Patents by Inventor Takaaki Fujita

Takaaki Fujita 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: 20240074462
    Abstract: An ethyl glucoside-containing composition containing ethyl glucoside; and at least one of an acid or its salt selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid, ascorbic acid, lactic acid, and their salts, wherein the composition has an ethyl glucoside content of 0.4 wt % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Yohei Fujita, Takaaki Yoshii
  • Patent number: 11821879
    Abstract: An autosampler for a chromatograph includes a first injection port through which a sample is injected into a first analysis flow path of the chromatograph, a second injection port through which a sample is injected into a second analysis flow path of the chromatograph, a needle that is movable to both of the first injection port and the second injection port, and injects a sample into the first injection port and the second injection port, a first sample loop that stores a sample to be injected into the first analysis flow path, a second sample loop that stores a sample to be injected into the second analysis flow path, and a metering pump that loads a sample in the first sample loop and the second sample loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaaki Fujita
  • Patent number: 11519886
    Abstract: An autosampler is switched selectively between an injecting mode where a sampling flow path is incorporated into an analysis flow path of a liquid chromatograph and a loading mode where the sampling flow path is not incorporated into the analysis flow path and injects a sample into the analysis flow path at a position farther upstream than a separation column by being switched to the injecting mode with the sample held in the sampling flow path, and includes a clog determiner configured to acquire a sending liquid pressure of a liquid sending pump that sends a mobile phase in the analysis flow path, obtain a variation value of the liquid sending pressure when the injecting mode and the loading mode are switched and determine presence or absence of a clog in a system incorporated into the analysis flow path in the injecting mode based on the obtained variation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Yokoi, Takaaki Fujita, Takashi Inoue, Kenichi Yasunaga
  • Publication number: 20220170955
    Abstract: A plate changer that supplies a plate storing a sample to an autosampler included in an analyzer includes a storage that stores the plate, and a plate transporter that transports the plate by holding the plate, the plate transporter receiving the plate from a first plate changer provided at one side of the plate changer and also transferring the plate received from the first plate changer to a second plate changer or the autosampler provided at another side of the plate changer or transferring the plate stored in the storage to the second plate changer or the autosampler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Takaaki FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20220128521
    Abstract: An autosampler for a chromatograph includes a first injection port through which a sample is injected into a first analysis flow path of the chromatograph, a second injection port through which a sample is injected into a second analysis flow path of the chromatograph, a needle that is movable to both of the first injection port and the second injection port, and injects a sample into the first injection port and the second injection port, a first sample loop that stores a sample to be injected into the first analysis flow path, a second sample loop that stores a sample to be injected into the second analysis flow path, and a metering pump that loads a sample in the first sample loop and the second sample loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Takaaki FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20210148869
    Abstract: An autosampler is switched selectively between an injecting mode where a sampling flow path is incorporated into an analysis flow path of a liquid chromatograph and a loading mode where the sampling flow path is not incorporated into the analysis flow path and injects a sample into the analysis flow path at a position farther upstream than a separation column by being switched to the injecting mode with the sample held in the sampling flow path, and includes a clog determiner configured to acquire a sending liquid pressure of a liquid sending pump that sends a mobile phase in the analysis flow path, obtain a variation value of the liquid sending pressure when the injecting mode and the loading mode are switched and determine presence or absence of a clog in a system incorporated into the analysis flow path in the injecting mode based on the obtained variation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke YOKOI, Takaaki FUJITA, Takashi INOUE, Kenichi YASUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10955390
    Abstract: An autosampler sucks cleaning liquid from a tip side of a sampling needle and holds the cleaning liquid in the sampling channel before sucking analysis liquid from the tip of the sampling needle, and, after dispensing of the analysis liquid is finished, discharges the cleaning liquid from the tip of the sampling needle, so as to clean the inside of the sampling needle and the sampling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Minato, Takaaki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20200200717
    Abstract: An autosampler sucks cleaning liquid from a tip side of a sampling needle and holds the cleaning liquid in the sampling channel before sucking analysis liquid from the tip of the sampling needle, and, after dispensing of the analysis liquid is finished, discharges the cleaning liquid from the tip of the sampling needle, so as to clean the inside of the sampling needle and the sampling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MINATO, Takaaki FUJITA
  • Patent number: 9983177
    Abstract: An autosampler according to an embodiment includes a sampling channel including a movable needle at a tip, and a switching valve, including a plurality of ports, for switching the connection state between the ports by switching the position of a rotor by rotating the rotor. The rotor of the switching valve includes an injecting position in which a delivery port and a sampling port are communicated and an injection port and an analysis port are communicated, a purging position in which the delivery port and the sampling port are communicated and the injection port and a drain port are communicated, and a loading position in which the delivery port and the analysis port are communicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaaki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20160274069
    Abstract: An autosampler according to an embodiment includes a sampling channel including a movable needle at a tip, and a switching valve, including a plurality of ports, for switching the connection state between the ports by switching the position of a rotor by rotating the rotor. The rotor of the switching valve includes an injecting position in which a delivery port and a sampling port are communicated and an injection port and an analysis port are communicated, a purging position in which the delivery port and the sampling port are communicated and the injection port and a drain port are communicated, and a loading position in which the delivery port and the analysis port are communicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaaki Fujita
  • Patent number: 9236664
    Abstract: An antenna which reduces the number of end faces and perpendicular corners, and suffers from little deterioration of performance even if used for high frequency transmission/reception, in particular a microstrip patch antenna which is comprised of a dielectric substrate on the bottom surface of which a conductive ground plate is formed and on the top surface of which a patch antenna part formed by a conductor and a feeder circuit connected to the same are provided, wherein the feeder circuit is connected to the antenna part while offset by exactly a predetermined distance to either end side from a center of one side of said antennas part to which said feeder circuit is to be connected so that a transmission loss of the antenna becomes a predetermined value or less. The predetermined distance can be made 20 to 70% of the longitudinal side of the patch antenna part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignees: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eisuke Hayakawa, Takeshi Okunaga, Takaaki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20140318275
    Abstract: The present invention is an auto-sampler having a casing whose inner space can be hermetically closed, including an opening provided in a wall of the casing and a gas discharger for discharging gas inside the casing through the opening to the outside of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Fujita, Takashi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130027259
    Abstract: An object is to suppress radiation of a cross polarized wave by a microstrip antenna to improve cross polarization discrimination of the traveling wave excitation antenna. A microstrip antenna wherein: a feed line 21 through which a traveling wave propagates, and a radiating element 22 that is excited by the traveling wave are formed on a dielectric substrate 1, and wherein: the radiating element 22 has a radiating part 22A for radiating a co-polarization wave, and an open stub 22B that has a stub length 22A substantially equal to ?g/4 and that extends from the radiating part toward a cross polarization direction. Therefore, without changing an element width Lb of the radiating element 22, radiation of a cross polarized wave by the radiating element 22 can be suppressed to improve cross polarization discrimination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicants: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Fujita, Takeshi Okunaga, Eisuke Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8266973
    Abstract: After a sampling needle is moved to a position above a sample container, the sampling needle is moved down so that the tip of the sampling needle penetrates a septum, and is then preferably moved down to a position at which the tip of the sampling needle is not brought into contact with a sample contained in the sample container, and then, the sampling needle is once elevated until the sampling needle is pulled out of the septum, and is then again moved down to penetrate the septum until the tip of the sampling needle is inserted into the sample to suck the sample through a suction port of the sampling needle, and then, the sampling needle is moved to a sample injection port of an analyzer to inject the sample into the analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Maeda, Takaaki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20120112976
    Abstract: An antenna which reduces the number of end faces and perpendicular corners, and suffers from little deterioration of performance even if used for high frequency transmission/reception, in particular a microstrip patch antenna which is comprised of a dielectric substrate on the bottom surface of which a conductive ground plate is formed and on the top surface of which a patch antenna part formed by a conductor and a feeder circuit connected to the same are provided, wherein the feeder circuit is connected to the antenna part while offset by exactly a predetermined distance to either end side from a center of one side of said antennas part to which said feeder circuit is to be connected so that a transmission loss of the antenna becomes a predetermined value or less. The predetermined distance can be made 20 to 70% of the longitudinal side of the patch antenna part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD, FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Eisuke Hayakawa, Takeshi Okunaga, Takaaki Fujita
  • Publication number: 20090100942
    Abstract: After a sampling needle is moved to a position above a sample container, the sampling needle is moved down so that the tip of the sampling needle penetrates a septum, and is then preferably moved down to a position at which the tip of the sampling needle is not brought into contact with a sample contained in the sample container, and then, the sampling needle is once elevated until the sampling needle is pulled out of the septum, and is then again moved down to penetrate the septum until the tip of the sampling needle is inserted into the sample to suck the sample through a suction port of the sampling needle, and then, the sampling needle is moved to a sample injection port of an analyzer to inject the sample into the analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Maeda, Takaaki Fujita