Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Mieda

Hiroshi Mieda 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: 11656014
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanging portion, a reservoir that performs gas-liquid separation on a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant that flows out from the heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant and stores the liquid-phase refrigerant, and an inflow passage that allows the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out from the heat exchanging portion to flow into the reservoir. The inflow passage is connected so as to be in communication with an inlet port of the reservoir which is disposed above a liquid surface of the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugimura, Masaaki Kawakubo, Daiki Kato, Hiroshi Mieda, Tetsuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20230029816
    Abstract: The heat exchanger includes a first heat-exchange portion and a second heat-exchange portion. The first heat-exchange portion includes a first header tank having an inflow portion through which the heat medium flows into the first heat-exchange portion. The second heat-exchange portion includes a second header tank having an outflow portion through which the heat medium flows out of the second heat-exchange portion. The first header tank and the second header tank are connected to each other via a connecting portion. The connecting portion has a slit passing through the connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ryohei SUGIMURA, Hiroshi MIEDA
  • Publication number: 20220357086
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes: a compressor having a compression mechanism forming a compression chamber for compressing refrigerant, and a cooled portion cooled by the refrigerant before being compressed by the compression mechanism; a radiator that radiates the refrigerant compressed by the compressor; a decompressor that decompresses the refrigerant radiated by the radiator; an evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant decompressed by the decompressor; an acquisition unit that acquires the state of the refrigerant after cooling the cooled portion and before flowing into the compression chamber; and a control unit that controls the superheat degree of the refrigerant flowing into the compression chamber based on the state of the refrigerant acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Masafumi NAKASHIMA, Atsushi INABA, Mikiharu KUWAHARA, Yuuichi KAMI, Hiroshi MIEDA
  • Publication number: 20220275982
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor, an upstream branch portion, a heating portion, a decompression portion, a bypass passage, a bypass flow adjustment portion, and a mixing portion. The mixing portion mixes a bypass side refrigerant flowing out from the bypass flow adjustment portion with a decompression-portion side refrigerant flowing out from the decompression portion, and causes the mixed refrigerant to flow to a suction port side of the compressor. The mixing portion mixes the bypass side refrigerant and the decompression-portion side refrigerant such that an enthalpy difference obtained by subtracting an enthalpy of an ideal homogeneously mixed refrigerant from an enthalpy of a suction side refrigerant actually sucked into the compressor is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIEDA, Atsushi INABA, Yuuichi KAMI, Mikiharu KUWAHARA, Masafumi NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11391499
    Abstract: In a heat pump cycle device, a flow passage switching portion includes a flow passage switching valve body configured to open and close a cooling side flow passage. A refrigerant circulation circuit includes a low-pressure flow passage through which a low-pressure refrigerant decompressed by a first decompressor flows toward a compressor in a heating mode, and a pre-evaporator flow passage provided between the flow passage switching valve body and a refrigerant inlet of an evaporator. The flow passage switching portion causes a pre-evaporator flow passage to communicate with the low-pressure flow passage while bypassing the evaporator when a refrigerant pressure in the low-pressure flow passage is lower than a refrigerant pressure in the pre-evaporator flow passage, in the heating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Masaaki Kawakubo, Tetsuya Ito, Yasuhiro Kawase, Ryohei Sugimura, Hiroshi Mieda
  • Patent number: 11384988
    Abstract: Each of tanks of a heat exchanger includes a tube joint portion and a tank body portion which define an internal space of the tank. The tube joint portions of the tanks constitute a single core plate. The tank body portions each have a claw protruding toward a core portion. The core plate is provided with a hole that fits with the claw. In a state in which the claw is fitted into the hole, the tank body portions are fixed to the core plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mieda, Junji Kato, Hironobu Fujiyoshi
  • Patent number: 11231210
    Abstract: A stack type heat exchanger includes a plurality of first plates and a plurality of second plates. At least one of the respective first plates and the respective second plates has a protrusion protruding from a main body of the first plate or the second plate toward a first flow path, the protrusion being located at a peripheral portion of a tank space in the first flow path. The first plate and the second plate are joined to each other through the protrusion. The protrusion has a top portion and a side wall portion. A part of the side wall portion adjacent to the tank space has a thick structure portion, an entire thickness of the thick structure portion being thick in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Mizuno, Isao Tamada, Hiroshi Mieda, Ryohei Sugimura
  • Patent number: 11179999
    Abstract: A heat pump system includes a compressor that compresses and discharges a refrigerant, a decompressor that decompresses the refrigerant, an outdoor unit that exchanges heat between the refrigerant and an outside air, an evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant, a condenser that condenses the refrigerant, an internal heat exchanger, an accumulator that separates the refrigerant into a gas refrigerant and a liquid refrigerant, and a flow pathway changing portion. The internal heat exchanger includes a high-pressure passage through which a high-pressure refrigerant flows, and a low-pressure passage through which a low-pressure refrigerant flows, the internal heat exchanger exchanging heat between the refrigerant flowing through the high-pressure passage and the refrigerant flowing through the low-pressure passage. The flow pathway changing portion that switches between a cooling pathway and a heating pathway. According to this heat pump system, a cooling capacity and a heating capacity can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mieda, Ryohei Sugimura, Masaaki Kawakubo, Yuichi Kami
  • Patent number: 11143443
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchanging portion configured to exchange heat between a refrigerant flowing through therein and air; a liquid reservoir configured to separate a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out of the heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant, the liquid reservoir storing the liquid-phase refrigerant; and a refrigerant adjustment portion configured to adjust a flow state of the refrigerant flowing into the refrigerant adjustment portion through a refrigerant passage of the refrigeration cycle, supply the refrigerant to the heat exchanging portion and adjust an outflow state and an outflow destination of the refrigerant flowing out of the heat exchanging portion or the liquid reservoir. At least a part of the refrigerant adjustment portion is inserted into the liquid reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugimura, Hiroshi Mieda, Masaaki Kawakubo, Daiki Kato, Tetsuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20210063067
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanging portion, a reservoir that performs gas-liquid separation on a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant that flows out from the heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant and stores the liquid-phase refrigerant, and an inflow passage that allows the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out from the heat exchanging portion to flow into the reservoir. The inflow passage is connected so as to be in communication with an inlet port of the reservoir which is disposed above a liquid surface of the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Ryohei SUGIMURA, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Daiki KATO, Hiroshi MIEDA, Tetsuya ITO
  • Patent number: 10845124
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a liquid reservoir configured to separate a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out of an upstream heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant, and a refrigerant adjustment portion configured to adjust an outflow state and an outflow destination of the refrigerant flowing out of a downstream heat exchanging portion or the liquid reservoir. The liquid reservoir includes a liquid reserving portion configured to store the liquid-phase refrigerant and a gas reserving portion configured to store the gas-phase refrigerant. The refrigerant adjustment portion faces the liquid reserving portion across the gas reserving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugimura, Hiroshi Mieda, Masaaki Kawakubo, Daiki Kato, Tetsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 10759258
    Abstract: An ejector refrigeration cycle device includes: a decompressor that decompresses a refrigerant heat-exchanged in a radiator; a first exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant decompressed by the decompressor and outside air; an ejector that decompresses the refrigerant flowing out of the radiator in a nozzle portion and draws another refrigerant heat-exchanged in the first exterior heat exchanger; a branch portion in which the refrigerant heat-exchanged in the radiator branches to a side of the decompressor and a side of the nozzle portion; a second exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant pressurized in the ejector and the outside air; a bypass portion that causes the refrigerant heat-exchanged in the radiator to flow to the first exterior heat exchanger while bypassing the decompressor and the nozzle portion; and an opening/closing portion that opens or closes the bypass portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oshitani, Hiroshi Mieda
  • Publication number: 20200232726
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has an inflow port through which refrigerant flows, a cooling outflow port through which the refrigerant flows out during a cooling operation, and a heating outflow port through which the refrigerant flows out during a heating operation. A distance between the inflow port and the heating outflow port is shorter than a distance between the inflow port and the cooling outflow port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Ryohei SUGIMURA, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Daiki KATO, Tetsuya ITO, Hiroshi MIEDA
  • Publication number: 20200158382
    Abstract: In a heat pump cycle device, a flow passage switching portion includes a flow passage switching valve body configured to open and close a cooling side flow passage. A refrigerant circulation circuit includes a low-pressure flow passage through which a low-pressure refrigerant decompressed by a first decompressor flows toward a compressor in a heating mode, and a pre-evaporator flow passage provided between the flow passage switching valve body and a refrigerant inlet of an evaporator. The flow passage switching portion causes a pre-evaporator flow passage to communicate with the low-pressure flow passage while bypassing the evaporator when a refrigerant pressure in the low-pressure flow passage is lower than a refrigerant pressure in the pre-evaporator flow passage, in the heating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Daiki KATO, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Tetsuya ITO, Yasuhiro KAWASE, Ryohei SUGIMURA, Hiroshi MIEDA
  • Publication number: 20200116431
    Abstract: Each of tanks of a heat exchanger includes a tube joint portion and a tank body portion which define an internal space of the tank. The tube joint portions of the tanks constitute a single core plate. The tank body portions each have a claw protruding toward a core portion. The core plate is provided with a hole that fits with the claw. In a state in which the claw is fitted into the hole, the tank body portions are fixed to the core plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIEDA, Junji KATO, Hironobu FUJIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190226731
    Abstract: A stack type heat exchanger includes a plurality of first plates and a plurality of second plates. At least one of the respective first plates and the respective second plates has a protrusion protruding from a main body of the first plate or the second plate toward a first flow path, the protrusion being located at a peripheral portion of a tank space in the first flow path. The first plate and the second plate are joined to each other through the protrusion. The protrusion has a top portion and a side wall portion. A part of the side wall portion adjacent to the tank space has a thick structure portion, an entire thickness of the thick structure portion being thick in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MIZUNO, Isao TAMADA, Hiroshi MIEDA, Ryohei SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190217684
    Abstract: An ejector refrigeration cycle device includes: a first decompressor that decompresses a refrigerant heat-exchanged in a radiator; a first exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant decompressed by the first decompressor and outside air; an ejector that decompresses the refrigerant flowing out of the radiator in a nozzle portion and draws another refrigerant heat-exchanged in the first exterior heat exchanger; a second branch portion in which the refrigerant heat-exchanged in the radiator branches to a side of the first decompressor and a side of the nozzle portion of the ejector; a second exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant pressurized in the ejector and the outside air; a first bypass portion that causes the refrigerant heat-exchanged in the radiator to flow to the first exterior heat exchanger while bypassing the first decompressor and the nozzle portion; and an opening/closing portion that opens or closes the first bypass portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi OSHITANI, Hiroshi MIEDA
  • Publication number: 20190128575
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchanging portion configured to exchange heat between a refrigerant flowing through therein and air; a liquid reservoir configured to separate a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out of the heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant, the liquid reservoir storing the liquid-phase refrigerant; and a refrigerant adjustment portion configured to adjust a flow state of the refrigerant flowing into the refrigerant adjustment portion through a refrigerant passage of the refrigeration cycle, supply the refrigerant to the heat exchanging portion and adjust an outflow state and an outflow destination of the refrigerant flowing out of the heat exchanging portion or the liquid reservoir. At least a part of the refrigerant adjustment portion is inserted into the liquid reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei SUGIMURA, Hiroshi MIEDA, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Daiki KATO, Tetsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20190128577
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanging portion, a reservoir that performs gas-liquid separation on a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant that flows out from the heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant and stores the liquid-phase refrigerant, and an inflow passage that allows the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out from the heat exchanging portion to flow into the reservoir. The inflow passage is connected so as to be in communication with an inlet port of the reservoir which is disposed above a liquid surface of the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Ryohei SUGIMURA, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Daiki KATO, Hiroshi MIEDA, Tetsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20190092135
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a liquid reservoir configured to separate a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out of an upstream heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant and store the liquid-phase refrigerant, and a first adjustment portion and a second adjustment portion configured to adjust an outflow state and an outflow destination of the refrigerant flowing out of a downstream heat exchanging portion or the liquid reservoir. The liquid reservoir includes a liquid reserving portion configured to store the liquid-phase refrigerant, and a gas reserving portion configured to store the gas-phase refrigerant. The first adjustment portion and the second adjustment portion face the liquid reserving portion across the gas reserving portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ryohei SUGIMURA, Hiroshi MIEDA, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Daiki KATO, Tetsuya ITO