Patents Assigned to Horiba, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130168265
    Abstract: This invention relates to a correction liquid for a liquid membrane type ion-selective electrode that makes it possible to measure a ratio between a sodium ion concentration and a potassium ion concentration in urine by correcting for an influence from an ionic strength of the urine. The correction liquid comprises a sodium ion-sensitive part that selectively reacts with the sodium ion and a potassium ion-sensitive part that selectively reacts with the potassium ion, and measures a ratio between a sodium ion concentration and a potassium ion concentration in urine, and comprises the sodium ion, the potassium ion, and an electrolytic ionic strength modifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130168246
    Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid membrane type ion-selective electrode that can restrain an electric potential fluctuation of an inner electrode due to ultraviolet rays and that can conduct an analysis with high accuracy. The liquid membrane type ion-selective electrode comprises a liquid membrane type ion-sensitive membrane wherein a predetermined ionophore is supported by a base material, an inner electrode that has electrical conductivity and that is arranged at a position on the ion-sensitive membrane through which light transmitted is incident, an internal solution that contains an electrolyte and that makes contact with the ion-sensitive membrane and the inner electrode, wherein the ion-sensitive membrane contains an ultraviolet absorber or an ultraviolet reflecting agent having an insulative property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130163000
    Abstract: A gas measurement apparatus measures a target gas. The gas measurement apparatus includes a light source, a first light receiving apparatus, a first phase-sensitive detection apparatus, an R calculation unit, and a setting unit. The light source oscillates a laser light that has a central wavelength determined by a main current and is modulated according to a modulation current, with the central wavelength being varied. The first light receiving apparatus outputs a detection signal according to an intensity of the laser light transmitted through a standard sample. The first phase-sensitive detection apparatus obtains a second harmonic component oscillated at a harmonic frequency ?2 twice as large as a modulation frequency ?1. The R calculation unit calculates a peak-bottom ratio R. The setting unit sets a width of wavelength modulation of the laser light so that the peak-bottom ratio R satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Horiba, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130161544
    Abstract: A gas analyzing apparatus includes a probe for measuring a concentration of sample gas flowing in a pipe by an optical measurement system. Influence of a thermal lens effect phenomenon is suppressed so that measurement accuracy is improved. The apparatus includes a probe tube disposed to cross a flow path of the sample gas in the pipe to introduce the sample gas flowing in the pipe to a predetermined hollow measurement region. A light emission portion and a light receiving portion for project measurement light to the measurement region in the probe tube and receive the measurement light after passing through the sample gas in the measurement region. A purge gas feed tube disposed in the probe tube supplies purge gas to a region between the optical system members and the measurement region, with a gap to the inner wall surface of the probe tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130166225
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to make reduction of interference influence and reduction of a measurement error compatible in a quantitative analysis of one or more measurement target components and to provide a analyzing device (100) that quantitatively analyzes one or more measurement target components in a sample using a spectral spectrum obtained by irradiating light to the sample, wherein the analyzing device is adapted to switch the library data between a first generation condition in a period of a predetermined time lapse after starting the sample gas generation and a second generation condition after the predetermined time lapse, wherein under the first generation condition, a plurality of measurement target components are quantitatively analyzed using the first library data obtained by compensating interference influence of measurement extra-target components; and under the second generation condition, the quantitative analysis of a plurality of measurement target components is performed using sec
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130166242
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a gas analysis apparatus that measures the moisture concentration in a gas using a radiating unit includes a moisture concentration measurement value calibrated based on the relationship between the intensity of an absorption spectrum of moisture of a concentration to be measured and the intensity of an absorption spectrum of an other component gas that can be measured by the radiating unit, for which the relationship to the intensity of the absorption spectrum of moisture of the measured prescribed concentration is known, and based on the intensity of an absorption spectrum obtained by measuring the other component gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130153417
    Abstract: A reference electrode for improving a product life cycle without using a gelled hydrophobic ionic liquid having a prescribed hardness or viscosity and without having a large thickness so as to be difficult to manufacture is provided. The reference electrode is provided with a housing for accommodating an internal electrode, a filler for electrically connecting the internal electrode, and a sample liquid. The filler is formed having a layer between the internal electrode and an opening formed in the housing for contacting the sample liquid and the filler. The filler includes a first layer including a water soluble electrolytic solution formed to be in contact with the internal electrode a second layer including a hydrophobic ionic liquid formed to be in contact with the first layer; and a third layer including a gelled hydrophobic ionic liquid formed in the opening so as to be in contact with the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Shibata, Yasukazu Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 8459290
    Abstract: A material gas concentration control system for keeping a concentration of a material gas in a mixed gas constant comprising a tank to accommodate the material, an inlet line to input a carrier gas for evaporating the accommodated material into the tank, and an outlet line to output the mixed gas consisting of the material gas evaporated in the tank and the carrier gas, and further comprising a first valve arranged in the inlet line, a concentration measuring part that measures the concentration of the material gas in the mixed gas, and a concentration control part that controls an open degree of the first valve so as to make the measured concentration of the material gas measured by the concentration measuring part become the previously determined set concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignees: Horiba, Ltd., Horiba Stec, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Minami, Daisuke Hayashi, Yuhei Sakaguchi, Katsumi Nishimura, Masaki Inoue, Kotaro Takijiri
  • Patent number: 8459291
    Abstract: To prevent loss of control of a pressure of a source gas within a movable range of a control valve, a source gas concentration control system is provided. The system may include a first valve that is provided on an outlet line, a concentration measurement part that measures a concentration of the source gas in mixed gas, and a concentration control part that controls a stroke of the first valve such that the measured concentration of the source gas becomes equal to a predetermined concentration setting. The measured concentration may be measured in the concentration measurement part. The system may further include a temperature controller that controls a temperature inside the tank to meet a temperature setting, and a temperature setting part that sets the temperature setting of the temperature controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignees: HORIBA, Ltd., HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Minami, Masaki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130136656
    Abstract: An exhaust gas measurement device includes a pressure regulator for keeping a pressure of sample gas in a sensor flow line or a bypass flow line to be a set pressure value, a flow rate sensor provided on the bypass flow line for measuring a flow rate of the sample gas flowing through the bypass flow line, and an attention attracting part for displaying that the flow rate of the sample gas is reduced in the case where the flow rate measurement value measured by the flow rate sensor becomes equal to or smaller than an attention attracting flow rate value larger than a pressure controlling limit flow rate value by a predetermined value, the pressure controlling limit flow rate value being a lower limit flow rate value that is pressure-controllable by the pressure regulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8452502
    Abstract: This invention intends to provide a vehicle-mounted driving recorder that can facilitate an after-the-fact analysis on not only situation data at a time of an accident but also situation data at a time of a hiyari-hatto and that can contribute accident prevention. The vehicle-mounted driving recorder comprises a data receiving section that receives situation data indicating behavior, a surrounding situation, and an operating situation of a vehicle and a data administration section that classifies the situation data into one of predetermined multiple categories based on contents of the received situation data and stores the classified situation data in a situation data storage section specified in a predetermined area of a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Japan Automobile Research Institute, Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Katayama, Akihiro Hashimoto, Masatomo Ishikura, Keiko Kohsaka
  • Publication number: 20130118229
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to be able to restore a setting of an exhaust gas analyzing device to an initial setting at the time of product shipment or the latest maintenance setting performed prior to the corresponding maintenance in the maintenance of the exhaust gas analyzing device. The present invention includes a setting data storage part (55) storing initial setting data indicating initial setting information of each part constituting an exhaust gas analyzing device (2) in a state of product shipment and the latest maintenance setting data indicating the latest maintenance setting information of each part constituting the exhaust gas analyzing device (2) in the latest maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Horiba, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130124033
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a test system 1 that tests a mobile body such as a vehicle, a vessel, and a plane, or an instrument used in the mobile body as an object, and is operable by switching among different operational modes, can accumulate an operating period of a component much more accurately than conventional system, and includes an accumulated operating-time calculating unit 46 for accumulating the operating time of the component, and the accumulated operating-time calculating unit 46 accumulates the operating time of the component only in the predetermined operational mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventor: HORIBA, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130118244
    Abstract: The exhaust gas analysis system urges a user to conduct a purge in an exhaust gas flow line by not only informing the user of the timing that the purge is necessary from the exhaust gas analysis system but also making it easy for the user to recognize the information. The exhaust gas analysis system comprises an exhaust gas flow line (L) where an exhaust gas flows, a measurement device 2, 3 that is arranged in the exhaust gas flow line (L) and that includes a pollutant component meter to measure a pollutant component to be a cause of pollutant of the exhaust gas flow line, and a display control device 5 that compares a measurement signal value obtained by the pollutant component meter or its arithmetic value with a predetermined pollutant tolerance and that displays a warning window on a display 21 in case that the measurement signal value or the arithmetic value exceeds the predetermined pollutant component tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130118605
    Abstract: The present invention is one that, while suppressing a temperature variation of simulated gas supplied to a test target, changes a flow rate of the simulated gas supplied to the test target, and provided with: a first gas supply path 2; a first gas heating part 4 that is connected with the first gas supply path 2 and heats the first gas; a simulated gas supply path 6 that supplies the simulated gas generated by heating by the first gas heating part 4 to the test target; and a simulated gas discharge path 7 that, without supplying the simulated gas generated by heating by the first gas heating part 4 to the test target, discharges the simulated gas outside, wherein by controlling a discharge flow rate of the simulated gas through the simulated gas discharge path 7, a supply flow rate of the simulated gas supplied from the simulated gas supply path 6 to the test target is controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA, LTD.
  • Patent number: 8440466
    Abstract: The nitrogen oxide analyzer obtains the ozone concentration-luminescence response characteristics that show the relationship between the ozone concentration and the light intensity by chemiluminescent response obtained by varying the ozone concentration alone in a steady state, and sets the relationship of the parameter that determines an average period of the sample gas passing the reactor so that the luminescence response is generated in the reactor alone even though the ozone concentration of the ozone-containing gas changes within a predetermined range based on the ozone concentration-luminescence response characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8436622
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Nishio, Yasukazu Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 8416921
    Abstract: An X-ray convergence element and an X-ray irradiation device including the X-ray convergence element are provided. The X-ray convergence element can extend a working distance from an exit-side opening end thereof to a specimen, and can perform analysis of the specimen with rough surface, a fluorescent X-ray analysis, and a X-ray diffraction analysis, regardless of a size of the specimen. An X-ray blocking member 23 is provided with three supporting members 233 for supporting the X-ray blocking member 23, which extend from an annular member 232 having approximately the same diameter as a diameter of an entrance-side opening end (outer diameter of a capillary 20) toward the center of the X-ray blocking member 23 to fix the annular member 232 to the capillary 20. The annular member 232, the supporting members 233, and the X-ray blocking member 23 are integrally formed of a metal that shields X-rays, such as tantalum, tungsten, or molybdenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignees: Horiba, Ltd., National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Hiromoto Nakazawa, Hideki Yoshikawa, Aurel-Mihai Vlaicu, Kenichi Obori, Shintaro Komatani, Sumito Ohzawa
  • Patent number: 8408056
    Abstract: An EGR ratio measuring device comprises a pair of nondispersive infrared gas analyzers that correct a water influence and measure a concentration of CO2 in a gas containing water, an intake air introduction line that is connected to an intake air pipe of an internal combustion engine and introduces a part of the intake air into one nondispersive infrared gas analyzer without removing the water, an exhaust gas introduction line that is connected to an exhaust gas pipe of the internal combustion engine and introduces a part of the exhaust gas into the other nondispersive infrared gas analyzer without removing the water, and a temperature adjusting mechanism that keeps a temperature of whole of the introduction lines and a temperature of the nondispersive infrared gas analyzers so as not to condense dew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoshi Yoshimura, Masaru Miyai
  • Publication number: 20130056351
    Abstract: This invention prevents leakage of an internal liquid and breakage of a reference electrode resulting from volume expansion of the internal liquid due to the congelation of the internal liquid, and comprises a vessel that forms a sealed space, an internal liquid that is contained in the vessel, an internal electrode that is immersed in the internal liquid, an ion conduction part that is arranged on a wall of the vessel and that electrically connects the internal liquid and a measurement sample, and a volume expansion absorption mechanism 6 at least a part of which is immersed in the internal liquid and that absorbs volume expansion of the internal liquid due to congelation of the internal liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto KATO