Patents by Inventor Naomi SAWACHIKA

Naomi SAWACHIKA 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: 11248612
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a motor that rotates a rotary shaft of a compressor impeller, a motor housing that houses the motor, a compressor housing that houses the compressor impeller and includes an intake port and a discharge port, an gas bleed port that is provided closer to the discharge port than the compressor impeller in a flow direction in the compressor housing, a cooling gas line which is connected to the gas bleed port and through which a part of compressed gas compressed by the compressor impeller passes, a cooling liquid line of which at least a part is provided in the motor housing and through which cooling liquid of which the temperature is lower than the temperature of the compressed gas passes, and a heat exchanger that is disposed on the cooling gas line and the cooling liquid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Koji Sakota, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Hideumi Ohkuma, Naomi Sawachika
  • Patent number: 11177489
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller attached to one end of the rotation shaft, and a first wall surface and a second wall surface formed inside a housing so as to face each other in an axial direction. A diffuser is formed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the axial direction, and a wall portion separates the diffuser from an axial space inside the housing in which the rotation shaft extends. The wall portion includes at least one extraction hole that fluidly couples the diffuser to the axial spate and that is configured to extract a gas from the diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Koji Sakota, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Kaoru Kaneko, Naomi Sawachika
  • Publication number: 20200256344
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a motor that rotates a rotary shaft of a compressor impeller, a motor housing that houses the motor, a compressor housing that houses the compressor impeller and includes an intake port and a discharge port, an gas bleed port that is provided closer to the discharge port than the compressor impeller in a flow direction in the compressor housing, a cooling gas line which is connected to the gas bleed port and through which a part of compressed gas compressed by the compressor impeller passes, a cooling liquid line of which at least a part is provided in the motor housing and through which cooling liquid of which the temperature is lower than the temperature of the compressed gas passes, and a heat exchanger that is disposed on the cooling gas line and the cooling liquid line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Koji SAKOTA, Nobuyuki IKEYA, Hideumi OHKUMA, Naomi SAWACHIKA
  • Publication number: 20200259193
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller attached to one end of the rotation shaft, and a first wall surface and a second wall surface formed inside a housing so as to face each other in an axial direction. A diffuser is formed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the axial direction, and a wall portion separates the diffuser from an axial space inside the housing in which the rotation shaft extends. The wall portion includes at least one extraction hole that fluidly couples the diffuser to the axial spate and that is configured to extract a gas from the diffuser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Koji SAKOTA, Nobuyuki IKEYA, Kaoru KANEKO, Naomi SAWACHIKA