Patents by Inventor Shoji Kawata
Shoji Kawata 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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Patent number: 10300106Abstract: An autophagy-inducing compound comprises an autophagy-inducing peptide comprising Beclin 1 peptides immediately N- and C-terminally flanked by moieties R1 and R2, respectively, wherein up to six of said peptide residues may be substituted, R1 and R2 do not naturally flank the Beclin 1 residues, and F270 and F274 are optionally substituted and optionally linked. The compounds may be used to induce autophagy.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Beth C. Levine, Sanae Shoji-Kawata, Nick V. Grishin, Lisa N. Kinch, Olivier Lichtarge, Angela D. Wilkins
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Publication number: 20150359840Abstract: An autophagy-inducing compound comprises an autophagy-inducing peptide comprising Beclin 1 peptides immediately N- and C-terminally flanked by moieties R1 and R2, respectively, wherein up to six of said peptide residues may be substituted, R1 and R2 do not naturally flank the Belclin 1 residues, and F270 and F274 are optionally substituted and optionally linked. The compounds may be used to induce autophagy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicants: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Beth C. Levine, Sanae Shoji-Kawata, Nick V. Grishin, Lisa N. Kinch, Olivier Lichtarge, Angela D. Wilkins
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Patent number: 8802633Abstract: An autophagy-inducing compound comprises an autophagy-inducing peptide comprising Beclin 1 residues 269-279 immediately N- and C-terminally flanked by moieties R1 and R2, respectively, wherein up to six of said residues may be substituted, R1 and R2 do not naturally flank the Belclin 1 residues, and F270 and F274 are optionally substituted and optionally linked. The compounds may be used to induce autophagy.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignees: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Baylor College of MedicineInventors: Beth C. Levine, Sanae Shoji-Kawata, Olivier Lichtarge, Angela D. Wilkins, Nick V. Grishin, Lisa N. Kinch
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Patent number: 8722628Abstract: An autophagy-inducing compound comprises an autophagy-inducing peptide comprising beclin-1 residues 269-283 and a heterologous moiety that promotes therapeutic stability or delivery of the compound. The compound may be used to induce autophagy and in assays with beclin-1 binding partners.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Beth C. Levine, Sanae Shoji-Kawata, Olivier Lichtarge, Angela D. Wilkins
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Publication number: 20140066382Abstract: An autophagy-inducing compound comprises an autophagy-inducing peptide comprising beclin-1 residues 269-283 and a heterologous moiety that promotes therapeutic stability or delivery of the compound. The compound may be used to induce autophagy and in assays with beclin-1 binding partners.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: Baylor College of Medicine, Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Beth C. Levine, Sanae Shoji-Kawata, Olivier Lichtarge, Angela D. Wilkins
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Patent number: 6654670Abstract: A parking assisting apparatus is provided in which even a beginner can relaxedly park a vehicle and parking operation is pertinently assisted. The apparatus provides a cameras 1 for taking an image rearwardly of a vehicle during parking the vehicle. The image from the camera is displayed on a display 13 provided inside the vehicle as a rear image and a running prediction locus 20 is displayed which varies in accordance with the state of a steering wheel angle to overlap the rear image. A longitudinal line parking switch 4b instructs the vehicle to park along a longitudinal line and when the longitudinal line parking is instructed there is displayed a running prediction locus 20a having a point of inflection in accordance with the steering wheel angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2000Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Kakinami, Shoji Kawata
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Patent number: 6476730Abstract: A parking assist apparatus which enables even an inexperienced driver to park with no difficulty or anxiety assists the parking operation by taking an image rearwardly of a vehicle during the parking operation by a camera, indicating an estimated locus of the vehicle overlapping with the rearward images on a display, indicating a first estimated locus in accordance with a steering angle of the vehicle at an initial stage of the parking operation on the display, fixing the first estimated locus at a predetermined condition to have the locus as an target locus, indicating the second estimated locus varied in accordance with the change of the steering angle during the parking operation on the display, and guiding the second estimated locus to be in accord with a fixed target locus.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Kakinami, Shoji Kawata
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Publication number: 20020128750Abstract: A parking assisting apparatus is provided in which even a beginner can relaxedly park a vehicle and parking operation is pertinently assisted. The apparatus provides a cameras 1 for taking an image rearwardly of a vehicle during parking the vehicle. The image from the camera is displayed on a display 13 provided inside the vehicle as a rear image and a running prediction locus 20 is displayed which varies in accordance with the state of a steering wheel angle to overlap the rear image. A longitudinal line parking switch 4b instructs the vehicle to park along a longitudinal line and when the longitudinal line parking is instructed there is displayed a running prediction locus 20a having a point of inflection in accordance with the steering wheel angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2000Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Toshiaki Kakinami, Shoji Kawata
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Patent number: 6445336Abstract: A radar device in which a much more precise demodulation can be made with an inexpensive circuit, free of the output variation of the frequency-modulated transmission signal. The radar device includes an oscillator which produces and outputs a frequency-modulated electromagnetic wave to a switching circuit by way of a directional coupler. The switching circuit uses switching modulation to radiate the electromagnetic wave from a transmitting antenna. The radiated electromagnetic wave after being reflected from an obstacle is received at a reception antenna. A mixer mixes this reception signal and a local signal fed from the directional coupler to produce a mixing signal which is to be fed to a high pass filter. The high pass filter deletes a low frequency output variation noise which is contained in the mixing signal and which occurs in the frequency modulation in the oscillator. The resulting mixing signal is, with the noise deleted, fed by way of an AC amplifier, to a switching demodulating circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunihiko Soshi, Shoji Kawata, Mitsuyoshi Saiki
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Publication number: 20010035838Abstract: A radar device in which a much more precise demodulation can be made with an inexpensive circuit, free of the output variation of the frequency-modulated transmission signal. The radar device includes an oscillator which produces and outputs a frequency-modulated electromagnetic wave to a switching circuit by way of a directional coupler. The switching circuit uses switching modulation to radiate the electromagnetic wave from a transmitting antenna. The radiated electromagnetic wave after being reflected from an obstacle is received at a reception antenna. A mixer mixes this reception signal and a local signal fed from the directional coupler to produce a mixing signal which is to be fed to a high pass filter. The high pass filter deletes a low frequency output variation noise which is contained in the mixing signal and which occurs in the frequency modulation in the oscillator. The resulting mixing signal is, with the noise deleted, fed by way of an AC amplifier, to a switching demodulating circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2001Publication date: November 1, 2001Inventors: Kunihiko Soshi, Shoji Kawata, Mitsuyoshi Saiki
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Publication number: 20010026317Abstract: A parking assist apparatus which enables even an inexperienced driver to park with no difficulty or anxiety assists the parking operation by taking an image rearwardly of a vehicle during the parking operation by a camera, indicating an estimated locus of the vehicle overlapping with the rearward images on a display, indicating a first estimated locus in accordance with a steering angle of the vehicle at an initial stage of the parking operation on the display, fixing the first estimated locus at a predetermined condition to have the locus as an target locus, indicating the second estimated locus varied in accordance with the change of the steering angle during the parking operation on the display, and guiding the second estimated locus to be in accord with a fixed target locus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2001Publication date: October 4, 2001Inventors: Toshiaki Kakinami, Shoji Kawata
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Patent number: 6013407Abstract: A positive resist composition is excellent in sensitivity, film loss after development, resolution, thermal-flow resistance, storage stability, exposure margin and focus margin and comprises in combination (A) an alkali-soluble phenol resin, (B) a quinonediazide sulfonate type photosensitive agent and (C) a phenolic compound, wherein the phenolic compound (C) is at least one phenolic compound selected from the group consisting of phenolic compounds (CX) having a structural unit represented by the following formula (I) and phenolic compounds (CD) having a structural unit represented by the following formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 to R.sup.3 are, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, an alkyl group which may be substituted, a cycloalkyl group which may be substituted, an alkenyl group which may be substituted, an alkoxy group which may be substituted, or an aryl group which may be substituted, R.sup.4 to R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1997Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Kawata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Hirokazu Higashi, Takeyoshi Kato, Masahiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 5912102Abstract: A positive resist composition comprising an alkali-soluble phenolic resin, a photosensitive agent composed of a quinonediazide sulfonate of a specific polyhydroxy compound, and an aromatic compound having at least one phenolic hydroxyl group.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1997Date of Patent: June 15, 1999Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Kawata, Motofumi Kashiwagi, Teturyo Kusunoki, Masahiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 5532107Abstract: Disclosed herein is a positive resist composition comprising an alkali-soluble phenolic resin and a photosensitive agent, characterized in that the positive resist composition contains, as the photosensitive agent, the quinonediazide sulfonate of at least one of phenolic compounds represented by the following general formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 through R.sub.4 mean individually a hydrogen or halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, or a hydroxyalkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms and may be equal to or different from one another, and R.sub.5 denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, or an aryl group with the proviso that the number of hydroxyl groups is 3 or 4; and ##STR2## wherein R.sub.6 through R.sub.9 mean individually a hydrogen or halogen atom, an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, or a hydroxyalkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms and may be equal to or different from one another, and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1994Date of Patent: July 2, 1996Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Oie, Shoji Kawata, Takamasa Yamada, Shinya Ikeda
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Patent number: 5376497Abstract: Disclosed herein is a positive resist composition comprising in admixture:(a) 100 parts by weight of an alkali-soluble phenolic resin;(b) 1-100 parts by weight of a photosensitive agent formed of a quinonediazide sulfonic acid ester;(c) 1-100 parts by weight of a hydroxy compound having a structure that at least part of its hydroxyl group(s) (--OH) has been modified by at least one conversion reaction selected from the group consisting of esterification with sulfonic acid (--OSO.sub.2 R), esterification with carboxylic acid (--OCOR) and etherification (--O--R), in which R means an alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, aryl, substituted aryl, aralkyl or substituted aralkyl group; and(d) sufficient solvent to dissolve the foregoing composition components.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1992Date of Patent: December 27, 1994Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Kawata, Toshiaki Fujii, Teturyo Kusunoki, Motofumi Kashiwagi, Hiroshi Yagi, Kazuko Koito, Shinya Ikeda
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Patent number: 5306596Abstract: Disclosed herein is a positive resist composition comprising an alkali-soluble phenolic resin and a photosensitive agent, characterized in that the positive resist composition contains, as the photosensitive agent, the quinonediazide sulfonate of at least one of phenolic compounds represented by the following general formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 through R.sub.4 mean individually a hydrogen or halogen atom, a hyaroxyl group, an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, or a hydroxyalkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms and may be equal to or different from one another, and R.sub.5 denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, or an aryl group with the proviso that the number of hydroxyl groups is 3 or 4; and ##STR2## wherein R.sub.6 through R.sub.9 mean individually a hydrogen or halogen atom, an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, or a hydroxyalkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms and may be equal to or different from one another, and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1990Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Oie, Shoji Kawata, Takamasa Yamada, Shinya Ikeda
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Patent number: 5166033Abstract: Disclosed herein is a positive resist composition comprising an alkali-soluble phenolic resin and the quinonediazide sulfonate of at least one phenolic compound selected from vinylphenol compounds and isopropenylphenol compounds as a photosensitive agent. It is suitable for use in minute processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1990Date of Patent: November 24, 1992Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Oie, Shoji Kawata, Takamasa Yamada
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Patent number: 5112719Abstract: Disclosed herein is a positive resist composition comprising an alkali-soluble phenolic resin, a photosensitive agent formed of a quinonediazide sulfonic acid ester and at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 through R.sup.6 mean individually a hydrogen or halogen atom, a hydroxyl group or an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms and may be equal to or different from one another,R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 denote individually a hydrogen or halogen atom, or an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms and may be equal to or different from each other, andR.sup.9 through R.sup.11 stand individually for a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms and may be equal to or different from one another. It is suitable for use in minute processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1990Date of Patent: May 12, 1992Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takamasa Yamada, Shoji Kawata, Masayuki Oie
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Patent number: 5088351Abstract: A vehicle speed control system comprising an automatic speed control system for controlling the vehicle velocity to a set velocity selected by an operator, and automatic transmission control system for controlling the speed stage of the automatic transmission of the vehicle in response to the deviation between the actual vehicle velocity and the set vehicle velocity of the automatic speed control means. The automatic transmission control system comprises two operating modes including a first mode when the automatic speed control system is controlling the vehicle velocity, and a second mode when the automatic speed control system is not controlling the vehicle velocity, and the automatic transmission control system prohibits the shift of the speed stage to a fixed speed stage when the automatic speed control system is controlling the vehicle velocity.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1990Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Miyake, Nobuyasu Suzumura, Shoji Kawata
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Patent number: 5048374Abstract: A vehicle speed control system comprising an automatic speed control system for controlling the vehicle velocity to a set velocity selected by an operator, and automatic transmission control system for controlling the speed stage of the automatic transmission of the vehicle in response to the deviation between the actual vehicle velocity and the set vehicle velocity of the automatic speed control system. The automatic transmission control system comprises two operating modes including a first mode when the automatic speed control system is controlling the vehicle velocity, and a second mode when the automatic speed control system is not controlling the vehicle velocity, and the automatic transmission control system prohibits the shift of the speed stage to a fixed speed stage when the automatic speed control system is controlling the vehicle velocity.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1989Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Miyake, Nobuyasu Suzumura, Shoji Kawata