Patents by Inventor Takeshi Masaki

Takeshi Masaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240136177
    Abstract: A template substrate including a first seed region and a growth restricting region that are aligned in a first direction, and a first semiconductor part positioned above the template substrate are provided, the first semiconductor part includes a first base positioned above the first seed region, and a first wing connected to the first base, the first wing facing the growth restricting region with a first void space interposed therebetween, the first wing includes an edge positioned above the growth restricting region, and a ratio of a width of the first void space with respect to a thickness of the first void space in the first direction is equal to or larger than 5.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi KAMIKAWA, Yuta AOKI, Kazuma TAKEUCHI, Katsuaki MASAKI, Fumio YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240136181
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate includes a support substrate, a mask pattern located above the support substrate and including a mask portion, a seed portion locally located in a layer above the support substrate in a plan view, and a semiconductor part including a GaN-based semiconductor and located above the mask pattern to be in contact with the seed portion and the mask portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuaki MASAKI, Takeshi KAMIKAWA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yuichiro HAYASHI, Yuta AOKI
  • Patent number: 11959324
    Abstract: A control system includes a contact sensor configured to detect contact between an operation body and a door handle, a force sensor configured to detect a force applied by the operation body to the door handle, and a controller configured to control opening or closing of a door when the contact is detected by the contact sensor and the force is detected by the force sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takata, Takeshi Masaki, Kazuhito Oshita, Satoru Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20240072198
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate includes a heterogeneous substrate, a mask layer having an opening portion and a mask portion, a seed portion overlapping the opening portion, and a semiconductor layer including a GaN-based semiconductor and disposed on the seed portion and the mask portion. An upper surface of an effective portion of the semiconductor layer includes at least one low-level defective region with a size of 10 ?m in a first direction along a width direction of the opening portion and 10 ?m in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a line defect is not measured by a CL method in the low-level defective region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi KAMIKAWA, Katsuaki MASAKI, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yuichiro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230409155
    Abstract: Operation input device with few gesture operation erroneous detections is provided. Operation input device includes substrate; plurality of detecting electrodes provided on substrate surface; detecting unit detecting capacitance occurring between each detecting electrode and operating body upon operating body being brought close to substrate; and determining unit determining whether gesture operation by operating body has been performed. Detecting electrodes include first and second electrodes of which capacitance values decrease/increase to match amount of movement of operating body when operating body is moved in longer direction. Upon sensing of operation of moving operating body after being stopped relative to detecting electrodes, or operation of stopping operating body after being moved relative to detecting electrodes, gesture operation by operating body is determined to have been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Satoru TAKIZAWA, Takeshi MASAKI, Takashi SASAKI, Kazuhito OSHITA, Yuzuru KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230122321
    Abstract: The electrostatic capacitance detecting device includes a first substrate; a detection electrode provided on a front-side surface of the first substrate to detect a proximity of an operating body to an operating face; a stray capacitance coupling conductor provided in a direction with respect to the first substrate, the direction being opposite to a direction of the detection electrode with respect to the first substrate; a first peripheral electrode provided on the front-side surface of the first substrate to surround the detection electrode; and a plurality of lateral electrodes provided side by side to surround the detection electrode, the plurality of lateral electrodes extending along a thickness direction of the first substrate and connected to each of the first peripheral electrode and the stray capacitance coupling conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Satoru TAKIZAWA, Takeshi MASAKI, Takashi SASAKI, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Kazuhito OSHITA
  • Patent number: 11424086
    Abstract: An operation device includes a housing, an operation member, and a detector. The housing includes an electrically conductive portion on a surface thereof. The operation member is supported by the housing such that the operation member is movable in response to an operation by an operation body, and is configured to be capacitively coupled to the operation body and to the electrically conductive portion. The detector is configured to detect whether the operation body is in proximity to the operation member based on a change in capacitance at the electrically conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuji Hagiwara, Daisuke Takai, Takashi Sasaki, Takeshi Masaki, Toshiki Nakamura, Masaki Ota, Hiroshi Shigetaka, Masahiro Takata
  • Publication number: 20220154498
    Abstract: A door handle, to be attached to a door, includes an outer case, an inner case integrated with the outer case, and a pressure detector configured to detect pressure applied to the inner case. The inner case includes a recess in proximity to an end portion in a longitudinal direction, and the pressure detector detects a displacement of a first inner wall surface on a center portion side of the inner case in the recess, caused by the pressure applied to the inner case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Wataru SATO, Yuzuru KAWANA, Hajime SHIKATA, Kazuhito OSHITA, Takeshi MASAKI, Takashi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11259409
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wiring substrate 1 including a stretchable resin layer 3 and a conductor foil or conductor plating film 5 which is provided on the stretchable resin layer 3 and forms a wiring pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Masaki, Tangyii Sim, Kumpei Yamada, Tadahiro Ogawa, Takashi Kawamori
  • Publication number: 20210164281
    Abstract: A control system includes a contact sensor configured to detect contact between an operation body and a door handle, a force sensor configured to detect a force applied by the operation body to the door handle, and a controller configured to control opening or closing of a door when the contact is detected by the contact sensor and the force is detected by the force sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKATA, Takeshi MASAKI, Kazuhito OSHITA, Satoru TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210159027
    Abstract: An operation device includes a housing, an operation member, and a detector. The housing includes an electrically conductive portion on a surface thereof. The operation member is supported by the housing such that the operation member is movable in response to an operation by an operation body, and is configured to be capacitively coupled to the operation body and to the electrically conductive portion. The detector is configured to detect whether the operation body is in proximity to the operation member based on a change in capacitance at the electrically conductive portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuji HAGIWARA, Daisuke TAKAI, Takashi SASAKI, Takeshi MASAKI, Toshiki NAKAMURA, Masaki OTA, Hiroshi SHIGETAKA, Masahiro TAKATA
  • Patent number: 10993972
    Abstract: Provided are: a transformation plasmid for transforming anaerobes and enabling highly efficient and stable secretory expression of a target protein; a gene delivery carrier formed from said anaerobes transformed by said plasmid; a pharmaceutical composition including said gene delivery carrier; and a method for diagnosing or treating an ischemic disease utilizing these. Also provided are: a novel secretory signal; a transformation plasmid including said secretory signal; a gene delivery carrier formed from anaerobes transformed by said plasmid; a pharmaceutical composition including said gene delivery carrier; and a method for diagnosing or treating an ischemic disease utilizing these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: Shinshu University, Anaeropharma Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Wada, Yuko Shimatani, Takashi Yano, Takeshi Masaki
  • Patent number: 10880997
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stretchable member with a metal foil including a stretchable resin base material, and a conductive metal foil provided on the stretchable resin base material. A surface of the metal foil on the stretchable resin base material side is a roughened surface having surface roughness Ra of 0.1 ?m to 3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tangyii Sim, Kumpei Yamada, Takashi Kawamori, Takeshi Masaki
  • Publication number: 20200154563
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stretchable member with a metal foil including a stretchable resin base material, and a conductive metal foil provided on the stretchable resin base material. A surface of the metal foil on the stretchable resin base material side is a roughened surface having surface roughness Ra of 0.1 ?m to 3 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Tangyii SIM, Kumpei YAMADA, Takashi KAWAMORI, Takeshi MASAKI
  • Patent number: 10563208
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an anaerobic enterobacterium having a higher therapeutic effect on an anaerobic site such as a solid tumor tissue and an ischemic disease site. A bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, which is transformed with a plasmid co-expressing two types of heterologous polypeptides and comprising two types of secretory expression cassettes each sequentially comprising a promoter DNA functioning in the bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium; a DNA encoding a secretory signal peptide; a DNA encoding a heterologous polypeptide; and a terminator DNA functioning in the bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, efficiently secretes the two types of heterologous peptides, i.e., two types of antibodies having anticancer effects, outside the bacterial cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Anaeropharma Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Koseki, Koichiro Shioya, Satoshi Kobayashi, Yuko Shimatani, Takeshi Masaki, Hitomi Shimizu, Tomio Matsumura, Masami Okabe, Kengo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190320527
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wiring substrate 1 including a stretchable resin layer 3 and a conductor foil or conductor plating film 5 which is provided on the stretchable resin layer 3 and forms a wiring pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi MASAKI, Tangyii SIM, Kumpei YAMADA, Tadahiro OGAWA, Takashi KAWAMORI
  • Patent number: 10443061
    Abstract: An object is to provide a signal peptide that can secrete a heterologous polypeptide with high efficiency outside the bacterial cell in a bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, an expression cassette that can secrete a heterologous polypeptide with high efficiency outside the bacterial cell, a heterologous polypeptide expression vector, a bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium capable of secreting a heterologous polypeptide. Means for attaining the object is a bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium transformed by a vector having an expression cassette sequentially comprising a promoter DNA functioning in a bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, a DNA encoding the secretory signal peptide, a DNA encoding a scFv antibody having an antitumor activity, and a terminator DNA functioning in the bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium; and capable of secreting the scFv antibody with high efficiency outside the bacterial cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Anaeropharma Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Koseki, Takeshi Masaki, Koichiro Shioya, Hitomi Shimizu, Masao Tsukamoto, Satoshi Kobayashi, Tomio Matsumura, Yuko Shimatani
  • Patent number: 10344093
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide signal sequence information capable of secreting an antibody to the outside of cells in generation of the antibody by microorganisms of genus Bifidobacterium, and an antibody expression vector capable of secreting an antibody to the outside of cells by utilizing the signal sequence information. As a means for achieving the aforementioned object, there is prepared Bifidobacterium longum, which is transformed with a vector having inserted thereinto a DNA insert comprising the 5?-terminus of an antibody gene linked to the 3?-terminus of a DNA encoding a signal peptide-linker conjugate having a linker linked to the C-terminus of a signal peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Shinshu University
    Inventors: Shun-ichiro Taniguchi, Yasuto Akiyama, Takeshi Masaki, Hitomi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20180360893
    Abstract: Provided are: a transformation plasmid for transforming anaerobes and enabling highly efficient and stable secretory expression of a target protein; a gene delivery carrier formed from said anaerobes transformed by said plasmid; a pharmaceutical composition including said gene delivery carrier; and a method for diagnosing or treating an ischemic disease utilizing these. Also provided are: a novel secretory signal; a transformation plasmid including said secretory signal; a gene delivery carrier formed from anaerobes transformed by said plasmid; a pharmaceutical composition including said gene delivery carrier; and a method for diagnosing or treating an ischemic disease utilizing these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicants: Shinshu University, Anaeropharma Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Wada, Yuko Shimatani, Takashi Yano, Takeshi Masaki
  • Publication number: 20170260534
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an anaerobic enterobacterium having a higher therapeutic effect on an anaerobic site such as a solid tumor tissue and an ischemic disease site. A bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, which is transformed with a plasmid co-expressing two types of heterologous polypeptides and comprising two types of secretory expression cassettes each sequentially comprising a promoter DNA functioning in the bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium; a DNA encoding a secretory signal peptide; a DNA encoding a heterologous polypeptide; and a terminator DNA functioning in the bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, efficiently secretes the two types of heterologous peptides, i.e., two types of antibodies having anticancer effects, outside the bacterial cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Koichi KOSEKI, Koichiro SHIOYA, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Yuko SHIMATANI, Takeshi MASAKI, Hitomi SHIMIZU, Tomio MATSUMURA, Masami OKABE, Kengo INOUE