Patents by Inventor Hideji Kawarazaki

Hideji Kawarazaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240116693
    Abstract: A heat retaining container (70) includes: an accommodating space (71); and walls (72) including inner surfaces surrounding the accommodating space (71). Heat conductivity of each wall (72) in a surface direction is higher than heat conductivity of the wall (72) in a thickness direction orthogonal to the inner surface of the wall, the surface direction being orthogonal to the thickness direction and extending along the inner surface of the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Mitoko ISHITA, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Masahiro KAGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11873152
    Abstract: Provided is a thermostatic container that improves both the communication radio wave transmissivity and keeping cold performance of a thermostatic container. A thermostatic container includes: a vacuum heat insulating container; a vacuum heat insulating lid configured to close the vacuum heat insulating container; a box body housed inside the vacuum heat insulating container; a box lid configured to close the box body; and a phase change material provided on a bottom portion and a wall portion of the box body and the box lid. An area made of a radio wave transmissive organic substance is provided on a path leading from inside of the box body to outside of the heat insulating container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kagimoto, Hideji Kawarazaki, Shinya Kojima, Tomoaki Kitano, Masafumi Okawa, Toshiaki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20230406600
    Abstract: A vacuum heat insulating container that can be easily subjected to inspection work is provided. A vacuum heat insulating container (1) includes: a container main body (100) including an opening (40a) and an accommodating space (40b); and a lid body (101). The container main body (100) includes a heat insulating container body (40) including: a first outer covering member (41) which is a molded body made of a nonmetal material and has a gas barrier property and a double wall structure; a first core member (42); and a pressure sensor (43). The lid body (101) includes: a heat insulating lid body (50) including a second outer covering member (51) having a sack shape formed by a flexible film which includes a metal layer and has a gas barrier property and a second core member (52); and a window (61) by which a surface of the second outer covering member (51) is visually confirmable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro KAGIMOTO, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Shinya KOJIMA, Masafumi OKAWA, Toshiaki HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11833791
    Abstract: A vacuum heat insulator according to the present invention includes a core material and an outer packaging material including an inner plate and an outer plate each of which includes a resin sheet. The core material is covered by the outer packaging material. The vacuum heat insulator further includes a heat welded part formed by welding a part of the inner plate and a part of the outer plate. The heat welded part has a recess having a thickness that is 50% or less of an average thickness of the heat welded part. As a result thereof, the adhesion and airtightness of the heat welded part can be maintained, and a highly reliable vacuum heat insulator can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Hirano, Hideji Kawarazaki, Tomoaki Kitano
  • Patent number: 11820578
    Abstract: To improve the moldability and keeping cold performance of a vacuum heat insulating container. A constant temperature container includes a heat insulating container formed by disposing a core material between an outer cover material and an inner cover material and sealing the core material in a reduced-pressure state. The core material includes a first core material, the first core material being an organic substance made of open-cell foam, and a second core material having a lower thermal conductivity than the first core material at a vacuum degree of 100 Pa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kagimoto, Shinya Kojima, Hideji Kawarazaki, Toshiaki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20230204164
    Abstract: A management system (100) for a vacuum heat insulating body (10) includes: an inspection device (70) that inspects heat insulation performance of the vacuum heat insulating body (10); a storage portion (105) that stores information regarding the inspected heat insulation performance; an estimating portion (101) that estimates a remaining life, which is the rest of a life of the vacuum heat insulating body (10), from a time-lapse change of the heat insulation performance stored in the storage portion (105); and a determining portion (102) that determines whether or not the remaining life is a predetermined period of time or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Shinya KOJIMA, Toshiaki HIRANO, Masafumi OKAWA, Masahiro KAGIMOTO, Atsunobu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230150750
    Abstract: Refrigerator door (25) includes outer packaging material (55) including a resin sheet, and a core material and gas adsorption each contained in outer packaging material (55). The gas adsorption device includes a vacuum sealed container containing a gas adsorbing substance that adsorbs various gases, an opening pin that opens the vacuum sealed container by a physical load from an outside, and a load-bearing spacer that suppresses displacement of the opening pin to less than or equal to a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiaki HIRANO, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Tomoaki KITANO, Noriyuki MIYAJI, Yuichi HATA
  • Publication number: 20220402682
    Abstract: To improve the moldability and keeping cold performance of a vacuum heat insulating container. A constant temperature container includes a heat insulating container formed by disposing a core material between an outer cover material and an inner cover material and sealing the core material in a reduced-pressure state. The core material includes a first core material, the first core material being an organic substance made of open-cell foam, and a second core material having a lower thermal conductivity than the first core material at a vacuum degree of 100 Pa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro KAGIMOTO, Shinya KOJIMA, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Toshiaki HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20220357098
    Abstract: An isothermal container includes: a vacuum heat insulating container; a vacuum heat insulating lid configured to close the vacuum heat insulating container; a body protection case, and a lid outer protection case and lid inner protection case that cover outside of the vacuum heat insulating container and outside of the vacuum heat insulating lid, respectively; a box body housed inside the vacuum heat insulating container; a box lid configured to close the box body; and a cold storage agent provided on a bottom portion and a wall portion of the box body and the box lid. Outer and inner cover materials are joined together at faces facing the vacuum heat insulating lid among faces constituting the wall portion of the vacuum heat insulating container. A joined part of the materials is located inside the body protection case without being exposed to the outer surface of the body protection case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro KAGIMOTO, Shinya KOJIMA, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Tomoaki KITANO, Masafumi OKAWA, Toshiaki HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20220348395
    Abstract: Provided is a thermostatic container that improves both the communication radio wave transmissivity and keeping cold performance of a thermostatic container. A thermostatic container includes: a vacuum heat insulating container; a vacuum heat insulating lid configured to close the vacuum heat insulating container; a box body housed inside the vacuum heat insulating container; a box lid configured to close the box body; and a phase change material provided on a bottom portion and a wall portion of the box body and the box lid. An area made of a radio wave transmissive organic substance is provided on a path leading from inside of the box body to outside of the heat insulating container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro KAGIMOTO, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Shinya KOJIMA, Tomoaki KITANO, Masafumi OKAWA, Toshiaki HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20220146353
    Abstract: A vacuum insulator (10) includes: a core (13); a pressure sensor (51) that detects a pressure; a transmitter (52) that transmits, by wireless communication, the detected pressure detected by the pressure sensor (51); a power feeder (53) that feeds electric power to the pressure sensor (51) and the transmitter (52); and an outer skin (14), an inside of which is decompressed, the outer skin (14) accommodating therein the core (13), the pressure sensor (51), the transmitter (52), and the power feeder (53), the outer skin (14) having gas barrier capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiaki HIRANO, Kenichi KAKITA, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Masafumi OKAWA, Shinya KOJIMA, Masahiro KAGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220105702
    Abstract: A vacuum heat insulator according to the present disclosure includes a core material and an outer packaging material including an inner plate and an outer plate each of which includes a resin sheet. The core material is covered by the outer packaging material. The vacuum heat insulator further includes a heat welded part formed by welding a part of the inner plate and a part of the outer plate. The heat welded part has a recess having a thickness that is 50% or less of an average thickness of the heat welded part. As a result thereof, the adhesion and airtightness of the heat welded part can be maintained, and a highly reliable vacuum heat insulator can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiaki HIRANO, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Tomoaki KITANO
  • Patent number: 11247833
    Abstract: A storage box includes a wall including: a packaging member; and a heat transfer body and a cold storage agent that are stored in the packaging member. The cold storage agent is disposed closer to an outer surface of the storage box than the heat transfer body is. Consequently, a chill from the cold storage agent spreads over the heat transfer body, and the chill is transferred to an inside of the storage box through the heat transfer body. Thus, a temperature can be more homogeneously maintained in the storage box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kitano, Masahiro Kagimoto, Hideji Kawarazaki, Shinya Kojima
  • Patent number: 11192708
    Abstract: A thermally insulated container includes a container main body having a storage section and an opening, a lid body that covers the opening of the container main body, and an inner box stored in the storage section. The lid body has a convex portion arranged along a periphery of the opening of the container main body and protruding toward an inside of the storage section when the lid body covers the opening. The convex portion faces the inner box, with a gap between the convex portion and the inner box when the lid body covers the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kitano, Masahiro Kagimoto, Toshiaki Hirano, Hideji Kawarazaki, Shinya Kojima
  • Patent number: 10926479
    Abstract: A vacuum-sealing device includes external cylinder part (501B) which includes a distal end face that is brought into airtight contact with an outer face of a container that is a vacuum-sealing target to cover an exhaust hole of the container, and includes body part (501A) provided within external cylinder part (501B) and movable forward and backward along an axial center of external cylinder part (501B). The vacuum-sealing device further includes driver (503) that moves external cylinder part (501B) and body part (501A) forward and backward in the direction of extension of the axial center of external cylinder part (501B), and heater (504) that heats distal end portion (51) of body part (501A). Exhaust space (58) communicating with the distal end face of external cylinder part (501B) is formed between an outer circumferential face of distal end portion (51) of body part (501A) and an inner circumferential face of external cylinder part (501B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kitano, Hideji Kawarazaki, Toshiaki Hirano, Masayuki Miyahigashi
  • Publication number: 20200079570
    Abstract: A storage box includes a wall including: a packaging member; and a heat transfer body and a cold storage agent that are stored in the packaging member. The cold storage agent is disposed closer to an outer surface of the storage box than the heat transfer body is. Consequently, a chill from the cold storage agent spreads over the heat transfer body, and the chill is transferred to an inside of the storage box through the heat transfer body. Thus, a temperature can be more homogeneously maintained in the storage box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: TOMOAKI KITANO, MASAHIRO KAGIMOTO, HIDEJI KAWARAZAKI, SHINYA KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200079575
    Abstract: A thermally insulated container includes a container main body having a storage section and an opening, a lid body that covers the opening of the container main body, and an inner box stored in the storage section. The lid body has a convex portion arranged along a periphery of the opening of the container main body and protruding toward an inside of the storage section when the lid body covers the opening. The convex portion faces the inner box, with a gap between the convex portion and the inner box when the lid body covers the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: TOMOAKI KITANO, MASAHIRO KAGIMOTO, TOSHIAKI HIRANO, HIDEJI KAWARAZAKI, SHINYA KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 10539265
    Abstract: A vacuum heat insulator includes inner box (403), external plate (401), and gas barrier container (402). Gas barrier container (402) includes core material (423), first member (421) that has a box shape including a first opening portion, and second member (422) that tightly closes the first opening portion. Core material (423) is disposed inside first member (421). Inner box (403) includes a second opening portion. Gas barrier container (402) is disposed inside inner box (403). The second opening portion is closed by external plate (401). First member (421) has such a shape that an outer face of first member (421) fits with an inner face of inner box (403).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kitano, Hideji Kawarazaki, Toshiaki Hirano, Tsuyoki Hirai
  • Publication number: 20190212052
    Abstract: A vacuum heat insulator has an airtight structure, and is provided in its inside with a heat insulation space in which core material (5) is provided. The vacuum heat insulator includes exhaust hole (16) through which evacuation is performed, and sealant (17) used for sealing exhaust hole (16) while maintaining vacuum. Sealant (17) includes heat-resistant protective layer (42), metal foil (41), and adhesive layer (43).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiaki HIRANO, Hideji KAWARAZAKI, Tomoaki KITANO
  • Patent number: 10253919
    Abstract: A vacuum insulation body includes an outer box (2), an inner box (3), open-cell urethane foam (4) in the insulation space (1b) between the outer box (2) and the inner box (3); and a vacuum outlet (6) in one of the outer box (2) and the inner box (3). The urethane foam (4) includes a through passage (8a) leading to the vacuum outlet (6). The vacuum outlet (6) is sealed after the insulation space (1b) filled with the urethane foam (4) is vacuum-evacuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideji Kawarazaki, Tsuyoki Hirai, Toshiaki Hirano, Tomoaki Kitano