Patents by Inventor Akihiro Aoki
Akihiro Aoki 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: 20240118014Abstract: Provided is an electric device made more convenient by being configured such that the temperature of a wide area in each accommodation section can be individually adjustable. In an electric device, a first refrigerant pipe is provided to a right-side member constituting a side surface of a first accommodation chamber, and a second refrigerant pipe is provided to a left-side member constituting a side surface of a second accommodation chamber. The first refrigerant pipe and the second refrigerant pipe are independent of each other. A regulating valve includes: a first regulating valve provided to the first refrigerant pipe, and a second regulating valve provided to the second refrigerant pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji KISHIMA, Takuya KATAOKA, Kazuki NOGUCHI, Akihiro KOBAYASHI, Daisuke NITAWAKI, Ibuki KANDA, Shingo KOSUGI, Yoshiki AOKI
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Patent number: 11955492Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area for displaying an image, and the display panel includes an insulating substrate, a first electrode, a first organic insulating layer, an inorganic insulating layer, a pixel electrode, a second organic insulating layer, and a pad portion. The inorganic insulating layer includes a first opening for electrically connecting the first electrode to the pixel electrode. The second organic insulating layer includes a second opening for electrically connecting the pixel electrode to the pad portion. The pixel electrode is formed of a transparent conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Yasuhiro Kanaya, Akihiro Ogawa
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Publication number: 20240102718Abstract: Provided is an electrical device. In a setting unit, a right-room temperature display unit displays a set temperature or the current temperature of a first housing room. A left-room temperature display unit displays a set temperature or the current temperature of a second housing room. A right-room temperature setting button is an operation unit for a user to switch the set temperature of the first housing room. A left-room temperature setting button is an operation unit for a user switch the set temperature of the second housing room. The set temperature difference between the first and second housing rooms is controlled to be within a prescribed value. When the set temperature of one of the first and second housing rooms is changed so that the set temperature exceeds a prescribed value, a microcomputer automatically changes the other set temperature so that the set temperature difference is within a prescribed value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji KISHIMA, Takuya KATAOKA, Kazuki NOGUCHI, Akihiro KOBAYASHI, Daisuke NITAWAKI, Ibuki KANDA, Shingo KOSUGI, Yoshiki AOKI
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Patent number: 10966983Abstract: The present invention provides an externally applied composition capable of enhancing a stimulatory effect of an essential oil on IGF-1 secretion, the composition including (A) essential oil; and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of purine substances and salts thereof. Further, the present invention provides an externally applied composition capable of increasing the stratum corneum water content of the skin and maintaining transepidermal water loss at an appropriate level.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Aoki, Kosaburo Wakamatsu, Shigeo Shinohara, Osamu Takasu
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Patent number: 9125928Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an agent for suppressing the formation of skin cells induced by exposure to light such as ultraviolet light. The object is achieved by using a purine nucleic acid for suppressing the formation of abnormal skin cells caused by exposure to light.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuaki Kawamura, Shigeo Shinohara, Fumiki Harano, Akihiro Aoki, Eri Ueno
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Patent number: 9084904Abstract: A composition for external use capable of more efficiently deriving the effect of purine substances (and/or salts thereof) including (A) sugar; and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of purine substances and salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosaburo Wakamatsu, Shigeo Shinohara, Masahiko Tanaka, Fumiki Harano, Akihiro Aoki, Osamu Takasu
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Publication number: 20130090301Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an agent for suppressing the formation of skin cells induced by exposure to light such as ultraviolet light. The object is achieved by using a purine nucleic acid for suppressing the formation of abnormal skin cells caused by exposure to light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuaki Kawamura, Shigeo Shinohara, Fumiki Harano, Akihiro Aoki, Eri Ueno
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Publication number: 20110081429Abstract: The present invention provides an externally applied composition capable of enhancing a stimulatory effect of an essential oil on IGF-1 secretion, the composition including (A) essential oil; and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of purine substances and salts thereof. Further, the present invention provides an externally applied composition capable of increasing the stratum corneum water content of the skin and maintaining transepidermal water loss at an appropriate level.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventors: Akihiro Aoki, Kosaburo Wakamatsu, Shigeo Shinohara, Osamu Takasu
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Publication number: 20100279972Abstract: A composition for external use capable of more efficiently deriving the effect of purine substances (and/or salts thereof) including (A) sugar; and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of purine substances and salts thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2009Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Kosaburo Wakamatsu, Shigeo Shinohara, Masahiko Tanaka, Fumiki Harano, Akihiro Aoki, Osamu Takasu
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Patent number: 7336346Abstract: A distance measuring device is provided that reduces the time required for a distance measurement without degrading accuracy of the measured value.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Sokkia Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Aoki, Yutaka Nakamura, Koji Sasaki, Toshihiro Uchimura, Futoshi Osada, Hayami Kikawa
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Publication number: 20060285102Abstract: A distance measuring device is provided that reduces the time required for a distance measurement without degrading accuracy of the measured value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2006Publication date: December 21, 2006Applicant: SOKKIA CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Aoki, Yutaka Nakamura, Koji Sasaki, Toshihiro Uchimura, Futoshi Osada, Hayami Kikawa
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Publication number: 20040077795Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogenated styrene-conjugated diene-styrene copolymer having excellent toughness, heat distortion temperature, and moldability, a production process therefor, and an optical material, etc. employing the copolymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Kiyonari Hashizume, Nobuaki Kido, Shunichi Matsumura, Kaoru Iwata, Akihiro Aoki
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Patent number: 5757315Abstract: A GPS receiving apparatus is equipped with a GPS receiver 10, a data decoder 12, data memory means 14, a CPU 16, a display 18 and an input pen 20. The display 18 is provided with a digitizing function to allow input by drawing of data with the input pen 20. A sky diagram image 24 serving as the input screen consists of a circular figure the perimeter of which represents the horizon and the center of which is considered as the zenith, and after the observer aligns the sky diagram image 24 with the observation point, the input pen 20 is used to draw images (a), (b) and (c) of the shape of and the proportion of sky occupied by obstacles such as buildings, trees and mountains within the field of view of the area based on the elevation angle of the observer himself, and the images are incorporated into the CPU 16 as obstacle-related data.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: Sokkia Company LimitedInventor: Akihiro Aoki
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Patent number: 4724046Abstract: A cake of synthetic fibrid, which is formed by pressing to hydroextract a slurry of synthetic fibrid, pulverizing the compression product, and compressing the pulverization product again to solidity it in the form of a plate-like cake.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1986Date of Patent: February 9, 1988Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Michio Yamamoto, Akihiro Aoki, Noriaki Sasaki
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Patent number: 4529763Abstract: There is provided an aromatic polyamide composition, which comprises (a) a polyamide, the recurring structural units of which are substantially totally aromatic, (b) an organic amide solvent, and (c) one or more salts selected from chlorides and bromides of an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal or ammonium. The amounts of the polyamide and the organic amide solvent are in the ranges of 30 to 50% and 70 to 50% by weight, respectively, based on the total weight of the polyamide and the organic amide solvent. The amount of the salt is defined by the formulae:in the case where 30.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.33.6, y.gtoreq.10, andin the case where 33.6<x.ltoreq.50, y>2.8x-84wherein "x" is the amount in % by weight of the polyamide based on the total weight of the polyamide and the organic amide solvent, and "y" is the amount in % by mole of the salt based on the polyamide. The polyamide composition is useful for melt-shaping films, fibers and other shaped articles.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1983Date of Patent: July 16, 1985Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Yorikazu Tamura, Akihiro Aoki, Keizo Shimada
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Patent number: 4525384Abstract: In a process for producing heat-treated wholly aromatic polyamide filaments comprising at least one wholly aromatic polyamide having recurring units of the formula (I): ##STR1## and at least one type of recurring units selected from those of the formula (II): ##STR2## where Ar represents a divalent aromatic radical selected from those of the formulae (III) and (IV): ##STR3## and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1984Date of Patent: June 25, 1985Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Akihiro Aoki, Shozaburo Hiratsuka, Norihisa Yamaguchi, Shoji Makino
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Patent number: 4507467Abstract: High modulus shaped articles such as fibers and films, composed of a wholly aromatic copolyamide, are provided. The wholly aromatic copolyamide is comprised of recurring units of the formulae:--NH--AR.sub.1 --NH--CO--Ar.sub.2 --CO-- (A)and--NH--Ar.sub.3 --CO-- (B)wherein Ar.sub.1, Ar.sub.2 and Ar.sub.3 independently stand for divalent groups selected from ##STR1## in which X's independently stand for a group selected from halogeno, alkyl, aralkyl, aromatic, alkoxy, acetyl and cyano, n is 1 to 3 and Y is selected from ##STR2## in which R' stands for an 1-5C alkyl group, and the copolymerization ratio expressed by the molar ratio of the total of Ar.sub.1, Ar.sub.2 and Ar.sub.3 fails within the square hatched region in a triangular coordinate of FIG. 1, and said copolyamide has an intrinsic viscosity of at least 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1983Date of Patent: March 26, 1985Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Keizo Shimada, Hideharu Sasaki, Hiroshi Mera, Toru Sawaki, Akihiro Aoki
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Patent number: 4413114Abstract: An aromatic copolyamide comprising recurring units (A) of the formula (I), (B) of the formula (II) and (C) of the formula (III): ##STR1## wherein in (I), (II) and (III), Ar.sub.1 is phenylene, naphthylene or biphenylene radicals, each having two valence bonds oriented meta; Ar.sub.2 is phenylene, naphthylene or biphenylene radicals, each having two valence bonds oriented coaxially or in parallel to each other and radicals of the formula (IV): ##STR2## wherein Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 are independently ##STR3## and; X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3, X.sub.4, X.sub.5 and X.sub.6 respectively are independently --NH-- and --CO-- radicals, connected to each other to form an amide bond (--NHCO-- or --CHNH--), and the molar proportions of said recurring units (A), (B), and (C) fall within a quadrilateral defined by the co-ordinates P, Q, R and S or on a twice-turned line defined by the co-ordinates Q, R, S and P:P (A 50, B 5, C 45)Q (A 5, B 5, C 90)R (A 5, B 40, C 55) andS (A 50, B 15, C 35)on a triangular composition diagram.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1982Date of Patent: November 1, 1983Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Keizo Shimada, Hiroshi Mera, Noriaki Sasaki, Akihiro Aoki
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Patent number: 4389521Abstract: An aromatic and/or heterocyclic polyamide-amide type polar solvent composition is prepared by prepolymerizing an aromatic or heterocyclic diamine with an aromatic or heterocyclic or heterocyclic dicarboxylic acid chloride in a smaller molar equivalent than that of the diamine to prepare a prepolymer solution having a solution viscosity of 20 poise or less; by removing a by-product, hydrochloric acid, from the resultant prepolymer solution by neutralizing it with ammonia to such an extent that the pH of a mixture of 10 g of the neutralized mixture with 200 ml of water becomes 3.7 to 8.0; by high polymerizing the prepolymer with an additional amount of aromatic or heterocyclic dicarboxylic acid chloride, and; finally, by converting the entire amount of hydrochloric acid and 10 to 70% NH.sub.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1981Date of Patent: June 21, 1983Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Keizo Shimada, Hiroshi Mera, Tsutomu Nakamura, Akihiro Aoki
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Patent number: 4355151Abstract: An aromatic copolyamide comprising recurring units (A) of the formula (I), (B) of the formula (II) and (C) of the formula (III): ##STR1## wherein in (I), (II) and (III) Ar.sub.1 is phenylene, naphthylene or biphenylene radicals, each having two valence bonds oriented meta; Ar.sub.2 is phenylene, naphthylene or biphenylene radicals, each having two valence bonds oriented coaxially or in parallel to each other and radicals of the formula (IV): ##STR2## wherein Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 are independently; ##STR3## and; X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3, X.sub.4, X.sub.5 and X.sub.6 respectively are independently --NH-- and --CO-- radicals, connected to each other to form an amide bond (--NHCO-- or --CHNH--), and the molar proportions of said recurring units (A), (B) and (C) fall within a quadrilateral defined by the co-ordinates P, Q, R and S or on a twice-turned line defined by the co-ordinates Q,R,S, and P:P (A 50, B 5, C 45)Q (A 5, B 5, C 90)R (A 5, B 40, C 55) andS (A 50, B 15, C 35)on a triangular composition diagram.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1980Date of Patent: October 19, 1982Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Keizo Shimada, Hiroshi Mera, Noriaki Sasaki, Akihiro Aoki