Patents by Inventor Masao Tani

Masao Tani 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: 9011121
    Abstract: A device that enhances compressor efficiency by reducing pressure losses in a discharge muffler space into which is discharged a refrigerant compressed by a compression unit. A low-stage discharge muffler space is formed in the shape of a ring around a drive shaft. In the low-stage discharge muffler space, a communication port flow guide is provided so as to cover a predetermined area of an opening of a communication port from a side of a flow path in a reverse direction out of two flow paths in different directions around the drive shaft from a discharge port through which is discharged the refrigerant compressed by a low-stage compression unit to the communication port through which the refrigerant flows out. The communication port flow guide transforms a direction of a flow into a direction of a connecting flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhide Yokoyama, Raito Kawamura, Kei Sasaki, Shin Sekiya, Taro Kato, Masao Tani, Atsuyoshi Fukaya, Takeshi Fushiki
  • Patent number: 8790097
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor that enhances compressor efficiency by both reducing an amplitude of pressure pulsations and reducing pressure losses in a discharge muffler space into which is discharged a refrigerant compressed at a compression unit. A low-stage discharge muffler space is formed in the shape of a ring around a drive shaft. In the low-stage discharge muffler space, a discharge port rear guide is provided in the proximity of a discharge port through which is discharged the refrigerant compressed by a low-stage compression unit. The discharge port rear guide is provided at a flow path in one direction out of two flow paths from the discharge port to a communication port in different directions around the drive shaft, and prevents the refrigerant from flowing in that direction, thereby causing the refrigerant to circulate in a forward direction in the ring-shaped discharge muffler space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhide Yokoyama, Toshihide Koda, Shin Sekiya, Kei Sasaki, Raito Kawamura, Taro Kato, Atsuyoshi Fukaya, Takeshi Fushiki, Hideaki Maeyama, Masao Tani
  • Publication number: 20120085119
    Abstract: A device that enhances compressor efficiency by reducing pressure losses in a discharge muffler space into which is discharged a refrigerant compressed by a compression unit. A low-stage discharge muffler space is formed in the shape of a ring around a drive shaft. In the low-stage discharge muffler space, a communication port flow guide is provided so as to cover a predetermined area of an opening of a communication port from a side of a flow path in a reverse direction out of two flow paths in different directions around the drive shaft from a discharge port through which is discharged the refrigerant compressed by a low-stage compression unit to the communication port through which the refrigerant flows out. The communication port flow guide transforms a direction of a flow into a direction of a connecting flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhide Yokoyama, Raito Kawamura, Kei Sasaki, Shin Sekiya, Taro Kato, Masao Tani, Atsuyoshi Fukaya, Takeshi Fushiki
  • Publication number: 20120085118
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor that enhances compressor efficiency by both reducing an amplitude of pressure pulsations and reducing pressure losses in a discharge muffler space into which is discharged a refrigerant compressed at a compression unit. A low-stage discharge muffler space is formed in the shape of a ring around a drive shaft. In the low-stage discharge muffler space, a discharge port rear guide is provided in the proximity of a discharge port through which is discharged the refrigerant compressed by a low-stage compression unit. The discharge port rear guide is provided at a flow path in one direction out of two flow paths from the discharge port to a communication port in different directions around the drive shaft, and prevents the refrigerant from flowing in that direction, thereby causing the refrigerant to circulate in a forward direction in the ring-shaped discharge muffler space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhide Yokoyama, Toshihide Koda, Shin Sekiya, Kei Sasaki, Raito Kawamura, Taro Kato, Atsuyoshi Fukaya, Takeshi Fushiki, Hideaki Maeyama, Masao Tani
  • Publication number: 20080292458
    Abstract: A fan shroud structure includes a heat exchanger and a fan shroud. The heat exchanger has an upper tank and a lower tank, and the upper tank and the lower tank sandwich a core part therebetween. The fan shroud is attached to the heat exchanger, and the fan shroud has a wall portion and a flange portion projecting toward the heat exchanger from an outer circumference of the wall portion, and the flange portion including a lower flange portion. The lower flange portion is provided with a water discharge outlet for discharging water in the fan shroud outside of the fan shroud through the water discharge outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Masao TANI, Masakazu Takizawa
  • Patent number: 6746215
    Abstract: A compressor includes a compression mechanism part for compressing refrigerant sucked from an outside of the hermetic container and discharging compressed refrigerant to a discharge space, an electric motor part composed of a stator and a rotor, facing a first space which is at an opposite side of the discharge space with respect to the compression mechanism part in the hermetic container, for driving the compression mechanism part through a main shaft, a passage at an external circumferential side of the compression mechanism part, for connecting the discharge space with the first space, and a fan provided at an end of the rotor, facing the first space. The refrigerant discharged into the discharge space passes through the passage at the external circumferential side of the compression mechanism part to reach the first space, and passes the fan to be discharged to the outside of the hermetic container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Tani, Fumiaki Sano, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Minoru Ishii, Takeshi Fushiki, Yoshihide Ogawa, Teruhiko Nishiki, Takashi Sebata, Shin Sekiya
  • Patent number: 6582210
    Abstract: According to a scroll compressor of the present invention, at least one of a diameter space between an upper fitting surface of the guide frame and an upper fitting surface of the compliant frame at an upper fitting part where the upper fitting surface of the guide frame contacts with the upper fitting surface of the compliant frame, and a diameter space between a lower fitting surface of the guide frame and a lower fitting surface of the compliant frame at a lower fitting part where the lower fitting surface of the guide frame contacts with the lower fitting surface of the compliant frame is set to be equal to or shorter than a diameter space between the rotor and the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sano, Shin Sekiya, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Takeshi Fushiki, Yoshihide Ogawa, Teruhiko Nishiki, Takashi Sebata, Masao Tani
  • Publication number: 20030086798
    Abstract: A compressor includes a compression mechanism part for compressing refrigerant sucked from an outside of the hermetic container and discharging compressed refrigerant to a discharge space, an electric motor part composed of a stator and a rotor, facing a first space which is at an opposite side of the discharge space with respect to the compression mechanism part in the hermetic container, for driving the compression mechanism part through a main shaft, a passage at an external circumferential side of the compression mechanism part, for connecting the discharge space with the first space, and a fan provided at an end of the rotor, facing the first space. The refrigerant discharged into the discharge space passes through the passage at the external circumferential side of the compression mechanism part to reach the first space, and passes the fan to be discharged to the outside of the hermetic container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISA
    Inventors: Masao Tani, Fumiaki Sano, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Minoru Ishii, Takeshi Fushiki, Yoshihide Ogawa, Teruhiko Nishiki, Takashi Sebata, Shin Sekiya
  • Publication number: 20030082064
    Abstract: According to a scroll compressor of the present invention, at least one of a diameter space between an upper fitting surface of the guide frame and an upper fitting surface of the compliant frame at an upper fitting part where the upper fitting surface of the guide frame contacts with the upper fitting surface of the compliant frame, and a diameter space between a lower fitting surface of the guide frame and a lower fitting surface of the compliant frame at a lower fitting part where the lower fitting surface of the guide frame contacts with the lower fitting surface of the compliant frame is set to be equal to or shorter than a diameter space between the rotor and the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sano, Shin Sekiya, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Takeshi Fushiki, Yoshihide Ogawa, Teruhiko Nishiki, Takashi Sebata, Masao Tani
  • Patent number: 6210130
    Abstract: A rotary compressor having a piston provided integrally with a blade is contained in a hermetic vessel which is operated at a suction pressure of the rotary compressor and not to discharge pressure. The rotary compressor includes a compression mechanism portion having a cylinder which includes a suction port formed in a cylinder chamber, a piston which eccentrically revolves in the cylinder, a blade which is integrally formed with the piston and partitions the cylinder chamber into a high pressure chamber and a low pressure chamber, and a driving shaft for revolving the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Eiji Watanabe, Yoshihide Ogawa, Minoru Ishii, Masao Tani, Munehisa Gunjima, Takashi Yamamoto, Susumu Kawaguchi