Patents by Inventor Masaki Ota

Masaki Ota 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: 9803629
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, pistons, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The housing includes a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber, and cylinder bores. The control mechanism controls the actuator. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. At least one of the suction chamber and the swash plate chamber is a low pressure chamber. The control mechanism includes a control passage, which connects the control pressure chamber, the low pressure chamber, and the discharge chamber, and a control valve, which adjusts the open degree of the control passage. The control passage is partially formed in the drive shaft. The movable body increases the inclination angle of the swash plate when the pressure of the control pressure chamber increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki, Masaki Ota
  • Patent number: 9803628
    Abstract: A double-headed piston swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a drive force transmitting member, a tiltable swash plate, a movable body that changes the inclination angle of the swash plate, and a control pressure chamber defined by the movable body and the drive force transmitting member, which are arranged on one side with respect to the swash plate in the axial direction of the rotary shaft. The movable body includes a bottom portion, through which the rotary shaft extends, and a cylindrical portion, which extends from the bottom portion in the axial direction of the rotary shaft to surround the rotary shaft. The cylindrical portion is permitted to move in the axial direction while sliding along a part of the drive force transmitting member, so that the inclination angle of the swash plate is changed in accordance with the internal pressure of the control pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Takahiro Suzuki, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9790936
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The swash plate is rotatable together with the drive shaft in a swash plate chamber. The conversion mechanism reciprocates the piston in a cylinder bore. The actuator is operative to change the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator is rotatable integrally with the drive shaft. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. The control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. The movable body and the link mechanism are located at opposite sides of the swash plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki, Masaki Ota
  • Publication number: 20170275242
    Abstract: A method for producing a cationic lipid, wherein a cationic lipid represented by formula (1) is mixed with a tetraalkylammonium salt having X? in an organic solvent, and a filtrate obtained by separating a tetraalkylammonium iodide deposited by filtration is concentrated to deposit a tetraalkylammonium iodide, thereby obtaining a cationic lipid represented by formula (2): wherein R1 to R5 and X? are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NOF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki OTA, Ken HAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170274086
    Abstract: The invention provides a cationic lipid capable of achieving higher intracellular delivery efficiency than conventional cationic lipids, when used as a lipid membrane structure which is a carrier for delivering functional nucleic acid. The cationic lipid is represented by the formula (1): wherein each symbol is as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicants: NOF CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shota SASAKI, Masaki OTA, Kazuhiro KUBO, Hideyoshi HARASHIMA, Hidetaka AKITA, Hiroto HATAKEYAMA, Yuki NOGUCHI, Kota TANGE, Yuta NAKAI, Nayuta SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 9744443
    Abstract: A server is connected to a terminal via a network, and manages registration of game information, the terminal performing a first game process that utilizes stored game information, and a second game process that utilizes registered game information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Koji Tezuka, Masaki Ota, Kentaro Honma
  • Patent number: 9709045
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The swash plate is rotatable together with the drive shaft in a swash plate chamber. The conversion mechanism reciprocates the piston in a cylinder bore. The actuator changes the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator is rotatable integrally with the drive shaft. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. The control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. The movable body is adapted to pull the swash plate and increase the inclination angle when the pressure of the control pressure chamber increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki, Masaki Ota
  • Patent number: 9677552
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor includes first and second cylinder blocks, a rotation shaft, a double-headed piston, a crank chamber, a drive force transmission member, a swash plate, a movable body, a control pressure chamber, and a support. The control pressure chamber is defined by the movable body in the housing. The control pressure chamber moves the movable body in the axial direction of the rotation shaft. The support is located on the swash plate and supported by the rotation shaft. The drive force transmission member and the movable body are located at a first side of the swash plate in the axial direction of the rotation shaft, and the support is located at a second side of the swash plate. The drive force transmission member, the movable body, and the support set the inclination angle of the swash plate relative to the rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9651036
    Abstract: A swash plate type variable displacement compressor includes a housing having a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber in communication with the suction chamber, a first cylinder block having a plurality of first cylinder bores and a second cylinder block having a plurality of second cylinder bores. The first cylinder bores and the second cylinder bores cooperate to form plural pairs of the first and second cylinder bores. The first cylinder block and the second cylinder block have on outer peripheral side thereof a first projection and a second projection projecting radially, respectively. The first projection and the second projection cooperate together to form an oil separation chamber, an oil reserve chamber, an intermediate pressure chamber and a gas release passage that provides fluid communication between the oil reserve chamber and the intermediate pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hideharu Yamashita, Shinya Yamamoto, Masaki Ota, Takahiro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Nakaima
  • Patent number: 9644625
    Abstract: A compressor has suction reed valves each of which includes a fixation portion fixed to the valve base plate, a basal portion that extends from the fixation portion and is separable from the plate, and a valve flap extending from the basal portion toward the distal end to selectively open and close the suction port. Each suction port has a shape elongated in the width direction, which is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The width of the basal portion is greater than that of the suction port. Each valve flap includes an opening-closing portion facing the corresponding suction port and stoppers, which project from the ends in the width direction. The side edges in the width direction are continuous from the stoppers to the basal portion to gradually approach the suction port. The cylinder block has pairs of recessed retainers. The stoppers contact the retainers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masakazu Obayashi, Hajime Kurita, Yasushi Suzuki, Yoshio Kimoto, Masaki Ota, Nobuaki Hoshino, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9631612
    Abstract: Setting of the pressure sensing mechanism which controls an opening degree of the first valve body is changed by transmitting driving force of the driving force transmission member to the first valve body via the second valve body. According to this configuration, when the second valve body has been opened while conduction of electricity to the electromagnetic solenoid has been stopped, the refrigerant gas from the discharge chamber is supplied to the control pressure chamber via the passage, the valve chamber, the communication opening, the insertion hole, the first passage, the second passage, the housing chamber, the passage, the second pressure adjusting chamber, the communication hole, the first pressure adjusting chamber, the first shaft inner passage, and the second shaft inner passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Hiroyuki Nakaima, Yusuke Yamazaki, Kengo Sakakibara, Shinya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9581150
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a displacement control valve. The displacement control valve includes a drive force transmitting member, a valve member having a first valve body, a pressure sensing mechanism, which adjusts the valve opening degree of the first valve body, a communication passage, which connects a back pressure chamber and an accommodating chamber to each other, and a second valve body, which selectively opens and closes the communication passage. The first valve body opens when current supply to an electromagnetic solenoid is stopped and the pressure in a suction pressure zone is less than a threshold value. The second valve body closes when current is supplied to the electromagnetic solenoid and opens when the current supply to the electromagnetic solenoid is stopped and the pressure in the suction pressure zone is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Shinya Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki, Kei Nishii
  • Patent number: 9581149
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor includes a swash plate, a double-headed piston, a control pressure chamber, a discharge pressure region, a suction pressure region, a supplying passage, which extends from the discharge pressure region to the control pressure chamber, a narrowing portion, which narrows an opening degree of the supplying passage, and a displacement control valve. The displacement control valve controls a pressure in the control pressure chamber. The displacement control valve includes a driving force transmission rod, a valve chamber, a guide wall, and a back pressure chamber. The back pressure chamber is in communication with the valve chamber through a clearance between the guide wall and the driving force transmission rod. The narrowing portion has a passage cross-sectional area that is larger than a passage cross-sectional area of the clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Shinya Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki, Kazunari Honda
  • Patent number: 9556861
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor that includes a cylinder bore, a swash plate chamber, a swash plate, and a double head piston, which defines first and second compression chambers in the cylinder bore. First and second suction chambers are in communication with the first and second compression chambers, respectively. The displacement of the top dead center of the piston in the first compression chamber is greater than the displacement of the top dead center of the piston in the second compression chamber. A first suction passage extends from a suction port to the first suction chamber without passing through the second suction chamber and the swash plate chamber. A second suction passage extends from the first suction chamber to the second suction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Masaki Ota, Shinya Yamamoto, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9523357
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a tiltable swash plate, a movable body that is coupled to the swash plate and changes the inclination angle of the swash plate, a link mechanism that permits the inclination angle of the swash plate to be changed, a first support portion provided to the movable body, a second support portion provided to the swash plate, and a first coupling member that couples the first and second support portions to each other. The second support portion is pivotally supported by the first coupling member. The swash plate has top and bottom dead center associated parts for positioning each piston at top and bottom dead centers, respectively. The top and bottom dead center associated parts are arranged with the rotary shaft in between. The second support portion is arranged between the top and bottom dead center associated parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Shinya Yamamoto, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9518568
    Abstract: An inclination angle of a swash plate of a swash plate type variable displacement compressor is rapidly changed to the maximum when electric current is supplied to an electromagnetic solenoid and therefore the compressor is operated at the maximum displacement. When a second valve body is opened, a first valve body is closed; when the second valve body is closed, a valve opening of the first valve body is controlled. Under the circumstance that electric current is supplied to the electromagnetic solenoid and an instruction for operating the compressor at the maximum displacement is issued, when the first valve body is closed, the second valve body is opened. In addition to supply of refrigerant gas from a discharge chamber to a control pressure chamber through a first supply passage, refrigerant gas is supplied from the discharge chamber to the control pressure chamber through a second supply passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Shinya Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki, Kazunari Honda, Hideharu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9506459
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a control valve having a valve body and a solenoid portion A refrigerant circuit has first and second pressure monitoring points. A load based on a point-to-point differential pressure, which is a differential pressure between the pressure at the first and second pressure monitoring points, is applied to the valve body. At least one of a load based on a DS differential pressure, which is a differential pressure between the pressure in a discharge pressure zone and the pressure in a suction pressure zone, and a load based on a CS differential pressure, which is a differential pressure between the pressure in the control pressure chamber and the pressure in the suction pressure zone, acts on the valve body in the same direction as the direction of the load applied to the valve body based on the point-to-point differential pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaki Ota, Takahiro Suzuki, Kei Nishii, Koji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9429147
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor is provided with a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The housing includes a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber, and a cylinder bore. The actuator includes a movable body coupled to the swash plate, a fixed body fixed to the drive shaft, and a control pressure chamber defined by the movable body and the fixed body. The movable body includes a circumferential wall extending in a direction along a rotational axis and surrounding the fixed body, which includes a guide portion projecting in an axial direction along an inner surface of the circumferential wall. The movable body contacts the guide portion to restrict inclination of the movable body relative to the drive shaft that is greater than or equal to a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Masaki Ota, Shinya Yamamoto, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20160222953
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes an actuator having a movable body and a control pressure chamber. An acting portion capable of pressing a swash plate by the pressure in the control pressure chamber is formed at the movable body, and an acted portion that abuts on and is pressed by the acting portion is formed at the swash plate. The acting portion abuts on the acted portion at an operative position, which moves in accordance with the change of an inclination angle of the swash plate. A top-dead-center corresponding portion is defined in the swash plate, and the operative position when the inclination angle is maximum is closer to the top-dead-center corresponding portion as compared to the operative position when the inclination angle is minimum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Masaki OTA, Hiroyuki NAKAIMA, Hideharu YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20160222952
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes an actuator. The actuator has a lug member, a movable body that is rotatable integrally with a swash plate and is capable of changing an inclination angle of the swash plate by moving in the direction of an driving axis, and a control pressure chamber that is defined by the lug member and the movable body and moves the movable body by changing its internal pressure by a control mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Takahiro SUZUKI, Kazunari HONDA, Masaki OTA, Hiroyuki NAKAIMA