Patents by Inventor Rie KIMURA

Rie KIMURA 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: 20240105350
    Abstract: A method of producing a light water reactor fuel assembly may include: setting conditions at least concerning an operation cycle period and burnup; setting an initial enrichment of enriched uranium; calculating excess reactivity of a light water reactor core where light water reactor fuel assemblies including the enriched uranium are burned until an end stage of a final operation cycle; determining whether a condition where excess reactivity at an end of a first operation cycle in the burnup calculation step is close to a predetermined positive value is true or not; and returning to the setting of the initial enrichment, when it is determined at the determining that the situation is not true, or deciding an enrichment of the enriched uranium when it is determined that the situation is true.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kouji HIRAIWA, Rei KIMURA, Shungo SAKURAI, Rie AIZAWA, Goro YANASE, Shinichiro KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11474378
    Abstract: Provided is a test method performed using a lens which comes into contact with a human body during use, the test method including the steps of: providing a membrane member including a membrane swellable upon absorbing water and a supporting base having an annular shape to support an outer periphery of the membrane; allowing cells to adhere on the membrane of the membrane member; and bringing the membrane to which the cells are adhered into close contact with the surface of the lens, by immersing the membrane member and the lens into a liquid and deforming the membrane in a swollen state along the surface of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seitaro Taki, Yasuhiko Shinoda, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Rie Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190196222
    Abstract: Provided is a test method performed using a lens which comes into contact with a human body during use, the test method including the steps of: providing a membrane member including a membrane swellable upon absorbing water and a supporting base having an annular shape to support an outer periphery of the membrane; allowing cells to adhere on the membrane of the membrane member; and bringing the membrane to which the cells are adhered into close contact with the surface of the lens, by immersing the membrane member and the lens into a liquid and deforming the membrane in a swollen state along the surface of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Seitaro TAKI, Yasuhiko SHINODA, Hiroyuki NAKAGAWA, Rie KIMURA