Patents by Inventor Kaname Nagatani
Kaname Nagatani 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).
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Publication number: 20230324082Abstract: A positive displacement machine includes a housing including a guide part, a slide member including a piston disposed in the guide part, a coupling member coupled to the slide member, a first rotating member coupled to the coupling member and configured to rotate centering on a first rotation axis, a second rotating member coupled to the coupling member and configured to rotate, centering on a second rotation axis, in an opposite direction of a rotating direction of the first rotating member, and a first motor including a first rotor coupled to the first rotating member and a first stator disposed on an outer side of the first rotor, The first motor includes a first adjusting mechanism configured to adjust an angle of the first stator with respect to the first rotor, the angle being centered on the first rotation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Osamu KATSUDA, Kaname NAGATANI, Hidemasa YAMAKAWA, Tomoki ABE
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Publication number: 20230323869Abstract: A positive displacement machine includes a housing including a tubular guide part in which a pressure chamber is provided, a slide member including a piston disposed in the guide part, the slide member sliding in a first direction, a coupling member coupled to the slide member and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first rotating member coupled to a first end portion of the coupling member and configured to rotate centering on a first rotation axis extending in the second direction, and a first motor. The first motor includes a first rotor coupled to the first rotating member and configured to rotate centering on the first rotation axis and an adjuster configured to adjust a position of the first rotor with respect to the housing, the position extending along an imaginary plane perpendicular to the first rotation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Osamu KATSUDA, Kaname NAGATANI, Hidemasa YAMAKAWA
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Patent number: 11768427Abstract: A projector includes first and second cooling targets and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander configured to decompress a part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the first expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the first cooling target, a second expander configured to decompress the other part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a second evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the second expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the second cooling target, and a second compressor configured to compress the working fluid in a gas phase flowing from the second evaporator.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kaname Nagatani, Osamu Katsuda
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Patent number: 11714342Abstract: A projector includes a first cooling target and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor configured to compress working fluid in a gas phase, a condenser configured to condense the working fluid in the gas phase into the working fluid in a liquid phase, a first expander configured to decompress the working fluid in the liquid phase, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid flowed from the first expander to the working fluid in the gas phase with heat of a first cooling target and discharge the changed gas-phase working fluid to the first compressor, a first pipe connecting the first compressor and the condenser, a second pipe connecting the condenser and the first expander, and a base to which the first compressor, the condenser, and the first expander are fixed. The first pipe and the second pipe are provided in the base.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kaname Nagatani, Osamu Katsuda
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Publication number: 20230097432Abstract: A positive displacement machine includes a case including a tubular guide part in which a pressure chamber is provided, a slide member including a shaft extending in a first direction and a piston provided at an end portion of the shaft and disposed in the guide part, a coupling member coupled to the slide member and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first rotating member coupled to one end of the coupling member and configured to rotate around a first rotation axis extending in the second direction, and a rocking absorbing mechanism configured to absorb a rocking motion of the piston around an axis extending in the first direction. The rocking absorbing mechanism is provided between the coupling member and the slide member, between the shaft and the piston, or between the piston and an inner wall of the guide part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu KATSUDA, Hidemasa YAMAKAWA, Kaname NAGATANI, Tomoki ABE
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Patent number: 11573484Abstract: A projector includes a first cooling target, a cooling device, and an exterior housing that houses the first cooling target and the cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor configured to compress working fluid, a condenser configured to condense the working fluid, a first expander configured to decompress the working fluid, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid to the working fluid in the gas phase with heat transferred from the first cooling target, a first connection pipe configured to lead the working fluid discharged from the first expander to the first evaporator, a second connection pipe configured to lead the working fluid discharged from the first evaporator to the first compressor, and a first case configured to seal the first expander, the first connection pipe, the first evaporator, and the second connection pipe on an inside.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kaname Nagatani, Osamu Katsuda
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Patent number: 11480858Abstract: A projector includes a first cooling target, a cooling device, and an exterior housing. The cooling device includes a first circulation device in which working fluid circulates, a second circulation device in which a liquid refrigerant circulates, and a heat exchanger in which both of the working fluid and the liquid refrigerant flow. The first circulation device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander, and a first evaporator. The second circulation device includes a first heat receiver heat-transferably connected to the first cooling target. The heat exchanger includes a first channel in which the working fluid having flowed in the first expander flows, and a second channel in which the liquid refrigerant having flowed in the first heat receiver flows. The heat exchanger cools the liquid refrigerant flowing in the second channel with the working fluid flowing in the first channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kaname Nagatani
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Publication number: 20220331828Abstract: A liquid spray nozzle includes a nozzle hole configured to spray a liquid toward an object, a liquid flow channel communicated with the nozzle hole, and a filter disposed in the liquid flow channel, wherein at least one of a part of the filter and a part of the liquid flow channel from the filter to the nozzle hole forms an antibacterial part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Osamu KATSUDA, Kaname NAGATANI, Takahiro MATSUZAKI, Yasunori ONISHI, Tomoki ABE
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Patent number: 11460760Abstract: A projector includes first and second cooling targets and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid into a working fluid in a gas phase by using heat of the first cooling target, a heat exchanger including a first flow path through which the working fluid from the first expander flows and a second flow path, a second expander configured to decompress the working fluid from the first flow path, a second evaporator configured to change the working fluid flowing into the second flow path into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat of the second cooling target, and a second compressor. The heat exchanger cools the working fluid flowing through the first flow path by the working fluid flowing through the second flow path.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kaname Nagatani, Osamu Katsuda
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Publication number: 20220128892Abstract: A projector includes a first cooling target, a cooling device, and an exterior housing that houses the first cooling target and the cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor configured to compress working fluid, a condenser configured to condense the working fluid, a first expander configured to decompress the working fluid, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid to the working fluid in the gas phase with heat transferred from the first cooling target, a first connection pipe configured to lead the working fluid discharged from the first expander to the first evaporator, a second connection pipe configured to lead the working fluid discharged from the first evaporator to the first compressor, and a first case configured to seal the first expander, the first connection pipe the first evaporator, and the second connection pipe on an inside.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Kaname NAGATANI, Osamu KATSUDA
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Publication number: 20210302816Abstract: A projector includes a first cooling target, a cooling device, and an exterior housing. The cooling device includes a first circulation device in which working fluid circulates, a second circulation device in which a liquid refrigerant circulates, and a heat exchanger in which both of the working fluid and the liquid refrigerant flow. The first circulation device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander, and a first evaporator. The second circulation device includes a first heat receiver heat-transferably connected to the first cooling target. The heat exchanger includes a first channel in which the working fluid having flowed in the first expander flows, and a second channel in which the liquid refrigerant having flowed in the first heat receiver flows. The heat exchanger cools the liquid refrigerant flowing in the second channel with the working fluid flowing in the first channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventor: Kaname NAGATANI
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Publication number: 20210294189Abstract: A projector includes a first cooling target and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor configured to compress working fluid in a gas phase, a condenser configured to condense the working fluid in the gas phase into the working fluid in a liquid phase, a first expander configured to decompress the working fluid in the liquid phase, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid flowed from the first expander to the working fluid in the gas phase with heat of a first cooling target and discharge the changed gas-phase working fluid to the first compressor, a first pipe connecting the first compressor and the condenser, a second pipe connecting the condenser and the first expander, and a base to which the first compressor, the condenser, and the first expander are fixed. The first pipe and the second pipe are provided in the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Kaname NAGATANI, Osamu KATSUDA
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Publication number: 20210232029Abstract: A projector includes first and second cooling targets and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid into a working fluid in a gas phase by using heat of the first cooling target, a heat exchanger including a first flow path through which the working fluid from the first expander flows and a second flow path, a second expander configured to decompress the working fluid from the first flow path, a second evaporator configured to change the working fluid flowing into the second flow path into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat of the second cooling target, and a second compressor. The heat exchanger cools the working fluid flowing through the first flow path by the working fluid flowing through the second flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Kaname NAGATANI, Osamu KATSUDA
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Publication number: 20210232030Abstract: A projector includes first and second cooling targets and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander configured to decompress a part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the first expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the first cooling target, a second expander configured to decompress the other part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a second evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the second expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the second cooling target, and a second compressor configured to compress the working fluid in a gas phase flowing from the second evaporator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Kaname NAGATANI, Osamu KATSUDA
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Patent number: 10866496Abstract: A projector includes an exterior housing of the projector, a first cooling target, and a cooling apparatus provided in the exterior housing and cooling the first cooling target. The cooling apparatus includes a first compressor compressing an operating fluid in a gas phase, a condenser condensing the gas-phase operating fluid compressed by the first compressor into the operating fluid in a liquid phase, a first expander decompressing the liquid-phase operating fluid condensed by the condenser to change to the operating fluid in which the liquid phase and the gas phase are mixed with each other, and a first evaporator changing part of the liquid-phase operating fluid supplied from the first expander to the gas-phase operating fluid by using heat transferred from the first cooling target and discharging the gas-phase operating fluid to the first compressor.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kaname Nagatani, Osamu Katsuda
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Patent number: 10852628Abstract: A projector includes a first circulation channel formed in a sealed space and where a first fluid for cooling a cooling target arranged within the sealed space circulates, a second circulation channel where a second fluid to which heat is conducted from the first fluid circulates, and a third circulation channel where a third fluid to which heat is conducted from the second fluid circulates and where the heat conducted to the third fluid is radiated in a process of circulation of the third fluid. The first fluid is gas. The second fluid and the third fluid are liquid.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Nakamura, Kaname Nagatani
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Patent number: 10809608Abstract: In a projection-type display apparatus, a polarization converter, a light-incident-side polarizer, a first liquid crystal device, a first light-exiting-side polarizer, and a retardation film are arranged along the optical path from a light source section to a projection system. The light-incident-side polarizer is a wire grid polarizer including a wire grid integrally provided on the light exiting surface of the polarization converter, and the light-incident-side polarizer and the polarization converter form a single optical part. The first light-exiting-side polarizer is a wire grid polarizer including a wire grid integrally provided on the light exiting surface of the first liquid crystal device, and the first light-exiting-side polarizer and the first liquid crystal device form a single optical part.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Norikazu Kadotani, Kaname Nagatani
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Patent number: 10678121Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit having a light source and a first cooling section adapted to transmit heat of the light source to a first liquid refrigerant circulating, an optical unit having a light modulation device and a second cooling section adapted to transmit heat of the light modulation device to a second liquid refrigerant, a cooling unit adapted to cool the first liquid refrigerant and the second liquid refrigerant, a first connection member connecting the light source unit and the cooling unit to each other, and a second connection member connecting the optical unit and the cooling unit to each other, and at least one of a set of the light source unit and the cooling unit, and a set of the optical unit and the cooling unit is configured to detachably be attached to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Nakamura, Kaname Nagatani, Takahiro Miyata, Toshizo Nishi
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Patent number: 10648653Abstract: A wavelength conversion device, an illumination device, and a projector that can efficiently cool a phosphor. A wavelength conversion device includes a substrate including a phosphor layer in which a phosphor is included, a rotating device configured to rotate the substrate, a circulating device that circulates a cooling gas to the substrate, and a housing configured to house the substrate and the circulating device. The housing includes a partition wall configured to separate a first space in which the cooling gas is circulated to the substrate by the circulating device and a second space in which the cooling gas radially delivered from the substrate according to the rotation of the substrate circulates.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kaname Nagatani, Kazuya Usuda
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Patent number: 10642136Abstract: A heat exchanging apparatus includes one inflow channel having an inflow port via which a liquid refrigerant flows in, one outflow channel having an outflow port via which the liquid refrigerant flowing through the outflow channel flows out, and a plurality of channels arranged in a flow direction of the liquid refrigerant flowing through the inflow channel, the plurality of channels connecting the inflow channel the outflow channel and causing the liquid refrigerant flowing from the inflow channel to flow into the outflow channel. The plurality channels are connected to the inflow channel over a portion from the inflow port to a terminal end of the inflow channel. The inflow channel includes a buffer section disposed between the inflow port and the terminal end, the buffer section configured no reduce a flow rate of the liquid refrigerant flowing through the inflow channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kaname Nagatani, Kentaro Nakamura