Patents by Inventor Masaya Nishimura

Masaya Nishimura 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: 11953248
    Abstract: A refrigerant management system includes at least one computer including an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit, during installation and/or maintenance of a refrigerant use device, acquires first information, refrigerant already filled quantity, and refrigerant used quantity. The first information includes device specifying information, worker information, and refrigerant additionally filled quantity information. The refrigerant already filled quantity is preliminarily filled in the refrigerant use device, in accordance with the device specifying information. The refrigerant used quantity used in the refrigerant use device by totaling the refrigerant already filled quantity acquired and the refrigerant additionally filled quantity included in the refrigerant additionally filled quantity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Asuka Yagi, Masaya Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230400204
    Abstract: An air treatment apparatus includes: a heat exchanger that exchanges heat between a fluid flowing through a first flow path and air flowing through a second flow path; and a first dust collector disposed upstream of the heat exchanger in a flow of the air and that collects a substance contained in the air flowing to the heat exchanger. The first dust collector has: a surface over which water flows, or a surface on which water is retained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Nishimura, Eiichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20230151991
    Abstract: A communication unit is provided for an air treatment apparatus. The communication unit includes a receiver, a transmitter, and a storage. The receiver receives measurement data sent from a measuring apparatus separate from the air treatment apparatus. The measuring apparatus is movable. The transmitter transmits, to a server, the measurement data associated with specific information of the air treatment apparatus. The storage stores the measurement data therein. If a storage process in which the measurement data is stored in the storage is completed, the transmitter transmits, to the measuring apparatus, information indicating that the storage process has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Masaya NISHIMURA, Atsushi KONDOU, Nobuo DOMYO
  • Patent number: 11585562
    Abstract: A body of a casing is provided with a predetermined component. An imaging device includes an attachment portion detachably attached to the component so as to be at a position at which the imaging device can image the at least one predetermined object to be imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Suzuki, Youichi Handa, Keita Kitagawa, Masaya Nishimura, Yoshiteru Nouchi
  • Patent number: 11549892
    Abstract: An air treatment device includes a casing, a drain pan provided in the casing, a camera configured to capture an inner surface of the drain pan to obtain image data, and a lighting device configured to apply, to a photographing target of the camera, visible light having a maximum peak wavelength in a wavelength band from 400 nm to 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Kitagawa, Youichi Handa, Masaya Nishimura, Yoshiteru Nouchi
  • Patent number: 11536475
    Abstract: Internal control devices (41A to 41D) included respectively in air conditioners (10A to 10D) in an air conditioning system (1) are communicably connected one by one correspondingly to external control devices (42A to 42D). Each of the external control devices (42A to 42D) is configured to execute command generating operation of generating an operation command to a corresponding one of the air conditioners (10A to 10D). The external control devices (42A to 42D) constitute an external control system (50). In the external control system (50), one of the external control devices (42A) functions as a master control device configured to execute the command generating operation whereas remaining ones of the external control devices (42A to 42D) other than the external control device (42A) functioning as the master control device function as sub control devices configured not to execute the command generating operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shougo Ohta, Masaya Nishimura, Kousuke Hirai, Takayuki Sunayama
  • Patent number: 11499728
    Abstract: The air processing device is provided with a processing unit that determines the state of a predetermined part(s) in a casing on the basis of the change in a plurality of image data acquired by an imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Youichi Handa, Masaya Nishimura, Yoshiteru Nouchi
  • Patent number: 11480357
    Abstract: An imaging target includes a light emitter configured to emit visible light from a surface of the imaging target, and an imaging device captures an image of at least the light emitter of the imaging target and acquires image data including the light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Kitagawa, Yoshiteru Nouchi, Masaya Nishimura, Youichi Handa
  • Publication number: 20220221206
    Abstract: A refrigerant management system includes at least one computer including an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit, during installation and/or maintenance of a refrigerant use device, acquires first information, refrigerant already filled quantity, and refrigerant used quantity. The first information includes device specifying information, worker information, and refrigerant additionally filled quantity information. The refrigerant already filled quantity is preliminarily filled in the refrigerant use device, in accordance with the device specifying information. The refrigerant used quantity used in the refrigerant use device by totaling the refrigerant already filled quantity acquired and the refrigerant additionally filled quantity included in the refrigerant additionally filled quantity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Asuka YAGI, Masaya NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220170864
    Abstract: An air treatment device includes a casing, a drain pan provided in the casing, a camera configured to capture an inner surface of the drain pan to obtain image data, and a lighting device configured to apply, to a photographing target of the camera, visible light having a maximum peak wavelength in a wavelength band from 400 nm to 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita KITAGAWA, Youichi HANDA, Masaya NISHIMURA, Yoshiteru NOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210389015
    Abstract: A contamination information estimation system includes a camera that captures an image of a drain pan in a casing of an air conditioner, and an estimator that estimates contamination information related to contamination on the drain pan on the basis of image data captured by the camera and operation data of the air conditioner and/or environment data related to an environment in which the air conditioner is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita KITAGAWA, Youichi HANDA, Yoshiteru NOUCHI, Masaya NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210333005
    Abstract: An imaging target includes a light emitter configured to emit visible light from a surface of the imaging target, and an imaging device captures an image of at least the light emitter of the imaging target and acquires image data including the light emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita KITAGAWA, Yoshiteru NOUCHI, Masaya NISHIMURA, Youichi HANDA
  • Publication number: 20210131690
    Abstract: A body of a casing is provided with a predetermined component. An imaging device includes an attachment portion detachably attached to the component so as to be at a position at which the imaging device can image the at least one predetermined object to be imaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori SUZUKI, Youichi HANDA, Keita KITAGAWA, Masaya NISHIMURA, Yoshiteru NOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210088240
    Abstract: Internal control devices (41A to 41D) included respectively in air conditioners (10A to 10D) in an air conditioning system (1) are communicably connected one by one correspondingly to external control devices (42A to 42D). Each of the external control devices (42A to 42D) is configured to execute command generating operation of generating an operation command to a corresponding one of the air conditioners (10A to 10D). The external control devices (42A to 42D) constitute an external control system (50). In the external control system (50), one of the external control devices (42A) functions as a master control device configured to execute the command generating operation whereas remaining ones of the external control devices (42A to 42D) other than the external control device (42A) functioning as the master control device function as sub control devices configured not to execute the command generating operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shougo OHTA, Masaya NISHIMURA, Kousuke HIRAI, Takayuki SUNAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200248924
    Abstract: An air processing device includes: a casing; a component detachably provided on a body of the casing; and an imaging device that acquires image data of at least one predetermined object to be imaged in the casing. The imaging device is supported by the component so as to be located at a position at which the imaging device can image the object to be imaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori SUZUKI, Youichi HANDA, Keita KITAGAWA, Masaya NISHIMURA, Yoshiteru NOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200248918
    Abstract: The air processing device is provided with a processing unit that determines the state of a predetermined part(s) in a casing on the basis of the change in a plurality of image data acquired by an imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Youichi HANDA, Masaya NISHIMURA, Yoshiteru NOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200148561
    Abstract: In a water passage, a first inflow-side insulator, a second inflow-side insulator, and an electric-discharge water tank are each formed like a sealed container. A tap water pipe is connected to the electric-discharge water tank via inflow-side insulators, and the electric-discharge water tank is connected to water supply headers. The water passage has a hermetic structure that is open to the atmosphere only at a supply opening of each of the water supply headers. Therefore, when pressurized tap water is supplied to the water passage, water flows through the water passage. As a result, restrictions on the positional relationship between a supply target of treated water and a water treatment device are reduced, and the usability of the water treatment device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsunahiro OHDOU, Masaya NISHIMURA, Kei SUZUMURA
  • Patent number: 10310524
    Abstract: An environmental control apparatus that is installed in a room and is portable includes an input unit, a setting unit, a determination unit, and a recommendation unit. The input unit is input a fact that a room air environment is comfortable. The setting unit sets a range of a comfort zone. The determination unit determines whether the air environment of the room is within the range of the comfort zone. The recommendation unit recommend an improving method of improving the air environment of the room based on at least information about a determination result of the determination unit so that the air environment of the room falls within the range of the comfort zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10189724
    Abstract: A water treatment vessel (10) causes electric discharge in water stored therein to produce a sterilizing factor. The water treatment vessel (10) moves in accordance with the level of water in a reservoir (30) to be switched between a discharging state where the water treatment vessel (10) and the reservoir (30) have no communication, and a pair of electrodes (16, 17) are immersed in water in the water treatment vessel (10) to cause the electric discharge, and a draining state where the pair of electrodes (16, 17) come out of water in the water treatment vessel (10) to stop the electric discharge, and water flows out of the water treatment vessel (10) into the reservoir (30). The water supplier (20) supplies water to the water treatment vessel (10) in the draining state, and stop the supply of water to the water treatment vessel (10) in the discharging state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsunahiro Ohdou, Masaya Nishimura, Tomoki Saitou, Sachiko Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10087091
    Abstract: In a submerged discharge device, a pair of electrodes is arranged in a liquid in a reservoir to receive an alternating voltage from an alternating power source, thereby generating a submerged discharge using a discharger arranged in the liquid between the pair of electrodes. A surface of this pair of electrodes has a coating that ensures the submerged discharge generated by the discharger. This may reduce the area of contact between the surface of the pair of electrodes and the liquid in the treatment vessel to reduce the consumption of the pair of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunahiro Ohdou, Masaya Nishimura, Tomoki Saitou, Sachiko Yamaguchi