Patents by Inventor Toru Sasaki

Toru Sasaki 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: 20240150530
    Abstract: To provide a resin composition, from which a molded body excellent in mechanical properties and having high elasticity, can be obtained, and the molded body obtained from such a resin composition. A resin composition comprising a melt-moldable fluororesin and inorganic fibers, wherein the ratio of the fluororesin to the sum of the fluororesin and the inorganic fibers is from 60 to 95 mass %, the inorganic fibers are inorganic fibers, of which at least a portion of the surface is treated with a sizing agent, and the mass loss ratio after heating the inorganic fibers at 400° C. for 60 minutes, is at most 3%; a method for producing the resin composition; and a molded body formed from the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Norio OZAWA, Toru SASAKI, Masahide YODOGAWA
  • Patent number: 11978357
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ulcer model used to practice a procedure including hemorrhage arrest, the ulcer model including a model main body which includes upper and lower surfaces facing each other and a tubular simulated blood vessel path provided between the upper surface and the lower surface and having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The upper surface includes a ring-shaped raised surface that rises in a thickness direction of the model main body and a simulated ulcer surface that is a recessed bottom surface surrounded by the raised surface. The simulated blood vessel path extends from a part other than the upper surface of the surfaces of the model main body to the simulated ulcer surface or an area in the vicinity of the inside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Denka Company Limited, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Akira Miyama, Toru Arai, Takashi Sasaki, Takeshi Kanno, Yularo Arata, Atsushi Masamune
  • Publication number: 20240136491
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate and a light emitting body. The light emitting body includes a plurality of light emitting elements and an insulating body in which the plurality of light emitting elements is embedded except for a light emitting surface of the plurality of light emitting elements. The plurality of light emitting elements is formed from a singulated compound semiconductor layer and is arranged in a row direction and a column direction. The substrate includes a drive circuit, a first terminal, and a second terminal and is joined to the light emitting body. The drive circuit drives the plurality of light emitting elements. The first terminal and the second terminal electrically couple the drive circuit and the plurality of light emitting elements to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro MIURA, Toshiaki HASEGAWA, Toru SASAKI, Hiroyuki KASHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240093029
    Abstract: To provide a poiyamide type composition excellent in impact resistance. A composition comprising a polyamide and a fluorinated polymer, wherein the fluorinated polymer has a glass transition temperature of less than 30° C. and has no melting point, and the fluorinated polymer is dispersed in the polyarnide, and the average dispersed particle diameter of the fluorinated polymer is less than 12 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masatoshi ABE, Toru SASAKI, Eiichi NISHI, Masahide YODOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240067795
    Abstract: To provide resin compositions excellent in electrical conductivity and flexibility. A resin composition comprising a fluororesin and a carbon nanostructure, wherein the carbon nanostructure includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes that are branched and share a common wall with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masatoshi ABE, Toru SASAKI, Masahide YODOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230289257
    Abstract: A data recorder capable of reducing adverse effects caused by radiation is provided. In one aspect of a data recorder of the present disclosure, an input interface includes a first buffer memory, the input interface accepts input of data from outside and records the data in the first buffer memory, a control unit switches a state of a power supply for non-volatile memory to an on state at a timing determined on the basis of an amount of data recorded in the first buffer memory and a mode of the input of the data from the outside via the input interface, the input interface transfers the data recorded in the first buffer memory to the non-volatile memory in a case where the power supply for non-volatile memory is in an on state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa KON, Toru SASAKI, Minoru YOSHIDA, Kazuki OYA
  • Patent number: 11666759
    Abstract: A nerve stimulating apparatus includes a plurality of stimulating units configured to respectively apply stimuli to a plurality of nerve regions branching from a particular nerve region of a living body, and a stimulation timing controller configured to set generating timings of respectively generating the stimuli at the plurality of stimulating units. The stimulation timing controller sets the generating timings of generating the stimuli at the plurality of stimulating units based on response results of the particular nerve region, the response results being obtained in response to the stimuli that are respectively generated at the plurality of stimulating units and that are respectively applied to the plurality of nerve regions, and the response results being measured by a biometric information measuring apparatus that measures biometric information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd, National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Shinji Sato, Sukchan Kim, Taishi Watanabe, Yuki Mitani, Yuki Miyano, Shigenori Kawabata, Toru Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230167295
    Abstract: To provide a molded product which has a high flexural modulus and is excellent in heat resistance and impact resistance at a low temperature; and a resin composition from which the molded product can be obtained. A resin composition comprising a polyaryl ether ketone, a fluorinated elastomer and an inorganic filler, wherein the proportion of the fluorinated elastomer to the total of the volume of the polyaryl ether ketone and the volume of the fluorinated elastomer, is from 1 to 45 vol %, the proportion of the inorganic filler is from 1 to 50 mass %, and the deflection temperature under load measured in accordance with ASTM D648 under a load of 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Norio OZAWA, Toru SASAKI, Masatoshi ABE
  • Patent number: 11603560
    Abstract: Provided is a particle measuring method for measuring, based on image data containing an image of a plurality of particles, a size of each of the particles included in the image data. The particle measuring method includes: acquiring a position of each of the plurality of particles from the image data; extracting two particles vicinal to each other; and calculating the size of each of the particles based on a distance between the two vicinal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230074624
    Abstract: A subject motion measuring apparatus includes at least one memory storing a program, and at least one processor which, by executing the program, causes the subject motion measuring apparatus to measure motion of a subject and output motion information related to the motion of the subject, reduce, from the motion information, an error caused by a disturbance other than the motion of the subject by using a trained model, and output the motion information in which the error is reduced. The trained model has functions of receiving a data set including the motion information with a plurality of degrees of freedom and outputting the motion information with the plurality of degrees of freedom in which the error is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Fukutani, Toru Sasaki, Ryuichi Nanaumi, Hiromi Kinebuchi
  • Publication number: 20230069963
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound that has anti-RSV activity and that is useful in the prevention or treatment of an infection in which viruses of the subfamily Pneumovirinae, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), are involved, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Specifically, the present invention provides a compound represented by formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori KAWAGUCHI, Yuya OGATA, Nozomi TANAKA, Tomoki TAKEUCHI, Toru SASAKI, Ryo TAKAHASHI, Kanako HATANAKA, Risa TSURUTA, Tomokazu TAMAOKI
  • Publication number: 20220183583
    Abstract: A subject motion measuring apparatus includes a camera for imaging a subject, at least one memory storing a program, and at least one processor which, by executing the program, causes the subject motion measuring apparatus to acquire three-dimensional coordinate data on a patch set in frame data included in moving image data imaged by the camera. The processor tracks the patch in the moving image data imaged by the camera and generates motion data on the subject on the basis of the three-dimensional coordinate data on the tracked patch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Toru Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20210407106
    Abstract: A medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a marker to be placed on a subject, at least one imaging unit configured to capture images of the subject and the marker, and a detection unit configured to detect movement of the marker from the images captured by the imaging unit. The marker includes a plurality of planar structures that can be detected by the detection unit, and the planar structures are spaced apart from each other with a distance no less than a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Fukutani, Toru Sasaki, Ryuichi Nanaumi
  • Patent number: 11104107
    Abstract: To provide a fluororesin laminate in which a layer of a fluorinated copolymer and a layer of a propylene polymer excellent in heat resistance are strongly attached. A laminate comprising a layer which contains a fluorinated copolymer having an adhesive functional group and having monomer unit based on tetrafluoroethylene and monomer units based on ethylene, and a layer which contains a propylene polymer having an adhesive functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shigeru Aida, Toru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11041053
    Abstract: A resin powder having a high bulk density and an average particle size of at most 50 ?m from resin particles containing a fluorocopolymer as the main component and having a melting point of 260 to 320° C., where the fluorocopolymer contains a unit containing a carbonyl group-containing group, a unit based on tetrafluoroethylene, and a unit based on a perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) or a unit based on hexafluoropropylene. A method of producing the resin powder by subjecting resin particles (A) having an average particle size of at least 100 ?m to mechanical pulverization treatment. The resin particles (A) is made of a material (X) having a fluorocopolymer (X1) as the main component, which has a unit (1) based on a monomer containing at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group-containing group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group and an isocyanate group, and a unit (2) based on tetrafluoroethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hosoda, Eiichi Nishi, Toru Sasaki, Nobutaka Kidera
  • Publication number: 20210113837
    Abstract: A nerve stimulating apparatus includes a plurality of stimulating units configured to respectively apply stimuli to a plurality of nerve regions branching from a particular nerve region of a living body, and a stimulation timing controller configured to set generating timings of respectively generating the stimuli at the plurality of stimulating units. The stimulation timing controller sets the generating timings of generating the stimuli at the plurality of stimulating units based on response results of the particular nerve region, the response results being obtained in response to the stimuli that are respectively generated at the plurality of stimulating units and that are respectively applied to the plurality of nerve regions, and the response results being measured by a biometric information measuring apparatus that measures biometric information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Shinji SATO, Sukchan KIM, Taishi WATANABE, Yuki MITANI, Yuki MIYANO, Shigenori KAWABATA, Toru SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210040252
    Abstract: A material for a printed circuit board, which is a film composed of a fluorinated resin layer, where the fluorinated resin layer contains a composition containing a fluorinated copolymer having at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group-containing group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group and an isocyanate group, has a melt flow rate of at most 15 g/10 min measured at 372° C. under a load of 49N, and has a storage elastic modulus of at least 650 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoya HOSODA, Wataru KASAI, Toru SASAKI, Masatoshi ABE
  • Patent number: 10844153
    Abstract: A material having a fluorinated resin layer is subjected to heat treatment. The fluorinated resin layer is composed of a composition containing a fluorinated copolymer (a) having at least one type of functional group selected from a carbonyl group-containing group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group and an isocyanate group, having a melting point of from 280 to 320° C. and a melt flow rate of at least 2 g/10 min measured at 372° C. under a load of 49 N. The heat treatment is carried out at a temperature of at least 250° C. and lower by at least 5° C. than the melting point of the fluorinated copolymer (a) so that the ratio of the melt flow rate of the fluorinated resin layer after the heat treatment to that before the heat treatment, and the melt flow rate of the fluorinated resin layer after the heat treatment, are respectively within specific ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hosoda, Wataru Kasai, Toru Sasaki, Masatoshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20200321103
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores executable instructions that cause a computer to execute: transmitting, to a server, an image of an absorbent article containing vaginal discharge of a user; receiving, from the server, health information that is obtained from the image and indicates a health condition of the user; and displaying, on a display, a health information screen based on the health information. The health information screen displays a first message that indicates the health condition and a second message for improving the health condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: UNICHARM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Suzuki, Toru Sasaki, Hiroki Ishikawa, Akiko Tange, Megumi Mimuro, Takahiro Imagawa, Eiji Shibaya
  • Patent number: 10745692
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a peptide containing a charged non-proteinogenic amino acid in a cell-free translation system, and the like. The present invention provides a method of producing a peptide containing a charged non-proteinogenic amino acid. It includes a step of expressing a peptide in a cell-free translation system including (i) at least one tRNA to which a non-proteinogenic amino acid having a protecting-group-introduced charged group has been bound and (ii) a nucleic acid that encodes the peptide and contains at least one codon corresponding to an anticodon of the tRNA; and a step of removing the protecting group of the non-proteinogenic amino acid residue contained in the peptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: The University of Tokyo, PeptiDream Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murakami, Takashi Kawakami, Patrick Reid, Toru Sasaki