Patents by Inventor Kenji Muta

Kenji Muta 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: 20120047879
    Abstract: A flue gas purifying device includes an exhaust pipe that guides flue gas discharged from an internal combustion engine; a catalytic unit that is arranged on a downstream side to the internal combustion engine in a flow direction of flue gas and includes a nitrogen-oxide storage-reduction catalyst that stores nitrogen oxides contained in flue gas and a support mechanism that is arranged in the exhaust pipe and supports the nitrogen-oxide storage-reduction catalyst in the exhaust pipe; a reducing-agent injecting unit that injects a reducing agent to the catalytic unit in the exhaust pipe; a concentration measuring unit that is arranged on a downstream side to the catalytic unit in the flow direction of flue gas and measures a concentration of nitrogen oxides in flue gas having passed through the nitrogen-oxide storage-reduction catalyst; and a control unit that controls whether to inject the reducing agent from the reducing-agent injecting unit based on a concentration of nitrogen oxides measured by the concen
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuko Ujihara, Masazumi Tanoura, Kenji Muta, Minoru Danno, Masatoshi Katsuki, Daishi Ueno, Takashi Fujinaga, Eiji Kato, Shinichiro Asami, Tadashi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8085404
    Abstract: A gas analyzer capable of measuring a concentration of a gas component in gas at sensor units provided at a plurality of positions in real time by decreasing the number of signals input from the sensor units to an analyzer so as to reduce a data amount input to the analyzer and a gas analyzing method. The gas analyzing method includes the steps of: demultiplexing laser light by a demultiplexer into measurement laser light and reference laser light; letting the measurement laser light pass through gas to be received by a photoreceiver; finding an absorption spectrum absorbed by a gas component in the gas based on a light intensity of the received measurement laser light and of the reference laser light; and analyzing the absorption spectrum to measure a concentration of the gas component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamakage, Katsutoshi Goto, Kenji Muta, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Shinichiro Asami, Satoshi Fukada
  • Publication number: 20110293483
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a flue gas purifying device that can efficiently decrease nitrogen oxides in flue gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masazumi Tanoura, Kenji Muta, Minoru Danno, Masatoshi Katsuki, Yuuko Ujihara, Daishi Ueno, Takashi Fujinaga, Eiji Kato, Shinichiro Asami, Tadashi Aoki, Kageharu Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20110239629
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a flue gas purifying device that can suppress leakage of ammonia and can efficiently decrease nitrogen oxides in flue gas. The object is achieved by a flue gas purifying device including: an exhaust pipe; a urea-water injecting unit that injects urea water into the exhaust pipe; a catalytic unit that includes a urea SCR catalyst that promotes a reaction between ammonia and nitrogen oxides and a support mechanism that supports the urea SCR catalyst in the exhaust pipe, and is arranged on a downstream side to a position where urea water is injected; a concentration measuring unit arranged on a downstream side to the catalytic unit in a flow direction of flue gas to measure an ammonia concentration in flue gas having passed through the urea SCR catalyst; and a control unit that controls injection of urea water by the urea-water injecting unit based on an ammonia concentration measured by the concentration measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masazumi Tanoura, Kenji Muta, Minoru Danno, Masatoshi Katsuki, Yuuko Ujihara, Daishi Ueno, Takashi Fujinaga, Eiji Kato, Shinichiro Asami, Tadashi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20110106397
    Abstract: Provided is a fluid measuring device for measuring flow speed of a fluid in detail. A fluid measuring device (10) is provided with a plurality of detecting sections (30, 40) and a calculating section (50). The detecting sections are arranged with a space in between on a pipe line (22) wherein a fluid flows, and the detecting sections detect parameters which change corresponding to a change of the state of the fluid. The calculating section calculates the flow speed of the fluid, based on the time shift (?T) of the parameter change detected by the pair of detecting sections and on a distance (L) along the pipe line of the pair of detecting sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Muta, Masazumi Tanoura, Atsushi Takita, Daishi Ueno, Tadashi Aoki, Mitsunobu Sekiya
  • Patent number: 7926332
    Abstract: An exhaust gas analyzer and an exhaust gas analyzing method capable of analyzing the concentration of particulate matter contained in exhaust gas from an internal combustion in real time are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamakage, Katsutoshi Goto, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Kenji Muta, Akio Kondou
  • Publication number: 20110029261
    Abstract: Provided is a fluid measurement device and the like for measuring flow velocity of a fluid in detail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Kenji Muta, Masazumi Tanoura, Atsushi Takita, Daishi Ueno, Tadashi Aoki, Mitsunobu Sekiya, Hikaru Tsukakoshi, Kiyoshi Mine
  • Publication number: 20110019193
    Abstract: Disclosed are method and apparatus for measuring density, that can simultaneously measure gaseous substance density and solid particulate material density and further can simultaneously measure the densities of a plurality of materials such as black smoke, white smoke, and water vapor in the solid particulate material in a simple and reliable manner. The method for measuring density comprises applying a laser beam having an absorption wavelength inherent in a gaseous material contained in an object to be measured, to the object to detect a light transmittance and a light absorption amount and detecting the density of gaseous materials in the object and the density of solid particulate materials in the object. The relationship between the density of a plurality of kinds of solid particulate materials including black smoke and white smoke and a laser beam attenuation level in each absorption wavelength is preset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Minoru Danno, Kenji Muta, Masazumi Tanoura, Masatoshi Katsuki, Yuuko Ujihara
  • Publication number: 20100264315
    Abstract: This invention provides a hydrocarbon concentration measuring apparatus, which, even when the concentration and composition of hydrocarbons contained in an object gas to be measured vary, can measure the concentration of the hydrocarbons with good response and good accuracy, and a hydrocarbon measuring method. Light with a waveband including a common absorption region, which is absorbed by a single or a plurality of chemical species, is applied to the object gas by an infrared irradiation equipment. The light applied to the object gas is detected with a line sensor. The absorbance in the common absorption region of the object gas is computed with an analyzer based on the detected light. The sum of concentrations of chemical species, which absorb light in the waveband in the common absorption region, in the single or plurality of chemical species contained in the object gas, is computed with the analyzer based on the absorbance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Takahiro Okada, Seiichi Matsumoto, Masahiro Yamakage, Tomoyasu Iwase, Shigenobu Tachibana, Kenji Muta, Masazumi Tanoura, Satoshi Fukada, Ichiro Awaya, Kazuhiro Akihama, Taketoshi Fujikawa, Masami Yamamoto, Ayako Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20090323068
    Abstract: A gas analyzer capable of measuring a concentration of a gas component in gas at sensor units provided at a plurality of positions in real time by decreasing the number of signals input from the sensor units to an analyzer so as to reduce a data amount input to the analyzer and a gas analyzing method. The gas analyzing method includes the steps of: demultiplexing laser light by a demultiplexer into measurement laser light and reference laser light; letting the measurement laser light pass through gas to be received by a photoreceiver; finding an absorption spectrum absorbed by a gas component in the gas based on a light intensity of the received measurement laser light and of the reference laser light; and analyzing the absorption spectrum to measure a concentration of the gas component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamakage, Katsutoshi Goto, Kenji Muta, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Shinichiro Asami, Satoshi Fukada
  • Publication number: 20090248350
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a temperature of exhaust gas includes calculating an approximate temperature at least one time by fitting a measured spectrum to a portion of theoretical spectra defined in association with a first temperature range using a temperature determined in the an immediately previous preceding temperature analysis as a reference, and then determining a calculated temperature by fitting the measured spectrum to all the theoretical spectra over a second temperature range that is narrower than the first temperature range, using the approximate temperature as a reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamakage, Kenji Muta, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Norihiro Fukuda, Shinichiro Asami
  • Publication number: 20090229250
    Abstract: An exhaust gas analyzer and an exhaust gas analyzing method capable of analyzing the concentration of particulate matter contained in exhaust gas from an internal combustion in real time are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamakage, Katsutoshi Goto, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Kenji Muta, Akio Kondou
  • Patent number: 7365352
    Abstract: A gas flux measuring device measures a region, such as a forest, as a measuring object with no influence by concomitants and with high responsiveness and excellent measuring stability. The device includes a laser beam source, laser output controller, wavelength modulation controller, first light receiver, first direct current component detector, first wavelength modulation demodulator, optical system, reference cell, second light receiver, second direct current component detector, second wavelength modulation demodulator, third wavelength modulation demodulator, analyzer, adder, temperature measurement and pressure measurement. A flow velocity measuring device directly measures horizontal 2-directional flow velocity components and a vertical directional flow velocity component of a gas flow in the measuring region and puts out these measurement signals into the analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
    Inventors: Kenji Muta, Masazumi Tanoura, Ko Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20060262311
    Abstract: Provided is a gas flux measuring device measuring a region, such as forest, as a measuring object with no influence by concomitants and with high responsibility and excellent measuring stability. The device comprises a laser beam source, laser output controller, wavelength modulation controller, first light receiver, first direct current component detector, first wavelength modulation demodulator, optical system, reference cell, second light receiver, second direct current component detector, second wavelength modulation demodulator, third wavelength modulation demodulator, analyzer, adder, temperature measuring means and pressure measuring means. The device further comprises a flow velocity measuring means directly measuring horizontal 2-directional flow velocity components and a vertical directional flow velocity component of a gas flow in the measuring region and putting out these measurement signals into the analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Kenji Muta, Masazumi Tanoura, Ko Nakaya
  • Patent number: 5334378
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical formulation in the form of aqueous suspension which comprises an ion exchange resin carrying an active ingredient and a suspending agent, characterized in that the formulation further contains a basic or neutral amino acid or a salt thereof as a dispersion stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youko Mitani, Kenji Muta, Mitsuo Umemoto