Patents by Inventor Eiichi Ueda
Eiichi Ueda 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).
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Publication number: 20240097540Abstract: A heating device 10 for laminated iron core has a laminated iron core 18 as an object to be processed, and performs a heat treatment on an adhesive agent applied to the iron core 18. The device 10 includes a center guide 24, and the center guide 24 is an outer diameter variable chuck mechanism of which an outer diameter is variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Eiichi KUROSAKI, Yuuma ITOU, Syuichi UEDA, Norio KAWAMI
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Patent number: 8059504Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus capable of irradiating an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers on which a signal is recorded with laser light includes a light source emitting the laser light, a light-concentrating element concentrating the laser light emitted from the light source on the optical recording medium, a phase difference element having a region divided into at least two regions which the laser light reflected by the optical recording medium enters and producing a phase difference between first light and second light reflected by a non-target layer which is not a target of recording or reproduction of the signal out of the plurality of recording layers and entering the at least two regions such that the first and the second light weaken each other, and a photodetector receiving the laser light emitted from the phase difference element.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Sony NEC Optiarc Inc.Inventors: Taku Tsuboi, Eiichi Ueda
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Patent number: 7906318Abstract: A micro-reactor for analyzing a sample, comprises (1) a plate-shaped chip; (2) a plurality of regent storage sections each having a chamber to store respective agents; (3) a regent mixing section to mix plural regents fed from the plurality of regent storage sections so as to produce a mixed reagent; (4) a sample receiving section having an injection port through which a sample is injected from outside; and (5) a reacting section to mix and react the mixed regent fed from the reagent mixing section and the sample fed from the sample receiving section. The plurality of regent storage sections, the regent mixing section, the sample receiving section and the reacting section are incorporated in the chip and are connected through flow paths, and the regent mixing section includes a feed-out preventing mechanism to prevent an initially-mixed regent from being fed out to the reacting section.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Eiichi Ueda, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Nobuhisa Ishida
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Patent number: 7682602Abstract: A near-infrared fluorescing contrast medium which exhibits superior imaging capability and is also difficult to accumulate in a living body, is disclosed, comprising a cyanine compound containing water-solubilizing groups and represented by the following formula. The imaging method by use thereof is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Nobuaki Kagawa, Takeshi Habu, Eiichi Ueda, Akihisa Nakajima
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Patent number: 7588751Abstract: A method of pereparing a rediographic contrast medium containing liposomes is disclosed, comprising (a) dissolving a phospholipid and a sterol in a supercritical or subcritical carbon dioxide in the presence of a compound containing a hydroxyl group or a polyalkyleneoxide group, (b) adding thereto an aqueous solution containing an iodine compound to form micelles and (c) discharging the carbon dioxide to form liposomal vesicles enclosing the iodine compound.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Eiichi Ueda, Akihisa Nakajima, Chiaki Nagaike, Yasuyuki Motokui
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Publication number: 20090086610Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus capable of irradiating an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers on which a signal is recorded with laser light includes a light source emitting the laser light, a light-concentrating element concentrating the laser light emitted from the light source on the optical recording medium, a phase difference element having a region divided into at least two regions which the laser light reflected by the optical recording medium enters and producing a phase difference between first light and second light reflected by a non-target layer which is not a target of recording or reproduction of the signal out of the plurality of recording layers and entering the at least two regions such that the first and the second light weaken each other, and a photodetector receiving the laser light emitted from the phase difference element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Sony NEC Optiarc Inc.Inventors: Taku TSUBOI, Eiichi Ueda
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Patent number: 7361315Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a micro-reactor, equipped with a high-precision liquid feed system of simple structure, capable of high-precision analysis of at least one item. The present invention provides a micro-reactor for biological substance inspection including a sample storage section, a reagent storage section, a sample pre-processing section, a micro-pump connecting section and a branched minute flow path. And a sample pre-processed by the sample pre-processing section is fed into the minute flow path branched off into at least two parts by a micro-pump and a liquid dividing section, and on the downstream side of each of the branched minute flow paths, the sample is fed to a flow path constituting a reaction site, and then to a flow path constituting the detection site, thereby providing simultaneous measurement of a plurality of items of a sample.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Eiichi Ueda, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Nobuhisa Ishida
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Patent number: 7147997Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer and a polymer layer, wherein the polymer layer comprises a copolymer of: (i) a fluorine containing acrylate or a fluorine containing methacrylate; and (ii) a monomer having a hydrophobic group in the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Eiichi Ueda, Shinji Kudo, Kenji Ohnuma, Chiaki Nagaike, Miyuki Teranishi
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Publication number: 20060239925Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liposome-containing preparation is disclosed, comprising (a) mixing one or more constituents of a liposome membrane, an aqueous solution of a water-soluble chemical and supercritical carbon dioxide at a temperature of 32 to 65° C. in a pressure vessel, and (b) evacuate the carbon dioxide to form an aqueous dispersion of liposomes enclosing an aqueous solution of a water-soluble chemical, wherein the constituents include at least one phospholipid exhibiting a transition temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Takeshi Wada, Eiichi Ueda, Yasuyuki Motokui
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Publication number: 20060144873Abstract: A liquid container including a container body with a thermal insulation function for storing a liquid, a lid member detachably attached to an upper end opening of the container body, and a carrying handle rotatably and detachably attached to an upper part of the container body, wherein a handle attaching part of the carrying handle is engageable with a handle mounting part of the container body to prevent the carrying handle from being detached from the container body when the carrying handle is used to hang the liquid container, and the handle attaching part of the carrying handle is releasable from the handle mounting part of the container body to permit the carrying handle to be detached from the container body when the carrying handle is not used to hang the liquid container.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: July 6, 2006Applicant: Tiger CorporationInventors: Shozo Ohashi, Eiichi Ueda
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Publication number: 20060094004Abstract: A micro reactor for inspecting a biological material, comprising: a first substrate on which a minute flow path is formed; a second substrate laminated on the first substrate so as to cover the minute flow path; a detection section provided on the minute flow path formed between the first and second substrates so as to inspect a liquid mixture of a sample and a reagent; (4) an opening section formed at a region on the second substrate corresponding to the detection section so as to irradiate inspection light to the liquid mixture arriving the detection; and (5) a transparent member to cover the opening section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Eiichi Ueda, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Nobuhisa Ishida, Youichi Aoki
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Publication number: 20060088451Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a micro-reactor, equipped with a high-precision liquid feed system of simple structure, capable of high-precision analysis of at least one item. The present invention provides a micro-reactor for biological substance inspection including a sample storage section, a reagent storage section, a sample pre-processing section, a micro-pump connecting section and a branched minute flow path. And a sample pre-processed by the sample pre-processing section is fed into the minute flow path branched off into at least two parts by a micro-pump and a liquid dividing section, and on the downstream side of each of the branched minute flow paths, the sample is fed to a flow path constituting a reaction site, and then to a flow path constituting the detection site, thereby providing simultaneous measurement of a plurality of items of a sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: April 27, 2006Inventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Eiichi Ueda, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Nobuhisa Ishida
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Publication number: 20060088929Abstract: The invention provides gene-inspecting micro-reactor for detecting a bacterial cell wherein flexibility and high sensitivity are secured, low cost by a disposable type is realized, highly accurate detection is possible in a simple structure, and preliminary processing suitable for amplification reaction can be done for specimen efficiently and rapidly. After lysing a bacterial cell in the specimen by bacteriolysis reagent stored in bacteriolysis reagent storage section 3, and after adsorbing bacterial genes on carriers filled in carrier filling section 4, there is conducted preliminary processing for washing and detecting bacterial genes. Further, there are provided a control means that switches the direction of liquid-feeding for a liquid containing bacterial genes fed to carrier filling section 4, a check valve, amplified reagent storage section 7 and a cooling means such as Pertier element that cools reagent mixing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: April 27, 2006Inventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Eiichi Ueda, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Nobuhisa Ishida
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Patent number: 6994268Abstract: A heat accumulator for vehicle use, attached to a vehicle, has a double tank structure composed of an outer tank and an inner tank, a space formed between the outer tank and the inner tank being maintained as a vacuum, the outer tank and the inner tank each have an opening on a bottom face, the opening of the outer tank and that of the inner tank are joined to each other at the entire peripheries of the openings, preventing means for preventing fatigue failure from starting at the joining portion being provided at a portion extending from the opening to at least a side of the outer tank.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2003Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignees: DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Tiger CorporationInventors: Kenichi Maruyama, Kazuya Murata, Koichi Ban, Toshio Morikawa, Shigetaka Yoshikawa, Eiichi Ueda
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Publication number: 20060018828Abstract: A method of pereparing a rediographic contrast medium containing liposomes is disclosed, comprising (a) dissolving a phospholipid and a sterol in a supercritical or subcritical carbon dioxide in the presence of a compound containing a hydroxyl group or a polyalkyleneoxide group, (b) adding thereto an aqueous solution containing an iodine compound to form micelles and (c) discharging the carbon dioxide to form liposomal vesicles enclosing the iodine compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Inventors: Eiichi Ueda, Akihisa Nakajima, Chiaki Nagaike, Yasuyuki Motokui
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Patent number: 6980505Abstract: In an optical head apparatus including a first light source for emitting a first light beam having a first wavelength, a second light source for emitting a second light beam having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, an objective lens, a photodetector, and first and second optical combining/splitting elements, the first optical combining/splitting element receives the first light beam from the first light source to outgo most of the first light beam therefrom to the second optical combining/splitting element and receives the first and second light beams from the second optical combining/splitting element to outgo most of the first and second light beams therefrom to the photodetector.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2002Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Katayama, Eiichi Ueda, Taku Tsuboi
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Publication number: 20050272144Abstract: A micro-reactor is provided with a flow jointing section to joint flows of at least two kinds of liquids including a reacting reagent by feeding the two kinds of liquids with a micro pump; a mixing flow path connected to a downstream end of the flow jointing section so as to diffuse and mix the liquids; and a reaction advancing section to advance the reaction among the mixed liquids.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sando, Eiichi Ueda, Akihisa Nakajima, Kusunoki Higashino, Nobuhisa Ishida
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Publication number: 20050250200Abstract: A micro-reactor for analyzing a sample, comprises (1) a plate-shaped chip; (2) a plurality of regent storage sections each having a chamber to store respective agents; (3) a regent mixing section to mix plural regents fed from the plurality of regent storage sections so as to produce a mixed reagent; (4) a sample receiving section having an injection port through which a sample is injected from outside; and (5) a reacting section to mix and react the mixed regent fed from the reagent mixing section and the sample fed from the sample receiving section. The plurality of regent storage sections, the regent mixing section, the sample receiving section and the reacting section are incorporated in the chip and are connected through flow paths, and the regent mixing section includes a feed-out preventing mechanism to prevent an initially-mixed regent from being fed out to the reacting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Eiichi Ueda, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Nobuhisa Ishida
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Publication number: 20050136007Abstract: A near-infrared fluorescing contrast medium which exhibits superior imaging capability and is also difficult to accumulate in a living body, is disclosed, comprising a cyanine compound containing water-solubilizing groups and represented by the following formula. The imaging method by use thereof is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2004Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: Nobuaki Kagawa, Takeshi Habu, Eiichi Ueda, Akihisa Nakajima
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Publication number: 20050084453Abstract: A radiographic contrast medium is disclosed, comprising a liposome which is comprised of vesicles including a water- and soluble nonionic iodine compound, and the contrast medium containing substantially no chlorinated solvent. There is also disclosed a method of preparing the radiographic contrast medium using supercritical or subcritical carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2004Publication date: April 21, 2005Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Eiichi Ueda, Satoshi Kawakatsu, Akihisa Nakajima, Chiaki Nagaike