Patents by Inventor Hikaru Watanabe
Hikaru Watanabe 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: 20110273496Abstract: Prior to recording, the gap between ink nozzles and a sheet is set to a first gap and a humidified gas is supplied in a short time. After that, the gap is varied from the first gap to a second gap smaller than the first gap and recording is then started.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji Kanome, Takashi Horiba, Hikaru Watanabe, Eiichiro Tsuda
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Publication number: 20110273505Abstract: A humidification unit has a structure in which a first humidification chamber and a second humidification chamber are connected in series. Humidified gas produced in the humidification unit and having a high humidity is supplied to a space where nozzles of a recording head are exposed and produces a flow current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Horiba, Yuji Kanome, Hikaru Watanabe, Eiichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 7951530Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an option of non-reducing saccharide by providing a novel non-reducing saccharide composed of glucose as constituents and to provide a novel enzyme forming the non-reducing saccharide, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the non-reducing saccharide, and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above object by providing a novel cyclic saccharide having a structure of cyclo{>6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>}, cyclic maltosylmaltose, novel cyclic maltosylmaltose-forming enzyme, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the cyclic maltosylmaltose or a saccharide composition comprising the same, and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku KenkyujoInventors: Kazuhisa Mukai, Hikaru Watanabe, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20110109710Abstract: First humidified gas is supplied from a first supply port to a sheet to be conveyed, thereby increasing the moisture content of the sheet. Simultaneously, second humidified gas is supplied to a space where nozzles of the inkjet recording head are exposed, from a second supply port provided at a position closer to the inkjet recording head than the first supply port, thereby increasing the atmosphere humidity of the space. The part of the sheet of which the moisture content has been increased is made to enter the space where the atmosphere humidity has been increased, and recording is performed by the inkjet recording head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshimori Miyakoshi, Yuji Kanome, Susumu Hirosawa, Kentarou Muro, Yutaka Kano, Hikaru Watanabe, Takashi Horiba
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Publication number: 20100285562Abstract: A non-reducing saccharide by providing a novel non-reducing saccharide composed of glucose as constituents, a novel enzyme forming the non-reducing saccharide, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the non-reducing saccharide, and uses thereof are provided by use of an isocyclomaltooligosaccharide(s) having a structure represented by Formula 1, Cyclo{?6)-[?-D-Glcp-(1?4)]n-?-D-Glcp-(1?}, wherein ānā is 4 or 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA HAYASHIBARA SEIBUTSU KAGAKU KENKYUJOInventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20100157480Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head slider includes a center pad, a pair of center rails, and a center rail connection wall. The center pad is located in the center on the air outflow end side. The center rails extend toward the air inflow end side continuously from the center pad. The center rail connection wall connects the ends of the center rails on the air inflow end side to surround a space between the center pad and the center rails, and has a height between the top surface and the bottom surface of a floating surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: TOSHIBA STORAGE DEVICE CORPORATIONInventor: Hikaru WATANABE
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Patent number: 7732426Abstract: The present invention have objects to provide an option of non-reducing saccharide by providing a novel non-reducing saccharide composed of glucose as constituents and to provide a novel enzyme forming the non-reducing saccharide, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the non-reducing saccharide, and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above objects by providing an isocyclomaltooligosaccharide(s) having a structure represented by General Formula 1, a novel isocyclomaltooligosaccharide-forming enzyme, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the isocyclomaltooligosaccharide(s) or a saccharide composition comprising the same, and uses thereof. Cyclo{?6)-[?-D-Glcp-(1?4)]n-?-D-Glcp-(1?}??General Formula 1 (In General Formula 1, ānā means a number of 4 or 5).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku KenkyujoInventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20100120710Abstract: The present invention has objects to provide a glucan useful as water-soluble dietary fiber, its preparation and uses. The present invention solves the above objects by providing a branched ?-glucan, which is constructed by glucose molecules and characterized by methylation analysis as follows: (1) Ratio of 2,3,6-trimethyl-1,4,5-triacetyl-glucitol to 2,3,4-trimethyl-1,5,6-triacetyl-glucitol is in the range of 1:0.6 to 1:4; (2) Total content of 2,3,6-trimethyl-1,4,5-triacetyl-glucitol and 2,3,4-trimethyl-1,5,6-triacetyl-glucitol is 60% or higher in the partially methylated glucitol acetates; (3) Content of 2,4,6-trimethyl-1,3,5-triacetyl-glucitol is 0.5% or higher but less than 10% in the partially methylated glucitol acetates; and (4) Content of 2,4-dimethyl-1,3,5,6-tetraacetyl-glucitol is 0.5% or higher in the partially methylated glucitol acetates; a novel ?-glucosyltransferase which forms the branched ?-glucan, processes for producing them, and their uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Takuo Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Keiji Tsusaki, Kazuyuki Oku, Hiroto Chaen, Shigeharu Fukuda
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Patent number: 7709230Abstract: A novel process for producing isomaltose and uses thereof and comprising the steps of contacting saccharides, which have a glucose polymerization degree of at least two and ?-1,4 glucosidic linkage as a linkage at the non-reducing end, with an ?-isomaltosylglucosaccharide-forming enzyme, in the presence or the absence of ?-isomaltosyl-transferring enzyme to form a-isomaltosylglucosaccharides, which have a glucose polymerization degree of at least three, ?-1,6 glucosidic linkage as a linkage at the non-reducing end, and ?-1,4 glucosidic linkage as a linkage other than the non-reducing end, and/or to form cyclo{?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?3)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?3)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?}; contacting the saccharides so formed with isomaltose-releasing enzyme to release isomaltose; and collecting the released isomaltose; and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku KenkyujoInventors: Michio Kubota, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Takanobu Higashiyama, Hikaru Watanabe, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20100046119Abstract: A head slider includes a base surface extending in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a pair of side pads that are spaced apart from each other in the second direction on the base surface and have air bearing faces of a predetermined height from the base surface, a pair of rib portions that extend from the side pads to an end of the base surface in the first direction and have faces of a height between the base surface and the air bearing faces, and a joint portion that connects opposing ends of the pair of rib portions in the first direction and has a face of a height between the base surface and the air bearing faces.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Akihide Jinzenji
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Publication number: 20100015671Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an option of non-reducing saccharide by providing a novel non-reducing saccharide composed of glucose as constituents and to provide a novel enzyme forming the non-reducing saccharide, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the non-reducing saccharide, and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above object by providing a novel cyclic saccharide having a structure of cyclo{>6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1>}, cyclic maltosylmaltose, novel cyclic maltosylmaltose-forming enzyme, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the cyclic maltosylmaltose or a saccharide composition comprising the same, and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA HAYASHIBARA SEIBUTSU KAGAKU KENKYUJOInventors: Kazuhisa Mukai, Hikaru Watanabe, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Patent number: 7636747Abstract: A digital low-pass filter includes: a first subtracter that subtracts a first feedback term from an input; a first multiplier that multiplies an first subtracter output by a constant k1; a first delay unit that delays an input by a predetermined sampling time; a first adder that supplies, to the first delay unit, the input obtained by adding an first multiplier output to an first delay unit output; a second subtracter that subtracts the first feedback term from an first adder output; a second multiplier that multiplies an second subtracter output by a constant k2; a second delay unit that outputs, as the first feedback term, a signal obtained by delaying an input by a predetermined sampling time; and a second adder that supplies, to the second delay unit, a signal obtained by adding an second multiplier output to the second delay unit output.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2007Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hikaru Watanabe
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Publication number: 20090195931Abstract: A method of manufacturing a head suspension assembly for mounting a head slider on a suspension includes an irradiating light step, acquiring position information step and head slider mounting step. The irradiating light step is the step of irradiating light on a protective film and a marker at an incidence angle ?. The acquiring position information step is the step of acquiring position information of the marker by measuring reflected light from the protective film and that of the marker. The head slider mounting step is the step of mounting the head slider at a predetermined position of the suspension by using the difference of the intensity of reflected light from the protective film and that of the marker.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hikaru WATANABE, Toru WATANABE
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Publication number: 20080241904Abstract: A novel process for producing isomaltose and uses thereof and comprising the steps of contacting saccharides, which have a glucose polymerization degree of at least two and ?-1,4 glucosidic linkage as a linkage at the non-reducing end, with an ?-isomaltosylglucosaccharide-forming enzyme, in the presence or the absence of ?-isomaltosyl-transferring enzyme to form a-isomaltosylglucosaccharides, which have a glucose polymerization degree of at least three, ?-1,6 glucosidic linkage as a linkage at the non-reducing end, and ?-1,4 glucosidic linkage as a linkage other than the non-reducing end, and/or to form cyclo{?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?3)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?3)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?}; contacting the saccharides so formed with isomaltose-releasing enzyme to release isomaltose; and collecting the released isomaltose; and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA HAYASHIBARA SEIBUTSU KAGAKU KENKYUJOInventors: Michio Kubota, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Takanobu Higashiyama, Hikaru Watanabe, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20080131468Abstract: The present invention have objects to provide an option of non-reducing saccharide by providing a novel non-reducing saccharide composed of glucose as constituents and to provide a novel enzyme forming the non-reducing saccharide, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the non-reducing saccharide, and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above objects by providing an isocyclomaltooligosaccharide(s) having a structure represented by General Formula 1, a novel isocyclomaltooligosaccharide-forming enzyme, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the isocyclomaltooligosaccharide (s) or a saccharide composition comprising the same, and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20080120356Abstract: A digital low-pass filter includes: a first subtracter that subtracts a first feedback term from an input; a first multiplier that multiplies an first subtracter output by a constant k1; a first delay unit that delays an input by a predetermined sampling time; a first adder that supplies, to the first delay unit, the input obtained by adding an first multiplier output to an first delay unit output; a second subtracter that subtracts the first feedback term from an first adder output; a second multiplier that multiplies an second subtracter output by a constant k2; a second delay unit that inputs, as the first feedback term, a signal obtained by delaying an input by a predetermined sampling time; and a second adder that supplies, to the second delay unit, a signal obtained by adding an second multiplier output to the second delay unit outputType: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventor: Hikaru Watanabe
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Patent number: 7309697Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an option of non-reducing saccharide by providing a novel non-reducing saccharide composed of glucose as constituents and to provide a novel enzyme forming the non-reducing saccharide, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the non-reducing saccharide, and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above object by providing a novel cyclic saccharide having a structure of cyclo{?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?6}, cyclic maltosylmaltose, novel cyclic maltosylmaltose-forming enzyme, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the cyclic maltosylmaltose or a saccharide composition comprising the same, and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2004Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku KenkyujoInventors: Kazuhisa Mukai, Hikaru Watanabe, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Patent number: 7289054Abstract: Each of plural sigma-delta modulators having a sampling capacitor, an integrator, and a quantizer are connected to each other in parallel. Each of the sigma-delta modulators conducts parallel oversampling in which an analog input signal is sampled by a sampling capacitor, and the sampling result is quantized by the integrator and the quantizer. Then, the quantized values of the sigma-delta modulators are added to obtain MSBs, the residue values of the integrators after quantizing in the respective sigma-delta modulators are added, and the addition result of the residue values is converted analog-to-digital to obtain LSBs.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hikaru Watanabe
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Patent number: 7223570Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel glycosyl derivative of cyclotetrasaccharide represented by cyclo{?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?3)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?3)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?}, and it is solved by providing a branched cyclotetrasaccharide, wherein one or more hydrogen atoms in the hydroxyl groups of cyclotetrasaccharide are replaced with an optionally substituted glycosyl group, with the proviso that, when only one hydrogen atom in the C-6 hydroxyl group among the above hydrogen atoms is substituted with an optionally-substituted glycosyl group, the substituted glycosyl group is one selected from those excluding D-glucosyl group.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku KenkyujoInventors: Hajime Aga, Takanobu Higashiyama, Hikaru Watanabe, Tomohiko Sonoda, Michio Kubota
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Publication number: 20070066565Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an option of non-reducing saccharide by providing a novel non-reducing saccharide composed of glucose as constituents and to provide a novel enzyme forming the non-reducing saccharide, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the non-reducing saccharide, and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above object by providing a novel cyclic saccharide having a structure of cyclo{?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?6)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?4)-?-D-glucopyranosyl-(1?6}, cyclic maltosylmaltose, novel cyclic maltosylmaltose-forming enzyme, a method and process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA and transformant comprising the DNA, a composition comprising the cyclic maltosylmaltose or a saccharide composition comprising the same, and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Kazuhisa Mukai, Hikaru Watanabe, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake