Patents by Inventor Hiroki Awashima

Hiroki Awashima 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).

  • Patent number: 9260250
    Abstract: A gear motor is provided with a motor, a decelerator, an output shaft of the decelerator coupled to a driven shaft of a driven machine, and a torque arm for preventing rotation of the gear motor around the driven shaft. One end of the torque arm is fixed to the gear motor and the other end is fixed to an installation seat. The torque arm is provided with a damper mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tamura, Hiroki Awashima, Hidetaka Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20140183997
    Abstract: A gear motor is provided with a motor, a decelerator, an output shaft of the decelerator coupled to a driven shaft of a driven machine, and a torque arm for preventing rotation of the gear motor around the driven shaft. One end of the torque arm is fixed to the gear motor and the other end is fixed to an installation seat. The torque arm is provided with a damper mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro TAMURA, Hiroki AWASHIMA, Hidetaka YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 7381032
    Abstract: In a hermetic compressor in a freezing refrigerating system or an air-conditioning system such as a refrigerator or a showcase, a construction is disclosed for intending to provide a low-noise hermetic compressor by effectively attenuating a pressure pulsation having occurred in a compression chamber with a suction muffler. By this construction, since a muffler cover 20 has a planar simple shape, the deformation upon molding becomes little and it can come into fully close contact with a muffler main body 19. Therefore, the pressure pulsation hardly leaks through the connecting portion between the muffler main body 19 and the muffler cover 20. The full silencing effect that the suction muffler 18 has is obtained and thereby noise can be reduced more effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Refrigeration Company
    Inventors: Masahiko Osaka, Hidetoshi Nishihara, Toshihiko Ota, Akihiko Kubota, Manabu Motegi, Hiroki Awashima, Takeshi Kojima, Kazuhito Noguchi, Ichiro Kita, Masahiro Kakutani
  • Patent number: 7244108
    Abstract: This invention relates to a hermetic compressor used on a refrigerant cycle such as a refrigerator, and discloses a low noise compressor designed to attenuate a resonance sound in a compression chamber and intake pressure pulsing more operatively at a position adjacent to their sources, which intake pressure pulsing occurs at an intake valve port. In the compressor, a resonance space 38 is provided adjacent to the intake valve port 29 that is closer in distance to a noise source. As a result, noise can be reduced more operatively than muffling functions of an intake muffler 31 do. In addition, although acoustic characteristics of the intake muffler 31 amplify noises having specific frequencies, such noises can be attenuated before being amplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Refrigeration Company
    Inventors: Akihiko Kubota, Hidetoshi Nishihara, Masahiko Osaka, Toshihiko Ota, Hiroki Awashima, Manabu Motegi, Kazuhito Noguchi, Takeshi Kojima, Masahiro Kakutani
  • Publication number: 20050100456
    Abstract: In a hermetic compressor in a freezing refrigerating system or an air-conditioning system such as a refrigerator or a showcase, a construction is disclosed for intending to provide a low-noise hermetic compressor by effectively attenuating a pressure pulsation having occurred in a compression chamber with a suction muffler. By this construction, since a muffler cover 20 has a planar simple shape, the deformation upon molding becomes little and it can come into fully close contact with a muffler main body 19. Therefore, the pressure pulsation hardly leaks through the connecting portion between the muffler main body 19 and the muffler cover 20. The full silencing effect that the suction muffler 18 has is obtained and thereby noise can be reduced more effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Masahiko Osaka, Hidetoshi Nishihara, Toshihiko Ota, Akihiko Kubota, Manabu Motegi, Hiroki Awashima, Takeshi Kojima, Kazuhito Noguchi, Ichiro Kita, Masahiro Kakutani
  • Publication number: 20040052653
    Abstract: This invention relates to a hermetic compressor used on a refrigerant cycle such as a refrigerator, and discloses a low noise compressor designed to attenuate a resonance sound in a compression chamber and intake pressure pulsing more operatively at a position adjacent to their sources, which intake pressure pulsing occurs at an intake valve port. In the compressor, a resonance space 38 is provided adjacent to the intake valve port 29 that is closer in distance to a noise source. As a result, noise can be reduced more operatively than muffling functions of an intake muffler 31 do. In addition, although acoustic characteristics of the intake muffler 31 amplify noises having specific frequencies, such noises can be attenuated before being amplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Akihiko Kubota, Hidetoshi Nishihara, Masahiko Osaka, Hiroki Awashima, Manabu Motegi, Manabu Motegi, Kazuhito Noguchi, Takeshi Kojima, Masahiro Kakutani
  • Patent number: 5542266
    Abstract: A refrigerating system is provided which includes a refrigerating line through which refrigerant flows, a refrigerant compressor for circulating the refrigerant through the refrigerating line, and an oil separation passage connected to the refrigerant compressor. The refrigerant compressor includes an enclosed chamber storing therein a refrigeration oil insoluble in the refrigerant. The oil separation passage directs the refrigerant introduced from an inlet port of the refrigerant compressor to an outlet port through the enclosed chamber for separating the refrigeration oil contained in the refrigerant entering from the inlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Refrigeration Company
    Inventors: Etsuro Suzuki, Hideki Kawai, Hiroki Awashima