Patents by Inventor Takashi Shirai
Takashi Shirai 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: 8486240Abstract: A corrosion-resistant ceramic electrode material includes ceramic particles and, present between them, a three-dimensional network electroconducting path composed of a reductively fired product of a carbon-containing polymeric compound. This material is manufactured by a method in which a polymerization reaction of a polymerizable monomer previously contained in a ceramic slurry is performed to gel the ceramic slurry to thereby give a green body; and after drying and degreasing, the green body is fired in a reducing atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of TechnologyInventors: Masayoshi Fuji, Minoru Takahashi, Jingjun Liu, Hideo Watanabe, Takashi Shirai
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Patent number: 8400048Abstract: A tuning-fork type piezoelectric resonator plate includes: at least a plurality of leg portions serving as vibrating portions; a bonding portion bonded to the outside, and a base portion from which the leg portions and the bonding portion protrude. The plurality of leg portions protrude from a first end face of the base portion and are provided side-by-side on the first end face. The bonding portion protrude from a second end face located opposite the first end face of the base portion at a position located opposite a center position of the plurality of leg portions in a width direction of the first end face of the base portion. And, at least a base end portion of the bonding portion is used as a bond region that is bonded to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Daishinku CorporationInventors: Takashi Shirai, Yoshinobu Sakamoto, Syunsuke Satoh, Tomo Fujii, Masato Itoh, Yoshinari Morimoto
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Publication number: 20110237788Abstract: A proliferation inhibitor of H. pylori bacteria comprising a compound that can specifically inhibit the proliferation of H. pylori bacteria, which does not generate bacterium resistant, can be eaten, drunken or administrated safely for a long period of time, can be simply mass-manufactured and can be used for foods and beverages or pharmaceutical preparation. The proliferation inhibitor of H. pylori bacteria comprises an N-acetylglucosaminyl beta-linked monosaccharide derivative represented by the following chemical formula (1): GlcNAc1-beta-O—Y??(1) wherein Y is an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a carboxyl group or an alkoxycarbonyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: THE NOGUCHI INSTITUTEInventors: Jun Nakayama, Takashi Shirai, Takashi Yamanoi, Masaya Fujita, Masako Mori
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Patent number: 8004157Abstract: An electrode forming region for providing lead electrodes (65a, 65b) is provided on a crystal resonator plate (2). Opposed side surfaces (67a, 67b) of a substrate (6) are formed and inclined in the same direction with respect to a front major surface (63). Also, an adhesion reinforcing portion (7) for reinforcing adhesion to a conductive adhesive (5) is provided in the electrode forming region for the lead electrodes (65a, 65b). For example, the adhesion reinforcing portion (7) is a notch portion which is cut and formed in the opposed side surfaces (67a, 67b). Thereby, an adhesion strength of the crystal resonator plate (2) and the conductive adhesive (5) is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Daishinku CorporationInventors: Minoru Iizuka, Tatsuya Murakami, Syunsuke Satoh, Takashi Shirai, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Tomo Fujii
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Publication number: 20110198218Abstract: A corrosion-resistant ceramic electrode material includes ceramic particles and, present between them, a three-dimensional network electroconducting path composed of a reductively fired product of a carbon-containing polymeric compound. This material is manufactured by a method in which a polymerization reaction of a polymerizable monomer previously contained in a ceramic slurry is performed to gel the ceramic slurry to thereby give a green body; and after drying and degreasing, the green body is fired in a reducing atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masayoshi Fuji, Minoru Takahashi, Jingjun Liu, Hideo Watanabe, Takashi Shirai
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Publication number: 20110043079Abstract: A tuning-fork type piezoelectric resonator plate includes: at least a plurality of leg portions serving as vibrating portions; a bonding portion bonded to the outside, and a base portion from which the leg portions and the bonding portion protrude. The plurality of leg portions protrude from a first end face of the base portion and are provided side-by-side on the first end face. The bonding portion protrude from a second end face located opposite the first end face of the base portion at a position located opposite a center position of the plurality of leg portions in a width direction of the first end face of the base portion. And, at least a base end portion of the bonding portion is used as a bond region that is bonded to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: DAISHINKU CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shirai, Yoshinobu Sakamoto, Syunsuke Satoh, Tomo Fujii, Masato Itoh, Yoshinari Morimoto
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Publication number: 20100197616Abstract: A method for inhibiting proliferation of Helicobacter pylori including a compound that can simply be mass-produced, can specifically inhibit the proliferation of H. pylori, which has high safety and never generates any resistant bacteria, as well as a diet of a food or beverage, and a pharmaceutical preparation containing the proliferation inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori. The proliferation inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori comprises an alpha-N-acetyl-glucosaminyl bond-containing monosaccharide derivative represented by the following chemical formula (1) GlcNAc1-alpha-O—Y ??(1) (in the formula (1), Y is a straight-, branched- or cyclic-aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 27 carbon atoms or a straight-, branched- or cyclic-acyl group having 1 to 27 carbon atoms). The diet of the food, the beverage or the pharmaceutical preparation comprises the proliferation inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: THE NOGUCHI INSTITUTEInventors: Jun Nakayama, Takashi Yamanoi, Masaya Fujita, Takashi Shirai
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Publication number: 20090269789Abstract: An antibody for detection of microorganisms, a method of detection of microorganisms, and a reagent kit for detection of microorganisms, which is species specific for every species of microorganisms and with which all serototypes within the same species can be detected, are provided. Antibody to intracellular molecules with the same function in each type of microorganism, particular antibody to ribosomal protein, that is, ribosomal protein L7/L12, is made and antibody that reacts specifically with the microorganism in question is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Matsuyama, Takashi Shirai, Takashi Etoh, Monzur Rahman
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Patent number: 7576838Abstract: A radar device has a wave projecting part for projecting pulsed electromagnetic waves to a target object in a specified direction at specified time intervals, a wave receiving part for receiving reflected waves reflected by the target object, an intensity measuring part for measuring the intensity of the reflected waves, a distance measuring part for measuring the distance to the target object based on elapsed time from when the pulsed electromagnetic waves are projected until when the reflected waves are received and also serving to determine a maximum reflection point at which the intensity of the received reflected waves is the largest, and a scanning part for varying the direction of the projected electromagnetic waves and the received reflected waves in horizontal and vertical directions respectively within a specified angular scan range.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Takashi Shirai
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Patent number: 7560040Abstract: A tuning-fork crystal wafer 1A which has legs 11, 12 with grooves 11c, 12c is shaped by etching of a crystal substrate 2. To improve processing precision of the depth of the grooves 11c, 12c, the width of the grooves 11c, 12c is set in advance, based on the etch stop technique in which the amount of etching depends on the pattern of an etch portion. Consequently, as far as the etch time satisfies a required minimum time, it is possible to obtain the depth as designed.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Daishinku CorporationInventors: Shunsuke Sato, Naoki Koda, Shunsuke Fukutomi, Takashi Shirai
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Publication number: 20090116997Abstract: A copper alloy tube according to the present invention includes Sn 0.1 to 2.0 mass %, P 0.005 to 0.1 mass %, S 0.005 mass % or less, O 0.005 mass % or less, and H 0.0002 mass % or less, and the remainder has a composition consisting of Cu and unavoidable impurities. And, as is annealed, the copper alloy tube has the following characteristics: a tensile strength in the longitudinal direction of the copper alloy tube is 250 N/mm2 or more; an average grain diameter is 30 ?m or less when measured in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the tube, in the cross section perpendicular to the tube axis; and assuming that a tensile strength in the longitudinal direction of the copper alloy tube is ?L, and a tensile strength in the circumferential direction of the same is ?T, ?T/?L>0.93 holds.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: KOBELCO & MATERIALS COPPER TUBE, LTD.Inventors: Masato WATANABE, Takashi Shirai
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Publication number: 20090101323Abstract: The present invention provides a copper alloy tube for heat exchangers which is tolerable to a high operating pressure of new cooling media such as carbon dioxide and HFC-based fluorocarbons, and is excellent in fracture strength, even if the tube is thinned, and a copper alloy tube for a heat exchanger which has a composition having specified amounts of Sn and P, has an average crystal grain size of 30 ?m or less and has a high strength of 250 MPa or more of a tensile strength in the longitudinal direction of the tube improves the fracture strength as a texture in which the orientation distribution density in the Goss orientation is 4% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicants: KOBELCO & MATERIALS COPPER TUBE, LTD., Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd)Inventors: Toshiaki TAKAGI, Yasuhiro Aruga, Mamoru Nagao, Takashi Shirai, Masato Watanabe, Akihiko Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20090054355Abstract: The present invention herein provides a proliferation inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori comprising a compound that can simply be mass-produced, can specifically inhibit the proliferation of H. pylori, which has high safety and never generates any resistant bacteria, as well as a diet of a food or beverage, and a pharmaceutical preparation containing the proliferation inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori. The proliferation inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori comprises an alpha-N-acetyl-glucosaminyl bond-containing monosaccharide derivative represented by the following chemical formula (1) GlcNAc1-alpha-O-Y ??(1) (in the formula (1), Y is a straight-, branched- or cyclic-aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 27 carbon atoms or a straight-, branched- or cyclic-acyl group having 1 to 27 carbon atoms). The diet of the food, the beverage or the pharmaceutical preparation comprises the proliferation inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicants: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, THE NOGUCHI INSTITUTEInventors: Jun Nakayama, Takashi Yamanoi, Masaya Fujita, Takashi Shirai
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Publication number: 20090051252Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator plate includes a base portion and a vibrating portion having a plurality of leg portions. Each of the leg portions is provided with an excitation electrode and a lead electrode. At least two conductive bonding member forming regions for bonding a part of the lead electrode to an external electrode via a conductive bonding member are defined in the base portion. The base portion is formed wider than the vibrating portion and has a base portion central region and base portion wider regions, the base portion central region having the same width as the vibrating portion, the vibrating portion extending from the base portion central region, and the base portion wider regions extending beyond lateral edges of the vibrating portion, the conductive bonding member forming regions being defined in the base portion wider regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2006Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventor: Takashi Shirai
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Publication number: 20080265717Abstract: An electrode forming region for providing lead electrodes (65a, 65b) is provided on a crystal resonator plate (2). Opposed side surfaces (67a, 67b) of a substrate (6) are formed and inclined in the same direction with respect to a front major surface (63). Also, an adhesion reinforcing portion (7) for reinforcing adhesion to a conductive adhesive (5) is provided in the electrode forming region for the lead electrodes (65a, 65b). For example, the adhesion reinforcing portion (7) is a notch portion which is cut and formed in the opposed side surfaces (67a, 67b). Thereby, an adhesion strength of the crystal resonator plate (2) and the conductive adhesive (5) is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2006Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Minoru Iizuka, Tatsuya Murakami, Syunsuke Satoh, Takashi Shirai, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Tomo Fujii
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Patent number: 7417362Abstract: A piezoelectric element of a tuning fork resonator comprises a base portion and a plurality of leg portions. Drive electrodes are formed on top and bottom major surfaces and both side surfaces of each leg portion. The drive electrodes have polarities different between on the top and bottom major surfaces and the both side surfaces. The drive electrodes on the side surfaces are connected to each other. Further, metal film for frequency adjustment is formed on a tip portion of each leg portion of the piezoelectric element. The frequency adjustment is performed by removing the metal film formed on at least one surface of side surfaces and a tip surface of the tip portion by beam irradiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2004Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Daishinku CorporationInventors: Syunsuke Satoh, Takashi Shirai
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Publication number: 20080169969Abstract: A radar device has a wave projecting part for projecting pulsed electromagnetic waves to a target object in a specified direction at specified time intervals, a wave receiving part for receiving reflected waves reflected by the target object, an intensity measuring part for measuring the intensity of the reflected waves, a distance measuring part for measuring the distance to the target object based on elapsed time from when the pulsed electromagnetic waves are projected until when the reflected waves are received and also serving to determine a maximum reflection point at which the intensity of the received reflected waves is the largest, and a scanning part for varying the direction of the projected electromagnetic waves and the received reflected waves in horizontal and vertical directions respectively within a specified angular scan range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Takashi Shirai
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Patent number: 7225588Abstract: A damping brace having an axial force member for providing bearing forces against tensile or compressive forces, a constraining member for constraining the axial force member, and a stiffening part for supplementing the stiffness of the axial force member. An adhesion preventive coating is provided for preventing adhesion between the constraining member and the stiffening part. A length of the stiffening part extending along the axial direction and the gap between the stiffening part and the constraining member are defined in such a way as to prevent an end of the axial force member from rotating in the axial direction beyond a specific angle when the compressive force is applied to the force member.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2004Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Kazuaki Suzuki, Yasuhiro Nakata, Takashi Shirai
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Patent number: 7076926Abstract: A damping intermediate pillar, which can exhibit a sufficient resistance against the horizontal force of a strong earthquake by reinforcing the joins between the damping intermediate pillar and the upper and lower beams, is disclosed. A damping intermediate pillar 14, used for a building or a structure configured of pillars 1 and beams 3, is divided into upper and lower damping intermediate pillar portions 14a, 14b of H shape steel, and includes a plurality of inner steel plates 7b fixed on the damping intermediate pillar portion 14b and a plurality of outer steel plates 7a fixed on the other damping intermediate pillar portion 14a. The inner and outer steel plates are arranged alternately in a single or a plurality of layers, between which a viscoelastic member 15 is held to make up a viscoelastic damper 17. The coupling end surfaces of the intermediate pillar portions 14a, 14b directed vertically are fixed on the upper and lower floor beams 3a, 3b.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignees: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Kasai, Hiroshi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Nakata, Takashi Shirai
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Patent number: 6956227Abstract: An object detecting device has components which emit electromagnetic waves by scanning a scan range in horizontal and vertical directions, receive reflected waves, obtain signal level of the received reflected waves, calculate a correction value based on vertical position of the zone in the scan range where the level of the received waves is the highest and the center position of the scan range in the vertical direction, and correct the center position in the vertical direction of the scan range based on the calculated correction value.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2003Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hidenori Miyazaki, Satoru Arita, Takashi Shirai