Patents by Inventor Yuichi Oka

Yuichi Oka 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).

  • Patent number: 11519303
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes: a compressor configured to compress air; a combustor configured to combust fuel in the air compressed by the compressor so as to generate combustion gas; and a turbine configured to be driven using the combustion gas. Air coolers are configured to bleed the air from a plurality of places having different pressures in the compressor and cool the air bled from the respective places so as to generate cooling air. A waste heat recovery device is configured to recover waste heat from at least two of the air coolers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hideaki Sugishita, Yukimasa Nakamoto, Yuichi Oka
  • Publication number: 20210409869
    Abstract: A speaker edge includes a urethane foam that is hot press molded and an elastomer sheet that is in close contact with a surface of the urethane foam, in which the urethane foam and the elastomer sheet are resins of the same type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: KUNIHIKO TOKURA, YUICHI OKA
  • Patent number: 10844753
    Abstract: A boiler including one or more evaporators, an economizer, and a low-temperature heat exchanger. The economizer is located on a downstream side of the most downstream evaporator which is an evaporator at the most downstream side among the one or more evaporators. The low-temperature heat exchanger is located on the downstream side of the economizer, has an inlet for receiving water from the outside, and is configured to heat the water introduced from the inlet and sent to the economizer with the combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hiroyuki Yagita, Kuniaki Aoyama, Hideaki Sugishita, Yukimasa Nakamoto, Yuichi Oka, Naoki Hisada, Tarou Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20200325799
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes: a compressor configured to compress air; a combustor configured to combust fuel in the air compressed by the compressor so as to generate combustion gas; and a turbine configured to be driven using the combustion gas. Air coolers are configured to bleed the air from a plurality of places having different pressures in the compressor and cool the air bled from the respective places so as to generate cooling air. A waste heat recovery device is configured to recover waste heat from at least two of the air coolers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Yukimasa NAKAMOTO, Yuichi OKA
  • Patent number: 10480411
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery device includes: a low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle in which a low-boiling-point medium circulates while the low-boiling-point medium is repeatedly condensed and evaporated; a heated water line that guides liquid water, which is heated here, to the low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle from a waste heat recovery boiler; and a water recovery line that returns the water, which has passed through the low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle, to the waste heat recovery boiler. The low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle includes a heater that heats the low-boiling-point medium by exchanging heat between the low-boiling-point medium, which is a liquid, and liquid water, which has passed through the heated water line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hideaki Sugishita, Yukimasa Nakamoto, Yuichi Oka
  • Patent number: 10287922
    Abstract: A boiler includes one or more evaporators configured to heat water which has flowed therein to a specific heat maximum temperature at constant pressure or more in which a specific heat at constant pressure is maximized using a heated fluid and one or more reheaters configured to heat the steam which has come from the boiler using the heated fluid. All the reheaters configured to supply steam to a low-pressure steam turbine are disposed only at a downstream side of the high-pressure evaporator. All the reheaters heat reheating steam (FRHS) containing steam which has passed through a high-pressure steam turbine configured to receive steam supplied from the high-pressure evaporator and having a temperature lower than a specific heat maximum temperature at constant pressure in the high-pressure evaporator to less than the specific heat maximum temperature at constant pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hideaki Sugishita, Yuichi Oka
  • Publication number: 20180058267
    Abstract: A boiler including one or more evaporators, an economizer, and a low-temperature heat exchanger. The economizer is located on a downstream side of the most downstream evaporator which is an evaporator at the most downstream side among the one or more evaporators. The low-temperature heat exchanger is located on the downstream side of the economizer, has an inlet for receiving water from the outside, and is configured to heat the water introduced from the inlet and sent to the economizer with the combustion gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hiroyuki YAGITA, Kuniaki AOYAMA, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Yukimasa NAKAMOTO, Yuichi OKA, Naoki HISADA, Tarou ICHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180003085
    Abstract: A boiler includes one or more evaporators configured to heat water which has flowed therein to a specific heat maximum temperature at constant pressure or more in which a specific heat at constant pressure is maximized using a heated fluid and one or more reheaters configured to heat the steam which has come from the boiler using the heated fluid. All the reheaters configured to supply steam to a low-pressure steam turbine are disposed only at a downstream side of the high-pressure evaporator. All the reheaters heat reheating steam (FRHS) containing steam which has passed through a high-pressure steam turbine configured to receive steam supplied from the high-pressure evaporator and having a temperature lower than a specific heat maximum temperature at constant pressure in the high-pressure evaporator to less than the specific heat maximum temperature at constant pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Yuichi OKA
  • Publication number: 20170152765
    Abstract: A gas turbine including: a compressor that compresses air; a combustor that combusts fuel in the compressed air so as to generate combustion gas; and a turbine that is driven using the combustion gas. A plurality of cooling air coolers bleed the air from a plurality of places having different pressures in the compressor and cool the air bled from the respective places, thereby generating cooling air is provided. A waste heat recovery device that recovers waste heat from the at least two cooling air coolers among the plurality of cooling air coolers is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Yukimasa NAKAMOTO, Yuichi OKA
  • Publication number: 20170074164
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery device includes: a low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle in which a low-boiling-point medium circulates while the low-boiling-point medium is repeatedly condensed and evaporated; a heated water line that guides liquid water, which is heated here, to the low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle from a waste heat recovery boiler; and a water recovery line that returns the water, which has passed through the low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle, to the waste heat recovery boiler. The low-boiling-point medium Rankine cycle includes a heater that heats the low-boiling-point medium by exchanging heat between the low-boiling-point medium, which is a liquid, and liquid water, which has passed through the heated water line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Yukimasa NAKAMOTO, Yuichi OKA
  • Patent number: 4286173
    Abstract: The logical circuit includes therein a logic block for performing a logical function. The logic block is connected with the selection circuit and the selection circuit selects the input signals thereto in response to the selection signal. The input terminals of the logic block are connected with a bypass circuit and the bypass circuit transmits the input signals applied to the input terminals of the logic block to the selection circuit. When the selection signal takes the selected one of the values, the input signals to the logic block are bypassed through the bypass circuit, without being passed through the logic circuit, and delivered as the outputs of the selection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Oka, Yosimitsu Takiguchi