Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Abe

Yoshikazu Abe 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: 5417551
    Abstract: A fluid rotary apparatus includes rotors accommodated in a housing, driving shafts on which the rotors are mounted, upper and lower bearings for rotatably supporting upper and lower portions of each of the shafts, fluid suction and fluid-discharging openings formed in the housing, motors adapted for independently and synchronously driving each of the shafts, rotation-detecting devices for detecting the rotational angle and/or the number of rotations of each motor, contact-preventing gears for contacting each other before the rotors contact each other, and a positive displacement pump structure section sucking and discharging fluid by utilizing a closed space formed by the rotors and the housing and controlling the motors in synchronous rotation thereof in response to signals outputted from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Abe, Teruo Maruyama, Akira Takara, Norio Okutani
  • Patent number: 5374173
    Abstract: A fluid rotating apparatus includes a casing having a gas inhaling inlet and a gas discharge outlet, rotors driven in the casing by a driving mechanism and having fluid-transporting grooves which engage each other in synchronous rotation, and bearing portion for supporting the rotors. A communicating path is formed at one of the rotors and the and the casing for communicating a gas discharge-side inner space and a space defined by an inner surface of the casing and the fluid-transporting groove of an outer surface of each rotor with each other. The gas discharge-side inner space is defined by an end surface of the rotor opposite to a gas inhaling-side surface thereof, and a sealing portion which is formed between the rotor and the casing to prevent fluid from flowing into the gas discharge-side inner space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Akira Takara, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 5354179
    Abstract: A fluid rotating apparatus according to the present invention is designed to promptly achieve an extremely high degree of vacuum from atmospheric pressure by its single apparatus. Moreover, high-speed synchronous rotation of the rotary shafts of the apparatus is controlled by use of a rotary position detecting sensor, to thereby avoid control through mechanical contact thereof with a gear or the like. In addition, hydrostatic bearings are employed for supporting the rotary shaft to avoid mechanical abrasion and the use of lubricant oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshikazu Abe, Mikio Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5302089
    Abstract: A fluid rotating apparatus of a positive displacement type pump includes a plurality of rotors accommodated in a housing, a bearing for rotatably supporting the rotors, a suction port and a discharge port formed in the housing, a plurality of motors for individually rotating the rotors, a detector for detecting rotating angles and rotating speeds of the motors, a synchronous controller for controlling rotation of the plurality of motors by a signal from the detector, and a transporting member coaxially provided on one of the rotors and on the upstream side thereof. The transporting member includes a rotary disk rotatable together with the rotor and a fixed disk opposed to the rotary disk fixed to the housing so as to maintain a gap between the rotary disk and the fixed disk. A spiral groove is formed on one of a surface of the rotary disk and an opposing surface of the fixed surface so as to transport one of fluid and gas molecules in a radial direction of the rotor between the rotary disk and the fixed disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Akira Takara, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 5295798
    Abstract: A fluid rotating apparatus includes a casing having gas inhaling inlet and a gas discharge outlet, rotors driven in the casing by a driving mechanism and having fluid-transporting grooves which engage each other in synchronous rotation, and bearing portion for supporting the rotors. A communicating path is formed at one of the rotor and the casing for communicating a gas discharge-side inner space and a space defined by an inner surface of the casing and the fluid-transporting groove of an outer surface of each rotor with each other. The gas discharge-side inner space is defined by an end surface of the rotor opposite to a gas inhaling-side surface thereof, and a sealing portion is formed between the rotor and the casing to prevent fluid from flowing into the gas discharge-side inner space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Akira Takara, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 5271719
    Abstract: A fluid rotating apparatus of a positive displacement pump includes a plurality of rotors accommodated in a housing, a bearing for rotatably supporting the rotors, a suction port and a discharge port formed in the housing, a suction chamber and a discharge chamber in the housing respectively communicating with the suction port and the discharge port, a plurality of motors for individually rotating the rotors, and a detecting device for detecting rotating angles and rotating numbers of the motors. In the apparatus, a fluid is sucked and discharged due to capacity change of a space defined by the rotors and the housing through synchronous control of the rotation of the plurality of motors by a signal from the detecting device. The housing has a communicating path with a flow control device to make an upstream side communicate with a downstream side of the apparatus when the rotational numbers of the rotors are less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Abe, Teruo Maruyama, Akira Takara
  • Patent number: 5197861
    Abstract: A fluid rotating apparatus according to the present invention is designed to promptly achieve an extremely high degree of vacuum from promptly atmospheric pressure promptly by its single apparatus. Moreover, high-speed synchronous rotation of the rotary shafts of the apparatus is controlled by use of a rotary position detecting sensor, to thereby avoid control mechanical contact thereof with a gear or the like. In addition, hydrostatic bearing are employed for supporting the rotary shafts to avoid of mechanical abrasion and the use of lubricant oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshikazu Abe, Mikio Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5173032
    Abstract: In a non-clutch compressor, by controlling a differential pressure between a crank chamber accommodating an oscillating plate therein and a cylinder chamber in a suction stroke, an incline angle of the oscillating plate is sequentially changed so that a maximum stroke of a piston is changeable. The compressor includes a passage opening and closing device arranged at an inlet section of one of a suction pipe connecting with a suction chamber of the compressor and the suction chamber, and a pressure control valve arranged between a discharge chamber and the crank chamber, the valve opening in a case where pressure in the suction chamber is less than a set value. In the compressor, a cross-sectional area (A) of a passage of a discharge hole for connecting the crank chamber with the suction chamber is expressed by an equation: 0.5<(A)<1.8 mm.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 5133652
    Abstract: A rotary compressor is provided for use in an air conditioner of an automobile. This compressor includes a cylinder having a cylindrical inner wall portion composed of aluminum alloy filled into the pores of a sintered liner composed of iron series metallic fibers, or into the pores of a blister metal liner. With this arrangement, sliding abrasion between the cylindrical inner wall face and the vanes, and deformation thereof by gas compression forces and high temperatures, can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Abe, Tatuhisa Taguchi
  • Patent number: 5000667
    Abstract: A compressor of a movable slanting plate type which includes a shaft to be rotated by receiving an external driving force, a rotor having a plurality of cylinder chambers disposed in a parallel relation with the shaft so as to be rotated together with the shaft, a plurality of pistons which revolve while reciprocating within each of the cylinder chambers, a plurality of rods each connected at its one end, to each of the pistons, and having a ball joint at its other end, a plurality of holder shoes each connected to the rod through the ball joint for free directivity, a movable slanting plate revolving supporting said holder shoes, and capable of changing its inclination angle to one direction with respect in the shaft, a valve plate provided with a plurality of suction ports and discharge ports communicated with the cylinder chambers of the rotor, and a guide plate fixed to the shaft or the rotor and formed with guide bores for slidably guiding the plurality of the rods in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 4892466
    Abstract: In a pressure control valve (28) of a variable capacity compressor, a pressure detecting part (48) which compares suction pressure of the compressor with atmospheric pressure, a valve (52) urged to close by a spring (53), a rod driven by the pressure detecting part and an electromagnetic coil (55) for attracting and opening the valve are provided, thereby to change capacity of the compressor continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 4890986
    Abstract: In a variable capacity compressor having a rotary type cylinder compartment (24a), plural return ports (33) formed in a volume-decrease-step space in the cylinder compartment (24a), an exit (34) formed in a volume-increase-step space in the cylinder compartment (24a), a C-shaped guide passage (35) for connecting the plural return ports (33) and the exit (34), an arc-shaped slider (36) provided slidably for gradually opening and closing the plural return ports (33), a spring (37) for pushing the arc-shaped slider (36), and a pressure control valve (42) for pushing the arc-shaped slider (36) in opposite direction to the pushing of the spring are provided; and thereby a wide variable capacity range is realized with compact size and high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshikazu Abe, Kiyoji Aburaya
  • Patent number: 4815944
    Abstract: In a variable capacity compressor having a capacity control mechanism so as to keep a suction pressure constant by detecting the suction pressure, plural return ports (18), a return passage (10) and an exit (19) are provided for bypassing refrigerant gas from a volume-decrease-step space in a cylinder compartment (5a) to a volume-increase-step space in that, and a guide passage (8) wherein a slider slides by a pressure of refrigerant gas is provided for controlling an amount of bypassing gas; and thereby it is possible to control capacity correctly and stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Yoshikazu Abe, Tatuhisa Taguti
  • Patent number: 4459090
    Abstract: A compressor adapted for capacity control includes a rotor mounting thereon vanes slidably, a cylinder receiving therein the rotor and the vanes, side plates secured to the opposite sides of the cylinder, a vane chamber defined by the vane, rotor and the cylinder and closed at its sides by the side plates, suction ports and a discharge port. Suction loss produced when the pressure within the vane chamber becomes below the pressure of the refrigerant supply source during a suction stroke is utilized for suppressing the refrigerating capacity of the compressor at high speed operation. With the arrangement of the compressor, the effective area of the flow passage leading to the vane chamber from the suction ports varies in at least two stages such that it becomes smaller in the latter half of the suction stroke than in the former half thereof. Thus, in the compressor, driving torque can be reduced at low speed operation and adequate effects of capacity control can be obtained at high speed operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Shinya Yamauchi, Nobuo Kagoroku, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 4415308
    Abstract: A pump for supplying kerosene to a combustion apparatus having means for giving a drive force for producing relative rotation between a housing and a shaft, at least one shallow groove formed in one of the surface of the shaft and the surface of the housing movable relative to the shaft surface, and an inlet bore and an outlet bore for the kerosene to be forced forward by the groove. The pump is characterized in that the groove has a depth ho defined by0.00558q.mu.<ho<250.mu.wherein q is the heat output of the combustion apparatus in kcal/h.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Hiroo Ohshima, Fumio Iwai, Yoshikazu Abe
  • Patent number: 4413963
    Abstract: This invention relates to a compressor controllable in capacity, and more particularly to a compressor comprising a rotor having vanes slidably fitted thereto, a cylinder for receiving the rotor and vanes, side plates rigid on both sides of the cylinder and enclosing a space of a vane chamber defined by the vanes, rotor and cylinder at the sides thereof, and inlet and outlet ports each serving as a passage to communicate the vane chamber with the exterior, wherein the cylinder is oriented to have its top portion where a distance between the outer periphery of the rotor and the inner periphery of the cylinder becomes minimum. The improvement according to this invention is in that the inlet port is positioned so as to make a(.theta.) almost constant, or meet a(.theta.)=a, in a range of 1/2.theta..sub.s <.theta..ltoreq..theta..sub.s and parameters of the compressor are determined to meet the following relation;0.025<.theta..sub.s a/V.sub.o <0.080where,.theta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Shinya Yamauchi, Yoshikazu Abe