Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Sugimoto

Kazuyoshi Sugimoto 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: 8235690
    Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll compressor capable of improving the oil separating device of a refrigerant gas discharged from a scroll compression element to effectively suppress the amount of oil to be discharged through a discharge tube. The scroll compressor has, in a sealed container, a scroll compression element, a motor element which drives the scroll compression element, and a support frame having a bearing portion which keeps a shaft of the motor element, and provided with a communication path. The scroll compressor further includes a shield plate which extends from the support frame to the motor element side to surround the periphery of the bearing portion, and a guide member provided at an outlet of the communication path to guide the discharged gas in the direction of the shield plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Koike, Satoshi Iitsuka, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8186981
    Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll compressor having an object of stabilizing the moving of an orbit scroll while suppressing the start load of the scroll compressor. In the scroll compressor, a slide bush having a slide face forming a predetermined angle with respect to the direction of gas load of a gas in a compression chamber is interposed on an eccentric shaft of a shaft for driving the orbit scroll, so that when the load of the gas in the compression chamber is applied, the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft increases. The scroll compressor includes a spring member interposed between the slide bush and the eccentric shaft and configured to constantly urge the eccentric shaft to decrease the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft, and this spring member urges the eccentric shaft to press the eccentric shaft onto the slide face of the slide bush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Kazuya Sato
  • Patent number: 8182249
    Abstract: There is disclosed a sealed type scroll compressor which decreases a sliding loss between a thrust ring and a orbit scroll and improves the efficiency of the sealed type scroll compressor while preventing the leakage of a refrigerant between a fixed scroll and the orbit scroll, and the compressor provides a relation of F1<F2, in which F1 is an operating pressure applied from the front surface space of the thrust ring to the thrust ring, and F2 is an operating pressure applied from a back surface space to the thrust ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Yoshiaki Koike, Yasuo Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20110052437
    Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll compressor which can lower the noise level of a harsh frequency without taking a lot of troubles. In a sealed container, a scroll compression element and an electromotive element are provided. The scroll compression element is constituted of a fixed scroll including a vertically provided spiral lap, and a swingable scroll including a vertically provided spiral lap and swiveled by a rotary shaft of the electromotive element with respect to the fixed scroll. A refrigerant compressed by gradually reducing, from the outside to the inside, a plurality of compression spaces formed by engaging both the laps with each other is discharged to a discharge pressure space in the sealed container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Iitsuka, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100215536
    Abstract: In a scroll type compressor including a fixed scroll having a mirror plate and a lap provided to the mirror plate, a movable scroll having a mirror plate and a lap provided to the mirror plate and engaged with the fixed scroll, and an Oldham's ring disposed on the back side of the movable scroll for constraining rotation of the movable scroll on the axis thereof, the Oldham's ring has a pair of fixing locking pawls extending from the back side of the movable scroll and fitted to the fixed scroll, each of the fixing locking pawls is provided with a reinforcing portion at the base portion thereof, and the mirror plate of the movable scroll is cut out in a concave shape at the edge portion thereof in conformity with a movement range of the reinforcing portion to form a concaved escape portion at the edge portion of the mirror plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Yasunori KIYOKAWA, Yoshiaki Koike, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100215533
    Abstract: A scroll type compressor including a fixed scroll having a suction opening, a movable scroll, a hermetically sealed container having an upper cap in which the fixed scroll and the movable scroll are mounted, and a suction pipe that penetrates through the upper cap and is engagedly fitted through an O ring in the suction opening of the fixed scroll at a lower portion thereof. The upper cap is provided with a pipe stand formed of iron at a suction-pipe penetrating portion thereof, and the suction pipe comprises an iron lower suction member that is engagedly fitted in the suction opening of the fixed scroll and an O-ring groove in which the O ring is fitted, and a copper upper suction member that is joined to the lower suction member by brazing and engagedly fitted in the pipe stand, the upper suction member and the pipe stand being joined to each other by brazing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Yasunori KIYOKAWA, Satoshi Iitsuka, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100215534
    Abstract: A scroll type compressor including a fixed scroll, a movable scroll engaged with the fixed scroll and a hermetically sealed container, one of the fixed scroll and the movable scroll including an intercommunication path having a lower hole opened to the outside of the one scroll and an insertion hole formed by subjecting the lower hole to reaming processing from the one end to a position of a predetermined depth of the lower hole, a pin member that is slightly smaller in diameter than the intercommunication path and movably inserted in the intercommunication path, and a screw member that is provided at one end of the intercommunication path to close the one end of the intercommunication path so as to press the pin member against the end of the back side of the intercommunication path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Yasunori KIYOKAWA, Tsutomu Kon, Katsuki Akuzawa, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20100215535
    Abstract: A scroll type compressor including a fixed scroll, a movable scroll engaged with the fixed scroll, and a hermetically sealed container in which the fixed scroll and the movable scroll are mounted. The fixed scroll or the movable scroll has an intercommunication path for lubricating oil that is opened to the outside of the one scroll at one end thereof, extends radially inside the scroll and has a high-pressure opening intercommunicating with a high-pressure portion of the container and a low-pressure opening intercommunicating with a low-pressure portion in the scroll, a pin member disposed in the intercommunication path so as to be movable radially in the scroll, a screw member closing one end of the intercommunication path, and a stopper provided at a predetermined position in the intercommunication path to regulate radial movement of the pin member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Yasunori KIYOKAWA, Yoshiaki Koike, Tsutomu Kon, Katsuki Akuzawa, Satoshi Iitsuka, Kenji Aida, Akihiro Hayashi, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20090246057
    Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll compressor having an object of stabilizing the moving of an orbit scroll while suppressing the start load of the scroll compressor. In the scroll compressor, a slide bush having a slide face forming a predetermined angle with respect to the direction of gas load of a gas in a compression chamber is interposed on an eccentric shaft of a shaft for driving the orbit scroll, so that when the load of the gas in the compression chamber is applied, the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft increases. The scroll compressor includes a spring member interposed between the slide bush and the eccentric shaft and configured to constantly urge the eccentric shaft to decrease the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft, and this spring member urges the eccentric shaft to press the eccentric shaft onto the slide face of the slide bush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Kazuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20090246056
    Abstract: There is disclosed a sealed type scroll compressor which decreases a sliding loss between a thrust ring and a orbit scroll and improves the efficiency of the sealed type scroll compressor while preventing the leakage of a refrigerant between a fixed scroll and the orbit scroll, and the compressor provides a relation of F1<F2, in which F1 is an operating pressure applied from the front surface space of the thrust ring to the thrust ring, and F2 is an operating pressure applied from a back surface space to the thrust ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Yoshiaki Koike, Yasuo Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20090238704
    Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll compressor capable of improving the oil separating device of a refrigerant gas discharged from a scroll compression element to effectively suppress the amount of oil to be discharged through a discharge tube. The scroll compressor has, in a sealed container, a scroll compression element, a motor element which drives the scroll compression element, and a support frame having a bearing portion which keeps a shaft of the motor element, and provided with a communication path. The scroll compressor further includes a shield plate which extends from the support frame to the motor element side to surround the periphery of the bearing portion, and a guide member provided at an outlet of the communication path to guide the discharged gas in the direction of the shield plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Koike, Satoshi Iitsuka, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20090175743
    Abstract: There is disclosed a compressor capable of easily adjusting top clearances in a case where metal gaskets are used as a seal material between a valve plate and a casing main body. In the compressor in which pistons reciprocate in cylinders of the casing main body constituting a casing to perform a compression work and which is constituted by fixing cylinder heads with bolts to the casing main body via the seal material and the valve plate, the seal material to be interposed between the valve plate and the casing body is constituted by superimposing a plurality of metal gaskets on one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakamoto, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Yoshiaki Koike, Shinya Itabashi
  • Patent number: 7442018
    Abstract: A compressor comprises, in a container body, an electric element, and a compressive element driven by the electric element. An oil storage is provided in the bottom, and an oil pump is provided to suck up oil from the oil storage. The oil pump includes a cylinder fixed to a lower support frame, a rotator axially installed on the lower end of a driveshaft and operative to rotate within an inner space of the cylinder, and a suction pipe having an upper end connected to a communication notch formed in the cylinder and a lower end inserted and arranged in the oil storage. In this compressor, the upper end of the suction pipe is protruded into the communication notch of the cylinder to configure an oil residue pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Kiyokawa, Kenji Aida, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7351045
    Abstract: A compressor comprises an oil storage provided in the bottom of a container body. An oil cup is fixed in communication with the oil storage. An oil pump is attached to the lower end of a shaft and inserted into the oil cup. A rotation inhibitor is provided including a plurality of plates each having one end fixed to the inner wall of the oil cup and the other end disposed almost vertically toward the central axis of the oil cup. The plate has an upper end located in the vicinity of the upper edge of the oil cup, a lower end located in the vicinity of the bottom of the oil cup, and side ends located in the vicinity of the outer wall of the oil pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Yasunori Kiyokawa, Yoshiaki Koike, Kenji Aida
  • Publication number: 20070074978
    Abstract: A compressor packaging apparatus including a lower plate (21) mounted on a base board (20), an intermediate plate and an upper plate (24), plural compressors (1A, 1B) each of which has a cylindrical compressor main body (2A, 2B) having dish-shaped end caps (3A, 3B, 4A, 4B) at both the end portions thereof being placed on the lower plate and fixedly sandwiched between the lower plate and the upper plate while each compressor main body is inserted through the intermediate plate, characterized in that when one kind of compressors are packaged, the lower plate (21) and the intermediate plate are used with being placed face up, and when another kind of compressors are packaged, the lower plate and the intermediate plate are reversed and used with being placed face down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Koike, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20070065307
    Abstract: A compressor comprises an oil storage provided in the bottom of a container body. An oil cup is fixed in communication with the oil storage. An oil pump is attached to the lower end of a shaft and inserted into the oil cup. A rotation inhibitor is provided including a plurality of plates each having one end fixed to the inner wall of the oil cup and the other end disposed almost vertically toward the central axis of the oil cup. The plate has an upper end located in the vicinity of the upper edge of the oil cup, a lower end located in the vicinity of the bottom of the oil cup, and side ends located in the vicinity of the outer wall of the oil pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Yasunori Kiyokawa, Yoshiaki Koike, Kenji Aida
  • Publication number: 20070065306
    Abstract: A compressor comprises, in a container body, an electric element, and a compressive element driven by the electric element. An oil storage is provided in the bottom, and an oil pump is provided to suck up oil from the oil storage. The oil pump includes a cylinder fixed to a lower support frame, a rotator axially installed on the lower end of a driveshaft and operative to rotate within an inner space of the cylinder, and a suction pipe having an upper end connected to a communication notch formed in the cylinder and a lower end inserted and arranged in the oil storage. In this compressor, the upper end of the suction pipe is protruded into the communication notch of the cylinder to configure an oil residue pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Yasunori Kiyokawa, Kenji Aida, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 6446462
    Abstract: It is desired to avoid lack of lubricant oil in any of a plurality of compressors disposed in parallel in a single refrigerant circuit. To achieve this result, a freezer unit is provided, wherein a first kind of oil return pipe leading to a refrigerant suction pipe of a first compressor from an oil separator installed in a discharged refrigerant junction pipe is installed, and a second kind of oil return pipe leading to a refrigerant suction pipe of a second compressor from the regular oil level height of the first compressor 1 is utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Kiyokawa, Yoshinori Noboru, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Takashi Sato, Jyunichi Suzuki, Kenji Aida
  • Publication number: 20020023459
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to avoid lack of lubricant oil in any of a plurality of compressors disposed in parallel in a single refrigerant circuit. A freezer unit, wherein a first kind oil return pipe 18 leading to a refrigerant suction pipe 4 of a first compressor 1 from an oil separator installed in a discharged refrigerant junction pipe 8 is installed, and a second kind oil return pipe 12 leading to a refrigerant suction pipe 5 of a second compressor 2 from the regular oil level height of the first compressor 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Yasunori Kiyokawa, Yoshinori Noboru, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Takashi Sato, Jyunichi Suzuki, Kenji Aida
  • Patent number: 6322339
    Abstract: A highly reliable scroll compressor adapted to make the amount of a refrigerant taken in through a first suction inlet of a scroll compression element as equal as possible to that taken in through a second suction inlet of the scroll compression element so as to improve the intake efficiency, thereby suppressing pulsation and noise. If the sectional area of the inlet of a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant taken in flows from an end of a swivel lap via the outer periphery thereof to the second suction inlet is denoted as A1, the sectional area of the inlet of the first suction inlet is denoted as A2, and the sectional area of the inlet of a communication groove is denoted as A3 when the gap between a stationary lap and the swivel lap of the scroll compression element reaches its maximum, then A1, A2, and A3 stay within a range defined by 1.5≦A2/(A1+A3)≦2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Mitsunaga, Kenzo Matsumoto, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Takahiro Nishikawa, Kazuaki Fujiwara, Kazuya Sato, Takashi Sato