Patents by Inventor Tadayuki Nagano

Tadayuki Nagano 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: 20210172784
    Abstract: The liquid source vaporization apparatus comprises a tank inside of which a liquid source is stored, a heater that applies heat to the liquid source in the tank, a plurality of liquid surface detecting bodies wherein each of liquid surface detecting points is arranged in a predetermined height range in the tank with a set height regarded as the reference, a reference detecting body arranged above the predetermined height range in the tank, and a liquid surface discriminator that discriminates whether or not there is the liquid source at the set height on a basis of a threshold value set based on a change in electrical resistance of the reference detecting body and a change in electrical resistance of a plurality of the liquid surface detecting bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Tadayuki NAGANO, Takao WATANABE
  • Patent number: 8661919
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to improve response property and accuracy of temperature control of a liquid sample, and is provided with a vaporization tank that retains the liquid sample, one or more heaters that are provided in the vaporization tank and respectively have heating parts that come into contact with the liquid sample to heat the liquid sample, a temperature detection part that is provided in contact with an outer surface including the heating part of any of the heaters and detects a temperature of the outer surface, and a control part that receives a temperature detection signal from the temperature detection part to control electric power supplied to the heaters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Horiba STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidenori Oba, Tadayuki Nagano
  • Publication number: 20120011943
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to improve response property and accuracy of temperature control of a liquid sample, and is provided with a vaporization tank that retains the liquid sample, one or more heaters that are provided in the vaporization tank and respectively have heating parts that come into contact with the liquid sample to heat the liquid sample, a temperature detection part that is provided in contact with an outer surface including the heating part of any of the heaters and detects a temperature of the outer surface, and a control part that receives a temperature detection signal from the temperature detection part to control electric power supplied to the heaters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidenori Oba, Tadayuki Nagano