Patents by Inventor Tomoo MASUDA

Tomoo MASUDA 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: 10088191
    Abstract: False determination in the presence or absence of a person in a in a room is limited. An air conditioner suspends an air conditioning operation if a room is vacant. If at least one of motion detectors, each provided to one of the indoor units, starts to detect the presence of a person during suspension of the air conditioning operation, an indoor controller of an indoor unit sums, for each of the motion detectors, time periods in which the presence of the person is detected to obtain a detection time period sum. If any one of detection time period sums, each for one of the motion detectors, reaches a reference value within a predetermined time period, the outdoor controller causes the air conditioner to resume the air conditioning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryouta Suhara, Takayoshi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Yokomizo, Tomoo Masuda
  • Patent number: 10024570
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air conditioning system is provided. The indoor unit includes a fan, a control box that includes an inspection port on a first side surface, and a casing that houses the fan and the control box. The casing includes a first flow port in a bottom surface of the casing, a second flow port in a first side surface of the casing, and an opening opposed to the inspection port in a second side surface of the casing. The control box comprises a first leading port on each of a second side surface and a third side surface of the control box, the second side surface and the third side surface are opposed to each other and adjacent to the first side surface, and the first leading ports lead external wirings into the control box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Azumi, Tomoo Masuda, Takayoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170276396
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air conditioning system is provided. The indoor unit includes a fan, a control box that includes an inspection port on a first side surface, and a casing that houses the fan and the control box. The casing includes a first flow port in a bottom surface of the casing, a second flow port in a first side surface of the casing, and an opening opposed to the inspection port in a second side surface of the casing. The control box comprises a first leading port on each of a second side surface and a third side surface of the control box, the second side surface and the third side surface are opposed to each other and adjacent to the first side surface, and the first leading ports lead external wirings into the control box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Azumi, Tomoo Masuda, Takayoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160201936
    Abstract: False determination in the presence or absence of a person in a in a room is limited. An air conditioner suspends an air conditioning operation if a room is vacant. If at least one of motion detectors, each provided to one of the indoor units, starts to detect the presence of a person during suspension of the air conditioning operation, an indoor controller of an indoor unit sums, for each of the motion detectors, time periods in which the presence of the person is detected to obtain a detection time period sum. If any one of detection time period sums, each for one of the motion detectors, reaches a reference value within a predetermined time period, the outdoor controller causes the air conditioner to resume the air conditioning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouta SUHARA, Takayoshi YAMAMOTO, Tsuyoshi YOKOMIZO, Tomoo MASUDA