Gas expander

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10767508
APP PUB NO 20180320546A1
SERIAL NO

15771060

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A gas expander includes: a casing where a swirl chamber for a gas to be expanded is formed; a turbine wheel that is housed in the casing and rotationally driven by the expanded gas; a diffuser that is mounted to the casing in a direction of a rotating shaft of the turbine wheel and includes a flow path for the expanded gas to flow in the direction of the rotating shaft; a swirl stopper that is disposed in the diffuser, faces a downstream front end surface of a boss of the turbine wheel that faces the flow path, and includes a closed swirl stopping surface that is disposed to face the downstream front end surface of the boss with a gap between the closed swirl stopping surface and the downstream front end surface; and a swirl preventing plate that circumferentially partition the flow path in the diffuser.

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MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION34-6 SHIBA 5-CHOME MINATO-KU TOKYO 108-0014

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Higashimori, Hirotaka Nagasaki, JP 28 285
Hirata, Daisuke Hiroshima, JP 47 123
Yonemura, Naoto Hiroshima, JP 13 124

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