Patents by Inventor Satoshi Koide
Satoshi Koide 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: 20240023839Abstract: A blood component monitoring device is a blood component monitoring device configured to monitor a blood component. The blood component monitoring device includes a concentration acquisition circuit configured to acquire the glucose correlation value that correlates with the blood glucose concentration and the neutral lipid correlation value that correlates with the blood neutral lipid concentration. The blood component monitoring device includes an information generation circuit configured to generate the information related to the blood status on the basis of at least one of the variation patterns of the glucose correlation value and the neutral lipid correlation value caused by a meal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TANITA CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi KOIDE
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Patent number: 9277600Abstract: A stator coil heating apparatus and a stator coil heating method that are capable of effectively preventing a core from thermal deformation particularly caused due to a magnetic flux generated by a coil head, without the problem of heating temperature variation, and also shortening a time for the process of heating a stator coil, are provided. A stator coil heating apparatus A to heat a stator coil L wound around a circular core F, comprises: induction heating coil heads 1 and 11 that heat the circular coil L by generating an inductive effect acting from outside in the thickness direction of the core F, against circular winding coil bases La and Lb that are sticking out of end faces Fa and Fb of the core F in the thickness direction thereof; and shields 2 and 12 that block a magnetic flux generated by the coil heads 1 and 11, out of the end faces Fa and Fb of the core F in the thickness direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keishi Matsumoto, Hideaki Miyake, Hideaki Kimura, Satoshi Koide
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Patent number: 9274496Abstract: Uneven charging is improved, and production of a banding image attributed to a slip between the charging member and the electrophotographic photosensitive member is suppressed. An electrophotographic process cartridge including a charging member and an electrophotographic photosensitive member which is electrically charged upon being brought into contact with the charging member, wherein the charging member includes a electro-conductive substrate and a surface layer formed on the electro-conductive substrate; the surface layer contains at least a binder resin, an electron conductive agent, and a resin particle having a plurality of pores inside thereof; the surface of the surface layer has a protrusion derived from the resin particle; the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support and a photosensitive layer formed on the support; and the surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a specific component.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noboru Miyagawa, Satoshi Koide, Takehiko Aoyama, Daisuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 9158213Abstract: The present invention relates to a charging member. The charging member comprises an electro-conductive substrate and an electro-conductive surface layer, wherein the surface layer includes a binder resin, an electro-conductive particle dispersed in the binder resin, and a resin particle that roughens the surface of the surface layer; the surface layer has a plurality of protrusions each derived from the resin particle in the surface thereof; the resin particle that forms the protrusion has a pore inside thereof; has a porosity Vt of porosity is 2.5% by volume or less as a whole; and has a region whose porosity V11 is from 5% by volume to 20% by volume, wherein the region is farthest away from the electro-conductive substrate in the resin particle, and assuming that the resin particle is a solid particle having no pores, the region corresponds to a 11% by volume-occupying region of the solid particle.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohito Taniguchi, Takehiko Aoyama, Taichi Sato, Noboru Miyagawa, Satoshi Koide, Daisuke Tanaka
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Publication number: 20140308607Abstract: The present invention relates to a charging member. The charging member comprises an electro-conductive substrate and an electro-conductive surface layer, wherein the surface layer includes a binder resin, an electro-conductive particle dispersed in the binder resin, and a resin particle that roughens the surface of the surface layer; the surface layer has a plurality of protrusions each derived from the resin particle in the surface thereof; the resin particle that forms the protrusion has a pore inside thereof; has a porosity Vt of porosity is 2.5% by volume or less as a whole; and has a region whose porosity V11 is from 5% by volume to 20% by volume, wherein the region is farthest away from the electro-conductive substrate in the resin particle, and assuming that the resin particle is a solid particle having no pores, the region corresponds to a 11% by volume-occupying region of the solid particle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Tomohito Taniguchi, Takehiko Aoyama, Taichi Sato, Noboru Miyagawa, Satoshi Koide, Daisuke Tanaka
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Publication number: 20140295336Abstract: Uneven charging is improved, and production of a banding image attributed to a slip between the charging member and the electrophotographic photosensitive member is suppressed. An electrophotographic process cartridge including a charging member and an electrophotographic photosensitive member which is electrically charged upon being brought into contact with the charging member, wherein the charging member includes a electro-conductive substrate and a surface layer formed on the electro-conductive substrate; the surface layer contains at least a binder resin, an electron conductive agent, and a resin particle having a plurality of pores inside thereof; the surface of the surface layer has a protrusion derived from the resin particle; the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support and a photosensitive layer formed on the support; and the surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a specific component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Noboru Miyagawa, Satoshi Koide, Takehiko Aoyama, Daisuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 8692047Abstract: A method of purifying 8-isoprostane is provided that includes a step of contacting a liquid sample containing 8-isoprostane with an ion exchange support having a quaternary ammonium salt immobilized thereon such that 8-isoprostane in the liquid sample is retained on the ion exchange support and a step of eluting 8-isoprostane from the ion exchange support using a first eluent containing a water-soluble organic solvent and water as main components.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignees: Tanita Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Satoshi Koide, Kenji Yokoyama, Yoshio Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140091084Abstract: A stator coil heating apparatus and a stator coil heating method that are capable of effectively preventing a core from thermal deformation particularly caused due to a magnetic flux generated by a coil head, without the problem of heating temperature variation, and also shortening a time for the process of heating a stator coil, are provided. A stator coil heating apparatus A to heat a stator coil L wound around a circular core F, comprises: induction heating coil heads 1 and 11 that heat the circular coil L by generating an inductive effect acting from outside in the thickness direction of the core F, against circular winding coil bases La and Lb that are sticking out of end faces Fa and Fb of the core F in the thickness direction thereof; and shields 2 and 12 that block a magnetic flux generated by the coil heads 1 and 11, out of the end faces Fa and Fb of the core F in the thickness direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keishi Matsumoto, Hideaki Miyake, Hideaki Kimura, Satoshi Koide
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Patent number: 8652850Abstract: A method of quantitatively determining 8-isoprostane is provided that includes fluorescently labeling 8-isoprostane with a quinoxalinone derivative in an excess amount relative to 8-isoprostane, separating a fluorescently labeled 8-isoprostane from a unreacted quinoxalinone derivative by contacting a reaction mixture containing the fluorescently labeled 8-isoprostane and the unreacted quinoxalinone derivative with a cation exchange support having a sulfonic acid or a sulfonate immobilized thereon, and quantitatively determining the fluorescently labeled 8-isoprostane that has been separated from the unreacted quinoxalinone derivative.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignees: Tanita Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Satoshi Koide, Kenji Yokoyama, Yoshio Suzuki
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Patent number: 8622234Abstract: A packaging container comprises an openable outer case and a bag for packaging a resin material in the outer case. The bag is partially turned back at fold portions so that part of the bag is turned inside out, and at least part of the out-turned part is fixed as a fixing part to any part other than the bag. The inner surfaces of the bag at the fold portions are placed in contact with each other, forming a contact portion, to seal the resin material. The contact portion is placed in correspondence with an openable part of an opening flap of the outer case.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Showa Denko Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Koide, Shotaro Itami, Soh Hatakeyama, Hidekazu Kanbara, Shigeki Teruoka
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Patent number: 8550969Abstract: A charging member, a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus are provided which have been so made as for any C-set images to be kept from occurring; the C-set images occurring in a charging member of an electrophotographic apparatus where the charging member and an electrophotographic photosensitive member have been left to stand in contact with each other over a long period of time. In a charging member having a conductive support and a surface layer, the surface layer is incorporated with a specific compound.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Taniguchi, Satoshi Koide
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Publication number: 20130251403Abstract: The charging member includes: an electrically conductive support; and an electrically conductive surface layer, in which the surface layer includes a first polyrotaxane and a second polyrotaxane; the first polyrotaxane has a structure in which a first straight-chain molecule passes through an inside of a ring of a first cyclic molecule; the second polyrotaxane has a structure in which a second straight-chain molecule passes through an inside of a ring of a second cyclic molecule; and the first polyrotaxane and the second polyrotaxane are bound together through formation of a chemical bond between the first cyclic molecule and the second cyclic molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu Matsuda, Noboru Miyagawa, Satoshi Koide
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Publication number: 20130236214Abstract: Provided is an electro-conductive member in which a C set hardly occurs. The electro-conductive member is an electro-conductive member including an electro-conductive substrate and a porous rubber elastic layer, in which the porous rubber elastic layer includes closed cells including particles, and the particles are not fixed to inner walls of the closed cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Koide, Hidekazu Matsuda, Noboru Miyagawa
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Patent number: 8532534Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive substrate and a conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer includes a binder, conductive fine particles, and bowl-shaped resin particles each of which has an opening. The bowl-shaped resin particles are contained in the conductive resin layer in such a way as not to be exposed to an outer surface of the charging member, and the surface of the charging member has concavities derived from openings of the bowl-shaped resin particles and protrusions derived from edges of the openings of the bowl-shaped resin particles. The bowl-shaped resin particles each has a roundish concavity and includes inner walls lined with the conductive resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Taniguchi, Satoshi Koide
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Patent number: 8383234Abstract: Provided is the following charging member of an electrophotographic apparatus. The charging member suppresses the occurrence of each of a streak-like image, a spot-like image, and a rough image that occur when image formation is performed over a long time period. Also provided are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the charging member. A compound having a siloxane dendrimer structure at a vinyl group or a side chain of a vinyl polymer is incorporated into the surface layer of the charging member comprising a conductive substrate and the surface layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Mayuzumi, Tomohito Taniguchi, Hidekazu Matsuda, Nozomu Takahata, Yusuke Yagisawa, Satoshi Koide, Masataka Kodama
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Patent number: 8344298Abstract: In a method of heating a stator, a first induction coil is disposed near one of the coil ends of the stator, and a second induction coil is disposed near the other, and the first induction coil and the second induction coil are electrically energized, whereby the induction-heating of the stator is performed as a pre-heating step prior to the resin molding step of the coil ends. According to this method, a first movement unit for moving the first induction coil and a second movement unit for moving the second induction coil are provided, the first induction coil is moved by the first movement unit and the second induction coil is moved by the second movement unit for induction-heating of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Koide, Hideaki Kimura, Masahiko Sakao
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Publication number: 20120220050Abstract: A method of purifying 8-isoprostane is provided that includes a step of contacting a liquid sample containing 8-isoprostane with an ion exchange support having a quaternary ammonium salt immobilized thereon such that 8-isoprostane in the liquid sample is retained on the ion exchange support and a step of eluting 8-isoprostane from the ion exchange support using a first eluent containing a water-soluble organic solvent and water as main components.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tanita CorporationInventors: Satoshi Koide, Kenji Yokoyama, Yoshio Suzuki
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Publication number: 20120220040Abstract: A method of quantitatively determining 8-isoprostane is provided that includes fluorescently labeling 8-isoprostane with a quinoxalinone derivative in an excess amount relative to 8-isoprostane, separating a fluorescently labeled 8-isoprostane from a unreacted quinoxalinone derivative by contacting a reaction mixture containing the fluorescently labeled 8-isoprostane and the unreacted quinoxalinone derivative with a cation exchange support having a sulfonic acid or a sulfonate immobilized thereon, and quantitatively determining the fluorescently labeled 8-isoprostane that has been separated from the unreacted quinoxalinone derivative.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tanita CorporationInventors: Satoshi KOIDE, Kenji YOKOYAMA, Yoshio SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20120177402Abstract: A charging member, a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus are provided which have been so made as for any C-set images to be kept from occurring; the C-set images occurring in a charging member of an electrophotographic apparatus where the charging member and an electrophotographic photosensitive member have been left to stand in contact with each other over a long period of time. In a charging member having a conductive support and a surface layer, the surface layer is incorporated with a specific compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohito Taniguchi, Satoshi Koide
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Publication number: 20120141162Abstract: Provided is the following charging member of an electrophotographic apparatus. The charging member suppresses the occurrence of each of a streak-like image, a spot-like image, and a rough image that occur when image formation is performed over a long time period. Also provided are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the charging member. A compound having a siloxane dendrimer structure at a vinyl group or a side chain of a vinyl polymer is incorporated into the surface layer of the charging member comprising a conductive substrate and the surface layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Mayuzumi, Tomohito Taniguchi, Hidekazu Matsuda, Nozomu Takahata, Yusuke Yagisawa, Satoshi Koide, Masataka Kodama