Patents by Inventor Toshimitsu Kamada
Toshimitsu Kamada 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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Publication number: 20240077373Abstract: A force sensor module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of force sensors. Each of the force sensor includes a plurality of sensor sections having force detection directions different from each other, and a flexible rubber member that is provided to cover the plurality of sensor sections. The rubber member is configured to transmit a force inputted from outside to the plurality of force sensors by deformation corresponding to the force.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: TOMOKO KATSUHARA, HIDETOSHI MIYASHITA, RUI KAMADA, KIYOKAZU MIYAZAWA, TOSHIMITSU TSUBOI, HAYATO HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 11892178Abstract: A heat exchanger unit includes: a heat exchanging section that includes: a plurality of heat transfer fins; and a plurality of heat transfer tubes that each passes through a corresponding one of the plurality of heat transfer fins, in which, in the heat exchanging section, the plurality of heat transfer tubes that are arranged in L or more levels in a direction that intersects an air flow and in M rows in a direction of the air flow, each of the plurality of heat transfer tubes belongs to one of N paths, an inlet of each of the N paths is disposed at a first end of the heat exchanging section in a level direction, an outlet of each of the N paths is disposed at a second end of the heat exchanging section in the level direction, and M<N.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Toshimitsu Kamada
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Patent number: 10801784Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: multiple flat tubes that extend in a second direction intersecting a first direction which is an air flow direction and that are disposed at intervals in a third direction that intersects the first direction and the second direction; and multiple plate-like heat transfer fins that extend along the third direction and that are disposed at intervals along the second direction. The heat exchanger causes refrigerant in the flat tubes to exchange heat with the air flow that passes through heat exchange spaces formed by adjacent flat tubes and adjacent heat transfer fins when viewed from the first direction. The heat transfer fins each have a heat transfer fin front side surface that is one main surface, a heat transfer fin back side surface that is the other main surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Nagano, Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Shun Yoshioka, Satoshi Inoue, Toshimitsu Kamada, Shouta Agou, Chiho Kitayama
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Publication number: 20190346158Abstract: A heat exchanger unit includes: a heat exchanging section that includes: a plurality of heat transfer fins; and a plurality of heat transfer tubes that each passes through a corresponding one of the plurality of heat transfer fins, in which, in the heat exchanging section, the plurality of heat transfer tubes that are arranged in L or more levels in a direction that intersects an air flow and in M rows in a direction of the air flow, each of the plurality of heat transfer tubes belongs to one of N paths, an inlet of each of the N paths is disposed at a first end of the heat exchanging section in a level direction, an outlet of each of the N paths is disposed at a second end of the heat exchanging section in the level direction, and M<N.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2017Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20190120557Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: multiple flat tubes that extend in a second direction intersecting a first direction which is an air flow direction and that are disposed at intervals in a third direction that intersects the first direction and the second direction; and multiple plate-like heat transfer fins that extend along the third direction and that are disposed at intervals along the second direction. The heat exchanger causes refrigerant in the flat tubes to exchange heat with the air flow that passes through heat exchange spaces formed by adjacent flat tubes and adjacent heat transfer fins when viewed from the first direction. The heat transfer fins each have a heat transfer fin front side surface that is one main surface, a heat transfer fin back side surface that is the other main surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Nagano, Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Shun Yoshioka, Satoshi Inoue, Toshimitsu Kamada, Shouta Agou, Chiho Kitayama
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Patent number: 9803935Abstract: An air-cooled and ventilated heat exchanger includes a fin and a plurality of heat transfer tubes. The fin has a plate-shaped part and a plurality of protruding parts. The plate-shaped part is positioned so that a plate-thickness direction intersects an air-flow direction generated by ventilation, and the protruding parts protrude from the plate-shaped part in the plate-thickness direction. The heat-transfer tubes are-inserted into the fin so as to intersect the air-flow direction. The protruding parts have a first protruding part and a second protruding part. An inclination angle of the first protruding part with respect to the plate-shaped part is a first angle, an inclination angle of the second protruding part with respect to the plate-shaped part is a second angle, and the second angle is different from the first angle. The second protruding part is placed adjacent to the first protruding part.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamada, Hirokazu Fujino, Shun Yoshioka, Aya Okuno
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Patent number: 9651317Abstract: A first header collecting pipe is divided into an upper space corresponding to an upper heat exchange region and a lower space corresponding to a lower heat exchange region. The lower space is divided into a plurality of communication spaces corresponding respectively to auxiliary heat exchange parts of the lower heat exchange region. A second header collecting pipe is divided into a communication space corresponding to both of a first main heat exchange part and the third auxiliary heat exchange part, and into communication spaces corresponding respectively to other main heat exchange parts and the other auxiliary heat exchange parts. Each of pairs of communication space and communication space is connected to an associated one of communication pipes.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Jindou, Yoshio Oritani, Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20160243591Abstract: Providing a transporting mechanism 2 for transporting an introduced target object 100 in a fixed transportation direction F1, a measuring device 40 for measuring the radiation of the target object 100 being transported by the transporting mechanism 2, a sorting mechanism 3 for sorting the target object 100 disposed at a downstream end of the transporting mechanism 2 based on the measurement result of the measuring device 40, and a control unit 5 for controlling the operation of a transporting belt 20 of the transporting mechanism 2 and a sorting belt 30 of the sorting mechanism 3. The sorting mechanism 3 is disposed so that an operating direction F2 of the sorting belt 30 intersects an operating direction F1 of the transporting belt 20 and is capable of forward and reverse rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Toshimitsu KAMADA, Tetsunori FUNAKOSHI, Norio YAMAKAWA, Kazuki MIURA, Michael John Dillon
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Patent number: 9316446Abstract: A heat exchanger includes flat tubes and fins. The fins are corrugated fins, and are disposed between the flat tubes that are vertically arranged. Between the vertically arranged flat tubes, heat transfer parts of each of the fins are arranged in the direction in which the flat tubes extend. Each of the heat transfer parts include louvers that extend in an up-and-down direction. Bent-out ends of the windward louvers include main edges, upper edges, and lower edges. The upper edges and the lower edges are tilted relative to the main edges. The tilt angle ?5 of the lower edges relative to the main edges is smaller than the tilt angle ?4 of the upper edges relative to the main edges.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shun Yoshioka, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20150000320Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins arranged so that a plate thickness direction intersects an air flow direction and have mutually adjacent plate-shaped first and second fin units, and a plurality of heat transfer pipes inserted into the fins so as to intersect the air flow direction. The first and second fin units have heat conducting parts, upper water conveying parts, and lower water conveying parts. The upper water conveying part of the first fin unit projects a different amount from the upper water conveying part of the second fin unit, and an equal amount to the lower water conveying part of the second fin unit. The lower water conveying part of the first fin unit projects a different amount from the lower water conveying part of the second fin unit, and an equal amount to the upper water conveying part of the second fin unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamada, Akihiro Fujiwara, Shin Koizumi, Takayuki Hyoudou, Hirokazu Fujino, Teruo Kido
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Patent number: 8910703Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat tubes and at least one wavily folded fin disposed between a pair of the flat tubes. The fin includes a heat transfer portion having a folded portion joined to a planar portion of each of the pair of flat tubes, and a cut-and-raised portion. The cut-and-raised portion is formed by raising a periphery of a cutting line segment when a material of the fin is wavily folded. The cutting line segment is set in a vicinity of a hypothetical center line of the folded portion before the material of the fin is wavily folded. The cutting line segment is formed by a combination of cutting line segments intersecting with the hypothetical center line, or a combination of a cutting line segment intersecting with the hypothetical center line and a cutting line segment displaced with respect to the hypothetical center line.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hyunyoung Kim, Haruo Nakata, Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20140224462Abstract: An air-cooled and ventilated heat exchanger includes a fin and a plurality of heat transfer tubes. The fin has a plate-shaped part and a plurality of protruding parts. The plate-shaped part is positioned so that a plate-thickness direction intersects an air-flow direction generated by ventilation, and the protruding parts protrude from the plate-shaped part in the plate-thickness direction. The heat-transfer tubes are-inserted into the fin so as to intersect the air-flow direction. The protruding parts have a first protruding part and a second protruding part. An inclination angle of the first protruding part with respect to the plate-shaped part is a first angle, an inclination angle of the second protruding part with respect to the plate-shaped part is a second angle, and the second angle is different from the first angle. The second protruding part is placed adjacent to the first protruding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamada, Hirokazu Fujino, Shun Yoshioka, Aya Okuno
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Patent number: 8613307Abstract: A finned tube heat exchanger includes a plurality heat-transfer fins and a plurality of heat-transfer tubes. The heat-transfer fins are disposed along an airflow direction. The plurality of heat-transfer tubes are inserted into the heat-transfer fins and arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to the airflow direction. Each of the heat transfer fins includes a plurality of sets of cut-and-raised parts with each set being straightly aligned from the upstream side toward the downstream side. At least one set of cut-and-raised parts is connected by a straight line sloped relative to the airflow direction. Each of the heat transfer fins includes a plurality of concavities with each concavity formed on a periphery of one of the heat-transfer tubes at least partially below a horizontal plane that passes through a center axis of the heat-transfer tubes and lies on an upper surface of the heat transfer fin having the concavity formed therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hyunyoung Kim, Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada, Kazushige Kasai
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Publication number: 20130306285Abstract: A first header collecting pipe is divided into an upper space corresponding to an upper heat exchange region and a lower space corresponding to a lower heat exchange region. The lower space is divided into a plurality of communication spaces corresponding respectively to auxiliary heat exchange parts of the lower heat exchange region. A second header collecting pipe is divided into a communication space corresponding to both of a first main heat exchange part and the third auxiliary heat exchange part, and into communication spaces corresponding respectively to other main heat exchange parts and the other auxiliary heat exchange parts. Each of pairs of communication space and communication space is connected to an associated one of communication pipes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Jindou, Yoshio Oritani, Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20130299141Abstract: A heat exchanger includes flat tubes and fins. The plate-like fins are spaced from one another by a predetermined distance in the direction in which the flat tubes extend. The flat tubes are inserted in pipe insertion portions of the fins. In the fins, parts of the fins between vertically adjacent ones of the flat tubes are heat transfer parts. Each of the heat transfer parts includes protrusions and louvers. The protrusions are located at a windward region of the heat transfer part and formed by making the heat transfer part protrude in an inverted V shape. The louvers are located in a leeward region of the heat transfer part and bend out from the heat transfer part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Jindou, Yoshio Oritani, Shun Yoshioka, Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20130299153Abstract: Each of a plurality of heat-transfer portions has a plurality of protrusions which are protruded toward an air passage and extend in a direction intersecting with an airflow direction. The protrusions are arranged in the airflow direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Jindou, Yoshio Oritani, Shun Yoshioka, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20130299142Abstract: A heat exchanger includes flat tubes and fins. The fins are corrugated fins, and are disposed between the flat tubes that are vertically arranged. Between the vertically arranged flat tubes, heat transfer parts of each of the fins are arranged in the direction in which the flat tubes extend. Each of the heat transfer parts include louvers that extend in an up-and-down direction. Bent-out ends of the windward louvers include main edges, upper edges, and lower edges. The upper edges and the lower edges are tilted relative to the main edges. The tilt angle ?5 of the lower edges relative to the main edges is smaller than the tilt angle ?4 of the upper edges relative to the main edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shun Yoshioka, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20130292098Abstract: A plurality of flat tubes is, at one end thereof, connected to a first header collecting pipe, and is, at the other end thereof, connected to a second header collecting pipe. Some of the flat tubes forms a main heat exchange part, and the other flat tubes forms an auxiliary heat exchange part. The number of flat tubes of the auxiliary heat exchange part is less than the number of flat tubes of the main heat exchange part. The total cross-sectional area of flow paths per flat tube provided in the auxiliary heat exchange part is greater than the total cross-sectional area of flow paths per flat tube provided in the main heat exchange part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Jindou, Yoshio Oritani, Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada, Yoshimasa Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20110139428Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat tubes and at least one wavily folded fin disposed between a pair of the flat tubes. The fin includes a heat transfer portion having a folded portion joined to a planar portion of each of the pair of flat tubes, and a cut-and-raised portion. The cut-and-raised portion is formed by raising a periphery of a cutting line segment when a material of the fin is wavily folded. The cutting line segment is set in a vicinity of a hypothetical center line of the folded portion before the material of the fin is wavily folded. The cutting line segment is formed by a combination of cutting line segments intersecting with the hypothetical center line, or a combination of a cutting line segment intersecting with the hypothetical center line and a cutting line segment displaced with respect to the hypothetical center line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hyunyoung Kim, Haruo Nakata, Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada
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Publication number: 20110067849Abstract: A fin tube type heat exchanger includes heat transfer fins spaced apart from each other along plate thickness directions and heat transfer tubes inserted into the heat transfer fins in directions substantially orthogonal to a gas current flow direction. Each heat transfer fin includes cut and raised parts lined up from upstream to downstream on both sides of each heat transfer tube. The cut and raised parts are inclined with respect to the gas current flow direction to guide gas current to a rear side of the heat transfer tubes. A height of each of the cut and raised parts increases gradually toward the downstream side. A value calculated by dividing an average height of each cut and raised part by a fin pitch is greater than 0.3 and less than 0.6. The fin pitch is a spacing between the heat transfer fins.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Fujino, Toshimitsu Kamada, Haruo Nakata