Patents by Inventor Takeshi Iharada
Takeshi Iharada 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).
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Patent number: 11808744Abstract: An abnormality of a state in a system between a combustion tube and a detector can be detected without increasing device cost.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Iharada
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Patent number: 11703488Abstract: The analyzing apparatus includes a reactor, a detector, a carrier gas supplier, a carrier gas flow rate adjustor, a flow control program memory, and a flow rate controller. The detector communicates with an internal space of the reactor, and detects a target substance generated by reaction of a specific component in the internal space. The carrier gas supplier supplies, to the internal space, carrier gas for transporting the target substance generated in the internal space. The carrier gas flow rate adjustor adjusts a carrier gas flow rate supplied from the carrier gas supplier to the internal space. The flow control program memory stores a flow control program set to increase the carrier gas flow rate during measurement from the process of introduction of a sample into the internal space to the process of detection of the target substance by the detector.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Iharada
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Publication number: 20230136954Abstract: A sample heating unit 30 has a space in which an oxidation catalyst is arranged, and heats a sample arranged in the space. A carrier gas introduction unit 40 introduces inert gas containing water vapor as carrier gas into the sample heating unit 30. A detection unit 35 detects carbon dioxide generated by steam reforming reaction of organic carbon in a sample in the sample heating unit 30.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi IHARADA, Masahito YAHATA
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Publication number: 20220214320Abstract: An abnormality of a state in a system between a combustion tube and a detector can be detected without increasing device cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi IHARADA
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Publication number: 20220050070Abstract: A water quality analyzer includes a combustion tube (2) for burning a liquid sample inside, a sample injector (6; 8) that executes sample injection operation into the combustion tube (2), a pressure sensor (28) that detects pressure inside the combustion tube (2), a temperature sensor (38) that detects a temperature of the combustion tube (2), and a determination part (46) configured to determine whether the combustion tube (2) and/or the sample injector (6; 8) is normal or abnormal based on an output of the pressure sensor (28) and an output of the temperature sensor (38) immediately after the sample injection operation by the sample injector (6; 8) is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi NAKADOZONO, Takeshi IHARADA
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Publication number: 20210302279Abstract: A swab material 5 is configured from a knitted body 50 in which fibers 51 formed from a heat-resistant inorganic material are knitted. A surface of an object is wiped off by the swab material 5 to collect a substance, and the swab material 5 is inserted together with the collected substance into a combustion tube provided in a total carbon measurement device. Because the swab material 5 includes the knitted body 50, tip ends of the fibers 51 constituting the knitted body 50 hardly protrude from the surface thereof, and the fibers 51 are not prone to coming apart from each other. Consequently, the surface of the object is hardly damaged when the substance is collected from the surface of the object, and high durability is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi IHARADA, Kiyuki NOTO
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Publication number: 20210270788Abstract: The analyzing apparatus includes a reactor, a detector, a carrier gas supplier, a carrier gas flow rate adjustor, a flow control program memory, and a flow rate controller. The detector communicates with an internal space of the reactor, and detects a target substance generated by reaction of a specific component in the internal space. The carrier gas supplier supplies, to the internal space, carrier gas for transporting the target substance generated in the internal space. The carrier gas flow rate adjustor adjusts a carrier gas flow rate supplied from the carrier gas supplier to the internal space. The flow control program memory stores a flow control program set to increase the carrier gas flow rate during measurement from the process of introduction of a sample into the internal space to the process of detection of the target substance by the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2018Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi IHARADA
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Patent number: 9360466Abstract: A total organic carbon meter including a sample introduction mechanism that includes a case in which a sample introduction and rod opening is formed; a sample introduction rod at the front end part of which a sample tray is arranged and which is inserted in the set direction through the sample introduction and rod opening; and a cover formed on the outer circumferential surface of the sample introduction rod, wherein the insertion of the sample introduction rod, on the front end part of which a sample tray has been arranged, through the sample introduction and rod opening, causes the gap between the sample introduction and rod opening and the sample introduction rod to be closed by the cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Iharada
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Publication number: 20160011165Abstract: A total organic carbon meter including a sample introduction mechanism that includes a case in which a sample introduction and rod opening is formed; a sample introduction rod at the front end part of which a sample tray is arranged and which is inserted in the set direction through the sample introduction and rod opening; and a cover formed on the outer circumferential surface of the sample introduction rod, wherein the insertion of the sample introduction rod, on the front end part of which a sample tray has been arranged, through the sample introduction and rod opening, causes the gap between the sample introduction and rod opening and the sample introduction rod to be closed by the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2014Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi IHARADA
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Publication number: 20150355150Abstract: A sample heating device includes a sample injection section including an inner space to which carrier gas is supplied, and a sample boat gateway opening/closing mechanism, a combustion tube, connected to the inner space, into which carrier gas flows from the inner space, a heating furnace for heating the combustion tube, a boat operation mechanism for moving a sample boat arranged inside the inner space into the combustion tube by a sample boat moving rod that is operable from outside the inner space, while maintaining air-tightness of the inner space by a sealing member, and a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the sample boat moving rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio IKEZAWA, Yuichi MASUDA, Takeshi IHARADA
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Patent number: 8865073Abstract: An air purifier includes a pump that supplies air to an air purifying unit, a filter arranged at an outlet of the air purifying unit, and pipes and that connect these components. The air purifying unit includes an activated carbon tube constituted by a glass tube filled with granular activated carbon, and a soda lime tube constituted by a glass tube filled with granular soda lime. According to a preferred embodiment, three each of the activated carbon tubes and the soda lime tubes are provided, and the activated carbon tubes and the soda lime tubes are connected alternately in series by tubes so that one activated carbon tube is arranged at a most upstream part and one soda lime tube is arranged at a most downstream part.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Masahito Yahata, Takeshi Iharada, Katsutoshi Fujii
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Publication number: 20130336840Abstract: An air purifier includes a pump that supplies air to an air purifying unit, a filter arranged at an outlet of the air purifying unit, and pipes and that connect these components. The air purifying unit includes an activated carbon tube constituted by a glass tube filled with granular activated carbon, and a soda lime tube constituted by a glass tube filled with granular soda lime. According to a preferred embodiment, three each of the activated carbon tubes and the soda lime tubes are provided, and the activated carbon tubes and the soda lime tubes are connected alternately in series by tubes so that one activated carbon tube is arranged at a most upstream part and one soda lime tube is arranged at a most downstream part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Masahito YAHATA, Takeshi IHARADA, Katsutoshi FUJII
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Patent number: 7931865Abstract: An apparatus which comprises: an organic-substance oxidation part in which organic substances contained in a sample water supplied are oxidized into carbon dioxide; a carbon dioxide separation part in which the carbon dioxide contained in the sample water is caused to permeate and come into a measurement water; and a conductivity measurement part in which the conductivity of the measurement water is measured. The carbon dioxide separation part comprises: a sample water channel in which sample water flows; an intermediate water part in which intermediate water having a higher pH value in a neutral region than the sample water is present; and a measurement water channel through which the measurement water comprising deionized water flows. The sample water channel is in contact with the intermediate water part through a gas-permeable membrane, and the intermediate water part is in contact with the measurement water channel through a gas-permeable membrane.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Yoichi Fujiyama, Hirohisa Abe, Masakazu Akechi, Takeaki Inoue, Takeshi Iharada
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Publication number: 20100098588Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To use in a carbon dioxide separation part a gas-permeable membrane capable of maintaining high-speed determination and to diminish the influence of interfering ingredients. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] An apparatus which comprises: an organic-substance oxidation part in which organic substances contained in a sample water supplied are oxidized into carbon dioxide; a carbon dioxide separation part in which the carbon dioxide contained in the sample water treated with the organic-substance oxidation part is caused to permeate and come into a measurement water; and a conductivity measurement part in which the conductivity of the measurement water sent from the carbon dioxide separation part is measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2006Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventors: Yoichi Fujiyama, Hirohisa Abe, Masakazu Akechi, Takeaki Inoue, Takeshi Iharada
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Publication number: 20070254374Abstract: Disclosed is a water quality analyzer, which comprises a total organic carbon (TOC) measurement section for converting a carbon component in an aqueous sample to carbon dioxide and measuring an amount of the carbon dioxide, a conductivity measurement section for measuring a conductivity of an aqueous sample, a gas aeration mechanism for passing a degassing gas devoid of carbon dioxide gas through an aqueous sample to perform a degassing treatment of expelling carbon dioxide gas in the aqueous sample, and a control section for controlling respective operations of TOC measurement and conductivity measurement. The control section is operable, just before measuring a conductivity of a specific aqueous sample during the conductivity measurement for the specific aqueous sample, to controllably instruct the gas aeration mechanism to pass the degassing gas through the specific aqueous sample so as to perform the degassing treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: November 1, 2007Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Iharada, Yozo Morita
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Patent number: 6797237Abstract: In an analyzer, an oxidation reagent is supplied to an oxidation reaction portion, and after organic materials contained in the oxidation reagent are removed by oxidation decomposition, a sample is provided into the oxidation reaction portion to react with the oxidation reagent. An infrared gas analyzing portion starts detecting a peak for analyzing. Thus, even if a concentration of the component to be measured in the sample is low, the concentration can be measured accurately without being disturbed by a concentration of the impurities in the oxidation reagent.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2001Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Yozo Morita, Takeshi Iharada
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Publication number: 20030044998Abstract: In an analyzer, an oxidation reagent is supplied to an oxidation reaction portion, and after organic materials contained in the oxidation reagent are removed by oxidation decomposition, a sample is provided into the oxidation reaction portion to react with the oxidation reagent. An infrared gas analyzing portion starts detecting a peak for analyzing. Thus, even if a concentration of the component to be measured in the sample is low, the concentration can be measured accurately without being disturbed by a concentration of the impurities in the oxidation reagent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2001Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Yozo Morita, Takeshi Iharada