Patents by Inventor Naoya Makimoto

Naoya Makimoto 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: 11897316
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a high-temperature heating medium regulator and a controller. The high-temperature heating medium regulator regulates a high-temperature heating medium flow ratio between the flow rate of high-temperature heating medium flowing in an air heater and the flow rate of high-temperature heating medium flowing in a radiator. The controller controls the high-temperature heating medium regulator to regulate the high-temperature heating medium flow ratio such that excess heat is radiated to air outside the cabin by the radiator, of the heat radiated from the refrigerant to the high-temperature heating medium by a high-pressure-side heat exchanger, with respect to heat required for heating air blown into a cabin by the air heater to have a target outlet temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Makimoto, Yoshiki Kato
  • Patent number: 11833887
    Abstract: A vehicular air conditioner includes a refrigeration cycle system, a high-temperature heat medium circuit, and a low-temperature heat medium circuit. The high-temperature heat medium circuit includes an air-heat medium heat exchanger, a heater core, a branching portion, a common passage, a flow rate adjuster, and an auxiliary heat source. The air-heat medium heat exchanger exchanges heat between the heat medium and an outside air. The heater core is arranged parallel to the air-heat medium heat exchanger and causes the heat medium to transfer heat to a ventilation air. The branching portion divides a flow of the heat medium into a flow toward the air-heat medium heat exchanger and a flow toward the heater core. The auxiliary heat source is arranged in the common passage at a position upstream of the branching portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawano, Yoshiki Kato, Masamichi Makihara, Takahiro Maeda, Kuniyoshi Tanioka, Toru Okamura, Naoya Makimoto
  • Patent number: 11787258
    Abstract: In a refrigeration cycle device, in an operation mode in which a refrigerant does not flows into a cooling evaporator, a throttle opening degree characteristic of a heat absorption valve disposed upstream of a heat absorption evaporator is set to cause the refrigerant on the outlet side of the heat absorption evaporator to be in a gas-liquid two-phase state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Makimoto, Yoshiki Kato
  • Publication number: 20230052705
    Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle, a heating unit and a control unit. The refrigeration cycle includes an air-conditioning evaporator, a chilling evaporator, an air-conditioning side flow path, a detour flow path and an air-conditioning flow rate adjustment unit. The control unit includes a determination unit that determines whether a condensation condition is satisfied when a refrigerant is flowing through the chilling evaporator via the detour flow path in a state where an inflow of a refrigerant into the air-conditioning evaporator is prohibited. When the determination unit determines that the condensation condition is satisfied, the control unit controls the air-conditioning flow rate adjustment unit to allow an inflow of a refrigerant into the air-conditioning evaporator as a condensation suppression operation for suppressing condensation of a refrigerant in the air-conditioning evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Kouji MIURA, Yoshiki KATOH, Masamichi MAKIHARA, Atsushi YAMADA, Kenta KAYANO, Hiroaki KAWANO, Tooru OKAMURA, Naoya MAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230016470
    Abstract: A battery temperature control device includes a heating medium circuit that connects a battery heat exchanger, an outside air heat exchanger, a heating medium pump, and a flow rate regulating unit. The outside air heat exchanger is connected in parallel to the battery heat exchanger. The flow rate regulating unit adjusts a flow rate of the heating medium in a first path through which the heating medium flows via at least the outside air heat exchanger and a flow rate of the heating medium in a second path through which the heating medium flows by detouring around the outside air heat exchanger. The control unit controls the flow rate regulating unit to adjust a ratio between a flow rate of the heating medium in the first path and a flow rate of the heating medium in the second path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kouji MIURA, Yoshiki KATOH, Masamichi MAKIHARA, Atsushi YAMADA, Kenta KAYANO, Hiroaki KAWANO, Tooru OKAMURA, Naoya MAKIMOTO, Takahiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220136747
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor configured to compress and discharge a refrigerant containing oil, a refrigerant radiator configured to heat the ventilation air using the refrigerant discharged from the compressor as a heat source during a room interior heating, a refrigerant decompression unit configured to decompress the refrigerant having passed through the refrigerant radiator, an evaporator configured to evaporate the refrigerant and to function as a heat absorber during the room interior heating; and a controller configured to control the refrigerant decompression unit and to perform a fluctuation operation at least during the room interior heating. In the fluctuation operation, a throttle opening degree of the refrigerant decompression unit is changed such that a refrigerant state on a refrigerant outlet side of the evaporator is alternately changed to a superheated state having a superheat degree and a wet state containing the wet vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kouji INAGAKI, Daiki KATOU, Hiroaki KAWANO, Yoshiki KATOH, Naoya MAKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11299014
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a high-temperature side heat exchanger, an expansion valve for decompressing the refrigerant flowing out of the high-temperature side heat exchanger, a low-temperature side heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant decompressed by the expansion valve and coolant, a high-temperature coolant circuit in which the coolant circulates to the high-temperature side heat exchanger, a low-temperature coolant circuit in which the coolant circulates to the low-temperature side heat exchanger, a battery and a low-temperature side radiator configured to exchange heat with the coolant in the low-temperature coolant circuit; and a heat transfer portion configured to transfer heat from the high-temperature coolant circuit to the low-temperature coolant circuit such that the coolant dissipates heat in the battery and the low-temperature side radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kato, Naoya Makimoto, Takuya Fuse
  • Publication number: 20220009309
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a heat pump cycle, a high-temperature heat medium circuit, and a low-temperature heat medium circuit. The low-temperature heat medium circuit includes a plurality of heat absorption devices configured to have a heat absorption amount to be absorbed by the low-temperature heat medium flowing out of a low-temperature heat medium-refrigerant heat exchanger, and a heat absorption adjusting unit configured to change the heat absorption amount of the low-temperature heat medium in the respective heat absorption devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Koji MIURA, Hiroaki KAWANO, Motohiro YAMAGUCHI, Kazuya TANIGUCHI, Yoshiki KATO, Masamichi MAKIHARA, Takahiro MAEDA, Kuniyoshi TANIOKA, Toru OKAMURA, Naoya MAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220011006
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a heat pump cycle, a heating unit, a low-temperature side heat medium circuit, and a heat dissipation amount adjustment control unit. The heat pump cycle has a compressor, a condenser, a decompression unit, and an evaporator. The heating unit has a heating heat exchanger, an outside air radiator, and a heat dissipation amount adjustment unit. The low-temperature side heat medium circuit has a heat generation device. The heat dissipation amount adjustment control unit controls the heat dissipation amount adjustment unit to adjust a heat dissipation amount in the outside air radiator such that a blown air temperature of the blown air heated by the heating heat exchanger approaches a predetermined target temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Koji MIURA, Hiroaki KAWANO, Motohiro YAMAGUCHI, Kazuya TANIGUCHI, Yoshiki KATO, Masamichi MAKIHARA, Takahiro MAEDA, Kuniyoshi TANIOKA, Toru OKAMURA, Naoya MAKIMOTO, Atsushi YAMADA, Kenta KAYANO
  • Publication number: 20210316594
    Abstract: A vehicular air conditioner includes a refrigeration cycle system, a high-temperature heat medium circuit, and a low-temperature heat medium circuit. The high-temperature heat medium circuit includes an air-heat medium heat exchanger, a heater core, a branching portion, a common passage, a flow rate adjuster, and an auxiliary heat source. The air-heat medium heat exchanger exchanges heat between the heat medium and an outside air. The heater core is arranged parallel to the air-heat medium heat exchanger and causes the heat medium to transfer heat to a ventilation air. The branching portion divides a flow of the heat medium into a flow toward the air-heat medium heat exchanger and a flow toward the heater core. The auxiliary heat source is arranged in the common passage at a position upstream of the branching portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroaki KAWANO, Yoshiki KATO, Masamichi MAKIHARA, Takahiro MAEDA, Kuniyoshi TANIOKA, Toru OKAMURA, Naoya MAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210291626
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a high-temperature heating medium regulator and a controller. The high-temperature heating medium regulator regulates a high-temperature heating medium flow ratio between the flow rate of high-temperature heating medium flowing in an air heater and the flow rate of high-temperature heating medium flowing in a radiator. The controller controls the high-temperature heating medium regulator to regulate the high-temperature heating medium flow ratio such that excess heat is radiated to air outside the cabin by the radiator, of the heat radiated from the refrigerant to the high-temperature heating medium by a high-pressure-side heat exchanger, with respect to heat required for heating air blown into a cabin by the air heater to have a target outlet temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Naoya MAKIMOTO, Yoshiki KATO
  • Patent number: 10899198
    Abstract: A heater core for performing heat exchange between a coolant and ventilation air to be blown to the interior of a vehicle so as to heat the ventilation air is disposed in a water circulation circuit for circulating a coolant in an engine EG for outputting driving force necessary to move the vehicle. When the temperature of the coolant discharged from the engine EG is low, a heat transport refrigeration cycle device, serving as a heat transport unit for absorbing heat from a downstream coolant at a position downstream more than the heater core and dissipating the heat absorbed from the downstream coolant to an upstream coolant at a position upstream more than the heater core, is operated to increase the temperature of the coolant introduced into the heater core until the temperature of the coolant reaches the temperature necessary to heat the interior of the vehicle, without operation of the engine EG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michio Nishikawa, Atsushi Inaba, Hiroaki Kawano, Naoya Makimoto
  • Publication number: 20200207178
    Abstract: In a refrigeration cycle device, in an operation mode in which a refrigerant does not flows into a cooling evaporator, a throttle opening degree characteristic of a heat absorption valve disposed upstream of a heat absorption evaporator is set to cause the refrigerant on the outlet side of the heat absorption evaporator to be in a gas-liquid two-phase state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Naoya MAKIMOTO, Yoshiki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200198443
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a high-temperature side heat exchanger, an expansion valve for decompressing the refrigerant flowing out of the high-temperature side heat exchanger, a low-temperature side heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant decompressed by the expansion valve and coolant, a high-temperature coolant circuit in which the coolant circulates to the high-temperature side heat exchanger, a low-temperature coolant circuit in which the coolant circulates to the low-temperature side heat exchanger, a battery and a low-temperature side radiator configured to exchange heat with the coolant in the low-temperature coolant circuit; and a heat transfer portion configured to transfer heat from the high-temperature coolant circuit to the low-temperature coolant circuit such that the coolant dissipates heat in the battery and the low-temperature side radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiki KATO, Naoya MAKIMOTO, Takuya FUSE
  • Publication number: 20190111756
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a first refrigerant passage from a radiator to an outside heat exchanger, and a second refrigerant passage from the outside heat exchanger to a compressor via a first evaporator. A first expansion valve is disposed in the first refrigerant passage upstream of the outside heat exchanger. A second expansion valve is disposed in the second refrigerant upstream of the first evaporator. The refrigeration cycle device includes a third refrigerant passage that guides the refrigerant flowing between the radiator and the first expansion valve to bypass the first expansion valve and the outside heat exchanger to flow to the second refrigerant passage on the refrigerant flow downstream side of the first evaporator. A third expansion valve is disposed in the third refrigerant passage. A second evaporator is disposed in the third refrigerant passage on the refrigerant flow downstream side of the third expansion valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Naoya MAKIMOTO, Mikiharu KUWAHARA
  • Patent number: 10144268
    Abstract: An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a door control unit that controls multiple blowing port doors or an air mix door to prevent a heat generated from a heater core from leaking out of an air conditioning case before air conditioning of a vehicle interior is determined to be started. The air conditioning device includes an air conditioning control unit that performs the air conditioning of the vehicle interior by controlling the multiple blowing port doors to open at least one of multiple blowing ports and blow out a heat in the air conditioning case as hot air to the vehicle interior from the at least one blowing port after the air conditioning in the vehicle interior is determined to be started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Makimoto, Masaaki Kawakubo, Takayuki Watanabe, Masatsugu Yonekura
  • Publication number: 20180126820
    Abstract: An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a door control unit that controls multiple blowing port doors or an air mix door to prevent a heat generated from a heater core from leaking out of an air conditioning case before air conditioning of a vehicle interior is determined to be started. The air conditioning device includes an air conditioning control unit that performs the air conditioning of the vehicle interior by controlling the multiple blowing port doors to open at least one of multiple blowing ports and blow out a heat in the air conditioning case as hot air to the vehicle interior from the at least one blowing port after the air conditioning in the vehicle interior is determined to be started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Naoya MAKIMOTO, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Takayuki WATANABE, Masatsugu YONEKURA
  • Publication number: 20170050493
    Abstract: A heater core for performing heat exchange between a coolant and ventilation air to be blown to the interior of a vehicle so as to heat the ventilation air is disposed in a water circulation circuit for circulating a coolant in an engine EG for outputting driving force necessary to move the vehicle. When the temperature of the coolant discharged from the engine EG is low, a heat transport refrigeration cycle device, serving as a heat transport unit for absorbing heat from a downstream coolant at a position downstream more than the heater core and dissipating the heat absorbed from the downstream coolant to an upstream coolant at a position upstream more than the heater core, is operated to increase the temperature of the coolant introduced into the heater core until the temperature of the coolant reaches the temperature necessary to heat the interior of the vehicle, without operation of the engine EG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Michio Nishikawa, Atsushi Inaba, Hiroaki Kawano, Naoya Makimoto