Patents by Inventor Yasuoki Tomita

Yasuoki Tomita 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: 20060177301
    Abstract: The gas turbine stationary blade comprises a stationary blade section provided therein with a passage for cooling air, an inner shroud for supporting the stationary blade section on the side of a discharge port of the cooling air, and a plurality of segments each of which includes at least one stationary blade section and at least one inner shroud. A flow passage is pulled out from the discharge port of the cooling air, and the flow passage is introduced to a front edge corner section of the inner shroud and is extended rearward along a side edge of the inner shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Shiozaki, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 7033138
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ring segment of a gas turbine in which the temperature is maintained low, damage due to high temperature oxidation is prevented, and high temperature deformation is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Osamu Isumi, Shinichi Inoue, Friedrich Soechting, Vincent Laurello, Hiroshige Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 6994514
    Abstract: Holes 38 and 39 have upstream opening portions 38b and 39b and downstream opening portions 38a and 39a which have a larger cross-sectional area than upstream opening portions 38b and 39b, and are formed at top portion TP of each moving blade. Holes 38 and 39 have tapered shapes T1 and T2 or step portions, and preferably, downstream opening portions 38a and 39a are eccentrically formed toward the moving direction. When tip squealer 37 is formed, hole 38 is formed so that its opening portion is provided at the side surface of tip squealer 37. Without covering the holes for cooling which are formed at the top portion of the turbine blade due to rubbing or the like, the turbine blade is accurately cooled and stably driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Yasuoki Tomita, Shunsuke Torii
  • Patent number: 6988872
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a turbine moving blade that has high heat resistance and can be used for a long period of time by improving the cooling efficiency of the turbine moving blade, and to improve both the thermal efficiency and operating efficiency of a gas turbine through the use of this turbine moving blade. In order to achieve the object, the present invention provide a turbine moving blade arranged in a combustion gas flow path in which a plurality of blow-out openings for blowing out a cooling medium are formed in its outer surface, wherein among a plurality of cooling medium trailing edge blow-out openings arranged from the vicinity of a blade base to the vicinity of a blade tip along a blade trailing edge of turbine moving blade, the opening area of a blade tip trailing edge blow-out opening located in the vicinity of blade tip is set to be larger than the opening area of the other trailing edge blow-out openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Charles Ellis, Yasuoki Tomita, Shunsuke Torii
  • Patent number: 6983659
    Abstract: In order to provide a turbine blade creep life evaluating method for quantitively evaluating the life of a turbine blade, the turbine blade is determined to be within its allowable life if the creep elongation strain in the longitudinal direction of the turbine blade is less than 0.5% of an initial length, and is determined to exceed its allowable life if the creep elongation strain is 0.5% or more than the initial length. A turbine blade creep elongation strain measuring apparatus 20 comprises a first fixed end 21, a second fixed end 22, and a dial gauge 24. A dimension in the longitudinal direction is stamped on the surface of a turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Charles Ellis, Yasuoki Tomita, Yugo Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 6966750
    Abstract: The gas turbine stationary blade comprises a stationary blade section provided therein with a passage for cooling air, an inner shroud for supporting the stationary blade section on the side of a discharge port of the cooling air, and a plurality of segments each of which includes at least one stationary blade section and at least one inner shroud. A low passage is pulled out from the discharge port of the cooling air, and the flow passage is introduced to a front edge corner section of the inner shroud and is extended rearward along a side edge of the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Shiozaki, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20050186074
    Abstract: In a gas turbine having a plurality of moving blades provided on a rotary shaft in a circumferentially adjoining condition, a seal pin is provided in a spacing between the shanks of the adjacent moving blades for preventing leakage of cooling air from a blade root portion side to an airfoil side; an arcuately depressed portion is formed on the shank of each of the moving blades; and vibration of each of the moving blades is suppressed in such a manner that the seal pin serves as a spring system while the airfoil portion, the platform, the shank, and the blade root portion serve as a mass system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Masaki Ono, Eiji Akita, Masao Terazaki, Masayuki Takahama, Kouji Watanabe, Hideki Murata
  • Publication number: 20050135925
    Abstract: The gas turbine stationary blade comprises a stationary blade section provided therein with a passage for cooling air, an inner shroud for supporting the stationary blade section on the side of a discharge port of the cooling air, and a plurality of segments each of which includes at least one stationary blade section and at least one inner shroud. A low passage is pulled out from the discharge port of the cooling air, and the flow passage is introduced to a front edge corner section of the inner shroud and is extended rearward along a side edge of the inner shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD
    Inventors: Shigehiro Shiozaki, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 6893215
    Abstract: The division wall is made up of a plurality of division wall sections forming a passage wall of high temperature gas which are connected in the direction of arrangement of blades to form a wall surface having a roughly circular cross section as a whole, a gas flow restricting structure for preventing high temperature gas from passing through a gap formed at a connecting portion between the division wall sections in the flow direction of the high temperature gas from the opening on the upstream side of the high temperature gas in the gap, or a gas flow restricting structure for preventing the high temperature gas from being embraced in the gap, for example, a sealing member formed into a prism having a T-shape cross section as a whole composed of a plane portion as a sealing portion and a projected portion for filling the gap is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Kuwabara, Yoshiyuki Morii, Yasuoki Tomita, Shunsuke Torii, Shigehiro Shiozaki, Kotaro Ohshima, Tatsuaki Fujikawa, Ryotaro Magoshi, Shinichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 6887039
    Abstract: A stationary blade of a gas turbine, which can reduce thermal stress produced at a portion in the vicinity of a rear edge of an inner shroud of the stationary blade. The stationary blade is positioned adjacent to at least one of moving-blade disks in an axial direction of the gas turbine. A concave portion is provided in the inner shroud in a manner such that the concave portion is formed in the vicinity of a rear edge of the inner shroud and on an inner-peripheral face of the inner shroud, where cooling air passes along the inner-peripheral face which faces a rotation shaft of the moving-blade disks; and a protruding portion which protrudes towards the rotation shaft is formed at the rear edge of the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 6860108
    Abstract: In order to provide a gas turbine tail tube seal which can prevent an outer shroud and an inner shroud in a first row stationary blade from being damaged by heat and from being worn, and to provide a gas turbine having the above-mentioned gas turbine tail tube seal, in the gas turbine tail tube seal, the width of a combustion gas flow channel in the gas turbine tail tube seal is smaller than the width of a combustion gas flow channel made between an outer surface of the inner shroud and an inner surface of the outer shroud, and the combustion gas flow channel is provided with inclined surfaces having a gradually enlarging cross section toward the first row stationary blade in at least a downstream end section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Yasuoki Tomita, Shunsuke Torii
  • Patent number: 6811373
    Abstract: The present invention provides a turbine moving blade, a turbine stationary blade, and a turbine split ring which are capable of restraining the deterioration and peeling-off of a thermal barrier coating easily and surely, and a gas turbine capable of enhancing the energy efficiency by increasing the temperature of combustion gas. The turbine moving blade provided in a turbine constituting the gas turbine includes a platform having a gas path surface extending in the combustion gas flow direction, and a blade portion erecting on the platform. The thermal barrier coating covering the gas path surface is formed so as to go around from the gas path surface to an upstream-side end face and a downstream-side end face of the outer peripheral faces of the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Shigehiro Shiozaki, Kengo Yamaguchi, Hideaki Kaneko, Kotaro Ohshima
  • Patent number: 6783323
    Abstract: The gas turbine stationary blade comprises a stationary blade section provided therein with a passage for cooling air, an inner shroud for supporting the stationary blade section on the side of a discharge port of the cooling air, and a plurality of segments each of which includes at least one stationary blade section and at least one inner shroud. A flow passage is pulled out from the discharge port of the cooling air, and the flow passage is introduced to a front edge corner section of the inner shroud and is extended rearward along a side edge of the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Shiozaki, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20040146402
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a turbine moving blade that has high heat resistance and can be used for a long period of time by improving the cooling efficiency of the turbine moving blade, and to improve both the thermal efficiency and operating efficiency of a gas turbine through the use of this turbine moving blade. In order to achieve the object, the present invention provide a turbine moving blade arranged in a combustion gas flow path in which a plurality of blow-out openings for blowing out a cooling medium are formed in its outer surface, wherein among a plurality of cooling medium trailing edge blow-out openings arranged from the vicinity of a blade base to the vicinity of a blade tip along a blade trailing edge of turbine moving blade, the opening area of a blade tip trailing edge blow-out opening located in the vicinity of blade tip is set to be larger than the opening area of the other trailing edge blow-out openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Charles Ellis, Yasuoki Tomita, Shunsuke Torii
  • Publication number: 20040139746
    Abstract: In order to provide a gas turbine tail tube seal which can prevent an outer shroud and an inner shroud in a first row stationary blade from being damaged by heat and from being worn, and to provide a gas turbine having the above-mentioned gas turbine tail tube seal, in the gas turbine tail tube seal, the width of a combustion gas flow channel in the gas turbine tail tube seal is smaller than the width of a combustion gas flow channel made between an outer surface of the inner shroud and an inner surface of the outer shroud, and the combustion gas flow channel is provided with inclined surfaces having a gradually enlarging cross section toward the first row stationary blade in at least a downstream end section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Yasuoki Tomita, Shunsuke Torii
  • Publication number: 20040139809
    Abstract: In order to provide a turbine blade fatigue life evaluating method for quantitively evaluating the fatigue life of a turbine blade, the turbine blade is determined to be within its fatigue life if the creep elongation strain in the longitudinal direction of the turbine blade is less than 0.5% of an initial length, and is determined to exceed its fatigue life if the creep elongation strain is 0.5% or more than the initial length. A turbine blade creep elongation strain measuring apparatus 20 comprises a first fixed end 21, a second fixed end 22, and a dial gauge 24. A dimension in the longitudinal direction is stamped on the surface of a turbine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Charles Ellis, Yasuoki Tomita, Yugo Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 6761529
    Abstract: A collision plate having plural small holes is provided at an interval from a bottom surface of an inner shroud to form a chamber and guides cooling air from the small holes into the chamber. A leading edge flow path is provided at a leading edge side along a width direction and introduces the cooling air. A side flow path is provided along both sides of the inner shroud and guides the cooling air to a trailing edge side. A header is formed along the width direction near the trailing edge and guides the cooling air from the side flow path. Plural trailing edge flow paths are formed at the trailing edge side at intervals along a width direction, in which one end of each flow path is connected to the header and the other end is open at the trailing edge, and the cooling air in the header is ejected from the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Mitshubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 6758651
    Abstract: A gas turbine wherein cooling failure attributable to the occurrence of a horseshoe vortex produced in the vicinity of the stationary blades of the turbine is preventable, the gas turbine including moving blades provided on a rotor side which rotate together with the rotor, and stationary blades provided on a stationary side which cover the periphery of the moving blades and form a combustion gas flow path in the interior, and which are arranged alternately with the moving blades in the rotation axis direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Shigehiro Shiozaki, Friedrich Soechting
  • Patent number: 6751962
    Abstract: In a tail tube seal structure of gas turbine, a U-shaped groove is provided at one side of a tail tube seal where a flange of a tail tube outlet is fitted, and a pi-shaped groove is provided at other side of the tail tube seal where a gas pass side flange end is fitted, thereby composing the seal of the connection area. Inclined cooling holes are drilled in the tail tube seal in addition to the cooling holes existing conventionally. The cooling air flows in from the inclined holes and cools the gas pass side of the groove due to the film effect. Therefore, the difference in thermal expansion between the groove and flange end is decreased, the wear of this area is decreased, and the reliability of the seal is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Kuwabara, Yasuoki Tomita, Kiyoshi Suenaga, Masahito Kataoka, Yoshichika Sato, Koji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6742991
    Abstract: A turbine blade applicable to a gas turbine has a turbine blade body having film cooling holes, the interior space of which is partitioned into two cavities by a rib. Hollow inserts each having impingement holes are respectively arranged in the cavities to form cooling spaces therebetween. Communication is ensured between the cavities by bypass hole and slits, so that the impingement cooling is interrupted with respect to the prescribed side having a good heat transmission in the turbine blade body. A partition wall is further arranged between the rib and the insert arranged in the trailing-edge side, thus providing a separation between the cooling spaces respectively arranged in the rear side and front side. Thus, it is possible to noticeably reduce the amount of cooling air in the turbine blade body; and it is possible to reduce temperature differences entirely over the turbine blade body as small as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita