Patents by Inventor Kenji Sakakibara
Kenji Sakakibara 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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Patent number: 12048102Abstract: To provide an electronic circuit production method using 3D layer shaping capable of producing an electronic circuit having improved electrical properties and mechanical properties by utilizing characteristics of a fluid containing a metal particle by selectively using the fluid containing the metal particle. The electronic circuit production method using 3D layer shaping, the method including a wiring forming step of forming a wiring by applying a fluid containing a nano-sized metal nanoparticle on an insulating member and curing the applied fluid containing the metal nanoparticle; and a connection terminal forming step of forming a connection terminal electrically connected to the wiring by applying a fluid containing a micro-sized metal microparticle and curing the applied fluid containing the metal microparticle.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Ryojiro Tominaga, Kenji Tsukada, Ryo Sakakibara, Tasuku Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20240093703Abstract: A hydraulic supply device includes: a first oil pump configured to supply oil to a supply passage; a second oil pump driven together with the first oil pump or driven when the first oil pump is stopped; a first check valve provided in a first oil passage that allows a suction side of the second oil pump to communicate with an oil source, and configured to close the first oil passage when the second oil pump is stopped; a second check valve provided in a second oil passage that allows a discharge side of the second oil pump to communicate with the supply passage, and configured to close the second oil passage when the second oil pump is stopped; and a third oil passage into which the oil supplied to the supply passage flows, wherein the oil flowing into the third oil passage is used as an auxiliary pressure for operation of the second check valve when the second oil passage is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoko SUGANO, Takurou KAWASUMI, Kenji SAKAKIBARA
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Patent number: 11458102Abstract: A preparation which contains acetaminophen at a high content, in particular, a miniaturized tablet (conventional tablets, sustained-release tablets, etc.) which have excellent dissolution properties, preferable hardness and high drug content uniformity and a manufacturing method thereof. Acetaminophen has a preset particle size and is used for manufacturing a preparation, the flowability of acetaminophen can be improved so that secondary agglomeration can be suppressed, manufacturing efficiency can be elevated and the cost for manufacturing is also reduced. Thus, an acetaminophen preparation having improved administrability, for example, a reduced size and a manufacturing method thereof are highly useful.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sakamoto, Kunio Komai, Kenji Sakakibara, Hirokazu Banba, Kiyoshi Fukuda
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Patent number: 11433031Abstract: A method for manufacturing a preparation which contains acetaminophen at a high content, in particular, a miniaturized tablet (conventional tablets, sustained-release tablets, etc.) which have excellent elution properties, preferable hardness and high drug content uniformity, and a premix drug substance of acetaminophen which has improved manufacturability. According to the method in which acetaminophen having a preset particle size is used for manufacturing a preparation, the flowability of acetaminophen can be improved so that secondary agglomeration can be suppressed and manufacturing efficiency can be elevated. Thus, this method is highly useful for manufacturing an acetaminophen preparation having improved administrability, for example, a reduced size.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sakamoto, Kunio Komai, Kenji Sakakibara, Hirokazu Banba, Kiyoshi Fukuda
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Publication number: 20220154818Abstract: The control valve assembly is provided with a reinforcing portion straddling a drain port, the drain port allowing communication between an inside and an outside of the control valve assembly. The reinforcing portion is provided along a bore in which a spool of the control valve for control is housed. The control valve for control is a pressure regulator vale regulating a line pressure, the line pressure being a primary pressure of a hydraulic oil of the automatic transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jongho PARK, Yuhyung NAM, Jungil PARK, Kenji SAKAKIBARA, Hiroyuki TSUBOI, Akiko IMAI, Hiroki SAITO
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Publication number: 20210220283Abstract: A method for manufacturing a preparation which contains acetaminophen at a high content, in particular, a miniaturized tablet (conventional tablets, sustained-release tablets, etc.) which have excellent elution properties, preferable hardness and high drug content uniformity, and a premix drug substance of acetaminophen which has improved manufacturability. According to the method in which acetaminophen having a preset particle size is used for manufacturing a preparation, the flowability of acetaminophen can be improved so that secondary agglomeration can be suppressed and manufacturing efficiency can be elevated. Thus, this method is highly useful for manufacturing an acetaminophen preparation having improved administrability, for example, a reduced size.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Kunio KOMAI, Kenji SAKAKIBARA, Hirokazu BANBA, Kiyoshi FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20210186884Abstract: A preparation which contains acetaminophen at a high content, in particular, a miniaturized tablet (conventional tablets, sustained-release tablets, etc.) which have excellent dissolution properties, preferable hardness and high drug content uniformity and a manufacturing method thereof. Acetaminophen has a preset particle size and is used for manufacturing a preparation, the flowability of acetaminophen can be improved so that secondary agglomeration can be suppressed, manufacturing efficiency can be elevated and the cost for manufacturing is also reduced. Thus, an acetaminophen preparation having improved administrability, for example, a reduced size and a manufacturing method thereof are highly useful.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Kunio KOMAI, Kenji SAKAKIBARA, Hirokazu BANBA, Kiyoshi FUKUDA
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Patent number: 11033501Abstract: A method for manufacturing a preparation which contains acetaminophen at a high content, in particular, a miniaturized tablet (conventional tablets, sustained-release tablets, etc.) which have excellent elution properties, preferable hardness and high drug content uniformity, and a premix drug substance of acetaminophen which has improved manufacturability. According to the method in which acetaminophen having a preset particle size is used for manufacturing a preparation, the flowability of acetaminophen can be improved so that secondary agglomeration can be suppressed and manufacturing efficiency can be elevated. Thus, this method is highly useful for manufacturing an acetaminophen preparation having improved administrability, for example, a reduced size.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sakamoto, Kunio Komai, Kenji Sakakibara, Hirokazu Banba, Kiyoshi Fukuda
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Patent number: 10638950Abstract: In order to provide a static magnetic field homogeneity adjustment method capable of reducing an arrangement amount of magnetic pieces and achieving desired magnetic field homogeneity with high accuracy in magnetic field homogeneity adjustment, there is provided a static magnetic field homogeneity adjustment method in an imaging space of computing positions of a plurality of magnetic pieces separated from the imaging space through shimming computation with respect to a static magnetic field in the imaging space generated by a magnetic field generation device, and disposing the plurality of magnetic pieces at the positions obtained through the shimming computation, the method including an adjustment step of imposing restriction that a polarity of a magnetic field distribution generated in the imaging space by the magnetic pieces disposed at the positions is either positive or negative during the shimming computation, and adjusting the static magnetic field homogeneity.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Fujikawa, Mitsushi Abe, Kenji Sakakibara, Hikaru Hanada
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Patent number: 10514432Abstract: In the present invention, a current plane which is virtually disposed and surrounds a measurement position is assumed from magnetic field measurement values, and a current distribution (or magnetic moment distribution) which mimics a measured magnetic field is reproduced with current potentials. This is used to perform shimming calculation by a truncated singular value decomposition method with discrete shim trays that are actually used and ideal virtual continuous shim trays to carry out shimming under conditions for shimming having a uniformity that is close to ideal shimming.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsushi Abe, Kenji Sakakibara, Takuya Fujikawa, Hikaru Hanada
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Patent number: 10408903Abstract: The present invention provides a shimming method in which an electric current surface that is virtually placed so as to surround a measurement position is assumed from a magnetic field measurement value, in which an electric current distribution that reproduces a measurement magnetic field is reproduced through an electric current potential, and in which the reproduced magnetic field distribution is used. A magnetic moment or an electric current distribution that reproduces a magnetic field distribution obtained by a magnetic field measurement device is estimated on a predetermined closed surface, and, from the estimated magnetic moment or electric current distribution, a magnetic field distribution of an arbitrary point that exists in the closed surface is estimated. Then, on the basis of the estimated magnetic field distribution, a shim magnetic body distribution that produces a correction magnetic field for correcting the magnetic field distribution at the arbitrary point is output.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsushi Abe, Kenji Sakakibara, Takuya Fujikawa, Hikaru Hanada
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Patent number: 10379183Abstract: A magnetic moment arrangement calculation method for magnetic field adjustment by combining correction of a component of a low-order mode with correction of a component of a high-order mode among the eigenmodes so as to calculate arrangement of the magnetic moment for approximately correcting the error magnetic field distribution, in which the low-order mode is an eigenmode group from the first of eigenmode numbers assigned to respective eigenmodes in the magnitude order of singular values to an eigenmode number specified by a first threshold value, in which the high-order mode is an eigenmode group with an eigenmode number more than the first threshold value, and in which a correction amount of the component of the high-order mode is smaller than a correction amount of the component of the low-order mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hikaru Hanada, Kenji Sakakibara, Mitsushi Abe, Takuya Fujikawa
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Publication number: 20190142754Abstract: A method for manufacturing a preparation which contains acetaminophen at a high content, in particular, a miniaturized tablet (conventional tablets, sustained-release tablets, etc.) which have excellent elution properties, preferable hardness and high drug content uniformity, and a premix drug substance of acetaminophen which has improved manufacturability. According to the method in which acetaminophen having a preset particle size is used for manufacturing a preparation, the flowability of acetaminophen can be improved so that secondary agglomeration can be suppressed and manufacturing efficiency can be elevated. Thus, this method is highly useful for manufacturing an acetaminophen preparation having improved administrability, for example, a reduced size.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Kunio KOMAI, Kenji SAKAKIBARA, Hirokazu BANBA, Kiyoshi FUKUDA
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Patent number: 10267877Abstract: Even if there is a restriction in an amount of magnetic pieces which can be disposed at each position in a shim tray, a distribution of a static magnetic field is measured so that an error magnetic field between the distribution of the static magnetic field and a target magnetic field is calculated, and respective reachable magnetic field homogeneities in a case where the magnetic pieces are disposed at one or more of the plurality of positions in the shim tray are calculated while changing the target magnetic field. The target magnetic field is selected in which an amount of magnetic pieces at each of the positions in the shim tray is equal to or less than a predetermined upper limit value, and the reachable magnetic field homogeneity is equal to or less than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Sakakibara, Takuya Fujikawa, Mitsushi Abe, Hikaru Hanada
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Patent number: 10156619Abstract: Static magnetic field inhomogeneity is reduced by measuring inhomogeneity of a static magnetic field distribution in an imaging space, evaluating a distribution of a correction magnetic field that should be generated by a correction magnetic field generating unit disposed in the vicinity of the imaging space based on the measured static magnetic field distribution, reducing the electric current value of the superconducting coil to a predetermined (greater than zero) low current value smaller than a rated current value, notifying an operator to set a correction magnetic field of the correction magnetic field generating unit to the correction magnetic field evaluated by calculation in a state where an electric current at the low current value is flowing in the superconducting coil and a low static magnetic field B_low is being generated, and repeating the above operations.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventor: Kenji Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20180284205Abstract: Even if there is a restriction in an amount of magnetic pieces which can be disposed at each position in a shim tray, a distribution of a static magnetic field is measured so that an error magnetic field between the distribution of the static magnetic field and a target magnetic field is calculated, and respective reachable magnetic field homogeneities in a case where the magnetic pieces are disposed at one or more of the plurality of positions in the shim tray are calculated while changing the target magnetic field. The target magnetic field is selected in which an amount of magnetic pieces at each of the positions in the shim tray is equal to or less than a predetermined upper limit value, and the reachable magnetic field homogeneity is equal to or less than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Kenji SAKAKIBARA, Takuya FUJIKAWA, Mitsushi ABE, Hikaru HANADA
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Publication number: 20180246180Abstract: The present invention provides a shimming method in which an electric current surface that is virtually placed so as to surround a measurement position is assumed from a magnetic field measurement value, in which an electric current distribution that reproduces a measurement magnetic field is reproduced through an electric current potential, and in which the reproduced magnetic field distribution is used. A magnetic moment or an electric current distribution that reproduces a magnetic field distribution obtained by a magnetic field measurement device is estimated on a predetermined closed surface, and, from the estimated magnetic moment or electric current distribution, a magnetic field distribution of an arbitrary point that exists in the closed surface is estimated. Then, on the basis of the estimated magnetic field distribution, a shim magnetic body distribution that produces a correction magnetic field for correcting the magnetic field distribution at the arbitrary point is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Mitsushi ABE, Kenji SAKAKIBARA, Takuya FUJIKAWA, Hikaru HANADA
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Patent number: 10060997Abstract: To prevent image quality deterioration of an image due to a variable magnetic field generated by a fan motor provided in a position where a measuring magnetic field leaks, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has a gantry including a static magnetic field generating magnet; a gradient magnetic field generating coil; and an irradiation coil, a table for placing the object, and an input/output device including a display device and is provided with at least a pair of cooling fan motors arranged almost symmetrically to the central axis that extends along the long-axis direction of the cylindrical space and is located in the center in the horizontal direction of the static magnetic field generating magnet or the vertical plane passing through the central axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shin Hoshino, Kenji Sakakibara
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Patent number: 10042016Abstract: There is provided an MRI apparatus including a superconducting magnet that includes a refrigerant container and a superconducting coil, a cryogenic cooling system with which the superconducting magnet is provided, and a controller that controls the operation of the cryogenic cooling system. The cryogenic cooling system includes a cold head, a cryo-cooler, a compressor that supplies a compressed gas to the cryo-cooler, and a detection unit that detects the pressure in the refrigerant container, the refrigerant container being provided with the cold head, the cryo-cooler, the compressor, and the detection unit. An upper limit value of the maximum number of times of halts of the compressor within a predetermined period of time is set in advance.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hikaru Hanada, Takuya Fujikawa, Akihiro Shimada, Kenji Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20180188341Abstract: There is provided an MRI apparatus including a superconducting magnet that includes a refrigerant container and a superconducting coil, a cryogenic cooling system with which the superconducting magnet is provided, and a controller that controls the operation of the cryogenic cooling system. The cryogenic cooling system includes a cold head, a cryo-cooler, a compressor that supplies a compressed gas to the cryo-cooler, and a detection unit that detects the pressure in the refrigerant container, the refrigerant container being provided with the cold head, the cryo-cooler, the compressor, and the detection unit. An upper limit value of the maximum number of times of halts of the compressor within a predetermined period of time is set in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hikaru HANADA, Takuya FUJIKAWA, Akihiro SHIMADA, Kenji SAKAKIBARA