Patents by Inventor Nobuo OOSUGA

Nobuo OOSUGA 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: 20230127825
    Abstract: To provide a defrost system capable of preferable defrosting and prevention of generation of icicles on a casing without installing a brine circuit. A defrost system includes a thermosiphon defrost circuit that is provided by being branched from a circulation line, in which, at the time of defrosting, a CO2 refrigerant staying inside a fin-tube heat exchanger repeats a two-phase change of a gaseous form and reliquefaction, and which forms a CO2 circulation path together with the fin-tube heat exchanger; electromagnetic opening/closing valves that are closed at the time of defrosting and set the CO2 circulation path to a closed circuit; and a first electric heater arranged above the thermosiphon defrost circuit so as to be adjacent to the thermosiphon defrost circuit, and naturally circulates the CO2 refrigerant in the closed circuit at the time of defrosting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Choiku YOSHIKAWA, Toshio KUTSUNA, Nelson MUGABI, Daiki KAYASHIMA, Nobuo OOSUGA
  • Publication number: 20210262721
    Abstract: To provide a defrost system capable of preferable defrosting and prevention of generation of icicles on a casing without installing a brine circuit. A defrost system includes a thermosiphon defrost circuit that is provided by being branched from a circulation line, in which, at the time of defrosting, a CO2 refrigerant staying inside a fin-tube heat exchanger repeats a two-phase change of a gaseous form and reliquefaction, and which forms a CO2 circulation path together with the fin-tube heat exchanger; electromagnetic opening/closing valves and that are closed at the time of defrosting and set the CO2 circulation path to a closed circuit; and a first electric heater arranged above the thermosiphon defrost circuit so as to be adjacent to the thermosiphon defrost circuit, and naturally circulates the CO2 refrigerant in the closed circuit at the time of defrosting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Choiku YOSHIKAWA, Toshio KUTSUNA, Nelson MUGABI, Daiki KAYASHIMA, Nobuo OOSUGA