Patents by Inventor Noritaka KAMEI

Noritaka KAMEI 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: 11951437
    Abstract: In an inside air control system, a first pump supplies treatment target air to an adsorption vessel, and a second pump sucks gas from the adsorption vessel. In an adjustment operation of adjusting the composition of air in a storage, the inside air control system alternately performs a first action and a second action. When a stop condition for stopping the adjustment operation is satisfied, a controller performs stop control. In the stop control, the controller controls the second pump to suck the gas from the adsorption vessel to which the first pump supplies the treatment target air when the stop condition is satisfied, and controls the second pump to stop after the second pump has operated for a first time T1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ikemiya, Kouji Yamamoto, Noritaka Kamei
  • Publication number: 20240042372
    Abstract: In an inside air control system, a first pump supplies treatment target air to an adsorption vessel, and a second pump sucks gas from the adsorption vessel. In an adjustment operation of adjusting the composition of air in a storage, the inside air control system alternately performs a first action and a second action. When a stop condition for stopping the adjustment operation is satisfied, a controller performs stop control. In the stop control, the controller controls the second pump to suck the gas from the adsorption vessel to which the first pump supplies the treatment target air when the stop condition is satisfied, and controls the second pump to stop after the second pump has operated for a first time T1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto IKEMIYA, Kouji YAMAMOTO, Noritaka KAMEI
  • Patent number: 11666856
    Abstract: An air composition adjusting device includes: an oxygen separator that separates oxygen from external air to be supplied to a target space; a gas supply path including a high concentration gas supply path for oxygen through which the oxygen separator communicates with the target space; and a controller that performs an oxygen concentration raising operation of supplying a high oxygen concentration gas, which has a higher oxygen concentration than external air before being treated by the oxygen separator, to the target space through the high concentration gas supply path for oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Naohiro Tanaka, Hidenori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11668479
    Abstract: A humidifier cools air in an air path that supplies the air to an internal space of a storage chamber such as a container or a warehouse, extracts water in a water extracting unit, stores the extracted water in a humidifying unit, and humidifies the internal space. The air path includes a main path that communicates with the internal space and a discharge path that discharges a part or all of water-extraction air to the outside of the target space, so that the humidifier can sufficiently humidify the internal space without receiving supply of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Naohiro Tanaka, Hidenori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11559062
    Abstract: An inside air control apparatus includes: a gas supply device that performs a gas supply operation for supplying low oxygen concentration air into a container; and a controller that controls an operation of the gas supply device so that the inside air has desired composition. The controller is configured to be able to execute, if an oxygen concentration of the inside air is higher than a target oxygen concentration, a carbon dioxide concentration controlling operation for controlling composition of the inside air to be desired composition by causing the gas supply device to perform the gas supply operation, while allowing the gas supply device to change the amount of gas supply such that the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air falls within a predetermined reference concentration range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Fujimoto, Noritaka Kamei
  • Patent number: 11540448
    Abstract: A CA system includes a gas supply device which performs a gas supply operation of supplying nitrogen-enriched air into a container, and a controller which performs the gas supply operation so that the inside air has a desired composition. The controller performs carbon dioxide priority control in which the controller performs the gas supply operation if an oxygen concentration of the inside air is equal to or higher than a ceiling concentration higher than a target oxygen concentration, stops the gas supply operation if a carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air is lowered to a critical concentration lower than a target carbon dioxide concentration, and restarts the gas supply operation if the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air has reached a restart concentration higher than the target carbon dioxide concentration through breathing of the plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Maho Takayama, Noritaka Kamei, Yuusuke Fujimoto, Masataka Nakano
  • Patent number: 11517022
    Abstract: An internal air adjustment device that includes a first composition adjustment unit and a second composition adjustment unit. The first composition adjustment unit separates supply air from external air, the supply air having a composition that differs from a composition of the external air, and supplies the supply air into a transport container. The second composition adjustment unit separates discharge air from internal air, the discharge air having a composition that differs from a composition of the internal air, and discharges the discharge air to outside of the transport container. The internal air adjustment device is capable of properly controlling the composition of the internal air in the transport container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Naohiro Tanaka, Hidenori Matsui
  • Publication number: 20220357057
    Abstract: A humidifier cools air in an air path that supplies the air to an internal space of a storage chamber such as a container or a warehouse, extracts water in a water extracting unit, stores the extracted water in a humidifying unit, and humidifies the internal space. The air path includes a main path that communicates with the internal space and a discharge path that discharges a part or all of water-extraction air to the outside of the target space, so that the humidifier can sufficiently humidify the internal space without receiving supply of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka KAMEI, Naohiro TANAKA, Hidenori MATSUI
  • Patent number: 11490628
    Abstract: An air composition adjusting device includes: a carbon dioxide separator that separates carbon dioxide from air-to-be-treated to be supplied to a target space; a gas supply path including a high concentration gas supply path through which the carbon dioxide separator communicates with the target space; and a controller that performs a carbon dioxide concentration raising operation of supplying a high carbon dioxide concentration gas, which has a higher carbon dioxide concentration than air-to-be-treated before being treated, to the target space through the high concentration gas supply path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Naohiro Tanaka, Hidenori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11471822
    Abstract: An internal air adjustment device that includes a gas composition adjustment unit including a gas separation film and that adjusts a composition of internal air existing inside a storage box, such as a container, includes a pressure regulating valve that regulates a pressure of air that is supplied from an air pump to the gas separation film of the gas composition adjustment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Naohiro Tanaka, Hidenori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11471826
    Abstract: An air composition adjusting device includes: an oxygen separator that separates oxygen from external air to be supplied to a target space; a gas supply path including a high concentration gas supply path for oxygen through which the oxygen separator communicates with the target space; and a controller that performs an oxygen concentration raising operation of supplying a high oxygen concentration gas, which has a higher oxygen concentration than external air before being treated by the oxygen separator, to the target space through the high concentration gas supply path for oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Naohiro Tanaka, Hidenori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11428423
    Abstract: A humidifier cools air in an air path that supplies the air to an internal space of a storage chamber such as a container or a warehouse, extracts water in a water extracting unit, stores the extracted water in a humidifying unit, and humidifies the internal space. The air path includes a main path that communicates with the internal space and a discharge path that discharges a part or all of water-extraction air to the outside of the target space, so that the humidifier can sufficiently humidify the internal space without receiving supply of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Naohiro Tanaka, Hidenori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11419341
    Abstract: While an inside air control system is performing an air composition maintenance action, a controller instructs a gas supply device to operate while switching among a first supply operation, a second supply operation, an outside air supply operation, and a standby operation. In the first supply operation, first low oxygen concentration air is supplied into a container. In the second supply operation, second low oxygen concentration air having a lower oxygen concentration than the first low oxygen concentration air is supplied into the container. In the outside air supply operation, outside air is supplied into the container. In the standby operation, supply of the low oxygen concentration air and the outside air into the container is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Fujimoto, Noritaka Kamei
  • Patent number: 11144024
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide sensor (92) measures the carbon dioxide concentration of inside air. An inside air control system (30) controls the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air based on a measured value obtained by the carbon dioxide sensor (92). If the measured value obtained by the carbon dioxide sensor (92) returns to a predetermined normal range after falling outside the normal range, the controller (110) of the inside air control system (30) performs a determination operation. The determination operation is an operation for supplying outdoor air to the carbon dioxide sensor (92) to determine whether or not the carbon dioxide sensor (92) is normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Yuusuke Fujimoto, Naoki Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20210268431
    Abstract: An air composition adjusting device includes: an oxygen separator that separates oxygen from external air to be supplied to a target space; a gas supply path including a high concentration gas supply path for oxygen through which the oxygen separator communicates with the target space; and a controller that performs an oxygen concentration raising operation of supplying a high oxygen concentration gas, which has a higher oxygen concentration than external air before being treated by the oxygen separator, to the target space through the high concentration gas supply path for oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka KAMEI, Naohiro TANAKA, Hidenori MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20210263492
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide sensor (92) measures the carbon dioxide concentration of inside air. An inside air control system (30) controls the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air based on a measured value obtained by the carbon dioxide sensor (92). If the measured value obtained by the carbon dioxide sensor (92) returns to a predetermined normal range after falling outside the normal range, the controller (110) of the inside air control system (30) performs a determination operation. The determination operation is an operation for supplying outdoor air to the carbon dioxide sensor (92) to determine whether or not the carbon dioxide sensor (92) is normal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka KAMEI, Yuusuke FUJIMOTO, Naoki NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20210161075
    Abstract: A CA system includes a gas supply device which performs a gas supply operation of supplying nitrogen-enriched air into a container, and a controller which performs the gas supply operation so that the inside air has a desired composition. The controller performs carbon dioxide priority control in which the controller performs the gas supply operation if an oxygen concentration of the inside air is equal to or higher than a ceiling concentration higher than a target oxygen concentration, stops the gas supply operation if a carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air is lowered to a critical concentration lower than a target carbon dioxide concentration, and restarts the gas supply operation if the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air has reached a restart concentration higher than the target carbon dioxide concentration through breathing of the plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Maho TAKAYAMA, Noritaka KAMEI, Yuusuke FUJIMOTO, Masataka NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11015855
    Abstract: A container refrigeration apparatus includes: a casing which forms an external storage space communicating with the exterior of the container and an internal storage space communicating with the interior of the container; a refrigerant circuit; an external fan; an internal fan; and an inside air control system including an exhaust passage which allows a space on a blowout side of the internal fan in the internal storage space to communicate with the external storage space, and controls composition of the inside air in the container. An external end of the exhaust passage is open on a suction side of the external fan in the external storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kamei, Atsushi Ozato, Wataru Hirata
  • Publication number: 20210127693
    Abstract: In a configuration in which a CA system adjusts the composition of air in an internal space of a storeroom, a concentration sensor, such as an oxygen sensor or a carbon dioxide sensor, is disposed outside the storeroom, and a concentration detection air passage is provided between the internal space and the concentration sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chiharu TOMITA, Noritaka KAMEI, Shougo MABUCHI
  • Patent number: 10945380
    Abstract: A CA system includes a gas supply device which performs a gas supply operation of supplying nitrogen-enriched air into a container, and a controller which performs the gas supply operation so that the inside air has a desired composition. The controller performs carbon dioxide priority control in which the controller performs the gas supply operation if an oxygen concentration of the inside air is equal to or higher than a ceiling concentration higher than a target oxygen concentration, stops the gas supply operation if a carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air is lowered to a critical concentration lower than a target carbon dioxide concentration, and restarts the gas supply operation if the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air has reached a restart concentration higher than the target carbon dioxide concentration through breathing of the plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Maho Takayama, Noritaka Kamei, Yuusuke Fujimoto, Masataka Nakano