Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Higuchi
Hirofumi Higuchi 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: 20090284905Abstract: In a method of making an electronic apparatus, electronic devices and a mold are placed in a package such that pads of electronic devices are covered with the mold. An electrical insulator is poured into the package, in which the mold is placed, to fill the package. The mold is removed from the electrical insulator to form a space where the pads are exposed. An electrical conductor is placed in the space such that the pads are electrically connected together through the electrical conductor. The electrical conductor is in the form of a liquid or a solid having both fluidity and deformability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kouji Yamamoto, Hirofumi Higuchi, Masaki Inoue
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Patent number: 7551065Abstract: An antitheft apparatus for a vehicle includes a theft behavior sensing device and a paint injecting device. The theft behavior sensing device senses a theft behavior to the vehicle. The paint injecting device injects paint toward at least one of an exterior and an interior of a cabin of the vehicle when the theft behavior sensing device senses the theft behavior.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2006Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7523665Abstract: An angular velocity sensor includes first and second vibrators having a movable portion with driving and detecting purpose movable electrodes and a fixed portion with first and second side driving and detecting purpose fixed electrodes. The driving voltages applied to the first side driving purpose fixed electrode in the first vibrator is a first driving voltage including direct and alternating voltages. The driving voltage applied to the second side driving purpose fixed electrode in the first vibrator is a second driving voltage including direct and alternating voltages. At least one of the direct voltages, one of the alternating voltages, or one of duty ratios of the first and second driving voltages is controlled so that the first vibrator vibrates opposite to the second vibrator.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Katsumata, Takeshi Ito, Hirofumi Higuchi, Mutsuhito Ogino, Tetsuya Morishima
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Publication number: 20090100931Abstract: A physical quantity sensor has a weight mass movable in a detection direction. Auxiliary capacitors are formed at both side ends of the weight mass in a non-detection direction by auxiliary movable electrodes and auxiliary fixed electrodes, respectively. When capacitances of the auxiliary capacitors change due to movement of the weight mass in the non-detection direction, a limiter circuit feedback-controls voltages applied to the auxiliary fixed electrodes to maintain the position of the weight mass unchanged. Thus, the weight mass is limited from moving in the non-detection direction thereby to improve accuracy in detection of the movement in the detection direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20090053212Abstract: The present invention provides a humanized anti-human osteopontin antibody having better activities (antigen binding activity, leukocyte migration inhibitory activity and the like) and/or stability (resistance to heat, low-pH conditions, denaturants and the like) than those of conventional anti-human osteopontin antibodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicants: Astellas Pharma Inc., Juridical Fdn. The Chemo-Sero-Therap. Res. Ins.Inventors: Nobuchika Yamamoto, Fumihiko Sakai, Hirofumi Higuchi, Masaharu Torikai, Toshihiro Nakashima
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Patent number: 7418863Abstract: An angular rate sensor includes a base member serving as a base, an angular rate sensing element having a vibrating member, a wiring member having a flexible, electrical insulating tape portion and a electrical wire portion. The wiring member has end portions fixed to the base member and a middle portion positioned between the end portions. The middle portion is separated from the base member and the sensing element is mounted to the middle portion. Thus, due to an elasticity of the wiring member, the sensing element can be isolated from an external vibration.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20080064061Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA fragment exhibiting a potent promoter activity when used in the yeast.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2005Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: Juridical Foundation The Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research InstituteInventors: Akihiro Meta, Yo Nakahara, Hirofumi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7276834Abstract: An oscillator is oscillatable in a predetermined direction. First and second driving electrodes are secured to the base and apply an electrostatic force to the oscillator to make drive oscillation of the oscillator in the predetermined direction. At the time of the drive oscillation of the oscillator, a predetermined electric charge is accumulated in the oscillator, and electric charges of opposite polarities are alternately and periodically accumulated in the first and second driving electrodes, respectively, to exert an attractive force between the oscillator and a corresponding one of the first and second driving electrodes and also to exert a repulsive force between the oscillator and the other one of the first and second driving electrodes, and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20070199377Abstract: An angular velocity sensor includes first and second vibrators having a movable portion with driving and detecting purpose movable electrodes and a fixed portion with first and second side driving and detecting purpose fixed electrodes. The driving voltages applied to the first side driving purpose fixed electrode in the first vibrator is a first driving voltage including direct and alternating voltages. The driving voltage applied to the second side driving purpose fixed electrode in the first vibrator is a second driving voltage including direct and alternating voltages. At least one of the direct voltages, one of the alternating voltages, or one of duty ratios of the first and second driving voltages is controlled so that the first vibrator vibrates opposite to the second vibrator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Takashi Katsumata, Takeshi Ito, Hirofumi Higuchi, Mitsuhito Ogino, Tetsuya Morishima
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Patent number: 7241873Abstract: A recombinant antibody in which at least the constant regions in the heavy chain and the light chain have been converted into human-origin regions and which inhibits the binding of an integrin recognizing the RGD sequence to osteopontin or its fragment and inhibits the binding of an integrin recognizing the SVVYGLR sequence or a sequence corresponding thereto to osteopontin or its fragment. This antibody is useful as a remedy for autoimmune diseases and a remedy for rheumatism or rheumatoid arthritis. Thus, a method of treating autoimmune diseases, rheumatism or rheumatoid arthritis is provided. This osteopontin antibody is useful in a diagnostic for rheumatism and a method of diagnosing rheumatism too.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2002Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignees: Juridical Foundation the Chemo-sero-therapeutic Research Institute, Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Toshimitsu Uede, Shigeyuki Kon, Nobuchika Yamamoto, Hirofumi Higuchi, Masaharu Torikai, Yoshiyuki Tokieda, Toshihiro Nakashima, Hiroaki Maeda
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Publication number: 20070139170Abstract: An antitheft apparatus for a vehicle includes a theft behavior sensing device and a paint injecting device. The theft behavior sensing device senses a theft behavior to the vehicle. The paint injecting device injects paint toward at least one of an exterior and an interior of a cabin of the vehicle when the theft behavior sensing device senses the theft behavior.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20070082531Abstract: An angular rate sensor includes a base member serving as a base, an angular rate sensing element having a vibrating member, a wiring member having a flexible, electrical insulating tape portion and a electrical wire portion. The wiring member has end portions fixed to the base member and a middle portion positioned between the end portions. The middle portion is separated from the base member and the sensing element is mounted to the middle portion. Thus, due to an elasticity of the wiring member, the sensing element can be isolated from an external vibration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7194904Abstract: A vibration-type angular velocity sensor realizing a suitably vibrating state of the vibrators by canceling the displacement of the vibrators caused by the gravity. The angular velocity sensor comprises base portions, vibrators coupled to the base portions, exciting means for driving and vibrating the vibrators in the x-direction, and detection means which, when an angular velocity is applied while the vibrators are being driven and vibrated, detects the angular velocity based on the vibrations of the vibrators in the y-direction at right angles with the x-direction, the angular velocity sensor further comprising position adjusting means for so adjusting the positions of the vibrators as to cancel the amount of displacement by which the vibrators are displaced by the gravity in the direction of the gravity.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7159462Abstract: An oscillator is oscillatable in a predetermined direction. First and second driving electrodes are secured to the base and apply an electrostatic force to the oscillator to make drive oscillation of the oscillator in the predetermined direction. At the time of the drive oscillation of the oscillator, a predetermined electric charge is accumulated in the oscillator, and electric charges of opposite polarities are alternately and periodically accumulated in the first and second driving electrodes, respectively, to exert an attractive force between the oscillator and a corresponding one of the first and second driving electrodes and also to exert a repulsive force between the oscillator and the other one of the first and second driving electrodes, and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2005Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20060280751Abstract: A method for enhancing efficacy of a monoclonal antibody preparation is provided wherein antigens from patients are tested for their reactivity with said antibody. In accordance with the method of the invention, an amino acid sequence of an expressed protein is deduced from a nucleotide sequence determined by isolation and analysis of a target molecule gene in biopsy from patients and is compared with the previously determined amino acid sequence recognized by said monoclonal antibody preparation to thereby assess fitness of patients for administration of said monoclonal antibody preparation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2004Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Hirofumi Higuchi, Keiichi Makizumi, Toshihiro Maeda, Hiroshi Mizokami
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Publication number: 20060255694Abstract: An oscillator is oscillatable in a predetermined direction. First and second driving electrodes are secured to the base and apply an electrostatic force to the oscillator to make drive oscillation of the oscillator in the predetermined direction. At the time of the drive oscillation of the oscillator, a predetermined electric charge is accumulated in the oscillator, and electric charges of opposite polarities are alternately and periodically accumulated in the first and second driving electrodes, respectively, to exert an attractive force between the oscillator and a corresponding one of the first and second driving electrodes and also to exert a repulsive force between the oscillator and the other one of the first and second driving electrodes, and vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2006Publication date: November 16, 2006Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7096732Abstract: A semiconductor device includes gaps formed in a semiconductor substrate to provide an inner portion movable in x and y directions. Drive electrodes vibrate the inner portion in the x direction, and detection electrodes detect movement in the y direction generated when an angular velocity is applied thereto. Monitor electrodes generate monitor signals for monitoring movement of the inner portion in the x direction. Shield wires are provided between the drive and detection electrodes and the monitor electrodes to suppress capacitive coupling. Dummy electrodes adjacent to the output electrodes and capacitively coupled to the drive electrodes generate a dummy signal. Dummy signal wires are respectively connected to the dummy electrodes and to the circuit substrate. The dummy signal includes an induced component of a periodical signal and is supplied to the circuit substrate to cancel another induced component of the periodical signal in the drive and monitor signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Takashi Katsumata, Hirofumi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7062970Abstract: A vibrator has a frame portion having a planar frame shape, an in-frame fixed portion which is fixed to a base portion and located in the inner space surrounded by the inner periphery of the frame portion, and a driving electrode comprising a first driving electrode disposed so as to confront the outer peripheral portion of the vibrator, and a second driving electrode which is equipped to the in-frame fixed portion so as to confront the inner peripheral portion of the frame portion, and the back-side portion of the in-frame fixed portion and the inner peripheral portion of the frame portion confronting the back-side portion are designed in an unevenly-shaped portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2003Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20060112764Abstract: An angular velocity detector includes a disk-shaped inertial mass supported on a substrate via driving beams and a second mass connected to the inertial mass via detecting beams. The inertial mass is oscillated in its rotational direction around a center axis (z) by an electrostatic force. When an angular velocity around a detection axis (x), which is perpendicular to the center axis (z), is imposed on the second mass while the inertial mass is oscillating, the second mass displaces in the direction parallel to the center axis (z). A capacitance between the second mass and the substrate changes according to the displacement of the second mass. The angular velocity is detected based on the changes in the capacitance. Since the driving beams allow the inertial mass to oscillate only in the rotational direction, the driving beams can be easily designed and manufactured.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7028548Abstract: To cancel in-phase components acting on vibrators of first and second sensor units in an angular velocity sensing direction Y, a differential amplification circuit obtains a differential waveform between a first angular velocity sensing waveform J1 and a second angular velocity waveform J2. Furthermore, to reduce a residual in-phase component of the obtained differential waveform, input gain adjusting circuits adjust an input gain of the first angular velocity sensing waveform J1 and an input gain of the second angular velocity sensing waveform J2 before these waveforms J1 and J2 are entered into the differential amplification circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Higuchi, Takeshi Ito