Patents Assigned to Hyogo
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Patent number: 9649062Abstract: A swallowing estimation device includes: a sound detection part configured to detect sound of a larynx portion; a respiration detection part configured to detect respiration; and a swallowing estimation part configured to estimate swallowing based on sound information outputted from the sound detection part and based on respiration information outputted from the respiration detection part. The swallowing estimation part obtains a value of a parameter for swallowing estimation with respect to a biological sound generation interval that corresponds to a respiratory cessation interval longer than or equal to 400 msec, and estimates whether swallowing has occurred in the biological sound generation interval based on whether the obtained value of the parameter satisfies a swallowing determination condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignees: HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, EUSENSE MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Oku, Yoshihiko Oke
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Patent number: 9581961Abstract: The present method includes a data acquisition process and tomographic image generation processes. In the data acquisition process, holograms of an object light and so forth are acquired for each light with a wavelength by changing the wavelengths of the illumination light, off-axis spherical wave reference light, and inline spherical wave reference light. In the tomographic image generation process, a reconstructed light wave of the object light and a reconstructed light wave of the illumination light on a reconstruction surface are generated from these holograms. A reconstruction light wave with adjusted phase is added up for each wavelength to generate a tomographic hologram. From this, an accurate and focused tomographic image without distortion can be generated.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: University of HyogoInventor: Kunihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20170053401Abstract: An image acquisition part acquires image data from an image sensor provided in a room. A storage stores information indicating a transition model of a human body posture and test information indicating a test area of the image data in each posture of the transition model. A posture estimator calculates a statistic in the test area of the image data by referring to the information indicating the transition model and the test information, and estimates a current human body posture from a human body posture before one point of time based on the statistic.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicants: OMRON Corporation, UNIVERSITY OF HYOGOInventors: Yutaka HATA, Hiroshi NAKAJIMA, Yusuke TANIGUCHI, Fumiji AITA, Junichi TANAKA, Naoki TSUCHIYA
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Patent number: 9449844Abstract: An etching method for anisotropically etching a Cu film on a substrate surface includes providing a substrate having a Cu film on a surface thereof in a chamber and supplying an organic compound into the chamber while setting the inside of the chamber to a vacuum state and irradiating an oxygen gas cluster ion beam to the Cu film. The etching method further includes oxidizing Cu or the Cu film to a copper oxide by oxygen gas cluster ions in the oxygen gas cluster ion beam and anisotropically etching the Cu film by reacting the copper oxide and the organic compound.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignees: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, HYOGO PREFECTUREInventors: Kenichi Hara, Isao Yamada, Noriaki Toyoda, Takashi Hayakawa
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Patent number: 9440075Abstract: A swallowing assist device for assisting swallowing includes a respiration detection part, an application unit, and a control part. The respiration detection part detects respiration. The application unit is attached to a target section to apply a stimulus for facilitation of swallowing. The control part controls the application unit. The control part controls the application unit to start application of the stimulus to the target section during an expiration period detected according to a detection signal from the respiration detection part, and terminate the application of the stimulus to the target section during the expiration period.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINEInventor: Yoshitaka Oku
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Publication number: 20160228474Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a mesenchymal stromal cell composition, comprising conveniently and aseptically separating high-purity amnion-derived MSCs by performing enzyme treatment only once. According to the present invention, the following are provided: a method for producing a mesenchymal stromal cell composition, comprising: performing enzyme treatment of an amnion with collagenase and thermolysis and/or dispase; and filtering the enzyme-treated amnion through a mesh; a method for producing a cryopreserved mesenchymal stromal cell composition; and a therapeutic agent comprising as an active ingredient the mesenchymal stromal cell composition for a disease selected from graft-versus-host disease, inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, liver cirrhosis, or radiation enteritis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicants: NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi YAMAHARA, Akihiko TAGUCHI, Toshihiro SOMA, Shunsuke OHNISHI, Akira KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20160143575Abstract: A swallowing estimation device includes: a sound detection part configured to detect sound of a larynx portion; a respiration detection part configured to detect respiration; and a swallowing estimation part configured to estimate swallowing based on sound information outputted from the sound detection part and based on respiration information outputted from the respiration detection part. The swallowing estimation part obtains a value of a parameter for swallowing estimation with respect to a biological sound generation interval that corresponds to a respiratory cessation interval longer than or equal to 400 msec, and estimates whether swallowing has occurred in the biological sound generation interval based on whether the obtained value of the parameter satisfies a swallowing determination condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicants: HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, EuSense Medical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka OKU, Yoshihiko OKE
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Patent number: 9334559Abstract: The present invention provides a Cu—In—Ga—Se powder containing Cu, In, Ga and Se in which cracks do not occur during sintering or processing, and a sintered body and sputtering target, each using the same. The present invention relates to a powder containing Cu, In Ga and Se, which contains a Cu—In—Ga—Se compound and/or a Cu—In—Se compound in an amount of 60 mass % or more in total. The powder of the present invention preferably contains an In—Se compound in an amount of 20 mass % or less and/or a Cu—In compound in an amount of 20 mass % or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignees: KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., HYOGO PREFECTUREInventors: Masaya Ehira, Akira Nambu, Shigeo Kashiwai, Masafumi Fukuzumi
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Patent number: 9321598Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a conveyor which estimates weight of a transport object while it is carried without using devices such as a load cell which directly measures weight. The conveyor has a plurality of zones forming a series of carriage ways. An approach-run zone and a weight-measurement zone are arranged adjacently in the conveying direction and are provided with different drive motors. The drive motor of the approach-run zone and the drive motor of the weight-measurement zone are controlled with respectively different predetermined rotation speeds as their target rotation speeds. A rotation speed sensing means obtains the change of rotation speed of the drive motor in the weight-measurement zone when a transport object is conveyed into the weight-measurement zone from the approach-run zone, and a weight sensing means then calculates the weight of the transport object based on the change of the rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignees: Itoh Denki Co., Ltd., University of HyogoInventors: Nozomu Araki, Kazuo Itoh, Kazushi Maeda
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Patent number: 9212169Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a compound capable of inhibiting PCA-1 that can be a target for a novel treatment method of various diseases, and pharmaceutical use of the compound. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Kazutake Tsujikawa, Akito Tanaka, Shunji Aoki, Hiroaki Mizuno, Miyuki Tokoro, Tatsuhiko Furukawa
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Publication number: 20150268628Abstract: The present method includes a data acquisition process and tomographic image generation processes. In the data acquisition process, holograms of an object light and so forth are acquired for each light with a wavelength by changing the wavelengths of the illumination light, off-axis spherical wave reference light, and inline spherical wave reference light. In the tomographic image generation process, a reconstructed light wave of the object light and a reconstructed light wave of the illumination light on a reconstruction surface are generated from these holograms. A reconstruction light wave with adjusted phase is added up for each wavelength to generate a tomographic hologram. From this, an accurate and focused tomographic image without distortion can be generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: University of HyogoInventor: Kunihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20150225179Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a conveyor which estimates weight of a transport object while it is carried without using devices such as a load cell which directly measures weight. The conveyor has a plurality of zones forming a series of carriage ways. An approach-run zone and a weight-measurement zone are arranged adjacently in the conveying direction and are provided with different drive motors. The drive motor of the approach-run zone and the drive motor of the weight-measurement zone are controlled with respectively different predetermined rotation speeds as their target rotation speeds. A rotation speed sensing means obtains the change of rotation speed of the drive motor in the weight-measurement zone when a transport object is conveyed into the weight-measurement zone from the approach-run zone, and a weight sensing means then calculates the weight of the transport object based on the change of the rotation speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicants: ITOH DENKI CO., LTD., UNIVERSITY OF HYOGOInventors: Nozomu Araki, Kazuo Itoh, Kazushi Maeda
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Publication number: 20150165201Abstract: A swallowing assist device for assisting swallowing includes a respiration detection part, an application unit, and a control part. The respiration detection part detects respiration. The application unit is attached to a target section to apply a stimulus for facilitation of swallowing. The control part controls the application unit. The control part controls the application unit to start application of the stimulus to the target section during an expiration period detected according to a detection signal from the respiration detection part, and terminate the application of the stimulus to the target section during the expiration period.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINEInventor: Yoshitaka OKU
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Patent number: 9036900Abstract: This three-dimensional shape measurement method comprises: a projection step for projecting an interference fringe pattern (F) having a single spatial frequency (fi) onto an object surface; a recording step for recording the pattern (F) as a digital hologram; and a measurement step for generating a plurality of reconstructed images having different focal distances from the hologram, and deriving the distance to each point on the object surface by applying a focusing method to the pattern (F) on each of the reconstructed images. The measurement step extracts the component of the single spatial frequency (fi) corresponding to the pattern (F) from each of the reconstructed images by spatial frequency filtering, upon applying the focusing method, and makes it possible to achieve a highly accurate measurement in which the adverse effect of speckles is reduced and the advantage of a free-focus image reconstruction with holography is used effectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: University of HyogoInventor: Kunihiro Sato
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Patent number: 8829133Abstract: To provide an ABA triblock copolymer containing: an A-block having, in a constitutional unit thereof, a monomer represented by the following general formula (1) or a monomer represented by the following general formula (2); and a B-block having, in a constitutional unit thereof, a hydrophilic monomer having a radical polymerizable unsaturated bond, where R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 is a C5-C18 alkylene group; M is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent metal atom; and X1 is —NH— or an oxygen atom in the general formula (1), and where R11 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R12 is a C5-C18 alkylene group; R13 and R14 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group; and X11 is —NH— or an oxygen atom in the general formula (2).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., University of HyogoInventors: Yuuma Usui, Shin-ichi Yusa
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Publication number: 20140113191Abstract: An electrode material for a secondary battery includes crystal primary particles of an electrode active material which releases or absorbs cations of a monovalent or divalent metal when subjected to electrochemical oxidation or reduction and which has a crystal lattice in which the cations can move only in a one-dimensional movable direction during the process of oxidation or reduction. The electrode material also includes an ion-conductive substance and conductive carbon which coexist on the surface of the primary particles, in which the ion-conductive substance has a property which allows two or three-dimensional movement of the cations, and the cations are movable via a layer in which the ion-conductive substance and the conductive carbon coexist.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO, MITSUI ENGINEERING & SHIPBUILDING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Nakamura, Naoki Hatta, Noriyuki Shimomura, Yusuke Yoshida, Hironari Miyauchi
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Patent number: 8697811Abstract: A curable resin composition, which contains, with respect to 100 parts of an epoxy resin, 1 to 70 parts of an epoxy resin curing agent and 1 to 50 parts of an acrylic block copolymer, and the acrylic block copolymer contains (?) at least one polymer block A composed of a structural unit derived from an alkyl methacrylate and at least one polymer block B composed of a structural unit derived from an alkyl acrylate, has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 30,000 to 300,000 and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1.5 or less, and contains 3 to 60 percent by mass of the polymer block A. In addition, a cured resin is formed from the above curable resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignees: Kuraray Co., Ltd., HyogoInventors: Hajime Kishi, Yumi Kunimitsu, Jin Imade, Shinya Oshita, Yoshihiro Morishita, Mitsunori Asada
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Publication number: 20140083976Abstract: A cluster beam generating method that generates a cluster beam includes steps of mixing a gas source material and a liquid source material in a mixer; supplying a cluster beam including clusters originating from the gas source material and clusters originating from the liquid source material that are mixed in the mixer from a nozzle; and adjusting a temperature of the nozzle using a temperature adjusting portion that adjusts a temperature of the nozzle, thereby controlling a ratio of the clusters originating from the gas source material and the clusters originating from the liquid source material in the cluster beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicants: Tokyo Electron Limited, HYOGO PREFECTUREInventors: Noriaki TOYODA, Isao YAMADA, Masaki NARUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20130301909Abstract: This three-dimensional shape measurement method comprises: a projection step for projecting an interference fringe pattern (F) having a single spatial frequency (fi) onto an object surface; a recording step for recording the pattern (F) as a digital hologram; and a measurement step for generating a plurality of reconstructed images having different focal distances from the hologram, and deriving the distance to each point on the object surface by applying a focusing method to the pattern (F) on each of the reconstructed images. The measurement step extracts the component of the single spatial frequency (fi) corresponding to the pattern (F) from each of the reconstructed images by spatial frequency filtering, upon applying the focusing method, and makes it possible to achieve a highly accurate measurement in which the adverse effect of speckles is reduced and the advantage of a free-focus image reconstruction with holography is used effectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: University of HyogoInventor: Kunihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20130284966Abstract: To provide an ABA triblock copolymer containing: an A-block having, in a constitutional unit thereof, a monomer represented by the following general formula (1) or a monomer represented by the following general formula (2); and a B-block having, in a constitutional unit thereof, a hydrophilic monomer having a radical polymerizable unsaturated bond, where R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 is a C5-C18 alkylene group; M is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent metal atom; and X1 is —NH— or an oxygen atom in the general formula (1), and where R11 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R12 is a C5-C18 alkylene group; R13 and R14 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group; and X11 is —NH— or an oxygen atom in the general formula (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO, RICOH COMPANY. LTD.Inventors: Yuuma Usui, Shin-ichi Yusa