Patents by Inventor Toru Okazaki
Toru Okazaki 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: 11336150Abstract: An energy storage system includes a heat generation apparatus configured to generate heat from electric power and a heat storage device configured to store the heat generated by the heat generation apparatus, the heat generation apparatus including an electric motor connected to an electric power system and rotated by surplus electric power received from the electric power system, and a heat generator having a rotary unit rotated by the electric motor and a heat generating unit configured to generate heat through electromagnetic induction, and configured to convert rotational force of the electric motor to heat.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Toru Okazaki
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Patent number: 11085692Abstract: The cooling apparatus includes: a thermal insulation box; a door; and a magnetic gasket, the magnetic gasket having: a magnet; a magnet retaining part; and a heat insulation sheet being provided between the magnet and the magnet retaining part and being provided, in a closed state in which the opening is closed by the door, on a side portion on a side of the door on a peripheral surface of the magnet and on a side portion facing an inner side in a width direction in the closed state on the peripheral surface of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Okazaki, Masanori Minamio, Terutsugu Segawa, Yasuhiro Asaida, Fumihiko Kawai, Fuminori Takami
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Publication number: 20210028668Abstract: An energy storage system includes a heat generation apparatus configured to generate heat from electric power and a heat storage device configured to store the heat generated by the heat generation apparatus, the heat generation apparatus including an electric motor connected to an electric power system and rotated by surplus electric power received from the electric power system, and a heat generator having a rotary unit rotated by the electric motor and a heat generating unit configured to generate heat through electromagnetic induction, and configured to convert rotational force of the electric motor to heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Toru OKAZAKI
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Patent number: 10866021Abstract: A heat-insulation box, includes: a heat-insulation-box main body that has a space; a door that seals the space; and a partition plate that partitions the space, wherein the partition plate includes (i) a design plate that is placed at a side of the door, (ii) a first plate part and a second plate part that are each provided at both edges of the design plate, (iii) a heat-insulation material that is located in a region surrounded by the design plate, the first plate part, and the second plate part, and (iv) a heat-insulation member that is placed in at least one of a gap between the design plate and the first plate part, and a gap between the design plate and the second plate part.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Okazaki, Baiyu Liu, Terutsugu Segawa, Yasuhiro Asaida
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Patent number: 10764969Abstract: The induction heating device that heats a heating medium includes a rotor having a rotation shaft, a heating part disposed to be opposed to the rotor at a distance, a magnetic flux generating part provided at the rotor to generate magnetic flux for the heating part, and a flow passage provided along the heating part to allow the heating medium to circulate. The flow passage has an inlet to supply the heating medium on one side in a direction along the heating part and an outlet to discharge the heating medium on the other side. The distance between the magnetic flux generating part and the heating part is larger on the outlet side than on the inlet side of the flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Toru Okazaki
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Patent number: 10750579Abstract: An induction heating device includes: a rotor having a rotation shaft; a heating part disposed to be opposed to the rotor at a distance; a magnetic flux generating part provided at the rotor to generate magnetic flux for the heating part; a magnetic flux guide part provided on an opposed surface side of the heating part that is opposed to the magnetic flux generating part to guide the magnetic flux from the magnetic flux generating part to the heating part; and a flow passage provided in the heating part to allow a heating medium to circulate. The magnetic flux guide part includes magnetic substance parts. The magnetic flux guide part has a structure in which the magnetic substance parts and the insulator parts extend along a direction from the magnetic flux generating part to the heating part and are alternately layered along a circumferential direction of the heating part.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Kyoto UniversityInventors: Toru Okazaki, Tetsuji Matsuo
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Patent number: 10739058Abstract: Disclosed are a dew condensation removal structure that removes dew condensation generated in equipment using cold such as refrigerating/freezing equipment and air conditioning equipment and that suppresses power consumption necessary to remove the dew condensation, and cooling/heating equipment including the dew condensation removal structure. The cooling/heating equipment uses the dew condensation removal structure, including: a cooling structure having a cooling surface that is directly or indirectly cooled by cold, the cooling surface facing outside air; and a dew condensation conveyance section provided on the cooling surface, in which the dew condensation conveyance section has a conveyance path that conveys dew condensation by capillary phenomenon, the dew condensation being generated on a surface of the dew condensation conveyance section.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Okazaki, Masanori Minamio
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Patent number: 10655906Abstract: A refrigerator is provided with first gasket and second gasket. First gasket is provided on door, and when door is closed, first gasket makes contact with refrigerator main body and closes the storage compartment. Second gasket is provided with heat insulator, and is provided on refrigerator main body on the storage compartment side relative to the location where first gasket adheres. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve refrigerator that can suppress reduction in cooling efficiency due to second gasket heated by heat dissipation pipe.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Okazaki, Terutsugu Segawa, Yasuhiro Asaida
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Publication number: 20200003481Abstract: Provided are a magnet gasket and a cooling apparatus which enhance thermal insulation performance. The cooling apparatus includes: a thermal insulation box that has an opening end surface enclosing the opening and facing frontward; a door capable of opening and closing the opening; and a magnetic gasket attached to an inside peripheral portion of the door facing the opening end surface while the opening is closed, the magnetic gasket having: a magnet; a magnet retaining part; and a heat insulation sheet being provided between the magnet and the magnet retaining part and being provided, in a closed state in which the opening is closed by the door, on a side portion on a side of the door on a peripheral surface of the magnet and on a side portion facing an inner side in a width direction in the closed state on the peripheral surface of the magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Toru OKAZAKI, Masanori MINAMIO, Terutsugu SEGAWA, Yasuhiro ASAIDA, Fumihiko KAWAI, Fuminori TAKAMI
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Patent number: 10443921Abstract: It is an object to provide a refrigerator that suppresses heat intrusion from a heat radiation pipe for suppressing dew condensation with respect to a partition plate of a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a partition plate that partitions a room into a plurality of rooms and a door that seals the plurality of rooms. The partition plate includes an upper plate that positions on upper side, a lower plate that positions on lower side, a design plate that positions between the upper plate and the lower plate, and a heat insulating material fixed between the design plate and the upper plate or the lower plate in a compressed state in which a compressed portion has a thickness smaller than a thickness of other portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Okazaki, Terutsugu Segawa, Yasuhiro Asaida
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Patent number: 10391738Abstract: A vacuum heat-insulation material includes: at least one first fiber member; at least one second member that is placed around an outer peripheral part of the at least one first fiber member and that is thinner than an inner part; and at least one shell material that surrounds the at least one first fiber member and the at least one second fiber member.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Baiyu Liu, Toru Okazaki, Terutsugu Segawa, Yasuhiro Asaida
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Publication number: 20190239294Abstract: The induction heating device that heats a heating medium includes a rotor having a rotation shaft, a heating part disposed to be opposed to the rotor at a distance, a magnetic flux generating part provided at the rotor to generate magnetic flux for the heating part, and a flow passage provided along the heating part to allow the heating medium to circulate. The flow passage has an inlet to supply the heating medium on one side in a direction along the heating part and an outlet to discharge the heating medium on the other side. The distance between the magnetic flux generating part and the heating part is larger on the outlet side than on the inlet side of the flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Toru Okazaki
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Patent number: 10345030Abstract: In a refrigerator capable of suppressing dew condensation in hinged double doors without increasing a caloric value of a heater, a clearance between rotary partition body 109 and a front opening of a refrigerating compartment is thermally insulated by first fin members 206 that are disposed in door gaskets 110, that come into contact with a front surface part of a thermal-insulated box body, or a front surface of division board 303, and rotary partition body, and that includes heat insulating sheets 601 disposed in an inner part for closing a clearance, second fin members 207 that do not come into contact with rotary partition body on a front surface separated from rotary partition body between right and left hinged double doors 102, 103, and heat insulating sheets 601 disposed in first fin members 206, and a high temperature atmosphere is surrounded by second fin members 207.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Terutsugu Segawa, Toru Okazaki
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Publication number: 20190078829Abstract: It is an object to provide a refrigerator that suppresses heat intrusion from a heat radiation pipe for suppressing dew condensation with respect to a partition plate of a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a partition plate that partitions a room into a plurality of rooms and a door that seals the plurality of rooms. The partition plate includes an upper plate that positions on upper side, a lower plate that positions on lower side, a design plate that positions between the upper plate and the lower plate, and a heat insulating material fixed between the design plate and the upper plate or the lower plate in a compressed state in which a compressed portion has a thickness smaller than a thickness of other portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Toru OKAZAKI, Terutsugu SEGAWA, Yasuhiro ASAIDA
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Patent number: 10184451Abstract: In a wind-powered thermal power generation system, an induction motor includes a field (rotor) which has a field core coupled to a rotation shaft of the wind turbine and a field conductor, and an armature (stator) which has an armature core arranged on the outer side of the field with a spacing therebetween and an armature winding, and the induction motor is housed in the heat insulating container. A heating medium circulation mechanism circulates, inside the heat insulating container, a heating medium that receives heat generated by the induction motor. A magnetic field control means controls an input current to the armature winding so as to result in slip that produces load torque at the rotor rotating due to rotation of the wind turbine. A power generation portion converts, into electricity, the heat of the heating medium heated by the induction motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toru Okazaki, Taketsune Nakamura
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Publication number: 20180328650Abstract: Turnable partition member and refrigerator according to the present disclosure include housing, heat insulator provided in housing, and releasing sheet provided between housing and heat insulator. With releasing sheet provided between housing and heat insulator, housing is not pulled by heat insulator at the time of curing and shrinking heat insulator, and the warp of the entirety of turnable partition member can be suppressed without using thick reinforcement plate. The present disclosure thus provides turnable partition member that can suppress the warp without reducing the heat insulating property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Toru OKAZAKI, Terutsugu SEGAWA, Yasuhiro ASAIDA
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Publication number: 20180328649Abstract: A refrigerator is provided with first gasket and second gasket. First gasket is provided on door, and when door is closed, first gasket makes contact with refrigerator main body and closes the storage compartment. Second gasket is provided with heat insulator, and is provided on refrigerator main body on the storage compartment side relative to the location where first gasket adheres. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve refrigerator that can suppress reduction in cooling efficiency due to second gasket heated by heat dissipation pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Toru OKAZAKI, Terutsugu SEGAWA, Yasuhiro ASAIDA
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Publication number: 20180295678Abstract: An induction heating device includes: a rotor having a rotation shaft; a heating part disposed to be opposed to the rotor at a distance; a magnetic flux generating part provided at the rotor to generate magnetic flux for the heating part; a magnetic flux guide part provided on an opposed surface side of the heating part that is opposed to the magnetic flux generating part to guide the magnetic flux from the magnetic flux generating part to the heating part; and a flow passage provided in the heating part to allow a heating medium to circulate. The magnetic flux guide part includes magnetic substance parts. The magnetic flux guide part has a structure in which the magnetic substance parts and the insulator parts extend along a direction from the magnetic flux generating part to the heating part and are alternately layered along a circumferential direction of the heating part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Toru Okazaki, Tetsuji Matsuo
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Publication number: 20180195792Abstract: In a refrigerator capable of suppressing dew condensation in hinged double doors without increasing a caloric value of a heater, a clearance between rotary partition body 109 and a front opening of a refrigerating compartment is thermally insulated by first fin members 206 that are disposed in door gaskets 110, that come into contact with a front surface part of a thermal-insulated box body, or a front surface of division board 303, and rotary partition body, and that includes heat insulating sheets 601 disposed in an inner part for closing a clearance, second fin members 207 that do not come into contact with rotary partition body on a front surface separated from rotary partition body between right and left hinged double doors 102, 103, and heat insulating sheets 601 disposed in first fin members 206, and a high temperature atmosphere is surrounded by second fin members 207.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Terutsugu SEGAWA, Toru OKAZAKI
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Publication number: 20180172334Abstract: Disclosed are a dew condensation removal structure that removes dew condensation generated in equipment using cold such as refrigerating/freezing equipment and air conditioning equipment and that suppresses power consumption necessary to remove the dew condensation, and cooling/heating equipment including the dew condensation removal structure. The cooling/heating equipment uses the dew condensation removal structure, including: a cooling structure having a cooling surface that is directly or indirectly cooled by cold, the cooling surface facing outside air; and a dew condensation conveyance section provided on the cooling surface, in which the dew condensation conveyance section has a conveyance path that conveys dew condensation by capillary phenomenon, the dew condensation being generated on a surface of the dew condensation conveyance section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Toru OKAZAKI, Masanori MINAMIO