Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Deguchi

Yoshihiro Deguchi 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: 20230289851
    Abstract: An information management apparatus, comprising a transmitting unit that transmits service information on a given service to a plurality of users, and a calculation unit that for each of the users of the service, calculates a degree of familiarity with a given dealer as to the service, wherein the service information includes sub-information for each of the users to use to proceed with a procedure for receiving the service, the calculation unit calculates the degree of familiarity, based on a communication history of the user, and the transmitting unit transmits the sub-information to a user whose degree of familiarity is lower than a reference value, and inhibits transmission of the sub-information to a user whose degree of familiarity is higher than the reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Atsushi Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20230160819
    Abstract: This gas analysis device comprises: a laser light source which irradiates a gas to be measured with laser light; a laser control means which controls the laser light source so that the wavelength of the laser light is changed in each prescribed wavelength band; a light detection means which photoelectrically converts the laser light that have passed through the gas to be measured and outputs an electrical signal; and an interpretation means which analyzes, on the basis of the electrical signal, an absorption wavelength of the gas to be measured. In the gas analysis device, the laser control means controls the laser light source so that the intensity of the laser light changes into a shape (for example, a rectangular shape or a trapezoidal shape) having at least a substantially constant flat part in a prescribed time period, and the wavelength of the laser light changes in the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: SMART LASER & PLASMA SYSTEMS CO.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Takahiro Kamimoto
  • Publication number: 20230124208
    Abstract: A concentration measurement method performed in a concentration measurement device including an electric unit having a light source and a photodetector, a fluid unit having a measurement cell through which a gas flows, and a processing circuit for calculating a concentration of the gas based on an intensity of a light passing through the measurement cell. The concentration measurement method includes a step of determining an absorption coefficient of the measurement gas using a reference absorption coefficient determined in association with the reference gas and a correction factor associated with the measurement gas, and a step of obtaining a concentration of the measurement gas flowing in the measurement cell using the absorption coefficient of the measurement gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicants: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro DEGUCHI, Masaaki NAGASE, Kouji NISHINO, Nobukazu IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11371942
    Abstract: A Raman scattered light acquisition device includes an emitting optical system configured to guide excitation light into a fluid, a scattered light window configured to define a part of a flow path of the fluid and through which Raman scattered light from the fluid irradiated with the excitation light passes, and a scattered light receiving device having a light receiving surface receiving Raman scattered light passed through the scattered light window. The scattered light window and the light receiving surface of the scattered light receiving device are disposed at a position in which they are separated from an optical axis in the fluid in a radial direction within a range in which an optical path of the excitation light in the fluid is present in an optical axis direction in which the optical axis in the fluid which is an optical axis of the excitation light in the fluid extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Sasahara, Yosuke Eto, Yosuke Kitauchi, Tsutomu Tomiyama, Yoshihiro Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20210364440
    Abstract: A Raman scattered light acquisition device includes an emitting optical system configured to guide excitation light into a fluid, a scattered light window configured to define a part of a flow path of the fluid and through which Raman scattered light from the fluid irradiated with the excitation light passes, and a scattered light receiving device having a light receiving surface receiving Raman scattered light passed through the scattered light window. The scattered light window and the light receiving surface of the scattered light receiving device are disposed at a position in which they are separated from an optical axis in the fluid in a radial direction within a range in which an optical path of the excitation light in the fluid is present in an optical axis direction in which the optical axis in the fluid which is an optical axis of the excitation light in the fluid extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Jun SASAHARA, Yosuke ETO, Yosuke KITAUCHI, Tsutomu TOMIYAMA, Yoshihiro DEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10976240
    Abstract: A concentration measurement device for measuring the concentration of a measured fluid within a measurement cell by detecting transmitted light that has passed through the measurement cell having a light incidence window and a light emission window disposed opposing to each other, comprising a reflected-light detector for detecting reflected light of the light incidence window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Masaaki Nagase, Michio Yamaji, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Masayoshi Kawashima, Kazuteru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10928303
    Abstract: A concentration measuring device includes a measuring cell having a flow passage and a translucent window, a light source for emitting light to the measuring cell through the window, a reflective member for reflecting light propagating through the measuring cell to the window, a light detector for detecting the light exiting from the window, a calculation part for calculating the concentration of the fluid on the basis of a detection signal from the light detector, and an optical device for guiding the light from the light source to the window and guiding the light from the window to the light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Takashi Fukawa, Taiki Hattori, Masaaki Nagase, Kazuteru Tanaka, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10732099
    Abstract: A gas analysis device includes a laser light source configured to output a laser beam, an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a measurement region including measurement target gas with the laser beams in plural directions, plural photoreceivers each configured to receive a laser beam having passed through the measurement region and output an electric signal according to intensity of the received laser beam, and an analyzer configured to analyze the physical state of the measurement target gas based on the electric signal output from each photoreceiver. The analyzer sets a function (e.g. two-dimensional polynomial f(X,Y)) representing the physical state (e.g. concentration, temperature) of the target gas at least in the measurement region, and measures the physical state of the target gas by determining a coefficient of each of terms included in the function based on a measured value obtained from the electric signal output from the photoreceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Tokushima University
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20190271636
    Abstract: A concentration measuring device includes a measuring cell having a flow passage and a translucent window, a light source for emitting light to the measuring cell through the window, a reflective member for reflecting light propagating through the measuring cell to the window, a light detector for detecting the light exiting from the window, a calculation part for calculating the concentration of the fluid on the basis of a detection signal from the light detector, and an optical device for guiding the light from the light source to the window and guiding the light from the window to the light detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicants: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro DEGUCHI, Takashi FUKAWA, Taiki HATTORI, Masaaki NAGASE, Kazuteru TANAKA, Kouji NISHINO, Nobukazu IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10371630
    Abstract: An inline concentration meter includes a light source unit emitting mixed light containing at least two wavelengths with a phase difference, a detecting unit including a light incident part for entering the mixed light emitted from the light source unit into a fluid passage of a detector body and at least two light detection parts receiving the mixed light passed through the fluid passage, a computing processor unit conducting frequency analyzes of detection signals of the mixed light output from the respective light detection parts and computing variations of intensities of the detection signals corresponding to absorbances in at least two frequency ranges to compute a concentration of fluid in the fluid passage based on the variations of the intensities of the detection signals, and a recording/displaying unit recording and displaying a value of the fluid concentration computed at the computing processor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: Tokushima University, Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Masaaki Nagase, Nobukazu Ikeda, Michio Yamaji
  • Patent number: 10324029
    Abstract: A concentration measurement device including at least one light source; a measurement cell for containing a fluid to be measured; a splitter for dividing light from the light source into incident light being incident into the measurement cell and non-incident light not being incident into the measurement cell; a transmitted-light detector for detecting transmitted light that is the incident light having passed through the measurement cell; a non-incident light detector for detecting the non-incident light; and an arithmetic part for correcting a detection signal of the transmitted-light detector using a detection signal of the non-incident light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignees: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Masaaki Nagase, Michio Yamaji, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Masayoshi Kawashima, Kazuteru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10302563
    Abstract: A gas analyzing apparatus includes first and second laser sources that output first and second laser lights, a laser controller that controls the first and second laser sources to vary wavelengths of the first and second laser lights in the respective predetermined wavelength ranges, an optical multiplexer that multiplexes the first and second laser lights to transmit the multiplexed laser light to a target gas, an optical receiver that receives the laser light transmitted through the target gas, and an analyzer that analyzes a temperature and/or a concentration of the target gas based on an electric signal output from the optical receiver. While varying the wavelengths of the laser lights, the laser controller controls amplitudes of the first and second laser lights to differ from each other and varies intensities of the first and second laser lights in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Tokushima University
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Takahiro Kamimoto
  • Patent number: 10222323
    Abstract: An inline concentration measurement device comprises: a measurement cell main body with a gas flow path formed; a light incident part with a window member connected to the main body; and a light receiving part with a window member connected to the main body, wherein the gas flow path includes a gas flow path for an optical path extending straight between the window members of the light incident part and the light receiving part, a first communication part making a gas inlet formed in the main body communicate with the gas flow path part for the optical path, and a second communication part making a gas outlet formed in the main body communicate with the gas flow path part for the optical path, and the first communication part obliquely extends from the gas inlet towards the window member of the light incident part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Masaaki Nagase, Nobukazu Ikeda, Michio Yamaji, Tadayuki Yakushijin
  • Publication number: 20190049368
    Abstract: A gas analysis device includes a laser light source configured to output a laser beam, an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a measurement region including measurement target gas with the laser beams in plural directions, plural photoreceivers each configured to receive a laser beam having passed through the measurement region and output an electric signal according to intensity of the received laser beam, and an analyzer configured to analyze the physical state of the measurement target gas based on the electric signal output from each photoreceiver. The analyzer sets a function (e.g. two-dimensional polynomial f(X,Y)) representing the physical state (e.g. concentration, temperature) of the target gas at least in the measurement region, and measures the physical state of the target gas by determining a coefficient of each of terms included in the function based on a measured value obtained from the electric signal output from the photoreceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20180217053
    Abstract: A concentration measurement device including at least one light source; a measurement cell for containing a fluid to be measured; a splitter for dividing light from the light source into incident light being incident into the measurement cell and non-incident light not being incident into the measurement cell; a transmitted-light detector for detecting transmitted light that is the incident light having passed through the measurement cell; a non-incident light detector for detecting the non-incident light; and an arithmetic part for correcting a detection signal of the transmitted-light detector using a detection signal of the non-incident light detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicants: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro DEGUCHI, Masaaki NAGASE, Michio YAMAJI, Nobukazu IKEDA, Kouji NISHINO, Masayoshi KAWASHIMA, Kazuteru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180217054
    Abstract: A concentration measurement device for measuring the concentration of a measured fluid within a measurement cell by detecting transmitted light that has passed through the measurement cell having a light incidence window and a light emission window disposed opposing to each other, comprising a reflected-light detector for detecting reflected light of the light incidence window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicants: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro DEGUCHI, Masaaki NAGASE, Michio YAMAJI, Nobukazu IKEDA, Kouji NISHINO, Masayoshi KAWASHIMA, Kazuteru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170199117
    Abstract: An inline concentration measurement device comprises: a measurement cell main body with a gas flow path formed; a light incident part with a window member connected to the main body; and a light receiving part with a window member connected to the main body, wherein the gas flow path includes a gas flow path for an optical path extending straight between the window members of the light incident part and the light receiving part, a first communication part making a gas inlet formed in the main body communicate with the gas flow path part for the optical path, and a second communication part making a gas outlet formed in the main body communicate with the gas flow path part for the optical path, and the first communication part obliquely extends from the gas inlet towards the window member of the light incident part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicants: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro DEGUCHI, Masaaki NAGASE, Nobukazu IKEDA, Michio YAMAJI, Tadayuki YAKUSHIJIN
  • Patent number: 9651467
    Abstract: This invention is related to an optical-analysis-type raw material fluid density detector including a detector main body and a light oscillation unit and a light detection unit that are provided on the upper surface or the under surface of the detector main body, in which the detector main body has at least one recess formed in the upper surface and the under surface, a fluid flow path connecting a fluid inlet of the detector main body to the recess, a fluid flow path connecting the recesses to each other, and a fluid flow path connecting the recess to a fluid outlet of the detector main body; the light oscillation unit is disposed in the recess that is closest to the inlet; and light detection units are disposed in the remaining recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FUJKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Masaaki Nagase, Ryousuke Dohi, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Michio Yamaji, Tadayuki Yakushijin
  • Publication number: 20160178517
    Abstract: A gas analyzing apparatus includes first and second laser sources (11, 12) that output first and second laser lights, a laser controller (14) that controls the first and second laser sources to vary wavelengths of the first and second laser lights in the respective predetermined wavelength ranges, an optical multiplexer (15, 17) that multiplexes the first and second laser lights to transmit the multiplexed laser light to a target gas, an optical receiver (19) that receives the laser light transmitted through the target gas, and an analyzer (23) that analyzes a temperature and/or a concentration of the target gas based on an electric signal output from the optical receiver. While varying the wavelengths of the laser lights, the laser controller (14) controls amplitudes of the first and second laser lights to differ from each other and varies intensities of the first and second laser lights in the opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Tokushima University
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Takahiro Kamimoto
  • Publication number: 20160169800
    Abstract: An inline concentration meter includes a light source unit emitting mixed light containing at least two wavelengths with a phase difference, a detecting unit including a light incident part for entering the mixed light emitted from the light source unit into a fluid passage of a detector body and at least two light detection parts receiving the mixed light passed through the fluid passage, a computing processor unit conducting frequency analyses of detection signals of the mixed light output from the respective light detection parts and computing variations of intensities of the detection signals corresponding to absorbances in at least two frequency ranges to compute a concentration of fluid in the fluid passage based on the variations of the intensities of the detection signals, and a recording/displaying unit recording and displaying a value of the fluid concentration computed at the computing processor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Deguchi, Masaaki Nagase, Nobukazu Ikeda, Michio Yamaji