Patents by Inventor Shigeru Nakatani

Shigeru Nakatani 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: 10241038
    Abstract: The present invention responds flexibly to and corrects concentration changes that are caused by changes between the temperature when a correction calibration curve is created and the temperature when a test sample is measured, without having to correct the calibration curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nishimura, Shigeru Nakatani, Jan Poppe
  • Publication number: 20190064064
    Abstract: The present invention responds flexibly to and corrects concentration changes that are caused by changes between the temperature when a correction calibration curve is created and the temperature when a test sample is measured, without having to correct the calibration curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi NISHIMURA, Shigeru NAKATANI, Jan POPPE
  • Patent number: 9885695
    Abstract: In order to be able to prevent analysis accuracy from being reduced by a backward flow of sample gas from dead volume in a cleaning mechanism into a cell at the time of analysis, a gas analysis device has an analysis part that analyzes the sample gas introduced into the cell, gas ports that are arranged toward predetermined regions of gas contact surfaces in the cell, and a piping mechanism that connects the gas ports to a predetermined purge gas source, and blows purge gas from the gas ports toward the predetermined regions at the time of purging. The gas analysis device also has a switching part that switches a connecting destination of the piping mechanism from the purge gas source to a predetermined suction part, and at the time of introducing or analyzing the sample gas, connects the gas ports to the suction source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakatani, Kenji Hara, Montajir Rahman, Masahiro Nakane
  • Patent number: 9518969
    Abstract: In order to completely decompose remaining urea contained in exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine to make it possible to accurately measure an amount of the remaining urea, as well as preventing measurement accuracy and reliability from being damaged by some cause such as the attachment of powdery urea on a sensor, a gas analysis apparatus is provided with a filter part that is provided between a sampling port and a produced substance measuring mechanism in a mixed gas sampling pipe to collect urea in a solid state or in a state of being dissolved in water in mixed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Nakatani
  • Patent number: 9335235
    Abstract: An exhaust gas sampling device is intended to heat or cool a temperature of sampled exhaust gas flowing through a sampling line to a desired temperature in accordance with various exhaust gas conditions and usage conditions of the sampling line irrespective of a temperature of the exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust pipe, and includes the sampling line for sampling the exhaust gas to be introduced into an analyzing instrument; a plurality of heating parts provided along the sampling line from an upstream side to a downstream side for heating the exhaust gas flowing through the sampling line; and a temperature control part for individually setting set temperatures of the plurality of heating parts using the temperature of the exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe and a target temperature of the exhaust gas in an outlet side of the heating part located in the most downstream as parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Montajir Rahman, Masahiro Nakane, Kenji Hara, Shigeru Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20140301899
    Abstract: In order to completely decompose remaining urea contained in exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine to make it possible to accurately measure an amount of the remaining urea, as well as preventing measurement accuracy and reliability from being damaged by some cause such as the attachment of powdery urea on a sensor, a gas analysis apparatus is provided with a filter part that is provided between a sampling port and a produced substance measuring mechanism in a mixed gas sampling pipe to collect urea in a solid state or in a state of being dissolved in water in mixed gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20140223993
    Abstract: In order to make it possible to conduct a measurement of an adsorbent gas on a real time basis under various conditions by decreasing a response delay during the measurement of the adsorbent gas, an adsorbent gas analysis device comprises a gas measurement mechanism that measures a value relating to a volume of the adsorbent gas flowing in a gas pipe and a gas injection mechanism that injects a predetermined volume of the adsorbent injection gas into the gas pipe from a point locating in an upstream side of a measurement point where the gas measurement mechanism measures the adsorbent gas at least while the gas measurement mechanism is measuring the adsorbent gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Itaya, Shigeru Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20140202233
    Abstract: In order to make it possible to sensitively detect adsorptive gas even in the presence of a small amount of contamination that significantly influences adsorptive gas measurement, a gas injecting mechanism that injects adsorptive injection gas into a flow path through which sample gas is flowed, a gas measuring mechanism that can measure a value related to quantity of the adsorptive gas flowing through the flow path, and a contamination determining part that determines contamination in the flow path on the basis of a value related to a measurement response speed of the gas measuring mechanism to the adsorptive gas are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Itaya, Shigeru Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20140002823
    Abstract: In order to be able to prevent analysis accuracy from being reduced by a backward flow of sample gas from dead volume in a cleaning mechanism into a cell at the time of analysis, a gas analysis device has an analysis part that analyzes the sample gas introduced into the cell, gas ports that are arranged toward predetermined regions of gas contact surfaces in the cell, and a piping mechanism that connects the gas ports to a predetermined purge gas source, and blows purge gas from the gas ports toward the predetermined regions at the time of purging. The gas analysis device also has a switching part that switches a connecting destination of the piping mechanism from the purge gas source to a predetermined suction part, and at the time of introducing or analyzing the sample gas, connects the gas ports to the suction source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakatani, Kenji Hara, Montajir Rahman, Masahiro Nakane
  • Patent number: 8564779
    Abstract: This invention makes it possible to measure a concentration of a gas component having the adsorption even thought the concentration is low, and to improve a response speed of the measurement of the concentration, and comprises a body that has an introduction port to introduce a sample gas into a measurement cell, a laser light irradiation part that irradiates the laser light on the measurement cell, a heating pipe that applies heat to the sample gas introduced into the introduction port, a flow rate limit part that makes the sample gas at a negative pressure and that introduces the negative-pressurized heated sample gas into the body, and a negative pressure pump that keeps inside of the measurement cell and a flow channel from a downstream side of the flow rate limit part to the measurement cell at the negative pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hara, Montajir Rahman, Shigeru Nakatani, Masahiro Nakane
  • Patent number: 8303920
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to diminish a ratio of a concentration of N2O in the dilution air to a concentration of N2O in the measurement object gas diluted by the dilution air as much as possible by removing N2O in a dilution air so that a measurement accuracy of a concentration of N2O in a measurement object gas can be improved. A heater 33 that applies heat to the dilution air, a Pd catalyst 341 and a Pt catalyst 342 are arranged in this order on a flow channel where a dilution air used for diluting the measurement object gas flows, and N2O in the dilution air is oxidized to NOx or reduced to N2 by the Pd catalyst 341 and the Pt catalyst 342.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakatani, Yoshinori Kato, Tomomi Yamauchi, Yoshitaka Iida, Masato Koshikawa
  • Publication number: 20110285998
    Abstract: This invention makes it possible to measure a concentration of a gas component having the adsorption even thought the concentration is low, and to improve a response speed of the measurement of the concentration, and comprises a body that has an introduction port to introduce a sample gas into a measurement cell, a laser light irradiation part that irradiates the laser light on the measurement cell, a heating pipe that applies heat to the sample gas introduced into the introduction port, a flow rate limit part that makes the sample gas at a negative pressure and that introduces the negative-pressurized heated sample gas into the body, and a negative pressure pump that keeps inside of the measurement cell and a flow channel from a downstream side of the flow rate limit part to the measurement cell at the negative pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Hara, Montajir Rahman, Shigeru Nakatani, Masahiro Nakane
  • Publication number: 20110117000
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to diminish a ratio of a concentration of N2O in the dilution air to a concentration of N2O in the measurement object gas diluted by the dilution air as much as possible by removing N2O in a dilution air so that a measurement accuracy of a concentration of N2O in a measurement object gas can be improved. A heater 33 that applies heat to the dilution air, a Pd catalyst 341 and a Pt catalyst 342 are arranged in this order on a flow channel where a dilution air used for diluting the measurement object gas flows, and N2O in the dilution air is oxidized to NOx or reduced to N2 by the Pd catalyst 341 and the Pt catalyst 342.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakatani, Yoshinori Kato, Tomomi Yamauchi, Yoshitaka Iida, Masato Koshikawa
  • Publication number: 20060039826
    Abstract: There is provided a nitrogen compound analyzer capable of easily and accurately measuring the two components NH3 and NO2 or each nitrogen compound component in a single sample. The nitrogen compound analyzer includes: a plurality of sample treatment systems by which a single sample is divided and which includes (A) a treatment system having oxidation means for oxidizing ammonia in the sample and conversion means for converting nitrogen dioxide in the sample to nitrogen monoxide, (B) a treatment system having conversion means for converting nitrogen dioxide in the sample to nitrogen monoxide, and (C) a treatment system in which no conversion treatment is performed on a specific component in the sample; changeover means capable of providing a specific combination of any of the treatment systems (A), (B) and (C); and at least one measurement means for continuously measuring nitrogen monoxide in the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakatani, Tomoshi Yoshimura, Yuichi Mori
  • Patent number: 6441160
    Abstract: Long chain nucleic acids such as plasmids are separated from contaminants including protein, RNA, DNA and mixtures thereof by using hydrophobic interaction chromatography or hydrophobic interaction chromatography and ion exchange chromatography. To carry out hydrophobic interaction chromatography, first and second columns containing first and second column materials are used. The first column material adsorbs protein and RNA at a salt concentration at which plasmid is not adsorbed to produce an eluate containing plasmid and DNA. The second column material adsorbs plasmid and DNA from the eluate at a salt concentration which the first column material adsorbs protein and RNA but not the plasmid. The plasmid is eluted from the second column material at a salt concentration at which plasmid is eluted. A tandem column may be formed by connecting in series the first and second columns. The connection between the columns is broken before eluting plasmid from the second column material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Tosoh Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kitamura, Shigeru Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20010007026
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for separating nucleic acids by hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The purpose is to provide a method for separating and purifying nucleic acids by hydrophobic interaction chromatography, which enables to separate nucleic acids such as plasmids and DNA fragments in a shorter time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 1999
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Inventors: TAKASHI KITAMURA, SHIGERU NAKATANI