Patents by Inventor Kimitaka KADOWAKI
Kimitaka KADOWAKI 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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Publication number: 20250063690Abstract: A heat-pump heat source apparatus includes: a housing including a bottom plate; a water pump box provided on a front side of the bottom plate, the water pump accommodating a water pump; a transformer box provided above the water pump box, the transformer box accommodating a transformer; and a controller box provided above the transformer box, the controller accommodating a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: February 20, 2025Inventors: Naoto ISHII, Akinori KURACHI, Kimitaka KADOWAKI
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Publication number: 20250052450Abstract: A heat pump system includes a heat pump apparatus, a communication device, an input device, and a controller. The heat pump apparatus controls the temperature of a substance. The communication device receives from the server, a signal including an operation signal regarding the operation of the heat pump apparatus. The input device is configured for a user to input an instruction for the heat pump apparatus. The controller causes the heat pump apparatus to perform a first operation based on an operation signal while the communication device is receiving a signal. When the communication device does not receive a signal for a predetermined first time period or longer, the controller causes the heat pump apparatus to perform a second operation based on the instruction input to the input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Hiroyuki NAKAGAWA, Takuya ITO, Masato TANIGAWA
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Publication number: 20250035342Abstract: A heat storage system control device includes a receiving unit configured to acquire power supply and demand information from a power control instruction device, an operation schedule determination unit configured to determine an operation schedule of a heat storage device based on the power supply and demand information, a transmission unit configured to transmit the operation schedule determined by the operation schedule determination unit to the power control instruction device, and a heat storage device control unit configured to control an operation of the heat storage device based on the operation schedule determined by the operation schedule determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Hiroyuki NAKAGAWA, Takuya ITO, Masato TANIGAWA
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Patent number: 12173918Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat source side unit configured to heat or cool a heat medium used as a heat-conveying medium, an air handling side heat exchanger that exchanges heat between outside air that is sent into a building and the heat medium, and an indoor side heat exchanger that exchanges heat between indoor air and the heat medium. The heat source side unit, the air handling side heat exchanger, and the indoor side heat exchanger are connected by piping to each other to form a heat medium cycle circuit through which the heat medium circulates. In the heat medium cycle circuit, a portion of the heat medium heated or cooled by the heat source side unit flows into the indoor side heat exchanger after having passed through the air handling side heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yusuke Tsuji, Kimitaka Kadowaki, Koji Azuma, Yasushi Okoshi
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Publication number: 20240401851Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus is provided with a refrigerant circuit through which a zeotropic refrigerant mixture circulates and a heat exchanger that allows the zeotropic refrigerant mixture and a fluid to exchange heat with each other, in which, to the heat exchanger, pressure loss is applied such that refrigerant-outlet temperature that is the temperature of refrigerant at an outlet decreases by a set amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Tadayuki MATSUSHITA, Kimitaka KADOWAKI
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Publication number: 20240337414Abstract: A chilling unit includes a machine chamber unit formed in an elongated box shape; and air heat exchangers placed on the machine chamber unit. A pair of the air heat exchangers that is located opposite to each other in a short-side direction of the machine chamber unit is inclined such that a spacing between upper end portions of the pair is greater than a spacing between lower end portions of the pair, a machine chamber panel forming a side face of the machine chamber unit in the short-side direction includes a panel body positioned at a central portion of the machine chamber panel, and a fixing portion connected to a periphery of the panel body and fixed in contact with the machine chamber unit, and the panel body is located further outward from the machine chamber unit than is the fixing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventors: Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Junichi MIYAI, Yuji TARUMI, Takuya ITO, Tomoya KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240247850Abstract: A heat pump system regulates, by use of a heat medium, a temperature of an object and includes a flow-rate acquisition device acquiring a flow rate of the heat medium. A heat source apparatus regulates a temperature of the heat medium and includes a compressor, a heat medium heat exchanger, and a controller including adjustment calculation circuitry, and control calculation circuitry. The adjustment calculation circuitry calculates, when a first condition is met, an amount of adjustment by use of an operating frequency of the compressor. The amount of adjustment is used to adjust a first flow rate of the heat medium that is based on a measurement result acquired from the flow-rate acquisition device. The control calculation circuitry adjusts, by use of the amount of adjustment, the first flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Masahiro ITO, Shunya GYOTOKU, Takuya ITO
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Publication number: 20240240845Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit and a non-azeotropic refrigerant that flows through a refrigerant pipe. When the non-azeotropic refrigerant passes through an outdoor heat exchanger, a temperature difference occurs between an inlet and an outlet of the outdoor heat exchanger. The outdoor heat exchanger includes: a group of fins that are stacked at intervals; and a heat transfer tube that extends through the group of fins in a stacking direction of the group of fins and allows the non-azeotropic refrigerant to flow inside the heat transfer tube. The group of fins includes: a first fin part to which frost can adhere in a humid environment; and a second fin part to which no frost adheres to ensure ventilation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Shunya GYOTOKU, Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Masahiro ITO
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Patent number: 12038183Abstract: A chilling unit includes a machine room unit to accommodate a compressor and a heat exchanger, and a plurality of air heat exchangers placed on top of the machine room unit. The air heat exchangers include a pair of air heat exchangers including two air heat exchangers opposite to each other in a lateral direction. They are inclined such that respective upper end portions of the two air heat exchangers have a spacing between each other greater than a spacing between respective lower end portions of the two air heat exchangers. In the lateral direction, the machine room unit has a top width greater than a heat-exchanger bottom width, the top width is one between side walls in a top face portion of the machine room unit, the bottom width is defined as a width between outer side faces of the respective lower end portions of the two air heat exchangers.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoya Mukaitani, Shohei Takenaka, Takahito Hikone, Kimitaka Kadowaki, Yoshio Yamano, Takuya Ito
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Patent number: 12038210Abstract: A chilling unit includes a casing, a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a heat-source heat exchanger, a first expansion unit, a second expansion unit, and a refrigerant-to-heat medium heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe and through which refrigerant flows, the refrigerant circuit being placed in the casing, and an injection circuit in which a portion between the first expansion unit and the second expansion unit is connected to the compressor by an injection pipe, the injection circuit being placed in the casing.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Nobuhide Sakamoto, Takahito Hikone, Kimitaka Kadowaki
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Publication number: 20240175614Abstract: Provided is a main refrigerant circuit in which a compressor having an injection port, a condenser, a main circuit expansion device unit, and an evaporator are connected by pipes to allow refrigerant to circulate in the main refrigerant circuit; an injection pipe an injection expansion device; an outside-air temperature detection device; a suction pressure detection device; and a controller, wherein the main circuit expansion device unit includes a plurality of main circuit expansion devices with different capacities and in a parallel-connected relationship, and during operation, when the controller determines that the temperature of the outside air is equal to or lower than a set temperature, the controller is configured to open the injection expansion device to control an opening degree to select the main circuit expansion device based on the suction pressure to control an opening degree of the selected main circuit expansion device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Yota MAEMA, Masahiro ITO, Shunya GYOTOKU, Kosuke KAWANO, Akinori KURACHI
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Patent number: 11927356Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of third heat exchangers and flow rate control valves. In a heating mode, a controller opens a flow rate control valve corresponding to a heat exchanger that is being requested to perform air conditioning of the plurality of third heat exchangers, and closes a flow rate control valve corresponding to a heat exchanger that is not being requested to perform air conditioning of the plurality of third heat exchangers. In a defrosting mode, when a temperature of a second heat medium is lower than a first determination temperature, the controller opens a flow rate control valve corresponding to at least one of the heat exchangers that are not being requested to perform air conditioning. The at least one of the heat exchangers is assigned a higher priority than a remaining heat exchanger that is not being requested to perform air conditioning.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoki Kato, Yuji Motomura, Kimitaka Kadowaki
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Publication number: 20240077231Abstract: A heat-pump water heater includes a refrigerant circuit, a water circuit, and a controller. The refrigerant circuit includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The main circuit includes a compressor, a water heat exchanger, a first pressure-reducing device, an air heat exchanger, and an air-sending device. The bypass circuit includes a second pressure-reducing device. The water circuit includes a hot water tank, a water pump, and the water heater exchanger. In a night-time hot-water supply mode, the controller causes the water pump with a lowest frequency set in advance, causes the compressor with a lowest frequency set in advance, and stops the air-sending device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kosuke KAWANO, Kimitaka KADOWAKI
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Patent number: 11913694Abstract: A heat pump system includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a refrigerant flow path included in a heat medium heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a heat source side heat exchanger are connected, the heat medium heat exchanger including the refrigerant flow path and a heat medium flow path; a heat medium feed path connected to the heat medium flow path included in the heat medium heat exchanger; an indoor unit connected to the heat medium feed path and configured to condition air inside a room; a room temperature sensor configured to detect an indoor temperature in the room; a heat medium temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of a heat medium that flows into the indoor unit; and a controller configured to control the refrigerant circuit or the indoor unit by using a set temperature in the room.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazuki Hayashida, Yasushi Okoshi, Takuya Ito, Yoshio Yamano, Kimitaka Kadowaki, Takahiro Akizuki
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Publication number: 20240019160Abstract: A chiller system includes: a chiller; a load; a feed pipe through which water flows from the chiller to the load; a return pipe through which water flows to the chiller from the load; a first controller configured to control the chiller; and a second controller configured to output a chiller operating command to the first controller, the chiller including a first sensor configured to measure an inlet water temperature of the water flowing through the return pipe to the chiller, a second sensor configured to measure an outlet water temperature of the water flowing through the feed pipe from the chiller, and a third sensor configured to measure an outside air temperature at a chiller installation location, and the first controller calculates a temperature range operational for the chiller based on an inlet water temperature, an outlet water temperature, and an outside air temperature, and then outputs information on the calculated temperature range to the second controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Shohei TAKENAKA, Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Yuki MOCHIZUKI, Akinori KURACHI
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Publication number: 20240019186Abstract: In a refrigeration cycle apparatus, at start-up of heating, a controller sets a first four-way valve to an ON state and sets a second four-way valve to an OFF state so as to form a flow path in which refrigerant flows through a compressor, a load-side heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, and an accumulator and returns to the compressor, and during a heating operation, the controller sets the first four-way valve to the ON state and sets the second four-way valve to the ON state so as to form a flow path in which the refrigerant flows through the compressor, the load-side heat exchanger, the first expansion valve, the receiver, and the heat-source-side heat exchanger and returns to the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Shunya GYOTOKU, Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Nobuhide SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230375193Abstract: A hot-water supply and heating system includes: a first pump that circulates a first heat medium between a heat source unit and a heat-medium heat exchanger; a second pump that causes a second heat medium to flow between a load-side device and the heat-medium heat exchanger; a first temperature sensor that detects a primary fluid temperature that is a temperature of the first heat medium that flows out of the heat source unit; a heat-source-unit controller; and a pump controller. The heat-source-unit controller transmits information indicating the heating capacity of the heat source unit reaches an upper limit value to the pump controller, when it is determined that the primary fluid temperature is lower than a target temperature and the heating capability of the heat source unit is equal to the upper limit value. The pump controller reduces an operation frequency of the second pump when receiving the above information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Takenori MATSUMOTO, Naoto ISHII, Tsukine MATSUGAMI, Kimitaka KADOWAKI
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Patent number: 11815281Abstract: An air-conditioning device includes: a heat medium cycle circuit including: a pump, a plurality of indoor heat exchangers, and a plurality of flow control devices configured to control a flow rate of the heat medium through the heat medium cycle circuit; a heat-source-side device configured to heat or cool the heat medium; and a controller that includes a determination processing unit to determine whether the heat medium is caused to pass through the plurality of indoor heat exchangers where heat exchange is stopped, a selection processing unit to select, based on a determination from the determination processing unit, an indoor heat exchanger through which the heat medium is caused to pass from the plurality of indoor heat exchangers where heat exchange is stopped, and an instruction processing unit to instruct a release of a flow control device that corresponds to the indoor heat exchanger selected.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kimitaka Kadowaki, Naofumi Takenaka
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Patent number: 11808476Abstract: A relay includes a first relay unit and a second relay unit provided between an outdoor unit and an indoor unit to allow refrigerant to circulate between the first relay unit and the outdoor unit and between the second relay unit and the outdoor unit, and a heat medium circuit connecting the first relay unit and the second relay unit to the indoor unit to allow a heat medium to circulate through the heat medium circuit. The second relay unit is installed above or on a top of the first relay unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Nobuhiro Wada, Kimitaka Kadowaki, Yuji Motomura, Yasushi Okoshi
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Patent number: D1017649Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takuya Ito, Junichi Miyai, Yuji Tarumi, Kazuki Murakawa, Kimitaka Kadowaki, Yoshio Yamano, Tomoya Kimura