Patents by Inventor Harumi Maruyama

Harumi Maruyama 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: 8324568
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer includes an ionization chamber (100) which generates fragment-free ions to be detected from an introduced gas to be detected, and a mass spectrometer chamber (140) including a mass spectrometer (160) which fractionates by mass the ions to be detected that are transported from the ionization chamber and which detects the ions. The mass spectrometer further includes a probe (111) which holds a liquid sample or a solid sample and causes the liquid sample or the solid sample to generate the gas to be detected upon heating by a heating means, and a gas introduction means (170) which introduces a predetermined gas from the probe to the ionization chamber to transport, to the ionization chamber, the gas to be detected that is generated at the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Yoshiki Hirano, Megumi Nakamura, Yasuyuki Taneda, Qiang Peng, Harumi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8309917
    Abstract: The present invention maintains a stable emission amount from an emitter. In an embodiment of the present invention, a solid sample or a liquid sample is heated to gasify an object to be measured contained in the solid sample or the liquid sample, thereby forming a neutral gaseous molecule, and a metal ion emitted from an emitter having an oxidized surface is attached to the neutral gaseous molecule to ionize the neutral gaseous molecule, which is subjected to mass spectrometry. The solid sample or the liquid sample is a sample that emits a reducing gas by heating. The heating for gasifying the object to be measured is performed at a temperature lower than the vaporization temperature of the solid sample or the liquid sample and not less than the vaporization temperature of the object to be measured, and an oxidizing gas is provided to the emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Yasuyuki Taneda, Megumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8164051
    Abstract: An internal standard material to be added to a specimen containing a material to be measured when measuring the content of the material to be measured by performing mass spectrometry on the specimen includes a hindered phenol compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Megumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8049166
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer system comprises a chamber having an ion emitting unit to emit metal ions in the chamber with a communicating hole; a neutral molecule introduction unit; another gas introduction unit; a controller controlling a temperature of a region where metal ions attach to the neutral molecules; and a mass analyzer for the neutral molecules with the metal ions, wherein plotting an attachment energy of the metal ions attached to the neutral molecules in the chamber along an abscissa and the temperature of the region where the metal ions attach to the neutral molecules along an ordinate, the controller adjusts the temperature of the region so as to fall within a range obtained by excluding a range corresponding to the temperature of the region from 150 to 200° C. from a range surrounded by the temperatures of the region [° C.]=150×attachment energy [eV], 100×attachment energy [eV]?50, and 20° C., and attachment energies [eV]=2.1 and 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Megumi Nakamura, Harumi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7952069
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer includes an ionization chamber, a temperature control unit which controls the temperature in the ionization chamber to vaporize a sample in at least one of solid and liquid state in the ionization chamber, an introduction unit which introduces the sample into the ionization chamber, an ion supply unit which supplies ions to the ionization chamber to ionize, in the ionization chamber, the sample vaporized in the ionization chamber, and a mass analyzer which measures the mass of the molecules of the ionized sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Megumi Nakamura, Harumi Maruyama, Aiko Wada
  • Publication number: 20100243884
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer includes an ionization chamber (100) which generates fragment-free ions to be detected from an introduced gas to be detected, and a mass spectrometer chamber (140) including a mass spectrometer (160) which fractionates by mass the ions to be detected that are transported from the ionization chamber and which detects the ions. The mass spectrometer further includes a probe (111) which holds a liquid sample or a solid sample and causes the liquid sample or the solid sample to generate the gas to be detected upon heating by a heating means, and a gas introduction means (170) which introduces a predetermined gas from the probe to the ionization chamber to transport, to the ionization chamber, the gas to be detected that is generated at the probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Yoshiki Hirano, Megumi Nakamura, Yasuyuki Taneda, Qiang Peng, Harumi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20100163723
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer system comprises a chamber having an ion emitting unit to emit metal ions in the chamber with a communicating hole; a neutral molecule introduction unit; another gas introduction unit; a controller controlling a temperature of a region where metal ions attach to the neutral molecules; and a mass analyzer for the neutral molecules with the metal ions, wherein plotting an attachment energy of the metal ions attached to the neutral molecules in the chamber along an abscissa and the temperature of the region where the metal ions attach to the neutral molecules along an ordinate, the controller adjusts the temperature of the region so as to fall within a range obtained by excluding a range corresponding to the temperature of the region from 150 to 200° C. from a range surrounded by the temperatures of the region [° C.]=150×attachment energy [eV], 100×attachment energy [eV]?50, and 20° C., and attachment energies [eV]=2.1 and 0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA TECHNIX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Megumi Nakamura, Harumi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20100163722
    Abstract: The present invention maintains a stable emission amount from an emitter. In an embodiment of the present invention, a solid sample or a liquid sample is heated to gasify an object to be measured contained in the solid sample or the liquid sample, thereby forming a neutral gaseous molecule, and a metal ion emitted from an emitter having an oxidized surface is attached to the neutral gaseous molecule to ionize the neutral gaseous molecule, which is subjected to mass spectrometry. The solid sample or the liquid sample is a sample that emits a reducing gas by heating. The heating for gasifying the object to be measured is performed at a temperature lower than the vaporization temperature of the solid sample or the liquid sample and not less than the vaporization temperature of the object to be measured, and an oxidizing gas is provided to the emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA TECHNIX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Yasuyuki Taneda, Megumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20090272894
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer includes an ionization chamber, a temperature control unit which controls the temperature in the ionization chamber to vaporize a sample in at least one of solid and liquid state in the ionization chamber, an introduction unit which introduces the sample into the ionization chamber, an ion supply unit which supplies ions to the ionization chamber to ionize, in the ionization chamber, the sample vaporized in the ionization chamber, and a mass analyzer which measures the mass of the molecules of the ionized sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA TECHNIX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Megumi Nakamura, Harumi Maruyama, Aiko Wada
  • Publication number: 20090266981
    Abstract: An internal standard material to be added to a specimen containing a material to be measured when measuring the content of the material to be measured by performing mass spectrometry on the specimen includes a hindered phenol compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Canon Anelva Technix Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Megumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7202474
    Abstract: An ion attachment mass spectrometry apparatus causing positively charged metal ions to attach to molecules of a gas to be measured in an attachment region to generate attached ions and then performing mass spectrometry on the attached ions by a mass spectrometer, has a metal ion selective disassociation unit for selectively making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules in the attachment region disassociate. By making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules such as H2O disassociate, a state is formed where the metal ions are attached to only the sample gas to be measured and the reliability of measurement of the gas is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Hirano, Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Megumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20060169888
    Abstract: An ion attachment mass spectrometry apparatus causing positively charged metal ions to attach to molecules of a gas to be measured in an attachment region to generate attached ions and then performing mass spectrometry on the attached ions by a mass spectrometer, has a metal ion selective disassociation unit for selectively making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules in the attachment region disassociate. By making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules such as H2O disassociate, a state is formed where the metal ions are attached to only the sample gas to be measured and the reliability of measurement of the gas is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Hirano, Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Megumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7084397
    Abstract: An ion attachment mass spectrometry apparatus causing positively charged metal ions to attach to molecules of a gas to be measured in an attachment region to generate attached ions and then performing mass spectrometry on the attached ions by a mass spectrometer, has a metal ion selective disassociation unit for selectively making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules in the attachment region disassociate. By making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules such as H2O disassociate, a state is formed where the metal ions are attached to only the sample gas to be measured and the reliability of measurement of the gas is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Hirano, Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Megumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20040251408
    Abstract: An ion attachment mass spectrometry apparatus causing positively charged metal ions to attach to molecules of a gas to be measured in an attachment region to generate attached ions and then performing mass spectrometry on the attached ions by a mass spectrometer, has a metal ion selective disassociation unit for selectively making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules in the attachment region disassociate. By making the metal ions attached to the specific molecules such as H2O disassociate, a state is formed where the metal ions are attached to only the sample gas to be measured and the reliability of measurement of the gas is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: ANELVA Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Hirano, Yoshiro Shiokawa, Harumi Maruyama, Megumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5375448
    Abstract: A non-interference control method and device in which an object to be controlled, which is controlled by a plurality of operation quantities and at least one control quantity, is divided into a plurality of partial control systems so that each of the partial control systems has at least one operation quantity and at least one partial control system has more than two operation or control quantities, wherein to the operation quantity in one partial control system is added a compensating element which annuls influences exerted by other partial control systems on said one partial control system, said object to be controlled being controlled on the basis of the relevant compensated operation quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Katayama, Yasuo Morooka, Taiko Takano, Harumi Maruyama, Itsuo Shimizu, Satoshi Hattori, Yutaka Saito