Patents Assigned to A School Corporation Kansai University
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Patent number: 10631546Abstract: [Problem] To produce a frozen bread dough improver that has an effect of improving rising of frozen bread dough, is highly safe, and tasteless, using a method that is low-cost and low in environmental impact. Also, to effectively use yeast cell body residue produced as a byproduct of yeast extract. [Means for Solving the Problem] Yeast cell body residue remaining after extracting useful extract from yeast is suspended in water and heated, after which the suspension is subjected to centrifugal separation and a supernatant is obtained. This fraction contains, per solid content, at least 45 wt % RNA, at least 5 wt % dietary fiber, and at least 10 wt % protein, and mannan content in the dietary fiber is at least 60 wt %. This can be used to improve rising of frozen bread dough.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: MITSUBISHI CORPORATION LIFE SCIENCES LIMITED, THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hidehisa Kawahara, Eiji Nakao, Kenichi Ason, Sakiko Ikeda
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Patent number: 10626213Abstract: The photoelastic polyurethane resin has a Young's modulus at 25° C. of 2 to 5 MPa, a photoelastic constant at 25° C. of 1000×10?12 Pa?1 to 100000×10?12 Pa?1, and a glass transition temperature of ?60° C. to ?21° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Masahiko Mitsuzuka, Satoshi Yamasaki, Yoshiro Tajitsu
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Publication number: 20200061669Abstract: An electretized film of the present invention includes a cyclic olefin polymer, in which the electretized film is a non-porous film, and a piezoelectric constant d33 in a thickness direction, which is measured by applying a pressing force to the electretized film in the thickness direction, under conditions of a load of 0.5 N, a dynamic load of ±0.25 N, a frequency of 110 Hz, a temperature of 23° C., and a humidity of 50%, is equal to or more than 100 pC/N.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicants: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Yoshiro TAJITSU, Yuzo NAKAMURA, Tomoya MATAYOSHI, Takayuki WATANABE, Michio ERIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200036043Abstract: An electrolyte solution for an alkali metal-sulfur-based secondary battery, an alkali metal-sulfur-based secondary battery, and a module containing the alkali metal-sulfur-based secondary battery. The electrolyte solution includes a positive electrode containing a carbon composite material that contains a carbon material and a sulfur-containing positive electrode active material. The carbon material has a pore volume ratio (micropores/mesopores) of 1.5 or higher. The electrolyte solution contains a fluorinated ether represented by the following formula (1): R11—(OR12)n11—O—R13. In the formula, R11 and R13 are the same as or different from each other, and are each an alkyl group optionally containing a fluorine atom, with at least one of R11 or R13 containing a fluorine atom; R12 is an alkylene group optionally containing a fluorine atom; and n11 is 0, 1, or 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicants: THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masashi ISHIKAWA, Yuya TORII, Satoshi UCHIDA, Masaki YAMAGATA, Shigeaki YAMAZAKI, Shinichi KINOSHITA
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Publication number: 20200023693Abstract: Provided is a tire assembly includes a tire, a power generating body disposed inside the tire, and an electronic device that receives supply of power that is output from the power generating body. The power generating body includes a first insulating film, a second insulating film, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first insulating film has a first surface. The second insulating film has a second surface. The first and second electrodes have conductivity. The power generating body is configured such that a true area of contact between the first surface and the second surface changes according to deformation of the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicants: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Jun Ochi, Hiroshi Tani
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Patent number: 10539334Abstract: The present invention achieves a moisture absorbing material which enables efficient dehumidification without supercooling or large heat quantity; and a dehumidifier in which the moisture absorbing material is used. The moisture absorbing material can be a dried product of a polymer gel in which an interpenetrating polymer network structure or a semi-interpenetrating polymer network structure is formed by (a) a stimuli-responsive polymer whose affinity with water changes reversibly in response to an external stimulus and (b) a hydrophilic polymer.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Nobuki Sakikawa, Takashi Miyata, Kazuya Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20200020315Abstract: Audio (noise source) is output as a cancellation sound through a variable filter and a first filter, and transmitted to the second filter. A subtractor subtracts an output of a second filter from an output of a microphone, and an adaptive algorithm execution unit updates a transfer function of the variable filter so that the subtracted result becomes zero (0). A transfer function A for the first filter is a transfer function which can cancel noise at a position of a user's ear by setting, as the cancellation sound, a sound obtained by applying the transfer function A to audio at the time of learning, and a transfer function B for the second filter is a transfer function which can eliminate, for the cancellation sound, a difference between a sound obtained by applying the transfer function B to audio and the output of the microphone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicants: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC., A School Corporation Kansai UniversityInventors: Ryosuke Tachi, Yoshinobu Kajikawa
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Publication number: 20190337967Abstract: An organosilicon compound can be efficiently produced by using metallic element-containing nanoparticles such as a platinum element-containing nanoparticle having a solvent on surface as a catalyst of the hydrosilylation reaction of alkenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Yasushi OBORA, Xianjin LIN, Yumiko NAKAJIMA, Shigeru SHIMADA, Kazuhiko SATO
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Patent number: 10455951Abstract: The cushioning material having a sensor 1 includes a resin sheet 4 composed of photoelastic resin, a cushioning material 21 laminated on the resin sheet 4, a photosensor 15 including a light generating unit 5 and a light receiving unit 8 that are disposed to face each other so as to sandwich the resin sheet 4, and a processor 3 that detects a stress applied to the resin sheet 4 based on the light signal detected by the photosensor 15.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Masahiko Mitsuzuka, Satoshi Yamasaki, Yoshiro Tajitsu
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Publication number: 20190313921Abstract: A measurement device includes a pulse wave signal acquisition unit, a pulse wave velocity calculator, a transfer function calculator, a phase diagram classifier, and an aneurysm determinator. The pulse wave signal acquisition unit acquires time-series pulse wave signals of each of an upper arm and an ankle of the subject. The pulse wave velocity calculator obtains a brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity based on the pulse wave signal of the upper arm and the pulse wave signal of the ankle. The transfer function calculator calculates a transfer function from the pulse wave signal of the upper arm and the pulse wave signal of the ankle. The phase diagram classifier classifies the phase diagram of each subject into any one of four groups. The aneurysm determinator determines presence or absence of the abdominal aortic aneurysm by a criterion set according to each group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Miki IMAMURA, Yukiya SAWANOI, Toshihiko OGURA, Hideo UTSUNO, Kimihiko KICHIKAWA, Shigeo ICHIHASHI, Shinichi IWAKOSHI
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Patent number: 10334628Abstract: A transmitter generates a header frame having a frame length indicating the beginning of data to be transmitted, data frames having frame lengths representing the data to be transmitted, and an end frame having a frame length indicating the end of the data to be transmitted. Then, for all of the header frame, data frames and end frame, the transmitter executes transmitting the kth frame when the wireless communication space is available, thereby transmitting the header frame, data frames and end frame, one after another, in accordance with the CSMA/CA scheme.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignees: NEC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, LTD., A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY, ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONALInventors: Tetsuya Ito, Yukihiro Hara, Masahito Iwai, Hiroyuki Yomo, Takatoshi Kimura, Akio Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10303051Abstract: Provided is a hyperbranched polymer having such a backbone that is readily decomposable by an acid. The hyperbranched polymer is derived from, via reaction, monomers including a monomer (X) and a monomer (Y). The monomer (X) contains three or more hydroxy groups per molecule. The monomer (Y) contains two or more groups represented by General Formula (y) per molecule. The monomer (X) includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of cyclodextrins, compounds represented by General Formula (I), pillararenes, compounds represented by General Formula (II), compounds represented by General Formula (III), and compounds represented by General Formula (IV). The monomer (Y) includes a compound represented by General Formula (1).Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY, DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Kudo, Ichiro Takase
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Patent number: 10265656Abstract: A moisture absorbing material (i) having has (a) a first state in which the moisture absorbing material is capable of absorbing moisture, and (b) a second state in which the moisture absorbing material releases the moisture absorbed in the first state, and (ii) has a property of changing from the first state to the second state in response to an external stimulus and returning from the second state to the first state when the external stimulus disappears, the moisture absorbing material includes: first through fourth moisture absorbing bodies which have respective different stimulus response levels and are provided in order of stimulus response level so as to be in contact with one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Nobuki Sakikawa, Yoshihiro Uramoto, Takashi Miyata
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Patent number: 10252213Abstract: Provided is a dehumidification apparatus with good energy efficiency. A moisture absorbing material (polymeric moisture absorbing material 24), which absorbs moisture and swells at a temperature not higher than a predetermined temperature sensitive point, while shrinking and releasing condensed water at a temperature higher than the temperature sensitive point as a result of phase transition, is formed so as to be divided into a plurality of segments which are made apart from each other during dehydration. A rotation motor (21) is used to move the moisture absorbing material (polymeric moisture absorbing material 24) between a moisture absorption region (14a) and a dehydration region (14b). In the dehydration region (14b), the moisture absorbing material (polymeric moisture absorbing material 24) is heated by the heater (25).Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Yoshihiro Uramoto, Nobuki Sakikawa, Takashi Miyata
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Patent number: 10214656Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide copper nanoparticles that suppress the oxidation of copper, have an average particle diameter of 10 nm or less and therefore undergo a remarkable reduction in the melting point, are highly dispersible, can be sintered at a low temperature, allow the removal of the protective layer during low-temperature sintering at 150° C. or less, and can be suitably used as a conductive copper nanoink material; and to also provide a method for preserving copper nanoparticles, whereby the copper nanoparticles can be stably preserved at room temperature for a long period of time, and can be transported.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hideya Kawasaki, Ryuichi Arakawa, Yuki Hokita
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Patent number: 10086328Abstract: A humidity controlling apparatus comprises: a moisture absorbent (1) made of a macromolecular gelated moisture absorbing material which takes a first state being capable of absorbing moisture and a second state releasing in a liquid state the moisture absorbed in the first state, and which has a nature to change from the first state to the second state when a definite level of temperature or higher is attained, and return to the first state when the definite level of temperature or higher is no longer attained; and an energy converting particle (2) which is disposed so as to be buried inside the moisture absorbent and has a nature to generate heat when it is exposed to an external stimulus factor which is at least one of light, electric waves and a high frequency magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, A SCHOOL CORPORATION OF KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Nobuki Sakikawa, Yoshihiro Uramoto, Yasumasa Suzuki, Akihiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Miyata, Kazuya Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20180257105Abstract: A film production method for producing a thin film on a surface of a workpiece, including the steps of: disposing the workpiece in a chamber; supplying a process gas into the chamber with the inside of the chamber being maintained at a predetermined pressure; applying a light having an energy between 3 eV and 10 eV to the surface of the workpiece to cause a photoelectron to be emitted from the surface of the workpiece; and applying an AC electric field to the surface of the workpiece, wherein the AC electric field has an electric field intensity causing a Townsend discharge to occur without generating a glow discharge plasma.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicants: SHOWA DENKO K.K., A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroshi TANI, Hiroshi SAKAI, Eishin YAMAKAWA, Kazuki SHINDO
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Patent number: 10006860Abstract: Both a hologram and fluorescence are simultaneously captured in a state in which they can be reconstructed separately. A recording device (10) includes: a laser light source (LS1) which irradiates a subject (13) with object illumination light so that object light is generated; and an image capturing device (12) which captures (i) a hologram formed by interference between reference light and object light and (ii) an image of fluorescence, and the object illumination light further excites a fluorescent material (14) contained in the subject (13).Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignees: The School Corporation Kansai University, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and SystemsInventors: Tatsuki Tahara, Imari Sato, Yuki Takahashi, Takeya Kanno
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Patent number: 9993655Abstract: An image data processing device including: a storage means configured to store a three-dimensional MRI image of a subject's head; a three-dimensional appearance image generation means configured to generate a three-dimensional appearance image of the head; an image generation means configured to perform positional alignment between the three-dimensional MRI image and the three-dimensional appearance image, and to generate a three-dimensional image of the head after the positional alignment; an after-movement image generation means configured to generate, when the subject's head has been moved, a three-dimensional subject's head image after the movement and the positional alignment; an operational object image generation means configured to generate an operational object image indicating a position of an operational object; and a display means configured to display the three-dimensional image of the subject's head after the movement and the operational object image in one image.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Youichi Saitoh, Kuniyoshi Uchida, Koichi Hosomi, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Tatsuya Ogino
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Patent number: 9999075Abstract: A transmitter generates a header frame having a frame length indicating the beginning of data to be transmitted, data frames having frame lengths representing the data to be transmitted, and an end frame having a frame length indicating the end of the data to be transmitted. Then, for all of the header frame, data frames and end frame, the transmitter executes transmitting the kth frame when the wireless communication space is available, thereby transmitting the header frame, data frames and end frame, one after another, in accordance with the CSMA/CA scheme.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: NEC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, LTD., A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY, ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTInventors: Tetsuya Ito, Yukihiro Hara, Masahito Iwai, Hiroyuki Yomo, Takatoshi Kimura, Akio Hasegawa