Patents by Inventor Naoki Noguchi

Naoki Noguchi 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: 11927647
    Abstract: A current measurement device (1 and 2) is for measuring a current (I) flowing through measurement target conductors (MC1 and MC2), and the current measurement device includes: a plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12, and 13) disposed so that a magnetic sensing direction and a relative position have a prescribed relationship; a noise remover (25a) configured to remove noise components included in detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors; a sign adder (25b) configured to add a sign to the detection results from which the noise components have been removed, based on sign information of each of the detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors obtained at a specific point in time; and a current calculator (25c and 25d) configured to calculate a current flowing through the measurement target conductors by using the detection results to which the sign has been added by the sign adder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Minako Terao, Kotaro Ogawa, Saki Kobako, Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20240012070
    Abstract: A magnetic detection apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a magnetic sensor and a measurement apparatus. The magnetic sensor includes a first transmission line and a second transmission line arranged to be non-parallel to each other. The measurement apparatus includes a signal generator configured to generate a first incident wave and a second incident wave, a signal detector configured to detect a first reflected wave caused by an impedance mismatch of the first transmission line and a second reflected wave caused by an impedance mismatch of the second transmission line, and a controller. The controller calculates a first magnetic field based on the first incident wave and the first reflected wave and a second magnetic field based on the second incident wave and the second reflected wave and calculates a biaxial magnetic field based on the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230321410
    Abstract: An elongated medical device includes a first layer having a hollow cylindrical shape and containing a fluororesin having an adhesive functional group (adhesive resin) and a first colorant, and a second layer arranged in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the first layer and having a predetermined colored region formed of a second colorant having a color different from a color of the first colorant. The predetermined colored region is formed on a part of the outer peripheral surface of the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki NOGUCHI, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Naoki KAKUMU
  • Publication number: 20230273243
    Abstract: A current measurement device (1 to 3) includes a first sensor (SE1) configured to detect a direct current magnetic field and a low-frequency alternating current magnetic field generated by a current (I) flowing through a measurement target conductor (MC), a hollow magnetic shielding member (12) that includes a cutout portion (CP2) into which the measurement target conductor is inserted and in which the first sensor is accommodated, a fixing mechanism (13) configured to fix the measurement target conductor such that a distance between a center of the measurement target conductor inserted into the cutout portion of the magnetic shielding member and the first sensor is a predetermined reference distance (r), and a first calculator (21) configured to calculate a current flowing through the measurement target conductor based on a detection result of the first sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Kotaro OGAWA, Minako TERAO, Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230264142
    Abstract: A gas separation method including performing a gas separation operation that separates a source gas into a primary-side gas and a secondary-side gas with a membrane of a membrane module. The source gas contains a combustible component. The gas separation operation includes pressurizing the source gas and supplying the source gas to a primary side of the membrane module and depressurizing a secondary side of the membrane module to a pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure. The primary-side gas has a higher concentration of the combustible component than the secondary-side gas, and the gas separation method further includes detecting a composition of the secondary-side gas and stopping the gas separation operation in an instance in which the composition enters a specified range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230241356
    Abstract: An elongated medical instrument includes: a base material part; and an outer layer part made of a resin based on a resin suspension that is coated on an outer peripheral surface of the base material part; where a surface of the outer layer part has irregularly disposed recesses formed from cracks generated by drying of the resin suspension, and protrusions formed with an outer peripheral surface formed on an outer peripheral side of the recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki NOGUCHI, Tomoki KOSUGI, Yuta NAKANISHI, Kenta GOTO, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Naoki KAKUMU, Tomoaki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230233799
    Abstract: An elongated medical instrument includes a base material part, and an outer layer part made of a resin provided on a surface of the base material part. An outer surface of the outer layer part is a substantially flat surface other than the presence of irregularly disposed recesses or protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki NOGUCHI, Tomoki KOSUGI, Yuta NAKANISHI, Kenta GOTO
  • Patent number: 11583807
    Abstract: A separation membrane module may decrease a bending load applied to a support member supporting ends of tubular separation membranes and omission of a seal member between the outer circumferential surface of the support member and the inner circumferential surface of a housing. The separation membrane module may include a tubular housing, tubular separation membranes arranged in a longitudinal direction of the housing, end tubes connected to lower ends of the tubular separation membranes, a support box supporting the end tubes, and a backpressure chamber below the support box. The tubular separation membranes may be in communication with a support box collection chamber. A nozzle disposed on the support box may extract permeated fluid. A chamber and the backpressure chamber are in communication via a gap between the support box outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface. The chamber and backpressure chamber have substantially the same pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230049999
    Abstract: An availability calculation device includes a bandwidth notification information storing unit that stores received bandwidth notification information for a certain period, and an availability calculation unit that calculates an availability for each bandwidth of a wireless link by using the bandwidth notification information stored in the bandwidth notification information storing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220347440
    Abstract: A guide wire includes a main body portion having an elongated outer shape and having a base and a marker alternately presented on an outer surface along an extending direction, and a resin layer having light permeability, covering the outer surface of the main body portion, and including a recessed portion and a protruding portion alternately arranged along the extending direction of the main body portion, wherein in longitudinal cross-section along the extending direction of the main body portion, a width of the marker is wider than a width of the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki KOSUGI, Naoki NOGUCHI, Kenta GOTO, Yuta NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20220347441
    Abstract: To provide a guide wire including a core shaft having an elongated outer shape, and a coating film on an outer surface of the core shaft, the coating film containing a resin. The coating film includes a marker portion containing a pigment on an outer surface of the coating film and a resin portion not containing the pigment. On the outer surface of the coating film, the marker portion and the resin portion are alternately visible in a stretching direction. Of the coating film, a thickness of a portion where the marker portion is visible on the outer surface and a thickness of a portion where the resin portion is visible on the outer surface are substantially the same, or the thickness of the portion where the marker portion is visible is smaller than the thickness of the portion where the resin portion is visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta NAKANISHI, Tomoki KOSUGI, Naoki NOGUCHI, Kenta GOTO
  • Patent number: 11486943
    Abstract: A magnetism detection device includes: a transmission line set having a transmission line including a linear first conductor including a magnetic material; and a detector that: inputs, from a first end of the transmission line set, a pulse signal as a first incident wave and detects, at the first end, a first reflected wave of the first incident wave; inputs, from a second end opposite to the first end, a pulse signal as a second incident wave and detects, at the second end, a second reflected wave of the second incident wave; and detects a strength of a magnetic field applied to the transmission line set based on compositing of the first reflected wave and the second reflected wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220283247
    Abstract: A current measurement device (1 and 2) is for measuring a current (I) flowing through measurement target conductors (MC1 and MC2), and the current measurement device includes: a plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors (11, 12, and 13) disposed so that a magnetic sensing direction and a relative position have a prescribed relationship; a noise remover (25a) configured to remove noise components included in detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors; a sign adder (25b) configured to add a sign to the detection results from which the noise components have been removed, based on sign information of each of the detection results of the plurality of triaxial magnetic sensors obtained at a specific point in time; and a current calculator (25c and 25d) configured to calculate a current flowing through the measurement target conductors by using the detection results to which the sign has been added by the sign adder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Minako TERAO, Kotaro OGAWA, Saki KOBAKO, Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220244295
    Abstract: The current measurement device (1, 2) includes a first sensor (SE1) configured to detect a direct current magnetic field and a low-frequency alternating current magnetic field generated due to the current (1) flowing through the conductor (MC) to be measured, a second sensor (SE2) configured to detect alternating current magnetic fields from a low frequency to a high frequency generated due to the current (1) flowing through the conductor to be measured, a first calculator (21, 21A) configured to calculate the current flowing through the conductor to be measured from a detection result of the first sensor using distance information indicating a distance (r) between the first sensor (SE1) and the conductor (MC) to be measured, a second calculator (22) configured to calculate the current flowing through the conductor to be measured from a detection result of the second sensor, and a synthesizer (23) configured to synthesize a calculation result of the first calculator with a calculation result of the second cal
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Kotaro OGAWA, Minako TERAO, Naoki NOGUCHI, Saki KOBAKO, Fumitake TERAO, Satoshi YOSHITAKE
  • Publication number: 20220214383
    Abstract: A current measurement device includes: four or more triaxial magnetic sensors arranged to have predefined positional relationships such that magnetism-sensing directions thereof are parallel to each other; and a calculator configured to calculate currents flowing through a pair of conductors to be measured, which are arranged in proximity to each other, based on detection results of the four or more triaxial magnetic sensors and the positional relationships between the four or more triaxial magnetic sensors, the currents flowing in mutually opposite directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma TAKENAKA, Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Minako TERAO, Kotaro OGAWA, Saki KOBAKO, Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220143558
    Abstract: A separation membrane module may decrease a bending load applied to a support member supporting ends of tubular separation membranes and omission of a seal member between the outer circumferential surface of the support member and the inner circumferential surface of a housing. The separation membrane module may include a tubular housing, tubular separation membranes arranged in a longitudinal direction of the housing, end tubes connected to lower ends of the tubular separation membranes, a support box supporting the end tubes, and a backpressure chamber below the support box. The tubular separation membranes may be in communication with a support box collection chamber. A nozzle disposed on the support box may extract permeated fluid. A chamber and the backpressure chamber are in communication via a gap between the support box outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface. The chamber and backpressure chamber have substantially the same pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Coporation
    Inventor: Naoki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11291955
    Abstract: A separation membrane module that is provided enables a bending load that is applied to a support member that supports ends of tubular separation membranes to be decreased and enables a seal member between the outer circumferential surface of the support member and the inner circumferential surface of a housing to be omitted. The separation membrane module includes a tubular housing 2, tubular separation membranes 3 that are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the housing 2, end tubes 4 that are connected to the lower ends of the tubular separation membranes 3, a support box 5 that supports the end tubes 4, and a backpressure chamber 16 below the support box 5. The tubular separation membranes 3 are in communication with a collection chamber 5v of the support box 5. A permeated fluid is extracted via a nozzle 5n that is disposed on the support box 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20210302509
    Abstract: A magnetism detection device includes: a transmission line set having a transmission line including a linear first conductor including a magnetic material; and a detector that: inputs, from a first end of the transmission line set, a pulse signal as a first incident wave and detects, at the first end, a first reflected wave of the first incident wave; inputs, from a second end opposite to the first end, a pulse signal as a second incident wave and detects, at the second end, a second reflected wave of the second incident wave; and detects a strength of a magnetic field applied to the transmission line set based on compositing of the first reflected wave and the second reflected wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Takenaka, Naoki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11065584
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a separation membrane module in which an end member is prevented from coming out even at the occurrence of a reverse pressure or the like. The invention relates to a separation membrane module which is equipped with a cylinder-shaped housing and a tubular separation membrane and which takes out a fluid which has permeated the tubular separation membrane. An end pipe is connected to one end portion of the tubular separation membrane; the end pipe is supported by a support plate which is disposed so as to traverse the housing; and an end plug is connected to the other end portion of the tubular separation membrane. The separation membrane module is further equipped with a coming-out preventive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Noguchi, Hirotsugi Tominaga, Fumiya Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20210170339
    Abstract: A separation membrane module that is provided enables a bending load that is applied to a support member that supports ends of tubular separation membranes to be decreased and enables a seal member between the outer circumferential surface of the support member and the inner circumferential surface of a housing to be omitted. The separation membrane module includes a tubular housing 2, tubular separation membranes 3 that are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the housing 2, end tubes 4 that are connected to the lower ends of the tubular separation membranes 3, a support box 5 that supports the end tubes 4, and a backpressure chamber 16 below the support box 5. The tubular separation membranes 3 are in communication with a collection chamber 5v of the support box 5. A permeated fluid is extracted via a nozzle 5n that is disposed on the support box 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki NOGUCHI