Patents by Inventor Toru Ikegami
Toru Ikegami 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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Publication number: 20090225627Abstract: Methods and apparatus facilitating radial profiling of shear slowness are disclosed. According to some aspects of the invention, acoustic tool bias is accounted for in the calculation of radial profiles. According so some aspects, acoustic tool bias is accounted for by replacing acoustic tool structure with a resonance-impedance model. The resonance-impedance modeling according to principles of the present invention is applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal boreholes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Bikash K. Sinha, Toru Ikegami, David Linton Johnson, Jahir Pabon
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Patent number: 7554882Abstract: A method for in-situ calibrating acoustic receivers while the tool is in an open or cased borehole or during a logging run in a borehole. The method and system facilitate calibrating the acoustic receivers while they are mounted to a downhole acoustic tool. Calibrating the acoustic receivers in situ provides more accurate results than previously available. The method and system provide separate compensation factors for the acoustic receivers at different frequencies and for different transmission sources. The separate compensation factors facilitate more accurate signal acquisition over a wider range of conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Schlumbeger Technology CorporationInventors: Fernando Garcia-Osuna, Toru Ikegami, Vivian Pistre, Shu-Kong Chang, Yoko Morikami
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Patent number: 7529152Abstract: Methods and apparatus facilitating radial profiling of shear slowness are disclosed. According to some aspects of the invention, acoustic tool bias is accounted for in the calculation of radial profiles. According so some aspects, acoustic tool bias is accounted for by replacing acoustic tool structure with a resonance-impedance model. The resonance-impedance modeling according to principles of the present invention is applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal boreholes.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Bikash K. Sinha, Toru Ikegami, David Linton Johnson, Jahir Pabon
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Publication number: 20070127311Abstract: A method and system for calibrating acoustic receivers. The method and system facilitate calibrating the acoustic receivers while they are mounted to a downhole acoustic tool. Calibrating the acoustic receivers in situ provides more accurate results than previously available. The method and system provide separate compensation factors for the acoustic receivers at different frequencies and for different transmission sources. The separate compensation factors facilitate more accurate signal acquisition over a wider range of conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: FERNANDO GARCIA-OSUNA, TORU IKEGAMI, VIVIAN PISTRE, Shu-Kong Chang, YOKO MORIKAMI
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Publication number: 20060256655Abstract: Methods and apparatus facilitating radial profiling of shear slowness are disclosed. According to some aspects of the invention, acoustic tool bias is accounted for in the calculation of radial profiles. According so some aspects, acoustic tool bias is accounted for by replacing acoustic tool structure with a resonance-impedance model. The resonance-impedance modeling according to principles of the present invention is applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal boreholes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2005Publication date: November 16, 2006Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Incorporated in the State of TexasInventors: Bikash Sinha, Toru Ikegami, David Johnson, Jahir Pabon
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Patent number: 7085194Abstract: A method and system for calibrating acoustic receivers (112). The method and system facilitate calibrating the acoustic receivers (112) while they are mounted to a downhole acoustic tool (102). Calibrating the acoustic receivers (112) in situ provides more accurate results than previously available. The method and system provide separate compensation factors for the acoustic receivers (112) at different frequencies and for different transmission sources. The separate compensation factors facilitate more accurate signal acquisition over a wider range of conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Fernando Garcia-Osuna, Toru Ikegami
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Publication number: 20050128871Abstract: A method and system for calibrating acoustic receivers (112). The method and system facilitate calibrating the acoustic receivers (112) while they are mounted to a downhole acoustic tool (102). Calibrating the acoustic receivers (112) in situ provides more accurate results than previously available. The method and system provide separate compensation factors for the acoustic receivers (112) at different frequencies and for different transmission sources. The separate compensation factors facilitate more accurate signal acquisition over a wider range of conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Fernando Garcia-Osuna, Toru Ikegami
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Patent number: 6510104Abstract: A logging system has a sonde in a borehole, which transmits sonic waves with one or more dipole sources to optimally excite dipole flexural mode sonic waves in the borehole. The system first determines the Airy frequency of the borehole. Then, the dipole sources are fired at a dipole firing frequency selected based on the Airy frequency.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2000Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Toru Ikegami
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Patent number: 6342367Abstract: Disclosed is an economical method for the preparation of chondroitin sulfates A and C useful as an effective ingredient of medicaments from fish scales as a waste material discharged from fishery in large quantities. Fish scales are enzymatically decomposed in an aqueous medium in the presence of a protease to isolate the chondroitin sulfate compounds and by-product polypeptides followed by removal of the by-product polypeptides from the aqueous solution by a cation-exchange treatment and then the aqueous solution of the chondroitin sulfate compounds is subjected to fractional precipitation by the addition of ethyl alcohol as the precipitant.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2000Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Japan as represented by Secretary of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Toshihisa Sumi, Hideki Ohba, Toru Ikegami, Masao Shibata, Tsuyoshi Sakaki, Imre Sallay, Sung Soo Park
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Patent number: 6143533Abstract: Disclosed is an efficient and economical method for the preparation of N-glycolyl neuraminic acid in a high purity from an inexpensive abundant source material. The method comprises dispersing body tissues of an echinodermatous marine animal Cucumaria echinata in an aqueous medium, preferably, using a dry powder of the tissues prepared in advance, in which the tissues are proteolytically decomposed to isolate N-glycolyl neuraminic acid in the form of an aqueous solution containing polypeptides as a by-product, followed by separation of N-glycolyl neuraminic acid from the aqueous solution by removing the polypeptides and purification of the compound in a process utilizing an ion-exchange treatments.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2000Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Toshihisa Sumi, Hideki Ohba, Toru Ikegami, Masao Shibata, Tsuyoshi Sakaki, Imre Sallay, Sung Soo Park
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Patent number: 5057693Abstract: In a radiation dose reading apparatus for a fluorescent glass element which was exposed to ionizing radiation and which is subjected to ultraviolet light radiation so as to cause fluorescence with an intensity depending on the radiation dose received by the glass element wherein the radiation dose is determined from the intensity of the fluorescence emitted from the glass elements detecting face, a fluorescence diaphragm arrangement is provided so as to overlay the glass element detecting face and is movable thereon for changing the fluorescence detecting areas and a fluorescence intensity reading device is provided for determining fluorescence intensity distribution and the glass element detecting face.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1990Date of Patent: October 15, 1991Assignees: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Toshiba Glass Co. Ltd.Inventors: Bertram Burgkhardt, Ernst Piesch, Michael Vilgis, Toru Ikegami, Motoyuki Sato
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Patent number: 4922115Abstract: A fluorescent glass dosimeter comprises a glass element holder including inner and outer envelopes. Each of the inner and outer envelopes has a mask frame used for covering the peripheral portions of the corresponding fluorescent detection surface of a fluorescent glass element. The fluorescent glass dosimeter further comprises upper and lower cases. The upper case serves as a pivotable lock member and includes a lock portion, the locking condition of which can be released by means of a magnet. The lower case is adapted to receive the glass element holder. The upper and lower cases are engageable with each other at their slide portions. The glass element holder includes an integral index plate havig an identification hole code at a predetermined location. A direction regulating member is provided for the lower case, and a portion engageable with the direction regulating member is provided for the glass element holder.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1988Date of Patent: May 1, 1990Assignees: Toshiba Glass Co., Ltd., Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbHInventors: Yasushi Mawatari, Toru Ikegami, Motoyuki Sato, Bertram Burgkhardt, Ernst Piesch, Hans-Gerd Rober
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Patent number: 4880986Abstract: A radiation dose measuring system using fluorescent dosemeters comprises fluorescent dosemeters including fluorescent glass elements having a fluorescent detection surface, a magazine capable of holding a predetermined number of fluorescent dosemeters, a magazine conveying device for conveying a magazine of a plurality of magazines fed one by one such that is predetermined segment is located to a take-out position, a fluorescent dosemeter take-out device for taking the fluorescent dosemeter from the magazine located in a predetermined position, a fluorescent glass element setting device for moving the fluorescent glass element to a predetermined measuring position and a dose measuring device for subjecting the fluorescent glass element which is set to a measuring position to an ultraviolet ray and for measuring an intensity of fluorescent light which is emitted from an excited glass element.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1988Date of Patent: November 14, 1989Assignees: Toshiba Glass Co., Ltd., Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbHInventors: Junji Yamada, Yasushi Mawatari, Toru Ikegami, Koichi Nishio, Motoyuki Sato, Bertram Burgkhardt, Ernst Piesch, Siegfried Ugi