Patents by Inventor Shogo Tamaki

Shogo Tamaki 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: 9631847
    Abstract: The volume ratio of a hot-water-supply-side liquid extension pipe to a water heat exchanger is set to be equal to or more than the minimum volume ratio, which is the volume ratio of the hot-water-supply-side liquid extension pipe to the water heat exchanger when the required refrigerant amount during a cooling and hot water supply simultaneous operation in which an indoor-side heat exchanger serves as an evaporator, the water heat exchanger serves as a condenser, cooling energy is supplied from the indoor-side heat exchanger, and heating energy is supplied from the water heat exchanger is equal to the required refrigerant amount during a heating operation in which a heat-source-side heat exchanger serves as an evaporator, the indoor-side heat exchanger serves as a condenser, and heating energy is supplied from the indoor-side heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Makoto Saito, Ryo Oya
  • Publication number: 20170023263
    Abstract: A hot water supply system that can reduce energy consumption is provided. The hot water supply system includes a liquid heater for heating a liquid, a liquid-water heat exchanger, a water-heating circuit in which the liquid is circulated between the liquid heater and the liquid-water heat exchanger, a lower outward path for leading water from a lower part of a hot water storage tank to the liquid-water heat exchanger, the upper return path for leading the water from the liquid-water heat exchanger to an upper part of the hot water storage tank, a middle outward path for leading the water from a middle part of the hot water storage tank to the liquid-water heat exchanger, a middle return path for leading the water from the liquid-water heat exchanger to a middle part of the hot water storage tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Hirokazu MINAMISAKO, Kazutaka SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160327320
    Abstract: Provided is a first unit including a first unit including a compressor and a first heat exchanger; a plurality of second units each including a second heat exchanger and each being connected to the first unit via a plurality of branched pipes; a plurality of valves configured to open to permit refrigerant flows and close to not permit the refrigerant flows; a storage unit configured to store connection information indicating a relationship of connection between the plurality of second units and the plurality of pipes; a closed path pipe that is any of the plurality of branched pipes to which no second unit is connected, and a control unit configured to detect whether the closed path pipe is included in the connection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Kazuyoshi SHINOZAKI
  • Patent number: 9459033
    Abstract: A correspondence determination operation is performed. The correspondence determination operation differs a direction of distribution or a flow rate of a refrigerant flowing in one or some of use units among a plurality of use units to that of the other use units and determines, on the basis of a refrigerant temperature of the use unit, a location of a non-correspondence between a branch port that is connected to the use unit with refrigerant pipes and a set branch port that is obtained in accordance with the wire connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Fumitake Unezaki, Tomohiko Kasai
  • Patent number: 9377224
    Abstract: A heat pump apparatus includes a heat source unit that cools or heats a refrigerant, an indoor unit that performs a cooling operation, and a hot water supply unit that performs a hot water supply operation. When there is an operation request for one of the indoor unit and the hot water supply unit, even when there is no operation request for the other, the heat pump apparatus causes both the one and the other to operate if the other satisfies a certain condition so that the hot water supply unit performs a hot water supply operation by utilizing a refrigerant heated by performing a cooling operation in the indoor unit and the indoor unit performs a cooling operation by utilizing a refrigerant cooled by performing a hot water supply operation in the hot water supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Makoto Saito, Masanobu Baba, Ryo Oya
  • Publication number: 20160116191
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle circuit including a compressor, a four-way valve, a heat source side heat exchanger, a heat source side pressure-reducing mechanism, an indoor side pressure-reducing mechanism, and an indoor side heat exchanger, and a hot water supply refrigerant circuit branching off from between the compressor and the four-way valve, including a hot water supply side heat exchanger and a hot water supply side pressure-reducing mechanism in order, and connected between the heat source side pressure-reducing mechanism and the indoor side pressure-reducing mechanism, wherein when a refrigerant state value on at least one of a low pressure side of the refrigeration cycle circuit and a discharge side of the compressor becomes a refrigerant collection start state value, a refrigerant collecting operation that collects refrigerant accumulated in the hot water supply refrigerant circuit into the refrigeration cycle circuit is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Ryo OYA
  • Publication number: 20150330675
    Abstract: A heat pump system adjusts a degree of subcooling of an indoor-side heat exchanger in a heating priority mode, and adjusts any one of a degree of subcooling of a hot-water supply-side heat exchanger (water-side heat exchanger) and a discharge temperature of a compressor in a hot-water supply priority mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Ryo OYA
  • Patent number: 9188376
    Abstract: Operation data of a refrigerant circuit is acquired after an initial refrigerant charge amount of refrigerant is charged in the refrigerant circuit and operation of the refrigerant circuit is started, an internal volume of a high-pressure pipe 6 is computed from the obtained operation data and the initial refrigerant charge amount input in a input unit 112, a target refrigerant charge amount is computed from the computed internal volume of the high-pressure pipe 6 and a standard operating state acquired in advance, the standard operating state being operation data of the refrigerant circuit when the refrigerant circuit is in a standard operating state that satisfies a preset condition, and an additional refrigerant charge amount is computed from the target refrigerant charge amount and the initial refrigerant charge amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Fumitake Unezaki, Kazuyoshi Shinozaki, Tomohiko Kasai
  • Publication number: 20150211774
    Abstract: Provided is a first unit including a first unit including a compressor and a first heat exchanger; a plurality of second units each including a second heat exchanger and each being connected to the first unit via a plurality of branched pipes; a plurality of valves configured to open to permit refrigerant flows and close to not permit the refrigerant flows; a storage unit configured to store connection information indicating a relationship of connection between the plurality of second units and the plurality of pipes; a closed path pipe that is any of the plurality of branched pipes to which no second unit is connected, and a control unit configured to detect whether the closed path pipe is included in the connection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Kazuyoshi SHINOZAKI
  • Patent number: 9068766
    Abstract: Provided is an air-conditioning and hot water supply combination system capable of maintaining a high hot water supply capacity and achieving high efficiency even under high-temperature outside air conditions by appropriately controlling the degree of superheat and the degree of subcooling of a heat exchanger. In an air-conditioning and hot water supply combination system, when an evaporating pressure or an evaporating temperature calculated from the evaporating pressure reaches a first predetermined value or higher, the degree of superheat of a refrigerant on a low-pressure gas side of a subcooling heat exchanger or the degree of subcooling of the refrigerant on a high-pressure liquid side of the subcooling heat exchanger is controlled by the opening degree of a low-pressure bypass pressure reducing mechanism, such that the evaporating pressure or the evaporating temperature calculated from the evaporating pressure is less than or equal to the first predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Kosuke Tanaka, Fumitake Unezaki, Hirokuni Shiba, Yuto Shibao
  • Publication number: 20150135751
    Abstract: The air-conditioning apparatus includes a compressor; a heat source side heat exchanger; a use side pressure-reducing mechanism; a use side heat exchanger and an accumulator connected by a pipe so that a refrigerant circulates therethrough; a high-low pressure bypass pipe; a high-low pressure bypass unit installed in the high-low pressure bypass pipe; and a unit controller configured to perform a refrigerant amount detection operation in which an operation frequency of the compressor is controlled so that a value of an evaporating temperature becomes an evaporating temperature target value of the compressor to discharge a liquid-state refrigerant of the refrigerant from the accumulator, and control an opening degree of the high-low pressure bypass unit in performing the refrigerant amount detection operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Kazuyoshi SHINOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150040595
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus simultaneously performs a cooling operation mode in which a refrigerant from a compressor is caused to flow to an indoor heat exchanger of an indoor unit having a cooling load, and a hot water supply operation mode in which a refrigerant from the compressor is caused to flow to a water heat exchanger of a hot water supply unit having a hot water supply demand. An operation control part switches the control mode of the simultaneous cooling and heating and hot water supply operation mode between a cooling-prioritized mode and a hot-water-supply-prioritized mode according to the relationship between the cooling load and the hot water supply load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Makoto Saito, Ryo Oya
  • Publication number: 20140345310
    Abstract: The volume ratio of a hot-water-supply-side liquid extension pipe to a water heat exchanger is set to be equal to or more than the minimum volume ratio, which is the volume ratio of the hot-water-supply-side liquid extension pipe to the water heat exchanger when the required refrigerant amount during a cooling and hot water supply simultaneous operation in which an indoor-side heat exchanger serves as an evaporator, the water heat exchanger serves as a condenser, cooling energy is supplied from the indoor-side heat exchanger, and heating energy is supplied from the water heat exchanger is equal to the required refrigerant amount during a heating operation in which a heat-source-side heat exchanger serves as an evaporator, the indoor-side heat exchanger serves as a condenser, and heating energy is supplied from the indoor-side heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Makoto Saito, Ryo Oya
  • Publication number: 20140291411
    Abstract: A heat pump heating and hot-water system includes a water heating heat exchanger for heating water by heat exchange with a heating medium heated by a heat pump unit, an indoor heating unit, a heating circulation circuit for selectively pumping the heating medium to either of the water heating heat exchanger and the indoor heating unit using a heating medium pump, and a hot-water accumulating circuit that sends water in a hot-water storage tank to the water heating heat exchanger and returns water having passed through the water heating heat exchanger to the hot-water storage tank using a water pump. The volumetric flow rate of the heating medium pumped to the water heating heat exchanger by the heating medium pump is higher than or equal to the volumetric flow rate of the water pumped to the water heating heat exchanger by the water pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Makoto Saito, Fumitake Unezaki, Nobuaki Uehara
  • Publication number: 20140238060
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus has different two modes including a response detection diagnosis in which a control unit diagnoses a trouble of a component device during the trouble diagnosis operation based on presence or absence of a response from the operational state sensor when the mode has forcibly changed the device operation, and a performance detection diagnosis in which a trouble is detected by a detection value of the operational state sensor at a time when the operational state of the trouble diagnosis operation is stable, and the performance detection diagnosis is executed after the response detection diagnosis is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Kazuyoshi SHINOZAKI, Tomohiko KASAI
  • Patent number: 8806877
    Abstract: A refrigerating cycle apparatus is obtained that can determine excess/shortage of a refrigerant amount in a refrigerating circuit at high precision even if a factor such as a heat exchanger whose refrigerant amount is difficult to calculate exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Kosuke Tanaka, Fumitake Unezaki, Takuya Ito, Kazuhiro Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20140174114
    Abstract: Operation data of a refrigerant circuit is acquired after an initial refrigerant charge amount of refrigerant is charged in the refrigerant circuit and operation of the refrigerant circuit is started, an internal volume of a high-pressure pipe 6 is computed from the obtained operation data and the initial refrigerant charge amount input in a input unit 112, a target refrigerant charge amount is computed from the computed internal volume of the high-pressure pipe 6 and a standard operating state acquired in advance, the standard operating state being operation data of the refrigerant circuit when the refrigerant circuit is in a standard operating state that satisfies a preset condition, and an additional refrigerant charge amount is computed from the target refrigerant charge amount and the initial refrigerant charge amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Fumitake UNEZAKI, Kazuyoshi SHINOZAKI, Tomohiko KASAI
  • Publication number: 20140033749
    Abstract: A correspondence determination operation is performed. The correspondence determination operation differs a direction of distribution or a flow rate of a refrigerant flowing in one or some of use units among a plurality of use units to that of the other use units and determines, on the basis of a refrigerant temperature of the use unit, a location of a non-correspondence between a branch port that is connected to the use unit with refrigerant pipes and a set branch port that is obtained in accordance with the wire connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo TAMAKI, Fumitake Unezaki, Tomohiko Kasai
  • Publication number: 20130312443
    Abstract: A combined air-conditioning and hot water supply system includes a refrigeration cycle mechanism, a hot water storage tank, and a controller. The refrigeration cycle mechanism has a compressor whose operating frequency can be controlled, a plate water-heat exchanger that heats water, a hot water supply pressure-reducing mechanism, and an outdoor heat exchanger. The controller includes a clock section, a computing section, a memory section, and a controlling section. The clock section measures time. The computing section calculates the actual hot water supply load. The memory section stores information related to the hot water supply load calculated by the computing section. The controlling section controls the operating frequency of the compressor based on the quantity of heat storage, the hot water supply load, and a preset hot water supply time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Makoto Saito, Masanobu Baba
  • Publication number: 20130306301
    Abstract: A heat pump apparatus includes a heat source unit that cools or heats a refrigerant, an indoor unit that performs a cooling operation, and a hot water supply unit that performs a hot water supply operation. When there is an operation request for one of the indoor unit and the hot water supply unit, even when there is no operation request for the other, the heat pump apparatus causes both the one and the other to operate if the other satisfies a certain condition so that the hot water supply unit performs a hot water supply operation by utilizing a refrigerant heated by performing a cooling operation in the indoor unit and the indoor unit performs a cooling operation by utilizing a refrigerant cooled by performing a hot water supply operation in the hot water supply unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tamaki, Makoto Saito, Masanobu Baba, Ryo Oua