Patents by Inventor Toshiro Fujimori
Toshiro Fujimori 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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Publication number: 20240117763Abstract: A gas turbine system includes: a combustor; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; an exhaust flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a turbine provided in the exhaust flow passage; an ammonia tank; and a hydrogen generator-separator having an ammonia supply port connected to the ammonia tank and a hydrogen discharge port connected to the combustor, the hydrogen generator-separator being arranged on a downstream side of the turbine in the exhaust flow passage or on a downstream side of the compressor in the intake flow passage, the hydrogen generator-separator including an ammonia cracking catalyst and a hydrogen separation membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Toshiro FUJIMORI, Wonyoung CHOI, Masahiro UCHIDA
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Patent number: 11300047Abstract: A combustion device includes an ammonia supply unit supplying primary reduction ammonia as a nitrogen oxide reducing agent into a combustor and mixing secondary reduction ammonia with combustion exhaust gas discharged from the combustor to reduce nitrogen oxide contained in the combustion exhaust gas and a controller configured to control at least one of the amount of supply of the primary reduction ammonia and the amount of mixing of the secondary reduction ammonia with the combustion exhaust gas in accordance with concentrations of residual nitrogen oxide and residual ammonia contained in the combustion exhaust gas after being discharged from the combustor.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
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Patent number: 11231176Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia with combustion air in a combustion chamber, and includes: a combustor liner which forms the combustion chamber; a burner which is installed at one end of the combustor liner; a deflection member which is provided on a downstream side of the combustor liner in a flow direction of a combustion gas, and is configured to deflect the flow direction of the combustion gas; and at least one ammonia injection hole which is provided between the burner and an outlet of the deflection member and is configured to supply the fuel ammonia into the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
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Patent number: 11162391Abstract: The heat cycle facility includes: a first vaporizer that vaporizes a first liquid heating medium by combusting fuel; a first motive power generator that generates motive power by using as a drive fluid a first gas heating medium obtained at the first vaporizer; a condenser that condenses the first gas heating medium discharged from the first motive power generator by heat-exchanging the first gas heating medium for a second liquid heating medium; a circulator that pressurizes the first liquid heating medium obtained at the condenser and supplies the pressurized first liquid heating medium to the first vaporizer; a second vaporizer that produces gaseous ammonia by heat-exchanging the second liquid heating medium for liquid ammonia; and a supplier that supplies the liquid ammonia to the second vaporizer.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Onishi, Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Taku Mizutani, Masahiro Uchida, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori, Kazuo Miyoshi
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Patent number: 11156157Abstract: The combustion device includes: a compressor that compresses combustion air; a combustor that combusts the compressed combustion air and fuel ammonia; and an ammonia injector that injects the fuel ammonia into the combustion air during or before compression of the combustion air by the compressor and cools the combustion air.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
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Patent number: 11156158Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia in a combustion chamber using compressed combustion air, and includes a combustion air cooling unit which is configured to cool the combustion air by heat exchange with the fuel ammonia during or before a compression process.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
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Patent number: 11141695Abstract: A gas turbine denitrifies combustion gas by using a denitrification catalyst and ammonia as a reducing agent, the gas turbine includes: a turbine provided with turbine blades, the turbine blades being exposed to the combustion gas reaching a temperature higher than an average value in a temperature distribution of the combustion gas, and a compressor configured to supply the turbine blades with a cooling air and the ammonia, wherein the gas turbine is configured to lower the temperature of the turbine blades by supplying the turbine blades with the ammonia and the cooling air.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
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Patent number: 11053845Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia in a combustor using combustion air, and includes a catalyst reduction unit which is configured to reduce nitrogen oxides in a combustion exhaust gas supplied from the combustor, in which at least a part of the fuel ammonia is supplied to the catalyst reduction unit as a reducing agent for the nitrogen oxides in the combustion exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
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Patent number: 10995662Abstract: The combustion device includes: a combustion chamber in which fuel is combusted using combustion air; and a reducing agent injector that injects a reducing agent toward flames in the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
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Publication number: 20200408409Abstract: A combustion device burns a fuel in a combustion chamber by using combustion air. The device includes a reducing agent injection device which includes an injection port and injects a predetermined reducing agent from the injection port toward a region having a low oxygen concentration in a flame in the combustion chamber, in which the reducing agent injection device changes a distance of the injection port with respect to the flame in accordance with an injection amount of reducing agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo ONISHI, Shintaro ITO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Taku MIZUTANI, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20200355372Abstract: A fuel supply device includes a first supply pipe, a first on-off valve, a second on-off valve, a second supply pipe, a connection pipe, a third on-off valve, and a leak check measuring device, and performs a leak check of the first supply pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo ONISHI, Shintaro ITO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Taku MIZUTANI, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20200032712Abstract: The combustion device includes: a compressor that compresses combustion air; a combustor that combusts the compressed combustion air and fuel ammonia; and an ammonia injector that injects the fuel ammonia into the combustion air during or before compression of the combustion air by the compressor and cools the combustion air.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20200023315Abstract: A gas turbine denitrifies combustion gas by using a denitrification catalyst and ammonia as a reducing agent, the gas turbine includes: a turbine provided with turbine blades, the turbine blades being exposed to the combustion gas reaching a temperature higher than an average value in a temperature distribution of the combustion gas, and a compressor configured to supply the turbine blades with a cooling air and the ammonia, wherein the gas turbine is configured to lower the temperature of the turbine blades by supplying the turbine blades with the ammonia and the cooling air.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20200018482Abstract: The combustion device includes a combustor that combusts fuel ammonia and combustion air in a combustion chamber, wherein the combustor includes a cooling ammonia supplier that mixes the fuel ammonia into the combustion air and that supplies the fuel ammonia into the combustor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20200018231Abstract: A combustion device includes an ammonia supply unit supplying primary reduction ammonia as a nitrogen oxide reducing agent into a combustor and mixing secondary reduction ammonia with combustion exhaust gas discharged from the combustor to reduce nitrogen oxide contained in the combustion exhaust gas and a controller configured to control at least one of the amount of supply of the primary reduction ammonia and the amount of mixing of the secondary reduction ammonia with the combustion exhaust gas in accordance with concentrations of residual nitrogen oxide and residual ammonia contained in the combustion exhaust gas after being discharged from the combustor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20200003420Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia with combustion air in a combustion chamber, and includes: a combustor liner which forms the combustion chamber; a burner which is installed at one end of the combustor liner; a deflection member which is provided on a downstream side of the combustor liner in a flow direction of a combustion gas, and is configured to deflect the flow direction of the combustion gas; and at least one ammonia injection hole which is provided between the burner and an outlet of the deflection member and is configured to supply the fuel ammonia into the combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Patent number: 10502487Abstract: A heating furnace includes a target space (212a) in which a burning target is disposed, and a furnace main body (212) that surrounds the target space. The heating furnace includes one or more closed gas heaters having an introduction hole configured to introduce a fuel gas into the main body, a combustion chamber in which the introduced fuel gas is combusted, a discharge section to which an exhaust gas generated by combustion is guided, a radiation surface heated by the exhaust gas flowing through the discharge section or combustion in the combustion chamber and configured to transfer radiant heat to the burning target, and an exhaust hole configured to exhaust the exhaust gas that heats the radiation surface to the outside of the main body, and disposed in the furnace main body, and an exhaust heat transfer section (an insulated pipe (222a)) in communication with the exhaust hole of the closed gas heater and to which the exhaust gas is guided.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Kimiyoshi Satoh, Toshiyuki Suda, Toshiro Fujimori, Masao Aihara
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Publication number: 20190360397Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia in a combustion chamber using compressed combustion air, and includes a combustion air cooling unit which is configured to cool the combustion air by heat exchange with the fuel ammonia during or before a compression process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20190360396Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia in a combustor using combustion air, and includes a catalyst reduction unit which is configured to reduce nitrogen oxides in a combustion exhaust gas supplied from the combustor, in which at least a part of the fuel ammonia is supplied to the catalyst reduction unit as a reducing agent for the nitrogen oxides in the combustion exhaust gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20190345873Abstract: The combustion device includes: a combustion chamber in which fuel is combusted using combustion air; and a reducing agent injector that injects a reducing agent toward flames in the combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shintaro ITO, Soichiro KATO, Masahiro UCHIDA, Shogo ONISHI, Taku MIZUTANI, Tsukasa SAITOU, Toshiro FUJIMORI