Patents Assigned to The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
  • Patent number: 11926840
    Abstract: 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 o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOKIWA-BIO INC.
    Inventors: Mahito Nakanishi, Minoru Iijima
  • Publication number: 20240076183
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Hajime KAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20240079687
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yusuke Komazaki, Kenji Kanazawa, Taiki Nobeshima, Hirotada Hirama, Yuichi Watanabe, Sei Uemura
  • Patent number: 11921061
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Rikio Soda, Kimihiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11911130
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventor: Toru Yamada
  • Patent number: 11916227
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mikito Mamiya, Junji Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11908671
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hidenori Takahashi, Daiki Asakawa
  • Patent number: 11906476
    Abstract: An object is to provide a joining state detection film, a joining state detection device, and a joining state detection method, capable of detecting a joining state of a joining portion of two members from the outside. [Solution]A film containing a mechanoluminescent substance is formed on a surface, on a side opposite to a joining surface, of at least one member of two members that are joined at joining parts each having the joining surface, and physical stimulation is applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nao Terasaki, Yuki Fujio
  • Patent number: 11906461
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOBO CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Katsumi Tsuji, Keizo Yoneda, Atsushi Sogabe, Atsunori Hiratsuka, Hitoshi Muguruma, Hisanori Iwasa, Takeshi Tanaka, Kouhei Orihara
  • Patent number: 11893161
    Abstract: A gesture recognition apparatus by which a gesture for an interface operation is performed includes an image capturer that captures distance image data, a closest point detector that detects a closest point from the imaging apparatus, a gesture measurer that calculates an input switching border for switching ON and OFF of interface input, a gesture recognizer that determines whether the input is ON or OFF, and an interface controller that performs the interface control associated with the gesture if it is determined that the input has been turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Ikushi Yoda
  • Publication number: 20240035001
    Abstract: A bacteriophage which consists of the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or a nucleotide sequence having 90% or more identity thereto, as its genome, is capable of infecting and lysing a diabetes-inducible bacterium belonging to Fusimonas intestini,containing a cyclic single-stranded DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Keishi KAMEYAMA, Hideyuki TAMAKI, Hiroyuki KUSADA, Yoichi KAMAGATA
  • Publication number: 20240035824
    Abstract: A road vibration coefficient which defines a relation between vibration and a movement velocity of a vehicle during traveling is obtained. An information processing device includes: an acquisition section that acquires a measurement value which has been measured by a sensor provided in a vehicle while the vehicle is traveling on a road surface; a vibration feature quantity calculation section that calculates a vibration feature quantity Pv(t); and a road vibration coefficient calculation section that calculates a road vibration coefficient ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Masakatsu KOUROGI
  • Patent number: 11883789
    Abstract: A microwave heating method using a microwave, including: controlling a frequency of the microwave, to form a single-mode standing wave; disposing an object to be heated in a magnetic field region where a strength of a magnetic field formed by the single-mode standing wave is uniform and maximum; and heating the object to be heated by magnetic heat generation by magnetic loss caused by an action of the magnetic field of the magnetic field region, and/or induction heating by an induced current generated in the object to be heated due to the magnetic field of the magnetic field region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuichi Watanabe, Sei Uemura, Masateru Nishioka, Masato Miyakawa, Takashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240016068
    Abstract: A superconducting quantum circuit includes: a first resonator having a superconducting quantum interference device and a capacitor that forms a closed loop together with the superconducting quantum interference device; and a control line being connected to a first control port and magnetically coupled to the superconducting quantum interference device, wherein the control line includes at least a first line having a characteristic impedance that indicates a first impedance value, and a second line being provided closer to a portion magnetically coupled to the superconducting quantum interference device than the first line and having a characteristic impedance that indicates a second impedance value being different from the first impedance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohei KAWAKAMI, Yoshiro URADE, Yoshihito HASHIMOTO, Tsuyoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240012026
    Abstract: A determination method according to the present application includes: (A) a step for measuring, at a plurality of frequencies, an S-parameter at the current probe location or in the current coaxial connector or waveguide connection state; (B) a step for calculating a coefficient matrix for fitting a prescribed function matrix to the measured S-parameter frequency properties; (C) a step for calculating a first local outlier factor on the basis of the calculated coefficient matrix; and (D) a determination step for determining, on the basis of the relationship between a threshold and the calculated first local outlier factor, whether a first state in which the probe is contacting the prescribed target, or a second state in which there is a connection failure between the coaxial connector or the waveguide and the prescribed target exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryo Sakamaki, Masahiro Horibe
  • Publication number: 20230417581
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle control device for controlling an industrial vehicle includes: a first signal acquisition unit that acquires a first signal; a second signal acquisition unit that acquires a second signal; a data processing unit that performs data processing based on time-series data of the first signal and the second signal; and a state estimation unit that estimates a state of the industrial vehicle by distinguishing results of the data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mitsuru KAWAMOTO, Hironobu OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230405554
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a granulation adsorbent having high strength and in particular stability in water that ensures certain throughputs at low costs. The granulated adsorbent of the invention comprises a metal-cyano complex as an effective component, a flocculation precipitant for flocculation precipitation of the metal-cyano complex from slurry containing the metal-cyano complex, a binder, and a crosslinking agent. The granulated adsorbent is produced by a step of adding the flocculation precipitant to the metal-cyano complex slurry and then dehydrating the metal-cyano complex slurry to prepare a metal-cyano complex dehydrated cake, a step of heat drying the metal-cyano complex dehydrated cake to prepare a metal-cyano complex dried block, a step of pulverizing the metal-cyano complex dried block into metal-cyano complex powder, and a step of preparing a mixture containing the metal-cyano complex powder, binder and crosslinking agent, and then granulating using the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, FUSO Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru KAWAMOTO, Akira TAKAHASHI, Kimitaka MINAMI, Hisashi TANAKA, Toshio YAMADA, Hiroaki MIKASA, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Takashi SUZAKI
  • Patent number: 11841689
    Abstract: A policy creation unit creates a plurality of policies each including a predetermined number of rules in which a condition for determining a state of an object is combined with an action in the state. An action determination unit determines, for each of the plurality of created policies, an action to be performed while a state of the object is changed from a first state to a second state in accordance with the policy. A policy evaluation unit determines, in accordance with a difference between a state between the first state and the second state and a desired state, the quality of the determined action and determines, for each of the plurality of policies, the quality of the policy based on the determined quality of the action. A policy selection unit selects the policy that is determined to have a high quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yukiko Takahashi, Takuya Hiraoka, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
  • Publication number: 20230393585
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes processing circuitry and a memory. The memory stores map data and association data. The map data defines a map. The map receives, as input data, manipulation value data and the image data of the vehicle, thereby outputting, as output data, a state ID corresponding to an anomaly state related to the vehicle. The association data associates an anomaly state related to the vehicle with the state ID. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire the manipulation value data, acquire the image data from a camera mounted in the vehicle, input, as the input data, the manipulation value data and the image data, to the map, thereby acquiring, as the output data, the state ID from the map, and identify the anomaly state related to the vehicle based on the state ID acquired from the map and the association data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Shinichi MAE, Yukikazu KOIDE, Hironobu OKAMOTO, Ryusuke SAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11834667
    Abstract: 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 o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOKIWA-BIO INC.
    Inventors: Mahito Nakanishi, Minoru Iijima