Patents Assigned to Epsilon
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Publication number: 20240117012Abstract: Provided is an antibody that binds to the N-protein of SARS-CoV-2, and a method for utilizing the antibody.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicants: Kao Corporation, Epsilon Molecular Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Shunsuke INAURA, Yuta MATSUMURA, Takuto TOJO, Atsushi NAGAMI
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Publication number: 20240037558Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for transferring digital assets in a digital transaction and a method thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Half Epsilon Pte. Ltd.Inventor: Pralhad Dinesh Deshpande
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Patent number: 11828583Abstract: With regard to a reliable measurement of the thickness of an object (4) even in an environment with high temperatures, a device (1) is provided for determining the thickness of an object (4), more particularly a strip-like or flat object (4), preferably for use in a hot rolling process, having a frame (2) with at least one leg (5, 6), the at least one leg (5, 6) having a sensor (8a, 8b) for the contactless measuring of the distance to the object (4), which device is characterised in that the at least one leg (5, 6) has a structure consisting of a plurality of layers in order to reduce the temperature effect on the frame (2) and/or on the sensor (8a, 8b).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON MESSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Gerhard Kirschner
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Publication number: 20230365659Abstract: A peptide which binds to SARS-CoV-2 and its usage are provided. The peptide which binds to SARS-CoV-2 comprises one or more structural domain comprising CDR3 consisting of an amino acid sequence of any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 9 or an amino acid sequence obtained by substituting at least one amino acid in the amino acid sequence with another amino acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: EPSILON MOLECULAR ENGINEERING, INC., THE KITASATO INSTITUTE, Kao CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Masaki, Shigefumi KUMACHI, Ryo YONEHARA, Yuta MATSUMURA, Hibiki KAWANO, Takuto TOJO, Takuya MORIMOTO, Kazunhiko KATAYAMA, Kei HAGA, Reiko TODAKA, Akihito SAWADA, Tomomi TAKANO
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Patent number: 11634705Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for identifying antibody CDR3 clusters using high speed in vitro screening a library selected from the group consisting of cDNA library and nucleic acid aptamer library comprising: (i) preparing a positive spherical shaped structure by binding a target molecule to a spherical shaped molecule, wherein the target molecule is immobilized on the positive spherical shaped structure, wherein the positive spherical shaped structure may contain a fluorescent label; (ii) preparing a negative spherical shaped structure, wherein the target molecule is not immobilized on the negative spherical shaped structure, wherein the negative spherical shaped structure may contain a fluorescent label; (iii) forming a positive spherical shaped conjugate or a negative spherical shaped conjugate by binding a target detecting molecule capable of binding to the target molecule to the positive spherical shaped structure or to the negative spherical structure, wherein the targetType: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: EPSILON MOLECULAR ENGINEERING INC.Inventors: Naoto Nemoto, Toshiki Miyajima, Yuta Matsukawa
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Patent number: 11614614Abstract: A disclosed reluctance actuator includes a magnetizable stator, at least one coil, and a yoke. The coil is configured to generate a magnetic field in the stator and the yoke is configured to partially close the magnetic flux of the stator. The yoke is further configured as a movable element that performs lifting/tilting movements. An actuator system including a non-magnetic housing and a reluctance actuator is also disclosed. In the actuator system, the reluctance actuator may be at least partially located in the non-magnetic housing. A method of performing lifting/tilting movements of the yoke of a reluctance actuator is also disclosed. The method includes controlling a current in the at least one coil of the reluctance actuator to thereby generate a magnetic field in the stator. The magnetic field generates a lifting/tilting movement of the yoke due to interaction between the magnetic field and the yoke.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON MESSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Georg Schitter, Ernst Csencsics, Johannes Schlarp, Tobias Schopf
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Patent number: 11498815Abstract: A crane control for a crane includes at least one operating unit operable by an operator for controlling working functions of the crane. Control signals can be input to actuators of the crane by the operating unit, and a mounting arrangement is provided for mounting the operating unit in a driving cab of the vehicle and a support arrangement connects the operating unit to the mounting arrangement. The support arrangement for the operating unit is supported limitedly moveably between at least two positions, a first position of which is in the form of a working position in which the operating unit is between a steering arrangement of the vehicle and a driving seat, and a second position of which is in the form of a storage position in which the operating unit is moved away from the steering arrangement of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: EPSILON Kran GmbHInventors: Simon Schoerghofer, Johannes Steindl
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Patent number: 11333481Abstract: 1. A device for the contactless distance and/or position determination of a measurement object (1), with an electrically conductive measurement object (1) and with a sensor (3) operating in particular according to the inductive, capacitive or the eddy current principle, wherein the sensor (3) comprises a measurement device (4), characterized in that the measurement device (4) is formed by at least two measurement elements (5, 5?, 5?) which are spatially separated from each other. Moreover, a corresponding sensor (3) is indicated.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON MESSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Reinhold Hoenicka, Tobias Schopf, Jakob Stieß
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Patent number: 11313664Abstract: The present invention relates to a measuring device for determining the thickness of a dielectric layer on a conductive substrate. The device comprises a resonance cavity for electromagnetic fields which has a rotationally symmetrical wall, an end plate and an open end and is adapted to be positioned with the open end on the dielectric layer. The device further comprises an antenna which is adapted to excite an electro-magnetic field in the resonance cavity, a reflection measuring unit for determining at least one property of the electromagnetic field and an evaluation circuit for determining the thickness of the dielectric layer from the at least one property of the electromagnetic field. A diameter of the rotationally symmetrical wall varies in a longitudinal direction of the resonance cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Christian Ziep, Maik Richter, Johann Hinken
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Patent number: 11198391Abstract: A crane control for a crane includes a visualization apparatus which is adapted to generate a stereoscopically visualized camera image having depth information of a working environment of the crane for an operator of the crane control. The visualization apparatus is configured to generate in a representation overlying the camera image a graphic auxiliary representation representing a dimension which can be recognized per se in the camera image. Furthermore, the visualization apparatus includes a display device which displays the stereoscopically visualized camera image together with the overlying graphic auxiliary representation.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: EPSILON Kran GmbHInventors: Josef Leitner, Martin Galler
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Publication number: 20210381026Abstract: The present invention provides an improved immuno-PCR method by using cDNA display comprising the steps of: immobilizing a first antibody having a binding site to a solid phase: contacting a sample fluid to said antibody to bind a target molecule in said sample fluid; contacting said target molecule to a cDNA display being composed of a backbone being composed of a double strand and a side chain having a second antigen binding site to which the second antibody is bound; and conducting polymerase chain reaction to detect said cDNA quantitatively. According to the improved immune-PCR method of the present invention, the target molecule is screened and obtained quantitatively, because it uses cDNA display being composed of one protein/peptide and one DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicants: EPSILON MOLECULAR ENGINEERING INC., Saitama UniversityInventors: Naoto Nemoto, Hironori Anzai, Takeru Suzuki, Shigefumi Kumachi, Takuya Terai
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Patent number: 11125550Abstract: A method of optically measuring a surface of a measurement object is disclosed. The method includes generating image light having an image pattern, projecting the generated image light onto the measurement object, and recording influenced light having an influenced image pattern. The image light is generated by an image generation device and the influenced light is captured by a capturing device. The influenced light is light that is reflected, scattered, diffracted, and/or transmitted by the measurement object based on interaction of the image light with the measurement object. The method further includes applying a correcting function to the image light. The correction function alters the image light such that the influenced image pattern recorded by the capturing device shows temporally and/or locally an at least approximately constant and/or homogenous and/or linear brightness. A device having an image generation device, image capture device, and correcting device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON MESSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Hannes Loferer, Reiner Kickingereder, Josef Reitberger, Rainer Hesse, Robert Wagner
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Patent number: 11110701Abstract: A main body of doctor blade chambers including a first portion configured to hold a first doctor blade, a second portion configured to hold a second doctor blade, a third portion connecting the first portion and the second portion, a cavity intended to receive ink and defined at least by the first portion, the second portion and the third portion, characterized in that the main body is a single closed hollow profile extending along a longitudinal main axis X-X, the main body being made of pultruded composite material.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignees: BOBST LYON, EPSILON COMPOSITEInventors: René Bazin, Philippe Fleury, Julien Mattrand, Steve Peter Daniel Willems
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Patent number: 11098753Abstract: An end piece suitable for forming a spacer for a roll having two concentric tubes with axis, including spokes connecting two inner and outer cylindrical portions, and is where a fluid circuit originating from the center towards the periphery includes a first circumferential groove arranged in the inner cylindrical portion and a second circumferential groove arranged in the outer cylindrical portion connected by at least one pipe, such that the end piece makes it possible to reduce the weight of the roll by approximately 20%, to facilitate the balancing of the roll while ensuring accessibility to the inside of the roll between the two tubes and to enable easy mounting without indexing due to the circumferential grooves, and where the end piece with spokes enables access to the inside of the roll when it is mounted and thus enables both more accurate balancing than with solid end pieces that require the piercing of the outer tube and the invisibility of this balancing from the outside of the roll.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: EPSILON COMPOSITEInventors: Yann Chaumet, Yann Barbot
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Patent number: 11095061Abstract: An electrical plug connector for a coaxial or triaxial cable, wherein the cable includes an internal conductor, a first shielding conductor surrounding the internal conductor and extending coaxially with it, and optionally a second shielding conductor surrounding the first shielding conductor. The plug connector has a connector body, which includes an internal conductor contact element designed as a plug, socket, or coupling, for contacting with the internal conductor, an internal shield contact element provided for contacting with the first shielding conductor, and optionally an external shield contact element provided for contacting with the second shielding conductor. The connector body is configured such that the contact elements in the mounted condition of the plug connector are arranged on the cable such that a maximum diameter of the connector body is less than or equal to the outer diameter of the cable or only slightly larger than the outer diameter of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON MESSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Benedikt Biller, Norbert Reindl
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Patent number: 11092432Abstract: The disclosure relates to a reference plate for calibrating and/or checking a deflectometry sensor system, said deflectometry sensor system including an image generation device and a capturing device having at least one capturing element, wherein the reference plate includes a reflective surface, and wherein, for the purpose of checking at least one system parameter of said deflectometry sensor system, the reflective surface is provided with a predefined pattern including markings. A corresponding method for calibrating and/or checking a deflectometry sensor system is moreover indicated.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON MESSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Stephan Zweckinger, Josef Hochleitner, Hannes Loferer, Robert Wagner, Rainer Hesse
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Patent number: 11003789Abstract: The invention relates to a data isolation system for targeted services. The system includes separate ID management systems used by data holders, service providers and additional parties. The ID management systems reconcile IDs between the systems without sending restricted information from a data holder or other party. In some embodiments, the system may reconcile separate third party IDs to determine common people or entities represented by the IDs.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Epsilon Data Management, LLCInventors: Neeraj Aggarwal, Dax Michael Bays, Edgar Denny, Ilya G. Ehrlich, Michael Henry Hurley
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Patent number: 10987836Abstract: A method for overmolding a thermoplastic tip onto a hollow profile member made of thermosetting composite and to an assembly including a thermosetting profile member and a thermoplastic tip, wherein it includes machining the shape of the profile member made of thermosetting composite on the injection region; positioning a cap in the profile member; thermally conditioning the profile assembly and the cap; and injecting the tip with thermoplastic composite in order to create the junction of the profile member, the cap and the tip.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignees: EPSILON COMPOSITE, SOMOCAPInventors: Stéphane Lull, Ambroise Latron, Fabrice Sorhouet, Jérôme Nadeau, Thomas Clerc
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Patent number: 10968083Abstract: A crane includes an image acquisition system arranged to be raised and lowered by a lifting device for acquisition of a region of a crane environment. The image acquisition system is arranged on a jib that extends straight, of the lifting device. The image acquisition system is moveable upwardly by an extension of the jib from a lift column and is lowerable by retraction of the jib into the lift column into a transport position in which the jib is disposed substantially completely in the lift column and the image acquisition system is moved towards the lift column. The image acquisition system is arranged on a tip of the jib forming a highest point of the jib.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: EPSILON KRAN GMBHInventors: Simon Schoerghofer, Martin Galler
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Publication number: 20210079381Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for identifying antibody CDR3 clusters using high speed in vitro screening a library selected from the group consisting of cDNA library and nucleic acid aptamer library comprising: (i) preparing a positive spherical shaped structure by binding a target molecule to a spherical shaped molecule, wherein the target molecule is immobilized on the positive spherical shaped structure, wherein the positive spherical shaped structure may contain a fluorescent label; (ii) preparing a negative spherical shaped structure, wherein the target molecule is not immobilized on the negative spherical shaped structure, wherein the negative spherical shaped structure may contain a fluorescent label; (iii) forming a positive spherical shaped conjugate or a negative spherical shaped conjugate by binding a target detecting molecule capable of binding to the target molecule to the positive spherical shaped structure or to the negative spherical structure, wherein the targetType: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: EPSILON MOLECULAR ENGINEERING INC.Inventors: Naoto NEMOTO, Toshiki MIYAJIMA, Yuta MATSUKAWA