Patents by Inventor Yasuaki Iizuka
Yasuaki Iizuka 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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Patent number: 10584744Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes a compression mechanism portion, a drive portion, a crankshaft, a main bearing and an auxiliary bearing that support the crankshaft, and a sealed container that accommodates therein the compression mechanism portion, the drive portion, the crankshaft, the main bearing, and the auxiliary bearing. The auxiliary bearing is configured of an antifriction bearing and provided in an auxiliary bearing housing attached to the sealed container. The auxiliary bearing housing includes an opening for inserting the auxiliary bearing on the drive portion side, and includes a housing cover covering the opening. An insulating sleeve configured of an insulating material is provided between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing. The insulating sleeve includes a cylinder portion located between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing, and a flange portion located between the auxiliary bearing and the housing cover and extended in an outer diameter direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.Inventors: Yuko Kozuma, Yasuaki Iizuka, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Masaru Ohtahara
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Patent number: 10145374Abstract: A slide valve forming a part of a bore and movable in an axial direction of the rotors, foot sections on a discharge side end face of the slide valve, and discharge ports and on a discharge chamber side of the slide valve in order to discharge compressed gas taken into a compression operation chamber from the suction chamber and compressed. At a discharge side end portion of the slide valve, first discharge channels and lead the compressed gas discharged from the discharge port and lead the compressed gas to the discharge chamber and second discharge channels are provided on a radial direction outer side of the first discharge channel and opened to the first discharge channels and the discharge chamber to lead a part of the compressed gas flowing in the first discharge channels and feed the part of the compressed gas to the discharge chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.Inventors: Ryuichiro Yonemoto, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Eisuke Kato, Kotaro Chiba, Yasuaki Iizuka
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Publication number: 20180066700Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes a compression mechanism portion, a drive portion, a crankshaft, a main bearing and an auxiliary bearing that support the crankshaft, and a sealed container that accommodates therein the compression mechanism portion, the drive portion, the crankshaft, the main bearing, and the auxiliary bearing. The auxiliary bearing is configured of an antifriction bearing and provided in an auxiliary bearing housing attached to the sealed container. The auxiliary bearing housing includes an opening for inserting the auxiliary bearing on the drive portion side, and includes a housing cover covering the opening. An insulating sleeve configured of an insulating material is provided between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing. The insulating sleeve includes a cylinder portion located between the crankshaft and the auxiliary bearing, and a flange portion located between the auxiliary bearing and the housing cover and extended in an outer diameter direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Yuko KOZUMA, Yasuaki IIZUKA, Mutsunori MATSUNAGA, Masaru OHTAHARA
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Patent number: 9803900Abstract: A screw compressor and a chiller unit are provided. An oil separator of the screw compressor may include an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder positioned inside the outer cylinder, and an introducing flow path. The upper end of the inner cylinder is held by the oil separator and the outer wall of the inner cylinder is held independently of the inner wall of the outer cylinder. The diameter of the inner wall of the outer cylinder may gradually be reduced along the swirl flow path. The refrigerant via the introducing passage swirls and goes down along the swirl flow path and is separated into gas refrigerant and oil. The separated gas refrigerant flows from the lower end of the inner cylinder into the inner cylinder and goes up, and the separated oil flows down along the inner wall surface of the outer cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning Technology (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Ryuichiro Yonemoto, Yasuaki Iizuka, Eisuke Kato, Shu Kuriyama, Masahiro Takebayashi
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Patent number: 9568003Abstract: A screw compressor is disclosed, which includes a male rotor and a female rotor and an oil separator. The oil separator includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder located inside the outer cylinder, and an introducing flow path. An upper end portion of the inner cylinder is held by the oil separator and an outer wall of the inner cylinder is held independently of the inner wall of the outer cylinder. A diameter of an inner wall of the outer cylinder is configured so that the diameter is gradually reduced along a swirl flow path. Moreover, refrigerant that flowed in swirls and goes down along the swirl flow path. The separated gas refrigerant flows from a lower end portion of the inner cylinder into the inner cylinder and goes up and the separated oil flowing down along the inner wall surface of the outer cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning Technology (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Ryuichiro Yonemoto, Yasuaki Iizuka, Eisuke Kato, Shu Kuriyama, Masahiro Takebayashi
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Publication number: 20170038107Abstract: A screw compressor in which it is possible to achieve size reduction and reduce the oil rate and a chiller unit equipped with the screw compressor are provided. In the screw compressor, an oil separator includes: an outer cylinder; an inner cylinder positioned inside the outer cylinder; and an introducing flow path that lets refrigerant discharged from a compression working chamber flow in so that the refrigerant swirls to the circumferential direction on the inner wall surface of the outer cylinder. The upper end portion of the inner cylinder is held by the oil separator and the outer wall of the inner cylinder is thereby held independently of the inner wall of the outer cylinder. The diameter of the inner wall of the outer cylinder is so configured that the diameter is gradually reduced along the swirl flow path in which refrigerant that flowed in through the introducing flow path swirls.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Ryuichiro YONEMOTO, Yasuaki IIZUKA, Eisuke KATO, Shu KURIYAMA, Masahiro TAKEBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170030356Abstract: A slide valve forming a part of a bore and movable in an axial direction of the rotors, foot sections on a discharge side end face of the slide valve, and discharge ports and on a discharge chamber side of the slide valve in order to discharge compressed gas taken into a compression operation chamber from the suction chamber and compressed. At a discharge side end portion of the slide valve, first discharge channels and lead the compressed gas discharged from the discharge port and lead the compressed gas to the discharge chamber and second discharge channels are provided on a radial direction outer side of the first discharge channel and opened to the first discharge channels and the discharge chamber to lead a part of the compressed gas flowing in the first discharge channels and feed the part of the compressed gas to the discharge chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Ryuichiro YONEMOTO, Takeshi TSUCHIYA, Eisuke KATO, Kotaro CHIBA, Yasuaki IIZUKA
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Publication number: 20150226218Abstract: A screw compressor in which it is possible to achieve size reduction and reduce the oil rate and a chiller unit equipped with the screw compressor are provided. In the screw compressor, an oil separator includes: an outer cylinder; an inner cylinder positioned inside the outer cylinder; and an introducing flow path that lets refrigerant discharged from a compression working chamber flow in so that the refrigerant swirls to the circumferential direction on the inner wall surface of the outer cylinder. The upper end portion of the inner cylinder is held, by the oil separator and the outer wall of the inner cylinder is thereby held independently of the inner wall of the outer cylinder. The diameter of the inner wall of the outer cylinder is so configured that the diameter is gradually reduced along the swirl flow oath in which refrigerant that flowed in through the introducing flow path swirls.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Ryuichiro Yonemoto, Yasuaki Iizuka, Eisuke Kato, Shu Kuriyama, Masahiro Takebayashi
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Publication number: 20080038127Abstract: A screw compressor is for use of a screw chiller, and comprises a pair of screw rotors and a casing housing the screw rotors, a capacity control valve for varying a ratio of volume, a motor for driving the screw rotors and an inverter for varying the rotational speed of the motor. The screw compressor is controlled using rotational speed control means by the inverter and mechanical capacity control means by the capacity control valve independently or combined together according to loads. The maximum efficient point in a capacity control performed solely by the inverter is set to a rotational speed side lower than the rated operation point. In a region where the rotational speed is higher than the maximum efficient point, the inverter solely takes control from a rated rotational speed to a high rotational speed side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventors: Ryuichiro Yonemoto, Yasuaki Iizuka, Kenji Tojo