Patents by Inventor Takashi Sonoda

Takashi Sonoda 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).

  • Publication number: 20170254282
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of a gas turbine including a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The control device executes load control of allowing an operation control point for operation control of a gas turbine to vary in response to a load of the gas turbine. The operation of the gas turbine is controlled on the basis of a rated temperature adjustment line for temperature adjustment control of a flue gas temperature at a predetermined load to a rated flue gas temperature at which performance of the gas turbine becomes rated performance, a preceding setting line for setting of the flue gas temperature at the predetermined load to a preceding flue gas temperature that becomes lower in precedence to the rated flue gas temperature, and a limit temperature adjustment line for temperature adjustment control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Takashi SONODA, Akihiko SAITO, Yoshifumi IWASAKI, Ryuji TAKENAKA, Kozo TOYAMA, Koji TAKAOKA
  • Patent number: 9732676
    Abstract: A valve control device is provided in a gas turbine having a combustor for generating combustion gas, a turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor, a flow rate regulating valve for regulating the flow rate of the fuel to be supplied to the combustor, and a pressure regulating valve disposed upstream of the flow rate regulating valve, for regulating the fuel pressure. The valve control device controls the opening degree of the valve. The valve control device includes a load decrease detection part which detects a load decrease of the gas turbine, and a pressure control part which controls the opening degree of the valve in accordance with the output of the gas turbine. The valve control device suppresses instability of the gas turbine output even when the load rapidly decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Saito, Takashi Sonoda, Takafumi Uda, Fuminori Fujii
  • Publication number: 20170211409
    Abstract: A control device 14 of a gas turbine that compresses a suctioned air with a compressor to obtain compressed air, mixes a fuel supplied from a combustor with the compressed air to burn the fuel and the compressed air to obtain a combustion gas, operates a turbine with the generated combustion gas to rotate a rotor, and discharges the combustion gas that has operated the turbine as a flue gas, the compressor including an inlet guide vane capable of adjusting the degree of opening and provided on an air-suction side, and temperature adjustment control to control the degree of opening of an inlet guide vane being executed along a temperature adjustment line indicating an upper limit temperature of a flue gas temperature defined according to a load of the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Akihiko SAITO, Takashi SONODA, Yoshifumi IWASAKI, Koji TAKAOKA, Ryuji TAKENAKA, Kozo TOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9631559
    Abstract: A fuel control method for a gas turbine with a combustor being formed of at least two groups of a pluralities of main nozzles for supplying fuel, and that supplies fuel from the main nozzles of all groups upon ignition of the combustor (S1), and supplies fuel from three main nozzles of a group A during subsequent acceleration of the gas turbine (S3). Because fuel is injected from a small number of the main nozzles during acceleration, the fuel flow rate per one main nozzle is increased, thereby increasing the fuel-air ratio (fuel flow rate/air flow rate) in a combustion region and improving the combustion characteristics. Accordingly, the generation of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon is reduced, whereby no bypass valve is required and manufacturing costs are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Tanimura, Shinji Akamatsu, Shinsuke Nakamura, Takashi Sonoda, Akihiko Saito, Makoto Kishi
  • Publication number: 20170002748
    Abstract: A gas turbine drives a power generator by rotating a turbine using combustion gas generated in a combustor as a result of supplying the combustor with fuel and compressed air from a compressor, which is provided with an inlet guide vane at a front stage. An operation control device of the gas turbine enables an IGV priority open flag when the inlet guide vane is not fully open and when the system frequency is lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value a or there is a request for increasing the output of the gas turbine. When the IGV priority open flag is enabled, the operation control device sets the degree of opening of the inlet guide vane to be larger than before. Accordingly, the output can be increased without having to increase the turbine inlet temperature, regardless of the operational state of the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi SONODA, Kazuya HIGASHI, Akihiko SAITO
  • Publication number: 20160326967
    Abstract: A fuel control device includes a combustion temperature estimation value calculation unit that calculates a temperature estimation value when a mixture of fuel and inflow air is burned using an atmospheric condition, an opening degree command value of a valve that controls the amount of air that is mixed with the fuel and burned, and an output prediction value calculated on the basis of a fuel control signal command value used for calculation of a total fuel flow rate flowing through a plurality of fuel supply systems, a fuel distribution command value calculation unit that calculates a fuel distribution command value indicating a distribution of fuel output from the fuel supply systems based on the temperature estimation value, and outputs the fuel distribution command value, and a valve opening degree calculation unit that calculates each valve opening degree of a fuel flow rate control valve of the fuel supply systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAMOTO, Takashi SONODA, Akihiko SAITO, Fuminori FUJII, Hisashi NAKAHARA, Ryoichi HAGA, Ryuji TAKENAKA, Yoshifumi IWASAKI, Wataru AKIZUKI, Isamu MATSUMI, Naohiro SUMIMURA, Shinichi YOSHIOKA
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20160307255
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for recommendation is provided. The process includes, on the basis of layer information in which dealing objects are classified into items in plural layers, calculating a value indicative of a variation in information for each of the layers from information obtained by dividing information of a dealing history of a user into the items included in the layers; and recommending a dealing object to the user on the basis of the calculated value indicative of the variation in the information of each of the layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka IZUMO, Masahiro SATO, Takashi SONODA
  • Publication number: 20160307213
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including calculating a value indicating a complementarity and a value indicating a substitutability, the values each being calculated as information indicating a relationship between multiple items on a basis of browsing history information and purchase history information of the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Hidetaka IZUMO, Takashi SONODA
  • Publication number: 20160237910
    Abstract: A temperature control device includes a temperature difference calculation unit that calculates a temperature difference between an inlet and an outlet of a boost compressor on the basis of a pressure ratio of the inlet and the outlet of the boost compressor and an IGV opening degree of the boost compressor, the boost compressor outputting cooling air obtained by cooling compressed air from a compressor to a cooling target; a temperature information calculation unit that calculates temperature information for feedback control for at least one of the inlet and the outlet of the boost compressor on the basis of the temperature difference between the inlet and the outlet of the boost compressor; and a control unit that performs feedback control by using the temperature information for feedback control such that at least one of an inlet temperature and an outlet temperature of the boost compressor approaches a setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Akihiko Saito, Takashi Sonoda, Tetsuya Yabe, Satoko Fujii, Kazuya Higashi
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9334800
    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a speed accelerating step (S1) of increasing a revolution number by driving to rotate a compressing portion and a turbine portion by a motor by way of a speed reducing portion, a load detecting step (S2) of detecting a load applied to the speed reducing portion by a load detecting portion, and a bypass flow rate controlling step (S3) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when an absolute value of the detected load is equal to or smaller than an absolute value of a predetermined value and reducing the flow rate of the bypassed working fluid when equal to or larger than the absolute value of the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTOR (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Takashi Sonoda, Naoto Tochitani, Makoto Kato, Masahide Umaya, Fuminori Fujii
  • Patent number: 9243566
    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a temperature elevating step (S1) of elevating a temperature of a working fluid flowing to the turbine portion, a flow rate increasing step (S2) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when a temperature of the working fluid flowing to the turbine portion is elevated by a heat source portion, and a flow rate reducing step (S3) of reducing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid after an elapse of a predetermined time period after increasing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTOR (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Takashi Sonoda, Naoto Tochitani, Makoto Kato, Masahide Umaya, Fuminori Fujii
  • Publication number: 20150354467
    Abstract: A gas turbine is provided with a combustor having a pilot nozzle, a first main nozzle, and a second main nozzle. A combustor control device has a load interruption detector which detects load interruption of the gas turbine, a pilot nozzle flow rate control unit which increases the amount of premixed fuel supplied to the pilot nozzle, based on the detection of the load interruption, a first main nozzle flow rate control unit which reduces the amount of premixed fuel supplied to the first main nozzles, based on the detection of the load interruption, and a second main nozzle flow rate control unit which reduces the amount of premixed fuel supplied to the second main nozzles to a predetermined amount, based on the detection of the load interruption, and then further reduces the amount of premixed fuel supplied after the elapse of a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto KISHI, Takashi SONODA, Shinya UCHIDA, Sosuke NAKAMURA, Yoshikazu MATSUMURA, Satoko FUJII, Tetsuya YABE, Ryoichi HAGA
  • Patent number: 9085994
    Abstract: This gas turbine includes a turbine cooling structure of cooling a turbine by using cooling air and a filter that reduces dust in the cooling air on an upstream side of the turbine. Furthermore, the gas turbine includes a supply pipe for supplying the cooling air to the filter, a branch pipe that is branched from the supply pipe on an upstream of the filter, and a unit that calculates or estimates a circulation amount of dust in the cooling air. In this gas turbine, at a time of start-up of a turbine, the supply pipe is closed and the branch pipe is opened, and when the circulation amount of dust in the cooling air becomes equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the supply pipe is opened and the branch pipe is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Kojima, Yasutoshi Ueda, Takashi Sonoda, Masao Terazaki
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20140244358
    Abstract: In an aspect of the present invention, a need determination device includes a storage unit configured to store survey data in which an assessment value of a quantitatively or qualitatively assessable survey item is set at each textbook that is the same type as an object of which needs are to be determined, and need assessment data in which an assessment value of a need is set at each of the textbooks; a determination logic generation unit configured to generate a determination logic for determining a need based on the survey data and the need assessment data; and a determination unit configured to determine a need of the object by applying, to the determination logic, input data in which the assessment value of the survey item of the object of which needs are to be determined is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayumi Saito, Takashi Sonoda, Rong Wang, Hirohiko Ito, Koji Imakita
  • Publication number: 20140230449
    Abstract: A valve control device is provided in a gas turbine having a combustor for generating combustion gas, a turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor, a flow rate regulating valve for regulating the flow rate of the fuel to be supplied to the combustor, and a pressure regulating valve disposed upstream of the flow rate regulating valve, for regulating the fuel pressure. The valve control device controls the opening degree of the valve. The valve control device includes a load decrease detection part which detects a load decrease of the gas turbine, and a pressure control part which controls the opening degree of the valve in accordance with the output of the gas turbine. The valve control device suppresses instability of the gas turbine output even when the load rapidly decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Saito, Takashi Sonoda, Takafumi Uda, Fuminori Fujii
  • Patent number: 8800296
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a fluctuation in the gas-turbine output in a nozzle switching period. In the nozzle switching period during which a first nozzle group that has been used is switched to a second nozzle group that is going to be used, the amounts of fuel supplied through the first nozzle group and the second nozzle group are adjusted by using at least one adjustment parameter registered in advance, the adjustment parameter registered in advance is updated according to the operating condition of the gas turbine, and the updated adjustment parameter is registered as an adjustment parameter to be used next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kishi, Akihiko Saito, Takashi Sonoda, Shinsuke Nakamura, Sosuke Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140190176
    Abstract: A fuel control method for a gas turbine with a combustor being formed of at least two groups of a pluralities of main nozzles for supplying fuel, and that supplies fuel from the main nozzles of all groups upon ignition of the combustor (S1), and supplies fuel from three main nozzles of a group A during subsequent acceleration of the gas turbine (S3). Because fuel is injected from a small number of the main nozzles during acceleration, the fuel flow rate per one main nozzle is increased, thereby increasing the fuel-air ratio (fuel flow rate/air flow rate) in a combustion region and improving the combustion characteristics. Accordingly, the generation of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon is reduced, whereby no bypass valve is required and manufacturing costs are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sosuke NAKAMURA, Satoshi TANIMURA, Shinji AKAMATSU, Shinsuke NAKAMURA, Takashi SONODA, Akihiko SAITO, Makoto KISHI