Patents by Inventor Toshifumi Kamiya

Toshifumi Kamiya 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: 10609772
    Abstract: In a microwave heating device of the present disclosure, inverter unit drives first and second microwave generators. Cooling unit cools first and second microwave generators and inverter unit. First and second waveguides supplies, to cavity, microwaves generated by first and second microwave generators. First and second microwave generators are disposed side by side in a right-left direction below a bottom surface of cavity. Inverter unit and cooling fan are disposed from the first and second microwave generators toward a front side in order, and first and second waveguides are provided so as to extend in a front-back direction from first and second microwave generators, respectively. According to the present disclosure, the microwave heating device can be further downsized in a right-left direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Yuichi Otsuki, Seiichi Yamashita, Mikio Fukui, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 10368403
    Abstract: Heating cooker (30) of the present disclosure includes convection device (35) that includes fan (14), heater (13), a first air guide, and second air guide, is communicated with heating chamber (2) through a suction port and a discharge port provided in back wall (2d) of heating chamber (2), and supplies hot air to the heating chamber (2). Fan (14) sucks air inside heating chamber (2) from the suction port into convection device (35), and sends out the air from the discharge port into heating chamber (2). Heater (13) is provided in front of fan (14), and heats the sucked air. The first air guide is provided so as to surround heater (13), and guides the heated air to the discharge port. The second air guide is provided so as to surround fan (14) and the first air guide, and guides the heated air to the discharge port. A part of the second air guide is in contact with the first air guide, and another part of the second air guide is isolated from the first air guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Yuichi Otsuki, Seiichi Yamashita, Mikio Fukui, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 10294953
    Abstract: A centrifugal multiblade blower includes: an electric motor; and an impeller blowing off air outward in a radial direction by being rotated by the electric motor. A main plate of the impeller has an uneven part on one surface adjacent to the electric motor in a thickness direction of the main plate. The one surface is in contact with air passing through inside of the electric motor. A surface shape of the uneven part is formed in manner that, among a whole surface of the uneven part, a total surface area of a surface facing inward in a radial direction of the motor is larger than an imaginary smooth surface on which the surface shape of the uneven part is defined to be a smooth surface without the uneven part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kamiya, Hiroaki Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10212765
    Abstract: In a heat cooking device equipped with a memory card attaching mechanism for inserting a memory card, the memory card attaching mechanism is configured to have, on a lower face of a main body of the heat cooking device, a card insertion port for inserting the memory card vertically upward. The card insertion port is configured to be hidden by a front grille panel attached to a machine chamber lying under the main body so as not to be exposed from the heat cooking device. Therefore, the reliable commercial heat cooking device that does not require a special waterproof measure can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kamiya, Takahiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180098389
    Abstract: In a heat cooking device equipped with a memory card attaching mechanism for inserting a memory card, the memory card attaching mechanism is configured to have, on a lower face of a main body of the heat cooking device, a card insertion port for inserting the memory card vertically upward. The card insertion port is configured to be hidden by a front grille panel attached to a machine chamber lying under the main body so as not to be exposed from the heat cooking device. Therefore, the reliable commercial heat cooking device that does not require a special waterproof measure can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: TOSHIFUMI KAMIYA, TAKAHIRO HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160330801
    Abstract: Heating cooker (30) of the present disclosure includes convection device (35) that includes fan (14), heater (13), a first air guide, and second air guide, is communicated with heating chamber (2) through a suction port and a discharge port provided in back wall (2d) of heating chamber (2), and supplies hot air to the heating chamber (2). Fan (14) sucks air inside heating chamber (2) from the suction port into convection device (35), and sends out the air from the discharge port into heating chamber (2). Heater (13) is provided in front of fan (14), and heats the sucked air. The first air guide is provided so as to surround heater (13), and guides the heated air to the discharge port. The second air guide is provided so as to surround fan (14) and the first air guide, and guides the heated air to the discharge port. A part of the second air guide is in contact with the first air guide, and another part of the second air guide is isolated from the first air guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO HAYASHI, YUICHI OTSUKI, SEIICHI YAMASHITA, MIKIO FUKUI, TOSHIFUMI KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20160330800
    Abstract: In a microwave heating device of the present disclosure, inverter unit drives first and second microwave generators. Cooling unit cools first and second microwave generators and inverter unit. First and second waveguides supplies, to cavity, microwaves generated by first and second microwave generators. First and second microwave generators are disposed side by side in a right-left direction below a bottom surface of cavity. Inverter unit and cooling fan are disposed from the first and second microwave generators toward a front side in order, and first and second waveguides are provided so as to extend in a front-back direction from first and second microwave generators, respectively. According to the present disclosure, the microwave heating device can be further downsized in a right-left direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Yuichi Otsuki, Seiichi Yamashita, Mikio Fukui, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20160305435
    Abstract: A centrifugal multiblade blower includes: an electric motor; and an impeller blowing off air outward in a radial direction by being rotated by the electric motor. A main plate of the impeller has an uneven part on one surface adjacent to the electric motor in a thickness direction of the main plate. The one surface is in contact with air passing through inside of the electric motor. A surface shape of the uneven part is formed in manner that, among a whole surface of the uneven part, a total surface area of a surface facing inward in a radial direction of the motor is larger than an imaginary smooth surface on which the surface shape of the uneven part is defined to be a smooth surface without the uneven part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Toshifumi KAMIYA, Hiroaki SHIRAISHI
  • Patent number: 7645966
    Abstract: An attachment structure of a storage unit having: a tank casing body; a tank casing door member, and a lock portion; and an operation member, and a push button, wherein: an outer circumference of a storage unit is surrounded with an opening portion of an exterior panel; the push button is protruded from an outer surface of the exterior panel in a mount position of the exterior panel when the exterior panel is in assembling work; and a space for inserting a circumferential edge of the opening portion of the exterior panel is formed on the back of the push button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hayakawa, Kouji Kanzaki, Toshifumi Kamiya, Takashi Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yukikazu Niizuma
  • Patent number: 7275983
    Abstract: Light control glasses are used as window glasses of a vehicle. When the vehicle is parked, voltage is applied to the light control glass, which directly receives solar radiation from the sun, so that a light transmittancy of the light control glass is reduced to reduce the amount of solar radiation entered a passenger compartment of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Aoki, Yasushi Yamanaka, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7105785
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a high-frequency heating apparatus which has simple configuration, in which leakage into the apparatus from a water tank is prevented without large-sizing the apparatus, which is not influenced by heat from a heating chamber and which is sanitary and provides ease of use. To achieve the object, the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 provided with a high frequency generator that supplies a high frequency to the heating chamber for housing an object to be heated and a steam generator that generates steam in the heating chamber for supplying at least either a high frequency or steam to the heating chamber and heating the object to be heated is provided and the water tank for supplying water to the steam generator is arranged in any position on the outside face of the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 so that the water tank can be detached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa, Masaharu Tsujimoto, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7028493
    Abstract: In a vehicle air conditioner, a front air conditioning unit and a seat air conditioning unit are automatically controlled by an air conditioner ECU. If a seat air conditioner switch is operated by a user during an automatic control, the setting (e.g. air volume of a seat blower) of the seat air conditioning switch is learned. Based on the learning, a seat blower characteristic diagram, which is stored in a ROM, is changed. Therefore, from this time onward, under the same environmental condition, the seat blower air volume is determined based on the changed seat blower characteristic diagram. Accordingly, a seat air conditioning is provided as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tomita, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7013653
    Abstract: A seat air conditioner for a vehicle seat includes a seat air passage that is provided in at least one of a seat back and a seat cushion having a seat surface and a pad covered by the seat surface. The seat air conditioner further includes a blower unit disposed at a back side of the pad. The seat air passage has an air distribution passage embedded within the pad and a connection hole passage extending from a predetermined portion in the air distribution passage to the blower unit. The air distribution passage extends in a surface direction in a pipe shape to have a predetermined pattern. Since the air distribution passage is provided inside the pad, seat surfaces of the seat cushion and the seat back can be made smooth, and comfortable seating feeling can be given to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kamiya, Shinji Aoki
  • Patent number: 6928829
    Abstract: In a seat air conditioning unit for a vehicle seat constructed with a seat cushion and a seat back, when a seat air conditioning operation is performed in a cooling operation of a passenger compartment, a cooling capacity of cool air blown from the seat back is set smaller than a cooling capacity of cool air blown from these at cushion while a passenger sits on the vehicle seat. Further, the cooling capacity of cool air blown from a lower portion of the seat back can be set smaller than the cooling capacity of an upper portion of the seat back. Accordingly, even when the cooling operation is continued for a long time while the seat air conditioning operation is performed, the waist portion of the passenger can be prevented from being excessively cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kamiya, Shinji Aoki
  • Patent number: 6929322
    Abstract: A buffering member is connected between a cushion member and an air discharge duct of a blower unit to damp vibrations of the blower unit and thus to limit conduction of the vibrations from the blower unit to the cushion member. Resilient damper members are held between a connector bracket and a cover member and hold seat spring members, so that the blower unit is supported by the seat spring member. The connector bracket includes protrusions, which protrude toward the cushion member and hold the seat spring members through the resilient damper members. The cushion member includes recesses, which receive the protrusions of the connector bracket in such a manner that the protrusions are spaced from the cushion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Aoki, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20050087528
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a high-frequency heating apparatus which has simple configuration, in which leakage into the apparatus from a water tank is prevented without large-sizing the apparatus, which is not influenced by heat from a heating chamber and which is sanitary and provides ease of use. To achieve the object, the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 provided with a high frequency generator that supplies a high frequency to the heating chamber for housing an object to be heated and a steam generator that generates steam in the heating chamber for supplying at least either a high frequency or steam to the heating chamber and heating the object to be heated is provided and the water tank for supplying water to the steam generator is arranged in any position on the outside face of the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 so that the water tank can be detached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa, Masaharu Tsujimoto, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20050029268
    Abstract: An attachment structure of a storage unit having: a tank casing body provided for forming a space for holding a water supply tank; a tank casing door member including a support shaft supported to the tank casing body on one side so as to make the tank casing door member opened/closed freely, and a lock portion locked to the tank casing body on the other side, the tank casing door member blocking the space of the tank casing body in a closed state and biased in a direction of departing from the tank casing body; and an operation member including an engagement portion engaged with the lock portion to retain a state locked to the casing base, and a push button for unlocking the locked state by a pushing operation, wherein: an outer circumference of a storage unit is surrounded with an opening portion of an exterior panel; the push button is protruded from an outer surface of the exterior panel in a mount position of the exterior panel when the exterior panel is in assembling work; and a space for inserting a cir
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Yuji Hayakawa, Kouji Kanzaki, Toshifumi Kamiya, Takashi Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yukikazu Niizuma
  • Patent number: 6848742
    Abstract: A seat air conditioning unit includes a seat defining an air passage therein through which air flows toward a seat surface, and first and second blower units for blowing air in the air passage. The first blower unit is provided in a seat bottom of the seat and the second blower unit is provided in a backrest of the seat. The first blower unit includes one of a centrifugal fan, a mixed flow fan, and a regeneration fan. The second blower unit includes an axial flow fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Aoki, Toshifumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 6843207
    Abstract: A water supply tank unit, attached to a heating apparatus having a moistening function, comprising an open/close member biased in a direction of departing from a unit body attached to the heating apparatus, and a water supply tank held in the open/close member so as to be attachable/detachable, wherein the water supply tank and the open/close member have protrusions respectively so that the protrusions climb over each other and are locked to each other in a process of attaching/detaching the water supply tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Toshifumi Kamiya, Yuji Hayakawa, Takashi Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yukikazu Niizawa
  • Patent number: 6837680
    Abstract: An inner surface of a peripheral wall of a scroll casing includes an initial section, which extends from a circumferentially projected end of a nose. The initial section includes a slant surface. The slant surface is angled relative to a rotational axis of a fan such that an axially remote part of the slant surface, which is axially remote from an air inlet of the scroll casing, is radially closer to blades of the fan in comparison to an axially less remote part of the slant surface, which is axially less remote from the air inlet in comparison to the axially remote part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kamiya, Shinji Aoki