Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Maruyama
Tomohiro Maruyama 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: 12472795Abstract: A temperature control system for a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle circuit and a cooling water circuit. The refrigeration cycle circuit includes a compressor, a radiator, and a first heat exchanger that exchanges heat between refrigerant and cooling water. The cooling water circuit includes a first cooling water circuit including the first heat exchanger, a storage battery heat exchanger, and a first pump; a second cooling water circuit including an external heat exchanger, a drive system heat exchanger that exchanges heat with a drive system component, and a second pump; a first thermal coupler that switches the cooling water circulating through the first cooling water circuit and the cooling water circulating through the second cooling water circuit between thermal coupling and separation; and a bypass circuit that includes an on-off valve connected to upstream and downstream of the external heat exchanger, provided in parallel with the first cooling water circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignee: Marelli CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Tooru Kawamata, Kouji Hirono
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Publication number: 20240343086Abstract: A temperature control system for a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle circuit and a cooling water circuit. The refrigeration cycle circuit includes a compressor, a radiator, and a first heat exchanger that exchanges heat between refrigerant and cooling water. The cooling water circuit includes a first cooling water circuit including the first heat exchanger, a storage battery heat exchanger, and a first pump; a second cooling water circuit including an external heat exchanger, a drive system heat exchanger that exchanges heat with a drive system component, and a second pump; a first thermal coupler that switches the cooling water circulating through the first cooling water circuit and the cooling water circulating through the second cooling water circuit between thermal coupling and separation; and a bypass circuit that includes an on-off valve connected to upstream and downstream of the external heat exchanger, provided in parallel with the first cooling water circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Tooru Kawamata, Kouji Hirono
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Patent number: 12096689Abstract: Provided are a compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure with high electron transport characteristic and high thermal stability, thereof electron transport material, and an OLED using the same. That is to say, a compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure substituted by at least three nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic groups, and an OLED material and an electron transport material comprising the compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure. An OLED having a pair of anode and cathode and at least one organic layer including a light-emitting layer between the pair of the electrodes, wherein any of the organic layers comprises the compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: FLASK CORPORATIONInventors: Hisahiro Sasabe, Junji Kido, Tomohiro Maruyama, Tsukasa Owada, Tomoya Kawano, Yu Saito
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Publication number: 20230364980Abstract: A temperature adjustment system includes: a refrigeration cycle circuit including a first compressor, a heat radiator, a first expansion valve, a chiller configured to perform heat exchange using the expanded refrigerant, and a gas-liquid separator configured to perform gas-liquid separation on the refrigerant and supply a gas phase refrigerant to the first compressor; a first cooling water circuit including an external heat radiator; a second cooling water circuit configured to heat the cooling water flowing therethrough by the heat of the refrigerant radiated by the heat radiator; a third cooling water circuit configured to cool the cooling water flowing therethrough, and adjust a temperature of a device by heat exchange with the cooling water; a first valve configured to connect or disconnect the first and the second cooling water circuits; and a second valve configured to connect or disconnect the second and the third cooling water circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Tatsunari Kawaguchi, Satoshi Ogihara, Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Takashi Nakamura, Yuuki Tani, Kouji Hirono, Satoshi Shimizu, Tomohiro Maeda, Shigeyoshi Kadokura
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Publication number: 20210296596Abstract: Provided are a compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure with high electron transport characteristic and high thermal stability, thereof electron transport material, and an OLED using the same. That is to say, a compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure substituted by at least three nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic groups, and an OLED material and an electron transport material comprising the compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure. An OLED having a pair of anode and cathode and at least one organic layer including a light-emitting layer between the pair of the electrodes, wherein any of the organic layers comprises the compound having the nitrogen-containing six-membered aromatic ring structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: FLASK CorporationInventors: Hisahiro SASABE, Junji KIDO, Tomohiro MARUYAMA, Tsukasa OWADA, Tomoya KAWANO, Yu SAITO
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Patent number: 10988001Abstract: An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a first flow path through which air subject to dehumidification flows, a second flow path through which air for recovery flows, a desiccant part and a controller. The desiccant part is fluidly communicated with the first and second flow paths, and configured to adsorb moisture contained in the air subject to dehumidification, and to discharge the moisture to the air for recovery. The controller is configured to control an air volume of the air subject to dehumidification and an air volume of the air for recovery so that the air volume of the air for recovery is less than the air volume of the air subject to dehumidification, after the air volume of the air for recovery reaches a prescribed air volume for achieving a target dehumidification amount of the air subject to dehumidification.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: MARELLI CABIN COMFORT JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Nakamura, Tomohiro Maruyama, Shusuke Kawai
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Publication number: 20190077229Abstract: An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a first flow path through which air subject to dehumidification flows, a second flow path through which air for recovery flows, a desiccant part and a controller. The desiccant part is fluidly communicated with the first and second flow paths, and configured to adsorb moisture contained in the air subject to dehumidification, and to discharge the moisture to the air for recovery. The controller is configured to control an air volume of the air subject to dehumidification and an air volume of the air for recovery so that the air volume of the air for recovery is less than the air volume of the air subject to dehumidification, after the air volume of the air for recovery reaches a prescribed air volume for achieving a target dehumidification amount of the air subject to dehumidification.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Takashi NAKAMURA, Tomohiro MARUYAMA, Shusuke KAWAI
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Publication number: 20180209699Abstract: Problem To suppress the distribution of adsorption materials and binders between a heat-transfer member and a heat-transfer member from being disproportioned. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM There is provided a method for preparinq an adsorption device in which activated carbons are held in an area ? of accommodating a plurality of heat-transfer members 34 arranged by intervals with each other in a main body part 31.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Shinnosuke MAEDA, Tomohiro MARUYAMA
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Patent number: 9551533Abstract: A heat exchanger unit includes a heat exchanger main body in which a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are arranged in series relative to a refrigerant flowing direction and an air flowing direction. The heat exchanger main body includes on one side thereof an external connection portion configured to supply at least refrigerant and on the other side thereof a communicating portion configured to connect (allowing fluid communication between) the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. A bypass flow path extends from the one side to the other side of the heat exchanger main body, and is configured to bypass the first heat exchanger. At least one of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger includes a pair of tank sections disposed at an interval, and a plurality of first heat transfer tubes configured to connect the pair of tank sections.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Calsonic Kansei CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Satoshi Kamimura
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Patent number: 9541390Abstract: A surveying device includes: an angle-of-view value acquisition unit which acquires the angle of view of a telescope; and a manipulation amount correction unit which, on the basis of the angle of view acquired by the angle-of-view value acquisition unit, corrects the displacement amount of the telescope such that the displacement amount of the telescope with respect to the rotation amounts of a horizontal tangent screw and a vertical tangent screw when the angle of view of the telescope is a first angle of view is smaller than the displacement amount of the telescope with respect to the rotation amounts of the horizontal tangent screw and the vertical tangent screw when the angle of view of the telescope is a second angle of view wider than the first angle of view.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: NIKON-TRIMBLE CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomohiro Maruyama
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Publication number: 20150176991Abstract: A surveying device includes: an angle-of-view value acquisition unit which acquires the angle of view of a telescope; and a manipulation amount correction unit which, on the basis of the angle of view acquired by the angle-of-view value acquisition unit, corrects the displacement amount of the telescope such that the displacement amount of the telescope with respect to the rotation amounts of a horizontal tangent screw and a vertical tangent screw when the angle of view of the telescope is a first angle of view is smaller than the displacement amount of the telescope with respect to the rotation amounts of the horizontal tangent screw and the vertical tangent screw when the angle of view of the telescope is a second angle of view wider than the first angle of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventor: Tomohiro Maruyama
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Publication number: 20140020865Abstract: A heat exchanger unit includes a heat exchanger main body in which a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are arranged in series relative to a refrigerant flowing direction and an air flowing direction, the heat exchanger main body including on one side thereof an external connection portion configured to supply at least refrigerant and on the other side thereof a communicating portion configured to communicate the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, and a bypass flow path extending from the one side to the other side of the heat exchanger main body, configured to bypass the first heat exchanger, at least one of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger includes a pair of tank sections disposed at an interval, and a plurality of first heat transfer tubes configured to connect a pair of tank sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Satoshi Kamimura
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Publication number: 20120085124Abstract: A jet pump includes a discharge outlet configured to discharge refrigerant in which relatively high pressure refrigerant and relatively low pressure refrigerant are mixed, a diffuser disposed coaxially with the discharge outlet in an upstream side of the discharge outlet, the diffuser including an inside diameter which gradually reduces in size away from the discharge outlet, a suction hole following from a minimum diameter portion of the diffuser in an upstream side of the minimum diameter portion, disposed coaxially with the discharge outlet, and to which the lower pressure refrigerant is guided, a high pressure refrigerant path configured to guide the high pressure refrigerant to the diffuser, and a nozzle portion configured to eject the high pressure refrigerant from the high pressure refrigerant path into the diffuser in a downstream side of the minimum diameter portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Inventors: Tomohiro MARUYAMA, Toru Kawamata
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Publication number: 20120017637Abstract: Provided is a vehicle air conditioning device with a simple structure which can quickly raise the temperature of engine cooling water used for heating the air in a vehicle cabin in an engine start period in a low ambient temperature. The vehicle air conditioning device comprises the following elements integrally connected with each other: a first water heat exchanger (26) provided in the middle of a passage through which an engine cooling water flows from the water jacket of an engine (3) to a heater core (8a), a second water heat exchanger (27) provided in the middle of a passage through which the engine cooling water flows from the heater core (8a) to the water jacket of the engine (3), and a first external heat exchanger (18) for refrigerant condensation provided between the first and second water heat exchangers (26, 27).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Kazuo Nakajo, Toshihiro Takei, Yoshitoshi Noda, Tomohiro Maruyama, Junichiro Hara
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Publication number: 20100218550Abstract: In an accumulator for use in a refrigerating cycle of a vehicle air conditioner or the like, to prevent a refrigerant liquid sucked inside returning to a compressor. A desiccant layer 12 is provided above the middle of a tank 11 to divide the main body into upper and lower chambers 13 and 14. A gas-liquid mixed refrigerant sucked into the lower chamber is subjected to gas-liquid separation in the desiccant layer 12, and only the refrigerant gas is transferred to the upper chamber 13 while the refrigerant liquid and the like are accumulated in the lower chamber 14. An outlet port 16b of the refrigerant suction tube 16, through which the refrigerant is sucked into the main body, is opened within the lower chamber 14, and an inlet port 17a of a refrigerant/oil discharge tube 17, through which refrigerant gas obtained by the gas-liquid separation in the desiccant layer 12 is discharged, is opened within the upper chamber 13.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Inventors: Hiroki Yoshioka, Tomohiro Maruyama, Toshihiro Shinbayashi
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Patent number: 7577500Abstract: A wheel information-acquiring system (10) sends wheel information, such as a tire inner pressure, together with preset identification information from a transmitter provided on a wheel installed on a motor vehicle and causes a receiver to receive the transmitted information. In the wheel information-acquiring system, a setting device (60) transmits by wireless an ID, which the setting device is causing a transmitter (16a) to set, to the transmitter (16a) and causes the transmitter (16a) to set the ID. The setting device then transmits by wireless this ID and wheel installation position information, which is separately set and input, to the receiver, causing the receiver to map the ID and the wheel installation position information and then set and register the result of the mapping. The setting device also can acquire an ID unique to the transmitter (16a) and transmit the ID and wheel installation position information to the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Nihei, Toshimitsu Ebinuma, Takahide Kitami, Tomohiro Maruyama
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Publication number: 20080229767Abstract: In an air conditioning system having a variable displacement compressor driven by an engine of a vehicle, method and device for controlling a refrigeration cycle are provided to ensure necessary cooling performance of the system without damaging the traveling performance of the vehicle. In the method, a limit value in the discharge rate of the variable displacement compressor is determined by an engine speed or a variable related to the engine speed. The variable displacement compressor is controlled on the basis of the limit value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2004Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Kojiro Nakamura, Tomohiro Maruyama
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Publication number: 20070055411Abstract: A wheel information-acquiring system (10) sends wheel information, such as a tire inner pressure, together with preset identification information from a transmitter provided on a wheel installed on a motor vehicle and causes a receiver to receive the transmitted information. In the wheel information-acquiring system, a setting device (60) transmits by wireless an ID, which the setting device is causing a transmitter (16a) to set, to the transmitter (16a) and causes the transmitter (16a) to set the ID. The setting device then transmits by wireless this ID and wheel installation position information, which is separately set and input, to the receiver, causing the receiver to map the ID and the wheel installation position information and then set and register the result of the mapping. The setting device also can acquire an ID unique to the transmitter (16a) and transmit the ID and wheel installation position information to the receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2004Publication date: March 8, 2007Inventors: Hideki Nihei, Toshimitsu Ebinuma, Takahide Kitami, Tomohiro Maruyama
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Publication number: 20060213220Abstract: A compressor compresses a refrigerant. A radiator cools the refrigerant compressed by the compressor. An expansion valve receives the refrigerant from the radiator to depressurize and expand the refrigerant. An evaporator evaporates the refrigerant expanded by the expansion valve to cool air passing through the evaporator. An accumulator receives the refrigerant from the evaporator to separate the refrigerant into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant. The accumulator includes an insertion portion inserted in the accumulator and included in a pipe arranged from the radiator to the expansion valve for exchanging heat between a refrigerant flowing through the insertion portion and at least the liquid-phase refrigerant in the accumulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Inventors: Torahide Takahashi, Tomohiro Maruyama
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Patent number: 5954173Abstract: There is disclosed a drive force transmission apparatus which includes a first pressing-force generation unit for generating a pressing force in accordance with a rotational speed difference between driving and driven shafts, and a frictional clutch which is brought into an engaged state by the pressing force generated by the first pressing-force generation unit in order to transmit torque in accordance with the rotational speed difference between the driving and driven shafts. The drive force transmission apparatus further includes a second pressing-force generation unit disposed opposite to the first pressing-force generation unit with respect to the frictional clutch. When needed, the second pressing-force generation, unit is operated to bring the frictional clutch into a firmly engaged state, thereby improving the traveling performance of the vehicle under severe traveling conditions, such as an attempt to extract a wheel trapped in a gutter or the like, traveling on a rough road, traveling on sand, etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1997Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignees: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshifumi Sakai, Kunihiko Suzuki, Naoyuki Kokubo, Masayuki Shimada, Tomohiro Maruyama, Hisashi Fukuchi, Satoshi Ashida, Hirokazu Suzuki, Tomoyuki Kano