Patents by Inventor Tomohiko Inomata

Tomohiko Inomata 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).

  • Method for detecting low concentration gas
    Patent number: 8365576
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting a low concentration gas. In the method, a measurand gas containing the target gas in a concentration of 50 ppm or less is supplied to an oscillation element which contains a quartz crystal resonator and a zeolite including a metal complex (such as a zeolite including a cobalt phthalocyanine complex) present on or above the quartz crystal resonator. The target gas is then detected through a change in resonance frequency of the quartz crystal resonator, the change being caused by the adsorption of the target gas by the metal-complex-including zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hideki Masuda, Tomohiko Inomata, Taku Sawaki
  • Method for detecting low concentration gas
    Publication number: 20100294020
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting a low concentration gas. In the method, a measurand gas containing the target gas in a concentration of 50 ppm or less is supplied to an oscillation element which contains a quartz crystal resonator and a zeolite including a metal complex (such as a zeolite including a cobalt phthalocyanine complex) present on or above the quartz crystal resonator. The target gas is then detected through a change in resonance frequency of the quartz crystal resonator, the change being caused by the adsorption of the target gas by the metal-complex-including zeolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hideki Masuda, Tomohiko Inomata, Taku Sawaki