Patents by Inventor Ken Kato
Ken Kato 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: 20120077601Abstract: An example game apparatus stores a state of a game during execution as execution state information in a memory, and stores a captured image of the game screen by bringing it into correspondence with the execution state information in the memory. Furthermore, during execution of the game, the captured image is displayed on a lower LCD while the game screen is displayed on an upper LCD. In a state that the game screen and the captured image are thus displayed, a selecting operation from a user is accepted. Then, by using the execution state information which is brought into correspondence with the captured image selected in response to a selecting operation, the state of the game is restored.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Teruki MURAKAWA, Masahiro Kawano, Kenta Tanaka, Ken Kato
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Publication number: 20120070635Abstract: This invention provides a waterproof and moisture-permeable fabric which prevents to lower in a water pressure resistance, repetitively washed. The waterproof and moisture-permeable fabric consists of a body of a fabric and a microporous film of mainly polyurethane which is laid on the body. The microporous film contains 1 to 9 mass % of fluorinated water repellent agent, 0.1 to 2 mass % of oil-soluble fluorinated surfactant and if necessary 3 to 45 mass % of fine silica powders. The waterproof and moisture-permeable fabric is obtained by the following method. After coating a resin compound on the surface of the body, the resin compound is dipped in a coagulating bath to form the microporous film. The resin compound dissolves or disperses mainly polyurethane, 1 to 9 mass % of fluorinated water repellent agent, 0.1 to 2 mass % of oil-soluble fluorinated surfactant and if necessary 3 to 45 mass % of fine silica powders in N,N-dimethylformamide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: Kiyoshi Nakagawa, Yoshiaki Kurushima, Munemasa Okubo, Kohei Toyofuku, Masahiro Mizuma, Ken Kato
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Publication number: 20120034177Abstract: Disclosed are: a skin whitening agent comprising, as an active ingredient, a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and an LF, a decomposition product of the complex, or a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and a decomposition product of an LF; and a food, beverage, feed or cosmetic comprising the skin whitening agent. The skin whitening agent can be ingested safely on a daily basis, and exhibits an excellent skin whitening effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya WATANABE, Ken KATO, Hiroshi UENO, Yuko HARUTA, Noriko UEDA, Toshimitsu YOSHIOKA
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Patent number: 8086162Abstract: A cleaning blade is disposed in an abutting relation with an image bearing body and configured to remove residual developer material from the image bearing body. The cleaning blade has a tan ? peak temperature equal to or higher than 8.6° C. and lower than 45° C., and any one of a Young's modulus equal to or higher than 13 Mpa and lower than 140 Mpa, a tensile strength equal to or higher than 37.3 Mpa and lower than 76 Mpa, a hardness equal to or higher than 83° and lower than 97°, and a tearing strength equal to or higher than 59 kgf/cm and lower than 118 kgf/cm.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventor: Ken Kato
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Publication number: 20110124606Abstract: Disclosed are: a sense-improving agent which comprises, as an active ingredient, a phospholipid or a sphingosine-containing phospholipid and/or a derivative thereof, particularly a sphingomyelin, and which has an effect of improving the dulling of senses at a periphery when ingested orally or directly applied to the skin; and a sense-improving food, beverage, feed or cosmetic comprising the sense-improving agent. The phospholipid to be used may be a chemically synthesized phospholipid or a naturally occurring phospholipid, preferably a phospholipid derived from an edible material such as soybean and egg yolk, particularly preferably a phospholipid derived from milk.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2008Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Watanabe, Yuko Haruta, Ken Kato, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20110065670Abstract: A skin beautifier contains sphingomyelin, which is a phospholipid, as an effective ingredient. In addition, skin-beautifying food or feed contains sphingomyelin as an effective ingredient. The present invention provides a skin beautifier and skin-beautifying food or feed supplying effects on beauty, such as skin-moisturizing and protecting effects, skin-roughness-preventing and improving effects, and a wrinkle-preventing effect, by oral ingestion thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Noriko Ueda, Susumu Miura, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20100215767Abstract: Disclosed are: a skin whitening agent including, as an active ingredient, a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and an LF, a decomposition product of the complex, or a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and a decomposition product of an LF; and a food, beverage, feed or cosmetic including the skin whitening agent. The skin whitening agent can be ingested safely on a daily basis, and exhibits an excellent skin whitening effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2008Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Watanabe, Ken Kato, Hiroshi Ueno, Yuko Haruta, Noriko Ueda, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20100197638Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a skin-beautifying agent, food, beverage, or feed for skin-beautification which has cosmetic effects such as moisturizing and beautifying the skin as well as preventing skin roughness and wrinkles by oral intake. The present invention further aims to provide a skin-beautifying agent containing a milk-derived phospholipid as an effective ingredient, and to provide food, beverage, or feed for skin-beautification containing the skin-beautifying agent. The milk-derived phospholipid is preferably a composition prepared from milk or milk material containing 40 to 70% by weight of lipid in a total solid content and containing 30% or more by weight of milk-derived phospholipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Yuko Haruta, Tatsuya Watanabe, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20100178361Abstract: There are provided an iron composition including a milk protein and an iron preparation, which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron, and foods or drinks, animal feeds, and medicines blended with the iron composition. A milk protein such as skim milk is blended into an iron preparation, thereby producing the iron composition which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron (e.g., vitamin C or citric acid).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: SNOWBRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriko UEDA, Ken KATO, Miyako TANAKA, Yuji KAKEHI, Kaoru SATO, Toshimitsu YOSHIOKA
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Publication number: 20100166472Abstract: A cleaning blade is disposed in an abutting relation with an image bearing body and configured to remove residual developer material from the image bearing body. The cleaning blade has a tan ? peak temperature equal to or higher than 8.6° C. and lower than 45° C., and any one of a Young's modulus equal to or higher than 13 Mpa and lower than 140 Mpa, a tensile strength equal to or higher than 37.3 Mpa and lower than 76 Mpa, a hardness equal to or higher than 83° and lower than 97°, and a tearing strength equal to or higher than 59 kgf/cm and lower than 118 kgf/cm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: OKI DATA CORPORATIONInventor: Ken Kato
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Publication number: 20100135941Abstract: A skin-whitening agent offering an excellent whitening effect and being effective in preventing and treating age spots, freckles, etc., where such skin-whitening agent contains as its effective ingredient a whey protein hydrolyzate characterized by a molecular weight distribution of 10 kDa or less, main peak of 200 Da to 3 kDa, APL (average peptide-chain length) of 2 to 8, free amino acid content of 20% or less, and antigenicity of one-ten thousandth of ?-lactoglobulin or less, as well as a cosmetic, drink or food, feed, pharmaceutical preparation or other skin-whitening product containing such skin-whitening agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Watanabe, Ken Kato, Hiroshi Ueno, Yuko Haruta, Noriko Ueda, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20100048928Abstract: It is intended to find novel pharmaceutical use of sphingomyelin and to provide preventive or therapeutic agents for various diseases as well as a food and drink product and feed comprising any of these agents. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent which contains sphingomyelin as an active ingredient and is any of the following agents: 1) a sialomucin secretion promoter, 2) an agent for preventing drunken sickness (hangover), 3) an antiallergic agent, 4) an antioxidant, 5) an agent for defending against infection, 6) a hair growth agent, 7) a therapeutic agent for demyelinating disease, 8) an anti-pigmentation agent, 9) an anti-inflammatory agent, and 10) an agent for improving learning ability. The present invention also provides a food and drink product or feed, characterized by comprising the agent. It is preferred that the sphingomyelin should be derived from milk.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTDInventors: Ken Kato, Susumu Miura, Leo Tanaka, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Yuko Haruta, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20090269458Abstract: Manufacture a powder with high milk-derived complex lipid content that contains milk-derived phospholipids and milk-derived ganglioside at high concentrations, which contains protein by 15 to 35 percent by dry weight and fat by 45 to 60 percent by dry weight, wherein the content of milk-derived complex lipids is 20 percent by dry weight or more, and which can be utilized as a material for functional food, mother's milk substitute or drug, by means of adjusting the pH value of a butter serum or butter serum powder reconstituted liquid to a range of 4.0 to 5.0, adding calcium chloride to promote coagulation of protein, removing the produced sediments, filtering the supernatant by means of ultrafiltration or microfiltration, and then drying the obtained concentrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2006Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Susumu Miura, Kenji Kojima, Taku Nakano, Ken Kato, Akira Tomizawa, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20090253658Abstract: To provide a fat accumulation inhibitor and a food or drink for inhibiting fat accumulation, a visceral fat accumulation inhibitor and a food or drink for inhibiting visceral fat accumulation, or an agent for accelerating increase and/or inhibiting decrease of an adiponectin concentration in blood and a food or drink for accelerating increase and/or inhibiting decrease of an adiponectin concentration in blood. A fat accumulation inhibitor for a fat cell, which comprises a milk-derived phospholipid as an active ingredient, and a food or drink for inhibiting fat accumulation in a fat cell, which comprises a milk-derived phospholipid. A visceral fat accumulation inhibitor comprising a sphingosine-containing phospholipid or a derivative thereof as an active ingredient, and a food or drink for inhibiting visceral fat accumulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2007Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Reo Tanaka, Tomoyuki Isogai, Yuko Haruta, Susumu Miura, Ken Kato, Toshimitsu Yoshioka, Hiroshi Kawakami, Satoshi Higurashi, Hiroaki Matsuyama
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Publication number: 20090081315Abstract: There are provided an iron composition including a milk protein and an iron preparation, which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron, and foods or drinks, animal feeds, and medicines blended with the iron composition. A milk protein such as skim milk is blended into an iron preparation, thereby producing the iron composition which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron (e.g., vitamin C or citric acid).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2005Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriko Ueda, Ken Kato, Miyako Tanaka, Yuji Kakehi, Kaoru Sato, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20090069217Abstract: Provided is a nutrient composition for promoting collagen production, which contains vitamin C, an iron preparation, and collagen as active ingredients, promotes collagen production in a living body such as skin or bone, prevents or treats skin aging or bone and joint diseases, and is an iron preparation-containing composition having stability imparted thereto. Also provided are a food or beverage, a feed, and a medicine each containing the nutrient composition incorporated therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2005Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Noriko Ueda, Miyako Tanaka, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Patent number: 7482075Abstract: In a reforming method for a high temperature type fuel cell in which dimethyl ether is used as fuel gas, and a gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide produced by reacting dimethyl ether with carbon dioxide is fed into the anode, the carbon deposition at the time of reforming is prevented. The feeding amounts of dimethyl ether and carbon dioxide from a pipe h1 into the reforming reactor are regulated in such a way that the relation between temperature inside the reforming reactor and the molar ratio of carbon dioxide to dimethyl ether in the reforming reactor falls within the region C.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2004Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Toru Kato, Masatsugu Amano, Ken Nozaki, Ken Kato, Akira Negishi
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Publication number: 20080064664Abstract: A skin beautifier contains sphingomyelin, which is a phospholipid, as an effective ingredient. In addition, skin-beautifying food or feed contains sphingomyelin as an effective ingredient. The present invention provides a skin beautifier and skin-beautifying food or feed supplying effects on beauty, such as skin-moisturizing and protecting effects, skin-roughness-preventing and improving effects, and a wrinkle-preventing effect, by oral ingestion thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventors: Ken Kato, Noriko Ueda, Susumu Miura, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Patent number: 7112925Abstract: Lamp units for radiating a beam ahead of a vehicle in a light distribution pattern are housed in a lamp body. Illumination of the auxiliary lamp units is controlled based on driving conditions. Illumination control means extinguish light through dimming by gradually decreasing voltage applied to the light sources. When the applied voltage has dropped to a threshold value, the applied voltage is controlled to zero immediately. Compared to when the lamps remaining in an illuminated state are suddenly extinguished, a change in quantity of light is mild, and no uncertainty arises. Below a threshold value where the applied voltage gradually drops to the threshold value and a change may arise in the filament crystalline structure due to annealing at a transition temperature, the applied voltage approaches zero. Hence, the filament does not pass from the transition temperature while being rapidly cooled, thus avoiding filament crystalline structure change.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyoshi Numajiri, Ken Kato, Shigeyoshi Yotoriyama, Kiyotaka Fukawa, Masao Okawa
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Publication number: 20050129995Abstract: In a reforming method for a high temperature type fuel cell in which dimethyl ether is used as fuel gas, and a gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide produced by reacting dimethyl ether with carbon dioxide is fed into the anode, the carbon deposition at the time of reforming is prevented. The feeding amounts of dimethyl ether and carbon dioxide from a pipe h1 into the reforming reactor are regulated in such a way that the relation between temperature inside the reforming reactor and the molar ratio of carbon dioxide to dimethyl ether in the reforming reactor falls within the region C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2004Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Toru Kato, Masatsugu Amano, Ken Nozaki, Ken Kato, Akira Negishi