Patents Assigned to Sanden Holdings Corporation
  • Patent number: 11607926
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle air-conditioning system configured so that air-cooling/heating can be efficiently performed. The system (10, 20, 30, 40) includes a vapor compression heat pump unit (HP) having at least a compressor (CP), a condenser (CD), an expansion mechanism (EX), and an evaporator (EV) on a refrigerant circuit (RC), a brine flow path network (BC) having multiple pumps (PC, PH) and multiple flow path switching valves (TV1 to TV8, V1 to V9), and a vehicle indoor air-conditioning unit (AC) having an air duct (AD) and multiple vehicle indoor heat exchangers (HXC1, HXC2) arranged in series in the air duct. Upon actuation in an air-cooling mode or an air-heating mode accompanied by neither dehumidification nor defrosting, brine flows in series in the multiple vehicle indoor heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220320995
    Abstract: An inverter device is provided which is capable of effectively eliminating or suppressing common mode noise in consideration of the influence of a dead time by using the function of a PWM signal generating unit. A control device 21 includes a phase voltage command calculating unit 33 which calculates three-phase modulation voltage command values for generating voltages to be applied to respective phases of a motor 8, and a PWM signal generating unit 36 which, based on the three-phase modulation voltage command values and a single carrier signal, generates a PWM signal to PWM-control an inverter circuit 28. The PWM signal generating unit 36 corrects the three-phase modulation voltage command values output by the phase voltage command calculating unit 33 to thereby cancel a change in the phase voltage applied to the motor 8 by a change in another phase voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuki KASHIHARA
  • Patent number: 11283386
    Abstract: There is provided a power conversion device capable of eliminating a disadvantage of a sharp temperature rise in a switching element by using a discontinuous modulation method. The power conversion device includes a phase voltage command operation unit 33 which calculates a sinusoidal modulation voltage command value to be applied to a motor 8, an inter-line modulation operation unit 34 which, based on the sinusoidal modulation voltage command value, calculates a discontinuous modulation voltage command value for allowing an ON/OFF state of a switching element of one phase of a three-phase inverter circuit 28 to be fixed, and modulating ON/OFF states of switching elements of other two phases, and a PWM signal generation unit 36. The inter-line modulation operation unit sets a switching density of the switching element of at least one phase to a value different from that of the other phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuki Kashihara, Takahiro Saigusa
  • Patent number: 11223296
    Abstract: There is provided a power conversion device capable of effectively reducing a surge voltage generated by a parasitic inductance of a circuit. The power conversion device 1 is configured to operate a motor 8 driving a compression mechanism 7 of an electric compressor 16 by means of a three-phase inverter circuit 28 having a plurality of switching elements 18A to 18F. The power conversion device calculates a surge voltage value of each phase from a parasitic inductance of the circuit and phase currents iu, iv, and iw of the motor 8 to derive a phase in which the surge voltage value becomes maximum, and suppresses the switching of the switching elements 18A-18F of the phase having the maximum surge voltage value by a discontinuous modulation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuki Kashihara
  • Publication number: 20210313864
    Abstract: There is provided an electric compressor capable of achieving an effective and stable noise reduction effect by making a ground pattern of a control device conductive to a housing at a short distance. An electric compressor 1 is configured so that a control board 17 and an HV filter board 18 of a control device 4 are accommodated in an accommodating section 9 configured in a housing 3, and the accommodating section 9 is closed by a cover member constituting a part of the housing 3. Ground patterns 26 to 28 configured on the control board 17 and the HV filter board 18 are made conductive to the cover member or a side wall 3A of the accommodating section 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dongyuan ZHANG, Koji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210300155
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle air conditioning apparatus being capable of cooling, heating, and dehumidifying the vehicle compartment. A communication path is formed to allow communication between part of the first ventilation flue downstream of the heat absorbing unit in an air flow direction and part of the second ventilation flue upstream of the heat releasing unit in the air flow direction. The communication path is opened and closed by a communication path opening and closing damper. By this means, it is possible to perform the dehumidifying operation by opening the communication path without need of devices such as a dedicated outdoor heat exchanger, and a solenoid valve and a four-way valve to switch the refrigerant flow path in the refrigerant circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuaki KANOU
  • Patent number: 11021044
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner device of a so-called heat pump system to accurately perform efficient and comfortable heating of a vehicle interior. The vehicle air conditioner device includes a heating medium circulating circuit 23 which heats air to be supplied from an air flow passage 3 to a vehicle interior. A controller calculates a required heating capability TGQhtr of the heating medium circulating circuit to complement a shortage of an actual heating capability Qhp to a required heating capability TGQ of a radiator 4. The controller calculates a decrease amount ?Qhp of the actual heating capability Qhp from a difference ?TXO between a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXO of an outdoor heat exchanger 7 and a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXObase in non-frosting, and adds the decrease amount ?Qhp to the required heating capability TGQhtr to execute the heating by the heating medium circulating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kouhei Yamashita, Megumi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 10953724
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air-conditioning device in which a refrigerant subcool degree in a radiator is appropriately controlled, so that comfortable and efficient vehicle interior air conditioning is achievable. The vehicle air-conditioning device executes a heating mode in which a controller lets a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated by an outdoor expansion valve 6, and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7. In the heating mode, the vehicle air-conditioning device controls a refrigerant subcool degree SC of the radiator 4 by the outdoor expansion valve 6. On a basis of a radiator inlet air temperature THin that is a temperature of the air flowing into the radiator 4, the controller corrects a target subcool degree TGSC that is a target value of the refrigerant subcool degree SC in the radiator 4 in a lowering direction, as the radiator inlet air temperature THin rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kouhei Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10946719
    Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning device may achieve comfortable heating of a vehicle interior by starting a compressor, an indoor blower and heat generating means at appropriate timing. The vehicle air-conditioning device includes a compressor which compresses a refrigerant, a radiator disposed in an air flow passage to let the refrigerant radiate heat, a heat absorber which lets the refrigerant absorb heat, and an indoor blower which blows the air through the air flow passage. The vehicle interior is heated by heat radiated from the radiator. The vehicle air-conditioning device includes a heating medium-air heat exchanger of a heating medium circulating circuit disposed in the air flow passage to heat air supplied to the vehicle interior. On a basis of an outdoor air temperature, the timing to start the compressor, the indoor blower and the heating medium circulating circuit is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi
  • Patent number: 10941769
    Abstract: An object is to optimize a back pressure pressing an orbiting scroll against a fixed scroll in a scroll compressor to which an injection cycle is applied. A back pressure control valve (400) adjusting back pressure (Pm) in a back pressure chamber (H4), adjusts the opening degree of a first valve body (424) increasing and decreasing the flow rate of lubricant which has been separated from gaseous refrigerant compressed in a compression chamber and is supplied to the back pressure chamber (H4), in accordance with suction pressure (Ps) in a suction chamber (H1), discharge pressure (Pd) in a discharge chamber (H2), and injection pressure (Pinj). Then, the back pressure control valve (400) increases and decreases the lubricant flow rate in accordance with injection pressure (Pinj) as well as suction pressure (Ps) and discharge pressure (Pd), to adjust back pressure to target back pressure varying in accordance with injection pressure (Pinj).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuo Teshima, Yoshio Kowada, Hiroshi Honda, Yoshinobu Maemura, Misako Kaburagi
  • Patent number: 10840750
    Abstract: There is provided a compressor motor in which a teeth member and a yoke member are bonded while inhibiting deformation of bridge portions and which is capable of decreasing drop of torque due to a leakage magnetic flux. A stator is constituted of a teeth member 26 in which inner end portions of adjacent teeth 27 are continuous in a bridge portion and on which wires are wounded, and a yoke member 28 bonded to an outer side of the teeth member to form a magnetic path, the yoke member includes press-fitting concave regions 32 which are opened inwardly and into which outer end portions of the teeth are press-fitted, and inner side surfaces 32A of the press-fitting concave regions which face each other possess projecting shapes, respectively, and both side surfaces 27B of each of the outer end portions of the teeth are formed in a recessed shape which matches the shape of the inner side surfaces of the press-fitting concave regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kobayashi, Takahiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10712066
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner of a heat pump system in which there is prevented or inhibited frosting to an outdoor heat exchanger when heating in a vehicle interior is beforehand performed during plug-in, thereby achieving comfortable heating in the vehicle interior during running and also extending a running distance. The vehicle air conditioner includes an injection circuit 40 which distributes a refrigerant flowing out from a radiator 4 to return the refrigerant to the middle of compression by a compressor 2, a controller has frosting estimation means for estimating the frosting to an outdoor heat exchanger 7, and when a heating mode is executed in a state where a power is supplied from an external power source to the compressor 2 or to a battery which supplies the power to drive the compressor 2, the injection circuit 40 performs gas injection to the compressor 2 in a case where the frosting to the outdoor heat exchanger 7 is predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Miyakoshi, Kenichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10703169
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner of a heat pump system in which there is prevented or inhibited frosting to an outdoor heat exchanger when heating in a vehicle interior is beforehand performed during plug-in, thereby realizing comfortable heating in the vehicle interior during running and also extending a running distance. The vehicle air conditioner includes a heating medium circulating circuit 23 to heat air to be supplied from an air flow passage 3 to a vehicle interior, a controller has frosting estimation means for estimating frosting to an outdoor heat exchanger 7, and when a heating mode is executed in a state where a power is supplied from an external power source to a compressor 2 or a battery which supplies the power to drive the compressor 2, the controller executes the heating by a heating medium circulating circuit 23, in a case where the frosting to the outdoor heat exchanger 7 is predicted on the basis of the estimation of the frosting estimation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Miyakoshi, Kenichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200191449
    Abstract: A magnetic heat pump device (1) has magnetic working bodies (11A to 11D), a permanent magnet (6), a circulating pump (24), rotary valves (8, 9), and heat exchangers (21, 28). A plurality of types of magnetic working substances (13A to 13C) is charged into a duct (12) of each of the magnetic working bodies in the ascending order of the Curie points from a low-temperature end (16) to a high-temperature end (14), whereby the magnetic working substances are connected in cascade and a dimension in which each of the magnetic working substances is charged is made to correspond to a predetermined specific temperature range in which the temperature change is large thereof. By effectively connecting the plurality of types of the magnetic working substances in cascade, required cooling and heat dissipation temperatures can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sangchul BAE
  • Patent number: 10670012
    Abstract: Variable displacement compressor 100 has second control valve 350 for adjusting the opening degree of pressure release passage 146. Second control valve 350 includes partition member 351, which partitions valve chamber 351c and back pressure chamber 351d, and has side wall 351a surrounding valve portion 352b of spool 352, and end wall 351b connected to one end side of side wall 351a and through which shaft portion 352b of spool 352 penetrates. Furthermore, in second control valve 350, end surface 351a1 opposite to the end wall of the side wall of partition member 351 abuts on the wall surface opposite to the back pressure chamber of the valve chamber 351c. When the valve portion 352b of spool 352 abuts on the wall surface, pressure receiving portion 352a of spool 352 abuts on end wall 351b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukihiko Taguchi
  • Patent number: 10625560
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner which is capable of enlarging an effective range of a dehumidifying and heating mode to environmental conditions and smoothly dehumidifying and heating a vehicle interior. A vehicle air conditioner 1 executes a dehumidifying and heating mode in which a controller lets a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, and decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in a heat absorber 9 and an outdoor heat exchanger 7, the controller decreases an outdoor blower voltage FANVout of an outdoor blower 15 and decreases an air volume into the outdoor blower 15 in a case where a temperature Te of the heat absorber 9 is high even when the controller adjusts a valve position of an outdoor expansion valve 6 into a lower limit of controlling in a situation in which a temperature TCI of the radiator 4 is satisfactory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Miyakoshi, Kenichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10611213
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicular air-conditioning device of a so-called heat pump system which eliminates or decreases noise generated when an opening/closing valve opens at a changing time of an operation mode. The vehicular air-conditioning device executes a heating mode to let a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, decompress the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated, and then let the refrigerant absorb heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7, and a dehumidifying and heating mode to open a solenoid valve 22 in a state of the heating mode, decompress at least a part of the refrigerant flowing out from the radiator and then let the refrigerant absorb heat in a heat absorber 9. When the heating mode changes to the dehumidifying and heating mode, the controller decreases a radiator pressure or a pressure difference before and after the solenoid valve to a predetermined value or less, and then opens the solenoid valve 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kouhei Yamashita, Hidenori Takei
  • Patent number: 10562375
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner device of a so-called heat pump system to accurately perform efficient and comfortable heating of a vehicle interior. The vehicle air conditioner device includes a heating medium circulating circuit 23 which heats air to be supplied from an air flow passage 3 to a vehicle interior. A controller calculates a required heating capability TGQhtr of the heating medium circulating circuit to complement a shortage of an actual heating capability Qhp to a required heating capability TGQ of a radiator 4. The controller calculates a decrease amount ?Qhp of the actual heating capability Qhp from a difference ?TXO between a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXO of an outdoor heat exchanger 7 and a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXObase in non-frosting, and adds the decrease amount ?Qhp to the required heating capability TGQhtr to execute the heating by the heating medium circulating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kouhei Yamashita, Megumi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 10538144
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioning device of a heat pump system which delays proceeding of frosting onto an outdoor heat exchanger, thereby eliminating or inhibiting deterioration of a heating capability due to the frosting. The vehicle air conditioning device executes a heating mode in which a controller lets a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated, and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7, and on the basis of a difference ?TXO=(TXObase?TXO) between a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXObase of the outdoor heat exchanger 7 in non-frosting and a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXO of the outdoor heat exchanger 7, the controller corrects a target subcool degree TGSC that is a target value of a subcool degree of the refrigerant in the radiator 4 in an increasing direction in accordance with increase of the difference ?TXO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kouhei Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10525794
    Abstract: There is disclosed an air conditioning device of a so-called heat pump system which efficiently and comfortably heats a vehicle interior. In a vehicle air conditioning device 1, a controller executes a heating mode in which a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiates heat in a radiator 4 and the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated is decompressed and then absorbs heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7. The vehicle air conditioning device includes a heating medium circulating circuit 23 to heat air to be supplied from an air flow passage 3 into the vehicle interior, and the controller executes the heating by a heating medium-air heat exchanger 40 of the heating medium circulating circuit 23, when a heating capability by the radiator 4 runs short.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi