Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu SHIMPO

Yoshikazu SHIMPO 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: 10563558
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery unit that includes: a lead-in pipe that leads a heat medium from outside an exhaust pipe, via an inlet portion of an heat exchanger, into the heat exchanger; a lead-out pipe that leads the heat medium out from the heat exchanger, via an outlet portion of the heat exchanger, outside the exhaust pipe; and a pair of seal members that seal a space between the inlet portion and the lead-in pipe and a space between the outlet portion and the lead-out pipe, with at least one of the pair of seal members including an O-ring disposed in a position in which the at least one of the pair of seal members does not contact exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust pipe and in which the at least one of the pair of seal members contacts the heat medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Murata, Yoshikazu Shimpo, Yoshihiro Koga
  • Publication number: 20180298803
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery unit that includes: a lead-in pipe that leads a heat medium from outside an exhaust pipe, via an inlet portion of an heat exchanger, into the heat exchanger; a lead-out pipe that leads the heat medium out from the heat exchanger, via an outlet portion of the heat exchanger, outside the exhaust pipe; and a pair of seal members that seal a space between the inlet portion and the lead-in pipe and a space between the outlet portion and the lead-out pipe, with at least one of the pair of seal members including an O-ring disposed in a position in which the at least one of the pair of seal members does not contact exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust pipe and in which the at least one of the pair of seal members contacts the heat medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio MURATA, Yoshikazu SHIMPO, Yoshihiro KOGA
  • Publication number: 20180272840
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted heat utilization device (10) includes: an engine fluid circuit (12) in which fluid circulates to cool an engine (18); a heater fluid circuit (14) that passes through an exhaust heat recovery apparatus (26) that recovers a heat of exhaust gas (28) and a vehicle-interior heat exchanger (24) for radiating a heat of the fluid into a vehicle interior; a cooling-heating fluid circuit (16) that passes through a radiating heat exchanger (34), the radiating heat exchanger being included in a refrigeration cycle (30) in which refrigerant is compressed by a compressor (32) and the compressed refrigerant is expanded; a first switching unit (52) that is configured to selectively switch a state of the engine fluid circuit (12) and the heater fluid circuit (14) between a connected and a disconnected state; a second switching unit (54) that is configured to selectively switch a state of the heater fluid circuit (14) and the cooling-heating fluid circuit (16) between a connected state and a disconnected stat
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi ONISHI, Yoshikazu SHIMPO, Toshio MURATA, Shinichi TANIGUCHI, Hideyuki KOMITSU, Ikuo OZAWA, Norihiko ENOMOTO, Kazunori SAIDA, Nobuharu KAKEHASHI