Patents by Inventor Kenji Yoshida
Kenji Yoshida 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: 20250255285Abstract: A fishing line information learning system includes a fishing reel having a first communication unit and a spool, and an electronic device having a camera to photograph the spool, a second communication unit to communicate with the first communication unit, and a first memory to store first information acquired by the camera. The fishing reel or the electronic device has a second memory to store a calculation formula to calculate a line winding amount of the fishing line from a first time point when the winding of the fishing line is started to a second time point when the winding of the fishing line is ended, and a controller to estimate a final line winding diameter at the second time point based on the first information at the second time point, and calculate the line winding amount based on the final line winding diameter and the calculation formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2025Publication date: August 14, 2025Inventors: Hirotaka HONDA, Youhei TOAKE, Takuya YASHIKI, Keigo KITAJIMA, Kenji YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20250236679Abstract: An antibody which binds to DLL3 protein, composition containing the antibody, and uses thereof are disclosed. The antibody recognizes a region from amino acids 216 to 492 in human DLL3 having the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. Also disclosed are a pharmaceutical composition, for example, an anticancer agent, containing the antibody of the present invention as an active ingredient. Further disclosed is a method for diagnosing cancer using the antibody and a diagnostic drug for cancer containing the antibody.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Applicants: CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Kenji YOSHIDA, Hiroyuki ABURATANI, Shumpei ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 12360089Abstract: A column 2 is provided in a gas capturing unit 20 for capturing sample gas. A gas supply unit 1 supplies carrier gas for sending sample gas into the column 2. A gas separation mechanism 100 guides carrier gas in the column 2 to the outside of the column 2 by setting the lead-out path 5 to negative pressure with respect to the inside of the column 2. A heating unit 23 heats the column 2 to desorb sample gas captured by the gas capturing unit 20. Sample gas desorbed from the gas capturing unit 20 is introduced into a cell 31. A light source unit 32 irradiates sample gas in the cell 31 with light. An analysis unit 3 analyzes sample gas based on an intensity change of light emitted by the light source unit 32.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignees: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research SystemInventors: Tatsuya Ikehara, Kazune Mano, Hideki Tomita, Ryohei Terabayashi, Kenji Yoshida, Shin-ichi Ninomiya
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Publication number: 20250191044Abstract: Each of a plurality of cameras is arranged to face the inside of a shooting area. An image storage unit stores image data generated by each camera. A composite image generator generates composite image data corresponding to image data obtained by shooting a subject from a position at a predetermined angle in any direction from a center point, based on image data generated by at least two cameras adjacent in a circumferential direction, with a predetermined direction from the center point taken as an angle of 0 degrees. A sales controller sells image data stored in the image storage unit or composite image data generated by the composite image generator as content when a purchaser of content selects an angle in any direction from the center point to purchase the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2025Publication date: June 12, 2025Inventor: Kenji YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 12311130Abstract: A guide wire including a first core shaft made of a superelastic material, and a second core shaft made of a material more susceptible to plastic deformation than of the first core shaft and joined to a distal end side of the first core shaft on a proximal end side. On a joint part between the first core shaft and the second core shaft, the first core shaft and the second core shaft are adjacent to each other in a first direction. A flat portion where a length in the first direction in a transverse section is longer than a length in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is formed on a distal end portion of the second core shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Ushida, Kenji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20250145948Abstract: A method for assessing differentiation potential of cells in a culture broth in the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into neural cells of the midbrain floor plate region, comprising: measuring a concentration of NT-3 in a culture supernatant in a culture broth obtained by culturing the pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing an inducer of differentiation into the neural cells of the midbrain floor plate region; comparing the measured concentration of NT-3 with a reference concentration; and when the concentration of NT-3 is equal to or more than the reference concentration, assessing the cells in the culture broth as capable of differentiating into the neural cells of the midbrain floor plate region, wherein the culture supernatant is a culture supernatant collected from the culture broth at any time from 48 hours to 240 hours after the start of culture of the pluripotent stem cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicants: SUMITOMO PHARMA CO., LTD., KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: ATSUSHI NAKANE, KENJI YOSHIDA, YUKA AOYAGI, MEGUMI IKEDA, JUN TAKAHASHI, DAISUKE DOI
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Publication number: 20250092359Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a culturing method and a method for producing a cell population containing a neural crest cell, the methods being able to stably mass produce the neural crest cell from a pluripotent stem cell with quality that allows the cell to be used in a therapy with a cell, and a method for producing a mesenchymal stem cell and the like using the neural crest cell. The method for selectively culturing a neural crest cell in a cell population containing a neural crest cell and/or a neural crest progenitor cell of the present invention comprises a culturing step of adherent culturing the cell population containing the neural crest cell and/or the neural crest progenitor cell, in the presence of one or more prescribed extracellular matrices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Masahiro TAHARA, Ayaka FUJIKI, Kenji YOSHIDA, Maiko KITAGAWA
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Patent number: 12228855Abstract: An imprint apparatus capable of stably maintaining the concentration of gas supplied for imprint processing is provided even after the moving direction of a substrate is changed by comprising a gas supply port, and when the moving direction or the substrate is changed so that a next target shot region is to be imprinted, the substrate is moved to a position in the order of the next target shot region, the gas supply port, and the pattern region of a mold from the upstream in a predetermined direction, the substrate is then moved in the predetermined direction so that the next target shot region and the pattern region face each other while supplying the gas from the gas supply port, and then the next target shot region is imprinted by the pattern region.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Yoshida
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Patent number: 12214833Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, comprising: an operation member operable by a vehicle driver; an urging device configured to generate an urging force to urge the operation member; a steering device configured to steer a wheel; and a controller configured to control the urging device and the steering device. In a normal operation, the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operation member and causes the urging force to function as an operation reaction force against the operation of the operation member. In an automatic steering operation in which the wheel is steered without depending on the operation of the operation member, the controller enables the operation member to be moved in accordance with steering of the wheel by the urging force and causes at least part of the urging force generated in the normal operation not to be generated.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Akatsuka, Yoshio Kudo, Takahito Ishino, Kenji Yoshida, Koji Anraku
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Patent number: 12168485Abstract: In a steering control device configured to control a steering system where a steering torque required for steering a steering wheel is changed using a motor torque, a processing circuit includes a first calculation situation where a calculational hysteresis component for adding a first hysteresis characteristic to a torque component is calculated and a second calculation situation where the calculational hysteresis component for adding a second hysteresis characteristic to the torque component is calculated. In the second calculation situation after change from the first calculation situation, the processing circuit calculates a value corresponding to an origin in the second hysteresis characteristic at a time when the calculational hysteresis component enabling a value of the calculational hysteresis component at a timing of the change from the first calculation situation to be maintained is calculated, and calculates the calculational hysteresis component using the calculated value as the origin.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Yoshida, Isao Namikawa, Terutaka Tamaizumi, Kosuke Akatsuka, Yoshio Kudo
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Publication number: 20240407349Abstract: A line guiding mechanism for a spinning reel includes a spool, rotor arms for winding a fishing line around the spool, a first support part supported by a rotor arm, a line roller disposed on the first support part and that guides fishing line onto the spool, and a fin. A proximal end part of the fin is disposed on a first support part and a distal end part of the fin has a line guide part facing the line roller and configured to pivotably move.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Koji OCHIAI, Takafumi TSUJI, Kenji YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20240395349Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forcing memory cell failures in a memory device are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a column disable control circuit coupled to a plurality of column latch sets to receive match signals and associated column plane addresses, the column disable control circuit configured to provide redundant column select signals and column plane masking signals based on the match signals and associated column plane addresses, the column disable control circuit further configured to provide the redundant column select signal and the column plane masking signal corresponding to an active match signal and associated column plane address from a designated column latch set when a disable memory test mode is enabled to cause one or more memory cells of main memory to fail.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Yoshinori Fujiwara, Kenji Yoshida
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Patent number: 12140155Abstract: A fan includes blades and a side plate. The side plate includes a fan ring portion having a cylindrical shape centered on a fan axis. A guide part that is annular is arranged on one side of the fan ring portion in the axial direction and forms a suction port through which the air sucked into the fan passes. A communication path that allows an upstream space located on the one side in the axial direction with respect to the guide part to communicate with a gap between the fan ring portion and the guide part is formed outside the guide part in a radial direction of the fan axis. The fan ring portion is located outside in the radial direction with respect to an innermost peripheral portion of the guide part located on an innermost side in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Fuminobu Watanabe, Fumiya Ishii, Shoichi Imahigashi, Kenji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20240274720Abstract: An example apparatus may perform concurrent threshold voltage compensation in a memory array with distributed row redundancy. The example apparatus may include a memory cell array having a mat having a plurality of row sections that each include respective prime memory cell rows and a respective redundant memory cell row. The example apparatus may further include a row decoder configured to receive an access command and a prime row address. The row decoder may be configured to, in response to a determination that the prime row address matches a defective prime row address, concurrently initiate a threshold voltage compensation operation on both of a prime row of the respective plurality of prime rows of memory cells of a first row section of the plurality of row sections corresponding to the prime row address and the respective redundant row of a second row section of the plurality of row sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Akamatsu, Wonjun Choi, Jacob Rice, Kenji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20240151382Abstract: A vehicle lamp is provided which includes an inner lens suitable for diffusion of light. A vehicle lamp is provided which includes: a luminous body configured to emit surface light; and an inner lens placed forward of a light output surface of the luminous body, in which first steps extending in one direction are formed on an input surface of the inner lens, and second steps extending in a direction orthogonal to the first steps are formed on an output surface of the inner lens. It is possible to uniformly diffuse incident light in all directions by orthogonally forming the steps extending in the one directions on the two opposing surfaces, the input and output surfaces, of the inner lens. In addition, mold processing for injection molding is easy. Therefore, the reproducibility is also high.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Naoya SUGIE, Kenji YOSHIDA, Kenta SUZUKI, Akihiro SUMIYA
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Patent number: 11967356Abstract: An example apparatus may perform concurrent threshold voltage compensation in a memory array with distributed row redundancy. The example apparatus may include a memory cell array having a mat having a plurality of row sections that each include respective prime memory cell rows and a respective redundant memory cell row. The example apparatus may further include a row decoder configured to receive an access command and a prime row address. The row decoder may be configured to, in response to a determination that the prime row address matches a defective prime row address, concurrently initiate a threshold voltage compensation operation on both of a prime row of the respective plurality of prime rows of memory cells of a first row section of the plurality of row sections corresponding to the prime row address and the respective redundant row of a second row section of the plurality of row sections.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Akamatsu, Wonjun Choi, Jacob Rice, Kenji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20240117304Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, SUMITOMO PHARMA CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun TAKAHASHI, Daisuke DOI, Kenji YOSHIDA, Atsushi KUWAHARA, Masayo TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240079167Abstract: A soft magnetic material according to an aspect of the present invention includes a powder-particle substance having a particle size frequency distribution having a plurality of peak tops. The powder-particle substance is an aggregate of composite particles containing a plurality of soft magnetic metal particles and includes a medium powder-particle substance in which the composite particles have a particle size of 45 ?m or more and less than 300 ?m, and the medium powder-particle substance has an average circularity of 0.7 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kenji YOSHIDA, Seiichi ABIKO, Shigeru KOBAYASHI, Hisato KOSHIBA, Kazuya OMINATO
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Patent number: 11898163Abstract: 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 dopaminergic 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, SUMITOMO PHARMA CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Takahashi, Daisuke Doi, Kenji Yoshida, Atsushi Kuwahara, Masayo Takahashi
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Patent number: 11881943Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic communication device includes a controller that changes an upper limit value capable of correcting an error of bit data in which an error occurs in packet data transferred by serial communication.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Kenji Yoshida