Patents Assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corporation
  • Patent number: 11843095
    Abstract: A secondary battery management device is communicably connected to a secondary battery unit including a secondary battery, and manages the secondary battery unit. The secondary battery management device is configured to: request the secondary battery unit to transmit a voltage and a state value of the secondary battery; receive the voltage and the state value of the secondary battery transmitted from the secondary battery unit; calculate a value of correction of the state value on the basis of the voltage and the state value which have been received; and transmit the calculated value of correction to the secondary battery unit in order to apply the calculated value of correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kazumi, Takeshi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11835138
    Abstract: A diaphragm seal includes a first diaphragm that faces a measurement medium, a sealed-liquid housing, and a second diaphragm. The first diaphragm receives pressure from the measurement medium. The sealed-liquid housing houses a sealed liquid for transferring the pressure to a transmitter. The second diaphragm causes hydrogen intruded into the sealed liquid to permeate through the second diaphragm and be discharged from the sealed liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yukimitsu Sekimori
  • Patent number: 11835483
    Abstract: A magnetic flaw detection method includes a magnetization step (S2) of moving a magnet (21) in a predetermined direction (D) along a surface of an object (7) that is a magnetic body and subsequently removing the magnet (21) from the surface of the object (7) to magnetize a region (R) corresponding to a movement range of the magnet (21) on the object (7), a sensor arrangement step (S3) of arranging a magnetic sensor (35a) to be capable of measuring magnetic flux leakage (8) generated from an abnormal portion (72) of the region (R) that was magnetized in the object (7), and a detection step (S4) of detecting an abnormality in the region (R) with the magnetic sensor (35a) arranged by the sensor arrangement step (S3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Mito, Kazunori Miyazawa, Fumitake Terao, Shoma Takeda, Shoichi Shiosaki
  • Patent number: 11839156
    Abstract: A temperature difference power generation apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a thermoelectric conversion element configured to convert thermal energy into electric energy based on a temperature difference, radiation fins which are thermally connected to a low-temperature side of the thermoelectric conversion element and contactable to outside air, and a pipe which is thermally connected to a high-temperature side of the thermoelectric conversion element and through which a high-temperature fluid at a higher temperature than the outside air is flowable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION, COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
    Inventors: Takashi Arai, Yusaku Yoshida, Shuichi Sato, Hiroo Urabe, Yoshiyasu Takefuji
  • Patent number: 11835413
    Abstract: A resonant pressure sensor includes a first substrate and a resonator. The first substrate includes a diaphragm and a projection disposed on the diaphragm. The resonator is disposed in the first substrate, a part of the resonator being included in the projection, and the resonator being disposed between a top of the projection and an intermediate level of the first substrate. The first substrate is an SOI substrate in which a silicon dioxide layer is inserted between a silicon substrate and a superficial silicon layer. The intermediate level of the first substrate is disposed in the silicon substrate, and the resonator is disposed in the projection included in the superficial silicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshida, Yuusaku Yoshida, Atsushi Yumoto, Yoshitaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230384123
    Abstract: A detection device includes a processor that detects a state change of a target object based on sensor value array data in which sensor values acquired from sensors are associated with array positions of the sensors, generates, with respect to two pieces of the sensor value array data for which the sensor values are acquired at different times, differential value array data, generates, from the differential value array data, two pieces of partial differential value array data, and determines presence or absence of a smooth change of the differential values in the differential value array data based on a result of threshold determination on similarity between the differential values in the two pieces of partial differential value array data and a result of threshold determination on a variance value of the differential value array data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Mito, Kazunori Miyazawa, Eiji Mihara
  • Publication number: 20230375585
    Abstract: A reaction analysis system includes a first flow path through which a reaction fluid, obtained by mixing reactants in a mixer, flows, a second flow path through which the reaction fluid flows and that has higher heat exchange efficiency than the first flow path, a temperature measurer that measures a temperature distribution of the reaction fluid along the first flow path, and a reaction analysis device that specifies a reaction state of the reaction fluid based on a reaction parameter. The reaction parameter is obtained from the measured temperature distribution and indicates the reaction state of the reaction fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuka Manabe, Jun-ichi Ogawa, Yusuke Imamura
  • Patent number: 11821835
    Abstract: A spectroscopic analysis device includes a detector and a processor. The detector detects measurement light obtained by irradiating, with irradiation light, a sample that contains a contained substance disposed on a film on which surface plasmons are generated. The measurement light includes information on an optical spectrum of the sample, and the information includes a resonance spectrum of the surface plasmons and an absorption spectrum of the sample. The processor calculates: a peak wavelength in a wavelength band in which the resonance spectrum and the absorption spectrum are generated; a peak absorbance of the contained substance based on an absorption band of the contained substance; and a ratio of the contained substance to the sample based on the peak wavelength and the peak absorbance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Risa Hara, Toshiyuki Saruya, Kodai Murayama, Fumie Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11815872
    Abstract: The invention enables automated revision comparison of engineering data within a process control system. In various embodiments, the invention achieves this by (i) receiving user input defining a set of data retrieval parameters that identify change-set data for an engineering data file, (ii) retrieving from among change-sets retrieved based on the data retrieval parameters, a first change-set and a second change-set, (iii) retrieving from an engineering database, first and second revisions of the engineering data file corresponding to the first change-set and the second change-set (iv) comparing the retrieved first and second revisions, and (v) displaying a deviation report that is generated based on the identified deviations between the first and second revisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wilfred Woon Yew Teo, Chin Wei Chia, Thin Sapal Yu, Yi Ee Loke, Jia Chin Tan, Efendi, Maricel Mercurio Bacacao, Daisuke Yasunami
  • Patent number: 11815420
    Abstract: A resonant pressure sensor with improved linearity includes: a substrate including a substrate-separated portion separated from a housing-fixed portion; a first resonator that: is disposed in the substrate-separated portion; and detects a change of a first resonance frequency based on a strain in the substrate caused by static pressure applied by a pressure-receiving fluid; a second resonator that: is disposed in the substrate; detects a change of a second resonance frequency based on the strain in the substrate; and has a pressure sensitivity of the second resonance frequency; and a processor that: measures the static pressure based on the detected change of the first resonance frequency; and corrects the static pressure according to internal temperature of the pressure sensor based on a difference between the second resonance frequency and the first resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Iwai, Atsushi Yumoto, Makoto Noro, Takashi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11808614
    Abstract: A field device includes: a casing portion that has an amplifier shield chamber into which an analog signal transfer portion transferring an analog signal output from a detector is able to be inserted; a signal conversion portion that is disposed inside the amplifier shield chamber, the signal conversion portion being configured to convert the analog signal into a digital signal; and a first connector that is disposed inside the amplifier shield chamber, the first connector being configured to connect the analog signal transfer portion and the signal conversion portion to each other in an attachable/detachable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11808630
    Abstract: A first optical system (10) according to the present disclosure includes a first lens (111) that guides light (LO) to a diffraction grating (3), a second lens (112) that collimates first diffracted light (L1) that was focused at a first focal point (f1), a pair of first mirrors (12, 13), a third lens (113) that focuses the first diffracted light (L1) at a second focal point (f2), and a fourth lens (114) that guides the first diffracted light (L1) that was focused by the third lens (113) to the diffraction grating (3). The first lens (111) and the fourth lens (114) have a substantially identical first focal length. The second lens (112) and the third lens (113) have a substantially identical second focal length. A first distance along an optical path from the first focal point (f1) to the second focal point (f2) is determined by a first predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kaneko, Manabu Kojima
  • Patent number: 11809175
    Abstract: An alarm management apparatus detects a state transition of a plant based on output information that includes at least an alarm that is output from the plant or an instruction from a user, and changes, in a case where the state transition is detected, first definition information that is definition information on behavior of the alarm during monitoring to second definition information that is the definition information that corresponds to a state of the plant after a transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ono
  • Publication number: 20230350745
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a controller that: acquires channel measurement data for each of one or more channels that is a measurement target, and calculates, for each of the one or more channels, an error-contribution ratio based on a score determined for each of parameters extracted from the channel measurement data acquired for each of the one or more channels, the error-contribution ratio indicating a degree by which each of the one or more channels contributes an error, and the score being determined based on a difference between each of the parameters and a classification boundary used by a machine learning model that classifies the parameters into one of an error class and a normal class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Tsuduki
  • Patent number: 11802846
    Abstract: An oxygen concentration meter includes a zirconia sensor, a resistor, a constant-current circuit, a resistance detection section, and an oxygen concentration detection section. The resistor is connected in parallel to the zirconia sensor. The constant-current circuit is connected in parallel to the zirconia sensor and the resistor, and supplies an electric current. The resistance detection section detects the resistance of the zirconia sensor on the basis of the voltage of the zirconia sensor in accordance with the supplied electric current. The oxygen concentration detection section detects the oxygen concentration of gas to be measured that is supplied to the zirconia sensor, on the basis of the voltage of the zirconia sensor resulting from an oxygen concentration difference between the gas to be measured and reference gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Takenaka, Ken Ito
  • Patent number: 11796993
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for equipment monitoring and fault prediction are described, including: receiving measurement data associated with a set of equipment; providing at least a portion of the measurement data to a machine learning network; receiving an output from the machine learning network in response to the machine learning network processing at least the portion of the measurement data; and outputting a notification based on the output from the machine learning network, the notification including an indication of the predicted status. The processing of at least the portion of the measurement data may be based on a predictive model associated with the set of equipment. The output from the machine learning network may include a predicted status of the set of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aparnadevi Minisankar, Kaushik Ghosh, Gokula Krishnan Sivaprakasam
  • Patent number: 11794147
    Abstract: A wastewater treatment method includes: a soft water treatment 1 of crystallizing calcium carbonate from wastewater to remove the calcium carbonate therefrom; and an electrolysis 2 of electrolyzing some of the wastewater from which the calcium carbonate has been removed to obtain an acidic aqueous solution and an alkaline aqueous solution, wherein at least some of the alkaline aqueous solution is circulated to be used in the soft water treatment 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, De Nora Permelec Ltd
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsui, Hideki Komatsu, Yasuhito Ishii, Manabu Ozawa, Yoshinori Nishiki, Masaaki Kato, Rie Morita
  • Patent number: 11788898
    Abstract: An abnormal temperature detection device includes a temperature acquirer configured to acquire temperature data, a preprocessor configured to perform preprocessing for calculating difference data indicating a difference sequence in the temperature data, generating substituted data in which either of a piece of difference data which is a positive number or a piece of difference data which is a negative number is substituted with zero, and calculating a similarity between the substituted data and reference data obtained from training data in which normality or abnormality has been identified, a learner configured to perform machine learning on the similarity calculated by the preprocessor and output an identification function, and a determiner configured to determine whether temperature data for detection acquired by the temperature acquirer and subjected to the preprocessing by the preprocessor is normal or abnormal by using the identification function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20230324876
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor that: acquires, from a device for an operation of a plant, data that is related to the operation of the plant and to which one of pieces of attribute information indicating a state of the device has been assigned; classifies the acquired data into one of the pieces of attribute information based on the attribute information assigned to the acquired data; and operates the plant by using the data classified into one of the pieces of attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eirou Yoshimura, Kan-E Kuriyama, Isao Hirooka
  • Publication number: 20230324351
    Abstract: An analysis system includes: a storage that obtains resolutions of a column for separating a component in a sample gas and stores each of the resolutions in association with a specific time; and a processor that predicts a state of the column based on resolution data indicating the restored resolutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Ichimura, Shuichi Suyama