Patents by Inventor Yasunari Shibata

Yasunari Shibata 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).

  • Publication number: 20240114615
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wiring circuit board includes steps: 1) preparing a metal supporting layer, a different-reflectance layer, an insulating base layer, and a wiring layer sequentially toward one side in a thickness direction, and 2) irradiating the circuit board with reflected light including light containing one wavelength in light between wavelengths 650 nm and 950 nm from one side in the thickness direction of the circuit board to inspect the wiring layer based on the reflected light at the circuit board. In 2), the outer shape of the wiring layer is inspected based on the contrast between first reflected light at one surface in the thickness direction of the wiring layer and second reflected light at one surface in the thickness direction of the different-reflectance layer. The difference between a reflectance R1 of the wiring layer and a reflectance R2 of the different-reflectance layer is 40% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato TAKAKURA, Naoki SHIBATA, Yasunari OYABU
  • Patent number: 11384933
    Abstract: A burner device includes a burner body which includes a protruding portion protruding from a furnace wall into an interior of a combustion furnace, a cooling pipe through which a refrigerant for cooling the burner body flows, the cooling pipe being disposed so as to surround an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion, and a light detection unit for detecting internal light of the cooling pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunari Shibata
  • Patent number: 11286437
    Abstract: An object is to curb damage localized in a slag capturing portion caused when slag passes therethrough. A slag discharge device includes: a screen mesh (6) that is a porous member including a plurality of through-holes (6a) formed therein; and a crushing device (7) that crushes water-granulated slag (S2) captured by the screen mesh (6). The crushing device has a crusher head (12) that breaks, with a pressure, and thus crushes the water-granulated slag (S2), a hydraulic cylinder (13) that reciprocates the crusher head in a predetermined direction, a guide plate (14) that restricts movement of the crusher head caused by the hydraulic cylinder, and a plurality of crushing spaces (15) in which the water-granulated slag (S2) is crushed. A communication opening that causes the crushing spaces (15) to communicate with each other is formed in a partitioning wall guide plate (14a) of the guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kume, Haruto Shinoda, Yoshiaki Arakawa, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuyuki Miyata, Masashi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20210207529
    Abstract: A gasifier wall is formed of a plurality of pipes through which a cooling medium flows. The plurality of pipes are made of a first material and arranged side by side. At least a part of the gasifier wall includes an outer peripheral portion stacked on a periphery of each of the pipes and made of a second material having higher corrosion resistance than the pipes; a board disposed between the outer peripheral portion and an adjacent outer peripheral portion; and a welded portion coupling the outer peripheral portion and the board. The outer peripheral portion and the board constitute a wall surface that separates an internal space and an external space from each other. The outer peripheral portion covers an entire region of the pipe in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman, Kenichiro Minato, Koichi Koga, Masakazu Matsui, Yuzo Imagawa
  • Patent number: 11002640
    Abstract: A device abnormality diagnosis method for a device to be diagnosed constituting a plant includes: obtaining time-series data of a plurality of state amounts of the plant which are correlated to an abnormality of the device to be diagnosed; a step of obtaining abnormality diagnosis data on the plurality of state amounts by performing pre-processing on at least one state amount of the plurality of state amounts to exclude, from the time-series data on the state amounts, data of the at least one state amount obtained in an exclusion period which is at least a part of a transient state period during which the device to be diagnosed is affected by a state change of another constituent device of the plant; and a step of performing abnormality diagnosis on the device to be diagnosed on the basis of the abnormality diagnosis data of the plurality of state amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kubo, Hiromi Aota, Yasunari Shibata, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunori Ishizu, Yoshinori Koyama
  • Patent number: 10962223
    Abstract: In a soot blower, a heat transfer tube of a heat exchanger is arranged inside a pressure vessel, and gas for cleaning is injected toward the heat transfer tube from an injection pipe movable into and out of the pressure vessel. The soot blower includes a cylindrical casing provided to surround an insertion hole on the pressure vessel side into which the injection pipe is inserted, to extend outside the pressure vessel, the injection pipe being inserted into an inside of the casing; a support part provided inside the casing to guide movement of the injection pipe and to ensure airtightness between the casing and the injection pipe; and a gas supplying device provided immediately close to the support part to generate a jet stream of gas in a portion of the injection pipe that projects to the pressure vessel side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD., MHI PLANT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gen Sakashita, Yoshinori Koyama, Takashi Yamamoto, Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Masashi Kitada, Yasushi Okuda, Masami Tsuda, Satoru Murai
  • Patent number: 10927316
    Abstract: A char discharge unit is for discharging char discharged from a filtration unit into a char storage unit in which a pressure is at least temporarily higher pressure than that in the filtration unit. The char discharge unit includes a char discharge line connected to a lower side of the filtration unit in a vertical direction and connected to the char storage unit; a lock hopper installed at an intermediary point of the char discharge line to temporarily store the char; an admission valve installed in the char discharge line between the lock hopper and the filtration unit; a control valve installed in the char discharge line between the lock hopper and the char storage unit; and a control device configured to close the control valve when the admission valve is open, and to close the admission valve when the control valve is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD
    Inventors: Haruto Shinoda, Koji Nishimura, Naoto Nakayama, Yasunari Shibata
  • Publication number: 20210002567
    Abstract: An object is to curb damage localized in a slag capturing portion caused when slag passes therethrough. A slag discharge device includes: a screen mesh (6) that is a porous member including a plurality of through-holes (6a) formed therein; and a crushing device (7) that crushes water-granulated slag (S2) captured by the screen mesh (6). The crushing device has a crusher head (12) that breaks, with a pressure, and thus crushes the water-granulated slag (S2), a hydraulic cylinder (13) that reciprocates the crusher head in a predetermined direction, a guide plate (14) that restricts movement of the crusher head caused by the hydraulic cylinder, and a plurality of crushing spaces (15) in which the water-granulated slag (S2) is crushed. A communication opening that causes the crushing spaces (15) to communicate with each other is formed in a partitioning wall guide plate (14a) of the guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kume, Haruto Shinoda, Yoshiaki Arakawa, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuyuki Miyata, Masashi Kitada
  • Patent number: 10808191
    Abstract: A gasification apparatus for gasifying a carbonaceous feedstock to produce raw syngas includes a gasifier in which the raw syngas flows, a heat exchanger provided inside the gasifier downstream to exchange heat with the raw syngas, a hanger pipe through which a part of water supplied from a water supply passage flows to support a load of the heat exchanger, a heat exchanger inflow passage configured to cause the water flowing out from the hanger pipe to flow to an inflow side of the heat exchanger, a bypass passage branching from the water supply passage to cause a remaining of the water supplied to the hanger pipe, a bypass valve provided in the bypass passage, and a control device configured to control, depending on a gasifier load, an opening degree of the bypass valve to adjust the water supplied to the hanger pipe and the bypass passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuhiro Takei, Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman, Shigetaka Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200270536
    Abstract: A gasification unit includes a gasifier configured to gasify a carbon-containing solid fuel; a pressure vessel housing the gasification furnace; a pressure holding section that is to be filled with a pressurizing gas and is provided between the gasifier and the pressure vessel; a pressurizing gas supply device configured to supply a pressurizing gas to the pressure holding section; pressure equalizing pipes by which the inside of the gasifier is communicated with the pressure holding section; a pressure difference detection and estimation device configured to detect or estimate a pressure difference between a first pressure on the gasifier side and a second pressure on the pressure holding section side; and a control device configured to control the pressurizing gas supply device such that the second pressure is higher than the first pressure based on a detection or estimation result of the pressure difference detection and estimation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Shibata, Yasunari Shibata, Yoshinori Koyama
  • Publication number: 20200263101
    Abstract: A char discharge unit is for discharging char discharged from a filtration unit into a char storage unit in which a pressure is at least temporarily higher pressure than that in the filtration unit. The char discharge unit includes a char discharge line connected to a lower side of the filtration unit in a vertical direction and connected to the char storage unit; a lock hopper installed at an intermediary point of the char discharge line to temporarily store the char; an admission valve installed in the char discharge line between the lock hopper and the filtration unit; a control valve installed in the char discharge line between the lock hopper and the char storage unit; and a control device configured to close the control valve when the admission valve is open, and to close the admission valve when the control valve is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruto Shinoda, Koji Nishimura, Naoto Nakayama, Yasunari Shibata
  • Patent number: 10527371
    Abstract: An anomaly monitoring device is installed in an integrated gasification combined cycle plant that experiences varying loads, and the device monitors a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a carbon-containing fuel and a heat exchange medium flowing through a heat transfer tube. For each load on the integrated gasification combined cycle plant, the anomaly monitoring device calculates the average value and the standard deviation of a state quantity of the heat exchanger, calculates the Mahalanobis distance on the basis of the average value and the standard deviation, and from the calculated Mahalanobis distance determines the presence or absence of an anomaly of the heat transfer surface of the heat transfer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kubo, Hiromi Aota, Yoshinori Koyama, Kenichiro Kosaka, Yasunari Shibata, Yuichiro Urakata
  • Publication number: 20200001310
    Abstract: A cyclone integrated type storage device that helps to reduce equipment costs, which includes: a hollow pressure vessel; a cyclone provided in a vertically upper part of the pressure vessel and configured to swirl a produced gas introduced from outside and containing particles to thereby separate at least some of char from the produced gas, the cyclone including an opening and an exhaust port, the opening permitting discharge of the separated char vertically downward in the pressure vessel, the exhaust port permitting discharge of the produced gas to the outside of the pressure vessel; a particle storage chamber provided in a vertically lower part of the pressure vessel and storing the char discharged through the opening; and an outlet port formed in a bottom of the pressure vessel and permitting discharge of the particles stored in the particle storage chamber to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruto Shinoda, Yuichiro Urakata, Yasunari Shibata, Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama
  • Patent number: 10465134
    Abstract: A char recycling system capable of easily determining whether or not a char exhausting pipe is blocked by char. The char recycling system comprises: a stand pipe (31) forming a vertically-downwards flowpath (33) through which char is conveyed; and a differential pressure gauge (41) that measures the pressure difference between the pressure in a downstream area (45) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33) and the pressure in an upstream area (46) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33). The pressure difference fluctuates when char accumulates between the downstream area (45) and the upstream area (46) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33). As a result, this kind of char recovery system is capable of easily determining whether or not the vertically-downwards flowpath (33) is blocked by char, on the basis of the measured pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasutaka Mizokoshi, Yasunari Shibata, Haruto Shinoda, Osamu Shinada, Masashi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20190242574
    Abstract: A burner device includes a burner body which includes a protruding portion protruding from a furnace wall into an interior of a combustion furnace, a cooling pipe through which a refrigerant for cooling the burner body flows, the cooling pipe being disposed so as to surround an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion, and a light detection unit for detecting internal light of the cooling pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunari Shibata
  • Patent number: 10246653
    Abstract: This powder transport device comprises: transport pipe (11) that can transport powder by way of gravity by having a prescribed angle of inclination; a porous plate (12) that is disposed along the transport pipe (11) so as to divide a line cross section into a top section and bottom section and form a powder line (11d) in the top section; an inert gas supply line for fluidization (13) that is provided under the porous plate (12) and supplies an assist gas (g) to the powder line (11d) through the porous plate (12); and a deposit status monitoring device (20) that constantly monitors the state of the powder deposited on the top face side of the porous plate (12) in the powder line (11d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Soda, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasunari Shibata, Haruto Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20190086294
    Abstract: A device abnormality diagnosis method for a device to be diagnosed constituting a plant includes: obtaining time-series data of a plurality of state amounts of the plant which are correlated to an abnormality of the device to be diagnosed; a step of obtaining abnormality diagnosis data on the plurality of state amounts by performing pre-processing on at least one state amount of the plurality of state amounts to exclude, from the time-series data on the state amounts, data of the at least one state amount obtained in an exclusion period which is at least a part of a transient state period during which the device to be diagnosed is affected by a state change of another constituent device of the plant; and a step of performing abnormality diagnosis on the device to be diagnosed on the basis of the abnormality diagnosis data of the plurality of state amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kubo, Hiromi Aota, Yasunari Shibata, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunori Ishizu, Yoshinori Koyama
  • Publication number: 20190078779
    Abstract: In a soot blower, a heat transfer tube of a heat exchanger is arranged inside a pressure vessel, and gas for cleaning is injected toward the heat transfer tube from an injection pipe movable into and out of the pressure vessel. The soot blower includes a cylindrical casing provided to surround an insertion hole on the pressure vessel side into which the injection pipe is inserted, to extend outside the pressure vessel, the injection pipe being inserted into an inside of the casing; a support part provided inside the casing to guide movement of the injection pipe and to ensure airtightness between the casing and the injection pipe; and a gas supplying device provided immediately close to the support part to generate a jet stream of gas in a portion of the injection pipe that projects to the pressure vessel side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., MHI PLANT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gen Sakashita, Yoshinori Koyama, Takashi Yamamoto, Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Masashi Kitada, Yasushi Okuda, Masami Tsuda, Satoru Murai
  • Publication number: 20180334626
    Abstract: A gasification apparatus for gasifying a carbonaceous feedstock to produce raw syngas includes a gasifier in which the raw syngas flows, a heat exchanger provided inside the gasifier downstream to exchange heat with the raw syngas, a hanger pipe through which a part of water supplied from a water supply passage flows to support a load of the heat exchanger, a heat exchanger inflow passage configured to cause the water flowing out from the hanger pipe to flow to an inflow side of the heat exchanger, a bypass passage branching from the water supply passage to cause a remaining of the water supplied to the hanger pipe, a bypass valve provided in the bypass passage, and a control device configured to control, depending on a gasifier load, an opening degree of the bypass valve to adjust the water supplied to the hanger pipe and the bypass passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuhiro Takei, Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman, Shigetaka Takeda
  • Publication number: 20170342337
    Abstract: A slag crusher (20) is provided in a combustor of a gasifier (10) for gasifying a carbonaceous feedstock, and discharges falling slag generated in the combustor from the gasifier (10). The slag crusher (20) is provided with: a screen (22) provided so as to intersect with the direction in which the slag falls, the screen (22) having a plurality of openings (30) and passing slag having a diameter smaller than that of the openings (30); a spreader (24) for moving over the top surface of the screen (22) and crushing slag deposited on the top surface of the screen (22); and a nozzle (26) for spraying high-pressure water onto the slag deposited on the screen (22). The slag deposited on the top surface of the screen (22) thereby more easily passes from the openings (30) in the screen (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki MIYATA, Yoshinori KOYAMA, Yasuo SODA, Yasunari SHIBATA, Masashi KITADA, Haruto SHINODA