Patents Assigned to Fujikin Incorporated
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Patent number: 12326718Abstract: An operation information collection system for a fluid control device configured as an operation information collection module includes a detected value acquisition unit acquiring a detected value of a state change or a device operation able to detect opening/closing operations from the fluid control device, a calculation processing unit calculating a rate of change of detected values separated by a predetermined time based on the detected value, and an operation information registration unit registering the rate of change of the detected values separated by the predetermined time to an operation information storage unit as an operation information of the fluid control device.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Yuya Suzuki, Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Koudai Okazaki
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Patent number: 12313205Abstract: Provided is a closing plug capable of easily closing an open end of a flow passage without concern of scale. The closing plug includes: a gasket configured to come into contact with an annular projection formed in a step portion inside the open end of the flow passage of a flow passage block; a columnar pressing member formed by cutting out an inner side of a pressing surface so as to press a peripheral edge portion of the gasket; and a closing plug screw configured to be screwed into a female screw formed in an inner peripheral surface on an open end side from the step portion and press the pressing member toward the gasket by movement caused by screwing.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ichiro Tokuda, Tsuyoshi Tanikawa, Yukio Minami
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Patent number: 11960308Abstract: An entire fluid supply line or an entire fluid controller constituted by a plurality of fluid control devices is precisely monitored. A fluid controller G accumulating and having a plurality of fluid control devices A. The fluid control devices A include an operation information acquisition mechanism acquiring an operation information in the fluid control devices, an identification information storage 71 storing a self-identification information, and a communication processing unit 72 transmitting the operation information acquired by the operation information acquisition mechanism to an external terminal with the self-identification information stored in the identification information storage 71 at different timings for each of the fluid control devices A.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Fujikin, IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Yuya Suzuki, Hidenori Kiso
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Publication number: 20230258281Abstract: A valve V1 capable of detecting an operation abnormality has a magnet M1 that is attached in the vicinity of a pressing adapter 52 of a stem 53 that slides according to an opening/closing operation of the valve V1, and a magnetic sensor M2 that is attached to a surface acing the stem 53, inside the pressing adapter 52 that presses a peripheral edge of a diaphragm 51, and detects a change in a distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2. Further, an abnormality determination mechanism compares the change in the distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of abnormality diagnosis detected by the magnetic sensor M2 and a previously measured change in the distance between the magnet M and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of normality, and determines whether or not there is an abnormality.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Kenji Aikawa, Akihiro Harada, Yuya Suzuki, Takahiro Matsuda, Katsunori Komehana, Masahiko Ochiishi, Tsutomu Shinohara
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Patent number: 11543275Abstract: A mass flow sensor is provided with reduced zero point fluctuation, and a mass flow meter and a mass flow controller using the mass flow sensor, the mass flow sensor comprising a U-shaped flow path passage in which a fluid flows from first end to a second end, having a bottom portion and two straight portions connecting the bottom portion to the ends, a first thermal resistor wound around one of the straight portions, a second thermal resistor wound around the same straight portion as the first thermal resistor and provided away from the first thermal resistor toward the second end, and a heat dissipating portion provided so as to be in contact with the flow path passage on the side opposite to the second thermal resistor across the first thermal resistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventor: Tsunehisa Shimizu
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Patent number: 11536385Abstract: A fluid control device, capable of acquiring data related to an internal operation of a device, is provided. The Fluid control device V includes a bonnet part installing sensors for detecting the internal operation of the fluid control device and a valve body containing the bonnet part inside, and the valve body has a recess for containing the bonnet part and a slit, leading a communication cable connected to the sensors to the outside, opening one end on an opposite side of a base where a flow path is formed, and penetrating from an outside to the recess.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Yuya Suzuki, Hidenori Kiso
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Patent number: 11536386Abstract: A fluid control device, capable of detecting leaks even if the leaks is slight, is provided. The fluid control device includes a valve body in which the flow path is formed, a diaphragm isolating a closed space from the flow path, a bonnet forming the closed space between the diaphragm and providing a penetration hole connected to the closed space and penetrated to be able to vertically move a diaphragm retainer, the diaphragm retainer vertically moving in the penetration hole to press the diaphragm and providing an increased diameter portion not to be removed from the penetration hole, a pressure sensor detecting a pressure inside of the closed space, and an elastic body interposing between the increased diameter portion of the diaphragm retainer and the bonnet inside of the closed space and elastically expanding and deflating between the increased diameter portion of the diaphragm retainer and the bonnet as the diaphragm retainer vertically moves.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Yuya Suzuki, Hidenori Kiso, Yoshiaki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220397885Abstract: An operation information collection system for a fluid control device configured as an operation information collection module includes a detected value acquisition unit acquiring a detected value of a state change or a device operation able to detect opening/closing operations from the fluid control device, a calculation processing unit calculating a rate of change of detected values separated by a predetermined time based on the detected value, and an operation information registration unit registering the rate of change of the detected values separated by the predetermined time to an operation information storage unit as an operation information of the fluid control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Yuya Suzuki, Ryutaro Tanno, Koudai Okazaki, Tsutomu Shinohara
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Patent number: 11392148Abstract: A flow rate control system including a flow rate controller controlling a flow rate of a fluid supplied to a controlled object to keep a desired flow rate set value is provided, and includes a flow rate sensor, a pressure sensor measuring a pressure of a primary side of the flow rate controller, a PI calibration value determination unit determining a PI calibration value based on at least a physical property coefficient according to a physical property value of the fluid, a correction unit correcting an estimated flow rate, based on the PI calibration value and a measured value, and a drive control circuit adjusting an opening of a valve supplying the fluid to the controlled object based on the estimated value and controlling the flow rate of the fluid. A flow rate is accurately calculated regardless of types of a fluid in the pressure insensitive type flow rate controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Van Tu Nguyen, Masafumi Kitano
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Patent number: 11371627Abstract: A cause of abnormality of a fluid control device and/or data with which abnormality can be predicted can be collected to be analyzed, and abnormality can be predicted based on a result of the analysis. A fluid control device 8 and a server 72 are configured to be able to communicate with each other through networks NW1 and 2. The fluid control device 8 includes an operation information acquisition mechanism that acquires a plurality of types of operation information about the fluid control device 8.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Yuya Suzuki, Katsunori Komehana, Masahiko Ochiishi, Akihiro Harada, Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara
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Patent number: 11340636Abstract: To diagnose an abnormality of a fluid control device from an operation of an entire fluid supply line including a plurality of fluid control devices. Provided is an abnormality diagnosis method of a fluid supply line including a plurality of fluid control devices F, V1, and V2 communicating with each other fluid-tightly.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Kenji Aikawa, Akihiro Harada, Yuya Suzuki, Takahiro Matsuda, Katsunori Komehana, Masahiko Ochiishi, Tsutomu Shinohara
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Publication number: 20210303008Abstract: An entire fluid supply line or an entire fluid controller constituted by a plurality of fluid control devices is precisely monitored. A fluid controller accumulating and having a plurality of fluid control devices. The fluid control devices include an operation information acquisition mechanism acquiring an operation information in the fluid control devices, an identification information storage storing a self-identification information, and a communication processing unit transmitting the operation information acquired by the operation information acquisition mechanism to an external terminal with the self-identification information stored in the identification information storage at different timings for each of the fluid control devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Yuya Suzuki, Hidenori Kiso
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Publication number: 20210303007Abstract: A flow rate control system including a flow rate controller controlling a flow rate of a fluid supplied to a controlled object to keep a desired flow rate set value is provided, and includes a flow rate sensor, a pressure sensor measuring a pressure of a primary side of the flow rate controller, a PI calibration value determination unit determining a PI calibration value based on at least a physical property coefficient according to a physical property value of the fluid, a correction unit correcting an estimated flow rate, based on the PI calibration value and a measured value, and a drive control circuit adjusting an opening of a valve supplying the fluid to the controlled object based on the estimated value and controlling the flow rate of the fluid. A flow rate is accurately calculated regardless of types of a fluid in the pressure insensitive type flow rate controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Van Tu Nguyen, Masafumi Kitano
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Publication number: 20210302264Abstract: A fluid control device, capable of detecting leaks even if the leaks is slight, is provided. Further, a fluid leak abnormality is identified as a change accompanying an operation of the fluid control device and the fluid leaks is detected with high accuracy. A fluid control device, having a flow path and a closed space isolated from the flow path by a diaphragm and capable of detecting an abnormality, includes a pressure sensor detecting a pressure inside of the closed space, a processing module executing a predetermined information process, and an operation detecting mechanism detecting an operation of the fluid control device. The processing module executes a discriminating process discriminating abnormality of the fluid control device by comparing a detected value detected by the pressure sensor with a predetermined threshold value, and a correcting process correcting the predetermined threshold value in accordance with the operation of the fluid control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Yuya Suzuki, Hidenori Kiso
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Publication number: 20210215269Abstract: A fluid control device, capable of detecting leaks even if the leaks is slight, is provided. The fluid control device includes a valve body in which the flow path is formed, a diaphragm isolating a closed space from the flow path, a bonnet forming the closed space between the diaphragm and providing a penetration hole connected to the closed space and penetrated to be able to vertically move a diaphragm retainer, the diaphragm retainer vertically moving in the penetration hole to press the diaphragm and providing an increased diameter portion not to be removed from the penetration hole, a pressure sensor detecting a pressure inside of the closed space, and an elastic body interposing between the increased diameter portion of the diaphragm retainer and the bonnet inside of the closed space and elastically expanding and deflating between the increased diameter portion of the diaphragm retainer and the bonnet as the diaphragm retainer vertically moves.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Yuya Suzuki, Hidenori Kiso, Yoshiaki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210123544Abstract: A fluid control device, capable of acquiring data related to an internal operation of a device, is provided. The Fluid control device V includes a bonnet part installing sensors for detecting the internal operation of the fluid control device and a valve body containing the bonnet part inside, and the valve body has a recess for containing the bonnet part and a slit, leading a communication cable connected to the sensors to the outside, opening one end on an opposite side of a base where a flow path is formed, and penetrating from an outside to the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara, Yuya Suzuki, Hidenori Kiso
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Publication number: 20210116047Abstract: Provided is a fluid control device that can have a small size, while a member for detecting abnormality of the fluid control device is incorporated. In addition, a result of detecting an abnormality of the fluid control device is made easily recognizable from the outside. A fluid control device 1 includes an information processing module 5 provided in the device, a valve body 11 having a flow path, an actuator body 12 fixed to the valve body 11, a hollow casing 13 that is fixed to the actuator body 12 and has a side surface on which a through hole 133d is formed, a piston 126 that is provided in the actuator body 12 and in which a driving pressure introduction path 126b that communicates with a driving pressure introduction chamber S2 is formed, and an introduction pipe 21 through which driving pressure is introduced, the introduction pipe having one end inserted to the driving pressure introduction path 126b and another end leading to an outside through the through hole 133d of the casing 13.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Yuya Suzuki, Katsunori Komehana, Masahiko Ochiishi, Akihiro Harada, Ryutaro Tanno, Tsutomu Shinohara
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Publication number: 20210102633Abstract: A fluid control device is provided in which a temperature sensor is firmly fixed and the thermal contact of the temperature sensor with the inner circumferential surface of a leak port is reliably maintained. A fluid control device 3 holding a temperature sensor 7 has the temperature sensor 7 inserted into a leak port LP and a sensor holding member 8 provided directly above the leak port LP and holding the temperature sensor 7 in a state in which the temperature sensor 7 is inserted into the inside of the leak port LP. The sensor holding member 8 is formed of a base body part 81 disposed directly above the leak port LP and a through hole 8a provided on the base body part 81, the temperature sensor 7 being inserted into the through hole 8a, the through hole 8a communicating with the leak port LP. The base body part 81 has a length that fits in the width of the fluid control device 3 in the short-side direction. The through hole 8a of the sensor holding member 8 and the leak port LP form a predetermined angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Kazuhiro Fujine, Hidehiro Doya
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Publication number: 20200393060Abstract: To enable accurate and simple diagnosis of an operation abnormality of a valve. A valve V1 capable of detecting an operation abnormality has a magnet M1 that is attached in the vicinity of a pressing adapter 52 of a stem 53 that slides according to an opening/closing operation of the valve V1, and a magnetic sensor M2 that is attached to a surface acing the stem 53, inside the pressing adapter 52 that presses a peripheral edge of a diaphragm 51, and detects a change in a distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2. Further, an abnormality determination mechanism compares the change in the distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of abnormality diagnosis detected by the magnetic sensor M2 and a previously measured change in the distance between the magnet M and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of normality, and determines whether or not there is an abnormality.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Kenji Aikawa, Akihiro Harada, Yuya Suzuki, Takahiro Matsuda, Katsunori Komehana, Masahiko Ochiishi, Tsutomu Shinohara
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Publication number: 20200363826Abstract: To diagnose an abnormality of a fluid control device from an operation of an entire fluid supply line including a plurality of fluid control devices. Provided is an abnormality diagnosis method of a fluid supply line including a plurality of fluid control devices F, V1, and V2 communicating with each other fluid-tightly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Kenji Aikawa, Akihiro Harada, Yuya Suzuki, Takahiro Matsuda, Katsunori Komehana, Masahiko Ochiishi, Tsutomu Shinohara