Patents by Inventor Kenji Kuwahara

Kenji Kuwahara 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: 20240117304
    Abstract: A cell population comprising Corin- and/or Lrtm1-positive cells was produced by the following steps (1) and (2), from which Corin positive and/or Lrtm1 positive cells are collected using a substance that binds to Corin and/or a substance that binds to Lrtm1, and dopaminergie neuron progenitor cells are produced by performing suspension culture of the Corin positive and/or Lrtm1 positive cells in a culture solution containing one or more nutritional factors: (1) a step of performing adhesion culture of pluripotent stem cells in a medium for maintaining undifferentiated state containing a Sonic hedgehog (SHH) signal stimulant, and an undifferentiated state-maintaining factor in the absence of feeder cells but in the presence of an extracellular matrix, and (2) a step of culturing the cell population obtained in the step (1) in a culture solution containing one or more differentiation-inducing factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, SUMITOMO PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun TAKAHASHI, Daisuke DOI, Kenji YOSHIDA, Atsushi KUWAHARA, Masayo TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200226877
    Abstract: In order to make a configuration which achieves a new appeal to viewers such as players by emitting light while having a simple structure, a light emitting device attached to a housing (2) constituting a game device (1) includes a tubular member (30) having flexibility and translucency, and a light source disposed in the tubular member (30). An installation member on which the tubular member (30) is installed is provided in the housing (2) of the game device (1). An attachment portion for installing the tubular member (30) on the installation member may be formed on the tubular member (30). An installation protrusion may be provided in the installation member, and the attachment portion of the tubular member (30) may be configured by a groove having the same shape as a cross-sectional shape of the protrusion for attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Keiji Sugawara, Kenji Kuwahara, Kimio Tsuda, Souichi Aoki, Yasuhiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 10318075
    Abstract: A light emission device is used for a casing of the game device. This light emission device comprises a light source disposed in the casing, and a light guiding member having a plate-like shape, the light guiding member being configured to guide light emitted from the light source and being attached to the casing. The light guiding member comprises a reflecting unit configured to reflect the light incident from a first direction along a thickness direction of the light guiding member to a direction different from the first direction to diffuse the light in the interior of the light guiding member; and a light emission part configured to transmit the light reflected from the reflecting unit to outside from a surface of the light guiding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nunokawa, Kenji Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20170344188
    Abstract: A light emission device is used for a casing of the game device. This light emission device comprises a light source disposed in the casing, and a light guiding member having a plate-like shape, the light guiding member being configured to guide light emitted from the light source and being attached to the casing. The light guiding member comprises a reflecting unit configured to reflect the light incident from a first direction along a thickness direction of the light guiding member to a direction different from the first direction to diffuse the light in the interior of the light guiding member; and a light emission part configured to transmit the light reflected from the reflecting unit to outside from a surface of the light guiding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroki Nunokawa, Kenji Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 9004779
    Abstract: An assembly tool is provided for installing an optical fiber in an optical fiber connector having a known length of fiber extending from the connector ferrule after termination of the optical fiber connector. The assembly tool includes a base having a connector mount disposed on a first end thereof and a cradle that holds a shaped ferrule disposed near the second end of the base, such that shaped ferrule is resiliently held within the cradle. The connector mount is configured to receive and secure the optical fiber connector to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Dai Horibe, Tomoyasu Oike, Kenji Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20130114932
    Abstract: An assembly tool is provided for installing an optical fiber in an optical fiber connector having a known length of fiber extending from the connector ferrule after termination of the optical fiber connector. The assembly tool includes a base having a connector mount disposed on a first end thereof and a cradle that holds a shaped ferrule disposed near the second end of the base, such that shaped ferrule is resiliently held within the cradle. The connector mount is configured to receive and secure the optical fiber connector to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Dai Horibe, Tomoyasu Oike, Kenji Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20110163569
    Abstract: To provide a terminal mounting structure, the electrical continuation and the joining strength of which are sufficiently high although the structure is simple, further the reliability of which is high even when it is used over a long period of time and to provide a terminal mounting method therefor. A terminal (3) is connected and continued to a conductor (2) such as a heating wire provided on a substrate (1). Terminal (3) includes: a fixing portion (31); elastic portions (32) extending from fixing portion (31); and a substrate contact portion (33) provided in elastic portion (32) so that substrate contact portion (33) can be protruded with respect to substrate (1), and electrically connected to conductor (2). Each fixing portion (31) is made to adhere to substrate (1) by a joining means such as a double-sided adhesive tape (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Miki Yoneyama, Kohichiro Kawate, Kenji Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 7950953
    Abstract: To provide a multicore cable connector in which alignment of signal lines of a cable and soldering of the signal lines to a wiring pattern of a substrate are facilitated, and impedance mismatch on the substrate is minimized. A multicore cable connector 1 includes a cable fixing member 2, an aggregate cable 3 accommodated in cable fixing member 2, an aligning plate 4 for aligning signal lines 312 included in aggregate cable 3, and a substrate 5 formed with a wiring pattern 53 conductively connected to signal lines 312 of aggregate cable 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Toshiroh Endoh, Hiroyuki Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20110059643
    Abstract: To provide a multicore cable connector in which alignment of signal lines of a cable and soldering of the signal lines to a wiring pattern of a substrate are facilitated, and impedance mismatch on the substrate is minimized. A multicore cable connector 1 includes a cable fixing member 2, an aggregate cable 3 accommodated in cable fixing member 2, an aligning plate 4 for aligning signal lines 312 included in aggregate cable 3, and a substrate 5 formed with a wiring pattern 53 conductively connected to signal lines 312 of aggregate cable 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Kenji KUWAHARA, Toshiroh Endoh, Hiroyuki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7857657
    Abstract: To provide a multicore cable connector in which alignment of signal lines of a cable and soldering of the signal lines to a wiring pattern of a substrate are facilitated, and impedance mismatch on the substrate is minimized. A multicore cable connector 1 includes a cable fixing member 2, an aggregate cable 3 accommodated in cable fixing member 2, an aligning plate 4 for aligning signal lines 312 included in aggregate cable 3, and a substrate 5 formed with a wiring pattern 53 conductively connected to signal lines 312 of aggregate cable 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Toshiroh Endoh, Hiroyuki Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20100210138
    Abstract: To provide a multicore cable connector in which alignment of signal lines of a cable and soldering of the signal lines to a wiring pattern of a substrate are facilitated, and impedance mismatch on the substrate is minimized. A multicore cable connector 1 includes a cable fixing member 2, an aggregate cable 3 accommodated in cable fixing member 2, an aligning plate 4 for aligning signal lines 312 included in aggregate cable 3, and a substrate 5 formed with a wiring pattern 53 conductively connected to signal lines 312 of aggregate cable 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Toshiroh Endoh
  • Patent number: 7369717
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to improving the yield in fiber terminating processing, and to preventing the occurrence of transmission loss due to stress concentration at an optical fiber bend or due to variations in ambient temperature. In one exemplary embodiment, a channel is sandwiched between adhesive layers and an optical fiber is passed through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Takuro Miya
  • Patent number: 6303227
    Abstract: A lubricant composition having excellent lubricity and comprising at least one compound selected among fluorine compounds each having a perfluoroalkyl or perfluoroether group and an alkyl or alkenyl group in the molecule and at least one compound selected among fluorine compounds each having a perfluoropolyether group in the molecule; and a magnetic recording medium excellent in running durability and still durability and comprising a nonmagnetic substrate (1) and, formed thereon in this order, a ferromagnetic thin metal film (2), a carbon film (3), and a lubricant layer (4), wherein the lubricant layer (4) contains the lubricant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Yukikazu Ohchi, Tetuo Fuchi, Mikio Murai
  • Patent number: 5798135
    Abstract: A ferromagnetic metal thin film recording medium having a nonmagnetic substrate, a ferromagnetic metal thin film formed on the nonmagnetic substrate, a dry etched layer which is formed in a surface layer of the ferromagnetic metal thin film and contains oxygen atoms in a higher concentration than the remaining part of the ferromagnetic metal thin film, a hard carbonaceous film formed on the dry etched layer of the ferromagnetic metal thin film, a lubricant layer formed on said hard carbonaceous film, and optionally a modified layer which is formed on the hard carbonaceous film and has a thickness of less than 3 nm, and comprises carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms with an atomic ratio of nitrogen to carbon being at least 0.8%, which recording medium has improved running stability, durability and weatherability while maintaining electromagnetic conversion characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueda, Hiroshi Seki, Kenji Kuwahara, Mikio Murai, Kiyosi Takahasi, Masaru Odagiri, Sadayuki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 5776602
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium of the present invention includes: a non-magnetic substrate; a ferromagnetic thin metal layer formed on the non-magnetic substrate; and a carbon layer and a lubricant layer in contact with the carbon layer, which is formed above the ferromagnetic thin metal layer so that the lubricant layer is an outermost layer, wherein the carbon layer contains nitrogen atoms, a Raman spectrum of the carbon layer has a peak A in the range of about 1310 to about 1410 cm.sup.-1 and a peak B in the range of about 1520 to about 1570 cm.sup.-1, and a ratio of integrated intensities of the peak A to the peak B is in the range of about 1.2 to about 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueda, Kenji Kuwahara, Hiroshi Seki, Sadayuki Okazaki, Masaru Odagiri, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Mikio Murai
  • Patent number: 5670107
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium produced by treating a magnetic recording medium which comprises a non-magnetic substrate and a magnetic layer formed on said substrate in an atmosphere kept at a temperature of at least 50.degree. C., with applying a tension of 1 gf. or less per 10 mm width to said magnetic recording medium in a treating time which is in a range on or above a line having a slope of at least 5000 in terms of .DELTA.ln(L)/.DELTA.(1/T) and passing a point of 0.5 second at 100.degree. C., when ln(L) is Arrhenius plotted against an inverse of an absolute temperature T (1/T), which medium has suppressed change of magnetic properties with time and improved corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Kiyosi Takahasi, Hideyuki Ueda, Noriyasu Echigo, Mikio Murai, Masaru Odagiri
  • Patent number: 5637393
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprising a non-magnetic substrate, a ferromagnetic thin film on the non-magnetic substrate, a hard carbon film on the ferromagnetic thin film, a modified layer of which atomic ratio of nitrogen/carbon is 0.8% or more, and of which thickness is less than 3 nm on the hard carbon film, and a lubricant layer on the modified layer, has excellent electromagnetic conversion characteristic, running stability, durability, and weatherability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Matsuhita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueda, Kenji Kuwahara, Hiroshi Seki, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Masaru Odagiri, Mikio Murai, Yukikazu Ohchi
  • Patent number: 5589263
    Abstract: A ferromagnetic metal thin film recording medium having a nonmagnetic substrate, a ferromagnetic metal thin film formed on the nonmagnetic substrate, a dry etched layer which is formed in a surface layer of the ferromagnetic metal thin film and contains oxygen atoms in a higher concentration than the remaining part of the ferromagnetic metal thin film, a hard carbonaceous film formed on the dry etched layer of the ferromagnetic metal thin film, a lubricant layer formed on said hard carbonaceous film, and optionally a modified layer which is formed on the hard carbonaceous film and has a thickness of less than 3 nm, and comprises carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms with an atomic ratio of nitrogen to carbon being at least 0.8%, which recording medium has improved running stability, durability and weatherability while maintaining electromagnetic conversion characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueda, Hiroshi Seki, Kenji Kuwahara, Mikio Murai, Kiyosi Takahasi, Masaru Odagiri, Sadayuki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 5540957
    Abstract: A magnetic recording media comprising a non-magnetic substrate, a ferromagnetic thin film on the non-magnetic substrate, a hard carbon film on the ferromagnetic thin film, a modified layer of which atomic ratio of nitrogen/carbon is 0.8% or more, and of which thickness is less than 3 nm on the hard carbon film, and a lubricant layer on the modified layer, has excellent electromagnetic conversion characteristic, running stability, durability, and weatherability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueda, Kenji Kuwahara, Hiroshi Seki, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Masaru Odagiri, Mikio Murai, Yukikazu Ohchi
  • Patent number: 5496595
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprising a back coating layer formed on a surface reverse to a magnetic layer and a carbonaceous film which is formed on the back coating layer and contains fluorine atoms and silicon atoms and/or nitrogen atoms and in which a concentration of fluorine atoms decreases in a depth direction from a surface of the carbonaceous film, while a concentration of the silicon and/or nitrogen atoms increases in the depth direction from the surface of the carbonaceous film, which recording medium has improved running stability, durability and weatherability while electromagnetic conversion characteristics are maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueda, Kenji Kuwahara, Hiroshi Seki, Kiyosi Takahasi, Masaru Odagiri, Mikio Murai