Patents by Inventor Kihachiro Okura

Kihachiro Okura 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: 11204345
    Abstract: To provide a preparative thin layer chromatography method capable of acquiring a target spot efficiently using a simple and convenient method without the possibility of decomposition of a component in a spot. The preparative thin layer chromatography method is a preparative method for dispensing a spot from a thin layer chromatography plate and includes a process 1 that forms a groove by removing the carrier at the circumferential edge of a spot to be dispensed, a process 2 that inserts a nozzle having a packing part at the tip thereof into the groove formed in the process 1, a process 3 that discharges a solvent through the nozzle, and a process 4 that sucks the solvent in which a spot component has been dissolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAZEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kihachiro Okura
  • Patent number: 11002714
    Abstract: Provided that elapsed time from the start of the flow-in of an eluent into a column is t0 and the mobility Rfc(t/t0) of a component c in a sample is represented by a function of elapsed time t from the start of the flow-in of a sample into the column, elution time trc from the flow-in of the sample into the column to the flow-out of the component c from the column is calculated by using Equation (1). In doing so, the mobility Rfc(t/t0) in Equation (1) is represented by Equation (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Yamazen Corporation
    Inventor: Kihachiro Okura
  • Publication number: 20200182839
    Abstract: To provide a preparative thin layer chromatography method capable of acquiring a target spot efficiently using a simple and convenient method without the possibility of decomposition of a component in a spot. The preparative thin layer chromatography method is a preparative method for dispensing a spot from a thin layer chromatography plate and includes a process 1 that forms a groove by removing the carrier at the circumferential edge of a spot to be dispensed, a process 2 that inserts a nozzle having a packing part at the tip thereof into the groove formed in the process 1, a process 3 that discharges a solvent through the nozzle, and a process 4 that sucks the solvent in which a spot component has been dissolved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventor: Kihachiro OKURA
  • Patent number: 10648954
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to find a method in which a result of liquid chromatography can be predicted with high accuracy for a wide range of a mixing ratio of solvents by utilizing a result of thin-layer chromatography. A liquid chromatography method for separating a mixture of two or more kinds of compounds, comprising the following steps: (1) performing thin-layer chromatography or column chromatography in a mixed solvent of two or more kinds of solvents having a different mixing ratio from each other or a single solvent; (2) creating a relational expression between a mixing ratio and an elution degree of a solvent for each compound in a sample based on a result of the step (1); and (3) determining an optimum condition based on the relational expression, and performing liquid chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAZEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kihachiro Okura
  • Patent number: 10416135
    Abstract: A preparative liquid chromatographic apparatus comprising a column for separating components in a sample; a dispensing unit for dispensing an eluate from the column; a detector for the eluate; an analysis unit for the eluate; a display unit for displaying an analysis result a data storage unit; and an arithmetic control unit for controlling the display unit and the data storage unit. The analysis unit has at least one qualitative analysis unit for continuously and qualitatively analyzing the eluate. The display unit simultaneously displays a chromatogram acquired by the detector and the acquisition position of the dispensing unit and displays a correspondence relationship between each fraction and the chromatogram, and wherein by using the correspondence relationship between each fraction and the chromatogram shown in the display unit, the qualitative analysis data selected from the data storage unit is displayed on the display unit using the arithmetic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: YAMAZEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kihachiro Okura
  • Publication number: 20180196020
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to reduce labor for dispensing by a preparative liquid chromatographic apparatus by performing qualitative analysis simultaneously with dispensing and omitting labor for qualitative analysis after dispensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Kihachiro OKURA
  • Publication number: 20170199165
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to find a method in which a result of liquid chromatography can be predicted with high accuracy for a wide range of a mixing ratio of solvents by utilizing a result of thin-layer chromatography. A liquid chromatography method for separating a mixture of two or more kinds of compounds, comprising the following steps: (1) performing thin-layer chromatography or column chromatography in a mixed solvent of two or more kinds of solvents having a different mixing ratio from each other or a single solvent; (2) creating a relational expression between a mixing ratio and an elution degree of a solvent for each compound in a sample based on a result of the step (1); and (3) determining an optimum condition based on the relational expression, and performing liquid chromatography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Kihachiro OKURA
  • Publication number: 20160077065
    Abstract: Provided that elapsed time from the start of the flow-in of an eluent into a column is t0 and the mobility Rfc(t/t0) of a component c in a sample is represented by a function of elapsed time t from the start of the flow-in of a sample into the column, elution time trc from the flow-in of the sample into the column to the flow-out of the component c from the column is calculated by using Equation (1). In doing so, the mobility Rfc(t/t0) in Equation (1) is represented by Equation (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Yamazen Corporation
    Inventor: Kihachiro Okura
  • Publication number: 20130032520
    Abstract: Provided that elapsed time from the start of the flow-in of an eluent into a column is t0 and the mobility Rfc(t/t0) of a component c in a sample is represented by a function of elapsed time t from the start of the flow-in of a sample into the column, elution time trc from the flow-in of the sample into the column to the flow-out of the component c from the column is calculated by using Equation (1). In doing so, the mobility Rfc(t/t0) in Equation (1) is represented by Equation (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Yamazen Corporation
    Inventor: Kihachiro Okura