Patents by Inventor Masahisa Otake

Masahisa Otake 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).

  • Publication number: 20060218948
    Abstract: There is disclosed a cooling and heating system in which a refrigerant is used in a supercritical state and in which cooling and heating capacity can be controlled so as to maximize a coefficient of performance. A cooling and heating system 130 includes: an outdoor unit 101 indicating a compressor 102 and an outdoor heat exchanger 103a; a plurality of indoor units 105 including indoor heat exchangers 106; a high pressure tube 111; a low pressure tube 112; and an intermediate tube 113.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Masahisa Otake, Ichiro Kamimura, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Koji Sato
  • Publication number: 20060201183
    Abstract: An object is to provide an air conditioner in which a desiccant air conditioner is combined with a refrigerating device to cool an indoor by a refrigeration cycle including a compressor and the like and in which a drop of energy efficiency is suppressed. An air conditioner 200 includes a desiccant air conditioner 220 and a refrigerating device 210 which cools the indoor by a usual refrigeration cycle, this refrigerating device 210 has an auxiliary heat exchanger 17 between an outlet side of a heater 12 and an inlet side of an expansion valve 14, and this auxiliary heat exchanger 17 is disposed externally from an exhaust air passage 4 and a supply air passage 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Masahisa Otake, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Ichiro Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20060191288
    Abstract: A multi-stage refrigeration system is provided. The refrigeration system includes a first compression element which produces a first compressed refrigerant stream. A mixer combines the first compressed refrigerant stream with an auxiliary refrigerant stream. A second compression element is coupled to the mixer and produces a second compressed refrigerant stream. A first heat exchanger receives the second compressed refrigerant stream and generates a cooled stream. A stream splitter receives the cooled stream and provides first and second output streams. A first expansion valve receives the first output stream and controls the flow of the first output stream and a second expansion valve receives the second output stream and controls the flow of the second output stream. A second heat exchanger generates the auxiliary refrigerant stream provided to the mixer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Reinhard Radermacher, Toshikazu Ishihara, Hans Huff, Yunho Hwang, Masahisa Otake, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Osamu Kuwabara, Ichiro Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20060168997
    Abstract: An object is to provide a refrigerating device capable of realizing a high-efficiency operation and a refrigerator provided with the refrigerating device in a case where a compressor having an intermediate-pressure portion is applied, the refrigerating device comprises a compressor having an intermediate-pressure portion; a radiator connected to the compressor on a discharge side; and a heat absorbing unit connected to the radiator on an outlet side and including a pressure reducing unit and a heat sink, the heat absorbing unit on the outlet side is connected to a suction portion having a pressure which is lower than that of the intermediate-pressure portion of the compressor, a refrigerant pipe of the radiator on the outlet side is branched, one refrigerant pipe is connected to the heat absorbing unit, the other refrigerant pipe is connected to the intermediate-pressure portion of the compressor, and provided with a pressure reducing mechanism and a heat exchanger, and this heat exchanger is constituted in s
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Hiroyuki Itsuki, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Masahisa Otake
  • Publication number: 20060168996
    Abstract: An object is to provide a refrigerating device capable of realizing a high-efficiency operation in a case where there is disposed, in a refrigerating cycle, a compressor having: a plurality of heat sinks which function in different temperature zones; and an intermediate-pressure portion. The refrigerating device comprises: the compressor having the intermediate-pressure portion; and a radiator connected to a discharge side of the compressor, a refrigerant pipe on an outlet side of the radiator is branched, one of the branched refrigerant pipes is provided with a first heat absorbing unit including a first pressure reducing section and a first heat sink, and the other refrigerant pipe is provided with a second heat absorbing unit including a second pressure reducing section and a second heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Hiroyuki Itsuki, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Masahisa Otake, Etsushi Nagae, Itsuo Nakazaki, Akira Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20060137386
    Abstract: In the case that heat absorbing means that function in selectively different temperature ranges, are provided in a refrigerating cycle, an object is to provide a refrigerating apparatus capable of suppressing the deterioration of efficiency in either temperature range to make a highly efficient operation possible. The refrigerating apparatus includes a compressor, a radiator, first heat absorbing means, and second heat absorbing means provided in parallel with the first heat absorbing means. The first heat absorbing means includes first decompressing means, a first heat absorber, and a first heat exchanger capable of heat exchange between a refrigerant which has come from the first heat absorber and a refrigerant flowing in the first decompressing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Itsuki, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Satoshi Imai, Masahisa Otake
  • Publication number: 20060032267
    Abstract: In a refrigerant cycle apparatus which is operated at a supercritical pressure on a high-pressure side, for a purpose of maintaining or enhancing performances or reducing generation of clogging or a dimension of a capillary tube, a compressor has a first compression element, and a second compression element which compresses a refrigerant compressed by the first compression element, a gas phase refrigerant in an intermediate pressure receiver is sucked into the second compression element of the compressor, a liquid phase refrigerant in the intermediate pressure receiver is pressure reduced in a second pressure reducing device, and introduced into an evaporator, and the first pressure reducing device comprises a capillary tube on an upstream side of the refrigerant, and throttling means on a downstream side of the capillary tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Ichiro Kamimura, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Satoshi Imai, Hiroyuki Itsuki, Masahisa Otake
  • Publication number: 20060005558
    Abstract: In a refrigerating machine, a water cooling device having a cooling tower or an ice heat storage tank is provided as a heat exchanger for cooling refrigerant after heat-exchange in a heat-source side heat exchanger between an outdoor expansion valve and the heat-source side heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Masahisa Otake, Koji Sato, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Ichiro Kamimura, Norio Sawada
  • Publication number: 20050279128
    Abstract: A refrigerating machine equipped with a compressor 2 having an intermediate-pressure portion 2M in which refrigerant having intermediate pressure higher than the pressure of the refrigerant at the suction side thereof and lower than the pressure of the refrigerant at the discharge side thereof can be introduced, and an intermediate-pressure receiver 28 that is inserted in a flow path between an expansion valve 27a (27b) of a heat source side heat exchanger 3a (3b) and an expansion valve 18a (18b) of a using side heat exchanger 6a (6b), carries out gas-liquid separation on gas-liquid mixed refrigerant after the heat exchange in the heat source side heat exchanger or the using side heat exchanger, and then feeds gas-phase refrigerant to the intermediate-pressure portion 2M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Masahisa Otake, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Koji Sato, Kunie Sekigami, Kazuaki Shikichi
  • Publication number: 20050279126
    Abstract: A refrigerating machine equipped with a compressor has an intermediate-pressure portion in which refrigerant having intermediate pressure higher than the pressure of the refrigerant at the suction side of the compressor and lower than the pressure of the refrigerant at the discharge side of the compressor is allowed to be introduced, and a heat exchange circuit formed between a heat-source side heat exchanger and a using side heat exchanger. The heat exchange circuit branches the refrigerant flowing from any one of the heat exchangers to the other heat exchanger, carries out heat exchange between one branched refrigerant and the other branched refrigerant or the refrigerant before the branching so that the one branched refrigerant is set to gas-phase refrigerant, and the gas-phase refrigerant thus achieved is led to any one of the intermediate-pressure portion and refrigerant suction pipe of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Masahisa Otake, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Koji Sato, Kunie Sekigami, Kazuaki Shikichi
  • Publication number: 20050086824
    Abstract: An object in a drier is to reduce a cooling time after completion of a drying operation and improve operation efficiency. The dryer comprises a storage room to accommodate a drying target and performs the drying operation and a cooling operation after completion of the drying operation for the drying target in the storage room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Koji Ono, Masahisa Otake, Masaya Tadano, Etsushi Nagae, Hiroshi Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 5400599
    Abstract: Gas displacement volumes of a high temperature chamber and a middle temperature chamber in a high temperature portion of a hot gas machine are different. Alternatively, a gas displacement volume of a low temperature chamber and a middle temperature chamber in a low temperature portion are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekiya, Masahisa Otake, Junji Matsue, Ryouichi Katohno, Toshikazu Ishihara, Izumi Okamoto, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Mitsuhiko Ishino