Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Niwa

Tomoaki Niwa 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: 20230114621
    Abstract: An air conditioner capable of satisfactorily preventing noise from entering an indoor space includes: an indoor unit that is fixed to a wall surface of an indoor space and houses an indoor heat exchanger; and an outdoor unit that houses an outdoor heat exchanger connected to a refrigerant circuit that includes the indoor heat exchanger. The outdoor unit includes an outside casing that is fitted into an opening formed in a building wall partitioning an outdoor space and the indoor space from each other and defines an internal space that is open to the outdoor space and isolated from the indoor space by being surrounded by a sound insulation wall, and an inside casing that is disposed in the internal space and houses the outdoor heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hironori AOKI, Tomoaki NIWA
  • Patent number: 8593003
    Abstract: An outdoor power generating apparatus includes a housing placed at an outside and including a power generation chamber, a power generation source accommodated in the power generation chamber and formed by either one of an engine and a fuel cell, an intake portion provided within the housing and positioned at an upper side of the power generation source, the intake portion including an outside air inlet portion that opens to a side wall of the housing to bring an outside air, the intake portion including a meander passage that connects the outside air inlet portion to the power generation chamber while bringing the outside air to meander from the outside air inlet portion towards the power generation chamber, and a drain port provided at the meander passage and discharging a water in a liquid state that remains at the meander passage to an outside of the meander passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoaki Niwa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Yoshinobu Nakano
  • Publication number: 20110310532
    Abstract: An outdoor power generating apparatus includes a housing placed at an outside and including a power generation chamber, a power generation source accommodated in the power generation chamber and formed by either one of an engine and a fuel cell, an intake portion provided within the housing and positioned at an upper side of the power generation source, the intake portion including an outside air inlet portion that opens to a side wall of the housing to bring an outside air, the intake portion including a meander passage that connects the outside air inlet portion to the power generation chamber while bringing the outside air to meander from the outside air inlet portion towards the power generation chamber, and a drain port provided at the meander passage and discharging a water in a liquid state that remains at the meander passage to an outside of the meander passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoaki Niwa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Yoshinobu Nakano
  • Publication number: 20110303482
    Abstract: An outdoor power generating apparatus includes a housing including a generator chamber and a side wall portion, a power generation source configured with an engine-type generator or a fuel cell, a ventilation fan, and an exhaust passage provided within the housing and through which a gas within the generator chamber is exhausted to an outside of the housing as an exhaust gas, wherein the exhaust passage includes a sound absorbing duct formed by a sound absorbing material used for a curved passage, a weir member, a weir passage, a diversion passage changing the flow direction of the exhaust gas so as to be orthogonal to a direction along which the exhaust gas flows towards the weir passage from the curved passage, and an exhaust port provided at an end portion of the diversion passage and opening at the side wall portion so as to be exposed to an ambient air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoaki Niwa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Yoshinobu Nakano
  • Publication number: 20110077320
    Abstract: To provide a dental restorative material composition having good surface lubrication and high strength without causing uneven abrasion, a dental restorative material composition includes 10 to 50% by weight of an organic-inorganic composite filler having an average particle diameter of 5 to 60 ?m, a (meth)acrylate compound, an inorganic filler having an average primary particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.4 ?m, and a photopolymerization initiator, where the organic-inorganic composition is produced by mixing a (meth)acrylate compound and 60 to 90% by weight of an inorganic filler having an average primary particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.4 ?m, curing the mixture, and pulverizing the cured material, and a difference between a ratio (% by weight) of the (meth)acrylate compound in the organic-inorganic composite filler and a ratio (% by weight) of the (meth)acrylate compound in the entire composition is within ±5 (% by weight).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki MACHIDA, Takumi Suzuki, Tomoaki Niwa