Patents by Inventor Takeaki Arai
Takeaki Arai 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: 11072734Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from 5 to 200 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 2 to 30 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Patent number: 10787597Abstract: A working fluid for heat cycle, wherein the global warming potential is less than 300; the product of the relative coefficient of performance and the relative refrigerating capacity is at least 0.820 relative to R410A in a standard refrigerating cycle under conditions of an evaporation temperature of 0° C., a condensing temperature of 40° C., a supercoiling degree of 5° C. and a degree of superheat of 5° C.; the relative compressor discharge gas pressure is at most 1.100; the lower limit of the combustion range by method A in High Pressure Gas Safety Act is at least 5 vol %; and the pressure will not exceed 2.00 MPaG in a combustion test by method A in High Pressure Gas Safety act under 0.98 MPaG at 250° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Katsuya Ueno, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hidekazu Okamoto, Tetsuo Otsuka, Yoshinobu Kadowaki, Tatsuhiro Nogami, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Publication number: 20190316016Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from 5 to 200 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 2 to 30 mm2/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Patent number: 10392546Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from 5 to 200 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 2 to 30 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Patent number: 10233371Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and an aniline point of at least ?100° C. and at most 0° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Publication number: 20190031934Abstract: A working fluid for heat cycle, wherein the global warming potential is less than 300; the product of the relative coefficient of performance and the relative refrigerating capacity is at least 0.820 relative to R410A in a standard refrigerating cycle under conditions of an evaporation temperature of 0° C., a condensing temperature of 40° C., a supercoiling degree of 5° C. and a degree of superheat of 5° C.; the relative compressor discharge gas pressure is at most 1.100; the lower limit of the combustion range by method A in High Pressure Gas Safety Act is at least 5 vol %; and the pressure will not exceed 2.00 MPaG in a combustion test by method A in High Pressure Gas Safety act under 0.98 MPaG at 250° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki MITSUOKA, Mai TASAKA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Katsuya UENO, Toshiyuki TANAKA, Hidekazu OKAMOTO, Tetsuo OTSUKA, Yoshinobu KADOWAKI, Tatsuhiro NOGAMI, Daisuke SHIRAKAWA, Hirokazu TAKAGI, Takeaki ARAI
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Patent number: 10131827Abstract: To provide a working fluid which has cycle performance sufficient as an alternative to R410A while the influence over global warming is sufficiently suppressed, which does not significantly increase the load to an apparatus as compared with a case where R410A is used, and which can be stably used continuously without any special measures, a composition for a heat cycle system contains the working fluid, and a heat cycle system employs the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle, wherein the global warming potential is less than 300; the product of the relative coefficient of performance and the relative refrigerating capacity is at least 0.820 relative to R410A in a standard refrigerating cycle under conditions of an evaporation temperature of 0° C., a condensing temperature of 40° C., a supercoiling degree of 5° C. and a degree of superheat of 5° C.; the relative compressor discharge gas pressure is at most 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Katsuya Ueno, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hidekazu Okamoto, Tetsuo Otsuka, Yoshinobu Kadowaki, Tatsuhiro Nogami, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Publication number: 20180282602Abstract: To provide a composition for a heat cycle system having favorable lubricating properties and comprising a working fluid for heat cycle which has a low global warming potential and which can replace R410A, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A composition for a heat cycle system, which comprises a working fluid for heat cycle containing an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure, and a refrigerant oil having a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxy value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from 5 to 200 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 2 to 30 mm2/s, and a heat cycle system employing the composition for a heat cycle system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Publication number: 20180215980Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and an aniline point of at least ?100° C. and at most 0° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Patent number: 9976067Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from 5 to 200 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 2 to 30 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Patent number: 9957430Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and an aniline point of at least ?100° C. and at most 0° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Patent number: 9957429Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system having favorable lubricating properties is provided. A heat cycle system employing the composition is also provided. The composition contains a working fluid for heat cycle, which has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure and a refrigerant oil having a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxy value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a minimum temperature on the high temperature side of the phase separation temperature from the working fluid of at least 35° C. and a maximum temperature on the low temperature side of at most ?60° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Patent number: 9676897Abstract: To suppress deterioration of mechanical properties of a foam, by using a polyol system solution stored. A polyol system solution is prepared by using a polyether polyol (A1) having a hydroxy value of from 5 to 45 mgKOH/g and an average number of hydroxy groups of from 2 to 8, obtainable by subjecting an alkylene oxide to ring-opening addition polymerization to an initiator, in the presence of a double metal cyanide complex catalyst, to obtain an intermediate polyol; and subjecting ethylene oxide to a ring-opening addition polymerization in an amount of from 1 to 23 mol per 1 mol of the initiator to the intermediate polyol, in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide as a polymerization catalyst, and a flexible polyurethane foam is produced by using the polyol system solution.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Takayuki Sasaki, Takashi Ito, Akio Horie, Chitoshi Suzuki, Takeaki Arai, Masahito Furumi
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Publication number: 20160355717Abstract: To provide a composition for a heat cycle system having favorable lubricating properties and comprising a working fluid for heat cycle which has a low global warming potential and which can replace R410A, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A composition for a heat cycle system, which comprises a working fluid for heat cycle containing an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure, and a refrigerant oil having a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxy value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from 5 to 200 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 2 to 30 mm2/s, and a heat cycle system employing the composition for a heat cycle system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki MITSUOKA, Mai TASAKA, Daisuke SHIRAKAWA, Hirokazu TAKAGI, Takeaki ARAI
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Publication number: 20160355719Abstract: To provide a composition for a heat cycle system having favorable lubricating properties and comprising a working fluid for heat cycle which has a low global warming potential and which can replace R410A, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A composition for a heat cycle system, which comprises a working fluid for heat cycle containing an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure, and a refrigerant oil having a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxy value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and an aniline point of at least ?100° C. and at most 0° C., and a heat cycle system employing the composition for a heat cycle system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki MITSUOKA, Mai TASAKA, Daisuke SHIRAKAWA, Hirokazu TAKAGI, Takeaki ARAI
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Publication number: 20160333241Abstract: To provide a composition for a heat cycle system having favorable lubricating properties and comprising a working fluid for heat cycle which has a low global warming potential and which can replace R410A, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A composition for a heat cycle system comprising a working fluid for heat cycle containing an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure, and a refrigerant oil having a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, having a hydroxy value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and having a minimum temperature on the high temperature side of the phase separation temperature from the working fluid for heat cycle of at least 35° C. and a maximum temperature on the low temperature side of at most ?60° C., and a heat cycle system employing the composition for a heat cycle system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
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Publication number: 20160333243Abstract: To provide a working fluid which has cycle performance sufficient as an alternative to R410A while the influence over global warming is sufficiently suppressed, which does not significantly increase the load to an apparatus as compared with a case where R410A is used, and which can be stably used continuously without any special measures, a composition for a heat cycle system comprising the working fluid, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle, wherein the global warming potential is less than 300; the product of the relative coefficient of performance and the relative refrigerating capacity is at least 0.820 relative to R410A in a standard refrigerating cycle under conditions of an evaporation temperature of 0° C., a condensing temperature of 40° C., a supercoiling degree of 5° C. and a degree of superheat of 5° C.; the relative compressor discharge gas pressure is at most 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki MITSUOKA, Mai TASAKA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Katsuya UENO, Toshiyuki TANAKA, Hidekazu OKAMOTO, Tetsuo OTSUKA, Yoshinobu KADOWAKI, Tatsuhiro NOGAMI, Daisuke SHIRAKAWA, Hirokazu TAKAGI, Takeaki ARAI
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Publication number: 20150038664Abstract: To provide a method for producing a polyether having a weight average molecular weight of from 15,000 to 550,000. The method for producing a polyether having a weight average molecular weight of from 15,000 to 550,000, comprises subjecting a cyclic monomer to a ring-opening addition reaction to an initiator having at least one active hydrogen atom per molecule in the presence of a double metal cyanide complex catalyst and an organic solvent, wherein the relative permittivity of the organic solvent is at most 18, and the amount of the organic solvent is from 6 to 300 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass in total of the initiator and the cyclic monomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tomohiro HAYASHI, Chitoshi SUZUKI, Takeaki ARAI, Hideaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20140243495Abstract: A polyether preparation method which comprises a polymerization step of subjecting a monoepoxide having at least 2 carbon atoms to ring-opening addition polymerization to an initiator having at least one active hydrogen-containing functional group in the presence of a catalyst in a stirring vessel, to obtain a polyether, wherein the stirring vessel is one wherein a stirring shaft rotatable by an external drive source is provided at the center of the stirring vessel; plate-shaped bottom paddles extending in a radial direction of the stirring vessel are mounted on a lower portion of the stirring shaft; lattice vanes each comprising arm paddles extending in a radial direction and strips extending in an axial direction, are mounted on a portion of the stirring shaft above the bottom paddles; and a discharge nozzle as a monoepoxide-supply means for discharging the monoepoxide to at least two locations below the lower ends of the strips.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Takeaki ARAI, Tomoyuki SUZUKI, Chitoshi SUZUKI, Hideaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20140031443Abstract: To suppress deterioration of mechanical properties of a foam, by using a polyol system solution stored. A polyol system solution is prepared by using a polyether polyol (A1) having a hydroxy value of from 5 to 45 mgKOH/g and an average number of hydroxy groups of from 2 to 8, obtainable by subjecting an alkylene oxide to ring-opening addition polymerization to an initiator, in the presence of a double metal cyanide complex catalyst, to obtain an intermediate polyol; and subjecting ethylene oxide to a ring-opening addition polymerization in an amount of from 1 to 23 mol per 1 mol of the initiator to the intermediate polyol, in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide as a polymerization catalyst, and a flexible polyurethane foam is produced by using the polyol system solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Takayuki Sasaki, Takashi Ito, Akio Horie, Chitoshi Suzuki, Takeaki Arai, Masahito Furumi