Patents Assigned to SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20220201945
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for mushroom cultivation according to an embodiment includes an air passageway (10) having an intake opening for taking air thereinto, and a supply opening connected to a cultivation chamber (100) for cultivating a mushroom; a temperature control apparatus (20) that controls a temperature of air flowing through the air passageway (10), and a return passageway (30) for returning air in the cultivation chamber (100) to the air passageway (10) between the intake opening and a position at which the temperature control apparatus (20) controls air in temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Syunji YAMAGUCHI, Koichiro AOKI, Kenji NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11365922
    Abstract: A temperature control device for controlling a temperature of a temperature adjustment target part is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seiichiro Sakai, Katsutoshi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11365907
    Abstract: A part of a gas-phase mixed refrigerant compressed by a compressor (20) is condensed by a first condenser (21). Then, the mixed refrigerant is separated by a first gas-liquid separator (22) into a gas-phase first fluid portion (I) and a liquid-phase second fluid portion (II) which has been condensed into a liquid phase. A part of the gas-phase first fluid portion (I) is further condensed by a second condenser (23). Then, the first fluid portion is further separated by a second gas-liquid separator (24) into a gas-phase third fluid portion (III) and a liquid-phase fourth fluid portion (IV) which has been condensed into a liquid phase. Thereafter, the gas-phase third fluid portion (III) is condensed and then expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masamichi Umeki, Hideaki Furumoto, Shigeo Aoki, Ryo Moriya, Hirofumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220186999
    Abstract: A refrigerant condition detection device (40A) according to an embodiment includes: a temperature information acquisition unit (41) that acquires a temperature of a refrigerant flowing out from the condenser of a refrigeration circuit having a compressor, the condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator, and also acquires a temperature of a cooling fluid before it cools the refrigerant in the condenser; and a refrigerant condition determination unit (42) that determines that a leakage or shortage of the refrigerant occurs, when a difference between the temperature of the refrigerant and the temperature of the cooing fluid, which are acquired by the temperature information acquisition unit (41), exceeds a threshold value previously recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Syunji YAMAGUCHI, Komei MINEHARA, Kenta FUKAI
  • Patent number: 11333375
    Abstract: An air conditioner is provided, including an air flow path, a cooling unit disposed in the air flow path that cools air introduced into the air flow path to condense vapor contained in the air, and a humidification unit that humidifies the air and which includes a storage tank for storing water and a heater for heating water in the storage tank. A discharged-water storage unit is also provided, which stores water discharged from the cooling unit and water discharged from the humidification unit, and an exhaust pipe is connected to the storage tank and configured to discharge water in the storage tank to the discharged-water storage unit. An exhaust valve is disposed midway on the exhaust pipe, and an overflow pipe connects the storage tank and a part of the exhaust pipe on the downstream side of the exhaust valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kenji Nishimura, Yasuhiro Naohara
  • Patent number: 11326709
    Abstract: The present invention prevents that a diaphragm boss drops off from a diaphragm when a movable core is moved up. The present invention is a diaphragm type of solenoid valve including: a main body (10) having a diaphragm seating surface (12) in which a flow channel is opened; a diaphragm (23) configured to be seated on the diaphragm seating surface (12) of the main body (10); a diaphragm boss (22) holding the diaphragm (23); a movable core (21) holding the diaphragm boss (22); and a coil containing body (40) configured to apply an electromagnetic force to the movable core (21) in order to move the movable core in a direction away from the diaphragm seating surface (12) of the main body such that the diaphragm (23) is released from the diaphragm seating surface (12); wherein the diaphragm (23) is integrally formed with the diaphragm boss (22) by a baking process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Ryoji Ichiyama
  • Patent number: 11293830
    Abstract: The present invention includes: an inspection table configured to support a three-way valve device in such a state that a first opening and a second opening are sealed by a sealing member; a communication hole provided through the inspection table and configured to hermetically communicate with a third opening in a state wherein the three-way valve device is supported by the inspection table; an enclosure configured to cover the three-way valve device to form a sealed space except for the communication part; a helium-gas supply path for supplying a helium gas into the three-way valve device via the communication part and the third opening; a leak tester device configured to determine whether or not there is a leakage of the helium gas into the sealed space; and a helium-gas suction discharge path for suctioning and discharging the helium gas supplied via the third opening and the communication part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hirotaka Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20220075395
    Abstract: A valve unit includes a first solenoid valve for a first fluid in a first channel; a first branch channel branched from the first channel on the upstream side of the first supply-side solenoid valve; a first branch-side switching valve for the first fluid in the first branch channel; a second solenoid valve for a second fluid in a second channel; a second branch channel branched from the second channel on the upstream side of the second solenoid valve; a solenoid switching valve for the second fluid in the second branch channel; a reception channel to receive a fluid from a first outlet opening or a second outlet opening to flow through a predetermined area and returns; first and second circulation channels bifurcated from the reception channel; a first circulation-side solenoid valve for the first circulation channel; and a second circulation-side solenoid valve for the second circulation channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shigehiko ONO, Ryoji ICHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210396328
    Abstract: The present invention prevents that a diaphragm boss drops off from a diaphragm when a movable core is moved up. The present invention is a diaphragm type of solenoid valve including: a main body (10) having a diaphragm seating surface (12) in which a flow channel is opened; a diaphragm (23) configured to be seated on the diaphragm seating surface (12) of the main body (10); a diaphragm boss (22) holding the diaphragm (23); a movable core (21) holding the diaphragm boss (22); and a coil containing body (40) configured to apply an electromagnetic force to the movable core (21) in order to move the movable core in a direction away from the diaphragm seating surface (12) of the main body such that the diaphragm (23) is released from the diaphragm seating surface (12); wherein the diaphragm (23) is integrally formed with the diaphragm boss (22) by a baking process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ryoji ICHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11204193
    Abstract: Leakage of a heating medium from a condenser or an evaporator can be quickly detected by a simple structure. A refrigeration apparatus 1 according to the present invention is formed by connecting a compressor 11, a condenser 12, an expansion valve 13 and an evaporator 14 by a pipe 15 such that a heating medium circulates therethrough in this order. The refrigeration apparatus 1 further includes a pressure detection unit 31, 32 that detects a pressure of the heating medium flowing through the pipe 15, and a control unit 41 that determines that leakage of the heating medium from the condenser 12 or the evaporator 14 has occurred, when a pressure detected by the pressure detection unit 31, 32 becomes not more than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Daisuke Aikawa, Hirofumi Komori
  • Patent number: 11156532
    Abstract: A status monitoring apparatus includes information obtaining means to obtain detected information items that are continuously detected; image data generating means to partition the detected information items by frames at predetermined time intervals, and configured to generate, for each frame, two-dimensional image data representing a distribution of detected information items in the frame, with an axis of abscissa being a time axis and an axis of ordinate being an axis showing a value/amount of the detected information items; and status detecting means to perform a machine learning based on the two-dimensional image data generated by the image data generating means to generate a correct label for judging whether the two-dimensional image data show at least a warning sign of failure, and to judge that at least a warning sign of failure has occurred in the detected information items, when the two-dimensional image data corresponding to the correct label are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seiichiro Sakai, Yasuhiro Naohara
  • Patent number: 11112014
    Abstract: Provided are a two-way valve for flow rate control and a temperature control device using the same, which can linearly control a flow rate of a fluid with good accuracy as compared to a switching valve in which a communication hole is simply formed in a valve element so as to open a flow passage through alignment with an outflow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumichi Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11105523
    Abstract: An air conditioner including; an air flow path through which air flows; a plate having an air through hole installed in a downstream opening of the air flow path; and a humidifier disposed on the air flow path and capable of supplying vapor into the air flow path. The air flow path has a horizontal channel provided with the downstream opening and extending along a horizontal direction, and the humidifier is disposed on the horizontal channel. The humidifier includes a water storage tank opened upward to an inside of the horizontal channel, and a heater that heats the water in the storage tank. The air conditioner further includes a moisture absorption member that extends in an up and down direction, above a wall part of the storage tank on the side of the plate, or diagonally thereabove on the side of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20210262715
    Abstract: A temperature control device for controlling a temperature of a temperature adjustment target part is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Seiichiro SAKAI, Katsutoshi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11098816
    Abstract: The main component of a valve body is a ternary fluororubber of a vinylidene fluoride/tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymer, the JIS K 6253 hardness of the valve body is 50-90, the tensile strength of the valve body is 10-35 MPa, and the elongation at break of the valve body is 100-500%. Relative to the inside diameter of a gas discharge channel provided to an inner-side area of the valve seat, the distance by which a movable core is moved by an electromagnetic coil is within a range of 0.1 times to 0.3 times, the diameter of the valve body is within a range of 1.5 times to 3.0 times, the thickness of the valve body is 0.3 times or greater, the protruding height of the valve seat is 0.3 times or greater, and the inside diameter of an annular gas accumulating space is 2.0 times to 5.0 times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ryoji Ichiyama, Hidemitsu Ooka, Hiroki Yajima
  • Patent number: 11073309
    Abstract: Control temperatures for a temperature control target are controlled in a plurality of steps. A lower temperature fluid supplied from first supply means (101) and a higher temperature fluid supplied from second supply means (102) are mixed together in a first three-way valve (103) for flow rate control to form a fluid for temperature control, and the fluid for temperature control is fed to the temperature control target. The fluid for temperature control returned from the temperature control target is distributed by a second three-way valve (108) for flow rate control so as to be returned to the first supply means and the second supply means. The lower temperature fluid prevented from being supplied from the first supply means to the first three-way valve for flow rate control is returned to the first supply means by a third three-way valve (112) for flow rate control through a bypass flow passage together with the fluid for temperature control distributed by the second three-way valve for flow rate control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Seki
  • Patent number: 11067315
    Abstract: A temperature control system includes: first and second refrigerator units; a first fluid flow apparatus that allows a first fluid to flow therethrough and that is cooled by the first refrigerator unit; a second fluid flow apparatus that allows a second fluid to flow therethrough and that is cooled by the second refrigerator unit; and a valve unit that is configured to allow the first fluid or the second fluid to selectively flow out therefrom. The first refrigerator unit has, in a medium-temperature-side refrigerator, a medium-temperature-side first expansion valve and a medium-temperature-side second expansion valve. A medium-temperature-side second evaporator corresponding to the medium-temperature-side second expansion valve and a low-temperature-side condenser of a low-temperature-side refrigerator constitute a cascade condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masakatsu Yamawaki, Teiichirou Ueda, Shigehiko Ono, Ryoji Ichiyama
  • Publication number: 20210207723
    Abstract: A diaphragm having an outer surface of a bottom wall that closes a cylindrical circumferential wall constituting a main valve disc part forms a contact surface to be in contact with a valve seat. An annular groove is formed in an inner circumferential portion of a membrane part protruding from the circumferential wall. The groove is concaved to the other axial side from the one axial side, and a sectional shape of the groove is arcuate. A surface of the inner circumferential portion and a surface of the outer circumferential portion in the membrane part are coplanar, the surfaces facing the other axial side. An axial thickness of the outer circumferential portion is ?-? an axial thickness of the main valve disc part, and a minimum axial thickness of the inner circumferential portion is ΒΌ-? the axial thickness of the outer circumferential portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hidemitsu OOKA
  • Publication number: 20210140685
    Abstract: A fluid temperature control system cools a fluid by means of a multiple refrigeration apparatus including a high-temperature-side refrigerator (100), a medium-temperature-side refrigerator (200) and a low-temperature-side refrigerator (300). The medium-temperature-side refrigerator (200) in the multiple refrigeration apparatus has a medium-temperature-side first evaporator (204) and a medium-temperature-side second evaporator (224). A high-temperature-side evaporator (104) of the high-temperature-side refrigerator (100) and a medium-temperature-side condenser (202) of the medium-temperature-side refrigerator (200) constitute a first cascade condenser (CC1). The medium-temperature-side second evaporator (224) of the medium-temperature-side refrigerator (200) and a low-temperature-side condenser (302) of the low-temperature-side refrigerator (300) constitute a second cascade condenser (CC2). The medium-temperature-side refrigerant and the low-temperature-side refrigerant are the same refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masakatsu YAMAWAKI, Teiichirou UEDA
  • Patent number: 10989319
    Abstract: Provided is a three-way valve for flow rate control capable of suppressing an increase in driving torque for a valve body, which is caused due to contact between the valve body and a valve port forming member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsushi Kusumoto, Koji Matsuda