Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Morishita

Masatoshi Morishita 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: 20150033782
    Abstract: A vehicle heat pump air-conditioning system is provided, which is capable of securing a temperature linearity characteristic during dehumidifying heating, slowing progression of a frost formation on an exterior evaporator during heating, and stably continuing a heating operation while suppressing variations in a blowout temperature. In a cooling refrigeration cycle (14) becoming a base, an interior condenser (8) disposed in a HVAC unit (2) is connected to an exterior condenser (10) in parallel via switching means (15), an exterior evaporator (17) is connected to first decompression means (12) and an interior evaporator (7) in parallel via second decompression means (16), a heating heat pump cycle (18) is configured, the first decompression means (12) and the second decompression means (16) are on-off valve function attached decompression means (12, 16), and the exterior evaporator (17) and the interior evaporator (7) can be simultaneously used during dehumidifying heating and heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AUTOMATIVE THERMAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Kondo, Nobuya Nakagawa, Akira Katayama, Futoru Furata, Masatoshi Morishita, Shinji Deguchi, Yasuo Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20140298838
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes a refrigerant heater 41 that is provided between an internal evaporator 8 and a suction side of an electric compressor 20 to be in parallel with an external evaporator 32, and heats a refrigerant which is suctioned into the electric compressor 20; and an air conditioning control apparatus 50 that determines whether the external evaporator 32 is frosted. While the air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle operates in a heating mode, when the air conditioning control apparatus 50 determines that the external evaporator 32 is frosted, a supply of the refrigerant subject to the heat exchange in an internal condenser 9 to the external evaporator 32 is stopped, and the refrigerant is supplied to the refrigerant heater 41, is heated and then, is suctioned into the electric compressor 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBIHSI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AUTOMOTIVE THERMAL SYSTEMS, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Morishita, Toshihisa Kondo, Akira Katayama
  • Publication number: 20130139528
    Abstract: A refrigerant cycle (16) for cooling as a prototype is provided with: an internal condenser (8) connected to a discharge circuit of an electric compressor (9) and disposed on a downstream of an internal evaporator (7) of an HVAC unit (2); a first heating circuit (18) connected to a receiver (11) through a switching unit (17) arranged on an inlet side of the external condenser (8); and a second heating circuit (23) connected between an outlet side of the receiver (11) and a suction side of the electric compressor (9) and provided with a second expansion valve (20) and an external evaporator (21). A heat pump cycle (24) for heating is formed by a second heating circuit (23) including the electric compressor (9), the internal condenser (8), the switching unit (17), the first heating circuit (18), the receiver (11), the second expansion valve (20), and the external evaporator (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Katayama, Nobuya Nakagawa, Toshihisa Kondou, Masatoshi Morishita
  • Publication number: 20120011869
    Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning system (1) includes an HVAC unit (2) in which a first refrigerant evaporator (6) and a second refrigerant condenser (7) are disposed in an air channel (5) communicating with a vehicle interior space; and a heat pump cycle (3) in which a refrigerant compressor (8), a refrigerant switching device (9), a first refrigerant condenser (10) that exchanges heat with the outside air, a first expansion valve (13), and a first refrigerant evaporator (6) are connected in sequence and in which the second refrigerant condenser (7) is connected in parallel with the first refrigerant condenser (10) via the refrigerant switching device (9). An exhaust-heat recovery circuit (21) equipped with a second refrigerant evaporator (16) disposed in a ventilation channel (17) from the vehicle interior and a second expansion valve (15) is connected in parallel with the first expansion valve (13) and the first refrigerant evaporator (6) of the heat pump cycle (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Kondo, Nobuya Nakagawa, Hideki Suetake, Masatoshi Morishita