Patents by Inventor Jun Shimizu

Jun Shimizu 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).

  • Patent number: 11964533
    Abstract: In a fastener structure for a vehicle, a height adjustment spacer is interposed between first and second vehicle body frames fixed with a bolt and a nut. The nut has a first insertion hole through which a bolt is screwed, and is fixed to a surface of the first vehicle body frame. The height adjustment spacer has a second insertion hole through which the bolt is inserted, and is disposed in contact with another surface of the first vehicle body frame. The bolt is inserted through an attachment hole of the second vehicle body frame, the second insertion hole, an attachment hole of the first vehicle body frame, and the first insertion hole. On a contact surface between the height adjustment spacer and the first vehicle body frame, a protrusion and a recess are provided to surround an entirety of the second insertion hole, the second insertion hole respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Takahashi, Tsuguo Nakazawa, Satoshi Ueda, Jun Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11961318
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumi Kosaka, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Junichi Shimizu, Shinya Nakamura, Jun Ando, Masanori Yoshizuka, Akane Abe
  • Publication number: 20230374452
    Abstract: The present invention provides human cells that can be stably infected with coronavirus, as human cells for research on infection with coronavirus such as SARS-CoV-2, as well as, by utilizing the cells, a method for confirming the presence of a coronavirus in a sample, a method for producing a coronavirus, and a method for evaluating the presence or absence of anti-coronavirus activity of a test sample or a substance having an anti-coronavirus neutralizing action in a test sample. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for preparing a coronavirus-infectious immortalized human myeloid cell, including introducing ACE2 and TMPRSS2 into an immortalized human myeloid cell, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jun Shimizu, Naomi Tanga, Misuzu Yamada, Kazuo Miyazaki, Tatsuo Shioda, Emi Nakayama, Tadahiro Sasaki, Ritsuko Koketsu
  • Publication number: 20230234416
    Abstract: In a fastener structure for a vehicle, a height adjustment spacer is interposed between first and second vehicle body frames fixed with a bolt and a nut. The nut has a first insertion hole through which a bolt is screwed, and is fixed to a surface of the first vehicle body frame. The height adjustment spacer has a second insertion hole through which the bolt is inserted, and is disposed in contact with another surface of the first vehicle body frame. The bolt is inserted through an attachment hole of the second vehicle body frame, the second insertion hole, an attachment hole of the first vehicle body frame, and the first insertion hole. On a contact surface between the height adjustment spacer and the first vehicle body frame, a protrusion and a recess are provided to surround an entirety of the second insertion hole, the second insertion hole respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji TAKAHASHI, Tsuguo NAKAZAWA, Satoshi UEDA, Jun SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220412958
    Abstract: [Problem] To find a method having higher stability, reproducibility, economic efficiency, and operation easiness in an evaluation method of safety of a substance in vitro, by using human immortalized myeloid cells. [Solving Means] A method for evaluating the skin sensitizing property and/or the pyrogenic property of a test substance, a method for detecting a skin sensitizer and/or a pyrogen in a sample, and a method for evaluating the action of a sample on a function of immune cells, each using human immortalized myeloid cells and including measuring the production amount of IL-6 and/or IL-8 in a culture medium of human immortalized myeloid cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuo Miyazaki, Jun Shimizu, Yoshitaka Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220305090
    Abstract: A hair growing agent comprises one or more amino acids or peptides selected from the group consisting of Hyp, Pro-Hyp, Hyp-Gly, Gly-Pro, Leu-Hyp, Phe-Hyp, Pro-Ala, Pro-Gly, Pro-Pro, Glu-Hyp, Gly-Pro-Hyp, Ala-Hyp-Gly, Glu-Hyp-Gly, Pro-Ala-Gly and Ser-Hyp-Gly, a salt thereof, or a chemically modified product thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: NITTA GELATIN INC.
    Inventors: Seiko KOIZUMI, Hiroshi MANO, Jun SHIMIZU, Yoshifumi KIMIRA, Kaho NOMURA
  • Patent number: 9700692
    Abstract: The present invention provides a voice assist apparatus capable of vocalization in a near-natural voice by correctly flowing and blocking voice assist gas during expiration and inspiration, respectively, of a patient even when the pressure inside the operation tube relatively slightly increases and decreases. In the voice assist apparatus, the main body has a first chamber connected with a second end of the voice assist gas-inlet tube, a second chamber connected with a second end of the voice assist tube, a third chamber connected with a second end of the operation tube, a dividing wall dividing between the first chamber and the second chamber except an opening communicating the first chamber with the second chamber, and a membrane formed elastically deformably to open and close the opening and isolates the third chamber from the first chamber and the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: UEMURA ENTERPRISE CO. LTD
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Tanoue, Masaaki Iwashita, Takashi Funasaki, Jun Shimizu, Fusao Jou, Shingo Yamashita, Yukihiro Uemura
  • Publication number: 20160038702
    Abstract: The present invention provides a voice assist apparatus capable of vocalization in a near-natural voice by correctly flowing and blocking voice assist gas during expiration and inspiration, respectively, of a patient even when the pressure inside the operation tube relatively slightly increases and decreases. In the voice assist apparatus, the main body has a first chamber connected with a second end of the voice assist gas-inlet tube, a second chamber connected with a second end of the voice assist tube, a third chamber connected with a second end of the operation tube, a dividing wall dividing between the first chamber and the second chamber except an opening communicating the first chamber with the second chamber, and a membrane formed elastically deformably to open and close the opening and isolates the third chamber from the first chamber and the second chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Hirotoshi TANOUE, Masaaki IWASHITA, Takashi FUNASAKI, Jun SHIMIZU, Fusao JOU, Shingo YAMASHITA, Yukihiro UEMURA
  • Patent number: 8635919
    Abstract: A pressure detection unit includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed in opposition to each other and subject to load from the outside, a pair of electrodes provided in distribution in the first substrate and the second substrate, the electrodes being disposed linearly in opposition to each other, electrically conductive pressure-sensitive ink disposed between the pair of electrodes to cover at least one of these electrodes and having electrical characteristics which varies according to the load, and an adhesion member for adhering the first substrate and the second substrate to each other with the pair of electrodes and the pressure-sensitive ink being placed in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshihiro Kai, Jun Shimizu, Yohko Imai, Seiko Hirai
  • Patent number: 8590256
    Abstract: The present invention provides a joining structure of a roof truss using thin light-gauge shaped steel. In a joining structure for joining a subsidiary roof with a main roof, a valley bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is inserted and disposed in the longitudinal valley direction of a joining member for joining a rafter forming the subsidiary roof with a truss or a rafter forming the main roof. In a joining structure in which a roof truss upper chord member or a rafter intersects a wall on the upper surface of the wall, a bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is disposed at the intersection of these members and fixes the roof truss upper chord member or the rafter to the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kawai, Jun Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8482537
    Abstract: A protection panel having a touch input function of the analog resistance film method for detecting an X-Y coordinate representing an operated position by a potential gradient based on a touch operation relative to the front substrate 6, in which the back substrate 5 and the front substrate 6 include contacts 5G and 6G, respectively, connected to each other in series on the resistance films 5A and 6A through the routing circuits 5C and 6C to have potential difference, in which the contacts 5G and 6G face each other at a predetermined distance when the back substrate 5 and the front substrate 6 are connected to each other, and in which a switch 12 is provided for detecting, when voltage is applied by the contacts 5G and 6G between the electrodes 5D or 6D of either one of the front substrate 6 and the back substrate 5, whether or not the contacts 5G and 6G are brought into contact with each other based on voltage detected by the electrodes 5D or 6D of the other of the front substrate 6 and the back substrate 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Shimizu, Toshiyuki Iwai, Mitsutoyo Toshihara, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai
  • Patent number: 8406369
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel assembly 1 for a PWR nuclear reactor capable of stably creating transverse flows of coolant for pressing and securing control rods so as to restrain vibration of the control rods in order to restrain the outer surfaces of the control rods and the inner surfaces of control rod guide tubes from being worn, wherein an upper nozzle arranged above the fuel assembly comprises an adapter plate 6 constituting the lower structure of the upper nozzle, a side wall extended along the periphery of the adapter plate, an overhang projected into a space above the adapter plate from the upper part of the side wall, and apertures for attaching control guide tubes and passage holes, which are formed in the passage surface of the adapter plate, and wherein those 15A, 15B, 15C of the passage holes which are located at positions where the coolant impinges upon the overhang are generally arranged, line-symmetric with respect to diagonal lines of the passage surface serving as symmetric axes Q, and ligaments 21, 2
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sakata, Yasunao Yamaguchi, Jun Shimizu, Shigeyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8405067
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor element includes: a strain suppression layer formed on a silicon substrate via an initial layer; and an operation layer formed on the strain suppression layer. The strain suppression layer includes a first spacer layer, a second spacer layer formed on and in contact with the first spacer layer, and a superlattice layer formed on and in contact with the second spacer layer. The first spacer layer is larger in lattice constant than the second spacer layer. The superlattice layer has first layers and second layers smaller in lattice constant than the first layers stacked alternately on top of one another. The average lattice constant of the superlattice layer is smaller than the lattice constant of the first spacer layer and larger than the lattice constant of the second spacer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Shimizu, Shinichi Kohda, Yasuhiro Yamada, Naohide Wakita, Masahiro Ishida
  • Patent number: 8400578
    Abstract: An optical film capable of improving luminance of a display unit, in which a viewing angle in the horizontal direction of emitted light of the display unit is wider than a viewing angle in the vertical direction and the emitted light of the display unit has a polarization component in the vertical direction viewable by polarized sunglasses, an illumination system including the same, and a display unit including the same are provided. The optical film includes a plurality of three-dimensional structures extending in one direction and arranged sequentially in a direction crossing the one direction. The three-dimensional structures contain a liquid crystalline polymer having orientation, and have refractive index anisotropy in which refractive index in the extending direction of the three-dimensional structures is smaller than refractive index in the direction crossing the extending direction of the three-dimensional structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Obata, Mitsunari Hoshi, Jun Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8334950
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus is disclosed. The illumination apparatus includes a polarization plate, a light source, and a light transmission film. The light transmission film is disposed between the polarization plate and the light source and includes a plurality of prisms formed on a surface thereof, the plurality of prisms each having a ridge line in a first direction and being continuously arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In the illumination apparatus, the light transmission film is disposed such that a ridge line direction of the plurality of prisms is one of a perpendicular direction and an approximately perpendicular direction to a transmission axis of the polarization plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunari Hoshi, Kei Obata, Akihiro Horii, Noriyuki Hirai, Hiroshi Mizuno, Jun Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120299060
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a silicon substrate; a buffer layer formed on the silicon substrate and comprised of a nitride semiconductor; and an active layer formed on the buffer layer and comprised of a nitride semiconductor. The buffer layer includes a first layer formed in contact with the silicon substrate, and a second layer formed in contact with the first layer and the active layer. The carbon concentration at an interface between the first layer and the second layer is in the range of 1×1019 atoms/cm3 to 1×1021 atoms/cm3, both inclusive. The first layer has the highest carbon concentration in a portion in contact with the silicon substrate. The second layer has the highest carbon concentration in a portion in contact with the first layer, and has the lowest carbon concentration in a portion in contact with the active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi KOHDA, Jun Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120268421
    Abstract: A protection panel for detecting an X-Y coordinate as an operation position from a potential gradient based on a touch operation to a front substrate is provided. A rear substrate (5) has a first transparent resistive film (5A) and a contact point (5G) connected to a pair of first terminals (5D) through routing circuits (5C) so that the contact point (5G) is arranged in parallel with the first transparent resistive film (5A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Suetomi, Yoshihiro Kai, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Jun Shimizu, Toshiyuki Iwai, Mitsutoyo Toshihara
  • Patent number: 8279188
    Abstract: A protective panel having touch panel function is used for protecting a front surface of a display device that is disposed so as to be visually recognized from outside, and the protective panel is fitted in a panel fitting part of a casing provided with an opening such that an outer surface of the protective panel forms a flat plane identical with that of the casing with no gap formed therebetween. The protective panel includes: an upper electrode sheet having a decorative layer and upper electrodes provided thereon; and a lower electrode sheet having lower electrodes provided on an upper surface thereof, and the upper electrode sheet and the lower electrode sheet are disposed such that the respective electrodes thereof face with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takao Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Iwai, Koji Okamoto, Jun Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8264450
    Abstract: The present invention provides an illuminating apparatus locally reducing light intensity without depending on the configuration of a light source itself. An illuminating apparatus used as a backlight of a display apparatus having a liquid crystal display panel with a pair of first polarizers, including a light source and a liquid crystal light control panel. The liquid crystal light control panel has a pair of second polarizers and suppresses amount of transmission of light from the light source, thereby allows the light from the light source to have such a light intensity distribution along a plane that light intensity is locally reduced. The polarization degree in the second polarizers is optimized so that transmission light amount ratio of the second polarizers is lower than that of the first polarizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norimasa Furukawa, Jun Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120222499
    Abstract: A pressure detection unit includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed in opposition to each other and subject to load from the outside, a pair of electrodes provided in distribution in the first substrate and the second substrate, the electrodes being disposed linearly in opposition to each other, electrically conductive pressure-sensitive ink disposed between the pair of electrodes to cover at least one of these electrodes and having electrical characteristics which varies according to the load, and an adhesion member for adhering the first substrate and the second substrate to each other with the pair of electrodes and the pressure-sensitive ink being placed in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshihiro Kai, Jun Shimizu, Yohko Imai, Seiko Hirai