Patents by Inventor Takayoshi Seki

Takayoshi Seki 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: 20240306286
    Abstract: As the ion beam is accelerated, the radii of the closed orbits gradually increase, and the centers thereof move in a direction approaching the peripheral edge portion along a predetermined radial direction of the cavity, and upon reversing the direction of movement, move further toward the center of the cavity. The intensity distribution in the orbital plane of the main magnetic field is designed to realize the foregoing feature. Thus, an accelerator is provided that is compact and that enables the energy of an extracted beam to be changed, that enhances the efficiency of beam injection into the accelerator from an external ion source, and that improves a dose rate of the resulting extracted ion beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Takamichi AOKI, Takayoshi SEKI, Yuto NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240216717
    Abstract: An ion source 3 includes a discharge chamber 36 for generating ions, gas pipes 24 and 25 for supplying a sample gas to the discharge chamber 36, and an extraction hole 37 for extracting the ions from the discharge chamber 36, and at least two discharge chambers 36 are arranged side by side. As a result, provided are a circular accelerator, a particle therapy system, and an ion source in which an operation rate and maintainability of an apparatus are improved as compared with the related art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Takayoshi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20240196511
    Abstract: A beam transport system for transporting a charged particle beam, includes a magnetic field generation device that is provided in a transport line that transports the charged particle beam and generates a magnetic field parallel to a center orbit of the charged particle beam, and a beam shielding device that is provided in a region through which the charged particle beam in the magnetic field generation device passes, causes a charged particle beam in a predetermined range of the charged particle beam to pass through, and stops other charged particle beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Sakiko ASHIKAGA, Takamichi AOKI, Kazuya NAGASHIMA, Takayoshi SEKI, Koichi MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11849533
    Abstract: In a circular accelerator that applies a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field to accelerate charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius, another radiofrequency wave with a frequency different from the radiofrequency wave used for acceleration is applied to the charged particle beam in order to extract the charged particle beam. Thereby, in the circular accelerator that accelerates charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius by applying a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field, the high precision control on extraction of the charged particle beam from the circular accelerator is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Hae, Takayoshi Seki, Kazuyoshi Saitou, Fumiaki Noda, Takamichi Aoki, Kazuo Hiramoto
  • Publication number: 20230269541
    Abstract: A sound output device including: an actuator that outputs a driving force in response to a drive signal; a vibrating body that includes a plurality of receiving parts and is vibrated by a driving force transmitted from the actuator; a transmission plate that is provided with a plurality of pressing parts that press the plurality of receiving parts, respectively; a coil spring that applies a biasing force to the transmission plate to press the plurality of pressing parts against the plurality of receiving parts, respectively; and a base body that receives one end face of the actuator, in which the vibrating body is pressed against another end face of the actuator by a biasing force of the coil spring applied via the plurality of pressing parts and the plurality of receiving parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: TAKUMI ENDOH, NOBUKAZU SUZUKI, TAKAYOSHI SEKI
  • Publication number: 20230105721
    Abstract: In a circular accelerator that applies a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field to accelerate charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius, another radiofrequency wave with a frequency different from the radiofrequency wave used for acceleration is applied to the charged particle beam in order to extract the charged particle beam. Thereby, in the circular accelerator that accelerates charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius by applying a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field, the high precision control on extraction of the charged particle beam from the circular accelerator is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Hae, Takayoshi Seki, Kazuyoshi Saitou, Fumiaki Noda, Takamichi Aoki, Kazuo Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 11570881
    Abstract: In a circular accelerator that applies a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field to accelerate charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius, another radiofrequency wave with a frequency different from the radiofrequency wave used for acceleration is applied to the charged particle beam in order to extract the charged particle beam. Thereby, in the circular accelerator that accelerates charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius by applying a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field, the high precision control on extraction of the charged particle beam from the circular accelerator is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Hae, Takayoshi Seki, Kazuyoshi Saitou, Fumiaki Noda, Takamichi Aoki, Kazuo Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 11291105
    Abstract: In a magnetic device 1, on faces opposite to a middle plane 2 between an upper magnetic pole 8 and a lower magnetic pole 9, recesses 21a, 21b, 21c, and 21d and projections 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d are alternately placed along a beam circling direction. In the projections 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d, angle widths ? of the projections 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d when viewed from the center O1 of a beam closed orbit is narrowed as beam energy is increased. On the outer circumferential region of the recess 21a on the upper magnetic pole 8 and the lower magnetic pole 9, the inlet of an extraction channel 1019 that extracts a beam accelerated to a predetermined energy to outside an accelerator 1004 is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Chishin Hori, Takayoshi Seki
  • Publication number: 20210393986
    Abstract: The ion source includes a microwave power supply provided outside main magnetic poles, a radiofrequency waveguide and an antenna configured to introduce a microwave generated by the microwave power supply to a region to which a magnetic field generated by the main magnetic poles is applied, and a magnetic field generation unit provided inside a hole provided in a part of the main magnetic poles and configured to generate a magnetic field in a direction opposite to that of the magnetic field generated by the main magnetic poles. Plasma is generated inside the main magnetic poles by a magnetic field generated by applying the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generation unit in the opposite direction to the main magnetic field decreased according to a diameter of the hole and the microwave introduced by the radiofrequency waveguide and the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Takayoshi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20210196984
    Abstract: An acceleration radiofrequency acceleration system capable of frequency modulation and feeding an acceleration radiofrequency wave for accelerating a beam, a radiofrequency kicker 70 feeding an extraction radiofrequency wave different in frequency, from the acceleration radiofrequency wave for extracting a beam, a peeler magnetic field region 44 and a regenerator magnetic field region 45 for forming a disturbance magnetic field region including a high-order magnetic field that includes a magnetic field component having a number of poles of two poles or more and that includes at least a quadrupole magnetic field component, a shim of a magnetic material, and a septum magnet 43, 43A, 43B having an inner peripheral side septum coil conductor 5, an outer peripheral side septum coil conductor 6, a coil conductor connecting portion 7, and a coil lead-out portion 8 are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Takamitsu HAE, Takamichi AOKI, Takayoshi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20210195725
    Abstract: In a circular accelerator that applies a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field to accelerate charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius, another radiofrequency wave with a frequency different from the radiofrequency wave used for acceleration is applied to the charged particle beam in order to extract the charged particle beam. Thereby, in the circular accelerator that accelerates charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius by applying a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field, the high precision control on extraction of the charged particle beam from the circular accelerator is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Hae, Takayoshi Seki, Kazuyoshi Saitou, Fumiaki Noda, Takamichi Aoki, Kazuo Hiramoto
  • Publication number: 20210144839
    Abstract: In a magnetic device 1, on faces opposite to a middle plane 2 between an upper magnetic pole 8 and a lower magnetic pole 9, recesses 21a, 21b, 21c, and 21d and projections 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d are alternately placed along a beam circling direction. In the projections 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d, angle widths ? of the projections 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d when viewed from the center O1 of a beam closed orbit is narrowed as beam energy is increased. On the outer circumferential region of the recess 21a on the upper magnetic pole 8 and the lower magnetic pole 9, the inlet of an extraction channel 1019 that extracts a beam accelerated to a predetermined energy to outside an accelerator 1004 is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chishin HORI, Takayoshi SEKI
  • Patent number: 10548212
    Abstract: Ion beams are efficiently extracted with an accelerator that includes a circular vacuum container including a pair of circular return yokes facing each other. Six magnetic poles are radially disposed from the injection electrode at the periphery thereof in the return yoke. Six recessions are disposed alternately with the respective magnetic poles in the circumferential direction of the return yoke. In the vacuum container, a concentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories centered around the injection electrode are present, is formed, and an eccentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories eccentric from the injection electrode are present, is formed around the region. In the eccentric trajectory region, the beam turning trajectories are dense between the injection electrode and the inlet of the beam extraction path. Gaps between the beam turning trajectories are wide in a direction 180° opposite to the inlet of the beam extraction path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamichi Aoki, Fuutarou Ebina, Masumi Umezawa, Shigemitsu Hara, Hideaki Nishiuchi, Takayoshi Seki
  • Patent number: 10306745
    Abstract: An accelerator 4 includes a circular vacuum container including circular return yokes 5A, 5B. An injection electrode 18 is disposed closer to an inlet of a beam extraction path 20 in the return yoke 5B than a central axis C of the vacuum container. Magnetic poles 7A to 7F are radially disposed from the injection electrode 18 at the periphery of the injection electrode 18 in the return yoke 5B. Recessions 29A to 29F are disposed alternately with the magnetic poles 7A to 7F in the circumferential direction of the return yoke 5B. In the vacuum container, a concentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories centered around the injection electrode 18 are present, is formed, and an eccentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories eccentric from the injection electrode 18 are present, is formed around the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamichi Aoki, Fuutarou Ebina, Hideaki Nishiuchi, Shigemitsu Hara, Masumi Umezawa, Takayoshi Seki
  • Patent number: 10117320
    Abstract: The accelerator includes a circular vacuum container which contains a circular return yoke. With respect to the central axis of the vacuum container, an incidence electrode is arranged towards the entrance of a beam emission path inside of the return yoke. Inside of the return yoke, electrodes are arranged radially from the incidence electrode in the periphery of the incidence electrode. Recesses are arranged alternately with the electrodes in the circumferential direction of the return yoke. In the vacuum container, an orbit-concentric region is formed in which multiple beam orbits centered on the incidence electrode are present, and, in the periphery of said region, an orbit-eccentric area is formed in which multiple beam orbits eccentric to the incidence electrode are present. In the orbit-eccentric region, the beam orbits between the incidence electrode and the entrance to the beam emission path are denser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamichi Aoki, Futaro Ebina, Hideaki Nishiuchi, Shigemitsu Hara, Masumi Umezawa, Takayoshi Seki
  • Patent number: 9857202
    Abstract: A sensor for motor includes: a detected plate mounted to a rotating shaft of a motor, the detected plate including a plurality of rod-shaped portions having different lengths from one another, the plurality of rod-shaped portions radially projecting from the rotating shaft; a detecting member configured to output a signal having a waveform that changes according to the rod-shaped portions passing through a front of the detecting member; and a movable member that holds the detecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayoshi Seki
  • Publication number: 20170339778
    Abstract: Ion beams are efficiently extracted with an accelerator that includes a circular vacuum container including a pair of circular return yokes facing each other. Six magnetic poles are radially disposed from the injection electrode at the periphery thereof in the return yoke. Six recessions are disposed alternately with the respective magnetic poles in the circumferential direction of the return yoke. In the vacuum container, a concentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories centered around the injection electrode are present, is formed, and an eccentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories eccentric from the injection electrode are present, is formed around the region. In the eccentric trajectory region, the beam turning trajectories are dense between the injection electrode and the inlet of the beam extraction path. Gaps between the beam turning trajectories are wide in a direction 180° opposite to the inlet of the beam extraction path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Takamichi AOKI, Fuutarou EBINA, Masumi UMEZAWA, Shigemitsu HARA, Hideaki NISHIUCHI, Takayoshi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20170318657
    Abstract: An accelerator 4 includes a circular vacuum container including circular return yokes 5A, 5B. An injection electrode 18 is disposed closer to an inlet of a beam extraction path 20 in the return yoke 5B than a central axis C of the vacuum container. Magnetic poles 7A to 7F are radially disposed from the injection electrode 18 at the periphery of the injection electrode 18 in the return yoke 5B. Recessions 29A to 29F are disposed alternately with the magnetic poles 7A to 7F in the circumferential direction of the return yoke 5B. In the vacuum container, a concentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories centered around the injection electrode 18 are present, is formed, and an eccentric trajectory region, in which multiple beam turning trajectories eccentric from the injection electrode 18 are present, is formed around the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Takamichi AOKI, Fuutarou EBINA, Hideaki NISHIUCHI, Shigemitsu HARA, Masumi UMEZAWA, Takayoshi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20170303384
    Abstract: The accelerator includes a circular vacuum container which contains a circular return yoke. With respect to the central axis of the vacuum container, an incidence electrode is arranged towards the entrance of a beam emission path inside of the return yoke. Inside of the return yoke, electrodes are arranged radially from the incidence electrode in the periphery of the incidence electrode. Recesses are arranged alternately with the electrodes in the circumferential direction of the return yoke. In the vacuum container, an orbit-concentric region is formed in which multiple beam orbits centered on the incidence electrode are present, and, in the periphery of said region, an orbit-eccentric area is formed in which multiple beam orbits eccentric to the incidence electrode are present. In the orbit-eccentric region, the beam orbits between the incidence electrode and the entrance to the beam emission path are denser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamichi AOKI, Futaro EBINA, Hideaki NISHIUCHI, Shigemitsu HARA, Masumi UMEZAWA, Takayoshi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20160349081
    Abstract: A sensor for motor includes: a detected plate mounted to a rotating shaft of a motor, the detected plate including a plurality of rod-shaped portions having different lengths from one another, the plurality of rod-shaped portions radially projecting from the rotating shaft; a detecting member configured to output a signal having a waveform that changes according to the rod-shaped portions passing through a front of the detecting member; and a movable member that holds the detecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Takayoshi SEKI