Patents by Inventor Osamu Aiba

Osamu Aiba 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: 11905953
    Abstract: An air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor is provided. The compressor has a main frame, a movable scroll plate and a stationary scroll plate. The movable scroll plate has a movable plate end plate and a movable scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the movable plate end plate. A back pressure chamber is defined between the movable plate end plate and the main frame. The stationary scroll plate has a fixed scroll end plate and a stationary scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the fixed scroll end plate. The stationary scroll wrap and the movable scroll wrap are engaged with each other to form crescent-shaped compression cavities. The movable scroll plate and the stationary scroll plate are provided with medium pressure passages that, during the rotation of the movable scroll plate, communicate the compression cavity with the back pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiheng Liang, Baiying Huang, Osamu Aiba, Kang Zhang, Honghui Chen
  • Publication number: 20230213033
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided. The scroll compressor has a housing, a partition plate, a rack, a movable scroll plate, a stationary scroll plate and a pressure relief low-speed rotation structure. The partition plate is in the interior of the housing and divides the interior of the housing into a suction space and a discharge space, and has a first through to communicate the suction space with the discharge space. The rack is in the suction space and spaced apart from the partition plate. The movable scroll plate is movably provided on the rack. The stationary scroll plate is provided on the rack and cooperates with the movable scroll plate, and has a second through hole communicating with the discharge space. The pressure relief low-speed rotation structure is provided on the stationary scroll plate and configured to communicate the second through hole with the discharge space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Baiying HUANG, Osamu AIBA, Hidenobu SHINTAKU
  • Publication number: 20230204033
    Abstract: A scroll structure and a compressor are provided. The scroll structure has a first scroll plate, a second scroll plate matching the first scroll plate, a back pressure plate and a floating plate. The first scroll plate and the second scroll plate can move relative to each other. A recess is provided at one end of the second scroll plate facing away from the first scroll plate. A first through hole is provided on the second scroll plate. The back pressure plate is arranged in the recess. A gap is provided between the back pressure plate and a side wall of the recess. The floating plate is movably arranged on the back pressure plate. The floating plate covers the gap. A first chamber is formed among the second scroll plate, the back pressure plate and the floating plate. The first through hole is in communication with the first chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Canyu QIAN, Osamu AIBA, Baiying HUANG, Bo JIANG, Xiaolei LI, Hidenobu SHINTAKU
  • Publication number: 20220412356
    Abstract: An air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor is provided. The compressor has a main frame, a movable scroll plate and a stationary scroll plate. The movable scroll plate has a movable plate end plate and a movable scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the movable plate end plate. A back pressure chamber is defined between the movable plate end plate and the main frame. The stationary scroll plate has a fixed scroll end plate and a stationary scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the fixed scroll end plate. The stationary scroll wrap and the movable scroll wrap are engaged with each other to form a crescent-shaped compression cavity. The movable scroll plate and the stationary scroll plate are provided with medium pressure passages that, during the rotation of the movable scroll plate, communicate the compression cavity with the back pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiheng LIANG, Baiying HUANG, Osamu AIBA, Kang ZHANG, Honghui CHEN
  • Patent number: 11480177
    Abstract: An air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor is provided. The compressor has a main frame, a movable scroll plate and a stationary scroll plate. The movable scroll plate has a movable plate end plate and a movable scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the movable plate end plate. A back pressure chamber is defined between the movable plate end plate and the main frame. The stationary scroll plate has a fixed scroll end plate and a stationary scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the fixed scroll end plate. The stationary scroll wrap and the movable scroll wrap are engaged with each other to form a crescent-shaped compression cavity. The movable scroll plate and the stationary scroll plate are provided with medium pressure passages that, during the rotation of the movable scroll plate, communicate the compression cavity with the back pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiheng Liang, Baiying Huang, Osamu Aiba, Kang Zhang, Honghui Chen
  • Patent number: 10851782
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotary compressor capable of maintaining the overall dynamic balance and providing low vibration and low noise even at high speed operation and capable of improving efficiency by providing a communication passage to communicate operation chambers, which are provided inside each of the plurality of cylinders for compressing a refrigerant, to each other. The rotary-type compressor includes a housing, a drive motor provided inside the housing to generate power and having a stator and a rotor, and a compression unit that receives power from the drive motor and compresses the refrigerant. The compression unit includes a plurality of cylinders in which an operation chamber to compress the refrigerant is provided. The operation chambers provided in each of the plurality of cylinders are provided to have different volumes, and a balancer provided to maintain dynamic balance is provided only in the lower side of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeaki Ashimori, Osamu Aiba
  • Publication number: 20200049147
    Abstract: Provided are an air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor, and a refrigeration system comprising the air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor. The air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor comprises a compressor housing, a main frame (13), a movable scroll plate (12) and a stationary scroll plate (11). The movable scroll plate (12) is arranged on the main frame (13). The movable scroll plate (12) comprises a movable plate end plate (121) and a movable scroll tooth (122) arranged on a side end face, away from the main frame (13), of the movable plate end plate (121), with a back pressure chamber being defined between the movable plate end plate (121) and the main frame (13). The stationary scroll plate (11) is arranged on one side, away from the main frame (13), of the movable scroll plate (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiheng LIANG, Baiying HUANG, Osamu AIBA, Kang ZHANG, Honghui CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170350394
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotary compressor capable of maintaining the overall dynamic balance and providing low vibration and low noise even at high speed operation and capable of improving efficiency by providing a communication passage to communicate operation chambers, which are provided inside each of the plurality of cylinders for compressing a refrigerant, to each other. The rotary-type compressor includes a housing, a drive motor provided inside the housing to generate power and having a stator and a rotor, and a compression unit that receives power from the drive motor and compresses the refrigerant. The compression unit includes a plurality of cylinders in which an operation chamber to compress the refrigerant is provided. The operation chambers provided in each of the plurality of cylinders are provided to have different volumes, and a balancer provided to maintain dynamic balance is provided only in the lower side of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Takeaki Ashimori, Osamu Aiba
  • Patent number: 9284955
    Abstract: According to a compressor of the present invention, the compressor further comprises an oil separating mechanism 40 which separates oil from the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10, the oil separating mechanism 40 includes a cylindrical space 41 in which the refrigerant gas orbits, an inflow portion 42 for flowing the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10 into the cylindrical space 41, a sending-out port 43 for sending out, from the cylindrical space 41 to the one container space 32, the refrigerant gas from which the oil is separated, and an exhaust port 44 for discharging the separated oil and a portion of the refrigerant gas from the cylindrical space 41, and a center of the sending-out port 43 is deviated in a direction opposite from the inflow portion 42 from a center axis of the cylindrical space 41.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hiratsuka, Osamu Aiba, Takeshi Hashimoto, Akinori Fukuda, Shiho Furuya, Atsushi Sakuda, Yoshiyuki Futagami, Hiroyuki Kawano, Yusuke Imai, Takashi Morimoto, Tatsuya Nakamoto
  • Patent number: 9109598
    Abstract: According to a compressor of the present invention, the compressor further comprises an oil separating mechanism 40 which separates oil from the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10, the oil separating mechanism 40 includes a cylindrical space 41 in which the refrigerant gas orbits, an inflow portion 42 for flowing the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10 into the cylindrical space 41, a sending-out port 43 for sending out, from the cylindrical space 41 to the one container space 32, the refrigerant gas from which the oil is separated, and an exhaust port 44 for discharging the separated oil from the cylindrical space 41 into the other container space 32. According to this configuration, efficiency of the electric motor 20 is enhanced, volumetric efficiency is enhanced, and low oil circulation is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakuda, Yoshiyuki Futagami, Hiroyuki Kawano, Yusuke Imai, Takashi Morimoto, Osamu Aiba, Takeshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130129549
    Abstract: According to a compressor of the present invention, the compressor further comprises an oil separating mechanism 40 which separates oil from the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10, the oil separating mechanism 40 includes a cylindrical space 41 in which the refrigerant gas orbits, an inflow portion 42 for flowing the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10 into the cylindrical space 41, a sending-out port 43 for sending out, from the cylindrical space 41 to the one container space 32, the refrigerant gas from which the oil is separated, and an exhaust port 44 for discharging the separated oil from the cylindrical space 41 into the other container space 32. According to this configuration, efficiency of the electric motor 20 is enhanced, volumetric efficiency is enhanced, and low oil circulation is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakuda, Yoshiyuki Futagami, Hiroyuki Kawano, Yusuke Imai, Takashi Morimoto, Osamu Aiba, Takeshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130039792
    Abstract: According to a compressor of the present invention, the compressor further comprises an oil separating mechanism 40 which separates oil from the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10, the oil separating mechanism 40 includes a cylindrical space 41 in which the refrigerant gas orbits, an inflow portion 42 for flowing the refrigerant gas discharged from the compressing mechanism 10 into the cylindrical space 41, a sending-out port 43 for sending out, from the cylindrical space 41 to the one container space 32, the refrigerant gas from which the oil is separated, and an exhaust port 44 for discharging the separated oil and a portion of the refrigerant gas from the cylindrical space 41, and a center of the sending-out port 43 is deviated in a direction opposite from the inflow portion 42 from a center axis of the cylindrical space 41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Hiratsuka, Osamu Aiba, Takeshi Hashimoto, Akinori Fukuda, Shiho Furuya, Atsushi Sakuda, Yoshiyuki Futagami, Hiroyuki Kawano, Yusuke Imai, Takashi Morimoto, Tatsuya Nakamoto
  • Patent number: 7641455
    Abstract: Impulsive sound of an Oldham ring is reduced and a driving noise of a scroll compressor is prevented from increasing. When a width of the key of the Oldham ring made of iron-based material is defined as t and a width of the orbiting-side key groove in the back surface of the surface plate of the orbiting scroll made of aluminum-based material and a width of the fixed-side key groove of the main bearing member made of aluminum-based material on the side of a thrust surface are defines as s, a gap d generated at s?t with respect to a key pitch L of the Oldham ring I set in a range of (6×10?5)?d/L?(3.5×10?4). With this, even if the key of the Oldham ring vibrates in the key groove, a collision force against the key groove is weakened, impulsive sound of the Oldham ring becomes small, and a driving noise of the scroll compressor is can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Fujiwara, Osamu Aiba
  • Publication number: 20090148326
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to reduce impulsive sound of an Oldham ring and to prevent a driving noise of a scroll compressor from increasing. When a width of the key of the Oldham ring 57 made of iron-based material is defined as t and a width of the orbiting-side key groove 19 in the back surface of the surface plate 12a of the orbiting scroll 12 made of aluminum-based material and a width of the fixed-side key groove 32 of the main bearing member 51 made of aluminum-based material on the side of a thrust surface are defined as s, a gap d generated at s?t with respect to a key pitch L of the Oldham ring 57 is set in a range of (6×10?5)?d/L?(3.5×10?4). With this, even if the key of the Oldham ring 57 vibrates in the key groove, a collision force against the key groove is weakened, impulsive sound of the Oldham ring becomes small, and a driving noise of the scroll compressor is can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Fujiwara, Osamu Aiba
  • Patent number: 6948922
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mototaka Esumi, Osamu Aiba, Shuichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6659749
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LTD
    Inventors: Mototaka Esumi, Osamu Aiba, Shuichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6547544
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mototaka Esumi, Osamu Aiba, Shuichi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20030012673
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mototaka Esumi, Osamu Aiba, Shuichi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20020155015
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mototaka Esumi, Osamu Aiba, Shuichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6457960
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mototaka Esumi, Osamu Aiba, Shuichi Yamamoto