Patents by Inventor Satoshi Konishi
Satoshi Konishi 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: 20240132736Abstract: An object is to obtain a white ink which is easy to redisperse and is re-dispersible by being shaken several tens of times with weak force at most, or alternatively, without being shaken. As a solution, a white ink composition is provided which contains 50.0% by mass or less of a titanium oxide pigment treated with silica, alumina, and contains an organic compound in a solid content of the white ink composition, and contains 5.0 parts by mass or more of an alkali-soluble resin whose weight-average molecular weight is 28,000 to 100,000 relative to 100 parts by mass of the titanium oxide pigment, and further contains a water-dispersible resin and water.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki KONISHI, Yuya WATANABE, Ryuta NODA, Masaki MURAKAMI, Satoshi HIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20240124735Abstract: An object is to obtain an ink set capable of forming images of excellent image quality even when an acidic atmosphere, arising from use of a volatile acid in a pretreatment solution, is present in the vicinity of ink nozzles, etc. As a solution, an ink set containing a pretreatment solution and an ink composition is provided, wherein: the pretreatment solution contains an organic acid having a boiling point of 120° C. or lower at 1 atmospheric pressure; and the ink composition contains a pigment and an alkali-soluble resin having an acid value of 200 mgKOH/g or higher or crosslinked substance thereof accounting for 1.8% by mass or more in the ink composition, and further contains a water-dispersible resin and water.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki KONISHI, Ryuta NODA, Masaki MURAKAMI, Masahiro UEKI, Satoshi HIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20230387806Abstract: Provided is a high-voltage control circuit capable of shortening a time required for voltage bucking with a simple configuration without requiring a complicated control algorithm. A high-voltage control circuit 1 includes: a high-voltage rectifier circuit 100 configured to convert an AC voltage into a DC high voltage; a smoothing capacitor 140 configured to smooth the DC high voltage output from the high-voltage rectifier circuit 100; a switch circuit 102 connected in parallel to the smoothing capacitor 140; a feedback circuit 103 including an error amplifier 133 configured to amplify a differential voltage Vdf between a command voltage Viv and a divided voltage Vdv following the DC high voltage, and configured to control the high-voltage rectifier circuit 100 based on an output signal of the error amplifier 133; and an amplifier 105 configured to amplify the differential voltage Vdf. The switch circuit 102 is controlled by an output signal of the amplifier 105.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Satoshi KONISHI, Hiroshi TODA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Kazuki SATO
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Publication number: 20220186189Abstract: This invention provides a method for stably producing type II alveolar epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for producing type II alveolar epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells comprising steps of: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing activin A and a GSK3? inhibitor; (2) culturing the cells obtained in Step (1) in a medium containing a BMP inhibitor and a TGF? inhibitor; (3) culturing the cells obtained in Step (2) in a medium containing BMP4, retinoic acid, and a GSK3? inhibitor; (4) culturing the ventral anterior foregut cells obtained in Step (3) in a medium containing a GSK3? inhibitor, FGF10, KGF, and a NOTCH signal inhibitor; and (5) subjecting the alveolar epithelial progenitor cells obtained in Step (4) to three-dimensional culture in a medium containing a steroid drug, a cAMP derivative, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, and KGF.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Shimpei GOTOH, Yuki YAMAMOTO, Satoshi KONISHI, Michiaki MISHlMA
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Patent number: 11299712Abstract: This invention provides a method for stably producing type II alveolar epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for producing type II alveolar epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells comprising steps of: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing activin A and a GSK3? inhibitor; (2) culturing the cells obtained in Step (1) in a medium containing a BMP inhibitor and a TGF? inhibitor; (3) culturing the cells obtained in Step (2) in a medium containing BMP4, retinoic acid, and a GSK3? inhibitor; (4) culturing the ventral anterior foregut cells obtained in Step (3) in a medium containing a GSK3? inhibitor, FGF10, KGF, and a NOTCH signal inhibitor; and (5) subjecting the alveolar epithelial progenitor cells obtained in Step (4) to three-dimensional culture in a medium containing a steroid drug, a cAMP derivative, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, and KGF.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Shimpei Gotoh, Yuki Yamamoto, Satoshi Konishi, Michiaki Mishima
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Patent number: 10945297Abstract: A terminal device is configured to establish a communication link with communication equipment through a base station device such that, upon establishing the communication link, part of the communication link is left for a certain base station while another part of the communication link is established with the terminal device through the other base station device according to a plurality of architectures, wherein the terminal device includes a wireless communication part configured to transmit support architecture information representing an architecture supported by the terminal device among a plurality of architectures to the base station device.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo Ohseki, Toshiaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Konishi
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Publication number: 20200345029Abstract: Provided are an oiliness/fattiness enhancer for foods in which oiliness/fattiness of a food can be enhanced, and a food in which oiliness/fattiness has been enhanced. Provided is an oiliness/fattiness enhancer for foods characterized by containing, as an active component, an oxidized oil/fat having a peroxide value of 20 or more to 400 or less and including milk fat in an amount of 10% by mass or more to 100% by mass or less. The oiliness/fattiness enhancer for foods preferably contains the oxidized oil/fat in an amount of 0.001% by mass or more to 100% by mass or less, preferably has anhydrous milk fat as the milk fat, preferably includes a pulverulent oil/fat containing the oxidized oil/fat and an excipient, and is preferably applied to a food having an oil/fat content of 0.1% by mass or more to 70% by mass or more. The food is preferably any one food selected from the group consisting of a dressing, a roux, and a soup.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Misaki TSUJI, Takahiro TOKUCHI, Satoshi KONISHI, Sanshiro SAITO, Masahiro INOUE
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Publication number: 20200337354Abstract: [Problem] To provide a method for producing an oil and fat composition in which it is possible to enhance the flavor of a flavor oil. [Solution] This method for producing a powder oil and fat composition includes a step for heating an oil mixture including a vegetable ingredient and an edible oil or fat at a temperature that is at least 45° C. and less than 100° C., and a step for obtaining the powder oil composition from a raw-ingredient mixture including the flavor oil and a diluent.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Takahiro TOKUCHI, Hiroaki SUZUKI, Misaki TSUJI, Satoshi KONISHI, Sanshiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20190342927Abstract: A terminal device is configured to establish a communication link with communication equipment through a base station device such that, upon establishing the communication link, part of the communication link is left for a certain base station while another part of the communication link is established with the terminal device through the other base station device according to a plurality of architectures, wherein the terminal device includes a wireless communication part configured to transmit support architecture information representing an architecture supported by the terminal device among a plurality of architectures to the base station device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo OHSEKI, Toshiaki YAMAMOTO, Satoshi KONISHI
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Patent number: 10405359Abstract: A terminal device is configured to establish a communication link with communication equipment through a base station device such that, upon establishing the communication link, part of the communication link is left for a certain base station while another part of the communication link is established with the terminal device through the other base station device according to a plurality of architectures, wherein the terminal device includes a wireless communication part configured to transmit support architecture information representing an architecture supported by the terminal device among a plurality of architectures to the base station device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo Ohseki, Toshiaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Konishi
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Patent number: 10377991Abstract: This invention provides a method for stably producing airway epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for producing airway epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells comprising steps: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing activin A and a GSK3? inhibitor; (2) culturing the cells obtained in Step (1) in a medium containing a BMP inhibitor and a TGF? inhibitor; (3) culturing the cells obtained in Step (2) in a medium containing BMP4, retinoic acid, and a GSK3? inhibitor; (5) subjecting the cells obtained after Step (3) to three-dimensional culture in a medium containing a GSK3? inhibitor, FGF10, and a ROCK inhibitor; and (6) subjecting the proximal airway epithelial progenitor cells obtained in Step (5) to three-dimensional culture in a medium containing a ROCK inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Shimpei Gotoh, Yuki Yamamoto, Satoshi Konishi, Michiaki Mishima
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Patent number: 10151622Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a combination weighing device in which supply of articles at an article conveyance part is controlled with good precision. A combination weighing device (100) is provided with article conveyance parts (10, 20) having loading parts (11, 21) of articles and driving parts (12, 22) for driving the loading parts, the article conveyance parts (10, 20) driving the driving parts and thereby causing the articles to be conveyed to hoppers (30) arranged downstream in a conveyance direction, a sensing part (60) for sensing, in non-contact manner, a state of the articles on the loading parts, and a supply control part (82c) for controlling supply of the articles by controlling driving of the article conveyance parts based on a sensing result of the sensing part. The sensing part sense, for a plurality of regions along the conveyance direction, the state of the articles for each of the regions.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Hirose, Toshiharu Kageyama, Takuyu Kubo, Yoshito Inazumi, Shinya Ikeda, Satoshi Konishi
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Patent number: 10154534Abstract: A terminal device includes a wireless communication part configured to wirelessly communicate with base station devices; a link controller configured to establish a link with a primary base station device (PCell) so as to enable a wireless communication via the wireless communication part while establishing a link with a secondary base station device (SCell) so as to enable a wireless communication via the wireless communication part; a primary base station link failure detector configured to detect a radio link failure in the wireless communication with the primary base station device based on the predetermined condition; and a primary base station link failure information transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit the information, concerning the radio link failure with the primary base station device, to the secondary base station device when the primary base station link failure detector detects the radio link failure status.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Yamamoto, Takeo Ohseki, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yosuke Akimoto, Satoshi Konishi
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Publication number: 20180282679Abstract: Provided is a cell culture apparatus capable of constructing cultured cells under an environment closer to that in a living body. The cell culture apparatus includes: a culture substrate (11) having a culture surface (11a) on which cells S are cultured; and a drive unit (12) configured to allow opening and closing of the culture substrate (11) between a closed form and an open form. The closed form is a form in which the culture substrate (11) forms a flow path having an internal volume with the culture surface (11) being an internal surface of the flow path. The open form is a form in which the culture surface (11a) of the culture substrate (11) is opened outward more than the culture surface (11a) of the culture substrate (11) in the closed form.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: The Ritsumeikan TrustInventors: Satoshi KONISHI, Takuya FUJITA, Koji HATTORI, Yusuke KONO
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Patent number: 10027454Abstract: A communication apparatus performs communication in a manner such that communication with a first base station apparatus using a first frequency band and communication with a second base station apparatus using a second frequency band are switched on a per-subframe basis, obtains, from the first base station apparatus, specification information that specifies a subframe in which the first frequency band should be used and a subframe in which the second frequency band should be used among a plurality of subframes included in one or more frames, and performs control on the basis of the specification information to communicate with the first base station apparatus in the subframe in which the first frequency band should be used and with the second base station apparatus in the subframe in which the second frequency band should be used.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Yosuke Akimoto, Satoshi Konishi
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Patent number: 9980311Abstract: A wireless communication terminal includes a base station communication part which communicates with a base station; an interterminal communication part which communicates with another wireless communication part; a communication failure detector which detects a communication failure with a first connected base station serving as a base station connected thereto; and a communication resume processor which carries out an interterminal communication with another wireless communication terminal so as to communicate with a second connected base station, connected to another wireless communication terminal, via another wireless communication terminal when a communication failure is detected with the first connected base station, thus carrying out a process of resuming a communication upon detecting the communication failure.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Koichiro Kitagawa, Yasuyuki Hatakawa, Satoshi Konishi
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Patent number: 9961594Abstract: A terminal device includes a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication; a connection control unit connecting to a first base station device to wirelessly communicate with the first base station device via the wireless communication unit, the first base station serving as a primary, the connection control unit connecting to a second base station device to wirelessly communicate with the second base station device via the wireless communication unit, the second base station device serving as a secondary; a detection unit determining whether quality of wireless communication between the terminal device and the first base station device is in a low state based on a predetermined condition; and a signal transmission control unit wirelessly transmitting via the wireless communication unit, a predetermined signal toward at least either the first or second base station device when the quality is determined to be in the low state by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Yamamoto, Takeo Ohseki, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yosuke Akimoto, Satoshi Konishi
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Publication number: 20180112186Abstract: This invention provides a method for stably producing airway epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for producing airway epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells comprising steps: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing activin A and a GSK3? inhibitor; (2) culturing the cells obtained in Step (1) in a medium containing a BMP inhibitor and a TGF? inhibitor; (3) culturing the cells obtained in Step (2) in a medium containing BMP4, retinoic acid, and a GSK3? inhibitor; (5) subjecting the cells obtained after Step (3) to three-dimensional culture in a medium containing a GSK3? inhibitor, FGF10, and a ROCK inhibitor; and (6) subjecting the proximal airway epithelial progenitor cells obtained in Step (5) to three-dimensional culture in a medium containing a ROCK inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: Kyoto UniversityInventors: Shimpei GOTOH, Yuki YAMAMOTO, Satoshi KONISHI, Michiaki MISHlMA
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Publication number: 20180051256Abstract: This invention provides a method for stably producing type II alveolar epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for producing type II alveolar epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells comprising steps of: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing activin A and a GSK3? inhibitor; (2) culturing the cells obtained in Step (1) in a medium containing a BMP inhibitor and a TGF? inhibitor; (3) culturing the cells obtained in Step (2) in a medium containing BMP4, retinoic acid, and a GSK3? inhibitor; (4) culturing the ventral anterior foregut cells obtained in Step (3) in a medium containing a GSK3? inhibitor, FGF10, KGF, and a NOTCH signal inhibitor; and (5) subjecting the alveolar epithelial progenitor cells obtained in Step (4) to three-dimensional culture in a medium containing a steroid drug, a cAMP derivative, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, and KGF.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Shimpei GOTOH, Yuki YAMAMOTO, Satoshi KONISHI, Michiaki MISHlMA
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Patent number: 9719503Abstract: The present invention provides such pumping apparatuses that have very little deviation and high stability in pumping flow. A pumping apparatus comprises two members that are set along a longitudinal direction of a tube made of an elastic material with a relation that the space formed by grooves made in the two members holds the tube. The two members have reciprocal motion such that at least one of the two opposing members shuttles in parallel with the other opposing member and has a move-in motion such that at least one of the two opposing members vertically moves to the opposing surfaces of the other opposing member so that surrounding part of the groove thereof moves into an inner space of the groove of the other opposing member, by which motion the liquid in the tube is discharged from the tube by the deformation of tube cross sectional shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventor: Satoshi Konishi