Patents Assigned to Shimadzu Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230352290
    Abstract: In a mass spectrometer, a detector generates a current-pulse signal corresponding to an incident ion, with a gain corresponding to a detector voltage which is given by a voltage-generating section. A branching section divides, into branches, a voltage-pulse signal which is based on the current-pulse signal taken from the detector's anode. A pulse-counting section detects the signal one branch by a pulse-count method. An analog detection section detects the signal in another branch by an analogue detection method. A conversion-information storage section holds conversion information showing a relationship between an unsaturated predetermined pulse-count value and the corresponding analog detection value under the detector voltage given to the detector during a measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinjiro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230352293
    Abstract: An orthogonal acceleration electrode (242) deflects the flight direction of ions incident from an ion source (201). A flight-path-defining electrode (244, 246, 247) defines a flight path of the deflected ions. An ion detection section (245) detects an ion after the flight of the ion through the flight path. A voltage application section (3) applies voltages to the orthogonal acceleration electrode and flight-path-defining electrode. A measurement control section (43) acquires mass spectrum data by conducting a measurement of a known ion generated from a predetermined amount of known sample, under a plurality of measurement conditions which differ from each other in the value of the voltage applied to the orthogonal acceleration electrode. A score-value calculation section (44) calculates a score value based on a predetermined calculation formula, using the intensity of a mass peak and the mass-resolving power in the mass spectrum data acquired under each of the measurement conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OSHIRO, Kosuke UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230349942
    Abstract: A plurality of syringes are aligned in a first direction that intersects with a vertical direction while being directed downwardly. A detachment frame has a plate shape in which a through hole into which the plurality of syringes are inserted and is provided to be liftable and lowerable relative to the plurality of syringes. The detachment frame has a first region located at a position lower than a predetermined height threshold value defined with respect to the detachment frame and a second region located at a position higher than the height threshold value in a lower surface, and the first region and second region are arranged alternately in the first direction. In a tip attachment region, a tip is attached to the lower end portion of each of the plurality of syringes that project farther downwardly than the detachment frame through the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20230349879
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes a measurement unit, a flow-in tube for flow of sample water into the measurement unit, a connection portion that connects a sample tube and the measurement unit to each other, a liquid sending portion that sends sample water to the measurement unit, a pressurization pump that increases a pressure in the inside of the sample tube, and a controller. The controller controls operations of the liquid sending portion and the pressurization pump to suppress within a prescribed range, variation in pressure applied to sample water until sample water reaches the measurement unit from the inside of the sample tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito YAHATA, Kazuma MAEDA, Tatsuya KATAOKA, Yuichi MASUDA, Nobuhiro NAMIKAWA, Akioki NAKAMORI, Tatsuya IWAMA
  • Publication number: 20230351161
    Abstract: A data analysis apparatus, a data analysis method, a method of generating a trained model, a system, and a program that allow highly accurate and easy analysis of an FT-IR spectrum are provided. The data analysis apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains an analysis target which is an FT-IR spectrum, a trained model, and an analyzer that inputs the analysis target to the trained model. The trained model is machine-trained so as to output, when the trained model receives input of an FT-IR spectrum, information indicating whether or not the inputted FT-IR spectrum includes a peak derived from a trained atomic group. The trained atomic group includes an atomic group containing at least three atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haodong QIU, Shiori NAGAI
  • Patent number: 11801026
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus includes an image processor configured to perform image processing on a radiation image generated by an image generator, and a display configured to display a processed image that has been subjected to the image processing in the image processor. The image processor is configured to perform control to create the processed image showing an expanded portion in which a balloon introduced into a subject is expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Yoshida, Fumiaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11802853
    Abstract: A sample injection device is provided with a syringe for injecting a sample and an arrangement unit in which plural kinds of cleaning solvents are arranged to clean the syringe. The device is configured to be able to set a cleaning order of the syringe by the plural kinds of cleaning solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Fukushima, Gregory King
  • Patent number: 11804369
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer 1, which is for generating a product ion from a precursor ion derived from a sample component having a hydrocarbon chain to analyze a mass, includes a reaction chamber 2 into which the precursor ion is introduced, radical generating units 51, 52, and 53 that generate a radical having an oxidizing ability or/and a radical other than a hydrogen radical having a reducing ability, a radical irradiation unit 54 that irradiates the inside of the reaction chamber 2 with the generated radical, a separation detection unit 3 that separates and detects the product ion generated from the precursor ion by a reaction with the radical according to a mass-to-charge ratio, and a structure estimation unit 14 that estimates the structure of the sample component based on the mass-to-charge ratio of the detected product ions and the information on the structure or the structure candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230343573
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer includes: a measurement unit to perform mass spectrometry on each of a plurality of target samples and a plurality of quality control samples in a predetermined order; a sample information storage unit which stores discrimination information capable of discriminating between the target sample and the quality control sample in a series of measurements of the target samples and the quality control samples; and a display processor to separate a measurement result for the target sample and/or an analysis result derived from the measurement result, and a measurement result for the quality control sample and/or an analysis result derived from the measurement result to create display information in a predetermined format, and display the two pieces of display information on a screen of a display unit by using the discrimination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuki OKUBO, Mamoru HONDA, Yuko OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230342541
    Abstract: A meter display identification system and a meter display identification method for identifying type information of a meter included in a figure identification code displayed on the meter panel side of the meter, including an image acquisition module configured to collect image information, whose an imaging area includes a display area of the figure identification code and a display area of target data on the meter panel, of the meter panel, a meter type identification module configured to identify type information of the meter by identifying the figure identification code from image information collected by the image acquisition module, a text detection module configured to identify a display area of the target data based on the type information and a display area of the figure identification code, and a text identification module configured to perform text identification on image information in a display area of the target data are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haodong QIU, Okiyuki KUNIHIRO, Qi MAO
  • Patent number: 11798795
    Abstract: A matrix-derived peak information acquisition unit (31) creates a peak list that summarizes various ions derived from a matrix and their theoretical m/z values based on a result of analysis of a sample of only a matrix, and stores the peak list in a matrix-derived peak information storage unit (32). When an actually-measured mass spectrum of a target sample is obtained, a mass calibration reference peak detection unit (33) uses a peak list corresponding to a matrix used for analysis to identify an ion peak derived from a matrix appearing in the actually-measured mass spectrum. A mass calibration information calculation unit (35) obtains mass calibration information from an actually-measured m/z value and a theoretical m/z value of the identified peak, and a mass calibration processing unit (37) uses the mass calibration information to correct an m/z value of a peak derived from a target compound on the actually-measured mass spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11796521
    Abstract: A gas analyzer includes: a column that separates a component in a sample gas; a valve that switches, between a test sample gas and a standard sample gas, the sample gas to be supplied to the column; a valve that adjusts an introduction amount of the sample gas to be supplied to the column; a detector that detects, by gas chromatography, the component in the sample gas separated by the column; and a control device. The control device controls the valve to allow the introduction amount to be a predetermined amount, calculates a peak area value of a chromatogram obtained by the detector when the introduction amount is the predetermined amount, and calculates a correspondence between the introduction amount and the peak area value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeaki Shibamoto
  • Patent number: 11796468
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a gas measurement apparatus includes a measurement controller (6), a spectrum generator (72), a processing unit (73), and a result obtaining unit (74). The measurement controller (6) controls the apparatus so that a laser-light source (1) causes laser light to be incident to an optical resonator (4) and a wavelength of the laser light is scanned within a predetermined wavelength range, the range including an absorption peak of a target component, thereby performing a CRDS measurement. The spectrum generator (72) generates an absorption spectrum based on data obtained at each wavelength within a predetermined wavelength range. The processing unit (73) approximates a waveform shape of the absorption peak of the target component in the absorption spectrum with a polynomial and acquires a coefficient of a term of a predetermined degree in the polynomial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Kazune Mano
  • Patent number: 11794191
    Abstract: A dispensing tip holder is used when a dispensing tip is attached to a tip of a pipette, and includes a peripheral wall having a shape surrounding an outer peripheral surface of the dispensing tip, and an insertion portion having an insertion opening into which the dispensing tip is to be inserted. The peripheral wall has a first end into which the dispensing tip is to be inserted, and has a second end provided at a position opposite to the first end. The insertion portion is formed in the peripheral wall such that an outer peripheral surface of the dispensing tip abuts against an edge of the insertion opening, and is formed in the peripheral wall such that a tip of the dispensing tip does not project from the second end of the peripheral wall, when the dispensing tip is inserted into the insertion opening from the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shikata, Kenji Ninomiya, Naoko Takaoka, Shinichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11796491
    Abstract: A spectroscopic element and a detector are disposed along a circumference of one Rowland circle. The spectroscopic element has a spectral surface whose length, measured along the Rowland circle, is shorter than a length in the Rowland circle plane, of an irradiation surface irradiated with excitation beams emitted to a sample holder. The spectroscopic element and the sample holder are disposed to separate a group of characteristic X-rays within a common spectral range of the spectroscopic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Miyauchi, Susumu Adachi, Asaka Kohiyama, Takuro Izumi, Takashi Omori, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20230334019
    Abstract: A data processing system (1) including an information processing device (2) and an information display device (4), in which the information processing device (2) includes a data registration part (8) configured to register a plurality of pieces of data acquired by a predetermined data acquisition device (6) as data handled by the data processing system (1) in a state where each piece of the data and at least one type of accompanying information of each piece of the data are associated with each other, a registration data holder (10) that holds data registered by the data registration part (8), a data tree creator (12) configured to group the plurality of pieces of data held in the registration data holder (10) by using the accompanying information of an optionally selected type so that pieces of the data having a common piece of the accompanying information belong to a same group, and to create a data tree virtually indicating a state in which a plurality of pieces of the data are distributed into groups, and
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji SAWADA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Takeshi ONO
  • Publication number: 20230334832
    Abstract: An image analyzing device (1) includes an image holder (8) that holds an image, a trained model registration part (10) configured to register trained models created by machine learning, a trained model holder (12) that holds the trained models registered by the trained model registration part (10), an algorithm holder (14) that holds a plurality of analysis algorithms for executing analysis processing of an image, a recipe creation part (18) configured, for an image to be analyzed optionally selected from among images held in the image holder (8), to create an analysis recipe for analyzing the image to be analyzed by combining a trained model selected from the trained models held in the trained model holder (10) and an analysis algorithm optionally selected from the plurality of analysis algorithms held in the algorithm holder (14), and an analysis execution part (20) configured to execute analysis of the image to be analyzed based on the analysis recipe created by the recipe creation part (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji SAWADA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Takeshi ONO
  • Publication number: 20230335221
    Abstract: In a data-analyzing method in which an analysis based on a plurality of data groups each obtained by an instrumental analysis on each of a plurality of samples, with each data group including signal values having an n-dimensional array structure (where n?2), is performed by using a computer, to obtain desired information concerning a difference between the samples, the method includes: a computational processing step for performing, in each data group, a persistent-homology processing on data including signal values having an m-dimensional array structure (where 2?m?n) obtained from one data group, to create a persistence diagram (PD); and an analytical processing step for comparing PDs respectively obtained from the data groups, to obtain the desired information based on a difference in the dispersion state of plots across the entire PDs being compared and/or based on information concerning a plot having no positional correspondence determined on the PDs being compared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, KWANSEI GAKUIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ikuko YAO, Yuzuki MORITA, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230335388
    Abstract: In order to simplify a power circuit, a linear ion trap (2) according to the present invention includes: two first rod electrodes (21, 22) facing each other across a central axis (C), each of the first rod electrodes having an opening (21a, 22a); two second rod electrodes (23, 24) facing each other across the central axis, in a direction different from the direction in which the two first rod electrodes face each other; and a pair of end electrodes (25, 26) respectively arranged outside the two end faces of the two first rod electrodes and the two second rod electrodes. A controller (7) is provided to control a radio-frequency voltage supplier (4) which applies a radio-frequency voltage for capturing ions to each of the two second rod electrodes, and an excitation voltage supplier (5) which applies a voltage for resonance excitation to each of the two first rod electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei KODERA
  • Publication number: 20230333721
    Abstract: A data processing system includes an information processing device (2) and an information display device (4). The information processing device (2) includes a registration data holder (10) that holds image data registered in the data processing system (1), a field display part (12) configured to display, on the information display device, a display field including a plurality of image display areas, having the same size with each other, for displaying the image data, and an image display part (14) configured to display, in the image display area of the display field, a plurality of pieces of image data optionally selected from the image data held in the registration data holder (10), and the image display part (14) is configured to change an enlargement or reduction ratio of a plurality of pieces of the image data displayed in the image display area of the display field in conjunction with each other based on operation by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji SAWADA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Takeshi ONO