Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Aoki
Hidetoshi 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: 20220206278Abstract: A cultivation container includes a waveguide substrate that totally reflects and guides measurement light incident from a side end surface of the waveguide substrate, and a surrounding wall that stands upright on a top surface of the waveguide substrate and forms a cell cultivation space. The surrounding wall includes a shielding part that shields the measurement light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Hidetoshi Aoki
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Patent number: 9180858Abstract: A hybrid drive device in which an input shaft is connected to an engine, an output shaft is connected to wheels, and a wheel drive motor is connected between the input shaft and the output shaft. In the hybrid device, a friction engagement element that is provided between the input shaft and the output shaft and of which transfer torque is controllable. A control device controls the friction engagement element. The control device reduces the transfer torque of the friction engagement element during engine starting in a predetermined low temperature environment or during travel on a bad road, compared to the transfer torque of the friction engagement element in an engaged state.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi Aoki, Takafumi Koshida, Yoshitomi Haneda, Tokiyoshi Kida, Hiroshi Imai
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Patent number: 9050971Abstract: A vehicle drive device having an input member coupled to an internal combustion engine; an output member coupled to a wheel; a first rotating electrical machine; a second rotating electrical machine; and a differential gear unit having at least three rotating elements. A dog engagement device is provided on a power transmission path between the input member and an input rotating element. The engagement device includes a state selecting member that switches a state among three states, which are a first state where the input rotating element and the input member are coupled and the input rotating element and a non-rotating member are not coupled, a second state where the input rotating element coupled with both the input member and the non-rotating member, and a third state where the input rotating element and the non-rotating member are coupled.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoo Atarashi, Shigeki Takami, Takafumi Koshida, Hidetoshi Aoki, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140360793Abstract: A hybrid drive device in which an input shaft is connected to an engine, an output shaft is connected to wheels, and a wheel drive motor is connected between the input shaft and the output shaft. In the hybrid device, a friction engagement element that is provided between the input shaft and the output shaft and of which transfer torque is controllable. A control device controls the friction engagement element. The control device reduces the transfer torque of the friction engagement element during engine starting in a predetermined low temperature environment or during travel on a bad road, compared to the transfer torque of the friction engagement element in an engaged state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Hidetoshi Aoki, Takafumi Koshida, Yoshitomi Haneda, Tokiyoshi Kida, Hiroshi Imai
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Publication number: 20140011618Abstract: A vehicle drive device having an input member coupled to an internal combustion engine; an output member coupled to a wheel; a first rotating electrical machine; a second rotating electrical machine; and a differential gear unit having at least three rotating elements. A dog engagement device is provided on a power transmission path between the input member and an input rotating element. The engagement device includes a state selecting member that switches a state among three states, which are a first state where the input rotating element and the input member are coupled and the input rotating element and a non-rotating member are not coupled, a second state where the input rotating element coupled with both the input member and the non-rotating member, and a third state where the input rotating element and the non-rotating member are coupled.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoo Atarashi, Shigeki Takami, Takafumi Koshida, Hidetoshi Aoki, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8547192Abstract: In an electromagnetic actuator, an electromagnetic drive section forms a flux path between a plunger and an inner yoke, each member being made of magnetic material, and which drives the plunger in an axial direction through electromagnetic force, an operation section has a dog movable between a connection position where it is connected with a mating part and a release position where it is apart from the mating part in the axial direction, and which restrains movement of the mating part in a circumferential direction when the dog is at the connection position, and a retaining ring is interposed between the plunger and the dog such that relative movement of the dog to the plunger in the circumferential direction is permitted and relative movement of the dog to the plunger in the axial direction is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukihiko Ideshio, Yoshihiro Iijima, Hideaki Komada, Miyoshi Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Aoki, Takaji Umeno
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Patent number: 8466410Abstract: A method for measuring a fluorescent light amount, whereby a specimen is irradiated with excitation light, and fluorescent light generated from the specimen is measured by a light-receiving element via of a receiving optical system, the method includes the steps of irradiating the specimen with excitation light having a light-amount value per specified unit area traceable to the national standard, and designated on the surface of the specimen beforehand, causing the light-receiving element to measure the fluorescent light generated from the specimen, and computing a fluorescent light-amount as measured by the light-receiving element of the receiving optical system on the basis of an excitation light-amount per the specified unit area, optical coefficients of the receiving optical system, and the acceptance coefficient of the light-receiving element, thereby working out a light amount value per the unit area traceable to the national standard.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Takeo Tanaami, Hidetoshi Aoki, Yumiko Sugiyama, Souichirou Shimoda, Muneki Araragi
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Publication number: 20130029867Abstract: A concentration measurement method for measuring the concentration of a target molecule, capable of carrying out a quantitative measurement of the concentration by use of a chip. A relationship between concentration of a target molecule of a calibration liquid, found with respect to a calibration chip identical in performance to the measurement chip and a measured quantity of light is found when the probe molecule and the target molecule undergo bonding reaction in a condition where the specific probe molecule and the target molecule undergo bonding reaction using the calibration chip.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takao TANAAMI, Hidetoshi AOKI, Souichirou SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20130017916Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes an input member drivingly coupled to a drive output member of an internal combustion engine that rotates in a positive direction; an output member drivingly coupled to wheels; a rotating electrical machine; a distribution output member drivingly coupled to the output member; and a differential gear unit that distributes and transfers a torque, transferred to the input member, to the rotating electrical machine and the distribution output member. The distribution output member is placed coaxially with the input member and supported in a radial direction by a support bearing so as to be capable of rotating. Rotation of the input member in a negative direction is restricted by a one-way clutch. The one-way clutch is placed radially inward of the support bearing. At least a part of the one-way clutch is placed so as to overlap the support bearing as viewed in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Natsuki Sada, Hidetoshi Aoki, Michitaka Tsuchida
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Patent number: 7978327Abstract: There is provided a molecularity measurement instrument capable of working out the number of molecules in a sample by comparing a measured value of a light quantity with a theoretical light quantity per a single molecule, and a molecularity measurement method using the same. The molecularity of the sample is quantitatively estimated on the basis of a light quantity having correlation with the molecularity. The molecularity measurement method comprises the step of working out a theoretical light quantity per a single molecule, the step of measuring a light quantity of the sample by use of an image detector, and the step of working out the molecularity of the sample on the basis of a ratio of the light quantity of the sample to the theoretical light quantity as worked out.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Takeo Tanaami, Hidetoshi Aoki, Saya Satou, Yumiko Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20110063058Abstract: In an electromagnetic actuator, an electromagnetic drive section forms a flux path between a plunger and an inner yoke, each member being made of magnetic material, and which drives the plunger in an axial direction through electromagnetic force, an operation section has a dog movable between a connection position where it is connected with a mating part and a release position where it is apart from the mating part in the axial direction, and which restrains movement of the mating part in a circumferential direction when the dog is at the connection position, and a retaining ring is interposed between the plunger and the dog such that relative movement of the dog to the plunger in the circumferential direction is permitted and relative movement of the dog to the plunger in the axial direction is restricted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2008Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukihiko Ideshio, Yoshihiro Iijima, Hideaki Komada, Miyoshi Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Aoki, Takaji Umeno
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Publication number: 20110031410Abstract: An amount of fluorescent light generated from the specimen is quantitatively measured as “a light-amount value per unit area traceable to the national standard” instead of in terms of a ratio (a ratio value) as in the past.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo TANAAMI, Hidetoshi AOKI, Yumiko SUGIYAMA, Souichirou SHIMODA, Muneki ARARAGI
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Publication number: 20100288789Abstract: A chemical reaction cartridge enabling chemical reaction to be stably and safely carried out therein, and a method of using the same are provided. A chemical reaction cartridge is provided with a substrate, and an elastic member 2 overlaid on the substrate. A recess of a predetermined shape, depressed toward the top surface of the elastic member is formed in the back surface of the elastic member. The recess creates space between the substrate, and the elastic member, thereby making up a well, for holding the main ingredient of the epoxy adhesive, a flow path communicating with the well, a well for holding a curing agent for the epoxy adhesive, a flow path communicating with the well, a mixing part for mixing the main ingredient with the curing agent, and a discharge path for discharging a mixture. While the chemical reaction cartridge is not in use as yet, the flow paths, and the discharge path are closed, so that the wells are, in effect, in a hermetically sealed condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo TANAAMI, Hidetoshi AOKI, Saya SATOU, Takeyuki MOGI
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Patent number: 7789270Abstract: A chemical reaction cartridge enabling chemical reaction to be stably and safely carried out therein, and a method of using the same are provided. A chemical reaction cartridge is provided with a substrate, and an elastic member 2 overlaid on the substrate. A recess of a predetermined shape, depressed toward the top surface of the elastic member is formed in the back surface of the elastic member. The recess creates space between the substrate, and the elastic member, thereby making up a well, for holding the main ingredient of the epoxy adhesive, a flow path communicating with the well, a well for holding a curing agent for the epoxy adhesive, a flow path communicating with the well, a mixing part for mixing the main ingredient with the curing agent, and a discharge path for discharging a mixture. While the chemical reaction cartridge is not in use as yet, the flow paths, and the discharge path are closed, so that the wells are, in effect, in a hermetically sealed condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Takeo Tanaami, Hidetoshi Aoki, Saya Satou, Takeyuki Mogi
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Publication number: 20090263294Abstract: Disclosed is a chemical reaction cartridge including an elastic body as a construction material and a flow path and two or more chambers connected by the flow path formed inside the cartridge, and the cartridge is structured so as to move or block a fluid material in the flow path or the chambers by partially sealing the flow path, the chambers or both the flow path and the chambers by applying external force to the elastic body from outside, as one of the chambers, the cartridge has a reaction chamber, the reaction chamber is a chamber in which a chemical reaction of a reaction liquid to be introduced in the reaction chamber is carried out, and a specific liquid to fill a space in the reaction chamber is filled in the reaction chamber before the reaction liquid is introduced in the reaction chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi AOKI, Takeyuki MOGI, Takeo TANAAMI
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Publication number: 20090201506Abstract: There is provided a molecularity measurement instrument capable of working out the number of molecules in a sample by comparing a measured value of a light quantity with a theoretical light quantity per a single molecule, and a molecularity measurement method using the same. The molecularity of the sample is quantitatively estimated on the basis of a light quantity having correlation with the molecularity. The molecularity measurement method comprises the step of working out a theoretical light quantity per a single molecule, the step of measuring a light quantity of the sample by use of an image detector, and the step of working out the molecularity of the sample on the basis of a ratio of the light quantity of the sample to the theoretical light quantity as worked out.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo TANAAMI, Hidetoshi AOKI, Saya SATOU, Yumiko SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20080200858Abstract: Provided is a blood diagnosis method of providing a diagnostic marker which is general and which contributes to dialysis treatment and evaluation of clinical effects. The method includes a step of collecting blood samples from a dialysis patient before and/or after dialysis and a step of performing a gene diagnosis based on mRNA markers on the collected blood samples. The mRNA markers are previously identified on the basis of correlations between clinical data and mRNA profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Inventors: Eiichiro ICHIISHI, Makoto ISHIZAKI, Kazuhisa FUKUSHIMA, Tsuneji SAWAI, Hidetoshi AOKI, Atsushi ITO
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Publication number: 20080172025Abstract: Disclosed is a chemical reaction cartridge comprising: an elastic member as a component; a flow path and a plurality of chambers which are connected to each other by the flow path, the flow path or the chambers or both of the flow path and the chambers being partially blocked by applying external pressure to the elastic member from outside so that a fluid substance in the flow path or in the chambers is moved or blocked, and one of the chambers being a sample collecting chamber to temporarily retain a sample supplied from outside; and an injection needle to connect the sample collecting chamber and an outside portion of the sample collecting chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo TANAAMI, Atsushi ITO, Hidetoshi AOKI
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Publication number: 20080026391Abstract: Provided is a blood diagnosis method of providing a diagnostic marker which is general and which contributes to dialysis treatment and evaluation of clinical effects. The method includes a step of collecting blood samples from a dialysis patient before and/or after dialysis and a step of performing a gene diagnosis based on mRNA markers on the collected blood samples. The mRNA markers are previously identified on the basis of correlations between clinical data and mRNA profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicants: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tohoku UniversityInventors: Eiichiro Ichiishi, Makoto Ishizaki, Kazuhisa Fukushima, Tsuneji Sawai, Hidetoshi Aoki, Atsushi Ito
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Publication number: 20070211341Abstract: An image scan apparatus includes a scanner including: a document table on which a document is placed; a carriage which scans a read area of an image; a stepping motor which moves the carriage; an image processing unit which processes an image signal resulted from scanning by the carriage; a scanner controller which performs a process necessary to read the image; and memory which stores information, wherein on the document table, a sub-scan magnification adjustment chart which expresses a predetermined shape in order to calculate an actual sub-scan magnification by the scanner controller is placed. According to the image scan apparatus, when error occurs in the actual sub-scan magnification, the sub-scan magnification can be automatically adjusted without an operator performing the adjustment work of the magnification in the sub-scanning direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2006Publication date: September 13, 2007Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Hashizume, Hidetoshi Aoki