Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Mizumi
Shunsuke Mizumi 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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Patent number: 12221900Abstract: This stationary turbine blade comprises: a stationary blade main body extending in the radial direction intersecting the flow direction of steam; a hydrophilic region which is formed on the surface of the stationary blade main body and which has a higher hydrophilicity than the other parts and has the radial dimension gradually increasing toward the downstream side in the flow direction; and a collecting portion which is provided on the downstream side of the hydrophilic region and which collects a liquid film flowing along the hydrophilic region.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Chongfei Duan, Shunsuke Mizumi, Soichiro Tabata, Koji Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20240352870Abstract: A method for estimating a flange surface pressure distribution includes: a reference model receiving step of receiving a three-dimensional reference shape model of a rotary machine; a measured coordinate receiving step of receiving measured three-dimensional coordinate data at a plurality of positions on an upper flange surface and a lower flange surface when a casing is in an open state; a condition receiving step of receiving a tightening torque and an elastic coefficient of a plurality of bolts, elastic coefficients and weights of an upper-half casing and a lower-half casing, and the like; a modified model creating step of creating a three-dimensional modified shape model by modifying the three-dimensional reference shape model based on the measured three-dimensional coordinate data at the plurality of positions; and a pressure distribution estimating step of obtaining, by using the three-dimensional modified shape model and under the conditions received in the condition receiving step, a pressure distribuType: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Shunsuke Mizumi, Koji Ishibashi, Keisuke Uchino
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Publication number: 20240337202Abstract: In a method for estimating a flange displacement amount, effective three-dimensional coordinate data at a lower first position on a surface continuous with a lower flange surface of a first supported portion, a lower target midpoint position on the lower flange surface, an upper first position that is coincident with the lower first position in the horizontal direction on a surface continuous with an upper flange surface, and an upper target midpoint position on the upper flange surface are determined. The effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the respective positions are changed such that the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the lower first position and the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the upper first position are coincident with each other. A midpoint position in the vertical direction between the lower target midpoint position and the upper target midpoint position after the coordinate change is used as a target contact position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventors: Satoshi KUMAGAI, Shunsuke MIZUMI, Koji ISHIBASHI
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Publication number: 20240328773Abstract: A method for estimating a flange displacement amount includes determining effective three-dimensional coordinate data at a lower first position of a first supported portion on a surface continuous with a lower flange surface and at an upper first position coincident with the lower first position in a horizontal direction on a surface continuous with an upper flange surface. The effective three-dimensional coordinate data are changed such that the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the lower first position and the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the upper first position are coincident with each other. According to a difference between a position in a vertical direction indicated by the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at an upper target position and a position in the vertical direction indicated by the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at a lower target position, displacement amounts of the upper target position and the lower target position are obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Shunsuke MIZUMI, Koji ISHIBASHI
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Patent number: 12071859Abstract: In an assembly method for a turbine, measured shape data is acquired by measuring a shape for each of a plurality of casing components in a state in which the plurality of casing components are not fastened to each other. self-weighted state shape data, which is shape data when self-weight is applied, is created for each of the plurality of casing components. A reference shape model is corrected based on a difference between the measured shape data of a target measurement part and the self-weighted state shape data of the target measurement part. By using the corrected shape model, fastened state shape data, which is shape data in a state in which the plurality of casing components are fastened to each other, is estimated for each of the plurality of casing components.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Shunsuke Mizumi, Koji Ishibashi, Juichi Kodera
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Publication number: 20240271924Abstract: In a method for estimating flange displacement amount, effective three-dimensional coordinate data at a lower first position on a surface continuous with a lower flange surface of a first supported portion and at an upper first position coincident with the lower first position in the horizontal direction on a surface continuous with an upper flange surface are determined. The effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the respective positions are changed such that the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the lower first position and the effective three-dimensional coordinate data at the upper first position are coincident with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Shunsuke Mizumi, Koji Ishibashi, Masato Kurita
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Patent number: 12044629Abstract: This fin tip position measurement method comprises: a jig installation step for installing a jig having a flat measurement surface expanded in a circumferential direction and an axial direction to a tip of at least one among a plurality of seal fins that protrude in a radial direction with respect to an axial line, extend in the circumferential direction, and are arranged in a direction in which the axial line extends; a first measurement step for measuring a distance from the axial line to the measurement surface by scanning the measurement surface with a laser beam; and a first calculation step for calculating a distance from the axial line to the tip of the seal fin by adding a radial dimension of the jig to the distance to the measurement surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Mizumi, Jose Carlos Kuroki Ramirez, Koji Ishibashi, Juichi Kodera, Satoshi Kumagai, Masaru Sekihara
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Patent number: 12037927Abstract: A turbine stator vane includes: a stator vane body extending in a radial direction intersecting a flow direction of steam; a recovery portion that is defined on a surface of the stator vane body, and configured to recover a liquid film flowing along the surface of the stator vane body; and a center region, which is defined on the surface of the stator vane body and includes grooves extending from an upstream side toward the recovery portion in the flow direction. Intervals between adjacent grooves decrease from the upstream side toward the recovery portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Mizumi, Soichiro Tabata, Koji Ishibashi, Satoshi Miyake
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Patent number: 11852032Abstract: A turbine includes a rotor including a rotation shaft that rotates around an axis and a blade row formed on an outer surface of the rotation shaft; a casing, which covers the rotor, has a casing inner surface being expanded radially outward approaching a downstream side of the casing in a direction of the axis; and an inner member body formed to line the casing inner surface of the casing such that an extraction port is formed between an upstream side end of the inner member body and the casing inner surface. A discharge port is formed between a downstream side end of the inner peripheral member body and the casing inner peripheral surface. The extraction port and the discharge port are formed in an annular shape centered on the axis. A flow path cross-sectional area of the discharge port is smaller than that of the extraction port.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Shigeo Ookura, Shunsuke Mizumi, Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Naoto Omura
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Publication number: 20230392510Abstract: A turbine stator vane comprising: a stator vane body extending in a radial direction intersecting the flow direction of steam; a recovery portion that is formed on the surface of the stator vane body, and recovers a liquid film flowing along the surface; and a center region, which is formed on the surface of the stator vane body and in which a plurality of first fine grooves extending from the upstream side toward the recovery portion in the flow direction are formed, wherein the interval between adjacent first fine grooves narrows from the upstream side toward the recovery portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Shunsuke MIZUMI, Soichiro TABATA, Koji ISHIBASHI, Satoshi MIYAKE
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Publication number: 20230385660Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating performance of a device includes: an overall performance function acquisition part configured to obtain an overall performance function which indicates a change over time in performance index of an evaluation target device, based on data acquired during operation of the evaluation target device; an individual performance function definition part configured to define a plurality of individual performance functions each of which indicates a change over time in the performance index caused by a plurality of change factors of the performance index, respectively; and a model generation part configured to generate a performance estimation model for the evaluation target device by performing superposition of the plurality of individual performance functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naoto Omura, Shunsuke Mizumi, Hideki Ono, Shota Mochizuki, Yoshito Nagahama, Nobuhiro Osaki
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Patent number: 11828185Abstract: A steam turbine includes a rotary shaft, a blade provided on an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft, a casing covering the rotary shaft and the blade from an outer peripheral side, a vane provided on an inner peripheral surface of the casing, and a seal device including a seal ring provided between the outer peripheral surface and the vane and a position adjusting portion configured to adjust a position of the seal ring in a radial direction. A seal clearance adjusting method includes a measurement step of measuring a length of the seal ring in the radial direction from a predetermined reference position as a reference length, a preparation step of preparing an unused seal ring, and an adjustment step of adjusting a length of the unused seal ring from the reference position to be the reference length by the position adjusting portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Mizumi, Ketsu Ko, Juichi Kodera, Masayuki Kayahara
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Patent number: 11773753Abstract: This turbine stator vane extends in the radial direction which intersects the flow direction of steam, and includes a pressure surface facing the upstream side in the flow direction, and a suction surface facing the downstream side in the flow direction. A plurality of grooves are formed in at least the pressure surface, the grooves extending outward in the radial direction toward the downstream side. At the periphery of the grooves in the pressure surface, formed is a hydrophilic uneven region having greater hydrophilic properties than the pressure surface. The downstream-side ends of the plurality of grooves are connected to slits for capturing a liquified component of the steam.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Mizumi, Soichiro Tabata, Chongfei Duan, Koji Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20230288238Abstract: The sensor of a fluid sensor system includes an outer peripheral sensor unit including three or more sensor pairs to surround and sandwich the heating element. The computing device of the system includes a first identification unit identifies a sensor pair in which an output difference between an output value corresponding to a temperature detected by one temperature sensor of the sensor pair and an output value corresponding to a temperature detected by the other temperature sensor of the sensor pair is largest, a second identification unit identifies other sensor pairs adjacent to the identified sensor pair in the circumferential direction, and a flow direction estimation unit estimates the flow direction of the fluid on the basis of the output difference in the sensor pair having the largest output difference and output differences in the other sensor pairs adjacent to the sensor pair in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo University of Science FoundationInventors: Shunsuke MIZUMI, Naoto OMURA, Masahiro MOTOSUKE, Daiki SHIRAISHI, Koichi MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 11719524Abstract: A method and system for measuring a turbine shape is provided in which an appropriate measurement accuracy can be achieved that is sufficient to prevent a failure to recognize features of shape of a measurement object, with extension of a measurement time suppressed. In a turbine including casings, recesses and protrusions on flange surfaces of the casings are measured at measurement intervals M set on the basis of the entire length L of flange portions in an axial direction, the number of bolts N joining the flange portions, and intervals between the bolts in the axial direction of the flange portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Ishibashi, Shunsuke Mizumi, Kenji Yashirodai, Jie Huang
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Patent number: 11719132Abstract: A turbine stator blade (21) includes a pressure side (21P) extending in a radial direction intersecting a flow direction of steam, and facing upstream in the flow direction. A slit (5) extending in the radial direction and capturing a liquefied component of the steam is formed on a downstream side of the pressure side (21P). A hydrophilic uneven region (6) having a liquid film capacity greater than that of the pressure side (21P) by being recessed in a depth direction intersecting the pressure side (21P) is formed in a further upstream position than the slit (5). The hydrophilic uneven region (6) has a depth in the depth direction increasing and a flow resistance decreasing toward downstream and toward the slit (5).Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Mizumi, Chongfei Duan, Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata
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Publication number: 20230167746Abstract: This stationary turbine blade comprises: a stationary blade main body extending in the radial direction intersecting the flow direction of steam; a hydrophilic region which is formed on the surface of the stationary blade main body and which has a higher hydrophilicity than the other parts and has the radial dimension gradually increasing toward the downstream side in the flow direction; and a collecting portion which is provided on the downstream side of the hydrophilic region and which collects a liquid film flowing along the hydrophilic region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Chongfei DUAN, Shunsuke MIZUMI, Soichiro TABATA, Koji ISHIBASHI
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Publication number: 20230111300Abstract: A turbine includes a rotor including a rotation shaft that rotates around an axis and a blade row formed on an outer surface of the rotation shaft; a casing, which covers the rotor, has a casing inner surface being expanded radially outward approaching a downstream side of the casing in a direction of the axis; and an inner member body formed to line the casing inner surface of the casing such that an extraction port is formed between an upstream side end of the inner member body and the casing inner surface. A discharge port is formed between a downstream side end of the inner peripheral member body and the casing inner peripheral surface. The extraction port and the discharge port are formed in an annular shape centered on the axis. A flow path cross-sectional area of the discharge port is smaller than that of the extraction port.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Shigeo Ookura, Shunsuke Mizumi, Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Naoto Omura
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Publication number: 20230097598Abstract: In an assembly method for a turbine, measured shape data is acquired by measuring a shape for each of a plurality of casing components in a state in which the plurality of casing components are not fastened to each other. self-weighted state shape data, which is shape data when self-weight is applied, is created for each of the plurality of casing components. A reference shape model is corrected based on a difference between the measured shape data of a target measurement part and the self-weighted state shape data of the target measurement part. By using the corrected shape model, fastened state shape data, which is shape data in a state in which the plurality of casing components are fastened to each other, is estimated for each of the plurality of casing components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Shunsuke Mizumi, Koji Ishibashi, Juichi Kodera
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Publication number: 20230020601Abstract: This fin tip position measurement method comprises: a jig installation step for installing a jig having a flat measurement surface expanded in a circumferential direction and an axial direction to a tip of at least one among a plurality of seal fins that protrude in a radial direction with respect to an axial line, extend in the circumferential direction, and are arranged in a direction in which the axial line extends; a first measurement step for measuring a distance from the axial line to the measurement surface by scanning the measurement surface with a laser beam; and a first calculation step for calculating a distance from the axial line to the tip of the seal fin by adding a radial dimension of the jig to the distance to the measurement surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Shunsuke MIZUMI, Jose Carlos KUROKI RAMIREZ, Koji ISHIBASHI, Juichi KODERA, Satoshi KUMAGAI, Masaru SEKIHARA