Patents by Inventor Minoru Kato
Minoru Kato 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).
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Publication number: 20240148699Abstract: The present invention provides a oxazole compound represented by Formula (1), or a salt thereof: wherein R1 is an aryl group which may have one or more substituents; R2 is an aryl group or a nitrogen atom-containing heterocyclic group each of which may have one or more substituents; and W is a divalent group represented by —Y1-A1- or —Y2—C(?O)— wherein Y1 is a group such as —C(?O)—, A1 is a group such as a lower alkylene group, and Y2 is a group such as a piperazinediyl group. The oxazole compound has a specific inhibitory action against phosphodiesterase 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Okada, Masaya Kato, Norifumi Sato, Tetsuyuki Uno, Hideki Kitagaki, Junpei Haruta, Hidetaka Hiyama, Tomonori Shibata
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Patent number: 11933837Abstract: In various examples, an inspection jig includes a plate-shaped insulating member having a recess; a first board having a first electrode; and a conducting wire electrically connected to a contact terminal. The insulating member is provided with a through hole penetrating a bottom portion of the recess. One end portion of the conducting wire is disposed in the through hole. The other end of the conducting wire is connected to the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Kato, Makoto Fujino
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Publication number: 20220178987Abstract: In various examples, an inspection jig includes a plate-shaped insulating member having a recess; a first board having a first electrode; and a conducting wire electrically connected to a contact terminal. The insulating member is provided with a through hole penetrating a bottom portion of the recess. One end portion of the conducting wire is disposed in the through hole. The other end of the conducting wire is connected to the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Minoru KATO, Makoto FUJINO
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Patent number: 11009523Abstract: A probe is a probe having a substantially bar-like shape and includes a distal end portion with a substantially columnar shape adapted to be in contact with an inspection point provided on a device under test, a base end portion with a substantially columnar shape on an opposite side of the distal end portion, and a main body portion formed in a flat ribbon shape and extended to connect the distal end portion to the base end portion. The distal end portion is provided with a distal end surface inclined relative to and intersecting with an axial center of the probe.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: Nidec-Read Corporation, Nidec SV Probe Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Kato, Tadakazu Miyatake, Akio Hayashi, Masaki Naganuma, Matthias Joseph Chin Chieh Chia, Cheng Ghee Ong, Raminderjit Singh
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Publication number: 20200207327Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle configured to smoothly engage an engagement device while reducing a collision noise of the engagement device. The control system is configured to apply torque to a set of teeth on one half of the engagement device to shift a phase of the set of teeth in the event of teeth interference. After the completion of engagement of the engagement device, the control system further applies torque to the set of teeth on one half of the engagement device to reduce backlash between the set of teeth on one half of the engagement device and a set of teeth on the other half of the engagement device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya IMAMURA, Takahiro YOKOKAWA, Hideo WATANABE, Kazumi HOSHIYA, Hirokazu KATO, Minoru KATO, Kensei HATA
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Publication number: 20200018779Abstract: A probe is a probe having a substantially bar-like shape and includes a distal end portion with a substantially columnar shape adapted to be in contact with an inspection point provided on a device under test, a base end portion with a substantially columnar shape on an opposite side of the distal end portion, and a main body portion formed in a flat ribbon shape and extended to connect the distal end portion to the base end portion. The distal end portion is provided with a distal end surface inclined relative to and intersecting with an axial center of the probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicants: Nidec-Read Corporation, Nidec SV Probe Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Minoru KATO, Tadakazu MIYATAKE, Akio HAYASHI, Masaki NAGANUMA, Matthias Joseph Chin Chieh Chia, Cheng Ghee Ong, Raminderjit Singh
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Publication number: 20170056336Abstract: The present invention provides methods, compositions, and combinations for treating cancer via combined use of a compound of formula (I), and/or their subgenra, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer or stereoisomer thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R8, R9, R11a, R11b, R11c, and R11d are as defined herein, and at least one therapeutically active agents selected from inhibitors of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, active agents associated with the treatment of prostate cancer, and anticancer agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Marianne Dorothy SADAR, Jun WANG, Nasrin R. MAWJI, Minoru KATO
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Publication number: 20130030085Abstract: Provided is the one-pack type backing resin composition which exhibits excellent fall-off resistance, excellent storage stability, and high flame retardancy. A one-pack type backing resin composition includes 100 parts by mass of (A) a (meth)acrylic polymer, and 50 to 500 parts by mass of (B) a flame retardant, the (meth)acrylic polymer (A) being produced by emulsion polymerization of a monomer component, and having a solvent-insoluble content of 0 to 85 mass %, the monomer component including 0.5 to 25 mass % of (a) glycidyl methacrylate, 0.2 to 10 mass % of (b) an unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, and 70 to 99.3 mass % of (c) an additional copolymerizable monomer (provided that (a)+(b)+(c)=100 mass %).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2010Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Emulsion Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichiro Higasa, Minoru Kato
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Patent number: 8237818Abstract: A camera includes an imaging unit that generates image data, an inserting-image setting unit that sets an inserting image to be inserted into an image of the image data, a first detecting unit that detects a main subject area in a subject image, a second detecting unit that detects a background area in the subject image based on the main subject area, an inserting-area selecting unit that selects an inserting area into which an inserting image is inserted from the background area, and a magnification determining unit that determines a magnification for enlargement or reduction of the inserting image in accordance with a size of the inserting area and a size of the inserting image, and thereby inserts an inserting image of an appropriate size.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Minoru Kato
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Patent number: 8158250Abstract: To provide a stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin having an attractive force between sheets is 50 g or less. The stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin has no charge therein and can be processed secondarily with lesser electrostatic disturbance even in a low-humidity environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Yupo CorporationInventors: Takatoshi Nishizawa, Minoru Kato, Hidenori Okuyama
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Patent number: 8085333Abstract: A digital camera includes: an image processing unit that creates first display image data and second display image data; a display device that displays a first screen image and a second screen image so as to allow a user to observe the first screen image when viewed along a first direction with respect to a display face and so as to allow the user to observe the second screen image when viewed along a second direction that differs from the first direction; and a control unit that instructs the display device to display the first display image data as the first screen image, and the second display image data as the second screen image.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Minoru Kato
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Patent number: 8012570Abstract: This invention provides printing paper which comprises an aliphatic polyester resin utilizing a plant resource-derived biomass material, is excellent, for example, in traveling stability on a printing machine, material strength, reproduction of dots, print sharpness, and waterfastness and is suitable for use in applications where sheet offset printing is carried out, for example, commercial printing applications such as outdoor posters and maps, catalogs, pamphlets, and menues, and a label using the same. The printing paper is a film formed of an aliphatic polyester resin composition comprising 40 to 90% by weight of an aliphatic polyester resin (a) comprising a binary or higher material of aliphatic diol units represented by formula (I) and aliphatic dicarboxylic acid units represented by formula (II) and 60 to 10% by weight of an inorganic fine powder (b).Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Yupo CorporationInventors: Ichiro Ohkawachi, Akira Iwai, Minoru Kato
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Patent number: 7872362Abstract: The vehicle-use power supply control apparatus includes a first battery supplying electric power to a load, an alternator driven by a vehicle engine, a second electric accumulator parallel-connected to the first battery, an electric power converter performing two-way power transmission between the first and second batteries, and a power supply control unit. The power supply control includes a function of setting a target power generation efficiency index, a function of setting a target power generation amount of the alternator on the basis of the target power generation efficiency index, while referring to a map defining relationship between a power generation efficiency index and a power generation amount of the alternator, and a function of controlling an amount and a transmission direction of transmission power of the electric power converter in order that an amount of electric power generated by the alternator becomes equal to the target power generation amount.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Minoru Kato, Takashi Senda
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Publication number: 20100233462Abstract: To provide a stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin having an attractive force between sheets is 50 g or less. The stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin has no charge therein and can be processed secondarily with lesser electrostatic disturbance even in a low-humidity environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: YUPO CORPORATIONInventors: Takatoshi NISHIZAWA, Minoru Kato, Hidenori Okuyama
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Patent number: 7785021Abstract: A retractable lens camera includes: a lens barrel; three or more lens groups provided in the lens barrel; a retracting unit that retracts the lens barrel and the lens groups into a camera body; and a displacing unit that displaces at least two lens groups to an escaping space out of an optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Minoru Kato
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Publication number: 20100194962Abstract: A digital camera includes: an image processing unit that creates first display image data and second display image data; a display device that displays a first screen image and a second screen image so as to allow a user to observe the first screen image when viewed along a first direction with respect to a display face and so as to allow the user to observe the second screen image when viewed along a second direction that differs from the first direction; and a control unit that instructs the display device to display the first display image data as the first screen image, and the second display image data as the second screen image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Minoru Kato
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Patent number: 7681545Abstract: An idling stop control of the invention attains an auto start and an auto stop of an engine. At a time point t1, pre-set stop conditions are met to cut off a fuel supply to the engine. Preset starting conditions may be met at a time point t2 when the engine still continues rotating in a normal direction by the inertial force. In this state, the idling stop control starts cranking the engine. The preset starting conditions may be met at a time point t4 when a piston does not complete a compression cycle immediately before a stop of the engine but is pressed back by the compressed air to rotate the engine in a reverse direction. In this state, the idling stop control waits until cancellation of the reverse rotation of the engine and then starts cranking the engine. The arrangement of the invention desirably ensures a quick start of the engine, while effectively preventing an excess stress from acting on a gear mechanism, which connects a starter motor to the engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2004Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Taki, Minoru Kato
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Publication number: 20090278959Abstract: A camera includes an imaging unit that generates image data, an inserting-image setting unit that sets an inserting image to be inserted into an image of the image data, a first detecting unit that detects a main subject area in a subject image, a second detecting unit that detects a background area in the subject image based on the main subject area, an inserting-area selecting unit that selects an inserting area into which an inserting image is inserted from the background area, and a magnification determining unit that determines a magnification for enlargement or reduction of the inserting image in accordance with a size of the inserting area and a size of the inserting image, and thereby inserts an inserting image of an appropriate size.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Minoru Kato
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Patent number: 7546199Abstract: A plurality of pistons are slidably provided in cylinders of an engine respectively. The engine includes a plurality of connection pipes connecting cylinders successively experiencing combustion to each other during operation of engine, a plurality of opening-closing valves for setting each of connection pipes to a connected state or a closed state, and an ECU for controlling the plurality of opening-closing valves such that the piston is stopped at a predetermined position when the operation of the engine is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Minoru Kato
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Publication number: 20090041966Abstract: To provide a stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin having an attractive force between sheets is 50 g or less. The stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin has no charge therein and can be processed secondarily with lesser electrostatic disturbance even in a low-humidity environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: YUPO CORPORATIONInventors: Takatoshi Nishizawa, Minoru Kato, Hidenori Okuyama