control are being made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Shoichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20100089023
    Abstract: A gas turbine 2 is driven by a combustion gas produced when BFG compressed by a gas compressor 5 and air compressed by a compressor 1 are burned in a combustor 7. Steam is generated from a waste heat boiler 8 by utilization of heat of an exhaust gas from the gas turbine 2, and a steam turbine 4 is driven by this steam. An electric generator 3 generates electricity upon driving of the turbines 2 and 4. A condensing heat exchanger 20 is disposed in an air intake duct 6, and part of steam from the waste heat boiler 8 is flowed through the heat exchanger 20 to heat intake air. The amount of steam flowed through the heat exchanger 20 is adjusted by the adjustment of the degree of opening of a steam control valve 22 by a control device 40. By so doing, the ignition performance of the gas turbine in a BFG-fired gas turbine combined cycle plant is enhanced even in an extremely cold district.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20100071372
    Abstract: Extremely cold (e.g., ?20° C.) air A is heated by a heat exchanger 30, which is supplied with steam S via a control valve 32, and heated air A? is taken into a gas turbine 10. The valve opening degree of the control valve 32 is feedback-controlled so that the deviation between the measured temperature t1 and the target temperature TO of the heated air A? is eliminated. Further, when the number of revolutions, N, of the gas turbine 10 increases, or when an IGV opening degree OP increases, the valve opening degree of the control valve 32 is feedforward-controlled in accordance with the increase in the number N of revolutions or the increase in the IGV opening degree OP. By so doing, the temperature of air A? can be maintained at a temperature enabling stable combustion without delay in control, and intake air can be heated without delay in control, even at the start of the gas turbine or during change in the opening degree of an inlet guide vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Shoichi Harada, Kozo Toyama