Patents by Inventor Kenji Sugimoto

Kenji Sugimoto 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: 20240110157
    Abstract: There are provided a cell aggregate that can be used as a cell preparation in regenerative medicine, maintains the original characteristics of cells, and has high safety, and a method for simply and safely maintaining the cell aggregate size, the cell characteristics and viability suitable for use as a cell preparation in regenerative medicine. According to an aspect of the present invention, a cell aggregate maintaining method is a method including a maintenance process of maintaining a liquid containing a plurality of the cell aggregates at a temperature which is lower than a culture temperature of the cells and at which the liquid is not frozen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji OSAFUNE, Shunjiro SUGIMOTO, Makoto RYOSAKA, Yoichi JIMBO, Fumihiko KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240088435
    Abstract: A positive electrode material includes a positive electrode active material, a coating layer, and a second solid electrolyte. The coating layer contains a first solid electrolyte and coats at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. The second solid electrolyte is in indirect contact with the positive electrode active material with the coating layer disposed therebetween. A ratio of a volume of the first solid electrolyte to a total volume of the first solid electrolyte and the second solid electrolyte is greater than or equal to 4% and less than or equal to 60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, AKINOBU MIYAZAKI, KENJI NAGAO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240079646
    Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer and a second coating layer. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. A percentage of change in specific surface area from a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer to a specific surface area of the coated active material is greater than or equal to ?62.8% and less than or equal to +3.79%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: KENJI NAGAO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240079569
    Abstract: A coated active material including: a positive electrode active material; a second coating layer; and a first coating layer outside the second coating layer, in which a percentage of change from S1 to S2 is ?78.0% or greater and ?15.0% or less and/or a percentage of change from S3 to S4 is ?77.0% or greater and ?12.0% or less, where S1 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; S2 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the coated active material; S3 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; and S4 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the coated active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: KENJI NAGAO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240079570
    Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer, which contains a first solid electrolyte, and a second coating layer, which contains a base material. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. A ratio of a specific surface area of the coated active material to a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer is less than or equal to 42%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, AKINOBU MIYAZAKI, KENJI NAGAO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230007061
    Abstract: A method for displaying objects on a timeline area does not lower user retention and can increase the CVR. The present disclosure provides a method for displaying objects on a timeline area, including the steps of an object display device that manages a timeline of communication messages for a user of a Web service determining whether the user has taken an action within a predetermined time period on the timeline area of the Web service, displaying a first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has not taken the action, and displaying a second object that differs from the first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has taken the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi OHIDA, Taro YOSHIOKA, Masaya HIGASHINO, Kenji SUGIMOTO, Maya SAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11470133
    Abstract: A method for displaying objects on a timeline area does not lower user retention and can increase the CVR. The present disclosure provides a method for displaying objects on a timeline area, including the steps of an object display device that manages a timeline of communication messages for a user of a Web service determining whether the user has taken an action within a predetermined time period on the timeline area of the Web service, displaying a first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has not taken the action, and displaying a second object that differs from the first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has taken the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Ohida, Taro Yoshioka, Masaya Higashino, Kenji Sugimoto, Maya Sawamura
  • Publication number: 20220232858
    Abstract: A hardly soluble beverage product, comprising: a container comprising a main body that contains a content and that has a container mouth as an outlet of the content, and a cap that is mounted on the container mouth to close the main body. An internal volume of the container is set to a total of: a volume corresponding to a volume of the powder material contained in the container; a volume corresponding to an amount of the liquid determined in accordance with an amount of the powder material to be mixed or dissolved with the liquid; and a volume as an extra space to cause turbulence of the powder material and the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: DAIWA CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Eiji FUJISHIGE, Tatsuhei YAMAMOTO, Kenji SUGIMOTO, Shuji KAJITA, Seiji NAGAZUMI, Susumu MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20210314374
    Abstract: A method for displaying objects on a timeline area does not lower user retention and can increase the CVR. The present disclosure provides a method for displaying objects on a timeline area, including the steps of an object display device that manages a timeline of communication messages for a user of a Web service determining whether the user has taken an action within a predetermined time period on the timeline area of the Web service, displaying a first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has not taken the action, and displaying a second object that differs from the first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has taken the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi OHIDA, Taro YOSHIOKA, Masaya HIGASHINO, Kenji SUGIMOTO, Maya SAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11070597
    Abstract: A method for displaying objects on a timeline area does not lower user retention and can increase the CVR. The present disclosure provides a method for displaying objects on a timeline area, including the steps of an object display device that manages a timeline of communication messages for a user of a Web service determining whether the user has taken an action within a predetermined time period on the timeline area of the Web service, displaying a first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has not taken the action, and displaying a second object that differs from the first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has taken the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Ohida, Taro Yoshioka, Masaya Higashino, Kenji Sugimoto, Maya Sawamura
  • Patent number: 10157753
    Abstract: A wiring board (1) includes an insulating substrate (11) having a cutout (12) opened in a main surface and a side surface of the insulating substrate (11), and an inner electrode (13) formed on an inner surface of the cutout (12). The inner electrode (13) includes a plurality of metal layers. The inner electrode (13) includes, as an intermediate layer, at least one metal layer (17b) selected from the group consisting of a nickel layer, a chromium layer, a platinum layer, and a titanium layer, and includes a gold layer as an outermost layer (17a). The metal layer (17b) is exposed at an outer edge portion of the inner electrode (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Morita, Kenji Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20170294322
    Abstract: A wiring board (1) includes an insulating substrate (11) having a cutout (12) opened in a main surface and a side surface of the insulating substrate (11), and an inner electrode (13) formed on an inner surface of the cutout (12). The inner electrode (13) includes a plurality of metal layers. The inner electrode (13) includes, as an intermediate layer, at least one metal layer (17b) selected from the group consisting of a nickel layer, a chromium layer, a platinum layer, and a titanium layer, and includes a gold layer as an outermost layer (17a). The metal layer (17b) is exposed at an outer edge portion of the inner electrode (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio MORITA, Kenji SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170129915
    Abstract: Provided are a clinically applicable drug for radical cure of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and a drug for treating neurological diseases associated with axonal dysfunction other than AD, wherein the drug utilizes the mechanism of action of the AD radical cure therapy. The drugs are oral drugs, each comprising one or more compounds selected from diosgenin, a diosgenin derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, the one or more compounds being suspended in an edible oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Chihiro Tohda, Yuji Matsuya, Kenji Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9195140
    Abstract: A joint nozzle that delivers a developer, a rinsing liquid and nitrogen gas is disposed adjacent the spin center of a substrate in plan view. A controller operates electromagnetic switch valves to continue supply of the developer, while spinning the substrate, in a developing process, and to start supply of the rinsing liquid in a rinsing process, immediately after the supply of the developer ends, thereby achieving a shortened period of the developing process. A switching is made to a drying process by starting supply of the nitrogen gas immediately after completion of the rinsing process. Thus, even if the substrate has a large angle of contact, formation of droplets of the rinsing liquid is inhibited to prevent post-develop defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Kenji Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20150237083
    Abstract: A method for displaying objects on a timeline area does not lower user retention and can increase the CVR. The present disclosure provides a method for displaying objects on a timeline area, including the steps of an object display device that manages a timeline of communication messages for a user of a Web service determining whether the user has taken an action within a predetermined time period on the timeline area of the Web service, displaying a first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has not taken the action, and displaying a second object that differs from the first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has taken the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Ohida, Taro Yoshioka, Masaya Higashino, Kenji Sugimoto, Maya Sawamura
  • Patent number: 8280532
    Abstract: Providing a remote control technique capable of realizing the achievement of constraints and the certain following of a target value even with a network in which delay, loss, distortion, or the like may occur. In a remote control system, an area setting unit of a client-side control unit sets at least two areas representative of a group of states of an target object, which changes over time by feedback control. A state-evaluation information sending unit sends, to the host-side control unit, state evaluation information obtained by evaluating the state of the target object based on the area set by the area setting unit. A target value setting unit of the host-side control unit sets a target value such that the state of the target object changes in the area set by the area setting units. Moreover, a target value updating unit updates the target value based on the state evaluation information received from the client-side control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignees: National University Corporation Nara Institute of Science and Technology, National University Corporation Nagaoka University of Technology
    Inventors: Kiminao Kogiso, Kenji Sugimoto, Kenji Hirata
  • Publication number: 20110170855
    Abstract: A joint nozzle that delivers a developer, a rinsing liquid and nitrogen gas is disposed adjacent the spin center of a substrate in plan view. A controller operates electromagnetic switch valves to continue supply of the developer, while spinning the substrate, in a developing process, and to start supply of the rinsing liquid in a rinsing process, immediately after the supply of the developer ends, thereby achieving a shortened period of the developing process. A switching is made to a drying process by starting supply of the nitrogen gas immediately after completion of the rinsing process. Thus, even if the substrate has a large angle of contact, formation of droplets of the rinsing liquid is inhibited to prevent post-develop defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MITSUHASHI, Kenji Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7922405
    Abstract: A joint nozzle that delivers a developer, a rinsing liquid and nitrogen gas is disposed adjacent the spin center of a substrate in plan view. A controller operates electromagnetic switch valves to continue supply of the developer, while spinning the substrate, in a developing process, and to start supply of the rinsing liquid in a rinsing process, immediately after the supply of the developer ends, thereby achieving a shortened period of the developing process. A switching is made to a drying process by starting supply of the nitrogen gas immediately after completion of the rinsing process. Thus, even if the substrate has a large angle of contact, formation of droplets of the rinsing liquid is inhibited to prevent post-develop defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Kenji Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20110054638
    Abstract: Providing a remote control technique capable of realizing the achievement of constraints and the certain following of a target value even with a network in which delay, loss, distortion, or the like may occur. In a remote control system, an area setting unit of a client-side control unit sets at least two areas representative of a group of states of an target object, which changes over time by feedback control. A state-evaluation information sending unit sends, to the host-side control unit, state evaluation information obtained by evaluating the state of the target object based on the area set by the area setting unit. A target value setting unit of the host-side control unit sets a target value such that the state of the target object changes in the area set by the area setting units. Moreover, a target value updating unit updates the target value based on the state evaluation information received from the client-side control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicants: National University Corporation Nara Institute of Science and Technology, National University Corporation Nagaoka University of Technology
    Inventors: Kiminao Kogiso, Kenji Sugimoto, Kenji Hirata
  • Patent number: 7364376
    Abstract: After an exposure process in an exposure part, the exposure part transmits an exposure completion signal to a main controller. At time (t12) which is a predetermined time interval (T12) later than an exposure completion time (t11), the main controller transmits a substrate transport signal to a heating part, to cause the transport of a substrate from a temporary substrate rest part to a heating plate and the start of a heating process by the heating plate. This provides substantially the same length of the time interval between the completion of the exposure process and the start of the heating process in the heating part, if there are variations in the time at which each substrate is placed on the temporary substrate rest part of the heating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Sugimoto, Kenji Kamei