Patents by Inventor Yasuro Sakamoto
Yasuro Sakamoto 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: 8956118Abstract: Provided is an impeller of a centrifugal compressor including: a hub; a plurality of blades protruding from a surface of the hub, wherein a passage is formed by the hub and a blade being adjacent with the hub, so that a fluid, flowing in along an axial direction at an inner circumferential side in a radial direction, is flowed out toward an outer circumferential side in a radial direction; each of the plurality of blades includes a main body part and a leading edge, the main body part including a pressure side and a suction side; an angle between a component central line of the main body part and the axial direction increases from an inner end toward an outer end; and a radius of curvature at a central position, intersecting with the component central line of the leading edge, decreases from the inner end toward the outer end.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tokiya Wakai, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Takashi Hiyama
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Patent number: 8844297Abstract: A gas turbine includes a gas turbine body in which a rotor is rotated with the energy of combustion gas produced by combustion of fuel to take out rotational energy from the rotor, an inlet casing that is attached to the gas turbine body and that guides the air to a compressor section compressing the air, an air intake chamber that is connected to the inlet casing and that guides the air taken in from the atmosphere to the gas turbine body, and a notch so formed in the air intake chamber as to cover the entire range where the rotor passes or exists when the rotor is moved.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Arase, Yasuro Sakamoto, Shinya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20140216055Abstract: In this gas turbine, at a downstream portion of a transition piece of a combustor, inner surfaces of a pair of lateral walls facing each other in a circumferential direction of a turbine rotor form inclination surfaces that incline down to a downstream end of the transition piece in a direction approaching the transition piece of another adjacent combustor that gradually draws closer as it goes to the downstream side of the transition piece in an axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Keisuke Matsuyama, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Masanori Yuri, Hiroaki Kishida, Shunsuke Torii
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Publication number: 20140056690Abstract: A gas turbine includes a turbine blade, a turbine vane, a ring segment circumferentially surrounding the turbine blade, an outer shroud circumferentially surrounding the turbine vane, and a combustion gas flow-path provided in the ring segment and the outer shroud. The outer shroud is positioned on an upstream side of the ring segment in a gas flow direction of the combustion gas. Seal gas, of which temperature is lower than that of the combustion gas, is fed between the ring segment- and the outer shroud into the combustion gas flow-path. The outer shroud has a guide surface that is provided on an inner circumference thereof on a downstream side of the gas flow direction. The guide surface is formed such that a flow passage area of the combustion gas flow-path is gradually increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20140053572Abstract: A gas turbine provided with an air bleeder tube (1) that, during startup, bleeds a portion of the compressed air of a compressor from the compressor and discharged the bled air into a cylindrical exhaust duct (20), wherein the air bleeder tube (1) is disposed at a portion that does not obstruct the flow of the main flow of combustion gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono, Koichi Ishizaka, Yukinori Machida
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Publication number: 20140041395Abstract: A gas turbine burns the air compressed in a compressor with supplying fuel in a combustor so as to obtain rotary power by supplying the generated combustion gas to a turbine. The turbine includes turbine vane elements and turbine blade elements that are alternately positioned in a direction in which the combustion gas fluidizes in a turbine cylinder having a cylindrical shape, and a flue gas diffuser having a cylindrical shape and connected to a rear portion of the turbine cylinder. The turbine blade element includes a plurality of turbine blades positioned at equal intervals in the circumference direction. The turbine blades have a throat width on a longitudinal end side made larger than a throat width on a longitudinally intermediate portion side. This efficiently restores the pressure of the flue gas. This improves the efficiency of the turbine so that the performance can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Kitagawa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20140023493Abstract: In a turbine exhaust structure and a gas turbine, a turbine casing (26) formed in an annular shape to constitute a combustion gas passage A is provided. An exhaust diffuser (31) formed in an annular shape to constitute a flue gas passage (B) is connected to the turbine casing (26) to constitute a configuration. By providing a pressure loss body (61) in the exhaust diffuser (31), efficient pressure recovery can be carried out, which improves turbine efficiency, thereby enabling improvement of the performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Kitagawa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20130259670Abstract: A flow path structure includes a wall surface in which a flow path is formed, a structure configured to extend in a direction intersecting a main stream direction of a fluid flowing through the flow path from the wall surface, and a concave section forming region formed throughout a range including the structure in the main stream direction and having a concave section formed in the wall surface. As the structure occupies a partial range of the flow path in the flow path cross section intersecting the main stream, a cross-sectional area of the flow path is varied in accordance with positional variation in the main stream direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2010Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono
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Publication number: 20130224034Abstract: The blade body of the present invention is provided with a main body which has a dorsal face and a ventral face and also provided with a trailing edge portion which connects the dorsal face to the ventral face with a continuous curved face. The curved face of the trailing edge portion is gradually decreased in curvature radius from one of the dorsal face and the ventral face toward the rear end portion which is positioned most downstream in a direction at which a fluid flows, decreased to the greatest extent in curvature radius at the rear end portion, thereafter, gradually increased in curvature radius from the rear end portion toward the other of the dorsal face and the ventral face and arrives at the other of the dorsal face and the ventral face.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Hitoshi Kitagawa, Susumu Wakazono
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Patent number: 8469659Abstract: Provided is a turbine blade cascade endwall that is capable of suppressing a vortex generated on a suction surface of a turbine stator blade and that is capable of reducing secondary-flow loss due to this vortex. A turbine blade cascade endwall that is positioned on a tip side of a plurality of turbine stator blades arranged in a ring form is provided with a pressure gradient alleviating part that alleviates a pressure gradient generated in the blade height direction at a suction surface of the turbine stator blades due to a clearance leakage flow, leaking out of a gap between a tip of a turbine rotor blade located on the upstream side of the turbine stator blades and a tip endwall disposed facing the tip of this turbine rotor blade.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Hiroyuki Otomo
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Patent number: 8317466Abstract: To reduce secondary flow loss and to improved turbine efficiency, a section located radially outward of a border section 28 of a stationary blade 21 is bent in the rotational direction of a rotor. Thus, even if combustion gas leaks from a tip clearance between an end wall of a casing and a tip portion of a rotor blade, and a stagnation line 35 near a tip portion 22 is situated in the side of a back surface 24, because a section located radially outward of the border section 28 is bent in the rotational direction of the rotor, the stagnation line 35 is also situated toward the rotational direction of the rotor. Therefore, the stagnation lines 35 formed at various heights in the heightwise direction of the stationary blade 21 are generally aligned in the rotational direction of the rotor. Thus, fluctuation of pressure distribution in the heightwise direction of the stationary blade 21, of the combustion gas flowing into the stationary blade 21 can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono
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Publication number: 20120247125Abstract: In a communicating structure between combustors that generates combustion gas inside pipe pieces and a turbine portion that generates a rotational driving force by making the combustion gas sequentially pass through a turbine stage formed of turbine stator vanes and turbine rotor blades, at least some of the first-stage turbine stator vanes closest to the combustor among the turbine stator vanes are disposed downstream of sidewalls of one pipe piece and another pipe piece that are adjacent to each other, and the distance from leading edges of the first-stage turbine stator vanes disposed downstream of the sidewalls of the pipe pieces to end portions of the sidewalls closer to the turbine portion is equal to or less than a spacing between an internal surface of the sidewall of the one pipe piece and an internal surface of the sidewall of the other pipe piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Rosic Budmir, Yasuro Sakamoto, Sumiu Uchida, Eisaku Ito, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Satoshi Hada, Sosuke Nakamura
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Publication number: 20120121432Abstract: Provided is an impeller of a centrifugal compressor including: a hub; a plurality of blades protruding from a surface of the hub, wherein a passage is formed by the hub and a blade being adjacent with the hub, so that a fluid, flowing in along an axial direction at an inner circumferential side in a radial direction, is flowed out toward an outer circumferential side in a radial direction; each of the plurality of blades includes a main body part and a leading edge, the main body part including a pressure side and a suction side; an angle between a component central line of the main body part and the axial direction increases from an inner end toward an outer end; and a radius of curvature at a central position, intersecting with the component central line of the leading edge, decreases from the inner end toward the outer end.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Tokiya Wakai, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Takashi Hiyama
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Publication number: 20110116937Abstract: A one-stage stator vane cooling structure consisting of: a plurality of linking members that are provided between a plurality of combustors disposed in the circumferential direction of a gas turbine; and cooling holes that are provided in each of the one-stage stator vanes to discharge a cooling gas from the inside to the outside of the one-stage stator vanes in order to cool the one-stage stator vanes on the periphery of the stagnation line of the combustion gas flowing in from the plurality of combustors; in which the cooling holes are formed at positions that are determined according to the relative positions of the one-stage stator vanes and the linking members disposed near the one-stage stator vanes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20110006546Abstract: A gas turbine includes a gas turbine body in which a rotor is rotated with the energy of combustion gas produced by combustion of fuel to take out rotational energy from the rotor, an inlet casing that is attached to the gas turbine body and that guides the air to a compressor section compressing the air, an air intake chamber that is connected to the inlet casing and that guides the air taken in from the atmosphere to the gas turbine body, and a notch so formed in the air intake chamber as to cover the entire range where the rotor passes or exists when the rotor is moved.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Arase, Yasuro Sakamoto, Shinya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20100313567Abstract: In a gas turbine that generates rotational power by supplying fuel to compressed air compressed by a compressor and burning the fuel in a combustor and supplying resultant combustion gas to a turbine, a circumferential distance starting from a leading edge of a turbine first stage nozzle toward a trailing edge side of the first stage nozzle and ending at center of transition pieces of such combustors that are adjacent in a circumferential direction is set relative to a circumferential pitch of such first stage nozzles within a range of 0.05?S/P?0.15, and an axial distance between a leading edge of the first stage nozzle and a transition piece rear end of the combustor is set relative to the circumferential pitch of the first stage nozzles within a range of 0.00?L/P?0.13. By improving the relative position of a transition piece of the combustor and the first stage nozzle, both suppression of inner pressure fluctuations of the combustor and enhancement in aerodynamic efficiency can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Sosuke Nakamura, Keisuke Matsuyama, Takashi Hiyama, Yasuro Sakamoto, Kaoru Sakata
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Publication number: 20100284818Abstract: Provided is a turbine blade cascade endwall that is capable of reducing crossflow and is capable of reducing secondary-flow loss that occurs in association with the crossflow, therefore being capable of achieving enhanced turbine performance. A convex portion (11) that is gently swollen as a whole, that has an apex (P1) at a position of 0 to 20% pitch in a position of 5 to 25% Cax, that gently slopes from this apex (P1) toward a downstream side and a suction side surface of an adjacently disposed turbine stationary blade (B1) or turbine moving blade, and that slopes slightly steeply from the apex (P1) toward an upstream side is provided between one turbine stationary blade (B1) or turbine moving blade and another turbine stationary blade (B1) or turbine moving blade disposed adjacent to one turbine stationary blade (B1) or turbine moving blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono, Takashi Hiyama
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Publication number: 20100196154Abstract: Provided is a turbine blade cascade endwall that is capable of suppressing a vortex generated on a suction surface of a turbine stator blade and that is capable of reducing secondary-flow loss due to this vortex. A turbine blade cascade endwall that is positioned on a tip side of a plurality of turbine stator blades arranged in a ring form is provided with a pressure gradient alleviating part that alleviates a pressure gradient generated in the blade height direction at a suction surface of the turbine stator blades due to a clearance leakage flow, leaking out of a gap between a tip of a turbine rotor blade located on the upstream side of the turbine stator blades and a tip endwall disposed facing the tip of this turbine rotor blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Hiroyuki Otomo
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Publication number: 20100047065Abstract: To reduce secondary flow loss and to improved turbine efficiency, a section located radially outward of a border section 28 of a stationary blade 21 is bent in the rotational direction of a rotor. Thus, even if combustion gas leaks from a tip clearance between an end wall of a casing and a tip portion of a rotor blade, and a stagnation line 35 near a tip portion 22 is situated in the side of a back surface 24, because a section located radially outward of the border section 28 is bent in the rotational direction of the rotor, the stagnation line 35 is also situated toward the rotational direction of the rotor. Therefore, the stagnation lines 35 formed at various heights in the heightwise direction of the stationary blade 21 are generally aligned in the rotational direction of the rotor. Thus, fluctuation of pressure distribution in the heightwise direction of the stationary blade 21, of the combustion gas flowing into the stationary blade 21 can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono