Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Urano

Katsuhiro Urano 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).

  • Patent number: 11941985
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicular environment estimation device capable of accurately estimating a travel environment around own vehicle on the basis of a predicted route of a mobile object or the like, which is moving in a blind area. A vehicular environment estimation device that is mounted in the own vehicle detects a behavior of another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle, and estimates a travel environment, which affects the traveling of another vehicle, on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. For example, the presence of another vehicle, which is traveling in a blind area, is estimated on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to estimate a vehicle travel environment that cannot be recognized by the own vehicle but can be recognized by another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Sakai, Hiromitsu Urano, Toshiki Kindo
  • Publication number: 20230235974
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a fin group and a tube group for a heat exchange medium. The fin group includes plate fins each of which is shaped as a flat polygonal plate having a first acute-angled corner. The plate fins are spaced by gaps through which air for air conditioning passes and arranged such that the air for air conditioning flows in a first direction along one of sides forming the first corner. The tube group includes heat transfer tubes which meander in the first direction. The heat transfer tubes includes fin-mounted portions mounted to and penetrating through the fin group. On the plate fin, between first fin-mounted portions adjacent to one another in the first direction, there are second fin-mounted portions adjacent to the first fin-mounted portions in a direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Keiichi KIMURA, Katsuhiro URANO, Masaki SHIOJI
  • Patent number: 11619406
    Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an intake unit configured to take in return air of an indoor space from a ceiling of the indoor space; an outdoor air processing unit configured to supply outdoor air while exhausting the return air taken in via the intake unit to outdoors; an air conditioner configured to supply, as air-conditioning air, mixed air of the return air taken in via the intake unit and the outdoor air supplied by the outdoor air processing unit; and at least one radiation unit disposed in the indoor space in a manner to surround the intake unit, the radiation unit being configured to radiate heat of the air-conditioning air supplied by the air conditioner while discharging the air-conditioning air to the indoor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Kimura, Katsuhiro Urano, Takayuki Ishida, Kazuya Goto
  • Patent number: 11268705
    Abstract: A pneumatic radiation unit according to the present invention includes: a first chamber including a first air discharger configured to discharge air-conditioning air to a second chamber; and the second chamber including a second air discharger configured to discharge the air-conditioning air to a space to be air conditioned, the second chamber being configured to take in the air-conditioning air from the first chamber and discharge the air-conditioning air and radiate heat to the space to be air conditioned. A second aperture ratio of the second air discharger is set to be greater than a first aperture ratio of the first air discharger, or a cross-sectional area of a flow passage of the air-conditioning air in the first chamber is gradually reduced from an upwind side to a downwind side of the flow passage of the air-conditioning air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Kimura, Katsuhiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20220018560
    Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an intake unit configured to take in return air of an indoor space from a ceiling of the indoor space; an outdoor air processing unit configured to supply outdoor air while exhausting the return air taken in via the intake unit to outdoors; an air conditioner configured to supply, as air-conditioning air, mixed air of the return air taken in via the intake unit and the outdoor air supplied by the outdoor air processing unit; and at least one radiation unit disposed in the indoor space in a manner to surround the intake unit, the radiation unit being configured to radiate heat of the air-conditioning air supplied by the air conditioner while discharging the air-conditioning air to the indoor space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Keiichi Kimura, Katsuhiro Urano, Takayuki ISHIDA, Kazuya GOTO
  • Patent number: 11168900
    Abstract: A pneumatic radiation air conditioner includes: a radiation unit configured to radiate air-conditioning air; and a fan configured to feed the air-conditioning air to the radiation unit. The radiation unit includes: a first chamber, through which the air-conditioning air flows; a second chamber configured to take in the air-conditioning air discharged from the first chamber and discharge the air-conditioning air and radiate heat of the air-conditioning air to a space to be air conditioned; and an air stream adjuster configured to adjust air velocity distribution and air volume distribution of the air-conditioning air that is discharged from the first chamber to the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Kimura, Katsuhiro Urano, Masaki Shioji
  • Publication number: 20200080732
    Abstract: A pneumatic radiation air conditioner includes: a radiation unit configured to radiate air-conditioning air; and a fan configured to feed the air-conditioning air to the radiation unit. The radiation unit includes: a first chamber, through which the air-conditioning air flows; a second chamber configured to take in the air-conditioning air discharged from the first chamber and discharge the air-conditioning air and radiate heat of the air-conditioning air to a space to be air conditioned; and an air stream adjuster configured to adjust air velocity distribution and air volume distribution of the air-conditioning air that is discharged from the first chamber to the second chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Keiichi Kimura, Katsuhiro Urano, Masaki Shioji
  • Publication number: 20190285287
    Abstract: A pneumatic radiation unit according to the present invention includes: a first chamber including a first air discharger configured to discharge air-conditioning air to a second chamber; and the second chamber including a second air discharger configured to discharge the air-conditioning air to a space to be air conditioned, the second chamber being configured to take in the air-conditioning air from the first chamber and discharge the air-conditioning air and radiate heat to the space to be air conditioned. A second aperture ratio of the second air discharger is set to be greater than a first aperture ratio of the first air discharger, or a cross-sectional area of a flow passage of the air-conditioning air in the first chamber is gradually reduced from an upwind side to a downwind side of the flow passage of the air-conditioning air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichi Kimura, Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: 10240808
    Abstract: An induced air discharging unit includes: a jet flow generator configured to discharge supply air fed from outside, the jet flow generator discharging the supply air as a jet flow of air; an air inducer configured to allow air of an air-conditioning target space to be induced by an inducing effect of the jet flow of air discharged from the jet flow generator; an air mixer configured to discharge mixed air of the jet flow of air from the jet flow generator and the air induced by the air inducer to the air-conditioning target space, and radiate heat of the mixed air to the air-conditioning target space; and an air purifier configured to produce a purifying substance that purifies a purification target substance by chemical reaction, and blow out the purifying substance to the air-conditioning target space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Kimura Kohki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Kimura, Mitsuo Morita, Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D814623
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D879285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D879286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D879939
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D880669
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D886262
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D886263
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D886264
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D886972
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D878542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano
  • Patent number: D918373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KIMURA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Urano