Patents by Inventor Yusuke Yokoi

Yusuke Yokoi 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: 12247963
    Abstract: An analysis system includes a setting device, an execution device, a determination device, and a notification device, and analyzes a sample by combining functions of a plurality of units. The setting device sets an analysis condition for each of the plurality of units. The execution device can execute the function of each of the plurality of units prior to the analysis of the sample. The determination device determines whether preparation for starting the analysis is completed for each of the plurality of units based on a comparison between a state of the unit and the analysis condition corresponding to the unit. The notification device notifies an analyst of a determination result by the determination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20250020678
    Abstract: An inspection item for an analysis unit is specified. A correspondence relationship between the inspection item and an operator code assigned to each operator of the analysis unit is acquired. Operation commands assigned to operators to be operated for execution of an inspection of the analysis unit are sequentially transmitted to the analysis unit based on the inspection item and the correspondence relationship. A request command requesting transmission of screen information representing a screen to be displayed in the display panel of the analysis unit is transmitted to the analysis unit. The screen information that has been transmitted by the analysis unit in response to the request command is acquired. The analysis unit behaves based on the operation command assigned to the operated operator and a screen responding to the behavior of the analysis unit is displayed in the display panel of the analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru WATANABE, Yuma OKABE, Chihiro YASUI, Yusuke YOKOI
  • Patent number: 12181451
    Abstract: A liquid chromatograph includes a plurality of units that execute each function of the liquid chromatograph, and a system controller connected to the plurality of units, wherein the system controller includes a status provider that acquires a status from any unit and provides the acquired status to a computer connected to the system controller, a data accumulator that accumulates the status to be provided to the computer in a database, and a data provider that provides the status accumulated in the database to any unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi
  • Patent number: 12025594
    Abstract: A chromatography system includes a liquid sending pump for sending a mobile phase in an analysis flow path, a sample injector that injects a sample into the analysis flow path, a separation column for separating the sample into components, a column oven for storing the separation column and adjusting a temperature of the separation column to a preset target temperature, a liquid sending controller configured to control an operation of the liquid sending pump, and a column protection flow rate setter configured to set a column protection flow rate. The liquid sending controller is configured to control the operation of the liquid sending pump such that, when the liquid sending pump starts sending the mobile phase, the flow rate of the mobile phase flowing through the analysis flow path does not exceed the column protection flow rate until a temperature in the column oven reaches the target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yokoi, Daisuke Kitabayashi
  • Patent number: 11885776
    Abstract: A chromatography analysis system includes a liquid delivery pump (2), an autosampler (4), a separation column (12), a column oven (6), a detector (8). The chromatography analysis system further comprising a shutdown execution part (22) configured to start shutdown to finally stop driving of the liquid delivery pump (2) and temperature control operation of the column oven (6) at a time when a predetermined situation occurs, by controlling operation of the liquid delivery pump (2) and the column oven (6), and a column protection temperature setter (24) configured to set a column protection temperature for preventing deterioration of the separation column (12) due to overheating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi
  • Patent number: 11704786
    Abstract: A stress luminescence measurement method according to one aspect includes the steps of: placing a stress luminescent material on a surface of a sample; irradiating the stress luminescent material with excitation light; acquiring a first captured image by imaging the stress luminescent material during irradiation of the excitation light; applying a load to the sample; acquiring a stress luminescence image by imaging stress luminescence of the stress luminescent material; irradiating the stress luminescent material after removal of the load with the excitation light; acquiring a second captured image during irradiation of the excitation light by imaging the stress luminescent material in a state in which the load has been removed; and storing the first captured image and the second captured image in a memory in association with the stress luminescent image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20230129403
    Abstract: A chromatography analysis system includes a liquid delivery pump (2), an autosampler (4), a separation column (12), a column oven (6), a detector (8). The chromatography analysis system further comprising a shutdown execution part (22) configured to start shutdown to finally stop driving of the liquid delivery pump (2) and temperature control operation of the column oven (6) at a time when a predetermined situation occurs, by controlling operation of the liquid delivery pump (2) and the column oven (6), and a column protection temperature setter (24) configured to set a column protection temperature for preventing deterioration of the separation column (12) due to overheating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Yusuke YOKOI
  • Publication number: 20230033480
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus according to one aspect is provided with an inference unit configured to predict at least one objective variable from a plurality of explanatory variables by using a trained model, and a display data generation unit configured to generate data for displaying an inference result by the inference unit. The inference unit is configured to set a first explanatory variable selected from the plurality of explanatory variables as a variation value and set second explanatory variables other than the first explanatory variable as fixed values. The inference unit predicts, by using the trained model, the at least one objective variable when the first explanatory variable is continuously varied within a predetermined variation range. The display data generation unit generates data indicating a variation of the at least one objective variable with respect to a variation of the first explanatory variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yuriko NAKAKIMURA, Shiori NAGAI, Tomohiro KAWASE, Yusuke YOKOI, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Kenta ADACHI
  • Patent number: 11519886
    Abstract: An autosampler is switched selectively between an injecting mode where a sampling flow path is incorporated into an analysis flow path of a liquid chromatograph and a loading mode where the sampling flow path is not incorporated into the analysis flow path and injects a sample into the analysis flow path at a position farther upstream than a separation column by being switched to the injecting mode with the sample held in the sampling flow path, and includes a clog determiner configured to acquire a sending liquid pressure of a liquid sending pump that sends a mobile phase in the analysis flow path, obtain a variation value of the liquid sending pressure when the injecting mode and the loading mode are switched and determine presence or absence of a clog in a system incorporated into the analysis flow path in the injecting mode based on the obtained variation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Yokoi, Takaaki Fujita, Takashi Inoue, Kenichi Yasunaga
  • Publication number: 20220178889
    Abstract: An analysis system includes a setting device, an execution device, a determination device, and a notification device, and analyzes a sample by combining functions of a plurality of units. The setting device sets an analysis condition for each of the plurality of units. The execution device can execute the function of each of the plurality of units prior to the analysis of the sample. The determination device determines whether preparation for starting the analysis is completed for each of the plurality of units based on a comparison between a state of the unit and the analysis condition corresponding to the unit. The notification device notifies an analyst of a determination result by the determination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Yusuke YOKOI
  • Publication number: 20220137013
    Abstract: A component management system for an analysis device, includes a plurality of analysis devices, and a server connected to the plurality of devices via a network, wherein each analysis device includes an acquirer that acquires a behavior information piece associated with a use amount of a component attached to each analysis device, and a transferer that transfers the behavior information piece acquired by the acquirer to the server, and the server includes a registrar that registers the behavior information pieces received from the plurality of analysis devices in a database, and a comparison information provider that provides comparison information, of a same type of components that are used in the plurality of analysis devices, produced based on the behavior information pieces registered in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Yusuke YOKOI
  • Patent number: 11306714
    Abstract: A liquid feeding pump operation monitor includes: a liquid gauge that measures a remaining amount of a liquid to be fed by a liquid feeding pump; and an operation detector configured to detect a reduction of the remaining amount, which is measured by the liquid gauge, of the liquid to be fed, and to detect an operation of the liquid feeding pump based on the detection of the reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20220099635
    Abstract: A liquid chromatograph includes a plurality of units that execute each function of the liquid chromatograph, and a system controller connected to the plurality of units, wherein the system controller includes a status provider that acquires a status from any unit and provides the acquired status to a computer connected to the system controller, a data accumulator that accumulates the status to be provided to the computer in a database, and a data provider that provides the status accumulated in the database to any unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: Yusuke YOKOI
  • Patent number: 11280894
    Abstract: An electronic control unit or ECU as an object detection device is mounted on an own vehicle equipped with a millimeter wave sensor. The ECU provides functions of a first detection part, a second detection part and a presence probability calculation part. The first detection part performs a FMCW method, and the second detection part performs a FCM method so as to detect presence of a detection target on the basis of detection results of the millimeter wave sensor. The presence probability calculation part calculating a presence probability of the detection target on the basis of the detection results of the first detection part and the second detection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20210372868
    Abstract: Provided is a stress measurement device capable of easily grasping the behavior of a stress generation site in a sample. The stress measurement device is provided with a camera for imaging light emitted by a stress luminescent material, a controller for processing an image captured by the camera, and a display for displaying the image processed by the controller. The controller detects the stress generation site according to a luminescence distribution of the stress luminescent material for each of the plurality of time-series images captured by the camera and controls the display such that each stress generation site detected for each of the plurality of images is displayed on one image in a superimposed manner in mutually different display modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke YOKOI, Momoyo YAMAKAWA, Naoya FUJIWARA, Kenta ADACHI, Hiroaki TSUSHIMA, Tomoki SASAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210356400
    Abstract: A stress luminescence measurement device according to a first aspect is provided with a load application mechanism configured to deform a sample by applying a load to the sample, a light source configured to emit excitation light to a stress luminescent material 2 arranged on a surface of the sample, a camera configured to image luminescence of the stress luminescent material, and a controller configured to control the load application mechanism, the light source, and the camera. The controller acquires a deformation state of the sample at the imaging timing by the camera and stores the acquired deformation state of the sample in association with the image captured by the camera in a memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke YOKOI, Momoyo YAMAKAWA, Naoya FUJIWARA, Hiroaki TSUSHIMA, Kenta ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20210349115
    Abstract: A correspondence relationship between an inspection item and an operator code assigned to each operator of an analysis unit is acquired by a correspondence relationship acquirer. Operation commands assigned to operators to be operated for execution of an inspection of the analysis unit are sequentially transmitted to the analysis unit based on the inspection item and the correspondence relationship. A request command requesting transmission of screen information representing a screen to be displayed in the display panel of the analysis unit is transmitted to the analysis unit. The screen information that has been transmitted by the analysis unit in response to the request command is acquired by a screen information acquirer. The analysis unit behaves based on the operation command assigned to the operated operator and a screen responding to the behavior of the analysis unit is displayed in the display panel of the analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru WATANABE, Yuma OKABE, Chihiro YASUI, Yusuke YOKOI
  • Publication number: 20210312608
    Abstract: A stress luminescence measurement method according to one aspect includes the steps of: placing a stress luminescent material on a surface of a sample; irradiating the stress luminescent material with excitation light; acquiring a first captured image by imaging the stress luminescent material during irradiation of the excitation light; applying a load to the sample; acquiring a stress luminescence image by imaging stress luminescence of the stress luminescent material; irradiating the stress luminescent material after removal of the load with the excitation light; acquiring a second captured image during irradiation of the excitation light by imaging the stress luminescent material in a state in which the load has been removed; and storing the first captured image and the second captured image in a memory in association with the stress luminescent image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventor: Yusuke YOKOI
  • Patent number: 11106259
    Abstract: An analytical device is an analytical device in an analytical system including one or more of the analytical devices and a controller that controls the analytical devices. The analytical device includes a communication part configured to communicate with the controller and a power supply control part configured to switch between a power-on state and a software power-off state of the analytical device by software based on an instruction to switch the analytical device to the power-on state or the software power-off state, the instruction being transmitted from the controller via the communication part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi
  • Patent number: 11099538
    Abstract: An analysis system, controller, and data processing device that are capable of avoiding the influence on control in the case where the names of the constituent elements are changed. The analysis system includes a plurality of constituent elements used for analysis; a controller configured to perform control on a basis of data received from the constituent elements; and a data processing device configured to process data received from the controller. The controller receives the control code, the additional code, and the name information from the plurality of constituent elements to generate an ID code on the basis of the control code and the additional code. The data processing device receives the ID code and the name information from the controller, and performs control on the basis of the control code included in the ID code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Yokoi