Patents by Inventor Nobuo Miyaji

Nobuo Miyaji 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: 8374805
    Abstract: A Coriolis mass flowmeter includes a vibrator configured to vibrate a measurement conduct line, an upstream sensor and a downstream sensor, which are placed at a certain distance in the measurement conduct line and are configured to detect the vibration of the measurement conduct line, a first effective value reception section configured to receive an effective value of the first signal, a second effective value reception section configured to receive an effective value of the second signal, a ratio computation section configured to receive the effective value of the first signal and the effective value of the second signal and to compute the ratio of both values, and an anomaly diagnosis section configured to make a comparison between the computed ratio and a certain value and to generate an alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Yoshino, Nobuo Miyaji, Akimichi Kadoguchi
  • Patent number: 8240453
    Abstract: A film for cleaning guide rollers of escalator can be detachably stuck over a predetermined length in a direction of transporting of a handrail belt, to the endless handrail belt which is guided and transported by guide rollers installed at a lower side of steps of an escalator (E) and a belt guide which is installed at an upper side of the steps, and includes a removing film layer which scrapes substances adhered to an outer circumferential surface of the guide rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: Vistec Co., Ltd., Videca Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Nobuo Miyaji
  • Patent number: 8151653
    Abstract: A Coriolis flowmeter 10 vibrates a measurement tube through which a fluid subject to measurement flows, detects vibrations including Coriolis force developed in the fluid from the vibrations, and measures a mass flow rate of the fluid from a detection signal. The Coriolis flowmeter is characterized by including fluctuation calculation section 50 that calculates fluctuations from a detection signal SA; status value calculation section 60 that calculates a status value showing a state of air bubbles in the fluid from the fluctuations calculated by the fluctuation calculation section 50, and determination section 70 that determines a state of air bubbles from the status value calculated by the status value calculation section 60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Miyaji, Toshio Iino, Akinori Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20110277559
    Abstract: A Coriolis flow meter that measures a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a vibrating tube based on a Coriolis force acting on the vibrating tube, the Coriolis flow meter may include a driving unit that applies a driving force to vibrate the vibrating tube, a change ratio obtaining apparatus that obtains a change ratio of a vibration of the vibrating tube, which has been given the driving force, a calculating unit that calculates a spring constant and a damping coefficient of the vibrating tube as parameters independent of each other, based on the change ratio obtained by the change ratio obtaining apparatus and on the driving force, and a diagnosing unit that diagnoses a state of the vibrating tube based on the parameters, which has been calculated by the calculating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo MIYAJI, Akimichi KADOGUCHI, Akinori YOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20110107849
    Abstract: A Coriolis mass flowmeter includes a vibrator configured to vibrate a measurement conduct line, an upstream sensor and a downstream sensor, which are placed at a certain distance in the measurement conduct line and are configured to detect the vibration of the measurement conduct line, a first effective value reception section configured to receive an effective value of the first signal, a second effective value reception section configured to receive an effective value of the second signal, a ratio computation section configured to receive the effective value of the first signal and the effective value of the second signal and to compute the ratio of both values, and an anomaly diagnosis section configured to make a comparison between the computed ratio and a certain value and to generate an alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori YOSHINO, Nobuo MIYAJI, Akimichi KADOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20110023255
    Abstract: A film for cleaning guide rollers of escalator can be detachably stuck over a predetermined length in a direction of transporting of a handrail belt, to the endless handrail belt which is guided and transported by guide rollers installed at a lower side of steps of an escalator (E) and a belt guide which is installed at an upper side of the steps, and includes a removing film layer which scrapes substances adhered to an outer circumferential surface of the guide rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventor: Nobuo Miyaji
  • Publication number: 20110011186
    Abstract: A Coriolis flowmeter 10 vibrates a measurement tube through which a fluid subject to measurement flows, detects vibrations including Coriolis force developed in the fluid from the vibrations, and measures a mass flow rate of the fluid from a detection signal. The Coriolis flowmeter is characterized by including fluctuation calculation section 50 that calculates fluctuations from a detection signal SA; status value calculation section 60 that calculates a status value showing a state of air bubbles in the fluid from the fluctuations calculated by the fluctuation calculation section 50, and determination section 70 that determines a state of air bubbles from the status value calculated by the status value calculation section 60.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Miyaji, Toshio Iino, Akinori Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7650245
    Abstract: An impulse line-clogging detecting apparatus. The apparatus is provide with: a differential pressure detecting unit that detects a differential pressure of a fluid, and outputs time-series data of the differential pressure. Fluctuations are determined by a differential pressure fluctuation calculating unit that calculates a differential pressure fluctuation, and a fluctuation variance calculating unit that calculates a variance of the differential pressure fluctuation. Based upon the calculated variance, a variance ratio calculating unit calculates a variance ratio of the differential pressure fluctuation variance to a differential pressure fluctuation variance obtained in advance in a normal state of the high and low pressure side impulse lines. A variance ratio correcting unit calculates a correction value for suppressing a change of the variance ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Hashizume, Tetsuya Wakui, Jyun-ichi Eino, Nobuo Miyaji, Yoshitaka Yuki
  • Publication number: 20080208504
    Abstract: This impulse line-clogging detecting apparatus is provide with: a differential pressure detecting unit that detects a differential pressure of a fluid, and outputs time series data of the differential pressure; a differential pressure fluctuation calculating unit that calculates a differential pressure fluctuation; a fluctuation variance calculating unit that calculates a variance of the differential pressure fluctuation; a variance ratio calculating unit that calculates a variance ratio of the differential pressure fluctuation variance calculated by the fluctuation variance calculating unit to a differential pressure fluctuation variance obtained in advance in a normal state of the high and low pressure side impulse lines; a variance ratio correcting unit that calculates a correction value for suppressing change of the variance ratio; and a clogging determining unit that determines whether the high and low pressure side impulse lines are clogged, based on the variance ratio corrected by the variance ratio co
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicants: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi HASHIZUME, Tetsuya Wakui, Jyun-ichi Eino, Nobuo Miyaji, Yoshitaka Yuki
  • Patent number: 7406387
    Abstract: A detecting apparatus includes the following units. A pressure detecting unit detects in time series higher and lower static pressures and a differential pressure. Fluctuation calculating units calculate time series data sets of a differential pressure fluctuation, a higher static pressure fluctuation, and a lower static pressure fluctuation. Square sum calculating units calculate the square sum of the time series data sets of the differential pressure fluctuation, the square sum of the time series data sets of the higher static pressure fluctuation, and the square sum of the time series data sets of the lower static pressure fluctuation. A correlation coefficient calculating unit calculates first and second correlation coefficients. An intermediate variable calculating unit calculates an intermediate variable. A blockage rate calculating unit calculates a blockage rate. A determination unit determines a blockage of higher and lower pressure impulse lines with reference to the blockage rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignees: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Hashizume, Tetsuya Wakui, Jyun-ichi Eino, Nobuo Miyaji
  • Publication number: 20070225924
    Abstract: A detecting apparatus includes the following units. A pressure detecting unit detects in time series higher and lower static pressures and a differential pressure. Fluctuation calculating units calculate time series data sets of a differential pressure fluctuation, a higher static pressure fluctuation, and a lower static pressure fluctuation. Square sum calculating units calculate the square sum of the time series data sets of the differential pressure fluctuation, the square sum of the time series data sets of the higher static pressure fluctuation, and the square sum of the time series data sets of the lower static pressure fluctuation. A correlation coefficient calculating unit calculates first and second correlation coefficients. An intermediate variable calculating unit calculates an intermediate variable. A blockage rate calculating unit calculates a blockage rate. A determination unit determines a blockage of higher and lower pressure impulse lines with reference to the blockage rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Takumi Hashizume, Tetsuya Wakui, Jyun-ichi Eino, Nobuo Miyaji
  • Patent number: 7260496
    Abstract: A pressure detector for detecting a high side pressure from a high pressure side impulse line and a low side pressure from a low pressure side impulse line includes a high side pressure variance calculating section for calculating a high side pressure variance from a high side pressure fluctuation calculated from a high side pressure signal, a low side pressure variance calculating section for calculating a low side pressure variance from a low side pressure fluctuation calculated from a low side pressure signal, a rate calculating section for calculating a variable according to a ratio of the high side pressure variance to the low side pressure variance, and a determining section for determining blockage of the high pressure side impulse line or blockage of the low pressure side impulse line based on a value of the variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Hashizume, Tetsuya Wakui, Nobuo Miyaji
  • Publication number: 20060278006
    Abstract: A pressure detector for detecting a high side pressure from a high pressure side impulse line and a low side pressure from a low pressure side impulse line includes a high side pressure variance calculating section for calculating a high side pressure variance from a high side pressure fluctuation calculated from a high side pressure signal, a low side pressure variance calculating section for calculating a low side pressure variance from a low side pressure fluctuation calculated from a low side pressure signal, a rate calculating section for calculating a variable according to a ratio of the high side pressure variance to the low side pressure variance, and a determining section for determining blockage of the high pressure side impulse line or blockage of the low pressure side impulse line based on a value of the variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicants: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Takumi Hashizume, Tetsuya Wakui
    Inventors: Takumi Hashizume, Tetsuya Wakui, Nobuo Miyaji