Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kimata
Yoshiyuki Kimata 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).
-
Publication number: 20130057120Abstract: An object is to provide a hermetic electric compressor that can simplify the installation structure of an internal protector and improve the ease-of-assembly thereof. In a hermetic electric compressor having a compressor and an electric motor (10) built into a sealed housing (2), the electric motor (10) includes a stator (8) to which plastic insulating bobbins (30) having flanges (30B, 30C) on an inner and outer circumferences of a plurality of tooth parts of a stator core are fitted and around which a stator winding wire (8A) is wound in concentrated winding around the plastic insulating bobbins (30), and an internal protector (29) for electric-motor protection is latched between the inner and outer circumferential flanges (30B, 30C) of the plastic insulating bobbins (30) by being urged against the stator winding wire (8A).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yogo Takasu, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Masanari Uno
-
Patent number: 8366406Abstract: A multi-stage compressor is provided that reliably prevents liquid compression in a higher stage compression mechanism and also prevents compression efficiency degradation resulting from overheating of injection refrigerant and from the lubricating oil being raised up together with the injection refrigerant. An injection circuit is branched into a plurality of circuits. A first circuit thereof is communicatively connected to an inside space of a closed housing that is at the same side as the higher stage compression mechanism with respect to an electric motor, and a second circuit is communicatively connected to an inside space of the closed housing that is opposite from the higher stage compression mechanism with respect to the electric motor. The first circuit and the second circuit are provided with a switching mechanism for switching the injection circuit to the first circuit or the second circuit according to the dryness of the injection refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Patent number: 8291149Abstract: A storage device includes a drive selection section (1), a hard disk drive (HDD) (2), and a non-volatile memory drive (3). When an instruction such as a data I/O instruction is issued from a host such as a CPU (5) and an ATA controller (6) to the hard disk drive (HDD) (2), the drive selection section (1) receives the address value. If the address value is included in the address space predefined, the non-volatile memory drive (3) is made to execute the instruction. Otherwise, the hard disk drive (HDD) (2) is made to execute the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2004Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuichiro Azuma, Masahiro Matsumoto, Takayuki Okinaga, Shigeru Takemura, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Takayuki Kishimoto
-
Patent number: 8257063Abstract: A refrigerant compressor is provided that can be assembled easily and can quickly discharge lubricating oil that leaks from contact sliding parts of its mechanical seal so as to prevent the oil from turning into sludge around the stationary ring. In a refrigerant compressor in which a mechanical seal which shaft seals the inner side and the outer side of a housing is installed at a portion of the housing through which a rotating shaft penetrates, a mechanical seal comprises a stationary ring securely fastened to the inner circumferential surface of a boss portion, a rotary ring securely fastened to the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft to the inside of the stationary ring so as to face the stationary ring, whereby sliding contact is formed between sides of the stationary ring and the rotary ring.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yasuharu Maruiwa, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yoshiaki Miyamoto
-
Patent number: 8186971Abstract: A multistage compressor is provided, which can reduce an oil circulation ratio by reducing the amount of lubricating oil to be taken in by a high-stage compression mechanism to improve the system efficiency and prevent a shortage of lubricating oil. A low-stage compression mechanism and a high-stage compression mechanism are disposed below and above to flank an electric motor, respectively, intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas compressed by the low-stage compression mechanism is discharged into a sealed housing, and the intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas is taken in by the high-stage compression mechanism so as to be compressed in two stages, an oil separator plate that centrifugally separates lubricating oil contained in the intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas, which is taken in by the high-stage compression mechanism after passing through the electric motor, is provided at one end of a rotor of the electric motor such that a rotary shaft extends through the oil separator plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Patent number: 8118577Abstract: A scroll compressor (CP) in which the cylinder oil circulation rate of lubricant is optimized during the operation to improve the compression efficiency is provided. In the scroll compressor (CP) having a stepped shape, the cylinder oil circulation rate of lubricant taken into the scroll compressor (CP) and circulated together with refrigerant is set to fall within the range from 1% or more to 10% or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Hajime Sato, Taichi Tateishi
-
Patent number: 8087912Abstract: A crankshaft is to be provided that allows its assembly process to be simplified, work hours required for the assembly process to be shortened and a manufacturing cost to be reduced. The crankshaft is provided with first eccentric section and second eccentric section at respective ends while interposing a shaft section therebetween and has such a shape that a peripheral edge of the first eccentric section and/or the second eccentric section is positioned radially inside of a peripheral edge of the shaft section.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2008Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Patent number: 8037702Abstract: To provide a multistage compressor including an injection circuit, which can continue high-efficiency and high-capacity operations even if the injection circuit is turned on/off in accordance with operating conditions. A multistage compressor includes a high stage side compressing mechanism suctioning the intermediate pressure refrigerant gas compressed with a low stage side compressing mechanism to perform two-stage compression, and an injection circuit for injecting an intermediate pressure refrigerant into the intermediate pressure refrigerant gas suctioned to the high stage side compressing mechanism, the high stage side compressing mechanism including a capacity control mechanism for bypassing a refrigerant gas that is being compressed to a suction side, the injection circuit including an on/off mechanism for performing on/off control of refrigerant injection, and the capacity control mechanism and the on/off mechanism being operated in conjunction with each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Patent number: 8029254Abstract: Provided is scroll-type fluid machine that facilitates the formation of a back-pressure chamber so as to increase the design freedom in the space on the back side of the revolving scroll member, where it is difficult to ensure sufficient space, by decreasing, as much as possible, the installation space of the sealing member partitioning the back-pressure chamber. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a back-pressure chamber to which high-pressure gas is introduced is partitioned between the revolving scroll member and a fixed support member, a sealing member is constructed of an annular U sealing member, the annular U sealing member is oriented in a direction orthogonal to the back side of the revolving scroll member, and one side contacts a side surface (sealed surface) of a fixed support member.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Patent number: 7950912Abstract: A scroll compressor performing three-dimensional compressions, which can optimize a tip clearance in operation while considering a thermal expansion and a pressure deformation and which can reduce a compression leakage to improve a compression efficiency thereby to realize a high performance. The leading end faces (13c and 13d) and the bottom face of a spiral wrap (13b) have a step portion (13e), and the wrap height on the outer circumference side of the spiral wrap (13b) is made larger than that on the inner circumference side wrap height. The spiral wrap (13b) on the inner circumference side with respect to the step portion (13e) is stepwise or continuously made gradually lower toward the center side of the spiral wrap (13b), and the tip clearance (?i) of the spiral wrap on the inner circumference side with respect to the step portion (13) is made gradually larger toward the center side of the spiral wrap (13b).Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Mitsubushi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Taichi Tateishi, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Yogo Takasu
-
Patent number: 7914267Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a multistage compressor employing a gas injection system for a CO2 cycle which is able to improve the compression efficiency and the compression performance thereof. In a multistage compressor (2) for a CO2 cycle (1) that carries out two-stage compression by discharging CO2 refrigerant gas compressed in a low-stage side rotary compressing mechanism (4) into a closed housing (3) and taking intermediate pressure refrigerant gas in the closed housing (3) by a high-stage side scroll compressing mechanism (5), a gas injection circuit (15) for injecting intermediate pressure CO2 refrigerant gas extracted from a refrigerant circuit into the closed housing (3) is connected to the closed housing (3), and the pressure ratios of the low-stage side rotary compressing mechanism (4) and the high-stage side scroll compressing mechanism (5) are substantially equivalent, and the ratios of displacement volume are substantially equivalent.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Patent number: 7850438Abstract: To provide a scroll type fluid machine which can ensure that even when the pressure ratio of the pressure P1 of its high pressure chamber (back pressure chamber) to the pressure P2 of its low pressure chamber (P1/P2) is low, its orbiting scroll be pressed against its fixed scroll without having its orbiting scroll increased in diameter to prevent any leakage of a fluid through between the front end face of the wall of its orbiting scroll and the bottom face of the end plate of its fixed scroll. The scroll type fluid machine has an Oldham's keyway (17) formed along the edge of the back side of the orbiting scroll end plate (13a) for holding one end portion of an Oldham's ring (10) slidably, and a sealing member (18) has a tongue part (18a) formed to cut off the flow of any fluid from the back pressure chamber to the Oldham's keyway (17).Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Publication number: 20100303661Abstract: A scroll-type compressor whose capacity can be easily changed and with which an inconvenience can be prevented is provided. A scroll-type compressor includes a fixed scroll having a first spiral-shaped wall member provided upright on a side surface of a first end plate, and an orbiting scroll having a second spiral-shaped wall member provided upright on a side surface of the second end plate, the orbiting scroll being supported so as to be capable of orbital revolution movement while being prevented from self rotation by meshing the wall members with each other. Wall-member stepped portions having a small height at the center and a large height at the outer side in a direction along the spiral are formed on the upper edges of the first and second wall members.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kimata, Hajime Sato
-
Publication number: 20100226807Abstract: Provided is scroll-type fluid machine that facilitates the formation of a back-pressure chamber so as to increase the design freedom in the space on the back side of the revolving scroll member, where it is difficult to ensure sufficient space, by decreasing, as much as possible, the installation space of the sealing member partitioning the back-pressure chamber. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a back-pressure chamber to which high-pressure gas is introduced is partitioned between the revolving scroll member and a fixed support member, a sealing member is constructed of an annular U sealing member, the annular U sealing member is oriented in a direction orthogonal to the back side of the revolving scroll member, and one side contacts a side surface (sealed surface) of a fixed support member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Publication number: 20100158732Abstract: To provide a scroll type fluid machine which can ensure that even when the pressure ratio of the pressure P1 of its high pressure chamber (back pressure chamber) to the pressure P2 of its low pressure chamber (P1/P2) is low, its orbiting scroll be pressed against its fixed scroll without having its orbiting scroll increased in diameter to prevent any leakage of a fluid through between the front end face of the wall of its orbiting scroll and the bottom face of the end plate of its fixed scroll. The scroll type fluid machine has an Oldham's keyway (17) formed along the edge of the back side of the orbiting scroll end plate (13a) for holding one end portion of an Oldham's ring (10) slidably, and a sealing member (18) has a tongue part (18a) formed to cut off the flow of any fluid from the back pressure chamber to the Oldham's keyway (17).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries LtdInventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Publication number: 20100143172Abstract: A multistage compressor employing a gas injection system for CO2 cycle that attains enhancements of compression efficiency and compression performance. The multistage compressor is multistage compressor (2) for CO2 cycle (1) adapted to carry out two-stage compression involving emitting the CO2 refrigerant gas compressed by inferior-stage side rotary compression means (4) into sealed housing (3) and having the intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas within the sealed housing (3) suctioned by superior-stage side scroll compression means (5), wherein to the sealed housing (3), there is connected gas injection circuit (15) capable of injection of intermediate-pressure CO2 refrigerant gas extracted from a refrigerant circuit into the sealed housing (3), and wherein the inferior-stage side rotary compression means (4) and the superior-stage side scroll compression means (5) are approximately identical with each other in pressure ratio and approximately equivalent with each other in displacement ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Patent number: 7717686Abstract: There is provided a compressor capable of feeding lubricating oil to a blade of a rotary type compression mechanism even if the oil level in an oil reservoir lowers. The compressor includes a low stage-side rotary type compression mechanism having a rotor, and a blade reciprocating with the rotation of the rotor while the tip end thereof is in contact with the rotor; a high stage-side scroll type compression mechanism for sucking and compressing refrigerant gas compressed by the low stage-side rotary type compression mechanism; a positive displacement lubrication pump for feeding lubricating oil to the high stage-side scroll type compression mechanism; and an oil feeding path for feeding the lubricating oil, which is fed to the high stage-side scroll type compression mechanism, toward the blade of the low stage-side rotary type compression mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2008Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Kondo, Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
-
Publication number: 20100111705Abstract: A refrigerant compressor is provided that can be assembled easily and can quickly discharge lubricating oil that leaks from contact sliding parts of its mechanical seal so as to prevent the oil from turning into sludge around the stationary ring. In a refrigerant compressor in which a mechanical seal which shaft seals the inner side and the outer side of a housing is installed at a portion of the housing through which a rotating shaft penetrates, a mechanical seal comprises a stationary ring securely fastened to the inner circumferential surface of a boss portion, a rotary ring securely fastened to the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft to the inside of the stationary ring so as to face the stationary ring, whereby sliding contact is formed between sides of the stationary ring and the rotary ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yasuharu Maruiwa, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yoshiaki Miyamoto
-
Publication number: 20100092318Abstract: Intended is to provide a scroll compressor capable of performing three-dimensional compressions, which can optimize a tip clearance in operation while considering a thermal expansion and a pressure deformation and which can reduce a compression leakage to improve a compression efficiency thereby to realize a high performance. The leading end faces (13c and 13d) and the bottom face of a spiral wrap (13b) have a step portion (13e), and the wrap height on the outer circumference side of the spiral wrap (13b) is made larger than that on the inner circumference side wrap height, so that the scroll compressor can perform three-dimensional compressions capable of compressing in the circumferential direction of the spiral wrap (13b) and in the wrap height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2007Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Taichi Tateishi, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Yogo Takasu
-
Publication number: 20100083690Abstract: A multistage compressor is provided, which can reduce an oil circulation ratio by reducing the amount of lubricating oil to be taken in by a high-stage compression mechanism to improve the system efficiency and prevent a shortage of lubricating oil. A low-stage compression mechanism and a high-stage compression mechanism are disposed below and above to flank an electric motor, respectively, intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas compressed by the low-stage compression mechanism is discharged into a sealed housing, and the intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas is taken in by the high-stage compression mechanism so as to be compressed in two stages, an oil separator plate that centrifugally separates lubricating oil contained in the intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas, which is taken in by the high-stage compression mechanism after passing through the electric motor, is provided at one end of a rotor of the electric motor such that a rotary shaft extends through the oil separator plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2008Publication date: April 8, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata