Patents by Inventor Akira Nishio

Akira Nishio 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).

  • Patent number: 12385000
    Abstract: A cell culture analyzer comprises a stirring member and an air discharge and intake unit. The stirring member is used in a state of being immersed in a medium, and has a liquid discharge and intake port for discharging or drawing in the medium, and an air discharge and intake port for discharging or drawing in air in order to discharge or draw in the medium from the liquid discharge and intake port. The air discharge and intake unit is linked to the air discharge and intake port of the stirring member, and discharges or draws in the air discharged or drawn in from the air discharge and intake port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Nakamae, Masahiro Kouge, Masayuki Saiki, Shingo Otani, Seiitirou Iketani, Fumiya Matsubara, Akira Nishio
  • Publication number: 20250231021
    Abstract: A surface shape measuring device measures the three-dimensional shape of a measurement surface in an object to be measured shaped as a rotating body or an approximate rotating body. The surface shape measuring device includes: a rotary table that rotates the object to be measured; an encoder that sequentially outputs signals according to the rotation angle of the rotary table; an optical sectioning sensor that irradiates light onto the measurement surface and acquires a plurality of optical section line image data by sequentially capturing optical section lines generated by the irradiated light, which move across the measurement surface as the rotary table rotates, triggered by a signal output from the encoder; and an image processing unit that generates an image showing the surface shape of the measurement surface by sequentially arranging the respective optical section line image data according to the corresponding rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Tetsuro Tanabe, Akira Nishio, Toshiyuki Mawatari
  • Patent number: 12281254
    Abstract: Provided is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide which has not only an excellent thermal conductivity but also excellent chemical resistance, water-fastness, and electrical insulation property, while exhibiting a satisfactory kneadability (miscibility) into a resin and being capable of producing materials and articles, such as a resin composition, having an excellent shapability. Specifically, the present invention is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide which is obtained by firing a starting material mixture that contains an aluminum starting material. The aluminum starting material is at least one selected from the group consisting of boehmite, aluminum hydroxide, and alumina; the starting material mixture further contains a boric acid compound and an oxide starting material such as a tungsten compound; and the content of the boric acid compound in the starting material mixture is 0.1 to 5 parts by mass, and the content of the oxide starting material in the starting material mixture is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Nishio, Kenichi Yamane, Naotsugu Yamamura, Shingo Tominaga, Hiroya Oniduka
  • Publication number: 20250109071
    Abstract: There is provided particles of an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide obtained by firing a raw material mixture containing an aluminum raw material, the raw material mixture containing no boron compound. The aluminum raw material is at least one selected from the group consisting of boehmite and aluminum hydroxide. The raw material mixture contains a glass frit and may further contain an oxide raw material. The oxide raw material is at least one selected from the group consisting of a boron compound, a titanium compound, a phosphorus compound, a tungsten compound, and a bismuth compound. A content of the glass frit in the raw material mixture is in a range from 0.5 parts by mass to 5 parts by mass, to 100 parts by mass of the aluminum raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Akira NISHIO, Kenichi YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20250012681
    Abstract: A container includes an isolation chamber, a collection chamber, a waste liquid holding chamber, a hydrophilic first flow path, and a hydrophilic second flow path. In the first flow path, when capillary action is exerted and centrifugal force is applied, the specific component is moved from the isolation chamber to the collection chamber by the siphon principle. In the second flow path, when a capillary action with a different magnitude from that of the first flow path is exerted and centrifugal force is applied, the waste liquid is moved from the isolation chamber to the waste liquid holding chamber according to the siphon principle. The first flow path is connected at a first position on a first side of the isolation chamber, and the second flow path is connected at a second position on a second side that is on the opposite side from the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Fumiya MATSUBARA, Akira NISHIO
  • Patent number: 12156734
    Abstract: A sensor insertion device comprises a lower case and an upper case. A base holder and a needle holder are disposed in the lower case. A needle holder raising mechanism is disposed above the needle holder. A sensor base having a sensor unit is held by the base holder. When the upper case is pushed down, the base holder and the needle holder move toward an opening on the lower surface side of the lower case, and the needle holder is raised by the needle holder raising mechanism. A protrusion that holds the upper case on the lower case is provided to the upper case in a state in which the upper case has been pushed down until the opening on the lower surface side comes into contact with the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Shimizu, Fumiya Matsubara, Masahiro Kouge, Akira Nishio, Seiji Onishi
  • Publication number: 20240254423
    Abstract: A cell capture apparatus comprises a centrifugal container that can be mounted in a centrifuge, and that has a space in which a test liquid containing target cells is held, and an inner surface that defines the space; and a cell adhesion layer that is disposed on the inner surface and adsorbs the target cells in the test liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Akira NISHIO, Fumiya MATSUBARA, Yasushi TANIMOTO, Masahiro JOHNO
  • Publication number: 20230324350
    Abstract: A data processing system includes an original data storage part (2) that stores original data of a three-dimensional chromatogram including chromatogram data and a spectrum acquired by chromatography analysis, an arithmetic processor (4) configured to execute peak estimation processing of estimating peaks included in a peak waveform portion of the original data stored in the original data storage part by repeating a component estimation step of estimating a three-dimensional chromatogram of one peak component included in the peak waveform portion until synthesis data obtained by synthesizing three-dimensional chromatograms of all estimated peak components of which three-dimensional chromatograms are estimated in the component estimation step approximates the original data, and a maximum number storage part (6) that stores a maximum number of the estimated peak components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUJITA, Akira NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20230132326
    Abstract: A data processing method for creating simulation data of a three-dimensional chromatogram for a sample containing a plurality of components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUJITA, Akira NISHIO, Davide Giovanni VECCHIETTI
  • Publication number: 20230112812
    Abstract: A data processing method for separating peaks of a plurality of components overlapping on a chromatogram from each other using actual data of a three-dimensional chromatogram including a chromatogram and a spectrum acquired by chromatographic analysis on a sample. The data processing method includes an adjustment target peak acquisition step of obtaining a plurality of adjustment target peaks by applying, to the chromatogram, a peak model function prepared in advance to approximate a waveform of the chromatogram, and an adjustment target peak adjustment step of setting a plurality of the adjustment target peaks obtained in the adjustment target peak acquisition step as initial values before adjustment, and repeating adjustment of the adjustment target peaks until pseudo data of a three-dimensional chromatogram on the sample obtained by combining the adjustment target peaks after adjustment is similar to the actual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUJITA, Akira NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20230110970
    Abstract: A first analysis step of acquiring a three-dimensional chromatogram of at least one sample by executing, for the sample, first chromatography analysis using a photodiode array under a condition that a plurality of components contained in the sample can be separated from each other, and extracting spectrum data of each of a plurality of the components contained in the sample from the three-dimensional chromatogram of the sample, a second analysis step of executing second chromatography analysis using a photodiode array on another sample whose main component is the same as that of the sample under a condition that a three-dimensional chromatogram can be obtained in a shorter time than the first chromatography analysis to acquire a three-dimensional chromatogram of the another sample, and a peak separation step of acquiring peak separated data for the another sample in which peaks of a plurality of components contained in the another sample are separated from each other are included by applying peak separation p
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Akira NISHIO, Yuichiro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230097148
    Abstract: A data processing method includes: a data preparing step of preparing actual data of a three-dimensional chromatogram including a chromatogram and a spectrum acquired by chromatography analysis for a sample containing a plurality of components, and spectral data for the plurality of components in the sample whose peaks overlap each other on the chromatogram of the actual data; a similarity calculating step of calculating, for each wavelength region, a similarity between wavelength regions corresponding to each other in the spectral data for the plurality of components prepared in the data preparing step while comprehensively changing the wavelength regions; a target range setting step of setting a target range by searching for a wavelength region having a similarity lower than an overall similarity between the spectral data for the plurality of components based on a calculation result in the similarity calculating step; and a peak separating step of creating chromatogram data for the plurality of components b
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUJITA, Akira NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20230029803
    Abstract: A cell culture analyzer comprises a stirring member and an air discharge and intake unit. The stirring member is used in a state of being immersed in a medium, and has a liquid discharge and intake port for discharging or drawing in the medium, and an air discharge and intake port for discharging or drawing in air in order to discharge or draw in the medium from the liquid discharge and intake port. The air discharge and intake unit is linked to the air discharge and intake port of the stirring member, and discharges or draws in the air discharged or drawn in from the air discharge and intake port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta NAKAMAE, Masahiro KOUGE, Masayuki SAIKI, Shingo OTANI, Seiitirou IKETANI, Fumiya MATSUBARA, Akira NISHIO
  • Patent number: 11459276
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide that is excellent not only in thermal conductivity but also in chemical resistance, water resistance, and electrical insulation, that has a good kneadability (miscibility) into resins, and that enables to produce a material or an article, such as a resin composition, which is excellent in shapability. The present invention is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide obtained by firing a starting material mixture containing an aluminum starting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nishio, Kenichi Yamane, Naotsugu Yamamura, Shingo Tominaga, Hiroya Oniduka
  • Patent number: 11369412
    Abstract: A sensor insertion device comprises a main body, needle slider, disposal slider, spring, puncture knob, and opening mechanism (window member and handle). The needle slider grips a needle and a sensor on a first end side, and is slidable inside the main body. The disposal slider is slidable inside the main body. The puncture knob has an insertion hole into which the rear end portion of the needle slider can be inserted. The opening mechanism puts the insertion hole into a closed state when the needle slider is being slid in the sensor insertion direction, and, puts the insertion hole in an open state in which the second end side of the needle slider has been inserted into the insertion hole by opening up the contact portion between the puncture knob and the second end side of the needle slider when the puncture operation is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Ii, Kenichi Hamanaka, Ryuji Shimizu, Akira Nishio, Takashi Endoh, Kazuaki Edagawa, Tetsuya Norikane, Junko Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20220000398
    Abstract: A sensor insertion device comprises a lower case and an upper case. A base holder and a needle holder are disposed in the lower case. A needle holder raising mechanism is disposed above the needle holder. A sensor base having a sensor unit is held by the base holder. When the upper case is pushed down, the base holder and the needle holder move toward an opening on the lower surface side of the lower case, and the needle holder is raised by the needle holder raising mechanism. A protrusion that holds the upper case on the lower case is provided to the upper case in a state in which the upper case has been pushed down until the opening on the lower surface side comes into contact with the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuji SHIMIZU, Fumiya MATSUBARA, Masahiro KOUGE, Akira NISHIO, Seiji ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20210228156
    Abstract: A wearable sensor device comprises a sensor at least part of which is inserted into a human body and which has a first connection terminal; a mount unit on which at least part of the first connection terminal is disposed and which is mounted on a skin of the human body; and an electronic unit that is mounted to the mount unit and has a second connection terminal connected to the first connection terminal via a mounting mechanism, and a control unit for acquiring signals from the sensor. The mounting mechanism forms a first state where the mount unit and the electronic unit are mounted such that the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal have yet to be connected, and a second state where the mount unit and the electronic unit are mounted such that the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal have been connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro KOUGE, Seiichiro IKETANI, Ryuji SHIMIZU, Akira NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20210219915
    Abstract: The biological information measurement device comprises: an adhesive tape having on its bottom side an adhesive surface to be affixed to the skin of a user; a mounting substrate disposed on the top side of the adhesive tape; a guide needle insertion cylinder provided on the top side of the adhesive tape, on which the mounting substrate is held; a sensor electrically connected to the mounting substrate for measuring biological information; and a cover covering the top side of the mounting substrate. The bottom side of the mounting substrate is in a state of not being affixed to the top side of the adhesive tape, and the adhesive tape and the cover are more stretchable than the mounting substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro KOUGE, Seiichiro IKETANI, Akira NISHIO, Makoto OKAZAKI, Ryuji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20210169518
    Abstract: A sensor insertion device comprises a lower case, an upper case, a sensor base, a needle holder, a needle holder pressing part that lowers the needle holder, and a needle holder raising mechanism that raises the needle holder. The needle holder raising mechanism has a pinion gear that raises the needle holder, a first rack gear that is engaged with the pinion gear, and a second rack gear that is disposed above the pinion gear. When the second rack gear reaches the pinion gear as the upper case is lowered, the pinion gear raises the needle holder by engagement with the second rack gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Ryuji SHIMIZU, Akira NISHIO, Masahiro KOUGE
  • Patent number: 10569563
    Abstract: A printer includes a first storage, a head, a first supply flow path, a first circulation flow path, a second supply flow path, and a second circulation flow path. The first storage is configured to be supplied with ink from a second storage, and is configured to store the supplied ink. The head configured to eject the ink. The first supply flow path merges with one of the second supply flow path and the second circulation flow path at one of a first connector and the first storage. The first circulation flow path merges with the other of the second supply flow path and the second circulation flow path at one of a second connector and the first storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Nishio