Patents by Inventor Hironori Yabuuchi

Hironori Yabuuchi 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: 20150308700
    Abstract: The controller controls a bypass solenoid valve and hot-water supply expansion unit in a defrosting operation based on a refrigerant temperature detected by a first temperature sensor and a heat medium temperature detected by a second temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanao KIMURA, Hirofumi KOUGE, Hironori YABUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150184871
    Abstract: To provide an air conditioner outdoor unit including a casing having an air inlet on a side surface and an air outlet on an upper surface, a heat exchanger that covers the air inlet and is provided inside the casing, a fan that sucks in air from the air inlet and discharges air from the air outlet, and a fan motor provided on a lower side of the fan. The fan motor is set such that an outer diameter D1 thereof is larger than an outer diameter D2 of a fan boss, and an outer periphery thereof is positioned on a center side of the fan motor than a straight line c passing an upper side of a center (for example, a predetermined position a) of the heat exchanger and a side (for example, a predetermined position b) of the fan boss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Yabe, Naohiro Oketani, Kazuhiko Baba, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Hironori Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 9003823
    Abstract: A configuration provided with a heat source unit A, an indoor unit B, a circuit D for a hot-water supply heat source provided with a refrigerant-refrigerant heat exchanger and throttle for the hot-water supply heat source, and a branch unit C that distributes a refrigerant flowing through the indoor unit and the circuit for hot-water supply heat source and also provided with a refrigerating cycle for air conditioning in which the indoor unit and the circuit for hot-water supply heat source are connected in parallel and connected to the heat source unit by at least two connection pipelines via the branch unit and a refrigerating cycle for hot-water supply in which a compressor for hot-water supply, a heat-medium-refrigerant heat exchanger, throttle for hot-water supply, and the refrigerant-refrigerant heat exchanger are connected in series, in which the refrigerating cycle for air conditioning and the refrigerating cycle for hot-water supply are connected so as to exchange heat between the refrigerant for air
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Tanaka, Junichi Kameyama, Hirofumi Koge, Hironori Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 8991202
    Abstract: To provide an air-conditioning hot-water supply complex system that can simultaneously process a cooling load, a heating load, and a high-temperature hot-water supply load to provide a stable heat source all through the year. The air-conditioning hot-water supply complex system provides a bypass pipe in which a bypass electromagnetic valve is installed in parallel with a heating medium-refrigerant heat exchanger between a gateway of refrigerant piping of the heating medium-refrigerant heat exchanger to control an inflow amount of the refrigerant for hot-water supply to the heating medium-refrigerant heat exchanger by making the refrigerant for hot-water to flow into a bypass pipe by opening and closing the bypass electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Yabuuchi, Junichi Kameyama, Kosuke Tanaka, Satoshi Akagi
  • Publication number: 20150084444
    Abstract: A mold stator is configured to include a stator core and a mold resin that covers the stator core. A divided-core part includes a yoke part that is arranged coaxially with a rotor that is provided in the stator core, a teeth part that extends from the yoke part in a radially-inward direction, and a teeth distal-end part that is formed at a radially-inward end part of the teeth part. An outer-circumferential flat-surface part is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the yoke part and an outer-circumferential flat-surface part is formed at a position on an outer circumferential surface of the mold stator opposing the flat-surface part of the yoke part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Yabe, Naohiro Oketani, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Hironori Yabuuchi, Takayuki Onihashi
  • Publication number: 20150003977
    Abstract: In a motor, a connection portion between a lead wire and an aluminum wire is provided distant from a terminal block, with a leading end of a winding residing on one of cores that is not adjacent to a core that is at a position where the terminal block is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Yabuuchi, Shinji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140348674
    Abstract: A body outer shell includes a plurality of first body legs and a plurality of second body legs protruding outward and being disposed at a peripheral edge of an end of the body outer shell, and the end is near the bracket. The bracket includes a plurality of first bracket legs and a plurality of second bracket legs protruding outward and being disposed at a peripheral edge of the bracket. The body outer shell and the bracket are fastened together using the first body legs and the first bracket legs via fixing members. The body outer shell, the bracket, and a support member are fastened together using the second body legs and the second bracket legs via fixing members in a state where the bracket is disposed between the body outer shell and the support member, and the motor and the support member are fixed together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironori Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20140334951
    Abstract: In a motor, a connected portion between a lead wire and an aluminum wire is provided far from a terminal block, with a leading end of a winding residing on one of cores that is not adjacent to a core that is at a position where the terminal block is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Yabuuchi, Shinji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120222440
    Abstract: To provide a refrigeration cycle apparatus that achieves load balancing (for example, the balance between the cooling load and the heating load, and the balance between the cooling load and the heating and hot water loads) to increase system COP and an information transfer method used in the refrigeration cycle apparatus. A refrigeration cycle apparatus operates a plurality of indoor units so that the thermal cooling load and the thermal heating load to be executed by the plurality of indoor unit are balanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Matsui, Shigeo Takata, Hironori Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20110314848
    Abstract: A configuration provided with a heat source unit, an indoor unit, a circuit for a hot-water supply heat source provided with a refrigerant—refrigerant heat exchanger and throttle means for the hot-water supply heat source, and a branch unit that distributes a refrigerant flowing through the indoor unit and the circuit for hot-water supply heat source and also provided with a refrigerating cycle for air conditioning in which the indoor unit and the circuit for hot-water supply heat source are connected in parallel and connected to the heat source unit by at least two connection pipelines via the branch unit and a refrigerating cycle for hot-water supply in which a compressor for hot-water supply, a heat-medium—refrigerant heat exchanger, throttle means for hot-water supply, and the refrigerant—refrigerant heat exchanger are connected in series, in which the refrigerating cycle for air conditioning and the refrigerating cycle for hot-water supply are connected so as to exchange heat between the refrigerant for
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Tanaka, Junichi Kameyama, Hirofumi Koge, Hironori Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20110016897
    Abstract: There is provided a heat pump apparatus bringing heating water to a high temperature by connecting one or a plurality of load-side units to one heat source-side unit. The air conditioning-hot water supply combined system (heat pump apparatus) includes a heat source-side unit equipped with an air conditioning compressor, a four-way valve, and an outdoor heat exchanger; and the load-side units equipped with an air conditioning throttle, an indoor heat exchanger, a second compressor, a second load-side heat exchanger, and a second flow rate control unit. Here, a main circuit is configured by sequentially connecting the air conditioning compressor, the four-way valve, the outdoor heat exchanger, the air conditioning throttle, and the indoor heat exchanger, using a high-pressure side connection piping and a low-pressure side connection piping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Akagi, Kouji Yamashita, Kousuke Tanaka, Junichi Kameyama, Hironori Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20100282434
    Abstract: There is provided an air conditioning and hot water supply complex system that can simultaneously treat a cooling load, a heating load and a high-temperature hot water supply load and supply a stable heat source throughout the year. In the air conditioning and hot water supply complex system 100, the outdoor heat exchanger 103 is made up of a plurality of divided heat exchangers 103a, solenoid valves 209 are provided to respective refrigerant pipes connected to the respective divided heat exchanger 103a, and the solenoid valves 209 are opened or closed to control a flow rate of air conditioning refrigerant flowing into the respective divided heat exchangers 103a to thereby adjust the operation range of the air conditioning compressor 101.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Yabuuchi, Junichi Kameyama, Kosuke Tanaka, Satoshi Akagi
  • Publication number: 20100282435
    Abstract: To provide an air-conditioning hot-water supply complex system that can simultaneously process a cooling load, a heating load, and a high-temperature hot-water supply load to provide a stable heat source all through the year. The air-conditioning hot-water supply complex system provides a bypass pipe in which a bypass electromagnetic valve is installed in parallel with a heating medium-refrigerant heat exchanger between a gateway of refrigerant piping of the heating medium-refrigerant heat exchanger to control an inflow amount of the refrigerant for hot-water supply to the heating medium-refrigerant heat exchanger by making the refrigerant for hot-water to flow into a bypass pipe by opening and closing the bypass electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Yabuuchi, Junichi Kameyama, Kosuke Tanaka, Satoshi Akagi
  • Patent number: D702340
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Yabuuchi, Yukihiko Kawanori, Shinji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D741260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Yabuuchi, Yukihiko Kawanori, Shinji Kobayashi