Patents by Inventor Hideo Tsukamoto

Hideo Tsukamoto 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: 7750636
    Abstract: In NMR system, for preventing a temperature gradient which causes a decrease in S/N ratio from being created in a sample area while suppressing deterioration in homogeneity of a magnetic field, a thermal conductor having high thermal conductivity is disposed in a room-temperature shim coil. The thermal conductor is provided as a coil bobbin, the temperature of the thermal conductor being controlled by a temperature controller using a heat exchanger. Temperature control gas, which is adjusted to a temperature equal to that of the room-temperature shim coil, is fed from the downside of a sample tube, and it is possible to suppress a temperature gradient from being created in a sample area. According to the present invention, since the temperature distribution can be made to be uniform so as to avoid creating a temperature gradient in the sample area while suppressing deterioration of homogeneity in the magnetic field, the NMR spectrum is sharpened so as to improve the S/N ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Shiino, Hideo Tsukamoto, Fumio Iida, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20090280351
    Abstract: An aluminum-silicon carbide composite suitable for a base plate for power module is provided. A base plate for power module, comprising an aluminum-silicon carbide composite that is a flat plate-shaped silicon carbide porous body impregnated with a metal containing aluminum as the main component, and an aluminum layer made of a metal containing aluminum as the main component formed only on one of the principal planes of the composite, wherein a rear surface being the other one of principal planes of the aluminum-silicon carbide composite is exposed to the outside, and the shape of the exposed aluminum-silicon carbide composite is a rectangle or a rectangle from which portions encompassing holes in the peripheral portion are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Hirotsuru, Goh Iwamoto, Hideo Tsukamoto, Akira Miyai, Yoshio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7570057
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to solve the bending of an NMR probe and a room temperature shim coil so that they can be positioned easily. In the NMR spectrometer including split-pair magnets and a cross bore, a high rigidity straight pipe to which an NMR probe and a room temperature shim coil are attached so as to make an integral object, is provided. The outer diameter of the straight pipe is smaller than the inner diameter of a horizontal bore into which the room temperature shim coil and the probe are inserted. After the room temperature shim coil and the NMR probe are attached to the straight pipe by bolts, respectively, the integral object is inserted into the horizontal bore (a room temperature space) of the NMR spectrometer. The room temperature shim coil and the probe may be attached to different straight pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Hideo Tsukamoto, Fumio Iida, Toshiyuki Shiino, Hideki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090092793
    Abstract: A base plate for power module, comprising an aluminum-silicon carbide composite and aluminum layers made of a metal containing aluminum as the main component formed on respective principal planes of the aluminum-silicon carbide composite, wherein the aluminum-silicon carbide composite is produced by forming or fabricating a flat plate-shaped silicon carbide porous body to have a thickness difference of at most 100 ?m in the entire porous body and piling such porous bodies as they are each sandwiched between mold-releasing plates so that the fastening torque in the plane direction becomes from 1 to 20 Nm, and infiltrating a metal containing aluminum as the main component into the silicon carbide porous bodies, wherein the aluminum layers each has an average thickness of from 10 to 150 ?m, the difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness of the aluminum layer in each principal plane is at most 80 ?m, and the difference between average thicknesses of the aluminum layers on the respective pr
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Hirotsuru, Goh Iwamoto, Hideo Tsukamoto, Satoshi Higuma, Nobuyuki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20080204026
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to solve the bending of an NMR probe and a room temperature shim coil so that they can be positioned easily. In the NMR spectrometer including split-pair magnets and a cross bore, a high rigidity straight pipe to which an NMR probe and a room temperature shim coil are attached so as to make an integral object, is provided. The outer diameter of the straight pipe is smaller than the inner diameter of a horizontal bore into which the room temperature shim coil and the probe are inserted. After the room temperature shim coil and the NMR probe are attached to the straight pipe by bolts, respectively, the integral object is inserted into the horizontal bore (a room temperature space) of the NMR spectrometer. The room temperature shim coil and the probe may be attached to different straight pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Hideo Tsukamoto, Fumio Iida, Toshiyuki Shiino, Hideki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20080204015
    Abstract: In NMR system, for preventing a temperature gradient which causes a decrease in S/N ratio from being created in a sample area while suppressing deterioration in homogeneity of a magnetic field, a thermal conductor having high thermal conductivity is disposed in a room-temperature shim coil. The thermal conductor is provided as a coil bobbin, the temperature of the thermal conductor being controlled by a temperature controller using a heat exchanger. Temperature control gas, which is adjusted to a temperature equal to that of the room-temperature shim coil, is fed from the downside of a sample tube, and it is possible to suppress a temperature gradient from being created in a sample area. According to the present invention, since the temperature distribution can be made to be uniform so as to avoid creating a temperature gradient in the sample area while suppressing deterioration of homogeneity in the magnetic field, the NMR spectrum is sharpened so as to improve the S/N ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Shiino, Hideo Tsukamoto, Fumio Iida, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 7336077
    Abstract: A magnet for an NMR analyzer includes a superconductor coil for generating a magnetic field in a magnetic space surrounded by the superconductor coil. The superconductor coil has a shim coil group disposed at least one of inside and outside of the superconducting coil. The superconducting coil provides a first access port for receiving a probe inserted into the magnetic space along a central axis thereof and a second access port having one end for receiving a sample tube containing a sample inserted into the magnetic space in a direction transverse to the central axis of the magnetic space. The second access port is open at an other end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Michiya Okada, Tomomi Kikuta, Kohji Maki, Hiroshi Morita, Shuichi Kido, Tomoo Chiba, Hideo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 7196883
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet system with a quench protection circuit includes a superconducting magnet having a plurality of series-connected superconducting coils, a persistent current switch connected in parallel with the superconducting coils, and first and second quench protection circuits connected in parallel with the superconducting coils and the persistent current switch. The first quench protection circuit includes anti-parallel diodes and parallelly connected resistive heaters and shunt resistors, and the resistive heaters and the shunt resistors are each connected in series with the diodes. The second quench protection circuit has a diode and a metal of copper connected with the diode, and a turn-on voltage of the diode in the second quench protection circuit is lower than a turn-on voltage of the diodes in the first quench protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Hideo Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Wakuda
  • Publication number: 20070052421
    Abstract: A magnet for an NMR analyzer includes a superconductor coil for generating a magnetic field in a magnetic space surrounded by the superconductor coil. The superconductor coil has a shim coil group disposed at least one of inside and outside of the superconducting coil. The superconducting coil provides a first access port for receiving a probe inserted into the magnetic space along a central axis thereof and a second access port having one end for receiving a sample tube containing a sample inserted into the magnetic space in a direction transverse to the central axis of the magnetic space. The second access port is open at an other end thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Michiya Okada, Tomomi Kikuta, Kohji Maki, Hiroshi Morita, Shuichi Kido, Tomoo Chiba, Hideo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 7187175
    Abstract: A magnet for an NMR an analyzer includes a superconductor coil which is operated under a permanent current mode so as to generate a magnetic field in a space surrounded by the superconductor coil, and which enables a sample to be inserted into a measurement space in the magnetic space for analization. The superconductor coil includes a first access port for enabling access to the measurement space and a second access port for enabling insertion of the sample into the measurement space in a direction different from a direction of the first access port. An effective diameter of the first access port is larger than an effective diameter of the second access port when the effective diameters of the first and second access ports are defined as a diameter of a cylinder that is insertable into the first and second access ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Michiya Okada, Tomomi Kikuta, Kohji Maki, Hiroshi Morita, Shuichi Kido, Tomoo Chiba, Hideo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 7161777
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet system includes resistive heaters and bidirectional diodes connected in series with each other installed in a superconducting coil protection circuit, and a diode is installed in a persistent current switch protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Hideo Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Wakuda
  • Patent number: 7141977
    Abstract: To access a measurement space located at the center of the magnet, an access port is provided in the direction of the magnet's axis, a clearance is provided in the coil winding portion, and another access port passes through the clearance so that a sample can be positioned perpendicularly to the coil axis. According to this configuration, an access port passing through the coil winding portion can be smaller than the access port passing through the coil axis, a sample is inserted from the access port, and a probe is inserted from the access port passing through the magnet axis, and thus the clearance can be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Michiya Okada, Tomomi Kikuta, Kohji Maki, Hiroshi Morita, Shuichi Kido, Tomoo Chiba, Hideo Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20060227471
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet system with a quench protection circuit includes a superconducting magnet having a plurality of series-connected superconducting coils, a persistent current switch connected in parallel with the superconducting coils, and first and second quench protection circuits connected in parallel with the superconducting coils and the persistent current switch. The first quench protection circuit includes anti-parallel diodes and parallelly connected resistive heaters and shunt resistors, and the resistive heaters and the shunt resistors are each connected in series with the diodes. The second quench protection circuit has a diode and a metal of copper connected with the diode, and a turn-on voltage of the diode in the second quench protection circuit is lower than a turn-on voltage of the diodes in the first quench protection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Hideo Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Wakuda
  • Publication number: 20060158795
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet system includes resistive heaters and bidirectional diodes connected in series with each other installed in a superconducting coil protection circuit, and a diode is installed in a persistent current switch protection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Hideo Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Wakuda
  • Publication number: 20060109006
    Abstract: A magnet for an NMR an analyzer includes a superconductor coil which is operated under a permanent current mode so as to generate a magnetic field in a space surrounded by the superconductor coil, and which enables a sample to be inserted into a measurement space in the magnetic space for analization. The superconductor coil includes a first access port for enabling access to the measurement space and a second access port for enabling insertion of the sample into the measurement space in a direction different from a direction of the first access port. An effective diameter of the first access port is larger than an effective diameter of the second access port when the effective diameters of the first and second access ports are defined as a diameter of a cylinder that is insertable into the first and second access ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Michiya Okada, Tomomi Kikuta, Kohji Maki, Hiroshi Morita, Shuichi Kido, Tomoo Chiba, Hideo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 7049913
    Abstract: The present invention provides a superconductivity magnet apparatus for generating a uniform magnetic field suitable for NMR applications. The superconductivity magnet apparatus has an access port for allowing an access to the center of the magnetic field from an external position separated away from the center in a direction other than the axial direction of a split-type superconductivity electromagnet employed in the magnet apparatus. In the superconductivity magnet apparatus, a gap exists between first and second superconductivity coil blocks facing each other to form the split-type superconductivity electromagnet. To put it in detail, the access port allows an access to a measurement space at the center of the magnet by way of the gap. A configuration element of the magnet such as a coil bobbin is cut out for providing the access port. An area including a deficiency portion caused by the cutout portion or the like is filled up with a material having a relative magnetic permeability in the range 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Kohji Maki, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Michiya Okada, Hideo Tsukamoto, Souji Kajiura, Shuichi Kido
  • Publication number: 20050134414
    Abstract: The present invention provides a superconductivity magnet apparatus for generating a uniform magnetic field suitable for NMR applications. The superconductivity magnet apparatus has an access port for allowing an access to the center of the magnetic field from an external position separated away from the center in a direction other than the axial direction of a split-type superconductivity electromagnet employed in the magnet apparatus. In the superconductivity magnet apparatus, a gap exists between first and second superconductivity coil blocks facing each other to form the split-type superconductivity electromagnet. To put it in detail, the access port allows an access to a measurement space at the center of the magnet by way of the gap. A configuration element of the magnet such as a coil bobbin is cut out for providing the access port. An area including a deficiency portion caused by the cutout portion or the like is filled up with a material having a relative magnetic permeability in the range 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Kohji Maki, Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Michiya Okada, Hideo Tsukamoto, Souji Kajiura, Shuichi Kido
  • Publication number: 20050054773
    Abstract: A propylene block copolymer with a high proportion of ethylene-propylene copolymer particles (rubber component) well dispersed in a propylene polymer exhibiting well-balanced rigidity and impact resistance can be obtained by using a solid catalyst for polymerization of olefins comprising (a) a solid catalyst component with controlled morphology, comprising magnesium, titanium, and a halogen atom, having an average particle diameter, specific surface area, and pore volume in a specific range, and having a pore size distribution in which an cumulative pore volume with a pore size of 100 ? or less is more than 50%, (b) an organoaluminum compound, and (c) an organosilicon compound. The block copolymer is very useful particularly for the application of vehicle parts such as a bumper and parts for household electric appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Applicant: TOHO CATALYST CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki Hosaka, Hideo Tsukamoto, Hidetoshi Umebayashi, Makoto Nakano
  • Patent number: 6855656
    Abstract: A propylene block copolymer with a high proportion of ethylene-propylene copolymer particles (rubber component) well dispersed in a propylene polymer exhibiting well-balanced rigidity and impact resistance can be obtained by using a solid catalyst for polymerization of olefins comprising (a) a solid catalyst component with controlled morphology, comprising magnesium, titanium, and a halogen atom, having an average particle diameter, specific surface area, and pore volume in a specific range, and having a pore size distribution in which an cumulative pore volume with a pore size of 100 ? or less is more than 50%, (b) an organoaluminum compound, and (c) an organosilicon compound. The block copolymer is very useful particularly for the application of vehicle parts such as a bumper and parts for household electric appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Toho Catalyst Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoki Hosaka, Hideo Tsukamoto, Hidetoshi Umebayashi, Makoto Nakano
  • Publication number: 20040257082
    Abstract: To access a measurement space 3 located at the center of the magnet, an access port is provided in the direction of the magnet's axis, a clearance 12 is provided in the coil winding portion, and another access port passes through the clearance so that a sample can be positioned perpendicularly to the coil axis. According to this configuration, an access port passing through the coil winding portion can be smaller than the access port passing through the coil axis, a sample is inserted from the access port, a probe is inserted from the access port passing through the magnet axis, and thus the clearance can be minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Michiya Okada, Tomomi Kikuta, Kohji Maki, Hiroshi Morita, Shuichi Kido, Tomoo Chiba, Hideo Tsukamoto