Patents by Inventor Yoshitake ANDO

Yoshitake ANDO 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: 11866045
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to make it possible to automatically drive a test object without performing pre-learning for a running performance map for each vehicle. There is provided an automatic test object driving device that automatically drives a test vehicle based on a command vehicle speed, and that includes a driving actuator for performing driving operation of the test vehicle, and a driving control unit for controlling the driving actuator. The driving control unit includes a first accelerator map and a second accelerator map each of which indicates a relationship among a vehicle-speed-related value, an acceleration-related value, and an accelerator-depression-amount-related value. The driving control unit uses the first accelerator map to determine an accelerator depression amount corresponding to the command vehicle speed, and uses the second accelerator map to correct the accelerator depression amount by feeding back a vehicle speed and an acceleration of the test vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshitake Ando, Takashi Saito
  • Publication number: 20230150504
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to make it possible to automatically drive a test object without performing pre-learning for a running performance map for each vehicle. There is provided an automatic test object driving device that automatically drives a test vehicle based on a command vehicle speed, and that includes a driving actuator for performing driving operation of the test vehicle, and a driving control unit for controlling the driving actuator. The driving control unit includes a first accelerator map and a second accelerator map each of which indicates a relationship among a vehicle-speed-related value, an acceleration-related value, and an accelerator-depression-amount-related value. The driving control unit uses the first accelerator map to determine an accelerator depression amount corresponding to the command vehicle speed, and uses the second accelerator map to correct the accelerator depression amount by feeding back a vehicle speed and an acceleration of the test vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitake ANDO, Takashi SAITO
  • Patent number: 11448588
    Abstract: An analyzer that analyzes a measurement sample on the basis of spectrum data obtained by irradiating the measurement sample with light and includes a total analysis value calculation part that, on the basis of the total analysis value of a reference sample of which the total analysis value of multiple predetermined components are preliminarily obtained, calculates the total analysis value of the multiple components in the measurement sample from the spectrum data of the measurement sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitake Ando, Masayuki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210140877
    Abstract: An analyzer that analyzes a measurement sample on the basis of spectrum data obtained by irradiating the measurement sample with light and includes a total analysis value calculation part that, on the basis of the total analysis value of a reference sample of which the total analysis value of multiple predetermined components are preliminarily obtained, calculates the total analysis value of the multiple components in the measurement sample from the spectrum data of the measurement sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitake ANDO, Masayuki ADACHI
  • Patent number: 10921828
    Abstract: In order to prevent leakage, a fluid control apparatus is adapted to include: a valve provided in the flow path through which the fluid flows; a pressure sensor provided upstream of the valve; a flow rate sensor provided downstream of the pressure sensor; a reference pressure determination part that is inputted with a measured flow rate from the flow rate sensor and on the basis of a flow rate-pressure map, determines a reference pressure corresponding to the measured flow rate; a reference flow rate calculation part that calculates a reference flow rate so that the deviation between the reference pressure and a measured pressure measured by the pressure sensor decreases; and a valve control part that controls the opening of the valve so that the deviation between the reference flow rate and the measured flow rate decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: HORIBA, Ltd., HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitake Ando, Kotaro Takijiri, Yuki Tanaka, Yusuke Kanamaru, Emiko Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20200191707
    Abstract: The present invention refers to an optical analysis device for performing output correction of a detector used for an optical analysis device. The optical analysis device includes a light source which irradiates light, a measurement cell into which the light irradiated from the light source is inputted, a light detector which detects light outputted from the measurement cell to obtain an output value, a learning part which uses the output value of the light detector before the correction and an output value in a linear region of the light detector or known concentration of a sample gas introduced to the measurement cell to perform machine learning of a correction model for linearly correcting the output value of the light detector, and a saving part which saves the correction model obtained by the learning part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitake ANDO
  • Publication number: 20190384330
    Abstract: In order to prevent leakage, a fluid control apparatus is adapted to include: a valve provided in the flow path through which the fluid flows; a pressure sensor provided upstream of the valve; a flow rate sensor provided downstream of the pressure sensor; a reference pressure determination part that is inputted with a measured flow rate from the flow rate sensor and on the basis of a flow rate-pressure map, determines a reference pressure corresponding to the measured flow rate; a reference flow rate calculation part that calculates a reference flow rate so that the deviation between the reference pressure and a measured pressure measured by the pressure sensor decreases; and a valve control part that controls the opening of the valve so that the deviation between the reference flow rate and the measured flow rate decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitake Ando, Kotaro Takijiri, Yuki Tanaka, Yusuke Kanamaru, Emiko Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10274454
    Abstract: To measure target component concentration in a liquid with higher accuracy without any dedicated apparatus or skill, a method is adapted to include: receiving a successive measurement value obtained by performing successive measurement of the target component concentration with use of a first measurement device immersed in the liquid; receiving a batch measurement value obtained by, with use of a second measurement device, performing batch measurement of the target component concentration in a part sampled from the liquid; and, when the batch measurement value is received, successively calculating a correlation value indicating the correlation between multiple successive measurement values and multiple batch measurement values respectively obtained in mutually corresponding multiple times of successive measurement and multiple times of batch measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: HORIBA, LTD., HORIBA ADVANCED TECHNO, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Nakayama, Rumiko Furuya, Yuichi Ito, Akio Ishii, Yuji Gyoten, Yoshitake Ando, Hiroaki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180364100
    Abstract: A method of this invention obtains a linear output value that is obtained by linearly correcting the output value of a photo detector that detects the light of the first intensity wherein the output of the photo detector becomes non-linear in such a way that the relationship between the output value and the light of the first intensity becomes linear, obtains a non-linear output value as being an output value of the photo detector that detects the light of the second intensity whose output of the photo detector becomes non-linear, and obtains an arithmetic expression to linearly correct the non-linear output value to become a linear relationship between the non-linear output value and the light of the second intensity using the linear output value and the non-linear output value as parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitake ANDO
  • Patent number: 10066992
    Abstract: The present invention is adapted to make light beams emitted from a light source enter a photodetector both when interposing an optical element having known characteristics and when not interposing the optical element, and acquire a first output value and a second output value that are the output values of the photodetector with respect to each of light beams that respectively have predetermined multiple wavenumbers and are included in the incident light beams, and obtain an arithmetic expression for calculating intensity of incident light beams from an output value of the photodetector, using parameters that are a ratio between the first output value and the second output value at each of the predetermined wavenumbers and the wavenumber transmission or reflection characteristic of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitake Ando, Katsumi Nishimura, Yukio Sakai
  • Patent number: 9945723
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interferometer and the like, that is capable of ensuring the speed stability of the movable mirror while achieving the speed up of the reciprocal movement of the moving mirror and suppressing the increment of the maximum instantaneous thrust force required for the turning back as much as possible. The interferometer includes a moving mirror, a movement mechanism for reciprocating the moving mirror, a movement control part for controlling the movement mechanism and allowing the moving mirror to be reciprocated at a constant speed, and a measurement part for measuring a position of the moving mirror. The movement control part is adapted to receive target position data indicating a target position of the moving mirror, and control the movement mechanism to bring the measurement position of the moving mirror measured by the measurement part close to the target position indicated by the target position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitake Ando
  • Publication number: 20170234826
    Abstract: To measure target component concentration in a liquid with higher accuracy without any dedicated apparatus or skill, a method is adapted to include: receiving a successive measurement value obtained by performing successive measurement of the target component concentration with use of a first measurement device immersed in the liquid; receiving a batch measurement value obtained by, with use of a second measurement device, performing batch measurement of the target component concentration in a part sampled from the liquid; and, when the batch measurement value is received, successively calculating a correlation value indicating the correlation between multiple successive measurement values and multiple batch measurement values respectively obtained in mutually corresponding multiple times of successive measurement and multiple times of batch measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Akio Nakayama, Rumiko Furuya, Yuichi Ito, Akio Ishii, Yuji Gyoten, Yoshitake Ando, Hiroaki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20170023408
    Abstract: The present invention is adapted to make light beams emitted from a light source enter a photodetector both when interposing an optical element having known characteristics and when not interposing the optical element, and acquire a first output value and a second output value that are the output values of the photodetector with respect to each of light beams that respectively have predetermined multiple wavenumbers and are included in the incident light beams, and obtain an arithmetic expression for calculating intensity of incident light beams from an output value of the photodetector, using parameters that are a ratio between the first output value and the second output value at each of the predetermined wavenumbers and the wavenumber transmission or reflection characteristic of the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshitake ANDO, Katsumi NISHIMURA, Yukio SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20160131528
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interferometer and the like, that is capable of ensuring the speed stability of the movable mirror while achieving the speed up of the reciprocal movement of the moving mirror and suppressing the increment of the maximum instantaneous thrust force required for the turning back as much as possible. The interferometer includes a moving mirror, a movement mechanism for reciprocating the moving mirror, a movement control part for controlling the movement mechanism and allowing the moving mirror to be reciprocated at a constant speed, and a measurement part for measuring a position of the moving mirror. The movement control part is adapted to receive target position data indicating a target position of the moving mirror, and control the movement mechanism to bring the measurement position of the moving mirror measured by the measurement part close to the target position indicated by the target position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshitake ANDO