Patents Assigned to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
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Publication number: 20240140998Abstract: Provided is a method for artificially and efficiently inducing ectopic embryogenesis without fertilization in a seed plant. The present method includes introducing and expressing, in a seed plant, nucleic acid that includes a base sequence that codes a protein having an embryogenesis induction function.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: MASARU TAKAGI, MIHO IKEDA, NOBUTAKA MITSUDA, HIRONORI TAKASAKI
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Patent number: 11968902Abstract: There are provided a piezoelectric body of ytterbium-doped aluminum nitride, having a greater piezoelectric coefficient d33 or g33 than those not doped with ytterbium, and a MEMS device using the piezoelectric body. The piezoelectric body is represented by a chemical formula Al1-xYbxN where a value of x is more than 0 and less than 0.37 and having a lattice constant ratio c/a in a range of 1.53 or more and less than 1.6. The piezoelectric body with such a configuration has a greater piezoelectric coefficient d33 or g33 than those not doped with ytterbium.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masato Uehara, Hiroshi Yamada, Morito Akiyama, Sri Ayu Anggraini, Kenji Hirata
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Patent number: 11963794Abstract: The problem is to provide a probe holder for fixing, using a simple configuration, a plurality of probes in a state in which the positional relationships of the probes are defined. To solve the problem, provided is a probe holder for holding probes for emitting or detecting light and attaching the probes to the head of a subject, the probe holder including: a plurality of basic units each holding three of the probes with a single plate; and a plurality of couplers each linking a respective one of the three of the probes and adjacent probes to form a plurality of adjacent probes that are linked at a point equidistant from the plurality of adjacent probes, each probe in the plurality of adjacent probes being included in a different one of the plurality of basic units.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventor: Toru Yamada
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Publication number: 20240127982Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a converting portion having a plurality of electrical conductors to be arranged in mutual separation and a medium arranged so as to mutually connect the plurality of electrical conductors, wherein the converting portion is the information processing apparatus to convert an input signal to an output signal. The medium includes the electrolyte and is configured to be capable of controlling an electrical conductivity of an electrically conductive path mutually electrically connecting the plurality of electrical conductors, and the medium is selected such that the electrical conductivity of the electrically conductive path changes over time with the input signal not being present.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION, TOYOTA PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOTTORI UNIVERSITY, NAGASE & CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki AKINAGA, Hisashi SHIMA, Yasuhisa NAITOH, Hiroshi SATOU, Dan SATOU, Takuma MATSUO, Kentaro KINOSHITA, Toshiyuki ITOH, Toshiki NOKAMI, Masakazu KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240125518Abstract: Provided are an infrared absorber having extremely low reflectivity in the wavelength band of infrared rays, a method for manufacturing the same, a black-body radiation device, and a radiative cooling device. Provided is an infrared absorber 10 provided with: an absorption layer 11 comprising carbon black and a resin; and, on the absorption layer 11, a surface layer 12 that comprises a resin including essentially no pigment and that has an optical confinement structure 13 in which a plurality of minute projections are formed on the surface thereof, the hemispherical total reflectivity of the infrared absorber 10 in infrared wavelengths of 5-15 ?m being 0.2% or less. Further provided are a method for manufacturing the infrared absorber, a black-body radiation device, and a radiative cooling device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kuniaki Amemiya, Yuhei Shimizu
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Publication number: 20240124859Abstract: A method for producing a protein encoded by a target gene, comprising the step of expressing the target gene in a bacterium of the genus Burkholderia, wherein the bacterium lacks one or more genes selected from the group consisting of BSFP_068740, BSFP_068730, and BSFP_068720, or has inhibited expression of the genes or proteins encoded by the genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ASAHI KASEI PHARMA CORPORATIONInventors: Keitaro YOSHIDA, Yoshiaki YASUTAKE, Tomohiro TAMURA, Kenji KONISHI, Shin-ichi SAKASEGAWA, Shuji MURAMATSU
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Patent number: 11962018Abstract: An electrochemical oxygen reduction catalyst comprising platinum-containing nanoparticles and at least one member selected from the group consisting of a melamine compound, a thiocyanuric acid compound, and a polymer containing the melamine compound or the thiocyanuric acid compound as a monomer is an electrochemical oxygen reduction catalyst having a high oxygen reduction activity (small overvoltage).Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventor: Masafumi Asahi
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Patent number: 11961971Abstract: Provided is a production method for an all-solid-state battery having a solid electrolyte layer between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, the production method including: coating or impregnating the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer with a solid electrolyte solution in which a boron hydride compound serving as the solid electrolyte has been dissolved in a solvent; and removing the solvent from the coated or impregnated solid electrolyte solution and causing the solid electrolyte to precipitate on the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Genki Nogami, Masahiro Shimada, Tomohiro Ito, Aki Katori, Keita Noguchi, Naoto Yamashita, Takashi Mukai, Masahiro Yanagida
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Publication number: 20240104768Abstract: An article detection device includes: an image acquiring unit acquiring a surroundings image; a first information image preparing unit preparing a first information image by converting information on a load/unloading target portion of the article to an easily recognizable state based on the surroundings image; a first calculation unit calculating at least one of a position and a posture of the load/unloading target portion; a second information image preparing unit preparing a second information image by converting information on a pitch angle detection portion of the article to an easily recognizable state; and a second calculation unit configured extracting at least two edge candidates for the article extending in a specific direction and included in the second information image based on a calculation result from the first calculation unit and calculating a three-dimensional direction vector indicating a pitch angle of the article from the edge candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Nobuyuki KITA, Takuro Kato, Daisuke Okabe, Eiichi Yoshida, Yukikazu Koide, Norihiko Kato, Naoya Yokomachi, Tatsuya Komuro
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Publication number: 20240098866Abstract: A microwave plasma treatment device includes a resonator including a container; a single microwave oscillation source that outputs a reference microwave; a waveguide that connects the microwave oscillation source and the resonator to each other; and a phase control mechanism that generates a modified microwave having a phase different from a phase of the reference microwave by controlling the phase of the reference microwave. The resonator includes one or more first-type introducing portions for introducing the reference microwave into the resonator and one or more second-type introducing portions for introducing the modified microwave into the resonator, and the microwave plasma treatment device is configured such that at least one of a position, a size, and a shape of a plasma ball generated in the container is changed by superimposing the modified microwave on the reference microwave in the resonator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hideaki YAMADA, Akiyoshi CHAYAHARA, Yoshiaki MOKUNO
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Publication number: 20240085400Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for performing a test for prostate cancer. This method is for testing the possibility of having prostate cancer, the method comprising (1) measuring the amount or concentration of a biomarker in a body fluid sample collected from a subject, the biomarker being at least one member selected from the group consisting of dimethyl glutarate, 2,6-xylidine, 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropiophenone, 2,6-di(propan-2-yl) phenol, dimethyl succinate, acetophenone, 2-phenyl-2-propanol, and 3,5,5-trimetyl-2-cyclohexenone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AINO UNIVERSITYInventors: Atsufumi OZOE, Kentaro KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiko TAKAHASHI, Kohei MATSUNAGA, Takaaki SATO, Yoichi MIZUTANI
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Patent number: 11926840Abstract: The present invention enables simultaneous and stable expression of a plurality of foreign genes by using a stealthy RNA gene expression system that is a complex that does not activate the innate immune mechanism and is formed from an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, a single-strand RNA binding protein, and negative-sense single-strand RNAs including the following (1) to (8): (1) a target RNA sequence that codes for any protein or functional RNA; (2) an RNA sequence forming a noncoding region and derived from mRNA expressed in animal cells; (3) a transcription initiation signal sequence recognized by the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase; (4) a transcription termination signal sequence recognized by the polymerase; (5) an RNA sequence containing a replication origin recognized by the polymerase; (6) an RNA sequence that codes for the polymerase and of which codons are optimized for the species from which an introduction target cell is derived; (7) an RNA sequence that codes for a protein for regulating the activity oType: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOKIWA-BIO INC.Inventors: Mahito Nakanishi, Minoru Iijima
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Patent number: 11930584Abstract: A plasma actuator includes: a dielectric layer; a first electrode provided on the obverse surface of the dielectric layer; a second electrode provided, on the reverse-surface side of the dielectric layer, in one direction from the first electrode; a floating conductor pair that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and that has an obverse-surface conductor provided on the obverse surface of the dielectric layer and a reverse-surface conductor provided on the reverse-surface side of the dielectric layer, the obverse-surface conductor and the reverse-surface conductor being electrically connected to each other, electrically insulated from the first electrode and the second electrode, and positioned in the order of the reverse-surface conductor and the obverse-surface conductor in the one direction from the first electrode in plan view; and a power source connected to the first electrode and the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventor: Takehiko Segawa
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Publication number: 20240076183Abstract: Provided are a method by which hydrogen can be continuously and efficiently produced through a dehydrogenation reaction of a formic acid solution even at a low concentration and/or low grade, and a system therefor. This method involves a reaction step for, while supplying formic acid, catalytically degrading the formic acid into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to thereby continuously produce hydrogen. This method is characterized by involving an extraction step for extracting formic acid from the formic acid solution serving as the starting material with the use of carbon dioxide obtained in the reaction step, and then supplying the formic acid to the reaction step.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Hajime KAWANAMI
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Publication number: 20240079687Abstract: Provided are a power generation method and a power generating element capable of obtaining an electromotive force by utilizing humidity variation in an environment and having excellent operation stability. An aqueous solution of an ionic compound having deliquescence is separated by an ion permeable membrane, electrodes are inserted into the aqueous solution on both sides of the ion permeable membrane, one is blocked from outside air and sealed, and the other is connected to the outside air, and a difference in ion concentration derived from the ionic compound in the aqueous solution is generated across the ion permeable membrane due to a change in humidity in the outside air to generate an electromotive force between the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yusuke Komazaki, Kenji Kanazawa, Taiki Nobeshima, Hirotada Hirama, Yuichi Watanabe, Sei Uemura
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Patent number: 11921061Abstract: An orientation degree distribution analysis method includes steps of: inputting, to a main storage device, crystal structure information of an object to be measured, information on an intensity ratio of each diffraction peak and a crystal plane corresponding to each diffraction peak by X-ray diffraction measurement, information on a diffraction range and a diffraction sensitivity, and information on an intensity ratio of each diffraction peak of a randomly oriented sample; calculating an angle defined by an orientation plane and a crystal plane corresponding to a diffraction peak of interest from the information stored in the main storage device; calculating an existence ratio and storing the existence ratio in the main storage device; setting an orientation degree distribution function; and calculating an orientation degree distribution from the information of the inputting step and the information of the calculating step.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Rikio Soda, Kimihiro Ozaki
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Patent number: 11911130Abstract: A device including a measuring unit having probes for emitting or detecting light with optical attenuators at points forming a regular triangle, and a control unit to: set transmittances of the attenuators so that an amount of light from the probes becomes a desired value; identify, among three channels, a first channel having a maximum light amount; perform detection in second and third channels between first and second probes of the first channel and a third probe; adjust transmittance of the attenuator of the first or the second probe of the channel having a smaller light amount so that light amounts in the second and the third channels become equal; adjust transmittance of the attenuator of the third probe so that the light amount of the second or the third channel becomes equal to the light amount of the first channel; and perform measurement with all transmittances after adjustments maintained.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventor: Toru Yamada
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Patent number: 11916227Abstract: A multilayer body is provided that is used as the negative electrode of a lithium-ion secondary battery that has a high capacity and is excellent in terms of safety, economic efficiency, and cycle characteristics. The multilayer body has a conductive substrate and a composite layer provided on the conductive substrate. The composite layer includes a plurality of particles of silicon oxide and a conductive substance present in gaps between the plurality of particles of silicon oxide. The average particle diameter of the particles of silicon oxide is 1.0 ?m or less. The multilayer body further has a conductive layer that is provided on the composite layer and contains a conductive substance. The conductive layer has a thickness of 20 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Mikito Mamiya, Junji Akimoto
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Patent number: 11908671Abstract: An ion analyzer includes a reaction chamber into which precursor ions derived from a sample component are introduced, a radical irradiation unit that generates and emits a predetermined type of radicals, a standard substance supply unit that individually supplies kinds of standard substances to the reaction chamber, where activation energy of radical addition reaction is known for each of the kinds of standard substances, and the activation energies are different in magnitude, an ion measurement unit that measures an amount of predetermined product ions generated from precursor ions derived from the standard substance by irradiation with the radicals, and a radical temperature calculation unit that obtains an amount of radicals that caused the radical addition reaction from the amount of the predetermined product ions and obtains a radical temperature based on a relationship between the amount of the radicals obtained for each kind of standard substance and activation energy.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hidenori Takahashi, Daiki Asakawa
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Patent number: 11906461Abstract: Provided is a means for promoting electron transfer between nanocarbon and other substances. An electron transfer accelerator for nanocarbon comprising a compound having an aromatic ring Skelton.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: TOYOBO CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Katsumi Tsuji, Keizo Yoneda, Atsushi Sogabe, Atsunori Hiratsuka, Hitoshi Muguruma, Hisanori Iwasa, Takeshi Tanaka, Kouhei Orihara