Patents by Inventor Akihiko Kosugi
Akihiko Kosugi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20170051316Abstract: The present invention is a cellulose-based biomass juicing method in which a cellulose-based biomass is chipped, and the cellulose-based biomass is juiced after a predetermined pre-treatment is performed on the cellulose-based biomass, wherein the pre-treatment is a mechanical treatment in which parenchyma constituting the cellulose-based biomass is crushed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicants: IHI Enviro Corporation, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural SciencesInventors: Masaharu YAMASHITA, Akihiko KOSUGI
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Publication number: 20170051320Abstract: A liquid fuel production method of the present invention includes: a saccharification step in which a biomass is saccharified; a methane fermentation step in which a saccharified liquid acquired in the saccharification step undergoes methane fermentation; and a biogas to liquid (BTL) step in which a liquid fuel is generated from a biogas acquired in the methane fermentation step.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicants: IHI Enviro Corporation, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural SciencesInventors: Masaharu YAMASHITA, Akihiko KOSUGI
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Publication number: 20150322423Abstract: A method for aligning proteins is provided. The method for aligning the proteins (20 and 32) is capable of aligning proteins (20 and 32) on the substrate (10) comprising carbon. The proteins (20 and 32) are used as structures comprising a cellulose binding domain (22) of the cellulosome and a cohesin domain (21), and a protein (30) to be bonded to the protein (20) is used as a protein (32) having a dockerin domain (31). The cohesin domain (21) can be used as an amino-acid sequence for a cohesin domain (21) derived from various microorganisms, and a functional protein can be used as a protein structure having a microbial-species-specific dockerin domain. The protein (20) can be arrayed regularly along a graphite hexagonal-plate-shaped crystal, and any protein (32) having this dockerin domain (20) can be bonded and arranged as an active protein (32) on the graphite (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCESInventors: Akihiko Kosugi, Yutaka Mori, Kiyohiko Igarashi
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Patent number: 9074200Abstract: In saccharification of cellulose, chimeric ?-glucosidase having a region exhibiting thermophilic bacteria-derived ?-glucosidase activity and a module combinable to cellulose is used along with cellulosome, and at the completion of saccharification of cellulose, a cellulosic substrate is added to make the chimeric ?-glucosidase and cellulosome attach to the cellulosic substrate for separation.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Japan International Research Center for Agricultural SciencesInventors: Akihiko Kosugi, Rattiya Waeonukul, Yutaka Mori
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Patent number: 8889389Abstract: The present invention relates to an efficient and economical process for producing a protein A-like protein. Hosts such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis have been used in the production of a protein A-like protein using a genetic recombination technique and however, their low productivity has been a big cause of high cost. Thus, it has been desired strongly to immediately establish a technique enabling the inexpensive, large-scale production of a protein A-like protein using recombinant DNA techniques other than Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein A-like protein in large amounts, for example, a process comprising allowing a recombinant Brevibacillus genus bacterium to express and secrete the protein in large amounts into a culture solution and separating and collecting the accumulated protein A-like protein from the culture solution.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Akihiko Kosugi, Kazuyoshi Yajima
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Publication number: 20140080179Abstract: The present invention relates to an efficient and economical process for producing a protein A-like protein. Hosts such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis have been used in the production of a protein A-like protein using a genetic recombination technique and however, their low productivity has been a big cause of high cost. Thus, it has been desired strongly to immediately establish a technique enabling the inexpensive, large-scale production of a protein A-like protein using recombinant DNA techniques other than Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein A-like protein in large amounts, for example, a process comprising allowing a recombinant Brevibacillus genus bacterium to express and secrete the protein in large amounts into a culture solution and separating and collecting the accumulated protein A-like protein from the culture solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Akihiko KOSUGI, Kazuyoshi YAJIMA
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Patent number: 8597908Abstract: The present invention relates to an efficient and economical process for producing a protein A-like protein. Hosts such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis have been used in the production of a protein A-like protein using a genetic recombination technique and however, their low productivity has been a big cause of high cost. Thus, it has been desired strongly to immediately establish a technique enabling the inexpensive, large-scale production of a protein A-like protein using recombinant DNA techniques other than Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein A-like protein in large amounts, for example, a process comprising allowing a recombinant Brevibacillus genus bacterium to express and secrete the protein in large amounts into a culture solution and separating and collecting the accumulated protein A-like protein from the culture solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Akihiko Kosugi, Kazuyoshi Yajima
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Publication number: 20130244284Abstract: Solid biomass having a moisture content in a range of 30 to 95 mass % is brought into contact with ammonia gas at a pressure in a range of 0.5 to 4 MPa and held at 50 to 200 degrees C. Subsequently, the solid biomass is rapidly decompressed to be blasted. The ammonia gas evaporated by decompression is recovered and recycled. The ammonia gas can be brought into contact with the entire solid biomass evenly and in a short time. Since absorption heat of the ammonia gas is generated, energy consumption required for additional heating can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: Masashi Machida, Tetsuya Fukunaga, Kozo Morimitsu, Shigeru Sakashita, Yasuo Torikata, Akihiko Kosugi, Yutaka Mori, Yoshinori Murata, Takamitsu Arai
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Publication number: 20120070874Abstract: In saccharification of cellulose, chimeric ?-glucosidase having a region exhibiting thermophilic bacteria-derived ?-glucosidase activity and a module combinable to cellulose is used along with cellulosome, and at the completion of saccharification of cellulose, a cellulosic substrate is added to make the chimeric ?-glucosidase and cellulosome attach to the cellulosic substrate for separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: Japan International Research Center for Agricultural SciencesInventors: Akihiko Kosugi, Rattiya Waeonukul, Yutaka Mori
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Publication number: 20110136174Abstract: A method for producing cellulolytic enzyme, where clostridium microorganisms having cellulose utilizability are cultured, wherein after utilizable carbon source is consumed by the clostridium microorganisms, addition and consumption of the carbon source are repeated periodically to accumulate the cellulolytic enzyme in a culture medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCESInventors: Akihiko KOSUGI, Yutaka MORI
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Patent number: 7637708Abstract: The system includes a first conveying vehicle for holding and conveying wafers as products finished with an inspection step from a stock storage shelf group 11 to a reloading device 17, and a second conveying vehicle for holding and conveying a transporting container from a reloading device to a transporting storage shelf group: wherein a traveling course of the first conveying vehicle is provided on one side of the reloading device and a traveling course for the second conveying vehicle is provided on the other side; the reloading device includes a first mounting table for mounting the conveying container, a second mounting table for mounting the transporting container, and a reloading device for reloading wafers in the conveying container mounted on the first mounting table to the transporting container mounted on the second mounting table; and the installed number of the first mounting tables is larger than that of the second mounting tables.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2006Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Sumco CorporationInventors: Toshihiko Aoki, Shunichi Imao, Akihiko Kosugi, Kiichi Uchino
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Patent number: 7610650Abstract: A cleaning vehicle provided with driving wheels for traveling on a rail having a trench-shaped driving space provided on the floor for cleaning the rail, wherein a vehicle body is provided with an air drawer formed by providing a filter to an air outlet hole, a tip end portion of a drawing hose connected to the air drawer is provided with an air drawing member having an opening on the bottom of the rail, an air outlet is formed on the wall of a box-shaped body covering the entire air drawer, and an air cleaning unit is provided to the air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Sumco CorporationInventors: Shunichi Imao, Toshihiko Aoki, Akihiko Kosugi, Yukio Ilzuka
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Patent number: 7603953Abstract: A conveying apparatus comprising a traveling unit which runs; a winding roller which is supported by the traveling unit; a belt which is wound on the winding roller so as to be unwound and wound by the winding roller; a pulley which has a peripheral surface guiding the belt and a diameter smaller than the diameter of the winding roller; and the pulley having no flange on both ends thereof; a belt positioning guide which is provided below the pulley and guides both edges of the belt in the win direction thereof so that the belt is positioned in the width direction; and a support unit which is attached to the belt and supports a conveyed object.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Sumco CorporationInventors: Shunichi Imao, Akihiko Kosugi, Tetsuo Ajimine, Kazufumi Matsukawa
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Publication number: 20070243582Abstract: The present invention relates to an efficient and economical process for producing a protein A-like protein. Hosts such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis have been used in the production of a protein A-like protein using a genetic recombination technique and however, their low productivity has been a big cause of high cost. Thus, it has been desired strongly to immediately establish a technique enabling the inexpensive, large-scale production of a protein A-like protein using recombinant DNA techniques other than Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein A-like protein in large amounts, for example, a process comprising allowing a recombinant Brevibacillus genus bacterium to express and secrete the protein in large amounts into a culture solution and separating and collecting the accumulated protein A-like protein from the culture solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2005Publication date: October 18, 2007Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiko Kosugi, Kazuyoshi Yajima
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Publication number: 20070189881Abstract: A positioning member for placing a substrate transporting holder on a supporting stand, which member is provided on the side of the supporting stand and is removably insertable into a slotted guide recess formed on a bottom surface of the substrate transporting holder. The positioning member has a stainless steel body composed of a cylindrical shaft and a pointed guide formed on top of the shaft; and a film formed by the co-deposition of polyfluoroethylene and nickel on a surface of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Applicants: Sumco Corporation, Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunichi Imao, Toshihiko Aoki, Akihiko Kosugi, Yoshitaka Inui
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Publication number: 20070157878Abstract: The system includes a first conveying vehicle for holding and conveying wafers as products finished with an inspection step from a stock storage shelf group 11 to a reloading device 17, and a second conveying vehicle for holding and conveying a transporting container from a reloading device to a transporting storage shelf group: wherein a traveling course of the first conveying vehicle is provided on one side of the reloading device and a traveling course for the second conveying vehicle is provided on the other side; the reloading device includes a first mounting table for mounting the conveying container, a second mounting table for mounting the transporting container, and a reloading device for reloading wafers in the conveying container mounted on the first mounting table to the transporting container mounted on the second mounting table; and the installed number of the first mounting tables is larger than that of the second mounting tables.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiko Aoki, Shunichi Imao, Akihiko Kosugi, Kiichi Uchino
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Publication number: 20070157421Abstract: A cleaning vehicle provided with driving wheels for traveling on a rail having a trench-shaped driving space provided on the floor for cleaning the rail, wherein a vehicle body is provided with an air drawer formed by providing a filter to an air outlet hole, a tip end portion of a drawing hose connected to the air drawer is provided with an air drawing member having an opening on the bottom of the rail, an air outlet is formed on the wall of a box-shaped body covering the entire air drawer, and an air cleaning unit is provided to the air outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATIONInventors: Shunichi Imao, Toshihiko Aoki, Akihiko Kosugi, Yukio IIzuka
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Publication number: 20070012642Abstract: A conveying apparatus comprising a traveling unit which runs; a winding roller which is supported by the traveling unit; a belt which is wound on the winding roller so as to be unwound and wound by the winding roller; a pulley which has a peripheral surface guiding the belt and a diameter smaller than the diameter of the winding roller; and the pulley having no flange on both ends thereof; a belt positioning guide which is provided below the pulley and guides both edges of the belt in the win direction thereof so that the belt is positioned in the width direction; and a support unit which is attached to the belt and supports a conveyed object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Shunichi Imao, Akihiko Kosugi, Tetsuo Ajimine, Kazufumi Matsukawa