Patents Assigned to Yamanashi
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Patent number: 11519797Abstract: A gripping force measurement device includes a body portion and a plurality of pressure sensors. The plurality of pressure sensors includes at least one first sensor and two or more second sensors including pressure-sensitive surfaces oriented in the same direction. A pressure-sensitive surface of the first sensor and the pressure-sensitive surfaces of the two or more second sensors are disposed such that, when a subject pressurizes the pressure-sensitive surface of the first sensor and the pressure-sensitive surfaces of the two or more second sensors, the gripping force measurement device is grippable by the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignees: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd., University of YamanashiInventors: Kazuki Yamada, Yasuo Kondo, Lu Zhao, Hidetsugu Terada, Koji Makino, Takaiki Kanagawa
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Publication number: 20220372448Abstract: A cell line of Accession No. NITE P-03458. A producing method of a cell line includes: a transfection step of transfecting a vector into a cell, where the vector includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding a nonstructural protein of a coronavirus, a reporter protein including a drug-resistant protein, and a structural protein of the coronavirus; and a selection step of performing selection on the cell obtained in the transfection step using a drug.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: University of YamanashiInventors: Kohji MORIISHI, Tomohisa TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220372387Abstract: Provided is a lubricant composition including a bicyclic liquid crystal of formula (1), and a tricyclic liquid crystal compound of formula (2), and having a mixing mass ratio of the bicyclic liquid crystal compound and tricyclic liquid crystal compound of 95:5 to 15:85. The composition is suitable for use in a clean environment, under a high vacuum, under high temperature and a bearing. R1 and R2 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR R11 and R21 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OR. R12, R13, R22 and R23 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or —OR. R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 1?n?20 and R? is methyl or ethyl.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD., Ushio Chemix CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Haramoto, Shigemasa Itabashi, Ayana Takemura, Kazuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Otsuki
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Patent number: 11502309Abstract: The carrier metal catalyst achieves suppression of internal resistance of a fuel cell. A carrier metal catalyst includes: a carrier powder; and metal fine particles supported on the carrier powder; wherein: the carrier powder is an aggregates of carrier fine particles; the carrier fine particles includes a chained portion structured by a plurality of crystallites being fusion bonded to form a chain; the carrier fine particles include titanium oxide; the carrier fine particles are doped with an element having a valence different from a valence of titanium; the titanium oxide of the carrier powder has an anatase phase/rutile phase ratio of 0.2 or lower; the metal fine particles have a mean particle size of 3 to 10 nm; the metal fine particles include platinum; and a cell resistance measured under standard conditions of a fuel cell prepared using the carrier metal catalyst is 0.090 ?·cm2 or lower.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventors: Katsuyoshi Kakinuma, Makoto Uchida, Akihiro Iiyama
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Patent number: 11447711Abstract: This is to provide an electrically-conductive lubricant having characteristics in combination that it shows liquid crystallinity in a wide temperature range, retains low dynamic friction coefficient, has electrical-conductivity, has almost no loss due to evaporation, decomposition and the like, has a clean appearance, and emits fluorescence, and can find deterioration or leakage immediately. This electrically-conductive lubricant comprises at least one kind of the compound (1) represented by the formula (1): 12:8 wherein, R11 and R21 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or a group —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR (R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 4?n?12, and R? is methyl or ethyl), and R12, R13, R22 and R23 are the same or different from each other, and each is a group —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR (R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 4?n?12, and R? is methyl or ethyl)].Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD., Ushio Chemix CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Haramoto, Shigemasa Itabashi, Ayana Takemura, Kazuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Otsuki
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Publication number: 20220289958Abstract: Disclosed is an elastomer composition for an actuator that can be operated by changing only the amount of heat energy. The elastomer composition has an entropy elastic modulus of 3.0 kPa/K or more and comprises a polymer comprising at least a structural unit derived from ethylene. The polymer can be a synthetic rubber.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicants: ENEOS Corporation, UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventors: Keisuke CHINO, Hidenori OKUZAKI
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Publication number: 20220282175Abstract: Provided is a lubricant composition including a bicyclic liquid crystal of formula (1), tricyclic liquid crystal compounds of formula (2), and formula (3). The composition is suitable for use in a clean environment, under a high vacuum, under high temperature and a bearing. R1 and R2 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR. R11 and R21 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OR. R12, R13, R22 and R23 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or a group —OR. R31 and R41 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR. R32, R33, R42, and R43 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR. R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 1?n?20, and R? is methyl or ethyl.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD., Ushio Chemix CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Haramoto, Shigemasa Itabashi, Ayana Takemura, Kazuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Otsuki
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Patent number: 11433395Abstract: Provided is a separating apparatus including separating unit configured to apply external force to a fluid sample containing two or more components immiscible with each other and having different specific gravities to separate the fluid sample into separation target and non-separation target, and a transfer mechanism configured to apply a pressure to the separation target separated by the separating unit to transfer the separation target.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventor: Yoshiaki Ukita
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Patent number: 11357692Abstract: To provide a joint support unit, etc. capable of being worn on both left and right joints. A joint support unit 20 includes a first link 21 worn on one end side of a knee joint, a second link 22 worn on the other end side of the knee joint, and a driving unit 30 configured to cause the first link 21 and the second link 22 to perform rotational movement, or to relatively perform rotational movement while moving a rotation center and to perform sliding movement.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: University of Yamanashi, Kofu City, Suncall CorporationInventors: Hidetsugu Terada, Koji Makino, Teppei Ogura, Masahiro Nakamura, Rei Takahashi, Masaru Hoshino, Yukinobu Makihara
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Publication number: 20220170169Abstract: A method for operating a solid oxide electrolysis cell which can suppress degradation of the hydrogen electrode, is provided. A method for operating a solid oxide electrolysis cell includes a hydrogen electrode, an oxygen electrode, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the hydrogen electrode and the oxygen electrode. The hydrogen electrode includes a catalyst layer structured with Ni-containing particles dispersed and supported on a porous mixed ionic and electronic conducting oxide. The method includes an alternating operation in which a water vapor electrolysis operation and a fuel cell operation are repeated alternately.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventors: Hiroyuki UCHIDA, Hanako NISHINO
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Publication number: 20220154118Abstract: It was difficult to create a thin bio sample embedded in an embedding material without using an expensive microtome. The present invention provides a medical device having a space for assisting in the embedding of a bio sample in an embedding material, the medical device being provided with a cover part and a base part having a recessed section in which the space is created by covering the cover part, wherein the base part is provided with a flow passage having an inlet section that is in fluid communication with the space, and the flow passage is configured such that when a force is applied to the medical device so that the volume of the space decreases, the embedding material flows out while preventing a positional misalignment of the bio sample inside the embedding material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventor: Yuji Tanaka
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Patent number: 11332623Abstract: An electrode catalyst support, capable of improving the power of a fuel cell, and an electrode catalyst and a solid polymer fuel cell using the same. Provided is carbon black wherein pores which are at most 6 nm in pore diameter have a cumulative pore volume of less than 0.25 cm3/g, a specific surface area by BET is 500 to 900 m2/g, and a volatile matter content is 1.0 to 10.0%. Also provided are an electrode catalyst for a fuel cell comprising a support which includes this carbon black, and a solid polymer fuel cell having the electrode catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Uchida, Katsuyoshi Kakinuma, Daiki Ikeda, Yusaku Harada, Takeshi Miyakawa
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Patent number: 11317200Abstract: A sound source separation system includes: a controller that: acquires pieces of sound collection data with microphones that collect sounds output from first and second sound sources. The first sound source is at a first position at which effective distances from the microphones are equal and the second sound source is at a different position. The controller further acquires, based on the sound collection data, frequency spectra in two dimensions of a circumferential direction of a circle and a time direction. The first position is a center of the circle and each of the effective distances is a radius of the circle. The controller further separates, from the frequency spectra, a first sound source spectrum and a second sound source spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventor: Kenji Ozawa
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Patent number: 11268949Abstract: A blood analysis method includes: acquiring optical information which changes over time from a mixed liquid of a blood sample and a reagent for coagulation time measurement after mixing the blood sample and the reagent, and acquiring information related to a coagulation time and information related to a number of platelets in the blood sample based on the acquired optical information.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: SYSMEX CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Yutaka Komiyama, Hiroshi Kurono, Sho Shinohara, Kaneo Satoh, Fuminori Kazama, Yugo Shimada
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Patent number: 11227706Abstract: A superconducting wire according to the present disclosure includes: a base material; a superconductor layer formed on each of the respective surfaces of the base material; and a conductive protection layer formed on each of the surfaces of the respective superconductor layers. The thickness of each of the conductive protection layers is 5% or less of the skin depth when a high-frequency current flows through the superconducting wire. The material for forming the conductive protection layer may be, for example, silver.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventor: Naoto Sekiya
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Patent number: 11211678Abstract: Provided is a dual-band resonator which can be downsized further than conventional ones. A dual-band resonator is provided with a first conductor and a second conductor. The first conductor is configured to be folded at a first folding part at the center so that both extensions are in a prescribed direction and adjacent to one another with a prescribed space therebetween, wherein a conductor part closer to one end side than the first folding part and a conductor part closer to the other end side than the first folding part are further folded at second folding parts between the one end and the first folding part and between the other end and the first folding part, respectively, in a direction in which the one end and the other end are apart from each other. The second conductor extends in a prescribed direction contiguously to the first folding part of the first conductor. The first conductor constitutes a half-wavelength resonator, and odd-mode resonance occurs in the first conductor.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: TOKYO KEIKI INC., THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD., UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHIInventors: Naoto Sekiya, Takahiro Unno, Tsutomu Tsuruoka, Kazuhito Kishida, Yasuo Sato, Noritaka Kitada
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Patent number: 11173484Abstract: Provided are an anion exchange resin being capable of producing an electrolyte membrane, a binder for forming an electrode catalyst layer and a battery electrode catalyst layer, which have improved electrical properties and chemical properties. For example, used is an anion exchange resin which has a hydrophobic unit being composed of bisphenol AF residues repeated via carbon-carbon bond and a hydrophilic unit being composed of hydrophilic groups repeated via carbon-carbon bond, in which the hydrophilic group is formed by connecting an anion exchange group to a fluorene backbone via a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group, and in which the hydrophobic unit and the hydrophilic unit are connected via carbon-carbon bond.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignees: University Of Yamanashi, Takahata Precision Co., Ltd., DAIHATSU MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Kenji Miyatake, Junpei Miyake, Taro Kimura, Naoki Yokota, Katsuya Nagase, Yousuke Konno, Koichiro Asazawa, Aoi Takano, Takeshi Kato
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Publication number: 20210348078Abstract: This is to provide an electrically-conductive lubricant having characteristics in combination that it shows liquid crystallinity in a wide temperature range, retains low dynamic friction coefficient, has electrical-conductivity, has almost no loss due to evaporation, decomposition and the like, has a clean appearance, and emits fluorescence, and can find deterioration or leakage immediately. This electrically-conductive lubricant comprises at least one kind of the compound (1) represented by the formula (1): [wherein, R11 and R21 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or a group —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR (R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 4?n?12, and R? is methyl or ethyl), and R12, R13, R22 and R23 are the same or different from each other, and each is a group —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR (R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 4?n?12, and R? is methyl or ethyl)].Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD., Ushio Chemix CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Haramoto, Shigemasa Itabashi, Ayana Takemura, Kazuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Otsuki
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Publication number: 20210339224Abstract: A support powder can improve cell performance under high humidity environment. A support and metal catalyst, including: a support powder; and metal fine particles supported on the support powder; wherein: the support powder is an aggregate of support fine particles; the support fine particles are fine particles of oxide compound and has a chained portion structured by a plurality of crystallites being fusion bonded to form a chain; the crystallites have a size of 10 to 30 nm; the support powder has a void; the void includes a secondary pore having a pore diameter of more than 25 nm and 80 nm or less determined by BJH method; and a volume of the secondary pore per unit volume of the support fine particles structuring the support powder is 0.313 cm3/cm3 or more, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicants: Nihon Kagaku Sangyo Co., Ltd., University of YamanashiInventors: Chisato Arata, Hajime Kashima, Katsuyoshi Kakinuma, Makoto Uchida, Akihiro Iiyama
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Patent number: 11154852Abstract: Provided are an anion exchange resin being capable of producing an electrolyte membrane and the like, which have improved chemical properties (durability). For example, used is an anion exchange resin comprising a hydrophobic unit being composed of a plurality of divalent hydrophobic groups repeated via carbon-carbon bond, the divalent hydrophobic group having a plurality of aromatic rings which are connected to each other via a divalent fluorine-containing group; and a hydrophilic unit being composed of a plurality of hydrophilic groups repeated via carbon-carbon bond, the hydrophilic groups being composed of a plurality of aromatic rings which are connected to each other via a divalent hydrocarbon group and/or carbon-carbon bond, and the hydrophilic groups containing an anion exchange group-containing group including a quaternary ammonium salt having a piperidine ring, and wherein the hydrophobic unit and the hydrophilic unit are connected via carbon-carbon bond.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, TAKAHATA PRECISION CO., LTD., DAIHATSU MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Kenji Miyatake, Junpei Miyake, Naoki Yokota, Katsuya Nagase, Aoi Takano, Takeshi Kato, Koichiro Asazawa