Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Shinohara

Masayoshi Shinohara 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: 10955398
    Abstract: The present invention includes: connecting a pressure varying device to a sample gas introduction port and a gas discharge port of a gas analysis apparatus; depressurizing or pressurizing the sample gas introduction port and the gas discharge port by the pressure varying device; introducing calibration gas from a calibration gas introduction port of the gas analysis apparatus in a depressurized or pressurized state; and calculating a pressure correction factor for the gas analysis apparatus with use of a measurement result of the calibration gas by the gas analysis apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Mizutani, Takeshi Kusaka, Haruhisa Mohara, Masayoshi Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20190137465
    Abstract: The present invention includes: connecting a pressure varying device to a sample gas introduction port and a gas discharge port of a gas analysis apparatus; depressurizing or pressurizing the sample gas introduction port and the gas discharge port by the pressure varying device; introducing calibration gas from a calibration gas introduction port of the gas analysis apparatus in a depressurized or pressurized state; and calculating a pressure correction factor for the gas analysis apparatus with use of a measurement result of the calibration gas by the gas analysis apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto MIZUTANI, Takeshi KUSAKA, Haruhisa MOHARA, Masayoshi SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20170106552
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a technology that allows corrugated tubes of various diameter sizes to be easily and reliably cut at a convex portion. In order to achieve the purpose, a cutting device is provided with a feeder feeding a corrugated tube such that an axial direction of the corrugated tube lies along a feeding path; a cutter cutting along a circumferential direction of the corrugated tube being fed along the feeding path; and an imager capturing an image of a planned cutting position of the corrugated tube. A controller performs image analysis of the captured image of the planned cutting position to determine whether the planned cutting position is a convex portion of the corrugated tube and, when a positive determination result is obtained, causes the cutter to cut the corrugated tube at the planned cutting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi SHIBAYAMA, Masayoshi SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 9604293
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a technology that allows corrugated tubes of various diameter sizes to be easily and reliably cut at a convex portion. In order to achieve the purpose, a cutting device is provided with a feeder feeding a corrugated tube such that an axial direction of the corrugated tube lies along a feeding path; a cutter cutting along a circumferential direction of the corrugated tube being fed along the feeding path; and an imager capturing an image of a planned cutting position of the corrugated tube. A controller performs image analysis of the captured image of the planned cutting position to determine whether the planned cutting position is a convex portion of the corrugated tube and, when a positive determination result is obtained, causes the cutter to cut the corrugated tube at the planned cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Shibayama, Masayoshi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 9568411
    Abstract: The present invention is one that, even while cooling exhaust gas without dilution, makes it possible to accurately measure particle concentration, and provided with: a particle concentration measurement device; a sampling cooling pipe that cools the exhaust gas collected from an exhaust gas transfer pipe to a measurable temperature of the particle concentration measurement device without dilution, and introduces the cooled exhaust gas into the particle concentration measurement device; a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust gas inlet; and a calculation device that, from the detected temperature by the temperature sensor and the temperature of the exhaust gas introduced into the particle concentration measurement device, corrects measured particle concentration by the particle concentration measurement device in real time to calculate the particle concentration of the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust gas transfer pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
  • Patent number: 9259835
    Abstract: Running over components such as an electrical wire when displacing a work table is inhibited. An assembly work conveyor device includes a plurality of work tables and a displacement support mechanism that includes a displacement driver causing the work tables to displace along an oval displacement path. The plurality of work tables are displaced along the oval displacement path in a state supported in a cantilevered manner by the displacement support mechanism and in a posture projecting toward an outer periphery of the oval displacement path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Shinohara, Kouichi Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20160018309
    Abstract: The present invention is one that, even while cooling exhaust gas without dilution, makes it possible to accurately measure particle concentration, and provided with: a particle concentration measurement device; a sampling cooling pipe that cools the exhaust gas collected from an exhaust gas transfer pipe to a measurable temperature of the particle concentration measurement device without dilution, and introduces the cooled exhaust gas into the particle concentration measurement device; a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust gas inlet; and a calculation device that, from the detected temperature by the temperature sensor and the temperature of the exhaust gas introduced into the particle concentration measurement device, corrects measured particle concentration by the particle concentration measurement device in real time to calculate the particle concentration of the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust gas transfer pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
  • Patent number: 9188506
    Abstract: The present invention is one that, even while cooling exhaust gas without dilution, makes it possible to accurately measure particle concentration, and provided with: a particle concentration measurement device; a sampling cooling pipe that cools the exhaust gas collected from an exhaust gas transfer pipe to a measurable temperature of the particle concentration measurement device without dilution, and introduces the cooled exhaust gas into the particle concentration measurement device; a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust gas inlet; and a calculation device that, from the detected temperature by the temperature sensor and the temperature of the exhaust gas introduced into the particle concentration measurement device, corrects measured particle concentration by the particle concentration measurement device in real time to calculate the particle concentration of the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust gas transfer pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
  • Patent number: 9170180
    Abstract: To improve an offset accuracy in a particle number counting apparatus (100) condensing a working liquid with sample particles, the apparatus including: a porous member (22) in which a flow path (23) is passed through to form an inlet (23a) at a lower side and an outlet (23b) at an upper side thereof so that the working liquid is supplied to a predetermined section of the porous member so as to be impregnated into the entire part of the porous member; and a housing (21) having an accommodating space for accommodating the porous member (22), wherein a gap (S) is formed between an outer peripheral surface (22a) of the porous member (22) and an inner peripheral surface (21b) of the accommodating space of the housing (21) at least in an upper side than the predetermined section to be supplied with the working liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Shinohara, Yoshinori Otsuki, Kenji Kondo, Kazuo Hanada, Steve Kerrigan
  • Patent number: 9140631
    Abstract: A method of measuring characteristics of a critical orifice type constant flow rate instrument is applied to a dilution mechanism including dilution units in series. Diluent gas of one dilution unit and diluent gas of the other dilution unit are kept flowing in a derivation flow passage for deriving redundant gas of the corresponding one dilution unit in a manner that the total flow rate thereof is equal to a prescribed constant flow rate and that the flow rate of the diluent gas from the corresponding dilution unit is equal to the flow rate in use. The flow rate characteristics of the critical orifice type constant flow rate instrument are measured based on at least an upstream side pressure of the critical orifice type constant flow rate instrument provided in the derivation flow passage at this time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
  • Patent number: 8794048
    Abstract: A system for determining a number of particles includes a diluter arranged at a connecting point of a main flow channel and dilution gas flow channel, a dilution gas flow rate control part that controls the flow rate of the dilution gas introduced into the diluter, a particle number measuring unit that measures a number of solid particles in a diluted exhaust gas, a bypass flow channel that bifurcates from between the diluter and particle number measuring unit in the main flow channel and in which a constant flow rate unit is arranged, and an information processing unit that calculates the dilution factor of the exhaust gas based on a dilution gas flow rate controlled by the dilution gas flow rate control part, and a total of a unit flow rate of the particle number measuring unit and a set flow rate of the constant flow rate unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuyama, Masayoshi Shinohara, Yoshinori Otsuki, Kaoru Okada, Masanobu Akita
  • Publication number: 20140130345
    Abstract: To inhibit running Running over components such as an electrical wire when displacing a work table is inhibited. An assembly work conveyor device includes a plurality of work tables and a displacement support mechanism that includes a displacement driver causing the work tables to displace along an oval displacement path. The plurality of work tables are displaced along the oval displacement path in a state supported in a cantilevered manner by the displacement support mechanism and in a posture projecting toward an outer periphery of the oval displacement path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Shinohara, Kouichi Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20140116214
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a technology that allows corrugated tubes of various diameter sizes to be easily and reliably cut at a convex portion. In order to achieve the purpose, a cutting device is provided with a feeder feeding a corrugated tube such that an axial direction of the corrugated tube lies along a feeding path; a cutter cutting along a circumferential direction of the corrugated tube being fed along the feeding path; and an imager capturing an image of a planned cutting position of the corrugated tube. A controller performs image analysis of the captured image of the planned cutting position to determine whether the planned cutting position is a convex portion of the corrugated tube and, when a positive determination result is obtained, causes the cutter to cut the corrugated tube at the planned cutting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Shibayama, Masayoshi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 8528424
    Abstract: In a gas analyzer 3 and a gas analyzing system 100 adapted to introduce and analyze a part of a measurement target gas flowing through a measurement target gas flow passage 12, in order to ensure accuracy in controlling the measurement target gas flowing through the measurement target gas flow passage 12 and accuracy in its own and other measurements, there are provided an object measurement device 35 adapted to acquire a part of the measurement target gas introduced from the measurement target gas flow passage 12 so as to measure a quantity etc. of a measurement object contained in the measurement target gas, an acquired gas flow rate measurement device 34 adapted to measure a flow rate of the measurement target gas acquired by the object measurement device 35, and a gas supply device 36 adapted to supply another gas of a flow rate equal to the gas flow rate measured by the acquired gas flow rate measurement device 34 to a portion downstream of a shunt point in the measurement target gas flow passage 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
  • Publication number: 20130174641
    Abstract: The present invention is one that, even while cooling exhaust gas without dilution, makes it possible to accurately measure particle concentration, and provided with: a particle concentration measurement device; a sampling cooling pipe that cools the exhaust gas collected from an exhaust gas transfer pipe to a measurable temperature of the particle concentration measurement device without dilution, and introduces the cooled exhaust gas into the particle concentration measurement device; a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust gas inlet; and a calculation device that, from the detected temperature by the temperature sensor and the temperature of the exhaust gas introduced into the particle concentration measurement device, corrects measured particle concentration by the particle concentration measurement device in real time to calculate the particle concentration of the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust gas transfer pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
  • Patent number: 8387447
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to improve resistance to heat and to increase a measurable range of a pressure without increasing a cost. In order to attain the object, a first unit arranged near an exhaust gas pipe and a second unit arranged separately from the first unit and connected to the first unit through a connecting pipe are provided, and the first unit has an exhaust gas flow channel from one end of which an exhaust gas is introduced, an orifice part arranged in a midst of the exhaust gas flow channel, a pressure rising check valve of a mechanically operating type that is connected to a downstream side of the orifice part in the exhaust gas flow channel, and a dilution gas flow channel that is connected to a downstream side of the orifice part in the exhaust gas flow channel so that the diluted exhaust gas diluted by the dilution gas is derived from the other end of the exhaust gas flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hanada, Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20120174989
    Abstract: A method of measuring characteristics of a critical orifice type constant flow rate instrument is applied to a dilution mechanism including dilution units in series. Diluent gas of one dilution unit and diluent gas of the other dilution unit are kept flowing in a derivation flow passage for deriving redundant gas of the corresponding one dilution unit in a manner that the total flow rate thereof is equal to a prescribed constant flow rate and that the flow rate of the diluent gas from the corresponding dilution unit is equal to the flow rate in use. The flow rate characteristics of the critical orifice type constant flow rate instrument are measured based on at least an upstream side pressure of the critical orifice type constant flow rate instrument provided in the derivation flow passage at this time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori OTSUKI, Masayoshi SHINOHARA, Kazuo HANADA
  • Publication number: 20120090377
    Abstract: Provided is a system for determining a number of particles, which has a simplified and compact structure as well as a reduced cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuyama, Masayoshi Shinohara, Yoshinori Otsuki, Kaoru Okada, Masanobu Akita
  • Publication number: 20120017666
    Abstract: In a gas analyzer 3 and a gas analyzing system 100 adapted to introduce and analyze a part of a measurement target gas flowing through a measurement target gas flow passage 12, in order to ensure accuracy in controlling the measurement target gas flowing through the measurement target gas flow passage 12 and accuracy in its own and other measurements, there are provided an object measurement device 35 adapted to acquire a part of the measurement target gas introduced from the measurement target gas flow passage 12 so as to measure a quantity etc. of a measurement object contained in the measurement target gas, an acquired gas flow rate measurement device 34 adapted to measure a flow rate of the measurement target gas acquired by the object measurement device 35, and a gas supply device 36 adapted to supply another gas of a flow rate equal to the gas flow rate measured by the acquired gas flow rate measurement device 34 to a portion downstream of a shunt point in the measurement target gas flow passage 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
  • Patent number: 8012231
    Abstract: A particulate collection system, including a particulate matter analyzer and collecting filter, provides a method of analyzing and collecting samples from fluids, such as collecting particulate matter from air. A mass measuring unit and composition analyzing unit can be provided for either simultaneous or immediately consecutive measurements within a single instrument. The filter material can have an antistatic electricity characteristic and can be impregnated with reference material to enable calibration of the composition analyzing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Saitoh, Junji Kato, Masahiko Fujiwara, Masayoshi Shinohara