Patents by Inventor Kota Torikai

Kota Torikai 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: 8909495
    Abstract: A particle radiation monitoring apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a detecting unit to detect radioactive ray information of braking radiation from electrons undergoing action of particle beams incident on an irradiation body in accordance with a positional relation with the irradiation body and a calculating unit to calculate information on behaviors of the particle beams in the irradiation body from the radioactive ray information of the braking radiation corresponding to the positional relation that is detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Atomic Energy Agency
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Yamaguchi, Naoki Kawachi, Takahiro Satoh, Tomihiro Kamiya, Kota Torikai, Takashi Nakano, Kazuo Arakawa, Hirofumi Shimada, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin Watanabe, Motohide Kokubun
  • Patent number: 8716679
    Abstract: The beam irradiation apparatus is featured by including a transport pipe which is vacuum-evacuated to be used as a transport channel of a beam taken out from an accelerator, a quadrupole magnet which modulates the beam diameter of the beam so that the beam is incident on an irradiation target existing in the atmosphere while maintaining the focusing angle of the beam, and one or more longitudinally movable range shifters which are provided to be capable of changing the distance to the irradiation target of the beam, and which modulate the beam range by reducing the energy of the beam by allowing the beam to pass through the movable range shifter, and is featured in that the beam is irradiated onto the irradiation target by modulating the beam diameter and the beam range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: National University Corporation Gunma University
    Inventors: Kota Torikai, Satoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 8525449
    Abstract: A charged particle beam extraction method according to the present invention is featured in that, in a circular accelerator which accelerates a charged particle beam, a pulse voltage is applied to a part of the accelerated charged particle beam to generate a momentum deviation only in the part of the charged particle beam, in that the charged particles of a part of the charged particle beam, the charged particles having a large momentum deviation, are located in a non-stable region and in an extraction region in a horizontal phase space with respect to the traveling direction of the charged particle beam, and in that a group of the charged particles located in the non-stable region and in the extraction region are largely deviated in the horizontal direction so as to be extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Nat'l University Corporation Gunma University
    Inventors: Kota Torikai, Satoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 8456110
    Abstract: The present invention provides a set of induction accelerating cell for controlling acceleration of a charged particle beam and an induction accelerating device for controlling generation timing of an induced voltage applied by the induction accelerating cell in a synchrotron. The induction accelerating device in a synchrotron includes: an induction accelerating cell that applies an induced voltage; a switching power supply that supplies a pulse voltage to the induction accelerating cell via a transmission line and drives said induction accelerating cell; a DC power supply that supplies electric power to the switching power supply; and an intelligent control device including a pattern generator that generates a gate signal pattern for controlling on/off the switching power supply, and a digital signal processing device that controls on/off a gate master signal that becomes the basis of the gate signal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Kota Torikai, Yoshio Arakida, Yoshito Shimosaki
  • Publication number: 20120316378
    Abstract: The beam irradiation apparatus is featured by including a transport pipe which is vacuum-evacuated to be used as a transport channel of a beam taken out from an accelerator, a quadrupole magnet which modulates the beam diameter of the beam so that the beam is incident on an irradiation target existing in the atmosphere while maintaining the focusing angle of the beam, and one or more longitudinally movable range shifters which are provided to be capable of changing the distance to the irradiation target of the beam, and which modulate the beam range by reducing the energy of the beam by allowing the beam to pass through the movable range shifter, and is featured in that the beam is irradiated onto the irradiation target by modulating the beam diameter and the beam range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NAT'L UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kota Torikai, Satoru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120215495
    Abstract: A particle radiation monitoring apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a detecting unit to detect radioactive ray information of braking radiation from electrons undergoing action of particle beams incident on an irradiation body in accordance with a positional relation with the irradiation body and a calculating unit to calculate information on behaviors of the particle beams in the irradiation body from the radioactive ray information of the braking radiation corresponding to the positional relation that is detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Mitsutaka YAMAGUCHI, Naoki Kawachi, Takahiro Satoh, Tomihiro Kamiya, Kota Torikai, Takashi Nakano, Kazuo Arakawa, Hirofumi Shimada, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin Watanabe, Motohide Kokubun
  • Publication number: 20120200237
    Abstract: A charged particle beam extraction method according to the present invention is featured in that, in a circular accelerator which accelerates a charged particle beam, a pulse voltage is applied to a part of the accelerated charged particle beam to generate a momentum deviation only in the part of the charged particle beam, in that the charged particles of a part of the charged particle beam, the charged particles having a large momentum deviation, are located in a non-stable region and in an extraction region in a horizontal phase space with respect to the traveling direction of the charged particle beam, and in that a group of the charged particles located in the non-stable region and in the extraction region are largely deviated in the horizontal direction so as to be extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: National University Corporation Gunma University
    Inventors: Kota Torikai, Satoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 8183800
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide the orbit control device for modulating the orbital deviations of the charged particle beam and its control method, wherein in the synchrotron making use of induction cells, the charged particle beam orbit control device is comprised of the digital signal processor for controlling the generation timing of an induced voltage in response to the beam position signal from the beam position monitor for sensing the deviations of the charged particle beam on the design orbit of the synchrotron from the design orbit and to the passage signal from the bunch monitor for sensing the passage of the bunch and the pattern generator for generating a gate signal pattern for on/off-selecting the switching electric power supply a according to the master gate signal generated by the digital signal processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Kota Torikai, Yoshio Arakida, Yoshito Shimosaki, Junichi Kishiro, Reiko Kishiro, legal representative
  • Patent number: 8084965
    Abstract: An accelerator that can accelerate by itself all ions up to any energy level allowed by the magnetic fields for beam guiding, and provides an all-ion accelerator in which with trigger timing and a charging time of an induced voltage applied to an ion beam injected from a preinjector by induction cells for confinement and acceleration used in an induction synchrotron, digital signal processors for confinement and acceleration and pattern generators for confinement and acceleration generate gate signal patterns for confinement and acceleration on the basis of a passage signal of the ion beam and an induced voltage signal for indicating the value of the induced voltage applied to the ion beam, and intelligent control devices for confinement and acceleration perform feedback control of on/off of the induction cells for confinement and acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Yoshito Shimosaki, Kota Torikai, Yoshio Arakida
  • Publication number: 20110156617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a set of induction accelerating cell for controlling acceleration of a charged particle beam and an induction accelerating device for controlling generation timing of an induced voltage applied by the induction accelerating cell in a synchrotron. The induction accelerating device in a synchrotron includes: an induction accelerating cell that applies an induced voltage; a switching power supply that supplies a pulse voltage to the induction accelerating cell via a transmission line and drives said induction accelerating cell; a DC power supply that supplies electric power to the switching power supply; and an intelligent control device including a pattern generator that generates a gate signal pattern for controlling on/off the switching power supply, and a digital signal processing device that controls on/off a gate master signal that becomes the basis of the gate signal pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Kota Torikai, Yoshio Arakida, Yoshito Shimosaki
  • Publication number: 20100176753
    Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To provide an induction voltage control device (8) capable of accelerating arbitrary charged particles to an arbitrary energy level in synchronization with any magnetic excitation pattern even for an acceleration voltage (9a) of constant voltage by an induction acceleration cell (6) for acceleration and its control method. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] An induction voltage control device (8) includes: a digital signal processing device (8d) for controlling a variable delay time according to a necessary variable delay time pattern obtained based on a magnetic excitation pattern, an equivalent acceleration voltage value pattern, and a passing signal (7a) of a bunch (3) from a bunch monitor (7); and a pattern generator (8b) for conversion to a gate signal pattern (8a) of a switching power source (5b). The induction voltage control device (8) controls a pulse density of the induction voltage (9) for acceleration per control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Kota Torikai, Yoshio Arakida, Yoshito Shimosaki, Junichi Kishiro, Reiko Kishiro
  • Publication number: 20090195194
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an accelerator that can accelerate by itself all ions up to any energy level allowed by the magnetic fields for beam guiding, and provides an all-ion accelerator in which with trigger timing and a charging time of an induced voltage applied to an ion beam injected from a preinjector by induction cells for confinement and acceleration used in an induction synchrotron, digital signal processors for confinement and acceleration and pattern generators for confinement and acceleration generate gate signal patterns for confinement and acceleration on the basis of a passage signal of the ion beam and an induced voltage signal for indicating the value of the induced voltage applied to the ion beam, and intelligent control devices for confinement and acceleration perform feedback control of on/off of the induction cells for confinement and acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Yoshito Shimosaki, Kota Torikai, Yoshio Arakida