Patents by Inventor Kentaro Inoue

Kentaro Inoue 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: 20250146852
    Abstract: The present invention makes a pitot tube type flowmeter less affected by the flow velocity distribution caused by the flow passage shape on the upstream side, and includes a pitot tube having total pressure holes for detecting a total pressure of a fluid and static pressure holes for detecting a static pressure of the fluid, and a differential pressure sensor that is connected to the pitot tube and detects a differential pressure between the total pressure and the static pressure. The pitot tube includes a main tube portion, and a plurality of branch tube portions, which branches off from the main tube portion and in which the total pressure holes and the static pressure holes are formed. Each of the main tube portion and the plurality of branch tube portions has a shape that reduces a pressure loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto MIZUTANI, Makoto NAGAOKA, Kentaro INOUE, Masaru URAOKA, Hirotaka ISEKI
  • Publication number: 20250146927
    Abstract: A measurement instrument comprises a cylindrical cell that stores a measurement fluid, a light source that is arranged outside the cell and irradiates the measurement fluid with inspection light, a detector that is arranged outside the cell and detects transmitted light or scattered light generated from the measurement fluid, a cleaning mechanism that is arranged inside the cell and cleans an inner peripheral surface of the cell, and a drive mechanism that rotates the cell about a central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Issei KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro IRIE, Wataru KINOSHITA, Kentaro INOUE
  • Publication number: 20250102332
    Abstract: At a measuring device, a measurement gauge comprises a measurement fluid passage and a measurement connection port, a main body comprises a main body fluid passage and a main body connection port, and a connector comprises a connecting tube, a first end of which is inserted into an interior of the measurement connection port, and a second end of which is inserted into an interior of the main body connection port, an annular first elastic body which seals a region between an outside circumferential portion of the first end of the connecting tube and an inside circumferential portion of the measurement connection port, and an annular second elastic body which seals a region between an outside circumferential portion of the second end of the connecting tube and an inside circumferential portion of the main body connection port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Issei KOBAYASHI, Wataru KINOSHITA, Kentaro INOUE, Akihiro HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240316500
    Abstract: A concentration apparatus including a negatively charged membrane, a sample water supply, a first solenoid valve on a flow path from the sample water supply to the negatively charged membrane, an acidic solution storage tank storing an acidic solution, a second solenoid valve on a flow path from the acidic solution storage tank to the negatively charged membrane, an alkaline solution storage tank storing an alkaline solution, a third solenoid valve on a flow path from the alkaline solution storage tank to the negatively charged membrane, an outlet to discharge fluid, a fourth solenoid valve and a first suction pump each on a flow path from the negatively charged membrane to the outlet, a collection container in which fluid is collected, a fifth solenoid valve on a flow path from the negatively charged membrane to the collection container, and a controller that controls opening and closing of the solenoid valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MATSUI, Kentaro INOUE, Hiroyuki KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240182836
    Abstract: A filtration member 110 including pores having a pore diameter through which microorganisms may pass and configured to have a positive charge or a negative charge upon application of a voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Inoue, Tomoyuki Taguchi, Hiroyuki Katayama, Yasuhiro Matsui
  • Patent number: 10488357
    Abstract: In order to avoid an electrode from disturbing a flow of a fluid in a flow channel in case that the electrode of an electric conductivity meter is arranged in the flow channel, the electric conductivity meter comprises two tubular electrodes inside of each of which respectively formed is an inner flow channel where the fluid flows, and an electrode holder that communicates each of the inner flow channels of the two electrodes and that holds the two electrodes. The electrode holder holds the two electrodes by making an engagement with each outer peripheral surface of mutually facing axial direction end parts of the two electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: HORIBA ADVANCED TECHNO, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Riichiro Suzuki, Hidekazu Takahashi, Kentaro Inoue, Hiroko Kizaki
  • Publication number: 20180120247
    Abstract: In order to avoid an electrode from disturbing a flow of a fluid in a flow channel in case that the electrode of an electric conductivity meter is arranged in the flow channel, the electric conductivity meter comprises two tubular electrodes inside of each of which respectively formed is an inner flow channel where the fluid flows, and an electrode holder that communicates each of the inner flow channels of the two electrodes and that holds the two electrodes. The electrode holder holds the two electrodes by making an engagement with each outer peripheral surface of mutually facing axial direction end parts of the two electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: HORIBA Advanced Techno, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Riichiro SUZUKI, Hidekazu TAKAHASHI, Kentaro INOUE, Hiroko KIZAKI
  • Patent number: 9897570
    Abstract: In order to improve measurement accuracy by accurately calibrating sensitivity of a dissolved oxygen meter without impairing easiness in calibration, the present invention includes a dissolved oxygen measuring device that includes a cell to be loaded with a sample solution, and a dissolved oxygen meter that is attached to the cell and measures an oxygen concentration in the sample solution; and a mode switching mechanism to switch between a measurement mode, in which a sensor surface of the dissolved oxygen meter is substantially in contact with the sample solution in the cell, and a calibration mode, in which the sensor surface is substantially not in contact with the sample solution in the cell, by feeding air into the cell through a feed port disposed on the cell, and by discharging part of the sample solution through a discharge port disposed on the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HORIBA ADVANCED TECHNO, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Inoue, Riichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9829461
    Abstract: A measuring device comprises a guard electrode that is arranged around a cathode, reduces oxygen that is not from an oxygen permeable membrane, and inhibits the oxygen from reaching the cathode. The guard electrode is electrically connected to an anode through a resistor having a prescribed resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: HORIBA Advanced Techno, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Riichiro Suzuki, Kentaro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20160131614
    Abstract: In order to improve measurement accuracy by accurately calibrating sensitivity of a dissolved oxygen meter without impairing easiness in calibration, the present invention includes a dissolved oxygen measuring device that includes a cell to be loaded with a sample solution, and a dissolved oxygen meter that is attached to the cell and measures an oxygen concentration in the sample solution; and a mode switching mechanism to switch between a measurement mode, in which a sensor surface of the dissolved oxygen meter is substantially in contact with the sample solution in the cell, and a calibration mode, in which the sensor surface is substantially not in contact with the sample solution in the cell, by feeding air into the cell through a feed port disposed on the cell, and by discharging part of the sample solution through a discharge port disposed on the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: HORIBA ADVANCED TECHNO, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Inoue, Riichiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150308975
    Abstract: A measuring device comprises a guard electrode that is arranged around a cathode, reduces oxygen that is not from an oxygen permeable membrane and inhibits the oxygen from reaching the cathode. The guard electrode is electrically connected to an anode through a resistor having a prescribed resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Riichiro Suzuki, Kentaro Inoue
  • Patent number: 4463773
    Abstract: A safety shut-off valve opening a flow path between the primary and secondary sides in case of usual operation, while shutting off the aforesaid path in response to an emergency shut-off signal, and particularly such safety shut-off valve cannot be reset unitl it is confirmed that there is no more leakage of gas on the secondary side of the shut-off valve after the shut-off action was once effected, thereby to attaining a very high safeness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Yamatake-Honeywell Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kojima, Tetsuo Uchihama, Kazuyoshi Tanaka, Eiichi Morozumi, Kentaro Inoue, Naomichi Shito
  • Patent number: 4458487
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator utilizing a fluid pressure obtained from an electromagnetic pump, wherein according to the present invention, there is provided a responsive member displaceable in response to the pressure of a fluid forced into a second chamber from a first chamber. The responsive member displaceable as described can operate a valve member or the like coupled thereto in an on-off control or a proportional control with a large stroke in a reliable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kojima, Tetsuo Uchihama, Kazuyoshi Tanaka, Eiichi Morozumi, Kentaro Inoue, Hitoshi Tanaka, Shyuji Morio, Shunji Ichida