Patents by Inventor Naohito Shimizu

Naohito Shimizu 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: 7395725
    Abstract: There is provided a sample treatment apparatus which can, continuously and stably for a long time, treat a sample containing an easily precipitating substance such as sulfur and a measuring apparatus providing it. The sample treatment apparatus includes: a path for introducing a fluid for an aspirator, at least two sample flow paths A connected in one side to the path for introducing a fluid for an aspirator and connected in the other side to a sample collecting part, a sample flow path B connected in one side to one sample flow path A passing a fluid for an aspirator and connected in the other side to the other sample flow path A, a cooling part for cooling a part of the sample flow paths A, and a controller for selecting and switching the sample flow paths A into which a fluid for an aspirator is introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignees: Horiba, Ltd., Horiba Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Naohito Shimizu, Masahiko Endo, Minoru Ikawa, Poliang Chien, James E. Downey
  • Publication number: 20070137316
    Abstract: There is provided a sample treatment apparatus which can, continuously and stably for a long time, treat a sample containing an easily precipitating substance such as sulfur and a measuring apparatus providing it. The sample treatment apparatus includes: a path for introducing a fluid for an aspirator, at least two sample flow paths A connected in one side to the path for introducing a fluid for an aspirator and connected in the other side to a sample collecting part, a sample flow path B connected in one side to one sample flow path A passing a fluid for an aspirator and connected in the other side to the other sample flow path A, a cooling part for cooling a part of the sample flow paths A, and a controller for selecting and switching the sample flow paths A into which a fluid for an aspirator is introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Naohito Shimizu, Masahiko Endo, Minoru Ikawa, Poliang Chien, James Downey
  • Patent number: 5780716
    Abstract: A gas analyzing apparatus includes a sample gas line with a sample line valve for providing a sample gas, and a reference gas line with a reference line valve for providing a reference gas. A first gas analyzer is connected to the sample line downstream of the sample line valve, and a second gas analyzer is connected to both the sample and reference gas lines downstream of the valves. The lines are configured such that sample gas and reference gas may be alternately provided to the second gas analyzer either directly or indirectly via the first gas analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohito Shimizu, Shigeyuki Akiyama, Masahiko Fujiwara, Satoshi Inoue, Takuji Oida
  • Patent number: 5773828
    Abstract: A gas analyzer has a simple composition and can measure multi-components at a high accuracy. A plurality of measuring cells, including a case where the cells are different in length from each other, communicate sequentially with each other through a communication part to form a single gas path. A cut-on filter as an infrared penetration/reflection means for diffracting spectrally an infrared wavelength is provided on a light source side. A NO.sub.X measuring cell 3 having a cell length of about 60 mm and a CO.sub.2 measuring cell 7 having a cell length of about 1 mm which communicate through the communication part with each other, and a capacitor microphone (an infrared-ray detector for NO.sub.X) and a pyroelectric detector (an infrared-ray detector for CO.sub.2) are provided on the infrared penetration and reflection sides of the optical filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Akiyama, Masahiko Fujiwara, Takuji Oida, Naohito Shimizu, Aritoshi Yoneda, Toshikazu Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 5693945
    Abstract: An ultraviolet light source is provided on one end of a cell into which a sample gas is introduced. A beam splitter for dividing beams which have been transmitted through the cell into two optical paths is provided on the other end of the cell. A first detector is provided in one optical path, and a second detector is provided in the other optical path. A gas filter filled with a component to be measured is positioned between the detectors and beam splitter so that a concentration of the component to be measured may be obtained on the basis of a difference between the output of the first detector and the product of the output of the second detector and an appointed constant. Influences resulting from components coexisting in the sample gas are reduced. Alternatively, an infrared light source may be provided on one end of a sample cell. A gas filter filled with a gas the same as the gas to be measured is provided at the other end of the sample cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Horiba Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Akiyama, Masahiko Fujiwara, Fujio Koga, Naohito Shimizu, Toshihiko Uno, Aritoshi Yoneda
  • Patent number: 5255072
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for analyzing fluid by a multi-fluid modulation mode is characterized by subjecting a plurality of sample fluids (which may be different or a single sample fluid divided into a plurality of systems) to a fluid modulation by reference fluids at various frequencies, respectively. An analytical portion provided with only one sensor is simultaneously and continuously supplied with the respective sample fluids. An output signal from the sensor in the analytical portion is divided into signal components of the respective modulation frequencies for the respective sample fluids to rectify and level, whereby obtaining analyzed values about the respective sample fluids is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Mikasa, Ichiro Asano, Nobutaka Kihara, Shuichi Ishimoto, Isao Fujita, Norio Kada, Takeshi Aoki, Takao Imaki, Masahiko Fujiwara, Naohito Shimizu, Junji Kato
  • Patent number: 5102806
    Abstract: A method for analyzing fluid by a multi-fluid modulation mode is characterized by subjecting a plurality of sample fluids (which may be different or a single sample fluid divided into a plurality of systems) to a fluid modulation by reference fluids at various frequencies, respectively. An analytical portion provided with only one sensor is simultaneously and continuously supplied with the respective sample fluids. An output signal from the sensor in the analytical portion is divided into signal components of the respective modulation frequencies for the respective sample fluids to rectify and level, whereby obtaining analyzed values about the respective sample fluids is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Mikasa, Ichiro Asano, Nobutaka Kihara, Shuichi Ishimoto, Isao Fujita, Norio Kada, Takeshi Aoki, Takao Imaki, Masahiko Fujiwara, Naohito Shimizu, Junji Kato