Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Takahashi

Hitoshi Takahashi 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: 20240139226
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition having an effective GLP-1 secretion-promoting effect. The present invention attains this object by providing a composition for promoting GLP-1 secretion, comprising component (A) and component (B) as active ingredients, wherein said component (A) is a glycosyl naringenin and said component (B) is one or more selected from a group consisting of ?-pinene, ?-pinene, sabinene, camphene, valencene, ?-caryophyllene, ?-ionone, methyl anthranilate, methyl N-methylanthranilate, thymol, and nootkatone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jun TAKAHASHI, Mika YAMADA, Norie ARAI, Emiko HASHINI, Hitoshi MITSUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240134300
    Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a. silica fine particle, wherein a total content of a polyvalent metal elements in the toner particle is 0.10 to 2.50 ?mol/g, a number-average particle diameter of a primary particle of the silica fine particle is 40 to 500 nm, and in the DD/MAS measurement of solid 29Si-NMR of the silica fine particle, peak PD1 corresponding to a silicon atom represented by Sia in a structure represented by formula (1) and peak PD2 corresponding to a silicon atom represented by Sib in a structure represented by formula (2) are observed, and when an area of the peak PD1 is defined as SD1 and an area of the peak PD2 is defined as SD2, SD1 and SD2 satisfy: 1.2?(SD1+SD2)/SD1?10.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: HITOSHI SANO, SHIN KITAMURA, TORU TAKAHASHI, RYUICHIRO MATSUO, RYUJI MURAYAMA, TAKAKUNI KOBORI, YOSHIHIRO OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11957300
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) detects an abnormal region (30) from a moving image frame (14). The abnormal region (30) is a region that is estimated to represent an abnormal part inside a body of a subject. The information processing apparatus (2000) generates and outputs output information based on the number of detected abnormal regions (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Ikuma Takahashi, Maki Sano, Kimiyasu Takoh, Motoyasu Okutsu, Chiemi Tanaka, Masahiro Saikou, Hitoshi Imaoka, Kenichi Kamijo, Ryuji Hamamoto, Yutaka Saito, Masayoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11952661
    Abstract: A deposition method includes: forming an adsorption inhibiting region on an adsorption site formed on a substrate, by causing the adsorption site to adsorb adsorption inhibiting radicals by a predetermined amount; causing an area on the adsorption site, on which the adsorption inhibiting region is not formed, to adsorb a raw material gas; and depositing a film of a reaction product on the adsorption site by causing the raw material gas adsorbed on the adsorption site to react with a reactant gas activated by a plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kato, Kazumi Kubo, Yutaka Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11928940
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medium processing apparatus, including: a banknote device configured to process a banknote, including a banknote device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a banknote device lock configured to switch the banknote device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, a loose coin device configured to process a loose coin, including a loose coin device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a loose coin device lock configured to switch the loose coin device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein the banknote device lock and the loose coin device lock perform a switching between the locked state and the unlocked state independently from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Takaaki Imoto, Hirofumi Tougo, Hitoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11919164
    Abstract: A robot system (1) includes the robot (10), a motion sensor (11), a surrounding environment sensor (12, 13), an operation apparatus (21), a learning control section (41), and a relay apparatus (30). The robot (10) performs work based on an operation command. The operation apparatus (21) detects and outputs an operator-operating force applied by the operator. The learning control section (41) outputs a calculation operating force. The relay apparatus (30) outputs the operation command based on the operator-operating force and the calculation operating force. The learning control section (41) estimates and outputs the calculation operating force by using a model constructed by performing the machine learning of the operator-operating force, the surrounding environment data, the operation data, and the operation command based on the operation data and the surrounding environment data outputted by the sensors (11 to 13), and the operation command outputted by the relay apparatus (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hasunuma, Jun Fujimori, Hiroki Kinoshita, Takeshi Yamamoto, Hiroki Takahashi, Kazuki Kurashima
  • Publication number: 20240069457
    Abstract: The toner contains binder resin-containing toner particles and silica fine particle S1, wherein the weight-average particle diameter of the toner is 4.0-15.0 ?m, both inclusive, peaks originating with the silica fine particle S1 are observed in 29 Si-NMR measurement of the silica fine particle S1, and, in the spectrum obtained by 29Si CP/MAS NMR or 29Si DD/MAS NMR, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D1 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D2 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, and the peak area of a peak corresponding to the Q unit structure in the silica fine particle S1 satisfy a prescribed relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: RYUJI MURAYAMA, SHIN KITAMURA, TORU TAKAHASHI, DAISUKE TSUJIMOTO, RYUICHIRO MATSUO, HITOSHI SANO, NOBUYUKI FUJITA, SHUJI YAMADA, YUKA GUNJI, TAKAKUNI KOBORI, YOSHIHIRO OGAWA, ATSUHIKO OHMORI, HIROKI KAGAWA, KEISUKE ADACHI, TOMOKO SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20240043232
    Abstract: There is provided a base machine including a base machine feed path that conveys a paper sheet, and a validator identifying the paper sheet conveyed by the base machine feed path; an expansion unit including an extension feed path extending from the base machine feed path, a branching feed path branching from the extension feed path, and a plurality of stacking portions that are connected to the branching feed path and stack the paper sheet identified by the validator; and a control portion that, when a conveyance abnormality occur, continues conveyance operation of at least one of the extension feed path and the branching feed path without immediately stopping the conveyance operation and conveys the paper sheet to a predetermined stacking portion that is any of the plurality of stacking portions, in accordance with a location where the conveyance abnormality occurred and a type of the conveyance abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hitoshi TAKAHASHI, Toru INAKE
  • Patent number: 11858775
    Abstract: A paper sheet detection device includes: an optical sensor that includes a light-emitting portion that emits light, and a light-receiving portion that receives the emitted light; a storage portion that stores a first threshold value used for determining whether or not a paper sheet is present in a path of the emitted light, a target light-receiving level set as a target value of a level of the light received by the light-receiving portion in a state where the paper sheet is not present, and a second threshold value that is set to a value that is greater than the first threshold value and less than the target light-receiving level; an estimating portion that determines whether the level of the light received by the light-receiving portion is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and less than the second threshold value, and that estimates whether or not the paper sheet is present; and a light amount adjusting portion that adjusts an amount of the light emitted by the light-emitting portion so that
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: LAUREL BANK MACHINES CO., LTD., LAUREL MACHINERY CO., LTD., LAUREL PRECISION MACHINES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Igarashi, Hitoshi Takahashi, Toru Inake
  • Patent number: 11553652
    Abstract: A grafting device includes: a transfer unit configured to transfer, in a predetermined direction, a grafted seedling that is in a state where a cut surface of a graft and a cut surface of a rootstock are closely attached to each other; a tape supply unit configured to arrange a tape on a transfer path of the grafted seedling in such a manner that the tape is allowed to be pulled out; a pull-out member configured to transfer through the transfer path in advance of the grafted seedling to pull out the tape from the tape supply unit, and sandwich a closely attached part of the grafted seedling between a first part of the tape and a second part facing the first part; and a welding unit configured to cover a periphery of the closely attached part of the grafted seedling with the tape and weld the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
    Inventors: Natsuki Nakayama, Keita Yoshinaga, Loan Thi Thanh Nguyen, Takashi Furuyama, Hitoshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220383688
    Abstract: A currency deposit processor transfers currencies set in a deposit part one by one, discriminates the currencies by denominations, stores the currencies in denominations in a storage part without temporarily holding the currencies, and confirms the deposited currencies for each transaction. A control unit is provided that, when one storage part reaches its maximum capacity with both currencies confirmed up to a previous deposit transaction and currencies unconfirmed in a current deposit transaction and a failure occurs after the filling-up currencies are removed, performs a special control, in which data on the currencies unconfirmed in the current deposit transaction and included in the filling-up currencies is calculated as a partial confirmation, and the data on the currencies calculated as the partial confirmation is added and reflected at a time of another deposit transaction after a fault recovery process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi TAKAHASHI, Toru INAKE
  • Publication number: 20220153546
    Abstract: A paper sheet detection device includes: an optical sensor that includes a light-emitting portion that emits light, and a light-receiving portion that receives the emitted light; a storage portion that stores a first threshold value used for determining whether or not a paper sheet is present in a path of the emitted light, a target light-receiving level set as a target value of a level of the light received by the light-receiving portion in a state where the paper sheet is not present, and a second threshold value that is set to a value that is greater than the first threshold value and less than the target light-receiving level; an estimating portion that determines whether the level of the light received by the light-receiving portion is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and less than the second threshold value, and that estimates whether or not the paper sheet is present; and a light amount adjusting portion that adjusts an amount of the light emitted by the light-emitting portion so that
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu IGARASHI, Hitoshi TAKAHASHI, Toru INAKE
  • Patent number: 10836975
    Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil; a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group, R3 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group; and an epoxy compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ENEOS Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Souichirou Konno, Fumiyuki Nara
  • Publication number: 20200152685
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided as a back-illuminated solid-state imaging device. The device is manufactured by bonding a first semiconductor wafer with a pixel array in a half-finished product state and a second semiconductor wafer with a logic circuit in a half-finished product state together, making the first semiconductor wafer into a thin film, electrically connecting the pixel array and the logic circuit, making the pixel array and the logic circuit into a finished product state, and dividing the first semiconductor wafer and the second semiconductor being bonded together into microchips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Taku Umebayashi, Hitoshi Takahashi, Reijiroh Shohji
  • Patent number: 10611984
    Abstract: The refrigerating machine oil according to the present invention comprises a polyalkylene glycol represented by the following formula (1): R1—(OR3)n—OR2??(1) [R1 and R2 may be the same or different from each other and each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or an acyl group having from 2 to 5 carbon atoms, R3 represents an alkylene group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, n represents an integer such that a number average molecular weight of the polyalkylene glycol represented by the formula (1) is from 1000 to 2500] the polyalkylene glycol having a ratio of the weight average molecular weight Mw to the number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, of from 1.00 to 1.15, the refrigerating machine oil being used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Ken Sawada, Akira Tada, Souichirou Konno
  • Patent number: 10550351
    Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one oxygen-containing oil having a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less as a base oil, and the refrigerating machine oil being used with a trifluoroethylene refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION, AGC INC.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Tsutomu Takahashi, Akira Tada, Souichirou Konno
  • Publication number: 20200020191
    Abstract: A paper sheet processing device includes: a receiving part which opens to an exterior of the device, in which paper sheets from the exterior of the device are set, and which dispenses the set paper sheets in a stacked state, one by one; a conveyance unit which conveys the paper sheets dispensed from the receiving part; an identification unit which identifies whether the paper sheets that are being conveyed by the conveyance unit are a to-be-counted paper sheet or a reject paper sheet; a post-count accumulating part which accumulates a paper sheet identified as the to-be-counted paper sheet; and a plurality of reject accumulating parts which accumulate, in a state sorted by reason for rejection, a paper sheet identified as the reject paper sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hitoshi TAKAHASHI, Naoya UENOMACHI, Masashi OBA
  • Patent number: 10513666
    Abstract: The invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising as a base oil at least one oxygen-containing oil having a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less, and being used in combination with a (Z)-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Souichirou Konno, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Yohei Shono
  • Patent number: 10351793
    Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil containing an ester of dipentaerythritol with 2-methylbutanoic acid and n-pentanoic acid; and at least one epoxy compound selected from the group consisting of a glycidyl ester compound and a glycidyl ether compound, the refrigerating machine oil being used with a difluoromethane refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Takeshi Okido, Souichirou Konno
  • Patent number: D928741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Komiyama, Hitoshi Takahashi, Tatsuya Yagihashi, Daisuke Kurihara