Patents by Inventor Hiroko SHIMPO
Hiroko SHIMPO 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: 10913918Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a lubricating base oil; and 40 mass % or less of a polymer, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, the polymer having a structural unit represented by the following formula (I) and a weight average molecular weight of from 500 to 100000. [In formula (I), Ra, Rb and Rc each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, and Rd represents an oxygen-containing organic group or a C1-18 hydrocarbon group.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroko Shimpo, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Hidetoshi Ogata, Takeshi Okido
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Patent number: 10723926Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine containing: a refrigerating machine oil containing: a first ester that is a polyol ester of dipentaerythritol and at least one fatty acid selected from fatty acids having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, and has a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 7.0 mm2/s or more; and a second ester that is a complex ester of a polyhydric alcohol containing at least one selected from neopentyl glycol, trimethylolpropane and pentaerythritol, a polybasic acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and a monohydric alcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms or a fatty acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms; and a refrigerant containing difluoromethane.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Okido, Hiroko Shimpo, Yuya Mizutani, Hidetoshi Ogata
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Patent number: 10626344Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 10323208Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil containing an ester base oil obtained from pentaerythritol and mixed fatty acids of a fatty acid having 8 carbon atoms and a fatty acid having 9 carbon atoms, wherein a ratio of a weight average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, of the ester base oil is 1.06 to 1.20, and used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno, Ken Sawada, Kentaro Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20190127659Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a lubricating base oil; and 40 mass % or less of a polymer, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, the polymer having a structural unit represented by the following formula (I) and a weight average molecular weight of from 500 to 100000. [In formula (I), Ra, Rb and Rc each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, and Rd represents an oxygen-containing organic group or a C1-18 hydrocarbon group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hiroko SHIMPO, Kentaro YAMAGUCHI, Hidetoshi OGATA, Takeshi OKIDO
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Patent number: 10053644Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a polyvinylether having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1, R2, and R3 may be the same or different from each other and each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, R4 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group or an ethereal oxygen-containing divalent hydrocarbon group, R5 represents a hydrocarbon group, m represents an integer of 0 or more, and in the case where m is 2 or more, a plurality of R4 may be the same or different from each other, a number average molecular weight Mn is 500 or more and 2000 or less, a ratio of a weight average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, is 1.10 or more and 1.25 or less, and the refrigerating machine oil is used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Tsutomu Takahashi, Takeshi Okido, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno
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Publication number: 20180215977Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine containing: a refrigerating machine oil containing: a first ester that is a polyol ester of dipentaerythritol and at least one fatty acid selected from fatty acids having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, and has a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 7.0 mm2/s or more; and a second ester that is a complex ester of a polyhydric alcohol containing at least one selected from neopentyl glycol, trimethylolpropane and pentaerythritol, a polybasic acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and a monohydric alcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms or a fatty acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms; and a refrigerant containing difluoromethane.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi OKIDO, Hiroko SHIMPO, Yuya MIZUTANI, Hidetoshi OGATA
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Publication number: 20180201867Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Hiroko SHIMPO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Patent number: 10023823Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising, as a base oil, at least one oxygen-containing oil having a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less, wherein the refrigerating machine oil is used with a refrigerant comprising 15% by mass or more of difluoromethane, 15% by mass or more of pentafluoroethane, 15% by mass or more of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and 15% by mass or more of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane based on the total amount of the refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno, Ken Sawada, Kentaro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9944881Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
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Publication number: 20170327759Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising, as a base oil, at least one oxygen-containing oil having a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less, wherein the refrigerating machine oil is used with a refrigerant comprising 15% by mass or more of difluoromethane, 15% by mass or more of pentafluoroethane, 15% by mass or more of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and 15% by mass or more of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane based on the total amount of the refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi TAKAHASHI, Hiroko SHIMPO, Souichirou KONNO, Ken SAWADA, Kentaro YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20170327765Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil containing an ester base oil obtained from pentaerythritol and mixed fatty acids of a fatty acid having 8 carbon atoms and a fatty acid having 9 carbon atoms, wherein a ratio of a weight average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, of the ester base oil is 1.06 to 1.20, and used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi TAKAHASHI, Hiroko SHIMPO, Souichirou KONNO, Ken SAWADA, Kentaro YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 9783762Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine containing: a refrigerating machine oil containing, as a base oil, a mixed ester of (A) a complex ester synthesized from a polyhydric alcohol such as neopentyl glycol, a polybasic acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, a monohydric alcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and the like, and (B) a polyol ester synthesized from a polyhydric alcohol such as neopentyl glycol and a monocarboxylic fatty acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, in a mass ratio of (A) the complex ester/(B) the polyol ester of 5/95 to 95/5; and a refrigerant such as carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Takeshi Okido, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno
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Publication number: 20170073602Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a polyvinylether having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1, R2, and R3 may be the same or different from each other and each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, R4 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group or an ethereal oxygen-containing divalent hydrocarbon group, R5 represents a hydrocarbon group, m represents an integer of 0 or more, and in the case where m is 2 or more, a plurality of R4 may be the same or different from each other, a number average molecular weight Mn is 500 or more and 2000 or less, a ratio of a weight average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, is 1.10 or more and 1.25 or less, and the refrigerating machine oil is used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Tsutomu Takahashi, Takeshi Okido, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno
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Publication number: 20170002291Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine containing: a refrigerating machine oil containing, as a base oil, a mixed ester of (A) a complex ester synthesized from a polyhydric alcohol such as neopentyl glycol, a polybasic acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, a monohydric alcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and the like, and (B) a polyol ester synthesized from a polyhydric alcohol such as neopentyl glycol and a monocarboxylic fatty acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, in a mass ratio of (A) the complex ester/(B) the polyol ester of 5/95 to 95/5; and a refrigerant such as carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Takeshi Okido, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno
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Patent number: 9365760Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil; a sulfide compound; and a gallate, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the gallate is 10 to 500 ppm by mass based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
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Publication number: 20150376543Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Hiroko SHIMPO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Publication number: 20150307762Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil; a sulfide compound; and a gallate, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the gallate is 10 to 500 ppm by mass based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Hiroko SHIMPO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Publication number: 20150076393Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises a mixed refrigerant comprising a hydrofluoroethane represented by the following formula (A), difluoromethane and tetrafluoropropene, and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one selected from a polyol ester, a polyvinyl ether and a polyalkylene glycol compound as a base oil, wherein a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of the base oil is 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less. C2HnF6-n??(A) [n represents 1 or 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Ken Sawada, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 8889031Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerator machine comprising a base oil comprising an ether-based compound, a carbodiimide compound, and an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant. The present invention also provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil containing an ether-based compound and a carbodiimide compound, the refrigerating machine oil being used together with an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Ken Sawada, Kuniko Takahashi, Hiroko Shimpo, Katsuya Takigawa