Patents by Inventor Chiaki Yamada
Chiaki Yamada 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: 20240145356Abstract: A lead frame includes a plurality of lead portions. At least a part of an upper surface of the lead portion and a sidewall surface of the lead portion is a rough surface having been subjected to roughening treatment. A value of a* in a CIELab color space of the rough surface is within a range from 12 to 19, and a value of b* is within a range from 12 to 17.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro NAGATA, Kazuhiro SHINOZAKI, Masahiro YAMADA, Daisuke OKUYAMA, Chiaki HATSUTA, Kentarou SEKI, Hideto MATSUI, Kazunori OOUCHI
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Patent number: 11279960Abstract: A method produces xylo-oligosaccharides from a biomass containing xylan and cellulose, which method is convenient and has a high yield of xylo-oligosaccharides because of inhibition of degradation of xylo-oligosaccharides into xylose. In the method of producing xylo-oligosaccharides, a biomass containing xylan and cellulose is hydrolyzed with a cellulase composition having at least activities of xylanase, cellobiohydrolase and ?-glucosidase and substantially free of ?-xylosidase activity during hydrolysis.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Takuya Kasahara, Chiaki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Katsushige Yamada
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Patent number: 11162087Abstract: The object of the present invention is to separate and provide a ?-glucosidase gene having the effect of efficiently promoting saccharification in hydrolysis of cellulose-containing biomass from a hardly culturable symbiotic protist community of Coptotermes formosanus, and the present invention specifically relates to ?-glucosidase derived from a protist of the genus Pseudotrichonympha consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: RIKEN, TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Masato Otagiri, Shigeharu Moriya, Masahiro Yuki, Moriya Ohkuma, Haruka Saito, Shingo Hiramatsu, Chiaki Yamada, Katsushige Yamada
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Publication number: 20210079435Abstract: The object of the present invention is to separate and provide a ?-glucosidase gene having the effect of efficiently promoting saccharification in hydrolysis of cellulose-containing biomass from a hardly culturable symbiotic protist community of Coptotermes formosanus, and the present invention specifically relates to ?-glucosidase derived from a protist of the genus Pseudotrichonympha consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicants: RIKEN, TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Masato OTAGIRI, Shigeharu MORIYA, Masahiro YUKI, Moriya OHKUMA, Haruka SAITO, Shingo HIRAMATSU, Chiaki YAMADA, Katsushige YAMADA
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Patent number: 10761466Abstract: A fixing device includes: a fixing member that heats a toner image formed on a recording sheet in order to fix the toner image on the recording sheet; a pressurizing member that nips the recording sheet together with the fixing member to pressurize the toner image on the recording sheet; a heater that heats the pressurizing member; and a hardware processor that controls a heating temperature of the pressurizing member by the heater, wherein the hardware processor acquires setting of glossiness of the toner image and controls the heating temperature to be higher as the glossiness in the setting is lower.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Naoki Yoshie, Hirofumi Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20200216869Abstract: A method produces xylo-oligosaccharides from a biomass containing xylan and cellulose, which method is convenient and has a high yield of xylo-oligosaccharides because of inhibition of degradation of xylo-oligosaccharides into xylose. In the method of producing xylo-oligosaccharides, a biomass containing xylan and cellulose is hydrolyzed with a cellulase composition having at least activities of xylanase, cellobiohydrolase and ?-glucosidase and substantially free of ?-xylosidase activity during hydrolysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Takuya Kasahara, Chiaki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Katsushige Yamada
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Patent number: 10563238Abstract: A method of producing a sugar liquid includes steps (1) providing a pretreatment product of a first cellulose-containing biomass; (2) adding a second cellulose-containing biomass or a pretreatment product thereof in an amount ranging from 1 to 50% based on the solid content weight of the first cellulose-containing biomass pretreatment product of step (1), and carrying out hydrolysis by a filamentous fungus-derived cellulase; and (3) subjecting a hydrolysate of step (2) to solid-liquid separation to obtain a solution component and a hydrolysis residue, and filtering the solution component through an ultrafiltration membrane to recover the filamentous fungus-derived cellulase as a retentate and recover a sugar liquid as a permeate.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Katsushige Yamada
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Patent number: 10558159Abstract: An image forming device includes: a fixing unit that fixes an image formed on a recording medium; a heating unit that heats a recording medium that has been subjected to a fixing process by the fixing unit; and a controller that sets a glossiness of an image on a recording medium, wherein the controller controls a heating amount with the heating unit depending on the set glossiness.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Naoki Yoshie, Chiaki Yamada
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Publication number: 20190384213Abstract: A fixing device includes: a fixing member that heats a toner image formed on a recording sheet in order to fix the toner image on the recording sheet; a pressurizing member that nips the recording sheet together with the fixing member to pressurize the toner image on the recording sheet; a heater that heats the pressurizing member; and a hardware processor that controls a heating temperature of the pressurizing member by the heater, wherein the hardware processor acquires setting of glossiness of the toner image and controls the heating temperature to be higher as the glossiness in the setting is lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: CHIAKI YAMADA, NAOKI YOSHIE, HIROFUMI NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 10435728Abstract: An endoxylanase mutant has improved thermal stability. The endoxylanase mutant having endoxylanase activity includes an amino acid sequence at least including substitution of an amino acid residue at one or more positions selected from positions corresponding to position 35, position 44, position 62, position 63, position 101, and position 102 of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 in an amino acid sequence of endoxylanase derived from a filamentous fungus.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Hiroyuki Kurihara, Takuya Kasahara, Chiaki Yamada, Natsuko Murakami, Katsushige Yamada, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Masahiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190171138Abstract: An image forming device includes: a fixing unit that fixes an image formed on a recording medium; a heating unit that heats a recording medium that has been subjected to a fixing process by the fixing unit; and a controller that sets a glossiness of an image on a recording medium, wherein the controller controls a heating amount with the heating unit depending on the set glossiness.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Naoki YOSHIE, Chiaki YAMADA
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Patent number: 10310400Abstract: A developer for electrostatic latent image contains toner particles. The toner particles contain a resin and a coloring agent, and the coloring agent includes a first coloring agent, a second coloring agent, and a third coloring agent. The first coloring agent is carbon black, the second coloring agent is one or more of C. I. Pigment Violet 19 and C. I. Pigment Violet 23, and the third coloring agent is one or more of C. I. Pigment Brown 23 and C. I. Pigment Brown 25. A content of the second coloring agent is not lower than 8 mass % and not higher than 25 mass % with respect to a total amount of the coloring agents.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Masahiro Anno
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Patent number: 10253343Abstract: A method of producing a sugar liquid and a xylooligosaccharide includes Steps (1) to (3): Step (1): hydrolyzing a cellulose-containing biomass with a filamentous fungus-derived cellulase; Step (2): subjecting the hydrolysate of Step (1) to solid-liquid separation, and filtering the solution component through an ultrafiltration membrane to recover cellulase as a non-permeate, and to recover a sugar liquid as a permeate; and Step (3): reacting the recovered cellulase in Step (2) with a xylan-containing material, and recovering a xylooligosaccharide produced, Step (3) being independent from Step (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Katsushige Yamada
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Patent number: 10180635Abstract: A liquid developer is characterized in that it includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin and a pigment, the pigment includes a first pigment and a second pigment, the first pigment is carbon black, the second pigment is C.I. Pigment Brown 23 and/or C.I. Pigment Brown 25, and 20 to 60% by mass of the pigment is included relative to the toner particles.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Masahiro Anno, Sho Kim, Yukiko Uno
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Patent number: 10175620Abstract: In this fixing device, a pressing roller includes a pressing roller driving unit, and a heating roller includes a heating roller driving unit. Control is performed such that torque of the heating roller in torque distribution between the pressing roller and the heating roller is greater when a belt load reducing device is activated than when the belt load reducing device is not activated. A fixing device and an image forming apparatus thus can be provided, in which the fixability according to the kind of recording medium is excellent, the durability of the fixing belt is high, and the separability between the fixing belt and the recording medium is excellent.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Junya Hirayama
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Patent number: 10041100Abstract: A method of producing sugar solution by repeating a sugar solution production process includes steps (1) to (3), wherein a wash solution obtained in step (4) of washing a separation membrane after step (3) is used for step (1) of subsequent sugar solution production processes: step (1): preparing slurry of pretreated cellulose-containing biomass; step (2): hydrolyzing the slurry of pretreated cellulose-containing biomass in step (1) using cellulase from filamentous fungi; and step (3): subjecting the hydrolyzate of step (2) to solid-liquid separation into a solution component and a hydrolysis residue, filtering the solution component through an ultrafiltration membrane and recovering the cellulase from filamentous fungi as a non-permeate, and recovering the sugar solution as a permeate.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Katsushige Yamada
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Patent number: 9989906Abstract: A control unit is configured to control torque of a fixing motor and torque of a pressing motor such that tangential force at a part holding paper in cooperation with a fixing member in a pressing member is equal to or greater than tangential force at a part holding paper in cooperation with the pressing member in the fixing member, and that the relation between the tangential force at the part of the pressing member and the tangential force at the part of the fixing member changes in accordance with the smoothness of paper.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Naoki Yoshie, Chiaki Yamada, Toru Kikuchi
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Patent number: 9909158Abstract: A method of producing a sugar liquid from a cellulose-containing biomass includes (1) hydrolyzing a cellulose-containing biomass using a filamentous fungus-derived cellulose and carrying out solid-liquid separation into a sugar liquid and a hydrolysis residue; (2) washing the hydrolysis residue in (1) using an aqueous alkaline solution and an aqueous inorganic salt solution independently and recovering, as a washing liquid, the filamentous fungus-derived cellulase adsorbed to the hydrolysis residue; and (3) filtering the washing liquid in (2) through an ultrafiltration membrane to recover a sugar liquid as a permeate and the filamentous fungus-derived cellulase as a non-permeate.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Katsushige Yamada
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Publication number: 20180024479Abstract: In this fixing device, a pressing roller includes a pressing roller driving unit, and a heating roller includes a heating roller driving unit. Control is performed such that torque of the heating roller in torque distribution between the pressing roller and the heating roller is greater when a belt load reducing device is activated than when the belt load reducing device is not activated. A fixing device and an image forming apparatus thus can be provided, in which the fixability according to the kind of recording medium is excellent, the durability of the fixing belt is high, and the separability between the fixing belt and the recording medium is excellent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Chiaki YAMADA, Junya HIRAYAMA
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Publication number: 20170314051Abstract: A method of producing a sugar liquid and a xylooligosaccharide includes Steps (1) to (3): Step (1): hydrolyzing a cellulose-containing biomass with a filamentous fungus-derived cellulase; Step (2): subjecting the hydrolysate of Step (1) to solid-liquid separation, and filtering the solution component through an ultrafiltration membrane to recover cellulase as a non-permeate, and to recover a sugar liquid as a permeate; and Step (3): reacting the recovered cellulase in Step (2) with a xylan-containing material, and recovering a xylooligosaccharide produced, Step (3) being independent from Step (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Katsushige Yamada