Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kido
Hiroshi Kido 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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Patent number: 11686733Abstract: A means for predicting an infant's risk of developing an allergy to an allergen is provided. IgG1 antibody titers and IgE antibody titers against egg white in a sample of infants 6 months old or younger are measured using a DCP chip, and a scattergram is created by plotting the IgG1 antibody titer on an X axis and the IgE antibody titer on a Y axis. For data distribution divided into two blocks, a linear function applicable to the respective blocks is calculated to obtain two types of linear functions, and the risk of developing an allergy is predicted based on which block an infant belongs to.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: APPLIED MEDICAL ENZYME RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kido, Makoto Irahara, Koichi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230003738Abstract: Provided is an approach of predicting a risk of occurrence of anaphylaxis in an infant or a child having food allergy by measuring an antibody titer of an IgE antibody and avidity of the IgE antibody against an allergen in a sample collected from the infant or the child, and predicting the risk of occurrence of anaphylaxis in the infant or the child according to a criterion created on the basis of ROC analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Koichi Suzuki, Hitomi Tada, Wakako Shinahara
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Publication number: 20210338809Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an allergen vaccine for treatment or prevention of an allergic disease, while reducing the risk of developing an immediate type allergy including anaphylaxis. The present inventors have found that (1) oral inoculation of a composition comprising a particular antigen (allergen) and SF10 into subjects having allergic diseases can suppress the development of an immediate type allergy caused by sensitization with the antigen, and (2) oral inoculation of a composition comprising a particular antigen (allergen) and SF10 into subjects not having allergic diseases can inhibit establishment of sensitization to the antigen, and have completed the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Etsuhisa Takahashi, Takashi Kimoto, Satoko Sakai
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Patent number: 10820974Abstract: An interdental brush includes a handle, a shank extending therefrom, and a bristle portion disposed around the shank. The bristle portion has a plurality of bristle units, each of which has a loading surface facing the handle and having a diameter larger than a diameter of the shank, and a surrounding wall extending from the loading surface toward a direction opposite to the handle with the extent progressively decreasing therefrom. The loading surface and the surrounding wall converge at a brim. The gradually-reduced arrangement of each surrounding wall facilitates an easy entrance into slits between teeth and provides each loading surface and brim with sufficient support to scrape and remove food debris and tartar while pulling the brush out. The revolution of bristle units around the shank helps the brush touch and massage gingivae in a large area, thereby increasing the effect of cleaning teeth and convenience of use.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: NICE RENEW CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Kido
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Patent number: 10616984Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) lighting device includes (i) a selector circuit that sequentially and cyclically selects a plurality of LED loads one by one, the plurality of LED loads respectively emitting light as a result of being selected, and (ii) a control circuit that controls the selector circuit to cause an intermediate color to be produced by successively generating frames, each frame being a temporal combination of at least one first cycle period and at least one second cycle period, the at least one first cycle period generating a first mixed emission color, and the at least one second cycle period generating a second mixed emission color different from the first mixed emission color.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Takeguchi, Shigeru Ido, Hiroshi Kido
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Publication number: 20190391158Abstract: A means for predicting an infant's risk of developing an allergy to an allergen is provided. IgG1 antibody titers and IgE antibody titers against egg white in a sample of infants 6 months old or younger are measured using a DCP chip, and a scattergram is created by plotting the IgG1 antibody titer on an X axis and the IgE antibody titer on a Y axis. For data distribution divided into two blocks, a linear function applicable to the respective blocks is calculated to obtain two types of linear functions, and the risk of developing an allergy is predicted based on which block an infant belongs to.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2017Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Makoto Irahara, Koichi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190364627Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) lighting device includes (i) a selector circuit that sequentially and cyclically selects a plurality of LED loads one by one, the plurality of LED loads respectively emitting light as a result of being selected, and (ii) a control circuit that controls the selector circuit to cause an intermediate color to be produced by successively generating frames, each frame being a temporal combination of at least one first cycle period and at least one second cycle period, the at least one first cycle period generating a first mixed emission color, and the at least one second cycle period generating a second mixed emission color different from the first mixed emission color.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Naoki TAKEGUCHI, Shigeru IDO, Hiroshi KIDO
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Patent number: 10441742Abstract: A light emission control device includes a light emission controller which controls a light emitter and performs normal control and wake-up control, the normal control being control for causing the light emitter to emit light having a color temperature and luminance according to an instruction of a user, the wake-up control being control for causing the light emitter to emit light at increasing luminance over time to wake up the user who is sleeping. The maximum luminance of light emitted by the light emitter in the wake-up control is greater than the maximum luminance of light emitted by the light emitter in the normal control.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Shigeru Ido, Hisao Kataoka, Naohiro Toda, Kazuhiro Hatta, Sadayoshi Hattori
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Patent number: 10357630Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: an illuminator including a light source which emits illumination light; a lighting controller which controls the illuminator; and a receiver which receives, from a control apparatus, a control command signal generated based on at least one of user information and environmental information in order to control the illumination light of the illuminator, wherein the control command signal received by the receiver includes one or more parameters including, as an element, at least one of a brightness of the illumination light of the illuminator, a color temperature of the illumination light of the illuminator, and control time for controlling the illumination light of the illuminator.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Shigeru Ido, Hisao Kataoka, Sadayoshi Hattori
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Publication number: 20190150463Abstract: A composition for suppressing deterioration of an acquired immune function according to the present invention includes, as an active ingredient, lactic acid bacteria products from lactic acid bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus. This composition for suppressing deterioration of the acquired immune function suppresses deterioration of the acquired immune function due to the use of an anti-influenza drug. The lactic acid bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus is preferably a bulgaricus bacterium. For example, the lactic acid bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus may be Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus. In the production method according to the present invention, a milk raw material is supplied to lactic acid bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus in order to produce the composition for suppressing deterioration of the acquired immune function to suppress deterioration of the acquired immune function due to the use of an anti-influenza drug.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Hiroshi KIDO, Etsuhisa TAKAHASHI, Seiya MAKINO, Hiroshi KANO, Jun HENMI
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Publication number: 20190110872Abstract: An interdental brush includes a handle, a shank extending therefrom, and a bristle portion disposed around the shank. The bristle portion has a plurality of bristle units, each of which has a loading surface facing the handle and having a diameter larger than a diameter of the shank, and a surrounding wall extending from the loading surface toward a direction opposite to the handle with the extent progressively decreasing therefrom. The loading surface and the surrounding wall converge at a brim. The gradually-reduced arrangement of each surrounding wall facilitates an easy entrance into slits between teeth and provides each loading surface and brim with sufficient support to scrape and remove food debris and tartar while pulling the brush out. The revolution of bristle units around the shank helps the brush touch and massage gingivae in a large area, thereby increasing the effect of cleaning teeth and convenience of use.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventor: HIROSHI KIDO
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Patent number: 10237937Abstract: A lighting device is provided that includes a lighting controller that controls a light emitter that emits illumination light. The lighting controller includes a first filter that converts a first signal waveform that is defined by a first piecewise linear curve and whose intensity repeatedly increases and decreases into a signal waveform having a smooth rounded curve, and outputs the converted signal waveform as a first output waveform. The lighting controller causes the light emitter to repeatedly increase and decrease the intensity of the illumination light in accordance with the first output waveform.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Shigeru Ido, Hisao Kataoka, Naohiro Toda
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Patent number: 10201046Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes light sources differing from one another in terms of light-emission color and voltage drop when identical current flows therein, switches in one-to-one correspondence with the light sources, a DC power supply circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit performs a first control of the switches through a time division control method such that an on-period of each switch is not overlapped with that of any other switch. The control circuit also performs a second control to individually control at least one of a target current magnitude, flowing through each switch in the switched-on state, and a target on-period length of each switch, and to adjust a ratio of the plurality of light sources in terms of a product of the target current magnitude and the target on-period length.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kido, Akinori Hiramatsu, Shigeru Ido
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Patent number: 10159129Abstract: A lighting device which causes a first light source to emit illumination light and a second light source to emit illumination light having a color temperature higher than a color temperature of the illumination light emitted by the first light source includes: an illuminator which includes a first switching element connected in series to the first light source, and a second switching element connected in series to the second light source; an illumination controller which controls the illuminator to place at least one of the first switching element and the second switching element into an off state; and a constant-current controller which detects a sum of values of currents flowing through the first light source and the second light source, and controls the first switching element and the second switching element based on the sum.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Shigeru Ido, Hisao Kataoka
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Publication number: 20180250493Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: an illuminator including a light source which emits illumination light; a lighting controller which controls the illuminator; and a receiver which receives, from a control apparatus, a control command signal generated based on at least one of user information and environmental information in order to control the illumination light of the illuminator, wherein the control command signal received by the receiver includes one or more parameters including, as an element, at least one of a brightness of the illumination light of the illuminator, a color temperature of the illumination light of the illuminator, and control time for controlling the illumination light of the illuminator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi KIDO, Shigeru IDO, Hisao KATAOKA, Sadayoshi HATTORI
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Publication number: 20180255619Abstract: A lighting device which causes a first light source to emit illumination light and a second light source to emit illumination light having a color temperature higher than a color temperature of the illumination light emitted by the first light source includes: an illuminator which includes a first switching element connected in series to the first light source, and a second switching element connected in series to the second light source; an illumination controller which controls the illuminator to place at least one of the first switching element and the second switching element into an off state; and a constant-current controller which detects a sum of values of currents flowing through the first light source and the second light source, and controls the first switching element and the second switching element based on the sum.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi KIDO, Shigeru IDO, Hisao KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20180255617Abstract: A lighting device is provided that includes a lighting controller that controls a light emitter that emits illumination light. The lighting controller includes a first filter that converts a first signal waveform that is defined by a first piecewise linear curve and whose intensity repeatedly increases and decreases into a signal waveform having a smooth rounded curve, and outputs the converted signal waveform as a first output waveform. The lighting controller causes the light emitter to repeatedly increase and decrease the intensity of the illumination light in accordance with the first output waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi KIDO, Shigeru IDO, Hisao KATAOKA, Naohiro TODA
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Publication number: 20180250492Abstract: A light emission control device includes a light emission controller which controls a light emitter and performs normal control and wake-up control, the normal control being control for causing the light emitter to emit light having a color temperature and luminance according to an instruction of a user, the wake-up control being control for causing the light emitter to emit light at increasing luminance over time to wake up the user who is sleeping. The maximum luminance of light emitted by the light emitter in the wake-up control is greater than the maximum luminance of light emitted by the light emitter in the normal control.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi Kido, Shigeru Ido, Hisao Kataoka, Naohiro Toda, Kazuhiro Hatta, Sadayoshi Hattori
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Patent number: 9750095Abstract: A control circuit is configured to convert a DC voltage that is outputted from a DC power supply to a square wave voltage by switching the switching element according to a PWM signal having a duty ratio that corresponds to a light modulation level of the light source unit, and cause the square wave voltage to be outputted to the light source unit. The control circuit includes a voltage controller configured to control an operating voltage for operating the switching element such that at least one of a rising time and a falling time of a current that flows through the switching element is 1 microsecond or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Ido, Akinori Hiramatu, Hiroshi Kido, Takeshi Kamoi, Daisuke Ueda
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Patent number: 9699847Abstract: The light source unit includes a light source circuit including N (N?3) pairs of a light source group including one or more solid light emitting elements and a constant current circuit connected in series with the light source group to keep, constant, current flowing through the light source group, a full-wave rectification circuit for performing full-wave rectification on AC voltage, and a control circuit. The first pair is connected to the full-wave rectification circuit. The k-th (2?k?N) pair is connected in parallel with the constant current circuit of the (k?1)-th pair so that the light source groups of the k-th and (k?1)-th pairs are in series. The control circuit terminates operations of the constant current circuits of the N pairs or limits currents flowing through the light source groups of the N pairs in response to detection of light or a signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akinori Hiramatsu, Shigeru Ido, Daisuke Ueda, Hiroshi Kido