Patents by Inventor Takahiko Imada

Takahiko Imada 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: 8827646
    Abstract: Gas turbine blades which simplify the formation of cooling channels provided inside the turbine blades while simultaneously avoiding loss of turbine blade strength and rigidity due to forming of the cooling channels. Cooling channels provided in the interior of a gas turbine blade include a plurality of straight channel-like base-side elongated holes extending in a longitudinal direction at a base side of the turbine blade, a plurality of straight channel-like tip-side elongated holes extending in a longitudinal direction at a tip side of the turbine blade, and a plurality of communicating hollow portions interposed at connection portions between the two types of elongated holes to allow the two types of elongated holes to communicate with each other, and have larger cross-sectional areas than the channel cross-sectional areas of both elongated holes. The communicating hollow portions are formed to match the position of a platform portion of the turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Takahiko Imada, Tomofumi Shintani, Katsutoshi Ooe, Norifumi Hirata, Hiroshi Asano
  • Patent number: 8506251
    Abstract: Gas turbine blades which simplify the formation of cooling channels provided inside the turbine blades while simultaneously avoiding loss of turbine blade strength and rigidity due to forming of the cooling channels. Cooling channels provided in the interior of a gas turbine blade include a plurality of straight channel-like base-side elongated holes extending in a longitudinal direction at a base side of the turbine blade, a plurality of straight channel-like tip-side elongated holes extending in a longitudinal direction at a tip side of the turbine blade, and a plurality of communicating hollow portions interposed at connection portions between the two types of elongated holes to allow the two types of elongated holes to communicate with each other, and have larger cross-sectional areas than the channel cross-sectional areas of both elongated holes. The communicating hollow portions are formed to match the position of a platform portion of the turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Takahiko Imada, Tomofumi Shintani, Katsutoshi Ooe, Norifumi Hirata, Hiroshi Asano
  • Publication number: 20110217181
    Abstract: Provided are gas turbine blades in which it is possible to simplify the formation of cooling channels provided inside the turbine blades while simultaneously avoiding loss of turbine blade strength and rigidity due to forming of the cooling channels. In a gas turbine blade (41), cooling channels (410) provided in the interior thereof include a plurality of straight channel-like base-side elongated holes (401a) that extend in a longitudinal direction at a base side of the turbine blade (41), a plurality of straight channel-like tip-side elongated holes (410b) that extend in a longitudinal direction at a tip side of the turbine blade (41), and a plurality of communicating hollow portions (410c) that are interposed at connection portions between the two types of elongated holes (410a, 410b) to individually allow the two types of elongated holes (410a, 410b) to communicate with each other and that have larger cross-sectional areas than the channel cross-sectional areas of both elongated holes (410a, 410b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Takahiko Imada, Tomofumi Shintani, Katsutoshi Ooe, Norifumi Hirata, Hiroshi Asano
  • Publication number: 20110217180
    Abstract: Provided are gas turbine blades in which it is possible to simplify the formation of cooling channels provided inside the turbine blades while simultaneously avoiding loss of turbine blade strength and rigidity due to forming of the cooling channels. In a gas turbine blade, cooling channels provided in the interior thereof include a plurality of straight channel-like base-side elongated holes that extend in a longitudinal direction at a base side of the turbine blade, a plurality of straight channel-like tip-side elongated holes that extend in a longitudinal direction at a tip side of the turbine blade, and a plurality of communicating hollow portions that are interposed at connection portions between the two types of elongated holes to individually allow the two types of elongated holes to communicate with each other and that have larger cross-sectional areas than the channel cross-sectional areas of both elongated holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Takahiko Imada, Tomofumi Shintani, Katsutoshi Ooe, Norifumi Hirata, Hiroshi Asano
  • Patent number: 4288290
    Abstract: In apparatus for exchanging a control rod drive mechanism of a nuclear reactor of the type comprising a horizontal platform supported to be rotatable in a working chamber disposed below a reactor pressure vessel and a traveling carriage traveling on a rail assembly laid on the platform, there is provided a beam attached to the traveling carriage to be swingable between the vertical and horizontal positions and provided with a carrier for vertically moving the control rod drive mechanism. A holding device is secured to the beam so as to hold the control rod drive mechanism when the beam is moved to the horizontal position. The bolts which are used to connect the control rod drive mechanism to a housing in the pressure vessel are loosened and clamped by a bolt mounting device, which is conveyed in and out of the passage of movement of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tooru Saima, Isao Ohya, Takahiko Imada, Hideo Sato, Shinichi Katsuma