Hitachi, Ltd.

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Hitachi Instruments Engineering Co., Ltd.

Ryo Hiraga

Yutaka Fukui

Shigeyoshi Nakamura

Kishio Hidaka

Toshio Fujita

Masao Shiga

Mitsuo Kuriyama

Takeshi Onoda

Masao Siga

Nobuo Shimizu

Norio Yamada

Akira Nagai

Akio Takahashi

Yasuo Watanabe

Hiroyuki Doi

Toshikazu Narahara

Motoyo Wajima

Nobuyuki Iizuka

Hajime Toriya

Junichi Katagiri

Shintaro Takahashi

Katsumi Iijima

Soichi Kurosawa

Keiko Tawara

Yosimi Maeno

Hiroshi Sasaki

Satoshi Shimada

Takashi Aoyama

Fumito Nakajima

Ryoichi Sasaki

Yoshio Sato

Yoshitaka Kojima

Noboru Baba

Toru Tanimizu

Yasuhiko Tanaka

Masateru Suwa

Masahiko Arai

Nobuyoshi Tsuboi

Masahiro Koizumi

Jin Onuki

Toshie Yaguchi

Yoshimi Hakamata

Katsuhiro Komuro

Hideki Nihei

Norifumi Miyamoto

Shimpei Matsuda

Hideyo Kodama

Shigeru Kikuchi

Atsumi Watanabe

Tetsuo Kashimura

Osamu Asai

Masahiro Tomita

Katsuhisa Usami

Takeo Kamino

Fumio Hataya

Munehiko Tonami

Katsumi Suzuki

Hitoshi Okabe

Masao Kawakami

Katsumi Kuroda

Kenichiro Nomura

Ito Tetsuo

Gas turbine for power generation

Gas turbine for power generation, and combined power generation system

Steam turbine rotor shaft

Disclosed is a vacuum circuit breaker including a small-sized electrode structure capable of reducing deformation with age thereby enhancing the reliability and a vacuum bulb and a vacuum bulb electrode used for the breaker. In the vacuum circuit breaker, each of a fixed electrode and a movable side electrode includes an arc electrode made from particles of a refractory metal material, a high conductive metal material and a low melting point metal; an electrode supporting portion, made from the high conductive metal material, for supporting the arc electrode; a back conductor having a diameter smaller than the electrode supporting portion; and an external side connecting portion having a diameter larger than that of the back conductor. The arc electrode is integrated with the electrode supporting portion, back conductor, and external side connecting portion by the high conductive metal material, preferably, by melting of the highly conductive metal material.

Vacuum circuit breaker, and vacuum bulb and vacuum bulb electrode used therefor

A combined cycle power generation system in which a generator is driven by a steam turbine and a gas turbine includes a steam turbine rotor having a mono-block rotor shaft with blades mounted thereon in multi-stages from a high pressure side to a low pressure side and a casing covering the rotor. An inlet temperature of steam to first stage blades is not less than 530&deg; C. and the rotor shaft is made of a Ni&mdash;Cr&mdash;Mo&mdash;V low alloy steel of bainitic structure having a higher creep rupture strength at the high pressure side than at the low pressure side and a 538&deg; C. and 10,h creep rupture strength not less than 12 kg/mm,at a central portion, and having mounted thereon at the central portion, first stage blades at the high pressure side or FATT of not more than 20&deg; C. Final stage blades are mounted at the low pressure side having a room temperature V-notch impact value of not less than 4 kg/m, and blades of at least a final stage have a value of blade length in inches times revolution in rpm of not less than 125,000 and are made of martensite stainless steel including 8-13 wt. % Cr.

High and low pressure sides-integrating system turbine, long blades thereof and combined cycle power generation system

A steam turbine in which principal components to be exposed to high temperatures are all made of ferritic steel, whereby the temperatures of main steam and reheat steam can be increased to 610-660 (&deg; C.). The rotor shaft (,in FIG.,) of the steam turbine is made of ferritic forged steel whose 100,000-hour creep rupture strength is at least 15 (kg/mm,) at the service temperature of the rotor shaft. Likewise, the casing (,) is made of ferritic cast steel whose 100,000-hour creep rupture strength is at least 10 (kg/mm,). The steam turbine of high thermal efficiency can be applied to a steam-turbine power plant.

Steam-turbine power plant and steam turbine

A steam turbine includes a rotor shaft, movable blades assembled on the rotor shaft, fixed blades for guiding inflow of steam to the moving blades, and an inner casing for holding the fixed blades. The rotor shaft and at least a first stage of the movable blades are made of high-strength martensitic steel comprising 0.05-0.20(%) of C, at most 0.15(%) of Si, 0.3-0.7(%) of Mn, 9.5-13(%) of Cr, 0.3-0.7(%) of Ni, 0.05-0.35(%) of V, 0.02-0.15(%) of Nb, 0.01-0.06(%) of N, 0.05-0.5(%) of Mo, 1.0-3.5(%) of W, 2-10(%) of Co and 0.0005-0.03(%) of B and at least 78(%) of Fe (the percentages being given in terms of weight). The inner casings is made of martensitic cast steel comprising 0.06-0.16(%) of C, at most 0.5(%) of Si, at most 1(%) of Mn, 0.2-1.0(%) of Ni, 8-12(%) of Cr, 0.05-0.35(%) of V, 0.01-0.15(%) of Nb, 0.01-0.1(%) of N, at most 1.5% of Mo, 1-4(%) of W and 0.0005-0.03(%) of B and at least 85(%) of Fe (the percentages being given in terms of weight). The rotor shaft has a length of at least 5 (m) and has a minimum diameter of at least 600 (mm) at a portion where the fixed blades are assembled. The first stage of said moving blades has a length of at least 35 (mm) at a blade portion thereof.

A high and low pressure sides integrating steam turbine having high and low pressure sides integrating steam turbine blades, each made of a martensite steel including 8-13 wt % Cr, and having a blade length of 33 inches or more for 60 Hz power generation and 40 inches for 50 Hz power generation.

High and low pressure sides-integrating steam turbine, long blades

A cylindrical gas turbine combustor, burning injected fuel and guiding the combustion gas to turbine nozzles, includes a cylindrical portion such as a combustor liner and a transition piece, exposed to the combustion gas, which is made of austenitic Fe base casting alloy, Ni base casting alloy or Co base casting alloy.

Gas turbine combustor and gas turbine

A steam turbine has main components such as rotor shaft exposed to high temperature and intermediate pressure, which are made of a ferritic steel and the main steam temperature and the re-heat steam temperature are 610.degree. C. to 660.degree. C., and a steam turbine power plant employs the turbine. Further, the rotating blades are made of only a martensitic steel or a combination of the martensitic steel and a Ni base alloy, the turbine rotor is made of a ferritic forged steel having a creep rupture strength at the operating temperature for 100 thousands hours of above 15 kg/mm.sup.2, and the casing is made of a ferritic cast steel having a creep rupture strength at the operating temperature for 100 thousands hours of above 10 kg/mm.sup.2.

High strength heat resisting cast steel, steam turbine casing, steam

A method of operating an electron microscope under a high temperature and the electron microscope are provided. The electron microscope can stably set and efficiently heat a sample to observe and measure high temperature physical properties such as phase transformation, phase transition and the like required for development of a heat resistant material. In the method of operating the electron microscope and the electron microscope, a sample to be observed is set so as to position at a central hole of a double spiral flat filament, the detachable heating stage is fixed to the heating holder using screws of a pivot, and the heating stage is tilted by vertical movement of a crank-shaped arm. The heating stage and the arm are insulated from each other by an insulating body, and current from a power source is conducted by a conductor wire to heat the filament.

Electron microscope

A steam turbine in which principal components to be exposed to high temperatures are all made of ferritic steel, whereby the temperatures of main steam and reheat steam can be increased to 610-660 (.degree.C.). The rotor shaft (23 in FIG. 1) of the steam turbine is made of ferritic forged steel whose 100,000-hour creep rupture strength is at least 15 (kg/mm.sup.2) at the service temperature of the rotor shaft. Likewise, the casing (18) is made of ferritic cast steel whose 100,000-hour creep rupture strength is at least 10 (kg/mm.sup.2). The steam turbine of high thermal efficiency can be applied to a steam-turbine power plant.

A heat resistant steel of the present invention contains 0.05 to 0.2 wt. % of C, less than 0.5 wt. % of Si, less than 0.6 wt. % of Mn, 8 to 13 wt. % of Cr, 1.5 to 3 wt. % of Mo, 2 to 3 wt. % of Ni, 0.05 to 0.3 wt. % of V, 0.02 to 0.2 wt. % in total of either or both of Nb and Ta, 0.02 to 0.1 wt. % of N and the balance substantially Fe. Since a gas turbine of the present invention is constituted by members, such as discs, blades, shafts and so forth, made of alloys of this kind, the gas turbine has a structure in which it is possible to achieve a high level of creep rupture strength and Charpy impact value.

Heat resistant steel and gas turbine components composed of the same

A thermosetting resin composition comprising a special poly(p-hydroxystyrene) derivative resin and a radical polymerization initiator, and if necessary an epoxy modified polybutadiene, can provide prepregs and laminates having a low dielectric constant, a shorter signalling delay time, good heat resistance and flame retardancy and thus being suitable for producing multilayer printed circuit boards.

Thermosetting resin and prepreg and laminate using the same

A corrosion-resistant aluminum electronic material comprising an alloy containing aluminum as the principal component and, in addition, a small amount of a noble metal, the content of said noble metal being equal to or less than that at the eutectic point having the primary crystal of aluminum. As the noble metal, there is contained at least one metal selected from Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os, Ru, Au and Ag. Said electronic material is used for ball-bonding wire and distributing film in a semiconductor device, and the like.

Corrosion-resistant aluminum electronic material

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Ryo Hiraga