Patents by Inventor Toshinori Shigenaka
Toshinori Shigenaka 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).
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Patent number: 7555890Abstract: A combined cycle power plant of the present invention is configured of a compressor; a combustor for combusting compressed air compressed by the compressor together with supplied fuel; a gas turbine driven by a combustion gas exhausted from the combustor; a heat recovery steam generator for recovering high temperature exhaust heat exhausted from the gas turbine; a steam turbine driven by steam obtained from the heat recovery steam generator; and an exhaust gas duct having an HRSG inlet duct that is provided between the gas turbine and the heat recovery steam generator and introduces an exhaust passage into the heat recovery steam generator, and a bypass stack that leads the exhaust gas outside, wherein the exhaust duct is configured of a damper, a damper drive for changing any of angle and opening of the damper, and a guide mechanism for preventing a vibration of the damper.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Babcock-Hitachi K.K.Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Toshinori Shigenaka, Kazuhiro Takenaga, Shoji Nagai, Shinichi Taniguchi
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Patent number: 7357100Abstract: A necessary size and number of modules each obtained by housing a member including heat exchanger tube panels each comprising a heat exchanger tube bundle and headers for the heat exchanger tube bundle, an upper casing of an exhaust heat recovery boiler (HRSG), provided above the heat exchanger tube panels, heat insulators, and heat exchanger tube panel support beams provided on the upper surface of the upper casing into a transportation frame, are prepared according to design specifications of the HRSG, and side casings and a bottom casing except for the ceiling part casing are constructed in advance at a construction site of the HRSG, and the modules are suspended from above between adjacent support beams of the ceiling part to dispose the heat exchanger tube panel support beams of the modules at the set heights of the ceiling part support beams, and the support beams and the ceiling part support beams are connected and fixed via connecting steel plates, whereby the respective modules are transported to theType: GrantFiled: July 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Waseda, Atsuo Kawahara, Mitsugi Musashi, Toshinori Shigenaka
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Patent number: 7275503Abstract: A method of constructing an exhaust heat recovery boiler. A required number of heat transfer tube group panel modules (20) are produced in an appropriate size according to design specifications of HRSG, where the heat transfer tube group panel modules (20) each have a large number of heat transfer tubes (6), heat transfer tube group panels (23) constituted of upper and lower collection tubes (7, 8) for the heat transfer tubes (6), a casing (1) for the heat transfer tube group panels (23), heat transfer tube group panel supporting beams (22) provided outside a ceiling wall portion of the casing (1), and a vertical and horizontal module frames (24, 25) provided outside the casing (1). Main frames for supporting the modules (20), including main pillars (33), main beams (34), and bottom wall portion pillars (36), are constructed in advance in a construction site of the heat recovery boiler (HRSG).Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Waseda, Yuzuru Yoshimoto, Yoshiki Kitahashi, Toshinori Shigenaka, Mitsugi Musashi, Toru Nishioka, Tatsuo Kiriyama, Eiiji Murakami
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Publication number: 20070119388Abstract: A necessary size and number of modules each obtained by housing a member including heat exchanger tube panels each comprising a heat exchanger tube bundle and headers for the heat exchanger tube bundle, an upper casing of an exhaust heat recovery boiler (HRSG), provided above the heat exchanger tube panels, heat insulators, and heat exchanger tube panel support beams provided on the upper surface of the upper casing into a transportation frame, are prepared according to design specifications of the HRSG, and side casings and a bottom casing except for the ceiling part casing are constructed in advance at a construction site of the HRSG, and the modules are suspended from above between adjacent support beams of the ceiling part to dispose the heat exchanger tube panel support beams of the modules at the set heights of the ceiling part support beams, and the support beams and the ceiling part support beams are connected and fixed via connecting steel plates, whereby the respective modules are transported to theType: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2003Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Waseda, Atsuo Kawahara, Mitsugi Musashi, Toshinori Shigenaka
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Publication number: 20060175040Abstract: The invention provides an exhaust heat recovery boiler construction method in which a necessary number of heat exchanger tube bundle panel modules each having heat exchanger tube bundle panels including a number of heat exchanger tubes and upper and lower headers of the heat exchanger tubes, a casing of the heat exchanger tube bundle panels, heat exchanger tube bundle panel support beams located outside the ceiling wall of the casing, and vertical and horizontal module frames located outside the casing, are prepared so as to have a proper size according to the design specifications of the heat recovery boiler, main frames including main columns, main beams, and bottom wall columns for supporting the modules are constructed in advance at a construction site of the exhaust heat recovery boiler (heat recovery boiler), and the modules are transported and hung down by a crane between the main columns adjacent to each other at the construction site to set the support beams of the modules at the installation heightType: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2004Publication date: August 10, 2006Applicant: Babcoak-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Waseda, Yuzuru Yoshimoto, Yoshiki Kitahashi, Toshinori Shigenaka, Mitsugi Musashi, Toru Nishioka, Tatsuo Kiriyama, Eiji Murakami
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Publication number: 20050268594Abstract: A combined cycle power plant of the present invention is configured of a compressor; a combustor for combusting compressed air compressed by the compressor together with supplied fuel; a gas turbine driven by a combustion gas exhausted from the combustor; a heat recovery steam generator for recovering high temperature exhaust heat exhausted from the gas turbine; a steam turbine driven by steam obtained from the heat recovery steam generator; and an exhaust gas duct having an HRSG inlet duct that is provided between the gas turbine and the heat recovery steam generator and introduces an exhaust passage into the heat recovery steam generator, and a bypass stack that leads the exhaust gas outside, wherein the exhaust duct is configured of a damper, a damper drive for changing any of angle and opening of the damper, and a guide mechanism for preventing a vibration of the damper.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Babcock-Hitachi K.K.Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Toshinori Shigenaka, Kazuhiro Takenaga, Shoji Nagai, Shinichi Taniguchi
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Patent number: 5617916Abstract: A finned tube comprises a tube; and a fin strip having fins formed by forming slits of a predetermined length in a fin portion of a strip and at predetermined intervals, and a base portion in which no slit is formed, and wound around the tube so that the fins thereof extend substantially radially of the tube. The fins are twisted at a twist angle in the range of 2.degree. to 40.degree. to a contact line along which the base portion of the fin strip is in contact with the tube, and inclined at an inclination angle in the range of 2.degree. to 20.degree. to a straight line perpendicular to the axis of the tube. A heat exchanger is provided with a plurality of such finned tubes, and a heat recovery apparatus comprises such a heat exchanger disposed in a combustion gas passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1995Date of Patent: April 8, 1997Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshinori Shigenaka, Tetsuo Mimura, Yukitaka Machida, Ikuo Kohtaka, Takahiro Marumoto
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Patent number: 4799461Abstract: A waste heat recovery boiler comprising heat exchange rate switching means for controlling the rate of heat exchange between an exhaust gas and feedwater in a heat exchanger by changing the state of the feedwater in accordance with the concentration of sulfur oxides in the exhaust gas, thereby maintaining the temperature at which low temperature corrosion due to the exhaust gas is prevented in a downstream portion of the heat exchanger in the direction in which the exhaust gas flows. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve the maximum efficiency of heat recovery since the phenomenon of steaming in the heat exchanger is eliminated irrespective of whether the kind of exhaust gas is a dirty gas or a clean gas.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1988Date of Patent: January 24, 1989Assignee: Babcock Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshinori Shigenaka, Iwao Kusaka