Patents by Inventor Kenzo Yonezawa

Kenzo Yonezawa 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: 9702578
    Abstract: An air conditioning control system allows a supply air switching controller to alternately switch outside air control and return air control at a preset switching interval. The supply air switching controller is connected to an air conditioner placed to correspond to each room inside as an air conditioning control subject. The outside air control takes outside air into a temperature/humidity adjustment coil of the air conditioner by opening a first damper provided in the air conditioner in order to adjust an intake volume of the outside air into the air conditioner and by closing a second damper provided in the air conditioner in order to adjust an intake volume of return air from the room inside. The return air control takes the return air from the room inside into the temperature/humidity adjustment coil of the air conditioner by closing the first damper and opening the second damper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kenzo Yonezawa, Yasuo Takagi, Nobutaka Nishimura, Yuuichi Hanada, Naoki Makino, Hideki Oono, Akihiro Fujii, Susumu Sugawara, Tomonori Maegawa, Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160195290
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an air-conditioning controller configured to control an air-conditioning system including a heat source device that supplies a refrigerant for cooling air to an air conditioner includes: a comfort index range recorder for storing a target range of a comfort index of a sensation of warmth of human; a comfort index calculator for calculating the comfort index based on a temperature measured value or a humidity measured value according to an air-conditioning subject obtained by a measured value obtaining unit, and an airflow speed according to the air-conditioning subject; a blast fan controller configured to control changing a wind speed from a blast fan to high when the comfort index is out of the target range; and a consumption energy controller configured to control the heat source device to decrease consumption energy after changing the wind speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kenzo YONEZAWA, Yasuo TAKAGI, Nobutaka NISHIMURA, Yuuichi HANADA, Naoki MAKINO, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8036779
    Abstract: In an air-conditioning system controller provided with a central control unit and a local control unit, the central control unit includes a heat source machine measurement system for measuring an input/output state of a heat source machine, a setting unit for setting air-conditioning condition data on air-conditioning object spaces, an outdoor air measurement system for measuring outdoor air condition data, a total air-conditioning load operating unit, an optimal operating state estimation unit, and a heat source machine control. The total air-conditioning load operating unit calculates a total air-conditioning load or a heat exchange rate of the heat source machine based on chilled water inlet and outlet temperatures and chilled water flow rate of the heat source machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ito, Yasuo Takagi, Kenzo Yonezawa, Yoshiki Murakami, Nobutaka Nishimura, Nobuyuki Donen
  • Publication number: 20100307731
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control system (1) includes: an air conditioner (10) having an outer air cooling coil (11) for cooling outer air and a return air cooling coil (12) for cooling return air in a room; a central heat source device (40) for supplying cold water to each coil (11, 12) of the air conditioner (10); and an air-conditioning linkage controller (50) for calculating a set value of the air conditioner (10) so that the total necessary consumption energy in the air-conditioning control system (1) is the minimum value within a preset range of a comfort index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Kenzo Yonezawa, Yasuo Takagi, Nobutaka Nishimura, Yuuichi Hanada, Naoki Makino, Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 7757504
    Abstract: An air conditioning controller is provided with a room temperature-humidity combination calculation unit, a temperature-humidity setting value determination unit and a temperature-humidity control unit. The room temperature-humidity combination calculation unit is configured to calculate combinations of room temperature and room humidity corresponding to a target value of a thermal comfort index PMV. The temperature-humidity setting value determination unit is configured to select and determine a combination of the room temperature and humidity that achieves energy saving among the calculated combinations of the room temperature and humidity. The temperature-humidity control unit is configured to separately control the room temperature and humidity so that the room temperature and humidity would measure up respectively to the determined temperature and humidity values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kenzo Yonezawa, Yasuo Takagi, Yutaka Iino, Nobutaka Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20100023167
    Abstract: In an air-conditioning system controller provided with a central control unit and a local control unit, the central control unit includes a heat source machine measurement system for measuring an input/output state of a heat source machine, a setting unit for setting air-conditioning condition data on air-conditioning object spaces, an outdoor air measurement system for measuring outdoor air condition data, a total air-conditioning load operating unit, an optimal operating state estimation unit, and a heat source machine control. The total air-conditioning load operating unit calculates a total air-conditioning load or a heat exchange rate of the heat source machine based on chilled water inlet and outlet temperatures and chilled water flow rate of the heat source machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuyuki ITO, Yasuo Takagi, Kenzo Yonezawa, Yoshiki Murakami, Nobutaka Nishimura, Nobuyuki Donen
  • Publication number: 20100006662
    Abstract: An air conditioning control system allows a supply air switching controller to alternately switch outside air control and return air control at a preset switching interval. The supply air switching controller is connected to an air conditioner placed to correspond to each room inside as an air conditioning control subject. The outside air control takes outside air into a temperature/humidity adjustment coil of the air conditioner by opening a first damper provided in the air conditioner in order to adjust an intake volume of the outside air into the air conditioner and by closing a second damper provided in the air conditioner in order to adjust an intake volume of return air from the room inside. The return air control takes the return air from the room inside into the temperature/humidity adjustment coil of the air conditioner by closing the first damper and opening the second damper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Kenzo YONEZAWA, Yasuo Takagi, Nobutaka Nishimura, Yuuichi Hanada, Naoki Makino, Hideki Oono, Akihiro Fujii, Susumu Sugawara, Tomonori Maegawa, Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20080234869
    Abstract: A remote performance monitor to acquire monitoring data concerning an air-conditioning system of a monitoring target building and to determine an operating condition of the air-conditioning system, the remote performance monitor comprises a monitoring data receiver (11), a characteristic function calculator (12) and an operating condition calculator (13). The monitoring data receiver (11) receives monitoring data from a monitoring data collecting apparatus in the monitoring target building. The monitoring data is data concerning performance characteristics of air-conditioning machines installed in the air-conditioning system of the monitoring target building. The characteristic function calculator (12) calculates a characteristic function for the monitoring target building and for each of the air-conditioning machines based on the monitoring data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Kenzo Yonezawa, Yasuo Takagi, Yasuyuki Ito, Yoshiki Murakami, Nobutaka Nishimura, Nobuyuki Donen
  • Publication number: 20070240437
    Abstract: An air conditioning controller is provided with a room temperature-humidity combination calculation unit, a temperature-humidity setting value determination unit and a temperature-humidity control unit. The room temperature-humidity combination calculation unit is configured to calculate combinations of room temperature and room humidity corresponding to a target value of a thermal comfort index PMV. The temperature-humidity setting value determination unit is configured to select and determine a combination of the room temperature and humidity that achieves energy saving among the calculated combinations of the room temperature and humidity. The temperature-humidity control unit is configured to separately control the room temperature and humidity so that the room temperature and humidity would measure up respectively to the determined temperature and humidity values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Kenzo Yonezawa, Yasuo Takagi, Yutaka Iino, Nobutaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 4975827
    Abstract: An optimized process control method comprises the steps of: delivering an operation variable to a control system model device which includes one or more model equations which are so modeled that the output obtained when the same process value is delivered to a control object process, is within a predetermined tolerable range and which receives the valve representative of the condition of a real process; receiving an evaluation function which is the result of the arithmetic operation of the one or more model equations, thereby causing the control system model device to carry out an operation for searching for a first optimum control point; defining said first optimum point as an initial value and outputting a set value for the real process from the region whose center is the initial value and which is within an allowable degree of error with respect to a true optimum point; and in response to the set value, searching for a second optimum point for the real process on the basis of the value representative of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kenzo Yonezawa