Patents by Inventor Haruyuki Nishijima
Haruyuki Nishijima 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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Patent number: 7757514Abstract: An ejector-type refrigerant cycle device includes: a first evaporator 15 that evaporates refrigerant flowing out of an ejector 14; a branch passage 17 that branches a flow of refrigerant between a radiator 13 and the ejector 14 and guides this flow of refrigerant to a vapor-phase refrigerant suction port 14c of the ejector 14; a throttling mechanism 18 disposed in the branch passage 17; and a second evaporator 19 disposed downstream of the throttling mechanism 18 with respect to the flow of refrigerant. The throttling mechanism 18 is constructed to be provided with a fully opening function, and to fully open the branch passage 17 when the second evaporator 19 is defrosted. Therefore, in an ejector-type refrigerant cycle device including multiple evaporators, the function of defrosting the evaporators can be carried out with a simple construction.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2005Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Oshitani, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima
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Publication number: 20100175422Abstract: In an evaporator unit, a first evaporator is coupled to an ejector to evaporate refrigerant flowing out of the ejector, a second evaporator is coupled to a refrigerant suction port of the ejector to evaporate the refrigerant to be drawn into the refrigerant suction port, a flow amount distributor is located to adjust a flow amount of the refrigerant distributed to the nozzle portion and a flow amount of the refrigerant distributed to the second evaporator, and a throttle mechanism is provided between the flow amount distributor and the second evaporator to decompress the refrigerant flowing into the second evaporator. The flow amount distributor is adapted as a gas-liquid separation portion and as a refrigerant distribution portion for distributing separated refrigerant into the nozzle portion and the second evaporator. Furthermore, the flow amount distributor and the ejector are arranged in line in a longitudinal direction of the ejector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Tomohiko Nakamura, Gouta Ogata, Hiroshi Oshitani, Ryoko Awa, Tatsuhiko Nishino, Mika Gocho
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Publication number: 20100162751Abstract: A flow of refrigerant discharged from a first compressor and cooled by a radiator is branched by a first branch portion, and the branched refrigerant of one side is decompressed and expanded by a thermal expansion valve and is heat exchanged with the branched refrigerant of the other side in an inner heat exchanger. Therefore, the branched refrigerant of the other side supplied to the suction side evaporator and a nozzle portion of an ejector can be cooled, thereby improving COP. Furthermore, a suction port of a second compressor is coupled to an outlet side of the ejector so as to secure a drive flow of the ejector, and the refrigerant discharged from the second compressor and the refrigerant downstream of the thermal expansion valve are mixed to be drawn into the first compressor so that an ejector-type refrigerant cycle device can be operated stably.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Haruyuki Nishijima, Etsuhisa Yamada, Youhei Nagano, Masami Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20100139315Abstract: An ejector refrigerant cycle device includes a radiator for radiating heat of high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant discharged from a compressor, a branch portion for branching a flow of refrigerant on a downstream side of the radiator into a first stream and a second stream, an ejector that includes a nozzle portion for decompressing and expending refrigerant of the first stream from the branch portion, a decompression portion for decompressing and expanding refrigerant of the second stream from the branch portion, and an evaporator for evaporating refrigerant on a downstream side of the decompression portion. The evaporator has a refrigerant outlet coupled to the refrigerant suction port of the ejector. Furthermore, a refrigerant radiating portion is provided for radiating heat of refrigerant while the decompression portion decompresses and expands refrigerant. For example, the refrigerant radiating portion is provided in an inner heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Makoto Ikegami, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Hideya Matsui
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Patent number: 7726150Abstract: An ejector cycle device includes a compressor, a refrigerant radiator, an ejector having a nozzle part and a refrigerant suction port, and a branch passage for introducing refrigerant branched on an upstream side of the nozzle part of the ejector in a refrigerant flow into the refrigerant suction port. Furthermore, a first evaporator is arranged on a downstream side of the ejector in the refrigerant flow, and a second evaporator is arranged in the branch passage. In addition, in the ejector cycle device, a refrigerant flow rate ratio (?) of a flow rate of refrigerant flowing in the second evaporator to a flow rate of refrigerant discharged from the compressor is set within a range from 0.07 or more to 0.93 or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Haruyuki Nishijima, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Etsuhisa Yamada, Makoto Ikegami, Hiroshi Oshitani
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Patent number: 7707849Abstract: A first evaporator connected to an outlet side of an ejector, a second evaporator connected to a refrigerant suction port of the ejector, a throttle mechanism arranged on an inlet side of a refrigerant flow of the second evaporator and for reducing the pressure of the refrigerant flow are provided. Furthermore, the ejector, the first evaporator, the second evaporator and the throttle mechanism are assembled integrally with each other to construct an integrated unit having one refrigerant inlet and one refrigerant outlet. Hence, mounting performance of an ejector type refrigeration cycle can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Naohisa Ishizaka, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Yoshiaki Takano, Mika Gocho, Hiroshi Oshitani, Haruyuki Nishijima, Makoto Ikegami, Naoki Yokoyama, Etsuhisa Yamada
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Patent number: 7690218Abstract: An ejector refrigerant cycle device includes a radiator for radiating heat of high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant discharged from a compressor, a branch portion for branching a flow of refrigerant on a downstream side of the radiator into a first stream and a second stream, an ejector that includes a nozzle portion for decompressing and expending refrigerant of the first stream from the branch portion, a decompression portion for decompressing and expanding refrigerant of the second stream from the branch portion, and an evaporator for evaporating refrigerant on a downstream side of the decompression portion. The evaporator has a refrigerant outlet coupled to the refrigerant suction port of the ejector. Furthermore, a refrigerant radiating portion is provided for radiating heat of refrigerant while the decompression portion decompresses and expands refrigerant. For example, the refrigerant radiating portion is provided in an inner heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Makoto Ikegami, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Hideya Matsui
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Publication number: 20100024453Abstract: A mixed refrigerant including a plurality of component refrigerants circulates in a refrigeration cycle device. An expansion valve includes a power element. A filled fluid filled in the power element is one component refrigerant in the plurality of component refrigerants. A slope of a saturated vapor pressure curve of the filled fluid is larger than the slope of the saturated vapor pressure curve SV0 of the mixed refrigerant. Thereby, an opening degree of the expansion valve can be prevented from exceeding in a low-temperature region, and the opening degree corresponding to a load can be obtained in a high-temperature region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hideya Matsui, Haruyuki Nishijima, Etsuhisa Yamada
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Publication number: 20090297367Abstract: A housing is configured into a tubular form and receives at least a portion of an ejector functional unit, which includes a nozzle and a body. A housing side opening radially penetrates through an outer peripheral wall surface and an inner peripheral wall surface of the housing and communicates with the fluid suction opening of the body. The housing side opening is adapted to join with a suction opening side external device, through which the fluid is drawn into the fluid suction opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Kazunori Mizutori, Gouta Ogata, Hideya Matsui, Hiroshi Oshitani, Youhei Nagano
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Publication number: 20090229305Abstract: A vapor compression refrigerating cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a radiator, first and second throttle devices, a flow distributor, an ejector, a suction passage, and first and second evaporators. The flow distributor separates refrigerant decompressed through the first throttle device into a first passage and a second passage. The first passage is in communication with a nozzle portion of the ejector. The second passage is in communication with a suction portion of the ejector through the suction passage. The second throttle device and the second evaporator are disposed on the suction passage. The flow distributor is configured to be capable of adjusting a ratio of a flow rate of refrigerant passing through the second passage to a flow rate of refrigerant passing through the first passage in accordance with a heat load of at least one of the radiator, the first evaporator and the second evaporator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Gouta Ogata, Mika Gocho, Kenta Kayano
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Publication number: 20090229304Abstract: An ejector device includes a nozzle having an inner wall surface defining a circular cross-sectional fluid passage extending from an inlet to a jet port. Furthermore, the fluid passage has a throat portion at a position between the inlet and the jet port, and a passage expanding portion in which the cross-sectional area of the fluid passage is enlarged from the throat portion as toward downstream. The passage expanding portion includes a middle portion in which the inner wall surface is expanded in a fluid flow direction by a first expanding angle, and an outlet portion from a downstream end of the middle portion to the jet port, in which the inner wall surface is expanded in the fluid flow direction by a second expanding angle that is larger than the first expanding angle. The ejector device can be suitably used for a refrigeration cycle apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Gouta Ogata, Haruyuki Nishijima, Etsuhisa Yamada, Mika Gocho, Hideya Matsui, Kenta Kayano, Teruyuki Hano
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Publication number: 20090229306Abstract: A vapor compression refrigerating cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a radiator, a first decompressing device, a second decompressing device, a flow distributor, an ejector, and a suction-side evaporator. The vapor compression refrigerating cycle apparatus is configured such that refrigerant pressure (P0) at an inlet of the first decompressing device, refrigerant pressure (P) at an inlet of a nozzle portion of the ejector, refrigerant pressure (P2) at an outlet of the nozzle portion satisfy a pressure relationship of 0.1×(P0?P2)?(P0?P)?0.6×(P0?P2). Alternative to or in addition to the pressure relationship, the vapor compression refrigerating cycle apparatus is configured such that a dryness of refrigerant at the inlet of the nozzle portion is in a range between 0.003 and 0.14.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Gouta Ogata, Mika Gocho, Hideya Matsui
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Publication number: 20090232665Abstract: An ejector includes a nozzle for decompressing a fluid in any one state of a gas-liquid state, a liquid state and a super-critical state, and a body portion having a fluid suction port and a mixing and pressurizing portion. The ejector is provided with a suction passage through which a fluid drawn from the fluid suction port flows into the mixing and pressurizing portion. The suction passage is changed such that the fluid drawn from the fluid suction port is decompressed in the suction passage in iso-entropy. Alternatively, the suction passage is changed such that a flow velocity of the fluid flowing into the mixing and pressurizing portion from the suction passage is substantially equal to a flow velocity of the fluid flowing from a jet port of the nozzle into the mixing and pressurizing portion, or is equal to or larger than the sound velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Gocho, Yoshiaki Takano, Haruyuki Nishijima, Gouta Ogata, Etsuhisa Yamada, Teruyuki Hano, Kenta Kayano
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Publication number: 20090107171Abstract: In an evaporator unit for a refrigerant cycle device, an evaporator is connected to an ejector to evaporate refrigerant to be drawn into a refrigerant suction port of the ejector or the refrigerant flowing out of the outlet of the ejector. The evaporator includes a plurality of tubes in which the refrigerant flows, and a tank configured to distribute the refrigerant into the tubes or to collect the refrigerant from the tubes. The ejector is located in the tank, and the nozzle portion is brazed to the tank to be fixed into the tank. The tank may be a header tank directly connected to the tubes or may be a separate tank separated from the header tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Bradley Brodie, Yoshiaki Takano, Shigeki Ito, Mika Gocho, Haruyuki Nishijima, Tomohiko Nakamura
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Publication number: 20090090129Abstract: In a refrigerant cycle device with an ejector, a branch portion is located at an upstream side of a nozzle portion of the ejector so that the refrigerant flowing out of an exterior heat exchanger is branched into first and second streams in a cooling operation mode. A passage switching portion is configured such that the refrigerant of the first stream flows through the nozzle portion of the ejector, and the refrigerant of the second stream flows through the decompression unit, the using-side heat exchanger, and the refrigerant suction port of the ejector, in the cooling operation mode. In contrast, the refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows into the nozzle portion after passing through the using-side heat exchanger, and the refrigerant flowing out of the exterior heat exchanger flows into the refrigerant suction port of the ejector, in the heating operation mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Makoto Ikegami, Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Hiroshi Oshitani, Yukikatsu Ozaki
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Patent number: 7513128Abstract: An ejector-type cycle, for exchanging heat using a refrigerant, comprises: a compressor for compressing the refrigerant; a condenser for condensing the compressed refrigerant, a first orifice arranged downstream of the condenser; an ejector arranged downstream of the first orifice and capable of exhibiting a sucking force at the inlet thereof; a first evaporator for exchanging heat with an external fluid by passing the refrigerant and having a refrigerant outlet connected to the inlet of the ejector; a dryness degree adjusting mechanism interposed between the first orifice and the ejector and connected to the ejector and the first evaporator so as to supply the refrigerant thereto, and a second orifice arranged downstream of and connected to the dryness degree adjusting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Etsuhisa Yamada, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Haruyuki Nishijima
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Publication number: 20080264097Abstract: A first evaporator connected to an outlet side of an ejector, a second evaporator connected to a refrigerant suction port of the ejector, a throttle mechanism arranged on an inlet side of a refrigerant flow of the second evaporator and for reducing the pressure of the refrigerant flow are provided. Furthermore, the ejector, the first evaporator, the second evaporator and the throttle mechanism are assembled integrally with each other to construct an integrated unit having one refrigerant inlet and one refrigerant outlet. Hence, mounting performance of an ejector type refrigeration cycle can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2006Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Denso CorporationInventors: Naohisa Ishizaka, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Yoshiaki Takano, Mika Gocho, Hiroshi Oshitani, Haruyuki Nishijima, Makoto Ikegami, Naoki Yokoyama, Etsuhisa Yamada
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Patent number: 7367200Abstract: An ejector cycle device includes an ejector having a nozzle portion which decompresses refrigerant flowing out of a radiator, a first evaporator for evaporating refrigerant from the ejector, and a second evaporator provided in a branch passage that is branched from a position between the refrigerant radiator and the ejector and is connected to a refrigerant suction port of the ejector. Furthermore, a throttle member is disposed in the branch passage to decompress refrigerant and adjust a flow amount of refrigerant, and the second evaporator is disposed in the branch passage between the throttle member and the refrigerant suction port. In the ejector cycle device having both the first and second evaporators, a defrosting operation of one the first and second evaporators can be performed while the other one of the first and second evaporators is operated to have a cooling function.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2006Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Makoto Ikegami, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Haruyuki Nishijima, Hiroshi Oshitani, Etsuhisa Yamada, Takuo Maehara
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Patent number: 7367202Abstract: A refrigerant cycle device includes a compressor for compressing refrigerant, a condenser for cooling and condensing high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compressor, a vapor-liquid separator located at a refrigerant outlet side of the condenser for separating refrigerant from the condenser into vapor refrigerant and liquid refrigerant, a supercooling device for supercooling the liquid refrigerant from the vapor-liquid separator, an ejector having a nozzle part for decompressing refrigerant downstream from a refrigerant outlet side of the condenser and a refrigerant suction port for drawing refrigerant by a high-velocity flow of refrigerant jetted from the nozzle part, a throttle member which decompresses the liquid refrigerant supercooled by the supercooling device, an evaporator located at a downstream side of the throttle member and is connected to the refrigerant suction port of the ejector.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2006Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Etsuhisa Yamada, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Haruyuki Nishijima
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Publication number: 20080098757Abstract: In a refrigerant cycle device having an ejector, a branch portion for branching a flow of refrigerant flowing out of the ejector into at least a first refrigerant stream and a second refrigerant stream is located. A first evaporator for evaporating the refrigerant of the first refrigerant stream is located to allow the refrigerant to flow to a suction side of the compressor, and a second evaporator for evaporating the refrigerant of the second refrigerant stream is located to allow the refrigerant to flow to an upstream side of a refrigerant suction port of the ejector. In addition, the branch portion is located to maintain a dynamic pressure of the refrigerant flowing out of the ejector, and the second evaporator is connected to the branch portion in a range where the dynamic pressure can be applied to an inside of the second evaporator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2007Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: DENSO CorporationInventors: Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Makoto Ikegami, Haruyuki Nishijima