Patents by Inventor HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.

HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD. 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).

  • Publication number: 20130186499
    Abstract: In order to provide a fluid resistance device that is easily manufactured, compact, accurate, and uniform in performance, the fluid resistance device comprises two members that have facing surfaces that face each other and a downstream end of the upstream side flow channel and an upstream end of the downstream side flow channel open at positions displaced from each other on the facing surfaces, and a ring body that is arranged to surround the downstream end opening and the upstream end opening and that forms the fluid resistance channel between the downstream end opening and the upstream end opening by being sandwiched by the facing surfaces, and is so configured that the ring body is made of a material harder than that of each member, and the ring body breaks into the facing surfaces by fastening two members so as to make the facing surfaces approach each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130174635
    Abstract: In a mass flow controller verifying system, there are provided a verifying gas line arranged in parallel to influent flow gas lines and joined into a post-confluent flow gas line, a reference volume calculating portion adapted to calculate a reference volume determined for a specified piping of a gas piping system, a verifying parameter calculating portion adapted to calculate a verifying parameter based on time series data of a measurement pressure measured by a pressure measurement unit during a control of a flow rate by a mass flow controller to be verified, and a comparing portion adapted to compare a reference parameter set based on the reference volume and the verifying parameter, whereby the verifying system can be introduced into an existing gas piping system used in a semiconductor manufacturing process and so forth at a low cost and is capable of verifying a mass flow controller quickly and accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130160540
    Abstract: A thermal flow rate sensor is provided which includes a main flow path through which a fluid flows, and a sensor flow path that branches off from the main flow path so as to cause the fluid to flow in a split flow and that is provided with a flow rate detecting mechanism configured to detect a flow rate of the fluid. The flow rate detecting mechanism includes an upstream-side coil and a downstream-side coil, each configured by using a heat-generating resistance wire wound around a sensor flow pipe forming the sensor flow path. A peak position of a temperature distribution generated in the sensor flow path by the upstream-side coil and the downstream-side coil is positioned on the upstream-side coil side relative to the middle position between the upstream-side coil and the downstream-side coil on the sensor flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130162270
    Abstract: A capacitance type measuring device for measuring a physical quantity of an object to be measured by measuring a capacitance of a variable capacitor is provided, which achieves compactness, simplicity of structure, and improved measurement accuracy. The capacitance type measuring device may include a primary measuring circuit that is configured with the variable capacitor and a reference electronic element that is a reference to measure a capacitance of the variable capacitor, a secondary measuring circuit that has an impedance conversion element with sufficiently high input impedance and is connected to the primary measuring circuit, and a substrate in which a part or all of the each measuring circuit is formed. The high impedance circuit part may be formed between the variable capacitor and an impedance conversion element, and the reference electronic element may be embedded inside the substrate between a front surface and a rear surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130092258
    Abstract: In order to be able to diagnose an abnormality occurring in a flow rate control valve with high reliability, and for example, if an abnormality occurs in the flow rate control valve, quickly perform appropriate maintenance or the like, a first measured flow rate diagnostic part that, on the basis of a second measured flow rate value or a measured pressure value, diagnoses an abnormality of a first measured flow rate value, and a valve diagnostic part that, when the first measured flow rate diagnostic part diagnoses that the first measured flow rate value has no abnormality, diagnoses an abnormality of the flow rate control valve are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130092257
    Abstract: The flow rate control device is provided with: a fluid resistor provided on the flow channel; a pressure sensor provided in any one of an upstream side or a downstream side of the fluid resistor; a pressure calculating part configured to calculate a pressure in a side with respect to the fluid resistor where the pressure sensor is not provided; a flow rate calculating part configured to calculate a flow rate based on the measurement pressure value and a calculation pressure value calculated by the pressure calculating part; and an abnormality diagnosing part configured to diagnose an abnormality of the measurement flow rate value based on the measurement flow rate value and a calculation flow rate value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD
  • Publication number: 20130092256
    Abstract: The flow rate control device is provided with: a fluid resistor provided on the flow channel; a pressure sensor provided in any one of an upstream side or a downstream side of the fluid resistor; a stable state judging part configured to judge, based on the measurement flow rate value or a measurement pressure value measured by the pressure sensor, whether or not a state of the fluid flowing through the flow channel is in a stable state; and an abnormality diagnosing part configured to diagnose an abnormality of the measurement flow rate value based on a variation amount of the measurement pressure value in the case where the stable state judging part judges that the state of the fluid is in a stable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Horiba Stec, Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130087230
    Abstract: This invention provides a fluid mechanism that can arrange a plurality of fluid device units and external fluid devices mounted as a set on the fluid device units effectively and compactly. Each of the fluid device units is arranged with respective side surfaces in a longitudinal direction of the fluid device unit tightly attached, and the external fluid devices are arranged side-by-side external to and outside of the fluid device unit in the width direction. Furthermore, as for an introducing path and a discharging path that connect the external fluid devices and the fluid device unit, the introducing path, which is short, is connected to the discharging path, which is long.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130037974
    Abstract: A liquid material vaporizer comprises a gas-liquid mixing section for mixing a liquid material and a carrier gas to generate a gas-liquid mixture, and a heating type vaporizing section for vaporizing the gas-liquid mixture from the gas-liquid mixing section and exhausting outside the gas generated by the vaporization with assistance of the carrier gas, wherein the vaporizing section is configured with an arrangement of one or a plurality of flat plates formed in a spiral shape by an inwardly twisting path. Such an arrangement provides an excellent liquid material vaporizer capable of, even if a liquid material composed of a plurality of materials having different boiling points is vaporized, preventing a residue from being generated, and performing the vaporization in a preferable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.