Patents by Inventor Yoshikatsu Nankaku

Yoshikatsu Nankaku 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: 9416984
    Abstract: A ventilator includes a body casing having an opening formed in its lower portion and an exhaust port formed on one side; a fan that is provided in the body casing, for sucking indoor air from the opening and exhausting the indoor air from the exhaust port; a resin fan casing that has a suction port and forms an air passage of the fan; a protection frame formed outside the air passage to cover a terminal block provided outside the air passage; a resin terminal block cover that watertightly seals a protection frame opening of a lower portion of the protection frame and is opened and closed; a sheet-metal case that is provided in the protection frame and stores the terminal block; and a sheet-metal terminal block cover that opens and closes a lower opening of the sheet-metal case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Yoshikatsu Nankaku, Daisuke Nagasaki, Akihiro Ikawa
  • Publication number: 20140220881
    Abstract: A ventilator includes a body casing having an opening formed in its lower portion and an exhaust port formed on one side; a fan that is provided in the body casing, for sucking indoor air from the opening and exhausting the indoor air from the exhaust port; a resin fan casing that has a suction port and forms an air passage of the fan; a protection frame formed outside the air passage to cover a terminal block provided outside the air passage; a resin terminal block cover that watertightly seals a protection frame opening of a lower portion of the protection frame and is opened and closed; a sheet-metal case that is provided in the protection frame and stores the terminal block; and a sheet-metal terminal block cover that opens and closes a lower opening of the sheet-metal case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MASUDA, Yoshikatsu NANKAKU, Daisuke NAGASAKI, Akihiro IKAWA
  • Patent number: 8784040
    Abstract: A ventilator includes a body casing having an opening formed in its lower portion and an exhaust port formed on one side; a fan that is provided in the body casing, for sucking indoor air from the opening and exhausting the indoor air from the exhaust port; a resin fan casing that has a suction port and forms an air passage of the fan; a protection frame formed outside the air passage to cover a terminal block provided outside the air passage; a resin terminal block cover that watertightly seals a protection frame opening of a lower portion of the protection frame and is opened and closed; a sheet-metal case that is provided in the protection frame and stores the terminal block; and a sheet-metal terminal block cover that opens and closes a lower opening of the sheet-metal case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Yoshikatsu Nankaku, Daisuke Nagasaki, Akihiro Ikawa
  • Publication number: 20110008159
    Abstract: A ventilator includes a body casing having an opening formed in its lower portion and an exhaust port formed on one side; a fan that is provided in the body casing, for sucking indoor air from the opening and exhausting the indoor air from the exhaust port; a resin fan casing that has a suction port and forms an air passage of the fan; a protection frame formed outside the air passage to cover a terminal block provided outside the air passage; a resin terminal block cover that watertightly seals a protection frame opening of a lower portion of the protection frame and is opened and closed; a sheet-metal case that is provided in the protection frame and stores the terminal block; and a sheet-metal terminal block cover that opens and closes a lower opening of the sheet-metal case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Yoshikatsu Nankaku, Daisuke Nagasaki, Akihiro Ikawa
  • Patent number: 5620370
    Abstract: A blowing apparatus includes a suction passage having a suction chamber enclosed by rigid body surfaces, suction ports opening toward the suction chamber for sucking air from outside, and a fan suction port serving as a suction port for a blower, the suction ports, the suction chamber, and the fan suction port being arranged in nonlinear form. In such blowing apparatus, a doughnut-like straightening guide is arranged on an opening edge on the suction chamber side of the fan suction port. The straightening guide has a projection toward the suction chamber, an appropriate thickness in the radial direction, and a guide passage matching the fan suction port in the middle thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Umai, Yoshikatsu Nankaku, Keiichi Hasegawa, Yoshimi Iwamura, Katsuhisa Ootsuta, Kiyoshi Nakamura