Patents by Inventor Tetsuya SHITAKA

Tetsuya SHITAKA 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: 11698000
    Abstract: A damage evaluation device evaluates damage of equipment, including an operation data obtaining unit which detects a state of the equipment to obtain the state as operation data; an operating state quantity evaluation unit which calculates an operating state quantity including at least one of temperature and generated stress at a predetermined evaluation-target site of the equipment, based on the operation data; a material deterioration evaluation unit which evaluates a material deterioration quantity of a material forming the equipment, based on the operating state quantity; a risk evaluation unit which evaluates at least one of a cumulative damage quantity of the material forming the equipment and failure risk, based on the operating state quantity and the material deterioration quantity; and a recommended maintenance time presentation unit which presents a recommended maintenance time of the equipment based on a result of the evaluation of the risk evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIRA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shitaka, Yusuke Suzuki, Yoshikazu Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20230126306
    Abstract: A material deterioration evaluation device for evaluating embrittlement of equipment, includes: an operation data obtaining unit that detects and obtains a state of the equipment as operation data; an operation data storage unit that saves the operation data; a temperature evaluation unit that calculates a predetermined evaluation-target site temperature of the equipment based on the operation data; an evaluation-target component material storage unit that stores material data of a material forming the equipment and embrittlement estimation formulas; an embrittlement evaluation unit that calculates an embrittlement quantity of the material forming the equipment based on the evaluation-target site temperature, the material data, and the embrittlement estimation formulas; a risk evaluation unit that calculates a damage risk of the material that forms the equipment based on the embrittlement quantity; and a recommended maintenance time presentation unit that presents a recommended maintenance time of the equipme
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya SHITAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Keisuke TAKAKI, Yoshikazu NINOMIYA, Tsukasa TAKEUCHI, Yasuteru KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230003138
    Abstract: A damage evaluation device evaluates damage of equipment, including an operation data obtaining unit which detects a state of the equipment to obtain the state as operation data; an operating state quantity evaluation unit which calculates an operating state quantity including at least one of temperature and generated stress at a predetermined evaluation-target site of the equipment, based on the operation data; a material deterioration evaluation unit which evaluates a material deterioration quantity of a material forming the equipment, based on the operating state quantity; a risk evaluation unit which evaluates at least one of a cumulative damage quantity of the material forming the equipment and failure risk, based on the operating state quantity and the material deterioration quantity; and a recommended maintenance time presentation unit which presents a recommended maintenance time of the equipment based on a result of the evaluation of the risk evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya SHITAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Yoshikazu NINOMIYA