Patents by Inventor Masaya Tadano

Masaya Tadano 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: 20050008442
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a multi-stage compression type rotary compressor which can avoid the replacement of parts to be used as much as possible to reduce costs and also which enables easily setting an appropriate displacement volume ratio while preventing the compressor from being increased in size. The gist of the present invention is that an inner diameter of a lower cylinder is altered without altering its thickness (or height), and a displacement volume ratio between first and second rotary compression elements is set to an optimum value in accordance with the alteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matsumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Masaya Tadano, Kazuya Sato, Dai Matsuura, Takayasu Saito, Noriyuki Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20040165999
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20040165998
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20040154329
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20040151603
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Patent number: 6769267
    Abstract: Refrigerant compressed by a first stage compression elements (30) run by a motor (20) is discharged in the closed container (10) via a silencer chamber (35) to cool the motor (20) before the refrigerant is led to a second stage compression element (40). The refrigerant is discharged from the second stage compression element (40) out of the compressor after it is further compressed in the second compression element (40). Thus, the motor (20) is cooled in a simple cooling mechanism during normal operation of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Masaya Tadano, Atsushi Oda
  • Patent number: 6748754
    Abstract: In a multistage rotary compressor using a refrigerant such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and the like which becomes high in a discharge pressure, operating efficiency thereof can be enhanced by appropriately setting the ratio between displacement of the respective rotary compression elements and the areas of discharge ports thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matsumoto, Noriyuki Tsuda, Haruyuki Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano
  • Patent number: 6732542
    Abstract: A defroster restrains a vane jump that takes place when an evaporator is defrosted in a refrigerant circuit using a so-called internal intermediate-pressure type double-stage compression rotary compressor. The defroster includes a rotary compressor that discharges a refrigerant gas that has been compressed by a first rotary compressing unit into a hermetic vessel and further compresses the discharged intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. To defrost the evaporator, the refrigerant gas discharged from the second rotary compressing unit is introduced into the evaporator without decompressing it by the expansion valve. Furthermore, the refrigerant gas discharged from the first rotary compressing unit is introduced into the evaporator. At the same time, an electromotive unit of the rotary compressor is run at a predetermined number of revolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhisa Yamasaki, Masaya Tadano, Kenzo Matsumoto, Kazuya Sato, Dai Matsuura, Takayasu Saito
  • Publication number: 20040001762
    Abstract: There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements which are driven by a rotary shaft of the electric element disposed under the electric element are provided in a hermetic shell case. There is provided a refrigerant introduction pipe for introducing refrigerant in the hermetic shell case over the electric element into the second rotary compression element through an outside of the hermetic shell case. There is provided an oil path provided in the rotary shaft for discharging oil through an oil discharge port which is positioned at the upper end of the rotary shaft. The refrigerant introduction pipe is provided such that a part of an inlet of the refrigerant introduction pipe is positioned under the upper end of a stator of the electric element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano, Satoshi Imai, Akira Sugawara, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 6651458
    Abstract: An internal intermediate pressure type two-stage compression rotary compressor (10) is provided with an electrically driven element (14) disposed within a sealed vessel (12), and first and second rotary compression elements (32, 34) driven by the electrically driven element (14), and is structured such as to discharge CO2 refrigerant gas compressed at a first stage by the first rotary compression element (32) within the sealed vessel (12) and compress the discharged refrigerant gas having an intermediate pressure at a second stage by the second rotary compression element (34) via an accumulator (106). The rotary compression elements (32, 34) include upper and lower cylinders (38, 40), upper and lower rollers (46, 48) eccentrically rotating within the cylinder and upper and lower vanes (50, 52) brought into contact with the rollers so as to section the inner portions of the upper and lower cylinders into high pressure chambers and low pressure chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Masaya Tadano, Takashi Yamakawa, Atsushi Oda
  • Publication number: 20030172666
    Abstract: In a multistage rotary compressor using a refrigerant such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and the like which becomes high in a discharge pressure, operating efficiency thereof can be enhanced by appropriately setting the ratio between displacement of the respective rotary compression elements and the areas of discharge ports thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matsumoto, Noriyuki Tsuda, Haruyuki Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano
  • Patent number: 6616428
    Abstract: A double-cylinder two-stage compression rotary compressor (10) comprising a first and a second compressors (32 , 34), driven by an electric motor (14), all accommodated in a sealed container (12). The first and the second compressor (32, 34) have respective first and second cylinders (40, 42) accommodating first and second rollers (48, 50), fitted on respective first and second eccentric cams (44, 46). The inner spaces of the first and second cylinders are partitioned by respective first and second vanes (52, 54) to form suction spaces and compression spaces. The two cylinders are separated by an intermediate partition panel (38), which has a central bore (36) for passing therethrough a shaft (16) of the motor (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Masaya Tadano, Takashi Yamakawa, Atsushi Oda
  • Publication number: 20030126885
    Abstract: Refrigerant compressed by a first stage compression elements (30) run by a motor (20) is discharged in the closed container (10) via a silencer chamber (35) to cool the motor (20) before the refrigerant is led to a second stage compression element (40). The refrigerant is discharged from the second stage compression element (40) out of the compressor after it is further compressed in the second compression element (40). Thus, the motor (20) is cooled in a simple cooling mechanism during normal operation of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Masaya Tadano, Atsushi Oda
  • Publication number: 20030115900
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a multi-stage compression type rotary compressor which can avoid the replacement of parts to be used as much as possible to reduce costs and also which enables easily setting an appropriate displacement volume ratio while preventing-the compressor from being increased in size. The gist of the present invention is that an inner diameter of a lower cylinder is altered without altering its thickness (or height), and a displacement volume ratio between first and second rotary compression elements is set to an optimum value in accordance with the alteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matsumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Masaya Tadano, Kazuya Sato, Dai Matsuura, Takayasu Saito, Noriyuki Tsuda
  • Patent number: 6581408
    Abstract: Refrigerant exiting a condenser (1) is diverted into first and second parts, with the first part passed to a first intercooler (6) via a first decompression means (3) while the second part is passed to an evaporator (8) via a second decompression means (7). The refrigerant passed to the second decompression means (7) undergoes heat exchange with the intercooler (6). The refrigerant discharged from the evaporator (8) is fed to a first stage low-pressure compression means (32). In the multi-stage compression apparatus, the refrigerant discharged-from the low-pressure compression means (32) is mixed or merged with the refrigerant exiting the intercooler (6) at a merging point (106), and then fed to a second stage high-pressure compression means (34). The displacement volume of the low-pressure compression means (32) is larger than that of the high-pressure compression means(34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Atsushi Oda, Toshiyuki Ebara, Takashi Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20030106330
    Abstract: A defroster restrains a vane jump that takes place when an evaporator is defrosted in a refrigerant circuit using a so-called internal intermediate-pressure type double-stage compression rotary compressor. The defroster includes a rotary compressor that discharges a refrigerant gas that has been compressed by a first rotary compressing unit into a hermetic vessel and further compresses the discharged intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. To defrost the evaporator, the refrigerant gas discharged from the second rotary compressing unit is introduced into the evaporator without decompressing it by the expansion valve. Furthermore, the refrigerant gas discharged from the first rotary compressing unit is introduced into the evaporator. At the same time, an electromotive unit of the rotary compressor is run at a predetermined number of revolutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Haruhisa Yamasaki, Masaya Tadano, Kenzo Matsumoto, Kazuya Sato, Dai Matsuura, Takayasu Saito
  • Patent number: 6568198
    Abstract: A multi-stage compression refrigeration apparatus (10) includes a compressor having a first stage low-pressure compression means (32) and a second stage high-pressure compression means (34), a condenser (1), a first decompression means (3), an intercooler (6), a second decompression means (7), and an evaporator (8). The refrigerant discharged from the condenser (1) is diverted into first and second parts, with the first part passed to the intercooler (6) via the first decompression means (3) while the second part is passed to the evaporator (8) via the second decompressor (7). The refrigerant passed to the second decompressor (7) undergoes heat exchange with the intercooler (6). The refrigerant discharged from the evaporator (8) is fed to the low-pressure compression means (32). The refrigerant discharged from the intercooler (6) is fed to the high-pressure compression means (34) together with the refrigerant discharged from the low-pressure compression means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Atsushi Oda, Toshiyuki Ebara, Takashi Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20030068236
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20020159904
    Abstract: A double-cylinder two-stage compression rotary compressor (10) comprising a first and a second compressors (32, 34), driven by an electric motor (14), all accommodated in a sealed container (12). The first and the second compressor (32, 34) have respective first and second cylinders (40, 42) accommodating first and second rollers (48, 50), fitted on respective first and second eccentric cams (44, 46). The inner spaces of the first and second cylinders are partitioned by respective first and second vanes (52, 54) to form suction spaces and compression spaces. The two cylinders are separated by an intermediate partition panel (38), which has a central bore (36) for passing therethrough a shaft (16) of the motor (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Masaya Tadano, Takashi Yamakawa, Atsushi Oda
  • Patent number: 6318981
    Abstract: A two-cylinder type two-stage compression rotary compressor has an electric motor portion in a closed container and upper and lower cylinders driven by a rotating shaft of the electric motor portion; the insides of the respective cylinders are partitioned by upper and lower vanes and upper and lower rollers which are fitted to upper and lower eccentric portions provided to the rotating shaft to eccentrically rotate in the upper and lower cylinders; a lower stage side compression portion for sucking and compressing a refrigerant gas to be discharged, a high stage compression portion, and an intermediate partition plate provided between the both compression portions to insert the rotating shaft therethrough are included; the upper and lower eccentric portions provided to the rotating shaft have a phase difference of 180 degrees; a connecting portion for connecting the both eccentric portions has such a non-circular cross-sectional shape such as that the thickness in a direction orthogonal to an eccentric direct
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Masaya Tadano, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Yamakawa