Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Ebara

Toshiyuki Ebara 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: 7028495
    Abstract: For a purpose of realizing a refrigerant cycle apparatus capable of exactly detecting a pressure reverse phenomenon caused in a compression element of a compressor of a multistage compression type, in the refrigerant cycle apparatus in which the multistage compression type compressor constitutes a refrigerant circuit, including an electromotive element, and first and second compression elements driven by the electromotive element in an airtight container to suck an intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas compressed by the first compression element into the second compression element and to compress and discharge the refrigerant gas, the apparatus comprising: a sensor for detecting a discharge refrigerant pressure of the first compression element; and a control device into which an output of the sensor is input, the control device detects reverse of the discharge refrigerant pressures of the first and second compression elements based on the discharge refrigerant pressure of the first compression element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Mamoru Kubo, Kazuhisa Otagaki
  • Publication number: 20050150240
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve a heat exchanging capability in an evaporator in a refrigerant cycle system in which a high pressure side is operated at a supercritical pressure. The refrigerant cycle system is a refrigerant cycle system in which a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve and an evaporator are sequentially connected in a cyclic form and a high pressure side is operated at a supercritical pressure, wherein the degree of opening of the expansion valve is adjusted based on the temperature and pressure of a refrigerant at an outlet of the evaporator so as to control the degree of superheat at the outlet of the evaporator. An abstract of the present invention is to make large the degree of superheat at the outlet of the evaporator by means of the expansion valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Doi, Toshiyuki Ebara, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Mitsuhiko Ishino, Eiji Fukuda, Yoshihiko Kobayashi, Aritomo Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20050126194
    Abstract: For a purpose of realizing a refrigerant cycle apparatus capable of exactly detecting a pressure reverse phenomenon caused in a compression element of a compressor of a multistage compression type, in the refrigerant cycle apparatus in which the multistage compression type compressor constitutes a refrigerant circuit, including an electromotive element, and first and second compression elements driven by the electromotive element in an airtight container to suck an intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas compressed by the first compression element into the second compression element and to compress and discharge the refrigerant gas, the apparatus comprising: a sensor for detecting a discharge refrigerant pressure of the first compression element; and a control device into which an output of the sensor is input, the control device detects reverse of the discharge refrigerant pressures of the first and second compression elements based on the discharge refrigerant pressure of the first compression element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Mamoru Kubo, Kazuhisa Otagaki
  • Patent number: 6889512
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an on-vehicle air-conditioner, resolving problems of the prior art, and allowing to perform cooling, heating, dehumidification or others efficiently even for vehicles of low waste heat, such as hybrid cars taking electricity and gasoline as energy source, idle stop coping cars or battery cars taking only electricity as energy source, or other vehicles, by cooling by loading a refrigeration circuit, using for example CO2 refrigerant, and provided with an electrically driven two-stage compression system compressor, and at the same time, installing a refrigerant heat exchanger for cooling the refrigerant, compressed in the first stage in a way to exchange heat with the car interior air, and using conveniently also for heating together with the heat of the cooling water for cooling the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Osamu Kuwabara, Toshikazu Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20050074354
    Abstract: An object is to provide a compressor capable of surely preventing leakage of a refrigerant gas from a connection portion between an airtight container and a pipe to the outside at low costs. The compressor comprises an airtight container to which a refrigerant introduction pipe is connected, and a compression element received in the airtight container to discharge the refrigerant into the same. The refrigerant introduction pipe has a cylindrical pipe main body, and a jaw-like flange portion formed in a tip of the pipe main body. A cylindrical connection sleeve is disposed between the refrigerant introduction pipe and the airtight container. A first bolt is disposed to connect the connection sleeve to the airtight container, and a second bolt is disposed to connect the connection sleeve to the flange portion of the refrigerant introduction pipe. The flange portion of the refrigerant introduction pipe hides the first bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Hiroyuki Matsumori, Takashi Sato, Dai Matsuura, Takayasu Saito
  • Publication number: 20050069423
    Abstract: An object is to provide a rotary compressor capable of reducing an oil discharge amount to the outside, and there is provided a vertical rotary compressor constituted by housing an electromotive element and a rotary compression mechanism section driven by the electromotive element in an airtight container, wherein an oil separation mechanism for centrifugally separating oil in a refrigerant which has been compressed by the rotary compression mechanism section and discharged is disposed in a space between the airtight container and the rotary compression mechanism section in the airtight container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Hiroyuki Matsumori, Takashi Sato, Dai Matsuura, Takayasu Saito
  • Publication number: 20050069445
    Abstract: An object is to execute sure oil supplying to a second rotary compression element in a horizontal type compressor equipped with the second rotary compression element in which pressure becomes higher than that in an airtight container. A horizontal type rotary compressor of a multistage compression system comprises a driving element and a compression mechanism section driven by the driving element in a horizontal type airtight container. The compression mechanism section is constituted of first and second rotary compression elements. A refrigerant compressed by the first rotary compression element is discharged into the airtight container, and the discharged refrigerant of intermediate pressure is further compressed by the second rotary compression element to be discharged. A gist is that an oil supply passage is formed in a cylinder of the second rotary compression element 34 to communicate a low-pressure chamber of the cylinder with a bottom part in the airtight container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Hiroyuki Matsumori, Takashi Sato, Dai Matsuura, Takayasu Saito
  • Publication number: 20040165999
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20040165998
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20040154329
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20040151603
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Patent number: 6769267
    Abstract: Refrigerant compressed by a first stage compression elements (30) run by a motor (20) is discharged in the closed container (10) via a silencer chamber (35) to cool the motor (20) before the refrigerant is led to a second stage compression element (40). The refrigerant is discharged from the second stage compression element (40) out of the compressor after it is further compressed in the second compression element (40). Thus, the motor (20) is cooled in a simple cooling mechanism during normal operation of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Masaya Tadano, Atsushi Oda
  • Publication number: 20040144993
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a lateral transistor which enables a current gain rate to change less, even if it is used over a long time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Fumitoshi Yamamoto, Toshiyuki Ebara
  • Publication number: 20040069481
    Abstract: An on-vehicle air conditioner for air conditioning, comprising a refrigerating circuit having a refrigerant outside heat exchanger installed so as to perform a heat exchange with outside air and usable for both cooling and heating, a coolant circuit having a coolant outside heat exchanger installed so as to perform a heat exchange with the outside air and allowing the coolant of an engine to circulate therein, and at least one opening/closing duct for inflow air regulation installed on the forward outside and/or rearward inside of the refrigerant outside heat exchanger, wherein the opening and closing of the duct can be controlled properly according to the situations, whereby cabin cooling, cabin heating, and defrosting can be performed efficiently and sufficiently even if, for example, CO2 refrigerant is used in the cars such as hybrid cars using electricity and gasoline as energy sources and idle stop-capable cars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Hirokazu Izaki, Tetsuya Masuda, Kazuaki Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20040020223
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve a heat exchanging capability in an evaporator in a refrigerant cycle system in which a high pressure side is operated at a supercritical pressure. The refrigerant cycle system is a refrigerant cycle system in which a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve and an evaporator are sequentially connected in a cyclic form and a high pressure side is operated at a supercritical pressure, wherein the degree of opening of the expansion valve is adjusted based on the temperature and pressure of a refrigerant at an outlet of the evaporator so as to control the degree of superheat at the outlet of the evaporator. An abstract of the present invention is to make large the degree of superheat at the outlet of the evaporator by means of the expansion valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Doi, Toshiyuki Ebara, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Mitsuhiko Ishino, Eiji Fukuda, Yoshihiko Kobayashi, Aritomo Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20040007006
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an on-vehicle air-conditioner, resolving problems of the prior art, and allowing to perform cooling, heating, dehumidification or others efficiently even for vehicles of low waste heat, such as hybrid cars taking electricity and gasoline as energy source, idle stop coping cars or battery cars taking only electricity as energy source, or other vehicles, by cooling by loading a refrigeration circuit, using for example CO2 refrigerant, and provided with an electrically driven two-stage compression system compressor, and at the same time, installing a refrigerant heat exchanger for cooling the refrigerant, compressed in the first stage in a way to exchange heat with the car interior air, and using conveniently also for heating together with the heat of the cooling water for cooling the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Hiroshi Mukaiyama, Osamu Kuwabara, Toshikazu Ishihara
  • Patent number: 6675601
    Abstract: An air conditioner including an air supply passage for introducing outdoor air into a room, an air exhaust passage for exhausting indoor air, a rotary dehumidifier that is a rotary drum structure having an air passage formed of a material impregnated with an adsorbent, the rotary dehumidifier being arranged such that one half thereof is disposed in the air supply passage for dehumidifying by adsorption a supply air which is the introduced outdoor air and the other half thereof is disposed in the air exhaust passage for regenerating the adsorbent with use of exhaust air which is the exhausted indoor air as a heat source, a regenerative heater for heating the exhaust air before flowing into the rotary dehumidifier to a temperature required for regenerating the adsorbent of the rotary dehumidifier, a sensible heat exchanger for causing a sensible heat exchange between the supply air dehumidified at the rotary dehumidifier and the exhaust air before flowing into the regenerative heater and a refrigerating device
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Ebara
  • Patent number: 6651458
    Abstract: An internal intermediate pressure type two-stage compression rotary compressor (10) is provided with an electrically driven element (14) disposed within a sealed vessel (12), and first and second rotary compression elements (32, 34) driven by the electrically driven element (14), and is structured such as to discharge CO2 refrigerant gas compressed at a first stage by the first rotary compression element (32) within the sealed vessel (12) and compress the discharged refrigerant gas having an intermediate pressure at a second stage by the second rotary compression element (34) via an accumulator (106). The rotary compression elements (32, 34) include upper and lower cylinders (38, 40), upper and lower rollers (46, 48) eccentrically rotating within the cylinder and upper and lower vanes (50, 52) brought into contact with the rollers so as to section the inner portions of the upper and lower cylinders into high pressure chambers and low pressure chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Masaya Tadano, Takashi Yamakawa, Atsushi Oda
  • Patent number: 6616428
    Abstract: A double-cylinder two-stage compression rotary compressor (10) comprising a first and a second compressors (32 , 34), driven by an electric motor (14), all accommodated in a sealed container (12). The first and the second compressor (32, 34) have respective first and second cylinders (40, 42) accommodating first and second rollers (48, 50), fitted on respective first and second eccentric cams (44, 46). The inner spaces of the first and second cylinders are partitioned by respective first and second vanes (52, 54) to form suction spaces and compression spaces. The two cylinders are separated by an intermediate partition panel (38), which has a central bore (36) for passing therethrough a shaft (16) of the motor (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Masaya Tadano, Takashi Yamakawa, Atsushi Oda
  • Publication number: 20030126885
    Abstract: Refrigerant compressed by a first stage compression elements (30) run by a motor (20) is discharged in the closed container (10) via a silencer chamber (35) to cool the motor (20) before the refrigerant is led to a second stage compression element (40). The refrigerant is discharged from the second stage compression element (40) out of the compressor after it is further compressed in the second compression element (40). Thus, the motor (20) is cooled in a simple cooling mechanism during normal operation of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Masaya Tadano, Atsushi Oda