Patents by Inventor Koji Ando

Koji Ando 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: 20180029989
    Abstract: Provision of a stabilized crystal of 6-(3-chloro-2-fluorobenzyl)-1-[(S)-1-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpropyl]-7-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (compound A). A crystal of compound A, which shows a particular X-ray powder diffraction pattern of a characteristic diffraction peaks at diffraction angles 2?(°) as measured by X-ray powder diffractmetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Motohide SATOH, Takahisa MOTOMURA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kentaro KONDO, Koji ANDO, Koji MATSUDA, Shuji MIYAKE, Hideto UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20180028148
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an acquisition unit and an individual image generating unit. The acquisition unit acquires multiple cross-sectional image data that are ultrasound image data for simultaneously displaying a plurality of cross sections of a subject. The individual image generating unit generates individual image data for each of the cross sections based on the position information of the cross section along with the display of the multiple cross-sectional image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Nobuhide Ooi, Mitsuo Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20180021024
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry adds incidental information including information regarding a kind concerning each of a plurality of regions in a heart to an analysis result of each of the regions. The analysis result is obtained by analyzing medical data. The processing circuitry determines a display position of the analysis result of each of the regions based on the incidental information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo FUKUDA, Yasuhiko ABE, Tetsuya KAWAGISHI, Koji ANDO, Mitsuo AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180016220
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, and medical uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Naoki Manta
  • Publication number: 20170245835
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains three-dimensional medical image data, taken by using an ultrasound probe, of a region including a heart valve of a patient and a catheter inserted into a heart chamber of the patient. The processing circuitry determines an advancing direction of a tip end part of the catheter by obtaining information on a position and a posture of the tip end part included in the three-dimensional medical image data, by using at least one selected from shape information indicating the shape of the tip end part and reflection characteristic information indicating ultrasound reflection characteristics of the tip end part. The processing circuitry generates a display image from the three-dimensional medical image data in accordance with the position and the advancing direction of the tip end part. The processing circuitry causes the display image to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya OKAZAKI, Yasuhiko ABE, Koji ANDO, Shogo FUKUDA, Yurika OGAWA, Yukinobu SAKATA, Yasunori TAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9624155
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, and medical uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Naoki Manta
  • Patent number: 9613837
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a first processing chamber; a second processing chamber; a transfer chamber; a frame structure; and an elevating part. Each of the first and the second processing chamber has a main body part and a lid part. The transfer chamber is connected to the first and the second processing chamber and accommodates a transfer unit for transferring the substrate. The frame structure has a pair of column parts and a beam part supported at top portions of the column parts. The elevating part is coupled to the beam part to be moved in a horizontal direction and moves the lid part in the vertical direction. The beam part extends above the first and the second processing chamber and the transfer chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeru Senzaki, Michishige Saito, Daiki Satoh, Ken Horiuchi, Koji Ando, Shingo Koiwa
  • Patent number: 9576787
    Abstract: A substrate treatment method includes a substrate holding unit which horizontally holds a substrate; a rotating unit which rotates the substrate held by the substrate holding unit about a vertical axis; and a first nozzle having an opposing face to be opposed to a lower surface of the substrate inward of a peripheral portion of the substrate in spaced relation to the lower surface of the substrate during rotation of the substrate by the rotating unit and a treatment liquid spout provided in the opposing face for filling a space defined between the lower surface of the substrate and the opposing face with a treatment liquid spouted from the treatment liquid spout to keep the space in a liquid filled state; wherein the treatment liquid spreads outwardly over the lower surface of the substrate and further, flows around to a peripheral portion of an upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Kishimoto, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20160372340
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holder, a rotating mechanism, a processing liquid discharge unit, and a gas discharge unit. The processing liquid discharge unit discharges a liquid flow of a processing liquid such that the liquid flow comes into contact with a landing position in a rotation path of a peripheral portion of an upper surface of the substrate being rotated. The gas discharge unit discharges a first gas flow of an inert gas from above toward a first position upstream from the landing position in a direction of rotation of the substrate in the rotation path, and discharges a second gas flow of the inert gas from above toward a second position upstream from the first position in the direction of rotation of the substrate in the rotation path. The kinetic energy of the second gas flow is lower than the kinetic energy of the first gas flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Rei TAKEAKI, Koji ANDO, Tadashi MAEGAWA, Yosuke YASUTAKE
  • Patent number: 9219227
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive element according to an embodiment includes: a base layer; a first magnetic layer formed on the base layer, and including a first magnetic film having an axis of easy magnetization in a direction perpendicular to a film plane, the first magnetic film including MnxGa100-x (45?x<64 atomic %); a first nonmagnetic layer formed on the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer formed on the first nonmagnetic layer, and including a second magnetic film having an axis of easy magnetization in a direction perpendicular to a film plane, the second magnetic film including MnyGa100-y (45?y<64 atomic %). The first and second magnetic layers include different Mn composition rates from each other, a magnetization direction of the first magnetic layer is changeable by a current flowing between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer via the first nonmagnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Tadaomi Daibou, Junichi Ito, Tadashi Kai, Minoru Amano, Hiroaki Yoda, Terunobu Miyazaki, Shigemi Mizukami, Koji Ando, Kay Yakushiji, Shinji Yuasa, Hitoshi Kubota, Akio Fukushima, Taro Nagahama, Takahide Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150361044
    Abstract: Provision of a stabilized crystal of 6-(3-chloro-2-fluorobenzyl)-1-[(S)-1-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpropyl]-7-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (compound A). A crystal of compound A, which shows a particular X-ray powder diffraction pattern of a characteristic diffraction peaks at diffraction angles 2?(°) as measured by X-ray powder diffractometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Motohide SATOH, Takahisa MOTOMURA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kentaro KONDO, Koji ANDO, Koji MATSUDA, Shuji MIYAKE, Hideto UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20150299104
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound useful as a synthetic intermediate for an anti-HIV agent having an integrase inhibitory activity, and a production method thereof, and a production method of an anti-HIV agent using the synthetic intermediate. Specifically, for example, a compound represented by the formula (2?): wherein R is a fluorine atom or a methoxy group, and R400 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-C4 alkyl group, or a salt thereof, and a production method thereof, and a production method of an anti-HIV agent using the synthetic intermediate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Matsuda, Koji Ando, Shigeji Ohki, Jun-Ichi Hoshi, Takahiro Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9087980
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive element according to an embodiment includes: a base layer; a first magnetic layer formed on the base layer, and including a first magnetic film having an axis of easy magnetization in a direction perpendicular to a film plane, the first magnetic film including MnxGa100-x (45?x<64 atomic %); a first nonmagnetic layer formed on the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer formed on the first nonmagnetic layer, and including a second magnetic film having an axis of easy magnetization in a direction perpendicular to a film plane, the second magnetic film including MnyGa100-y (45?y<64 atomic %). The first and second magnetic layers include different Mn composition rates from each other, a magnetization direction of the first magnetic layer is changeable by a current flowing between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer via the first nonmagnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Tadaomi Daibou, Junichi Ito, Tadashi Kai, Minoru Amano, Hiroaki Yoda, Terunobu Miyazaki, Shigemi Mizukami, Koji Ando, Kay Yakushiji, Shinji Yuasa, Hitoshi Kubota, Akio Fukushima, Taro Nagahama, Takahide Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150086302
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a first processing chamber; a second processing chamber; a transfer chamber; a frame structure; and an elevating part. Each of the first and the second processing chamber has a main body part and a lid part. The transfer chamber is connected to the first and the second processing chamber and accommodates a transfer unit for transferring the substrate. The frame structure has a pair of column parts and a beam part supported at top portions of the column parts. The elevating part is coupled to the beam part to be moved in a horizontal direction and moves the lid part in the vertical direction. The beam part extends above the first and the second processing chamber and the transfer chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeru Senzaki, Michishige Saito, Daiki Satoh, Ken Horiuchi, Koji Ando, Shingo Koiwa
  • Publication number: 20150076635
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive element according to an embodiment includes: a base layer; a first magnetic layer formed on the base layer, and including a first magnetic film having an axis of easy magnetization in a direction perpendicular to a film plane, the first magnetic film including MnxGa100-x (45?x<64 atomic %); a first nonmagnetic layer formed on the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer formed on the first nonmagnetic layer, and including a second magnetic film having an axis of easy magnetization in a direction perpendicular to a film plane, the second magnetic film including MnyGa100-y (45?y<64 atomic %). The first and second magnetic layers include different Mn composition rates from each other, a magnetization direction of the first magnetic layer is changeable by a current flowing between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer via the first nonmagnetic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Tadaomi DAIBOU, Junichi ITO, Tadashi KAI, Minoru AMANO, Hiroaki YODA, Terunobu MIYAZAKI, Shigemi MIZUKAMI, Koji ANDO, Kay YAKUSHIJI, Shinji YUASA, Hitoshi KUBOTA, Akio FUKUSHIMA, Taro NAGAHAMA, Takahide KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 8981103
    Abstract: Provision of a stabilized crystal of 6-(3-chloro-2-fluorobenzyl)-1-[(S)-1-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpropyl]-7-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (compound A). A crystal of compound A, which shows a particular X-ray powder diffraction pattern of a characteristic diffraction peaks at diffraction angles 2?(°) as measured by X-ray powder diffractometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Koji Matsuda, Shuji Miyake, Hideto Uehara
  • Publication number: 20150025138
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, and medical uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Naoki Manta
  • Patent number: 8870231
    Abstract: In a fiber-reinforced resin pipe for introducing and discharging a liquid, a pipe (1) is provided with a plurality of introduction/discharge parts (2) for introducing or discharging liquid that are arranged at intervals in the axial direction from a peripheral surface of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Arisawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomu Kawasetsu, Yoshinori Nonaka, Kenji Tanaka, Koji Ando, Hiroshi Tanaka, Yuuichi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20140283992
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a first processing chamber and a second processing chamber, a first substrate holding unit that holds a substrate in the first processing chamber, a chemical solution supply unit that supplies a chemical solution containing an etching component and a thickening agent to the substrate held by the first substrate holding unit, a substrate transfer unit that transfers the substrate from the first processing chamber to the second processing chamber in a state in which the chemical solution is held on the substrate, and a second substrate holding unit that holds a plurality of substrates on each of which the chemical solution is held in the second processing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Tomoyuki AZUMA, Kenji YAMADA, Hiroyuki ARAKI, Koji ANDO
  • Publication number: 20140202989
    Abstract: A substrate treatment method includes a substrate holding unit which horizontally holds a substrate; a rotating unit which rotates the substrate held by the substrate holding unit about a vertical axis; and a first nozzle having an opposing face to be opposed to a lower surface of the substrate inward of a peripheral portion of the substrate in spaced relation to the lower surface of the substrate during rotation of the substrate by the rotating unit and a treatment liquid spout provided in the opposing face for filling a space defined between the lower surface of the substrate and the opposing face with a treatment liquid spouted from the treatment liquid spout to keep the space in a liquid filled state; wherein the treatment liquid spreads outwardly over the lower surface of the substrate and further, flows around to a peripheral portion of an upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: DAINIPPON SCREEN MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya KISHIMOTO, Koji ANDO