Patents Assigned to Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
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Patent number: 12379727Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes processing circuitry and a memory. The memory stores map data and association data. The map data defines a map. The map receives, as input data, manipulation value data and the image data of the vehicle, thereby outputting, as output data, a state ID corresponding to an anomaly state related to the vehicle. The association data associates an anomaly state related to the vehicle with the state ID. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire the manipulation value data, acquire the image data from a camera mounted in the vehicle, input, as the input data, the manipulation value data and the image data, to the map, thereby acquiring, as the output data, the state ID from the map, and identify the anomaly state related to the vehicle based on the state ID acquired from the map and the association data.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Shinichi Mae, Yukikazu Koide, Hironobu Okamoto, Ryusuke Sagawa
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Patent number: 12379262Abstract: A system for evaluating a treatment device capable of radiating ultrasound for cauterizing human tissue, the system including: simulated tissue having a property that hue changes according to temperature in a particular temperature-sensitive area and simulating temperature change of human tissue at time of the human tissue receiving the ultrasound from the treatment device, the simulated tissue having an insertion hole where the treatment device can be arranged; a light source radiating planar light from the whole circumference, the light source being arranged surrounding the simulated tissue; an image taking device taking cross-sectional color images of light irradiation surfaces of the simulated tissue; and movement mechanisms causing the light source and the image taking device to relatively move in a photographing axis direction of the image taking device relative to the simulated tissue; and a movement mechanism control/information processing unit controlling the movement mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Takagi, Koji Inui
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Patent number: 12352927Abstract: An antireflection structure comprising a transparent substrate having a plurality of holes with U-shaped or V-shaped cross-sectional shapes perpendicular to a flat surface portion and a metal oxide film disposed on the surface portion of the transparent substrate and in the space portions formed in an upward direction from the bottom portions of holes in the transparent substrate, wherein the average diameter of the openings of the holes is 50 nm to 300 nm, the average distance between the center points of openings of the adjacent holes is 100 nm to 400 nm, and the depth of each hole from the surface portion of the substrate is 80 nm to 250 nm; and the thickness of the metal oxide film disposed in each of the space portions increases as the depth of each of the holes becomes larger, thereby reducing the difference in depth between the holes from the uppermost surface portion of the metal oxide film disposed on the surface portion to the surface portions of the metal oxide films in the space portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Trading, Inc.Inventors: Kazuma Kurihara, Ryohei Hokari, Hiroaki Fukui
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Publication number: 20250205731Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to rapidly deposit perovskite crystals while suppressing a decline in smoothness of a perovskite crystalline film. A perovskite crystal deposition apparatus comprises: a base body stage on which a base body is to be placed; a blade which is disposed so as to face the surface of the base body such that a gap is formed therebetween when the base body is placed on the base body stage; and a gas supply member that sprays a gas at a pressure of 0.3-0.6 MPa, a temperature of 25-200° C., and a flow rate of 30-40 L/min onto the surface of the base body With the deposition apparatus, a perovskite crystalline layer is obtained by spraying a gas from the gas supply member onto a precursor film that has been obtained by spreading a precursor solution of perovskite crystals on the base body using the blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kohei Yamamoto, Takurou Murakami, Yuuji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20250210235Abstract: A samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet powder includes a lanthanoid (Ln), iron (Fe), bismuth (Bi), tungsten (W), and nitrogen (N), wherein the lanthanoid includes samarium (Sm), an atomic ratio of bismuth to a 5 sum of the lanthanoid, iron, bismuth, and tungsten (Bi/(Ln+Fe+Bi+W)) is 1.00 at % or less, an atomic ratio of tungsten to the sum of the lanthanoid, iron, bismuth, and tungsten (W/(Ln+Fe+Bi+W)) is 0.05 at % or more and 0.60 at % or less, and an atomic ratio of tungsten to bismuth (W/Bi) is 1.0 or more and 30.0 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicants: TDK Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Ryuji HASHIMOTO, Shusuke OKADA
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Patent number: 12340969Abstract: An electron gun for an electron microscope or similar device includes a field emitter cathode having a field emitter protrusion extending from the output surface of a monocrystalline silicon substrate, and electrodes configured to enhance the emission of electrons from a tip portion of the field emitter protrusion to generate a primary electron beam. A contiguous TiN layer is disposed directly on at least the tip portion of the field emitter protrusion using a process that minimizes oxidation and defects in the TiN layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignees: KLA Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yung-Ho Alex Chuang, Yinying Xiao-Li, Edgardo García Berríos, John Fielden, Lavinia Ghirardini, Masayoshi Nagao
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Patent number: 12339160Abstract: A laser light profile measuring device of the present disclosure includes a reflection attenuation part reflecting and attenuating at least part of laser light incident from a first direction in a direction different from the first direction to generate measurement target laser light traveling in the first direction, a capture unit placed on one side of the reflection attenuation part in the first direction and which captures the measurement target laser light, a cooling body covering at least part of the reflection attenuation part and the capture unit in a circumferential direction with respect to the first direction, a refrigerant supply unit forcibly feeding a refrigerant toward the cooling body, and a rotation support part supporting the reflection attenuation part, the cooling body, and the refrigerant supply unit to be rotatable around a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Ryuichi Narita, Toshiya Watanabe, Misaki Fukuyama, Takeshi Kaneko, Takayuki Numata
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Publication number: 20250171450Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to providing novel coelenterazine derivatives that exhibit high luminescence brightness and have enzyme specificity, and the solution is a coelenterazine derivative represented by the following general formula (1) or (2): in the general formula (1), R1 has a certain bicyclic structure, R2 is represented by —R2? or —CH2—R2? where R2? has a certain ring structure, and R3 has a certain ring structure; and in the general formula (2), R4 is represented by —(CH2)n—OR4-1, —N(R4-1)2, or —CF3 where each R4-1 is independently hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group with 1 to 3 carbon atoms, n is an integer from 0 to 3, R5 has a certain ring structure, and R6 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group with 1 to 3 carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: May 29, 2025Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Shojiro MAKI, Nobuo KITADA, Sung-Bae KIM
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Patent number: 12315695Abstract: A sample holder reliably holds a liquid or gel sample, and the yield of observation with a charged particle beam device is improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignees: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Michio Hatano, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshihiko Ogura
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Patent number: 12270020Abstract: A cell culture instrument configured to detach cells at a desired position and a cell processing method using the cell culture instrument. The cell culture instrument includes: a substrate; and a photoreactive layer having a photosolubility and a photothermal convertibility, wherein the photoreactive layer is laminated on the substrate, and the photoreactive layer includes a polymer having a photosolubility and a photothermal convertibility.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Kataoka CorporationInventors: Kimio Sumaru, Toshiyuki Takagi, Toshiyuki Kanamori, Kana Morishita, Junichi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12265041Abstract: A risk of breakage of a sample holder can be reduced and a biochemical sample or a liquid sample can be observed easily and with a high observation throughput. A sample holder 101 holding a sample includes: a sample chamber including a first insulating thin film 110 and a second insulating thin film 111 that sandwich and hold the sample 200 in a liquid or gel form and face each other, a vacuum partition wall inside which the sample chamber holding the sample is fixed in a state in which the thin film is exposed to a surrounding atmosphere, and whose internal space is kept at a degree of vacuum at least lower than that of the sample room at the time of observation of the sample, a detection electrode 820 disposed to face the second insulating thin film in a state in which the sample chamber is fixed to the vacuum partition wall, and a signal detection unit 50 connected to the detection electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Michio Hatano, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshihiko Ogura
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Publication number: 20250093326Abstract: Method for evaluating cardiomyocytes using Raman scattering: a Raman spectrum of cardiomyocytes artificially induced to differentiate from pluripotent stem cells is acquired, an intensity of Raman-scattered light for a protein containing at least one of heme b and heme c as a prosthetic group is acquired from the Raman spectrum, and a state of progress of maturation of the cardiomyocytes is evaluated on the basis of the intensity of the Raman-scattered light. Method for evaluating differentiation into cardiomyocytes using Raman scattering: cells which are pluripotent stem cells are artificially induced to differentiate into cardiomyocytes, a Raman spectrum of the cells induced to differentiate is acquired, an intensity of Raman-scattered light for at least one of heme b and heme c is acquired from the Raman spectrum, and a state of progress of differentiation of the cells into cardiomyocytes is evaluated on the basis of the intensity of the Raman-scattered light.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Katsumasa Fujita, Kazuki Bando, Li Liu, Junjun Li, Yoshiki Sawa, Shigeru Miyagawa, Yasunori Nawa, Satoshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20250089356Abstract: A change in switching time due to temperature change is suppressed. A switching circuitry is provided with a resistance component having opposite characteristics to temperature dependence of a gate current of a power transistor which is switching-controlled by the switching circuitry, and a change in a gate current due to the temperature change is suppressed by a change in the above-described resistance component due to the temperature change.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Atsushi YAO, Mitsuo OKAMOTO, Fumiki KATO, Hiroshi SATO, Shinsuke HARADA, Hiroshi HOZOJI, Shinji SATO
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Patent number: 12245513Abstract: Provided is a sheet-shape electrostatic sound pressure-electrical signal conversion device that is three-dimensionally deformable and has a low drive voltage. The sound pressure-electrical signal conversion device includes a polymer sheet sandwiched between a pair of electrodes facing each other, the polymer sheet is a dielectric film, at least one of the electrodes includes an insulating flexible substrate having a plurality of through-holes and a plurality of conductive fibers having one end fixed to the flexible substrate with a pressure sensitive adhesive, electrical conduction in an in-plane direction is formed by contact between the conductive fibers, the conductive fibers are vibrated by giving an electrical signal to the pair of electrodes or the conductive fibers are vibrated by receiving sound pressure to cause the pair of electrodes to output an electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Manabu Yoshida, Naoki Shirakawa, Nobuko Fukuda
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Publication number: 20250070210Abstract: This electrolyte, which contains a melamine compound and/or a polymer in which said melamine compound is used as a monomer, can effectively suppress the deterioration of a platinum catalyst in an air electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Shin-ichi Yamazaki, Masafumi Asahi, Tsutomu Ioroi
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Publication number: 20250066713Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a microorganism (NITE BP-03572) belonging to Rhodosporidiobolus azoricus or to a microorganism (NITE BP-03573) belonging to the genus Vanrija.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: Kureha Corporation, National Institute Of Advanced Industrial Science And TechnologyInventors: Tatsuyuki KOSHIYAMA, Yukihiro HIGASHIYAMA, Shun SATO, Tomotake MORITA, Azusa SAIKA, Kazunori USHIMARU
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Patent number: 12189162Abstract: A wire-grid polarizer includes metal reflectors which are embedded in a large number of grooves formed in a one-dimensional grid pattern in the same direction and with the same period in the front surface of a transparent sheet, wherein the average width (a) of the metal reflectors is 200 nm or less, the ratio (b/a) of the average thickness (b) of the metal reflectors from the front side of the sheet to the tip in the backward direction to the above average width (a) is 4 to 25, in any cross-section perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, the shape of each of the metal reflectors in the vicinity of the tip in the thickness direction is such that it gradually becomes thinner in a linear or smoothly curved shape toward the tip, and the ratio of the average length (c) toward the tip of portions that gradually become thinner toward the tip to the above average width (a) is 1.2 or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Trading, Inc.Inventors: Ryohei Hokari, Kazuma Kurihara, Kyohei Takakuwa, Akitaka Yamamoto, Yusuke Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 12178939Abstract: A medical instrument in which an inorganic salt solid such as apatite into which a peptide hormone or the like is embedded is placed so that a metal or the like is coated therewith, in which the inorganic salt solid is provided by controlled delay co-precipitation or the like in an unstable supersaturated calcium phosphate solution, and the medical instrument is exposed to ionizing radiation at a dose sufficient for sterilization.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: Cell-Medicine, Inc., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, University of Tsukuba, Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadao Ohno, Mayu Yasunaga, Atsuo Ito, Yu Sogo, Fumiko Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20240418052Abstract: Provided is a joint assembly that selectively isolates an isolation target layer in an open hole drilled in the strata including a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir and the isolation target layer, and is a production well manufacturing method and gas production method using the joint assembly. The joint assembly includes a tubular body to be inserted into the open hole to be positioned to penetrate the isolation target layer; and a light source disposed over entire circumference of an outer periphery of the body and configured to emit light to cure uncured photo-curable resin that is introduced between the body and a borehole wall of the open hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Jun YONEDA, Yusuke Jin, Koji Yamada, Hideki Minagawa, Kazunori Shinjo
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Patent number: 12125926Abstract: The present invention realizes a hole-selective film provided with both hole selectivity and passivation characteristics. This production method for a semiconductor device is provided with a step for forming a titanium oxide film on a crystalline silicon layer by means of a thermal atomic layer deposition method, and a step for carrying out a hydrogen plasma process on the titanium oxide film.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: National institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Takuya Matsui, Hitoshi Sai