Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Sasao
Yasuhiro Sasao 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: 11840938Abstract: A steam turbine stator vane includes a vane body portion which has a vane surface including a pressure surface and a suction surface, a moisture removal channel disposed in the vane body portion, at least one slit opening to the vane surface to communicate with the moisture removal channel and extending along a height direction from a base end portion toward a tip end portion of the vane body portion, and at least one groove portion disposed in the vane surface and extending from the base end portion along the height direction, at least a part of the at least one groove portion overlapping the at least one slit along the height direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryo Takata, Yasuhiro Sasao, Naoto Tochitani, Soichiro Tabata
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Publication number: 20230323780Abstract: A steam turbine including a rotor shaft, a plurality of moving blade rows, a casing, and fixed blade rows disposed on a first side in the axial direction, relative to each of the plurality of moving blade rows. The last fixed blade row, disposed furthest on a second side in the axial direction among the plurality of moving blade rows, includes a plurality of fixed blades disposed at intervals in the circumferential direction and each extending in the radial direction; an outside ring having an annular shape and being disposed on the outside, in the radial direction, of the plurality of fixed blades; and an inside ring having an annular shape and being disposed on the inside, in the radial direction, of the plurality of fixed blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryo Takata, Soichiro Tabata, Yasuhiro Sasao
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Patent number: 11753940Abstract: Provided is a steam turbine rotor blade having, at an intermediate position in a blade length direction thereof, a tie boss for connection to an adjacent blade, wherein the steam turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge side protrusion that is extending in an embankment shape in a blade chord length direction at an intermediate position in the blade length direction, a start end and a terminal end of the leading edge side protrusion are located on a suction side surface and a pressure side surface, respectively, and the leading edge side protrusion continues from the start end to the terminal end via a blade leading edge and arrangement thereof in the blade length direction overlaps with the tie boss as viewed from the upstream side.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Ryo Takata, Chongfei Duan
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Patent number: 11739648Abstract: Water droplets that are moved on blade surfaces of a rotor blade are effectively guided toward the blade trailing edge while influence on the strength of the rotor blade is suppressed. A steam turbine rotor blade having a tie-boss for joining to adjacent blades at an intermediate position in the blade length direction is provided. The steam turbine rotor blade includes an airfoil part in which a blade surface is partly hollow as viewed in a section obtained by cutting by an orthogonal plane to a rotation center line of a turbine and a recessed blade surface that is this hollow partial blade surface passes through the blade root side of the tie-boss at least in a region on the pressure side and extends in a strip shape in the blade chord length direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Ryo Takata, Takeshi Kudo
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Patent number: 11732615Abstract: A steam turbine hollow stationary blade is able to reduce the amount of water droplets captured on a blade surface. The steam turbine hollow stationary blade, which has a cavity therein, includes a partition wall dividing the cavity into a pressure chamber on a leading edge side and an exhaust chamber on a trailing edge side, at least one steam inlet hole connecting the pressure chamber and an outside of the stationary blade to each other, and at least one pressure conditioning hole connecting the pressure chamber and the exhaust chamber. Total opening area of the pressure conditioning hole is smaller than total opening area of the steam inlet hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Ryo Takata, Nao Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11719132Abstract: A turbine stator blade (21) includes a pressure side (21P) extending in a radial direction intersecting a flow direction of steam, and facing upstream in the flow direction. A slit (5) extending in the radial direction and capturing a liquefied component of the steam is formed on a downstream side of the pressure side (21P). A hydrophilic uneven region (6) having a liquid film capacity greater than that of the pressure side (21P) by being recessed in a depth direction intersecting the pressure side (21P) is formed in a further upstream position than the slit (5). The hydrophilic uneven region (6) has a depth in the depth direction increasing and a flow resistance decreasing toward downstream and toward the slit (5).Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Mizumi, Chongfei Duan, Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata
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Publication number: 20230193788Abstract: This steam turbine is provided with a rotor shaft which rotates about an axis, a plurality of rows of moving blades which are fixed to the outside, in the radial direction, of the rotor shaft, and which are disposed spaced apart in the axial direction along the axis, a casing disposed in such a way as to cover the rotor shaft and the plurality of rows of moving blades, and rows of stationary blades which are fixed to the inside, in the radial direction, of the casing, are disposed spaced apart in the axial direction, and which are disposed on a first side, in the axial direction, of each of the plurality of rows of moving blades, wherein the rows of stationary blades are provided with: a plurality of stationary blades which are disposed spaced apart in the circumferential direction, and each of which extends in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryo Takata, Yasuhiro Sasao, Hideaki Sato, Soichiro Tabata
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Patent number: 11492920Abstract: A steam turbine includes a rotor; a casing which houses the rotor; a plurality of rotor blades disposed around the rotor; and a plurality of stationary vanes supported on the casing. The stationary vane includes a vane body portion and an inner race positioned on an inner side of the vane body portion in a radial direction of the rotor. The stationary vanes include a first stationary vane having a through hole formed through the vane body portion. The rotor has a cavity having a concave shape and being formed such that at least a part of the inner race of the first stationary vane is housed in the cavity. The steam turbine includes a steam passage to discharge steam extracted from a space upstream of the first stationary vane in the casing to the cavity from the inner race through the through hole of the first stationary vane.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryo Takata, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Yasuhiro Sasao
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Patent number: 11486255Abstract: A steam turbine blade includes a blade body (7) including blade surfaces (70) extending in a blade height direction. The blade body (7) includes a first suction port (74) extending in the blade height direction and opening in the blade surface (70), a first drain flow path (75) internally extending in the blade height direction, and first communication passages (76) internally provided away from one another in the blade height direction and independently of one another and making the first drain port (74) and the first drain flow path (75) in communication with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Shohei Danno, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hideyuki Toda, Yu Shibata
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Publication number: 20220228510Abstract: A steam turbine stator vane includes a vane body portion which has a vane surface including a pressure surface and a suction surface, a moisture removal channel disposed in the vane body portion, at least one slit opening to the vane surface to communicate with the moisture removal channel and extending along a height direction from a base end portion toward a tip end portion of the vane body portion, and at least one groove portion disposed in the vane surface and extending from the base end portion along the height direction, at least a part of the at least one groove portion overlapping the at least one slit along the height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Takata, Yasuhiro Sasao, Naoto Tochitani, Soichiro Tabata
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Patent number: 11352908Abstract: A turbine stator blade (21) includes a pressure side (21P) extending in a radial direction intersecting a flowing direction of steam and facing upstream in the flowing direction. A slit (5) capturing droplets generated by liquefaction of the steam is formed on a downstream side of the pressure side (21P). A fine uneven region (6), which guides the droplets attached to the pressure side (21P) in the radial direction such that the droplets are moved toward the slit (5) and from upstream toward downstream, is formed in a further upstream position than the slit (5). The fine uneven region (6) has a flow resistance to the droplets gradually increasing from inward to outward in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Mizumi, Chongfei Duan, Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata
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Publication number: 20220162947Abstract: The turbine efficiency is improved by allowing water droplets being moved on a rotor blade surface to be released from the blade surface, while suppressing an influence on the aerodynamic performance of the rotor blade. Provided is a steam turbine rotor blade having, at an intermediate position in a blade length direction thereof, a tie boss for connection to an adjacent blade, wherein the steam turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge side protrusion that is extending in an embankment shape in a blade chord length direction at an intermediate position in the blade length direction, a start end and a terminal end of the leading edge side protrusion are located on a suction side surface and a pressure side surface, respectively, and the leading edge side protrusion continues from the start end to the terminal end via a blade leading edge and arrangement thereof in the blade length direction overlaps with the tie boss as viewed from the upstream side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Ryo Takata, Chongfei Duan
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Publication number: 20220162949Abstract: Water droplets that are moved on blade surfaces of a rotor blade are effectively guided toward the blade trailing edge while influence on the strength of the rotor blade is suppressed. A steam turbine rotor blade having a tie-boss for joining to adjacent blades at an intermediate position in the blade length direction is provided. The steam turbine rotor blade includes an airfoil part in which a blade surface is partly hollow as viewed in a section obtained by cutting by an orthogonal plane to a rotation center line of a turbine and a recessed blade surface that is this hollow partial blade surface passes through the blade root side of the tie-boss at least in a region on the pressure side and extends in a strip shape in the blade chord length direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Ryo Takata, Takeshi Kudo
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Publication number: 20220154585Abstract: A turbine stator blade (21) includes a pressure side (21P) extending in a radial direction intersecting a flowing direction of steam and facing upstream in the flowing direction. A slit (5) capturing droplets generated by liquefaction of the steam is formed on a downstream side of the pressure side (21P). A fine uneven region (6), which guides the droplets attached to the pressure side (21P) in the radial direction such that the droplets are moved toward the slit (5) and from upstream toward downstream, is formed in a further upstream position than the slit (5). The fine uneven region (6) has a flow resistance to the droplets gradually increasing from inward to outward in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Shunsuke MIZUMI, Chongfei DUAN, Yasuhiro SASAO, Soichiro TABATA
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Publication number: 20220154586Abstract: A turbine stator blade (21) includes a pressure side (21P) extending in a radial direction intersecting a flow direction of steam, and facing upstream in the flow direction. A slit (5) extending in the radial direction and capturing a liquefied component of the steam is formed on a downstream side of the pressure side (21P). A hydrophilic uneven region (6) having a liquid film capacity greater than that of the pressure side (21P) by being recessed in a depth direction intersecting the pressure side (21P) is formed in a further upstream position than the slit (5). The hydrophilic uneven region (6) has a depth in the depth direction increasing and a flow resistance decreasing toward downstream and toward the slit (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Shunsuke MIZUMI, Chongfei DUAN, Yasuhiro SASAO, Soichiro TABATA
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Publication number: 20220018263Abstract: A stator blade heating system is to heat a hollow stator blade of a steam turbine, and includes: an electromagnetic coil disposed within a hollow portion of the stator blade; and a heating device electrically connected to the electromagnetic coil and capable of supplying an alternating current to the electromagnetic coil. A core wound with the electromagnetic coil is disposed within the hollow portion of the stator blade. The stator blade heating system further includes a regulator that regulates output of the alternating current of the heating device, and a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the stator blade. The regulator regulates the output of the heating device on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Yurika SEO, Yasuhiro SASAO, Takeshi KUDO
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Publication number: 20220018265Abstract: A steam turbine hollow stationary blade is able to reduce the amount of water droplets captured on a blade surface. The steam turbine hollow stationary blade, which has a cavity therein, includes a partition wall dividing the cavity into a pressure chamber on a leading edge side and an exhaust chamber on a trailing edge side, at least one steam inlet hole connecting the pressure chamber and an outside of the stationary blade to each other, and at least one pressure conditioning hole connecting the pressure chamber and the exhaust chamber. Total opening area of the pressure conditioning hole is smaller than total opening area of the steam inlet hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Yasuhiro SASAO, Soichiro TABATA, Ryo TAKATA, Nao TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200165920Abstract: A steam turbine blade includes a blade body (7) including blade surfaces (70) extending in a blade height direction. The blade body (7) includes a first suction port (74) extending in the blade height direction and opening in the blade surface (70), a first drain flow path (75) internally extending in the blade height direction, and first communication passages (76) internally provided away from one another in the blade height direction and independently of one another and making the first drain port (74) and the first drain flow path (75) in communication with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasao, Soichiro Tabata, Shohei Danno, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hideyuki Toda, Yu Shibata
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Publication number: 20200072068Abstract: A steam turbine includes a rotor; a casing which houses the rotor; a plurality of rotor blades disposed around the rotor; and a plurality of stationary vanes supported on the casing. The stationary vane includes a vane body portion and an inner race positioned on an inner side of the vane body portion in a radial direction of the rotor. The stationary vanes include a first stationary vane having a through hole formed through the vane body portion. The rotor has a cavity having a concave shape and being formed such that at least a part of the inner race of the first stationary vane is housed in the cavity. The steam turbine includes a steam passage to discharge steam extracted from a space upstream of the first stationary vane in the casing to the cavity from the inner race through the through hole of the first stationary vane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Takata, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Yasuhiro Sasao
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Patent number: 6618236Abstract: A magnetic head handling glove capable of preventing the buildup of static charges and electric charge leakage and capable of withstanding use in clean rooms is described. In the magnetic head handling glove 1 of the present invention, the outer surface alone or both the outer surface and inner surface of a conductive glove 2 are coated with dissipative material 3,4. This results in coating of the conductive glove with materials useable in clean rooms and may suppress possible contamination that can result when a conventional conductive glove, lacking in such coating of dissipative material, is used directly in a clean room. Besides this, the conductive glove 2 is configured to be grounded directly with wire 5. In this way, even an operator prone to the buildup of static charges can be sufficiently prevented from building up static electrical charges and electric charge leakage.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kazushi Tsuwako, Yasuhiro Sasao, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Hirokazu Yamamoto