Patents by Inventor Ippei Maekawa

Ippei Maekawa 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: 20220155501
    Abstract: A retroreflective sheet 9 of the present invention includes; a surface layer 1; a glass bead holding layer 5 containing glass beads 3 that are located randomly as viewed cross-sectionally; and a metal reflective layer 4 on a back surface side of the glass bead holding layer 5. The surface layer 1 is a vinyl chloride resin layer. The retroreflective sheet further includes, between the vinyl chloride resin layer and the glass bead holding layer, a barrier layer 2 for preventing deterioration of the metal reflective layer. The barrier layer 2 is preferably an alkyd-melamine resin layer. Thereby, it is possible to provide a retroreflective sheet that can prevent the degradation of, e.g., the reflective function of the metal reflective layer on the back surface side of the glass bead holding layer and thus maintaining high weather resistance and wide-angle reflectivity, and that can exhibit high surface printability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Ippei MAEKAWA, Yukihiro MAEDA
  • Patent number: 8192819
    Abstract: Disc-shaped information recording medium comprising optical penetrating substrate having colored underlayer and ink receipt layer in this order on the principal surface of one side of the substrate, wherein the ink receipt layer contains inorganic fine particles, a binder, and a crosslinking agent, and wherein a pore diameter distribution of a gap of the ink receipt layer has a maximum peak in the range of 30 nm or more when the ink receipt layer is measured with a mercury porosimetry method. Since the shrinkage force functioning in the pores of the gaps of the ink receipt layer weakens, a disc-shaped information recording medium having a reduced occurrence of warp is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ippei Maekawa, Tomonori Endo, Mamoru Uchida, Yuki Takei, Yuaki Shin
  • Patent number: 7887837
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drug delivery material, which is a conjugate of 1) a drug-carrying molecular assembly, 2) a linker and 3) a substance that recognizes activated platelet, injury site of blood vessel and/or inflammatory tissue, and capable of efficiently delivering a drug to a desired site, during which the drug under delivery does not affect sites other than a desired site (hence, low possibility of causing side effects), which releases the drug only at the desired site without requiring an external means and allows the drug to exhibit an effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Inventors: Shinji Takeoka, Yousuke Okamura, Ippei Maekawa, Makoto Handa, Yasuo Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20090220422
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drug delivery material, which is a conjugate of 1) a drug-carrying molecular assembly, 2) a linker and 3) a substance that recognizes activated platelet, injury site of blood vessel and/or inflammatory tissue, and capable of efficiently delivering a drug to a desired site, during which the drug under delivery does not affect sites other than a desired site (hence, low possibility of causing side effects), which releases the drug only at the desired site without requiring an external means and allows the drug to exhibit an effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicants: KEIO UNIVERSITY, MITSUBISHI PHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Takeoka, Yousuke Okamura, Ippei Maekawa, Makoto Handa, Yasuo Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20090169798
    Abstract: Disc-shaped information recording medium comprising optical penetrating substrate having colored underlayer and ink receipt layer in this order on the principal surface of one side of the substrate, wherein the ink receipt layer contains inorganic fine particles, a binder, and a crosslinking agent, and wherein a pore diameter distribution of a gap of the ink receipt layer has a maximum peak in the range of 30 nm or more when the ink receipt layer is measured with a mercury porosimetry method. Since the shrinkage force functioning in the pores of the gaps of the ink receipt layer weakens, a disc-shaped information recording medium having a reduced occurrence of warp is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ippei Maekawa, Tomonori Endo, Mamonu Uchida, Yuki Takei, Yuaki Shin
  • Publication number: 20090034390
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium capable of being drawn without being overturned by an optical information recording apparatus and cable of being drawn not depending on the wavelength of a laser light to be irradiated, the optical information recording medium having an information recording portion in which a recording layer and a first reflection layer are formed successively on a first substrate, and having a drawing portion in which a second reflection layer, a color-change layer, a color-change assistance layer, and a protection layer are formed successively on a second substrate, in which the second reflection layer is heated by irradiation of a laser light and the material in the color-change layer and the material in the color-change assistance layer are melted by the heat and mixed to cause a color change thereby forming images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidenori Somei, Satoshi Kobayashi, Ippei Maekawa