Patents by Inventor Osamu Morimoto
Osamu Morimoto 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).
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Patent number: 9557083Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus has a heating only temporary operation mode in which, in changing from a heating main operation mode to a heating only operation mode, when an outside air temperature is at or above a predetermined temperature, at least one of heat exchangers functioning as a condenser in the heating main operation mode continues functioning as the condenser, and the refrigerant is not supplied to the intermediate heat exchanger functioning as an evaporator in the heating main operation mode and a cooling only temporary operation mode in which, in changing from a cooling main operation mode to a cooling only operation mode, when the outside air temperature is at or below a predetermined temperature, at least one of heat exchangers functioning as the evaporator in the cooling main operation mode continues functioning as the evaporator, and the refrigerant is not supplied to the intermediate heat exchanger functioning as the condenser in the cooling main operation mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Azuma, Daisuke Shimamoto, Osamu Morimoto
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Patent number: 9535335Abstract: An apparatus which projects a pattern of an original onto a substrate by a projection optical system within a chamber to expose the substrate, comprises a measurement unit which performs measurement to calculate a deformation amount of the original, and a controller which calculates a predicted deformation amount of the original and corrects a projection magnification of the projection optical system so as to correct the predicted deformation amount, based on information representing a relationship between the deformation amount with reference to a shape of the original at a certain temperature and a time for which the original receives exposure light, a deformation amount of the original before exposure determined based on a measurement value obtained by measuring, by the measurement unit, the deformation amount of the original loaded into the chamber and unused for exposure, and the time for which the original receives the exposure light.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Osamu Morimoto
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Patent number: 9518754Abstract: A first flow switching device causes part of a refrigerant discharged from an injection compressor to flow through a first bypass pipe and be supplied to an outdoor heat exchanger targeting for defrosting. A second flow switching device causes part of the refrigerant supplied to the outdoor heat exchanger targeting for defrosting to enter a second bypass pipe.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shinichi Wakamoto, Naofumi Takenaka, Koji Yamashita, Osamu Morimoto, Hirofumi Koge
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Patent number: 9513036Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a first refrigerant flow switching device, a plurality of intermediate heat exchangers, a first expansion device, and a heat-source-side heat exchanger, through all of which a refrigerant circulates and all of which in combination form a refrigeration cycle; and a heat medium circuit including the plurality of intermediate heat exchangers, a pump, and a plurality of use-side heat exchangers, through all of which a heat medium circulates. The air-conditioning apparatus further includes a heat medium energy storage that is connected to the heat medium circuit and stores the heat medium; and an intra-storage heat exchanger that is connected to the refrigerant circuit and heats or cools the heat medium in the heat medium energy storage by using the heat-source-side refrigerant supplied thereto.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Motomura, Osamu Morimoto, Daisuke Shimamoto, Kouji Azuma
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Patent number: 9506674Abstract: An air conditioner that can perform defrosting efficiently while heating or the like is continued even if the air conditioner is configured by one outdoor unit is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Morimoto, Makoto Saito, Satoru Yanachi, Koji Yamashita
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Patent number: 9464829Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus including: a refrigerant circuit having a compressor, a refrigerant flow switching valve, a heat exchanger related to the heat transfer medium, an expansion valve, a heat source-side heat exchanger which is connected by a refrigerant pipe to form a refrigeration cycle, a heat transfer medium circuit having the heat exchanger related to the heat transfer medium, a pump, a plurality of use-side heat exchangers which are connected by a heat transfer medium pipe, and an opening and closing valve provided to the heat transfer medium supply pipe.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Junichi Ue, Osamu Morimoto
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Patent number: 9441851Abstract: When using at least one of heat exchangers related to heat medium that exchange heat between a heat source side refrigerant and a heat medium as an evaporator, in a case where an air-conditioning apparatus has detected, in the heat exchanger related to heat medium that functions as the evaporator, an evaporating temperature of the heat source side refrigerant which causes the temperature of the heat medium passing through this heat exchanger related to heat medium to become equal to or lower than a freezing temperature, the air-conditioning apparatus performs a heat medium anti-freezing operation by blocking entry of the heat source side refrigerant into the heat exchanger related to heat medium that functions as the evaporator, and causing the heat source side refrigerant to flow to a bypass pipe.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji Motomura, Koji Yamashita, Osamu Morimoto, Kosuke Tanaka, Naofumi Takenaka
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Publication number: 20160252290Abstract: A heat-source-side unit includes a body case having an air inlet and an air outlet, a heat exchanger contained in the body case and disposed to an air passage between the air inlet and the air outlet, and a damper disposed above the heat exchanger and configured to open and close the air passage. The damper is closed in a defrosting operation that removes frost on the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Tadashi ARIYAMA, Naomichi TAMURA, Osamu MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20160245539Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit formed by connecting, with pipes, a compressor, a first refrigerant flow switching device, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, an expansion device, and a plurality of intermediate heat exchangers. A heat medium circuit is formed by connecting, with pipes, a plurality of pumps configured to pressurize and circulate the heat medium subjected to heat exchange in the plurality of intermediate heat exchangers, a plurality of use-side heat exchangers each configured to exchange heat between the heat medium and air in an air-conditioned space, and a heat-medium flow switching/control device configured to switch which of the heat medium is to be allowed to flow into and out of each of the use-side heat exchangers; and a controller configured to perform processing for controlling the switching performed by the heat-medium flow switching/control device, in accordance with a capacity of each of the use-side heat exchangers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Yuji MOTOMURA, Naofumi TAKENAKA, Shinichi WAKAMOTO, Hirofumi KOGE, Osamu MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20160084547Abstract: In a heat medium relay unit, a drain pan is configured to have width and depth dimensions larger than dimensions of an outer shell of a heat medium relay unit main body, the outer shell including side panels and, upper frames and, and lower frames and, and an upper end surface whose position is higher than those of upper end surfaces of the lower frames and.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koji NISHIOKA, Yuji MOTOMURA, Daisuke SHIMAMOTO, Osamu MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 9279608Abstract: A first bypass pipe has one end connected to a main pipe extending from a compressor to an indoor heat exchanger, and its other end branched off into parts that are each connected to the main pipe on an inlet side of an outdoor heat exchanger, and a second bypass pipe has one end connected to an injection port communicating with the compression chamber of the compressor in which compression is taking place and its other end branched off into parts that are each connected to the main pipe on an outlet side of the outdoor heat exchangers. During a defrosting operation that removes frost on the outdoor heat exchangers, a part of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor is supplied from the first bypass pipe to the outdoor heat exchanger to be defrosted, and is then passed through the second bypass pipe and injected from the injection port of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shinichi Wakamoto, Naofumi Takenaka, Osamu Morimoto, Hirofumi Koge, Kazuyoshi Shinozaki, Tomokazu Kawagoe
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Publication number: 20160003490Abstract: For each of a plurality of use-side heat exchangers, a plurality of heat medium flow switching devices respectively corresponding to the plurality of use-side heat exchangers are entirely or partially integrated, and the thus obtained integrated heat medium flow switching device is driven by a single driving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji MOTOMURA, Daisuke SHIMAMOTO, Takayoshi HONDA, Osamu MORIMOTO, Koji NISHIOKA, Tatsuo ONO
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Publication number: 20150369498Abstract: In a case where frost is deposited a heat-source-side heat exchanger during a heating operation mode, an air-conditioning apparatus executes either a “heat recovery defrosting operation mode” using a heat capacity held in a heat medium or a “bypass defrosting operation mode” not using the heat capacity held in the heat medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji MOTOMURA, Daisuke SHIMAMOTO, Takayoshi HONDA, Osamu MORIMOTO, Koji NISHIOKA, Tatsuo ONO
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Publication number: 20150338120Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a first branch unit, a fourth flow control device arranged in each of a plurality of pipes split from a first connection pipe side and connected to each indoor-side heat exchanger, and a solenoid valve arranged in each of pipes split from a pipe connecting each fourth flow control device and each indoor-side heat exchanger. An opening degree of the fourth flow control device is controlled based on a state of refrigerant to be caused to flow into the fourth flow control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2013Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji AZUMA, Osamu MORIMOTO, Hiroto NAKAO, Akiyoshi SHIRAMIZU, Katsuhiko HAYASHIDA, Daisuke SHIMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20150330673Abstract: All of pumps are in operation for a predetermined period of time in an air-conditioning apparatus and, after that, the number of pumps in operation is changed depending on an operation capacity for indoor units each including a use side heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi HONDA, Yuji MOTOMURA, Daisuke SHIMAMOTO, Osamu MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20150316284Abstract: Provided is an air-conditioning apparatus capable of performing a cooling and heating mixed operation, including: a heat source unit including a compressor; a plurality of indoor units; a relay unit; a first relay unit-side bypass pipe configured to cause a part of refrigerant, which is discharged from the compressor and flows into the relay unit, to flow between a heat source unit-side heat exchanger and an indoor unit-side heat exchanger; a second relay unit-side flow rate control device provided to the first relay unit-side bypass pipe; and a controller configured to control an opening degree of the second relay unit-side flow rate control device so that, in an operation in which the heat source unit-side heat exchanger functions as an evaporator, a discharge temperature of a discharge refrigerant discharged from the compressor is equal to or lower than a heat-resistant temperature of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2012Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kosuke TANAKA, Osamu MORIMOTO, Hirofumi KOGE, Tadashi ARIYAMA
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Publication number: 20150300676Abstract: When starting a cooling operation mode from a non-operating mode, the blower device of the indoor unit from which the start command is originated is operated. When starting a heating operation mode from a non-operating mode, the blower device of the indoor unit from which the start command is originated is operated after the heat medium temperature becomes equal to or greater than a preconfigured temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Yuji MOTOMURA, Daisuke SHIMAMOTO, Takayoshi HONDA, Osamu MORIMOTO, Koji NISHIOKA, Tatsuo ONO
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Publication number: 20150292757Abstract: Upon switching of an air-conditioning apparatus from an operation mode in which all of indoor units each including a use side heat exchanger are in non-operation to another operation mode in which at least one of the indoor units starts a cooling operation mode or a heating operation mode, a heat medium conveyed to the use side heat exchanger included in the indoor unit which has received a start instruction is cooled or heated to a predetermined temperature by a heat source side refrigerant, and after that, an air-sending device included in the indoor unit which starts the cooling operation mode or the heating operation mode is actuated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji MOTOMURA, Osamu MORIMOTO, Daisuke SHIMAMOTO, Takayoshi HONDA
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Publication number: 20150292758Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, an expansion device, and a refrigerant flow path in at least one intermediate heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe, and a heat medium circuit in which a pump, a use-side heat exchanger, and a heat-medium flow path in the at least one intermediate heat exchanger are connected by a heat-medium conveying pipe, the heat medium circuit being configured to cause a heat medium to circulate therethrough. The at least one intermediate heat exchanger comprises a plurality of intermediate heat exchangers. The plurality of intermediate heat exchangers are operative in a heating only operation mode, a cooling only operation mode, and a cooling and heating mixed operation mode in which some of the intermediate heat exchangers serve as the condenser and others of the intermediate heat exchangers serve as the evaporator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Yuji Motomura, Daisuke Shimamoto, Takayoshi Honda, Osamu Morimoto, Koji Nishioka, Tatsuo Ono
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Publication number: 20150285518Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor for compressing heat source-side refrigerant, a first refrigerant channel switching device, a heat source side heat exchanger, an expansion device, and intermediate heat exchangers for performing heat exchange between the heat source-side refrigerant and a heat medium different from the heat source-side refrigerant are connected by pipes. Also, the air conditioning apparatus includes a heat medium circuit in which pumps for circulating the heat medium to be used for the heat exchange performed by the intermediate heat exchangers, a use-side heat exchanger, and channel switching devices for switching passages of the heat medium heated or cooled to the use-side heat exchanger are connected by pipes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Daisuke SHIMAMOTO, Yuji MOTOMURA, Osamu MORIMOTO, Takayoshi HONDA, Koji NISHIOKA, Tatsuo ONO