Patents by Inventor Chikara Konagai

Chikara Konagai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8363781
    Abstract: A nondestructive identification device includes: a radiation source 1 irradiating an x-ray 2 to a standard sample 5 made of a known material and a sample 3; a sensor 4 detecting a radiation ray having transmitted the standard sample 5 and the sample 3; a signal processing device 7 converting a signal of the sensor 4 into an image; an image processing device 8 which performs adjustment on an entire second image to make a luminance value of a part of the standard sample 5 in the obtained image or a relation between the luminance value and a thickness of the standard sample 5 in a first image where the energy of the radiation source 1 is first energy be the same as that in the second image where the energy of the radiation source 1 is second energy, and which performs a computation processing to take a difference or a ratio between the adjusted second image and the first image; and a display device 9 displaying an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masayo Kato, Koichi Nittoh, Hitoshi Sakai, Chikara Konagai, Katsumi Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20100116993
    Abstract: A neutron reactant layer (220) is directly coated inside an aluminum substrate (200) of an incident window (20). A first scintillator layer (201) is formed inside the neutron reactant layer 220, and a photoelectric conversion layer (202) is formed inside the first scintillator layer (201). A neutron reactant layer (210) is composed of enriched boron carbide (10B4C), and generates ?-rays from neutrons by a (n, ?) reaction in enriched boron. The first scintillator layer (201) is light-emitted by this ?-rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Koichi Nittoh, Kiyoharu Tsunokawa, Chikara Konagai
  • Publication number: 20100119037
    Abstract: A nondestructive identification device includes: a radiation source 1 irradiating an x-ray 2 to a standard sample 5 made of a known material and a sample 3; a sensor 4 detecting a radiation ray having transmitted the standard sample 5 and the sample 3; a signal processing device 7 converting a signal of the sensor 4 into an image; an image processing device 8 which performs adjustment on an entire second image to make a luminance value of a part of the standard sample 5 in the obtained image or a relation between the luminance value and a thickness of the standard sample 5 in a first image where the energy of the radiation source 1 is first energy be the same as that in the second image where the energy of the radiation source 1 is second energy, and which performs a computation processing to take a difference or a ratio between the adjusted second image and the first image; and a display device 9 displaying an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masayo Kato, Koichi Nittoh, Hitoshi Sakai, Chikara Konagai, Katsumi Hosaka
  • Patent number: 7053382
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an X-ray image tube which enables acquisition of an image of a proper density by increasing contrast without increasing an irradiation dose of X-rays. The X-rays absorbed or scattered through a subject emit light on an input surface formed in an input window, and the light is further converted into electrons on a photoelectric surface which converts the light into the electrons, accelerated and focused by a focusing electrode, and then guided to an anode side. The electrons guided to the anode side are made visible by a fluorescent substance, and an image of a color is projected on a glass plate with a luminance and a color based on a distribution of the incident X-rays in accordance with the dose of the X-rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Noji, Koichi Nittoh, Chikara Konagai
  • Publication number: 20040208281
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an X-ray image tube which enables acquisition of an image of a proper density by increasing contrast without increasing an irradiation dose of X-rays. The X-rays absorbed or scattered through a subject emit light on an input surface formed in an input window, and the light is further converted into electrons on a photoelectric surface which converts the light into the electrons, accelerated and focused by a focusing electrode, and then guided to an anode side. The electrons guided to the anode side are made visible by a fluorescent substance, and an image of a color is projected on a glass plate with a luminance and a color based on a distribution of the incident X-rays in accordance with the dose of the X-rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi Noji, Koichi Nittoh, Chikara Konagai
  • Patent number: 6313465
    Abstract: A radiation discriminative measurement is performed by using a radiation discriminative measuring apparatus which comprises a radiation source for radiating radiations, first, second and third scintillators disposed in a region which is irradiated with the radiations radiated from the radiation source, and an image pickup means to deal with the light beams emitted from the first, second and third scintillators and the discrimination measurement includes the steps of arranging the first, second and third scintillators in a region which is irradiated with the radiations radiated from the radiation source, causing the first scintillator to respond to type A, type B and type C radiations radiated from the radiation source and to emit alight beam in a first wavelength region, causing the second scintillator to respond to type B and type C radiations which pass through the first scintillator so as to to emit a light beam in a second wavelength region, and causing the third scintillator to respond to a type C radiat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Nittoh, Takeshi Takahara, Yukihiro Fukuta, Chikara Konagai
  • Patent number: 6084202
    Abstract: An underwater laser processing method is carried out by irradiating, through a laser beam irradiation apparatus, a laser beam having a high output, a short pulse and a visible wavelength to a surface of a structure immersed in a water to improve residual stress of a material of the surface of the structure and remove a crack or a CRUD thereof. The laser beam irradiation apparatus comprises a pulse laser device suspended into a water in which a metal material is accommodated from an upper side thereof for irradiating a laser beam having a visible wavelength to a processing position, a beam strength adjusting device for adjusting an output per 1 pulse of a laser beam generated by the pulse laser device and a mechanism for adjusting a spot diameter and a multiplexing ratio of an irradiated beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kouki Okazaki, Arata Ito, Yuji Sano, Naruhiko Mukai, Nobutada Aoki, Chikara Konagai, Muneyoshi Kikunaga
  • Patent number: 5790620
    Abstract: An underwater laser processing method is carried out by irradiating, through a laser beam irradiation apparatus, a laser beam having a high output, a short pulse and a visible wavelength to a surface of a structure immersed in a water to improve residual stress of a material of the surface of the structure and remove a crack or a CRUD thereof. The laser beam irradiation apparatus comprises a pulse laser device suspended into a water in which a metal material is accommodated from an upper side thereof for irradiating a laser beam having a visible wavelength to a processing position, a beam strength adjusting device for adjusting an output per 1 pulse of a laser beam generated by the pulse laser device and a mechanism for adjusting a spot diameter and a multiplexing ratio of an irradiated beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kouki Okazaki, Arata Ito, Yuji Sano, Naruhiko Mukai, Nobutada Aoki, Chikara Konagai, Muneyoshi Kikunaga
  • Patent number: 4473748
    Abstract: A neutral particle analyzer has a stripping cell for converting a neutral beam into a charged particle beam, a momentum analyzer for deflecting paths of respective charged particles of the charged particle beam emerging from the stripping cell in correspondence with momenta thereof, and a semiconductor energy analyzer comprising a plurality of semiconductor detectors which are arranged in the paths of deflected charged particle beams emerging from the momentum analyzer. The semiconductor energy analyzer generates pulse signals having pulse heights corresponding to masses of and kinetic energies of the deflected charged particles of the deflected charged particle beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignees: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Chikara Konagai, Shimpey Shirayama, Iwao Miura, Toyoaki Kimura, Tohru Matoba, Hiroshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 4193000
    Abstract: A compact single- or multi-channel radiation detector capable of sending forth a large and stable output signal by being operated in a proportional region which comprises a single or a plurality of electrode assemblies each prepared by inserting between a pair of mutually facing parallel high voltage electrodes an electric charge-collecting electrode having a plurality of metal wires spatially arranged in a plane parallel with said paired high voltage electrodes, and wherein the single or plural electrode assemblies are received in a case provided with a radiation inlet section and filled with a gaseous element mainly consisting of a rare gas such as argon or xenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shimpey Shirayama, Chikara Konagai, Michitaka Terasawa, Hironobu Kimura