Patents by Inventor Shinji Iwama
Shinji Iwama 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: 9290078Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes an electric heater arranged downstream of a heat exchanger in an air flow direction, a defroster air outlet, a driver-foot air outlet through which air is blown toward a foot area of a driver, a knee air outlet through which air is blown toward a knee area of the driver, a door device which controls an air amount blown into a vehicle compartment by opening or closing the air outlets. When an immediate heating operation is performed by an operation of an immediate heating switch, the door device opens the defroster air outlet and at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet, and the electric heater heats a total amount of air that is to be blown through the at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Ota, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Kawazoe, Shinji Iwama
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Publication number: 20130059522Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes an electric heater arranged downstream of a heat exchanger in an air flow direction, a defroster air outlet, a driver-foot air outlet through which air is blown toward a foot area of a driver, a knee air outlet through which air is blown toward a knee area of the driver, a door device which controls an air amount blown into a vehicle compartment by opening or closing the air outlets. When an immediate heating operation is performed by an operation of an immediate heating switch, the door device opens the defroster air outlet and at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet, and the electric heater heats a total amount of air that is to be blown through the at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: Denso CorporationInventors: Koji Ota, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Kawazoe, Shinji Iwama
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Patent number: 6926601Abstract: In a deodorizing apparatus for a vehicular passenger compartment, when an ignition key is off and it is determined that a density of odor components in the passenger compartment is equal to or higher than a predetermined level, it is determined whether an inside temperature inside the passenger compartment measured by a temperature sensor is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, which is suitable for separating odor components adhered to the passenger compartment. When it is determined that the inside temperature is equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature, a deodorizing operation is performed by a deodorizing means. When it is determined that the inside temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature and it is not assumed that the inside temperature naturally increases to the predetermined temperature, the passenger compartment is heated by a compartment heating device so that the inside temperature reaches the predetermined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: DENSO CorporationInventors: Shinji Aoki, Shinji Iwama
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Patent number: 6769979Abstract: An air cleaning system comprising an air cleaner provided on a vehicle and a device which can keep the air cleaner in operation while a vehicle is parked, whereby the quality of air inside a passenger compartment of the vehicle can be improved while the vehicle is parked. Consequently, the quality of the air can be improved in advance before an occupant enters the vehicle, and the quality of the air can further be improved without fully depending upon the function of a catalytic filter of the air cleaning system.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2003Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Yukitaka Abe, Hitoshi Ninomiya, Motomi Mizuno, Hiroshi Kataoka, Shinji Iwama
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Patent number: 6723146Abstract: A blower apparatus for a vehicle for blowing air into a cabin. The blower apparatus including a case member, various units and airflow passages. The units include an air cleaning unit for cleaning the air, and a component-adding unit for adding air components such as ions to the air. The units have compatible external shapes and sizes for selective installation in almost the same positions in the airflow passages, thereby meeting user needs of changing the function of the blower apparatus simply by arranging the units to the desired positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Ninomiya, Yukitaka Abe, Shinji Iwama, Kazutoshi Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20040053571Abstract: In a deodorizing apparatus for a vehicular passenger compartment, when an ignition key is of f and it is determined that a density of odor components in the passenger compartment is equal to or higher than a predetermined level, it is determined whether an inside temperature inside the passenger compartment measured by a temperature sensor is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, which is suitable for separating odor components adhered to the passenger compartment. When it is determined that the inside temperature is equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature, a deodorizing operation is performed by a deodorizing means. When it is determined that the inside temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature and it is not assumed that the inside temperature naturally increases to the predetermined temperature, the passenger compartment is heated by a compartment heating device so that the inside temperature reaches the predetermined temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Shinji Aoki, Shinji Iwama
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Publication number: 20030186644Abstract: An air cleaning system comprising an air cleaner provided on a vehicle and a device which can keep the air cleaner in operation while a vehicle is parked, whereby the quality of air inside a passenger compartment of the vehicle can be improved while the vehicle is parked. Consequently, the quality of the air can be improved in advance before an occupant enters the vehicle, and the quality of the air can further be improved without fully depending upon the function of a catalytic filter of the air cleaning system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Yukitaka Abe, Hitoshi Ninomiya, Motomi Mizuno, Hiroshi Kataoka, Shinji Iwama
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Publication number: 20030029319Abstract: A blower apparatus for a vehicle for blowing air into a cabin. The blower apparatus including a case member, various units and airflow passages. The units include an air cleaning unit for cleaning the air, and a component-adding unit for adding air components such as ions to the air. The units have compatible external shapes and sizes for selective installation in almost the same positions in the airflow passages, thereby meeting user needs of changing the function of the blower apparatus simply by arranging the units to the desired positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventors: Hitoshi Ninomiya, Yukitaka Abe, Shinji Iwama, Kazutoshi Nishizawa
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Patent number: 6107708Abstract: A brushless motor includes a stator attached to a motor case and a rotor. A circuit substrate is attached to the motor case. The substrate includes an electric circuit, which supplies electric current to the stator thereby rotating the rotor. A fan generates and moves air in accordance with rotation of the rotor. A duct guides some of the air moved by the fan to the stator. A flange extends from the stator. The air guided by the duct flows along the flange. This structure reduces the size of the brushless motor while increasing its power.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1999Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Asmo, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mineo Yamaguchi, Hideto Matsuzaki, Keisuke Sasaki, Masaaki Shimizu, Shinji Iwama, Satoru Asai
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Patent number: 5777282Abstract: Contact holders accommodated in defined regions are elastically returned to initial positions on the side of a wall. At the initial positions, stoppers are formed integral with a wall which defines the regions, in such a manner that the stoppers are in parallel with the wall and spaced a distance from the wall. Those stoppers are each in the form of a thin plate, and have protrusions which are extended towards the contact holders, respectively. Hence, when returning to the initial positions, the contact holders and strike against the protrusions of the stoppers, so that the latter are bent towards the wall while reducing the distance, thus decreasing the impact thereon when the contact holders strike against the stoppers.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1996Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho, Denso CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Ishiguro, Masuo Noda, Hiroshi Kataoka, Shinji Iwama
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Patent number: 5770993Abstract: A resistor with a thermal fuse includes: a substrate consisting of an insulating material; a wire pattern formed on a surface of the substrate; a gap for electrically cutting off the wire pattern; a plate spring consisting of an electrically conductive material arranged across the gap; an electrically conductive member fixed to one end of the plate spring on a side of the wire pattern and having approximately the same linear conduction coefficient as that of the substrate; a first low melting point alloy for welding the electrically conductive material and the wire pattern provided on one side of the gap; a second low melting point alloy for welding the other end of the plate spring and the wire pattern provided on the other side of the gap; wherein, when the first low melting point alloy is melted, the electrically conductive member is released from the first low melting point alloy so that the plate spring is also released from the wire pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Nippondenso Co., LtdInventors: Kazuhiro Miyazawa, Shinji Iwama, Masaki Sanji, Yasufumi Kojima
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Patent number: 5181654Abstract: An air conditioner for use with a car employing a sunshine sensor having three light receiving elements. A first light receiving element faces upward and a second light receiving element and a third light receiving element are inclined toward a front side by an identical angle along an advancing direction of the car and are symmetrically inclined with respect the car advancing direction along a horizontal direction vertical to the car advancing direction. The inclination is determined such that a vector obtained by adding normal vectors respectively of light receiving surfaces of the light receiving elements has a direction substantially identical to a direction of sunshine which maximizes a quantity of heat supplied from the sunshine to the car. Outputs from the first, second, and third light receiving elements are added to each other to obtain a sunshine intensity.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1991Date of Patent: January 26, 1993Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohisa Yoshimi, Shinji Iwama, Yuuichi Kajino, Hikaru Sugi
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Patent number: 4737629Abstract: A control system for discriminating the occurrence of fogging of the windscreen of a vehicle due to the deposition of water drops or the like from the degree of optical scattering and automatically starting and stopping the operation of a defogging apparatus according to the result of the discrimination. To prevent the defogging apparatus from being stopped undesirably due to an optical system being subjected to the effect of a disturbance light, the disturbance light is detected so that when the disturbance light exceeds a predetermined value, the defogging apparatus is maintained in operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1986Date of Patent: April 12, 1988Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Iwama, Mamoru Shimamoto, Hiroshi Ishikawa