Patents by Inventor Kazuma Takenaka

Kazuma Takenaka 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: 11959851
    Abstract: An absolute thickness distribution cannot be accurately calculated with a conventional technique. A sensor device is provided that includes a plurality of magnetic sensors arranged to face an outer circumference surface of a pipeline and ultrasonic sensors arranged to face the outer circumference surface and measure a thickness of the pipeline in a measurement region in which the plurality of magnetic sensors measure a magnetic field, the ultrasonic sensors being less than the plurality of magnetic sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Okabe, Satoshi Yoshitake, Kazuma Takenaka, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Shumpei Ito
  • Patent number: 11959981
    Abstract: The magnetic detector 1 according to the present disclosure includes a transmission line 10 having a linear first conductor 11 including a magnetic material, a signal generator 30 configured to input a pulse as an incident wave to the transmission line 10, and a calculator 20 configured to detect a reflected wave caused by impedance mismatching at a magnetic field application position of the transmission line 10 and the incident wave. The calculator 20 calculates a position and a strength of the magnetic field applied to the transmission line 10 on the basis of the incident wave and the reflected wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuma Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11927647
    Abstract: A current measurement device (1 and 2) is for measuring a current (I) flowing through measurement target conductors (MC1 and MC2), and the current measurement device includes: a plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12, and 13) disposed so that a magnetic sensing direction and a relative position have a prescribed relationship; a noise remover (25a) configured to remove noise components included in detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors; a sign adder (25b) configured to add a sign to the detection results from which the noise components have been removed, based on sign information of each of the detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors obtained at a specific point in time; and a current calculator (25c and 25d) configured to calculate a current flowing through the measurement target conductors by using the detection results to which the sign has been added by the sign adder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Minako Terao, Kotaro Ogawa, Saki Kobako, Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20240012070
    Abstract: A magnetic detection apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a magnetic sensor and a measurement apparatus. The magnetic sensor includes a first transmission line and a second transmission line arranged to be non-parallel to each other. The measurement apparatus includes a signal generator configured to generate a first incident wave and a second incident wave, a signal detector configured to detect a first reflected wave caused by an impedance mismatch of the first transmission line and a second reflected wave caused by an impedance mismatch of the second transmission line, and a controller. The controller calculates a first magnetic field based on the first incident wave and the first reflected wave and a second magnetic field based on the second incident wave and the second reflected wave and calculates a biaxial magnetic field based on the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230273243
    Abstract: A current measurement device (1 to 3) includes a first sensor (SE1) configured to detect a direct current magnetic field and a low-frequency alternating current magnetic field generated by a current (I) flowing through a measurement target conductor (MC), a hollow magnetic shielding member (12) that includes a cutout portion (CP2) into which the measurement target conductor is inserted and in which the first sensor is accommodated, a fixing mechanism (13) configured to fix the measurement target conductor such that a distance between a center of the measurement target conductor inserted into the cutout portion of the magnetic shielding member and the first sensor is a predetermined reference distance (r), and a first calculator (21) configured to calculate a current flowing through the measurement target conductor based on a detection result of the first sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Kotaro OGAWA, Minako TERAO, Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11486943
    Abstract: A magnetism detection device includes: a transmission line set having a transmission line including a linear first conductor including a magnetic material; and a detector that: inputs, from a first end of the transmission line set, a pulse signal as a first incident wave and detects, at the first end, a first reflected wave of the first incident wave; inputs, from a second end opposite to the first end, a pulse signal as a second incident wave and detects, at the second end, a second reflected wave of the second incident wave; and detects a strength of a magnetic field applied to the transmission line set based on compositing of the first reflected wave and the second reflected wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220283247
    Abstract: A current measurement device (1 and 2) is for measuring a current (I) flowing through measurement target conductors (MC1 and MC2), and the current measurement device includes: a plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12, and 13) disposed so that a magnetic sensing direction and a relative position have a prescribed relationship; a noise remover (25a) configured to remove noise components included in detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors; a sign adder (25b) configured to add a sign to the detection results from which the noise components have been removed, based on sign information of each of the detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors obtained at a specific point in time; and a current calculator (25c and 25d) configured to calculate a current flowing through the measurement target conductors by using the detection results to which the sign has been added by the sign adder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Minako TERAO, Kotaro OGAWA, Saki KOBAKO, Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220244295
    Abstract: The current measurement device (1, 2) includes a first sensor (SE1) configured to detect a direct current magnetic field and a low-frequency alternating current magnetic field generated due to the current (1) flowing through the conductor (MC) to be measured, a second sensor (SE2) configured to detect alternating current magnetic fields from a low frequency to a high frequency generated due to the current (1) flowing through the conductor to be measured, a first calculator (21, 21A) configured to calculate the current flowing through the conductor to be measured from a detection result of the first sensor using distance information indicating a distance (r) between the first sensor (SE1) and the conductor (MC) to be measured, a second calculator (22) configured to calculate the current flowing through the conductor to be measured from a detection result of the second sensor, and a synthesizer (23) configured to synthesize a calculation result of the first calculator with a calculation result of the second cal
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Kotaro OGAWA, Minako TERAO, Naoki NOGUCHI, Saki KOBAKO, Fumitake TERAO, Satoshi YOSHITAKE
  • Publication number: 20220214383
    Abstract: A current measurement device includes: four or more triaxial magnetic sensors arranged to have predefined positional relationships such that magnetism-sensing directions thereof are parallel to each other; and a calculator configured to calculate currents flowing through a pair of conductors to be measured, which are arranged in proximity to each other, based on detection results of the four or more triaxial magnetic sensors and the positional relationships between the four or more triaxial magnetic sensors, the currents flowing in mutually opposite directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Minako TERAO, Kotaro OGAWA, Saki KOBAKO, Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11360124
    Abstract: A current measuring device (1) includes two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) that are arranged with a prescribed gap between the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) such that magnetic-sensing directions of the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) are parallel to each other, and a calculator configured to calculate a current (I) flowing in a measurement-object conductor (MC) based on detection results from the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) and a gap between the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Minako Terao, Kotaro Ogawa, Saki Kobako
  • Publication number: 20220146406
    Abstract: An absolute thickness distribution cannot be accurately calculated with a conventional technique. A sensor device is provided that includes a plurality of magnetic sensors arranged to face an outer circumference surface of a pipeline and ultrasonic sensors arranged to face the outer circumference surface and measure a thickness of the pipeline in a measurement region in which the plurality of magnetic sensors measure a magnetic field, the ultrasonic sensors being less than the plurality of magnetic sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuo OKABE, Satoshi YOSHITAKE, Kazuma TAKENAKA, Yoshiaki TANAKA, Shumpei ITO
  • Publication number: 20210349162
    Abstract: The magnetic detector 1 according to the present disclosure includes a transmission line 10 having a linear first conductor 11 including a magnetic material, a signal generator 30 configured to input a pulse as an incident wave to the transmission line 10, and a calculator 20 configured to detect a reflected wave caused by impedance mismatching at a magnetic field application position of the transmission line 10 and the incident wave. The calculator 20 calculates a position and a strength of the magnetic field applied to the transmission line 10 on the basis of the incident wave and the reflected wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuma TAKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20210302509
    Abstract: A magnetism detection device includes: a transmission line set having a transmission line including a linear first conductor including a magnetic material; and a detector that: inputs, from a first end of the transmission line set, a pulse signal as a first incident wave and detects, at the first end, a first reflected wave of the first incident wave; inputs, from a second end opposite to the first end, a pulse signal as a second incident wave and detects, at the second end, a second reflected wave of the second incident wave; and detects a strength of a magnetic field applied to the transmission line set based on compositing of the first reflected wave and the second reflected wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Naoki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11003178
    Abstract: A facility diagnosis device includes: a process data acquirer that acquires process data indicating a state of a process executed in a plant; a production data acquirer that acquires production data indicating a production state in the plant; a state information generator that generates state information for estimating an operation state of a facility operating in the process based on the acquired process data or the acquired production data, or the process data and the production data; and a determiner that determines the operation state of the facility based on the acquired process data or the generated state information and the acquired production data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Fujita, Nobuhiro Tomosada, Kazuma Takenaka, Shinya Kato, Taro Kemmotsu
  • Publication number: 20210088557
    Abstract: A current measuring device (1) includes two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) that are arranged with a prescribed gap between the the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) such that magnetic-sensing directions of the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) are parallel to each other, and a calculator configured to calculate a current (I) flowing in a measurement-object conductor (MC) based on detection results from the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12) and a gap between the two triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Minako TERAO, Kotaro OGAWA, Saki KOBAKO
  • Patent number: 10613120
    Abstract: A current measurement device includes a low frequency measurement sensor configured to measure a magnetic field, a high frequency measurement sensor configured to measure the magnetic field and configured to generate a magnetic field for canceling the magnetic field applied to the low frequency measurement sensor, a magnetism sensing direction of the low frequency measurement sensor and a magnetism sensing direction of the high frequency measurement sensor being substantially parallel to each other, a negative feedback circuit configured to control a current flowing through the high frequency measurement sensor based on the magnetic field measured by the low frequency measurement sensor, a low pass filter configured to adjust a frequency characteristic of the current controlled by the negative feedback circuit, and an outputter configured to output a measurement value of the current to be measured based on the current flowing through the high frequency measurement sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuma Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20190033840
    Abstract: A facility diagnosis device includes: a process data acquirer that acquires process data indicating a state of a process executed in a plant; a production data acquirer that acquires production data indicating a production state in the plant; a state information generator that generates state information for estimating an operation state of a facility operating in the process based on the acquired process data or the acquired production data, or the process data and the production data; and a determiner that determines the operation state of the facility based on the acquired process data or the generated state information and the acquired production data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Fujita, Nobuhiro Tomosada, Kazuma Takenaka, Shinya Kato, Taro Kemmotsu
  • Publication number: 20180120357
    Abstract: A current measurement device includes a low frequency measurement sensor configured to measure a magnetic field, a high frequency measurement sensor configured to measure the magnetic field and configured to generate a magnetic field for canceling the magnetic field applied to the low frequency measurement sensor, a magnetism sensing direction of the low frequency measurement sensor and a magnetism sensing direction of the high frequency measurement sensor being substantially parallel to each other, a negative feedback circuit configured to control a current flowing through the high frequency measurement sensor based on the magnetic field measured by the low frequency measurement sensor, a low pass filter configured to adjust a frequency characteristic of the current controlled by the negative feedback circuit, and an outputter configured to output a measurement value of the current to be measured based on the current flowing through the high frequency measurement sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuma TAKENAKA
  • Patent number: 9459293
    Abstract: A current sensor includes: four magnetic sensor elements arranged within a plane orthogonal to a measured current, having a symmetrical magnetic characteristics curve, and adapted to convert a magnitude of a magnetic field into an electrical signal and output the electrical signal; a bridge circuit including the four magnetic sensor elements; and a bias magnetic field application member adapted to applying a bias magnetic field to the magnetic sensor elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Mito, Kazuma Takenaka, Satoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 9267913
    Abstract: A pH sensor may include a reference electrode including a p-channel field effect transistor (FET) whose gate includes a diamond surface having a hydrogen ion insensitive terminal, and a working electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Shintani, Kazuma Takenaka