Patents by Inventor Tetsuzo Ukai
Tetsuzo Ukai 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: 9145770Abstract: An object is to provide a scroll compressor capable of preventing degradation in performance and the occurrence of abnormal noise due to a torsional moment applied to an orbiting scroll, by utilizing the structural advantages of so-called stepped scroll compressors. In a so-called stepped scroll compressor (1), in a pair of compression chambers (16) arranged in a point-symmetrical configuration among a plurality of compression chambers (16), the volume V1 of the compression chamber (16) formed on the ventral-surface side of the fixed spiral wrap (14B) of the fixed scroll (14) when intake is cut off and the volume V2 of the compression chamber (16) formed on the ventral-surface side of the orbiting spiral wrap (15B) of the orbiting scroll (15) are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirohumi Hirata, Tetsuzo Ukai, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Takahide Ito
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Patent number: 8714950Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that can reliably prevent a situation in which a product whose performance is degraded due to misassembly of a tip seal is shipped. In the scroll compressor, tip seals of different lengths are embedded in tip surfaces of a fixed spiral wrap of a fixed scroll and an orbiting spiral wrap of an orbiting scroll. Among the tip seals, thicknesses of the shorter tip seals are made thicker than thicknesses of the longer tip seals, and depths of seal grooves in which the tip seals are embedded, respectively, are formed to different depths in correspondence with the thicknesses of the respective tip seals.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohisa Moro, Norio Hioki, Koji Terasaki, Koryo Shibahara, Tetsuzo Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20130028730Abstract: In a compressor in which a housing includes a through-portion through which an end of the rotating shaft protrudes outside and in which the through-portion is sealed by a lip seal device, the through-portion includes a lip-seal-device accommodating portion formed by a flat surface that contacts an entire flat outer circumferential surface of a ring portion of a main lip seal constituting the lip seal device and extending in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, a first detachment-preventing vertical surface located on the inside of the flat surface in the housing and extending radially inward in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating shaft, and a second detachment-preventing vertical surface located on the outside of the flat surface in the housing and extending radially inward in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Hirata, Tetsuzo Ukai, Kazuhide Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110286871Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that can reliably prevent a situation in which a product whose performance is degraded due to misassembly of a tip seal is shipped. In the scroll compressor, tip seals of different lengths are embedded in tip surfaces of a fixed spiral wrap of a fixed scroll and an orbiting spiral wrap of an orbiting scroll. Among the tip seals, thicknesses of the shorter tip seals are made thicker than thicknesses of the longer tip seals, and depths of seal grooves in which the tip seals are embedded, respectively, are formed to different depths in correspondence with the thicknesses of the respective tip seals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomohisa Moro, Norio Hioki, Koji Terasaki, Koryo Shibahara, Tetsuzo Ukai, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20110200475Abstract: An object is to provide a scroll compressor capable of preventing degradation in performance and the occurrence of abnormal noise due to a torsional moment applied to an orbiting scroll, by utilizing the structural advantages of so-called stepped scroll compressors. In a so-called stepped scroll compressor (1), in a pair of compression chambers (16) arranged in a point-symmetrical configuration among a plurality of compression chambers (16), the volume V1 of the compression chamber (16) formed on the ventral-surface side of the fixed spiral wrap (14B) of the fixed scroll (14) when intake is cut off and the volume V2 of the compression chamber (16) formed on the ventral-surface side of the orbiting spiral wrap (15B) of the orbiting scroll (15) are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirohumi Hirata, Tetsuzo Ukai, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Takahide Ito
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Patent number: 7344365Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a first scroll and a second scroll. The first scroll has a step portion that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of a surface of the first scroll. A spiral wall of the second scroll has a step that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of the wall. A first bypass hole is provided in the elevated portion of the surface of the first scroll. A second bypass hole is provided in the recessed portion of the surface of the first scroll. The second bypass hole is within 360 degrees toward a center of the spiral of the first scroll from an outer end of the spiral. The first bypass hole is within 360 degrees from the second bypass hole toward the center of the spiral.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Tetsuzo Ukai, Masaaki Tokuda
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Publication number: 20070065325Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a first scroll and a second scroll. The first scroll has a step portion that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of a surface of the first scroll. A spiral wall of the second scroll has a step that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of the wall. A first bypass hole is provided in the elevated portion of the surface of the first scroll. A second bypass hole is provided in the recessed portion of the surface of the first scroll. The second bypass hole is within 360 degrees toward a center of the spiral of the first scroll from an outer end of the spiral. The first bypass hole is within 360 degrees from the second bypass hole toward the center of the spiral.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Tetsuzo Ukai, Masaaki Tokuda
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Publication number: 20050053507Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a first scroll and a second scroll. The first scroll has a step portion that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of a surface of the first scroll. A spiral wall of the second scroll has a step that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of the wall. A first bypass hole is provided in the elevated portion of the surface of the first scroll. A second bypass hole is provided in the recessed portion of the surface of the first scroll. The second bypass hole is within 360 degrees toward a center of the spiral of the first scroll from an outer end of the spiral. The first bypass hole is within 360 degrees from the second bypass hole toward the center of the spiral.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Tetsuzo Ukai, Masaaki Tokuda
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Patent number: 5765999Abstract: Object: To provide a high performance scroll type fluid machine in which machining is facilitated, strength of central end portion of scroll wrap is high enough, volume of the innermost compression chamber becomes zero and yet compression efficiency does not lower.Solving means: A central end portion profile of spiral wrap of each scroll (1, 2) is formed in a step-like shape having at least two steps (1A, 1B and 2A, 2B), the central end portion profile of each said step is made in a complete engagement profile and thickness of said step-like spiral wrap is made thinner at the upper step leaving an end plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1996Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahide Ito, Yukio Nagato, Tetsuzo Ukai
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Patent number: 5727934Abstract: A scroll fluid machine has a stationary scroll having a first end plate and a first spiral wrap projecting from one side of the first end plate. The first spiral wrap has a tip end. A swivel scroll has a second end plate and a second spiral wrap that projects from the one side of the second end plate. The second spiral wrap has a second end tip, and the first and second spiral wraps are engaged with each other. A first thin steel plate is provided on one side of the end plate between the first end plate and the second tip end. A first thin steel plate has a surface side that faces the second tip end. Further, a second thin steel plate is on one side of the second end plate between the second end plate and the first tip end. The second thin steel plate has a surface side that faces the first tip end. Both of the first and second thin steel plates are provided with conformable layers on the surfaces facing the tip ends.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1996Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Sekita, Makoto Takeuchi, Yasuharu Maruiwa, Tetsuo Shigeoka, Tetsuzo Ukai, Mikihiko Ishii
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Patent number: 5316454Abstract: An inexpensive, efficient pump which can supply lubricating oil uses the revolving motion of an orbiting scroll 2. The pump is so constructed that a piston supported by a fixing member 1 is fitted in a cylinder chamber 102 formed in the inner surface of the end plate 21 of an orbiting scroll 2 which revolves while sliding on the fixing member, by which a pump chamber 104 is defined between them. The piston 101 is extended or retracted depending on the revolving motion of orbiting scroll 2, the volume of the pump chamber 104 is increased or decreased, and a fluid suction port 105 and a fluid discharge port 106 are connected to the pump chamber 104 at predetermined time intervals to supply the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1992Date of Patent: May 31, 1994Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Fujitani, Yukio Nagato, Kimiharu Takeda, Katsumi Hirooka, Tetsuzo Ukai, Toshiyuki Shikanai