Patents by Inventor Hiromume Matsuoka

Hiromume Matsuoka 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: 7357002
    Abstract: An air conditioning device has a heat source unit and a utilization unit connected via a refrigerant connection pipe to form a refrigerant circuit, and has a cooler, a secondary receiver, and a separation membrane device. The cooler cools at least a portion of the refrigerant that flows through the liquid-side refrigerant circuit as the compressor is operated and the refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit is recirculated. The secondary receiver separates the refrigerant cooled by the cooler into a liquid refrigerant and a gas refrigerant that includes non-condensable gas. The separation membrane device has a separation membrane for separating the non-condensable gas from the gas refrigerant obtained by gas-liquid separation, and discharges the non-condensable gas thus separated to the outside of the refrigerant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Yoshimi, Nobuki Matsui, Hiromume Matsuoka, Kazuhide Mizutani