Patents by Inventor Masahito Ito

Masahito Ito 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: 11872564
    Abstract: A thermostatic apparatus thermostatically holds a sample container holding a sample. The thermostatic apparatus includes a sample rack which accommodates and holds a plurality of the sample containers and is attachable to and detachable from the thermostatic apparatus; and a heat conduction member which is controlled to a constant temperature and transfers heat to the sample container, in which an opening portion is formed in the sample rack, and when the sample rack is mounted on the thermostatic apparatus, a contact portion forming one part of the heat conduction member directly contacts the sample container by passing through the opening portion, or directly contacts the sample container protruding from the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuki Morisaki, Koji Yamamoto, Masahito Ito
  • Publication number: 20240003857
    Abstract: To reduce an arithmetic processing load or an influence of noise at the time of virtual curve calculation processing, provided is a data processing device for a chromatograph, which is configured to execute data processing based on plot data measured by using a chromatograph, the data processing device including a virtual curve calculation data generator configured to obtain a smaller number of pieces of virtual curve calculation data than a number of pieces of the measured plot data; and an arithmetic processor (163) functioning as a virtual curve calculator configured to obtain a virtual curve based on the virtual curve calculation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Masato Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20230384273
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chromatographic data processing apparatus capable of easily setting appropriate analytical conditions while taking sensitivity performance into account. The liquid chromatographic data processing apparatus includes a data processing unit that generates display data for performing a display in accordance with correspondence relationships of diameters of particles of a column filler that is data concerning an analytical condition of a chromatography apparatus and analytical characteristics that is data concerning separation performance, and a sensitivity performance index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Masahito ITO, Katsutoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11788996
    Abstract: To reduce an arithmetic processing load or an influence of noise at the time of virtual curve calculation processing, provided is a data processing device for a chromatograph, which is configured to execute data processing based on plot data measured by using a chromatograph, the data processing device including a virtual curve calculation data generator configured to obtain a smaller number of pieces of virtual curve calculation data than a number of pieces of the measured plot data; and an arithmetic processor (163) functioning as a virtual curve calculator configured to obtain a virtual curve based on the virtual curve calculation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Masato Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20230251234
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an amino acid analysis method and a liquid chromatographic apparatus for improving separation performance of threonine, serine, glycine, and alanine. The method of analyzing amino acids using the liquid chromatographic apparatus equipped with a cation exchange column includes a process for distributing a sample containing threonine, serine, glycine, and alanine as the amino acids, together with an eluent, to the cation exchange column to separate threonine, serine, glycine, and alanine, wherein a column temperature when separating threonine and serine is higher than a column temperature when separating glycine and alanine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Masahito ITO, Norimasa MINAMOTO, Yusuke HOSEN, Masami SHIBUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230123801
    Abstract: A liquid chromatograph includes a liquid feeding portion, a sample injection portion, a separation column, a first temperature adjustment device which raises temperature of the separation column to a first temperature, a detector, a second temperature adjustment device which is provided upstream of the separation column and adjusts temperature of a mobile phase to a second temperature lower than the first temperature, and a control device which controls at least one of the liquid feeding portion and the second temperature adjustment device. The control device controls at least one of the liquid feeding portion and the second temperature adjustment device such that the mobile phase adjusted to the second temperature is fed to the separation column before a next sample is injected after separation of sample components by the separation column ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Norimasa MINAMOTO, Yusuke HOSEN, Kiyotoshi MORI, Masahito ITO
  • Patent number: 11619617
    Abstract: To make it easy to address the case in which a chromatograph does not appropriately operate. A chromatograph (liquid chromatograph 100) for analyzing a sample by supplying an eluent and the sample and separating a component contained in the sample to detect the component, the chromatograph including: a detection portion (controller 170) configured to detect a fault in the analysis; and an operation controller (controller 170) configured to cause a constituent element related to the analysis to perform at least one of an operation for identifying a factor of the fault and an operation for avoiding the fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Minling Pei, Shinichi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11567047
    Abstract: A chromatographic data system processing apparatus includes a standard sample time table for prestoring a first retention time and a first allowable width of each peak of specific components of a standard sample, a determination unit for determining whether a number of peaks coincides with a specified number when a peak cannot be identified, an alteration unit for altering the standard sample time table by increasing the first allowable width of a specific component to an altered allowable width, an identification unit for identifying the peaks based on the altered standard sample time table when all peaks fall within a range of the altered allowable width, and a setting unit for acquiring an actually-measured retention time of the peaks, and setting a measurement sample time table based on the actually-measured retention time and a second allowable width when the peaks are identified based on the altered standard sample time table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Ikuko Narimatsu, Kazuhiko Okuzawa, Hirofumi Toshima
  • Patent number: 11559857
    Abstract: A laser cut-and-machined product made from a plated steel plate. A cut face of the plated steel plate is coated with plating-layer-containing metal of a top surface of the plated steel plate that is melted and/or evaporated at the time of laser cutting and machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Hara, Masahito Ito, Masanori Uehara, Hiroshi Asada, Hirokazu Sasaki, Hiroshi Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20220373523
    Abstract: A chromatographic data system processing apparatus includes a liquid feeder, a sample injector, a column that separates samples, a detector, a controller that processes a detected result of the detector, and a data processor that examines and sets operations of the liquid feeder, the column and the detector, and a measurement condition. The data processor generates a three-dimensional graph having three axes related to a pressure, a time, and a number of theoretical plates based on data or variables indicating a relationship between the number of theoretical plates and a flow rate, and data or variables indicating a relationship between the pressure and the flow rate. The chromatographic data system processing apparatus can easily obtain a separation condition for obtaining performance from a three-dimensional graph including a pressure drop, a hold-up time and a number of theoretical plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Katsutoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11422118
    Abstract: A chromatographic data system processing apparatus includes a liquid feeder, a sample injector, a column that separates samples, a detector, a controller that processes a detected result of the detector, and a data processor that examines and sets operations of the liquid feeder, the column and the detector, and a measurement condition. The data processor generates a three-dimensional graph having three axes related to a pressure, a time, and a number of theoretical plates based on data or variables indicating a relationship between the number of theoretical plates and a flow rate, and data or variables indicating a relationship between the pressure and the flow rate. The chromatographic data system processing apparatus can easily obtain a separation condition for obtaining performance from a three-dimensional graph including a pressure drop, a hold-up time and a number of theoretical plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Katsutoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220099639
    Abstract: In order to obtain analysis conditions, there is provided a liquid chromatography data processing device which generates, based on data regarding analysis conditions of a chromatography device and data on separation performance, display data that displays a graph showing correspondence of data regarding analysis conditions of the chromatography device and separation performance, generating a first group of biaxial data regarding the above analysis conditions, second group of biaxial data obtained by calculation comprising multiplication and/or division of two data of the first group of biaxial data, and display data according to a graph showing correspondence of the data regarding separation performance, wherein at least each axis of the first group of biaxial data and the second group of biaxial data is represented as a logarithmic axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Masahito ITO, Katsutoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11215591
    Abstract: A chromatographic data system processing apparatus performs data processing based on plot data measured by a chromatograph. The chromatographic data system processing apparatus includes a virtual curve calculation portion which obtains a virtual curve based on the measured plot data, a tentative feature point acquisition portion which obtains a tentative feature point based on the obtained virtual curve, and an actual plot data feature point extraction portion which extracts an actual plot data feature point corresponding to the tentative feature point from the measured plot data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Masato Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20200346306
    Abstract: A laser cut-and-machined product made from a plated steel plate. A cut face of the plated steel plate is coated with plating-layer-containing metal of a top surface of the plated steel plate that is melted and/or evaporated at the time of laser cutting and machining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicants: AMADA CO., LTD., NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo HARA, Masahito ITO, Masanori UEHARA, Hiroshi ASADA, Hirokazu SASAKI, Hiroshi HORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200300823
    Abstract: To reduce an arithmetic processing load or an influence of noise at the time of virtual curve calculation processing, provided is a data processing device for a chromatograph, which is configured to execute data processing based on plot data measured by using a chromatograph, the data processing device including a virtual curve calculation data generator configured to obtain a smaller number of pieces of virtual curve calculation data than a number of pieces of the measured plot data; and an arithmetic processor (163) functioning as a virtual curve calculator configured to obtain a virtual curve based on the virtual curve calculation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Masahito ITO, Masato FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10759005
    Abstract: A laser cutting and machining method for plated steel plated, when irradiating a laser beam LB on to the upper surface of a plated steel plate W and laser cutting and machining same: a plating layer-containing metal that has been melted and/or evaporated by the irradiation of the laser beam LB is caused to flow on to a cut surface of the plated steel plate W as a result of assist gas that is jetted towards a laser machining units; and the plating layer-containing metal is coated on the cut surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD., NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Hara, Masahito Ito, Masanori Uehara, Hiroshi Asada, Hirokazu Sasaki, Hiroshi Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20200103382
    Abstract: To make it easy to address the case in which a chromatograph does not appropriately operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Masahito ITO, Minling PEI, Shinichi OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200103381
    Abstract: To enable appropriate analysis to easily be performed in accordance with an object to be analyzed, provided is an apparatus for determining a chromatograph analysis method includes: an input portion (220) configured to receive input of a sample name of a sample to be analyzed and a component name; a storage (230) configured to store an analysis method for a component corresponding to the component name in the sample corresponding to the sample name so that the analysis method is associated with the sample name and the component name; and a controller (210) configured to search the storage for the analysis method, which corresponds to the sample name and the component name input to the input portion, to read the analysis method from the storage, and present the analysis method to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Masahito ITO, Yusuke HOSEN, Shinichi OZAWA
  • Patent number: 10576584
    Abstract: A period of time during which a laser beam moves through an inner region of a beam spot that ranges from a center of the beam spot to an area corresponding to a thermal energy of 44% with respect to a total thermal energy of the beam spot is set as a moving time tp. “c”, “?”, “?”, “T”, “T0”, “A”, and “Pd” respectively represents a specific heat, a density, a thermal conductivity, a melting temperature, an environmental temperature, a light absorptance, and an energy density of the inner region. A time calculated from Equation (1) is set as a melting time tm. A plate thickness is represented by x and a value of tm/tp is represented by y. The value y is set between a lower limit value (Equation (2)) and an upper limit value (Equation (3)). tm=c×?×?×?[(T?T0)/(2×A×Pd)]2??(1) y=0.0027e0.36x??(2) y=0.0026e0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Sugiyama, Yuya Mizoguchi, Masahito Ito, Masato Kunihiro
  • Publication number: 20190302070
    Abstract: A chromatographic data system processing apparatus performs data processing based on plot data measured by a chromatograph. The chromatographic data system processing apparatus includes a virtual curve calculation portion which obtains a virtual curve based on the measured plot data, a tentative feature point acquisition portion which obtains a tentative feature point based on the obtained virtual curve, and an actual plot data feature point extraction portion which extracts an actual plot data feature point corresponding to the tentative feature point from the measured plot data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Ito, Masato Fukuda