Patents by Inventor Yuuichi Kami

Yuuichi Kami 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: 20220402336
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner includes a compressor, a heating unit, an outside air heat exchanger, a wind speed regulation unit, and a controller. The controller includes a melting control unit, a dry control unit, and a dry completion determination unit. In a dry defrosting mode, the melting control unit performs melting-defrosting to melt frost adhering to the outside air heat exchanger. The dry control unit performs a dry defrosting in which at least one of the amount of heat in a predetermined range or a wind speed regulated in a predetermined range by the wind speed regulation unit is supplied to residual water adhering to the outside air heat exchanger, due to melting of frost in the melting-defrosting, to dry the residual water. The dry completion determination unit determines whether drying of the residual water in the outside air heat exchanger is completed, in the dry defrosting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TADA, Yuuichi KAMI, Zhaoliang XU, Atsushi INABA
  • Publication number: 20220357086
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes: a compressor having a compression mechanism forming a compression chamber for compressing refrigerant, and a cooled portion cooled by the refrigerant before being compressed by the compression mechanism; a radiator that radiates the refrigerant compressed by the compressor; a decompressor that decompresses the refrigerant radiated by the radiator; an evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant decompressed by the decompressor; an acquisition unit that acquires the state of the refrigerant after cooling the cooled portion and before flowing into the compression chamber; and a control unit that controls the superheat degree of the refrigerant flowing into the compression chamber based on the state of the refrigerant acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Masafumi NAKASHIMA, Atsushi INABA, Mikiharu KUWAHARA, Yuuichi KAMI, Hiroshi MIEDA
  • Publication number: 20220275982
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor, an upstream branch portion, a heating portion, a decompression portion, a bypass passage, a bypass flow adjustment portion, and a mixing portion. The mixing portion mixes a bypass side refrigerant flowing out from the bypass flow adjustment portion with a decompression-portion side refrigerant flowing out from the decompression portion, and causes the mixed refrigerant to flow to a suction port side of the compressor. The mixing portion mixes the bypass side refrigerant and the decompression-portion side refrigerant such that an enthalpy difference obtained by subtracting an enthalpy of an ideal homogeneously mixed refrigerant from an enthalpy of a suction side refrigerant actually sucked into the compressor is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIEDA, Atsushi INABA, Yuuichi KAMI, Mikiharu KUWAHARA, Masafumi NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220034561
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a refrigerant circuit switching device. The refrigerant circuit switching device is configured to switch among at least a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit conducts refrigerant, which is outputted from a heat releasing device, to a liquid storage and conducts the refrigerant, which is outputted from the liquid storage, to a first depressurizing device and conducts the refrigerant, which is depressurized by the first depressurizing device, to an external heat exchanger. The second circuit conducts the refrigerant, which is outputted from the external heat exchanger, to the liquid storage and conducts the refrigerant, which is outputted from the liquid storage, to a second depressurizing device and conducts the refrigerant, which is depressurized by the second depressurizing device, to an evaporating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yuuji SUWA, Etsuhisa YAMADA, Masao YASUNO, Daiki KATOU, Masaaki KAWAKUBO, Atsushi INABA, Yuuichi KAMI
  • Patent number: 10427497
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner includes an air-heating switching portion that switches between a first air-heating mode of heating ventilation air by a heating heat exchanger and a second air-heating mode of heating the ventilation air by a condenser. The vehicle air conditioner includes a heat-exchange adjustment portion that adjusts an amount of heat exchange between the high-pressure refrigerant and the ventilation air in the condenser, and a heat-exchange control unit that controls the heat-exchange adjustment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuuichi Kami
  • Publication number: 20180141410
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner includes an air-heating switching portion that switches between a first air-heating mode of heating ventilation air by a heating heat exchanger and a second air-heating mode of heating the ventilation air by a condenser. The vehicle air conditioner includes a heat-exchange adjustment portion that adjusts an amount of heat exchange between the high-pressure refrigerant and the ventilation air in the condenser, and a heat-exchange control unit that controls the heat-exchange adjustment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventor: Yuuichi KAMI
  • Patent number: 9605883
    Abstract: A heat pump cycle includes a refrigerant circuit and a coolant circuit. A first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are disposed between the refrigerant circuit and the coolant circuit. The first heat exchanger includes an exterior heat exchanger that functions as an evaporator in a heating operation, and a radiator for radiating heat of a coolant. The second heat exchanger transmits a heat of high-pressure refrigerant to the coolant in the heating operation. A temperature of refrigerant within the second heat exchanger is higher than a temperature of refrigerant within the first heat exchanger. The heat obtained from the second heat exchanger is supplied to the first heat exchanger through the coolant. Further, the heat obtained from the second heat exchanger is stored in the coolant. In defrosting operation, the coolant that has stored the heat therein is supplied to the first heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Katoh, Kota Sakamoto, Yuuichi Kami
  • Publication number: 20140318170
    Abstract: A heat pump cycle includes a refrigerant circuit and a coolant circuit. A first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are disposed between the refrigerant circuit and the coolant circuit. The first heat exchanger includes an exterior heat exchanger that functions as an evaporator in a heating operation, and a radiator for radiating heat of a coolant. The second heat exchanger transmits a heat of high-pressure refrigerant to the coolant in the heating operation. A temperature of refrigerant within the second heat exchanger is higher than a temperature of refrigerant within the first heat exchanger. The heat obtained from the second heat exchanger is supplied to the first heat exchanger through the coolant. Further, the heat obtained from the second heat exchanger is stored in the coolant. In defrosting operation, the coolant that has stored the heat therein is supplied to the first heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshiki Katoh, Kota Sakamoto, Yuuichi Kami