Patents by Inventor Akira Hayashi

Akira Hayashi 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).

  • Publication number: 20230000915
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for providing a T cell product, including a T cell master cell bank and/or a T cell working cell bank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: Kyoto University, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Shin KANEKO, Suguru ARIMA, Maiko TAKIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KASSAI, Akira HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11331934
    Abstract: A printer includes a head which includes a nozzle face which ejects ink toward a top of a surface of a nail of a finger, a driving mechanism which moves the head in a predetermined direction, an image capturer which generates a nail side image showing a side of the nail of the finger by capturing an image of the nail of the finger, and a display controller which performs image processing on the nail side image from the image capturer, causing a display to display an image for height position adjustment including a target height position indicator added to the nail side image, the target height position indicator indicating a target height position of the nail of the finger spaced from the nozzle face by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Takagi, Akira Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220089672
    Abstract: The present invention provides a variant of a T-cell receptor containing a combination of two polypeptides containing a constant region of a T cell receptor chain selected from the group consisting of ? chain, ? chain, ? chain and ? chain, wherein the polypeptide does not contain a complementarity determining region (CDR) of the T cell receptor chain, a complementarity determining region (CDR) of the ? chain, and a complementarity determining region (CDR) of the ? chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicants: Kyoto University, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Shin KANEKO, Yoshiaki KASSAI, Akira HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210381006
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for activating/proliferating T cells, including a step of contacting a cell population containing T cells with a nucleic acid delivery carrier having at least one kind of T cell activating ligand added to its surface, and a method for delivering a nucleic acid into T cells, the methods including a step of contacting a cell population containing T cells simultaneously with (a) a nucleic acid delivery carrier having at least one kind of T cell activating ligand added to its surface and containing a nucleic acid inside, or (b) at least one kind of T cell activating ligand, and a nucleic acid delivery carrier containing a nucleic acid inside and free of a T cell activating ligand added to its surface, a method for producing a medicament containing T cells and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Shinobu KUWAE, Satoru MATSUMOTO, Akira HAYASHI, Yoshiaki KASSAI, Kazuhide NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210301260
    Abstract: To enable stable supply of differentiated T cells, the present invention provides a method for producing, or a method for expansion culture, or a kit for expansion culture of a CD3-positive cell in which T cell marker CD3 is expressed on the cell membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Kaneko, Yohei Kawai, Suguru Arima, Maiko Takiguchi, Kazuhide Nakayama, Yoshiaki Kassai, Akira Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210229464
    Abstract: A printer includes a head which includes a nozzle face which ejects ink toward a top of a surface of a nail of a finger, a driving mechanism which moves the head in a predetermined direction, an image capturer which generates a nail side image showing a side of the nail of the finger by capturing an image of the nail of the finger, and a display controller which performs image processing on the nail side image from the image capturer, causing a display to display an image for height position adjustment including a target height position indicator added to the nail side image, the target height position indicator indicating a target height position of the nail of the finger spaced from the nozzle face by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Masaaki TAKAGI, Akira HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11007777
    Abstract: A printer is provided to includes an ink head; a placement unit; a positional reference arranged near the placement unit as a reference for performing position adjustment in the up-down direction; and a first reflection member configured to be disposed at a lateral position separated from the placement unit toward a lateral side so that a position of the first reflection member in the up-down direction overlaps the positional reference and the printing target in a lateral view, wherein the first reflection member reflects light arriving from a lateral surface of the printing target and the positional reference, and an upper end of a reflective surface which reflects light is positioned above the positional reference and a lower end is positioned below the positional reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Masaaki Takagi
  • Patent number: 11002462
    Abstract: A heat-exchanging ventilation device performs ventilation while exchanging heat between a supply airflow and a discharge airflow. The heat-exchanging ventilation device includes: a casing; a heat exchanger having a prism shape and accommodated in the casing to be insertable into and removable from the casing; a plurality of support members to support the heat exchanger in the casing; and a rotational force applying unit to apply a rotational force to the heat exchanger and rotate the heat exchanger. When a rotational force is applied to the heat exchanger in one direction by the rotational force applying unit, the heat exchanger is pressed against the support members, and when application of a rotational force in the one direction by the rotational force applying unit is stopped, the heat exchanger becomes rotatable in another direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keishi Tsuda, Masaru Takada, Ippei Momose, Akira Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210130777
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a ??T cell from an induced pluripotent stem cell, wherein the induced pluripotent stem cell is derived from a cell other than an ??T cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Kaneko, Shoichi Iriguchi, Tatsuki Ueda, Yoshiaki Kassai, Akira Hayashi, Kazuhide Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20210102167
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a CD4/CD8 double positive cell, including the following steps: step 1: separating, from a cell population containing a hematopoietic progenitor cell, a cell expressing one or more kinds of molecules selected from the first group consisting of CD24, CD62L, CD90, CD143, CD263, Notch3, CD32, CD39, CD49a, CD164, CD317, CD200, CD218a, CD7, CD144, CD56, CD226, CD262 and CD325, and/or a cell not expressing one or more kinds of molecules selected from the second group consisting of CD49f, CD51, CD102, CD42b, CD61, CD62P, CD69, CD102 and CD156c, and step 2: differentiating the cell separated in step 1 into a CD4/CD8 double positive cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Kaneko, Shoichi Iriguchi, Yuta Mishima, Yoshiaki Kassai, Akira Hayashi, Suguru Arima
  • Publication number: 20200207080
    Abstract: A printer is provided to includes an ink head; a placement unit; a positional reference arranged near the placement unit as a reference for performing position adjustment in the up-down direction; and a first reflection member configured to be disposed at a lateral position separated from the placement unit toward a lateral side so that a position of the first reflection member in the up-down direction overlaps the positional reference and the printing target in a lateral view, wherein the first reflection member reflects light arriving from a lateral surface of the printing target and the positional reference, and an upper end of a reflective surface which reflects light is positioned above the positional reference and a lower end is positioned below the positional reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Masaaki Takagi
  • Patent number: 10670031
    Abstract: A compressor includes a cylindrical casing, a bundle which includes a tubular stationary member and a rotor accommodated into the tubular stationary member, the bundle being configured to be inserted into an inner portion of the casing, and a roller configured to roll on an inner circumferential surface of the casing while supporting the bundle when the bundle is inserted into the inner portion of the casing along an axial direction. An outer circumferential surface of the roller is a continuous convex curved surface defined such that a curvature radius of an end side curved surface portion along a rotating shaft of the roller is smaller than a curvature radius of a center curved surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Okada, Hikaru Kurosaki, Naoki Hirata, Akira Hayashi, Satoru Yoshida, Toru Yoshimune
  • Publication number: 20190285308
    Abstract: A heat-exchanging ventilation device performs ventilation while exchanging heat between a supply airflow and a discharge airflow. The heat-exchanging ventilation device includes: a casing; a heat exchanger having a prism shape and accommodated in the casing to be insertable into and removable from the casing; a plurality of support members to support the heat exchanger in the casing; and a rotational force applying unit to apply a rotational force to the heat exchanger and rotate the heat exchanger. When a rotational force is applied to the heat exchanger in one direction by the rotational force applying unit, the heat exchanger is pressed against the support members, and when application of a rotational force in the one direction by the rotational force applying unit is stopped, the heat exchanger becomes rotatable in another direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keishi Tsuda, Masaru Takada, Ippei Momose, Akira Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10112790
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a mounting portion that holds a medium; a feeding roller that feeds the medium toward a feeding direction; a stopper configured to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; a supporting part that swings the feeding roller between: a first position in which the feeding roller feeds the medium while both the feeding roller and the stopper contact the medium, and a second position in which the feeding roller does not contact the medium while the stopper contacts the medium to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; and a regulating part disposed on a downstream side in feeding direction with respect to a supporting point of the supporting part. The regulating part regulates movement of the stopper by contacting a portion of the stopper that does not contact the medium in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Shoichi Fukuyama, Kenro Ueno
  • Publication number: 20180093840
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a mounting portion that holds a medium; a feeding roller that feeds the medium toward a feeding direction; a stopper configured to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; a supporting part that swings the feeding roller between: a first position in which the feeding roller feeds the medium while both the feeding roller and the stopper contact the medium, and a second position in which the feeding roller does not contact the medium while the stopper contacts the medium to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; and a regulating part disposed on a downstream side in feeding direction with respect to a supporting point of the supporting part. The regulating part regulates movement of the stopper by contacting a portion of the stopper that does not contact the medium in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Shoichi Fukuyama, Kenro Ueno
  • Publication number: 20180052412
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing; a mounting portion in the housing configured to hold a recording medium; one or more light receivers in the housing; a light adjuster that adjusts an amount of light incident on the light receivers based on presence or size of the recording medium on the mounting portion; and a controller that determines a size of the recording medium based on the amount of light that has been adjusted by the light adjuster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Uchiyama, Yuki Miyazaki, Masanori Yamada, Akira Hayashi, Shoichi Fukuyama
  • Publication number: 20170327341
    Abstract: A printer includes a sheet stopper that rotates between a regulating position where a sheet placed in the feeding tray is regulated and a passing position where the sheet placed in a feeding tray is passed through, and an inversion path introduction unit that rotates between a forward-feeding position and a reverse-feeding position of introducing the sheet. The inversion path introduction unit is disposed at the forward-feeding position when a sheet is conveyed in a sheet feeding direction. The inversion path introduction unit is disposed at the reverse-feeding position when a sheet is conveyed in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction and the inversion path introduction unit introduces the sheet into an inversion path. The sheet stopper changes the regulating position and the passing position in conjunction with rotation of the inversion path introduction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9796549
    Abstract: This paper guiding mechanism (110) includes a base member (1) including a placing surface (11) for placing papers (200) thereon and a base-side lock portion (12) and a paper guide member (2), while the paper guide member includes a paper aligning portion (21) coming into contact with the papers, a guide-side lock portion (22) locked to the base-side lock portion, and a lever portion (23) canceling a locked state of the guide-side lock portion with respect to the base-side lock portion and maintaining an unlocked state when the paper aligning portion is slidingly moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20160167903
    Abstract: This paper feeding apparatus (100) includes a pickup roller (21) including a first portion (21a) that picks up paper (150) in a first state where the paper is to be picked up and a second portion (21b) that transports, in a second state where the paper is to be transported, the paper picked up in the first state and a friction pad (22) that suppresses transport of paper subsequent to the picked up paper, and the pickup roller is in surface contact such that a contact area between the first portion and the friction pad and a contact area between the second portion and the friction pad are substantially equal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Akira HAYASHI
  • Patent number: D770975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Heita Nada, Akira Hayashi, Tokuji Ushijima, Tadanobu Horisaka