Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Kikuchi
Tetsuro Kikuchi 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: 7053092Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating a patient suffering from a disorder of the central nervous system associated with 5-HT1A receptor subtype, comprising as an active ingredient a carbostyril derivative or a salt thereof represented by the formula (1): wherein the carbon-carbon bond between 3- and 4-positions in the carbostyril skeleton is a single or a double bond.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shaun Jordon, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Katsura Tottori, Tsuyoshi Hirose, Yasufumi Uwahodo
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Publication number: 20050234589Abstract: A bill processing device capable of minimizing the possibility of entry of bills stored in a stacker into a bill transfer rout for obstructing the processing of a bill transferred next time, wherein a bill slip prevention means (9) for preventing the bill (101) in contact with a pair of guide parts (4) from slipping on the lateral thereof is disposed in the guide parts (4) allowing the bill (101) positioned on the pair of guide parts (4) into contact therewith among the bills (101) stored in the stacker (11), whereby the bills (101) stored in the stacker (11) can be prevented from entering the bill transfer route (3) by the bill slip prevention means.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2003Publication date: October 20, 2005Inventors: Tadashi Hatamachi, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Koji Akiba
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Patent number: 6840329Abstract: A concealed sprinkler head is mounted above the ceiling of a fire protected zone. The sprinkler head includes a housing within which a valve and other operative parts are contained. A decorative cover plate is secured to the housing to conceal the sprinkler head within the ceiling so that none of the operative parts is visible. The cover assembly includes a thin metallic cover plate made of a heat conductive material such as copper, and a metallic skirt including a cylindrical wall threaded on the housing, an annular flange extending outwardly from one end of the cylindrical wall, and a plurality of tabs extending downwardly from the flange. A plurality of heat insulative elements are disposed between the tabs and the cover plate. A metallic layer is attached to the lower surface of each of the insulative elements. A layer of fusible material is disposed between the metallic layer and the cover plate to secure each of the insulative elements to the cover plate through the metallic layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Senju Sprinkler Company LimitedInventors: Tetsuro Kikuchi, Hiroki Ishikawa, Yasuaki Koiwa
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Publication number: 20040245695Abstract: Paper storage apparatus is provided with friction members that are provided at opposing sides (7c) of a lifting table (7) facing a pair of guide rails (3, 4) such that the friction members (30, 31) project toward the guide rails (3, 4). When a paper (10) is moved by the lifting table (7) so that end portions of the paper (10) escape from the grooves (3a, 4a), the paper (10) slides while being in contact with the friction members (30, 31), thereby to prevent the paper (10) from being moved on the lifting table (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Tadashi Hatamachi, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6827347Abstract: A paper sheet processing device that accommodates various types of paper sheet performs a smooth accommodating action by accurately performing a full-state detection action in respect of the accommodated paper sheets. Full-state detecting unit 2 of the paper sheet container (paper money container) stores current values exceeding a reference value as detection signals a, b, c and, of the stored detection signals a, b, c, determines that the stacker 42 constituting a paper sheet accommodating section is full based on the detection signal c stored in the substantially latter half period K′ of the paper sheet accommodating action period T′ by the paper money guiding unit 43.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yuichi Sakamoto, Tadahiro Iwai, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20040235860Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating a patient suffering from a disorder of the central nervous system associated with 5-HT1A receptor subtype, comprising as an active ingredient a carbostyril derivative or a salt thereof represented by the formula (1): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shaun Jordan, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Katsura Tottori, Tsuyoshi Hirose, Yasufumi Uwahodo
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Publication number: 20030196821Abstract: A concealed sprinkler head is mounted above the ceiling of a fire protected zone. The sprinkler head includes a housing within which a valve and other operative parts are contained. A decorative cover plate is secured to the housing to conceal the sprinkler head within the ceiling so that none of the operative parts is visible. The cover assembly includes a thin metallic cover plate made of a heat conductive material such as copper, and a metallic skirt including a cylindrical wall threaded on the housing, an annular flange extending outwardly from one end of the cylindrical wall, and a plurality of tabs extending downwardly from the flange. A plurality of heat insulative elements are disposed between the tabs and the cover plate. A metallic layer is attached to the lower surface of each of the insulative elements. A layer of fusible material is disposed between the metallic layer and the cover plate to secure each of the insulative elements to the cover plate through the metallic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2003Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventors: Tetsuro Kikuchi, Hiroki Ishikawa, Yasuaki Koiwa
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Patent number: 6621250Abstract: A battery capacity measuring device in accordance with the present invention has a fully-charged state detector (80e), a detected current integrator (80a), a divider (80b), and a corrector (80c) incorporated in a microcomputer (80). The fully-charged state detector detects that a battery is fully charged. The detected current integrator integrates current values that are detected by a current sensor during a period from the instant the battery is fully charged to the instant it is fully charged next. The divider divides the integrated value of detected current values by the length of the period. The corrector corrects a detected current using the quotient provided by the divider as an offset. Furthermore, a remaining battery capacity calculating system comprises a voltage detecting unit (50), a current detecting unit (40), an index calculating unit, a control unit, and a calculating unit. The voltage detecting unit detects the voltage at the terminals of a battery.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naohiko Ohkubo, Shinji Kishida, Shinichi Ito, Toshiyuki Kawai, Katsuhide Kikuchi, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20030137096Abstract: A paper sheet processing device that accommodates various types of paper sheet performs a smooth accommodating action by accurately performing a full-state detection action in respect of the accommodated paper sheets. Full-state detecting unit 2 of the paper sheet container (paper money container) stores current values exceeding a reference value as detection signals a, b, c and, of the stored detection signals a, b, c, determines that the stacker 42 constituting a paper sheet accommodating section is full based on the detection signal c stored in the substantially latter half period K′ of the paper sheet accommodating action period T′ by the paper money guiding unit 43.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yuichi Sakamoto, Tadahiro Iwai, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20020173513Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating a patient suffering from a disorder of the central nervous system associated with 5-HT1A receptor subtype, comprising as an active ingredient a carbostyril derivative or a salt thereof represented by the formula (1): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventors: Shaun Jordan, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Katsura Tottori, Tsuyoshi Hirose, Yasufumi Uwahodo
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Patent number: 6353233Abstract: In a cleaning sheet for cleaning a bill identification unit comprising bill identification sensors, a brush part is formed on the surface of a main sheet body of the cleaning sheet so that when the brush part passes through bill identification sensors, the brush part cleans the bill identification sensors and concave portions where the bill identification sensors are embedded so that even a non-contact type bill identification sensor disposed slightly retreated from the surface of a bill transporting route can be cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1999Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Tetsuro Kikuchi, Shigeru Yasuda, Yuichi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 6344895Abstract: A surface of an optical sensor which faces on a paper money transport path is covered by transparent antistatic covers in order to prevent to as great an extent as possible the adhering of dust and dirt to the optical sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2000Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Shigeru Yasuda, Yuichi Sakamoto, Tadashi Hatamachi, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6302256Abstract: A coin handling device, as a first invention, comprising a cable (20), a liquid guide means (61) for guiding liquid falling via a cable guide hole (10a) into a device body (2), a liquid storing means (62) and a liquid discharging means (63). A coin handling device, as a second invention, wherein a coin selection unit (101, 201) comprising a coin guide means (181), a liquid collecting means (182) and a liquid discharging means (183) is equipped with a liquid flow-in means (184) for allowing liquid falling via the coin guide means (181) to flow into those portions of the coin selection unit (101, 201) other than the liquid sorting means (182), a liquid passing means (185) and a liquid flowout means (186, 216) for continuously feeding the passed liquid to the liquid discharging means (183).Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Masato Yagi, Nobuyuki Iida, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Kenji Nakajima
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Patent number: 5924492Abstract: A sprinkler head includes a nozzle through which water is discharged to extinguish fire. The nozzle is normally held in a closed position. The nozzle is opened in the event of fire. A leaf spring is provided to hold the nozzle in its closed position and permit the nozzle to open. The leaf spring is deformed both in the axial direction of the sprinkler head and in a direction at right angles to the axial direction when an axial force is applied. Furthermore, the leaf spring and is resiliently returned to its original shape when the axial force is released.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1997Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Senju Sprinkler Company LimitedInventors: Tetsuro Kikuchi, Fukuji Obara, Takatoshi Chiba
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Patent number: 5656633Abstract: Disclosed is carbostyril derivatives of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a halogen, a hydroxyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkyl, lower alkenyloxy, amino, lower-alkanoyl amino or lower alkylthio group, R.sup.2 is a phenyl group which may optionally have one or two substituents, A is a lower alkylene group, and n is an integer of 1 or 2 and wherein the carbon-carbon bond between the positions 3 and 4 of the carbostyril skeleton may be a single bond or a double bond, and salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same for use as a disturbance-of-consciousness improving agent, central nervous system stimulant or sigma receptor agonist.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oshiro, Tatsuyoshi Tanaka, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Katsura Tottori
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Patent number: 5556857Abstract: The present invention provides a disturbance-of-consciousness improving agent which is a highly effective and quick remedy and which can be administered orally. The disturbance-of-consciousness improving agent of the invention contains a sigma receptor agonist compound as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1993Date of Patent: September 17, 1996Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oshiro, Tatsuyoshi Tanaka, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Katsura Tottori
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Patent number: 5506230Abstract: Fatty emulsion containing 2,3-dihydro-1H-indene derivatives represented by the general formula (1) as an active ingredient, a pharmaceutically acceptable oily ingredient and water. Said fatty emulsion is useful for improving anoxemic and hypoxic symptoms and syndromes, so that is effectively used for preventive agent for arrythmia and heart failure caused by shortage of oxygen and the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1993Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro Kikuchi, Katsura Tottori, Shinichi Ishikawa, Yoshito Masuda
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Patent number: 4914094Abstract: A method for curing and/or improving hypoxia characterized by administering a compound represented by the general formula (1), ##STR1## said compounds have been known in prior art literatures, for example, as carbostyril derivatives in Japanese Patent Kokai No. 54-160389 (1979), etc., as benzoxazine derivatives in Japanese Patent Kokai No. 59-70675 (1984), and as benzoazepine derivatives in Japanese Patent Kokai No. 57-193461 (1982), and they have been known as central nervous system controlling agents and antihistaminic agents.The present invention was established on the basis of the findings that the compounds represented by the general formula (1) possess excellent pharmacological activities for curing and/or improving hypoxia and also possess excellent anti-oxidative activities, which could not have been anticipated from the disclosures in the prior art literatures.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1989Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oshiro, Masaaki Osaki, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 4704999Abstract: In a fuel injection control for diesel engine, in order to eliminate engine noise, particularly, the "idling knocking" noise occurring during engine idling, by controlling a pilot injection, a method for controlling the fuel injection includes the steps of: detecting an idling state of the diesel engine, pressure in a combustion chamber, engine rotational speed and crank angle to obtain a reference position; selecting a valve opening pressure of a fuel injection nozzle at a relatively low level when the idling state is detected, thereby setting a two peaks characteristic of a fuel injection rate within an extent of the idling rotational speed; and controlling a pressure increment rate in the combustion chamber to within a predetermined value by changing a fuel injection quantity of a pilot injection.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1986Date of Patent: November 10, 1987Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Hashikawa, Nozomi Kitagawa, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 4598676Abstract: A glow plug for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The glow plug of the present invention comprises a heater support member projecting into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the heater support member being formed of an electric insulating material; a heater member affixed to the outer surface of the heater support member, the heater member being formed of an electrically conductive, heat- and oxidation-resistant ceramic material; at least three lead wires for power supply embedded in the heater support member, one end of the lead wires being connected each independently to the heater member; and a power switching means interposed between the other ends of those lead wires and a power source for connecting the power source selectively between the lead wires. By the selective connection between the lead wires performed by the power switching means, a plurality of heater elements having different resistance values are formed within the heater member.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1984Date of Patent: July 8, 1986Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Novuei Ito, Kinya Atsumi, Naohito Mizuno, Tetsuro Kikuchi