Patents by Inventor Takuya YONEKURA

Takuya YONEKURA 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: 11953475
    Abstract: An absorbance detector includes a sample cell, a light source for irradiating the sample cell, a photo sensor, an optical system for guiding light emitted from the light source to the sample cell and guiding light that has been transmitted through the sample cell to the photo sensor, a reference signal acquirer configured to acquire a detection signal of the photo sensor when the sample solution is not flowing through the sample cell as a reference signal for each analysis of the sample, a calculator configured to find absorbance of the sample based on a measurement signal obtained by the photo sensor in the analysis and the reference signal acquired for the analysis when an analysis of the sample is carried out, and an analysis data storage configured to associate data of the absorbance found by the calculator and data of the reference signal to each other for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Yonekura
  • Patent number: 11933772
    Abstract: An absorbance detector for a chromatograph includes a light source, a flow cell that receives light generated by the light source, a photodetector that detects light transmitted through the flow cell, a light shield member that shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, a motor that rotates the light shield member to change the light shield member between a light-shielding state where the light shield member shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell and a non-light-shielding state where the light shield member does not shield the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, and a reference position detector that rotates the motor and also acquires a change in amount of light received by the photodetector to detect a reference position of the light shield member in a rotation direction of the light shield member based on the acquired change in the amount of the received light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Yonekura, Masato Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240077461
    Abstract: An ion chromatography analysis system includes a system monitoring part being configured to detect an abnormality, to determine, based on a fluctuation rate in a certain time of the predetermined state of a most recent of the monitor value, whether the fluctuation is a short-term fluctuation that occurs in a short term or a long-term fluctuation that occurs in a long term, and to identify a cause of the abnormality by using whether the fluctuation is the short-term fluctuation or the long-term fluctuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya YONEKURA
  • Patent number: 11506645
    Abstract: The device is provided with a lamp lighting unit configured to perform an operation for lighting a deuterium lamp by controlling a lamp drive unit and a heater drive unit, an abnormality determination unit configured to determine, in a prescribed sequence, whether or not a voltage or a current detected by a lamp voltage detection unit, a lamp current detection unit, a heater voltage detection unit, and a heater current detection unit is abnormal, and an abnormality cause identification unit configured to identify, in a case the voltage or the current is determined to be abnormal by the abnormality determination, the cause of the abnormality, based on the timing at which the abnormality determination unit determines that the voltage or the current is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Yonekura, Yugo Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20220146469
    Abstract: A liquid chromatograph including a spectroscopic analysis unit (40) that performs spectroscopic analysis by irradiating a flow cell (90) through which an eluent eluted from a column (31) flows with light is provided with a cell information reading unit (49) that is provided in the spectroscopic analysis unit and accesses a storage device (91) attached to the flow cell to acquire cell information that is information unique to a type or an individual of the flow cell; a wavelength check control unit (51) that causes the spectroscopic analysis unit to execute wavelength check; a wavelength check information storage unit (53) in which a result of the wavelength check is stored in association with the cell information acquired at a time of executing the wavelength check; and a system check report creation unit (74) that creates a system check report in which the result of the wavelength check and the cell information acquired at the time of executing the wavelength check are described by referring to the wavelengt
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Takuya YONEKURA
  • Publication number: 20220091077
    Abstract: An absorbance detector for a chromatograph includes a light source, a flow cell that receives light generated by the light source, a photodetector that detects light transmitted through the flow cell, a light shield member that shields a least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, a motor that rotates the light shield member to change the light shield member between a light-shielding state where the light shield member shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell and a non-light-shielding state where the light shield member does not shield the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, and a reference position detector that rotates the motor and also acquires a change in amount of light received by the photodetector to detect a reference position of the light shield member in a rotation direction of the light shield member based on the acquired change in the amount of the received light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya YONEKURA, Masato WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220042956
    Abstract: A spectrophotometer (40) includes a sample placement unit (422) in which a sample to be analyzed is placed, a light source unit (411, 412) including a plurality of light sources that irradiates the sample placed in the sample placement unit (422) with light, a detection unit (425) that detects light emitted from the sample (422), a housing (41, 42) that accommodates the sample placement unit (422), the light source unit (411, 412), and the detection unit (425), a storage unit (71) in which information of a temperature value predetermined for each combination of one or a plurality of light sources among the plurality of light sources is stored, a light source designation accepting unit (721) that accepts designation related to a combination of one or a plurality of light sources among the plurality of light sources, a target temperature setting unit (722) that reads a temperature value corresponding to the combination of light sources accepted by the light source designation accepting unit from the storage uni
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya YONEKURA, Masato WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210255154
    Abstract: The device is provided with a lamp lighting unit configured to perform an operation for lighting a deuterium lamp by controlling a lamp drive unit and a heater drive unit, an abnormality determination unit configured to determine, in a prescribed sequence, whether or not a voltage or a current detected by a lamp voltage detection unit, a lamp current detection unit, a heater voltage detection unit, and a heater current detection unit is abnormal, and an abnormality cause identification unit configured to identify, in a case the voltage or the current is determined to be abnormal by the abnormality determination, the cause of the abnormality, based on the timing at which the abnormality determination unit determines that the voltage or the current is abnormal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Takuya YONEKURA, Yugo ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210148871
    Abstract: An absorbance detector includes a sample cell, a light source for irradiating the sample cell, a photo sensor, an optical system for guiding light emitted from the light source to the sample cell and guiding light that has been transmitted through the sample cell to the photo sensor, a reference signal acquirer configured to acquire a detection signal of the photo sensor when the sample solution is not flowing through the sample cell as a reference signal for each analysis of the sample, a calculator configured to find absorbance of the sample based on a measurement signal obtained by the photo sensor in the analysis and the reference signal acquired for the analysis when an analysis of the sample is carried out, and an analysis data storage configured to associate data of the absorbance found by the calculator and data of the reference signal to each other for storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Takuya YONEKURA
  • Patent number: 10935425
    Abstract: A spectroscopic detector includes a lamp house, a sample cell, an optical sensor, a heater, a cooling fan, a temperature sensor, and a control device. The heater heats the lamp house while being directly or indirectly in contact with the lamp house containing a light source. The cooling fan is for cooling the lamp house. The temperature sensor is for detecting a temperature of the lamp house. The control device is configured to control operations of the light source, the heater, and the cooling fan. The control device includes a temperature control part configured to maintain a temperature of the lamp house while the light source is lit at a set temperature by controlling at least output of the heater based on a detection signal of the temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Watanabe, Takuya Yonekura, Hiroyuki Togo, Shinji Tsuji, Yugo Ishihara, Atsushi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20200116566
    Abstract: A spectroscopic detector includes a lamp house, a sample cell, an optical sensor, a heater, a cooling fan, a temperature sensor, and a control device. The heater heats the lamp house while being directly or indirectly in contact with the lamp house containing a light source. The cooling fan is for cooling the lamp house. The temperature sensor is for detecting a temperature of the lamp house. The control device is configured to control operations of the light source, the heater, and the cooling fan. The control device includes a temperature control part configured to maintain a temperature of the lamp house while the light source is lit at a set temperature by controlling at least output of the heater based on a detection signal of the temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Masato WATANABE, Takuya YONEKURA, Hiroyuki TOGO, Shinji TSUJI, Yugo ISHIHARA, Atsushi SAKAMOTO