Patents by Inventor Zuozhou CHEN

Zuozhou CHEN 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: 20230417249
    Abstract: A propeller fan includes a blade configured to rotate around a predetermined rotation axis, and a ring connected to a blade end of the blade. The blade includes a curved portion on a side on which the blade end is located. The curved portion has, in a rotational radial direction of the blade, a cross-sectional shape projecting in a convex manner toward a side on which a pressure surface is located. In the curved portion, when a height from a position of a blade root on a camber line in a direction along the predetermined rotation axis is an axial-direction height and a position at which the axial-direction height becomes maximum in the rotational radial direction is a maximum curve position, the axial-direction height at the maximum curve position is maximum on a side on which a trailing edge of the blade is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIBASHI, Zuozhou CHEN, Anan TAKADA, Kaname MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11852367
    Abstract: A control device causes an air conditioning apparatus to execute a temperature adjustment operation of causing a first temperature to approach a first target temperature at a target time point and causing a second temperature to approach a second target temperature at the target time point. The first temperature is a surface temperature of a partition portion including at least one of a floor, a wall, and a ceiling facing a target space. The second temperature is an indoor temperature of the target space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Harada, Zuozhou Chen, Kaname Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20230228278
    Abstract: A propeller fan includes a hub rotatable about an axis, and a plurality of blades extending radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the hub. A ring surrounds the plurality of blades and is connected to each blade tip. A maximum camber location is on a camber line where a distance from a chord line to the camber line in an arc-shaped cross section of each blade about the axis is maximum. An axial height is from a trailing edge to the camber line in a direction along the axis. Each blade has a first portion provided inside in the radial direction of rotation and whose axial height at the maximum camber location is substantially constant, and a second portion provided outside in the radial direction of rotation and whose axial height at the maximum camber location increases toward the blade tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Zuozhou CHEN, Anan TAKADA, Tomohiro ISHIBASHI, Tooru IWATA, Kaname MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220113053
    Abstract: A control device causes an air conditioning apparatus to execute a temperature adjustment operation of causing a first temperature to approach a first target temperature at a target time point and causing a second temperature to approach a second target temperature at the target time point. The first temperature is a surface temperature of a partition portion including at least one of a floor, a wall, and a ceiling facing a target space. The second temperature is an indoor temperature of the target space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke HARADA, Zuozhou CHEN, Kaname MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11073302
    Abstract: This indoor unit of an air conditioner includes an indoor unit main body having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger; and a cross-flow fan configured to blow out air, which has undergone heat exchange by the heat exchanger. The cross-flow fan has a blow-out flow path that is configured such that a cross-sectional area gradually increases downward, with the blow-out flow path guiding blown-out air to the outlet. When a distance in the lower wall from an intersection, where a tangent inscribing a tongue of the cross-flow fan orthogonally intersects the lower wall, to a lower end of the indoor unit main body is referred to as distance L, a ratio (L/D) of the distance L to outer diameter D of an impeller of the cross-flow fan is less than 0.05. At least part of the blow-out flow path is formed to project out of the outlet at least when air conditioning operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironobu Teraoka, Hideshi Tanaka, Satoshi Nakai, Masahito Higashida, Masafumi Uda, Kaname Maruyama, Zuozhou Chen
  • Publication number: 20210048220
    Abstract: This indoor unit of an air conditioner includes an indoor unit main body having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger; and a cross-flow fan configured to blow out air, which has undergone heat exchange by the heat exchanger. The cross-flow fan has a blow-out flow path that is configured such that a cross-sectional area gradually increases downward, with the blow-out flow path guiding blown-out air to the outlet. When a distance in the lower wall from an intersection, where a tangent inscribing a tongue of the cross-flow fan orthogonally intersects the lower wall, to a lower end of the indoor unit main body is referred to as distance L, a ratio (L/D) of the distance L to outer diameter D of an impeller of the cross-flow fan is less than 0.05. At least part of the blow-out flow path is formed to project out of the outlet at least when air conditioning operation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironobu TERAOKA, Hideshi TANAKA, Satoshi NAKAI, Masahito HIGASHIDA, Masafumi UDA, Kaname MARUYAMA, Zuozhou CHEN
  • Publication number: 20210033288
    Abstract: This indoor unit of an air conditioner includes an indoor unit body including an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange on air drawn in from the inlet; and a cross-flow fan configured to blow out air, which has undergone heat exchange performed by the heat exchanger from the outlet. The cross-flow fan includes a blow-out flow path formed by a lower wall, left and right side walls, and an upper wall so that a cross-sectional area gradually increases downward, with the blow-out flow path guiding blown-out air to the outlet. The two side walls are arranged to project out of the outlet at least when an air conditioning operation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironobu TERAOKA, Hideshi TANAKA, Satoshi NAKAI, Masahito HIGASHIDA, Masafumi UDA, Kaname MARUYAMA, Zuozhou CHEN