Patents Assigned to Shinshu University
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Publication number: 20190364667Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic circuit board including a ceramic substrate and a metal layer formed on the ceramic substrate, includes a step of forming the metal layer on the ceramic substrate by spraying a metal powder after accelerating the metal powder to a velocity of from 250 to 1050 m/s as well as heating the metal powder to from 10° C. to 270° C. and a step of subjecting the ceramic substrate and the metal layer to a heat treatment in an inert gas atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicants: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Kazuhiko SAKAKI, Atsushi SAKAI, Suzuya YAMADA, Yoshitaka TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190343880Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a therapeutic strategy in the solid tumor area and a means useful therefor to further advance the clinical application of CAR therapy. There is prepared a gene-modified lymphocyte which expresses a chimeric antigen receptor having an EphrinB2 extracellular domain at the antigen recognition site.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicants: Shinshu University, Kyoto Prefectural Public University CorporationInventors: Hajime HOSOI, Tomoko IEHARA, Shigeki YAGYU, Yozo NAKAZAWA
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Patent number: 10465759Abstract: A piston has a piston main body including an aluminum alloy, and a covering layer formed on the outer surface of the piston main body, and the covering layer has a first plating layer including an iron-phosphorous alloy, and a second plating layer including a nickel-phosphorous alloy formed on the first plating layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignees: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD., SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Minoru Okamoto, Yohei Takahashi, Susumu Arai, Miyoka Ueda
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Patent number: 10464025Abstract: The purpose is to produce a molded filter body using graphene having water passage holes with a desired size by an easy process. A method for producing a molded filter body having a layer of graphene 2 as a filter medium, includes the steps of: forming a layer of a support 5 on a surface of graphite 1; forming support water passage holes in the layer of the support 5; peeling the layer of the support 5 from the graphite 1 in a state of attaching the layer of graphene 2 on the surface of the graphite 1 to the layer of the support 5; and holding the layer of graphene 2 by heating at a low temperature for a predetermined time in the air containing oxygen at 160 to 250° C. and forming graphene water passage holes.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignees: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, KOTOBUKI TSUSHOU CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Kaneko, Toshio Takagi, Katsuyuki Murata
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Publication number: 20190328248Abstract: An intracranial pressure estimating method includes: an acquisition step (S10) of acquiring time-series data on external ear canal pressure pulse waves of a subject; an analysis step (S12) of analyzing external ear canal pressure pulse wave data obtained by digitalizing the time-series data on the external ear canal pressure pulse waves, to calculate a first formant frequency of the external ear canal pressure pulse wave data; a correction step (S13) of correcting the calculated first formant frequency based on personal information on the subject to calculate a corrected value; and an estimation step (S14) of calculating an estimated value of an intracranial pressure based on the calculated corrected value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicants: ICHIKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Norio KOIKE, Satoshi YASUMOTO, Jun NAKANO, Yukio SAI, Kenji FURIHATA, Tetsuya GOTO, Kazuhiro HONGO
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Publication number: 20190321788Abstract: A method of manufacturing a reverse osmosis composite membrane, including: (i) bringing a mixed liquid containing carbon nanotubes, water, and an amine component into contact with a porous support, the mixed liquid being produced through a step of pressurizing and compressing an aqueous solution containing the carbon nanotubes while flowing the aqueous solution, followed by releasing or reducing a pressure to return a volume of the aqueous solution to an original volume to mix the carbon nanotubes; and then (ii) subjecting the amine component in the mixed liquid adhering to the porous support to a crosslinking reaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Morinobu ENDO, Toru NOGUCHI, Shigeki INUKAI
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Publication number: 20190310238Abstract: A soil analyzing device includes: a sensor having an excitation coil and a detection coil; a measurement unit that generates an excitation signal to be input to the excitation coil, and processes a detection signal output from the detection coil; a storage unit that stores data concerning the correlation between a quantitative value of the soil fertility characteristics including CEC of two or more types of the soil having different components and an estimated value of the soil fertility characteristics including CEC found from the processed detection signal measured by the sensor and the measurement unit; and an estimation unit that estimates the soil fertility characteristics based on the detection signal generated by allowing the sensor to apply the alternating magnetic field to the soil to be analyzed and processed by the measurement unit, and by using the data stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicants: Komatsu Seiki Kosakusho Co., Ltd., National University Corporation Shinshu UniversityInventors: Takafumi Komatsu, Tsunaki Misawa, Naoto Inoue, Eishi Momosaki, Koji Orii
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Patent number: 10426386Abstract: A non-invasive blood glucose level measurement device (1) is provided with a pulse waveform measurement unit (2) having FBG sensors (4) for measuring an acceleration pulse wave of a test subject; and a data-processing unit (3) for calculating the blood glucose level of the test subject at the point in time of measurement of the acceleration pulse wave, from waveform information of the measured acceleration pulse wave, on the basis of a predetermined correlation. The correlation is a calibration curve constructed by carrying out a PLS regression analysis, using the blood glucose level measured by a non-invasive blood glucose method as the objective variable, and a simultaneously-measured acceleration pulse wave as the explanatory variable. A non-invasive blood glucose level measurement device capable of measuring a blood glucose level at about the same measurement accuracy as an invasive blood glucose measurement device can be achieved thereby.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki Ishizawa, Shouhei Koyama
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Patent number: 10376160Abstract: A blood pressure measurement method uses a pulse wave measurement unit (20) for measuring the pulse wave of a subject using an FBG sensor (10), and a blood pressure value calculation unit (30) for calculating a blood pressure value from waveform date of the measured pulse wave. The blood pressure calculation unit (30) uses a calibration model representing the correlation between measured waveform date of a previously measured pulse wave, and a measured blood pressure value measured by an automatic blood pressure gauge at each measurement point in time of the measured waveform date to estimate the blood pressure value of the subject from the measured waveform date of the pulse wave. It is possible to realize an easy-to-use blood pressure measurement method capable of estimating the blood pressure value with accuracy required for the automatic blood pressure gauge and continuously measuring the blood pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki Ishizawa, Shouhei Koyama
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Patent number: 10376847Abstract: A reverse osmosis composite membrane includes: a porous support; and a reverse osmosis membrane arranged on the porous support and containing a crosslinked polyamide and carbon nanotubes. The reverse osmosis membrane contains the carbon nanotubes that are disentangled in the crosslinked polyamide. A distribution of closest distances between the carbon nanotubes in the reverse osmosis membrane has a peak that is within a range of a thickness of the reverse osmosis membrane, and a half width of the peak is equal to or less than the thickness of the reverse osmosis membrane.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Morinobu Endo, Toru Noguchi, Shigeki Inukai
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Patent number: 10344093Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide signal sequence information capable of secreting an antibody to the outside of cells in generation of the antibody by microorganisms of genus Bifidobacterium, and an antibody expression vector capable of secreting an antibody to the outside of cells by utilizing the signal sequence information. As a means for achieving the aforementioned object, there is prepared Bifidobacterium longum, which is transformed with a vector having inserted thereinto a DNA insert comprising the 5?-terminus of an antibody gene linked to the 3?-terminus of a DNA encoding a signal peptide-linker conjugate having a linker linked to the C-terminus of a signal peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Shinshu UniversityInventors: Shun-ichiro Taniguchi, Yasuto Akiyama, Takeshi Masaki, Hitomi Shimizu
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Patent number: 10343906Abstract: Deuterium-depleted water is produced easily and inexpensively. A method for producing deuterium-depleted water by removing heavy water and semi-heavy water from water includes an adsorption step of supplying water vapor to a predetermined adsorbent at pressure at which heavy water and semi-heavy water are adsorbed by the adsorbent and light water is not easily adsorbed, causing the heavy water and semi-heavy water to be adsorbed, and recovering the water vapor not adsorbed by the adsorbent. The method also includes a desorption step of maintaining vapor pressure around the predetermined adsorbent which has adsorbed the water vapor in a range in which light water is desorbed and heavy water or semi-heavy water is not easily desorbed, and recovering the water vapor desorbed from the adsorbent.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignees: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, KOTOBUKI TSUSHOU CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Kaneko, Toshio Takagi, Katsuyuki Murata
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Publication number: 20190202923Abstract: Production of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) expressing cell having excellent target cytotoxicity. Provided is a genetically modified cell comprising, introduced thereinto, a polynucleotide encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) protein having a target binding domain that specifically binds to a human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor, a transmembrane domain and an intracellular signaling domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicants: KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Yozo Nakazawa, Kazuyuki Matsuda, Shigeru Nakano
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Publication number: 20190184554Abstract: A grasping apparatus 1 includes: an image data acquisition unit 16; a robot arm 11; a control unit 12; and a grasping position determination unit 18 configured to determine, using the image data of photographed flexible objects in a folded and stacked state that is acquired by the image data acquisition unit 16, whether or not a part of the flexible objects in that image data is suitable for being grasped. The control unit 12 controls the robot arm 11 so as to deform ends of a top surface of the flexible object at the top of the stacked flexible objects. The grasping position determination unit 18 determines whether or not a part is suitable for being grasped using the image data of the photographed flexible object the ends of the top surface of which have been deformed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicants: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kimitoshi YAMAZAKI, Kazuki SANO, Satonori DEMURA, Wataru NAKAJIMA, Keisuke TAKESHITA
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Publication number: 20190142436Abstract: An embolic coil is formed by being spirally wound by an element wire and is filled into an aneurysm. The embolic coil includes: a first coil portion, in which a large-diameter coil portion wound to have a large diameter D1 and a small-diameter coil portion wound to have a diameter D2 smaller than the large-diameter coil portion are arranged in a plurality of coils and alternately in a longitudinal direction Y of the embolic coil. A second coil portion is wound to be continuous with the first coil portion and to have a surface flatter than the first coil portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicants: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, Mikuro Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi KOYAMA, Takuya KOJIMA, Makoto NATORI, Yusuke SATO
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Publication number: 20190144616Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition according to the present invention contains carbon nanotubes and carbon fibers in amounts of 2.8 to 35 parts by mass and 1 to 60 parts by mass, respectively, relative to 100 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin. In the thermoplastic resin composition, when the content of the carbon nanotubes is 2.8 to 5.3 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin, the content of the carbon fibers is at least 8.3 to 1 part by mass. In the thermoplastic resin composition, when the content of the carbon fibers is 1 to 8.3 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin, the content of the carbon nanotubes is at least 5.3 to 2.8 parts by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicants: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD., SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Keiichi KAWAMOTO, Kenichi NIIHARA, Toru NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 10280530Abstract: To provide a single crystal production apparatus that is capable of prolonging the lifetime of a heater, and capable of reducing the cost. A single crystal production apparatus of the present invention is the single crystal production apparatus which produces a single crystal of a metal oxide in an oxidative atmosphere, containing: a base body; a cylindrical furnace body having heat resistance disposed above the base body; a lid member occluding the furnace body; a heater disposed inside the furnace body; a high frequency coil heating the heater through high frequency induction heating; and a crucible heated with the heater, the heater containing a Pt-based alloy and having a zirconia coating on an overall surface of the heater.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignees: FUJIKOSHI MACHINERY CORP., SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Keigo Hoshikawa, Yasuyuki Fujiwara, Keiichi Kohama, Shinji Nakanishi, Takumi Kobayashi, Etsuko Ohba
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Publication number: 20190071534Abstract: A fiber formed from a resin including a silicone-modified polyurethane resin comprising the reaction products of a polyol (A), a chain extender (B), an active-hydrogen-group-containing organopolysiloxane (C), and a polyisocyanate (D), wherein the active-hydrogen-group-containing organopolysiloxane (C) contains an active-hydrogen-group-containing organopolysiloxane (C-1) having a carbinol group at only one terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicants: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD., SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Hatsuhiko HATTORI, Masaki TANAKA, Hiromasa SATO, Shota IINO, Motoaki UMEZU, Toshihisa TANAKA, Mikihisa KONDO
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Patent number: 10217886Abstract: According to example embodiments, a photoelectric conversion device includes a first electrode including a light-receiving surface, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and facing the first electrode, and an auxiliary layer between the second electrode and an exciton producing layer. The first electrode may be on the second electrode. The exciton producing layer may be between the first electrode and the second electrode. The exciton producing layer may be spaced apart from the second electrode by a distance corresponding to one of a crest and a trough of a standing wave of light to be converted into electricity.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Shinshu UniversityInventors: Kyu Sik Kim, Musubu Ichikawa, Kwang Hee Lee, Kyung Bae Park, Toshiki Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20190019629Abstract: A lithium composite negative electrode which allows a hybrid capacitor to operate at room temperature by reducing interfacial resistance in the electrode, a hybrid capacitor comprising the composite negative electrode, and manufacturing methods thereof. The lithium composite negative electrode is a laminar electrode including a lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte, an alginate gel electrolyte, and lithium-doped carbon. Further, a hybrid capacitor includes a positive electrode including a carbon material and/or a metal oxide, the lithium composite negative electrode, and a neutral aqueous electrolyte filled between the positive electrode and the lithium composite negative electrode. The lithium composite negative electrode is configured as a laminar electrode including the lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte, the alginate gel electrolyte, and the lithium-doped carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: SHINSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Sho MAKINO, Wataru Sugimoto, Shigeyuki Sugimoto