Patents Assigned to Noritz Corporation
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Publication number: 20220196284Abstract: A combustion device including a chamber, a burner, a fan case, and a fan is provided. The chamber has a top wall. On the top wall, an inflow port penetrating through the top wall along a first direction and in communication with an internal space of the chamber is formed. The burner is attached to the chamber, so as to be spaced apart from and face the top wall in the first direction. In the fan case, a discharge port and an intake port penetrating through the fan case along the first direction and in communication with an internal space of the fan case are formed. The discharge port is connected with the inflow port. The fan is provided in the internal space of the fan case. A rotation axis of the fan is along the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsuya KARAKI
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Patent number: 11358208Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tube expansion portions provided respectively on a plurality of heat transfer tubes such that outer peripheral surfaces of the heat transfer tubes are respectively pressed against inner peripheral surfaces of a plurality of first holes provided in a side wall portion of a case, and a plurality of first concave surface portions provided in an outer surface of the tube expansion portion so that first gaps, into which brazing material of a first brazed portion advances, are formed between the outer surface of the tube expansion portion and the inner peripheral surface of the first hole. At least one of the plurality of first concave surface portions is positioned in an outside peripheral surface portion of the outer peripheral surface of the heat transfer tube. According to this configuration, the strength with which the heat transfer tubes are attached to the case can be increased while simplifying a manufacturing operation and reducing the manufacturing cost.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventor: Yuta Tsuji
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Patent number: 11359838Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a tube expansion portion formed by expanding a heat transfer tube so that an outer peripheral surface of the heat transfer tube is pressed against an inner peripheral surface of a hole provided in a side wall portion of a case. The tube expansion portion includes first and second bulge portions positioned respectively on the inside and the outside of the side wall portion so as to sandwich the side wall portion in an axial length direction of the heat transfer tube and configured such that respective outer peripheral surfaces thereof partially bulge outward in a radial direction of the heat transfer tube, an end portion tip end of the heat transfer tube is positioned apart from the second bulge portion, and the end portion tip end and a part in the vicinity thereof are expanded so as to be included in a part of the tube expansion portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Se, Shoji Okuda, Hideyuki Fujisawa, Taihei Terasawa, Masaki Kondo
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Publication number: 20220163158Abstract: An air supply duct for fan is used to guide air to an air intake port of a fan, and includes a duct main body portion in which an air passage extending in a predetermined x direction with one end side set as an air inlet port is formed inside, and an air supply port for supplying air travelling through the air passage to the air intake port of the fan is arranged. A peripheral region of the air supply port of the inside of the duct main body portion is surrounded by wall portions in the periphery except for a communication portion with the air passage, and is configured as a space portion for generating air column vibration and having a width in a y direction intersecting the x direction larger than a width of the air passage. A combustion device including the air supply duct is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventor: Keigo Fukunishi
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Patent number: 11339976Abstract: A hot-water supply device includes a hot-water dispenser supplying hot-water, a hot-water supply path supplying the hot-water to a hot-water supply tap, a circulation path carrying out instant hot-water operation which circulates and heats the hot-water remaining in the hot-water supply path, a first clock repeatedly measuring unit times in which a pattern of hot-water usage of a user makes a round, and a flow rate sensor detecting the supply of the hot-water from the hot-water supply tap. The control portion detects, for each of the unit times and based on detection signals of the flow rate sensor, a time zone in which hot-water supply operation is carried out, and reserves, based on a time zone in a first unit time in which the hot-water supply operation is carried out, a time zone in a second unit time following the first unit time for carrying out the instant hot-water operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takahide Hasegawa, Atsushi Ushio, Ryo Takahashi
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Patent number: 11326785Abstract: A heating and hot-water-supply apparatus is provided with: a control unit that performs control on the basis of detection parameters of a plurality of detection means installed at the aforementioned locations and a setting parameter set in an operation unit. The distribution means can adjust the distribution ratio so as to correspond to a heating operation, a hot-water supply operation, and the simultaneous heating and hot-water-supply operation. The control unit prohibits the simultaneous heating and hot-water-supply operation in a case in which the required heating capacity for the hot-water supply operation calculated on the basis of the detection parameters and the setting parameter is equal to or greater than a predetermined standard capacity.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Akihisa Kageyama, Hiroshi Morimoto, Takehito Yokoyama, Yasutaka Kuriyama, Yoshihisa Kitano, Yasushi Morita, Toshihiro Kawachi, Midori Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20220128065Abstract: Provided is a blowing device capable of improving a noise reduction effect as compared with a conventional case, and a combustion device including the blowing device is provided. In a rear side shroud of an impeller configuring a blowing device, a first inclined surface portion that is inclined so as to be located frontward toward the radial outer side is formed in a front surface portion of the rear side shroud in a region close to the outer peripheral edge, while a second inclined surface portion that is inclined so as to be located rearward toward the radial outer side is formed in a front surface portion of the rear side shroud in a region closer to the center than the first inclined surface portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Umakoshi, Mikihiro Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11293702Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes extending in a first direction and aligned in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and a plurality of fins disposed in the first direction. The fins each include a plurality of fin main bodies aligned in the second direction, and a bridging portion connecting two adjacent ones of the fin main bodies. At least one of the fin main bodies is provided with a through hole next to the bridging portion in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Norihide Wada, Takeshi Ohigashi
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Patent number: 11287158Abstract: Provided are a heat exchanger capable of cooling a shell plate and having good assemblability and a hot water apparatus having the same. A primary heat exchanger includes a heat exchanging portion, a shell plate, and a shell pipe portion. The shell plate surrounds the heat exchanging portion. The shell pipe portion is for cooling the shell plate. The shell plate includes a front surface portion and a main body portion. The main body portion is installed on the front surface portion and is formed by bending one sheet of plate into a U shape. The shell pipe portion is bent in a U shape along an inner surface of the main body portion and installed on the inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Kondo, Takeshi Ohigashi
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Publication number: 20220065497Abstract: A water heating apparatus is provided. The water heating apparatus includes a pump and is configured to be able to set a hot-water circulation route to circulate hot water discharged from a heat exchanger to be re-entered into the heat exchanger by operation of the pump. When a state of a hot-water supply operation in which a burner drives combustion is changed to an end state, hot water in the heat exchanger is circulated in the hot-water circulation route to suppress deposition of scale.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Iguchi, Shigeo Sugie
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Patent number: 11262774Abstract: When a voltage signal is input to input terminals as a positive voltage, the voltage conversion circuit generates a control voltage proportional to an input voltage by a voltage-dividing circuit according to resistance elements, a voltage follower circuit according to an operational amplifier, and a voltage-dividing circuit according to resistance elements. When a voltage signal is input to the input terminals as a negative voltage, since the operational amplifier outputs a power supply voltage according to an input of the negative voltage, the voltage conversion circuit generates a predetermined positive voltage obtained by dividing the power supply voltage by the resistance elements as the control voltage. The predetermined positive voltage is higher than a voltage range of the control voltage when the voltage signal is input as the positive voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Ikari, Masahiro Sugibayashi, Yoshifumi Atobe, Naoki Tsuda, Nobuyuki Fushida
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Patent number: 11255550Abstract: Provided is a heating and hot water supply device. The heating and hot water supply device includes: a combustion part; a heat exchanger; a circulation passage; a circulation part; a bypass passage; a distribution means for distributing the heating medium to the circulation passage and the bypass passage; a hot water supply heat exchanger; a water supply passage; and a hot water supply passage (21). The distribution ratio of the distribution means is adjustable so as to correspond to a heating operation, a hot water supply operation, and the simultaneous heating and hot water supply operation. The heating and hot water supply device includes an operation part, which heats the heating medium to one or more heating terminal setting temperatures and circulates the heating medium, and switches a setting of the one or more heating terminal setting temperatures to be increased by a prescribed temperature during the simultaneous heating and hot water supply operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Naoki Tsuda, Akihisa Kageyama, Takehito Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11243033Abstract: A heat exchanger includes fins and a plurality of pairs of cut-and-raised parts. Each pair of the cut-and-raised parts are positioned on both left and right sides in a width direction on a downstream side in a heating gas flowing direction around an outer circumference surface of each of upstream pipe body parts and face a downstream part on the outer circumference surface with a first gap therebetween. A width between upstream end parts of each pair of the cut-and-raised parts is larger than an outer diameter of each of the upstream pipe body parts. In addition, each pair of the cut-and-raised parts are inclined such that a width between downstream end parts becomes smaller than the width between the upstream end parts. A heating gas passing part having a width narrower than a dimension therebetween is provided in a region between two adjacent upstream pipe body parts.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Iguchi
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Publication number: 20220034503Abstract: A premixing flow path forming member of a premixing device includes a member whose attachment mode can be changed, and flow path resistance of a fuel gas flow path can be changed when the attachment mode of the member is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei OGAWA, Keiichi MIURA, Tsuneo FUNABIKI, Tatsuya KARAKI
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Publication number: 20220026066Abstract: A combustion apparatus includes a combustion part, a blower fan, an ignition device, and a control part. The control part selectively performs continuous combustion in which the combustion part is operated to burn continuously and intermittent combustion in which a combustion period and a non-combustion period of the combustion part are repeatedly provided. When the continuous combustion is stopped, the control part extinguishes the combustion part and operates the blower fan to perform a scavenging operation. When the combustion period in the intermittent combustion is ended, the control part extinguishes the combustion part and operates the blower fan to perform a scavenging operation in the non-combustion period. A total air blowing amount of the blower fan in the scavenging operation during the non-combustion period is set to be less than a total air blowing amount of the blower fan in the scavenging operation when the continuous combustion is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Abe, Makoto Kusakabe, Shota Mizuno, Eiji Kanki
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Patent number: 11226133Abstract: [Problem] To provide a water heating apparatus which has a inverse combustion type burner installed within a case for a heat exchanger so as to cause heat to be transferred from an outer peripheral flange of the burner to the heat exchanger case. [Solution] This water heating apparatus is provided with: a fan for supplying combustion air; a chamber case which is connected to the fan and which has set therein a chamber where an air-fuel mixture is formed; a inverse combustion type burner for combusting the air-fuel mixture supplied from the chamber; a heat exchanger in which combustion gas generated by the burner is introduced into a case where water is heated; and sealing member which is installed between a peripheral flange of the chamber case and a peripheral flange of the case, wherein the burner is set inside the case, and an outer peripheral flange of the burner is anchored to an inner wall surface of the case.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventor: Keiichi Miura
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Publication number: 20220003431Abstract: A heating and hot-water supply device includes a combustion means, a heat exchanger, a circulation passage, a circulation means, a bypass passage, a distribution means, a hot-water supply heat exchanger, a water supply passage, a hot-water supply passage, and a control means. The heat exchanger heats a heating heat-medium to a target heat medium temperature. The distribution means distributes the heating heat-medium to the circulation passage and the bypass passage. The control means is capable of adjusting a distribution ratio of the distribution means to be adaptable to a heating operation, a hot-water supply operation, and a simultaneous heating and hot-water supply operation. At the time of transition from the heating operation to the simultaneous heating and hot-water supply operation, in a case where the heating terminal for performing heating is a warm air heater, the control means raises the target heat medium temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Akihisa KAGEYAMA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210394134Abstract: A premixing device includes: a gas flow passage forming member in which an x direction is used as an axial length direction, and a Venturi-shaped gas flow passage into which air can flow in from the outside is formed inside; and a blade portion positioned in the gas flow passage, extending in a y direction, and equipped with a fuel gas outlet. The blade portion includes first and second blade portions spaced apart from each other in a z direction, and an air flow path near the center through which a part of the air flows is formed between these first and second blade portions. At least one of a pair of surfaces of the first and second blade portions facing each other is equipped with an inner bulging portion that bulges in the z direction so as to squeeze a part of the air flow path near the center.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi MIURA, Tsuneo FUNABIKI, Tatsuya KARAKI, Kyohei OGAWA
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Patent number: 11204128Abstract: A first bracket is attached to a heat source apparatus. A second bracket is fixed to a wall. The second bracket has an engagement portion over which the first bracket is hooked. The first bracket has a through hole through which the engagement portion is inserted. The first bracket has a plurality of protruding portions that protrude from an upper end of the through hole into the through hole. The plurality of protruding portions are arranged side by side along the upper end of the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventor: Masaki Sugatani
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Publication number: 20210372633Abstract: A hot water supply device (10) is provided with: a first device (for example, a kitchen remote controller (13)) for performing control relating to hot water supply; a second device (for example, a water heater (11)) that is communicably connected to the first device and performs control relating to hot water supply; and a communication unit that is provided in the first device and can be connected to an external communication network. The first device divides data of control software of the second device acquired from an external device (for example, a server (50)) via the communication unit, into a plurality of parts, and transmits to the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori IMI, Takahiro MAEDA, Takeshi SUGIE