Patents by Inventor Kuniko Adegawa
Kuniko Adegawa 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: 10626344Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 10414962Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises a refrigerant comprising a first refrigerant component and a second refrigerant component, and having a global warming potential (GWP) of 500 or less, wherein the first refrigerant component is at least one selected from difluoromethane and tetrafluoropropene, and the second refrigerant component is at least one selected from carbon dioxide and a hydrocarbon having 3 to 4 carbon atoms; and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one selected from a polyol ester, a polyvinyl ether and a polyalkylene glycol compound as a base oil, wherein a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of the base oil is 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Takeshi Okido, Souichirou Konno, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 10273394Abstract: A working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the invention comprises a refrigerant comprising difluoromethane and an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon wherein a mass of the difluoromethane/the unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon is 95/5 to 10/90, and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one base oil selected from among polyol esters with a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 3.2 to 5.8 and polyvinyl ethers with a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 3.2 to 5.8.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Okido, Masanori Saito, Kuniko Adegawa
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Publication number: 20190062613Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises a refrigerant comprising a first refrigerant component and a second refrigerant component, and having a global warming potential (GWP) of 500 or less, wherein the first refrigerant component is at least one selected from difluoromethane and tetrafluoropropene, and the second refrigerant component is at least one selected from carbon dioxide and a hydrocarbon having 3 to 4 carbon atoms; and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one selected from a polyol ester, a polyvinyl ether arid a polyalkylene glycol compound as a base oil, wherein a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of the base oil is 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Takeshi OKIDO, Souichirou KONNO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Patent number: 10144855Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises a refrigerant comprising a first refrigerant component and a second refrigerant component, and having a global warming potential (GWP) of 500 or less, wherein the first refrigerant component is at least one selected from difluoromethane and tetrafluoropropene, and the second refrigerant component is at least one selected from carbon dioxide and a hydrocarbon having 3 to 4 carbon atoms; and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one selected from a polyol ester, a polyvinyl ether and a polyalkylene glycol compound as a base oil, wherein a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of the base oil is 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL AND ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Takeshi Okido, Souichirou Konno, Kuniko Adegawa
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Publication number: 20180201867Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Hiroko SHIMPO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Patent number: 9944881Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9752091Abstract: The lubricating base oil of the present invention comprises an ester synthesized from: a first component that is at least one selected from polyhydric alcohols having 2 to 4 hydroxyl groups; a second component that is at least one selected from polybasic acids having 6 to 12 carbon atoms; and a third component that is at least one selected from monohydric alcohols having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and monocarboxylic acids having 2 to 12 carbon atoms. In addition, the refrigerating machine oil and the working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention each comprise the above lubricating base oil.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Ken Sawada, Takeshi Okido, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9732263Abstract: A working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine comprises a refrigerant comprising monofluoroethane and a refrigerating machine oil comprising, as a base oil, at least one selected from a mineral oil having % CN in an n-d-M ring analysis of 10 to 60 and a pour point of ?15° C. or lower and a synthetic hydrocarbon oil having a pour point of ?15° C. or lower, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Souichirou Konno, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9676983Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine, comprising: a refrigerating machine oil comprising, as a base oil, a mixed ester of (A) a complex ester and (B) a polyol ester, wherein (A) is obtainable by synthesis from a specific polyhydric alcohol, a polybasic acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and a monohydric alcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms or a monocarboxylic acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein (B) is obtainable by synthesis from a specific polyhydric alcohol and a monocarboxylic acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, and wherein a mass ratio of (A)/(B) is 5/95 to 95/5; and difluoromethane used as a refrigerant, and the working fluid composition having a refrigerant dissolved viscosity of 5.5 mm2/s or more, at a temperature of 80° C. and an absolute pressure of 2.1 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Takeshi Okido, Souichirou Konno, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9562182Abstract: A working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine comprising: a refrigerating machine oil containing at least one lubricating base oil selected from a mineral oil and a synthetic oil, and at least one phosphorus compound selected from a mono(alkylphenyl) diphenyl phosphate having a C3-C5 alkyl group and a di(alkylphenyl) phenyl phosphate having two C3-C5 alkyl groups, wherein a content of the phosphorus compound is 0.01 to 5% by mass based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil; and a hydrocarbon refrigerant having 2 to 4 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Fumiyuki Nara, Tomonari Matsumoto, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9546337Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition comprising a lubricating base oil, and at least one ester additive selected from a first ester that is a fatty acid 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl alkyl ester and a second ester that is a 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl carboxylic acid alkyl ester, wherein a content of the ester additive is 0.01 to 5.0% by mass based on the total mass of the lubricating oil composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Ken Sawada, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9469801Abstract: A working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises: a refrigerating machine oil comprising a complex ester as a base oil; and a hydrocarbon refrigerant having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, the complex ester being obtainable by further esterifying, with at least one selected from a monohydric alcohol having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and a fatty acid having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, an ester intermediate obtained by reacting a neopentyl polyol with a dibasic acid, and having an acid value of 0.5 mgKOH/g or less, the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 2 to 50 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Takeshi Okido, Ken Sawada, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9365760Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil; a sulfide compound; and a gallate, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the gallate is 10 to 500 ppm by mass based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9243177Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises: a refrigerating machine oil comprising a mineral oil and an alkylbenzene in a mass ratio, the mineral oil/the alkylbenzene, of 85/15 to 15/85, wherein the mineral oil has a % CN by n-d-M ring analysis of 20 to 60, a pour point of ?15° C. or less and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 1.5 to 15 mm2/s; and a hydrocarbon refrigerant having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, wherein the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 2 to 12 mm2/s and a flash point of 120° C. or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Fumiyuki Nara, Tomonari Matsumoto, Kuniko Adegawa
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Patent number: 9234155Abstract: A refrigerating machine oil composition comprising at least one ester additive selected from tetraesters of pentaerythritol and one selected from fatty acids having 5 to 18 carbon atoms and hexaesters of dipentaerythritol and one selected from fatty acids having 5 to 18 carbon atoms, and a base oil that is an ester other than the ester additive, in which the content of the ester additive is 2 to 20 mass % based on the total amount of the refrigerating machine oil composition, and the kinematic viscosity of the refrigerating machine oil composition at 40° C. is 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Saito, Takeshi Okido, Hiroshi Eto, Kuniko Adegawa
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Publication number: 20150376543Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Hiroko SHIMPO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Publication number: 20150344760Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine, comprising: a refrigerating machine oil comprising, as a base oil, a mixed ester of (A) a complex ester and (B) a polyol ester, wherein (A) is obtainable by synthesis from a specific polyhydric alcohol, a polybasic acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and a monohydric alcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms or a monocarboxylic acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein (B) is obtainable by synthesis from a specific polyhydric alcohol and a monocarboxylic acid having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, and wherein a mass ratio of (A)/(B) is 5/95 to 95/5; and difluoromethane used as a refrigerant, and the working fluid composition having a refrigerant dissolved viscosity of 5.5 mm2/s or more, at a temperature of 80° C. and an absolute pressure of 2.1 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Takeshi OKIDO, Souichirou KONNO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Publication number: 20150307761Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil composition comprising: a lubricating base oil; a compound represented by the following formula (1): [R1 and R2 may be the same as or different from each other and each represents a hydrocarbon group; m, n, p and q may be the same as or different from each other and each represents an integer from 0 to 5 so that sums of m+n and p+q range from 0 to 5, respectively, with the proviso that at least either one of n or q is 1 or more; and t and u may be the same as or different from each other and each represents an integer from 0 to 10]; and a phosphorus compound, the refrigerating machine composition being used with an unsaturated hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Tomonari MATSUMOTO, Kuniko ADEGAWA
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Publication number: 20150307762Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil; a sulfide compound; and a gallate, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the gallate is 10 to 500 ppm by mass based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAITO, Hiroko SHIMPO, Kuniko ADEGAWA