Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Kanuma

Hitoshi Kanuma 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: 6145338
    Abstract: In a high-temperature regenerator which has vertical liquid pipe groups in the proximity of which a combustion flame and combustion gas from a burner pass and a double can wall which communicates with upper and lower portions of liquid pipes forming the vertical liquid pipe groups and is arranged at a position of a furnace wall and which heats and concentrates a diluted absorption solution passing through the vertical liquid pipe groups and the double can wall, a solution inlet for sprinkling the diluted absorption solution in an open state is provided above liquid pipes arranged on a side opposite to the burner. Since the sprinkled diluted absorption solution collects the heat of an exhaust gas while it falls to increase its temperature, when it flows into the other liquid pipes, it boils immediately and its circulation flow is activated by boiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nakamura, Atsushi Shitara, Hidetoshi Arima, Hitoshi Kanuma, Masahiro Furukawa, Eiichi Enomoto, Toshihiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 5862679
    Abstract: In a high-temperature regenerator which has vertical liquid pipe groups in the proximity of which a combustion flame and combustion gas from a burner pass and a double can wall which communicates with upper and lower portions of liquid pipes forming the vertical liquid pipe groups and is arranged at a position of a furnace wall and which heats and concentrates a diluted absorption solution passing through the vertical liquid pipe groups and the double can wall, a solution inlet for sprinkling the diluted absorption solution in an open state is provided above liquid pipes arranged on a side opposite to the burner. Since the sprinkled diluted absorption solution collects the heat of an exhaust gas while it falls to increase its temperature, when it flows into the other liquid pipes, it boils immediately and its circulation flow is activated by boiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nakamura, Atsushi Shitara, Hidetoshi Arima, Hitoshi Kanuma, Masahiro Furukawa, Eiichi Enomoto, Toshihiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 5680772
    Abstract: An absorption type refrigerating machine comprising an evaporator, an absorber, a regenerator, and a condenser, all connected by piping to form a refrigerating cycle. The evaporator, condenser or absorber includes a plurality of heat transmission pipes accommodated therein and arranged generally in a horizontal direction. Each pipe has at least one continuity of protrusion on the inner surface thereof extending in an axial direction of the pipe in a spiral fashion and at least one continuity of groove corresponding to the continuity of protrusion formed on the outer surface of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Furukawa, Toshiyuki Kaneko, Hitoshi Kanuma