Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Tsukada

Nobuhiro Tsukada 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).

  • Publication number: 20130091933
    Abstract: A liquid mixing device that decreases a concentration non-uniformity in the flow direction of a mobile phase and a liquid chromatograph that uses the liquid mixing device are provided. The liquid mixing device is configured to include a flow channel unit that is made from an introduction channel, a branch portion that is positioned in a downstream of the introduction channel, multiple branched flow channels that branch from the branch portion, a junction portion in which the multiple branched flow channels join together, and a discharge channel of the downstream of the junction portion. The multiple branched flow channels are different in terms of any one of, or several of width, depth, and length that are associated with an external shape, and a structure filling the inside of the flow channel and thus the times for the liquid to pass through the branched flow channels are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tsukada, Yoshihiro Nagaoka, Hironori Kaji, Daisuke Akieda
  • Publication number: 20120127469
    Abstract: In a liquid chromatograph, a flow cell, in which a direction of detecting light and a flow direction of a sample fluid are parallel to each other, and in which the flow direction of the sample fluid changes at the moment of the sample fluid flowing out of a detecting portion into an outflow channel and at the moment of the sample fluid flowing into the detecting portion from an inflow channel, is capable of suppressing a peak broadening of a chromatogram. A plurality of outflow channels are provided, which shorten a distance between a flow outlet and a flow bend in the sample flow. A plurality of inflow channels are also provided, some of which collide jets flowing into the detecting portion from the inflow channels and others of which produce a swirl of jets flowing into the detecting portion from the inflow channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tsukada, Shigenori Togashi, Yoshihiro Nagaoka, Tomohiro Shoji
  • Patent number: 8128798
    Abstract: A liquid transfer device electrically controls liquid position. The surface of the liquid transfer device is provided with unevenness in order to solve a problem of having a large number of electrodes for controlling voltage. The number of electrodes for controlling voltage can be halved by the utilization of a restoring force of the liquid to a spherical shape by surface tension, in addition to an electrical force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Sakuichiro Adachi, Kunio Harada, Hideo Enoki, Hironobu Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20090321262
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid transfer device which controls electrically liquid position. The surface of the liquid transfer device is provided with unevenness in order to solve a problem of having a large number of electrodes for controlling voltage. The number of electrodes for controlling voltage can be halved by utilization of restoring force of liquid to a spherical shape by surface tension, in addition to electrical force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Sakuichiro Adachi, Kunio Harada, Hideo Enoki, Hironobu Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20070264156
    Abstract: A chemical analyzer supplies a sample and a reagent into a reaction container provided with an opening, mixes a fluid which is to be measured and contains the sample and reagent supplied into the reaction container, measures a property of the fluid in the reaction container, and controls the drive for the mixer. The mixer has a vertical drive machine to move the mixing tool up and down. The control unit controls the vertical drive machine to move the mixing tool up and down in the fluid to be measured in the reaction container so as to cause upward and downward flow of the fluid which is to be measured and is positioned below the mixing tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Hironobu Yamakawa, Hideo Enoki, Isao Yamazaki, Nobuhiro Tsukada