Patents Assigned to Fujitsu General Limited
  • Publication number: 20230288145
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat heat transfer tubes, and a header in which an insertion space is formed, wherein a plurality of first flow channels and a plurality of second flow channels are formed in each of the flat heat transfer tubes, the header includes a convex wall that divides the insertion space into a first space and a second space, a pipe penetration wall portion through which the flat heat transfer tubes pass such that the first flow channels are connected to the first space and the second flow channels are connected to the second space, and an inlet portion that supplies a refrigerant to the first space such that the refrigerant flows toward an inner wall surface of the pipe penetration wall portion that is in contact with the first space, and the convex wall is away from the pipe penetration wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshinari MAEMA, Daiki SHIMANO, Shohei NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20230235933
    Abstract: An air conditioner has a refrigerant circuit filled with a predetermined amount of a refrigerant, the circuit being formed of an outdoor unit and an indoor unit connected to each other by refrigerant piping, the outdoor unit having a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, and an expansion valve, the indoor unit having an indoor heat exchanger. The conditioner has an estimation model that estimates an amount of remaining refrigerant remaining in the circuit by using at least rotation frequency of the compressor, refrigerant discharge temperature at the compressor, heat exchanger temperature, degree of opening of the expansion valve, and outside air temperature, of operation state quantities indicating operation states during operation. The indoor heat exchanger has a sensor that is provided at an indoor heat exchanger intermediate portion connecting a first indoor heat exchanger port and a second indoor heat exchanger port to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230155444
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an electric motor that can be downsized in a rotation axis direction and can also suppress the deformation of a bearing and a bearing house portion along with the deformation of a resin shell. [Solving Means] An electric motor according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a columnar rotor; a shaft disposed along a rotation axis of the rotor; a cylindrical stator core disposed on an outer circumferential side of the rotor; a resin shell that covers the stator core; a bearing that rotatably supports the shaft; and a bearing house portion that stores the bearing. The resin shell includes an annular portion integral with the stator core, and an end surface portion connected to an end portion of the annular portion and expanding from the annular portion to an inner circumferential side. The end surface portion includes a connection portion to be connected to the bearing house portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoichi TANABE, Tomonori KOJIMA, Yosuke MATSUI, Rei OMATA, Hiroo KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230155443
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a permanent magnet electric motor that can be downsized in a rotation axis direction and can also suppress a leakage flux. [Solving Means] The permanent magnet electric motor includes: a columnar rotor including a permanent magnet portion annularly disposed; a shaft disposed along a rotation axis of the rotor; a cylindrical stator core disposed on an outer circumferential side of the rotor; a main body including a shell integrally formed with the stator core; a bracket attached to one end side of the main body; and a bearing that rotatably supports the shaft. The bracket includes a bearing house portion that stores the bearing, and a non-magnetic portion that is connected to the bearing house portion. The bearing house portion is disposed on an inner diameter side relative to the permanent magnet portion as viewed from an axis direction of the rotation axis, and an edge portion of the bearing house portion on an outer diameter side is covered with the non-magnetic portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoichi TANABE, Tomonori KOJIMA, Yosuke MATSUI, Rei OMATA, Hiroo KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230133342
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat heat transfer tubes and a header, wherein the header includes an inflow plate that divides an interior portion of the header into an inflow portion and a circulation portion located on an upper side of the inflow portion, a first partition member that divides the circulation portion into ascending path to which the flat heat transfer tubes are connected and a descending path, that forms an upper communication path that communicates the ascending path and the descending path on an upper side of the circulation portion, and a lower communication path that communicates the ascending path and the descending path on a lower side of the circulation portion, and the inflow plate includes a first ejection hole that ejects, on the ascending path side and a downwind side, a refrigerant from the inflow portion to the ascending path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Kotaro OKA, Masatoshi WATANABE, Yoshinari MAEMA, Ryo TAKAOKA, Shohei NAKATA, Daiki SHIMANO
  • Publication number: 20230135375
    Abstract: The remote device includes at least an arithmetic processing unit and software that controls the arithmetic processing unit. The software of the main body device includes a hardware access layer including a driver group that drives each piece of hardware, a control layer that controls the hardware group via the driver group, and a main body device-side function layer that accepts an order to the main body device and outputs an instruction to the control layer. The software of the remote device includes a remote device-side function layer that accepts an order to the main body device and outputs an instruction to the control layer via the main body device-side function layer. A function execution program that executes a function provided by the main body device is placed in at least one of the main body device-side function layer and the remote device-side function layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Sumie MORITA, Takeshi UMEMOTO, Tamotsu NAKAJIMA, Masanori TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20230117903
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary compressor excellent in energy saving performance and reliability by improving sliding performance of a sliding portion and ensuring sealability in a working chamber. An oil groove is formed at a position facing a vane end face on an end plate. The oil groove communicates with an inside of a sealed container, and is exposed in a gap between a leading end surface of a vane and an outer peripheral surface of an annular piston formed when the leading end surface of the vane is in abutment on the outer peripheral surface of the annular piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuhei HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230117117
    Abstract: A compressor includes a shaft that is arranged along a rotation axis, a compression unit that drives along with rotation of the shaft, a rotor core that is fixed to the shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets that are embedded inside the rotor core, and a stator that causes the rotor core to rotate about the rotation axis, wherein a plurality of eccentric holes for adjusting balance when the shaft rotates are formed in the rotor core, and the plurality of eccentric holes are formed on an inner side of the polygonal region for which midpoints of sides at a side of the rotation axis among sides formed by side surfaces of the plurality of permanent magnet in a cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis serve as vertices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230120434
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary compressor excellent in energy saving performance and reliability that can suppress over-compression of a compressed refrigerant compressed in a compression chamber. A rotary compressor includes a discharge port provided on an end plate and partially located outside a cylinder inner wall and a discharge groove provided on the cylinder inner wall and communicating with a compression chamber and the discharge port, the compression chamber compressing a refrigerant by contracting as an annular piston revolves, in which the discharge port faces an end portion of a vane groove on the cylinder inner wall on the compression chamber side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideto UCHIKAI, Motonobu FURUKAWA, Hiroki KATAYAMA, Takahiro SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230114621
    Abstract: An air conditioner capable of satisfactorily preventing noise from entering an indoor space includes: an indoor unit that is fixed to a wall surface of an indoor space and houses an indoor heat exchanger; and an outdoor unit that houses an outdoor heat exchanger connected to a refrigerant circuit that includes the indoor heat exchanger. The outdoor unit includes an outside casing that is fitted into an opening formed in a building wall partitioning an outdoor space and the indoor space from each other and defines an internal space that is open to the outdoor space and isolated from the indoor space by being surrounded by a sound insulation wall, and an inside casing that is disposed in the internal space and houses the outdoor heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hironori AOKI, Tomoaki NIWA
  • Publication number: 20230108901
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat heat transfer tubes and a header, wherein each of the flat heat transfer tubes internally includes a plurality of windward channels and a plurality of leeward channels that are arranged on a leeward side of the windward channels, the header includes a main body unit having an internal space that is connected to the windward channels and the leeward channels, a partition member that separates the internal space into a windward side space at a side of ends of the windward channels and a leeward side space at a side of ends of the leeward channels, and an inflow portion that supplies a refrigerant to the lower portion of the leeward side space, and an upper side communication path that allows communication between the leeward side space and the windward side space is formed in an upper portion of the partition member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shohei NAKATA, Yoshinari MAEMA, Kotaro OKA
  • Patent number: 11619403
    Abstract: In order to enable a uniform air-conditioning of the entire room, a fixed air blowing portion 75 and movable air blowing portions 77 on both sides thereof are provided on a decorative panel 70 as an air blowing part 74, and the movable air blowing portions 77 can rotate about an axis orthogonal to the panel surface or the ceiling surface of the decorative panel 70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20230094694
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat heat transfer tubes and a header, wherein, in an interior portion of each of the plurality of flat heat transfer tubes, a plurality of upwind side channels and a plurality of downwind side channels are formed, the header includes a main body portion in which an interior portion space connected to the plurality of upwind side channels and the plurality of downwind side channels is formed, a partition member that divides the interior portion space into an upwind side space, and a flow inlet/outlet port that supplies a refrigerant to a lower part of the upwind side space, and, at a lower part of the partition member, a lower communication path that communicates the downwind side space and the upwind side space is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shohei NAKATA, Yoshinari MAEMA, Kotaro OKA
  • Publication number: 20230087038
    Abstract: A compressor includes a stator core that includes a yoke portion and a teeth portion, a rotor that is arranged inside the stator core, a compression unit that compresses a refrigerant along with rotation of the rotor relative to the stator core, a container that has an internal space in which the stator core and the compression unit are arranged, a winding that is wound around the teeth portion, and an insulating film that is arranged in the slot so as to separate the winding from the stator core, wherein a welding portion that is fixed to the container by welding is formed on a side surface of the yoke portion on an outer diameter side, and a sheet that is sandwiched between the yoke portion and the insulating film is arranged in the slot that corresponds to the welding portion in a circumferential direction of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Takashi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230085871
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (5) includes a plurality of flat heat transfer tubes (11) and a header (12), wherein the header (12) includes a first partition member (21) that separates an internal space of a main body unit (20) into a refrigerant inflow portion (24) and an upper portion (25), a second partition member (22) that separates the upper portion (25) into a connected portion (26) connected to the plurality of flat heat transfer tubes (11) and an opposite portion (27), and a third partition member (23) that separates the opposite portion (27) into a windward portion (28) and a leeward portion (29) a plurality of windward communication holes (35) and a plurality of leeward communication holes (36) that allow communication from the windward portion (28) and the leeward portion (29) to the connected portion (26) are arranged the second partition member (22) an adjustment channel (30) that distributes the refrigerant from the refrigerant inflow portion (24) to the windward portion (28) and the leeward portion (29) an
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shohei NAKATA, Yoshinari MAEMA, Kotaro OKA
  • Publication number: 20230080650
    Abstract: A lower end plate cover is provided with a bulging portion. In a circumferential direction of a rotary shaft, a plurality of bolt holes includes a first bolt hole arranged between a distal end portion and a proximal end portion of the lower discharge valve, a second bolt hole arranged in a position adjacent to the first bolt hole on a side close to a lower vane groove with respect to the first bolt hole, and a third bolt hole arranged in a position adjacent to the first bolt hole on a side away from the lower vane groove with respect to the first bolt hole. When the bulging portion is divided into a first bulging portion and a second bulging portion using a first straight line, the first bulging portion is larger than the second bulging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya YASUI, Kenshi UEDA, Naoto TADA
  • Publication number: 20230076038
    Abstract: A rotary compressor (1) includes a hermetically sealed compressor housing (10) that is provided with a refrigerant discharge portion (107) and refrigerant suction portions (104, 105), a compression unit (12) that is arranged in the compressor housing (10) and compresses a refrigerant, sucked from the suction portions (104, 105), and discharges it from the discharge portion (107), a motor (11) that is arranged in the compressor housing (10) and drives the compression unit (12), an accumulator that is connected to the suction portions (104, 105), and a mounting member (50) that secures the accumulator to the compressor housing (10). The compressor housing (10) and an accumulator container (26) of the accumulator are made of a metal material. The mounting member (50) is at least partially made of a resin material and has a first joint portion (J1), which is joined to an outer peripheral surface (10a) of the compressor housing (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Ryo AKIMOTO, Junya TANAKA
  • Patent number: D987671
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shingo Iwasa, Koji Fukuda
  • Patent number: D989256
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Yutai Ri
  • Patent number: D995438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki Tanaka