Patents by Inventor Masaru Ohtahara
Masaru Ohtahara 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: 10584744Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes a compression mechanism portion, a drive portion, a crankshaft, a main bearing and an auxiliary bearing that support the crankshaft, and a sealed container that accommodates therein the compression mechanism portion, the drive portion, the crankshaft, the main bearing, and the auxiliary bearing. The auxiliary bearing is configured of an antifriction bearing and provided in an auxiliary bearing housing attached to the sealed container. The auxiliary bearing housing includes an opening for inserting the auxiliary bearing on the drive portion side, and includes a housing cover covering the opening. An insulating sleeve configured of an insulating material is provided between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing. The insulating sleeve includes a cylinder portion located between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing, and a flange portion located between the auxiliary bearing and the housing cover and extended in an outer diameter direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.Inventors: Yuko Kozuma, Yasuaki Iizuka, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Masaru Ohtahara
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Patent number: 10190586Abstract: A compressor is provided with a fixed scroll having a spiral lap erected on a bed plate; an orbiting scroll having a spiral lap erected on a panel and forming a compression room meshed with the fixed scroll; and an orbiting bearing disposed penetrating the panel and the central part of the lap of the orbiting scroll, wherein a lap center is so shifted from a panel center out of alignment in a direction in which, within a range in which the orbiting bearing can be formed in the central part of the lap, the longer of the minimum distance between the lap winding end position of the orbiting scroll and the outer circumference of the panel and the minimum distance between the outermost circumferential part and the outer circumference of the panel in an approximately 90° direction of becomes the shortest distance.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.Inventors: Masatsugu Chikano, Yuichi Yanagase, Masashi Miyake, Masaru Ohtahara, Hiromu Takeda
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Publication number: 20180066700Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes a compression mechanism portion, a drive portion, a crankshaft, a main bearing and an auxiliary bearing that support the crankshaft, and a sealed container that accommodates therein the compression mechanism portion, the drive portion, the crankshaft, the main bearing, and the auxiliary bearing. The auxiliary bearing is configured of an antifriction bearing and provided in an auxiliary bearing housing attached to the sealed container. The auxiliary bearing housing includes an opening for inserting the auxiliary bearing on the drive portion side, and includes a housing cover covering the opening. An insulating sleeve configured of an insulating material is provided between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing. The insulating sleeve includes a cylinder portion located between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing, and a flange portion located between the auxiliary bearing and the housing cover and extended in an outer diameter direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Yuko KOZUMA, Yasuaki IIZUKA, Mutsunori MATSUNAGA, Masaru OHTAHARA
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Publication number: 20170306951Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll and causes the orbiting scroll to perform an orbiting motion to form a suction chamber and a compression chamber. The scroll compressor includes a first space in a back surface center of the orbiting scroll, lubricant in a bottom of a sealed container, a second space provided further on an outer circumference side than the first space on a back surface of the orbiting scroll, a first oil leak path for causing a part of oil in the first space to leak to the second space, an oil return passage for returning most of the oil in the first space to the bottom in the sealed container, a second oil leak path for causing a part of the oil in the second space to leak to the suction chamber, and a third oil leak path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Masatsugu CHIKANO, Masaru OHTAHARA, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Syuuji HASEGAWA, Yasunori NAKANO, Isamu TSUBONO
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Patent number: 9500196Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. Shapes of laps of the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll are formed by an asymmetric tooth shape in which orbiting angles of an external line side compression room formed on an external line side of the orbiting scroll lap and an internal line side compression room formed on an internal line side of the orbiting scroll lap in finishing suction differ from each other. A communicating section control groove sets communicating sections communicating the respective inlet side openings of respective fluid outflow paths and a back pressure room. The communicating sections include a first communicating section of an internal line side compression room that is shorter than a second communicating section of an external line side compression room.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning Technology (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Hiromu Takeda, Masaru Ohtahara, Shoji Matsumura, Masashi Miyake
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Publication number: 20160003247Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to suppress the contact between the wrap tooth tip and the tooth bottom by enlarging the tooth bottom step, and to reduce the loss owing to the gap as a result of enlarging the tooth bottom step. The fixed scroll includes a fixed scroll-side flat plate and a fixed-side wrap standing on one surface of the fixed-side plate while retaining the spiral shape. The orbiting scroll includes an orbiting-side plate and an orbiting-side wrap standing on one surface of the orbiting-side plate while retaining the spiral shape. The orbiting-side wrap orbits with respect to the fixed scroll while being in mesh with the fixed side wrap to form a compression chamber. Each of the fixed-side plate and the orbiting-side plate has the step on the tooth bottom at the inner periphery deeper than the step on the tooth bottom at the outer periphery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Shoji MATSUMURA, Hiromu TAKEDA, Masaru OHTAHARA
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Patent number: 9181945Abstract: The lap shapes of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll are configured in an asymmetric tooth profile. In the bed plate of an orbiting scroll, a fluid effluence channel communicating with an external line side compression room of an orbiting scroll lap and another fluid effluence channel communicating with an internal line side compression room are formed, and the outlet side opening of each fluid effluence channel opens in the lap tooth bottom of the orbiting scroll, and inlet side openings are formed in a face of the bed plate that is in sliding contact with the bed plate face of the fixed scroll. In the face of the bed plate, a communicating section control groove that lets the inlet side openings of the two fluid effluence channels and the back pressure room intermittently communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Hiromu Takeda, Masashi Miyake, Masatsugu Chikano, Masaru Ohtahara, Shoji Matsumura
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Publication number: 20140234148Abstract: A scroll compressor configures suction and compression rooms between fixed and orbiting scrolls, includes a back pressure room at the orbiting scroll base plate back face, and is configured in an asymmetric tooth shape. A fluid outflow path for an orbiting scroll lap external line side compression room and a fluid outflow path for an internal line side compression room are configured on an orbiting scroll base plate, and outlet side openings of the respective fluid outflow paths are opened to an orbiting lap tooth bottom. Inlet side openings of the respective fluid outflow paths are opened to the orbiting scroll base plate face sliding with the fixed scroll, and a fixed scroll base plate face is configured with a communicating section control groove for intermittently communicating the inlet side openings of the respective fluid outflow paths and the back pressure room in accordance with an orbiting movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Hiromu TAKEDA, Masaru OHTAHARA, Shoji MATSUMURA, Masashi MIYAKE
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Patent number: 7902713Abstract: A self-starting type permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises a stator and a rotor. The rotor comprises a rotor core having a plurality of slots provided in an outer periphery thereof and a cage winding comprising conductive bars embedded in the slots and conductive end rings that short-circuit the conductive bars on both end faces of the bars in an axial direction thereof. The rotor core comprises at least one magnet insertion hole arranged on an inner peripheral side from the slots, and at least one permanent magnet embedded in the at least one magnet insertion hole. When a pole center axis is denoted as a d-axis and an axis deviating from the pole center axis by an electrical angle 90° is denoted as a q-axis, a flux content generated by the cage winding during start-up becomes maximal in the vicinity of and on one of the d-axis and the q-axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Keiji Tanaka, Masashi Miyake, Baiying Huang, Masaru Ohtahara, Kenji Tojo, Hideyuki Kumakura
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Patent number: 7758326Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises compression chambers defined with an orbiting scroll orbiting relative to a fixed scroll, and a back pressure chamber provided on the face opposite from a wrap of the orbiting scroll. A back pressure port is provided, which is formed in an end-plate of the orbiting scroll and connects from a compression chamber side opening opened to a compression chamber side and to a back pressure chamber side opening opened to a back pressure chamber side. The compression chamber side opening is opened and closed by an end-plate of the fixed scroll according as the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll to perform connection and blockage of the back pressure port. The flow resistance of fluid flowing in and out between the back pressure chamber and the compression chamber is reduced and the compression efficiency and reliability are improved.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2007Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fujimura, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuichi Yanagase, Makoto Aoki, Masashi Miyake, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masaru Ohtahara, Syuuji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Imamura, Yoshinobu Yosuke, Kenji Tojo
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Publication number: 20090160285Abstract: A self-starting type permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises a stator and a rotor. The rotor comprises a rotor core having a plurality of slots provided in an outer periphery thereof and a cage winding comprising conductive bars embedded in the slots and conductive end rings that short-circuit the conductive bars on both end faces of the bars in an axial direction thereof. The rotor core comprises at least one magnet insertion hole arranged on an inner peripheral side from the slots, and at least one permanent magnet embedded in the at least one magnet insertion hole. When a pole center axis is denoted as a d-axis and an axis deviating from the pole center axis by an electrical angle 90° is denoted as a q-axis, a flux content generated by the cage winding during start-up becomes maximal in the vicinity of and on one of the d-axis and the q-axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Keiji Tanaka, Masashi Miyake, Baiying Huang, Masaru Ohtahara, Kenji Tojo, Hideyuki Kumakura
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Publication number: 20080304994Abstract: A scroll fluid machine is configured by engaging a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll having spiral bodies formed on base plates. A seal member is provided between a rear surface of the orbiting scroll and a frame member arranged opposite thereto to divide a rear side chamber into an inner space and an outer space. The inner space inside the seal member is subjected to a pressure substantially corresponding to a discharge pressure, and the outer space is subjected to a pressure lower than that of an inner back pressure chamber to press the orbiting scroll against the fixed scroll. The scroll members are formed such that the width of a groove and the thickness of a tooth of the spiral body formed inside the seal member are larger than those of the spiral body formed outside the seal member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Masaru OHTAHARA, Masashi Miyake, Kenji Tojo, Kazuo Sakurai
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Publication number: 20070231172Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises compression chambers defined with an orbiting scroll orbiting relative to a fixed scroll, and a back pressure chamber provided on the face opposite from a wrap of the orbiting scroll. A back pressure port is provided, which is formed in an end-plate of the orbiting scroll and connects from a compression chamber side opening opened to a compression chamber side and to a back pressure chamber side opening opened to a back pressure chamber side. The compression chamber side opening is opened and closed by an end-plate of the fixed scroll according as the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll to perform connection and blockage of the back pressure port. The flow resistance of fluid flowing in and out between the back pressure chamber and the compression chamber is reduced and the compression efficiency and reliability are improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Kazuyuki Fujimura, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuichi Yanagase, Makoto Aoki, Masashi Miyake, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masaru Ohtahara, Syuuji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Imamura, Yoshinobu Yosuke, Kenji Tojo
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Patent number: 7163386Abstract: A scroll compressor has a movable auxiliary member provided by mounting it between a frame member and a circling scroll member. The movable auxiliary member has a stopper portion for causing a contact plane to contact a pane of a fixed scroll member and a ring portion having an opposed plane annularly formed to face the pane of the circling scroll member, is further supported elastically by an elastic support in a state of being energized in a direction of the circling scroll member, has the contact plane of the stopper portion caused to contact the pane in this elastic support state to keep a limit position with the opposed plane facing the pane of the circling scroll member, and goes back elastically to the frame member side when the circling scroll member goes back to the frame member side and the pane is pressed to contact the opposed plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuuichi Yanagase, Kazuyuki Fujimura, Makoto Aoki, Shigekazu Nozawa, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masaru Ohtahara, Shuuji Hasegawa, Yoshinobu Yosuke
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Patent number: 7021912Abstract: A second frame is arranged between a first frame and an orbiting scroll, and a central space and an outer peripheral space are sealed off by a seal portion, which is formed between an end surface of a shaft support of the orbiting scroll and the second frame. Also, a balance weight is arranged in a space between an underside of the second frame and the first frame. Thereby, most of an oil having lubricated respective shaft supports flows into the space below the second frame, and the oil accumulated in the space is discharged through an oil scavenge pipe into an oil reservoir in a lower portion of a closed vessel. Also, since the balance weight can be assembled from a side of the orbiting scroll in a state, in which the second frame is removed, it is possible to mount the balance weight close to the orbiting scroll.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Takao Mizuno, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Masaru Ohtahara, Syunsuke Yasunori, Isao Hayase, Isamu Tsubono, Kazuyuki Fujimura
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Publication number: 20050226755Abstract: The scroll compressor has a frame member 150, a fixed scroll member 110 and a circling scroll member 120 provided in an airtight container 100 and compresses a fluid by change in capacity of a compression space 130 comprised of the fixed scroll member and circling scroll member, where a movable auxiliary member 151 is provided by mounting it on a frame member between the frame member and the circling scroll member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2005Publication date: October 13, 2005Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuuichi Yanagase, Kazuyuki Fujimura, Makoto Aoki, Shigekazu Nozawa, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masaru Ohtahara, Shuuji Hasegawa, Yoshinobu Yosuke
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Publication number: 20050180871Abstract: A fluid compressor 1 comprises a rotation shaft 300 having a compression mechanism 2 and an oil passage 311, a motor 600, bearings 401 and 803, and a centrifugal pump part 900 for supplying oil through the oil passage 311. The rotation shaft 300 integrally comprises a main shaft portion 302, a crank pin 301 eccentrically provided to the main shaft portion 302, and a sub-bearing supported portion 303 having a smaller diameter than the main shaft portion 302. The oil passage 311 has a first oil passage 311a extending from a lower end of the sub-bearing supported portion 303 to a lower portion of the main shaft portion 302, and a second oil passage 311b that is communicated with the first oil passage 311a and extends to an upper end of the crank pin 301. The second oil passage 311b comprises a passage portion that has a smaller diameter than and is placed at an outer of the first oil passage 311a, a plurality of the second oil passages 311b are provided within a plain of said crank pin 311.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2004Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventors: Masaru Ohtahara, Shigekazu Nozawa, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Syuji Hasegawa, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuuichi Yanagase, Shunsuke Yasunori, Yoshinobu Yosuke
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Publication number: 20040219048Abstract: A second frame is arranged between a first frame and an orbiting scroll, and a central space and an outer peripheral space are sealed off by a seal portion, which is formed between an end surface of a shaft support of the orbiting scroll and the second frame. Also, a balance weight is arranged in a space between an underside of the second frame and the first frame. Thereby, most of an oil having lubricated respective shaft supports flows into the space below the second frame, and the oil accumulated in the space is discharged through an oil scavenge pipe into an oil reservoir in a lower portion of a closed vessel. Also, since the balance weight can be assembled from a side of the orbiting scroll in a state, in which the second frame is removed, it is possible to mount the balance weight close to the orbiting scroll.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: November 4, 2004Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Takao Mizuno, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Masaru Ohtahara, Syunsuke Yasunori, Isao Hayase, Isamu Tsubono, Kazuyuki Fujimura