Patents by Inventor Takashi Uekawa
Takashi Uekawa 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).
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Patent number: 11286931Abstract: Provided is a scroll compressor including a sealed case, a fixed scroll portion fixed at an inside of the sealed case and provided with a fixed scroll vane, an orbiting scroll portion provided with an orbiting scroll vane that is coupled to the fixed scroll vane, and a rotating shaft formed to allow the orbiting scroll portion to orbit. The orbiting scroll portion is provided at a center thereof with a shaft support portion such that the orbiting scrolling portion is coupled to the rotating shaft. The shaft support portion includes a closing portion provided to cover an end portion of the rotating shaft, and slide while in contact with an inner surface of the fixed scroll portion, and a high-pressure space formed in an outer surface of the closing portion that faces the inner surface of the fixed scroll portion, and on which a discharge pressure acts.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Patent number: 11221009Abstract: A scroll compressor including an orbiting scroll having a small diameter compared to a case in which an oil groove is provided in a ring shape and constantly communicates with an outlet of an oil passage. The scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll configured to orbit in engagement with the fixed scroll. The fixed scroll includes an outlet of an oil passage configured to communicate with an oil tray storing lubricant, the outlet of the oil passage connected to a sliding surface of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll includes a plurality of oil grooves configured not to communicate with each other so as to supply the lubricant to a sliding surface of the fixed scroll, the plurality of oil grooves configured to communicate with the outlet at least once and not to communicate with the outlet at least once while the orbiting scroll rotates once.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Patent number: 11111919Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll fixed inside a housing, an orbiting scroll configured to orbit engaged with the fixed scroll, a rotary shaft configured to allow the orbiting scroll to orbit by supporting the orbiting scroll with an eccentric shaft eccentric from a main shaft, and a slide bush portion installed between a bearing of the orbiting scroll and the eccentric shaft and according to a rotational speed of the rotary shaft, configured to change a pressing force of the orbiting scroll applied to the fixed scroll by allowing an eccentricity to be changed by a gas load applied to the orbiting scroll.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Publication number: 20210062809Abstract: Provided is a scroll compressor including a sealed case, a fixed scroll portion fixed at an inside of the sealed case and provided with a fixed scroll vane, an orbiting scroll portion provided with an orbiting scroll vane that is coupled to the fixed scroll vane, and a rotating shaft formed to allow the orbiting scroll portion to orbit. The orbiting scroll portion is provided at a center thereof with a shaft support portion such that the orbiting scrolling portion is coupled to the rotating shaft. The shaft support portion includes a closing portion provided to cover an end portion of the rotating shaft, and slide while in contact with an inner surface of the fixed scroll portion, and a high-pressure space formed in an outer surface of the closing portion that faces the inner surface of the fixed scroll portion, and on which a discharge pressure acts.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventor: Takashi UEKAWA
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Publication number: 20210017994Abstract: A scroll compressor including an orbiting scroll having a small diameter compared to a case in which an oil groove is provided in a ring shape and constantly communicates with an outlet of an oil passage. The scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll configured to orbit in engagement with the fixed scroll. The fixed scroll includes an outlet of an oil passage configured to communicate with an oil tray storing lubricant, the outlet of the oil passage connected to a sliding surface of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll includes a plurality of oil grooves configured not to communicate with each other so as to supply the lubricant to a sliding surface of the fixed scroll, the plurality of oil grooves configured to communicate with the outlet at least once and not to communicate with the outlet at least once while the orbiting scroll rotates once.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventor: Takashi UEKAWA
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Patent number: 10851780Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism having fixed and movable scrolls forming a compression chamber, a motor to drive the movable scroll, a drive shaft, a casing, a housing accommodated inside the casing, and a floating member supported by the housing. The casing accommodates the compression mechanism, the motor, and the drive shaft. The floating member can be pushed toward the movable scroll by a pressure in a back pressure space formed between the floating member and the housing. The floating member may include a plurality of supported portions arranged circumferentially at three or more locations, and the housing may include a supporting portion supporting the supported portions. Alternatively, the floating member may include a body member and an outer peripheral member separate from the body member, the outer peripheral member mounted to an outer periphery of the body member, and the housing supports the outer peripheral member.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinobu Yosuke, Takashi Uekawa, Yongsheng Zhao
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Publication number: 20200011328Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll fixed inside a housing, an orbiting scroll configured to orbit engaged with the fixed scroll, a rotary shaft configured to allow the orbiting scroll to orbit by supporting the orbiting scroll with an eccentric shaft eccentric from a main shaft, and a slide bush portion installed between a bearing of the orbiting scroll and the eccentric shaft and according to a rotational speed of the rotary shaft, configured to change a pressing force of the orbiting scroll applied to the fixed scroll by allowing an eccentricity to be changed by a gas load applied to the orbiting scroll.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventor: Takashi UEKAWA
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Publication number: 20190186489Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism having fixed and movable scrolls forming a compression chamber, a motor to drive the movable scroll, a drive shaft, a casing, a housing accommodated inside the casing, and a floating member supported by the housing. The casing accommodates the compression mechanism, the motor, and the drive shaft. The floating member can be pushed toward the movable scroll by a pressure in a back pressure space formed between the floating member and the housing. The floating member may include a plurality of supported portions arranged circumferentially at three or more locations, and the housing may include a supporting portion supporting the supported portions. Alternatively, the floating member may include a body member and an outer peripheral member separate from the body member, the outer peripheral member mounted to an outer periphery of the body member, and the housing supports the outer peripheral member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Yoshinobu YOSUKE, Takashi UEKAWA, Yongsheng ZHAO
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Patent number: 10001122Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism, a crankshaft, upper and lower bearings, and a drive motor. The compression mechanism includes fixed and movable scrolls engaged with each other to form a compression chamber. The crankshaft has a main shaft and an eccentric portion eccentrically disposed at one end of the main shaft and coupled to a back side of the movable scroll. The upper and lower bearings support upper and lower portions of the main shaft. The drive motor has a stator and a rotor coupled to the main shaft to rotate the movable scroll. At least one of the main shaft and the rotor is provided with a weight arranged to reduce distortion of the crankshaft caused by a fluid load generated in the compression chamber and applied to the eccentric portion during rotation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Patent number: 9617997Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism, a crankshaft, and a drive motor. The compression mechanism has a fixed scroll and a movable scroll and is configured to compress a fluid. The crankshaft has a main shaft and an eccentric portion eccentrically disposed at one end of the main shaft and coupled to a back side of the movable scroll. The drive motor has a stator and a rotor coupled to the main shaft of the crankshaft to rotate the movable scroll. At least one of the main shaft of the crankshaft and the rotor of the drive motor is provided with a weight. The weight being is arranged to balance a centrifugal force of the movable scroll during rotation, and to reduce warpage of the crankshaft caused by balancing the centrifugal force of the movable scroll.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Publication number: 20170002816Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a casing with an oil reservoir, fixed and movable scrolls, a crank shaft, and a housing having an upper bearing rotatably supporting the crank shaft. The crank shaft has an oil feed path and the housing has a crank chamber. An outer peripheral surface of the crank shaft has an annular groove, and a spiral groove. The housing has a bearing back-face passage connecting the crank chamber and the annular groove. If no oil is fed from the oil reservoir to the sliding surface of the crank shaft through the oil feed path during rotation of the crank shaft, oil in the crank chamber is fed to the upper bearing from the crank chamber through the bearing back-face passage and the annular groove due to a pump effect of the spiral groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventor: Takashi UEKAWA
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Patent number: 9410547Abstract: A compressor includes a casing configured to store lubricating oil in a bottom part, and a compression mechanism accommodated in an interior of the casing. Lubricating oil is separated out from high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compression mechanism. Lubricating oil separated out by the oil separator flows from a high-pressure space formed in the interior of the casing and into which the high-pressure refrigerant flows. An ejector mechanism is disposed in the interior of the casing, preferably in the high-pressure space. The ejector mechanism includes a refrigerant-accelerating flow path in which the high-pressure refrigerant flows via a narrowed part in order to increase a flow rate of the high-pressure refrigerant, and an oil suction flow path merging with the refrigerant-accelerating flow path.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Toyama, Takashi Uekawa
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Publication number: 20160208803Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a casing, a compression mechanism accommodated within the casing, a motor arranged to rotatably drive the crankshaft, an oil feed pump arranged to feed lubricating oil upward, a lower oil reservoir disposed in a space below the oil feed pump to hold lubricating oil, an oil feed path and an oil retention space. The compression mechanism has a stationary scroll and a moveable scroll forming a compression chamber. The crankshaft is linked to the moveable scroll. The oil feed passage is formed so as to extend in an axial direction within an interior of the crankshaft and communicates at a lower end with a discharge side of the oil feed pump. The oil retention space is formed so as to extend in an axial direction within the interior of the crankshaft separately from the oil feed passage and communicates with the oil feed passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: July 21, 2016Inventors: Takashi UEKAWA, Eri WATANABE, Masaaki FUWA
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Patent number: 9316225Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism including fixed and movable scrolls. The fixed and movable scrolls have end plates and spiral laps. The laps are engaged to form a compression chamber. The end plates are in pressure contact around the compression chamber to form a thrust sliding surface. The thrust sliding surface has an oil groove extending around the compression chamber. High-pressure refrigerating machine oil is supplied to the oil groove. During orbiting of the orbiting scroll, at least in a region serving as a suction space of fluid in an outer peripheral portion of the compression chamber, an outer seal length from an outer peripheral edge of the oil groove in the thrust sliding surface to an outer edge of the movable end plate is smaller than an inner seal length from an inner peripheral edge of the oil groove to a peripheral edge of the compression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Nagahara, Youhei Nishide, Takashi Uekawa
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Publication number: 20150147214Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism including fixed and movable scrolls. The fixed and movable scrolls have end plates and spiral laps. The laps are engaged to form a compression chamber. The end plates are in pressure contact around the compression chamber to form a thrust sliding surface. The thrust sliding surface has an oil groove extending around the compression chamber. High-pressure refrigerating machine oil is supplied to the oil groove. During orbiting of the orbiting scroll, at least in a region serving as a suction space of fluid in an outer peripheral portion of the compression chamber, an outer seal length from an outer peripheral edge of the oil groove in the thrust sliding surface to an outer edge of the movable end plate is smaller than an inner seal length from an inner peripheral edge of the oil groove to a peripheral edge of the compression chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Nagahara, Youhei Nishide, Takashi Uekawa
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Patent number: 8998596Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a pressing mechanism and a back-flow prevention mechanism. The pressing mechanism includes a back-pressure chamber facing a back surface of a movable-scroll end plate, and a back-pressure supply path arranged to allow the back-pressure chamber to communicate with a compression chamber which is in a state right before the compression chamber communicates with an outlet port or a state in which the compression chamber communicates with the outlet port. The back-flow prevention mechanism allows refrigerant of the back-pressure supply path to flow from the compression chamber to the back-pressure chamber, and prevents fluid of the back-pressure supply path from returning from the back-pressure chamber to the compression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Nagahara, Youhei Nishide, Nobuhiro Nojima, Yoshinobu Yosuke, Takashi Uekawa, Masanori Masuda
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Publication number: 20140248169Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism, a crankshaft, and a drive motor. The compression mechanism has a fixed scroll and a movable scroll and is configured to compress a fluid. The crankshaft has a main shaft and an eccentric portion eccentrically disposed at one end of the main shaft and coupled to a back side of the movable scroll. The drive motor has a stator and a rotor coupled to the main shaft of the crankshaft to rotate the movable scroll. At least one of the main shaft of the crankshaft and the rotor of the drive motor is provided with a weight. The weight being is arranged to balance a centrifugal force of the movable scroll during rotation, and to reduce warpage of the crankshaft caused by balancing the centrifugal force of the movable scroll.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Publication number: 20140227117Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism, a crankshaft, upper and lower bearings, and a drive motor. The compression mechanism includes fixed and movable scrolls engaged with each other to form a compression chamber. The crankshaft has a main shaft and an eccentric portion eccentrically disposed at one end of the main shaft and coupled to a back side of the movable scroll. The upper and lower bearings support upper and lower portions of the main shaft. The drive motor has a stator and a rotor coupled to the main shaft to rotate the movable scroll. At least one of the main shaft and the rotor is provided with a weight arranged to reduce distortion of the crankshaft caused by a fluid load generated in the compression chamber and applied to the eccentric portion during rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Publication number: 20140017108Abstract: A scroll compressor (10) includes a bearing oil supply passage (70) configured to supply a refrigeration oil from an oil reservoir (18) located in a casing (15) to a bearing of a driving shaft (60). An oil groove (80) which communicates only with the oil reservoir (18) in the casing (15) through a connection passage (86) and a capillary tube (87) is formed on a thrust sliding surface (35) of a fixed scroll (30). Since the bearing oil supply passage (70) is not in communication with the oil groove (80), even when an orbiting scroll (40) is tilted and a pressure of the oil groove (80) decreases, a pressure of the bearing oil supply passage (70) does not decrease, and accordingly, the refrigeration oil is supplied from the bearing oil supply passage (70) to the bearing of the driving shaft (60).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Takashi Uekawa, Youhei Nishide, Katsumi Katou
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Publication number: 20120297818Abstract: A compressor includes a casing configured to store lubricating oil in a bottom part, and a compression mechanism accommodated in an interior of the casing. Lubricating oil is separated out from high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compression mechanism. Lubricating oil separated out by the oil separator flows from a high-pressure space formed in the interior of the casing and into which the high-pressure refrigerant flows. An ejector mechanism is disposed in the interior of the casing, preferably in the high-pressure space. The ejector mechanism includes a refrigerant-accelerating flow path in which the high-pressure refrigerant flows via a narrowed part in order to increase a flow rate of the high-pressure refrigerant, and an oil suction flow path merging with the refrigerant-accelerating flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Toyama, Takashi Uekawa