Patents by Inventor Motoshi Suzuki
Motoshi Suzuki 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: 20090218881Abstract: A brake force distribution control device which increases a brake force at an operation wheel so that a slip amount of the operation wheel becomes closer to a slip amount of a target wheel, wherein the slip amount of the target wheel is larger than the slip amount of the operation wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Aizawa, Takuya Hirano, Motoshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20090155417Abstract: To promote the digestion of an animal to thereby elevate the feed efficiency or prevent or ameliorate intestinal infections such as inflammatory intestinal injury of the animal, a combination of at least one fungus selected from Aspergillus sojae, Aspergillus tamarii, Aspergillus foetidus, Aspergillus niger, and Aspergillus oryzae with an acidic enzyme produced by the fungus is administered to the animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Kadota, Motoshi Suzuki, Kuniko Suzuki, Shinji Ito, Yasuaki Sugimoto, Masami Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20090004656Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity. The method consists of generating a random population of polymerase mutants by mutating at least one amino acid residue of a thermostable polymerase and screening the population for one or more active polymerase mutants by genetic selection. For example, the invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity by mutating at least one amino acid residue in an active site O-helix of a thermostable polymerase. The invention also provides thermostable polymerases and nucleic acids encoding thermostable polymerases having altered fidelity, for example, high fidelity polymerases and low fidelity polymerases. The invention additionally provides a method for identifying one or more mutations in a gene by amplifying the gene with a high fidelity polymerase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONInventors: Lawrence A. Loeb, Leroy Hood, Motoshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080255744Abstract: A brake control apparatus for a vehicle includes four wheel braking apparatuses, a first hydraulic pressure generating apparatus, a front-wheel hydraulic circuit connecting the hydraulic pressure generating apparatus to the two of the wheel braking apparatuses, a rear-wheel hydraulic circuit connecting the hydraulic pressure generating apparatus to the other two of the wheel braking apparatuses, a second hydraulic pressure generating apparatus generating an auxiliary pressure, a braking operation variable detecting means, a reference amount determining means for determining a reference amount of auxiliary hydraulic pressure, an obtaining means for obtaining at least one of state quantities indicating a load condition, a driving condition and slipperiness of wheel, a target amount determining means determining a target amount of auxiliary hydraulic pressure of each hydraulic circuit to be equal to or greater than the corresponding reference amount of auxiliary hydraulic pressure, and a pressure regulating meanType: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yasui, Hiroaki Aizawa, Motoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 7429053Abstract: A subframe structure for an automotive vehicle wherein a subframe is attached through a rubber mount to a vehicle body, suspension components are assembled onto the subframe so that the suspension components are held connected to the vehicle body through the subframe, and a detecting assembly capable of providing an output signal according to a load that acts between a subframe and a vehicle body is provided. A rubber mount for use in this subframe structure is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignees: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Katagiri, Takehiro Yamada, Akihiro Miyoshi, Tamio Tsurita, Motoshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080056166Abstract: A mobile station 200 includes a receiving field level detecting unit 213 to convert a level of a wireless signal into an RSSI output, and a wireless frame timing deciding unit 214 to decide a wireless frame timing from the transient characteristic of the RSSI output. By deciding the wireless frame timing from the RSSI output, synchronous establishment can be realized even when the mobile station 200 does not include a demodulation circuit. The mobile station can perform the synchronous establishment without being increased in size.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2005Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoshi Suzuki, Shohei Taniguchi
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Patent number: 7335310Abstract: A method of treating hardly decomposable harmful substance comprising (A) a step for adding coagulant into wastewater containing a hardly decomposable harmful substance, (B) a step for performing solid-liquid separation which separates a solid containing the hardly decomposable harmful substance from a liquid, and (C) a step for decomposing the hardly decomposable harmful substance by bringing peroxide into contact with the separated solid. Efficiently and safely treating the hardly decomposable harmful substances by means of low-cost facilities realizes.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2003Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motoshi Suzuki, Takahiro Kawabata, Hideo Miyamoto, Takahisa Muramoto, Masashi Machida, Shingo Ogoshi
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Patent number: 7312059Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity. The method consists of generating a random population of polymerase mutants by mutating at least one amino acid residue of a thermostable polymerase and screening the population for one or more active polymerase mutants by genetic selection. For example, the invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity by mutating at least one amino acid residue in an active site O-helix of a thermostable polymerase. The invention also provides thermostable polymerases and nucleic acids encoding thermostable polymerases having altered fidelity, for example, high fidelity polymerases and low fidelity polymerases. The invention additionally provides a method for identifying one or more mutations in a gene by amplifying the gene with a high fidelity polymerase.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: University of WashingtonInventors: Lawrence A. Loeb, Leroy Hood, Motoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 7240972Abstract: A brake torque control device obtains inertia torque Tine based upon an equation of motion (Tine=Tw?Ft·Rt) about the rotation of a tire based upon a wheel torque Tw according to a brake torque exerted on the tire, road friction force Ft and a radius Rt of the tire. When the inertia torque Tine exceeds a predetermined reference value, road friction force Ft at this time is set as estimated maximum road friction force Fmax. The instructed brake torque is calculated under the condition that the value that is obtained by adding the predetermined value corresponding to the inertia torque Tine to the torque Fmax·Rt based upon this estimated maximum road friction force Fmax is set as an upper limit value of the instructed brake torque. This allows to clearly set, as one value, the target value of the instructed brake torque upon an ABS control, thereby being capable of more accurately executing the pressure-increasing control and pressure-reducing control of the brake fluid pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keita Nakano, Motoshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Niino, Masato Yoshino
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Patent number: 7233238Abstract: A tire air-pressure alarming device includes wheel speed sensors for detecting wheel speeds of wheels of a motor vehicle and also includes a microcomputer-base control device and an alarming unit. The control device is programmed to execute function steps of: deriving a decision value based on the wheel speeds detected by the wheel speed sensors; judging the occurrence of air-pressure drop of the tires constituting wheels, based on the decision value; and outputting a command when the occurrence of the air-pressure drop of the tires is judged. The alarming unit is responsive to the command from the control device thereby to raise an alarm indicating the occurrence of the air-pressure drop of the tire. The tires are monitored by the tire air-pressure alarming device, wherein the control device is also programmed to execute a function step of standardizing the speed dependency of a rolling radius of the tires thereby to standardize the performance in judging the air-pressure drop of the tires.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2004Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignees: Advics Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Motoshi Suzuki, Hidenori Kajino, Minao Yanase
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Publication number: 20070093387Abstract: An environmentally-safe method for protecting plants is provided for reducing the use of chemically-synthesized pesticide. Specifically, an anti-microbial and/or anti-viral composition comprising a laccase, a cell of a laccase-producing microorganism or a treated product thereof, and one or more kinds of phenol derivatives each represented by the general formula (I) shown below or a salt of the phenol derivative is provided. Furthermore, a plant disease-preventing agent, seed-sterilizing agent, post-harvest agent, and nutrient solution-sterilizing agent, each containing the composition; and plant disease-preventing method, seed-sterilizing method, post-harvest-treatment method, and nutrient solution-sterilizing method in hydroponics and solid-medium hydroponics using each f the agents are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2004Publication date: April 26, 2007Inventors: Kazuo Sumi, Tomoko Ishii, Motoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 7151910Abstract: The wireless microphone information displaying apparatus comprise a plurality of wireless microphones having information respectively assigned thereto, a wireless microphone supporting device having a plurality of supporting portion for supporting the microphones, respectively, and a plurality of connecting devices for electrically connecting the microphones with the unit. Each of the microphones contains a wireless microphone control unit. The supporting device comprises a unit control unit, a display panel for displaying the information assigned to the microphones. The microphone information is displayed on the display panel, when the microphones are supported o the supporting device.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2003Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motoshi Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20060226083Abstract: A method of treating hardly decomposable harmful substance comprising (A) a step for adding coagulant into wastewater containing a hardly decomposable harmful substance, (B) a step for performing solid-liquid separation which separates a solid containing the hardly decomposable harmful substance from a liquid, and (C) a step for decomposing the hardly decomposable harmful substance by bringing peroxide into contact with the separated solid. Efficiently and safely treating the hardly decomposable harmful substances by means of low-cost facilities realizes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2003Publication date: October 12, 2006Inventors: Motoshi Suzuki, Takahiro Kawabata, Hideo Miyamoto, Takahisa Muramoto, Masashi Machida, Shingo Ogoshi
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Patent number: 7063393Abstract: In an electronic brake system, a brake pedal is operated by a driver according to a requisite braking force. Wheel cylinders equipped at respective vehicle wheels generate braking forces at the respective vehicle wheels. A master cylinder applies a brake fluid pressure to generate the respective wheel cylinder pressures. A pedal operation amount detection portion detects a stroke amount of the brake pedal. The brake pedal and the master cylinder are isolated from each other. The motor is driven based on the pedal operation amount detected by the pedal operation amount detection portion and then controls the brake fluid pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignees: Advics Co., Ltd., Denso CorporationInventors: Motoshi Suzuki, Haruo Arakawa, Takayuki Takeshita, Takahisa Yokoyama
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Patent number: 7027847Abstract: Herein disclosed a communications system according to the present invention comprises, a wireless microphone transmission apparatus for transmitting a radio microphone signal on a predetermined wireless microphone frequency channel carrying a voice signal and a tone signal; and a wireless receiving apparatus for receiving the radio microphone signal on the predetermined wireless microphone frequency channel carrying the voice signal and the tone signal transmitted by the wireless microphone transmission apparatus. The wireless receiving apparatus includes an integral computing unit for sequentially computing integrals of the signal levels of the tones of the tone signal at first predetermined time intervals and a data information computing unit for sequentially computing differences between two respective integrals of the signal levels of the tones of the tone signal, at respective second predetermined time intervals to acquire data information.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2001Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Kawasaki, Motoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 7020381Abstract: A video editing apparatus for editing electronic motion video image data utilizes an effect setting table that specifies mapping of editing effect names arbitrarily registered by the user to editing effects or screen effects, for example, transition effects between different scenes or successive video clips and insertion of captions and subtitles, executable by the video editing apparatus. In editing management data that specify a flow of a program, editing effects to be applied in respective video clip data are set indirectly by specifying the editing effect names registered in the effect setting table. Varying the mapping of the editing effect names to the editing effects enables a desired editing effect corresponding to a certain editing effect name to be collectively changed without modifying the editing management data. This arrangement desirably relieves the labor in the process of setting the editing effects and improves the certainty.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2000Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Kato, Motoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 7020664Abstract: Upon receipt of a segment name obtainment request, the segment name generation unit 104 generates a segment name composed of (1) a file name of a file to which the segment belongs and (2) a number indicating a serial number of the segment in the file. Upon receipt of an access request specifying a segment name, the segment identification unit 119 refers to the segment name to detect the file name and the serial number of the segment in the detected file. The segment position detection unit 106 then refers to the file information storage unit 102 and the segment information storage unit 103 to detect a position where a segment is to be accessed.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Toshio Mizuno, Motoshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20060049603Abstract: A subframe structure for an automotive vehicle wherein a subframe is attached through a rubber mount to a vehicle body, suspension components are assembled onto the subframe so that the suspension components are held connected to the vehicle body through the subframe, and a detecting assembly capable of providing an output signal according to a load that acts between a subframe and a vehicle body is provided. A rubber mount for use in this subframe structure is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicants: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Katagiri, Takehiro Yamada, Akihiro Miyoshi, Tamio Tsurita, Motoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 7010328Abstract: Herein disclosed a communications system according to the present invention comprising: a wireless microphone transmission apparatus for transmitting a radio microphone signal on a predetermined wireless microphone frequency channel carrying a voice signal and a tone signal; and a wireless receiving apparatus for receiving the radio microphone signal on the predetermined wireless microphone frequency channel carrying the voice signal and the tone signal transmitted by the wireless microphone transmission apparatus. The wireless microphone transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes a data generating section for judging the type of data information, and generating a data string in response to the type of, and on the basis of the data information, and a tone signal generating section for generating a tone signal on the basis of the data string generated by the data generating section 22, thereby increasing the efficiency of the communications system.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2001Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Kawasaki, Motoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 6982144Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity. The method consists of generating a random population of polymerase mutants by mutating at least one amino acid residue of a thermostable polymerase and screening the population for one or more active polymerase mutants by genetic selection. For example, the invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity by mutating at least one amino acid residue in an active site O-helix of a thermostable polymerase. The invention also provides thermostable polymerases and nucleic acids encoding thermostable polymerases having altered fidelity, for example, high fidelity polymerases and low fidelity polymerases. The invention additionally provides a method for identifying one or more mutations in a gene by amplifying the gene with a high fidelity polymerase.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2001Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: University of WashingtonInventors: Lawrence A. Loeb, Leroy Hood, Motoshi Suzuki