Patents by Inventor Kaori Kimura

Kaori Kimura 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: 20240321305
    Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic recording medium including a protective layer that is exposed to an enclosed interior volume of the magnetic recording and reproducing device, which contains oxygen and helium, a magnetic head including a heat assist element that is also exposed to the enclosed interior volume, the magnetic head configured to record data onto the magnetic recording medium, and an oxygen amount measurement unit configured to measure an oxygen amount in the enclosed interior volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Masaya OHTAKE, Kaori KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240321087
    Abstract: In order to determine a disaster situation in an area that vehicles and the like cannot enter, a situation determination device according to the present invention comprises: an area identification means that uses sensor information acquired from a sensor information acquisition device to identify an area from which ground surface changes are to be acquired; a ground surface information acquisition means that acquires ground surface changes in the identified area, which are results of analysis using results of measurement by a ground surface measurement device; and a disaster determination means that determines the occurrence of a disaster in the area using the ground surface changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nana JUMONJI, Kaori IWAFUCHI, Yosuke KIMURA, Chisato SUGAWARA, Takakazu ISHII, Hiromichi HIRATA, Daisuke HASHIZUME, Shouhei OHNO
  • Publication number: 20240321312
    Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic recording medium having a lubricant on a surface of the magnetic recording medium, a heat-assisted magnetic recording head configured to perform magnetic recording on the magnetic recording medium, a humidity sensor, and a write procedure control circuit configured to control a write procedure of the heat-assisted magnetic recording head in accordance with a measurement result of the humidity sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Kaori KIMURA, Takuya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240257830
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head comprises a main pole, an auxiliary magnetic pole provided with the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and a multi-layer provided between the main pole and the auxiliary magnetic pole, by which electric conductivity is enabled from the main pole to the auxiliary magnetic pole. The multi-layer includes a first cooling layer and a first conductive layer, orderly provided on a surface of the main pole opposed to the auxiliary magnetic pole, and the first cooling layer cools the main pole by Peltier effect when electric current is applied, and a length thereof in a track width is longer than a length in a track width of the main pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventor: Kaori KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240166689
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide methods of discovering drugs effective for tough targets, which have conventionally been discovered only with difficulty. The present invention relates to novel methods for cyclizing peptide compounds, and novel peptide compounds and libraries comprising the same, to achieve the above object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Shiori KARIYUKI, Takeo IIDA, Miki KOJIMA, Ryuichi TAKEYAMA, Mikimasa TANADA, Tetsuo KOJIMA, Hitoshi IIKURA, Atsushi MATSUO, Takuya SHIRAISHI, Takashi EMURA, Kazuhiko NAKANO, Koji TAKANO, Kousuke ASOU, Takuya TORIZAWA, Ryusuke TAKANO, Nozomi HISADA, Naoaki MURAO, Atsushi OHTA, Kaori KIMURA, Yusuke YAMAGISHI, Tatsuya KATO
  • Publication number: 20240062776
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head comprises a main pole, an auxiliary magnetic pole provided with the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and a multi-layer provided between the main pole and the auxiliary magnetic pole, by which electric conductivity is enabled from the main pole to the auxiliary magnetic pole. The multi-layer includes a first cooling layer and a first conductive layer, orderly provided on a surface of the main pole opposed to the auxiliary magnetic pole, and the first cooling layer cools the main pole by Peltier effect when electric current is applied, and a length thereof in a track width is longer than a length in a track width of the main pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Kaori KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11891457
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide methods of discovering drugs effective for tough targets, which have conventionally been discovered only with difficulty. The present invention relates to novel methods for cyclizing peptide compounds, and novel peptide compounds and libraries comprising the same, to achieve the above object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shiori Kariyuki, Takeo Iida, Miki Kojima, Ryuichi Takeyama, Mikimasa Tanada, Tetsuo Kojima, Hitoshi Iikura, Atsushi Matsuo, Takuya Shiraishi, Takashi Emura, Kazuhiko Nakano, Koji Takano, Kousuke Asou, Takuya Torizawa, Ryusuke Takano, Nozomi Hisada, Naoaki Murao, Atsushi Ohta, Kaori Kimura, Yusuke Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kato
  • Patent number: 11862206
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing device includes a plurality of magnetic recording medium each including a recording surface, a plurality of assisted magnetic recording heads each provided with the recording surface in order to perform assisted recording, and an assisting amount adjustment part connected to the assisted magnetic recording heads in order to adjust an assisting amount of each assisted magnetic recording head corresponding to a recording capacity of the recording surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Kaori Kimura, Masaya Ohtake, Akihiko Takeo
  • Patent number: 11670331
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a rotatable disk-shaped recording medium, a magnetic head including a write head having a main magnetic pole that applies a recording magnetic field to the recording medium, an assist element that assists magnetic recording by the main magnetic pole, and a plurality of thermal actuators that control a head gradient with respect to the recording medium, and a controller which includes a detection unit configured to detect deterioration of the magnetic head, and changes a head gradient of the magnetic head by the thermal actuator according to the detected deterioration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Kaori Kimura, Akihiko Takeo, Takuya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230169993
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing device includes a plurality of magnetic recording medium each including a recording surface, a plurality of assisted magnetic recording heads each provided with the recording surface in order to perform assisted recording, and an assisting amount adjustment part connected to the assisted magnetic recording heads in order to adjust an assisting amount of each assisted magnetic recording head corresponding to a recording capacity of the recording surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Kaori KIMURA, Masaya OHTAKE, Akihiko TAKEO
  • Publication number: 20230074588
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a rotatable disk-shaped recording medium, a magnetic head including a write head having a main magnetic pole that applies a recording magnetic field to the recording medium, an assist element that assists magnetic recording by the main magnetic pole, and a plurality of thermal actuators that control a head gradient with respect to the recording medium, and a controller which includes a detection unit configured to detect deterioration of the magnetic head, and changes a head gradient of the magnetic head by the thermal actuator according to the detected deterioration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kaori KIMURA, Akihiko TAKEO, Takuya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210061860
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide methods of discovering drugs effective for tough targets, which have conventionally been discovered only with difficulty. The present invention relates to novel methods for cyclizing peptide compounds, and novel peptide compounds and libraries comprising the same, to achieve the above object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shiori KARIYUKI, Takeo Ilda, Miki Kojima, Ryuichi Takeyama, Mikimasa Tanada, Tetsuo Kojima, Hitoshi Ilkura, Atsushi Matsuo, Takuya Shiraishi, Takashi Emura, Kazuhiko Nakano, Koji Takano, Kousuke Asou, Takuya Torizawa, Ryusuke Takano, Nozomi Hisada, Naoaki Murao, Atsushi Ohta, Kaori Kimura, Yusuke Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kato
  • Patent number: 10854222
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic flux control layer provided between a main magnetic pole and an auxiliary magnetic pole, and a protective layer provided on an ABS of the auxiliary magnetic pole. The magnetic flux control layer includes an adjustment layer formed of a magnetic material including one of Fe, Co or Ni and is provided between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, and generates a spin torque and inverts a direction of magnetization in the adjustment layer, when current is supplied. A voltage Vb applied to the magnetic flux control layer is lower than a voltage Vba represented by an expression (1), Vba=Vb0?a×1/log(t)×log(RH)×log(PO2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Tomoda, Kaori Kimura, Akihiko Takeo
  • Publication number: 20200090683
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic flux control layer provided between a main magnetic pole and an auxiliary magnetic pole, and a protective layer provided on an ABS of the auxiliary magnetic pole. The magnetic flux control layer includes an adjustment layer formed of a magnetic material includes one of Fe, Co or Ni and provided between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, and generates a spin torque and inverts a direction of magnetization in the adjustment layer, when current is supplied. A voltage Vb applied to the magnetic flux control layer is lower than a voltage Vba represented by an expression (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke Tomoda, Kaori Kimura, Akihiko Takeo
  • Patent number: 10056102
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium including a substrate and a magnetic recording layer formed on the substrate and including a plurality of projections is obtained. The array of the plurality of projections includes a plurality of domains in which the projections are regularly arranged, and a boundary region between the domains, in which the projections are irregularly arranged. The boundary region is formed along a perpendicular bisector of a line connecting the barycenters of adjacent projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kaori Kimura, Kazutaka Takizawa, Akira Watanabe, Takeshi Iwasaki, Akihiko Takeo
  • Patent number: 9911448
    Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium according to an embodiment includes a substrate and perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer includes a recording portion and non-recording portion. The recording portion has patterns regularly arranged in the longitudinal direction, and includes magnetic layers containing Fe or Co and Pt as main components, and at least one additive component selected from Ti, Si, Al, and W. The non-recording portion includes oxide layers formed by oxidizing the side surfaces of the magnetic layers, and nonmagnetic layers formed between the oxide layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwasaki, Kazutaka Takizawa, Akira Watanabe, Kaori Kimura, Akihiko Takeo
  • Publication number: 20170194026
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer including projections arranged at an average interval of 3 to 20 nm, an amorphous magnetic recording layer having a plurality of columnar magnetic grains on the surface of the projections, each having a magnetization easy axis in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the underlayer. The underlayer is formed such that 0.5d?r?1.5d, where r is the radius of curvature of a vertical section of each projection and d is the average interval between the projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kaori Kimura, Soichi Oikawa, Takeshi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9672858
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording medium manufacturing method including forming a bonding layer on a substrate, forming a holding layer containing silicon on the bonding layer, forming a single-particle layer on the holding layer using particles containing metal fusible on the bonding layer, etching SiO2 in the holding layer using an etching solution containing HF and H2O2, filling the holding layer with the particles until the particles are brought into contact with the bonding layer, bonding the particles and the bonding layer together by heating, and forming a magnetic recording layer on the single-particle layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Kaori Kimura, Takeshi Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20170004855
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes an underlying layer with convexes arranged with 1 to 20 nm intervals, and a multilayered amorphous magnetic recording layer formed on the underlying layer. The multilayered amorphous magnetic recording layer includes a first amorphous magnetic recording layer with a plurality of magnetic grains each formed on a corresponding convex to be widened toward its tip and being separated from each other at least in the convex side, a nonmagnetic protective layer covering at least a part of a sidewall of the magnetic particle, and a second amorphous magnetic recording layer formed on the nonmagnetic protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kaori Kimura, Soichi Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20160311858
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide methods of discovering drugs effective for tough targets, which have conventionally been discovered only with difficulty. The present invention relates to novel methods for cyclizing peptide compounds, and novel peptide compounds and libraries comprising the same, to achieve the above object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shiori Kariyuki, Takeo Iida, Miki Kojima, Ryuichi Takeyama, Mikimasa Tanada, Tetsuo Kojima, Hitoshi Iikura, Atsushi Matsuo, Takuya Shiraishi, Takashi Emura, Kazuhiko Nakano, Koji Takano, Kousuke Asou, Takuya Torizawa, Ryusuke Takano, Nozomi Hisada, Naoaki Murao, Atsushi Ohta, Kaori Kimura, Yusuke Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kato