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).

  • Patent number: 11808744
    Abstract: An abnormality of a state in a system between a combustion tube and a detector can be detected without increasing device cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Iharada
  • Patent number: 11703488
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Iharada
  • Publication number: 20230136954
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi IHARADA, Masahito YAHATA
  • Publication number: 20220214320
    Abstract: An abnormality of a state in a system between a combustion tube and a detector can be detected without increasing device cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi IHARADA
  • Publication number: 20220050070
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKADOZONO, Takeshi IHARADA
  • Publication number: 20210302279
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi IHARADA, Kiyuki NOTO
  • Publication number: 20210270788
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi IHARADA
  • Patent number: 9360466
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Iharada
  • Publication number: 20160011165
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi IHARADA
  • Publication number: 20150355150
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio IKEZAWA, Yuichi MASUDA, Takeshi IHARADA
  • Patent number: 8865073
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Yahata, Takeshi Iharada, Katsutoshi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20130336840
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito YAHATA, Takeshi IHARADA, Katsutoshi FUJII
  • Patent number: 7931865
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Fujiyama, Hirohisa Abe, Masakazu Akechi, Takeaki Inoue, Takeshi Iharada
  • Publication number: 20100098588
    Abstract: [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: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Yoichi Fujiyama, Hirohisa Abe, Masakazu Akechi, Takeaki Inoue, Takeshi Iharada
  • Publication number: 20070254374
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Iharada, Yozo Morita
  • Patent number: 6797237
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yozo Morita, Takeshi Iharada
  • Publication number: 20030044998
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yozo Morita, Takeshi Iharada