Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nishida
Hiroshi Nishida 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: 20240148839Abstract: Disclosed is a serum albumin-thioredoxin fusion body which is improved in the activity thereof and is stable with respect to the activity. The serum albumin-thioredoxin fusion body is provided, which is characterized in that the thioredoxin is a modified from in which at least a cysteine residue located at position 73 from the N-terminal of an amino acid sequence for the thioredoxin or located at a position equivalent to the position 73 is substituted by another amino acid residue. the modified serum albumin-thioredoxin fusion body is superior in the activity and stability thereof, is reduced in immunogenicity and has superior safety compared with a fusion body in which the thioredoxin is non-modified form.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Junichi MATSUDA, Kento NISHIDA, Masaki HIRASHIMA, Toru MARUYAMA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Hitoshi MAEDA
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Patent number: 11977344Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which a toner container is detachably mountable includes a mounting portion to which the toner container is detachably mountable and which includes a receiving port for receiving toner supplied from the toner container, a passage for permitting passing of the toner received through the receiving port and provided with a through hole, and a filter portion provided so as to cover the through hole and for permitting passing of air; and an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the toner received through the receiving port. At least a part of the through hole overlaps with the receiving port as viewed in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a direction of gravitation.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinjiro Toba, Hiroshi Takarada, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Goshi Ozaki, Sohta Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Sato, Shinichi Nishida, Yuichi Fukui, Yukio Kubo
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Publication number: 20230361489Abstract: A radiating electrode is disposed with a space from a ground conductor plate included in a substrate, in a thickness direction of the substrate. A dielectric member is loaded on the radiating electrode. The dielectric member includes two dielectric block portions disposed with a distance in an excitation direction of the radiating electrode. The two dielectric block portions are disposed across a geometric center of the radiating electrode in plan view, and, in plan view, a portion of each of the two dielectric block portions overlaps a portion of the radiating electrode and a remaining portion of each of the two dielectric block portions is disposed outside the radiating electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIDA
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Patent number: 11554664Abstract: A drive force distribution method and a drive force distribution control device is provided for a front and rear wheel drive vehicle provided with a drive force distribution device that controls a distribution of a drive force generated by a drive force source to main drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels. A present distribution of the drive force to an auxiliary drive wheel side is increased by a first predetermined amount upon determining the rotational speed difference between the rotational speeds of the main drive wheels and the auxiliary drive wheels has been determined to not be smaller than a predetermined rotational speed difference. The present distribution of the drive force to the auxiliary drive wheel side is reduced by a second predetermined amount when the rotational speed difference has been determined to be smaller than the predetermined rotational speed difference.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Hiroi, Hiroshi Nishida
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Publication number: 20220258603Abstract: A drive force distribution method and a drive force distribution control device is provided for a front and rear wheel drive vehicle provided with a drive force distribution device that controls a distribution of a drive force generated by a drive force source to main drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels. A present distribution of the drive force to an auxiliary drive wheel side is increased by a first predetermined amount upon determining the rotational speed difference between the rotational speeds of the main drive wheels and the auxiliary drive wheels has been determined to not be smaller than a predetermined rotational speed difference. The present distribution of the drive force to the auxiliary drive wheel side is reduced by a second predetermined amount when the rotational speed difference has been determined to be smaller than the predetermined rotational speed difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2019Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Daisuke HIROI, Hiroshi NISHIDA
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Publication number: 20210242602Abstract: An antenna device includes a substrate, a first ground layer, a radiation electrode, and waveguide structures. Each of the waveguide structures has a slit and a conductor wall. The slit is positioned in an electric field direction of the radiation electrode and provided in the first ground layer. The conductor wall surrounds the slit and extends in a thickness direction of the substrate. A dimension of the waveguide structure in a magnetic field direction in plan view is greater than ½ of a wavelength of a radio wave emitted by the radiation electrode in a medium of the substrate. A length from the slit to a terminal portion of the waveguide structure is about ¼ of a wavelength of the radio wave emitted by the radiation electrode in the waveguide structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIDA
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Patent number: 11064024Abstract: A distributed data system divides an original file into N different block files and distributes the block files to a number of servers of N or more in a distributed manner. The distributed data system includes an encoding unit configured to separate the original file into pieces of data at the same interval, separate the separated pieces of data into N pieces again, respectively multiply the N pieces of data which are separated again by coefficients corresponding to servers to which the pieces of data are to be distributed, and total the values to compress data into one piece of data, and a decoding unit configured to acquire a linear equation for collecting and decoding encoded data from the selected N servers, and obtaining the N block files from the respective servers.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: ASJ INC.Inventor: Hiroshi Nishida
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Publication number: 20210203718Abstract: A distributed data system divides an original file into N different block files and distributes the block files to a number of servers of N or more in a distributed manner. The distributed data system includes an encoding unit configured to separate the original file into pieces of data at the same interval, separate the separated pieces of data into N pieces again, respectively multiply the N pieces of data which are separated again by coefficients corresponding to servers to which the pieces of data are to be distributed, and total the values to compress data into one piece of data, and a decoding unit configured to acquire a linear equation for collecting and decoding encoded data from the selected N servers, and obtaining the N block files from the respective servers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2017Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: ASJ INC.Inventor: Hiroshi Nishida
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Patent number: 11050158Abstract: A Luneburg antenna device includes a dielectric lens and an array antenna. The dielectric lens is a laminate of a plurality of disc members having distribution of permittivity varying with respect to its radial direction. Each of the disc members includes a planar section in which a thickness dimension of a radially outer area is smaller than a thickness dimension of a radially inner area and a fin section which extends in a radial manner from a central portion of the planar section toward a radially outer side and in which a radially inner area and a radially outer area have the same thickness dimension.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Nishida, Ryoichi Kubo
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Patent number: 10944810Abstract: A system includes a device and one or more information processing apparatuses. The device includes a device-information generator configured to generate device information on the device; and an analyzer determining unit configured to determine any one of the device and the one or more information processing apparatuses as an analyzer for the device information. The one determined as the analyzer includes an analysis unit configured to perform an analysis based on the device information; and a service determining unit configured to determine a service to the device based on a result of the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Ueda, Takenori Oku, Hiroshi Nishida, Satoshi Hatanaka, Takeyoshi Sekine, Yasushi Nakazato, Fumihiro Nagano, Tetsutaro Oishi, Kazuho Satoh
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Patent number: 10832226Abstract: A system includes: an apparatus information acquiring unit to acquire, from an apparatus, apparatus information regarding the apparatus; an analysis unit to make an analysis based on the acquired apparatus information; and a service determining unit to determine, on the basis of a result of the analysis, which service of a plurality of services should be provided for the apparatus, the services including a first service of additionally performing maintenance based on the result of the analysis when next other maintenance is performed for the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuhiko Nakajima, Eiichi Katoh, Hiroshi Nishida
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Publication number: 20200136262Abstract: A Luneburg antenna device includes a dielectric lens and an array antenna. The dielectric lens is a laminate of a plurality of disc members having distribution of permittivity varying with respect to its radial direction. Each of the disc members includes a planar section in which a thickness dimension of a radially outer area is smaller than a thickness dimension of a radially inner area and a fin section which extends in a radial manner from a central portion of the planar section toward a radially outer side and in which a radially inner area and a radially outer area have the same thickness dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Hiroshi NISHIDA, Ryoichi KUBO
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Patent number: 10597375Abstract: A novel ?-halogen-substituted thiophene compound or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, which has a potent LPA receptor-antagonist activity and is useful as a medicament is provided. A compound represented by the general formula (I) wherein A represents, a phenyl ring, a thiophene ring, or an isothiazole ring; R1 is the same or different, and represents a halogen atom, or a C1-C3 alkyl group; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, or a C1-C6 alkyl group; p represents an integer of 0 to 5; V represents CR3 wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom, an amino group, a nitro group, or a C1-C3 alkoxy group, or V represents a nitrogen atom; and X represents a halogen atom, or a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Noriaki Iwase, Hiroshi Nishida, Makoto Okudo, Masaaki Ito, Shigeyuki Kono, Masaaki Matoyama, Shigeru Ushiyama, Eiji Okanari, Hirofumi Matsunaga, Kenji Nishikawa, Tomio Kimura
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Patent number: 10530322Abstract: A resonant circuit includes a first inductor and a first capacitor which define a first series circuit and a second inductor connected in parallel to the first series circuit. The first inductor and the second inductor are coupled via a magnetic field in a direction in which magnetic fluxes passing through the inductor and the second inductor strengthen each other to effectively increase steepness in a transient band.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Nishida, Kenichi Ishizuka
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Patent number: 10348265Abstract: A transformer-type phase shifter or a phase-shift circuit includes a first coil and a second coil that is magnetically coupled to the first coil with a coupling coefficient of less than 1, a transformer including a parallel inductance component and a series inductance component, and an impedance adjustment circuit including a reactance element that performs impedance adjustment for the transformer, thus being advantageous in reducing the size, loss, and frequency dependency of the phase-shift amount.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Ishizuka, Hiroshi Nishida
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Patent number: 10333198Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes a conductive radiating element, a conductive member, and a first impedance circuit. The first impedance circuit includes a first parallel resonant circuit (an LC parallel resonant circuit) and is directly connected between the radiating element and the conductive member (the conductor plate). Since the first parallel resonant circuit has high impedance in its resonant frequency band and is equivalently in an open state, one end of the radiating element is opened in the resonant frequency band. Accordingly, the radiating element defines and functions as a standing-wave antenna that contributes to electric-field radiation and a loop portion including the radiating element, the conductive member, and the first impedance circuit defines and functions as a magnetic-field radiation antenna that contributes to magnetic-field radiation.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromitsu Ito, Hiroshi Nishida, Kunihiro Komaki
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Patent number: 10228888Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses for determining lifetimes of components, to be replaced by preventive maintenance, of respective electric devices. The information processing system includes a leading variable specifying unit configured to specify, based on variables that represent use states of the electric devices and failure data of the electric devices which have been obtained from the electric devices, a plurality of leading variables relevant to the lifetimes of the components; a lifetime matrix creating unit configured to classify a plurality of values of each of the leading variables into sections to create a lifetime matrix in which the lifetimes of the components are set with respect to combinations of the sections each of which relates to a different leading variable; and a lifetime outputting unit configured to determine the lifetimes of the components with respect to the respective electric devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takeyoshi Sekine, Takenori Oku, Hiroshi Nishida, Satoshi Hatanaka, Kenji Ueda, Yasushi Nakazato, Fumihiro Nagano, Yuuji Nagamatsu, Ryusuke Mase
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Patent number: 10181644Abstract: An antenna circuit includes a radiation conductor, a matching circuit disposed between a feeding port in the radiation conductor and a feeder circuit, and a frequency-characteristics adjusting circuit connected between a frequency-characteristics adjustment port in the radiation conductor and a ground and including a variable reactance circuit. The matching circuit includes a first inductance element connected in shunt. The frequency-characteristics adjusting circuit includes a second inductance element. The first inductance element and the second inductance element are magnetically coupled to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Nishida, Kenichi Ishizuka
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Phase shifter, impedance matching circuit, multi/demultiplexer, and communication terminal apparatus
Patent number: 10079587Abstract: A phase shifter includes a transformer connected between a first port and a second port and including a first coil and a second coil that is magnetically coupled to the first coil, the transformer including a parasitic inductance component; and an impedance adjustment circuit including a reactance element that suppresses a deviation in impedance due to the parasitic inductance component of the transformer. A coupling coefficient between the first coil and the second coil of the transformer and a value of the reactance element of the impedance adjustment circuit are determined such that a phase-shift amount changes in accordance with a frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Ishizuka, Hiroshi Nishida -
Publication number: 20180258062Abstract: A novel ?-halogen-substituted thiophene compound or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, which has a potent LPA receptor-antagonist activity and is useful as a medicament is provided. A compound represented by the general formula (I) wherein A represents, a phenyl ring, a thiophene ring, or an isothiazole ring; R1 is the same or different, and represents a halogen atom, or a C1-C3 alkyl group; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, or a C1-C6 alkyl group; p represents an integer of 0 to 5; V represents CR3 wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom, an amino group, a nitro group, or a C1-C3 alkoxy group, or V represents a nitrogen atom; and X represents a halogen atom, or a salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Noriaki IWASE, Hiroshi NISHIDA, Makoto OKUDO, Masaaki ITO, Shigeyuki KONO, Masaaki MATOYAMA, Shigeru USHIYAMA, Eiji OKANARI, Hirofumi MATSUNAGA, Kenji NISHIKAWA, Tomio KIMURA