Patents by Inventor Wataru Kikuchi

Wataru 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).

  • Patent number: 10355215
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for forming an organic semiconductor film that makes it possible to obtain an organic semiconductor film having excellent mobility and uniformity thereof, an organic semiconductor element including an organic semiconductor film having excellent mobility and uniformity thereof, and a method for manufacturing the organic semiconductor element. The composition for forming an organic semiconductor film of the present invention contains an organic semiconductor as a component A and a polymer chemically modified some or all of the ethylenically unsaturated double bonds of a ethylenically unsaturated double bond-containing polymer, as a component B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Nakayama, Wataru Kikuchi, Kensuke Masui
  • Publication number: 20190177561
    Abstract: Provided are an aqueous pigment dispersion including: water; a water-soluble organic solvent; a pigment; a polymer dispersant including 20 mass % to 60 mass % of a constitutional unit a-1 represented by Formula 1 with respect to the total mass of the polymer dispersant, 10 mass % to 40 mass % of a constitutional unit a-2 represented by Formula 2 with respect to the total mass of the polymer dispersant, and a constitutional unit a-3 having an acidic group; and an amine compound represented by Formula 3, and an aqueous ink composition using the aqueous pigment dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Masashi KOYANAGI, Wataru KIKUCHI, Naoko NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10214592
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a monoclonal antibody that is useful in specifically assaying tartrate resistant acid phosphatase 5b (TRACP-5b). A hybridoma producing a monoclonal antibody against TRACP-5b, said monoclonal antibody showing higher reactivity with TRACP-5b than with tartrate resistant acid phosphatase 5a (TRACP-5a) and, therefore, being specific to TRACP-5b, is obtained by cell fusion using, as an antigen, human recombinant TRACP-5b purified from silkworm silk gland. By using this monoclonal antibody, TRACP-5b in a specimen can be highly sensitively and specifically detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Kumiko Sasagawa, Kenta Noda
  • Publication number: 20180215185
    Abstract: An image recording paper medium containing a resin having a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (1) and a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-1) and/or a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-2), in which in the resin, a content of the constitutional unit represented by General Formula (1) is 30% to 96% by mass, and a total content of the constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-1) and the constitutional unit represented by General Formula (2-2) is 4% to 70% by mass. Also provided are a manufacturing method of the image recording paper medium and an image recording method including the manufacturing method: where R1, L1, R2, R3, L2, M1 and M2 are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru KIKUCHI, Yuji YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9989674
    Abstract: A plastic optical component includes a base member made of a first plastic, and a covering member disposed over a surface of the plastic member. The covering member is made of a second plastic. The water absorption of the first plastic is lower than the water absorption of the second plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Daigo Kobayashi, Yuichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 9984711
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, and further comprises a compound denoted by Formula (1): wherein, in Formula (1), X denotes —O—, —S—, or NR1—; each of R and R1 independently denotes a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent; L denotes a divalent connecting group; Z denotes a partial structure of valence n comprising at least one group selected from the group consisting of carboxyl groups and carboxylate groups; m denotes an integer of greater than or equal to 2, and n denotes an integer of greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Aoshima, Wataru Kikuchi, Kazutoshi Katayama, Tatsuo Mikami
  • Patent number: 9920083
    Abstract: The image recording paper medium contains at least one kind of organic phosphorus compound selected from an organic phosphonic acid represented by the following Formula (1), a salt thereof, an organic phosphoric acid represented by the following Formula (2), and a salt thereof. In the formulae, each of R1 and R2 independently represents an unsubstituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, an unsubstituted alkenyl group, or an aryl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Yuji Yoshida, Ryuji Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20180067774
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises a plurality of information processing apparatuses. The information processing apparatus is configured to be connected in a communicable manner. Each of the information processing apparatuses includes a control unit. The control unit is set attributes corresponding to executable processes. The control unit includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is conrigured to perform retaining an associative relation between processes executed by any of the controling and the attributes enabling execution of the processes, accepting a process execution request, selecting the control unit to execute the process with the execution request being accepted in accordance with the associative relation, and requesting the selected control unit to execute the requested process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Wataru KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 9889695
    Abstract: The image recording method includes the following steps (a) to (c): (a) forming a barrier layer on a recording medium by using a solution which contains an acidic group-containing polymer in a nonaqueous medium; (b) forming an organic acid-containing layer on the barrier layer; and (c) forming an image by jetting an aqueous ink onto the organic acid-containing layer by an ink jet method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Yuji Yoshida, Seiya Sakurai, Ryuji Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20170267782
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a monoclonal antibody that is useful in specifically assaying tartrate resistant acid phosphatase 5b (TRACP-5b). A hybridoma producing a monoclonal antibody against TRACP-5b, said monoclonal antibody showing higher reactivity with TRACP-5b than with tartrate resistant acid phosphatase 5a (TRACP-5a) and, therefore, being specific to TRACP-5b, is obtained by cell fusion using, as an antigen, human recombinant TRACP-5b purified from silkworm silk gland. By using this monoclonal antibody, TRACP-5b in a specimen can be highly sensitively and specifically detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru KIKUCHI, Kumiko SASAGAWA, Kenta NODA
  • Patent number: 9761261
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium, which comprises a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, wherein the magnetic layer further comprises a compound which has a weight average molecular weight of equal to or more than 1,000 but less than 20,000 and is denoted by formula (1): wherein, in formula (1), A1 denotes a monovalent polymer group, each of R1 and R2 independently denotes a single bond or a divalent connecting group, R11 denotes a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, m denotes an integer of equal to or greater than 2, multiple instances of R1, R2, A1, and R11 that are present can be identical or different, A2 denotes a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent denoted by —OR3—Z, R3 denotes a single bond or a divalent connecting group, Z denotes a monovalent acid group, among multiple instances of A2 that are present, at least one denotes a monovalent group denoted by —O—R3—Z, and X denotes a connecting group of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Aoshima, Wataru Kikuchi, Kazutoshi Katayama, Tatsuo Mikami
  • Publication number: 20170182828
    Abstract: The image recording method includes the following steps (a) to (c): (a) forming a barrier layer on a recording medium by using a solution which contains an acidic group-containing polymer in a nonaqueous medium; (b) forming an organic acid-containing layer on the barrier layer; and (c) forming an image by jetting an aqueous ink onto the organic acid-containing layer by an ink jet method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru KIKUCHI, Yuji YOSHIDA, Seiya SAKURAI, Ryuji SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20170084840
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for forming an organic semiconductor film that makes it possible to obtain an organic semiconductor film having excellent mobility and uniformity thereof, an organic semiconductor element including an organic semiconductor film having excellent mobility and uniformity thereof, and a method for manufacturing the organic semiconductor element. The composition for forming an organic semiconductor film of the present invention contains an organic semiconductor as a component A and a polymer chemically modified some or all of the ethylenically unsaturated double bonds of a ethylenically unsaturated double bond-containing polymer, as a component B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Takafumi NAKAYAMA, Wataru KIKUCHI, Kensuke MASUI
  • Patent number: 9562167
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium, which comprises a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, wherein the magnetic layer further comprises a compound which has a weight average molecular weight of equal to or more than 1,000 but less than 20,000 and is denoted by formula (1): wherein, in formula (1), A denotes a monovalent substituent, R1 denotes a single bond or a divalent connecting group, and m denotes an integer ranging from 2 to 4, multiple instances of A and R1 that are present can be identical or different, at least one of the multiple instances of A that are present denotes a monovalent polymer group and X denotes a heterocyclic group of valence m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Toshihide Aoshima, Kazutoshi Katayama, Tatsuo Mikami
  • Publication number: 20160250866
    Abstract: The image recording paper medium contains at least one kind of organic phosphorus compound selected from an organic phosphonic acid represented by the following Formula (1), a salt thereof, an organic phosphoric acid represented by the following Formula (2), and a salt thereof. In the formulae, each of R1 and R2 independently represents an unsubstituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, an unsubstituted alkenyl group, or an aryl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru KIKUCHI, Yuji YOSHIDA, Ryuji SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20160252654
    Abstract: A plastic optical component includes a base member made of a first plastic, and a covering member disposed over a surface of the plastic member. The covering member is made of a second plastic. The water absorption of the first plastic is lower than the water absorption of the second plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Daigo Kobayashi, Yuichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 9360666
    Abstract: A plastic optical component includes a base member made of a first plastic, and a covering member disposed over a surface of the plastic member. The covering member is made of a second plastic. The water absorption of the first plastic is lower than the water absorption of the second plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Daigo Kobayashi, Yuichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20160093321
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, and further comprises a compound denoted by Formula (1): wherein, in Formula (1), X denotes —O—, —S—, or NR1—; each of R and R1 independently denotes a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent; L denotes a divalent connecting group; Z denotes a partial structure of valence n comprising at least one group selected from the group consisting of carboxyl groups and carboxylate groups; m denotes an integer of greater than or equal to 2, and n denotes an integer of greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihide AOSHIMA, Wataru KIKUCHI, Kazutoshi KATAYAMA, Tatsuo MIKAMI
  • Publication number: 20160082679
    Abstract: A plastic optical component includes a core member containing a polycarbonate having a viscosity-average molecular weight of 23000 or more and 31000 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Wataru Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9283719
    Abstract: A recessed portion, through which a covering plastic that has been melted and that is used for covering a core lens is introduced in a bifurcating manner, is formed in the core lens, and the covering plastic is introduced simultaneously onto the front and back surfaces of the core lens through the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Kikuchi, Daigo Kobayashi