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).

  • Patent number: 12472795
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Tooru Kawamata, Kouji Hirono
  • Publication number: 20240343086
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Tooru Kawamata, Kouji Hirono
  • Patent number: 12096689
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FLASK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisahiro Sasabe, Junji Kido, Tomohiro Maruyama, Tsukasa Owada, Tomoya Kawano, Yu Saito
  • Publication number: 20230364980
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsunari Kawaguchi, Satoshi Ogihara, Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Takashi Nakamura, Yuuki Tani, Kouji Hirono, Satoshi Shimizu, Tomohiro Maeda, Shigeyoshi Kadokura
  • Publication number: 20210296596
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FLASK Corporation
    Inventors: Hisahiro SASABE, Junji KIDO, Tomohiro MARUYAMA, Tsukasa OWADA, Tomoya KAWANO, Yu SAITO
  • Patent number: 10988001
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: MARELLI CABIN COMFORT JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Tomohiro Maruyama, Shusuke Kawai
  • Publication number: 20190077229
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi NAKAMURA, Tomohiro MARUYAMA, Shusuke KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20180209699
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Shinnosuke MAEDA, Tomohiro MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9551533
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Satoshi Kamimura
  • Patent number: 9541390
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: NIKON-TRIMBLE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20150176991
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Tomohiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20140020865
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Satoshi Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20120085124
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohiro MARUYAMA, Toru Kawamata
  • Publication number: 20120017637
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakajo, Toshihiro Takei, Yoshitoshi Noda, Tomohiro Maruyama, Junichiro Hara
  • Publication number: 20100218550
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroki Yoshioka, Tomohiro Maruyama, Toshihiro Shinbayashi
  • Patent number: 7577500
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nihei, Toshimitsu Ebinuma, Takahide Kitami, Tomohiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20080229767
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Kojiro Nakamura, Tomohiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20070055411
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Hideki Nihei, Toshimitsu Ebinuma, Takahide Kitami, Tomohiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20060213220
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Torahide Takahashi, Tomohiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 5954173
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignees: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshifumi Sakai, Kunihiko Suzuki, Naoyuki Kokubo, Masayuki Shimada, Tomohiro Maruyama, Hisashi Fukuchi, Satoshi Ashida, Hirokazu Suzuki, Tomoyuki Kano