Patents by Inventor Tetsuya YABE

Tetsuya YABE 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: 10669941
    Abstract: A gas turbine cooling system includes: a cooling air line that guides compressed air; a cooler that cools the compressed air; a flow rate adjuster that adjusts the flow rate of the cooling air; and a control device. The control device includes: a load change determination unit that determines whether a load indicated by a load command of the gas turbine has changed; a first command generation section that generates a first command indicating such an operation amount of the flow rate adjuster as allows the flow rate of the cooling air to meet a target flow rate; and a second command generation section that, when it is determined that the load indicated by the load command has changed, generates a second command indicating such an operation amount of the flow rate adjuster as allows a change-adapted flow rate higher than the target flow rate to be met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoko Fujii, Tetsuya Yabe, Kazuya Higashi
  • Patent number: 10465608
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Saito, Takashi Sonoda, Tetsuya Yabe, Satoko Fujii, Kazuya Higashi
  • Publication number: 20190128183
    Abstract: A control device of the gasification combined cycle power plant includes: a casing pressure calculation part that calculates a casing pressure of the gas turbine; a pipe pressure loss calculation part that calculates a pressure loss in the pipe from the flow control valve to a combustor of the gas turbine; an outlet pressure calculation part that calculates an outlet pressure of the flow control valve based on the casing pressure calculated by the casing pressure calculation part and the pressure loss calculated by the pipe pressure loss calculation part; and an opening degree command calculation part configured to obtain an opening degree command for the flow control valve based on a fuel flow rate command for the gas turbine, a calculation result of the outlet pressure obtained by the outlet pressure calculation part, and a measured value of a differential pressure of the flow control valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisanori Morii, Yasuhiro Takashima, Tetsuya Yabe, Takahiko Sakaki
  • Publication number: 20190003394
    Abstract: A gas turbine cooling system includes: a cooling air line that guides compressed air compressed by an air compressor to a hot part; a cooler that cools the compressed air in the cooling air line; a return line that returns cooling air in the cooling air line to an upstream side in the cooling air line; a return valve that adjusts the flow rate of the cooling air flowing through the return line; and a control device that controls the degree of opening of the return valve. The control device has a second valve command generation section that, when a reception unit receives a load rejection command, generates as a second valve command a valve command ordering the degree of opening of the return valve to be forcedly increased to a predetermined load rejection-adapted degree of opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Satoko FUJII, Tetsuya YABE, Kazuya HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20180372000
    Abstract: A gas turbine cooling system includes: a cooling air line that guides compressed air; a cooler that cools the compressed air; a flow rate adjuster that adjusts the flow rate of the cooling air; and a control device. The control device includes: a load change determination unit that determines whether a load indicated by a load command of the gas turbine has changed; a first command generation section that generates a first command indicating such an operation amount of the flow rate adjuster as allows the flow rate of the cooling air to meet a target flow rate; and a second command generation section that, when it is determined that the load indicated by the load command has changed, generates a second command indicating such an operation amount of the flow rate adjuster as allows a change-adapted flow rate higher than the target flow rate to be met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Satoko FUJII, Tetsuya YABE, Kazuya HIGASHI
  • 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: 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