Patents by Inventor Kentaro Yonehara

Kentaro Yonehara 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: 11859859
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing having an air inlet through which air enters the casing, an air-sending device disposed in the casing and configured to create a flow of air passing through the air inlet, a heat exchanger disposed between the casing and the air-sending device and exposed through the air inlet and including a plurality of fins spaced apart from each other, and a partition disposed in the casing and dividing a space in the casing into an air-sending device chamber containing the heat exchanger and the air-sending device and a machine chamber containing a compressor. The plurality of fins include an end fin group located at an end remote from the partition. The casing includes a wall having at least one vent that faces the end fin group and that is located along a side edge part defining an edge of the air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Yonehara, Hiroyuki Jinnai, Takashi Ikeda, Shingo Hamada
  • Patent number: 11802696
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a housing; a compressor provided in the housing and configured to compress refrigerant; an outdoor heat exchanger provided in the housing and allowing refrigerant and air to exchange heat with each other; a partition plate provided in the housing and partitioning an inside of the housing into a fan chamber and a machine chamber in which the compressor is provided; an electronic component provided in the machine chamber; a refrigerant pipe provided in the machine chamber and connecting the compressor and the outdoor heat exchanger and disposed above the electronic component; a valve connected to the refrigerant pipe in the machine chamber and disposed above the electronic component; and a drip inhibiting portion that covers the refrigerant pipe and a lower part of the valve and inhibits water dripping from the refrigerant pipe from dripping onto the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetaka Yamauchi, Kentaro Yonehara, Hiroyuki Jinnai, Toshiyuki Kubono
  • Publication number: 20230213217
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus has a roof part installed at a front of a front panel of a casing and above an opening hole and extending in a width direction of the casing, and an outlet grille fixed to the casing and covering the opening hole. The roof part has a main roof portion that extends further forward than the front panel, and a sub-roof portion that extends downward and forward from the main roof portion and has a recession formed between a bottom face of the main roof portion and the sub-roof portion. The outlet grille is located such that an upper end portion of the outlet grille is in contact with the recession. The front panel and the upper end portion of the outlet grille sandwich the roof part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Kentaro YONEHARA, Kei SATO
  • Publication number: 20220205653
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a housing; a compressor provided in the housing and configured to compress refrigerant; an outdoor heat exchanger provided in the housing and allowing refrigerant and air to exchange heat with each other; a partition plate provided in the housing and partitioning an inside of the housing into a fan chamber and a machine chamber in which the compressor is provided; an electronic component provided in the machine chamber; a refrigerant pipe provided in the machine chamber and connecting the compressor and the outdoor heat exchanger and disposed above the electronic component; a valve connected to the refrigerant pipe in the machine chamber and disposed above the electronic component; and a drip inhibiting portion that covers the refrigerant pipe and a lower part of the valve and inhibits water dripping from the refrigerant pipe from dripping onto the electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hidetaka YAMAUCHI, Kentaro YONEHARA, Hiroyuki JINNAI, Toshiyuki KUBONO
  • Publication number: 20220018573
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing having an air inlet through which air enters the casing, an air-sending device disposed in the casing and configured to create a flow of air passing through the air inlet, a heat exchanger disposed between the casing and the air-sending device and exposed through the air inlet and including a plurality of fins spaced apart from each other, and a partition disposed in the casing and dividing a space in the casing into an air-sending device chamber containing the heat exchanger and the air-sending device and a machine chamber containing a compressor. The plurality of fins include an end fin group located at an end remote from the partition. The casing includes a wall having at least one vent that faces the end fin group and that is located along a side edge part defining an edge of the air inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kentaro YONEHARA, Hiroyuki JINNAI, Takashi IKEDA, Shingo HAMADA
  • Patent number: 10948201
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus has a fan guard covering an air outlet provided in a front panel. The air outlet is opened in a circular shape. The fan guard has a spiral wire formed in a spiral shape and having a hole in a center portion of the spiral wire, a center cap covering the hole, and an outer frame wire that is formed in an annular shape to surround an outer circumference of the spiral wire and in which one end portion and the other end portion at both ends of the annular shape are displaced from each other in a radial direction of the spiral wire and joined to each other at a position of an outer circumferential end portion of the spiral wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuto Takeuchi, Kentaro Yonehara, Tatsuya Asanuma
  • Patent number: 10935259
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a casing having an opening portion of an air passage formed in a front panel; and a fan guard, which includes a plurality of vertical rails and a plurality of horizontal rails that are combined with each other, and is configured to cover the opening portion. The fan guard includes: an upper locking portion formed on an upper end portion of a vertical rail and lower locking portions formed on lower end portions of the vertical rails. The upper locking portion is formed by bending the upper end portion toward the casing side so as to be inclined downward. The lower locking portions are formed by bending toward the casing so that the distal ends are directed downward. The front panel has: upper and lower temporary fixing holes configured to receive the upper and lower locking portions to be inserted thereinto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Yonehara, Tatsuya Asanuma
  • Publication number: 20210055007
    Abstract: Provided is a cooling structure, including: a heat sink to be mounted to a heat generator; and a duct, which is mounted to the heat sink, and is configured to guide an air flow flowing around the heat sink to the heat sink, wherein the heat sink has an air flow passage configured to allow the air flow to pass through the air flow passage, wherein one end side of the duct is to be mounted to an upstream side of the air flow passage, and wherein another end side of the duct is to be extended from an upstream end portion of the air flow passage to an upstream side of the air flow. With this, the flow rate of the air flow passing through the air flow passage of the heat sink can be increased, and the cooling efficiency of the heat sink can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikazu YAJI, Shigetoshi IPPOSHI, Naoki SUETOMI, Ryuji MOMOSE, Keisuke IWASAWA, Kentaro YONEHARA, Hayato KURINO
  • Patent number: 10920999
    Abstract: A fan motor support includes a rightward-and-leftward direction guide piece which projects in a direction of approaching a fan motor from a lower intermediate transverse plate or an upper intermediate transverse plate extending across a pair of support columns in a rightward-and-leftward direction at a position above or below the fan motor in a vertical direction at a distance apart from the fan motor. The rightward-and leftward direction guide piece is formed to be opened in a direction opposite to a machine chamber in a rightward-and-leftward direction and recessed toward the machine chamber. A rightward-and-leftward direction guide groove which is configured to change a wiring path of the lead wire of the fan motor hooked thereto to a direction toward the machine chamber from the upward-and-downward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Yanase, Kazuho Ito, Kentaro Yonehara
  • Publication number: 20190323712
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus has a fan guard covering an air outlet provided in a front panel. The air outlet is opened in a circular shape. The fan guard has a spiral wire formed in a spiral shape and having a hole in a center portion of the spiral wire, a center cap covering the hole, and an outer frame wire that is formed in an annular shape to surround an outer circumference of the spiral wire and in which one end portion and the other end portion at both ends of the annular shape are displaced from each other in a radial direction of the spiral wire and joined to each other at a position of an outer circumferential end portion of the spiral wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Yuto TAKEUCHI, Kentaro YONEHARA, Tatsuya ASANUMA
  • Publication number: 20190264929
    Abstract: A fan motor support includes a rightward-and-leftward direction guide piece which projects in a direction of approaching a fan motor from a lower intermediate transverse plate or an upper intermediate transverse plate extending across a pair of support columns in a rightward-and-leftward direction at a position above or below the fan motor in a vertical direction at a distance apart from the fan motor. The rightward-and-leftward direction guide piece is formed to be opened in a direction opposite to a machine chamber in a rightward-and-leftward direction and recessed toward the machine chamber. A rightward-and-leftward direction guide groove which is configured to change a wiring path of the lead wire of the fan motor hooked thereto to a direction toward the machine chamber from the upward-and-downward direction. Therefore, a highly reliable outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus which prevents breakage of the lead wire of the fan motor can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoya YANASE, Kazuho ITO, Kentaro YONEHARA
  • Publication number: 20190219279
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a casing having an opening portion of an air passage formed in a front panel; and a fan guard, which includes a plurality of vertical rails and a plurality of horizontal rails that are combined with each other, and is configured to cover the opening portion. The fan guard includes: an upper locking portion formed on an upper end portion of a vertical rail and lower locking portions formed on lower end portions of the vertical rails. The upper locking portion is formed by bending the upper end portion toward the casing side so as to be inclined downward. The lower locking portions are formed by bending toward the casing so that the distal ends are directed downward. The front panel has: upper and lower temporary fixing holes configured to receive the upper and lower locking portions to be inserted thereinto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Kentaro YONEHARA, Tatsuya ASANUMA
  • Publication number: 20180134440
    Abstract: A package packages an object to be packaged by placing the object to be packaged on a tray box, covering the object with packaging corrugated cardboard from the top, and wrapping a binding band. The packaging corrugated cardboard includes a peripheral wall having a pair of first sidewalls and a pair of second sidewalls, an inner flap connected to a top side of each of the first sidewalls, and an outer flap connected to a top side of each of the second sidewalls. Each inner flap is provided with a pair of protrusions protruding from both side ends of the flap. When the inner flap and then the outer flap are closed, an opening on a top side of the peripheral wall is closed with the protrusions being brought into contact with the second sidewalls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi UNNO, Kazuho ITO, Hidetaka YAMAUCHI, Yuto TAKEUCHI, Kentaro YONEHARA
  • Publication number: 20170292721
    Abstract: An outdoor unit includes an indication cover including a cover portion on which at least one of a type of refrigerant employed and a caution are marked, the cover portion being disposed so as to cover a hexagonal column-shaped outer circumference of a sealing hexagon nut, a ring portion attached to a gas-side valve which is the refrigerant pipe connection valve, and a joint portion formed so as to be bendable and connecting between the cover portion and the ring portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hidetaka YAMAUCHI, Kazuho ITO, Kentaro YONEHARA
  • Patent number: 7835533
    Abstract: A circuit board forming member, a case forming member, a spacer forming member, a diaphragm sheet and a diaphragm plate forming member are laminated to form a portion, as excepting a back plate and a contact spring, of a condenser microphone, in plurality in a laminate. Moreover, the back plate and the contact spring are arranged in the air chamber, which is defined by the individual forming members, to form a plurality of condenser microphone constituents in the laminate. Next, the laminate is cut to separate the individual condenser microphone constituents thereby to manufacture the condenser microphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Star Micronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yonehara, Yoshio Imahori, Hiroshi Fujinami, Yasunori Tsukuda, Motoaki Ito
  • Patent number: 7835532
    Abstract: By integrating plural condenser microphone constituting bodies in an array state, a condenser microphone array is obtained. The condenser microphone array is formed by dicing a laminate of a circuit board forming member, a housing forming member, a spacer forming member, diaphragm sheet, diaphragm plate forming member and a cover forming member which form a part of the plural condenser microphone constituting bodies respectively. In an air chamber of each condenser microphone constituting body constituted in the laminate, a back plate and a contact spring are built.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Star Micronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yonehara, Yoshio Imahori, Hiroshi Fujinami, Yasunori Tsukuda, Motoaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20080267439
    Abstract: A condenser microphone includes: a casing including a sound hole; a vibration film disposed in the casing so as to face the sound hole; a back plate disposed opposed to the vibration film; a spacer disposed between the vibration film and the back plate; and a hold member including a spring member. The back plate has an outer peripheral shape that is smaller than an inner peripheral shape of the casing so as to provide a clearance between an outer peripheral surface of the back plate and an inner peripheral surface of the casing. The back plate is held by the hold member from an opposite side of the vibration fills.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro YONEHARA, Yoshio IMAHORI, Yasunori Tsukuda, Motoaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20080130920
    Abstract: A capacitor microphone includes: a circuit substrate; a casing substrate fixed to an upper surface of the circuit substrate; a top cover substrate fixed to the upper surface; a capacitor part including a vibration film and a plate contained in the casing substrate; an impedance conversion element for converting variations in the electrostatic capacity of the capacitor part to electrical impedance; an electromagnetic shield portion electromagnetically shielding an inside of the casing substrate, the electromagnetic shield portion being formed in an outer surface of the casing substrate; a non-electromagnetic shield portion having no electromagnetic shield portion, the non-electromagnetic shield portion being formed in an outer surface of the casing substrate; and a through hole having a conductive property, the through hole being formed in the non-electromagnetic shield portion, wherein the inside of the casing substrate is shielded electromagnetically by the electromagnetic shield portion and the through hole
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro YONEHARA, Yasunori TSUKUDA, Norihiro SAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: D569850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Star Micronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yonehara, Yoshio Imahori, Hiroshi Fujinami
  • Patent number: D569851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Star Micronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yonehara, Yoshio Imahori, Hiroshi Fujinami