Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11509186
    Abstract: A capacitor unit (20) includes: a harness side terminal (23) provided in a housing (22) for accommodating a capacitor main body therein and connectable to an electric power harness for supplying DC power from an outside; and a board side terminal (24) connectable to a circuit board from which the DC power is output via the capacitor main body. The board side terminal (24) extends in a plate shape from a base portion (24b) held in the housing (22) toward a distal end portion (24a) connected to the circuit board, and has a notch portion (40) recessed inward of the board side terminal (24) in a width direction between the base portion (24b) and the distal end portion (24a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Hiroto Higuchi, Takayuki Takashige
  • Publication number: 20220364762
    Abstract: Provided are a heat exchanger that makes it possible to supply air of an appropriate temperature to a plurality of blowing ports of an air-conditioning unit, an air-conditioning unit that comprises the heat exchanger, and an air conditioner. This air-conditioning unit 10 comprises a heat exchanger 20 that exchanges heat between air and a coolant, a blower 11, and an air outflow part 12. The heat exchanger 20 comprises a plurality of tubes 21 in which the coolant flows, an inlet header 23, an outlet header 24, and a fin 22. The inlet header 23 includes: a low-temperature-side coolant inflow part 231 into which coolant that has a relatively low temperature can flow; and a high-temperature-side coolant inflow part 232 into which coolant that has a relatively high temperature can flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: TOMOKI HASE, HIDEAKI TATENOI, NOBUYA NAKAGAWA, YASUO KATAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11480370
    Abstract: An evaporator (2) is provided with a casing (5), a refrigerant supply section (7), a first heat transfer pipe group (10), and a second heat transfer pipe group (11). The first heat transfer pipe group (10) is disposed in the lower part of the space in the casing (5) so as to be immersed in the refrigerant and comprises a plurality of heat transfer pipes (12) through which liquid to be cooled flows. The second heat transfer pipe group (11) is provided in the space in the casing (5) at a position below the refrigerant supply section (7) and above the liquid level of the refrigerant, and comprises a plurality of second heat transfer pipes (13) through which liquid to be cooled flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi Yoshii, Yasutaka Aoki, Takeshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220332167
    Abstract: This air-conditioning device (10) for a vehicle comprises a flow path width adjustment portion (14) that is provided at an inlet portion (11BA) of a ventilation flow path (11B) so as to be connected to the inner surface (31a) of a first side wall (31), the flow path width adjustment portion (14) having an upper end connected to a fan mounting portion (35), extending downward, and being located between a third wall (33) and a nose portion (37) in the (Y) direction. The nose portion (37) has an inclined portion (37A) that is inclined with respect to the third wall (33) such that the width of the inlet portion (11BA) increases in the (Z) direction from the inlet to the outlet of the inlet portion (11BA) of the ventilation flow path (11B). In the (Z) direction, the flow path width adjustment portion (14) is formed so as to narrow the width of the inlet portion (11BA) of the ventilation flow path (11B) in the (Y) direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki CHIKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11466677
    Abstract: A control device for a compressor includes an operation stop control unit that stops the compressor in a procedure different from a normal stop request signal when a signal different from the normal stop request signal that requests the compressor to stop in a predetermined procedure and a forced stop request signal from a device including the compressor is detected. The operation stop control unit stops the compressor in the different procedure according to a speed of the compressor when the forced stop request signal is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Toyohisa Kawashima, Takayuki Takashige
  • Patent number: 11466881
    Abstract: A control device for a refrigerator system for cooling a load by using a plurality of refrigerators, said control device comprising a unit to control the number of operating units that changes the number of operating refrigerators according to the load rate, and a cold water temperature acquisition unit that acquires, via a temperature sensor, the temperature of cold water affected by the refrigerators. After a prescribed standby time from when the number of operating refrigerators was changed has elapsed, the unit to control the number of operating units changes the number of operating units and reduces the prescribed standby time when at least one of the cold-water temperature and the rate of change in the cold-water temperature satisfies a prescribed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hazui, Koki Tateishi, Satoshi Nikaido, Yutaka Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11462965
    Abstract: An electric compressor has an electric motor housed in a casing and that drives a compression part for compressing a refrigerant guided into the casing, and a connecting part accommodating container in which an external power line is guided from an exterior of the casing, and accommodating a connecting part for electrically connecting the external power line that supplies power to the electric motor and an internal power line guided from the electric motor. An insertion hole through which the internal power line is inserted is provided to the connecting part container; the connecting part container can be split with a splitting line for splitting the connecting part container and splitting the insertion hole; a first rubber ring for blocking off the insertion hole in a liquid-tight state is disposed inside the connecting part container; and the first rubber ring is sandwiched between split walls forming the insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hagita, Akinori Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11454236
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a blank forming step in which a casing blank (70) is formed by die-casting, the casing blank (70) having a first cylindrical section (41), a second cylindrical section (42), and an annular section (44) which includes a recess (71) recessed toward one side in an axial direction (O) from a first surface (44a) facing the other side in the axial direction (O); and a cutting step in which the inner peripheral surface (42a) of the second cylindrical section (42) and a second surface (44b) of the annular section (44), the second surface (44b) facing the one side in the axial direction (O), are cut to connect the recess (71) to a compression section containing space (42A) within the second cylindrical section (42), thereby forming a flow passage. In the blank forming step, the casing blank (70) is formed such that a part of a side surface (71a) of the recess (71) is disposed radially outside the inner peripheral surface (42a) of the second cylindrical section (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Yogo, Takeshi Hirano, Yuki Ichise
  • Patent number: 11448435
    Abstract: An evaporator (2) comprising: a casing (5); a plurality of heat transfer tubes (12) which are immersed in a liquid refrigerant (RL) in a liquid-phase region (A1) and in the interior of which a fluid having a higher temperature than that of the liquid refrigerant (RL) flows; and a demister (7) which is provided so as to cover from above the liquid surface (Ls) of the liquid refrigerant (RL) accommodated in the liquid-phase region (A1), and which traps liquid droplets contained in evaporated gas refrigerant (RG). The demister (7) comprises inclined sections (13) which, when viewed in a cross section intersecting the axial line (O2) of the heat transfer tubes (12), separate from the liquid surface (Ls) toward the center portion of the casing (5) along the liquid surface (Ls).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Taichi Yoshii, Naoya Miyoshi, Yasushi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11441821
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat pump that can use, as a refrigerant, a substance with which a geometric isomer exists, and a method for designing the same. The present invention is a method for designing a heat pump (1) whose closed circuit configured by connecting a compressor (2), a condenser (3), an expansion valve (4), and an evaporator (5) in this order is filled with a refrigerant containing a refrigerant substance with which a geometric isomer may exist, the method including obtaining an upper limit of stable temperature at which isomerization of the refrigerant substance does not proceed, and setting an upper limit usage temperature of the heat pump (1) so as not to exceed the upper limit of the stable temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal System, Ltd., Central Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Suemitsu, Kenji Ueda, Yasushi Hasegawa, Kazuki Wajima, Yoshinori Akamatsu, Fuyuhiko Sakyu, Kanako Osafune
  • Patent number: 11428239
    Abstract: A compressor suction pipe includes a bent portion at least including a first pipe segment on the most upstream side with respect to flow of a fluid to be compressed, a second pipe segment connected to a suction side of a compressor and extending in a direction different from the extension direction of the first pipe segment, and a third pipe segment disposed between the first pipe segment and the second pipe segment and extending in a direction different from the extension directions of the first and second pipe segments, and at least one partition extending at least from an intermediate portion of the first pipe segment at least to an intermediate portion of the second pipe segment in the bent portion and dividing an interior of the bent portion. The partition extends in a direction intersecting a virtual plane including an incircle that touches an axis of the first pipe segment on an upstream side of a downstream end of the first pipe segment and touches an axis of the second pipe segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Koga, Ryosuke Suemitsu
  • Patent number: 11415130
    Abstract: In the present invention, a fixed scroll (210A) comprises a lubricating oil introduction passage (40) that serves as a first passage for supplying, to the inside of a scroll compressor part (30), a lubricating oil located inside an oil separator that serves as a lubricating oil separation part. An orbiting scroll (210B) comprises a lubricating oil discharge passage (50) that serves as a second passage for discharging, to the outside of the scroll compressor part (30), the lubricating oil which has been introduced to the inside of the scroll compressor part (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11413936
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchanger body which includes an adhesive lower damping material which is provided on a lower outer peripheral surface of a lower tubular member exposed from a lower buffer material provided in each of both end portions in both end portions of the lower tubular member constituting at least a lower header and is formed such that at least a portion of each of both end portions extends between the lower tubular member and the lower buffer material; and a casing which includes first and second abutment portions against which the lower buffer material abuts and a condensate water discharge unit which discharges condensate water to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kominami, Takahide Yamamoto, Tsubasa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11418111
    Abstract: A power conversion circuit board (1) is a circuit board on which a power conversion circuit configured to convert a direct current into an alternating current is mounted. A low-voltage circuit (10b) to which a low voltage is applied and a high-voltage circuit (10a) to which a high voltage is applied are separately disposed in different areas on the same circuit board surface. Furthermore, part of wiring of the high-voltage circuit (10a) is formed on the circuit board surface, and the other wiring is constituted by a bus bar provided at a predetermined distance from the circuit board surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Hiroto Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11418136
    Abstract: A motor control device provided with a control unit which controls the number of rotations of a motor by implementing a first control which enables high-torque and precise control, or a second control enabling more efficient control than the first control with respect to the motor; and a switching determination unit which, if an actual measurement value of the number of rotations of the motor is greater than a prescribed threshold value of the number of rotations, switches the first control to the second control. The switching determination unit further switches the first control to the second control if the actual measurement value of the number of rotations is not more than the threshold value of the number of rotations, and when a prescribed time has passed from a point in time at which the actual measurement value of the number of rotations matched the required number of rotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Takayuki Takashige, Kyohei Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11413937
    Abstract: A current estimating device that estimates a capacitor current of a high-voltage circuit for driving a motor, wherein the current estimating device calculates a voltage utilization rate using the input voltage of an inverter included in the high-voltage circuit and the speed of the motor, calculates a first constant by applying the voltage utilization rate to a predetermined first arithmetic expression, and calculates the capacitor current of an electrical condenser included in the high-voltage circuit by multiplying the first constant by a motor current effective value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Hiroto Higuchi, Masahiro Mori, Kyohei Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220227201
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a unit case; a damper which switches between the open state and the closed state of a flow path; a plurality of damper levers which have pins and rotatably support the damper with respect to the unit case; and a main lever which has guide grooves into which the pins are fitted, and rotates the damper levers by guiding pins through rotation around an axis, wherein the main lever has a main lever body having the guide groove formed therein, and a shaft part which rotatably supports the main lever body and is provided with a hook portion engaged with the unit case, and the shaft part has a higher toughness than the main lever body and is made of a material different from that of the unit case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki CHIKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11391495
    Abstract: In order to reduce the effect on a compressor caused by foaming in an oil tank, a control unit for controlling an oil pump starts the oil pump before a compressor is started (SA1), starts the compressor (SA4) when an oil supply differential pressure P satisfies a compressor startup condition during a reference time Tas from the starting of the oil pump (“Yes” in SA3), and extends the operation of the oil pump for a prescribed time without starting the compressor (Step SA5) when the compressor startup condition is not satisfied (“No” in SA3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshie Togano, Kenji Ueda, Yasushi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20220221177
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vehicle air conditioning system and a control method of the vehicle air conditioning system which enable detecting leaks of flammable refrigerant without requiring a separate sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki HAGITA, Nobuya NAKAGAWA, Hideto NOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220220960
    Abstract: A scroll compressor with a stationary scroll, an orbiting scroll, and a discharge port through which a fluid that has been compressed by both the scrolls is discharged. An end plate of the orbiting scroll is provided with an end-plate side stepped portion formed such that, along a spiral of a spiral wrap, the height thereof increases toward a central side of the spiral and decreases toward an outer end side thereof. A spiral wrap of the stationary scroll is provided with a wall-portion side stepped portion formed corresponding to the end-plate side stepped portion such that the height thereof decreases toward the central side of the spiral and increases toward the outer end side thereof. A pair of compression chambers which face each other, the ventral side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port before the dorsal side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Takuma YAMASHITA, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Genta YOSHIKAWA, Akihiro KANAI, Kazuhide WATANABE