Patents by Inventor Kazuya Imai

Kazuya Imai 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: 11899475
    Abstract: In order to achieve an enlargement of a seating surface, and to additionally achieve an improvement in productivity while forming this seating surface using a resin layer, without having to sacrifice any of the drive range of the valve body, there is provided a fluid control valve that is formed such that drive force from an actuator is transmitted to a valve body via a plunger, and that controls a flow of a fluid by causing a seating surface of the valve body to move towards or away from a valve seat surface of a valve seat, wherein the valve body is a separate body from the plunger, and the seating surface is formed by a resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Imai
  • Publication number: 20220083080
    Abstract: In order to achieve an enlargement of a seating surface, and to additionally achieve an improvement in productivity while forming this seating surface using a resin layer, without having to sacrifice any of the drive range of the valve body, there is provided a fluid control valve that is formed such that drive force from an actuator is transmitted to a valve body via a plunger, and that controls a flow of a fluid by causing a seating surface of the valve body to move towards or away from a valve seat surface of a valve seat, wherein the valve body is a separate body from the plunger, and the seating surface is formed by a resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Kazuya IMAI
  • Publication number: 20200208656
    Abstract: There is provided a fluid control device that enables accurate control of a fluid flowing through a flow path. This fluid control device includes a block body having an internal flow path, a resistor provided within the flow path, a first pressure sensor upstream of the resistor, a second pressure sensor downstream of the resistor, and fluid control valves that control the fluid based on detection values from the pressure sensors. The block body further has an internal housing portion forming a portion of the flow path and housing the resistor. Additionally, a downstream-side flow path downstream of the housing portion has a base end connected to a downstream-side area through which flows the fluid that has already passed through the resistor. Moreover, the second pressure sensor is connected to the downstream-side area or to a vicinity of the base end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horiguchi, Tadahiro Yasuda, Kazuya Imai