Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kanemoto

Yoshiyuki Kanemoto 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: 11976648
    Abstract: Even when abnormal heat generation occurs during operation in a state where the temperature of a compressor is not increased, abnormality cannot be detected. A fluid machine includes a fluid machine body; a motor that drives the fluid machine body; a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the fluid machine body; and a control unit that controls the fluid machine body. The control unit changes a temperature threshold value based on at least one of a pressure of a fluid discharged by the fluid machine body and a frequency of a voltage input into the motor, and issues a notification when the temperature of the compressor body measured by the temperature sensor exceeds the temperature threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Daichi Oka
  • Patent number: 11937410
    Abstract: A package-type fluid machine includes a compressor unit including a compression portion that compresses a fluid, a motor that drives the compression portion, and a cooling fan that is driven by the motor; a machine chamber in which the compressor unit is disposed; an inverter chamber which is adjacent to the machine chamber and in which an inverter is disposed; a partition wall that partitions off the machine chamber from the inverter chamber and has an opening; and an inverter intake port that is disposed in the inverter chamber to take in a cooling gas. The cooling fan is disposed on a side of the machine chamber, the opening being located on the side. The cooling fan is driven to cause the cooling gas to flow from the inverter intake port to the opening to cool the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Saito, Daichi Oka, Akihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11821423
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll compressor that can prevent liquid from being accumulated, the scroll compressor including: a fixed scroll; an orbiting scroll; and a rotation shaft that extends in the horizontal direction and causes the orbiting scroll to orbit relative to the fixed scroll. Liquid is injected into a working chamber. An enclosing point of a working chamber formed near the outer end of a fixed wrap of the fixed scroll is positioned below a center of the rotation shaft and at the lowest point of the contour of the working chamber having shifted to the lowest position. The fixed scroll has an inclined wall surface that is positioned below the center of the rotation shaft, is made to face upward, and extends from the dust wrap to the outer end of the fixed wrap. The inclined wall surface is formed so as to be sloped down gradually from the dust wrap toward the outer end of the fixed wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Watabe, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Yoshio Kobayashi, Hiroaki Saito
  • Patent number: 11821428
    Abstract: Provided is a motor-integrated fluid machine that has improved performance and reliability by efficiently cooling a fluid machine body and a motor without increasing an installation space. The present invention is characterized by being provided with: a fluid machine unit that compresses or expands a fluid; a motor unit that has a drive shaft connected to the fluid machine unit; and a cooling fan that cools the motor unit and the fluid machine unit by sucking cooling air from the motor unit side and that is connected to the drive shaft at the side opposed to that connected to the fluid machine unit, wherein between the motor unit and the cooling fan, the minimum sectional area of a cooling air passage from the outside in the radial direction toward the drive shaft is larger than that of a cooling air passage from the motor unit side toward the cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Fuminori Kato
  • Patent number: 11795943
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine includes a motor unit and a main body. The motor unit includes a rotor, a stator, a shaft provided with an eccentric portion at a distal end of the shaft and configured to rotate integrally with the rotor, a main bearing configured to support the shaft, and a motor cover configured to house the rotor and the stator. The main bearing is fixed to an inside of the motor cover by a fixing flange. The main bearing supports the shaft and is located between the fixing flange and an end bracket on an opposite side of the main body unit with respect to the fixing flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Takanori Emi
  • Publication number: 20230184252
    Abstract: Provided is a motor-integrated fluid machine that has improved performance and reliability by efficiently cooling a fluid machine body and a motor without increasing an installation space. The present invention is characterized by being provided with: a fluid machine unit that compresses or expands a fluid; a motor unit that has a drive shaft connected to the fluid machine unit; and a cooling fan that cools the motor unit and the fluid machine unit by sucking cooling air from the motor unit side and that is connected to the drive shaft at the side opposed to that connected to the fluid machine unit, wherein between the motor unit and the cooling fan, the minimum sectional area of a cooling air passage from the outside in the radial direction toward the drive shaft is larger than that of a cooling air passage from the motor unit side toward the cooling fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Shumpei YAMAZAKI, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO, Fuminori KATO
  • Patent number: 11603839
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a scroll compressor with a simple configuration which is capable of preventing the occurrence of noise induced due to compressed air remaining in a discharge pipe flow backward and an orbiting scroll rotating reversely when stopping the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijia Ren, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto
  • Publication number: 20230069695
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that can prevent liquid from being accumulated with a simple structure. The scroll compressor includes: a fixed scroll 11; an orbiting scroll 12; and a rotation shaft 13 that extends in the horizontal direction and causes the orbiting scroll 12 to orbit relative to the fixed scroll 11, and liquid is injected to a working chamber at an intake process or to the upstream side thereof. An enclosing point P of a working chamber formed near the outer end of a fixed wrap 16 of the fixed scroll 11 is positioned below a center O of the rotation shaft 13 and at the lowest point of the contour of the working chamber having shifted to the lowest position. The fixed scroll 11 has an inclined wall surface 33 that is positioned below the center 0 of the rotation shaft 13, is made to face upward, and extends from the dust wrap 17 to the outer end of the fixed wrap 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke WATABE, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO, Yoshio KOBAYASHI, Hiroaki SAITO
  • Patent number: 11585335
    Abstract: A gas compressor includes inverters, a plurality of compressor units and a control device for controlling each of the inverters. The control device increases the number of compressor bodies to be operated after confirming that the rotational speed of the operational motors will reach a steady value immediately after causing the number of the compressor bodies to be operated to increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Aoyagi, Akihiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Saito, Fuminori Kato, Daichi Oka
  • Patent number: 11542951
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gas compressor capable of reducing variation in discharge pressure through control of the number of compressor bodies and a control method for the gas compressor. In order to solve the problem, this gas compressor includes a plurality of compressor units each having a compressor body, a motor for driving the compressor body, and an inverter for controlling a rotational speed of the motor, and a control device for controlling the inverters. Discharge pipes of the compressor bodies converge on one main discharge pipe. A drive frequency of the motor of each compressor body is controlled by the corresponding inverter, whereby a pressure of each discharge pipe is controlled and a discharge pressure of the main discharge pipe is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Norio Aoyagi, Hiroaki Saito, Fuminori Kato, Daichi Oka
  • Publication number: 20220349400
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a scroll-type fluid machine for which maintenance can easily be performed in necessary locations, and a maintenance method for said fluid machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Fuminori KATO, Shumpei YAMAZAKI, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO, Takanori EMI
  • Patent number: 11469643
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a rotor, a stator, a rotary shaft, an end bracket, an orbiting scroll, a fixed scroll, a suction type cooling fan, and a discharge brush. The discharge brush is fixed to the end bracket facing the cooling fan by a fixing member attached in a radial direction relative to the rotary shaft, and one end of which is in contact with the rotary shaft, in a space secured by the clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 11441559
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine includes a main body and a motor unit. The main body unit configured to compress a fluid. The motor unit configured to drive the main body unit. The main body unit and the motor unit are connected via the eccentric portion. The main body casing and the motor cover are fastened with a fastening member. The motor unit includes a main bearing that is fixed to an inside of the motor cover by a flange. The main bearing is configured to support the shaft and is located between the flange and an end bracket on an opposite side of the main body unit with respect to the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Takanori Emi
  • Publication number: 20220252065
    Abstract: A fluid machine device includes a plurality of fluid machines that discharge a fluid; a worn state detection unit that detects a worn state of the fluid machine; a pressure detection unit that measures a pressure from the fluid machines; and a control unit that controls the plurality of fluid machines. The control unit determines whether or not there is the fluid machine that is worn, and performs control to start operation of the fluid machine that is not worn when the pressure is insufficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO
  • Patent number: 11401934
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a rotary displacement compressor capable of determining whether a check valve has failed, and preventing the life of a compressor body from being reduced when a compression operation stops. In order to achieve the object, a rotary displacement compressor includes a compressor body that compresses a medium by reducing a volume of the medium using rotation; a discharge pipe through which a compressed medium, which is discharged through a discharge port of the compressor body, flows; a check valve that shuts off the compressed medium flowing backward to the compressor body; and a backflow control valve that allows a predetermined rate of the compressed medium to flow backward. The check valve and the backflow control valve are disposed in series via the discharge pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Saito, Akihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11251677
    Abstract: Provided are: a motor for which high strength can be obtained in a motor casing; and a compressor that uses the motor. This motor 10 has: a rotating shaft 12 provided in a rotatable manner; a rotor 32 that rotates integrally with the rotating shaft 12; a stator 31 that rotationally drives the rotor 32; and a motor casing 14 that is a cylindrical body for accommodating the rotor 32 and the stator 31, and has, on the outer circumferential surface thereof, ribs 22 extending in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 11193482
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an air compressing apparatus capable of establishing a sufficient air-filling rate while reducing noise at the initiation of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijia Ren, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto
  • Publication number: 20210310479
    Abstract: Even when abnormal heat generation occurs during operation in a state where the temperature of a compressor is not increased, abnormality cannot be detected. A fluid machine includes a fluid machine body; a motor that drives the fluid machine body; a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the fluid machine body; and a control unit that controls the fluid machine body. The control unit changes a temperature threshold value based on at least one of a pressure of a fluid discharged by the fluid machine body and a frequency of a voltage input into the motor, and issues a notification when the temperature of the compressor body measured by the temperature sensor exceeds the temperature threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO, Daichi OKA
  • Publication number: 20210289670
    Abstract: A package-type fluid machine includes a compressor unit including a compression portion that compresses a fluid, a motor that drives the compression portion, and a cooling fan that is driven by the motor; a machine chamber in which the compressor unit is disposed; an inverter chamber which is adjacent to the machine chamber and in which an inverter is disposed; a partition wall that partitions off the machine chamber from the inverter chamber and has an opening; and an inverter intake port that is disposed in the inverter chamber to take in a cooling gas. The cooling fan is disposed on a side of the machine chamber, the opening being located on the side. The cooling fan is driven to cause the cooling gas to flow from the inverter intake port to the opening to cool the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Fuminori KATO, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO, Hiroaki SAITO, Daichi OKA, Akihiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11085444
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll-type fluid machine that prevents wear of the parts of the fluid machine and improves the reliability thereof by reducing the amount of dust that reaches a face seal. The present invention comprises a revolving scroll that includes an end plate and a lap part provided to the end plate, and that moves in a revolving manner; a fixed scroll that includes an end plate, a lap part provided to the end plate such that a compression chamber is formed between itself and the lap part of the revolving scroll, and a flange that opposes the end plate of the revolving scroll; and a face seal that is provided between the flange of the fixed scroll and the end plate of the revolving scroll, and that seals a space between the fixed scroll and the revolving scroll, with the scroll-type fluid machine further comprising a shield part that suppresses dust from reaching the face seal from the outside in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Sho Watanabe