Patents by Inventor Futoshi Nakamura
Futoshi Nakamura 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: 20230364134Abstract: A method for improving health conditions is developed by studying the way meals containing adjusted nutritional components in terms of not only the content of the meal, but also time, period, and the like when the meals are taken. The present invention improves the health conditions by continually taking at least one meal selected from daily three meals, i.e., breakfast, lunch, and evening meal, which contains 13% to 20% of proteins, 20% to 30% of fats, and 50% to 65% of carbohydrates in terms of energy percentage and in which proteins, fats, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals are adjusted to predetermined amounts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Noritaka ANDO, Takuo NAKAZEKO, Yukio HIRANO, Futoshi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220336081Abstract: The present embodiment relates a complete nutritious food product that eliminates the need for adjustment of nutrients according to each category of age, gender, and physical activity level, and enables eating of a complete nutritious food product satisfying the DRIs only by adjusting the amount (calories) of foods, and a providing system thereof. As a result, users who receive meals can easily take the complete nutritious food product, are freed from the trouble of nutrition management, and can improve their health. The invention also relates to a complete nutritious food product-providing system and a nutrition calculation device for a complete nutritious food product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Noritaka ANDO, Futoshi NAKAMURA, Yukio HIRANO, Takanori SAKURAGI
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Patent number: 10935116Abstract: A seal member for a ball screw device, which is fixed to an axial end surface of a nut member of the ball screw device and is configured to seal a gap between the nut member and the screw shaft, the seal member including: a plurality of base plates which each have a through hole having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the screw shaft; a spacer plate, which is sandwiched between two base plates adjacent to each other, and has a seal accommodation hole having an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of a through hole of the base plates; and a seal plate, which has a shaft-fitting hole corresponding to a sectional shape of the screw shaft in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, and is arranged in the seal accommodation hole of the spacer plates.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Futoshi Nakamura, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Kotaro Kawai, Bin Zhao, Tomoyuki Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20210012880Abstract: Provided is a food product information providing system that creates indices for health risks based on genetic information such as the results of genetic testing, biological information such as the results of a medical checkup, and lifestyle information such as the results of a lifestyle questionnaire from a user, and then selects one or more functional materials according to each risk index and provides the user with a food product or recipe that includes the selected functional material(s) and matches the preference of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Noritaka ANDO, Takanori SAKURAGI, Futoshi NAKAMURA, Tetsuya KAWASE
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Publication number: 20200408290Abstract: A seal member for a ball screw device, which is fixed to an axial end surface of a nut member of the ball screw device and is configured to seal a gap between the nut member and the screw shaft, the seal member including: a plurality of base plates which each have a through hole having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the screw shaft; a spacer plate, which is sandwiched between two base plates adjacent to each other, and has a seal accommodation hole having an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of a through hole of the base plates; and a seal plate, which has a shaft-fitting hole corresponding to a sectional shape of the screw shaft in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, and is arranged in the seal accommodation hole of the spacer plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Futoshi Nakamura, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Kotaro Kawai, Bin Zhao, Tomoyuki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10245291Abstract: This invention provides the use of a microorganism capable of improving both lipid metabolism and sugar metabolism. Specifically, the invention relates to: a lipid metabolism and/or sugar metabolism improver comprising, as an active ingredient, a bacterial cell selected from bacteria belonging to the genus Lactobacillus and the genus Bifidobacterium, a treated product of the bacterial cell, or a mixture thereof, having dual-agonistic activities to peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)? and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)?; to a food or a beverage comprising the improver; and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the improver.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.Inventors: Futoshi Nakamura, Nobuhisa Ashida, Yu Ishida, Shigeru Fujiwara
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Patent number: 10066716Abstract: A disclosed screw device provides an allowance for the accuracy of a recess in an end surface of a nut. A nut has a communicating hole communicating in an axial direction, and is provided at an axial end surface of the nut with a recess communicating with the communicating hole. A circulation member including a turn-around path is placed in the recess. When the circulation member is placed in the recess, the turn-around path of the circulation member is linked to a loaded rolling element rolling groove and the communicating hole of the nut to form a circulation path of a rolling element. A clearance between the circulation member and a wall surface of the recess permits the circulation member to move. The circulation member placed in the recess is not fixed in the recess, and is covered with a lid member to be attached to the nut.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Nakamura, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Yuji Kubota, Tsutomu Togashi
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Publication number: 20170370454Abstract: A disclosed screw device provides an allowance for the accuracy of a recess in an end surface of a nut. A nut has a communicating hole communicating in an axial direction, and is provided at an axial end surface of the nut with a recess communicating with the communicating hole. A circulation member including a turn-around path is placed in the recess. When the circulation member is placed in the recess, the turn-around path of the circulation member is linked to a loaded rolling element rolling groove and the communicating hole of the nut to form a circulation path of a rolling element. A clearance between the circulation member and a wall surface of the recess permits the circulation member to move. The circulation member placed in the recess is not fixed in the recess, and is covered with a lid member to be attached to the nut.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Futoshi NAKAMURA, Tetsuhiro NISHIDE, Yuji KUBOTA, Tsutomu TOGASHI
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Publication number: 20170119828Abstract: This invention provides the use of a microorganism capable of improving both lipid metabolism and sugar metabolism. Specifically, the invention relates to: a lipid metabolism and/or sugar metabolism improver comprising, as an active ingredient, a bacterial cell selected from bacteria belonging to the genus Lactobacillus and the genus Bifidobacterium, a treated product of the bacterial cell, or a mixture thereof, having dual-agonistic activities to peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)? and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)?; to a food or a beverage comprising the improver; and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the improver.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: Futoshi NAKAMURA, Nobuhisa ASHIDA, Yu ISHIDA, Shigeru FUJIWARA
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Patent number: 9506544Abstract: A ball screw device or linear motion guide device has a seal member preventing dust and dirt from entering into a movable member of a linear motion guide device and seals out fine dust, dirt or like by surely contacting a seal to a shaft member without providing a large margin to the seal. The seal member includes a body portion mounted to the movable member and a lip portion contacting an outer portion of the shaft member, the lip portion has an oblique surface having an axial section inclining with respect to its axial direction, the body portion has an urging member urging the lip portion in a diameter direction of the shaft member and a reinforcing portion reinforcing the body portion. The urging member is located on the reinforcing portion side than the tip end of the lip portion in the axial sectional shape of the lip portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Tsutomu Togashi, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 9468657Abstract: This invention provides an effective means or method for improving lipid metabolism, and a means or method for treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders associated with the lipid metabolism disorder. Specifically, this invention relates to an agent for improving the lipid metabolism comprising, as active ingredients, broken cells of a lactic acid bacterium, and to a method for enhancing an effect of a lactic acid bacterium for improving the lipid metabolism comprising a step of breaking the lactic acid bacterium.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.Inventors: Futoshi Nakamura, Yu Ishida, Shigeru Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20140322172Abstract: This invention provides the use of a microorganism capable of improving both lipid metabolism and sugar metabolism. Specifically, the invention relates to: a lipid metabolism and/or sugar metabolism improver comprising, as an active ingredient, a bacterial cell selected from bacteria belonging to the genus Lactobacillus and the genus Bifidobacterium, a treated product of the bacterial cell, or a mixture thereof, having dual-agonistic activities to peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)? and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)?; to a food or a beverage comprising the improver; and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the improver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: CALPIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Nakamura, Nobuhisa Ashida, Yu Ishida, Shigeru Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20140128126Abstract: When a user performs a closing operation of a touch screen slide type cellular phone and the closing operation is performed in a state where the touch screen is contacted, a CPU continuously puts a display and the touch screen into an ON state, which continuously allows touch operations on the touch screen. In contrast, when the closing operation is made without the user's physical contact with the touch screen, the CPU continuously puts the display and the touch screen into an OFF state. Accordingly, reduction of wasteful power consumption can be easily realized without impairing the usability for a user and without requiring complicated control.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.Inventor: Futoshi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20130255419Abstract: A ball screw device or linear motion guide device has a seal member preventing dust and dirt from entering into a movable member of a linear motion guide device and seals out fine dust, dirt or like by surely contacting a seal to a shaft member without providing a large margin to the seal. The seal member includes a body portion mounted to the movable member and a lip portion contacting an outer portion of the shaft member, the lip portion has an oblique surface having an axial section inclining with respect to its axial direction, the body portion has an urging member urging the lip portion in a diameter direction of the shaft member and a reinforcing portion reinforcing the body portion. The urging member is located on the reinforcing portion side than the tip end of the lip portion in the axial sectional shape of the lip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: THK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Tsutomu Togashi, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20130089633Abstract: This invention provides an effective means or method for improving lipid metabolism, and a means or method for treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders associated with the lipid metabolism disorder. Specifically, this invention relates to an agent for improving the lipid metabolism comprising, as active ingredients, broken cells of a lactic acid bacterium, and to a method for enhancing an effect of a lactic acid bacterium for improving the lipid metabolism comprising a step of breaking the lactic acid bacterium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: CALPIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Nakamura, Yu Ishida, Shigeru Fujiwara
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Patent number: 8375815Abstract: A rolling-element screw device includes: a large number of rolling elements; a screw shaft having an outer periphery on which a rolling groove for the large number of rolling elements is helically formed; a nut member which has a through-hole through which the screw shaft is passed and which is threadedly engaged with the screw shaft through intermediation of the large number of rolling elements; a lubricant supply hole formed through the nut member from an outer peripheral surface of the nut member to an inner peripheral surface of the nut member; a lubricant tank mounted to the outer peripheral surface of the nut member and comprising an accommodating chamber for lubricant; and a lubricant applying body standing from the lubricant tank, and inserted into the lubricant supply hole along with amounting operation of the lubricant tank with respect to the nut member.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Sakuyama, Tsutomu Togashi, Kazuhiro Tani, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20120017713Abstract: Provided is a rolling-element screw device which does not sacrifice a stroke distance of a nut member (2) although carrying a sufficient amount of lubricant, or hinder heat radiation of the nut member (2), and contributes to facilitation of a replacement operation of a lubricant tank (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Sakuyama, Tsutomu Togashi, Kazuhiro Tani, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 7901803Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a substrate; at least one underlayer formed above the substrate; and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed above the at least one underlayer, an easy magnetization axis of the perpendicular magnetic recording layer being oriented perpendicular to the substrate, the perpendicular magnetic recording layer including magnetic crystal particles and grain boundaries surrounding the magnetic crystal particles, wherein the grain boundaries contain an oxide of silicon and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, Sr, and Ba, and the ratio of a total amount of substance of Si, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, Sr, and Ba in the perpendicular magnetic recording layer is no less than 1 mol % and no more than 20 mol %.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignees: Showa Denko K.K., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomoyuki Maeda, Soichi Oikawa, Takeshi Iwasaki, Futoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Sakai, Kenji Shimizu, Akira Sakawaki
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Patent number: D752964Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Futoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: D755618Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Futoshi Nakamura