Patents by Inventor Kenro Yoshino

Kenro Yoshino 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: 11773985
    Abstract: A valve device includes a valve main body having a valve chamber, and inflow and outflow passages communicating with the valve chamber; an annular valve seat surrounding an opening from the inflow passage to the valve chamber; and a valve element moved to contact with and separate from the valve seat. One of the valve seat and the valve element includes a contact surface, and the other of the valve seat and the valve element includes an annular raised rib. The rib has at a top thereof an annular sealing part contacting the contact surface to provide sealing between the valve element and the valve seat. The sealing part includes an annular flat surface extending parallel to the contact surface, and two annular inclined surfaces provided adjacent to the flat surface on both sides and inclined to the flat surface to extend in a direction away from the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ASAHI YUKIZAI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suenaga, Kenro Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11473682
    Abstract: A diaphragm valve includes: a valve body having formed therein a first valve chamber, a second valve chamber and a communication passage communicating between the two valve chambers; a valve seat formed in the communication passage; a valve mechanism including a diaphragm supporting a valve element that comes in contact with and separates from the valve seat and a second diaphragm; a pressurizing unit being configured to pressurize the first diaphragm so as to press the valve element against the valve seat; and a bonnet for holding an outer peripheral part of the second diaphragm between the bonnet and the valve body. The pressurizing unit is configured as a single integrated unit holding therein a movable body that moves in conjunction with the valve element via a stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ASAHI YUKIZAI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Yusuke Oniki
  • Publication number: 20220325802
    Abstract: A valve device includes a valve main body having a valve chamber, and inflow and outflow passages communicating with the valve chamber; an annular valve seat surrounding an opening from the inflow passage to the valve chamber; and a valve element moved to contact with and separate from the valve seat. One of the valve seat and the valve element includes a contact surface, and the other of the valve seat and the valve element includes an annular raised rib. The rib has at a top thereof an annular sealing part contacting the contact surface to provide sealing between the valve element and the valve seat. The sealing part includes an annular flat surface extending parallel to the contact surface, and two annular inclined surfaces provided adjacent to the flat surface on both sides and inclined to the flat surface to extend in a direction away from the contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUENAGA, Kenro YOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20220049776
    Abstract: A diaphragm valve includes: a valve body having formed therein a first valve chamber, a second valve chamber and a communication passage communicating between the two valve chambers; a valve seat formed in the communication passage; a valve mechanism including a diaphragm supporting a valve element that comes in contact with and separates from the valve seat and a second diaphragm; a pressurizing unit being configured to pressurize the first diaphragm so as to press the valve element against the valve seat; and a bonnet for holding an outer peripheral part of the second diaphragm between the bonnet and the valve body. The pressurizing unit is configured as a single integrated unit holding therein a movable body that moves in conjunction with the valve element via a stem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kenro YOSHINO, Yusuke ONIKI
  • Publication number: 20110030815
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid mixing system able to mix the fluids of different lines by any ratio and control the flow rates of even pulsating fluids, able to control the flow rate of even a pulsating fluid, compact in configuration and able to be installed in a narrow space, and enabling easy pipe laying and pipe connection at the time of installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: ASAHI ORGANIC CHEMICALS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hanada, Kenro Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7810988
    Abstract: A fluid mixer is provided which can supply a fixed amount of fluid in each of supply lines to a mixing line all the time while maintaining a highly accurate mixing ratio even if a pressure on the downstream side of a back pressure valve of the mixing line is fluctuated and moreover can change the mixing ratio of the fluids in the supply lines with high accuracy in the state where the fluids are flowed. On the upstream side from a merging point where at least two supply lines: a first supply line and a second supply line are merged to a mixing line, diaphragm parts for adjusting the flow rates of the fluids and pressure reducing valves are arranged on the further upstream side of the diaphragm parts in series with the supply lines and a back pressure valve is arranged in the mixing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Organic Chemicals Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinobu Kamimura, Kenro Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20100101664
    Abstract: A fluid control apparatus is provided, in which a tube (14) is passed through a through-hole of a holding unit (30,31), and a first and second coupling units (20,24) fitted with an insert portions at both ends of the tube are fitted on a large-diameter portion of the holding unit, and a flange of the second coupling unit (24) and the holding unit are fixed in pressure contact between a fluid control pipe member and a measuring instrument (2), and a connection unit of the second coupling unit (24) is directly connected to a fluid inlet or a fluid outlet of the measuring instrument (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Asahi Organic Chemicals Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Kenro Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20090283155
    Abstract: The fluid control system according to the present invention is characterized by being provided with a fluid control valve controlling a pressure of a fluid by a pressure operation of a control fluid, a flow rate measuring device measuring a flow rate of the fluid, converting a measurement value of said flow rate to an electrical signal, and outputting it, and a control part outputting a command signal for controlling an opening area of said fluid control valve to said fluid control valve or equipment operating said fluid control valve based on a difference of said electrical signal from said flow rate measuring device and a set flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: ASAHI ORGANIC CHEMICALS INDUSTRY
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Shinobu Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20090266428
    Abstract: The fluid control system according to the present invention is characterized by being provided with a fluid control valve changing an opening area of a passage so as to control a flow rate of a fluid, a flow rate measuring device measuring a flow rate of the fluid, converting a measurement value of said flow rate to an electrical signal, and outputting it, and a control part outputting a command signal for controlling an opening area of said fluid control valve to said fluid control valve or a piece of equipment operating said fluid control valve based on a difference between the electrical signal from the flow rate measuring device and a set flow rate as a first characterizing feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: ASAHI ORGANIC CHEMICALS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7581712
    Abstract: A valve (100) includes a body (1) having a valve seat (10) formed therein, a bonnet (2), a diaphragm (3) supporting a valve element (18) abutting against and moving away from the valve seat (10), and an elastic member such as an O-ring (5). The body (1) is formed with an annular groove (13) extending around the valve seat (10), and the diaphragm (3) is provided at the peripheral edge (20) with an annular engagement part (21) formed to have an approximate L-shape in cross-section. The annular engagement part (21) is inserted into the annular groove (13) in a tight state by the elastic member disposed between the bonnet (2) and the annular engagement part (21) of the diaphragm (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Asahi Organic Chemicals Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Takeshi Hamada
  • Patent number: 7487792
    Abstract: A constant flow valve has a chamber (6) provided therein with a first diaphragm (8) having a valve member (7), a second diaphragm (9) and a third diaphragm (10). The chamber is divided into a first pressure chamber (11), a second valve chamber (12), a first valve chamber (13) and a second pressure chamber (18). The first pressure chamber has means for applying a constant inward force to the second diaphragm, and the second pressure chamber has means for applying a constant inward force to the third diaphragm. The first valve chamber is communicated with an inlet channel, the second valve chamber has a valve seat (27) corresponding to the valve member, and the valve seat divides the chamber into a bottom valve chamber (14) communicating with the first valve chamber through a communication hole formed in the first diaphragm and a top valve chamber (15) communicating with an outlet channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Asahi Organic Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Akihiro Tsuzuki
  • Publication number: 20080237509
    Abstract: A piping device includes a body, a tube accommodated in the body and defining a flow passage, coupling members each having an insert portion, at one end thereof, to be inserted into the tube in a watertight state, a connecting portion at the other end thereof, and a flange portion at the central part thereof, and holding members each formed with a through hole at the central part thereof. The through hole of the holding member includes, at one end thereof, an expanded-diameter portion having a hole diameter larger than the remaining portion of the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: ASAHI ORGANIC CHEMICALS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Kenro Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20080029174
    Abstract: A fluid control system with easy installation in a semiconductor production system etc. and pipe and wiring connections, with reduced pressure loss due to pipe connections, with easy change of arrangement of modules, free from corrosion even using a corrosive fluid for the fluid, and enabling control of the flow rate even with pulsation of the inflowing fluid is provided. The fluid control system of the present invention is characterized by having a flowmeter sensor part having an ultrasonic oscillator generating an ultrasonic wave in a fluid and an ultrasonic oscillator receiving the ultrasonic wave generated from the ultrasonic oscillator and outputting a signal to a flowmeter amplifier and a control valve controlling the state of flow of fluid to a predetermined state by a working pressure, wherein the flowmeter sensor part and the control valve are arranged inside a casing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: ASAHI ORGANIC CHEMICALS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenro Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20070204913
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid mixing system able to mix the fluids of different lines by any ratio and control the flow rates of even pulsating fluids, able to control the flow rate of even a pulsating fluid, compact in configuration and able to be installed in a narrow space, and enabling easy pipe laying and pipe connection at the time of installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: ASAHI ORGANIC CHEMICALS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hanada, Kenro Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20070163657
    Abstract: A constant flow valve has a chamber (6) provided therein with a first diaphragm (8) having a valve member (7), a second diaphragm (9) and a third diaphragm (10). The chamber is divided into a first pressure chamber (11), a second valve chamber (12), a first valve chamber (13) and a second pressure chamber (18). The first pressure chamber has means for applying a constant inward force to the second diaphragm, and the second pressure chamber has means for applying a constant inward force to the third diaphragm. The first valve chamber is communicated with an inlet channel, the second valve chamber has a valve seat (27) corresponding to the valve member, and the valve seat divides the chamber into a bottom valve chamber (14) communicating with the first valve chamber through a communication hole formed in the first diaphragm and a top valve chamber (15) communicating with an outlet channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2003
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Asahi Organic Chemicals Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Akihiro Tsuzuki
  • Publication number: 20070120086
    Abstract: A valve (100) includes a body (1) having a valve seat (10) formed therein, a bonnet (2), a diaphragm (3) supporting a valve element (18) abutting against and moving away from the valve seat (10), and an elastic member such as an O-ring (5). The body (1) is formed with an annular groove (13) extending around the valve seat (10), and the diaphragm (3) is provided at the peripheral edge (20) with an annular engagement part (21) formed to have an approximate L-shape in cross-section. The annular engagement part (21) is inserted into the annular groove (13) in a tight state by the elastic member disposed between the bonnet (2) and the annular engagement part (21) of the diaphragm (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: ASAHI ORGANIC CHEMICALS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Takeshi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20060285429
    Abstract: A fluid mixer is provided which can supply a fixed amount of fluid in each of supply lines to a mixing line all the time while maintaining a highly accurate mixing ratio even if a pressure on the downstream side of a back pressure valve of the mixing line is fluctuated and moreover can change the mixing ratio of the fluids in the supply lines with high accuracy in the state where the fluids are flowed. On the upstream side from a merging point where at least two supply lines: a first supply line and a second supply line are merged to a mixing line, diaphragm parts for adjusting the flow rates of the fluids and pressure reducing valves are arranged on the further upstream side of the diaphragm parts in series with the supply lines and a back pressure valve is arranged in the mixing line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Shinobu Kamimura, Kenro Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7108241
    Abstract: A flow control valve includes a main body 1, bonnet 2, spring receiving portion 3, piston 4, spring 24, first diaphragm 27, first valve member 5, second valve member 6 and base plate 7, wherein an opening area of a hydraulic control portion composed of a valve element of the second valve member and a valve seat of the main body is changed according to a motion of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Asahi Organic Chemicals Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Shunichiro Hagihara
  • Publication number: 20050285064
    Abstract: A flow control valve includes a main body 1, bonnet 2, spring receiving portion 3, piston 4, spring 24, first diaphragm 27, first valve member 5, second valve member 6 and base plate 7, wherein an opening area of a hydraulic control portion composed of a valve element of the second valve member and a valve seat of the main body is changed according to a motion of the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Applicant: Asahi Organic Chemicals Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Shunichiro Hagihara
  • Patent number: 6959725
    Abstract: In a constant pressure regulator according to the present invention, a diaphragm defining an air chamber with a body is clamped between the body and a cover. An air chamber defining ring provided around the air chamber is clamped between the body and the cover. The upper surface and the lower surface of the air chamber defining ring are formed with a first recess having a seal ring fitted therein for backing the annular protrusion of the diaphragm and a second recess with a seal ring fitted therein for sealing the air chamber, respectively. The diaphragm has a central cylindrical bore portion defining a fluid control potion with the plug formed on the body. A second valve chamber is defined between the diaphragm and the cover. The body is formed with a first valve chamber and an inlet flow passage, and the second valve chamber is formed with an outlet flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Asahi Organic Chemicals Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro Yoshino, Toshihiro Hanada