Hitachi, Ltd.

Saburo Usami

Hideaki Mori

Shigeo Amagi

Tadashi Sonobe

Mitsuru Onoda

Yasuomi Yagi

Tomoya Tsunoda

Sueo Kawai

Hajime Toriya

Yasushi Hayasaka

Ryoichi Kaneko

Tadasi Sonobe

Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi

Satoshi Suzuki

Masaru Sekihara

Shigeo Sakurai

Toshio Hattori

Fumio Suzuki

Hiroshi Aoyama

Kyoichi Uchiyama

Sadao Umezawa

Tosuke Hirata

Yumiko Seki

Shigeru Sakamoto

Toshio Ishizuki

Hiroshi Miyata

Satoschi Dodo

In a gas turbine power generator, a compressor rotor and a junction boss are assembled by fitting a convex faucet joint provided on the compressor rotor and a concave faucet joint provided on the junction boss, in a freely releasable manner, and the compressor rotor and a rotor shaft are assembled by fitting the convex faucet joint provided on the compressor rotor and a concave faucet joint provided on the rotor shaft, in a freely releasable manner, and those compressor rotor, the rotor shaft and a generator core are combined in series and fastened by using a tie bolt and a nut, which is connected to the junction boss of the turbine rotor.

Gas turbine and gas turbine power generator

An electric rotating machine having a rotor, rotatably disposed in an inner radius side of a stator through a gap, including rotor windings contained in a plurality of slots formed in a rotor core, a slot insulation placed between the rotor winding and the slot, an insulation block placed between a wedge arranged at a peripheral side of the rotor core outward of the rotor winding of the slot and the rotor winding. At least one of the slot insulation and the insulation block is an insulation formed by filling or mixing granular and/or short-fiber insulating materials having a thermal conductivity higher than 5 W/m&middot;K in a resin and a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction higher than 0.35 W/m&middot;K.

Electric rotating machine

An the electric rotating machine which is compact and of reduced cost by improving the thermal conductivity of the main insulation in the thickness direction while maintaining the insulation breakdown voltage of the main insulation high. The initial breakdown voltage V in the thickness direction of the main insulator 30 of the stator winding 3 is higher than 20 kV/mm, and the thermal conductivity &lgr; in the thickness direction is within a range of 0.35 to 1 W/m&middot;K, and the product V&lgr; of the initial breakdown voltage V and the thermal conductivity &lgr; satisfies a relationship of 7&lE;V&lgr;&lE;20 (MWA/m,&middot;K). The amount of resin is within a range of 20 to 50 weight % of the main insulation material.

Electric rotating machine with reduced thickness and volume of insulation

A superconducting magnet includes a superconducting coil, an inner tank for containing the coil, a shield plate for covering the inner tank, and an outer tank for accommodating the superconducting coil, the inner tank and the shield plate. The inner tank is supported on the outer tank by a load support member and the outer tank forms a vacuum vessel. At least one of the inner tank, the load support member, the shield plate and the outer tank includes a detection arrangement for detecting abnormality and/or deterioration of the inner tank, load support member, shield plate and outer tank associated with the respective detection arrangement.

Superconducting magnet magnetically levitated transportation apparatus

A two-flow-passage type exhaust gas driven turbocharger, in which a scroll portion in a casing is divided by an annular partition to form two flow passages, the turbo-charger being constructed so that the difference between the temperature of the outer surface of the portion of the casing to which the partition is fixed and that of the partition can be minimized so as to reduce the thermal strain in the partition and thereby prevent thermal fatigue cracks from occurring therein.

Two-flow-passage type exhaust gas driven turbo-charger

The life expectancy of a mechanical structure that undergoes repeated loading is estimated by determining the maximum crack length on the surface of the structure. The maximum length of the cracks on the surface of the structure is related to the life ratio of the structure, wherein the life ratio is a ratio of the number of loads the structure has undergone to the number of loads the structure will undergo until failure. An optical system is used to measure the crack length of the cracks on the surface of the structure being inspected. A statistical distribution of greatest length cracks for a sampling of areas within a larger area can be made. Apparatus is provided to statistically process such distribution data to obtain a statistically estimated maximum length crack for the larger area. The maximum crack length determination can be used to estimate the life expectancy of the structure from the relationship between crack length and life ratio.

Method and apparatus for estimating life expectancy of mechanical

In a weld for two metals having adjacent surfaces with a welded zone having deposited weld metal and an unwelded zone with a stress concentration between the two zones that would normally drastically decrease the fatigue strength, the fatigue strength is greatly improved by applying a preliminary load on the welds zone by the application of a fluid pressure between the unwelded adjacent surfaces to directly stress the stress concentration transition area. Preferably, the stress intensity factor for the fluid pressure at the stress concentration zone will be higher than the combined tensile and flexural stress intensity factors so that there will be localized yielding at the stress concentration area without damaging the remainder of the weld. The metal and/or fluid is heated to avoid fracture and further to vaporize any liquid remaining once the fluid pressure is removed.

Method and apparatus for improving fatigue strength in weld zones

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