Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Tsuji
Hirokazu Tsuji 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: 20170124778Abstract: An in-vehicle electronic control unit disposed in a vehicle is equipped with (i) a fault-diagnosis function for diagnosing a fault of a component in the vehicle and (ii) a deterioration detector function for detecting a degree of deterioration of the component in the vehicle, which includes a deterioration information memory for memorizing deterioration information regarding a deterioration of each of the vehicle components, a deterioration checker for detecting whether the degree of deterioration has reached a check value for each of the vehicle components, and a recorder for recording the deterioration information of the component in the deterioration information memory when the degree of deterioration of the component has reached the check value. Thereby, the deterioration information of the component is storable at a component-worn timing when the degree of deterioration/wear of the subject component rises to a certain level.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventor: Hirokazu TSUJI
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Patent number: 9080197Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a medical drug, a food and drink having a role in regulating the concentration of equol in vivo and being capable of taking for a long time with high safety and provide a selective medium for a microorganism having conversion ability to equol and a method of detecting the same. Provided are an equol concentration-raising or reducing agent containing a carbohydrate as an active ingredient; use of a carbohydrate for producing the equol concentration-raising or reducing agent; a method of raising or reducing the concentration of equol by administrating a carbohydrate in an effective dose; a selective medium containing a carbohydrate for a microorganism having conversion ability to equol; and a method of detecting a microorganism having conversion ability to equol by use of the selective medium.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Koji Nomoto, Hideyuki Akaza
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Patent number: 8420073Abstract: The present invention is directed to a microorganism having an ability of converting daidzein to equol in 24 hours of 50% or higher; a food/beverage or pharmaceutical composition containing the microorganism; an equol production method employing the microorganism; and a nucleic acid fragment which can specifically detect the microorganism.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult HonshaInventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Koji Nomoto, Kaoru Moriyama, Hideyuki Akaza
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Patent number: 8315778Abstract: A first judgment circuit and a second judgment circuit are adapted to set a judging signal high when a judgment data sent from a microprocessor indicates failure. The high level judging signal triggers a forced idle command connected to a motor driver, to be high level whereby the motor is forcibly suspended. Subsequently, when a reset command is accidentally transmitted by the microprocessor due to an unexpected fault, a first judging signal from the first judgment circuit is reset to low level. However, a second judging signal from the second judgment circuit remains high level. As a result, the forced idle command stays high level.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Toshio Nishimura, Hirotaka Kunibe, Yoshiyasu Futamura, Shoukichi Hosoe, Hirokazu Tsuji, Akira Ito, Tokutada Takahashi, Takamasa Oguri
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Publication number: 20110318309Abstract: The present invention is directed to a microorganism having an ability of converting daidzein to equol in 24 hours of 50% or higher; a food/beverage or pharmaceutical composition containing the microorganism; an equol production method employing the microorganism; and a nucleic acid fragment which can specifically detect the microorganism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Koji Nomoto, Kaoru Moriyama, Hideyuki Akaza
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Publication number: 20110153180Abstract: A first judgment circuit and a second judgment circuit are adapted to set a judging signal high when a judgment data sent from a microprocessor indicates failure. The high level judging signal triggers a forced idle command connected to a motor driver, to be high level whereby the motor is forcibly suspended. Subsequently, when a reset command is accidentally transmitted by the microprocessor due to an unexpected fault, a first judging signal from the first judgment circuit is reset to low level. However, a second judging signal from the second judgment circuit remains high level. As a result, the forced idle command stays high level.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio NISHIMURA, Hirotaka Kunibe, Yoshiyasu Futamura, Shoukichi Hosoe, Hirokazu Tsuji, Akira Ito, Tokutada Takahashi, Takamasa Oguri
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Patent number: 7794763Abstract: The present invention provides a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium, which can exhibit a high viability in the storage under agitation and can produce a fermented food containing a large number of viable bacterial count. The present invention further provides a fermented food, which contains the bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium and exhibits various physiological effects such as inhibitory action against harmful intestinal bacteria and intestinal function controlling effects. The present invention further provides a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium having a rate of viability of 30% or more, when the bacterium is stored in the aerobic condition under agitation at 10° C. for 14 days after culturing in a medium containing milk as a main ingredient until obtaining a viable count of 1×108 cfu/ml or more, and fermented food using the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult HonshaInventors: Masaki Serata, Hirokazu Tsuji, Koichiro Sonoike
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Patent number: 7603288Abstract: The photo laboratory management system manages a photo laboratory utilizing a digital photo print system and includes an order entry function of receiving an order from a customer by receiving order information that includes at least identification information of the customer, a type and a form of an original image from the customer, a type, a form, and a number of copies of an output image ordered by the customer, an order management function of managing the order information received from the customer and a workflow management function of managing a schedule according to which the order received from the customer is to be processed, and predicting a time required for finishing the output image ordered by the customer. Productivity in the digital photo print system can be improved and order automation is possible. The time required to process the order can be automatically estimated.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Jae-Jung Chang, Steven S. Loehnert, Yoshihiro Adachi, Shuji Kuhara, Hirokazu Tsuji
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Publication number: 20090253643Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a medical drug, a food and drink having a role in regulating the concentration of equal in vivo and being capable of taking for a long time with high safety and provide a selective medium for a microorganism having conversion ability to equal and a method of detecting the same. Provided are an equal concentration-raising or reducing agent containing a carbohydrate as an active ingredient; use of a carbohydrate for producing the equal concentration-raising or reducing agent; a method of raising or reducing the concentration of equal by administrating a carbohydrate in an effective dose; a selective medium containing a carbohydrate for a microorganism having conversion ability to equal; and a method of detecting a microorganism having conversion ability to equal by use of the selective medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2006Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Koji Nomoto, Hideyuki Akaza
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Publication number: 20090170078Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of quantitating or detecting a microorganism, capable of detecting a live microorganism at high sensitivity and more precisely. A method of quantitating a microorganism of interest, using as an index the amount of rRNA of the microorganism of interest is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2006Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Kazunori Matsuda, Takashi Asahara, Koji Nomoto, Mayumi Kiwaki
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Patent number: 7510735Abstract: A Bifidobacterium that is resistant to acid and bile and which retains at least 20% viability after acid and bile treatment. Foods and drinks containing an acid- and bile-resistant Bifidobacterium. Methods for providing viable Bifidobacteria to the intestine after ingestion of a food or drink containing an acid- and bile-resistant Bifidobacterium.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult HonshaInventors: Yasuhisa Shimakawa, Masaki Serata, Hirokazu Tsuji, Koichiro Sonoike, Akimitsu Takagi, Mika Miura, Fumiyasu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20050031735Abstract: The present invention provides a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium, which can exhibit a high viability in the storage under agitation and can produce a fermented food containing a large number of viable bacterial count. The present invention further provides a fermented food, which contains the bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium and exhibits various physiological effects such as inhibitory action against harmful intestinal bacteria and intestinal function controlling effects. The present invention further provides a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium having a rate of viability of 30% or more, when the bacterium is stored in the aerobic condition under agitation at 10° C. for 14 days after culturing in a medium containing milk as a main ingredient until obtaining a viable count of 1×108 cfu/ml or more, and fermented food using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2002Publication date: February 10, 2005Inventors: Masaki Serata, Hirokazu Tsuji, Koichiro Sonoike
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Publication number: 20040059635Abstract: The photo laboratory management system manages a photo laboratory utilizing a digital photo print system and includes an order entry function of receiving an order from a customer by receiving order information that includes at least identification information of the customer, a type and a form of an original image from the customer, a type, a form, and a number of copies of an output image ordered by the customer, an order management function of managing the order information received from the customer and a workflow management function of managing a schedule according to which the order received from the customer is to be processed, and predicting a time required for finishing the output image ordered by the customer. Productivity in the digital photo print system can be improved and order automation is possible. The time required to process the order can be automatically estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-Jung Chang, Steven S. Loehnert, Yoshihiro Adachi, Shuji Kuhara, Hirokazu Tsuji
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Publication number: 20040052902Abstract: Provided is a method of assessing the extent to which Bifidobacterium bacteria in a Bifidobacterium-bacteria-containing fermented milk food or drink reach the intestines when the food or drink is orally administered to human beings, which comprises subjecting the fermented milk food or drink to successive treatments with an acid and bile, and measuring the bacterial viability after the treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Yasuhisa Shimakawa, Masaki Serata, Hirokazu Tsuji, Koichiro Sonoike, Akimitsu Takagi, Mika Miura, Fumiyasu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6521060Abstract: The improved filler metal for use in the welding of Ni—Cr—W alloys that are excellent in high-temperature strength and corrosion resistance and which are used in the hot-zone structures of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, gas turbines, etc comprises on a mass basis C≦0.05%, Mn≦0.1%, Si≦0.1% (Mn+Si≦0.1%), Cr=17-20%, W=20-23% (Cr+W=39-43%), Ti=0.02-0.1%, Zr≦0.03%, Y≦0.015%, B=0.0003-0.01%, Al≦0.1%, Mg≦0.05%, Nb≦0.06% (10Zr+10B+5Nb+2Y≦0.3%), the balance being Ni and incidental impurities.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2000Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignees: Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nippon Welding Rod Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Kurata, Hirokazu Tsuji, Hajime Nakajima, Masami Shindo, Teiichiro Saito, Tamao Takatsu
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Patent number: 6351655Abstract: A telephone apparatus includes a display unit and a storage unit for storing a plurality of registration data sets randomly registered. Each of the plurality of registration data sets includes a destination name and a phone number of the destination. A grouping section groups the plurality of registration data sets into blocks. Also, a display control section controls the display unit such that at least a part of each of the plurality of registration data sets is displayed in units of blocks in a display mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1999Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Tsutomu Okawa
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Patent number: 6313923Abstract: An operator can freely and easily designate a region, which the operator wishes to extract as an image to be outputted from an image, by designating the position and size of a region setting frame by using an enlargement/reduction handle. Accordingly, no carrier or mask is required for this purpose, and the number of parts required can be reduced. Operability at the time of cropping an image can also be improved greatly. Further, by operating rotation buttons and 90°-rotation keys, the operator can, with simple operations, rotate an image displayed as a test image and can freely and easily designate an image within the region setting frame, i.e., an image to be outputted.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1998Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruo Takanashi, Koichi Sugahara, Hirokazu Tsuji
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Patent number: 5528488Abstract: A TAB-type lead automatic inspection system is provided to position with high accuracy at high speed for improving reliability and productivity of inspecting.A lead positioning method used for a TAB-type lead automatic inspection system or processing system, comprising fixing a product onto a table movable in an X-axis direction and two Y-axis directions in parallel to the product mounting surface, and positioning X-axis, Y-axis and rotational angle .theta. directions, and a lead positioning device used for a TAB-type lead automatic inspection system in a highly rigid translation mechanism provided with a pair of hinges in one sheet plate comprising microfeeding piezoelectric actuators for driving a translation mechanism of one axis in the X-axis direction and two axes in the Y-axis direction, and control means for feedbacking a lead positioning sensing signal, and driving each piezoelectric actuator, thereby positioning X, Y and .theta. directions with high accuracy at high speed.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1994Date of Patent: June 18, 1996Assignee: Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: Kazuo Maruyama, Hirokazu Tsuji, Takeshi Ikegami
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Patent number: 5449490Abstract: The improved superalloy that possesses all the characteristics required of the high-temperature structural material of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (i.e., high-temperature strength, corrosion resistance, good producibility, good hot workability and resistance to embrittlement due to thermal aging) consists essentially of 16-28% Cr, 15-24% W (provided that Cr+W=39-44%), 0.01-0.1% Zr, 0.001-0.015% Y, 0.0005-0.01% B, up to 0.05% C, up to 0.1% Si, up to 0.1% Mn (provided that Si+Mn.ltoreq.0.1%), up to 0.1% Ti, up to 0.1% Al and up to 0.1% Nb (provided that Ti+Al.ltoreq.0.1% and Ti+Al+Nb.ltoreq.0.15%), with the balance being Ni and inevitable impurities and all percentages being on a weight basis.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1994Date of Patent: September 12, 1995Assignee: Japan Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Tatsuo Kondo, Hajime Nakajima, Masami Shindo, Hirokazu Tsuji, Ryohei Tanaka, Susumi Isobe, Sadao Ohta, Watanabe Rikizo
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Patent number: 5449110Abstract: A method of preparing a substrate (1) having terminal electrodes (2, 3) which are provided on its both surfaces and a through hole (4), having a conductive film (5) formed on its inner peripheral surface, provided between the terminal electrodes (2, 3), mounting a lead terminal (9) having a pair of branch portions (9a, 9b) for elastically holding said terminal electrodes (2, 3) therebetween to the substrate (1), dipping the substrate (1) in molten solder from its lower surface (1b), drawing out the substrate (1) and solidifying the molten solder, thereby soldering the lead terminal (9) to the terminal electrodes (2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1994Date of Patent: September 12, 1995Assignee: Murata Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Shigeo Yamashita, Yasuaki Ohno