Patents Assigned to Horiba, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20230150393Abstract: An example embodiment includes a large observation device that observes the object using a quantum beam; a reproduction device that is installed in the large observation device and reproduces an input to the object in a state where the object can be observed by the large observation device; a dynamic state observation device that observes a dynamic state of a functional object functioning by a combination of a plurality of elements; a first information acquisition unit that functionally decomposes the functional object up to an element corresponding to the object and acquires first information that is input information to the element corresponding to the object; and a transmission unit that transmits the first information to the reproduction device, in which the reproduction device reproduces the input to the object on the basis of the first information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicants: NISSAN ARC, LTD., HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Takashi MATSUMOTO, Hideto IMAI, Masashi MATSUMOTO, Ankur BALIYAN, Yasunari HANAKI, Keijiro IWAO, Jun HIROSE, Hiroshi HATAKEYAMA
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Publication number: 20230150504Abstract: The present invention is intended to make it possible to automatically drive a test object without performing pre-learning for a running performance map for each vehicle. There is provided an automatic test object driving device that automatically drives a test vehicle based on a command vehicle speed, and that includes a driving actuator for performing driving operation of the test vehicle, and a driving control unit for controlling the driving actuator. The driving control unit includes a first accelerator map and a second accelerator map each of which indicates a relationship among a vehicle-speed-related value, an acceleration-related value, and an accelerator-depression-amount-related value. The driving control unit uses the first accelerator map to determine an accelerator depression amount corresponding to the command vehicle speed, and uses the second accelerator map to correct the accelerator depression amount by feeding back a vehicle speed and an acceleration of the test vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitake ANDO, Takashi SAITO
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Publication number: 20230123798Abstract: To uniformly dilute particulate matter contained in a sample gas, a diluter includes an inflow portion, a mixing portion, a discharge portion, a connection portion, and an introduction portion. The inflow portion allows a sample gas to flow in. The mixing portion has an inner diameter larger than that of the inflow portion, and mixes the sample gas with a dilution gas to generate a diluted sample gas. The discharge portion discharges the diluted sample gas. The connection portion has a first tapered part whose inner diameter increases from a side connected to the inflow portion toward a side connected to the mixing portion. The introduction portion introduces the dilution gas into an internal space from a position downstream of the connection between the first tapered part and the inflow portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Shota SANDO, Yusuke MIZUNO, Jun TOMITA, Hirotaka ISEKI
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Publication number: 20230123299Abstract: The present invention enables the measuring and evaluating of variations in vehicle fuel consumption and emission test results due to differences in driving style. An automatic operation device that automatically operates a test part based on a command vehicle speed includes a receiving unit, a command vehicle speed shaping unit, and an operation control unit. The receiving unit receives a driving mode set or changed by a user. The command vehicle speed shaping unit shapes a command vehicle speed r(t) based on the driving mode received by the receiving unit. The operation control unit controls an operation of the test part by a shaped command vehicle speed r?(t) obtained by the command vehicle speed shaping unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Takashi SAITO, Kazuki FURUKAWA
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Patent number: 11519823Abstract: A vehicle testing device including a cooling device, which is capable of freely selecting a part to be cooled and a wind direction in accordance with a purpose of a test is provided. The vehicle testing device that tests a test piece that is a vehicle or a part of the vehicle includes a rotating body on which the test piece is placed, and a cooling device that sends air from a side of the test piece to at least a part of the test piece in order to cool the test piece placed on the rotating body.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Nagayama, Kaori Adachi, Dongkai Zhang
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Patent number: 11521440Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to provide temperature traceability for a test vehicle. A vehicle control device controls temperature information for a test vehicle and includes a peripheral temperature acquisition unit that acquires a peripheral temperature of a test vehicle from a first temperature sensor that is provided in a soak chamber where the test vehicle is stored or in a test chamber where the test vehicle is tested, a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information for the test vehicle, and a recording unit that associates the peripheral temperature of the test vehicle with the position information for that test vehicle and records the association.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Masashi Sakaguchi, Mitsunobu Yamamoto, Masahiro Yamaoka
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Patent number: 11506603Abstract: The optical cell of an elongated shape has an inner space into which gas is introduced and includes: a cell main body forming the inner space; a manifold member being separably connected to an outer surface of the cell main body extending in a longitudinal direction; and a heating mechanism heating the manifold member, in which the cell main body has a through hole penetrating from the outer surface into the inner space, and the manifold member has a gas introduction path extending along the longitudinal direction and guiding the gas, which has been taken in from the outside, from one side to another side in the longitudinal direction and then guiding the gas to the inner space through the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventor: Masahiro Nakane
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Patent number: 11499905Abstract: An object of the present claimed invention is to improve cell cooling performance, keep a temperature of a dispersion medium constant, and improve measurement accuracy. The particle size distribution measuring device of this invention comprises a cell holding body 31 that holds a cell 2 housing a measurement sample and that is rotated by a motor 322, a case (C) having a housing space (S) for rotatably housing the cell holding body 31, and a cooling mechanism 8 for cooling the cell 2. The cooling mechanism 8 comprises a cooler 81, and a supply channel 82 that supplies a gas that has been cooled by the cooler 81 to the housing space (S).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Takeshi Akamatsu
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Patent number: 11495063Abstract: An automated-driving device causes a test body which is either a vehicle or part of a vehicle to perform automated-driving using a plurality of types of actuators. This automated-driving device includes a plurality of connectors to which the actuators are connected, and a control device that controls movements of the actuators that are connected to the connectors. When one of the actuators is connected to one of the connectors, the control device identifies the type of actuator that is connected.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Takuma Hachiken, Yoshiaki Matsubara, Kazuki Furukawa, Susumu Togawa, Kazunori Kuriaki, Yasutaka Kawakita, Kosuke Ol
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Patent number: 11486800Abstract: A sample dispersing device contains a container inside of which a dispersal chamber where a power sample is dispersed is formed, and an introducing mechanism that introduces a gas containing the powder sample from the outside of the container into the dispersal chamber based on a pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the container. The introducing mechanism contains an introduction pipe where the gas containing the powder sample flows, and several restrictors arranged in the introduction pipe.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nagura, Kazuma Aoyagi, Akihiro Minami, Hiroshi Tateno, Tomoya Shimizu, Kusuo Ueno
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Patent number: 11475380Abstract: This collectively manages an operation rate of multiple test facilities, and is an operation rate analysis system that is communicably connected to multiple test facilities that test a specimen as being a vehicle or a part of the vehicle and that analyzes an operation rate of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, and that comprises an operation information obtaining part that obtains operation information of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, a setting receiving part that receives a user setting relating to an operation judgment condition to judge whether each of the multiple test facilities is in operation or not, and an operation rate calculating part that calculates the operation rate of each of the multiple test facilities or the operation rate of all of the multiple test facilities from the operation information obtained by the operation information obtaining part based on the operation judgment condition received by the setting receiving part.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Ryoji Ozawa
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Patent number: 11467107Abstract: The X-ray analysis apparatus contains an X-ray generation unit. The X-ray generation unit includes a target plate having a target that is irradiated with an electron beam from an electron beam source and generates X-rays, X-ray convergence optics that converges X-rays generated from the target in conjunction with a movement of the target plate, and a driving unit that changes a position of the target plate or the X-ray convergence optics relative to the electron beam source.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventor: Tomoki Aoyama
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Publication number: 20220317033Abstract: Presented is a sample gas analysis device that reduces a measurement error due to a coexistence influence of another measurement target component different from the measurement target component, analyzes a concentration of a plurality of measurement target components in a sample gas by performing multivariate analysis using a spectroscopic spectrum obtained by irradiating the sample gas with light, and includes a library data storage configured to store library data including a plurality of spectrum data corresponding to a plurality of the measurement target components used for the multivariate analysis, and a concentration calculator configured to calculate the concentration of the plurality of measurement target components in the sample gas by the multivariate analysis using the plurality of library data stored in the library data storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventor: Jorge Eduardo LAMAS DE ANDA
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Patent number: 11448589Abstract: An analyzer analyzes a measurement sample on the basis of spectrum data obtained by irradiating light to the measurement sample. The analyzer includes a main analysis part, a correlation data storage part and a concentration calculation part. The main analysis part calculates a concentration of a predetermined hydrocarbon component contained in the measurement sample on the basis of the spectrum data of the measurement sample. The correlation data storage part stores therein a plurality of correlation data each indicating a correlation between a concentration of the predetermined hydrocarbon component or the spectrum data and a THC concentration. The concentration calculation part selects at least one correlation data from among a plurality of correlation data stored in the correlation data storage part according to the concentration of the predetermined hydrocarbon component, and calculates a concentration of the total hydrocarbon components in the measurement sample by using correlation data thus selected.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Yabushita
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Patent number: 11448579Abstract: A particle size distribution measuring device includes an actual spectrum obtaining unit obtaining an actual spectrum which is a light intensity spectrum; a non-target spectrum calculating unit that receives non-target particle size distribution data indicating a particle size distribution of a non-target particle group which is not a measurement target and which is accommodated in the cell and that calculates, on the basis of the non-target particle size distribution data, a non-target spectrum which is a light intensity spectrum to be obtained by irradiating the non-target particle group with light; a non-target spectrum removing unit that calculates a target spectrum which is a light intensity spectrum obtained by subtracting an influence of the non-target spectrum from the actual spectrum; and a target particle size distribution calculating unit that calculates the particle size distribution of the particle group which is the measurement target on the basis of the target spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Mori, Hisashi Akiyama, Makoto Nagura
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Patent number: 11448588Abstract: An analyzer that analyzes a measurement sample on the basis of spectrum data obtained by irradiating the measurement sample with light and includes a total analysis value calculation part that, on the basis of the total analysis value of a reference sample of which the total analysis value of multiple predetermined components are preliminarily obtained, calculates the total analysis value of the multiple components in the measurement sample from the spectrum data of the measurement sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitake Ando, Masayuki Adachi
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Patent number: 11444213Abstract: Provided are a radiation detector and a radiation detection apparatus in which the efficiency of detecting radiation is enhanced by increasing a portion capable of detecting radiation. A radiation detector includes a semiconductor part having a plate-like shape, the semiconductor part being provided with a through hole penetrating the semiconductor part, one surface of the semiconductor part being an incident surface for radiation. The semiconductor part has a sensitive portion capable of detecting incident radiation, the sensitive portion including an inner edge of the incident surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER, HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Antonino Picciotto, Francesco Ficorella, Nicola Zorzi, Daisuke Matsunaga, Kengo Yasui
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Patent number: 11428616Abstract: The present claimed invention is to facilitate cleaning work of a cell for a particle size distribution measuring device that measures a particle size distribution by means of a line start method, and comprises a cell 2 that houses a density gradient solution, a cell rotating mechanism 3 that rotates the cell 2 so that a centrifugal force is applied to the cell 2 from a smaller density gradient to a larger density gradient and a sample introducing mechanism 7 that introduces a measurement sample into the cell 2 that is rotated by the cell rotating mechanism 3, and is so configured that the cell 2 is detachable from a main body of the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Takeshi Akamatsu, Tatsuo Igushi
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Patent number: 11415499Abstract: The particle size distribution measurement device irradiates light onto a sample of particles, then detects secondary light generated by this irradiation, and then calculates a particle size distribution of the particles based on the detection data, and includes a separate measurement data receiving unit that receives separate measurement data obtained by separately measuring particles having a specific particle size in a separate sample, and light intensity data showing a light intensity of the secondary light generated by the particles in the separate sample, and a distribution conversion unit that, based on the separate measurement data and on the light intensity data, converts the particle size distribution from a distribution in which the numbers of particles of each particle size contained in the sample being measured are shown in relative terms to a distribution in which the numbers of these particles are shown in absolute terms.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Mori, Hirosuke Sugasawa, Keijiro Sakuramoto, Tetsuji Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220236180Abstract: In an analysis device that irradiates light from three or more light sources onto a cell, embodiments proposed herein prevent a reduction in the intensity of light from each light source, and are provided with at least a first light source, a second light source, and a third light source, and an optical system that guides light from the respective light sources onto a cell. The optical system is provided with a second light source optical element that reflects the light from the first light source and transmits the light from the second light source, and a third light source optical element that reflects the light from the first light source that has been reflected by the second light source optical element and the light from the second light source that has been transmitted through the second light source optical element, and transmits the light from the third light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Kyoji SHIBUYA, Shota HAMAUCHI, Hiroki NISHIGAI