Patents by Inventor Akifumi Ozeki
Akifumi Ozeki 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).
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Publication number: 20200049263Abstract: A control valve includes a valve housing, a joint member, a valve body, and a sealing tube member. The sealing tube member has a biasing pressure receiving surface that receives a pressure of a liquid inside the valve housing and biases the sealing tube member to the valve body side. An area S1 of the biasing pressure receiving surface and an area S2 of a valve sliding contact surface of the sealing tube member are set to satisfy Expressions (1) and (2), S1<S2?S1/k ??(1) ??k<1 ??(2) where k is a pressure reduction constant of a liquid flowing through a minute gap between the valve sliding contact surface and the valve body, and ? is a lower limit value for the pressure reduction constant determined based on physical properties of a liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventor: Akifumi Ozeki
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Publication number: 20190390781Abstract: A control valve includes a valve housing, a joint member, a valve body, and a sealing tubular member. The joint member and the sealing tubular member are provided with first facing portions that face each other in an axial direction of the sealing tubular member and second facing portions that face each other in the axial direction while being disposed inward of the first facing portions in a radial direction of the sealing tubular member. The second facing portions are provided with an urging spring that is interposed between the joint member and the sealing tubular member and that urges the sealing tubular member toward the valve body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventor: Akifumi Ozeki
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Patent number: 10508748Abstract: There is provided a control valve including a casing, a rotor that has a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the casing via bushings, and a sealing ring that is disposed on an inner side of each bushing in an axial direction. Both end portions of the rotary shaft are formed into stepped shapes which respectively come into contact with the bushings from the inner side in the axial direction. Areas of both the end portions of the rotary shaft projected in the axial direction are set to be equal to each other. Penetration holes which allow portions on outer sides of the sealing rings in the axial direction to be open to the atmosphere are respectively formed on a bottom wall portion and a lid body of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Akifumi Ozeki, Toshihito Nagai
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Patent number: 10458562Abstract: There is provided a control valve including a cylindrical casing having an inlet port and a first outlet port for a fluid, and a valve accommodated in the casing to be rotatable around an axis extending in an axial direction of the casing and having a flow path communicating with the inlet port to allow the fluid to flow therethrough, wherein a first communication port communicating with the flow path and the first outlet port according to a rotational position of the valve is formed in the valve, and a fail opening configured to be opened and closed by a thermostat is formed in a portion of the casing facing the inlet port in an opening direction of the inlet port.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Akifumi Ozeki, Toshihito Nagai
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Publication number: 20190292976Abstract: A rotor is configured to be movable among a heater water flow mode in which an air-conditioning outflow port communicates with the inside of a casing through an air-conditioning communication port, a heater cut mode in which communication between the air-conditioning outflow port and the inside of the casing through the air-conditioning communication port is cut off, and a switching mode in which a communicating area with the air-conditioning communication port in the air-conditioning outflow port varies in the process that the rotor shifts between the heater water flow mode and the heater cut mode, and the radiator outflow port communicates with the inside of the casing through the radiator communication port in the switching mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Akifumi Ozeki, Toshihito Nagai
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Publication number: 20190291535Abstract: A control apparatus in a cooling system has an opening schedule of a degree of opening of each of a plurality of outflow ports in a control valve including at least a heater cut mode, a heater passing water mode, a fully closed mode, and a switching mode in which the opening and closing of an air conditioning outflow port is switched in a state in which at least one outflow port of a radiator outflow port and a bypass outflow port is opened and switches the heater cut mode and the heater passing water mode via the switching mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Akifumi Ozeki, Toshihito Nagai
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Patent number: 10359121Abstract: A control valve includes a casing having an inlet port for a fluid, an axially rotatable valve accommodated in the casing and having a flow path communicating with the inlet port. An upstream outlet port and a downstream outlet port passing through the casing are formed at intervals in the casing. An upstream communication port and a downstream communication port, which respectively communicate between an inside of the flow path and the upstream outlet port and between the inside of the flow path and the downstream outlet port according to a rotational position of the valve are formed in the valve. A flowing direction changing portion for changing a flowing direction of the fluid in the flow passage is provided in a portion of the flow path which is located on a downstream side in relation to the upstream communication port in the flowing direction of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Akifumi Ozeki
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Publication number: 20190003602Abstract: A control valve includes a casing that has a port in which an outflow opening is formed, a joint that is joined to an opening end surface of an outflow opening in the port, a rotor that is rotatably accommodated inside the casing, a slide ring that has a slide surface for sliding on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor, a sealing ring that is interposed between an inner circumferential surface of the port and an outer circumferential surface of the slide ring, and a holder that is disposed between the inner circumferential surface of the port and the outer circumferential surface of the slide ring and holds the sealing ring from an outer side in a port axial direction with respect to the sealing ring. The holder is disposed to be separated from at least any of the joint and the port.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventor: Akifumi Ozeki
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Publication number: 20180335153Abstract: There is provided a control valve including a casing, a rotor that has a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the casing via bushings, and a sealing ring that is disposed on an inner side of each bushing in an axial direction. Both end portions of the rotary shaft are formed into stepped shapes which respectively come into contact with the bushings from the inner side in the axial direction. Areas of both the end portions of the rotary shaft projected in the axial direction are set to be equal to each other. Penetration holes which allow portions on outer sides of the sealing rings in the axial direction to be open to the atmosphere are respectively formed on a bottom wall portion and a lid body of the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Akifumi Ozeki, Toshihito Nagai
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Publication number: 20180119836Abstract: There is provided a control valve including a cylindrical casing having an inlet port and a first outlet port for a fluid, and a valve accommodated in the casing to be rotatable around an axis extending in an axial direction of the casing and having a flow path communicating with the inlet port to allow the fluid to flow therethrough, wherein a first communication port communicating with the flow path and the first outlet port according to a rotational position of the valve is formed in the valve, and a fail opening configured to be opened and closed by a thermostat is formed in a portion of the casing facing the inlet port in an opening direction of the inlet port.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Akifumi Ozeki, Toshihito Nagai
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Publication number: 20180119827Abstract: A control valve includes a casing having an inlet port for a fluid, an axially rotatable valve accommodated in the casing and having a flow path communicating with the inlet port. An upstream outlet port and a downstream outlet port passing through the casing are formed at intervals in the casing. An upstream communication port and a downstream communication port, which respectively communicate between an inside of the flow path and the upstream outlet port and between the inside of the flow path and the downstream outlet port according to a rotational position of the valve are formed in the valve. A flowing direction changing portion for changing a flowing direction of the fluid in the flow passage is provided in a portion of the flow path which is located on a downstream side in relation to the upstream communication port in the flowing direction of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventor: Akifumi Ozeki
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Publication number: 20180119828Abstract: A control valve having first, second, and third outlet ports, which pass through a casing in a radial direction and formed axially at intervals in the casing, first, second and third communication ports, which respectively communicate between the flow path and the first outlet port, between the flow path and the second outlet port and between the flow path and the third outlet port according to a rotational position of the valve, are formed at intervals in the axial direction in the valve. The second outlet port is located between the first and third outlet ports in the axial direction and also located at a different position from the first and third outlet ports in a circumferential direction. An opening width of the second communication port in the axial direction is narrower than an axial interval between the first and third outlet ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Akifumi Ozeki, Toshihito Nagai