Patents Assigned to SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 10228175
    Abstract: A liquid temperature control apparatus including a heat medium circulation apparatus equipped with a cooling unit having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and a plurality of cooling heat exchangers, and equipped with a heating unit configured to allow a portion of a heat medium flowing out from the compressor toward the condenser to be branched and return the portion of the heat medium to flow into the condenser on the downstream side of the compressor via a heating heat exchanger and a heating amount adjustment valve; and a liquid flow apparatus. A first liquid flow path of the liquid flow apparatus is connected to the first cooling heat exchanger and to the heating heat exchanger. A second liquid flow path is connected to the second cooling heat exchanger. Moreover, an electric heater for heating the liquid allowed to flow is provided in the second liquid flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kita, Kazutomo Ichinoki, Katsuji Uchino
  • Patent number: 10215293
    Abstract: Provided are a three-way valve for flow rate control and a temperature control device using the three-way valve for flow rate control. The three-way valve for flow rate control is capable of controlling a mixture ratio between two kinds of fluids with higher accuracy, as compared to a three-way valve including an inflow port which allows inflow of a high-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, an inflow port which allows inflow of a low-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, an outflow port which allows outflow of a constant-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, and a control valve configured to control the flow rate ratio between the high-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid and the low-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumichi Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20190032849
    Abstract: The present invention is a hydrogen cooling apparatus comprising: a air-cooled condenser disposed on a part of a first coolant passage so as to enable cooling of a first coolant by driving an air-cooling fan; a first heat exchanger enabling cooling of a second coolant by the first coolant, between another part of the first coolant passage and a part of a second coolant passage; and a second heat exchanger enabling cooling of hydrogen by the second coolant, between another part of the second coolant passage and a part of a hydrogen passage. A driving rotational speed of the air-cooling fan is inverter controlled in such a manner that a pressure of the first coolant from the air-cooled condenser to the first heat exchanger is maintained between 1.5 MPa and 1.7 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Atsushi SEKI, Katsutoshi SAKAI, Hirofumi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190017949
    Abstract: A temperature control system includes first and second temperature control devices. In the first temperature control device, a refrigeration circuit of a refrigeration device, which is positioned downstream of an expansion valve and upstream of an evaporator, and a brine circulation path of a brine circulation device, which is positioned on a heating unit, constitutes a refrigeration capacity adjustment mechanism, and cooling is performed by the evaporator of the refrigeration circuit. In the second temperature control device, a refrigeration device includes an injection circuit that bypasses a condensed refrigerant upstream of a compressor, and a hot gas circuit that bypasses a compressed high-temperature refrigerant upstream of a compressor. A part of the brine circulation path of the brine circulation device and an evaporator of the refrigeration device constitute a heating capacity adjustment heat exchanger, and heating or cooling is performed by a load unit of the brine circulation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kazunari HIGASHIDA, Hirofumi KOMORI, Yoshiyuki OKAMOTO, Hideaki FURUMOTO, Tomoaki ITO, Hiroki MORI, Go SHIOTSUKI, Kouji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180328501
    Abstract: Provided are a three-way valve for flow rate control and a temperature control device using the three-way valve for flow rate control. The three-way valve for flow rate control is capable of controlling a mixture ratio between two kinds of fluids with higher accuracy, as compared to a three-way valve including an inflow port which allows inflow of a high-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, an inflow port which allows inflow of a low-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, an outflow port which allows outflow of a constant-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, and a control valve configured to control the flow rate ratio between the high-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid and the low-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumichi HIRAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180274802
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes: a duct including an upstream flow path unit having an inlet through which air is taken in, and a downstream flow path unit provided with an outlet through which the air is discharged; a cooling unit positioned in the upstream flow path unit of the duct and cools the air; and a heating unit that is positioned in the downstream flow path unit of the duct and heats the air. The upstream flow path unit has a partition plate that partitions an inside space thereof into a main-flow flow path and a sub-flow flow path. The cooing unit is positioned in the main-flow flow path. The upstream flow path unit is provided with a flowrate adjusting member that covers at least a part of the sub-flow flow path so as to adjust an opening area of the sub-flow flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji NISHIMURA, Isamu SASAKI, Yosuke IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20180238580
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes: a cooling unit having a compressor operated at a variable operating frequency to adjust a revolving speed thereof, a condenser, an expansion valve and a cooling coil; and a heating unit for causing the heating medium flowing from the compressor toward the condenser to diverge, and to return to flow into the condenser, through a heating coil and a thermal dose adjusting valve disposed on the downstream side thereof; so as to control a temperature of air by the cooling and heating coils. When an opening manipulated variable of the thermal dose adjusting valve exceeds a first threshold value over a period of time, an operating frequency of the compressor is decreased, and when the opening manipulated variable of the thermal dose adjusting valve falls below a smaller, second threshold value, over the said period of time, the operating frequency of the compressor is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke IKEDA, Hideaki FURUMOTO, Hirofumi KOMORI, Takuya ISHIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20180231291
    Abstract: A liquid temperature control apparatus including a heat medium circulation apparatus equipped with a cooling unit having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and a plurality of cooling heat exchangers, and equipped with a heating unit configured to allow a portion of a heat medium flowing out from the compressor toward the condenser to be branched and return the portion of the heat medium to flow into the condenser on the downstream side of the compressor via a heating heat exchanger and a heating amount adjustment valve; and a liquid flow apparatus. A first liquid flow path of the liquid flow apparatus is connected to the first cooling heat exchanger and to the heating heat exchanger. A second liquid flow path is connected to the second cooling heat exchanger. Moreover, an electric heater for heating the liquid allowed to flow is provided in the second liquid flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi KITA, Kazutomo ICHINOKI, Katsuji UCHINO
  • Publication number: 20180217019
    Abstract: An environmental testing apparatus includes a chamber, a cooling unit including a cooling apparatus of a brine that cools the inside of the chamber, a heating unit and a control apparatus. The cooling apparatus includes: a high temperature side cooling circuit including a high temperature side compressor, condenser, high temperature side expansion valve and cascade condenser connected in this order to circulate a high temperature side heating medium; and a low temperature side cooling circuit including a low temperature side compressor, cascade condenser, low temperature side expansion valve and evaporator connected in this order to circulate a low temperature side heating medium. The low temperature side heating medium is cooled by the high temperature side heating medium in the cascade condenser, while the brine is cooled by the low temperature side heating medium in the evaporator. The control apparatus controls a temperature inside the chamber to between ?67.5° C. and 127.5° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki FURUMOTO, Tomoaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20180038620
    Abstract: In the present chiller apparatus, a refrigerant flow path is branchably attached to a lower electrode serving as a large sample table, which copes with a case where the surface area of a sample is large in a configuration in which a plasma treatment device connected to a refrigerant cycle equipped with a heating device is applied. A control device transmits a heating adjustment control signal generated based on a result of a PID arithmetic operation including proportion, integration, and differentiation on a lower electrode refrigerant pipe refrigerant detection temperature detected from a temperature sensor provided in the vicinity of a refrigerant flow path of a heat insulating portion relative to the lower electrode of a lower electrode refrigerant pipe connected to be linked to the refrigerant cycle to a heating device and performs feedback control such that the lower electrode refrigerant pipe refrigerant detection temperature becomes a setting temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SEKI, Seiichiro SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20170357277
    Abstract: A temperature control apparatus is provided, which is capable of, even when it is necessary to perform control by means of valves in a plurality of channels, promptly controlling a temperature of an area to be temperature-controlled promptly to a desired temperature, while avoiding complication and enlargement of the apparatus as a whole. Passage and blockage of a heating medium passing through a first supply channel to a mixing channel, a temperature of the heating medium being controlled by a first temperature regulating unit at a predetermined temperature, and passage and blockage of a heating medium passing through a second supply channel to the mixing channel, a temperature of the heating medium being controlled by a second temperature regulating unit, are controlled by a valve unit. The valve unit includes a first spool valve and a second spool valve, which are coupled through a heat insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigehiko ONO
  • Patent number: 9739514
    Abstract: Chiller apparatus performs temperature-control operation without placing excessive load on an electric compressor even when temperature difference between set and work temperatures are small; little temperature difference between refrigerant intake side and refrigerant discharge side of an evaporator in freezing-cycle, at time of temperature-control setting with small temperature difference between set and work temperatures; PCB2 performs PID operation on refrigerant detection temperature by sensor near the side of refrigerant inflow of a heating apparatus in a refrigerant-cycle; a PCB1 performs serial communication of a drive control signal for an inverter generated based on a result, and controls the compressor rotational speed according to work temperature within range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Atsushi Seki, Shigeo Aoki, Fumiyuki Hosoi
  • Patent number: 9574709
    Abstract: A cooled-hydrogen supply station includes: a first coolant passage through which a first coolant circulates; a water-cooled refrigerator unit disposed on a part of the first coolant passage to cool the first coolant; a second coolant passage through which a second coolant flows; a first heat exchanger for cooling the second coolant by the first coolant, between another part of the first coolant passage and a part of the second coolant passage; a hydrogen storage unit; a hydrogen passage for transporting hydrogen stored in the hydrogen storage unit; and a second heat exchanger for cooling the hydrogen by the second coolant, between another part of the second coolant passage and a part of the hydrogen passage. The hydrogen is cooled down to a temperature of ?43° C. to ?20° C. by the second heat exchanger, and a hydrogen cooling power for cooling hydrogen to ?40° C. is between 13.5 kW and 16.5 kW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Seki, Tsuyoshi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 9360261
    Abstract: An air conditioning method that reduces the amount of cooling energy and the amount of dehumidification energy to approximately a limiting amount, and also reduces the amount of humidifying energy to approximately a limiting amount. If an absolute humidity of the process air is calculated by use of measurements of changes in work conditions and variations in atmospheric pressure, the required amount of air to be cooled and dehumidified flowing downstream through the main-stream duct and the required amount of humidification can be determined. Therefore, by outputting a signal indicative of the required amount of cooled-dehumidified air to actuate a controller of flow-rate regulating means, and outputting a signal indicative of the required amount of humidification to actuate a controller of humidifying means, the amount of air to be cooled and dehumidified can be reduced to the required amount of cooled-dehumidified air close to the limiting amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20160084553
    Abstract: Chiller apparatus performs temperature-control operation without placing excessive load on an electric compressor even when temperature difference between set and work temperatures are small; little temperature difference between refrigerant intake side and refrigerant discharge side of an evaporator in freezing-cycle, at time of temperature-control setting with small temperature difference between set and work temperatures; PCB2 performs PID operation on refrigerant detection temperature by sensor near the side of refrigerant inflow of a heating apparatus in a refrigerant-cycle; a PCB1 performs serial communication of a drive control signal for an inverter generated based on a result, and controls the compressor rotational speed according to work temperature within range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Atsushi SEKI, Shigeo AOKI, Fumiyuki HOSOI
  • Publication number: 20150345705
    Abstract: A cooled-hydrogen supply station includes: a first coolant passage through which a first coolant circulates; a water-cooled refrigerator unit disposed on a part of the first coolant passage to cool the first coolant; a second coolant passage through which a second coolant flows; a first heat exchanger for cooling the second coolant by the first coolant, between another part of the first coolant passage and a part of the second coolant passage; a hydrogen storage unit; a hydrogen passage for transporting hydrogen stored in the hydrogen storage unit; and a second heat exchanger for cooling the hydrogen by the second coolant, between another part of the second coolant passage and a part of the hydrogen passage. The hydrogen is cooled down to a temperature of ?43° C. to ?20° C. by the second heat exchanger, and a hydrogen cooling power for cooling hydrogen to ?40° C. is between 13.5 kW and 16.5 kW.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Atsushi SEKI, Tsuyoshi HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20130139996
    Abstract: An air conditioning method that reduces the amount of cooling energy and the amount of dehumidification energy to approximately a limiting amount, and also reduces the amount of humidifying energy to approximately a limiting amount. If an absolute humidity of the process air is calculated by use of measurements of changes in work conditions and variations in atmospheric pressure, the required amount of air to be cooled and dehumidified flowing downstream through the main-stream duct and the required amount of humidification can be determined. Therefore, by outputting a signal indicative of the required amount of cooled-dehumidified air to actuate a controller of flow-rate regulating means, and outputting a signal indicative of the required amount of humidification to actuate a controller of humidifying means, the amount of air to be cooled and dehumidified can be reduced to the required amount of cooled-dehumidified air close to the limiting amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.