Patents Assigned to Shimadzu Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230386428
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of chromatograph apparatuses includes a display unit, a display processing unit, and an operation receiving unit. The display processing unit causes the display unit to display a management screen in which a display image for each of the chromatograph apparatuses related to at least one of an analysis result in a plurality of the chromatograph apparatuses and operation on a plurality of the chromatograph apparatuses is arranged at a common aspect ratio. The operation receiving unit receives change operation for changing a display mode of the management screen. When the change operation is received by the operation receiving unit, the display processing unit rearranges the display image in a state where an aspect ratio is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KIMOTO, Yuri ITO
  • Publication number: 20230386817
    Abstract: In a TOFMS measurement unit, an ion acceleration section accelerates ions to send them into a flight space, within which a flight-field creation section creates, an electric field for causing ions to fly. A controller unit operates the measurement unit so as to repeat a measurement for a predetermined sample while varying a voltage applied to an electrode in the measurement unit, and calculates mass-resolving power based on each measurement result. An approximate function calculator unit finds an approximate function representing a relationship between the voltage and the mass-resolving power, based on data of combinations of the voltage and the mass-resolving power obtained under the control of the controller unit. A voltage determiner unit determines a voltage value corresponding to a target value of the mass-resolving power by the approximate function, and determines the voltage value as a voltage to be applied to the electrode in the TOFMS concerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke UCHIYAMA, Tomoyuki OSHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230384263
    Abstract: An analysis device for data obtained in mass spectrometry, includes an information acquirer that acquires detection information representing a peptide that is detected when a sample is subjected to a cleavage process and then subjected to mass spectrometry, and an information producer that produces allergen information in regard to an allergen included in the sample based on the detection information and data representing a peptide that is produced when each allergen is subjected to the cleavage process, wherein the information producer produces the allergen information based on a combination of a plurality of peptides in a case in which the plurality of peptides produced from one allergen in the data are detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tairo OGURA
  • Publication number: 20230386814
    Abstract: Provided is an ion analysis device (10) that irradiates sample component-derived precursor ions with radicals so as to generate product ions and analyzes the product ions, said device comprising: a reaction chamber (142) into which the precursor ions are introduced; a radical generation unit (151) which generates radicals; and a radical transport pipe (152) which connects the radical generation unit (151) and the reaction chamber (142), wherein at least part of the inner wall surface of the radical transport pipe (152) is made of a material having a lesser amount of or lower strength of radical adherence to the inner wall surface of the radical transport pipe (152) in comparison with alumina or quartz. One end (1523) of the radical transport pipe (152) is disposed inside the reaction chamber (142) and preferably faces toward a prescribed region (1424) where ions are localized in the reaction chamber (142).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaji FURUTA, Hidenori TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11828738
    Abstract: A detector for a liquid chromatograph, includes a detector that detects components in liquid, a pipe that guides liquid to the detector, a casing that contains at least part of the pipe and the detector and has a bottom portion, and a thermal insulator provided on the bottom portion in the casing, wherein a discharge port is provided in the bottom portion of the casing, the thermal insulator has an upper surface and a lower surface, a first opening is provided in the upper surface of the thermal insulator, and a second opening is provided in the lower surface of the thermal insulator to overlap with the discharge port in a plan view, a flow path that guides liquid from the first opening to the second opening is provided in the thermal insulator, and the flow path has a bend portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Iijima
  • Patent number: 11830714
    Abstract: An analysis method includes analyzing a reference sample that contains a predetermined amount of a predetermined component by an analysis device using a chromatograph and obtaining a reference detection value which is a detection value of the predetermined amount of the predetermined component detected by the analysis device, calculating a judgment reference value which is a criterion for judging whether a concentration of a detection subject component in a measurement subject sample is equal to or larger than a reference concentration or equal to or smaller than the reference concentration based on the reference detection value, and analyzing the measurement subject sample by the analysis device and judging that the detection subject component has been detected in a case where a detection value exceeding the judgment reference value is detected in a peak detection time zone corresponding to the detection subject component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiko Kudo, Shinji Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11828737
    Abstract: In a preparative liquid chromatograph, a control device for controlling at least operation of a sample injection part includes a holding part for holding a chromatogram-for-setting created in advance for a sample to be analyzed, and an injection program creating part configured to create an injection program that defines timings at which injection operations are executed based on the chromatogram-for-setting, so that, in the case where the number of injections in a multiple injection mode is set, a peak of a chromatogram of the sample to be analyzed injected in each injection operation does not overlap a peak of a chromatogram of the sample to be analyzed injected in another injection operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro Tamaoki, Tsutomu Okoba, Takayuki Iriki, Shiori Ueda
  • Patent number: 11827908
    Abstract: A novel luciferase with a small molecular weight is provided. A polypeptide with luciferase activity comprising an amino acid sequence (A) or (B) is provided: (A) an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 with deletion of amino acid residues at positions 1 to 69 and 204 to 221; or (B) an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 with deletion of amino acid residues at positions 1 to 69 and deletion or substitution of at least one of amino acid residues 146 to 156.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Ohmuro
  • Patent number: 11829357
    Abstract: An analysis assistance device includes an estimator that estimates distribution of measurement quality index data using a plurality of analysis condition data to be provided to an analysis device and a plurality of measurement data obtained in the analysis device based on the plurality of analysis condition data, a calculator that calculates the measurement quality index data from the measurement data obtained from the analysis device, and a comparison outputter that compares and outputs for display the measurement quality index data estimated by the estimator and the measurement quality index data calculated by the calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11830195
    Abstract: A training label image correction method includes performing a segmentation process on an input image (11) of training data (10) by a trained model (1) using the training data to create a determination label image (14), comparing labels of corresponding portions in the determination label image (14) and a training label image (12) with each other, and correcting label areas (13) included in the training label image based on label comparison results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Takahashi, Ayako Akazawa, Shota Oshikawa
  • Publication number: 20230377869
    Abstract: An orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometer includes: a first vacuum chamber and a second vacuum chamber; an insulating spacer member; a former-stage-side ring electrode; subsequent-stage-side ring electrodes; a first fixation member including a first displacement member to displace a central axis of the former-stage-side ring electrode and the subsequent-stage-side ring electrodes in a predetermined direction orthogonal to the central axis by thermal expansion; and a second fixation member including a second displacement member to displace the central axis in the predetermined direction orthogonal to the central axis by thermal expansion, a difference between a thermal expansion amount of the first displacement member per unit temperature and a thermal expansion amount of the second displacement member per unit temperature being 30% or less of the thermal expansion amount of the first displacement member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya KUDO
  • Patent number: 11821878
    Abstract: An autosampler includes an injection port for supplying a sample to an analysis device, a needle that collects the sample stored in a vial and injects the sample into the injection port, a cleaning unit that cleans the needle and a gas exhaust fan. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning container which stores a cleaning liquid and into which the needle is inserted, and a unit main body that has a space for storing the cleaning container and receiving the cleaning liquid overflowing from the cleaning container, and a unit gas exhaust passage for exhausting gas in the space outwardly of the cleaning unit. The unit main body has a unit opening through which the needle passes when accessing the cleaning container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Ando, Takashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11819859
    Abstract: A field-flow fractionation device includes a separation channel, a carrier fluid supplier, a separation membrane, a waste liquid chamber, a cross-flow flow rate adjuster, and a carrier fluid adder. The carrier fluid adder is configured to add, to a flow of a carrier fluid having passed through the separation membrane, a flow of another carrier fluid at a carrier fluid adding position set on an upstream side of the cross-flow flow rate adjuster so that the flow rate of the carrier fluid flowing into the cross-flow flow rate adjuster is larger than the flow rate of the carrier fluid having passed through the separation membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Horiike, Jun Yanagibayashi, Yukio Oikawa, Maiko Nakaya, Masaki Kanai
  • Patent number: 11821851
    Abstract: In an X-ray imaging apparatus, an image processor is configured to generate a super-resolved image having higher resolution in an X direction than a first fluoroscopic X-ray image and a second fluoroscopic X-ray image by dividing, in the X direction, a pixel value of a first pixel in the first fluoroscopic X-ray image based on pixel values of two pixels in the second fluoroscopic X-ray image that overlap the first pixel when the first fluoroscopic X-ray image and the second fluoroscopic X-ray image are shifted in the X direction by an amount corresponding to a movement amount (of an X-ray detection position) and displayed in an overlapping manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma Niizaka
  • Patent number: 11824321
    Abstract: A tube preparation step of preparing a resin tube that has a tube wall impregnable with a solution including a fine substance and is made of a light-transmitting resin material, a solution preparation step of preparing a solution that includes a fine fluorescent substance that emits fluorescence or a fine scattering substance that scatters light as an oscillation material and an impregnation step of causing the resin tube to be immersed in the solution and causing the tube wall of the resin tube to be impregnated with the oscillation material, are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nagai, Kotaro Kajikawa
  • Patent number: 11821875
    Abstract: A master unit includes a synchronization signal source that generates a synchronization signal and a synchronization signal distribution adjustment circuit that adjusts a distribution timing of the synchronization signal to each of slave units. The synchronization signal distribution adjustment circuit includes a period measurement circuit that measures a period of the synchronization signal output from the synchronization signal source, a time difference measurement circuit that measures a time difference between a time point of the synchronization signal issued from the master unit to the slave units and a time point of the synchronization signal returned from the slave units to the master unit, and a delay circuit that delays the issuing time point of the synchronization signal to be transmitted from the master unit to the slave units based on the period of the synchronization signal and the time difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11821879
    Abstract: An autosampler for a chromatograph includes a first injection port through which a sample is injected into a first analysis flow path of the chromatograph, a second injection port through which a sample is injected into a second analysis flow path of the chromatograph, a needle that is movable to both of the first injection port and the second injection port, and injects a sample into the first injection port and the second injection port, a first sample loop that stores a sample to be injected into the first analysis flow path, a second sample loop that stores a sample to be injected into the second analysis flow path, and a metering pump that loads a sample in the first sample loop and the second sample loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaaki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20230366862
    Abstract: An analysis data processing device includes an information producer that produces first information in regard to whether a first substance to be analyzed is included in a sample based on first data in which a first substance and a plurality of second substances included in the first substance or produced by decomposition or reaction of the first substance are associated with each other and second data obtained by detection of a second substance in an analysis of the sample, and an output controller that outputs the first information together with information of the detected substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukihiko KUDO
  • Patent number: D1005326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunori Shimizu
  • Patent number: D1005328
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunori Shimizu