Patents by Inventor Toru Shimizu

Toru Shimizu 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).

  • Publication number: 20240146806
    Abstract: An intermediate device 10A includes a transfer unit 11 that transfers a request including data to be transmitted from a local 30 to a remote 50, and a generation unit 12 that generates a pseudo-response to the request and returns the pseudo-response to the local 30. The intermediate device 10B includes a discard unit 13 that discards a response to the request from the remote 50. An intermediate device 20B includes a generation unit 22 that generates a pseudo-request based on an initial request for requesting data transmission from the local 30 to the remote 50 and transmits the pseudo-request to the remote 50, and a transfer unit 24 that transfers a response including data to be transmitted from the remote 50 to the local 30. The intermediate device 20A includes the discard unit 21 that discards a subsequent request from the local 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Junki ICHIKAWA, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Kenji SHIMIZU, Yukio TSUKISHIMA, Toru MANO, Tomoya HIBI, Kiwami INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240145122
    Abstract: An insulated electric wire containing a conductor having a flat shape and showing excellent selectivity for bending in the height direction of the flat shape, and a wiring harness containing such an insulated electric wire. An insulated electric wire contains a conductor and an insulation cover covering an outer periphery of the conductor. The conductor contains a flat portion which has a flat shape, in a cross section perpendicular to an axial direction of the conductor, having a larger size in a width direction than in a height direction. In the flat portion, a flexural rigidity in the width direction x of the insulated electric wire is 2.6 times or more than a flexural rigidity in the height direction y. The wiring harness contains the insulated electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru SHIMIZU, Toyoki FURUKAWA, Kyoma SAHASHI, Yoshitaka YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11898641
    Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a shaft in a cylindrical passage, a slit passing through the shaft from one lateral side to another lateral side of the shaft, a pair of bearings on both sides of the cylindrical passage and rotatably supporting one end part and another end part of the shaft, and a circular-plate valve inserted into the slit of the shaft and rotatable to open and close the cylindrical passage. A length of the slit on the one lateral side of the shaft is, in an axial direction of the shaft, longer than a length of the slit on the other lateral side of the shaft. A round end hole is formed at an end of the slit in the one end part of the shaft on the one lateral side of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO DAISHIN CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Takeuchi, Toru Shimizu, Satoshi Nagasaka, Katsuhisa Saito
  • Patent number: 11892395
    Abstract: The present invention reduces thermal stress that is generated in a join portion of a window material in an optical measurement cell, and is an optical measurement cell having translucent windows through which light is transmitted and into an interior of which is introduced a test sample. This optical measurement cell has a planar window material that forms the translucent windows, a join supporting portion that is joined to an outer edge portion of a main surface of the window material and supports the window material, and a low thermal expansion component that is provided on an outer-side circumferential surface of the join supporting portion and whose coefficient of thermal expansion is lower than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the join supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Shimizu, Takeshi Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20240030013
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed to perform precise monitoring of the processed amount by which a workpiece is processed, and includes a measurement unit that measures a concentration or a partial pressure of a reaction product generated while the workpiece is being processed, and an operation unit that calculates the processed amount of the workpiece using an output value of the measurement unit. The measurement unit includes: a laser light source that irradiates target gas containing the reaction product with a laser beam; a photodetector that detects a laser beam having passed through the target gas; and a signal processing unit that calculates the concentration or the partial pressure of the reaction product based on a detection signal of the photodetector. The operation unit includes a time integration unit; a relationship data storage unit; and a processed amount calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miyako HADA, Motonobu TAKAHASHI, Masakazu MINAMI, Yuhei SAKAGUCHI, Toru SHIMIZU, Tetsuo FUJII
  • Patent number: 11846247
    Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a coil spring arranged in a body between a valve gear and a valve and having a spring end extending radially outward. A first guide covers an end of the coil spring and includes a first guide hook that contacts the spring end. A body hook in the body is capable of contacting a tip end part of the first guide hook. A valve gear hook in the valve gear is capable of contacting a base end part of the first guide hook. The first guide hook has a protrusion protruding toward the spring end between the tip end part and the base end part. The first guide hook is deformable by receiving the spring force at the protrusion as an effort while a fulcrum is at a contact between the first guide hook and the body hook or the valve gear hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO DAISHIN CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akito Sakakibara, Toru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20230402770
    Abstract: A first connector according to one aspect of the present disclosure capable of electrically connecting a first connection terminal of a first in-vehicle device and a second electrical contact portion of a second in-vehicle device is provided with a first terminal fitting and a first connector housing for accommodating the first terminal fitting. The first terminal fitting includes a first device-side connecting portion connectable to the first connection terminal and a first electrical contact portion connectable to the second electrical contact portion and arranged on a side opposite to the first device-side connecting portion in a length direction of the first terminal fitting. The first electrical contact portion and the first device-side connecting portion are constituted by a single component. The first electrical contact portion is relatively displaceable with respect to the first device-side connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Toru SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11837378
    Abstract: A communication cable includes a coating layer that contains a powdery magnetic material and that can suppress the occurrence of a powdery substance containing the magnetic material when processing the coating layer. The communication cable further includes a conductor, an insulating coating that covers an outer circumstance of the conductor, and a magnetic sheath layer that covers an outer side of the insulating coating, and the magnetic sheath layer contains the magnetic material and the magnetic material has a particle shape with an average particle diameter of not more than 50 ?m and an aspect ratio of not greater than 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Shimizu, Kinji Taguchi, Tatsuya Shimada, Takaki Endo, Ryoma Uegaki, Yuta Yasuyoshi
  • Patent number: 11796460
    Abstract: In order to provide an absorbance analysis apparatus for DCR gas that can measure a concentration of a DCR gas by separating absorbance of the DCR gas alone even in a mixed gas consisting of the DCR gas and CO gas whose absorption spectrum overlaps each other, the absorbance analysis apparatus for DCR gas comprises a DCR filter 31 that is configured to transmit a light in a first wavenumber domain including an absorbance peak of the DCR gas, a CO filter 32 that is configured to transmit a light in a second wavenumber domain that is different from the first wavenumber domain, and a DCR gas volume calculator 4 that is configured to calculate volume of the DCR gas based on a first absorbance measured by the light transmitted through the DCR filter 31 and a second absorbance measured by the light transmitted through the CO filter 32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Furuya, Masayuki Tanaka, Yuhei Sakaguchi, Masakazu Minami, Toru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20230228330
    Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a shaft in a cylindrical passage, a slit passing through the shaft from one lateral side to another lateral side of the shaft, a pair of bearings on both sides of the cylindrical passage and rotatably supporting one end part and another end part of the shaft, and a circular-plate valve inserted into the slit of the shaft and rotatable to open and close the cylindrical passage. A length of the slit on the one lateral side of the shaft is, in an axial direction of the shaft, longer than a length of the slit on the other lateral side of the shaft. A round end hole is formed at an end of the slit in the one end part of the shaft on the one lateral side of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kota TAKEUCHI, Toru SHIMIZU, Satoshi NAGASAKA, Katsuhisa SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230228679
    Abstract: In order to prevent cracking of a window material in manufacturing an optical measurement cell that satisfies various performances required for airtightness, heat resistance, and the like by atomic diffusion bonding, an optical measurement cell into which a sample is introduced includes a light transmission window through which light is transmitted, and includes a window material forming the light transmission window, and a flange member to which the window material is bonded via a metal thin film, and a ratio of a thermal expansion coefficient of the flange member to a thermal expansion coefficient of the window material is 0.5 times or more and 1.5 times or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NAKATA, Masakazu MINAMI, Yuhei SAKAGUCHI, Toru SHIMIZU, Takeshi AKAMATSU
  • Patent number: 11698649
    Abstract: Provided is a concentration control module that improve responsiveness of concentration control of a vaporization system, and is used in a vaporization system. The concentration control module includes a concentration measuring part configured to measure a concentration of a source gas; a valve provided in a lead-out pipe configured to lead out the source gas from the tank; a pressure target value calculating part configured to calculate a pressure target value inside the tank by using a concentration target value of the source gas, and a concentration measured value of the concentration measuring part; a delay filter configured to generate a pressure control value by applying a predetermined time delay to the pressure target value obtained by the pressure target value calculating part; and a valve control part configured to feedback-control the valve by using a deviation between the pressure control value obtained by the delay filter, and a pressure inside the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11682855
    Abstract: A connector 10 disclosed by this specification is a connector 10 into which a plate-like mating terminal 100 is insertable and is provided with a plate-like connection terminal 20, a spring portion 80, and a housing 40 including an insertion opening into which the mating terminal 100 is inserted, the spring portion 80 being held in the housing 40. The mating terminal 100 inserted into the insertion opening and the connection terminal 20 are sandwiched by the spring portion 80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20230144417
    Abstract: A communication cable 1 includes a conductor 11 for transmitting electric signals and an outer layer 15 that is disposed outside the conductor 11 and contains an organic polymer. The communication cable 1 has at least one of a first form in which the outer layer 15 contains a chloride-forming flame retardant capable of forming a chloride and a second form in which an inner layer 13 containing an organic polymer and a chloride-forming flame retardant capable of forming a chloride is further provided between the outer layer 15 and the conductor 11. The outer layer 15 contains a first organic polymer and a second organic polymer having a higher tensile modulus than the first organic polymer, and the overall organic polymer component constituting the outer layer 15 has a tensile modulus of at least 100 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Yuta YASUYOSHI, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Toru SHIMIZU, Ryoma UEGAKI, Kinji TAGUCHI, Takaki ENDO
  • Patent number: 11644102
    Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a shaft in a cylindrical passage, a slit passing through the shaft from one lateral side to another lateral side of the shaft, a pair of bearings on both sides of the cylindrical passage and rotatably supporting one end part and another end part of the shaft, and a circular-plate valve inserted into the slit of the shaft and rotatable to open and close the cylindrical passage. A length of the slit on the one lateral side of the shaft is, in an axial direction of the shaft, longer than a length of the slit on the other lateral side of the shaft. A round end hole is formed at an end of the slit in the one end part of the shaft on the one lateral side of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO DAISHIN CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Takeuchi, Toru Shimizu, Satoshi Nagasaka, Katsuhisa Saito
  • Patent number: 11631596
    Abstract: In order to provide a concentration control apparatus that, without adding any new sensors or the like, makes it possible to accurately estimate a quantity of source consumed inside a vaporization tank, and to perform highly accurate concentration control in accordance with the remaining quantity of source, there is provided a concentration control apparatus that, in a vaporizer that is equipped with at least a vaporization tank containing a liquid or solid source, a carrier gas supply path that supplies a carrier gas to the vaporization tank, and a source gas extraction path along which flows a source gas which is created by vaporizing the source and is then extracted from the vaporization tank, controls a concentration of the source gas and includes a concentration monitor that is provided on the source gas extraction path, and outputs output signals in accordance with a concentration of the source gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Shimizu, Masakazu Minami
  • Publication number: 20230049270
    Abstract: Provided is a communication cable provided with a coating layer that contains a powdery magnetic material and that can suppress the occurrence of a powdery substance containing the magnetic material when processing the coating layer. A communication cable 1 includes a conductor 2, an insulating coating 3 that covers an outer circumstance of the conductor 2, and a magnetic sheath layer 8 that covers an outer side of the insulating coating 3, and the magnetic sheath layer 8 contains the magnetic material and the magnetic material has a particle shape with an average particle diameter of not more than 50 ?m and an aspect ratio of not greater than 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Toru SHIMIZU, Kinji TAGUCHI, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Takaki ENDO, Ryoma UEGAKI, Yuta YASUYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20220412466
    Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a shaft in a cylindrical passage, a slit passing through the shaft from one lateral side to another lateral side of the shaft, a pair of bearings on both sides of the cylindrical passage and rotatably supporting one end part and another end part of the shaft, and a circular-plate valve inserted into the slit of the shaft and rotatable to open and close the cylindrical passage. A length of the slit on the one lateral side of the shaft is, in an axial direction of the shaft, longer than a length of the slit on the other lateral side of the shaft. A round end hole is formed at an end of the slit in the one end part of the shaft on the one lateral side of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kota TAKEUCHI, Toru SHIMIZU, Satoshi NAGASAKA, Katsuhisa SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220397069
    Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a coil spring arranged in a body between a valve gear and a valve and having a spring end extending radially outward. A first guide covers an end of the coil spring and includes a first guide hook that contacts the spring end. A body hook in the body is capable of contacting a tip end part of the first guide hook. A valve gear hook in the valve gear is capable of contacting a base end part of the first guide hook. The first guide hook has a protrusion protruding toward the spring end between the tip end part and the base end part. The first guide hook is deformable by receiving the spring force at the protrusion as an effort while a fulcrum is at a contact between the first guide hook and the body hook or the valve gear hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Akito SAKAKIBARA, Toru SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11519070
    Abstract: In order to inhibit overshoot in the concentration of a source gas immediately after a gas supply period starts, there is provided a vaporization device that is equipped with a vaporization tank that holds a liquid or a solid source, a carrier gas supply path that supplies carrier gas to the vaporization tank, a source gas extraction path along which flows a source gas which is obtained by vaporizing the source and which is extracted from the vaporization tank, a concentration monitor that is provided on the source gas extraction path, and a concentration control mechanism that is provided with a fluid controller which controls a concentration of the source gas extracted from the source gas extraction path. This vaporization device alternates between supplying the source gas and stopping the supply of the source gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Shimizu, Masakazu Minami