Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hitachi, Ltd.

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation

Toshiba Ha Products Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation

Tsutomu Sakuma

Takashi Doi

Koji Kashima

Akihiro Noguchi

Susumu Saruta

Masato Tago

Minoru Komori

Kazuo Saito

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Hitoshi Matsuo

Hideyuki Ban

Shigemi Nagatomo

Takashi Matsuzaka

Akira Kudo

Toshio Ohtsuki

Satoru Nishiwaki

Hikaru Nonaka

Yasushi Takagi

Munehiro Horie

Takashi Komakine

Shinji Hirai

Jun Yamashita

Kuniaki Minami

Toshinori Iwasaki

Noboru Kagawa

Yoshihiko Uenoyama

Shoji Hashimoto

Kiyoteru Umakoshi

Hikaru Lascolinas Room No6 Nonaka

A refrigerator has a refrigerating cycle sequentially connecting a compressor, a condenser, a drawing mechanism, and evaporator, an accumulator, an inlet temperature sensor and an outlet temperature sensor for detecting the temperatures of the inlet and outlet of the evaporator, and a cooling fan for cooling the compressor. When the difference between the temperature detected by the inlet temperature sensor and the temperature detected by the outlet temperature sensor is a predetermined value or more, the cooling fan is stopped.

Refrigerator

It was difficult for previous health management support systems to grasp daily health condition quantitatively through using comprehensive indexes of personal health conditions, optimize advice as healthcare guidance, and show its expected effect in a favorable way. The disclosed method and system implement the following: estimating a predicted period of healthy life expectancy of each person who underwent health screening from health screening report data obtained through the health screening report data entry step, wherein healthy life expectancy prediction data is used that is prepared as basic data for predicting healthy life expectancy from a diversity of health screening report data. The predicted period of healthy life expectancy and related information for each person are displayed by display means or printed out by printing means.

Health management support method, system and healthy life expectancy prediction data generation method and system

A refrigerator of the present invention includes a refrigerating cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expander and an evaporator and filled with a flammable refrigerant, a load detector detecting a change in load of the compressor, and a control device detecting a damage which is a cause for leak of the refrigerant from the refrigerating cycle, based on a detection output of the load detector.

A refrigerator has a two-stage compressor and means for switching refrigerant flow between a primary channel and a bypassing channel at downstream of a condenser that is connected with an outlet of the two-stage compressor. The primary channel extends from a first exit of the means for switching, through a first capillary tube and a first evaporator, to a gas-liquid separator, a gas-exit of which is connected with a second evaporator through a second capillary tube. The bypassing channel extends from a second exit of the means for switching, through a bypass capillary, to the gas-liquid separator. When flow of refrigerant in the second evaporator is substantially interrupted and so detected, refrigerant flow is switched to the bypassing channel, by means for controlling.

Two-evaporator refrigerator having a bypass and channel-switching means for refrigerant

A refrigerator having a refrigerator evaporator and a freezer evaporator, capable of controlling the refrigerant circulation correctly and reducing the delay in the refrigerant behaviors. When freezer mode is to be switched to refrigerator mode, at the end of the freezer mode, a refrigerant recovery run recovers the refrigerant from the freezer evaporator and feeds it to a condenser before the refrigerator mode by running a compressor while blocking the refrigerant to the freezer evaporator and by running a compressor fan.

A refrigerator includes a first compartment, a second compartment, a compressor compressing and discharging refrigerant, a first evaporator connected to the compressor to cool the first compartment, the first evaporator having an outlet, a second evaporator connected to the compressor in parallel with the first evaporator to cool the second compartment, the second evaporator having an outlet, a check valve connected between the outlets of the first and second evaporators to prevent the refrigerant out of the first evaporator from entering the second evaporator, a flow-path switching element for switching a cooling mode between a first cooling mode in which the refrigerant discharged from the compressor is caused to flow through the first evaporator to thereby cool the first compartment and a second cooling mode in which the refrigerant discharged from the compressor is caused to flow through the second evaporator to thereby cool the second compartment, and a control device provided for controlling the compressor and the switching element so that the first and second cooling modes are switched alternately and so that the compressor is stopped under the first cooling mode with drop of the temperature in the either compartment.

Refrigerator with two evaporators

An air conditioning apparatus apparatus equipped with a cooling and heating cycle utilizing a refrigerant and equipped with an improved ice storage therein. The air conditioning apparatus includes a thermal storage tank for storing heat of refrigerant circulating in the cooling cycle; thermal storage refrigerant positioned parallel to an indoor heat exchanger; an auxiliary compressing unit provided in the thermal storage refrigerant pipe; an expansion unit for controlling expansion of the refrigerant. An method for the air conditioning apparatus. The method includes the steps of providing an auxiliary compressor; cooling a gaseous refrigerant from the auxiliary compressor; heat-exchanging the gaseous refrigerant; condensing the refrigerant; sending the condensed refrigerant to the indoor heat exchanger; evaporating the condensed refrigerant; and sending the evaporated refrigerant back to the auxiliary compressor.

Air conditioning apparatus with improved ice storage therein

A refrigerant recovering sealed container has at least a refrigerant passing portion. A connecting portion connects the refrigerant passing portion of the refrigerant recovering sealed container to a refrigerant supply/discharge port of an existing refrigeration cycle unit. A cooling section cools the interior of the refrigerant recovering sealed container so that a refrigerant filled in the existing refrigeration cycle unit is introduced into the refrigerant recovering sealed container through the connecting portion as a gaseous refrigerant and is recovered as a liquefied refrigerant. A measuring section measures an amount of the refrigerant recovered in the refrigerant recovering sealed container as the liquefied refrigerant by the cooling section. A control unit supplies control signals for activating the connecting portion, the cooling section, and the measuring section in a predetermined order.

Refrigerant recycling system with refrigeration recovering scheme

A Stirling engine which has an expansion cylinder and a compression cylinder with an expansion piston and a compression piston, respectively, that have a fixed phase difference between them, where the expansion cylinder and the compression cylinder are connected through a heater, a regenerator, and a cooler, a fixed amount of working fluid is sealed in the expansion cylinder and a compression cylinder, and the engine is driven by heating or cooling the working fluid with the heater or the cooler, and in the above Stirling engine, the heater for heating the working fluid includes a combustion chamber attached to the expansion cylinder, a burner for jetting a combustible substance into the combustion chamber, a plurality of heat exchanger pipes for forming a plurality of passages for the working fluid to connect through between the expansion cylinder and the regenerator by turning back on themselves, in order to heat the working fluid with the high temperature gas from the burner, and a cylinder head for installing the plurality of heat exchanger pipes, in a concentric configuration with approximately equal distance apart and with an inclination of predetermined angle, on the expansion cylinder, in order to make equal the lengths of the passages for the working fluid between the expansion cylinder and the regenerator.

Stirling engine

Disclosed are a catalyst carrier for purification of waste gas which comprises a carrier comprising a calcined clay material composed of 1 to 5% by weight of lithium oxide (Li.sub.2 O), not less than 20% by weight of aluminum oxide (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) and not less than 60% by weight of silicon dioxide (SiO.sub.2), the total thereof being substantially 100; an aluminum oxide supported on the surface of the said clay material; and a platinum group element having further supported on said aluminum oxide; and a process for preparing the same.

Catalyst carriers for purification of waste gas and process for

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Tsutomu Sakuma