Patents by Inventor Shinya Matsuoka
Shinya Matsuoka 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).
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Publication number: 20210063424Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Tooru INABA, Ruochi HSU, Shinya MATSUOKA, Takeshi YOKOKAWA, Daisuke EBIHARA
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Publication number: 20200343422Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a substrate, at least one light-emitting element disposed on the substrate, at least one electronic component disposed on the substrate, a lens disposed apart from the at least one light-emitting element and the at least one electronic component to face the at least one light-emitting element and the at least one electronic component, and at least one plate-shaped covering member each disposed between the lens and a corresponding one of the at least one electronic component. The at least one covering member contains a coloring agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Saiki YAMAMOTO, Shinya MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20200298251Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Ruochi HSU, Tooru INABA, Shinya MATSUOKA, Daisuke EBIHARA, Takeshi YOKOKAWA
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Publication number: 20200182754Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Daisuke EBIHARA, Shinya MATSUOKA, Taku SAKAZUME, Yuzuru SHIMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20200073207Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in an array on a base member; and a compound eye lens that includes a plurality of lens parts disposed above the base member and facing the plurality of light-emitting elements. The plurality of light-emitting elements are arranged such that each of the plurality of light-emitting elements faces a corresponding one of the lens parts, and a center of each of the plurality of light-emitting elements is offset from a lens center of the corresponding one of the lens parts of the compound eye lens in a direction toward a center of the compound eye lens in a plan view. The plurality of light-emitting elements include first light-emitting elements and second light-emitting elements that are alternately arranged, wherein an emission color of the first light-emitting elements is different from an emission color of the second light-emitting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi OKAHISA, Shinya MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20200025285Abstract: A transmission device is provided in which a support shaft is supported by a carrier, has planetary gears, supports the planetary gears, and is provided with an oil hole and a discharge hole communicating with the oil hole and having an outer end opening on the support shaft, wherein the support shaft has the oil hole, a discharge hole having an inner end communicating with the oil hole and having an outer end opening on the support shaft, and an engagement part provided on one end portion of the support shaft, the other end portion of the support shaft is fixed to the carrier, and a to-be-engaged part is provided on the transmission member, the engagement part engaging with the to-be-engaged part for positioning the support shaft at a position in which the outer end of the discharge hole faces outward in a radial direction of the carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventor: Shinya MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20200003768Abstract: An electrochemiluminescence method of detecting an analyte in a liquid sample and a corresponding analysis system. An analyte in a liquid sample is detected by first providing a receptacle containing a fluid comprising protein coated magnetic microparticles to a stirring unit. Stirring of the fluid is necessary since the density of the microparticles is usually higher than the density of the buffer fluid. Thus the microparticles tend to deposit on the bottom of the receptacle leading to an aggregation of the microparticles because of weak interactions. To obtain representative measurements a homogeneous distribution of the microparticles in the buffer fluid is necessary to ensure a constant concentration of microparticles for each analysis cycle. It is further necessary to provide disaggregation of the microparticles, which is also realized by stirring the fluid. Stirring is conducted with a rotational frequency that is adapted to the amount of fluid to be stirred.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicants: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Ralf Kraus, Oliver Larbolette, Friedrich Staebler, Yoshihiro y Yamashita, Yukinori Sakashita, Shinya Matsuoka, Michihiro Saito, Taku Sakazume, Katsuaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10443869Abstract: Operation switching units, each changing directions of a refrigerant flowing through its associated indoor unit in response to a switch from a cooling operation to a heating operation, or vice versa, are each connected with the associated indoor unit through indoor communication pipes; a gas-liquid separation unit is connected with an outdoor unit through outdoor communication pipes; and the operation switching units are connected with the gas-liquid separation unit through two intermediate communication pipes preinstalled and one intermediate communication pipe newly installed. This provides a simple and cost-effective means for upgrading a preinstalled air conditioner making a switch from cooling to heating, and vice versa, into an air conditioner that can perform a cooling operation and a heating operation in parallel with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka, Masahiro Oka, Mari Susaki
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Patent number: 10422797Abstract: An electrochemiluminescence method of detecting an analyte in a liquid sample and a corresponding analysis system. An analyte in a liquid sample is detected by first providing a receptacle containing a fluid comprising protein coated magnetic microparticles to a stirring unit. Stirring of the fluid is necessary since the density of the microparticles is usually higher than the density of the buffer fluid. Thus the microparticles tend to deposit on the bottom of the receptacle leading to an aggregation of the microparticles because of weak interactions. To obtain representative measurements a homogeneous distribution of the microparticles in the buffer fluid is necessary to ensure a constant concentration of microparticles for each analysis cycle. It is further necessary to provide disaggregation of the microparticles, which is also realized by stirring the fluid. Stirring is conducted with a rotational frequency that is adapted to the amount of fluid to be stirred.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignees: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC., HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Ralf Kraus, Oliver Larbolette, Friedrich Staebler, Yoshihiro Yamashita, Yukinori Sakashita, Shinya Matsuoka, Michihiro Saito, Taku Sakazume, Katsuaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10288149Abstract: A transmission device is provided in which a first speed change portion and a second speed change portion are formed. The first speed change portion includes an eccentric shaft having a main shaft portion on a first rotary axis and an eccentric shaft portion on a second rotary axis disposed eccentrically with respect to the first rotary axis; an eccentric unit that is rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion, and has external teeth formed on an outer peripheral portion thereof; and a housing having an axial center on the first rotary axis, and having internal teeth that mesh with the external teeth of the eccentric unit. The second speed change portion includes curved wave grooves respectively formed on the eccentric unit and a rotary unit; and rolling elements sandwiched between the curved wave grooves and moving along an orbit defined by the curved wave grooves.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinya Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20190107183Abstract: A transmission device includes one transmission member having a first axis, the other transmission member being capable of revolving around the first axis while rotating around a second axis eccentric from the first axis, and a transmission mechanism provided between the two transmission members, and that has one of transmission grooves provided in the one transmission member and having a wave-shaped annular form with the first axis, the other transmission groove provided in the other transmission member, having a wave-shaped annular form with the second axis, and a plurality of rolling bodies disposed in a plurality of intersecting parts between the two transmission grooves, wherein opposite side faces of a retainer are formed so as to be rotatably slidable with respect to the transmission members, and oil reservoir recesses are provided to one opposing face of the mutually opposing faces of the transmission members and the retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventor: Shinya MATSUOKA
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Patent number: 10234164Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a casing, a heat exchanger and a blower. In the casing, an intake port is formed and a blow-off port is formed in a top surface section. The heat exchanger and the blower are housed in the casing. The blower is caused to rotate while a flammable refrigerant flows to the heat exchanger during an operation, an intake air is taken into the casing from the intake port, a heat exchange is carried out between the flammable refrigerant and the intake air in the heat exchanger, and the heat-exchanged air is blown out from the blow-off port to an exterior of the casing. A first refrigerant sensor that detects the flammable refrigerant is disposed on a downwind side of the heat exchanger inside the casing.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohisa Takeuchi, Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka
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Patent number: 10197321Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus uses R32 as a refrigerant, and includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion mechanism, an evaporator, an intermediate injection channel, a suction injection channel, a switching mechanism, a branch flow channel, first and second injection opening adjustable valves, an injection heat exchanger, a refrigerant storage tank, a bypass channel, and a control part. The switching mechanism switches between an intermediate injection condition in which refrigerant flows in the intermediate injection channel, and a suction injection condition in which refrigerant flows in the suction injection channel. The branch flow channel branches from a main refrigerant channel which joins the condenser and the evaporator, and guides the refrigerant to the intermediate injection channel and the suction injection channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka, Masahiro Oka
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Patent number: 10184676Abstract: Operation switching units, each changing directions of a refrigerant flowing through its associated indoor unit in response to a switch from a cooling operation to a heating operation, or vice versa, are each connected with the associated indoor unit through indoor communication pipes; a gas-liquid separation unit is connected with an outdoor unit through outdoor communication pipes; and the operation switching units are connected with the gas-liquid separation unit through two intermediate communication pipes preinstalled and one intermediate communication pipe newly installed. This provides a simple and cost-effective means for upgrading a preinstalled air conditioner making a switch from cooling to heating, and vice versa, into an air conditioner that can perform a cooling operation and a heating operation in parallel with each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka, Masahiro Oka, Mari Susaki
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Publication number: 20180306285Abstract: A transmission device includes a first transmission member, an eccentric rotating member formed by integrally linking to each other a main shaft portion and an eccentric shaft portion, a second transmission member rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion, a third transmission member that opposes the second transmission member, a first transmission mechanism provided between the first and second transmission members, and a second transmission mechanism provided between the second and third transmission member. The second transmission member includes a first half body rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion, a second half body that opposes the first half body while sandwiching a housing space for the balance weight, and a linking member that links the two half bodies so as to surround the housing space, the linking member having a first access window that enables an operation of inserting the balance weight into the housing space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Takanori NOGUCHI, Tetsuro HAMADA, Shinya MATSUOKA
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Patent number: 10018586Abstract: A flow cell for electrochemical measurement which introduces a sample solution, applies a voltage between a working electrode and a counter electrode to analyze the sample solution electrochemically, discharges the sample solution, and performs the electrochemical measurement continuously. The flow cell includes a unit which measures a value of a current flowing between electrodes at the time of applying a voltage, a unit which records the measured current value, a unit which compares the recorded current value with a current value set separately as a determination standard, and a unit which determines whether the current value measured at a cycle of a determination target and the recorded current value is normal by the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Shinya Matsuoka, So Oguchi, Yukie Tokiwa, Toshinari Sakurai, Yasushi Niiyama, Noriko Iizumi
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Patent number: 9989284Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus uses R32 as refrigerant, and includes a compressor, condenser, expansion mechanism, evaporator, accumulator, branching flow path, opening degree adjustment valve disposed in the branching flow path, injection-use heat exchanger and a first injection flow path. The accumulator has an inside space to separate and accumulate refrigerant. The injection-use heat exchanger causes heat exchange between refrigerant flowing through the main refrigerant flow path and that has passed through the opening degree adjustment valve of the branching flow path. The first injection flow path guides the refrigerant that has flowed through the branching flow path and exited the injection-use heat exchanger to the inside space of the accumulator. A distal end of the first injection flow path is located in a height position separated by a dimension from a bottom of the inside space. The dimension is 0 to 0.3 times a height dimension of the inside space.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20180149236Abstract: A transmission device is provided in which a first speed change portion and a second speed change portion are formed. The first speed change portion includes an eccentric shaft having a main shaft portion on a first rotary axis and an eccentric shaft portion on a second rotary axis disposed eccentrically with respect to the first rotary axis; an eccentric unit that is rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion, and has external teeth formed on an outer peripheral portion thereof; and a housing having an axial center on the first rotary axis, and having internal teeth that mesh with the external teeth of the eccentric unit. The second speed change portion includes curved wave grooves respectively formed on the eccentric unit and a rotary unit; and rolling elements sandwiched between the curved wave grooves and moving along an orbit defined by the curved wave grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventor: Shinya MATSUOKA
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Patent number: 9958191Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus uses R32 as a refrigerant, and includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion mechanism, an evaporator, an intermediate injection channel and a suction injection channel. The intermediate injection channel guides a part of the refrigerant flowing from the condenser toward the evaporator to the compressor, causing the refrigerant to merge with intermediate-pressure refrigerant of the compressor. The suction injection channel guides a part of the refrigerant flowing from the condenser toward the evaporator to the suction passage, causing the refrigerant to merge with low-pressure refrigerant sucked into the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka, Masahiro Oka
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Patent number: 9897355Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus uses R32 as refrigerant, and includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion mechanism, an evaporator, a branch flow channel branching from a main refrigerant channel joining the condenser and the evaporator, a first opening adjustable valve disposed along the branch flow channel, an injection heat exchanger, a first injection channel, a refrigerant storage tank disposed along the main refrigerant channel, and a second injection channel. The injection heat exchanger exchanges heat between refrigerant in the main refrigerant channel and refrigerant passing through the first opening adjustable valve. The first injection channel guides refrigerant that flows in the branch flow channel and that exits from the injection heat exchanger to the compressor or the suction passage. The second injection channel guides a gas component of refrigerant accumulated inside the refrigerant storage tank to the compressor or the suction passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka, Masahiro Oka