Patents by Inventor Tomohiko Tsukuda

Tomohiko Tsukuda 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: 11867071
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a turbine monitoring system includes a temperature measurer configured to sense a temperature of steam to be introduced to a steam turbine, and output a sensing result of the temperature. The system further includes an electrical output measurer configured to sense an electrical output of a generator driven by the steam turbine, and output a sensing result of the electrical output. The system further includes a computing module configured to compute an erosion quantity of a moving vane of the steam turbine with water drops, based on the sensing result of the temperature that is output from the temperature measurer and the sensing result of the electrical output that is output from the electrical output measurer. The system further includes an outputting module configured to output information that is based on the erosion quantity computed by the computing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Tsukuda, Yasuteru Kawai, Yukio Kanehira, Tsuguhisa Tashima
  • Patent number: 11136897
    Abstract: A seal device according to the embodiment includes a seal fin provided between the rotation body and the stationary body and extending in a circumferential direction of the rotation body, and a swirl brake fin provided on the stationary body upstream of the seal fin. The swirl brake fin reduces a circumferential velocity component of the working fluid. The swirl brake fin has a negative pressure surface provided on a side of a rotation direction of the rotation body and a positive pressure surface provided on an opposite side to the negative pressure surface. The positive pressure surface extends in a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the rotation body from radially outward toward radially inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko Tsukuda
  • Publication number: 20210172343
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a turbine monitoring system includes one or more measurers configured to sense a physical quantity of steam to be introduced to a steam turbine or exhausted from the steam turbine or water obtained from the steam exhausted from the steam turbine, and output a sensing result of the physical quantity. The system further includes a computing module configured to compute an erosion quantity of a moving vane of the steam turbine with water drops, based on the sensing result output from the one or more measurers. The system further includes a displaying module configured to display information that is based on the erosion quantity computed by the computing module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko TSUKUDA, Tsuguhisa TASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200040752
    Abstract: A seal device according to the embodiment includes a seal fin provided between the rotation body and the stationary body and extending in a circumferential direction of the rotation body, and a swirl brake fin provided on the stationary body upstream of the seal fin. The swirl brake fin reduces a circumferential velocity component of the working fluid. The swirl brake fin has a negative pressure surface provided on a side of a rotation direction of the rotation body and a positive pressure surface provided on an opposite side to the negative pressure surface. The positive pressure surface extends in a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the rotation body from radially outward toward radially inward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko TSUKUDA
  • Patent number: 9850781
    Abstract: A steam turbine 10 according to an embodiment includes rotor blades 22 implanted to a turbine rotor 21, stationary blades 26 making up a turbine stage together with the rotor blades 22, diaphragm outer rings 23 including an annular extending part 24 surrounding a periphery of the rotor blades 22, and supporting the stationary blades 26, and diaphragm inner rings 25 supporting the stationary blades 26. The steam turbine 10 further includes an annular slit 40 formed at an inner surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 between the stationary blades 26 and the rotor blades 22 along a circumferential direction, and communication holes 50 provided in plural at an outer surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 along the circumferential direction, communicated to the annular slit 40 from the outer surface side, and communicated to an exhaust chamber sucking water films via the annular slit 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Naoki Shibukawa, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Junichi Tominaga, Shinichiro Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9777587
    Abstract: A sealing device for a turbine has a sealing member provided in a gap between a rotor and a stator arranged to surround the rotor, and a fluid path provided within the stator, to introduce, into the stator, a cooling medium used to cool stationary blades extending radially inward from the stator, and to flow the cooling medium at least to an upstream side of the sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yuki Mimura, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Naoki Shibukawa, Toshio Hirano, Iwataro Sato, Kazutaka Tsuruta
  • Publication number: 20150003969
    Abstract: A steam turbine 10 according to an embodiment includes rotor blades 22 implanted to a turbine rotor 21, stationary blades 26 making up a turbine stage together with the rotor blades 22, diaphragm outer rings 23 including an annular extending part 24 surrounding a periphery of the rotor blades 22, and supporting the stationary blades 26, and diaphragm inner rings 25 supporting the stationary blades 26. The steam turbine 10 further includes an annular slit 40 formed at an inner surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 between the stationary blades 26 and the rotor blades 22 along a circumferential direction, and communication holes 50 provided in plural at an outer surface of the diaphragm outer ring 23 along the circumferential direction, communicated to the annular slit 40 from the outer surface side, and communicated to an exhaust chamber sucking water films via the annular slit 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Junichi Tominaga, Shinichiro Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8806874
    Abstract: An axial-flow turbine has turbine nozzles, a heat shield plate, a first communication hole formed in the turbine rotor and connected to the space, to flow a cooling medium, a first opening formed in at least any one of the two adjacent rotor disks, to be connected to the space, a second communication hole connected to the space through the first opening, to communicate with an implant unit of the turbine rotor blade in the rotor disk, a third communication hole connected to the second communication hole, to communicate along an effective length of the turbine rotor blade, a second opening formed in a side face of the turbine rotor blade, to be connected to the third communication hole, and a third opening formed in an outer circumferential end face of the turbine rotor blade, to be connected to the third communication hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiro Onoda, Yuki Mimura, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Iwataro Sato, Kazutaka Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 8770939
    Abstract: In a turbine rotor blade assembly 1, a length h2 in the radial direction of a bucket dovetail 15 of a notch blade 10 is configured to be shorter than a length h3 in the radial direction of an effective blade portion 13 of a adjacent notch blade 30 and a length h4 in the radial direction of the bucket dovetail 15. Thus, during an insertion of the notch blade 10 in the axial direction, the rotational movement Rf around the radial direction and the circumferential movement of the notch blade 10 can be secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiko Tsukuda, Sakae Kawasaki, Hiroshi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8695345
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a calculation method of moisture loss in a steam turbine calculates first a wetness fraction at the inlet and outlet of each of stationary blade cascades and rotor blade cascades. Subsequently, the moisture loss is classified into (1) supersaturation loss, (2) condensation loss, (3) acceleration loss, (4) braking loss, (5) capture loss and (6) pumping loss, and a loss for calculation of the moisture loss is selected from the above losses (1) to (6) according to the wetness fraction of steam at the inlet and outlet of each blade cascade. An amount of each selected loss is calculated, and an amount of moisture loss at each blade cascade is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawagishi, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiro Tejima, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Asako Inomata, Naoki Shibukawa
  • Publication number: 20140020359
    Abstract: A sealing device for a turbine has a sealing member provided in a gap between a rotor and a stator arranged to surround the rotor, and a fluid path provided within the stator, to introduce, into the stator, a cooling medium used to cool stationary blades extending radially inward from the stator, and to flow the cooling medium at least to an upstream side of the sealing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yuki MIMURA, Akihiro ONODA, Tomohiko TSUKUDA, Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Toshio HIRANO, Iwataro SATO, Kazutaka TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20140020391
    Abstract: An axial-flow turbine has turbine nozzles, a heat shield plate, a first communication hole formed in the turbine rotor and connected to the space, to flow a cooling medium, a first opening formed in at least any one of the two adjacent rotor disks, to be connected to the space, a second communication hole connected to the space through the first opening, to communicate with an implant unit of the turbine rotor blade in the rotor disk, a third communication hole connected to the second communication hole, to communicate along an effective length of the turbine rotor blade, a second opening formed in a side face of the turbine rotor blade, to be connected to the third communication hole, and a third opening formed in an outer circumferential end face of the turbine rotor blade, to be connected to the third communication hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiro ONODA, Yuki Mimura, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Iwataro Sato, Kazutaka Tsuruta
  • Publication number: 20140020403
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a sealing device includes seal fins provided on an inner circumferential surface of a stationary body or an outer circumferential surface of a rotating body so as to be adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the rotating body in a gap between the outer circumferential surface of the rotating body and the inner circumferential surface of the stationary body. The device further includes at least one opening member provided on the inner circumferential surface of the stationary body, the opening member being provided at a position between seal fins adjacent to each other in the axial direction, and having holes opened on a side of the inner circumferential surface of the stationary body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Tomohiko TSUKUDA, Yuki MIMURA, Akihiro ONODA, Naoki SHIBUKAWA, Iwataro SATO, Kazutaka TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20120067045
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a calculation method of moisture loss in a steam turbine calculates first a wetness fraction at the inlet and outlet of each of stationary blade cascades and rotor blade cascades. Subsequently, the moisture loss is classified into (1) supersaturation loss, (2) condensation loss, (3) acceleration loss, (4) braking loss, (5) capture loss and (6) pumping loss, and a loss for calculation of the moisture loss is selected from the above losses (1) to (6) according to the wetness fraction of steam at the inlet and outlet of each blade cascade. An amount of each selected loss is calculated, and an amount of moisture loss at each blade cascade is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAGISHI, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiro Tejima, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Asako Inomata, Naoki Shibukawa
  • Publication number: 20110008173
    Abstract: In a turbine rotor blade assembly 1, a length h2 in the radial direction of a bucket dovetail 15 of a notch blade 10 is configured to be shorter than a length h3 in the radial direction of an effective blade portion 13 of a adjacent notch blade 30 and a length h4 in the radial direction of the bucket dovetail 15. Thus, during an insertion of the notch blade 10 in the axial direction, the rotational movement Rf around the radial direction and the circumferential movement of the notch blade 10 can be secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Tomohiko Tsukuda, Sakae Kawasaki, Hiroshi Kawakami