Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Fujita

Katsuhiro Fujita 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).

  • Publication number: 20110286871
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that can reliably prevent a situation in which a product whose performance is degraded due to misassembly of a tip seal is shipped. In the scroll compressor, tip seals of different lengths are embedded in tip surfaces of a fixed spiral wrap of a fixed scroll and an orbiting spiral wrap of an orbiting scroll. Among the tip seals, thicknesses of the shorter tip seals are made thicker than thicknesses of the longer tip seals, and depths of seal grooves in which the tip seals are embedded, respectively, are formed to different depths in correspondence with the thicknesses of the respective tip seals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Moro, Norio Hioki, Koji Terasaki, Koryo Shibahara, Tetsuzo Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20110256010
    Abstract: A scroll compressor that suffers no decrease in compression performance due to leakage resulting from a twisting assembly error is provided. This scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, each including a spiral wrap protruding from an end plate and having the same tooth thickness (Tr) and the same base-circle radius (b) defining an involute surface. The fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll are offset from each other by an orbiting radius (?) and mesh such that the respective wraps face each other with a phase shift of 180°. The orbiting scroll revolves/orbits along a circular orbit with the orbiting radius (?) to compress a gas while a rotation-preventing mechanism prevents rotation of the orbiting scroll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuwahara, Tetsuzou Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita, Kazuhide Watanabe, Tomohisa Moro
  • Patent number: 8038421
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, each including a spiral wrap protruding from an end plate and having the same tooth thickness (Tr) and the same base-circle radius (b) defining an involute surface. The fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll are offset from each other by an orbiting radius (?) and mesh such that the respective wraps face each other with a phase shift of 180°. The orbiting scroll revolves/orbits along a circular orbit with the orbiting radius (?) to compress a gas while a rotation-preventing mechanism prevents rotation of the orbiting scroll. The relationship between the involute surfaces of the spiral wraps of the two scrolls and the dimensions, dimensional tolerance, and assembly standards of the rotation-preventing mechanism are determined so that the median value of an allowable angle of rotation (?) agrees with an upright position of the orbiting scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuwahara, Tetsuzou Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita, Kazuhide Watanabe, Tomohisa Moro
  • Patent number: 7905716
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes an orbiting scroll engaged with a front case by pins and rings or ring holes to prevent rotation of the orbiting scroll. The rings or the ring holes have such an inside diameter that an orbiting radius defined by the pins and the rings or the ring holes is larger than a theoretical orbiting radius defined by engagement between gear surfaces of a fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll. The pins, the rings, or the ring holes are shifted in such a direction as to relieve twisting of the orbiting scroll relative to the fixed scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Takahide Ito, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Tetsuzou Ukai, Kazuhide Watanabe, Katsuhiro Fujita, Tomohisa Moro, Takayuki Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20100172780
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a scroll compressor capable of three-dimensional compression, which can prevent performance deterioration and performance variation due to gas leakage occurring on an outer peripheral side of a step portion of a spiral wrap and can achieve performance stabilization and performance improvement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Tomohisa Moro, Hirohumi Hirata, Masahiro Ohta, Kazuhide Watanabe, Takayuki Kuwahara, Makoto Takeuchi, Tetuzou Ukai
  • Publication number: 20100172781
    Abstract: To provide a scroll compressor capable of reducing a noise occurring in a pin-and-ring type self rotation preventing mechanism and improving compression performance. In a scroll compressor comprising: a fixed scroll member and a revolving scroll member; a driven crank mechanism for driving the revolving scroll member to revolutionary turn; and a pin-and-ring type self rotation preventing mechanism provided in plural places for preventing self rotation of a revolving scroll member, at least one of the self rotation preventing pin, the self rotation preventing ring and the self rotation preventing ring hole, which form the pin-and-ring type self rotation preventing mechanism, is provided with an orbit correction part for reducing a maximum displacement R in a direction of self rotation of the revolving scroll member to smooth a change of an orbit of the revolving scroll member in changing a pin and a ring in a section of prevention of self rotation by means of a corresponding pin and ring part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuwahara, Tetsuzou Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takahide Ito, Makoto Takeuchi, Norio Hioki, Hideshi Hamamura, Koji Terasaki
  • Publication number: 20100068086
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll fluid machine that, by using a crankshaft manufactured by cold forging and a needle bearing, can sufficiently exhibit the performance of a variable circling radius mechanism, can provide a sufficient reliability on a bearing portion of the crankshaft, and can be manufactured inexpensively. For this purpose, in a crankshaft 60 used for a driving force transmission system, a reinforced shaft unit 63 and a circular column-like large diameter unit 61 are formed at an end of a rotating shaft 16, a material is produced by a cold forging process so that an eccentric shaft 62 projects from the circular column-like large diameter unit 61, the circular column-like large diameter unit 61 is rotatably coupled to a housing 11 via a needle bearing 64, and the variable circling radius mechanism is stably operated with rigidity increased by the reinforced shaft unit 63.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamazaki, Makoto Takeuchi, Tetsuzou Ukai, Kazuhide Watanabe, Tomohisa Moro, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Kuwahara, Takamitsu Himeno
  • Patent number: 7658600
    Abstract: There is provided a scroll compressor in which reliability and durability is increased by preventing peeling of a coating layer applied to a thrust plate, to maintain a desired level of lubrication for a long period of time. The scroll compressor has a thrust plate, a coating which is applied to a surface of the thrust plate, a housing having a thrust bearing face to which the thrust plate is attached, an orbiting scroll member having a slide face which is supported by the thrust plate and which orbits while sliding, and a peeling prevention part which reduces a sliding pressure acting on an edge portion of the thrust plate from the slide face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Kazuhide Watanabe, Takayuki Kuwahara, Tomohisa Moro, Makoto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Tetsuzou Ukai
  • Publication number: 20100021328
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor, a center of a turning scroll body is shifted with respect to a drive central axis so that a distance between a gravity center and the drive central axis in a turning scroll becomes smaller than a predetermined allowable value set based on theoretical displacement and mass of the turning scroll. A moment force about the drive central axis acting on the turning scroll is reduced during revolving, and an alternating force acting on an autorotation preventing pin in the turning scroll is reduced to an allowable level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamazaki, Makoto Takeuchi, Takahide Ito, Takamitsu Himeno, Tetsuzou Ukai, Kazuhide Watanabe, Katsuhiro Fujita, Tomohisa Moro
  • Publication number: 20100021329
    Abstract: A scroll compressor that suffers no decrease in compression performance due to leakage resulting from a twisting assembly error is provided. This scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, each including a spiral wrap protruding from an end plate and having the same tooth thickness (Tr) and the same base-circle radius (b) defining an involute surface. The fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll are offset from each other by an orbiting radius (?) and mesh such that the respective wraps face each other with a phase shift of 180°. The orbiting scroll revolves/orbits along a circular orbit with the orbiting radius (?) to compress a gas while a rotation-preventing mechanism prevents rotation of the orbiting scroll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuwahara, Tetsuzou Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita, Kazuhide Watanabe, Tomohisa Moro
  • Patent number: 7604465
    Abstract: There is provided a fluid machine able to secure a sectional area of a passage sufficient for gaseous fluid flow from a suction port to a compression mechanism, while able at the same time to achieve a reduction in size of the outline shape. In a scroll compressor where a scroll compression mechanism is housed within a housing having a funnel shaped, a compression mechanism main body of the scroll compression mechanism is arranged in a wide opening section of a front housing, and a compression mechanism driving section is arranged in a narrow section, a concave section is formed on the outside of a thrust receiving surface which is positioned on a bottom surface of the wide opening section and which supports the compression mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Tomohisa Moro, Takayuki Kuwahara, Kazuhide Watanabe, Tetsuzou Ukai, Norio Hioki, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Makoto Takeuchi, Takamitsu Himeno
  • Publication number: 20070292293
    Abstract: There is provided a fluid machine able to secure a sectional area of a passage sufficient for gaseous fluid flow from a suction port to a compression mechanism, while able at the same time to achieve a reduction in size of the outline shape. In a scroll compressor where a scroll compression mechanism 23 is housed within a housing 3 having a funnel shaped, a compression mechanism main body of the scroll compression mechanism 23 is arranged in a wide opening section of a front housing 5, and a compression mechanism driving section is arranged in a narrow section, a concave section 51 is formed on the outside of a thrust receiving surface 5B which is positioned on a bottom surface of the wide opening section and which supports the compression mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Tomohisa Moro, Takayuki Kuwahara, Kazuhide Watanabe, Tetsuzou Ukai, Norio Hioki, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Makoto Takeuchi, Takamitsu Himeno
  • Publication number: 20070292294
    Abstract: There is provided a scroll compressor in which reliability and durability is increased by preventing peeling of a coating layer applied to a thrust plate, to maintain a desired level of lubrication for a long period of time. A scroll compressor 1 comprises a thrust plate 51, a coating which is applied to a surface of the thrust plate, a housing 3 having a thrust bearing face 5B to which the thrust plate 51 is attached, an orbiting scroll member 27 having a slide face 61 which is supported by the thrust plate 51 and which orbits while sliding, and a peeling prevention part which reduces a sliding pressure acting on an edge portion 51C of the thrust plate 51 from the slide face 61.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Kazuhide Watanabe, Takayuki Kuwahara, Tomohisa Moro, Makoto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Tetsuzou Ukai
  • Publication number: 20070253853
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes an orbiting scroll engaged with a front case by pins and rings or ring holes to prevent rotation of the orbiting scroll. The rings or the ring holes have such an inside diameter that an orbiting radius defined by the pins and the rings or the ring holes is larger than a theoretical orbiting radius defined by engagement between gear surfaces of a fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll. The pins, the rings, or the ring holes are shifted in such a direction as to relieve twisting of the orbiting scroll relative to the fixed scroll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto TAKEUCHI, Takahide ITO, Hiroshi YAMAZAKI, Tetsuzou UKAI, Kazuhide WATANABE, Katsuhiro FUJITA, Tomohisa MORO, Takayuki KUWAHARA
  • Patent number: 6860728
    Abstract: A scroll compressor comprises a fixed scroll having a spiral-shaped wall body, and a swiveling scroll which has a spiral-shaped wall body and revolves while linking together the two wall bodies; the wall bodies have steps, and side faces of two end plates have high and low bottom faces in correspondence with the steps; a tip seal is provided along a join edge which connects top edges on different sides of each step, and a mechanism is provided therebetween to prevent the tip seals from becoming removed from the join edges. Furthermore, in the same scroll compressor, tip seals are provided respectively in two grooves, and join paths are provided respectively between a high-pressure compression chamber, which is formed with the bottom faces as one section, and the two grooves; the pressure inside the high-pressure compression chamber is used as a pressing force for the tip seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Takahide Itoh, Yasuharu Maruiwa, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Takayuki Hagita, Tetsuzou Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 6758658
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor equipped with fixed scroll member 1 and orbiting scroll member 2 having step portions 4, a convex side end of at least one step portion of each of scroll members 1 and 2 has chamfered portions 1f and 2f which are formed lower than an extrapolated line of an upper edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Makoto Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6700703
    Abstract: A transmission type screen is disclosed. The transmission type screen comprises a Fresnel lens sheet, a lenticular lens sheet provided with convex black stripes on the light-exit surface, and a diffusion sheet having an uneven surface on one side thereof. In the transmission type screen, the uneven surface of the diffusion sheet is joined to the lenticular lens sheet at the top portions of black stripes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Funazaki, Katsuhiro Fujita, Osamu Shinji
  • Patent number: 6695598
    Abstract: A scroll compressor comprises a fixed scroll member and a revolving scroll member that engage with each other with their centrifugal walls, wherein the revolving scroll member is supported to revolve with respect to the fixed scroll member, but to avoid self-rotation thereof. The spiral-starting portion of the centrifugal wall comprises non-stepped portions formed along curves of &bgr;1-&bgr;1′ and &bgr;2-&bgr;2′ respectively, and a stepped portion formed along a curve &bgr;1′-&bgr;2′ that provides a thickness increase area encompassed by its upper-side curved surface and its lower-side curved surface. The discharge port is located on the end board of the fixed scroll member to partly overlap with the thickness increase area by partly hollowing the lower side of the stepped portion with the prescribed height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Takahide Itoh, Makoto Takeuchi, Tetsuzou Ukai, Hiroshi Ogawa, Shigeki Miura, Yasuhiro Wada, Yasuharu Maruiwa, Kou Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6662613
    Abstract: In a long member bending apparatus having a bending head and a material supply unit, the bending head is composed of a base plate having a guide pipe, which includes a guide hole for passing a long member, at the center thereof, a movable plate having a die, which applies a bending force to the long member supplied from the guide pipe forward, disposed at the center thereof, and six extendable units including hydraulic cylinders interposed between the base plate and the movable plate and universal joints disposed to both the ends of each hydraulic cylinder, thereby a parallel link mechanism is arranged that executes a motion of a total of six degrees of freedom including three degrees of freedom of translational movement and three degrees of freedom of rotation by expanding and contracting the hydraulic cylinders to set the position (distance, offset), inclination, and the like of the movable plate with respect to the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Kikuchi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Ichiryu, Yuji Terauchi, Katsuhiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 6659745
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a scroll compressor which can improve the decrease in the compression ratio due to the leakage of compressed gas via a tip clearance between adjacent compression chambers, which can be assembled with fewer processes, and which can be manufactured at a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujita, Makoto Takeuchi