Patents by Inventor Masahiro Yonekura

Masahiro Yonekura 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: 9845517
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sub-zero treatment device capable of uniformly cooling a cooling target object and reducing the amount of liquid refrigerant used for cooling the cooling target object. The sub-zero treatment device has an exhaust member extending from a through-hole provided in a cooling tank constituting a cooling target object mounting chamber through to the interior of the cooling target object mounting chamber, and having an exhaust port, wherein the exhaust port is disposed in an exhaust port positioning space, which is the space located in the upper half of the cooling target object mounting chamber and having a width in the transverse direction that is equal to the maximum width in the transverse direction of the suction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Mori, Masahiro Yonekura, Hidetoshi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20160024606
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sub-zero treatment device capable of uniformly cooling a cooling target object and reducing the amount of liquid refrigerant used for cooling the cooling target object. The sub-zero treatment device has an exhaust member extending from a through-hole provided in a cooling tank constituting a cooling target object mounting chamber through to the interior of the cooling target object mounting chamber, and having an exhaust port, wherein the exhaust port is disposed in an exhaust port positioning space, which is the space located in the upper half of the cooling target object mounting chamber and having a width in the transverse direction that is equal to the maximum width in the transverse direction of the suction port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke MORI, Masahiro YONEKURA, Hidetoshi OHTA
  • Publication number: 20140366575
    Abstract: A low-temperature gas supply device is provided with a first heat exchanger, in which a mixed gas mixing a vaporization gas of a low-temperature-liquefied gas with a gas of a temperature higher than the low-temperature-liquefied gas and the low-temperature-liquefied gas are introduced and heat-exchanged with each other, and the mixed gas is discharged as a low-temperature gas refrigerant and the low-temperature-liquefied gas is discharged as the vaporization gas; a mixing unit, in which the gas and the vaporization gas discharged from the first heat exchanger are mixed and discharged as the mixed gas; and a first control unit, in which, based on the difference between a detected temperature of the low-temperature gas refrigerant and an intended temperature, respective amounts of the gas introduced to the mixing unit and the vaporization gas are adjusted to control the temperature of the low-temperature gas refrigerant to the intended temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigemasa Yamazumi, Masahiro Yonekura, Masahiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8721982
    Abstract: A reaction device having improved temperature control precision and reduced usage of heat transfer medium. The device includes a heat transfer medium circulation tube in contact with an outer wall of a reaction vessel containing a reaction liquid. The device has an inlet for the liquid heat transfer medium at the lower end portion of the heat transfer medium circulation tube, and an outlet for the heat transfer medium. Gaps between the heat transfer medium circulation tube and the reaction vessel outer wall include a filler in which a liquid can flow inside the filler. The outlet is formed so that the liquid heat transfer medium is discharged toward the filler. A member presses the heat transfer medium circulation tube against the outer wall of the reaction vessel. An outer vessel hermetically covers the outer circumference of the reaction vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemasa Yamazumi, Masahiro Yonekura, Hidetoshi Oota
  • Patent number: 8197760
    Abstract: Provided are a heat medium heating-cooling apparatus and a heat medium temperature control method, which can control the heat medium temperature stably and more efficiently. The heat medium heating-cooling apparatus includes a heat medium heating unit (12) as well as a bypass line (19) thereof with switching valves 20a, 20b switching the direction of a flow of the heat medium to the heat medium heating unit or the bypass line. Decisions are made based on the present temperature (PV) in a reactor (11), a preset target temperature (SV), stable temperature range (?) and control switching temperature (?). According to the resulted four decisions of “stable heating”, “stable cooling”, “inclined heating” and “inclined cooling”, the temperature control according to either of the heating control at a heating control unit or the cooling control at a cooling control unit is conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Akai, Masahiro Yonekura, Masahiro Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20120128545
    Abstract: Provided is a reaction device having a simple structure in which a temperature control precision can be improved, and at the same time, the amount of heat medium used can be reduced, and the device is provided with a heat-medium circulation tube 15 in contact with an outer wall of a reaction vessel 13 containing a reaction liquid 12. The reaction device of the present invention is provided with an inlet for the liquid heat medium at the lower end portion of the heat-medium circulation tube 15, and an outlet for the liquid heat medium or a gas heat medium which is a vaporized liquid heat medium at the upper end portion of the heat-medium circulation tube 15, respectively. Gaps between the heat-medium circulation tube 15 and the reaction vessel 13 outer wall are filled with a filler 22. The filler 22 is formed by a material in which a liquid can flow inside the filler 22, and the outlet is formed in a direction such that the liquid heat medium is discharged toward the filler 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORAITON
    Inventors: Shigemasa Yamazumi, Masahiro Yonekura, Hidetoshi Oota
  • Publication number: 20110056662
    Abstract: A refrigerant cooling apparatus is provided, in which a circulating refrigerant may be cooled to a prescribed temperature efficiently in a stable condition even when the cooling temperature of the circulating refrigerant is near the freezing point of the circulating refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: TSIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yonekura, Masahiro Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20100193176
    Abstract: Provided are a heat medium heating-cooling apparatus and a heat medium temperature control method, which can control the heat medium temperature stably and more efficiently. The heat medium heating-cooling apparatus includes a heat medium heating unit (12) as well as a bypass line (19) thereof with switching valves 20a, 20b switching the direction of a flow of the heat medium to the heat medium heating unit or the bypass line. Decisions are made based on the present temperature (PV) in a reactor (11), a preset target temperature (SV), stable temperature range (?) and control switching temperature (?). According to the resulted four decisions of “stable heating”, “stable cooling”, “inclined heating” and “inclined cooling”, the temperature control according to either of the heating control at a heating control unit or the cooling control at a cooling control unit is conducted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Akai, Masahiro Yonekura, Masahiro Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20070104626
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-transfer-medium heating and cooling apparatus in which a pump which pumps out a heat transfer medium, a heat exchanger which cools the heat transfer medium, a reactor whose temperature is controlled by the heat transfer medium, and a heating unit which heats the heat transfer medium are disposed in a recirculation path. A reserve path which branches upward from a pump-suction-side path extending from the heating unit to the pump and connects to a liquid phase portion of an expansion vessel is provided in the pump-suction-side path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yonekura, Masahiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 5649427
    Abstract: The present invention provides a white smoke generating apparatus for generating white smoke of a stable density unaffected by air temperature or humidity conditions. The apparatus comprises an apparatus main body 11 being provided with a white smoke discharge opening 11a; a cryogenic liquefied gas supply mechanism 12 for supplying a cryogenic liquefied gas into the apparatus main body 11; and a humidifying mechanism 13 for humidifying the atmosphere inside the apparatus main body. The cryogenic liquefied gas supply mechanism 12 is provided with a first pipeline 18 which communicates a cryogenic liquefied gas reservoir 16 and a cryogenic liquefied gas emission nozzle 17 placed inside the apparatus main body 11, preferably at the white smoke discharge opening 11a side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Sanso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sawada, Hisayuki Usui, Ryutaro Takahashi, Masahiro Hirano, Masahiro Yonekura