Patents Assigned to National University Corporation
  • Patent number: 11851529
    Abstract: A triazine ring-containing polymer including a structural unit represented by General Formula 1: *-[A-B-]-*??General Formula 1 wherein, in General Formula 1, A is represented by General Formula 2, B is represented by General Formula 3, and * indicates a point linked to another group or structural unit: wherein, in General Formula 2 and General Formula 3, L, R1 to R6, m1, n1, and * are the same as defined in the detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION IWATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Oishi, Eigo Miyazaki, Tomoyuki Kikuchi, Yukika Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230404451
    Abstract: A sightline-position determination device includes: a sightline-position input unit to which a position of a sightline of a user is inputted; a determination region setting unit which sets a determination region; a determination unit which determines whether or not the position of the sightline inputted from the sightline-position input unit falls within the determination region; and an output unit which outputs feedback to the user when the determination unit has determined that the position of the sightline falls within the determination region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY, Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya NAKAGUCHI, Eiji SHIMIZU, Yoshiyuki HIRANO, Chihiro SUTOH, Naomi SHIRAIWA, Yuki IKEDA, Shunsuke SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230407046
    Abstract: To provide a metal-containing additive and a crosslinkable polymer composition that each contain a ?-diketonato metal complex and have excellent storage stability, and provide a crosslinked polymer material, a metal member, and a wire harness that are each produced using such a crosslinkable polymer composition. The metal-containing additive includes the ?-diketonato metal complex and a primary alkyl alcohol having 4 to 30 carbon atoms. The crosslinkable polymer composition includes the metal-containing additive and an organic polymer, where the organic polymer has a substituent capable of forming ionic bonds with metal ions released by heat from the metal-containing additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki OSHIUMI, Takehiro HOSOKAWA, Makoto MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230408520
    Abstract: A method for detecting anti-deoxyhypusine synthase autoantibody in a subject, wherein the method includes detecting, in a blood, serum, or plasma sample from a test subject with digestive system cancer, the amount of anti-deoxyhypusine synthase autoantibody, wherein the autoantibody is able to bind to a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: FUJIKURA KASEI CO., LTD, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Rika NAKAMURA, Hideyuki Kuroda, Go Tomiyoshi, Takaki Hiwasa, Masaki Takiguchi, Naokatsu Saeki
  • Publication number: 20230405725
    Abstract: A laser processing method includes: a forming step of forming a plurality of modified spots along an imaginary plane inside a work piece by irradiating an inside of the work piece with laser light from a surface. The work piece includes a first region and second region when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the surface. In the forming step, a plurality of modified spot rows formed of the plurality of modified spots arranged along a boundary between the first region and the second region are formed in the second region, the plurality of modified spot rows being arranged along a direction intersecting an arrangement direction of the plurality of modified spots, and a crack extending from the second region to the first region is formed by forming the plurality of modified spot rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System
    Inventors: Daisuke KAWAGUCHI, Atsushi TANAKA, Toshiki YUI, Tomomi ARATANI
  • Publication number: 20230408400
    Abstract: A gas measuring device includes a gas chamber into which a sample gas containing a target gas is introduced, a gas detection unit configured to detect the target gas contained in the sample gas introduced into the gas chamber, an irradiation unit configured to apply polarized light to the sample gas introduced into the gas chamber using a polarizer, an optical rotation measurement unit configured to measure optical rotation between the polarized light applied from the irradiation unit to the sample gas and the polarized light that has been transmitted through the sample gas using an analyzer, and an output unit configured to output information on the target gas detected by the gas detection unit and information on the optical rotation of the polarized light detected by the optical rotation measurement unit in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., National University Corporation TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Manase MIZUTANI, Toshihiko NODA, Kazuaki SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20230407268
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a reversibly immortalized cell which can allow a cell into which an immortalizing gene is introduced to proliferate over a long period without damaging the chromosome of the cell, and is capable of removing the immortalizing gene, and to provide a method for obtaining a large amount of a reversibly immortalized cell that can be cloned and has stable quality. The present invention provides a method for producing a reversibly immortalized cell, comprising the steps of: introducing a chromosomally non-integrated RNA virus vector loaded with one or two or more immortalizing gene(s), selected from the group consisting of Bmi-1 gene, TERT gene, and SV40T gene, into a mammalian cell so that the immortalizing gene is expressed in the cell; and culturing the obtained cell for proliferation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: Trans Chromosomics, Inc., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOTTORI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mitsuo OSHIMURA, Toshiaki TABATA, Yasuhiro KAZUKI, Narumi UNO
  • Publication number: 20230408732
    Abstract: An optical product comprising a base member and an optical multilayer film formed directly on or indirectly above a film formation surface of the base member. The optical multilayer film reflects light on a short wavelength side and suppresses reflection of light on a longer wavelength side than the light on the short wavelength side, and has a first layer to an eighth layer counted from the base member side, the first layer is a first Al layer, the second layer is a first low-refractive-index layer, the third layer is a first high-refractive-index layer, the fourth layer is a second low-refractive-index layer, the fifth layer is a second Al layer, the sixth layer is a third low-refractive-index layer, the seventh layer is a second high-refractive-index layer, and the eighth layer is a fourth low-refractive-index layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: TOKAI OPTICAL CO. LTD., National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System
    Inventors: Akira OKUMURA, Keiji Nishimoto, Chiaki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230408478
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved technology for a device that identifies and diagnoses an environmental stress state of plants. A control circuit 20b controls a measurement light source 12 such that a second measurement light ML2 has higher power than a first measurement light ML1 and the first measurement light ML1 and the second measurement light ML2 become opposite-phase rectangular waves, and further controls the measurement light source 12 such that the first measurement light ML1 and the second measurement light ML2 are output in synchronization to form the first measurement light ML1 and the second measurement light ML2 into a quasi-single composite rectangular wave measurement light ML3 of 5 kHz to 30 kHz. A transmitted light detector 18 detects the composite rectangular wave measurement light ML3 transmitted through a plant sample S as a composite rectangular wave transmitted light TL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: National University Corporation Kobe University, Bunkoukeiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikahiro MIYAKE, Takayuki SOHTOME
  • Patent number: 11846006
    Abstract: A heat-resistant alloy contains at least one element selected from a group consisting of Al, Ti, Ni, Cr, and Mo, O, and Y, and a ratio of a content of Y in terms of mass to a content of O in terms of mass is 0.5 or greater and 100 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: TOKYO METROPOLITAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koji Kakehi, Shigenari Hayashi, Yen-Ling Kuo
  • Patent number: 11845953
    Abstract: Provided is a method for altering a targeted site of a DNA in a cell, including a step of stimulating the cell with a factor inducing a DNA modifying enzyme endogenous to the cell, and bringing a complex of a nucleic acid sequence-recognizing module specifically binding to a target nucleotide sequence in a given DNA and a DNA modifying enzyme-binding module bonded to each other into contact with the DNA to convert one or more nucleotides in the targeted site to other one or more nucleotides or delete one or more nucleotides, or insert one or more nucleotides into the targeted site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keiji Nishida, Akihiko Kondo, Takayuki Arazoe, Shin Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20230398257
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a bioabsorbable and stretchable fibrous medical material that enables formation of ligation which provides a small and hard-to-unravel knot even with a weak force. The present invention provides a fibrous medical material which is a fibrous material composed of a molded article provided by spinning and drawing a bioabsorbable aliphatic polymer, wherein an elongation at break is 75% or greater, an intermediate elastic modulus in tension at a strain ranging from 0.25% and 10% is lower than an initial elastic modulus in tension at a strain ranging from 0.05% to 0.25%, the intermediate elastic modulus in tension is 400 MPa or less, and a residual strain rate after 100% deformation is 70% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System
    Inventors: Akira MAEHARA, Hitoshi HIRATA, Atsuhiko MURAYAMA, Yasunobu NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230399525
    Abstract: A crosslinkable polymer composition and a crosslinked polymer material including a metal member and a wiring harness. The crosslinkable polymer composition contains component A from which metal ion is released by heat, component B containing an organic polymer having a substituent capable of ionic bonding with the metal ion released from component A, and component C containing one or more acidic phosphate ester with a carbon number of 4 to 30. Assuming that the metal ion released from component A has a valence of +y and a content of the metal ion is m mol, the substituent contained in component B has a valence of ?z and a content of the substituent is n mol, the acidic phosphate constituting component C has a valence of ?x and a content of the acidic phosphate esters is 1 mol g?0.1 holds for g=(m·y?l·x)/(n·z).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki OSHIUMI, Takehiro HOSOKAWA, Makoto MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230399518
    Abstract: A method for producing a paint color material developing a color by a pigmentary color and a structural color, the method including: obtaining a mixed liquid containing a color material particles by alternately adding and mixing a liquid obtained by suspending core particles each having a uniform particle diameter in a solution containing Fe and a liquid containing tannic acid into a liquid containing water as a main component, the color material particles each comprising a core portion formed by the core particle and a pigmentary layer that is formed around the core portion and contains an iron tannate, and each having a particle diameter corresponding to a wavelength of the structural color; and washing the color material particles, in which a pH of the mixed liquid is adjusted to 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM
    Inventors: Toshiyuki SAITO, Shotaro YAMAGUCHI, Yukikazu TAKEOKA, Miki SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230402942
    Abstract: A power conversion device comprises: power conversion circuitry for converting DC power into AC power and supplying it into a load according to a switching state quantity defined by combinations among switching parameters of switching devices; a voltage output calculation device for calculating a voltage output value on the power conversion circuitry, based on the switching state quantity; an integration value calculation device for acquiring a voltage reference integration value and a voltage output integration value by integrating a voltage reference value and the calculated voltage output value; a switching update-determination unit for outputting an update signal of the switching state quantity, based on the voltage reference integration value, its allowance value, and the voltage output integration value; and a switching determination table for determining a switching state quantity of the switching devices, based on the voltage reference integration value, the voltage output integration value and the up
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, National University Corporation Nagaoka University of Technology
    Inventors: Tenjiro HIWATARI, Sota SANO, Akira SATAKE, Kiyoshi OHISHI, Yuki YOKOKURA, Yuto KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230399655
    Abstract: A promoter on an AAV vector was changed to an Iba1 promoter, and a configuration that combined a miR-9 complementary sequence (miR-9T) and a miR-129 complementary sequence (miR-129T) was adopted. An exogenous gene was clarified to be efficiently and specifically expressed in microglia by using this vector, resulting in that an AAV vector that could efficiently and specifically express an exogenous gene in microglia of the central nervous system, was found.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hirokazu HIRAI, Yukihiro OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230392308
    Abstract: A production device for melt-blown non-woven fabric, with which a high molecular weight polymer can be reduced in molecular weight by applying a shear force to the high molecular weight polymer without adding an additive such as a peroxide that promotes thermal decomposition reaction, and a low molecular weight polymer can be efficiently produced. The low molecular weight polymer and the melt-blown non-woven fabric are produced using a continuous high shearing device that applies a shear force to the high molecular weight polymer serving as a raw material by rotation of a screw body 37 to reduce the molecular weight of the high molecular weight polymer so as to obtain a low molecular weight polymer, and cools the low molecular weight polymer by passing the low molecular weight polymer through a passage 88 arranged in the axial direction inside the screw body 37.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicants: SHIBAURA MACHINE CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuya SASAI, Takafumi SAMESHIMA, Yoshio IIZUKA, Kaho OSADA, Kentaro TAKI
  • Patent number: 11834695
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for simply diagnosing the progress of disease condition of a Parkinson's disease patient. Provided are a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the number of one or more intestinal bacteria selected from the group consisting of Bifidobacterium, Bacteroides fragilis group, Lactobacillus brevis, and Lactobacillus plantarum subgroup and/or the total number of intestinal bacteria as a marker, and a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the blood LPS level and/or the blood LBP level of a Parkinson's disease patient as an indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Takashi Asahara, Koji Nomoto, Masaaki Hirayama, Kinji Ohno
  • Patent number: 11832842
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coronary artery bypass surgery treatment tool or the like including a flexible tube, a suction cup in which an opening portion is formed to communicate with the flexible tube and which is provided at a distal end of the flexible tube, a joint portion which has a suction path, a male connector which is provided in one of a proximal end of the flexible tube and a distal end of the suction path of the joint portion, and a female connector which is provided in the other thereof and is detachably connected to the male connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hirokuni Arai, Toshifumi Sakate, Akira Kawamata, Shinetsu Harata
  • Patent number: 11835516
    Abstract: Provided are a determination method and a kit both for determining the possibility of the occurrence of deterioration of a renal function in the future. A method according to one aspect of the present invention involves a step of determining the level of Gal?1-3GalNAc and/or Sia?2-6Gal/GalNAc in a sample collected from a subject. A kit according to one aspect of the present invention includes a lectin capable of binding to Gal?1-3GalNAc and/or Sia?2-6Gal/GalNAc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: National University Corporation Okayama University, Glycotechnica Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Wada, Koki Mise, Masao Yamada