Patents by Inventor Keiji Komori

Keiji Komori 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: 9651049
    Abstract: A compressor includes a member with a recess in which a reed discharge valve is disposed. The recess has a discharge hole, a fixation hole, and an annular projection formed around the discharge hole. The discharge valve includes a fixed portion, a flexible portion, and a head portion to open/close the annular projection. A protruding portion is formed at a rear end portion of the fixed portion. A first side surface of the protruding portion is designed to be substantially flush with a side surface of the fixed portion, which surface is closer to a center of the member. When the discharge valve rotates in a predetermined direction about the fixation hole after the discharge valve is disposed in the recess but before being fixed to the member, the first side surface of the protruding portion comes into contact with a side wall of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Hayashi, Naoto Tomioka, Keiji Komori, Hiroki Kamiishida
  • Publication number: 20160252094
    Abstract: A compressor includes a member with a recess in which a reed discharge valve is disposed. The recess has a discharge hole, a fixation hole, and an annular projection formed around the discharge hole. The discharge valve includes a fixed portion, a flexible portion, and a head portion to open/close the annular projection. A protruding portion is formed at a rear end portion of the fixed portion. A first side surface of the protruding portion is designed to be substantially flush with a side surface of the fixed portion, which surface is closer to a center of the member. When the discharge valve rotates in a predetermined direction about the fixation hole after the discharge valve is disposed in the recess but before being fixed to the member, the first side surface of the protruding portion comes into contact with a side wall of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Takeo HAYASHI, Naoto TOMIOKA, Keiji KOMORI, Hiroki KAMIISHIDA
  • Patent number: 7704059
    Abstract: A compressor includes a first muffler chamber communicating with a first cylinder chamber, and a second muffler chamber communicating with a second cylinder chamber. The first muffler chamber and the second muffler chamber are communicated with each other by a gas passage. The gas passage is communicated with a Helmholtz type resonance chamber by a connecting passage. The connecting passage is connected to a lowermost end of the resonance chamber. Therefore, oil contained in the refrigerant gas, even if having entered into the resonance chamber, is discharged through the connecting passage located at the lowermost end of the resonance chamber to outside of the resonance chamber. Thus, since oil is not accumulated in the resonance chamber, the resonance chamber keeps generally constant in capacity at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisei Tamaoki, Takehiro Kanayama, Keiji Komori, Hiroyuki Taniwa
  • Patent number: 7556485
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a cylinder body, end plate members fitted on both sides of the cylinder body, a roller placed in a cylinder chamber, a blade fitted to the roller, and a bushing for supporting the blade. A width of the bushing in a roller axis direction is larger than an axial width of the roller. A gap in the roller axis direction between the roller and the end plate members is larger than a gap in the roller axis direction between the bushing and the end plate members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Kanayama, Taisei Tamaoki, Keiji Komori, Hiroyuki Taniwa
  • Publication number: 20080101976
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a cylinder body, end plate members fitted on both sides of the cylinder body, a roller placed in a cylinder chamber, a blade fitted to the roller, and a bushing for supporting the blade. A width of the bushing in a roller axis direction is larger than an axial width of the roller. A gap in the roller axis direction between the roller and the end plate members is larger than a gap in the roller axis direction between the bushing and the end plate members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Kanayama, Taisei Tamaoki, Keiji Komori, Hiroyuki Taniwa
  • Publication number: 20080085205
    Abstract: A compressor includes a first muffler chamber communicating with a first cylinder chamber, and a second muffler chamber communicating with a second cylinder chamber. The first muffler chamber and the second muffler chamber are communicated with each other by a gas passage. The gas passage is communicated with a Helmholtz type resonance chamber by a connecting passage. The connecting passage is connected to a lowermost end of the resonance chamber. Therefore, oil contained in the refrigerant gas, even if having entered into the resonance chamber, is discharged through the connecting passage located at the lowermost end of the resonance chamber to outside of the resonance chamber. Thus, since oil is not accumulated in the resonance chamber, the resonance chamber keeps generally constant in capacity at all times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Taisei Tamaoki, Takehiro Kanayama, Keiji Komori, Hiroyuki Taniwa
  • Patent number: 6652238
    Abstract: A high-pressure, dome-type compressor includes a DC motor 5 having a rotor 5a that uses a rare earth/iron/boron permanent magnet having an intrinsic coercive force of 1.7 MA.m−1 or greater in a rotor thereof and has a rated output or 1.9 kW or higher. The motor, which drives a compression element 3 in a casing 2, is disposed in a high pressure, high temperature area 6, which is filled with gas discharged from the compression element. An inverter 10 controls current supplied to the motor such that the motor temperature becomes equal to or less than a predetermined temperature and an opposing magnetic field generated in a stator has a predetermined strength or less. Since the magnet does not reach a high temperature and is not exposed to a strong opposing magnetic field, it is hardly demagnetized. As a result, performance of the motor and of the compressor is stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kajiwara, Ryohei Deguchi, Nobuhiro Nojima, Keiji Komori, Kazuo Ida, Masatoshi Hirano
  • Patent number: 6533561
    Abstract: In a scroll type compressor (1) that includes a fixed scroll (21) fixed inside of a casing (10) and a movable scroll (22) meshed with the fixed scroll (21) and presses the movable scroll (22) against the fixed scroll (21), the pressing force of the movable scroll (22) against the fixed scroll (21) is obtained from the pressure of a high-pressure space (S2) that acts on the back face of the movable scroll (22) and the pressing force is controlled in accordance with the variation in the compression ratio with the change in the operating condition thereby preventing decrease in efficiency and mechanical loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Furusho, Masahide Higuchi, Katsumi Kato, Keiji Komori, Hiroshi Kitaura
  • Publication number: 20020159890
    Abstract: There is provided a high-pressure dome type compressor which comprises a motor using a rare earth magnet and has stable performance. There are provided a compression element 3 and a DC motor 5 for driving the compression element 3 in a casing 2. The motor 5 is disposed in a high pressure area 6, which obtains a high temperature and high pressure due to a discharged gas. The motor 5 includes a rare earth/iron/boron permanent magnet having an intrinsic coercive force of 1.7 MA/m−1 or greater in a rotor and has a rated output or 1.9 kW or higher. An inverter 10 controls a current to be supplied to the motor 5 such that a temperature of the motor 5 becomes equal to a predetermined temperature or lower and that an opposing magnetic field generated in a stator of the motor 5 has a predetermined strength or less. Therefore, since the rare earth magnet of the motor 5 does not obtain a high temperature and is not exposed to a strong opposing magnetic field, the magnet is hardly demagnetized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Mikio Kajiwara, Ryohei Deguchi, Nobuhiro Nojima, Keiji Komori, Kazuo Ida, Masatoshi Hirano
  • Patent number: 5688109
    Abstract: A lubricant (L) is stored in a lubricant reservoir (2c) of a casing (2). One end of a lubricant takeout pipe (15) is in communication with the lubricant reservoir (2c) and the other end thereof is in communication with a suction chamber (14) of a scroll mechanism (3). An inlet end of the lubricant takeout pipe (15) opens at the same level as an oil-level high-limit point of the lubricant reservoir (2c) in the vicinity of a lower end of a rotor (9b). When the level of the lubricant (L) moves up to the high-limit point, an excess lubricant is introduced from the lubricant reservoir (2c) into the scroll mechanism (3), since there is produced a difference in pressure between a lower space (2b) of the casing (2) and the suction chamber (14). As a result, the level of the lubricant (L) drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsuura, Hiroshi Kitaura, Keiji Komori
  • Patent number: 4835576
    Abstract: In the negative form of lith type film or photographic printing paper, the ground part is light-untransmissible and image part (letter, pattern) is light-transmissible. Apart from them, pinholes and stains also constitute light-transmissible areas. Although the light-transmissible areas of letter and pattern are necessary, the light-transmissible areas of pinhole and stain are unnecessary. Thus, the unnecessary light-transmissible areas must be distinguished from the necessary light-transmissible areas, and an opaque layer must be provided on the unnecessary areas to make them opaque. Generally, however, the unnecessary light-transmissible areas are minute and many in number, so that their detection and opaquing is a very laborious work. Thus, according to the opaquing method of the present invention, only the necessary light-transmissible area is detected and the other light-transmissible areas are regarded as unnecessary and the latter are stopped out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Komori, Masaru Ohta, Takashi Sawada, Masaaki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 4733826
    Abstract: An impact crushing machine for finely and effectively pulverizing materials includes impact plates disposed on one side of a rotary plate and classifying blades disposed on the other side of the rotary plate. A fine grain exhaust outlet and a coarse grain exhaust outlet are disposed facing to the classifying blades. The coarse grain outlet is directly coupled with a supply path for the materials to form a circulating path, and a raw material supply pipe is coupled with the supply path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Komori, Yoshinaga Takayama