Patents by Inventor Norio Abukawa

Norio Abukawa 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: 5829264
    Abstract: An air conditioner including at least two kinds of refrigerant which are circulated in a refrigerant circuit and have different characteristics, a calculator for calculating the driving capacity of a compressor in accordance with a request load of the refrigerant circuit and outputting a driving capacity signal representing the driving capacity, a driving unit for controlling the driving capacity of the compressor so as to obtain the driving capacity corresponding to the driving capacity signal of the calculator, and correcting means for correcting the driving capacity signal so as to reduce the driving capacity when the refrigerant pressure in the refrigerant circuit exceeds a first pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeya Ishigaki, Mikiyasu Sinnsi, Tomohito Koizumi, Katuyuki Tuno, Takahiro Suzuki, Masanori Akutu, Norio Abukawa
  • Patent number: 5752323
    Abstract: A compact and effective ventilator/drier assembly for heating the room to which it is installed has a case main body 1 divided into a primary zone 3A communicating with an air inlet port 2A, a tertiary zone 3C communicating with an air outlet port 2B and a secondary zone 3B disposed adjacent to the tertiary zone and the primary zone. Moist air A in a room 100 is forced to flow through the air inlet port, the primary zone, the secondary zone, the tertiary zone and the air outlet port and back into the room by a centrifugal type air blower 21 and moisture contained in the room air is adsorbed by a cylindrical rotary type moisture adsorbing device 31 arranged between the secondary zone and the tertiary zone as the air is made to come into contact with a moisture-removing portion 31A of the adsorbing device 31. Dried air B is moved to into the tertiary zone, where it is heated to produce heating air E, which is discharged from the air outlet port into the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masuyuki Hashimoto, Toshio Nakayama, Tatsuo Namatame, Yasutomo Akutsu, Norio Abukawa, Yasuhiro Motoki, Akira Okada