Patents Assigned to Gifu University
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Patent number: 10006024Abstract: Provided is an RNA interference agent, with which a suppression effect on the off-target effect can be obtained with a simple system. The disclosures relate to an RNA interference agent provided with a single-stranded oligonucleotide passenger strand having one or two or more PAZ domain low-affinity units at the 3?-end.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Yukio Kitade, Remi Nakashima
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OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE, OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CONSTRUCT USING THE SAME, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THEM
Publication number: 20180094017Abstract: The oligonucleotide derivative of the present invention is represented by Formula (1). This derivative is considered to be introduced into cells by binding of its amino sugar chain moiety to a ligand on cell surfaces, and have selective drug delivery function. The oligonucleotide derivative can be easily synthesized and introduced into cells without using a lipofection reagent. wherein—A and B are independently modified or unmodified oligonucleotides whose total chain length is 3 or more, and A and B do not contain hydroxyl groups at 3? and 5? ends of the oligonucleotide; S represents a sugar substituent, a peptide chain, or a tocopherol-binding group; and an alkyl group may be bound instead of hydrogen bound to a benzene ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Yukio KITADE, Aya SHIBATA -
Publication number: 20180078834Abstract: To provide a lightweight shaft having excellent strength, a shaft has one or a plurality of fiber reinforced resin layers. At least one of the fiber reinforced resin layers is produced by a filament winding method in which one or a plurality of fiber bundles are wound while tension is applied thereto. The fiber bundles each include a plurality of filaments. The tension applied to the fiber bundles is not less than 0.04 (gf) per filament. The tension is great. Preferably, at least one of the fiber reinforced resin layers is produced by a multi-filament winding method in which a plurality of the fiber bundles are simultaneously wound while being arranged side by side. Preferably, fibers forming the filaments are carbon fibers. Preferably, a resin composition included in each fiber reinforced resin layer is an epoxy resin composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicants: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Takehiko HYODO, Yumi KANEMITSU, Asami NAKAI, Akio OHTANI, Tadashi UOZUMI
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Patent number: 9919270Abstract: A denitration device and a denitration method in which denitration is performed efficiently and in a stable manner in a lower-reaction-temperature region without using a catalyst. The denitration device is provided with a combustion chamber, a denitration agent feed means for feeding a denitration agent into the combustion chamber, an exhaust pipe, and an OH-radical-generating substance feed means for feeding an OH radical-generating substance into the exhaust pipe. The denitration agent feed means feeds a denitration agent into the exhaust gas of the combustion chamber to perform a first denitration reaction step, and the OH-radical-generating substance feed means feeds the OH-radical-generating substance into the exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe to perform a second denitration reaction step.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: GIFU UNIVERSITY, SAWAFUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., ACTREE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Kambara, Tomonori Miura, Tatsuya Ikeda, Sho Arai, Megumi Masui
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Publication number: 20180050067Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel medical application for use in regenerative medicine that uses pluripotent stem cells (Muse cells). The present invention provides a cell preparation for treating myocardial infarction, and particularly serious massive myocardial infarction and heart failure associated therewith, that contains pluripotent stem cells positive for SSEA-3 isolated from biological mesenchymal tissue or cultured mesenchymal cells. The cell preparation of the present invention is based on a cardiac tissue regeneration mechanism by which Muse cells are made to selectively accumulate in damaged myocardial tissue and differentiate into cardiac muscle in that tissue as a result of intravenous administration of Muse cells to a subject presenting with the aforementioned disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicants: CLIO, INC., GIFU UNIVERSITY, TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Masanori Yoshida, Shinya Minatoguchi, Mari Dezawa
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Patent number: 9890360Abstract: A method that includes bringing a nuclear reprogramming substance (DLX4 gene, OCT3/4 gene, and SOX2 gene) into contact with a cell and thereby producing iPS cells.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignees: GIFU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kenichi Tezuka, Naritaka Tamaoki, Kazuki Iida, Tomoko Kawaguchi, Hitomi Aoki, Takahiro Kunisada, Toshiyuki Shibata, Naoki Goshima
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Publication number: 20180009661Abstract: An energy carrier system is provided that produces ammonia with high efficiency and that further produces hydrogen as final product and uses the hydrogen as energy. An energy storage transportation method is further provided that is carried out by using energy carrier system. The energy carrier system includes nitric acid production device, an ammonia production device, and hydrogen production device. The nitric acid production device includes a photo-reactor, a gas supply unit that supplies photo-reactor with gas to be treated containing a nitrogen oxide, water, and oxygen, and light source disposed in the photo-reactor. The light source radiates light including ultraviolet of a wavelength shorter than 175 nm. The energy storage transportation method includes nitric acid production step of producing nitric acid from a nitrogen oxide, ammonia production step of producing ammonia through reduction of nitric acid, and hydrogen production step of producing hydrogen through decomposition of the ammonia.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicants: SAWAFUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Shinji KAMBARA, Nibuyuki HISHINUMA, Tomonori MIURA
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Patent number: 9844570Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel medical application for use in regenerative medicine that uses pluripotent stem cells (Muse cells). The present invention provides a cell preparation for treating myocardial infarction, and particularly serious massive myocardial infarction and heart failure associated therewith, that contains pluripotent stem cells positive for SSEA-3 isolated from biological mesenchymal tissue or cultured mesenchymal cells. The cell preparation of the present invention is based on a cardiac tissue regeneration mechanism by which Muse cells are made to selectively accumulate in damaged myocardial tissue and differentiate into cardiac muscle in that tissue as a result of intravenous administration of Muse cells to a subject presenting with the aforementioned disorders.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: CLIO, INC., GIFU UNIVERSITY, TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Masanori Yoshida, Shinya Minatoguchi, Mari Dezawa
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Patent number: 9809563Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-prion compound that has high crystallinity and is highly stable in the crystalline form and to provide a medicament for preventing, ameliorating or treating a prion disease.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: GIFU UniversityInventor: Kazuo Kuwata
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Patent number: 9765457Abstract: A braider and a tube body in which braids are arranged on an outer peripheral surface of a mandrel uniformly even if the diameter of the mandrel is uneven. A braider 1 has bobbin carrier conveyance mechanisms 50A and 50B in which bobbin carriers 40A and 40B are conveyed from traveling tracks W1 and W2 to an outside of the traveling tracks W1 and W2 so as to stop winding of braids Y1 and Y2 onto a mandrel 2 and the bobbin carriers 40A and 40B are conveyed from the outside of the traveling tracks W1 and W2 to the traveling tracks W1 and W2 so as to start the winding of the braids Y1 and Y2 onto the mandrel 2.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignees: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Ryosuke Tahara, Tadashi Uozumi, Akio Ohtani
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Patent number: 9710907Abstract: A diagnosis support system includes a diagnosis support computer that includes a model data acquisition unit configured to obtain a plurality of mandible model data, a contour model creation unit configured to create contour model data from the mandible model data, a contour database storage unit configured to construct a contour model database from the contour model data, a diagnosis image data receiving unit configured to receive an input of diagnosis image data of an examinee, an edge extraction unit configured to extract edge data from the diagnosis image data, a similar model searching unit configured to search contour model data based on the edge data, a position judgment unit and an image quality judgment unit configured to judge an imaging position and an image quality based on imaging information, respectively, and a diagnosis support information provision unit configured to provide diagnosis support information based on provider information.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignees: Gifu University, MEDIA CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Takeshi Hara, Akitoshi Katsumata, Tatsuro Hayashi
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Publication number: 20160279570Abstract: To apply a denitration device and a denitration method in which denitration is performed efficiently and in a stable manner in a lower-reaction-temperature region without using a catalyst. The denitration device (100) is provided with a combustion chamber (1), a denitration agent feed means (11) for feeding a denitration agent into the combustion chamber (1), an exhaust pipe (2), and an OH-radical-generating substance feed means (21) for feeding an OH-radical-generating substance into the exhaust pipe (2). The denitration agent feed means (11) feeds a denitration agent into the exhaust gas of the combustion chamber to perform a first denitration reaction step, and the OH-radical-generating substance feed means (21) feeds the OH-radical-generating substance into the exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe (2) to perform a second denitration reaction step.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Shinji Kambara, Tomonori Miura, Tatsuya Ikeda, Sho Arai, Megumi Masui
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Publication number: 20160262686Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for measuring the thickness, roughness, and morphology index of the mandibular cortical bone using a dental panorama image to assist in the diagnosis of osteoporosis, wherein the thickness, roughness, and morphological index of the cortical bone is measured more accurately and the diagnosis of osteoporosis can be supported more accurately. An osteoporosis diagnostic support apparatus, wherein the apparatus has a contour extraction unit adapted to extract a mandibular contour from an image of a mandibular cortical bone photographed by a photographic apparatus adapted to photograph the mandibular cortical bone and surroundings thereof, a line segment extraction unit adapted to extract line segments from the image of the mandibular cortical bone photographed by the photographic apparatus; and a cortical bone thickness calculation unit adapted to calculate a thickness of the cortical bone based on the extracted mandibular contour and line segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicants: Media Co., Ltd., Gifu UniversityInventors: Hironobu TSUJI, Yosuke TSUJI, Tatsuro HAYASHI, Hiroshi FUJITA, Takeshi HARA, Chisako MURAMATSU, Kazuki HORIBA, Akitoshi KATSUMATA
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Publication number: 20160208218Abstract: A method that includes bringing a nuclear reprogramming substance (DLX4 gene, OCT3/4 gene, and SOX2 gene) into contact with a cell and thereby producing iPS cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicants: GIFU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kenichi TEZUKA, Naritaka TAMAOKI, Kazuki IIDA, Tomoko KAWAGUCHI, Hitomi AOKI, Takahiro KUNISADA, Toshiyuki SHIBATA, Naoki GOSHIMA
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Patent number: 9198682Abstract: An endoscope treatment tool includes a flexible sheath, a manipulation wire, and a basket portion constituted by a locking portion and a plurality of elastic wires. A maximum outside diameter portion of the basket portion is at a position closer to the locking portion than an intermediate position between a proximal end of the basket portion and the locking portion. The plurality of elastic wires is formed in a shape of a helix, and a winding pitch of the plurality of elastic wires becomes gradually smaller in a direction from a proximal side to the distal side of the manipulation wire. When a proximal side of the basket portion is reduced, an outside diameter of the maximum outside diameter portion is maintained at substantially a same size as the outside diameter before the proximal side of the basket portion is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignees: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Ichiro Yasuda, Tsukasa Kobayashi, Yutaka Yanuma
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Patent number: 9189065Abstract: A force sense interface includes a tactile finger base having a plurality of tactile fingers, which are capable of tracking motions of the fingers of a hand of an operator, an arm mechanism, which allow spatial motion of the tactile finger base, and a controller, which controls the arm mechanism in accordance with the position and posture of the hand, and controls the tactile fingers in accordance with the movements of the fingers of the operator. The force sense interface further includes finger holders for attaching the tactile fingers on the fingers of the operator in a state where the tactile finger base is distanced from the back of the hand of the operator (H) so as to face the back of the hand.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Gifu UniversityInventors: Haruhisa Kawasaki, Takahiro Endo, Tetuya Mouri, Hisashi Aoyama
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Patent number: 9181557Abstract: The present invention provides uracil-requiring Moorella bacteria obtained by destroying a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase; and transforming-gene-introduced Moorella bacteria obtained by introducing a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase and a transforming-gene to a chromosome of the uracil-requiring Moorella bacteria. The present invention was accomplished by uracil-requiring Moorella bacteria, comprising an MTA-D-pF strain that is obtained by destroying a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase on a chromosome of Moorella bacteria.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignees: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Hiroshima University, Gifu UniversityInventors: Yutaka Nakashimada, Akihisa Kita, Tohru Suzuki, Shinsuke Sakai, Kazue Takaoka
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Publication number: 20150275408Abstract: A braider and a tube body in which braids are arranged on an outer peripheral surface of a mandrel uniformly even if the diameter of the mandrel is uneven. A braider 1 has bobbin carrier conveyance mechanisms 50A and 50B in which bobbin carriers 40A and 40B are conveyed from traveling tracks W1 and W2 to an outside of the traveling tracks W1 and W2 so as to stop winding of braids Y1 and Y2 onto a mandrel 2 and the bobbin carriers 40A and 40B are conveyed from the outside of the traveling tracks W1 and W2 to the traveling tracks W1 and W2 so as to start the winding of the braids Y1 and Y2 onto the mandrel 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicants: Murata Machinery, Ltd., Gifu UniversityInventors: Ryosuke Tahara, Tadashi Uozumi, Akio Ohtani
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Patent number: 9032798Abstract: Provided are a device (10) and a method for measuring the crispness of a food product. An item to be measured (22) comprising a porous food product is broken apart by causing the blade of a knife (14) to penetrate into the item. A vibration detector (18) attached to the knife (14) detects crack vibrations from cracks that form when the item to be measured (22) is broken apart. In a computer (20), the small crack vibrations of a predetermined vibration power or less that are included in the crack vibrations within an individual cracking duration time are extracted from the detected crack vibrations. Crispness is measured on the basis of the number of extracted small crack vibrations counted (number of cracks).Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignees: NISSHIN SEIFUN GROUP INC., GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Michihiro Sakakibara, Takahisa Nishizu
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Publication number: 20150064237Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for treating infarction, such as myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction, with a method that is different from conventional therapeutic methods that use a thrombolytic agent or balloon therapy. An autophagy enhancer such as hsa-miR-145 is used as the active ingredient of the pharmaceutical composition for treating infarction. In particular, an autophagy enhancer such as hsa-miR-145 is used in a liposomal state as an active ingredient of the pharmaceutical composition for treating infarction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicants: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., GIFU UNIVERSITYInventors: Shinya Minatoguchi, Yukihiro Akao