Patents by Inventor Seiko KITAMURA

Seiko KITAMURA 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: 10753631
    Abstract: When a service technician or the like performs maintenance of a mechanism in an indoor unit, the service technician may accidentally detach a refrigerant gas sensor and the refrigerant gas sensor may be broken. To prevent this, communication pipes (regulating members) configured to regulate the detachment of a refrigerant gas sensor are provided on the side toward which the refrigerant gas sensor is detached (front side) when a casing provided on the side toward which the refrigerant gas sensor is detached (front side) is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Ikawa, Akio Tasaka, Hiroyuki Tada, Seiko Kitamura, Shinji Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20170336092
    Abstract: A refrigerant gas sensor is typically attached so that an opening for introducing leaked refrigerant gas into the inside faces upward. With this arrangement, however, a small amount of a different gas such as propane and pesticide, which is sucked from the outside of an air conditioner, may be erroneously recognized as refrigerant gas. On this account, a refrigerant gas sensor 9 includes a detecting element 61 for detecting leakage of refrigerant gas and a casing member 62 provided to surround the detecting element 61. The casing member 62 has a casing opening (first opening) 62a through which the refrigerant gas is introduced into the inside of the casing member 62. The casing opening (first opening) 62a is below the detecting element 61.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke IKAWA, Akio TASAKA, Hiroyuki TADA, Seiko KITAMURA, Shinji NAGAOKA, Katsunori MURATA
  • Publication number: 20170314805
    Abstract: When a service technician or the like performs maintenance of a mechanism in an indoor unit, the service technician may accidentally detach a refrigerant gas sensor and the refrigerant gas sensor may be broken. To prevent this, communication pipes (regulating members) configured to regulate the detachment of a refrigerant gas sensor are provided on the side toward which the refrigerant gas sensor is detached (front side) when a casing provided on the side toward which the refrigerant gas sensor is detached (front side) is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke IKAWA, Akio TASAKA, Hiroyuki TADA, Seiko KITAMURA, Shinji NAGAOKA