Patents by Inventor Hiroto Hirano

Hiroto Hirano 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).

  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240077817
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device which includes a fixing unit including an endless fixing belt, a heating portion, and a temperature detecting portion and which includes a nip forming member; a first storing portion; and a controller. In a case that a predetermined part of a plurality of parts is exchanged, the controller succeeds information other than information on the predetermined part of information on the fixing device stored in the first storing portion, and determines a target temperature in temperature adjustment control by using the succeeded information and information on the predetermined part used after being exchanged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: SHIGERU HIRANO, TAKAHIRO OHNISHI, KIYONORI SOTOME, HIROTO ITO
  • Recombinant activin A precursor protein
    Patent number: 11401311
    Abstract: Provided is a recombinant activin A precursor protein that has human activin A activity. Also provided is a novel method for producing human activin A. The present invention pertains to a recombinant activin A precursor protein that includes a human mature activin A sequence and a non-human activin A prodomain, wherein said recombinant activin A precursor protein is not a naturally occurring activin A precursor protein. The present invention also pertains to a method for producing a human activin A using the aforesaid recombinant activin A precursor protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto Hirano, Kenichiro Ito
  • CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME
    Publication number: 20220227674
    Abstract: A ceramic matrix composite includes a substrate which contains a fibrous body formed from a silicon carbide fiber, and a matrix which is formed in the substrate, and which contains RE3Al5O12, RE2Si2O7, and the balance being an oxide of RE, Al, and Si, or RE2SiO5, where the RE is Y or Yb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi NAKAMURA, Hiroto HIRANO, Masahiro KOTANI, Takahiko SHINOHARA
  • METHOD OF PRODUCING ALKALOID
    Publication number: 20210024944
    Abstract: A production method can produce alkaloids at higher efficiencies than conventional methods includes expressing, in a Catharanthus plant of the family Apocynaceae and using gene manipulation, a protein that particulates in tryptophan biosynthesis and a protein that participates in secologanin biosynthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kisaka, Tetsuya Miwa, Hiroto Hirano
  • RECOMBINANT ACTIVIN A PRECURSOR PROTEIN
    Publication number: 20210017245
    Abstract: Provided is a recombinant activin A precursor protein that has human activin A activity. Also provided is a novel method for producing human activin A. The present invention pertains to a recombinant activin A precursor protein that includes a human mature activin A sequence and a non-human activin A prodomain, wherein said recombinant activin A precursor protein is not a naturally occurring activin A precursor protein. The present invention also pertains to a method for producing a human activin A using the aforesaid recombinant activin A precursor protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto Hirano, Kenichiro Ito