Patents by Inventor Toru Ota

Toru Ota 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: 20240138282
    Abstract: A management system includes a storage and a processor. While an agricultural machine including an GNSS receiver is traveling, the storage stores GNSS data output from the GNSS receiver and sensing data output from a sensor sensing a surrounding environment of the agricultural machine in association with each other. The processor is configured or programmed to generate and output visualized data, which represents the surrounding environment of the agricultural machine, based on the GNSS data and the sensing data, when reception interference of a satellite signal occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki KUBOTA, Toru TAMBO, Itsuki OKUBO, Kazuki OTA
  • Publication number: 20230073605
    Abstract: To provide a cooling device that can refrigerate foods and stably maintain high humidity without being limited by a region and a period. A cooling device includes a heat exchange unit that performs heat exchange between a refrigerant circulating in a freezer and air circulating in a box and an adjusting unit that maintains a state in which moisture adheres to heat transfer units of the heat exchange unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya HIRUMA, Toru OTA
  • Patent number: 9399051
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a DPP-4 inhibitor that is obtained by using a food as a raw material and that is suitable for oral ingestion from the viewpoints of flavor and absorbability, and a composition for the prevention and/or amelioration of diabetes which contains the DPP-4 inhibitor. The present invention provides a DPP-4 inhibitor obtained by treating an azuki bean or a kidney bean with a microorganism or a proteolytic enzyme produced by the microorganism. In particular, a preferable DPP-4 inhibitor can be obtained by hydrolyzing an azuki bean with a koji mold or a proteolytic enzyme derived from the koji mold to fragment a protein in the azuki bean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Tominaga, Shinichi Yokota, Hozumi Tanaka, Hideyuki Kishida, Masayasu Kitagawa, Hiroshi Tachi, Toru Ota
  • Publication number: 20140142036
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a DPP-4 inhibitor that is obtained by using a food as a raw material and that is suitable for oral ingestion from the viewpoints of flavor and absorbability, and a composition for the prevention and/or amelioration of diabetes which contains the DPP-4 inhibitor. The present invention provides a DPP-4 inhibitor obtained by treating an azuki bean or a kidney bean with a microorganism or a proteolytic enzyme produced by the microorganism. In particular, a preferable DPP-4 inhibitor can be obtained by hydrolyzing an azuki bean with a koji mold or a proteolytic enzyme derived from the koji mold to fragment a protein in the azuki bean.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Tominaga, Shinichi Yokota, Hozumi Tanaka, Hideyuki Kishida, Masayasu Kitagawa, Hiroshi Tachi, Toru Ota
  • Publication number: 20120189611
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a DPP-4 inhibitor that is obtained by using a food as a raw material and that is suitable for oral ingestion from the viewpoints of flavor and absorbability, and a composition for the prevention and/or amelioration of diabetes which contains the DPP-4 inhibitor. The present invention provides a DPP-4 inhibitor obtained by treating an azuki bean or a kidney bean with a microorganism or a proteolytic enzyme produced by the microorganism. In particular, a preferable DPP-4 inhibitor can be obtained by hydrolyzing an azuki bean with a koji mold or a proteolytic enzyme derived from the koji mold to fragment a protein in the azuki bean.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Tominaga, Shinichi Yokota, Hozumi Tanaka, Hideyuki Kishida, Masayasu Kitagawa, Hiroshi Tachi, Toru Ota
  • Publication number: 20090260780
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cooling bread just after baked are proposed in which bread f just after baked is transferred on a conveyor 2 into a cooling chamber 1 and carried out therefrom after it is allowed to reside therein for a period of time needed for cooling, inside temperature of the cooling chamber is maintained at 5-20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG., CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Katori, Toru Ota, Satoshi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 7544535
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing a semiconductor laser element according to the present invention has the steps of: forming a semiconductor laminated structure having an active layer composed of a semiconductor material containing Al; etching the semiconductor laminated structure to form a mesa; forming a first burying layer at a first growing temperature so as to coat the side of the mesa; and forming a second burying layer at a second growing temperature higher than the first growing temperature on the first burying layer to bury the circumference of the mesa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Chikara Watatani, Toru Ota, Takashi Nagira
  • Publication number: 20080032435
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing a semiconductor laser element according to the present invention has the steps of: forming a semiconductor laminated structure having an active layer composed of a semiconductor material containing Al; etching the semiconductor laminated structure to form a mesa; forming a first burying layer at a first growing temperature so as to coat the side of the mesa; and forming a second burying layer at a second growing temperature higher than the first growing temperature on the first burying layer to bury the circumference of the mesa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikara Watatani, Toru Ota, Takashi Nagira
  • Publication number: 20070281383
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor multilayer structure having an interface between a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer includes forming the first semiconductor layer by introducing at least a first raw material gas into a reactor, forming a dummy layer including at least one of the elements constituting the second semiconductor layer by introducing at least a second raw material gas into the reactor, subsequent to the formation of the first semiconductor layer, removing the dummy layer by introducing an etching gas into the reactor, and forming the second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer by introducing at least the second raw material gas into the reactor, after removing the dummy layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikara WATATANI, Toru OTA
  • Patent number: 7061963
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes an n type diffraction grating layer of n-InGaAsP on an n-InP substrate, and having through-holes periodically disposed alongside of one another in a laser optical waveguide direction, an n-InP layer containing S as a dopant impurity in a concentration of at least 1×1019 cm?3. The through holes are buried in the n-InP layer, and an active layer is disposed on both the n-InP layer and the diffraction grating layer through an n-InP cladding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Takemi, Toru Ota, Shiro Ryochiku
  • Publication number: 20040057483
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device of the present invention comprises an n type diffraction grating layer of n-InGaAsP formed on an n-InP substrate, and having through-holes 16a periodically disposed alongside of one another in a laser optical waveguide direction, an n-InP layer containing S as an impurity at a concentration of 1×1019 cm−3 or more and disposed such that the through holes are buried in the n-InP layer, and an active layer disposed on both the n-InP layer and the diffraction grating layer through an n-InP cladding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Takemi, Toru Ota, Shiro Ryochiku
  • Patent number: 5567730
    Abstract: A method of stabilizing .omega.-3 unsaturated fatty acid compounds comprising dispersing one or more compounds selected from a group consisting of an .omega.-3 unsaturated fatty acid, its derivative and an oil and fat containing the .omega.-3 unsaturated fatty acid or the derivative in an aqueous solution, is presented. .omega.-3 Unsaturated fatty acids such as DHA and EPA which have been regarded as unstable can be kept under stable conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Maruha Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Miyashita, Toru Ota, Suguru Okazaki, Masazumi Nishikawa, Kazuaki Maruyama