Patents by Inventor Shinya Imamura

Shinya Imamura 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: 11938548
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a base material and a coating, wherein the coating includes a first layer having a multilayer structure in which a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked; a thickness of the first unit layer is 2 to 50 nm; a thickness of the second unit layer is 2 to 50 nm; a thickness of the first layer is 1.0 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, the first unit layer is composed of TiaAlbBcN, and the second unit layer is composed of TidAleBfN, wherein 0.49?a?0.70, 0.19?b?0.40, 0.10?c?0.20, a+b+c=1.00, 0.39?d?0.60, 0.29?e?0.50, 0.10<f?0.20, d+e+f=1.00, 0.05?a-d?0.20, and 0.05?e-b?0.20 are satisfied, and a percentage of the number of atoms of titanium to the total number of atoms of titanium, aluminum and boron is 45% or more in the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yuta Suzuki, Shinya Imamura
  • Publication number: 20240085259
    Abstract: A sheet-like diaphragm made from a non-metallic material, a main body block made from a non-metallic material, having a diaphragm facing surface facing a main plane of the diaphragm, disposed in a manner that the diaphragm facing surface is covered by the diaphragm, and provided with a fluid outlet and a fluid inlet facing the diaphragm side, a sensor head that has a recess for accommodating pressure transmission liquid, is disposed on a side opposite to the main body block across the diaphragm such that an opening of the recess is closed by the diaphragm, and is configured to detect pressure of fluid flowing between the diaphragm and the diaphragm facing surface by a deformation amount of the diaphragm are included. The fluid inlet and the fluid outlet are provided in a manner separated from the diaphragm further than the diaphragm facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryu TAKEBAYASHI, Shinya IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11921094
    Abstract: Liquid sent by a liquid sending pump flows through an analysis flow path. A sample is injected into the analysis flow path. A separation column is provided in the analysis flow path. A sample injected in the separation column is separated into components, and sample components obtained by separation are detected by a detector. The number of liquid sending pumps and a connection structure of the liquid sending pumps connected to the analysis flow path are specified by a system configuration specifier as a system configuration. A condition for detecting a liquid sending failure in a liquid sending pump that is preset for each type of system configuration is held by a condition holder. A condition corresponding to a system configuration is determined from conditions held by the condition holder. A liquid sending failure in a liquid sending pump is detected with use of the determined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Gomi, Daisuke Kitabayashi, Shinya Imamura, Keisuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11919092
    Abstract: A cutting tool including a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge portion, comprising a substrate and an AlTiN layer, the AlTiN layer including cubic AlxTi1-xN crystal grains, Al having an atomic ratio x of 0.7 or more and 0.95 or less, the AlTiN layer including a central portion, the central portion at the rake face being occupied in area by (200) oriented crystal grains at a ratio of 80% or more, the central portion at the flank face being occupied in area by (200) oriented crystal grains at a ratio of 80% or more, the central portion at the cutting edge portion being occupied in area by (200) oriented crystal grains at a ratio of 80% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yasuki Kido, Anongsack Paseuth, Susumu Okuno, Shinya Imamura
  • Patent number: 11905946
    Abstract: A backup ring is for contacting with and supporting a plunger seal which is for sealing a pump chamber provided in a pump head of a plunger type liquid feeding pump. The backup ring includes a maximum outer diameter portion of a cylindrical shape and a smaller outer diameter portion. The maximum outer diameter portion includes a maximum outer diameter in a plunger seal supporting surface side that makes contact with a rear surface of the plunger seal. The smaller outer diameter portion includes a smaller outer diameter than the maximum outer diameter portion in at least one part of a portion other than the maximum outer diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki Sano, Shinya Imamura, Masataka Nikko
  • Patent number: 11872636
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating film formed on a surface of the base material. The coating film includes a first alternating layer and a second alternating layer formed on the first alternating layer. The first alternating layer includes first and second layers. The second alternating layer includes third and fourth layers. One or a plurality of the first layers and one or a plurality of the second layers are layered alternately, and one or a plurality of the third layers and one or a plurality of the fourth layers are layered alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeshita, Shuhei Misumi, Haruyo Fukui, Shinya Imamura, Kazuhiro Hirose
  • Publication number: 20230405686
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a base material and a coating, wherein the coating includes a first layer having a multilayer structure in which a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked; a thickness of the first unit layer is 2 to 50 nm; a thickness of the second unit layer is 2 to 50 nm; a thickness of the first layer is 1.0 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, the first unit layer is composed of TiaAlbBcN, and the second unit layer is composed of TidAleBfN, wherein 0.49?a?0.70, 0.19?0.40, 0.10<c?0.20, a+b+c=1.00, 0.39?d?0.60, 0.29?e?0.50, 0.10<f?0.20, d+e+f=1.00, 0.05?a?d?0.20, and 0.05?e?b?0.20 are satisfied, and a percentage of the number of atoms of titanium to the total number of atoms of titanium, aluminum and boron is 45% or more in the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yuta SUZUKI, Shinya IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230405687
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a base material and a coating, wherein the coating includes a first layer having a multilayer structure in which a first unit layer and a second unit layer; a thickness of the first unit layer is 2 nm or more and less than 50 nm; a thickness of the second unit layer is 2 nm or more and less than 50 nm; a thickness of the first layer is 1.0 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, the first unit layer is TiaAlbBcN, and the second unit layer is TidAleBfN, wherein 0.54?a?0.75, 0.24?b?0.45, 0<c?0.10, a+b+c=1.00, 0.44?d?0.65, -.34?e?0.55, 0<f?0.10, d+e+f=1.00, 0.05?a?d?0.20, and 0.05?e?b?0.20 are satisfied, and a percentage of the number of atoms of titanium to the total number of atoms of titanium, aluminum and boron is 50% or more in the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yuta SUZUKI, Shinya IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11746777
    Abstract: A liquid sending device includes a plunger pump, which performs an intake operation of liquid to and a discharge operation of liquid from a pump chamber and in which pressure in the pump chamber in a case where the intake operation is performed is lower compared to a case where the discharge operation is performed, a check valve that is provided at an inlet port, has a spherical valve element and a valve seat, and passively operates according to the pressure in the pump chamber in such a direction that the valve element is seated on or detached, a pressure sensor that detects the pressure, and an attachment detector that compares the pressure with a preset threshold value and detect attachment of the valve element to the valve seat in a case where the pressure in the pump chamber is equal to or lower than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Imamura, Keisuke Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20230184723
    Abstract: An LC system includes a liquid delivery checker configured to execute a liquid delivery check mode of setting a predetermined flow rate to a liquid delivery pump and operating the liquid delivery pump at a timing different from analysis of a sample in order to check a liquid delivery flow rate of the liquid delivery pump, and a measuring instrument for measuring an amount of a mobile phase delivered by the liquid delivery pump during the liquid delivery check mode. The liquid delivery checker is configured to obtain an actual measurement value of a flow rate of a mobile phase when operating the liquid delivery pump by setting the predetermined flow rate to the liquid delivery pump using a measurement value obtained by the measuring instrument in the liquid delivery check mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Shinya IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230010923
    Abstract: A pump unit includes a pump and a metal ion trap. The pump includes a metal member that comes into contact with a mobile phase. The pump pumps a mobile phase through a flow path. The metal ion trap includes a filter element. The filter element includes a metal ion retention structure for retaining metal ions by interacting with the metal ions included in a mobile phase. The filter element is provided in the flow path for a mobile phase pumped by the pump. The pump unit may be provided in a chromatograph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jun YANAGIBAYASHI, Shinya IMAMURA, Kenichi YASUNAGA, Yasushi ISHIHAMA, Koshi IMAMI, Tomoya NIINAE, Yumi KOMORI
  • Patent number: 11530467
    Abstract: Cemented carbide contains a first hard phase and a binder phase. The first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide particles. The binder phase is composed of cobalt, nickel, iron, and copper as constituent elements. An average content of each of the constituent elements is not lower than 10 atomic % and not higher than 30 atomic %. Cemented carbide contains no second hard phase, or a content of the second hard phase is equal to or lower than 2 mass % of a total amount of cemented carbide. The second hard phase is composed of a compound containing at least one type of a metal element selected from the group consisting of a group-IV element, a group-V element, and a group-VI element in a periodic table except for tungsten and at least one type of an element selected from the group consisting of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takato Yamanishi, Shinya Imamura
  • Patent number: 11524339
    Abstract: A cutting tool incudes a substrate and a coating that coats a surface of the substrate, the coating including a multilayer structure layer composed of at least one layer A and at least one layer B alternately deposited from a side closer to the substrate toward a side closer to a surface, the layer A having an average composition of AlxCr(1-x)N, the layer B being composed of TiyAlzSi(1-y-z)N, the layer A being composed of a domain region and a matrix region, the domain region having a composition ratio of Cr larger than that of Cr of the matrix region, wherein x has a range of 0.5?x?0.8, y has a range of 0.5?y<0.71, z has a range of 0.29?z<0.5, and 1?y?z has a range of 0<1?y?z?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Keizo Tanaka, Shinya Imamura, Haruyo Fukui
  • Patent number: 11441209
    Abstract: A cemented carbide includes first hard phase grains, second hard phase grains, third hard phase grains, and a metal binder phase, wherein the cemented carbide has a total of 70 unit regions, the number of unit regions each having a percentage of less than 0.43% or more than 2.43% is ?10 among the total of 70 unit regions, the percentage being a percentage of the total number of the second and the third hard phase grains in each unit region with respect to the total number of the second and the third hard phase grains in the total of 70 unit regions, and in a total of 10 unit regions existing in a fourth row in a longitudinal direction, a percentage of the number of the third hard phase grains with respect to the total number of the second and the third hard phase grains is 5% to 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kosuke Fukae, Yasuki Kido, Masami Watanabe, Shinya Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220195566
    Abstract: Cemented carbide contains a first hard phase and a binder phase. The first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide particles. The binder phase is composed of cobalt, nickel, iron, and copper as constituent elements. An average content of each of the constituent elements is not lower than 10 atomic % and not higher than 30 atomic %. Cemented carbide contains no second hard phase, or a content of the second hard phase is equal to or lower than 2 mass % of a total amount of cemented carbide. The second hard phase is composed of a compound containing at least one type of a metal element selected from the group consisting of a group-IV element, a group-V element, and a group-VI element in a periodic table except for tungsten and at least one type of an element selected from the group consisting of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takato YAMANISHI, Shinya IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220193787
    Abstract: A cutting tool including a rake face and a flank face includes: a substrate; and a coating film disposed on the substrate, wherein the coating film includes an Al2O3 layer, residual stress of the Al2O3 layer has a minimum value Rmin at at least a portion of a region d1 of the rake face, the minimum value Rmin is more than ?0.27 GPa and less than or equal to ?0.1 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Susumu OKUNO, Anongsack PASEUTH, Shinya IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220168819
    Abstract: A cutting tool including a rake face and a flank face includes: a substrate; and a coating film disposed on the substrate, wherein the coating film includes an Al2O3 layer, residual stress of the Al2O3 layer has a minimum value Rmin at at least a portion of a region f1 in the flank face, the minimum value Rmin is more than or equal to ?0.25 GPa and less than or equal to ?0.1 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Susumu OKUNO, Anongsack PASEUTH, Shinya IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11332810
    Abstract: A cemented carbide comprises a first hard phase comprising tungsten carbide particles and a binder phase including Co and Cr. In any surface or any cross section of the cemented carbide, a region in which there is a distance X of 5 nm or less between surfaces respectively of tungsten carbide particles adjacent to each other, with the surfaces facing each other along a length L of 100 nm or more, is referred to as a WC/WC interface, and a ratio C(R)/C(C) has an average value of 0.17 or more, where C(R) and C(C) represent peak values of atomic percentages of Cr and Co, respectively, at a WC/WC interface having a distance X of 1 nm or more and 5 nm or less and having therein an atomic percentage of Co higher than an average value of atomic percentages of Co in the tungsten carbide particles+2 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yasuki Kido, Daiji Tabayashi, Shinya Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220146473
    Abstract: A liquid chromatographic system (1) includes an analysis flow path (12) to which at least one liquid sending pump (14) is connected and through which liquid that is sent by the liquid sending pump (14) flows, a sample injector (4) that injects a sample into the analysis flow path (12), a separation column (6) that is provided on the analysis flow path (12) and is to separate a sample that has been injected into the analysis flow path (12) into components, a detector (8) that is provided on the analysis flow path (12) and is to detect sample components obtained by separation in the separation column (6), a system configuration specifier (26) that specifies a count and a connection structure of the liquid sending pumps (14) connected to the analysis flow path (12) as a system configuration, a condition holder (18) holding a condition that is for detection of a liquid sending failure of the liquid sending pump (14) and is preset in regard to each type of the system configuration, a condition determiner (20) that
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro GOMI, Daisuke KITABAYASHI, Shinya IMAMURA, Keisuke OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11326252
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating film that coats the substrate, wherein the coating film includes a hard coating layer constituted of a domain region and a matrix region, the domain region is a region having a plurality of portions divided and distributed in the matrix region, the domain region has a structure in which a first layer composed of a first Alx1Ti(1-x1) compound and a second layer composed of a second Alx2Ti(1-x2) compound are layered on each other, the matrix region has a structure in which a third layer composed of a third Alx3Ti(1-x3) compound and a fourth layer composed of a fourth Alx4Ti(1-x4) compound are layered on each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuki Kido, Anongsack Paseuth, Susumu Okuno, Shinya Imamura