Patents by Inventor Masayuki Kakuda
Masayuki Kakuda 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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Publication number: 20080298992Abstract: A scroll expander that is efficient in a wide range of operating conditions by suppressing leakage loss and decreasing in recovered power using a simple construction includes: an expansion mechanism, including an orbiting scroll and a first fixed scroll, recovers power by expanding a refrigerant; and an auxiliary compression mechanism, including an orbiting scroll and a second fixed scroll, compresses a refrigerant using power recovered by the expansion mechanism. A tip seal is mounted only on a spiral tooth of an orbiting scroll and a fixed scroll of one of the expansion mechanism or the auxiliary compression mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2006Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Shin Sekiya, Toshihide Koda, Masahiro Sugihara
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Publication number: 20080219871Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided which has favorable assembling property, does not require a thrust bearing, has a bearing structure for bearing a compression section at both sides thereof and has a simple structure of a scroll.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2004Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Yano, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Masaaki Sugawa, Kunio Tojo, Fumihiko Ishizono, Masayuki Kakuda, Shin Sekiya, Masahiro Sugihara, Toshihide Koda
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Publication number: 20080193313Abstract: The present invention provides a scroll compressor that has reduced leakage loss and high efficiency. In the present invention, an orbiting scroll 31 that has spiral teeth 31L and 31M on two surfaces, and a fixed scrolls 33 and 34 that are installed so as to face the surfaces of the orbiting scroll 31 and that have spiral teeth 33E and 34E that intermesh with the spiral teeth 31L and 31M of the orbiting scroll 31 are included, and tip seals are mounted only to a spiral tooth of the fixed scroll that intermeshes with a first spiral tooth of the orbiting scroll 31 and to the first spiral tooth of the orbiting scroll 31.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2006Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Sekiya, Masayuki Kakuda, Toshihide Koda, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Kunio Tojo, Kenji Yano, Masaaki Sugawa, Fumihiko Ishizono, Masahiro Sugihara
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Patent number: 6210130Abstract: A rotary compressor having a piston provided integrally with a blade is contained in a hermetic vessel which is operated at a suction pressure of the rotary compressor and not to discharge pressure. The rotary compressor includes a compression mechanism portion having a cylinder which includes a suction port formed in a cylinder chamber, a piston which eccentrically revolves in the cylinder, a blade which is integrally formed with the piston and partitions the cylinder chamber into a high pressure chamber and a low pressure chamber, and a driving shaft for revolving the piston.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Eiji Watanabe, Yoshihide Ogawa, Minoru Ishii, Masao Tani, Munehisa Gunjima, Takashi Yamamoto, Susumu Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 5863191Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a muffler chamber communicated with the discharge port (5, 8) and having a diameter larger than a diameter of the discharge port (5) of the fixed scroll (2) for suppressing occurrence of an impulse wave caused by water hammering when the discharge valve (9) is closed. Noise caused by a pressure ripple of the discharge port lessens, quieting the operation of the scroll compressor.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1997Date of Patent: January 26, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuji Motegi, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Fumiaki Sano, Masayuki Kakuda, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Yoshihide Ogawa, Eiji Watanabe, Shinji Nakashima
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Patent number: 5853288Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a counterboring part which communicates with an intermediate pessure chamber after the and intermediate pressure chambers have begun to communicate via separation of the spiral teeth.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1997Date of Patent: December 29, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuji Motegi, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Fumiaki Sano, Masayuki Kakuda, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Yoshihide Ogawa, Eiji Watanabe, Shinji Nakashima
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Patent number: 5846065Abstract: The invention concerns a high-reliability scroll compressor with little moment for making a fixed scroll unstable. A scroll compressor comprising in a sealed vessel a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll being combined with the fixed scroll for forming a compression space, and executing orbiting motion with respect to the fixed scroll, a frame for axially supporting the orbiting scroll and radially supporting a drive shaft, and a seal member being disposed in an axial gap between a high and low pressure separator stuck to the frame by any method and the fixed scroll, wherein a base plate outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll is radially supported by a stationary member coaxial with the base plate outer peripheral surface, and wherein with the stationary member as a guide, the fixed scroll can make axial movement within a range in which it interferes with the orbiting scroll downward in the axial direction and with the high and low pressure separator upward in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1997Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiaki Sano, Masayuki Kakuda, Hiroshi Ogawa, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Yoshihide Ogawa, Eiji Watanabe, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Shuji Motegi, Norihide Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5800142Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a counterboring part which communicates with an intermediate pressure chamber after the high and intermediate pressure chambers have begun to communicate via separation of the spiral teeth.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuji Motegi, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Fumiaki Sano, Masayuki Kakuda, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Yoshihide Ogawa, Eiji Watanabe, Shinji Nakashima
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Patent number: 5743720Abstract: The invention concerns a high-reliability scroll compressor with little moment for making a fixed scroll unstable. A scroll compressor comprising in a sealed vessel a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll being combined with the fixed scroll for forming a compression space, and executing orbiting motion with respect to the fixed scroll, a frame for axially supporting the orbiting scroll and radially supporting a drive shaft, and a seal member being disposed in an axial gap between a high and low pressure separator stuck to the frame by any method and the fixed scroll. A base plate outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll is radially supported by a stationary member coaxial with the base plate outer peripheral surface, and with the stationary member as a guide. The fixed scroll can make axial movement within a range in which it interferes with the orbiting scroll downward in the axial direction and with the high and low pressure separator upward in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1995Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiaki Sano, Masayuki Kakuda, Hiroshi Ogawa, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Yoshihide Ogawa, Eiji Watanabe, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Shuji Motegi, Norihide Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5674061Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a muffler chamber communicated with the discharge port (5, 8) and having a diameter larger than a diameter of the discharge port (5) of the fixed scroll (2) for suppressing occurrence of an impulse wave caused by water hammering when the discharge valve (9) is closed. Noise caused by a pressure ripple of the discharge port lessens, quieting the operation of the scroll compressor.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1995Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuji Motegi, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Fumiaki Sano, Masayuki Kakuda, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Yoshihide Ogawa, Eiji Watanabe, Shinji Nakashima
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Patent number: 5108274Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine includes a fixed scroll having a spiral wall; an orbiting scroll having a base plate which is on one side provided with a spiral wall, the orbiting scroll having the spiral wall combined with the spiral wall of the fixed scroll. A rotation preventing mechanism prevents the orbiting scroll from rotating about its own axis. A driving shaft is driven by a driving source, which has an eccentric portion, the eccentric portion causing the orbiting scroll to carry out orbiting movement through an orbiting bearing. A counter-weight is coupled to the driving shaft in such manner that it takes an eccentric position at the side remote from the eccentric portion of the driving shaft and it has a play with respect to the driving shaft in a radial direction, which can balance with at least part of a centrifugal force caused at the orbiting scroll side, and which has radial movement controlled by the orbiting scroll side.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1990Date of Patent: April 28, 1992Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Yoshihisa Kitora, Toshihide Koda
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Patent number: 5066206Abstract: A fluid scroll machine including two scrolls eccentrically combined with each other and defining a hermetically closed space which moves as the scrolls are rotated synchronously with each other, wherein the central parts of the vortical portions of the scrolls are notched so that an opening is provided between the scrolls; and an Oldham's coupling for transmitting the torque of one of the scrolls to the other is provided in the opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1990Date of Patent: November 19, 1991Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki K.K.Inventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Shin Sekiya, Yoshihisa Kitora
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Patent number: 4865531Abstract: In a scroll compressor for compressing gas by the relative orbital movement between first and second scrolls which combined with each other to form a compresson chamber therebetween and a super-charging tube is connected to an intake port formed in the first scroll. The volume of the gas to be compressed is controlled by changing the length of the super-discharging tube.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1988Date of Patent: September 12, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Etsuo Morishita
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Patent number: 4846639Abstract: A scroll compressor comprises a driving scroll, a driven scroll combined with the driving scroll to be driven by the same through the mutual contact of the wrap plates of the both scrolls, a movable bearing support held in a sealing container so as to be movable in the axial and radial directions of the container. The movable bearing support supports the driven scroll so that the driven scroll is pushed in the radial direction of the container, whereby gaps formed between the wrap plates of the driving and driven scrolls can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1988Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuo Morishita, Masayuki Kakuda, Masahiro Sugihara, Tsutomu Inaba
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Patent number: 4840549Abstract: A scroll compressor comprising a driving scroll and a driven scroll which is combined with the driving scroll and is driven by the driving scroll through an Oldham's coupling, a partition plate fixed to a container for housing the structural elements such as scrolls and having a supporting pin provided at a position near the inner wall of the container, a movable bearing support which is placed below the partition plate and is engaged with the supporting pin so as to be swingable around the supporting pin, and which supports the driven scroll through a bearing, and a rotation controlling structure which causes a swinging movement of the movable bearing support around the supporting pin along with a driven scroll whereby the distance between the axial centers of said driving and driven scrolls is changed.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1988Date of Patent: June 20, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuo Morishita, Masayuki Kakuda, Masahiro Sugihara, Tsutomu Inaba, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Tadashi Kimura
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Patent number: 4815951Abstract: In a scroll compressor for compressing gas by the relative orbital movement between first and second scrolls which combined with each other to form a compression chamber therebetween and a super-charging tube is connected to an intake port formed in the first scroll. The volume of the gas to be compressed is controlled by changing the length of the super-discharging tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1987Date of Patent: March 28, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Etsuo Morishita
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Patent number: 4781550Abstract: In a scroll type compressor, the shaft of a driven scroll is rotatably supported in a sealing container so that the axis of rotation of the driven scroll shaft is deviated from the axis of rotation of a driving scroll; the wrap plates of the driving and driven scrolls are mutually combined with each other so that the parts of the side surface of the wrap plates come in contact with each other to form a compression chamber; and the driven scroll is directly driven by the driving scroll in synchronism therewith, whereby the function of compression of a fluid is obtainable during the movement of the compression chamber toward the centers of the driving and driven scrolls.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1987Date of Patent: November 1, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuo Morishita, Masayuki Kakuda, Masahiro Sugihara, Tsutomu Inaba, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Tadashi Kimura
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Patent number: 4756675Abstract: A scroll type fluid transferring machine for sucking, compressing and discharging a fluid comprises a first scroll having a first wrap plate, a second scroll having a second wrap plate which is opposed to and combined with the first scroll, a first motor having a rotary shaft which is connected to the first scroll so as to be in agreement with its center of rotation, and a second motor having a rotary shaft which is connected to the second scroll so as to be in agreement with its center of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1987Date of Patent: July 12, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Etsuo Morishita
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Patent number: 4753582Abstract: A scroll compressor comprises a driving scroll and a driven scroll which is combined with the driving scroll and is driven by the driving scroll through an Oldham's coupling, a partition plate fixed to a container for housing the structural elements such as scrolls and having a supporting pin provided at a position near the inner wall of the container, a movable bearing support which is placed below the partition plate and is engaged with the supporting pin so as to be swingable around the supporting pin, and which supports the driven scroll through a bearing, and a rotation controlling means which causes a swinging movement of the moveable bearing support around the supporting pin along with the driven scroll whereby the distance between the axial centers of said driving and driven scrolls is changed.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1987Date of Patent: June 28, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuo Morishita, Masayuki Kakuda, Masahiro Sugihara, Tsutomu Inaba, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Tadashi Kimura
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Patent number: 4745777Abstract: A refrigerating cycle apparatus of an improved operating efficiency, which is constructed, in combination, with: a refrigerant circuit including an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, a first throttle, an economizer for separating the refrigerant into a gas phase and a liquid phase, and a second throttle, all these component elements being interconnected in the order as mentioned; and a piping for the economizer, which connects the gas phase portion of the economizer and an intermediate pressure region of the compressor, wherein the length of the economizer is set in such a value that is greater than the values to be determined from a Mollier's diagram on the basis of the operating conditions for the refrigerating cycle apparatus for the increase in the cooling or warming capability as well as the increase in the coefficient of performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1987Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuo Morishita, Keiju Sakaino, Masayuki Kakuda