Patents by Inventor Ryousuke Dohi

Ryousuke Dohi 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: 20140013838
    Abstract: A flow rate measurement device includes a branched pipe passage having an inlet side end portion detachably joined in a branched manner to an upstream portion of on-off valve V0 provided on an outlet end portion of a gas supply line, and an outlet side end portion of the branched pipe passage joined to a gas flow-out side, an on-off valve V provided on the outlet side of the branched pipe passage, a pressure detector and a temperature detector that detect gas pressure and temperature on the upstream side of the on-off valve V, and an arithmetic operation control device receiving detection signals as input from the pressure detector and the temperature detector, and which arithmetically calculates gas flow rate of gas flowing in the branched pipe passage, and the flow rate measurement device is detachably joined in a branched manner to the upstream portion of the on-off valve V0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yohei Sawada, Masaaki Nagase, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Ryousuke Dohi
  • Publication number: 20130340837
    Abstract: The invention supplies a quantity Q of gas while dividing at flow rate ratio Q1/Q2 from a gas supply facility equipped with a flow controller. A total quantity Q=Q1+Q2 of gas is supplied into a chamber at flow rate Q1 and Q2 through shower plates fixed to ends of branch supply lines by providing open/close valves with a plurality of branch supply lines GL1 and GL2, respectively, to supply the specified quantity of gas from the gas supply facility, and by utilizing bypass line BL1 on the downstream side of the open/close valve OV1 and branched from GL1, bypass line BL2 on the downstream side of the open/close valve OV2 and branched from GL2, pressure type division quantity controller connected to the bypass line BL1 and the bypass line BL2, a sensor measuring pressure inside branch supply line GL1, and another sensor measuring pressure inside branch supply line GL2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicants: Tokyo Electron Ltd., Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Ryousuke Dohi, Toyomi Uenoyama
  • Publication number: 20130333777
    Abstract: A handle 13 is formed in a hollow shape. A displacement sensor 4 is fixed to an inner surface of the handle 13. The target 5 includes: a target body 22 which is arranged at a position away from a valve stem by a predetermined distance in the handle 13; a detection-use inclined surface 23 which is formed on a surface of the target body 22 which faces the displacement sensor 4 in an opposed manner; and a downwardly projecting portion 25 which projects downward from the target body 22. A lower surface of the downwardly projecting portion 25 of the target 5 is received by a valve body 11b so that the target 5 is rotated together with the handle 13 but is not upwardly and downwardly moved with respect to the valve body 11b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ryousuke Dohi, Atsuo Tomita, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda, Hideyuki Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 8606412
    Abstract: With a pressure type flow control apparatus, a valve on the downstream side of a throttle mechanism is released and a flow rate setting value Qe inputted to the pressure type flow control apparatus is changed to detect the magnitude ?V of change of a flow rate output signal Qo from the pressure type flow control apparatus while the flow rate setting value Qe is changed, so that normal functioning of the releasing operations of the valve on the downstream side of the throttle mechanism is confirmed when the magnitude ?V of change of the flow rate output signal Qo is above the predetermined value. If the releasing operations are malfunctioning, the magnitude ?V of changes is found to be below the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Masaaki Nagase, Ryousuke Dohi, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Kaoru Hirata, Katsuyuki Sugita, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8601976
    Abstract: A gas supply system includes a main gas supply line; a vent gas supply line; a plurality of gas supply mechanisms disposed in middle of both gas supply lines; a pressure type flow-rate control system disposed on an inlet side of the main gas supply line so a flow of carrier gas is supplied to the main gas supply line; a pressure control system disposed on an inlet side of the vent gas supply line, a carrier gas having a predetermined pressure is supplied to the vent gas supply line while the pressure control system performs a pressure adjustment, a gas pressure of the main gas supply line detected downstream from an orifice of the pressure type flow-rate control system and a gas pressure of the vent gas supply line are compared, and the gas pressure of the vent gas supply line is adjusted so a difference therebetween becomes zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Kouji Nishino, Ryousuke Dohi, Masaaki Nagase, Kaoru Hirata, Katsuyuki Sugita, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130319551
    Abstract: To provide an opening degree detection device for an automatically operated valve which is easily assembled into an automatically operated valve, makes it easy to ensure detection accuracy at the time of assembling the opening degree detection device, and is easily applicable to an existing automatically operated valve. The opening degree detection device includes: a base plate 4 which is detachably mounted on an automatically operated valve 2; a displacement sensor 5; and a target 6 having an inclined detection surface 6a which is detected by the displacement sensor 5. The target 6 is fixed to the base plate 4. The displacement sensor 5 is supported on a valve stem 14 by way of a sensor support member 21, and the sensor support member 21 is supported on the base plate 4 by way of a guide means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ryousuke Dohi, Atsuo Tomita, Kouji Nishino, Yohei Sawada, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8587180
    Abstract: A pressure control valve piezoelectric element driving circuit is provided for a pressure type flow rate control device provided with a flow rate self-diagnosis function for comparing initial pressure drop characteristics data measured and with pressure drop characteristics data in a flow rate diagnosis which are measured under conditions that are the same for both measurements to detect malfunction in flow rate control from a difference between both characteristics data, wherein a first discharge circuit slowly discharges a piezoelectric element driving voltage applied to the piezoelectric element according to a step-down command signal from a CPU, through a step-down command circuit to step down the voltage, and a second discharge circuit that rapidly discharges a piezoelectric element driving voltage applied to the piezoelectric element according to a high-speed step-down command signal from the CPU, through a high-speed step-down command circuit to step down the voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Sugita, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Ryousuke Dohi, Kaoru Hirata, Takatoshi Nakatani
  • Patent number: 8561966
    Abstract: In a step motor driven cam valve a stem freely ascends and descends within a body having an in-flow passage, an out-flow passage, a valve chamber, and a valve seat. The stem is descended by an actuator, composed of a step motor and a cam mechanism located at a position above the stem, that changes a rotational motion of the step motor to a linear motion and transmits the linear motion to the stem. A diaphragm within a valve chamber or a valve body at a lower end part of the stem rests on the valve seat. A lift support mechanism that supports the actuator to freely ascend and descend is arranged at a bonnet that covers the valve chamber. A height fine-adjustment mechanism, arranged at the lift supporting mechanism, finely adjusts the height of the actuator relative to the stem so as to perform zero-point adjustment of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda, Yohei Sawada
  • Patent number: 8555920
    Abstract: A flow rate ratio variable type fluid supply apparatus includes a flow rate control system supplying gas of flow rate Q that is diverted to first flow diverting pipe passage and second flow diverting pipe passage with prescribed flow rates Q1/Q0 so gas is supplied to a chamber, and a first orifice having opening area S1 is installed on the first flow diverting passage, and the second flow diverting passage is connected to a plurality of branch pipe passages connected in parallel, orifices having opening area installed on the branch passages, and open/close valves installed on all, or some of, the branch passages so gas is diverted to flow diverting passages with flow rate ratio Q1/Q0 equivalent to the ratio of the first orifice and the total opening area S2o of flow passable orifices of the second flow diverting passage by regulating total opening area of the flow passable orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaoru Hirata, Yohei Sawada, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8496022
    Abstract: The invention supplies a quantity Q of gas while dividing at flow rate ratio Q1/Q2 from a gas supply facility equipped with a flow controller. A total quantity Q=Q1+Q2 of gas is supplied into a chamber at flow rate Q1 and Q2 through shower plates fixed to ends of branch supply lines by providing open/close valves with a plurality of branch supply lines GL1 and GL2, respectively, to supply the specified quantity of gas from the gas supply facility, and by utilizing bypass line BL1 on the downstream side of the open/close valve OV1 and branched from GL1 ,bypass line BL2 on the downstream side of the open/close valve OV2 and branched from GL2 ,pressure type division quantity controller connected to the bypass line BL1 and the bypass line BL2 ,a sensor measuring pressure inside branch supply line GL1 ,and another sensor measuring pressure inside branch supply line GL2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignees: Fujikin Incorporated, Tokyo Electron Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Ryousuke Dohi, Toyomi Uenoyama
  • Publication number: 20130186471
    Abstract: In a gas supply device supplying many different gases to a gas use portion through many flow rate controllers, a flow rate controller calibration unit includes a build-up tank with inner volume, an inlet side on-off valve and an outlet side on-off valve V2 of the tank, and a gas pressure detector and a gas temperature detector for gas inside the tank, joined in a branched form to a gas supply line, with the valve V2 connected to vacuum. The calibration unit is used to calibrate a flow rate controller based on performing a first measurement of gas temperature and pressure inside the tank, and then building-up gas into the tank, and then performing a second measurement of gas temperature and pressure, and from respective measured values, calculating gas flow rate Q and by comparing a set gas flow rate and calculated gas flow rate Q, performing flow rate calibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Masaaki Nagase, Nobukazu Ikeda, Yohei Sawada, Tooru Hirai, Kazuyuki Morisaki, Kouji Nishino, Ryousuke Dohi
  • Patent number: 8418714
    Abstract: A pressure type flow rate control apparatus is provided wherein flow rate of fluid passing through an orifice is computed as Qc=KP1 (where K is a proportionality constant) or as Qc=KP2m(P1?P2)n (where K is a proportionality constant, m and n constants) by using orifice upstream side pressure P1 and/or orifice downstream side pressure P2. A fluid passage between the downstream side of a control valve and a fluid supply pipe of the pressure type flow rate control apparatus comprises at least 2 fluid passages in parallel, and orifices having different flow rate characteristics are provided for each of these fluid passages, wherein fluid in a small flow quantity area flows to one orifice for flow control of fluid in the small flow quantity area, while fluid in a large flow quantity area flows to the other orifice for flow control of fluid in the large flow quantity area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Fujikin Incorporated, National University Corporation Tohoku University, Tokyo Electron Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Masahito Saito, Shoichi Hino, Tsuyoshi Shimazu, Kazuyuki Miura, Kouji Nishino, Masaaki Nagase, Katsuyuki Sugita, Kaoru Hirata, Ryousuke Dohi, Takashi Hirose, Tsutomu Shinohara, Nobukazu Ikeda, Tomokazu Imai, Toshihide Yoshida, Hisashi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130084059
    Abstract: A vaporizer, capable of stabilizing the behavior of pressure inside the vaporizer, includes a chamber having an inlet and an outlet, a heating device that heats the inside of the chamber, a partition wall structure 13 that is provided inside the vaporizer and partitions the liquid material inside the chamber into a plurality of sections, and liquid distribution portions 20 that are provided at the lower portion of the partition wall structure 13 and that allow liquid distribution among the sections partitioned by the partition wall structure 13, and the partition wall structure includes a grid-like, honeycomb-shaped, mesh-like, or pipe-shaped partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Yasuyuki Shirai, Masaaki Nagase, Satoru Yamashita, Atsushi Hidaka, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda, Keiji Hirao
  • Publication number: 20130025718
    Abstract: A mixed gas supply device includes a plurality of gas supply lines arranged in parallel that include flow rate control devices and outlet side switching valves, wherein gas outlets of respective outlet side switching valves communicate with a manifold, and another gas supply line at a position close to a mixed gas outlet of the manifold supplies a low flow rate gas, wherein an outlet side of the flow rate control device and an inlet side of the outlet side switching valve are hermetically connected via an outlet side connecting fitting of the flow rate control device and a mounting table having a gas passage, wherein a small hole portion is provided at a part of a flow passage at the outlet side connecting fitting and/or a flow passage, which makes the outlet side switching valve and a mixed gas flow passage in the manifold communicate with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Masaaki Nagase, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130000737
    Abstract: The water hammerless opening device comprises an actuator operating type valve installed on the fluid passage, an electro-pneumatic conversion device to supply the 2-step actuator operating pressure Pa to the afore-mentioned actuator operating type valve, a vibration sensor removably fixed to the pipe passage on the upstream side of the actuator operating type valve, and a tuning box to which the vibration detecting signal Pr detected by the vibration sensor is inputted, through which the control signal Sc to control the step operating pressure Ps? of the afore-mentioned 2-step actuator operating pressure Pa is outputted to the electro-pneumatic conversion device, and with which the 2-step actuator operating pressure Pa, of the step operating pressure Ps? which makes the vibration detecting signal Pr nearly zero, is outputted from the electro-pneumatic conversion by adjusting the control signal Sc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicants: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tadahiro OHMI, Kouji NISHINO, Masaaki NAGASE, Ryousuke DOHI, Nobukazu IKEDA, Ryutaro NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20120298220
    Abstract: A pressure type flow rate control device provides flow rate control for gas at 100-500° C. with an error not more than 1.0% F.S. The pressure type flow rate control device includes a valve body with a fluid passage, a valve portion interposed in the passage, a valve drive unit driving the valve portion to open/close the passage, a restriction mechanism on the downstream side of the valve portion in the passage, a temperature detector detecting gas temperature between the valve portion and restriction mechanism, a pressure detector detecting gas pressure between the valve portion and restriction mechanism, and an arithmetic control device controlling flow rate of gas in the restriction mechanism based on values detected by the temperature detector and the pressure detector, wherein the temperature detector is inserted in an attachment hole of the valve body at a position just above an outlet side fluid passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Atsushi HIDAKA, Masaaki NAGASE, Ryousuke DOHI, Nobukazu IKEDA, Kouji NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20120273061
    Abstract: A piezoelectrically driven valve and a piezoelectrically driven fluid control device are provided that may control a fluid even if the temperature of the fluid is higher than an operating temperature range of a piezoelectric actuator. The piezoelectrically driven valve includes a valve element for opening and closing a fluid passage, a piezoelectric actuator for driving the valve element by utilizing extension of a piezoelectric element, and a radiation spacer that lifts and supports the piezoelectric actuator away from the fluid passage, and radiates heat that is transferred from fluid flowing in the fluid passage to the piezoelectric actuator, and preferably further includes a support cylinder that houses and supports both of the piezoelectric actuator and the radiation spacer, wherein the support cylinder is made of a material with the same thermal expansion coefficient as that of the radiation spacer, at least at a portion for housing the radiation spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Atsushi Hidaka, Kaoru Hirata, Masaaki Nagase, Nobukazu Ikeda, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino
  • Publication number: 20120223265
    Abstract: A cam control valve includes a valve casing having a fluid passage and valve seat, a valve disc seated on the valve seat to open and close the fluid passage, a valve stem holding down the valve disc so it contacts the valve seat, a cam acting on the valve stem to hold it down, a motor rotating the cam, a motor holder holding the motor, a supporting frame fixed to the valve casing and supporting the motor holder so it moves vertically, an elastic member biasing the motor holder towards spacing from an upper side portion of the supporting frame, and height adjustable screws suspending the motor holder from the supporting frame, and adjusting a height of the motor holder with respect to the supporting frame, wherein the height adjustable screws are slidably inserted into the upper side portion of the supporting frame and screwed into the motor holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yohei Sawada, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8191856
    Abstract: A control valve has a body that forms a valve chamber and a valve seat, a metal diaphragm installed inside the valve chamber and making contact with and departing from the valve seat, an actuator box fixed to the side of the body, a piezoelectric element installed inside the actuator box to thrust the metal diaphragm through mediation of a metal diaphragm presser by elongating downward when voltage is applied, a conical spring mechanism that absorbs elongation of the piezoelectric element at the time when the metal diaphragm makes contact with the valve seat and a prescribed thrust is applied to the valve seat and the like, and a preload mechanism that applies upward compressive force to the piezoelectric element all the time wherein the compressive force applied to the piezoelectric element is externally adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Fujilin Incorporated
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Kaoru Hirata, Ryousuke Dohi, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino
  • Patent number: 8181932
    Abstract: A control valve has a body that forms a valve chamber and a valve seat, a metal diaphragm installed inside the valve chamber and making contact with and departing from the valve seat, an actuator box fixed to the side of the body, a piezoelectric element installed inside the actuator box to thrust the metal diaphragm through mediation of a metal diaphragm presser by elongating downward when voltage is applied, a conical spring mechanism that absorbs elongation of the piezoelectric element at the time when the metal diaphragm makes contact with the valve seat and a prescribed thrust is applied to the valve seat and the like, and a preload mechanism that applies upward compressive force to the piezoelectric element all the time wherein the compressive force applied to the piezoelectric element is externally adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Kaoru Hirata, Ryousuke Dohi, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino