Patents by Inventor Shunji Kawano
Shunji Kawano 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).
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Publication number: 20250021088Abstract: The processing unit performs: first processing that derives individual previous state quantities and individual new state quantities, the individual previous state quantities being various state quantities for the equipment calculated by processing previous measurement data from the sensors, and the individual new state quantities being various state quantities for the equipment calculated by processing new measurement data; and second processing that derives a general previous state quantity and a general new state quantity, the general previous state quantity being a general state quantity for the equipment that combines the various individual previous state quantities, and the general new state quantity being a general state quantity for the equipment that combines the various individual new state quantities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Koji KAWANO, Akihiro MATSUKI, Yuuki KUMANOMIDOU, Shunji KIYOHARA
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Patent number: 7857895Abstract: A hygroscopic moisture separating and heating apparatus (20) comprises a main body container (1) having a cylindrical shape, a partition plate (5) provided to define a space together with an inner circumferential face of the main body container (1) and configured to divide the internal space of the main body container (1) into a lower temperature area (30) and a higher temperature area (31), a steam inlet (6) provided to the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), a steam outlet (7) provided to the higher temperature area (31) of the main body container (1), a hygroscopic moisture separator (8) located in the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), and a U-shaped pipe (2) through which heated steam for heating the steam to be heated is fed. The U-shaped pipe includes an advancing part (21), a retracting part (22), and a U-shaped part (23) connecting the advancing part (21) with the retracting part (22).Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2005Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shunji Kawano, Koichi Yoshimura, Takafumi Kamada, Tatsuya Okihara, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20090126574Abstract: A hygroscopic moisture separating and heating apparatus (20) comprises a main body container (1) having a cylindrical shape, a partition plate (5) provided to define a space together with an inner circumferential face of the main body container (1) and configured to divide the internal space of the main body container (1) into a lower temperature area (30) and a higher temperature area (31), a steam inlet (6) provided to the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), a steam outlet (7) provided to the higher temperature area (31) of the main body container (1), a hygroscopic moisture separator (8) located in the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), and a U-shaped pipe (2) through which heated steam for heating the steam to be heated is fed. The U-shaped pipe includes an advancing part (21), a retracting part (22), and a U-shaped part (23) connecting the advancing part (21) with the retracting part (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2005Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Shunji Kawano, Koichi Yoshimura, Takafumi Kamada, Tatsuya Okihara, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7481264Abstract: A steam condenser which condenses steam exhausted from a steam turbine. Heat transfer tubes are arrayed below the steam turbine inside the container. Cooling medium flows inside the heat transfer tubes. The heat transfer tubes extend horizontally, and include at least two upper heat transfer tube groups and at least two lower heat transfer tube groups arranged with a gap between each other. Each heat transfer tube group is constituted by arraying heat transfer tubes like a grid. At a lower part between the lower heat transfer tube groups, a baffle plate which obstructs flow of steam extends horizontally. Between the upper and lower heat transfer tube groups, inter-tube-group inundation prevention plates extend horizontally. In each heat transfer tube group, an enclosure part extends to guide gas from the enclosure part to outside of the container through a gas extraction duct.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshihiro Yoshii, Shunichi Goshima, Yukio Takigawa, Tomoko Nakajima, legal representative, Yuuichi Nakajima, legal representative, Miyuki Nakajima, legal representative, Fumio Obara, Akira Nemoto, Shunji Kawano, Yuji Inoue, Shoji Nakajima
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Patent number: 7370694Abstract: Vertical sectional shapes of portions in which condenser tubes of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52 are arranged, in vertical sections of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52, are formed to be approximately U-shapes, and a noncondensing air ejection duct 11 is provided to be positioned on a central joint portion of the U-shape of the upper tube portion 51 in an upstream side where circulating water flows first. At a portion in which the condenser tubes are not arranged between the upper and lower tube bundles, steam flow prevention plates 53 are provided to be positioned at both right and left sides of the noncondensing air ejection duct 11.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasushi Shimizu, Shunji Kawano, Yuji Fuki, Yoshihiro Iwata, Yuichi Fukasawa, Yoshio Mochida
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Publication number: 20060032618Abstract: A steam condenser which condenses steam exhausted from a steam turbine. Heat transfer tubes are arrayed below the steam turbine inside the container. Cooling medium flows inside the heat transfer tubes. The heat transfer tubes extend horizontally, and include at least two upper heat transfer tube groups and at least two lower heat transfer tube groups arranged with a gap between each other. Each heat transfer tube group is constituted by arraying heat transfer tubes like a grid. At a lower part between the lower heat transfer tube groups, a baffle plate which obstructs flow of steam extends horizontally. Between the upper and lower heat transfer tube groups, inter-tube-group inundation prevention plates extend horizontally. In each heat transfer tube group, an enclosure part extends to guide gas from the enclosure part to outside of the container through a gas extraction duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2005Publication date: February 16, 2006Inventors: Toshihiro Yoshii, Shunichi Goshima, Yukio Takigawa, Shoji Nakajima, Tomoko Nakajima, Yuuichi Nakajima, Miyuki Nakajima, Fumio Obara, Shunji Kawano, Akira Nemoto, Yuji Inoue
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Publication number: 20050039891Abstract: Vertical sectional shapes of portions in which condenser tubes of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52 are arranged, in vertical sections of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52, are formed to be approximately U-shapes, and a noncondensing air ejection duct 11 is provided to be positioned on a central joint portion of the U-shape of the upper tube portion 51 in an upstream side where circulating water flows first. At a portion in which the condenser tubes are not arranged between the upper and lower tube bundles, steam flow prevention plates 53 are provided to be positioned at both right and left sides of the noncondensing air ejection duct 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasushi Shimizu, Shunji Kawano, Yuji Fuki, Yoshihiro Iwata, Yuichi Fukasawa, Yoshio Mochida
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Patent number: 6095238Abstract: A feed water heater has a longitudinally cylindrical body comprising a cylindrical shell portion constituting a main body portion of a feed water heater and a water box-shaped chamber operatively connected to the cylindrical shell portion and partitioned by a tubesheet. In the cylindrical shell portion, a heat exchanger tube bank is arranged and supported by a plurality of support plates, a drain cooling section is disposed in association with the heat exchanger tube bank for carrying out a heat recovery of a drain generated in the heat exchanger tube bank, a dilution condensing chamber is provided for the heat exchanger tube bank and adapted to excessively flow the steam into the heat exchanger tube bank, and a non-condensable gas chamber is provided for the heat exchanger tube bank. The drain cooling section, the dilution condensing chamber and the non-condensable gas chamber are arranged axially in this order in the cylindrical shell from the tube sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shunji Kawano, Shoji Nakashima, Koichi Yoshimura, Kenji Sato, Hideki Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 5921085Abstract: A condenser with built-in deaerator comprises a main casing into which steam discharged from a turbine, a tube bank installed inside the main casing to condense the steam from the turbine, a hot well installed in the main casing to store steam condensate produced by the tube bank, a circulator for taking the steam condensate out from the hot well and returning the same again to the hot well, a gas injector having gas injecting heads, for injecting bubbles of an inert gas into the steam condensate stored in the hot well, and a water heater for heating the steam condensate in the vicinity of the gas injecting heads to increase the temperature of the steam condensate.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1996Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Shunji Kawano