Patents by Inventor Yuichi Yanagase

Yuichi Yanagase 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: 10190586
    Abstract: A compressor is provided with a fixed scroll having a spiral lap erected on a bed plate; an orbiting scroll having a spiral lap erected on a panel and forming a compression room meshed with the fixed scroll; and an orbiting bearing disposed penetrating the panel and the central part of the lap of the orbiting scroll, wherein a lap center is so shifted from a panel center out of alignment in a direction in which, within a range in which the orbiting bearing can be formed in the central part of the lap, the longer of the minimum distance between the lap winding end position of the orbiting scroll and the outer circumference of the panel and the minimum distance between the outermost circumferential part and the outer circumference of the panel in an approximately 90° direction of becomes the shortest distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.
    Inventors: Masatsugu Chikano, Yuichi Yanagase, Masashi Miyake, Masaru Ohtahara, Hiromu Takeda
  • Patent number: 8888475
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided in which the amount of lubricant oil supply is appropriately controlled over a low to high rotational frequency range of the scroll compressor. The scroll compressor has an oil supply unit and an oil supply passage. The oil supply unit includes a small hole with a diameter not exceeding a seal ring width of the sealing part and a groove which are formed on the end plate of the boss portion on the back side of the orbiting scroll. As the orbiting scroll orbitally moves, oil in the high pressure hydraulic chamber pools in the small hole to be discharged, across the seal ring, into the back pressure chamber. The oil supply passage communicates between the high pressure hydraulic chamber and the back pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yanagase, Eiji Sato, Isamu Tsubono, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masatsugu Chikano
  • Publication number: 20140294643
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes a compressor mechanism part 2, and a motor and a crank shaft 101 for driving the compressor mechanism part, in a sealed case 100, and includes sliding bearings 103, 104, and 105 at least either in an engagement part between the compressor mechanism part and the crank shaft or in a rotation support part of the crank shaft. Further, an unleaded resin impregnation material is used for at least one of the sliding bearings, the crank shaft is made of a ferrous material, and a hard carbon film including hydrogen is formed on a part of the crank shaft sliding with the sliding bearing using the unleaded resin impregnation material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki KOYAMA, Yuichi YANAGASE
  • Publication number: 20130195707
    Abstract: The invention provides a refrigerant compressor that is capable of preventing seizure or galling at the bearing slide section and has high anti-wear properties. The refrigerant compressor includes a compressor mechanism for compressing a refrigerant. The compressor mechanism includes a fixed scroll 100 and an orbiting scroll 200, and the two scrolls are mutually meshed. The refrigerant compressor also includes a rotary shaft 300 for driving the compressor mechanism. A plain bearing(s) is/are provided either at the joint section between the rotary shaft and the compressor mechanism or at the support section supporting the rotary shaft or at both of the two sections. The plain bearing(s) is/are formed of lead-free resin-impregnated material capable of adsorbing wear particles, and the rotary shaft is formed of iron material. The section of the rotary shaft that slides against the plain bearing(s) is covered with a hard film 1000 of a hardness of 1000 Hv or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Kozuma, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Kouiti Imada, Yuichi Yanagase
  • Publication number: 20120230854
    Abstract: A scroll compressor with high efficiency is provided according to the present invention. The scroll compressor compresses a refrigerant by meshing of an orbiting scroll and a fixed scroll, wherein the orbiting scroll includes a back pressure hole which intermittently connects a compression chamber and a back pressure chamber per one orbit of the orbiting scroll, and the back pressure hole communicates with the compression chamber and also with the back pressure chamber and shuts off the communication with the back pressure chamber after the communication with the compression chamber is shut off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Masatsugu CHIKANO, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Eiji Sato, Yuichi Yanagase
  • Publication number: 20120230853
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor, it is hard to zone a high pressure chamber and a back pressure chamber which are formed in a back face of an orbiting scroll by a sealing means, increase a feeding amount to the high pressure chamber and the back pressure chamber at a low speed and adjust it at a high speed. A sealing means sealing a high pressure chamber in a center portion of a back face of an orbiting scroll and a back pressure chamber formed by an outer peripheral portion is provided, and a spiral shaped throttle passage is provided between a boss portion in the back face of the orbiting scroll and an outer peripheral surface of an orbiting bearing, thereby constructing an oil feeding route for feeding a lubricating oil to the back pressure chamber from the high pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi YANAGASE, Isamu Tsubono, Eiji Sato, Masatsugu Chikano, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Mutsunori Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20110064596
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided in which the amount of lubricant oil supply is appropriately controlled over a low to high rotational frequency range of the scroll compressor. The scroll compressor has an oil supply unit and an oil supply passage. The oil supply unit includes a small hole with a diameter not exceeding a seal ring width of the sealing part and a groove which are formed on the end plate of the boss portion on the back side of the orbiting scroll. As the orbiting scroll orbitally moves, oil in the high pressure hydraulic chamber pools in the small hole to be discharged, across the seal ring, into the back pressure chamber. The oil supply passage communicates between the high pressure hydraulic chamber and the back pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Yuichi YANAGASE, Eiji Sato, Isamu Tsubono, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masatsugu Chikano
  • Patent number: 7758326
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises compression chambers defined with an orbiting scroll orbiting relative to a fixed scroll, and a back pressure chamber provided on the face opposite from a wrap of the orbiting scroll. A back pressure port is provided, which is formed in an end-plate of the orbiting scroll and connects from a compression chamber side opening opened to a compression chamber side and to a back pressure chamber side opening opened to a back pressure chamber side. The compression chamber side opening is opened and closed by an end-plate of the fixed scroll according as the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll to perform connection and blockage of the back pressure port. The flow resistance of fluid flowing in and out between the back pressure chamber and the compression chamber is reduced and the compression efficiency and reliability are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Fujimura, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuichi Yanagase, Makoto Aoki, Masashi Miyake, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masaru Ohtahara, Syuuji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Imamura, Yoshinobu Yosuke, Kenji Tojo
  • Publication number: 20070231172
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises compression chambers defined with an orbiting scroll orbiting relative to a fixed scroll, and a back pressure chamber provided on the face opposite from a wrap of the orbiting scroll. A back pressure port is provided, which is formed in an end-plate of the orbiting scroll and connects from a compression chamber side opening opened to a compression chamber side and to a back pressure chamber side opening opened to a back pressure chamber side. The compression chamber side opening is opened and closed by an end-plate of the fixed scroll according as the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll to perform connection and blockage of the back pressure port. The flow resistance of fluid flowing in and out between the back pressure chamber and the compression chamber is reduced and the compression efficiency and reliability are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Fujimura, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuichi Yanagase, Makoto Aoki, Masashi Miyake, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Masaru Ohtahara, Syuuji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Imamura, Yoshinobu Yosuke, Kenji Tojo
  • Publication number: 20070231171
    Abstract: A displacement type compressor includes a compressing mechanism section for performing a compression, a motor for driving the compressing mechanism section, and a crankshaft adapted to be driven in rotation by the motor to rotate the compressing mechanism section. The motor includes stator cores and having claw-type magnetic poles formed of a magnetic powder and circumferentially arranged in alternately meshed states, and annular coils and wound in a toric shape around the claw-type magnetic poles. Thus, the displacement type compressor is capable of being at a high speed and has a reduced size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yuichi Yanagase, Kazuyuki Fujimura, Makoto Aoki, Masashi Miyake, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Yuji Enomoto, Satoshi Kikuchi, Shinichi Wakui, Tsutomu Nozaki