Patents by Inventor Kei Nishii

Kei Nishii 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: 20150275879
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The swash plate is rotatable together with the drive shaft in a swash plate chamber. The conversion mechanism reciprocates the piston in a cylinder bore. The actuator is operative to change the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator is rotatable integrally with the drive shaft. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. The control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. The movable body and the link mechanism are located at opposite sides of the swash plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Masaki OTA
  • Publication number: 20150275874
    Abstract: The valve body has a first valve part and a second valve part. The first valve part has an end surface seal part that is brought into contact with a seat part of a first valve seat part and closes a bleed passage. The second valve part has an external surface seal part that enters the second valve hole and closes the supply passage. When the opening degree of the first valve part is maximum, the seal length of the external surface seal part along the moving direction of the valve body is shorter than the distance between the end surface seal part and the seat part along the moving direction of the valve body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Kei NISHII, Shohei FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20150275875
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a control valve having a valve body and a solenoid portion A refrigerant circuit has first and second pressure monitoring points. A load based on a point-to-point differential pressure, which is a differential pressure between the pressure at the first and second pressure monitoring points, is applied to the valve body. At least one of a load based on a DS differential pressure, which is a differential pressure between the pressure in a discharge pressure zone and the pressure in a suction pressure zone, and a load based on a CS differential pressure, which is a differential pressure between the pressure in the control pressure chamber and the pressure in the suction pressure zone, acts on the valve body in the same direction as the direction of the load applied to the valve body based on the point-to-point differential pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kei NISHII, Koji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150275876
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, pistons, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The housing includes a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber, and cylinder bores. The control mechanism controls the actuator. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. At least one of the suction chamber and the swash plate chamber is a low pressure chamber. The control mechanism includes a control passage, which connects the control pressure chamber, the low pressure chamber, and the discharge chamber, and a control valve, which adjusts the open degree of the control passage. The control passage is partially formed in the drive shaft. The movable body increases the inclination angle of the swash plate when the pressure of the control pressure chamber increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Masaki OTA
  • Publication number: 20150275873
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The swash plate is rotatable together with the drive shaft in a swash plate chamber. The conversion mechanism reciprocates the piston in a cylinder bore. The actuator changes the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator is rotatable integrally with the drive shaft. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. The control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. The movable body is adapted to pull the swash plate and increase the inclination angle when the pressure of the control pressure chamber increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Masaki OTA
  • Publication number: 20150252798
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a swash plate, and an actuator. The actuator includes a partition body, a movable body, and a coupling member located radially outward of the rotary shaft of the swash plate. The movable body has a guide surface for changing the inclination angle of the swash plate and a sliding portion that slides on the rotary shaft or the partition body. When viewed in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction in which the rotational axis of the rotary shaft extends and perpendicular to a first direction, the guide surface has a curved shape that is configured such that a normal of the guide surface and the rotational axis of the rotary shaft intersect in a zone surrounded by the sliding portion in the entire range of change in the inclination angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro SUZUKI, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Hideharu YAMASHITA, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII
  • Publication number: 20150167655
    Abstract: In the compressor of the present invention, first and second recessed strip portions are recessed in a second supporting member. First and second annular members are respectively provided in the first and second recessed strip portions. The first and second annular members respectively include joint gap formed by first to third cutouts. The third cutouts function as aperture in the first and second annular members. The first and second annular members respectively move in the first and second recessed strip portions according to a pressure difference between a pressure regulation chamber and a swash plate chamber. Consequently, the compressor adjusts a flow rate of a refrigerant circulating from the pressure regulation chamber to the swash plate chamber and adjusts a supply amount of lubricant supplied to a second sliding bearing and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII
  • Publication number: 20150132156
    Abstract: A swash plate type variable displacement compressor includes, a housing, a swash plate disposed in the housing and having therethrough an insertion hole, a rotary shaft inserted through the insertion hole of the swash plate, a plurality of pistons engaged with the swash plate, and a connecting member disposed between the rotary shaft and the swash plate and connecting the rotary shaft and the swash plate so as to change inclination angle of the swash plate relative to the rotary shaft. A pair of projections are provided in the insertion hole so as to extend toward the rotary shaft and restrict the movement of the swash plate relative to the rotary shaft. The paired projections are spaced away from each other so as not to be in contact with the rotary shaft simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazunari HONDA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Hiromichi OGAWA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150104334
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a control pressure chamber and a displacement control valve that controls the pressure of the control pressure chamber. The displacement control valve includes an electromagnetic solenoid, a driving force transmission member, a valve body, and a pressure sensing mechanism. An accommodation chamber accommodates the pressure sensing. A valve chamber accommodates the valve body having a valve opening degree determined by an urging force applied to the valve body through the driving force transmission member and by an urging force applied to the valve body by the expansion and contraction of the pressure sensing mechanism. The valve body and the pressure sensing mechanism form a valve unit. When the electromagnetic solenoid is deactivated, the pressure of the accommodation chamber acts on a back surface of the pressure sensing mechanism so that a force in the open direction is applied to the valve unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Hiromichi OGAWA, Hideharu YAMASHITA, Kei NISHII
  • Publication number: 20150044068
    Abstract: A compressor according to the present invention has a housing including a first and second cylinder bores. The inner diameter of the first cylinder bore is smaller than that of the second cylinder bore. In suction process, refrigerant gas is directly drawn from an inlet port into a first suction chamber. The refrigerant gas is flowed from the first suction chamber into a first compression chamber. In contrast, refrigerant gas is drawn through the inlet port, a first suction passage, the first suction chamber, a first communication passage, a swash plate chamber and a second communication passage and into a second compression chamber. According to the above-described compressor, wherein the inner diameter of the first cylinder bore is smaller than the second cylinder bore, the difference of the amplitude of the intake pulsation between the first compression chamber and the second compression chamber can be suitably reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Tomoji TARUTANI, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kei NISHII
  • Publication number: 20150044067
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a displacement control valve. The displacement control valve includes a drive force transmitting member, a valve member having a first valve body, a pressure sensing mechanism, which adjusts the valve opening degree of the first valve body, a communication passage, which connects a back pressure chamber and an accommodating chamber to each other, and a second valve body, which selectively opens and closes the communication passage. The first valve body opens when current supply to an electromagnetic solenoid is stopped and the pressure in a suction pressure zone is less than a threshold value. The second valve body closes when current is supplied to the electromagnetic solenoid and opens when the current supply to the electromagnetic solenoid is stopped and the pressure in the suction pressure zone is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kei NISHII
  • Publication number: 20150044065
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a displacement control valve. The displacement control valve includes a drive force transmitting member, a valve member having a first valve body, a valve chamber, which accommodates the first valve body, an accommodating chamber, which communicates with a control pressure chamber, a pressure sensing mechanism, which adjusts the valve opening degree of the first valve body, a communicating chamber, which is located on the opposite side of the pressure sensing mechanism from the valve chamber, and a second valve body, which is located in the pressure sensing mechanism and selectively opens and closes the communicating chamber. When the current supply to the electromagnetic solenoid is stopped and the pressure in the suction pressure zone in the communicating chamber is higher than a predetermined pressure, the pressure sensing mechanism contracts to open the second valve body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kei NISHII, Hiromichi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150023810
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor includes first and second cylinder blocks, a rotation shaft, a double-headed piston, a crank chamber, a drive force transmission member, a swash plate, a movable body, a control pressure chamber, and a support. The control pressure chamber is defined by the movable body in the housing. The control pressure chamber moves the movable body in the axial direction of the rotation shaft. The support is located on the swash plate and supported by the rotation shaft. The drive force transmission member and the movable body are located at a first side of the swash plate in the axial direction of the rotation shaft, and the support is located at a second side of the swash plate. The drive force transmission member, the movable body, and the support set the inclination angle of the swash plate relative to the rotation shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140377088
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor having high controllability and capable of exhibiting high mounting performance and securing sufficient compression capacity is provided. The compressor of the present invention comprises a first cylinder block 21 and a second cylinder block 23, and an actuator 13. The actuator 13 includes a movable body 13a, a fixed body 13b, and a control pressure chamber 13c. A first cylinder bore 21a and a first storage chamber 21c are formed in the first cylinder block 21. A second cylinder bore 23a and a second storage chamber 23c are formed in the second cylinder block 23. The first cylinder bore 21a is formed to have a diameter smaller than the diameter of the second cylinder bore 23a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140369862
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor includes a swash plate, a double-headed piston, a control pressure chamber, a discharge pressure region, a suction pressure region, a supplying passage, which extends from the discharge pressure region to the control pressure chamber, a narrowing portion, which narrows an opening degree of the supplying passage, and a displacement control valve. The displacement control valve controls a pressure in the control pressure chamber. The displacement control valve includes a driving force transmission rod, a valve chamber, a guide wall, and a back pressure chamber. The back pressure chamber is in communication with the valve chamber through a clearance between the guide wall and the driving force transmission rod. The narrowing portion has a passage cross-sectional area that is larger than a passage cross-sectional area of the clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Kazunari HONDA
  • Publication number: 20140294611
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a housing, drive shaft, first and second radial bearings, swash plate, and actuator. The actuator includes a movable body and fixed body. The movable body includes a main portion and circumferential wall. The main portion includes an insertion hole. The housing includes an accommodation wall. A first clearance exists between the circumferential wall and fixed body. A second clearance exists between the drive shaft and wall of the insertion hole. A third clearance exists between the circumferential wall and accommodation wall. A fourth clearance exists between the drive shaft and first radial bearing. A fifth clearance exists between the drive shaft and second radial bearing. The first and second clearances differ in size. The sum of the third clearance and the smaller one of the first and second clearances is larger than the fourth and fifth clearances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro SUZUKI, Masaki OTA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140294616
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a tiltable swash plate, a movable body that is coupled to the swash plate and changes the inclination angle of the swash plate, a link mechanism that permits the inclination angle of the swash plate to be changed, a first support portion provided to the movable body, a second support portion provided to the swash plate, and a first coupling member that couples the first and second support potions to each other. The second support portion is pivotally supported by the first coupling member. The swash plate has top and bottom dead center associated parts for positioning each piston at top and bottom dead centers, respectively. The top and bottom dead center associated parts are arranged with the rotary shaft in between. The second support portion is arranged between the top and bottom dead center associated parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140294613
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor that includes a cylinder bore, a swash plate chamber, a swash plate, and a double head piston, which defines first and second compression chambers in the cylinder bore. First and second suction chambers are in communication with the first and second compression chambers, respectively. The displacement of the top dead center of the piston in the first compression chamber is greater than the displacement of the top dead center of the piston in the second compression chamber. A first suction passage extends from a suction port to the first suction chamber without passing through the second suction chamber and the swash plate chamber. A second suction passage extends from the first suction chamber to the second suction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro SUZUKI, Masaki OTA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140294614
    Abstract: A double-headed piston swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a drive force transmitting member, a tiltable swash plate, a movable body that changes the inclination angle of the swash plate, and a control pressure chamber defined by the movable body and the drive force transmitting member, which are arranged on one side with respect to the swash plate in the axial direction of the rotary shaft. The movable body includes a bottom portion, through which the rotary shaft extends, and a cylindrical portion, which extends from the bottom portion in the axial direction of the rotary shaft to surround the rotary shaft. The cylindrical portion is permitted to move in the axial direction while sliding along a part of the drive force transmitting member, so that the inclination angle of the swash plate is changed in accordance with the internal pressure of the control pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140294612
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor is provided with a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The housing includes a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber, and a cylinder bore. The actuator includes a movable body coupled to the swash plate, a fixed body fixed to the drive shaft, and a control pressure chamber defined by the movable body and the fixed body. The movable body includes a circumferential wall extending in a direction along a rotational axis and surrounding the fixed body, which includes a guide portion projecting in an axial direction along an inner surface of the circumferential wall. The movable body contacts the guide portion to restrict inclination of the movable body relative to the drive shaft that is greater than or equal to a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro SUZUKI, Masaki OTA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Kazunari HONDA, Kei NISHII, Yusuke YAMAZAKI