Patents by Inventor Takashi Kudo
Takashi Kudo 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: 7696849Abstract: An electronic component of the surface-mounted type having a mounting surface that can be mounted on the printed circuit board, maintaining sufficient insulation among the external electrodes despite the chip size is decreased, and having a large mounting strength. In a common mode choke coil array, for example, an external electrode is constituted by electrode pads formed on the mounting surfaces of insulating substrates mounted on a PCB, and a connection electrode which electrically connects an internal electrode terminal exposed on the outer surface different from the mounting surface to the electrode pads. The connection electrodes near the internal electrode terminals have a width c? smaller than a width b of the electrode pads as measured in the same direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2005Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ito, Takashi Kudo, Makoto Otomo
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Publication number: 20090230666Abstract: A vehicle frame structure for a saddle-type vehicle has a vehicle frame including a subframe portion detachably mounted on a main frame, and a joint between the main frame and the subframe which is disposed in a longitudinally intermediate portion of a continuously extending frame component, wherein the frame component is kept rigid and the joint is maintained in a small size. In the joint, the frame component has a portion divided by a vertical plane into a main-frame-side joint arm and a subframe-side joint arm. The joint arms have distal ends having arcuate outer walls cut off around their fastening positions. The joint arms further have integral upstanding walls disposed on proximal ends thereof, corresponding to the cut-off arcuate outer walls of the joint arms. The joint arms are fastened to each other with the distal ends thereof fitted in cavities surrounded by the upstanding walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Kudo
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Publication number: 20090212532Abstract: A side stand attaching structure for a motorcycle includes a stand attaching part of a body of the motorcycle, a stand bracket, and a connector. The stand bracket rotatably connects a base end part of a levelable side stand to the stand attaching part. The side stand is provided on one side at a lower part of the body. The connector connects the stand bracket to the stand attaching part. The connector is inclined to extend upward as the connector extends outwardly in a width direction of the motorcycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Takashi KUDO
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Publication number: 20090081668Abstract: A tumor marker nucleic acid of the present invention is concerned with a nucleic acid hybridizing under stringent conditions to a nucleotide sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a complementary nucleotide sequence thereof. A method of testing canceration of the present invention is a method comprising diagnosing a biological sample as being cancerous when the transcription level of the nucleic acid in the biological sample significantly exceeds that in a normal biological sample as a control. The present invention also relates to a ?1,3-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminyltransferase protein having an activity of transferring N-acetyl-D-glucosamine from a donor substrate to an acceptor substrate through ?1,3-linkage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Hisashi Narimatsu, Takashi Kudo, Akira Togayachi, Toru Hiruma
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Patent number: 7453343Abstract: A thin-film type common-mode choke coil includes a laminated structure having a magnetic substrate; and electrically insulating layers and conductor layers laminated on the magnetic substrate in a direction of thickness, wherein said conductor layers form at least two coil conductors; at least two of the conductor layers are provided as spiral conductor patterns; and the spiral conductor patterns satisfy the expression: 5 ?m?W1?36 ?m in which W1 is the conductor width of each of the spiral conductor patters. The spiral conductor patterns may also satisfy the expression: 100 ?m2?T*W1 in which T is the conductor thickness of each of said spiral conductor patterns or satisfy the expression: W2<T×2 in which W2 is the space between said spiral conductor patterns, and T is the conductor thickness of each of said spiral conductor patterns.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ito, Takashi Kudo, Makoto Otomo
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Patent number: 7422243Abstract: A fuel pump installation area for a vehicle for enhancing the stiffness of the fuel pump built in a fuel tank and for enhancing the stiffness of an installation area of a tank installation stay on the fuel tank side. In a motorcycle in which a fuel tank is installed to the body frame and a fuel pump is provided within this fuel tank, the fuel pump is installed to the fuel tank via a pump installation member. To the pump installation member, a tank installation stay for fixing the fuel tank to the body frame is installed. The left and right side walls may be formed by depressing the center of the underside of the fuel tank upwardly over the front and the rear. Concave-shaped engaging members are installed by engaging left and right convex portions provided on the body frame with these engaging members, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2004Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kudo, Yoshitaka Yanagibashi
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Patent number: 7396666Abstract: A tumor marker nucleic acid of the present invention is concerned with a nucleic acid hybridizing under stringent conditions to a nucleotide sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a complementary nucleotide sequence thereof. A method of testing canceration of the present invention is a method comprising diagnosing a biological sample as being cancerous when the transcription level of the nucleic acid in the biological sample significantly exceeds that in a normal biological sample as a control. The present invention also relates to a ?1,3-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminyltransferase protein having an activity of transferring N-acetyl-D-glucosamine from a donor substrate to an acceptor substrate through ?1,3-linkage.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2003Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Hisashi Narimatsu, Takashi Kudo, Akira Togayachi, Toru Hiruma
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Publication number: 20080078349Abstract: An intake device of a V-type internal combustion engine is provided. In the V-type internal combustion engine, a pair of banks is mounted on an engine body in an approximately V-shape, and a throttle body connected to intake ports of cylinder heads of the banks is arranged between the banks. The throttle body is arranged below uppermost ends of head covers which are respectively mounted on the banks. Therefore, the height of the internal combustion engine can be set as small as possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: Takashi Kudo, Osamu Emizu
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Publication number: 20080015165Abstract: This invention relates to a novel polypeptide having an ?1,3-fucosyltransferase activity, a method for producing the polypeptide, a DNA encoding the polypeptide, a method for producing the DNA, a recombinant vector obtained by inserting the DNA thereinto, a transformant having the recombinant vector, an antibody recognizing the polypeptide, a method for determining or immunostaining the polypeptide of the present invention using the antibody, a method for producing a fucose-containing sugar chain using the polypeptide or the transformant, a method for screening a substance that changes the expression of a gene encoding the polypeptide, a method for screening a substance that changes the activity of the polypeptide, and a method for diagnosing diseases such as encephalopathy, renal diseases and cancers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Narimatsu, Takashi Kudo, Katsutoshi Sasaki
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Patent number: 7262039Abstract: This invention relates to a novel polypeptide having an ?1,3-fucosyltransferase activity, a method for producing the polypeptide, a DNA encoding the polypeptide, a method for producing the DNA, a recombinant vector obtained by inserting the DNA thereinto, a transformant having the recombinant vector, an antibody recognizing the polypeptide, a method for determining or immunostaining the polypeptide of the present invention using the antibody, a method for producing a fucose-containing sugar chain using the polypeptide or the transformant, a method for screening a substance that changes the expression of a gene encoding the polypeptide, a method for screening a substance that changes the activity of the polypeptide, and a method for diagnosing diseases such as encephalopathy, renal diseases and cancers.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Narimatsu, Takashi Kudo, Katsutoshi Sasaki
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Patent number: 7232142Abstract: To maintain the width of a vehicle body structure for a motorcycle wherein the rigidity of a vehicle body may be increased without increasing the width of the vehicle. Alternatively, to enable to restrain an increase in the weight of the vehicle body by realizing a vehicle body structure for a motorcycle in which the problem wherein the weight of the vehicle body increases when the rigidity of the vehicle body is increased. In a motorcycle including main pipes extending rearwardly from a head pipe, a pair of left and right down tubes are provided that extend from the head pipe obliquely downwardly. The down tubes are formed to be tapered from the head pipe toward an engine when viewed from the side of the vehicle body and to be constant in width from the head pipe toward the engine when viewed from the front of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Kudo
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Publication number: 20070033798Abstract: There is provided a common mode choke coil whose impedance value can be easily adjusted by changing the thickness of an insulation layer for impedance value adjustment appropriately. An insulation layer for impedance value adjustment is formed throughout a principal surface of a first magnetic substrate. Coil patterns and insulation layers are alternately formed on that layer. Parts of the insulation layers other than the insulation layer for impedance value adjustment are removed in either or both of a central region surrounded by the coil patterns and a region around the coil patterns. A resin including magnetic powder is provided on the uppermost insulation layer and the regions where the insulation layers have been removed, and a second magnetic substrate is bonded through a bonding layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: February 15, 2007Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Makoto Yoshida, Nobuyuki Okuzawa, Tomokazu Ito, Takashi Kudo, Makoto Otomo, Akira Sato
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Patent number: 7145427Abstract: There is provided a common mode choke coil whose impedance value can be easily adjusted by changing the thickness of an insulation layer for impedance value adjustment appropriately. An insulation layer for impedance value adjustment is formed throughout a principal surface of a first magnetic substrate. Coil patterns and insulation layers are alternately formed on that layer. Parts of the insulation layers other than the insulation layer for impedance value adjustment are removed in either or both of a central region surrounded by the coil patterns and a region around the coil patterns. A resin including magnetic powder is provided on the uppermost insulation layer and the regions where the insulation layers have been removed, and a second magnetic substrate is bonded through a bonding layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2004Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Makoto Yoshida, Nobuyuki Okuzawa, Tomokazu Ito, Takashi Kudo, Makoto Otomo, Akira Sato
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Patent number: 7114588Abstract: A vehicle body frame structure for a two-wheeler provides a sufficient distance between exhaust pipes and a front wheel, to facilitate the arrangement of a heat-discharging member such as a radiator or an oil cooler, or other auxiliary components, to increase heat-discharging property by increasing the capacity of the heat-discharging member, and improving flexibility in design such as the shape or the layout of the vehicle body frame and the exhaust pipes. In a two-wheel vehicle having an engine mounted to a vehicle body frame, the engine having exhaust pipes extending forwardly and downwardly and a pair of left and right down tubes extending substantially downwardly from a head pipe provided at the front end of the vehicle body frame, the vehicle body frame includes a first cross member for connecting the left and right down tubes, and the first cross member is formed with arcuate recesses for allowing part of the exhaust pipes to pass therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2004Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kudo, Daisuke Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20060176138Abstract: A thin-film type common-mode choke coil includes a laminated structure having a magnetic substrate; and electrically insulating layers and conductor layers laminated on the magnetic substrate in a direction of thickness, wherein said conductor layers form at least two coil conductors; at least two of the conductor layers are provided as spiral conductor patterns; and the spiral conductor patterns satisfy the expression: 5 ?m?W1?36 ?m in which W1 is the conductor width of each of the spiral conductor patters. The spiral conductor patterns may also satisfy the expression: 100 ?m2?T*W1 in which T is the conductor thickness of each of said spiral conductor patterns or satisfy the expression: W2<T×2 in which W2 is the space between said spiral conductor patterns, and T is the conductor thickness of each of said spiral conductor patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Applicant: TDK Corp.Inventors: Tomokazu Ito, Takashi Kudo, Makoto Otomo
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Publication number: 20060177822Abstract: A tumor marker nucleic acid of the present invention is concerned with a nucleic acid hybridizing under stringent conditions to a nucleotide sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a complementary nucleotide sequence thereof. A method of testing canceration of the present invention is a method comprising diagnosing a biological sample as being cancerous when the transcription level of the nucleic acid in the biological sample significantly exceeds that in a normal biological sample as a control. The present invention also relates to a ?1,3-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminyltransferase protein having an activity of transferring N-acetyl-D-glucosamine from a donor substrate to an acceptor substrate through ?1,3-linkage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2003Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Hisashi Narimatsu, Takashi Kudo, Akira Togayachi, Toru Hiruma
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Patent number: 7066135Abstract: An intake system for a vehicle engine includes an air cleaner and a plurality of throttle bodies. The air cleaner encases an air cleaner element in an air cleaner housing for filtering air flowing from an unfiltered air chamber to a filtered air chamber of the air cleaner housing. The throttle bodies control the amount of air supplied from the filtered air chamber to a cylinder head. Operating noise of the throttle bodies is minimized by situating the throttle bodies within the air cleaner housing. Operating noise of fuel injectors associated with the throttle bodies is minimized by situating the fuel injectors within the air cleaner housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Ishikawa, Yoshiteru Kinoshita, Takashi Kudo, Toshinori Hanai
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Patent number: 7040127Abstract: A method and a device are proposed which accurately and efficiently form a pipe with a bending machine only, without using any correcting devices. A plate having holes is fed into a bending machine in which under an upper roll, lower rolls parallel thereto are arranged, and a pipe is formed during a rough forming step and a fine forming step. In the rough forming step, bending is performed so that the plate will have a required diameter at hole portions. In the fine forming step, the hole portions are not pressed for bending while other portions are rolled so as to become closer to a required diameter to form the pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Kurimoto, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Kudo
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Patent number: 7002446Abstract: The invention relates to surface-mount coil component including a mount surface mounted on a printed circuit board or a hybrid IC (HIC), and provides a small and low-profile coil component excellent in impedance characteristic. The coil component includes coil conductors each of which includes a major wiring region having the number N of wiring lines and a minor wiring region arranged to be opposite to the major wiring region and having the number (N?1) of wiring lines, and is arranged so that a major wiring side interval as an interval between an outermost periphery of the major wiring region and one side part of the substrate opposite thereto is longer than a minor wiring side interval as an interval between an outermost periphery of the minor wiring region and the other side part of the substrate opposite thereto.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2005Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ito, Takashi Kudo, Makoto Otomo
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Publication number: 20050253677Abstract: The invention relates to surface-mount coil component including a mount surface mounted on a printed circuit board or a hybrid IC (HIC), and provides a small and low-profile coil component excellent in impedance characteristic. The coil component includes coil conductors each of which includes a major wiring region having the number N of wiring lines and a minor wiring region arranged to be opposite to the major wiring region and having the number (N?1) of wiring lines, and is arranged so that a major wiring side interval as an interval between an outermost periphery of the major wiring region and one side part of the substrate opposite thereto is longer than a minor wiring side interval as an interval between an outermost periphery of the minor wiring region and the other side part of the substrate opposite thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2005Publication date: November 17, 2005Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ito, Takashi Kudo, Makoto Otomo