Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Mitsuru Saeki

Kenichi Hattori

Akitomi Semba

Tadaaki Kakimoto

Takashi Shibata

Kazuhiko Takahashi

Norihide Saho

Manabu Suzuki

Takeo Nemoto

Shinichiro Aikawa

Takashi Watanabe

Kyoko Kojima

Seijiro Muramatsu

Masami Sukeda

Mitsunori Sezaki

Takashi Shiraishi

Kohei Tanaka

Tsutomu Hasegawa

Kengo Iwashige

Hisanao Ogata

Akihito Nakahara

Yasuki Kita

Shigeki Tounosu

Ryuichiro Iwano

Ikuo Tobinaga

Takashi Matsunobu

Takahiko Sano

Hiroshi Kato

Shingo Inamura

Junichi Sugino

Juhyun Yu

Kouhei Tanaka

Naomi Okamoto

Souichiro Kiyoki

Provided is a diagnosis technique with high reliability when a state of lubricating oil of a rotary machine such as a wind power generator is diagnosed by a state monitoring sensor. A diagnosis system of lubricating oil includes a lubricating oil utilization device, a lubricating oil tank for storing lubricating oil to be supplied to the lubricating oil utilization device, and a sensor which measures characteristics of the lubricating oil. In this system, the state of the lubricating oil is diagnosed by using sensor data obtained after a time required for air bubbles in the lubricating oil generated at the time of use of the device disappear elapses since the lubricating oil utilization device is regularly or irregularly stopped.

Diagnosis system of lubricating oil and diagnosis method of lubricating oil

A method for diagnosing the deterioration of a lubricant, and a system and method for monitoring a lubricant of a rotating machine are capable of diagnosing the deterioration of an additive to a lubricant. The concentration of the additive to the lubricant is obtained by using chromaticity data obtained on the basis of measurement data from an optical sensor, and, on the basis thereof, the deterioration of the lubricant is diagnosed. In addition, the system for monitoring the lubricant is provided with an optical sensor, an input device, a processing device, a storage device, and an output device. The storage device stores, in a time series, the concentration of the additive to the lubricant, which is obtained with the optical sensor, and the processing device estimates the time at which the concentration of the additive reaches a threshold value on the basis of concentration data of the additive.

Method for diagnosing deterioration of lubricant, and system and method for monitoring lubricant of rotating machine

A wind power generation system comprising: a wind power generation equipment having a rotor which is operative to convert energy of received wind to rotational energy, a rotatable nacelle which supports the rotor, a tower which supports the rotatable nacelle, a floating body which supports the tower and at least a part of the floating body is positioned above the surface of the sea, a fixing member which is installed or fixed on the sea bed, a mooring member which couples the floating body and the fixing member, wherein the mooring member is coupled to the floating body at place upward of the center of gravity of the floating body and the wind power generation equipment, and the floating body is practically supported by one fixing member.

Wind power generation system

A wind power generation system according to the invention includes: blades configured to receive wind to rotate; a nacelle supporting a load from the blades; a tower supporting the nacelle; a hub supporting the blades and configured to be rotated with the blades; a rotary main shaft configured to be rotated with the rotation of the hub; a gearbox connected to the rotary main shaft and configured to increase a speed of the rotation; and a generator configured to be driven at the rotation speed increased by the gearbox. The rotary main shaft is connected directly to the hub.

A downwind type wind turbine having a transformer stored in a support post or in a nacelle includes the nacelle which supports a rotor and stores therein a generator, a support post which supports the nacelle and a main transformer disposed between the generator and an electric power system and the main transformer is stored in the nacelle or in the support post.

Downwind type wind turbine having transformer therein and operating method thereof

The invention aims at providing a forced cooling rotary electric machine capable of bringing temperature distribution close to a designed temperature distribution and avoiding becoming a larger size, and employs a wedge formed with ventilation grooves and a wedge not formed with the ventilation grooves to regulate the flow rates of cooling gas passing through air ducts, so that the cooling gas supplied to a part of a stator core, in which temperature is low, can be caused to flow positively to a part in which the temperature is high and the temperature distribution in the axial direction of the stator core can be uniformized. As a result, the temperature distribution in the axial direction of the stator core can be brought close to a designed temperature distribution, and a forced cooling rotary electric machine that need not be made larger in size with a margin can be obtained.

Forced cooling rotary electric machine

A rotor for a rotary electrical device to be arranged to face to a stator, comprises a rotor iron core extending axially and including a plurality of slots arranged with a predetermined circumferential interval, a rotor coil contained by the slots, a coil support member of electrically insulating property arranged between parts of the rotor coil at an axial end of the rotor coil, and a retaining ring covering the coil support member and the axial end of the rotor coil, the coil support member has two fitted portions and a connecting portion connecting the fitted portions to each other to form H-shape of cross section and to form a space between the rotor coil and each of opposite sides of the connecting portion, and the coil support member further has a communicating path communicating to the spaces.

Rotary electrical device having particular coil support structure

A rotary electric machine according to present invention comprises a rotor and a stator disposed around the rotor in which the stator includes a stator core having, along its inner periphery region, a plurality of axially extending stator slots and an armature winding wound through the stator slots. In this rotary electric machine, each stator slot contains four radially layered armature bars; each armature winding is formed by electrically connecting at least one of the armature bars in a first slot and at least one of the armature bars in a second slot to each other; and the armature bars of a pair specified in accordance with a required output voltage of the rotary electric machine are connected to each other with a connecting piece.

Rotary electric machine

In a rotor of a rotary-electric machine, in order to improve a cooling performance of a rotor winding on an end portion of the rotor in an axial direction, the rotor winding being held by a retaining ring of the rotor winding formed by laminating conductors in slots of a rotor iron core extending in an axial direction and having slots formed at predetermined intervals in a peripheral direction, ventilation channels through which cooling air flows are formed in the surfaces of the conductors along a longitudinal direction. The ventilation channels have air inlet holes which guide the cooling air and exhaust holes which exhaust the cooling air, the conductors are laminated to constitute the rotor winding, and the conductors include openings of the air inlet holes in bottoms of the conductors on a side opposite to a side on which the ventilation channels are formed.

Rotor of rotary-electric machine

An electric rotating machine comprising a stator core having a plurality of slots that are equally spaced on the inner surface of the stator core in the peripheral direction, a rotor that rotates inside the stator core, and an armature winding that is applied to each of the slots, wherein the armature winding is made up with a plurality of serially-connected single-turn coils that are respectively applied to the slots and the serially-connected coils of respective phases are connected in parallel.

Electric rotating machine

A rotating electric machine wherein sub slots serving as cooling fluid ducts in the axial direction are provided at the bottoms of the coil slots formed in the rotor, radial cooling fluid ducts are formed through the field coil of the rotor in the radial direction of the rotor and juxtaposed in the axial direction of the rotor, so as to communicate the sub slots with the air gap, and radial cooling fluid ducts are formed through the stator in the radial direction of the stator and juxtaposed in the axial direction of the rotor, corresponding in position to the radial cooling fluid ducts in the rotor, so as to communicate the inner periphery of the stator with the outer periphery of the stator.

Rotating electric machine

In a rotor of a rotary-electric machine, in order to improve a cooling performance of a rotor winding, in a rotor winding on an end portion of the rotor in an axial direction, the rotor winding being held by a retaining ring of the rotor winding formed by laminating a plurality of conductors in slots of a rotor iron core extending in an axial direction and having a plurality of slots formed at predetermined intervals in a peripheral direction, ventilation channels through which cooling air flows are formed in the surfaces of the conductors along a longitudinal direction. The ventilation channels have air inlet holes which guide the cooling air and exhaust holes which exhaust the cooling air, the conductors provided with the ventilation channels which are formed in the surfaces of the conductors along the longitudinal direction and through which the cooling air flows are laminated to constitute the rotor winding, and the conductors include openings of the air inlet holes in bottoms of the conductors on a side opposite to a side on which the ventilation channels are formed.

In a cryostat with a liquefaction refrigerator, an object to be cooled, as well as a low-temperature end of the liquefaction refrigerator for cooling the object to be cooled, is contained in a thermally-insulated vessel. The liquefaction refrigerator comprises a cooler and a refrigerator, and the cooler comprises, as main components, a heat exchanger and an expansion valve. The refrigerator includes a mechanically-operated cold-generating device. Within a vacuum vessel in the cryostat, the cooler and the refrigerator are thermally connected together by a releasable thermally-conductive member. Since the refrigerator and the cooler are separate from each other, they can be overhauled independently of each other, and the cooler can be of a compact and lightweight design. Therefore, there can be provided the cryostat which is low in running cost, and has an excellent cooling performance.

Cryostat with liquefaction refrigerator

A magnetically shielded cryostat, e.g. in a MRI imaging apparatus, has a heat-insulating tank having an outer wall. A magnetic shield is spaced from the tank, covers at least partly the outer wall of the tank and is not supported by the tank. A refrigerator having a cooled member extends into the tank. In order to avoid direct transmission of vibration of the refrigerator to a center region of the shield, the refrigerator is supported on the magnetic shield by at least one elongate support member connected to the shield only at or close to the ends of the shield.

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Hitachinaka, Japan

Mitsuru Saeki