Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Asai

Tomohiro Asai 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: 10041680
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor of the present invention includes a cylindrical combustor liner, a cylindrical combustion chamber inside the combustor liner, and a burner that includes a plurality of fuel nozzles for injecting the gas fuel into the combustion chamber and an air hole plate with a plurality of air holes for guiding the compressed air into the combustion chamber. The air hole plate joins the combustor liner and is disposed between the fuel nozzles and the combustion chamber. The junction between the air hole plate and the combustor liner is provided with an inclined component which covers the junction and has a connecting surface connecting the air hole plate and the combustor liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Asai, Akinori Hayashi, Yasuhiro Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20180112604
    Abstract: The gas turbine combustor and the operation method thereof are designed to minimize visualization of exhaust gas from the gas turbine upon switching of the gas turbine fuel from the oil fuel to the gas fuel. Upon switching of the combustion by the pilot burner from the oil burning to the gas burning, the gas fuel is supplied to the main burners so as to start the gas burning. Then the gas fuel is supplied to the pilot burner to start the gas burning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuhiro AKIYAMA, Mitsuhiro KARISHUKU, Keita NAITO, Kanetsugu NAKAMURA, Satoshi DODO, Tomohiro ASAI, Yoshitaka HIRATA, Akinori HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180112879
    Abstract: The gas turbine combustor includes a swirler lip on the air hole plate periphery, protruding toward a chamber, and a spring seal in an area for fitting the liner and the plate/lip. The spring seal has an air hole for passage of part of the combustion air introduced in the gap between the outer periphery of the air hole plate and the liner. The swirler lip has an air hole which introduces part of the combustion air passing through the spring seal air hole into the chamber. The liner has an air hole facing the spring seal air hole, to introduce part of air from outside the liner into the gap between the outer periphery of the air hole plate and the liner. A turn guide for rectifying a combustion air flow is provided at the liner end portion on the side for fitting the liner and air hole plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Yasuhiro AKIYAMA, Tomohiro ASAI, Kazuki ABE, Mitsuhiro KARISHUKU, Satoshi DODO, Akinori HAYASHI, Yoshitaka HIRATA, Noboru OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170284671
    Abstract: In a gas turbine combustor 3 of the present invention, an air hole plate 20 includes a center air hole group 51 configured from a plurality of air holes 51A and 51B and a plurality of outer circumferential air hole groups 52 configured from a plurality of air holes 52A, 52B, and 52C and formed to surround the center air hole group 51. The gas turbine combustor 3 includes a hole part 601 and a temperature sensor 401 provided on the air hole plate 20 to be located in a region surrounded by two outer circumferential air hole groups 52 adjacent to each other and the center air hole group 51, a supply source 220 of coolant, a cooling pipeline 205 that connects the hole part 601 and the supply source 220, valves 67 and 68 provided in the cooling pipeline 205, and a control system 500 that drives the valves 67 and 68 on the basis of a measured value of the temperature sensor 401.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohiro ASAI, Akinori HAYASHI, Yasuhiro AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170138598
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a plurality of fuel nozzles, an air hole plate, a plate lip that covers an outer circumference side of the air hole plate, and an outer channel that supplies compressed air to an outer circumferential part of a portion on the plate lip side of the combustion chamber. The outer circumferential surface of the air hole plate includes a first surface joined to the plate lip and a second surface located further on the radial direction inner side of the air hole plate than the first surface to form a space between the second surface and the inner circumferential surface of the plate lip. A communicating hole that communicates the outer channel and the space is provided in the plate lip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuhiro AKIYAMA, Akinori HAYASHI, Tomohiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20160040883
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor of the present invention includes a cylindrical combustor liner, a cylindrical combustion chamber inside the combustor liner, and a burner that includes a plurality of fuel nozzles for injecting the gas fuel into the combustion chamber and an air hole plate with a plurality of air holes for guiding the compressed air into the combustion chamber. The air hole plate joins the combustor liner and is disposed between the fuel nozzles and the combustion chamber. The junction between the air hole plate and the combustor liner is provided with an inclined component which covers the junction and has a connecting surface connecting the air hole plate and the combustor liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Tomohiro ASAI, Akinori HAYASHI, Yasuhiro AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150157610
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition which comprises, as an active ingredient, a liposome encapsulating an immunosuppressant such as FK506, FTY720 and cyclosporin A is effective in the treatment of cardiovascular inflammatory diseases such as my ocardial infarction, myocarditis and vasculitis syndrome, allows the immunosuppressant at a low dose to produce stronger effects than those of the same dose of the immunosuppressant used alone, and causes fewer side effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minamino, Issei Komuro, Takashi Matsuzaki, Naoto Oku, Tomohiro Asai, Haiying Fu
  • Publication number: 20150059353
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas turbine combustion system capable of minimizing unburned content of a gas fuel under all load conditions from partial load to rated load. A gas turbine combustion system includes: a plurality of gas fuel burners 32, 33; an IGV 9 that adjusts a flow rate of air to be mixed with a gas fuel; and a control system 500 that temporarily reduces an air flow rate from a reference flow rate to a set flow rate by outputting a signal to the IGV 9 when a combustion mode is switched from a partial combustion mode in which the gas fuel is burned with part of the gas fuel burners 32, 33 to a full combustion mode in which the gas fuel is burned with all of the gas fuel burners 32, 33.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Tomohiro ASAI, Akinori HAYASHI, Yasuhiro AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8607572
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine combustor that supports hydrogen-containing gas having a high burning velocity and is capable of performing low NOx combustion without reducing reliability of a burner. A first fuel nozzle is provided upstream of a combustion chamber and supplies fuel for activation and hydrogen-containing gas. The combustor has a primary combustion zone, a reduction zone and a secondary combustion zone. In the primary combustion zone, the fuel supplied from the first fuel nozzle is combusted under a fuel rich condition to form a burned gas containing a low concentration of oxygen. In the reduction zone, a hydrogen-containing gas is injected into the combustion chamber through a second fuel injection hole from a second fuel nozzle so that NOx generated in the primary combustion zone is reduced by an oxygen reaction of the hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Satoshi Dodo, Hirokazu Takahashi, Tomohiro Asai, Tomomi Koganezawa, Shohei Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8393159
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor for mixing fuel into combustion air introduced from a compressor, burning an air-fuel mixture, and supplying produced combustion gas to a gas turbine. The combustor has a liquid fuel nozzle for jetting out liquid fuel and a pre-mixture chamber wall having a hollow conical shape gradually spreading in the direction in which the fuel is jetted out from the liquid fuel nozzle, and defining a pre-mixture chamber therein. A plurality of gaseous fuel nozzles are disposed around the pre-mixture chamber wall in an opposing relation respectively to a plurality of air inlet holes bored through the pre-mixture chamber wall and jet out gaseous fuel substantially coaxially with the axes of the air inlet holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shouhei Yoshida, Yoshitaka Hirata, Kazuyuki Itou, Tomoya Murota, Hiroshi Inoue, Tomohiro Asai
  • Patent number: 8261529
    Abstract: A combustor includes two upstream parts of fuel supply system supplying gaseous fuels of two types having different heating values from each other, a three-way fuel transfer valve merging the two upstream parts of fuel supply system with each other, a plurality of gaseous fuel supply subsystems supplying a combustion chamber with the gaseous fuels supplied through the three-way fuel transfer valve and branched, and a plurality of burners injecting, corresponding to each of the gaseous fuel supply subsystems, the gaseous fuel supplied from the gaseous fuel supply subsystem into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Tomohiro Asai, Hiroshi Inoue, Tsunemasa Nishijima, Hidetaro Murata
  • Patent number: 8143413
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel phospholipid derivatives. Furthermore, the present invention provides lipid membrane structures excellent in gene/nucleic acid introduction efficiency into a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd., National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology, Shizuoka Prefectural Universities Corporation
    Inventors: Takehisa Dewa, Tomohiro Asai, Mamoru Nango, Naoto Oku
  • Publication number: 20110185703
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes plural multi-coaxial-injection-hole burners in which plural fuel nozzles and plural air holes provided in an air plate to correspond to the respective fuel nozzles are coaxially arranged. Each of the multi-coaxial-injection-hole burners includes a first coaxial injection burner disposed on an inner circumferential side, and a second coaxial injection burner disposed on an outer circumferential side, and a diameter of the air holes of the first coaxial injection burner is smaller than a diameter of the air holes of the second coaxial injection burner. Combustion for carrying out flame holding of a gas turbine combustor is performed by the first coaxial injection burner, and low NOx combustion of the gas turbine combustor is performed by the second coaxial injection burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi DODO, Hiromi KOIZUMI, Hirokazu TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro ASAI, Keisuke MIURA
  • Publication number: 20110094239
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine combustor that supports hydrogen-containing gas having a high burning velocity and is capable of performing low NOx combustion without reducing reliability of a burner. A first fuel nozzle is provided upstream of a combustion chamber and supplies fuel for activation and hydrogen-containing gas. The combustor has a primary combustion zone, a reduction zone and a secondary combustion zone. In the primary combustion zone, the fuel supplied from the first fuel nozzle is combusted under a fuel rich condition to form a burned gas containing a low concentration of oxygen. In the reduction zone, a hydrogen-containing gas is injected into the combustion chamber through a second fuel injection hole from a second fuel nozzle so that NOx generated in the primary combustion zone is reduced by an oxygen reaction of the hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi KOIZUMI, Satoshi Dodo, Hirokazu Takahashi, Tomohiro Asai, Tomomi Koganezawa, Shohei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100094020
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel phospholipid derivatives. Furthermore, the present invention provides lipid membrane structures excellent in gene/nucleic acid introduction efficiency into a cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicants: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd., National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology, SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehisa DEWA, Tomohiro Asai, Mamoru Nango, Naoto Oku
  • Patent number: 7673455
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a liquid fuel nozzle for jetting out liquid fuel; a pre-mixture chamber wall provided with the liquid fuel nozzle at a center thereof, having a hollow conical shape gradually spreading in the direction in which the fuel is jetted out, and defining a pre-mixture chamber therein; a plurality of air inlet holes bored through the pre-mixture chamber wall and introducing the combustion air to the pre-mixture chamber such that angles at which the combustion air is introduced to the pre-mixture chamber through the air inlet holes are deflected at least toward the circumferential direction of the pre-mixture chamber wall; and a plurality of gaseous fuel nozzles disposed around the pre-mixture chamber wall in an opposing relation respectively to the plurality of air inlet holes and jetting out gaseous fuel substantially coaxially with axes of the air inlet holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shouhei Yoshida, Yoshitaka Hirata, Kazuyuki Itou, Tomoya Murota, Hiroshi Inoue, Tomohiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20100000218
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor for mixing fuel into combustion air introduced from a compressor, burning an air-fuel mixture, and supplying produced combustion gas to a gas turbine. The combustor has a liquid fuel nozzle for jetting out liquid fuel and a pre-mixture chamber wall having a hollow conical shape gradually spreading in the direction in which the fuel is jetted out from the liquid fuel nozzle, and defining a pre-mixture chamber therein. A plurality of gaseous fuel nozzles are disposed around the pre-mixture chamber wall in an opposing relation respectively to a plurality of air inlet holes bored through the pre-mixture chamber wall and jet out gaseous fuel substantially coaxially with the axes of the air inlet holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shouhei Yoshida, Yoshitaka Hirata, Kazuyuki Itou, Tomoya Murota, Hiroshi Inoue, Tomohiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20090317455
    Abstract: The present invention provides an immunomodulating agent and a therapeutic agent for a immune disease, which comprise a lipid vesicle encapsulating a drug capable of suppressing or damaging an immunocyte that expresses or binds to an antibody, the lipid vesicle having an antigen for the antibody bound to the outer surface thereof. Hence, there is provided means for effectively treating an immune disease such as an allergic diseases or an autoimmune disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicants: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Oku, Tomohiro Asai, Takeo Urakami
  • Publication number: 20090223226
    Abstract: A combustor includes two upstream parts of fuel supply system supplying gaseous fuels of two types having different heating values from each other, a three-way fuel transfer valve merging the two upstream parts of fuel supply system with each other, a plurality of gaseous fuel supply subsystems supplying a combustion chamber with the gaseous fuels supplied through the three-way fuel transfer valve and branched, and a plurality of burners injecting, corresponding to each of the gaseous fuel supply subsystems, the gaseous fuel supplied from the gaseous fuel supply subsystem into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Tomohiro Asai, Hiroshi Inoue, Tsunemasa Nishijima, Hidetaro Murata
  • Patent number: 7571609
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a liquid fuel nozzle for jetting out liquid fuel; a pre-mixture chamber wall provided with the liquid fuel nozzle at a center thereof, having a hollow conical shape gradually spreading in the direction in which the fuel is jetted out, and defining a pre-mixture chamber therein; a plurality of air inlet holes bored through the pre-mixture chamber wall and introducing the combustion air to the pre-mixture chamber such that angles at which the combustion air is introduced to the pre-mixture chamber through the air inlet holes are deflected at least toward the circumferential direction of the pre-mixture chamber wall; and a plurality of gaseous fuel nozzles disposed around the pre-mixture chamber wall in an opposing relation respectively to the plurality of air inlet holes and jetting out gaseous fuel substantially coaxially with axes of the air inlet holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shouhei Yoshida, Yoshitaka Hirata, Kazuyuki Itou, Tomoya Murota, Hiroshi Inoue, Tomohiro Asai