Patents by Inventor Yuji Nishio
Yuji Nishio 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: 20240133592Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The main circuit includes: a compressor; a first condenser; a first refrigerant-to-refrigerant heat exchanger; a first expansion device; a first branching portion; a first evaporator; a third branching; and a fourth branching portion. The bypass includes: a second expansion device; the first refrigerant-to-refrigerant heat exchanger; and a second branching portion. The second branching portion includes a liquid outflow pipe and a gas outflow pipe. The liquid outflow pipe defines one outlet for the refrigerant and is located below the gas outflow pipe. The gas outflow pipe defines another outlet for the refrigerant and is located above the liquid outflow pipe. The one outlet of the second branching portion communicates with the third branching portion. The other outlet of the second branching portion communicates with the fourth branching portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kosuke MIYAWAKI, Yuki MIZUNO, Soshi IKEDA, Jun NISHIO, Yuji MOTOMURA, Koji FURUYA, Hiroki WASHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240077238Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device with a main circuit, a bypass circuit and a supercooling heat exchanger further includes: a controller to control an opening degree of the bypass expansion valve; a first sensor to detect a temperature at the refrigerant inflow side of the evaporator; and a second sensor to detect a pressure of the non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant flowing from the evaporator, wherein the controller controls the opening degree of the bypass expansion valve using temperatures of the evaporator, that is, the temperature at the refrigerant inflow side and a saturated gas temperature of the non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant calculated from the pressure so as to adjust a flow rate of the non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant flowing into the evaporator, to eliminate the temperature difference in the evaporator for suppressing uneven frost formation on the evaporator, and thus to prevent heat exchange performance from degrading.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuki MIZUNO, Soshi IKEDA, Kosuke MIYAWAKI, Jun NISHIO, Yuji MOTOMURA, Hiroki WASHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230194466Abstract: The present invention appropriately determines a time to replace a responsive glass membrane for measuring a sample containing hydrofluoric acid. A measurement device for measuring a hydrogen ion concentration of a liquid sample containing hydrofluoric acid, the measurement device including a glass electrode that measures a hydrogen ion concentration in the liquid sample, the glass electrode including a responsive glass membrane, a membrane resistance measurement unit that measures a membrane resistance value of the responsive glass membrane, a temperature measurement unit that measures a temperature of an environment in which the responsive glass membrane is disposed, and an output unit that outputs a replacement index for replacing the responsive glass membrane based on the membrane resistance value and the temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Takamasa KINOSHITA, Yuichi ITO, Yuji NISHIO
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Patent number: 10983084Abstract: This invention is to provide an electrode device whose manufacturing cost is suppressed and whose surface is difficult to be polluted. The electrode device comprises an internal electrode, an enclosure that houses the internal electrode, an internal solution that is housed in the enclosure and that electrically communicates a liquid junction formed in the enclosure or a response glass that forms a part or all of the enclosure with the internal electrode, and an antifouling mechanism that has a light source to irradiate ultraviolet rays on a sample contact surface of the enclosure as being a surface that makes contact with a sample and that prevents the sample contact surface of the enclosure from being polluted, and the light source is directly or indirectly mounted on an outside of the enclosure, or the light source is housed inside of the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: HORIBA Advanced Techno, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Katsunobu Ehara
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Publication number: 20190285566Abstract: This invention is to provide an electrode device whose manufacturing cost is suppressed and whose surface is difficult to be polluted. The electrode device comprises an internal electrode, an enclosure that houses the internal electrode, an internal solution that is housed in the enclosure and that electrically communicates a liquid junction formed in the enclosure or a response glass that forms a part or all of the enclosure with the internal electrode, and an antifouling mechanism that has a light source to irradiate ultraviolet rays on a sample contact surface of the enclosure as being a surface that makes contact with a sample and that prevents the sample contact surface of the enclosure from being polluted, and the light source is directly or indirectly mounted on an outside of the enclosure, or the light source is housed inside of the enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Katsunobu Ehara
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Patent number: 10145814Abstract: In order to improve the endurance of this internal solution for a reference electrode beyond that in the prior art, the solution is made to contain a copolymerized material of a crosslinker having a plurality of non-acrylamide functional groups, and a non-acrylamide monofunctional hydrophilic monomer.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION, HORIBA ADVANCED TECHNO, CO., LTD.Inventors: Taro Tozuka, Yuji Nishio, Akio IShii
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Publication number: 20170168003Abstract: In order to improve the endurance of this internal solution for a reference electrode beyond that in the prior art, the solution is made to contain a copolymerized material of a crosslinker having a plurality of non-acrylamide functional groups, and a non-acrylamide monofunctional hydrophilic monomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION, HORIBA, Ltd.Inventors: Taro Tozuka, Yuji Nishio, Akio Ishii
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Patent number: 8436622Abstract: Disclosed are a measurement method and a measurement apparatus both of which can measure the content of water or an organic acid in a polar organic solvent with high accuracy even when water or the organic acid is contained in the polar organic solvent at a low content. The content of water or an organic acid in a polar organic solvent can be measured by using, as a work electrode, an ISFET electrode in which a thin film comprising an oxide or nitride of a metal or metalloid element belonging to Groups 3 to 15 is formed on a gate.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto
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Patent number: 8262877Abstract: Disclosed is a sensitive glass for use in a pH-sensitive glass electrode, which comprises at least Me2O3 (Me represents a lanthanoid) and further comprises Y2O3 or Sc2O3 in an amount smaller than that of the Me2O3. Also disclosed is a sensitive glass for use in a cation-sensitive glass electrode, which comprises at least Y2O3 or Sc2O3.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasukazu Iwamoto, Yuji Nishio
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Patent number: 8197651Abstract: Disclosed is an ion-selective electrode having excellent mechanical strength, excellent durability, low membrane resistance and good ion response accuracy. This ion-selective electrode comprises a response glass membrane which has ion selectivity and is made of an oxynitride glass containing Li.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto
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Patent number: 8080315Abstract: An ion-selective electrode has a responsive glass membrane with an exterior thin film containing titanium dioxide of an anatase type that is continuously formed as an integrated body. The thin film, of several hundred nm in numbers, is electrically connected by an amount of titanium dioxide that will form a continuity in the thin film structure. The thin film can be porous and contain at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, tungsten, copper, platinum, gold, silver and iron. Additionally, significantly larger titanium dioxide particles of 0.02 ?m in diameter can be further mixed into the thin film.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignees: Horiba, Ltd., Mie UniversityInventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto, Tadanori Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7976690Abstract: Disclosed is a sensitive glass film for a pH electrode, which is not deteriorated in its glass strength or pH-measuring function, which is hardly stained, and from which any stain can be removed easily. Also disclosed is a pH electrode having the sensitive glass film. A microparticle comprising rutile-type or brookite-type titanium dioxide or a microparticle comprising amorphous titanium dioxide is adhered directly on the glass film surface of a sensitive glass film for a pH electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignees: HORIBA, Ltd., Mie UniversityInventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto, Tadanori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20110109761Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying a composite image of an ordinary image and a special image which allows instantaneous recognition of the position of a portion appearing in the fluorescence image in the ordinary image without impairing visible information of the ordinary image. The apparatus includes a light emission unit for emitting ordinary light and special light directed to an observation area and an imaging unit having an ordinary image sensor for capturing an ordinary image by photoelectrically converting reflection light reflected from the observation area irradiated with the ordinary light and a special image sensor for capturing a special image by photoelectrically converting light emitted from the observation area irradiated with the special light and is controlled such that a charge storage amount stored in the special image sensor for each frame is periodically changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Yuji Nishio
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Publication number: 20100259271Abstract: Disclosed are a measurement method and a measurement apparatus both of which can measure the content of water or an organic acid in a polar organic solvent with high accuracy even when water or the organic acid is contained in the polar organic solvent at a low content. The content of water or an organic acid in a polar organic solvent can be measured by using, as a work electrode, an ISFET electrode in which a thin film comprising an oxide or nitride of a metal or metalloid element belonging to Groups 3 to 15 is formed on a gate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20100252431Abstract: Disclosed is an ion-selective electrode having excellent mechanical strength, excellent durability, low membrane resistance and good ion response accuracy. This ion-selective electrode comprises a response glass membrane which has ion selectivity and is made of an oxynitride glass containing Li.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20100179046Abstract: Disclosed is a sensitive glass for use in a pH-sensitive glass electrode, which comprises at least Me2O3 (Me represents a lanthanoid) and further comprises Y2O3 or Sc2O3 in an amount smaller than that of the Me2O3. Also disclosed is a sensitive glass for use in a cation-sensitive glass electrode, which comprises at least Y2O3 or Sc2O3.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yasukazu Iwamoto, Yuji Nishio
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Publication number: 20100051053Abstract: This invention provides a washing storage solution (22), which can substantially completely remove contaminants such as transition metals and alkali metals deposited on the surface of a glass electrode that comprises a glass comprising lithium and can restore performances as an electrode such as responsiveness and reproducibility in the measurement to an initial state or a state better than the initial state. The washing storage solution (22) is characterized by comprising at least one reducing reagent having a reduction behavior. Examples of reducing reagents include hydroxylammonium chloride, sodium hyposulfite, sodium hydrogen sulfite, sodium thiosulfate, sodium hypophosphite, ascorbic acid, and titanium oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20100025235Abstract: Disclosed is a sensitive glass film for a pH electrode, which is not deteriorated in its glass strength or pH-measuring function, which is hardly stained, and from which any stain can be removed easily. Also disclosed is a pH electrode having the sensitive glass film. A microparticle comprising rutile-type or brookite-type titanium dioxide or a microparticle comprising amorphous titanium dioxide is adhered directly on the glass film surface of a sensitive glass film for a pH electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicants: Horiba , ltd., Mie UniversityInventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto, Tadanori Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7547379Abstract: The present claimed invention intends to provide a responsive glass membrane for ion selective electrode glass and an ion selective electrode comprising the responsive glass membrane that produces a self-cleaning function when the ultraviolet rays are irradiated although no change is brought in a composition of a sample solution as being an object to be measured and that is low in electric resistance value and superior in responsivity under an ordinary measurement environment. The responsive glass membrane for ion selective electrode is made of the titanium-containing oxide glass that contains 20˜80 mol % of titanium dioxide and lithium oxide.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignees: Horiba, Ltd., Mie UniversityInventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto, Tadanori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20080206547Abstract: This invention intends to provide a responsive glass membrane and a glass electrode comprising the responsive glass membrane to which taint is hardly attached and easily detached without hindering a function of measuring the ionic concentration. A thin film containing titanium dioxide of an anatase type is formed on a surface of the responsive glass membrane and whole of the thin film is continuously formed to be an integrated body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto, Tadanori Hashimoto