Patents Assigned to Horiba, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220229032
    Abstract: In order to allow an analyzer to be calibrated or a sampling channel to be purged without removing a sampling probe from a sampling location, provided are a sampling channel through which an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine flows, an analyzer that is connected to the sampling channel and analyzes the exhaust gas, a diluter provided upstream of the analyzer in the sampling channel, a recirculated channel that branches from a branch point set between the analyzer and the diluter in the sampling channel and joins the diluter, a pump that is provided in the recirculated channel and guides part of the exhaust gas from the branch point to the diluter, an additional channel that is connected to the recirculated channel or the sampling channel and through which a calibration gas or a purge gas flows, and an opening and closing mechanism provided in the additional channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori OTSUKI, Huewe FLORIAN, Kenji KONDO
  • Patent number: 11385135
    Abstract: A vehicle test device is to test performance of a vehicle or a part of the vehicle by rotating a wheel placed on a rotating body in order to reproduce an actually running state of the vehicle by controlling rotational speed of the wheel so as to make the rotational speed equal to a target value accurately, and a rotation related value that indicates rotational speed of the wheel or torque applied to the wheel is obtained, and the rotational speed of the rotating body or the torque applied to the rotating body is controlled so as to make the rotation related value equal to a predetermined target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Kazuhiro Shiomi
  • Patent number: 11374380
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor laser including: a core layer having an active layer and a diffraction grating layer optically coupled to the active layer; and paired clad layers arranged sandwiching the core layer, and formed with a waveguide along the core layer, and the semiconductor laser includes: a flat layer provided continuously with the diffraction grating layer along the waveguide; and a temperature control mechanism for controlling the temperature of the flat layer to a temperature different from that of the diffraction grating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoji Terakado, Makoto Matsuhama, Kyoji Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11366126
    Abstract: Provided is an analysis apparatus having a control part having a preparatory action setting part for determination of whether the first and second controls are performed or the third and fourth controls are performed. The first control sets a sleep-planned part to a sleep state at a first time point when the state of non-use of the analysis apparatus has lasted for a predetermined time length, and then causes performance of a preparatory action by a first predetermined part; the second control resumes the operation of the analysis apparatus when a command signal to resume the operation is received; the third control places a sleep-planned part in a sleep state at a second time point when the state of non-use has lasted for a time length; and the fourth control causes a preparatory action of a second predetermined part to resume operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Nishimori
  • Patent number: 11359997
    Abstract: A chassis dynamometer that tests a two-wheel drive vehicle includes: a driving wheel side roller on which the driving wheels of the vehicle are placed; a driven wheel side roller on which the driven wheels of the vehicle are placed; a driving wheel side power absorbing part connected to the driving wheel side roller; a driven wheel side power absorbing part connected to the driven wheel side roller; a braking force measuring part that, via the driven wheel side power absorbing part, measures braking force exerted on the driven wheel side roller; and a control part that with use of the braking force measured by the braking force measuring part, sets the control target value of the power absorbing force of the driving wheel side power absorbing part to control the driving wheel side power absorbing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Noguchi, Kaori Adachi
  • Patent number: 11360020
    Abstract: In order to enable concentrations of components to be measured to be accurately calculated even when higher boiling compounds are contained in a test gas, a gas analysis device that analyzes components to be measured that are contained in a test gas using a light spectrum obtained by irradiating light onto the test gas is provided with a calibration curve data storage section in which is stored first calibration curve data in which effects on concentrations of the components to be measured from higher boiling compounds whose boiling point is higher than a heating temperature of an analyzer into which the test gas has been introduced have been corrected, and with a concentration calculation section that calculates concentrations of components to be measured using the first calibration curve data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Motonobu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11353322
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to make it easier to perform positioning of a detection device when detecting surface characteristics of a sensing object. The invention includes a detection device, a processing part, a guidance information generation part and an informing part. The detection device detects reflection light from a sensing object by irradiating light onto the sensing object. The processing part calculates surface characteristics of the sensing object by processing data from the detection device. The guidance information generation part generates information about a distance and/or an attitude of the detection device relative to the sensing object. The informing part informs the information about the distance and/or the attitude generated by the guidance information generation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiichi Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 11327047
    Abstract: The present invention includes a first flow path through which a sample gas flows, a first analyzer that is provided in the first flow path to measure total hydrocarbon concentration in the sample gas, a second flow path through which the sample gas flows, a non-methane non-ethane cutter that is provided in the second flow path to remove the hydrocarbon components other than the methane and the ethane in the sample gas, a second analyzer that is provided downstream of the non-methane non-ethane cutter in the second flow path to measure the total methane ethane concentration of the methane and the ethane in the sample gas, and a calculation part that calculates the concentration of the hydrocarbon components other than the methane and the ethane in the sample gas with use of the total hydrocarbon concentration by the first analyzer and the total methane ethane concentration by the second analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Ochiai, Tomoshi Yoshimura, Ma Camille Corrales Lacdan
  • Patent number: 11293885
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus includes an X-ray measurement device, an optical characteristic measurement device, and a calculation unit. The X-ray measurement device may be configured to measure fluorescent X-rays generated from the measurement object. The optical characteristic measurement device may be configured to obtain optical characteristics other than the fluorescent X-rays of one or more carbon compounds contained in the measurement object. The calculation unit may be configured to calculate information about a quantity of the one or more carbon compounds contained in the measurement object on the basis of the optical characteristics of the carbon compound(s), and correct the information about fluorescent X-rays measured by the X-ray measurement device on the basis of the information about the quantity of the carbon compound(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Mizuno, Tomoki Aoyama, Erika Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11270878
    Abstract: A quadrupole mass spectrometer includes an ion source that ionizes a sample, a filter unit that includes a quadrupole and separates ions generated from the ion source according to mass, a detector that detects ions passing through the filter unit, a filter voltage controller that controls a filter voltage applied to the quadrupole to switch between a blocking mode in which ions entering the filter unit are not allowed to impinge on the detector and a passing mode in which ions entering the filter unit are allowed to impinge on the detector, the filter voltage including a radio-frequency voltage and a direct-current voltage, a baseline computing unit that computes a baseline based on outputs of the detector in the blocking mode, and an analyzing unit that outputs an analysis result of the sample based on outputs of the detector in the passing mode and the computed baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD., HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Sasai, Kazushi Sasakura, Toshihiro Ikeyama, Takahito Inoue, Hiroshi Uchihara
  • Patent number: 11255754
    Abstract: The present invention is one that reproduces behavior close to an actual run of a vehicle in a test using a loading device, and is a specimen test apparatus that tests a specimen that is a vehicle or a part of a vehicle. The vehicle test apparatus includes: a loading device that is connected to a rotating shaft of the specimen and gives running resistance to the rotating shaft; a storage part that stores tire diameter data indicating the relationship between a running state of the specimen and a tire diameter; and a control part that, from the tire diameter data, calculates a tire diameter corresponding to a running state of the specimen, and controls the loading device with use of running resistance obtained from the calculated tire diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11243137
    Abstract: This invention is to collectively manage the timing to replace the multiple gas cylinders, and is a cylinder management system that manages multiple gas cylinders that supply a utility gas of a calibration gas to multiple gas analysis device and that comprises multiple pressure sensors that that detect a pressure of each of the multiple gas cylinders, and a management device that calculates a cylinder gas residual quantity in each gas cylinder based on the pressure detected by each pressure sensor and manages the timing to replace each gas cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20220017067
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to reduce the burden on a user in vehicle testing while maintaining precision of vehicle testing, and is a vehicle testing system for testing, on a test bench, a vehicle or a test piece that is a portion of a vehicle, the vehicle testing system being provided with a camera for capturing an image of a portion of a test piece, and a control device for controlling vehicle testing on the basis of the image captured by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11215537
    Abstract: To measure an internal state of an engine, for example, the engine oil consumption conveniently and correctly, an inspection apparatus of the present invention for inspecting the internal state of the engine by using an exhaust gas of the engine including engine oil includes a data storage unit that stores content information about a plurality of elements contained in the engine oil, a data acceptance unit that accepts analysis information about a plurality of elements contained in the exhaust gas, and an inspection unit that compares the content information about the engine oil with the analysis information to inspect the internal state of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikue Takagi, Takashi Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11187641
    Abstract: The present invention reduces the effects from variations in the outside air pressure on particle number counting, and is provided with an exhaust gas processing unit that performs predetermined processing on exhaust gas, a particle number counting unit that counts a number of particles contained in exhaust gas that has passed through the exhaust gas processing unit, a fluid resistance element that is provided downstream from the particle number counting unit, a suction pump that is provided downstream from the fluid resistance element, a gas supply path that is connected to a flow path between the fluid resistance element and the suction pump, and supplies gas to a downstream side of the fluid resistance element, and a flow rate adjustment unit that is provided on the gas supply path, and adjusts a flow rate of the gas that is supplied to the downstream side of the fluid resistance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Rahman Montajir, Yoshinori Otsuki
  • Patent number: 11187628
    Abstract: To measure an internal state of an engine, for example, the engine oil consumption conveniently and correctly, an inspection apparatus of the present invention for inspecting the internal state of the engine by using an exhaust gas of the engine including engine oil includes a data storage unit that stores content information about a plurality of elements contained in the engine oil, a data acceptance unit that accepts analysis information about a plurality of elements contained in the exhaust gas, and an inspection unit that compares the content information about the engine oil with the analysis information to inspect the internal state of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikue Takagi, Takashi Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11168629
    Abstract: The present invention is one that accurately measures an exhaust gas component regardless of variation in atmospheric pressure around a test object that is a vehicle or part of it, and an exhaust gas analysis apparatus that measures component concentration in exhaust gas discharged from the test object that is the vehicle or part of it. The exhaust gas analysis apparatus includes: an exhaust gas detector that mixes the exhaust gas and reactive gas together and detects the resulting phenomenon; a pressure gauge that measures the atmospheric pressure at the time of measurement of the exhaust gas or pressure at a predetermined point inside the exhaust gas analysis apparatus as measured pressure; and a correction part that, on the basis of the measured pressure by the pressure gauge, corrects the measurement error of the exhaust gas detector associated with a variation in the supply amount of the reactive gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Mizutani, Masahiro Nishikawa, Haruhisa Mohara, Shun Fukami, Yosuke Kondo
  • Patent number: 11169068
    Abstract: A particle size distribution measurement device contains a specific particle size light intensity calculation unit that calculates a light intensity generated by particles having a specific particle size that are contained in an object, a correlation data storage unit that stores particle number-light intensity correlation data, and a particle number calculation unit that calculates the number of particles having a specific particle size that are contained in the object being measured based on light intensities calculated by the specific particle size light intensity calculation unit, and on the particle number-light intensity correlation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Keijiro Sakuramoto, Tetsuya Mori, Hirosuke Sugasawa
  • Patent number: 11131639
    Abstract: To more accurately output a signal related to a source of particulate matter floating in the atmosphere, an analyzer is equipped with a mass concentration measuring unit, an element analysis unit, and a source-related signal output unit. The mass concentration measuring unit measures the mass concentration of fine particulate matter (FP) in the atmosphere. The element analysis unit analyzes an element contained in the FP. The source-related signal output unit outputs a signal related to the source of the FP on the basis of the mass concentration measurement result from the mass concentration measuring unit, and the analysis result for the element contained in the FP from the element analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Mizuno, Tomoki Aoyama, Erika Matsumoto, Shunsuke Murata, Toshiyuki Michikita
  • Patent number: 11125703
    Abstract: The radiation detection device according to the present invention comprises: a sample holding unit; an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a sample held by the sample holding unit with radioactive rays; a detection unit configured to detect radioactive rays generated from the sample; a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance from a predetermined base point to an irradiated part, which is to be irradiated with radioactive rays, of the sample held by the sample holding unit; a size specification unit configured to specify a size of the irradiated part on the sample based on the calculated distance; and a display unit configured to display the specified size of the irradiated part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa Taroura, Kusuo Ueno