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).
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Patent number: 10955398Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Naoto Mizutani, Takeshi Kusaka, Haruhisa Mohara, Masayoshi Shinohara
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Publication number: 20190137465Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.Inventors: Naoto MIZUTANI, Takeshi KUSAKA, Haruhisa MOHARA, Masayoshi SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20170106552Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kouichi SHIBAYAMA, Masayoshi SHINOHARA
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Patent number: 9604293Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kouichi Shibayama, Masayoshi Shinohara
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Patent number: 9568411Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
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Patent number: 9259835Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masayoshi Shinohara, Kouichi Shibayama
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Publication number: 20160018309Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
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Patent number: 9188506Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
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Patent number: 9170180Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Shinohara, Yoshinori Otsuki, Kenji Kondo, Kazuo Hanada, Steve Kerrigan
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Patent number: 9140631Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
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Patent number: 8794048Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Matsuyama, Masayoshi Shinohara, Yoshinori Otsuki, Kaoru Okada, Masanobu Akita
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Publication number: 20140130345Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masayoshi Shinohara, Kouichi Shibayama
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Publication number: 20140116214Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kouichi Shibayama, Masayoshi Shinohara
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Patent number: 8528424Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
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Publication number: 20130174641Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
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Patent number: 8387447Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Hanada, Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara
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Publication number: 20120174989Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori OTSUKI, Masayoshi SHINOHARA, Kazuo HANADA
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Publication number: 20120090377Abstract: Provided is a system for determining a number of particles, which has a simplified and compact structure as well as a reduced cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Matsuyama, Masayoshi Shinohara, Yoshinori Otsuki, Kaoru Okada, Masanobu Akita
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Publication number: 20120017666Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Otsuki, Masayoshi Shinohara, Kazuo Hanada
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Patent number: 8012231Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Saitoh, Junji Kato, Masahiko Fujiwara, Masayoshi Shinohara