Patents by Inventor Keiji Yamazaki
Keiji Yamazaki 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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Patent number: 6915659Abstract: A heat exchanger with a receiver-tank includes a heat exchanger main body, a receiver-tank and a block flange. The flange includes a main body, an embedding portion to be attached to one of headers in an embedded state, an inlet flow passage with an inlet side end portion disposed at an upper end of the embedding portion, the inlet flow passage communicating with a condensing portion of the heat exchanger main body, and an outlet flow passage with an outlet side end portion disposed at a side surface of the embedding portion, and the outlet flow passage communicating with a subcooling portion. A flange-like partition piece is formed at an upper end periphery of the embedding portion of the flange, and the peripheral edge of the partition piece is joined to the inner peripheral surface of one of the headers.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Yoshihiko Seno, Osamu Kamoshida, Keiji Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20040200234Abstract: onents, improve the assembling work and decrease the costs.equipped with a heat exchanger main bodz 10, a receiver/tank 3 and a block flange 4. The flange 4 includes a main body 41, an embedding portion 42 to be attached to one of headers 11 in an embedded state, an inlet flow passage 4a with an inlet side end portion disposed at an upper end of the embedding portion 42, the inlet flow passage 4a communicating with a condensing portion 2 of the heat exchanger main body 10, and an outlet flow passage 4b with an outlet side end portion disposed at a side surface of the embedding portion 42, and the outlet flow passage communicating with a subcooling portion 3. A flange/like partition piece 50 is formed at an upper end periphery of the embedding portion of the flange 4, and the peripheral edge of the partition piece 50 is joined to the inner peripheral surface of one of the headers. Thus, the partition piece constitutes a partition for dividing the inside of the header.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventors: Yoshihiko Seno, Osamu Kamoshida, Keiji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 6708522Abstract: A receiver-tank for use in a refrigeration cycle of this invention is provided with a filtering layer 435 formed so that an upper space 402 is formed above the filtering layer 435 in a tank main body 401. An upper end of a refrigerant outlet 441 in a tank bottom wall 421 is opened toward the upper space 402. The refrigerant flowed into the tank main body 401 from the refrigerant inlet 431 passes through the filtering layer 435 upwardly, and forms liquid-stagnation R in the upper space 402. The liquefied refrigerant of liquid-stagnation R flows out of the refrigerant outlet 441. Thereby, only the stable liquefied refrigerant can be extracted more assuredly.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Keiji Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Seno, Osamu Kamoshida, Yasuhiro Takahashi
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Publication number: 20030140652Abstract: A receiver-tank for use in a refrigeration cycle of this invention is provided with a filtering layer 435 formed so that an upper space 402 is formed above the filtering layer 435 in a tank main body 401. An upper end of a refrigerant outlet 441 in a tank bottom wall 421 is opened toward the upper space 402. The refrigerant flowed into the tank main body 401 from the refrigerant inlet 431 passes through the filtering layer 435 upwardly, and forms liquid-stagnation R in the upper space 402. The liquefied refrigerant of liquid-stagnation R flows out of the refrigerant outlet 441. Thereby, only the stable liquefied refrigerant can be extracted more assuredly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Keiji Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Seno, Osamu Kamoshida, Yasuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 6494059Abstract: A receiver-tank is provided with a vertical tank main body 140. An inlet 131 and an outlet 132 are provided in an inlet-and-outlet forming member 150 as a bottom wall of the tank main body 140. A desiccant-filled-layer 135 as a flow-resistance layer is provided in a lower part of the tank main body 140, and an upper space is formed above the desiccant-filled-layer 135. A suction pipe 133 is provided in the tank main body 140 with the lower end connected with the outlet 132 and the upper end opened toward the upper space. When the refrigerant introduced into the tank main body 140 from the inlet port 131 goes up through the desiccant-filled-layer 135, the flow velocity decreases, and liquid-stagnation R is quietly created bin the upper space. The liquefied refrigerant of this liquid-stagnation R flows out of the outlet 132 through the suction pipe 133. Thereby, the stable liquid refrigerant can be supplied.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2001Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Keiji Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Seno, Osamu Kamoshida, Yasuhiro Takahashi
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Publication number: 20020124593Abstract: A receiver-tank is provided with a vertical tank main body 140. An inlet 131 and an outlet 132 are provided in an inlet-and-outlet forming member 150 as a bottom wall of the tank main body 140. A desiccant-filled-layer 135 as a flow-resistance layer is provided in a lower part of the tank main body 140, and an upper space is formed above the desiccant-filled-layer 135. A suction pipe 133 is provided in the tank main body 140 with the lower end connected with the outlet 132 and the upper end opened toward the upper space. When the refrigerant introduced into the tank main body 140 from the inlet port 131 goes up through the desiccant-filled-layer 135, the flow velocity decreases, and liquid-stagnation R is quietly created bin the upper space. The liquefied refrigerant of this liquid-stagnation R flows out of the outlet 132 through the suction pipe 133. Thereby, the stable liquid refrigerant can be supplied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2001Publication date: September 12, 2002Applicant: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Keiji Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Seno, Osamu Kamoshida, Yasuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 6330810Abstract: The condensing apparatus in a refrigeration cycle includes a condenser having a condensing portion and a receiver-dryer. The receiver-dryer includes a tank main body, a desiccant-filled-portion arranged so that an upper space is formed at an upper part in the tank main body, a refrigerant-introducing-passage for introducing the condensed refrigerant into the tank main body from the condenser, and a refrigerant-discharging-passage for discharging the liquefied refrigerant in the tank main portion. The refrigerant-introducing-passage has an outlet which opens toward an inner bottom of the tank main body. The refrigerant-discharging-passage penetrates the desiccant-filled-portion and has an inlet formed so as to open toward the upper space at an upper end of the desiccant-filled-portion and an outlet formed at a bottom portion of the tank main body.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2000Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Keiji Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Seno, Osamu Kamoshida, Yasuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 6241011Abstract: A layered heat exchanger for use as a motor vehicle air conditioner evaporator comprises pairs of generally rectangular adjacent plates, which are joined together in layers with the corresponding recesses of the plates in each pair opposed to each other to thereby form juxtaposed flat tubes each having a U-shaped fluid channel, and front and rear headers in communication respectively with opposite ends of each flat tube. The turn portion of U-shaped fluid channel of the flat tube has a fluid mixing portion comprising many small projections, and a rectifying portion comprising parallel long projections along a flow of fluid. The channel turn portion rectifies the flow of fluid and mixes the fluid at the same time, permitting the fluid to flow through the turn portion smoothly to result in a diminished fluid pressure loss, an improved heat transfer coefficient and improved performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1998Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Showa Aluminium CorporationInventors: Jumpei Nakamura, Hiroki Shibata, Keiji Yamazaki, Tatsuya Hanafusa, Nobuaki Go
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Patent number: 6196019Abstract: An accumulator includes a tank, a refrigerant inlet port provided at an upper portion of the tank, a refrigerant outlet port provided at the upper portion of the tank, a dryer unit disposed in the tank at an intermediate portion along a direction of height of the tank, and a separating wall extending upwardly from the dryer unit and dividing an upper inner space of the tank above the dryer unit into an inlet side upper space located at the refrigerant inlet part side and an outlet side upper space located at the refrigerant outlet side port. The separating wall has a plurality of apertures formed in a scattered state for communicating the inlet side upper space and the outlet side upper space each other. The accumulator includes an oil returning tube having a lower inlet opening and an upper outlet opening. The oil returning tube is disposed in the tank such that the lower inlet opening and the upper outlet opening are located at a bottom portion of the tank and at the refrigerant outlet port, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1999Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Showa Aluminum CorporationInventors: Yutaka Higo, Keiji Yamazaki, Takayuki Fujii
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Patent number: 6122929Abstract: A tank of an accumulator is divided into an upper room and lower room by a dryer unit. The upper room is divided into a right upper divided room located at a refrigerant inlet side and a left upper divided room located at a refrigerant outlet side by a separating wall formed with the dryer unit. The right and left upper divided rooms communicate with each other through a plurality of apertures that are provided in the separating wall. Further, an oil returning tube is integrally formed with the dryer unit, and a filter is provided in the dryer unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1997Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Showa Aluminum CorporationInventor: Keiji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 5984000Abstract: A layered heat exchanger for use as a motor vehicle air conditioner evaporator comprises pairs of generally rectangular adjacent plates, which are joined together in layers with the corresponding recesses of the plates in each pair opposed to each other to thereby form juxtaposed flat tubes each having a U-shaped fluid channel, and front and rear headers in communication respectively with opposite ends of each flat tube. The turn portion of U-shaped fluid channel of the flat tube has a fluid mixing portion comprising many small projections, and a rectifying portion comprising parallel long projections along a flow of fluid. The channel turn portion rectifies the flow of fluid and mixes the fluid at the same time, permitting the fluid to flow through the turn portion smoothly to result in a diminished fluid pressure loss, an improved heat transfer coefficient and improved performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1998Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Showa Aluminum CorporationInventors: Jumpei Nakamura, Hiroki Shibata, Keiji Yamazaki, Tatsuya Hanafusa, Nobuaki Go
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Patent number: 5810077Abstract: A layered heat exchanger for use as a motor vehicle air conditioner evaporator comprises pairs of generally rectangular adjacent plates, which are joined together in layers with the corresponding recesses of the plates in each pair opposed to each other to thereby form juxtaposed flat tubes each having a U-shaped fluid channel, and front and rear headers in communication respectively with opposite ends of each flat tube. The turn portion of U-shaped fluid channel of the flat tube has a fluid mixing portion comprising many small projections, and a rectifying portion comprising parallel long projections along a flow of fluid. The channel turn portion rectifies the flow of fluid and mixes the fluid at the same time, permitting the fluid to flow through the turn portion smoothly to result in a diminished fluid pressure loss, an improved heat transfer coefficient and improved performance.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1997Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Assignee: Showa Aluminum CorporationInventors: Jumpei Nakamura, Hiroki Shibata, Keiji Yamazaki, Tatsuya Hanafusa, Nobuaki Go
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Patent number: 5572361Abstract: In a telescope, the adjustment order is limited so that dioptric power adjustment is made after adjustment of a distance between a pair of optical systems is completed. A pupil distance and a dioptric power correction amount are stored in a memory for every user. When a user uses the telescope, his or her pupil distance and dioptric power correction amount are read out from the memory to automatically make adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1992Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Kamiya, Katsuhito Akagi, Yukio Maekawa, Kazuo Kimura, Yoshiharu Ohta, Haruyuki Nagano, Ichiro Yoshiyama, Masataka Hamada, Kohtaro Hayashi, Keiji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 5089834Abstract: A mounting device on a camera has a mounting member to fit with an accessory so as to mount the accessory on the camera by sliding it. The mounting member which is molded out of plastic in one piece has eaves-like portions overhanging from an upper portion thereof in opposite directions intersecting perpendicularly to a mounting direction of the accessory, thus having a generally T-shaped cross section. The mounting member has a groove running in the mounting direction at a top central portion for receiving a projecting portion of the accessory so as to determine a horizontal (lateral) position of the accessory relative to the camera. The eaves-like portions receive mating members of the accessory thereunder so as to determine a vertical position of the accessory relative to the camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1990Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Nakasa, Norio Ishikawa, Hiroshi Hosomizu, Tatsuro Izumi, Keiji Yamazaki, Yukio Miki, Mamoru Katsuragi
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Patent number: 4874855Abstract: Disclosed are steroid compounds represented by general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein X and W together as >W-X represent a carbonyl group (>C.dbd.O) or a hydroxymethylene group (>CH(OH)), the hydroxy moiety of the hydroxymethylene group being of .beta.-arrangement, and OR.sup.1 and OR.sup.2 independently represent an ester residue, and Y and Z together as --Y--Z-- represent a --(PpSe)CH--CH.sub.2 -- group where Pp represent a phenyl group or a 2-pyridyl group, or Y and Z each represent an ethenylene group or a 1-bromoethylene group.Also disclosed is a process of preparing the compound (I) includes reacting 6.beta., 9.alpha.-difluoro-5.alpha.,17.alpha.,21-trihydroxypregna-3,11,20-trione-17 ,21-diesters or 6.beta.,9.alpha.-difluoro-5.alpha.,11.beta.,17.alpha.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1988Date of Patent: October 17, 1989Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hidetsugu Takagaki, Masayoshi Abe, Michihiro Watanabe, Kazuyuki Takeuchi, Shigenori Nakanishi, Yuuko Nakata, Keiji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 4853302Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery compartment capable of selectively accommodating an integrated battery unit and a plurality of cylindrical batteries. This battery compartment comprises a housing adapted to fit the integrated battery unit and a support member which is pivotably placed about a support portion provided to a side interior wall of the housing between a supporting position substantially perpendicular to the side interior wall to laterally support the plurality of cylindrical batteries and a recessed position along the side interior wall to be recessed from an accommodating space for the integrated battery unit. This support member is always urged toward the supporting position and a loading of the integrated battery unit is carried out in such a manner that the support member is displaced to the recessed position against a resilience of the support member toward the supporting position.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1988Date of Patent: August 1, 1989Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Yamanaka, Keiji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 4851868Abstract: A flash device for use in association with a camera is disclosed. The camera provides focal length data representing a focal length of a lens mounted on the camera to the flash device. The flash device comprises a body portion, a flash head pivotally mounted on the body portion, a xenon tube provided in the flash head for emitting a flash light, and a lens is provided in front of the light emitting means movably to change the angle of the cone of the flash light. A driving circuit, controlled by a microcomputer, is provided for driving the lens in response to the focal length data to set the angle of the cone of the flash light correspondingly to the focal length. A pivot detector is provided for detecting the pivotal movement of the flash head. When the pivotal movement is detected, the microcomputer controls the driving circuit so as not to drive the lens but to maintain the lens, during and after the pivotal movement, in the same position as it was before the pivotal movement.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1988Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Keiji Yamazaki, Hiroshi Hosomizu, Makoto Kamiya, Kenji Tsuji
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Patent number: 4743929Abstract: A flash device for use in association with a camera is disclosed. The camera provides focal length data representing a focal length of a lens mounted on the camera to the flash device. The flash device comprises a body portion, a flash head pivotally mounted on the body portion, a xenon tube provided in the flash head for emitting a flash light, and a lens is provided in front of the light emitting means movably to change the angle of the cone of the flash light. A driving circuit, controlled by a microcomputer, is provided for driving the lens in response to the focal length data to set the angle of the cone of the flash light correspondingly to the focal length. A pivot detector is provided for detecting the pivotal movement of the flash head. When the pivotal movement is detected, the microcomputer controls the driving circuit so as not to drive the lens but to maintain the lens, during and after the pivotal movement, in the same position as it was before the pivotal movement.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1985Date of Patent: May 10, 1988Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Keiji Yamazaki, Hiroshi Hosomizu, Makoto Kamiya, Kenji Tsuji
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Patent number: 4512647Abstract: In a camera automatic diaphragm control device of the type wherein scene light is measured through the diaphragm aperture during the stopping-down operation thereof, which is arrested when the measured light value reaches a given level with respect to manually set exposure parameters, thereby determining the diaphragm aperture, structure is provided for positively ensuring that the diaphragm aperture is left fully open when the set exposure parameters and the measured light require such diaphragm aperture setting. The diaphragm aperture control device is employed in a single lens reflex camera with a reflex mirror retractable from a viewing position at selected times in dependence on whether the diaphragm aperture remains fully open or is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1983Date of Patent: April 23, 1985Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keiji Yamazaki
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Patent number: RE34558Abstract: A flash device for use in association with a camera is disclosed. The camera provides focal length data representing a focal length of a lens mounted on the camera to the flash device. The flash device comprises a body portion, a flash head pivotally mounted on the body portion, a xenon tube provided in the flash head for emitting a flash light, and a lens is provided in front of the light emitting means movably to change the angle of the cone of the flash light. A driving circuit, controlled by a microcomputer, is provided for driving the lens in response to the focal length data to set the angle of the cone of the flash light correspondingly to the focal length. A pivot detector is provided for detecting the pivotal movement of the flash head. When the pivotal movement is detected, the microcomputer controls the driving circuit so as not to drive the lens but to maintain the lens, during and after the pivotal movement, in the same position as it was before the pivotal movement.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1991Date of Patent: March 8, 1994Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Keiji Yamazaki, Hiroshi Hosomizu, Makoto Kamiya, Kenji Tsuji