Patents by Inventor Hirotake Kawabata

Hirotake Kawabata 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: 20050265863
    Abstract: Relating to oil feed to a piston portion in a dual support bearing of a hermetic compressor, and a structure for improving efficiency and reliability and accomplishing reduction of noise is disclosed. In this structure, since an auxiliary bearing 119 is provided with an oil feed passage 129 for conducting lubricating oil 108 discharged from an upper end of an oil feed mechanism 114, to a sliding surface of a piston 120, the lubricating oil 108 is fed to the piston 120 and a piston pin 122 from the oil feed passage 129 to make the sealing performance excellent, so that the amount of leakage of refrigerant gas from a compression chamber 117 is reduced to improve the freezing capability or efficiency. Further, lubrication of sliding portions of the piston 120 and the piston pin 122 becomes excellent so that noise caused by sliding is reduced and the reliability is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: Matsushita Refrigeration Company
    Inventors: Hironari Akashi, Hirotake Kawabata, Akihiko Kubota, Takahide Nagao, Makoto Katayama, Kosuke Tsuboi, Takashi Kakiuchi, Takeshi Kojima