Patents by Inventor Takeshi OOHIGASHI
Takeshi OOHIGASHI 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: 10816222Abstract: A hot water apparatus includes a heat exchanger and a housing. A case of the heat exchanger has a circumferential wall portion, a lower opening, and a flange portion. A case of the housing has a flange portion, a circumferential wall portion, and an upper opening. The circumferential wall portion includes a downwardly-extending wall portion inserted into the inside of the circumferential wall portion through the upper opening. In a state where the downwardly-extending wall portion is arranged inside the circumferential wall portion, the lower opening is located below an upper surface of the flange portion, and a flange connection is formed between the heat exchanger and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru Ooshita, Takeshi Oohigashi
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Patent number: 10408549Abstract: A fin has a plurality of insertion holes in an elliptical shape through which a heat transfer tube is inserted and contains stainless steel as a material. The plurality of insertion holes are disposed as being aligned in a single row in a first direction. The fin has a first slit extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion and a second slit extending from the second end portion toward the first end portion. The second slit has a first edge portion where a cut and raised wall portion is disposed and a second edge portion where no cut and raised wall portion is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Satoshi Yoshida, Akinobu Nakamura
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Patent number: 10393404Abstract: A latent heat recovery heat exchanger includes a case, a heat exchange portion, and a straightening vane. The heat exchange portion includes a plurality of heat transfer plates surrounded by a peripheral wall portion of the case and layered on one another, each of the plurality of heat transfer plates extending in a direction from an inlet toward an outlet. The straightening vane includes a top plate portion covering the plurality of heat transfer plates so as to close a space between the plurality of heat transfer plates in end portions of the plurality of heat transfer plates in a direction intersecting with a direction of layering of the plurality of heat transfer plates when the heat exchange portion is viewed from the inlet toward the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Kondo, Takeshi Oohigashi, Wataru Ooshita
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Patent number: 10386092Abstract: A water heater includes: a burner; a heat exchanger; a fan for supplying air to the burner and emitting combustion gas having passed through the heat exchanger to outside of the water heater; and a drainage water discharge path connected to the heat exchanger. The drainage water discharge path has a water-sealing structure that is water-sealed by drainage water. The water heater further includes a control unit: having a water-seal determination unit giving permission that the water heater can operate in a normal mode based on a condition that the drainage water discharge path has been water-sealed; and issuing an instruction to cause the burner to intermittently operate for a time period until the water-seal determination unit gives the permission.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Sakiko Kimura, Takeshi Oohigashi
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Patent number: 10094589Abstract: A fin-and-tube type heat exchanger includes: a plurality of plate fins arranged in a case side by side in a fore-and-aft direction of the case; and a heat transfer tube including a plurality of straight-type tubular bodies each passing through these plurality of plate fins. First and second plate fins arranged side by side in the right-and-left width direction of the case are provided as a plurality of plate fins. The heat transfer tube has a connection tubular body connecting the straight-type tubular bodies passing through the first and second plate fins. The heat transfer tube passes through areas in which the first and second plate fins are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Nobuhiro Takeda, Masaki Kondo, Wataru Ooshita, Kosuke Ichiyama, Yukiko Noguchi
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Publication number: 20180195742Abstract: A hot water apparatus includes a heat exchanger and a housing. A case has a circumferential wall portion, a lower opening, and a flange portion. A case has a flange portion, a circumferential wall portion, and an upper opening. The circumferential wall portion includes a downwardly-extending wall portion inserted into the inside of the circumferential wall portion through the upper opening. In a state where the downwardly-extending wall portion is arranged inside the circumferential wall portion, the lower opening is located below an upper surface of the flange portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru OOSHITA, Takeshi OOHIGASHI
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Publication number: 20180164046Abstract: A fin has a plurality of insertion holes in an elliptical shape through which a heat transfer tube is inserted and contains stainless steel as a material. The plurality of insertion holes are disposed as being aligned in a single row in a first direction. The fin has a first slit extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion and a second slit extending from the second end portion toward the first end portion. The second slit has a first edge portion where a cut and raised wall portion is disposed and a second edge portion where no cut and raised wall portion is disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi OOHIGASHI, Satoshi YOSHIDA, Akinobu NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20180087806Abstract: A latent heat recovery heat exchanger includes a case, a heat exchange portion, and a straightening vane. The heat exchange portion includes a plurality of heat transfer plates surrounded by a peripheral wall portion of the case and layered on one another, each of the plurality of heat transfer plates extending in a direction from an inlet toward an outlet. The straightening vane includes a top plate portion covering the plurality of heat transfer plates so as to close a space between the plurality of heat transfer plates in end portions of the plurality of heat transfer plates in a direction intersecting with a direction of layering of the plurality of heat transfer plates when the heat exchange portion is viewed from the inlet toward the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki KONDO, Takeshi OOHIGASHI, Wataru OOSHITA
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Patent number: 9829204Abstract: In a primary heat exchanger, a heat conduction pipe is arranged as one connected pipe in a lower stage and an upper stage in a manner extending back and forth through a plurality of fins. The heat conduction pipe is arranged such that a pitch between the heat conduction pipes in the upper stage is shorter than a pitch between the heat conduction pipes in the lower stage. In addition, the heat conduction pipe is arranged such that a position in a center of each heat conduction pipe in the upper stage in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the heat conduction pipe extends and a position in a center of each heat conduction pipe in the lower stage in the second direction are displaced from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Makoto Hirotsu, Yukiko Noguchi
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Patent number: 9829257Abstract: A fin includes a cut and raised slit and a cut and raised wall portion. The cut and raised slit is formed in a region adjacent to at least one through hole of a plurality of through holes in a first direction and has a tunnel-shaped hole extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The cut and raised wall portion is located in the second direction of the cut and raised slit, protrudes toward a main surface of the fin, and extends along the first direction. Thus, a heat exchanger and a water heater capable of sufficiently conducting an amount of heat of a combustion gas to a heat conduction pipe even in a blind spot of a flow of the combustion gas of the heat conduction pipe and suppressing noise can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Oohigashi
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Publication number: 20170205113Abstract: A fin-and-tube type heat exchanger includes: a plurality of plate fins arranged in a case side by side in a fore-and-aft direction of the case; and a heat transfer tube including a plurality of straight-type tubular bodies each passing through these plurality of plate fins. First and second plate fins arranged side by side in the right-and-left width direction of the case are provided as a plurality of plate fins. The heat transfer tube has a connection tubular body connecting the straight-type tubular bodies passing through the first and second plate fins. The heat transfer tube passes through areas in which the first and second plate fins are arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi OOHIGASHI, Nobuhiro TAKEDA, Masaki KONDO, Wataru OOSHITA, Kosuke ICHIYAMA, Yukiko NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 9404670Abstract: A fan serves to suction combustion gas which has passed through a secondary heat exchanger and emitting combustion gas to the outside of a water heater. A drainage water discharge pipe is connected to the secondary heat exchanger in order to discharge the drainage water produced as a result of recovery of latent heat in the secondary heat exchanger to the outside of the secondary heat exchanger. An air passage pipe is connected to an exhaust box. A Y-shaped pipe joint has a flow path allowing merging of the drainage water discharge pipe and the air passage pipe, and the flow path after merging leads to the outside of the water heater.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Sakiko Kimura, Takeshi Oohigashi, Yasutaka Kuriyama, Shuji Kameyama
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Publication number: 20160010892Abstract: A water heater includes: a burner; a heat exchanger; a fan for supplying air to the burner and emitting combustion gas having passed through the heat exchanger to outside of the water heater; and a drainage water discharge path connected to the heat exchanger. The drainage water discharge path has a water-sealing structure that is water-sealed by drainage water. The water heater further includes a control unit: having a water-seal determination unit giving permission that the water heater can operate in a normal mode based on a condition that the drainage water discharge path has been water-sealed; and issuing an instruction to cause the burner to intermittently operate for a time period until the water-seal determination unit gives the permission.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Sakiko KIMURA, Takeshi OOHIGASHI
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Publication number: 20150176862Abstract: A fan serves to suction combustion gas which has passed through a secondary heat exchanger and emitting combustion gas to the outside of a water heater. A drainage water discharge pipe is connected to the secondary heat exchanger in order to discharge the drainage water produced as a result of recovery of latent heat in the secondary heat exchanger to the outside of the secondary heat exchanger. An air passage pipe is connected to an exhaust box. A Y-shaped pipe joint has a flow path allowing merging of the drainage water discharge pipe and the air passage pipe, and the flow path after merging leads to the outside of the water heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Sakiko KIMURA, Takeshi OOHIGASHI, Yasutaka KURIYAMA, Shuji KAMEYAMA
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Patent number: D904587Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Masaki Kondo, Norihide Wada
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Patent number: D904588Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Masaki Kondo, Norihide Wada
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Patent number: D904589Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Masaki Kondo, Norihide Wada
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Patent number: D916257Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Masaki Kondo, Norihide Wada
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Patent number: D916258Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Masaki Kondo, Norihide Wada
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Patent number: D917031Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Masaki Kondo, Norihide Wada