Patents by Inventor Akio Iwai

Akio Iwai 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: 20240101532
    Abstract: A compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy is provided. The present inventors have conducted studies on a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy, and confirmed that a heteroaryl carboxamide compound has DGK ? (DGKzeta) inhibitory effect, leading to completion of the present invention. The heteroaryl carboxamide compound of the present invention has DGK ? inhibitory effect, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hideyuki Watanabe, Takashi Kamikubo, Akio Kamikawa, Takuya Washio, Yohei Seki, Keiichiro Okuyama, Osamu Ikeda, Hiroshi Tomiyama, Yoshinori Iwai, Akihiko Nakamura, Kozo Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 8760590
    Abstract: A control key unit attachment structure includes a control key unit, a base component, a retainer, an engagement member, a board receiver, and a positioning member. A frame of the control key unit is placed on the base component. The retainer and the base component sandwiches the frame of the control key unit in a first direction of the frame therebetween. The engagement member engages with the frame of the control key unit. The board receiver and the engagement member clamp the frame of the control key unit in a second direction of the frame therebetween. The positioning member positions the frame of the control key unit with respect to the board receiver in a third direction of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Iwai
  • Patent number: 8436950
    Abstract: A control key unit for a television receiver includes a rectangular wiring board, a key switch and a frame. The frame is configured to be attached to a cabinet of the television receiver and supports the wiring board. The frame is integrally formed as a one-piece, unitary member. The frame includes a front panel, a clamping section, a lengthwise positioning section and a lateral positioning section. The front panel has a push operated key top overlying the key switch. The clamping section clamps the wiring board in a thickness direction of the wiring board. The clamping section positions the wiring board in the thickness direction. The lengthwise positioning section positions the wiring board in a lengthwise direction of the wiring board. The lateral positioning section positions the wiring board in a width direction of the wiring board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Iwai
  • Publication number: 20120257335
    Abstract: A flat-screen display device includes a cabinet, a display module, a wall bracket, a boss and a linking member. The cabinet has front and rear cabinet components. The front and rear cabinet components define an interior of the cabinet therebetween. The wall bracket has a bolt insertion hole. The boss protrudes from the rear wall of the rear cabinet component towards the interior of the cabinet. The boss has a tubular portion and a bottom portion. The linking member couples the wall bracket to the rear wall of the rear cabinet component. The linking member has a linking bolt and a tubular nut with a male thread on an outer peripheral face of the tubular nut. The linking bolt is disposed through the bolt insertion hole of the wall bracket and fastened to the tubular nut. The tubular nut is fastened to the tubular portion of the boss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio IWAI, Shinichiro SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7886316
    Abstract: A disk unit capable of suppressing damage of a recording surface of a disk and preventing a torsion spring from coming off is obtained. This disk unit comprises a housing portion including a disk slot, a door portion mounted on the housing portion in an openable/closable manner with respect to the disk slot and a torsion spring urging the door portion in an opening direction when the opening angle of the door portion with respect to the housing portion is larger than a prescribed angle. The torsion spring is set between a first support portion of the door portion and a second support portion of the housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Iwai, Hiroki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20100045880
    Abstract: A control key unit attachment structure includes a control key unit, a base component, a retainer, an engagement member, a board receiver, and a positioning member. A frame of the control key unit is placed on the base component. The retainer and the base component sandwiches the frame of the control key unit in a first direction of the frame therebetween. The engagement member engages with the frame of the control key unit. The board receiver and the engagement member clamp the frame of the control key unit in a second direction of the frame therebetween. The positioning member positions the frame of the control key unit with respect to the board receiver in a third direction of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio IWAI
  • Publication number: 20100044201
    Abstract: A control key unit for a television receiver includes a rectangular wiring board, a key switch and a frame. The frame is configured to be attached to a cabinet of the television receiver and supports the wiring board. The frame is integrally formed as a one-piece, unitary member. The frame includes a front panel, a clamping section, a lengthwise positioning section and a lateral positioning section. The front panel has a push operated key top overlying the key switch. The clamping section clamps the wiring board in a thickness direction of the wiring board. The clamping section positions the wiring board in the thickness direction. The lengthwise positioning section positions the wiring board in a lengthwise direction of the wiring board. The lateral positioning section positions the wiring board in a width direction of the wiring board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Iwai
  • Patent number: 7365807
    Abstract: An LCD television in which a cable is fixed firmly with no possibility of loosening and the rigidity of its cabinet is enhanced. In the cabinet composed of a front cabinet and a rear cabinet, the cable extended from a speaker is passed through latch ribs in a zigzag manner on a cable path on the inside of a front wall of the front cabinet. When the front cabinet and the rear cabinet are joined, the latch ribs are engaged with latch rib receptacles. As a consequence, the cable is firmly fixed on the cable path and never comes off the latch ribs. The latch ribs engaged with the latch rib receptacles also function as reinforcement ribs to increase the rigidity of the television cabinet which constitutes an LCD television.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Iwai
  • Publication number: 20080087678
    Abstract: A recording/reproducing device includes a door member arranged on an opening of a housing and a spring member urging the door member to bring the door member into a closed state, wherein the door member includes a rotary shaft arranged on the spring member and a stop portion regularly engaged with a second end of the spring member for inhibiting the spring member arranged on the rotary shaft from coming off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ishii, Akio Iwai
  • Publication number: 20080068248
    Abstract: A remote controller, which enables secure pressing operation of operational buttons, includes a top case (10) having a plurality of through holes (12) and a plurality of operational buttons (31) exposed respectively from the through holes of the top case, so that each of the operational buttons is pressed for controlling equipment. Ribs (13) protrude from the inner surface of the top case along circumferences of the through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventor: Akio Iwai
  • Publication number: 20070019512
    Abstract: In a television set integrated with a disk unit in which the television set and the disk unit are arranged in an enclosure, the television set integrated with the disk unit is characterized in that: the television set is a flat-screen television set; the disk unit is a slot-in type DVD recorder and arranged on a rear side of the flat-screen television set; a disk insertion hole is formed in a top panel portion of the enclosure being opposed to the slot-in type DVD recorder; and an opening and closing cover for opening and closing the disk insertion hole is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Masuo Ogawa, Akio Iwai
  • Publication number: 20060277717
    Abstract: A disk unit capable of suppressing damage of a recording surface of a disk and preventing a torsion spring from coming off is obtained. This disk unit comprises a housing portion including a disk slot, a door portion mounted on the housing portion in an openable/closable manner with respect to the disk slot and a torsion spring urging the door portion in an opening direction when the opening angle of the door portion with respect to the housing portion is larger than a prescribed angle. The torsion spring is set between a first support portion of the door portion and a second support portion of the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Iwai, Hiroki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20050115735
    Abstract: An LCD television in which a cable is fixed firmly with no possibility of loosening and the rigidity of its cabinet is enhanced. In the cabinet composed of a front cabinet and a rear cabinet, the cable extended from a speaker is passed through latch ribs in a zigzag manner on a cable path on the inside of a front wall of the front cabinet. When the front cabinet and the rear cabinet are joined, the latch ribs are engaged with latch rib receptacles. As a consequence, the cable is firmly fixed on the cable path and never comes off the latch ribs. The latch ribs engaged with the latch rib receptacles also function as reinforcement ribs to increase the rigidity of the television cabinet which constitutes an LCD television.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Iwai