Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Ito
Hitoshi Ito 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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Patent number: 11965801Abstract: A measurement system includes a measurement device including a light source, and a first power meter, and one or a plurality of connection members each configured to optically connect a pair of optical fiber lines of the plurality of optical fiber lines. A first optical fiber line of the pair of optical fiber lines includes a first end and a second end, a second optical fiber line of the pair of optical fiber lines includes a third end and a fourth end, the one or plurality of connection members optically connect the second end to the fourth end, the light source causes testing light to be incident on the first end, and the first power meter measures first intensity of first output light output from the third end by causing the testing light to propagate through the pair of optical fiber lines.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Masuda, Tomohiko Ueda, Kenichiro Otsuka, Tsuneari Ito, Tetsufumi Tsuzaki, Yoshifumi Hishikawa, Hitoshi Hatayama
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Publication number: 20240082560Abstract: A connector (1) is constituted by a first member (10) and a second member (40). The first member (10) has a male connecting portion (11) at a first end and a screwing structure (26) at a second end. The male connecting portion (11) is inserted into a female connecting portion (41) of the second member (40). A first engagement structure (15) is provided on the first member (10), and a second engagement structure (45) is provided on the second member (40) so as to be able to abut against the first engagement structure (15) in the circumferential direction. When a rotational force of a predetermined value or greater is applied to the first member (10) in a tightening direction (R1) of the screwing structure (26), one of the first engagement structure (15) and the second engagement structure (45) is plastically deformed by the other, so that the first member (10) is then rotatable in both forward and reverse directions relative to the second member (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Maho ITO, Takaya FUJII, Hitoshi TACHIZAKI, Masahiko TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20230282318Abstract: A user information management device of an embodiment includes an identifier issuance unit that issues a sample identifier for identifying a sample and a user registration identifier for identifying a user who has provided the sample, a storage unit that stores a sample identifier and a user registration identifier issued by the identifier issuance unit in association with each other, and a user information management unit that associates user information related to a user who has provided a sample identified by the sample identifier with the sample identifier in a case where the user information is provided together with the sample identifier, and associates a user identifier that is identification information of the user and is different from the user registration identifier with user information by associating the user identifier with the user registration identifier in a case where the user identifier is provided together with the user registration identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takefumi MOGAKI, Kengo NAGATA, Hitoshi ITO
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Publication number: 20230145182Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor element; a second semiconductor element; a first insulating base member adhesively bonded to the first semiconductor element; a first wiring connected to a first electrode of the first semiconductor element, and disposed on the first insulating base member; a second insulating base member adhesively bonded to the second semiconductor element, a second wiring connected to a third electrode of the second semiconductor element, and disposed on the second insulating base member; a first wiring member connected to a second electrode of the first semiconductor element; a second wiring member electrically connected to the first wiring and a fourth electrode of the second semiconductor element; and a third wiring member connected to the second wiring. A current flows in a first direction in the first wiring member, and flows in a second direction opposite to the first direction in the third wiring member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Hitoshi Ito, Kenichi Koi
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Publication number: 20230145565Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor element including a first face and a second face; a second semiconductor element including a third face and a fourth face; an insulating base member including a fifth face and a sixth face; a first wiring that penetrates through the insulating base member, and is disposed on the sixth face; a second wiring that penetrates through the insulating base member, and is disposed on the sixth face; a first wiring member that faces the second face; and a second wiring member that faces the sixth face, and is electrically connected to the second wiring. The second wiring member is bonded to the first and second wirings while the insulating base member is folded. A current flows in a first direction in the first wiring member, and flows in a second direction opposite to the first direction in the second wiring member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Kenichi Koi, Hitoshi Ito
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Publication number: 20230134463Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a clinical examination item determination device including a first determiner that estimates, based on genetic factors and nongenetic factors of the user, a disease that the user develops with high possibility and determines, for the user, as an individual item, an examination item for detecting presence or absence of the estimated disease, a second determiner that determines an examination item for detecting a disease having a high incidence rate in a first organization to which the user belongs or a disease having a high incidence rate in common in the first organization and a second organization having an attribute similar to an attribute of the first organization as a common item of people belonging to the first or second organization, and a third determiner that determines an examination item of the user based on the individual item and the common item.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takefumi MOGAKI, Kengo NAGATA, Hitoshi ITO
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Patent number: 11441465Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is disposed in an exhaust passage of an engine disposed in an engine room defined in a hull, and is configured to remove at least a nitrogen oxide from an exhaust gas discharged from the engine. The exhaust gas purification device includes: a catalytic part including a selective reducing catalyst for selectively reducing the nitrogen oxide; a reducing agent addition device configured to add a reducing agent to the exhaust gas on an upstream side of the catalytic part in a flow direction of the exhaust gas; and a casing configured to contain the catalytic part. At least a part of the casing is disposed inside the engine room.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Takehiko Kakizakai, Toshihiro Fujii, Hitoshi Ito, Akira Otaki, Tomohide Hashiguchi, Shintaro Ide
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Patent number: 11060610Abstract: A multistage shaft sealing apparatus includes a first sealing unit, a second sealing unit, and a third sealing unit provided, in a sequential order from a side of the apparatus closer to inside of the apparatus, in a fluid leakage passage formed between the rotating shaft or the rotating member and a housing located to surround the rotating shaft or the rotating member. The first sealing unit includes a first runner and a first sealing ring which form a non-contact-type sealing surface; the second sealing unit includes a second runner and a second sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface; the third sealing unit includes a third runner and a third sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface, and a purge water supply passage supplying purge water to the third sealing unit and a purge water discharge passage discharging the purge water supplied to the third sealing unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takanobu Otani, Hiroshi Kuzumi, Hiroyuki Tokumasu, Toshihiko Matsuo, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Hitoshi Ito, Yasushi Takayama, Tomoki Hanada
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Publication number: 20210172362Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is disposed in an exhaust passage of an engine disposed in an engine room defined in a hull, and is configured to remove at least a nitrogen oxide from an exhaust gas discharged from the engine. The exhaust gas purification device includes: a catalytic part including a selective reducing catalyst for selectively reducing the nitrogen oxide; a reducing agent addition device configured to add a reducing agent to the exhaust gas on an upstream side of the catalytic part in a flow direction of the exhaust gas; and a casing configured to contain the catalytic part. At least a part of the casing is disposed inside the engine room.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Takehiko KAKIZAKAI, Toshihiro FUJII, Hitoshi ITO, Akira OTAKI, Tomohide HASHIGUCHI, Shintaro IDE
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Patent number: 10688031Abstract: The present invention provides a low-toxicity sophorolipid-containing composition. The low-toxicity sophorolipid-containing composition contains at least a coloring component, an acidic sophorolipid, a fatty acid, and a hydroxy fatty acid that are derived from an SL-producing yeast culture. The composition contains the following components in the following proportions, in terms of dry weight, based on the total amount of the acidic sophorolipid, a lactonic sophorolipid, the fatty acid, and the hydroxy fatty acid in the composition taken as 100 mass %: (1) acidic sophorolipid: 94 to 99.99 mass %, (2) lactonic sophorolipid: 0 to 2 mass %, (3) total amount of fatty acid and hydroxy fatty acid: 0.01 to 4 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Saraya Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Ito, Michiaki Araki, Yoshihiko Hirata
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Publication number: 20190301607Abstract: A multistage shaft sealing apparatus includes a first sealing unit, a second sealing unit, and a third sealing unit provided, in a sequential order from a side of the apparatus closer to inside of the apparatus, in a fluid leakage passage formed between the rotating shaft or the rotating member and a housing located to surround the rotating shaft or the rotating member. The first sealing unit includes a first runner and a first sealing ring which form a non-contact-type sealing surface; the second sealing unit includes a second runner and a second sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface; the third sealing unit includes a third runner and a third sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface, and a purge water supply passage supplying purge water to the third sealing unit and a purge water discharge passage discharging the purge water supplied to the third sealing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takanobu Otani, Hiroshi Kuzumi, Hiroyuki Tokumasu, Toshihiko Matsuo, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Hitoshi Ito, Yasushi Takayama, Tomoki Hanada
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Patent number: 10311984Abstract: The shaft sealing structure includes a seal ring that has abutment portions formed by dividing the seal ring along the axial direction and that is provided around a main shaft in a ring-like manner; a support member that is provided in the seal ring along the circumferential direction of the main shaft; and a thermoswitch that is connected to the support member between the abutment portions and that presses the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during normal operation, in which the seal ring is fixed at a position separated from the main shaft during the normal operation and is moved by the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during the normal operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kentarou Saeki, Hidekazu Uehara, Akihiko Umeda, Masaru Sakai, Hiroshi Kuzumi, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Toshihiko Matsuo, Takanobu Otani, Hiroomi Sakuma, Hitoshi Ito, Yasushi Takayama, Tomoki Hanada, Yuji Harada
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Patent number: 10065982Abstract: The present invention provides a high-purity acid-form sophorolipid (SL)-containing composition characterized by substantially not containing acetic acid. The high-purity acid-form SL-containing composition can be produced, for example, by the following method: (i) adjusting the pH of a partially purified acid-form SL-containing composition to an acidic range; and (ii-a) subjecting an acidified partially purified acid-form SL-containing composition obtained in step (i) to chromatography to acquire a fraction containing an acid-form SL, or (ii-b) leaving the acidified partially purified acid-form SL-containing composition obtained in step (i) to stand under a low-temperature condition to acquire a resulting gelled object.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Saraya Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Hirata, Mizuyuki Ryu, Hitoshi Ito, Michiaki Araki
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Publication number: 20160324747Abstract: The present invention provides a low-toxicity sophorolipid-containing composition. The low-toxicity sophorolipid-containing composition contains at least a coloring component, an acidic sophorolipid, a fatty acid, and a hydroxy fatty acid that are derived from an SL-producing yeast culture. The composition contains the following components in the following proportions, in terms of dry weight, based on the total amount of the acidic sophorolipid, a lactonic sophorolipid, the fatty acid, and the hydroxy fatty acid in the composition taken as 100 mass %: (1) acidic sophorolipid: 94 to 99.99 mass %, (2) lactonic sophorolipid: 0 to 2 mass %, (3) total amount of fatty acid and hydroxy fatty acid: 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: Saraya Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Ito, Michiaki Araki, Yoshihiko Hirata
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Patent number: 9308229Abstract: A method of inhibiting angiogenesis by applying a kind of protein polysaccharide of a (1?6)-?-D-glucan obtained from a residue of extraction of crushed dried fruiting body of Agaricus blazei Murill (himematsutake) with 80% ethanol aqueous solution and hot water at 100 degrees C.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignees: Powerful Healthy Food Corporation, Sun Chlorella Corp.Inventors: Hitoshi Ito, Hiroko Itoh, Masaki Fujishima, Yukari Arakawa, Fukuyoshi Nakada
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Publication number: 20150359829Abstract: A method of inhibiting angiogenesis by applying a kind of protein polysaccharide of a (1?6)-?-D-glucan obtained from a residue of extraction of crushed dried fruiting body of Agaricus blazei Murill (himematsutake) with 80% ethanol aqueous solution and hot water at 100 degrees C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Hitoshi ITO, Hiroko ITOH, Masaki FUJISHIMA, Yukari ARAKAWA, Fukuyoshi NAKADA
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Publication number: 20150221400Abstract: The shaft sealing structure includes a seal ring that has abutment portions formed by dividing the seal ring along the axial direction and that is provided around a main shaft in a ring-like manner; a support member that is provided in the seal ring along the circumferential direction of the main shaft; and a thermoswitch that is connected to the support member between the abutment portions and that presses the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during normal operation, in which the seal ring is fixed at a position separated from the main shaft during the normal operation and is moved by the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during the normal operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kentarou Saeki, Hidekazu Uehara, Akihiko Umeda, Masaru Sakai, Hiroshi Kuzumi, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Toshihiko Matsuo, Takanobu Otani, Hiroomi Sakuma, Hitoshi Ito, Yasushi Takayama, Tomoki Hanada, Yuji Harada
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Publication number: 20150112049Abstract: The present invention provides a high-purity acid-form sophorolipid (SL)-containing composition characterized by substantially not containing acetic acid. The high-purity acid-form SL-containing composition can be produced, for example, by the following method: (i) adjusting the pH of a partially purified acid-form SL-containing composition to an acidic range; and (ii-a) subjecting an acidified partially purified acid-form SL-containing composition obtained in step (i) to chromatography to acquire a fraction containing an acid-form SL, or (ii-b) leaving the acidified partially purified acid-form SL-containing composition obtained in step (i) to stand under a low-temperature condition to acquire a resulting gelled object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: Saraya Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Hirata, Mizuyuki Ryu, Hitoshi Ito, Michiaki Araki
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Publication number: 20130345137Abstract: A method of inhibiting angiogenesis by applying a protein polysaccharide of a (1?6)-?-D-glucan with a glucan:protein ratio of 55:43 [w/w], obtained by extracting with a 5 w % aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide a residue of extraction and removal of water-soluble polysaccharides from the Agaricus blazei Murill (himematsutake) fruiting body, and a food/beverage composition for angiogenesis inhibition containing the protein polysaccharide of (1?6)-?-D-glucan.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicants: SUN CHLORELLA CORP., Powerful Healthy Food CorporationInventors: Hitoshi ITO, Hiroko ITOH, Masaki FUJISHIMA, Yukari ARAKAWA, Fukuyoshi NAKADA
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Patent number: 8536696Abstract: A package substrate including an outermost interlayer resin insulating layer, a pad structure formed on the outermost interlayer resin insulating layer, a conductive connecting pin for establishing an electrical connection with another substrate, the conductive connecting pin being secured to the pad structure via a solder, and via holes formed through the outermost interlayer resin insulating layer and for electrically connecting the pad structure to one or more conductive circuits formed below the outermost interlayer resin insulating layer, the via holes being positioned directly below the pad structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naohiro Hirose, Hitoshi Ito, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Masanori Kawade, Hajime Yazu