Patents by Inventor Junichi Ishimine
Junichi Ishimine has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9433122Abstract: An air conditioner sucks air exhausted from an information processor, and cools down the sucked air. The air conditioner exhausts the cooled air. The air conditioner acquires a cooling state, determines whether a cooling capacity exceeds an upper limit value, and reduces the volume of exhaust air when it is determined that the cooling capacity exceeds the upper limit value. For example, the air conditioner calculates a thermal load as the cooling state by using the volume of exhaust air, a difference between the temperature of exhaust air and the temperature of suction air, and determines that the cooling capacity exceeds the upper limit value when the calculated thermal load exceeds a given threshold. The air conditioner measures the temperature of exhaust air, and determines that the cooling capacity exceeds the upper limit value when the measured temperature exceeds a set value.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignees: FUJITSU LIMITED, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Ohba, Junichi Ishimine, Tomoaki Haneda, Jun Takeda, Masamichi Iwasaki, Shinji Mizumura
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Publication number: 20150292753Abstract: An air conditioner unit includes an air conditioner body, a first outgoing chamber, an outgoing connection section, an outgoing communication member, an outgoing port, and an outgoing port member. Through the first outgoing chamber, adjusted air flowing in from the air conditioner body is supplied to a target room. Through the outgoing connection section, the first outgoing chamber communicates with a second outgoing chamber of an adjacent air conditioner unit. The outgoing connection section is connected to the first outgoing chamber. The outgoing communication member is configured to open and close the outgoing connection section. Through the outgoing port, the adjusted air is supplied from the first outgoing chamber to the target room. The outgoing port member is configured to open and close the outgoing port.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Tomoko Kutsuzawa, Ikuro Nagamatsu, Masahiro Takanashi, Tatsurou Shima, Kazuhiro Nitta, Junichi Ishimine
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Patent number: 9113582Abstract: An air conditioning control apparatus for controlling an air conditioner in a room which accommodates a computer, includes obtaining repetitively a detected value of a total power consumption of the computer and the air conditioner and a detected value of a air temperature at the air inlet, storing the obtained values into a memory, determining an approximate expression representing a relation between the total power consumption and the air temperature on the basis of the values stored into the memory, determining a value of the air temperature corresponding to the lowest value of the total power consumption, by using the calculated approximate expression, and controlling the air conditioner so that the air temperature become equal the calculated air temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuji Ohba, Junichi Ishimine, Ikuro Nagamatsu, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Nobuyoshi Yamaoka, Akira Ueda, Yasushi Uraki, Seiichi Saito
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Patent number: 9078377Abstract: An air volume control device determines whether or not a cooling capacity of an electronic device fulfills a predetermined cooling capacity. Then, if it is determined that the cooling capacity of the electronic device is failing to fulfill the predetermined cooling capacity, the air volume control device decreases the number of revolutions of a fan for cooling the electronic device. For example, the air volume control device compares a temperature of a heating element provided in the electronic device before a change in the number of revolutions of the fan with that after the change in the number of revolutions of the fan. If the temperature of the heating element is increased when the number of revolutions of the fan is increased, the air volume control device determines that the cooling capacity of the electronic device is failing to fulfill the predetermined cooling capacity.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Ikuro Nagamatsu, Yuji Ohba, Junichi Ishimine
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Patent number: 9017155Abstract: An installation for cooling an electronic device includes an air conditioner having an air outlet for blowing cooling air to a room; a first detector adjacent to the air outlet of the air conditioner, for detecting a temperature of the cooling air; a rack accommodating the electronic device, the rack having an air inlet for receiving the cooling air from the air conditioner and an air outlet for exhausting air to the room; a second detector adjacent to the air inlet of the rack, for detecting a temperature of air received through the air inlet of the rack; and a controller for acquiring the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors, and controlling a quantity of the cooling air blown from the air outlet of the air conditioner so as to decrease a difference between the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yuji Ohba, Junichi Ishimine, Ikuro Nagamatsu, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Nobuyoshi Yamaoka, Seiichi Saito, Akira Ueda, Yasushi Uraki
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Publication number: 20140298839Abstract: There are provided a divider that divides a cold aisle and a hot aisle in a chamber in which an information technology device is to be enclosed and a rectifier that is formed in a shape of a hollow tube and is provided so as to penetrate the divider. There are also provided a detector that is built into the rectifier and detects airflow passing through the rectifier, and a controller that controls an amount of air supplied to the cold aisle using detection results of the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Ikuro NAGAMATSU, Junichi Ishimine, YUJI OHBA, Tomoko Kutsuzawa, Masahiro Takanashi, MASAYUKI TATEWAKI
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Patent number: 8768519Abstract: An apparatus for controlling grille aperture ratios of a plurality of air transfer grilles which are installed in a room, includes a determining unit for determining target grille air volumes of air blowing to the racks, for determining simulation air volumes of air blowing from the air transfer grilles on the basis of the target grille air volumes so that each of air of the target grille air volumes are blown to the racks, and for determining grille aperture ratios for each of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the plurality of simulation air volumes so that each of the amounts of air blowing from the air transfer grilles is replaced by each of the simulation air volumes, and a controller for controlling each of the grille aperture ratios of the air transfer grilles on the basis of each of the determined grille aperture ratios.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Ikuro Nagamatsu, Junichi Ishimine, Seiichi Saito, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Yuji Ohba, Nobuyoshi Yamaoka, Akira Ueda, Yasushi Uraki
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Patent number: 8744818Abstract: A thermal-fluid-simulation analyzing apparatus includes an execution unit that generates an analysis model using analysis conditions to conduct a first thermal fluid simulation analysis based on the generated analysis model, an analysis-condition collecting unit that collects analysis conditions when a predetermined period passes after the first thermal fluid simulation analysis, a condition extracting unit that extracts a boundary condition from the analysis conditions collected by the analysis-condition collecting unit, and a re-execution unit that selects a region corresponding to the boundary condition extracted by the condition extracting unit from regions of the analysis model generated by the execution unit, updates the selected region with the boundary condition, and conducts a second thermal fluid simulation analysis for the updated analysis model.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Akira Ueda, Junichi Ishimine, Ikuro Nagamatsu, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Yuji Ohba, Seiichi Saito, Nobuyoshi Yamaoka, Yasushi Uraki
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Patent number: 8589123Abstract: There are included a location-information management unit that manages location information of devices arranged in a spatial layout on a screen, a device-feature management unit that manages device features of the devices, a guide-information generation unit that reads the location information and the device features of the devices arranged in the spatial layout from the location-information management unit and the device-feature management unit respectively and generates device-layout guide information allowing for the device features of the devices based on the read location information and device features of the devices, and a monitor unit that guides and displays the device-layout guide information generated by the guide-information generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yasushi Uraki, Junichi Ishimine, Ikuro Nagamatsu, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Yuji Ohba, Nobuyoshi Yamaoka, Akira Ueda, Sayoko Tominaga, Seiichi Saito
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Patent number: 8584134Abstract: A job assigning apparatus connected to a plurality of arithmetic units for assigning a job to each of the arithmetic units, the job assigning apparatus includes a power consumption acquiring processor for acquiring power consumptions with respect to each of the arithmetic units, a selector for selecting one of the arithmetic units as a submission destination in increasing order of the power consumptions acquired by the power consumption acquiring processor, and a job submitting processor for submitting a job to the submission destination.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Nobuyoshi Yamaoka, Junichi Ishimine, Ikuro Nagamatsu, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Yuji Ohba, Seiichi Saito, Akira Ueda, Yasushi Uraki
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Patent number: 8515585Abstract: An air condition control device for controlling a plurality of air conditioners which cool a plurality of electronic apparatuses respectively, the air condition control device includes a storage section for storing a heating value information related to respective heating values of the electronic apparatuses, and a controller for detecting that a fault has occurred in one of the air conditioners, specifying any of the electronic apparatuses which has been cooled by the one of the air conditioners having occurred the fault when the fault in the one of the air conditioners is detected, determining a heating value of each of the specified electronic apparatuses on the basis of the heating value information, and setting the air flow rate for at least one of the other air conditioners in accordance with the heating values of the specified electronic apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yasushi Uraki, Junichi Ishimine, Ikuro Nagamatsu, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Yuji Ohba, Nobuyoshi Yamaoka, Akira Ueda, Seiichi Saito
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Patent number: 8408356Abstract: A box-shaped enclosure of a storage box includes a deadening wall or walls defining a storage space between first and second planes. The storage space is open at the first and second planes. A deadening wall member extends along the first plane. An auxiliary box-shaped enclosure is connected to the box-shaped enclosure so as to close the first plane of the box-shaped enclosure. The auxiliary box-shaped enclosure defines an auxiliary space isolated from the storage space with a deadening wall member. The storage space is connected to the fresh air through the ventilation opening and the auxiliary space. The deadening wall or walls of the box-shaped enclosure and the deadening wall member serve to prevent the leakage of the operating sound.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Atsushi Yamaguchi, Junichi Ishimine, Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Shin-ichirou Kouno, Akira Takahashi, Akihiro Watanabe, Tomohiro Okazaki
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Patent number: 8342746Abstract: A temperature measurement system including a measurement plate placed on a measurement plane specified on at least one of an intake opening and an exhaust opening of a rack storing an information processing apparatus or at a position being away from the measurement plane by a predetermined distance; and an infrared camera configured to capture an image of the measurement plate, where the infrared camera is placed at a position with which the measurement plane is not captured and the measurement plate is captured by the infrared camera.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Atsushi Furuya, Junichi Ishimine, Yuji Ohba
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Patent number: 8279595Abstract: A storage unit includes: a storage section containing an information processing apparatus; an intake section allowing intake of a cooling medium into the information processing apparatus for cooling the information processing apparatus; a discharge section receiving the cooling medium discharged from the information processing apparatus; a cooling medium flow generating section configured to control intake and discharge of the cooling medium; a partition section isolating the intake section and the discharge section from each other; an aperture formed in the partition section; a detector section configured to detect an inflow of the cooling medium, discharged from the discharge section, through the aperture; and a controller section configured to control the cooling medium flow generating section in accordance with a result of the detection of the detector section.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Junichi Ishimine, Atsushi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20120224976Abstract: An air volume control device determines whether or not a cooling capacity of an electronic device fulfills a predetermined cooling capacity. Then, if it is determined that the cooling capacity of the electronic device is failing to fulfill the predetermined cooling capacity, the air volume control device decreases the number of revolutions of a fan for cooling the electronic device. For example, the air volume control device compares a temperature of a heating element provided in the electronic device before a change in the number of revolutions of the fan with that after the change in the number of revolutions of the fan. If the temperature of the heating element is increased when the number of revolutions of the fan is increased, the air volume control device determines that the cooling capacity of the electronic device is failing to fulfill the predetermined cooling capacity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Ikuro NAGAMATSU, Yuji Ohba, Junichi Ishimine
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Publication number: 20120213247Abstract: A temperature measurement system including a measurement plate placed on a measurement plane specified on at least one of an intake opening and an exhaust opening of a rack storing an information processing apparatus or at a position being away from the measurement plane by a predetermined distance; and an infrared camera configured to capture an image of the measurement plate, where the infrared camera is placed at a position with which the measurement plane is not captured and the measurement plate is captured by the infrared camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi FURUYA, Junichi Ishimine, Yuji Ohba
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Publication number: 20120100795Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes a ceiling plenum disposed above a ceiling of a room; an air-conditioning machine disposed in an internal space of the room; a plurality of IT apparatus mounting racks disposed in a plurality of rows, with rear faces of the IT apparatus mounting racks in adjacent two rows opposed to each other; a upper partitioning board disposed between an upper face of the plurality of IT apparatus mounting racks and the ceiling; an end-partitioning board disposed between each of ends of a space between adjacent two rows of the plurality of IT apparatus mounting racks and the ceiling; and a ceiling opening portion provided in the ceiling above a warm-air space enclosed by the upper partitioning board and the end-partitioning board. The ceiling opening portion connects the warm-air space with the ceiling plenum.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Junichi ISHIMINE, Yuji Ohba, Tomoaki Haneda, Jun Takeda, Masamichi Iwasaki, Shinji Mizumura
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Publication number: 20120097360Abstract: An air conditioner sucks air exhausted from an information processor, and cools down the sucked air. The air conditioner exhausts the cooled air. The air conditioner acquires a cooling state, determines whether a cooling capacity exceeds an upper limit value, and reduces the volume of exhaust air when it is determined that the cooling capacity exceeds the upper limit value. For example, the air conditioner calculates a thermal load as the cooling state by using the volume of exhaust air, a difference between the temperature of exhaust air and the temperature of suction air, and determines that the cooling capacity exceeds the upper limit value when the calculated thermal load exceeds a given threshold. The air conditioner measures the temperature of exhaust air, and determines that the cooling capacity exceeds the upper limit value when the measured temperature exceeds a set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicants: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuji Ohba, Junichi Ishimine, Tomoaki Haneda, Jun Takeda, Masamichi Iwasaki, Shinji Mizumura
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Publication number: 20120052785Abstract: A cooling system for cooling an electronic device housed in a rack disposed in a room, the cooling system includes an air conditioner includes an inlet and an outlet and being configured to suck air through the inlet, cool the sucked air, and discharge the cooled air through the outlet, a control unit configured to acquire a temperature at an intake port and an exhaust port of the rack and the inlet and the outlet of the air conditioner from a temperature measuring instrument for measuring the temperature, to calculate an index concerning an airflow rate of each of the ejected air and the cooled air directly returning, and to perform control on an airflow rate of the cooled air being discharged from the air conditioner on the basis of the calculated result.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Ikuro NAGAMATSU, Yuji Ohba, Junichi Ishimine
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Publication number: 20120026686Abstract: An information processing apparatus system includes: an information processing apparatus or apparatuses configured to measure the flow rate of coolant flowing from a coolant inflow surface of its enclosure to a coolant outflow surface of the enclosure; and a cooling apparatus configured to form a circulating path of the coolant from the coolant outflow surface to the coolant inflow surface, the cooling apparatus configured to control the discharged amount of the coolant based on the measured flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Tadashi Katsui, Junichi Ishimine, Yuji Ohba, Sayoko Tominaga, Ikuro Nagamatsu