Patents by Inventor Nobuo Kondo
Nobuo Kondo 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: 20240104993Abstract: An article supply device comprises a main body, a first type article accommodation unit or a second type article accommodation unit, an attachment unit capable of replacing the first type article accommodation unit and the second type article accommodation unit with each other, a first supply unit which supplies a first type article in the first type article accommodation unit, a first supply port formed in the main body, and, a second supply unit which includes a second supply port and supplies a second type article in the second type article accommodation unit, wherein the first supply unit supplies the first type article to the first supply port when the first type article accommodation unit is attached to the attachment unit, and the second supply unit supplies the second type article to the second supply port when the second type article accommodation unit is attached to the attachment unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Hajime KONDO, Tatsushi IKARASHI, Nobuo KUROKAWA
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Patent number: 8567013Abstract: A door body holding structure that can hold a door body at an open position by using a simple configuration. A projecting portion 40, which projects toward a containing wall 38 side, is provided on an outer surface of a bearing portion 32 of a fixed-side hinge at a position facing the containing wall 38 where the projecting portion 40 does not come into contact with an inner surface of a guide portion 34 when the door body 18 is at a closed position but the projecting portion 40 comes into contact with the inner surface of the guide portion 34 when the door body 18 is at the open position. A separation dimension between a projecting end of the projecting portion 40 and the containing wall 38 is set to be smaller than a thickness dimension of the guide portion 34.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Takashi Hibino, Nobuo Kondo, Hideo Ishigure
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Patent number: 8528357Abstract: An ice-making machine has a box-shaped lower housing with an ice storage bin, a box-shaped upper housing mounted on a rear portion of the lower housing, an ice-making mechanism within the front portion of a machine compartment in the upper housing, and a freezing unit installed behind the ice-making mechanism for supplying refrigerant to the ice-making mechanism. An open-and-close ice-access lid is pivotally mounted between the lower end of the upper housing and the the lower housing. An air intake passage introduces outside cooling air from the front face of the lower housing into the machine compartment along inner surfaces of one side wall and a rear wall of the lower housing. An air discharge passage is provided for passing the air after cooling to flow outward along inner surfaces of the rear wall and the other side wall of the lower housing to an exterior discharge from the front face of the lower housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuo Kondo, Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Hideyuki Tashiro, Takeshi Ueda, Takashi Hibino, Akira Harata
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Patent number: 8299064Abstract: The present invention provides a fused polycyclic compound of the following formula, analogues thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and agents for increasing the sugar-transporting capacity, hypoglycemic agents and pharmaceutical compositions containing the above compounds. This fused polycyclic compound has high medicinal properties and few side-effects, and a therapeutic effect on diabetes. wherein R represents an alkoxy group, R? represents an oxazolylpropionyl group or a thiazolylpropionyl group, and R? represent a hydrogen atom.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Ryusuke Hirama, Seiji Niwa, Hideyuki Tanaka, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Yoko Masuzawa, Akiyo Yamazaki, Takao Ikenoue, Nobuo Kondo, Wataru Miyanaga, Masaru Takayanagi
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Publication number: 20110197392Abstract: A door body holding structure that can hold a door body at an open position by using a simple configuration. A projecting portion 40, which projects toward a containing wall 38 side, is provided on an outer surface of a bearing portion 32 of a fixed-side hinge at a position facing the containing wall 38 where the projecting portion 40 does not come into contact with an inner surface of a guide portion 34 when the door body 18 is at a closed position but the projecting portion 40 comes into contact with the inner surface of the guide portion 34 when the door body 18 is at the open position. A separation dimension between a projecting end of the projecting portion 40 and the containing wall 38 is set to be smaller than a thickness dimension of the guide portion 34.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Takashi Hibino, Nobuo Kondo, Hideo Ishigure
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Publication number: 20110160191Abstract: The present invention provides a fused polycyclic compound of the following formula, analogues thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and agents for increasing the sugar-transporting capacity, hypoglycemic agents and pharmaceutical compositions containing the above compounds. This fused polycyclic compound has high medicinal properties and few side-effects, and a therapeutic effect on diabetes. wherein R represents an alkoxy group, R? represents an oxazolylpropionyl group or a thiazolylpropionyl group, and R? represent a hydrogen atom.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Ryusuke HIRAMA, Seiji Niwa, Hideyuki Tanaka, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Yoko Masuzawa, Akiyo Yamazaki, Takao Ikenoue, Nobuo Kondo, Wataru Miyanaga, Masaru Takayanagi
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Patent number: 7956041Abstract: The invention provides a prophylactic and therapeutic agent of diabetes mellitus, including a combination of an inhibitor of renal glucose reabsorption and a hypoglycemic agent. In accordance with the invention, hyperglycemia after meals, between meals and during fasting can be ameliorated. More specifically, in accordance with the invention, a therapeutic effect of diabetes mellitus as never been obtained by the hypoglycemic agents of the related art can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Katsumi Maezono, Nozomu Ishida, Koji Ohsumi, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Ryusuke Hirama, Yoko Kageyama, Nobuo Kondo
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Publication number: 20110113814Abstract: Ice making water is uniformly supplied to ice making regions of an ice making section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: HOSHIZAKI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Takashi Hibino, Nobuo Kondo, Hideyuki Tashiro, Takeshi Ueda, Akira Harata
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Patent number: 7928101Abstract: The present invention provides a fused polycyclic compound of the following formula, analogues thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and agents for increasing the sugar-transporting capacity, hypoglycemic agents and pharmaceutical compositions containing the above compounds. This fused polycyclic compound has high medicinal properties and few side-effects, and a therapeutic effect on diabetes. wherein R represents an alkoxy group, R? represents an oxazolylpropionyl group or a thiazolylpropionyl group, and R? represent a hydrogen atom.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Ryusuke Hirama, Seiji Niwa, Hideyuki Tanaka, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Yoko Masuzawa, Akiyo Yamazaki, Takao Ikenoue, Nobuo Kondo, Wataru Miyanaga, Masaru Takayanagi
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Publication number: 20110023521Abstract: An ice-making machine comprising a box-shaped lower housing provided therein with an ice storage bin, a box-shaped upper housing mounted on a rear portion of the lower housing, an ice-making mechanism assembled within the front portion of a machine compartment formed in the upper housing, and a freezing unit installed behind the ice-making mechanism for supplying refrigerant to the ice-making mechanism, wherein an open-and-close lid is mounted on an opening formed between the lower end of the front face of the upper housing and the upper end of the front face of the lower housing, and wherein an air intake passage is formed to cause outside air introduced from the front face of the lower housing to flow as cooling air into the machine compartment along inner surfaces of one side wall and the rear wall of the lower housing, and an air discharge passage is formed to cause the air after cooling to flow outward along inner surfaces of the rear wall and the other side wall of the lower housing and to discharge toType: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Nobuo Kondo, Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Hideyuki Tashiro, Takeshi Ueda, Takashi Hibino, Akira Harata
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Patent number: 7807663Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating diabetes, diabetic complication, hyperinsulinemia, disorders of glucose metabolism or obesity, comprising a combination of the following compound, analogues or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof with a hypoglycemic agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Takao Ikenoue, Yoko Kageyama, Yukio Iino, Nobuo Kondo
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Publication number: 20100063124Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole-O-glycoside derivatives represented by the following formulae, used as a diabetic medicine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Koji Ohsumi, Takashi Umemura, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Akiko Onuki, Katsumi Maezono, Yoko Kageyama, Nobuo Kondo
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Patent number: 7645787Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole-O-glycoside derivatives represented by the following formulae, used as a diabetic medicine.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Koji Ohsumi, Takashi Umemura, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Akiko Onuki, Katsumi Maezono, Yoko Kageyama, Nobuo Kondo
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Publication number: 20090320513Abstract: An automatic ice making machine with enhanced heat discharge efficiency, is provided. An ice making machine body 22 has a machine room 50 provided with a freezing mechanism 60 such as a compressor 56, and air inlets 30, 30 provided in a front panel 24 and communicating with the machine room 50. A top panel 26 comprises an insulating material 72 formed with a plurality of air circulation paths 74 which allow communication between the machine room 50 and outside of the ice making machine body 22. These air circulation paths 74 communicate with an air outlet 44 open toward an outer surface of the front panel 24. Outside air taken in from the air inlets 30, 30 circulates through the machine room 50 and an ice making space 52, and thereafter is discharged to the outside of the ice making machine body 22 via the air circulation paths 74.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Nobuo Kondo
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Patent number: 7632830Abstract: An agent for increasing the sugar-transporting capacity and an agent for preventing and/or treating diabetes, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macroangiopathy, impaired glucose tolerance or adiposis, which contains a lactam compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as the active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Yukio Iino, Takao Ikenoue, Nobuo Kondo, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Ryusuke Hirama, Yoko Masuzawa, Fumio Ohta, Akiyo Yamazaki, Seiji Niwa, Takashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7402696Abstract: The present invention provides novel benzene compounds presented by the following formulas, and analogs thereof, that exert an ACC activity-inhibiting effect that is effective in the treatment of obesity, hyperlipemia, fatty liver, hyperglycemia, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes, diabetic complications (diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic macroangiopathy, hypertension, arteriosclerosis), hypertension, and arteriosclerosis.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Nobuyasu Suzuki, Yukio Nihei, Hidehiro Ichinose, Hideyuki Tanaka, Noriko Yasa, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Yoko Masuzawa, Eiji Nakanishi, Nobuo Kondo
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Publication number: 20080096862Abstract: An agent for increasing the sugar-transporting capacity and an agent for preventing and/or treating diabetes, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macroangiopathy, impaired glucose tolerance or adiposis, which contains a lactam compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as the active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Yukio IINO, Takao Ikenoue, Nobuo Kondo, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Ryusuke Hirama, Yoko Masuzawa, Fumio Ohta, Akiyo Yamazaki, Seiji Niwa, Takashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7326701Abstract: An agent for increasing the sugar-transporting capacity and an agent for preventing and/or treating diabetes, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macroangiopathy, impaired glucose tolerance or adiposis, which contains a lactam compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as the active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Yukio Iino, Takao Ikenoue, Nobuo Kondo, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Ryusuke Hirama, Yoko Masuzawa, Fumio Ohta, Akiyo Yamazaki, Seiji Niwa, Takashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20070270479Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole-O-glycoside derivatives represented by the following formulae, used as a diabetic medicine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2007Publication date: November 22, 2007Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INCInventors: Koji OHSUMI, Takashi Umemura, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Akiko Onuki, Katsumi Maezono, Yoko Kageyama, Nobuo Kondo
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Patent number: 7256209Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole-O-glycoside derivatives represented by the following formulae, used as a diabetic medicineType: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Koji Ohsumi, Takashi Umemura, Hiroyuki Matsueda, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Akiko Onuki, Katsumi Maezono, Yoko Kageyama, Nobuo Kondo