Patents by Inventor Yoshikatsu Okamoto

Yoshikatsu Okamoto 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: 6164082
    Abstract: An air conditioner equipped with an air cleaner. In the air conditioner, a dust collector is arranged in an air path located behind a heat exchanger. A dust collecting electrode of the dust collector is combined with a heater for self-cleaning. An opening, which communicates the air path located behind the heat exchanger with the outside, is provided above the dust collector. An open-and-close valve, which is closed during the air conditioning operation and opened in the case where the air cleaning operation is carried out while the air conditioning operation is stopped, is provided at the opening. The dust collector does not interrupt the flow of air during the air conditioning operation and also in the case where the air cleaning operation is carried out while the air conditioning operation is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Okamoto, Yoshiaki Ikuzawa
  • Patent number: 6136074
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus with an air cleaning function. In the apparatus, an electric dust collector is provided in the air passage on the rear side of a heat exchanger. A heater for self-cleaning is combined with a dust collector electrode of the electric dust collector. A heat shield plate is combined with the heater. Air flow resistance is not increased although the dust collector electrode is plane in shape. An increase of air flow resistance caused by the use of the heat shield plate is also suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Okamoto, Yoshiaki Ikuzawa, Akinori Okazaki, Takao Sakaue
  • Patent number: 6129781
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus with an air cleaning function. In the apparatus, an electric dust collector is provided in the air passage on the rear side of a heat exchanger. A heater for self-cleaning is combined with a dust collector electrode of the electric dust collector. A heat shield plate is combined with the heater. Air flow resistance is not increased although the dust collector electrode is plane in shape. An increase of air flow resistance caused by the use of the heat shield plate is also suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Okamoto, Yoshiaki Ikuzawa, Akinori Okazaki, Takao Sakaue
  • Patent number: 6018955
    Abstract: An air conditioner system including an air conditioner unit having a first operating mode in which the air conditioner unit is operated to effect one of cooling and heating, and a second operating mode in which the air conditioner unit is operated to effect the other of cooling and heating, the air conditioner system including a main body of the air conditioner unit, the main body comprising a casing accommodating a heat exchanger, a fan, and electrical parts; and a first graphic-bearing panel detachably fitted to the front surface of the main body of the air conditioner unit, the first graphic-bearing panel comprising a plurality of ribs forming slits penetrating from an obverse surface of the first panel to a reverse surface of the first panel, and displaying a first visual cue of one of coolness and warmth on the horizontal ribs, the first visual cue of the first graphic-bearing panel matching the effect provided by the first operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuji Kaneko, Yoshikatsu Okamoto
  • Patent number: 5466913
    Abstract: In a temperature controlling method of a kitchen-heating apparatus having a temperature sensor at a certain place in the heating area, the temperature control is performed by comparing a temperature detected by the temperature sensor with a set temperature. In this case, an acceleration of the temperature ascent and descent at each certain interval is required and the temperature of the above heating portion is controlled with a duty ratio which corrects the duty ratio of the above heating portion of each interval with the acceleration of the temperature ascent and descent in the front step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinobu Tanimoto, Yoshikatsu Okamoto, Shinji Yoshida, Yasumasa Hironaka
  • Patent number: 5426580
    Abstract: A process-controlling device enables the prevention of process deviation from preset standardized operations and the occurrence of abnormal effects, even if the baking machine is accidentally started without setting up the processing time. The process-controlling device alters the preset processing times by inputting external input data, performing successively each step of the process in accordance with each of the altered processing times allocated to each step of the preset process. A time data-inputting device for inputting time data equivalent to the difference between each of the preset processing times and each processing time to be altered, and a processing time-altering device for increasing or decreasing the time data against the preset processing time and altering the preset processing time to the new processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshida, Yoshikatsu Okamoto