Patents by Inventor Daisuke Ebihara

Daisuke Ebihara 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: 11906406
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis technique that prevents liquid contained in a reaction container from locally contacting with liquid added afterward and has less occurrence frequency of equipment malfunction and high performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ebihara, Shinya Matsuoka, Taku Sakazume, Yuzuru Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20230417784
    Abstract: To provide a control method of a sample pretreatment apparatus capable of maintaining measurement precision in a mass spectrometer without newly installing a component part and without largely changing a measurement process by an automatic analyzer. A control method of a sample pretreatment apparatus 1 of a sample inspection automation system to which a sample pretreatment apparatus applying pretreatment to a sample used in mass spectrometry, a mass spectrometer, and another automatic analyzer are connected, includes: determining serum information by referring to a measurement result of the sample by the other automatic analyzer or previous value information; determining conditions of a washing process of eliminating impurities contained in the sample at the time of the sample pretreatment based on the serum information; and dispensing a cleaning fluid into a reaction container for mixing the sample and a reagent based on the conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Akiko SUZUKI, Shinya MATSUOKA, Daisuke EBIHARA, Sumiaki MATSUO
  • Patent number: 11761972
    Abstract: The objective of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for reducing a quantity of magnetic particles remaining on a reaction vessel wall surface in a cleaning step for reducing, in a stepwise manner, an amount of a magnetic particle solution in the reaction vessel. The automated analysis device according to the present disclosure causes an agitating mechanism to operate in such a way that a magnetic substance remaining on the wall surface of the vessel in the previous cleaning step is captured by a cleaning solution in the next cleaning step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Tooru Inaba, Ruochi Hsu, Shinya Matsuoka, Takeshi Yokokawa, Daisuke Ebihara
  • Patent number: 11691675
    Abstract: A vehicle body reinforcement structure includes an elongated hollow structure formed by jointing an outer panel and an inner panel with each other, and a reinforcement member configured to partition the hollow structure into a lower closed cross section and an upper closed cross section. At inside of at least one of the lower closed cross section and the upper closed cross section, at least a pair of bulkheads extending so as to cross the closed cross section are disposed so as to be separated with each other in a direction in which the closed cross section is extending. A space between the pair of bulkheads is made as a filler chamber which is filled with filler. A filling opening for the filler is provided on the inner panel so that the filling opening is in communication with the filler chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakai, Daisuke Ebihara
  • Publication number: 20230204612
    Abstract: An automatic analyzer 1 includes a reagent bottle installation unit 200 that installs a reagent bottle 301 containing a reagent used for analysis; a nozzle unit 210 that couples a supply flow path 220 that connects a location where the reagent is used and the inside of the reagent bottle 301 installed in the reagent bottle installation unit 200 to the reagent bottle 301; and a stopper 202 that is disposed on the movement path of a reagent aspiration nozzle 400 of the nozzle unit 210 and prevents the reagent aspiration nozzle 400 from being inserted into the reagent bottle 301. This automatic analyzer realizes the prevention of misplacement of reagent types and the prevention of removal of the reagents at the incorrect timing with less space and constituent components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Suzuki, Shinya Matsuoka, Daisuke Ebihara, Mitsuhiko Ueda, Shoji Tomida
  • Publication number: 20230139301
    Abstract: To provide an automatic analyzer capable of relaxing the effect of a previously created mixed liquid when a new mixed liquid is created. An automatic analyzer according to the present disclosure: is configured so as to create a second mixed liquid after a first mixed liquid is created; and introduces a relaxation reagent to relax the effect of a first reagent remaining in a mixed liquid chamber when the second mixed liquid is created into the mixed liquid chamber on the basis of characteristics of the first mixed liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke EBIHARA, Shinya MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 11567044
    Abstract: An analysis device having a liquid chromatograph prevents a plurality of streams from being unusable at the same time Whether a usable stream is 0 or not among streams 1, 2, and 3 is determined. In a case where none of the streams is usable, the control unit skips a sample introduction in the cycle; and where there is one usable stream in the cycle, the stream is used. In a case where there are multiple streams that are usable in the cycle, and there are multiple streams of which the remaining number of uses of a separation column is the minimum, the stream having the smallest stream number is used; and where there is one stream of which the remaining number of uses of a separation column is the minimum, the stream to which the separation column having the minimum remaining number of uses is connected and used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Matsuoka, Takayuki Sugime, Daisuke Ebihara
  • Patent number: 11519924
    Abstract: In order to aspire to higher sensitivity in an automatic analysis device, it is important to prevent the mixing of dust and the like in a reaction part in which a sample and a reagent react. The present invention presents an automatic analysis device that is provided with a configuration for making the pressure inside a specific block in the device such as a reaction part, or inside the device become positive. By making the pressure become positive and forming an air flow that flows out from the inside of the reaction part or the device, it is possible to limit, to a certain amount or less, the amount of dust penetrating into the reaction part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Ebihara, Kenta Imai, Yoshihiro Yamashita, Shigeki Matsubara, Taku Sakazume
  • Patent number: 11459036
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle body front structure including a front hood (7) provided in a front part of a vehicle body (3), and a port device (30) mounted to the vehicle body and positioned under the front hood. The front hood includes an outer panel (7A) and an inner panel (7B) attached to a back side of the outer panel, the outer panel and the inner panel defining a port opening (21) facing the port device and passed through the outer panel and the inner panel in a thicknesswise direction thereof, and being welded to each other along a peripheral edge (22) of the port opening, and a garnish (23) is provided on an outer surface of a peripheral part of the outer panel surrounding the port opening, and a lid (58) for selectively closing the port opening is provided on the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nakanishi, Daisuke Ebihara, Seiichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20220276270
    Abstract: A pretreatment method of an automatic analyzer, in which pretreatments of a plurality of substances to be measured can be performed by a series of treatments using a plurality of magnetic beads that can bind to the plurality of substances to be measured, is achieved. In the pretreatment method of an automatic analyzer, a magnetic bead is added to a sample containing a substance to be measured, the substance to be measured is bound to the magnetic bead, the magnetic bead is extracted from the sample, and the substance to be measured is separated from the magnetic bead by an eluate. A plurality of magnetic beads that bind to a plurality of types of substances to be measured are added to a sample, and the plurality of types of substances to be measured are extracted from the magnetic bead by an eluate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto NOGAMI, Shinya MATSUOKA, Daisuke EBIHARA, Yuichiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220268798
    Abstract: The automatic analysis device includes an evaporative concentration unit configured to perform a concentration process of evaporating an extract solution obtained by extracting a component to be analyzed in a sample to concentrate the component to be analyzed; an analysis unit configured to analyze the component to be analyzed of the sample; and a control unit configured to control operations of the analysis unit and the evaporative concentration unit. The control unit determines whether to perform an evaporative concentration process on a component to be analyzed in the sample, and controls the evaporative concentration unit to concentrate a component to be analyzed in a sample which is determined to be subjected to an evaporative concentration process. The sample to be subjected to the evaporative concentration process is stored, and the control unit selects whether to perform the evaporative concentration on each sample or not based on stored content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Daisuke EBIHARA, Shinya MATSUOKA, Taku SAKAZUME
  • Publication number: 20220144344
    Abstract: A vehicle body reinforcement structure includes an elongated hollow structure formed by jointing an outer panel and an inner panel with each other, and a reinforcement member configured to partition the hollow structure into a lower closed cross section and an upper closed cross section. At inside of at least one of the lower closed cross section and the upper closed cross section, at least a pair of bulkheads extending so as to cross the closed cross section are disposed so as to be separated with each other in a direction in which the closed cross section is extending. A space between the pair of bulkheads is made as a filler chamber which is filled with filler. A filling opening for the filler is provided on the inner panel so that the filling opening is in communication with the filler chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakai, Daisuke Ebihara
  • Patent number: 11325486
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle front body structure comprising a port device (30) received in a housing (36) and mounted to a vehicle body under a front hood (7). A lid (58) is provided on the housing to selectively close a port opening (21) in the front hood, the lid being provided with a lid plate (59) that selectively closes the port opening, and a hinge arm (61) extending from the lid plate into the housing and rotatably connected to the housing via a hinge shaft (75) extending laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nakanishi, Daisuke Ebihara, Tomofumi Ichinose
  • Publication number: 20220065886
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic analyzer that prevents different types of reagents from being misplaced and prevents reagents from being removed at wrong timing with less space and fewer components. A stopper 202 is installed at a position where the stopper 202 is in contact with an insertion direction front surface 302 of a reagent container 301A and 301B and prevents the reagent container 301A and 301B from being set before the reagent container 301A and 301B is joined to a piercing needle 205 and where the stopper 202 interferes with a holding surface of the reagent container 301A and 301B and prevents the reagent container 301A and 301B from moving in a slot 201 even if the reagent container 301A and 301B is attempted to be removed in a state where the reagent container 301A and 301B is joined to the piercing needle 205.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya MATSUOKA, Daisuke EBIHARA, Kenichiro NISHIKI
  • Publication number: 20210356443
    Abstract: An analysis device having a liquid chromatograph prevents a plurality of streams from being unusable at the same time Whether a usable stream is 0 or not among streams 1, 2, and 3 is determined. In a case where none of the streams is usable, the control unit skips a sample introduction in the cycle; and where there is one usable stream in the cycle, the stream is used. In a case where there are multiple streams that are usable in the cycle, and there are multiple streams of which the remaining number of uses of a separation column is the minimum, the stream having the smallest stream number is used; and where there is one stream of which the remaining number of uses of a separation column is the minimum, the stream to which the separation column having the minimum remaining number of uses is connected and used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shinya MATSUOKA, Takayuki SUGIME, Daisuke EBIHARA
  • Patent number: 11142257
    Abstract: A vehicular roof structure has a roof side rail joined to a roof panel. The roof panel includes an inclined joining section, a vertical section and a horizontal joining section. The inclined joining section has an outer side portion of the roof panel that is bent inward in a vehicle width direction, and the roof side rail is joined thereto. The vertical section is provided on the inclined joining section on a rearward side of the vehicle body, and the outer side portion of the roof panel is bent vertically. The horizontal joining section protrudes outward from the vertical section in the vehicle width direction. A tail gate hinge is attached to the horizontal joining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Hida, Daisuke Ebihara
  • Publication number: 20210063424
    Abstract: The objective of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for reducing a quantity of magnetic particles remaining on a reaction vessel wall surface in a cleaning step for reducing, in a stepwise manner, an amount of a magnetic particle solution in the reaction vessel. The automated analysis device according to the present disclosure causes an agitating mechanism to operate in such a way that a magnetic substance remaining on the wall surface of the vessel in the previous cleaning step is captured by a cleaning solution in the next cleaning step (see FIG. 10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Tooru INABA, Ruochi HSU, Shinya MATSUOKA, Takeshi YOKOKAWA, Daisuke EBIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200298251
    Abstract: A single device carries out a plurality of washing processes for gradually reducing the amount of a magnetic particle solution in a reaction vessel. A first washing process includes a step for inserting a reaction vessel into a recess provided in the magnetic separation device to capture the magnetic substance using a plurality of magnets disposed along the peripheral direction of the recess such that the same pole faces the reaction vessel, a step for solution aspiration, a step for discharging liquid such that the surface of the liquid goes to a position higher than the upper edges of the magnets, and stirring the liquid. A second washing process includes a step for inserting the reaction vessel into the magnetic separation device and aspirating the liquid, discharging the liquid such that the surface of the liquid goes to a position lower than the upper edges of the magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Ruochi HSU, Tooru INABA, Shinya MATSUOKA, Daisuke EBIHARA, Takeshi YOKOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200262485
    Abstract: A vehicular roof structure has a roof side rail joined to a roof panel. The roof panel includes an inclined joining section, a vertical section and a horizontal joining section. The inclined joining section has an outer side portion of the roof panel that is bent inward in a vehicle width direction, and the roof side rail is joined thereto. The vertical section is provided on the inclined joining section on a rearward side of the vehicle body, and the outer side portion of the roof panel is bent vertically. The horizontal joining section protrudes outward from the vertical section in the vehicle width direction. A tail gate hinge is attached to the horizontal joining section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kazunori Hida, Daisuke Ebihara
  • Publication number: 20200182754
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis technique that prevents liquid contained in a reaction container from locally contacting with liquid added afterward and has less occurrence frequency of equipment malfunction and high performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Daisuke EBIHARA, Shinya MATSUOKA, Taku SAKAZUME, Yuzuru SHIMAZAKI