Patents by Inventor Masahiko Gommori

Masahiko Gommori 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: 7603872
    Abstract: A heat-pump hot water supply apparatus, for dissolving problems of delaying in heating rise-up time when re-starting, and ill influences upon starting characteristics, due to liquid refrigerant residing in an evaporator when the operation is stepped, within a heat-pump circuit thereof, comprises a heat-pump refrigerant circuit, in which a compressor, a water/refrigerant heat exchanger, a refrigerant adjusting valve, and an evaporator, in series, through refrigerant pipes, a direct hot-water supply circuit, into which is supplied hot water heated, obtained by heating water supplied from an outside via a water pipe by means the water/refrigerant heat exchanger, and a compressor operation controller means for stopping the compressor and also closing the refrigerant adjusting valve when the compressor stops the operation thereof, and for re-starting the compressor after opening the refrigerant adjusting valve when the compressor starts the operation, again, wherein the refrigerant within the evaporator is collect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Taichi Tanaami, Masahiko Gommori, Kazuhiro Endoh, Junichi Takagi, Kouichi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 7234646
    Abstract: A hot-water supply system heats water through heat exchange between high-temperature refrigerant of a heat pump circuit and water of a water circulating circuit. The system is an instantaneous water heater unit for instantaneously heating, at a water heat exchanger, water supplied through a water supply pipe and supplying hot water to a using end unit. Therefore, a large-capacity hot-water storage tank is not needed. Sufficient heat of condensation to heat water can not be produced, because pressure conditions of the heat pump circuit is not stabilized just after the start of operation. Therefore, during a short period of rising time, hot water stored in a hot-water supply tank and water from the water heat exchanger are mixed and the mixture is supplied to keep the hot water at a preset temperature. Therefore, it is possible to use a smaller hot-water supply tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Saitoh, Masahiko Gommori, Hiroshi Kogure, Haruko Ashida, Takeo Ozawa, Tetsunobu Okamura
  • Publication number: 20060213209
    Abstract: A heat-pump hot water supply apparatus, for dissolving problems of delaying in heating rise-up time when re-starting, and ill influences upon starting characteristics, due to liquid refrigerant residing in an evaporator when the operation is stepped, within a heat-pump circuit thereof, comprises a heat-pump refrigerant circuit, in which a compressor, a water/refrigerant heat exchanger, a refrigerant adjusting valve, and an evaporator, in series, through refrigerant pipes, a direct hot-water supply circuit, into which is supplied hot water heated, obtained by heating water supplied from an outside via a water pipe by means the water/refrigerant heat exchanger, and a compressor operation controller means for stopping the compressor and also closing the refrigerant adjusting valve when the compressor stops the operation thereof, and for re-starting the compressor after opening the refrigerant adjusting valve when the compressor starts the operation, again, wherein the refrigerant within the evaporator is collect
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Taichi Tanaami, Masahiko Gommori, Kazuhiro Endoh, Junichi Takagi, Kouichi Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20050167516
    Abstract: A hot-water supply system heats water through heat exchange between high-temperature refrigerant of a heat pump circuit and water of a water circulating circuit. The system is an instantaneous water heater unit for instantaneously heating, at a water heat exchanger, water supplied through a water supply pipe and supplying hot water to a using end unit. Therefore, a large-capacity hot-water storage tank is not needed. Sufficient heat of condensation to heat water can not be produced, because pressure conditions of the heat pump circuit is not stabilized just after the start of operation. Therefore, during a short period of rising time, hot water stored in a hot-water supply tank and water from the water heat exchanger are mixed and the mixture is supplied to keep the hot water at a preset temperature. Therefore, it is possible to use a smaller hot-water supply tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Kenichi Saitoh, Masahiko Gommori, Hiroshi Kogure, Haruko Ashida, Takeo Ozawa, Tetsunobu Okamura
  • Patent number: 6874694
    Abstract: A hot-water supply system heats water through heat exchange between high-temperature refrigerant of a heat pump circuit and water of a water circulating circuit. The system is an instantaneous water heater unit for instantaneously heating, at a water heat exchanger, water supplied through a water supply pipe and supplying hot water to a using end unit. Therefore, a large-capacity hot-water storage tank is not needed. Sufficient heat of condensation to heat water can not be produced, because pressure conditions of the heat pump circuit is not stabilized just after the start of operation. Therefore, during a short period of rising time, hot water stored in a hot-water supply tank and water from the water heat exchanger are mixed and the mixture is supplied to keep the hot water at a preset temperature. Therefore, it is possible to use a smaller hot-water supply tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Saitoh, Masahiko Gommori, Hiroshi Kogure, Haruko Ashida, Takeo Ozawa, Tetsunobu Okamura
  • Patent number: 6837443
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a compact lightweight heat pump hot-water supply system. The hot-water supply system heats water through heat exchange between high-temperature refrigerant of a heat pump circuit and water of a water circulating circuit. The system is an instantaneous water heater unit for instantaneously heating, at a water heat exchanger, water supplied through a water supply pipe and supplying hot water to a using end unit. In this system, therefore, large-capacity hot-water storage tank in conventional systems is no longer needed. Sufficient heat of condensation to heat water can not be produced, because pressure conditions of the heat pump circuit is not stabilized just after the start of operation. Therefore, during a short period of rising time, hot water stored in a hot-water supply tank and water from the water heat exchanger are mixed and the mixture is supplied to keep the hot water at a preset temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Saitoh, Masahiko Gommori, Hiroshi Kogure, Haruko Ashida, Takeo Ozawa, Tetsunobu Okamura
  • Publication number: 20040200905
    Abstract: A hot-water supply system heats water through heat exchange between high-temperature refrigerant of a heat pump circuit and water of a water circulating circuit. The system is an instantaneous water heater unit for instantaneously heating, at a water heat exchanger, water supplied through a water supply pipe and supplying hot water to a using end unit. Therefore, a large-capacity hot-water storage tank is not needed. Sufficient heat of condensation to heat water can not be produced, because pressure conditions of the heat pump circuit is not stabilized just after the start of operation. Therefore, during a short period of rising time, hot water stored in a hot-water supply tank and water from the water heat exchanger are mixed and the mixture is supplied to keep the hot water at a preset temperature. Therefore, it is possible to use a smaller hot-water supply tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Kenichi Saitoh, Masahiko Gommori, Hiroshi Kogure, Haruko Ashida, Takeo Ozawa, Tetsunobu Okamura
  • Publication number: 20030178498
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a compact lightweight heat pump hot-water supply system. The hot-water supply system heats water through heat exchange between high-temperature refrigerant of a heat pump circuit and water of a water circulating circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Kenichi Saitoh, Masahiko Gommori, Hiroshi Kogure, Haruko Ashida, Takeo Ozawa, Tetsunobu Okamura
  • Patent number: 5553465
    Abstract: A lubricant composition comprising as a base oil one or more ester oils, alkylbenzene oils and mineral oils, and a glycidyl ether compound having at least two epoxy groups is miscible in hydrofluorocarbon and hydrochlorofluorocarbon refrigerants such as R134a, etc. as replacing refrigerants of R12 and provides a stable operation of refrigeration compressor for a long period of time without causing corrosion and wear of a sliding portion of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Fukuda, Tadashi IIzuka, Reishi Naka, Hiroaki Hata, Masahiko Gommori, Yoshiharu Homma
  • Patent number: 5540061
    Abstract: A refrigerator comprises a compressor for compressing and discharging a coolant, a first heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between the compressed coolant from the compressor and the atmosphere to cool the compressed coolant, an adiabatic expansion orifice where the compressed and cooled coolant after passing the first heat exchanger is adiabatically expanded, and a second heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between the adiabatically expanded coolant and the air in refrigerating chambers so as to cool the air in the refrigerating chambers by the coolant and to heat the coolant by the air in the refrigerating chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Gommori, Katsutoshi Shinohara, Takahiro Kaneko, Hiroaki Hata, Akihiko Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 5445753
    Abstract: A lubricant composition comprising as a base oil one or more ester oils, alkylbenzene oils and mineral oils, and a glycidyl ether compound having at least two epoxy groups is miscible in hydrofluorocarbon and hydrochlorofluorocarbon refrigerants such as R134a, etc. as replacing refrigerants of R12 and provides a stable operation of refrigeration compressor for a long period of time without causing corrosion and wear of a sliding portion of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Fukuda, Tadashi Iizuka, Reishi Naka, Hiroaki Hata, Masahiko Gommori, Yoshiharu Homma
  • Patent number: 5417872
    Abstract: A lubricant composition comprising as a base oil one or more ester oils, alkylbenzene oils and mineral oils, and a glycidyl ether compound having at least two epoxy groups is miscible in hydrofluorocarbon and hydrochlorofluorocarbon refrigerants such as R134a, etc. as replacing refrigerants of R12 and provides a stable operation of refrigeration compressor for a long period of time without causing corrosion and wear of a sliding portion of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Fukuda, Tadashi Iizuka, Reishi Naka, Hiroaki Hata, Masahiko Gommori, Yoshiharu Homma