Patents by Inventor Fumiaki Yamasaki

Fumiaki Yamasaki 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: 11703416
    Abstract: A valve maintenance assistance device includes: a valve ID storing portion configured to store IDs of an ON-OFF valve which may be a candidate for maintenance; an opening acquiring portion configured to acquire opening measurement data from an opening sensor provided on the ON-OFF valve; a pressure acquiring portion configured to acquire pressure measurement data on operating device air supplied to an operating device of the ON-OFF valve; a storing portion configured to store the opening measurement data and the pressure measurement data; and a diagnosis index calculating portion configured to calculate a dead zone time from when an operating device air pressure is changed until an opening degree of the ON-OFF valve is changed as a diagnosis index based on the pressure measurement data and the opening measurement data; and a diagnosis index presenting portion configured to present a numerical value of the diagnosis index calculated by the diagnosis index calculating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Fumiaki Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11668411
    Abstract: A valve abnormality detecting device includes an opening acquiring portion to acquire a valve opening value; a pressure acquiring portion to acquire a pressure value of operating device air of an operating device for a valve; a stability-time detecting portion configured to detect a stable-opening state in which the valve opening value acquired by the opening acquiring portion 1 is substantially constant; a frictional force detecting portion configured to detect a difference between a maximum pressure value and a minimum pressure value of the operating device air in the stable-opening state as an index value indicating a frictional force at a sliding portion of the valve; and an abnormality determining portion configured to determine that an abnormality may have occurred in the valve in a case where a frequency of occurrence of reduction in which the index value falls below a specified value is an abnormal frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Fumiaki Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20220356962
    Abstract: A stick slip detection system includes: an operation data storage unit configured to store a stick slip index, the stick slip index being a ratio of a first state amount based on a displacement of a valve shaft of a valve to be diagnosed to a second state amount based on the displacement; an abnormality diagnosis unit configured to determine whether a stick slip phenomenon occurs in the diagnosis target based on the stick slip index; and a diagnosis operation control unit configured to, when a stepwise change in a control command value in an intermediate opening degree of the valve to be diagnosed is detected, stop a determination operation of the abnormality diagnosis unit. The present disclosure makes it possible to easily reflect knowledge of an expert with respect to a diagnosis target such as a valve in the stick slip detection system and method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro HIRAO, Fumiaki YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210033214
    Abstract: A valve abnormality detecting device includes an opening acquiring portion to acquire a valve opening value; a pressure acquiring portion to acquire a pressure value of operating device air of an operating device for a valve; a stability-time detecting portion configured to detect a stable-opening state in which the valve opening value acquired by the opening acquiring portion 1 is substantially constant; a frictional force detecting portion configured to detect a difference between a maximum pressure value and a minimum pressure value of the operating device air in the stable-opening state as an index value indicating a frictional force at a sliding portion of the valve; and an abnormality determining portion configured to determine that an abnormality may have occurred in the valve in a case where a frequency of occurrence of reduction in which the index value falls below a specified value is an abnormal frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Masato TANAKA, Fumiaki Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20210033490
    Abstract: A valve maintenance assistance device includes: a valve ID storing portion configured to store IDs of an ON-OFF valve which may be a candidate for maintenance; an opening acquiring portion configured to acquire opening measurement data from an opening sensor provided on the ON-OFF valve; a pressure acquiring portion configured to acquire pressure measurement data on operating device air supplied to an operating device of the ON-OFF valve; a storing portion configured to store the opening measurement data and the pressure measurement data; and a diagnosis index calculating portion configured to calculate a dead zone time from when an operating device air pressure is changed until an opening degree of the ON-OFF valve is changed as a diagnosis index based on the pressure measurement data and the opening measurement data; and a diagnosis index presenting portion configured to present a numerical value of the diagnosis index calculated by the diagnosis index calculating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Masato TANAKA, Fumiaki Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9858138
    Abstract: A failure factor identification supporting apparatus includes a failure time point information obtaining unit (21) that obtains information regarding a failure occurrence time point at which a failure occurs in a field device (V1) located in a field; an event information obtaining unit (22) that obtains event information regarding, among one or more events that occur in the field, an event that occurs within a certain time range prior to the failure occurrence time point, and an event occurrence time point at which the event occurs; and a failure factor candidate output unit (23) that outputs the event information, obtained by the event information obtaining unit (22), as a failure factor candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Fumiaki Yamasaki, Shinichi Koyama, Motomi Kohata
  • Publication number: 20160274964
    Abstract: A failure factor identification supporting apparatus includes a failure time point information obtaining unit (21) that obtains information regarding a failure occurrence time point at which a failure occurs in a field device (V1) located in a field; an event information obtaining unit (22) that obtains event information regarding, among one or more events that occur in the field, an event that occurs within a certain time range prior to the failure occurrence time point, and an event occurrence time point at which the event occurs; and a failure factor candidate output unit (23) that outputs the event information, obtained by the event information obtaining unit (22), as a failure factor candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato TANAKA, Fumiaki YAMASAKI, Shinichi KOYAMA, Motomi KOHATA
  • Publication number: 20040234978
    Abstract: A gene and a protein participating in diseases of central nervous system and a method of efficiently evaluating an activity controller for the protein are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakamura, Sumio Sugano, Fumiaki Yamasaki, Shoji Furusako, Kazufumi Okawa, Tomohiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6710060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by the following formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound as an effective ingredient: (wherein A represents, for example, phenyl group substituted with R1 and R2 or unsubstituted thienyl group; R1 and R2 each independently represent, for example, hydrogen atom, halogen atom or lower alkoxycarbonyl group; R3 represents, for example, hydrogen atom; R4 represents, for example, lower alkyl group; R5 represents, for example, lower alkoxy group; R6 represents, for example, hydrogen atom; R7 and R8 each represent, for example, hydrogen atom, respectively; X represents, for example, a single bond; Y represents, for example, methylene group or benzylidene group substituted with R1; and Z represents, for example, methylene group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamamoto, Manabu Itoh, Fumiaki Yamasaki, Yutaka Miyazaki, Shinichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6642257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by Formula (I) below: (wherein A represents, for example, phenyl group substituted by R1 and R2, or an unsubstituted furyl group or an unsubstitued thienyl group; R1 represents, for example, hydrogen atom, fluorine atom, chlorine atom, trifluoromethyl group, nitro group, cyano group or methyl group while R2 represents, for example, hydrogen atom; R3 represents, for example, hydrogen atom or methyl group; R4 represents, for example, hydrogen atom or methyl group; R5 represents ethoxy group or isopropoxy group; X represents group: —CH(OH)— or methylene group; and Z represents, for example, a single bond or methylene group unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl group), and its salts, and medicinal compositions containing, as their active ingredient, the above compound or its salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamamoto, Manabu Itoh, Fumiaki Yamasaki, Yasushige Akada, Yutaka Miyazaki, Shinichi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20020188006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by the following formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound as an effective ingredient: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamamoto, Manabu Itoh, Fumiaki Yamasaki, Yutaka Miyazaki, Shinichi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20020049229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by Formula (I) below: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamamoto, Manabu Itoh, Fumiaki Yamasaki, Yasushige Akada, Yutaka Miyazaki, Shinichi Ogawa