Patents by Inventor Junichi Masuda

Junichi Masuda 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).

  • Publication number: 20140088243
    Abstract: Methods using solid-state shear pulverization and melt mixing and related polymer-carbon nanotube composites, as can be used to affect various mechanical and/or physical material properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Northwestern University
    Inventors: John M. Torkelson, Junichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8597557
    Abstract: Methods using solid-state shear pulverization and melt mixing and related polymer-carbon nanotube composites, as can be used to affect various mechanical and/or physical material properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: John M. Torkelson, Junichi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20130281185
    Abstract: In a game system including a single or a plurality of game apparatuses, a first game execution unit executes a first game in accordance with an instruction of a player inputted via an input unit. A second game execution unit executes a second game in accordance with an instruction of the player inputted via the input unit. The second game execution unit sets a new game mode of a first degree of difficulty so as to be accessible in the second game in response to an execution result of the first game having satisfied a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi MASUDA, Toru NAGIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20130235622
    Abstract: A power supply device comprises: a rectifier circuit converting AC input voltage to DC; a smoothing capacitor connected to an output terminal of the rectifier circuit; a switching element turning on and off output from the smoothing capacitor to provide to a load; a switching controller controlling the switching of the switching element; a first signal input part generating a first signal for stopping the switching and keeping it stopped and inputting the first signal to the switching controller via a particular terminal thereof, when a trouble occurs on the power supply device; a detector detecting that the AC input voltage is a predetermined value or less; and a second signal input part generating a second signal for stopping the switching and keeping it stopped and inputting the second signal to the switching controller via the particular terminal, when the AC input voltage is the predetermined value or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Mikiyuki Aoki, Taku Kimura, Takahiro Yokoya
  • Patent number: 8512828
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented white polypropylene film containing a core layer (layer A) and a skin layer (layer B), said layer B is laminated at least on one surface of said layer A, wherein said layer A contains a polypropylene resin having ?-crystal activity and 1 to 20 mass % particle (a) having an average dispersed diameter of 60 to 400 nm, and wherein, said layer B contains a polypropylene resin and 0.05 to 5 mass % particle (b) of an average dispersed diameter of 1 to 4 ?m. The present invention provides a biaxially oriented white polypropylene film excellent in film quality and productivity and capable of making sensitivity and productivity compatible in a high level when used as a base for a receiving sheet, and a receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording made thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Tanaka, Junichi Masuda, Masatoshi Ohkura, Tatsuya Itou
  • Publication number: 20130183057
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms a color image by overlaying toner images formed on respective first, second, and third photoreceptors, comprising: first, second, and third voltage-applied members respectively facing the first, second, and third photoreceptors; a first AC power supply generating first AC voltage, and superimposing the first AC voltage on first DC voltage to generate first voltage for causing a first electric field between the first voltage-applied member and the first photoreceptor; a second AC power supply generating second AC voltage, and superimposing the second AC voltage on second DC voltage to generate second voltage for causing a second electric field between the second voltage-applied member and the second photoreceptor; and a composite circuit superimposing a composite of the first voltage and the second voltage on third DC voltage, to generate third voltage for causing a third electric field between the third voltage-applied member and the third photoreceptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Mikiyuki Aoki, Junichi Masuda, Taku Kimura, Takahiro Yokoya
  • Patent number: 8460112
    Abstract: A game apparatus constantly broadcasts beacons at predetermined intervals by means of a local communication module during game processing being executed. The beacons include various pieces of information such as information relating to the player, information indicating a game status, and messages. The game apparatus receives beacons from one or more other game apparatuses present in an area near the game apparatus, and displays profiles of the players of the other game apparatuses, the game statuses of the other game apparatuses, or the like, based on the various pieces of information included in the beacons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Game Freak, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Katsumi Ohno
  • Patent number: 8390879
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a effective resolution determinator for forming a plurality of patch patterns different in resolution by the output engine, checking by sensor whether or not the patch patterns formed by the output engine are developed with developer, and determining that a resolution of the patch pattern with highest resolution recognizable by the sensor is an effective resolution which can be outputted by the output engine; and a dot counter for counting number of dots constituting an image of not less than effective resolution in the printing data, by which an error in estimated toner consumption, caused by dots too small to be developed, is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Seiji Aoki, Yoshiki Nakazawa, Takahiro Doi
  • Publication number: 20130005034
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transforming human or non-human mammalian stem cells by introducing a desired peptide motif into the stem cells. The stem cell transformation method disclosed herein uses a synthesized peptide having an amino acid sequence which constitutes the desired peptide motif on the N-terminal end or C-terminal end of a cell membrane-permeable nucleolar localization signal sequence defined by the amino acid sequence KKRTLRKNDRKKR (SEQ ID NO:1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko Yoshida, Nahoko Kobayashi, Junichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8292294
    Abstract: A sheet transportation device includes a transportation path for transportation of a sheet, a transportation unit for applying force to a sheet on the transportation path, and an electromagnetic component for driving the transportation unit by receiving supply of electric power. At the sheet transportation device, the absence/presence of a sheet is detected at a downstream side of the region where the transportation unit applies force to a sheet in the transportation path, and counter electromotive force induced in response to electric power being supplied to the electromagnetic component is supplied as the electric power for the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Masayuki Watanabe, Takeshi Ishida, Takahiro Tsujimoto, Takahiro Yokoya
  • Publication number: 20120250357
    Abstract: A power supplying device provides power to the body of an image forming apparatus and an optional device connected to the body of the same. The power supplying device comprises: a rectifier circuit which rectifies an alternating current inputted from an alternating-current source; a booster circuit which boosts and smooths the direct-current voltage caused by the rectifier circuit; a judgment portion which judges whether or not there is an optional device connected to the body of the image forming apparatus; an identification portion which identifies the type of the optional device connected thereto; and a controller which, if there is an optional device connected thereto according to the judgment portion, adjusts the boosted voltage obtained by the booster circuit to a higher value than that if there is no optional device connected thereto, which depends on the type of the optional device identified by the identification portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro YOKOYA, Mikiyuki Aoki, Junichi Masuda, Taku Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120086155
    Abstract: An aliphatic polyester film is obtained by melt-extruding an aliphatic polyester as a film, controlling the entrained air stream between a casting drum and the film while inhibiting the variations of the film edge portion landing points on the casting drum, and subsequently bringing the film into contact with the casting drum over the entire width of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Yamauchi, Junichi Masuda, Yoshikazu Endo, Osamu Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20120010000
    Abstract: A game apparatus constantly broadcasts beacons at predetermined intervals by means of a local communication module during game processing being executed. The beacons include various pieces of information such as information relating to the player, information indicating a game status, and messages. The game apparatus receives beacons from one or more other game apparatuses present in an area near the game apparatus, and displays profiles of the players of the other game apparatuses, the game statuses of the other game apparatuses, or the like, based on the various pieces of information included in the beacons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicants: GAME FREAK INC., NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi MASUDA, Katsumi Ohno
  • Publication number: 20120011256
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires operation information of a user, and executes an application based on the operation information. While the application is being executed, the information processing apparatus repeatedly searches for other unspecified information processing apparatuses by using a wireless communication function, and establishes a connection with the one or more of the other information processing apparatuses having been searched for. The information processing apparatus executes a communication application to communicate with the connected one or more of the other information processing apparatuses, based on the operation information and on operation information relating to the one or more of the other information processing apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicants: GAME FREAK INC., NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi MASUDA, Katsumi Ohno
  • Patent number: 8081347
    Abstract: To facilitate sorting sheets of paper for recycling, a MFP includes an image data accepting portion to accept image data output from an image reader, a recycling information determining portion to determine recycling information corresponding to the image data, and an image forming portion to form an image of the image data together with the determined recycling information on a sheet of paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tamada, Shinichi Yabuki, Junichi Masuda, Koji Ohara
  • Publication number: 20110187043
    Abstract: A sheet transportation device includes a transportation path for transportation of a sheet, a transportation unit for applying force to a sheet on the transportation path, and an electromagnetic component for driving the transportation unit by receiving supply of electric power. At the sheet transportation device, the absence/presence of a sheet is detected at a downstream side of the region where the transportation unit applies force to a sheet in the transportation path, and counter electromotive force induced in response to electric power being supplied to the electromagnetic component is supplied as the electric power for the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Masayuki Watanabe, Takeshi Ishida, Takahiro Tsujimoto, Takahiro Yokoya
  • Publication number: 20110104437
    Abstract: A vapor deposition film has a vapor deposition layer composed of a metal or an inorganic oxide formed on at least one side of a resin layer (A) which is composed of a resin composition (1). The resin composition (1) is a polyglycol acid containing not less than 70% by mole of a specific structure (a structure represented by formula (1)) as a repeating unit. The surface on which the vapor deposition layer is deposited has a center line average roughness of 5-50 nm. The vapor deposition film has excellent gas barrier properties, excellent workability and decomposition resistance sufficient for practical use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicants: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gouhei Yamamura, Saori Sumi, Masahiro Kimura, Shunsuke Abe, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Sato, Junichi Masuda, Hiroshi Shinnumadate
  • Patent number: 7889370
    Abstract: A facsimile machine comprises a connection for connecting an external storage device, a detection unit for detecting whether or not the external storage device is connected to said connection, a switching unit that switches confidential fax transmitting function to enable if the external storage device is connected to the connection and switching the confidential fax transmitting function to disable if it is not connected, a display unit that displays names of files of image data that can be transmitted by facsimile from the image data stored in the external storage device connected to the connection, a file selection unit that selects based on a user's instruction a file to be transmitted, from the displayed files, and a transmission unit that transmits the image data of the selected file by the confidential fax transmitting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Honda, Junichi Masuda, Shinichi Yabuki, Akihito Takada, Masazumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20100297758
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transporting a peptide motif of interest into a nucleus of a eukaryotic cell from outside the cell, including: synthesizing a peptide chain having an amino acid sequence constituting the peptide motif of interest at an N-terminal end or a C-terminal end of a cell membrane-permeable nucleolar localization signal sequence defined by the amino acid sequence KKRTLRKNDRKKR (SEQ ID NO: 1); adding the synthesized peptide to a culture medium which includes the eukaryotic cell or a tissue containing the eukaryotic cell; and culturing the eukaryotic cell to which the synthesized peptide is added, or the tissue containing the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko Yoshida, Nahoko Kobayashi, Junichi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20090208676
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented white polypropylene film containing a core layer (layer A) and a skin layer (layer B), said layer B is laminated at least on one surface of said layer A, wherein said layer A contains a polypropylene resin having ?-crystal activity and 1 to 20 mass % particle (a) having an average dispersed diameter of 60 to 400 nm, and wherein, said layer B contains a polypropylene resin and 0.05 to 5 mass % particle (b) of an average dispersed diameter of 1 to 4 ?m. The present invention provides a biaxially oriented white polypropylene film excellent in film quality and productivity and capable of making sensitivity and productivity compatible in a high level when used as a base for a receiving sheet, and a receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording made thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Shigeru Tanaka, Junichi Masuda, Masatoshi Ohkura, Tatsuya Itou