Patents by Inventor Nobuhide SAKAMOTO

Nobuhide SAKAMOTO 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: 20240019186
    Abstract: In a refrigeration cycle apparatus, at start-up of heating, a controller sets a first four-way valve to an ON state and sets a second four-way valve to an OFF state so as to form a flow path in which refrigerant flows through a compressor, a load-side heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, and an accumulator and returns to the compressor, and during a heating operation, the controller sets the first four-way valve to the ON state and sets the second four-way valve to the ON state so as to form a flow path in which the refrigerant flows through the compressor, the load-side heat exchanger, the first expansion valve, the receiver, and the heat-source-side heat exchanger and returns to the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Shunya GYOTOKU, Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Nobuhide SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220252313
    Abstract: A chilling unit includes a casing, a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a heat-source heat exchanger, a first expansion unit, a second expansion unit, and a refrigerant-to-heat medium heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe and through which refrigerant flows, the refrigerant circuit being placed in the casing, and an injection circuit in which a portion between the first expansion unit and the second expansion unit is connected to the compressor by an injection pipe, the injection circuit being placed in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuhide SAKAMOTO, Takahito HIKONE, Kimitaka KADOWAKI