Patents by Inventor Satoshi Matsuoka

Satoshi Matsuoka 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: 9194849
    Abstract: A housing of a column unit is tubular-shaped, and includes a first opening and a second opening, and an inner space separated from outside air by an insulating material. An air cooling section including a cooling device is arranged on a side of the first opening of the housing. At the time of cooling the inside of the inner space of the housing, air is caused, by a fan, to flow through the air cooling section and from the side of the first opening to a side of the second opening. A column section including a separation column and a heater is arranged inside the housing. A gap through which air flows from the first opening to the second opening is formed between the column section and an inner wall of the inner space of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Kanai, Takahiro Nishimoto, Masanori Nishino, Satoshi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20150285769
    Abstract: A gas chromatography equipment includes a sample introducer, a detector, a column module, and an oven including a housing. A sub-space is provided in a projection section projecting downward from a portion of a bottom face of the housing communicates with a main space of the housing. A column module attaching section is provided outside the housing and below the main space. A fixed side face, which faces the column module attaching section, of the projection section serves as an attachment face for attaching the column module. The column module is attached to the housing in such a way that the main flat surface of the column module is horizontally positioned with an end face of the column module being the attachment face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuoka, Takahiro Nishimoto, Masaki Kanai, Masanori Nishino, Masato Morii
  • Publication number: 20150268201
    Abstract: A gas chromatograph includes a column module for independently adjusting the temperature of a separation column. The column module is held by an oven with the separation column being horizontal. The column module includes the separation column for separating a sample gas into components, a column accommodating member accommodating inside the separation column while surrounding the separation column by a heat insulating member, and including a gap between the separation column and the heat insulating member for air to flow along the separation column, and a heater, provided inside the column accommodating member, for heating the separation column by being in direct or indirect contact with the separation column. The column accommodating member includes an air inlet port for introducing external air into the gap between the separation column and the heat insulating member, and an air outlet port for exhausting air in the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki Kanai, Satoshi Matsuoka, Masanori Nishino, Takahiro Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20150260694
    Abstract: A gas chromatography device includes a sample injection part, a detector, a separation column, and a transfer line connecting between the sample injection part and the separation column and between the sample injection part and the detector. Furthermore, a column temperature adjustment part for adjusting the temperature of the separation column, and a line temperature adjustment part for adjusting the temperature of the transfer line are provided. The line temperature adjustment part is structured to include a heat block which includes a heating element and which is in contact with the transfer line from one side, and a holding member which presses the transfer line toward the heat block side by being in contact from the other side, and to sandwich the transfer line by the heat block and the holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuoka, Takahiro Nishimoto, Masaki Kanai, Masanori Nishino
  • Publication number: 20150233872
    Abstract: A flow channel module comprises a flow channel plate, a flow channel connection block, and a pressing mechanism. The flow channel plate is provided with a main body and a protrusion section protruding in the circumferential direction from the peripheral edge of the main body, the protrusion section having a port communicating with an inner flow channel. The flow channel connection block is provided with a concave section for being engaged with the protrusion section and having inside a port facing surface for facing the port, and an outer flow channel connection section that is connected to the port facing surface by a flow channel. The pressing mechanism is configured to press the protrusion section inserted in the concave section and the port facing surface against each other so that the flow channel and the port are connected while maintaining air tightness or liquid tightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Kanai, Satoshi Matsuoka, Masanori Nishino, Takahiro Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20140290491
    Abstract: A housing of a column unit is tubular-shaped, and includes a first opening and a second opening, and an inner space separated from outside air by an insulating material. An air cooling section including a cooling device is arranged on a side of the first opening of the housing. At the time of cooling the inside of the inner space of the housing, air is caused, by a fan, to flow through the air cooling section and from the side of the first opening to a side of the second opening. A column section including a separation column and a heater is arranged inside the housing. A gap through which air flows from the first opening to the second opening is formed between the column section and an inner wall of the inner space of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Kanai, Takahiro Nishimoto, Masanori Nishino, Satoshi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20130333444
    Abstract: Provided is a plate-type column which allows the temperature of its inner passage to be rapidly increased or decreased while ensuring the correctness of an analysis or other operations. A plate-type column 10 includes: a plate-shaped main body 11; projecting portions 12 and 13 protruding from a circumferential edge of the main body 11; and a fluid-flow passage 14 extending in the main body 11 and the projecting portions 12 and 13. An intermediate portion of the passage 14 is provided in the main body 11, while each of the end portions of the passage 14 extends from the main body 11 through the projecting portion 12 or 13, with each of the end portions being open to the outside at the tip of the projecting portion 12 or 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki KANAI, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Masanori NISHINO, Satoshi MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 7851103
    Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell which has high output capacity especially at an operating temperature of 600° C.-800° C. and effectively prevents influence of reaction between respective layers. The solid oxide fuel cell includes a solid electrolyte layer between a fuel electrode and an air electrode, a support comprised of either the fuel electrode or the air electrode, and at least first and second layers provided in turn from the side of the support. The first layer is comprised of a cerium-containing oxide and the second layer is comprised of a lanthanum-gallate oxide containing at least lanthanum and gallate. A sintering assistant for improving sintering property of the cerium-containing oxide is contained in the first layer. When the thickness of the second layer is T ?m, the value of T is 2<T<70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kawakami, Satoshi Matsuoka, Naoki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080102340
    Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell which has high output capacity especially at an operating temperature of 600° C.-800° C. and effectively prevents influence of reaction between respective layers. The solid oxide fuel cell includes a solid electrolyte layer between a fuel electrode and an air electrode, a support comprised of either the fuel electrode or the air electrode, and at least first and second layers provided in turn from the side of the support. The first layer is comprised of a cerium-containing oxide and the second layer is comprised of a lanthanum-gallate oxide containing at least lanthanum and gallate. A sintering assistant for improving sintering property of the cerium-containing oxide is contained in the first layer. When the thickness of the second layer is T ?m, the value of T is 2<T<70.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kawakami, Satoshi Matsuoka, Naoki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070192075
    Abstract: With conventional simulation devices, the assumption was that only cells would be simulated, and thus the simulation devices had the problem that simulations on the level of tissue, organs, or individual organisms, which are collections of cells, were not possible. The present invention is an organism simulation device that is provided with two or more different simulator parts that calculate the behavior of organism structural elements, a data output part that visually outputs simulation results, and a simulation controller that controls the transfer of data between the two or more different simulator parts and the data output part based on simulation scenario information, which is information on the flow of data and the operation sequence. With this organism simulation device, an environment in which simulation of an organism can be performed more comprehensively and with higher precision can be provided with ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsuda, Akira Amano, Hidetoshi Kotera, Kenta Hori, Jianyin Lu, Nobuaki Sarai, Satoshi Matsuoka, Akinori Noma, Takao Shimayoshi
  • Publication number: 20060016614
    Abstract: A guide belt is stretched over a drive pulley that rotates integrally with a head and a driven pulley situated at one side of the drive pulley. One end of the cable is fixedly attached to a part of the guide belt that is always in contact with the drive pulley when the head rotates, while the cable is extended along the guide belt. The cable is bent back in U shape at its midpoint and the cable on the other end side therefrom is extended along a guide member placed substantially in parallel with the guide belt between the drive pulley and the driven pulley. The other end of the cable is fixedly attached to the guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Dai Yokoyama, Satoshi Matsuoka, Toshiyuki Koyama
  • Patent number: 6235685
    Abstract: A rod 1 made of superconducting oxide is soaked in a molten normal conductor 2 to join the rod 1 and the normal conductor 2, whereby a superconducting oxide current lead is prepared. As a result, a contact resistance at the interface between the superconducting oxide and the normal conductor can be reduced. Consequently, Joule's heat at a current lead having a small cross sectional area can be suppressed low, which in turn realizes the reduction of the load on a freezer and the amount of evaporated cooling solvent, with respect to a superconducting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: International Superconductivity Technology Center
    Inventors: Junya Maeda, Teruo Izumi, Yuichi Imagawa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Yuh Shiohara, Shoji Tanaka, Hiroshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 5950310
    Abstract: A forged roll for rolling a seamless steel pipe, having excellent biting properties and wear resistance, and manufacturing method. The forged roll comprises a high carbon alloy cast steel comprising about 1.10-1.85 wt % carbon, about 0.3-1.2 wt % silicon, about 0.4-1.5 wt % manganese, about 0.5-2.0 wt % nickel, about 0.5-2.0 wt % chromium and iron. Heat treatment for spheroidal carbide formation is performed so that the spheroidal carbide covers about 35-55% of the area of the roll metallurgical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignees: Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Pacific Steel Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Kanayama, Akira Yorifuji, Toshiaki Kasuya, Yuichiro Sato, Shoitsu Seo, Satoshi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5813962
    Abstract: A forged roll for rolling a seamless steel pipe, having excellent biting properties and wear resistance. The forged roll includes a high carbon alloy cast steel comprising about 1.10-1.85 wt % carbon, about 0.3-1.2 wt % silicon, about 0.4-1.5 wt % manganese, about 0.5-2.0 wt % nickel, about 0.5-2.0 wt % chromium and iron. Heat treatment for spheroidal carbide formation is performed so that the spheroidal carbide covers about 35-55% of the area of the roll metallurgical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignees: Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Pacific Steel Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Kanayama, Akira Yorifuji, Toshiaki Kasuya, Yuichiro Sato, Shoitsu Seo, Satoshi Matsuoka