Patents by Inventor Kimiko Watanabe

Kimiko Watanabe 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: 20210079354
    Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently and stably separating cells having a high biological activity from a biological tissue, by using a degrading-enzyme composition, which is prepared by adding an enzyme for degrading a major protein of the biological tissue in an amount determined depending on the composition of the major protein to a predetermined amount of a neutral protease and/or a protease derived from Clostridium sp. According to this method, the type and amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used for isolating cells can be determined from the composition of a major protein of the biological tissue. Thus, cells having a high biological activity can be efficiently separated while reducing the amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10870833
    Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently and stably separating cells having a high biological activity from a biological tissue, by using a degrading-enzyme composition, which is prepared by adding an enzyme for degrading a major protein of the biological tissue in an amount determined depending on the composition of the major protein to a predetermined amount of a neutral protease and/or a protease derived from Clostridium sp. According to this method, the type and amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used for isolating cells can be determined from the composition of a major protein of the biological tissue. Thus, cells having a high biological activity can be efficiently separated while reducing the amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, MEUI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180362934
    Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently and stably separating cells having a high biological activity from a biological tissue, by using a degrading-enzyme composition, which is prepared by adding an enzyme for degrading a major protein of the biological tissue in an amount determined depending on the composition of the major protein to a predetermined amount of a neutral protease and/or a protease derived from Clostridium sp. According to this method, the type and amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used for isolating cells can be determined from the composition of a major protein of the biological tissue. Thus, cells having a high biological activity can be efficiently separated while reducing the amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9354240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining cells or cell populations having a high biological activity from a biological tissue by enzymatic isolation, and probes for use in the method; more specifically to a method for analyzing a biological tissue, comprising applying two or more probes respectively containing biological-component binding domains through which two or more proteins bind to a predetermined biological component, to an isolated biological tissue, and analyzing binding amounts of the probes to the biological tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youhei Yamagata, Masafumi Goto, Kimiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150368615
    Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently and stably separating cells having a high biological activity from a biological tissue, by using a degrading-enzyme composition, which is prepared by adding an enzyme for degrading a major protein of the biological tissue in an amount determined depending on the composition of the major protein to a predetermined amount of a neutral protease and/or a protease derived from Clostridium sp. According to this method, the type and amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used for isolating cells can be determined from the composition of a major protein of the biological tissue. Thus, cells having a high biological activity can be efficiently separated while reducing the amount of protein-degrading enzyme to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130345087
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining cells or cell populations having a high biological activity from a biological tissue by enzymatic isolation, and probes for use in the method; more specifically to a method for analyzing a biological tissue, comprising applying two or more probes respectively containing biological-component binding domains through which two or more proteins bind to a predetermined biological component, to an isolated biological tissue, and analyzing binding amounts of the probes to the biological tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicants: MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD., TOHOKU UNIVERISTY
    Inventors: Youhei Yamagata, Masafumi Goto, Kimiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7042584
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to allow effective use of a memory provided for each function in a complex image processing apparatus including a facsimile apparatus, to increase the reception capacity of a memory reception function when the apparatus works as a facsimile apparatus and to enable sorting of received facsimile data. In the complex image processing apparatus, facsimile data received via a modem section is accumulated in a memory for facsimile. Under predetermined conditions, the facsimile data in the memory for facsimile are grouped, rearranged and transferred to a memory for copier and a memory for printer. Conditions for causing data rearrangement and transfer may be set such that they occur when a predetermined time passes after the beginning of the operation of the memory reception function or such that they occur when the remaining capacity of the memory for facsimile comes to a predetermined capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimiko Watanabe, Naoyuki Kamei, Fumikazu Nagano, Yoshinori Hayashi
  • Patent number: 6920295
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a compound image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the compound image forming apparatus is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sohichi Yoshimura, Hiroki Eto, Kouichi Eto, Michiyuki Suzuki, Takashi Ide, Koji Tsukamoto, Kenji Tani, Hirohito Morioka, Kimiko Watanabe, Kazuya Masuda, Yoshinori Nakahira, Masaaki Kawakami, Takashi Sugitoh, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mariko Arai, Takahiro Kawakami, Toshinori Tsujii
  • Publication number: 20040013441
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a compound image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the compound image forming apparatus is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Sohichi Yoshimura, Hiroki Eto, Kouichi Eto, Michiyuki Suzuki, Takashi Ide, Koji Tsukamoto, Kenji Tani, Hirohito Morioka, Kimiko Watanabe, Kazuya Masuda, Yoshinori Nakahira, Masaaki Kawakami, Takashi Sugitoh, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mariko Arai, Takahiro Kawakami, Toshinori Tsujii
  • Patent number: 6669320
    Abstract: A serial recording apparatus in accordance with the present invention appropriately selects ink nozzles of an ink head and prints on a sheet so that the amount of printing is substantially equal to an ordinary amount, when an inadequate amount of sheet feed occurs, and then, selects the ink nozzles of the ink head in accordance with how the inadequate amount of sheet feed is so as to carry out the next printing. This avoids that the inadequate sheet feedings are accumulated in the succeeding printings. Accordingly, even when a plurality of inadequate sheet feedings occur during the printings with respect to a single sheet, the inadequate sheet feedings are not accumulated, thereby avoiding that the quality of the printing deteriorates. Thus, it is possible to provide a serial recording apparatus which can resolve the inadequate printing by detecting the amount of sheet feed for each feeding, determining the print area in accordance with each amount of sheet feed, and carrying out the printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hayashi, Kimiko Watanabe, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mikiya Okada, Kenichi Ueda, Yoshinori Nakahira
  • Patent number: 6603937
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a complex image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the complex image forming apparatus is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sohichi Yoshimura, Hiroki Eto, Kouichi Eto, Michiyuki Suzuki, Takashi Ide, Koji Tsukamoto, Kenji Tani, Hirohito Morioka, Kimiko Watanabe, Kazuya Masuda, Yoshinori Nakahira, Masaaki Kawakami, Takashi Sugitoh, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mariko Arai, Takahiro Kawakami, Toshinori Tsujii
  • Publication number: 20020159786
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a complex image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the complex image forming apparatus is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Sohichi Yoshimura, Hiroki Eto, Kouichi Eto, Michiyuki Suzuki, Takashi Ide, Koji Tsukamoto, Kenji Tani, Hirohito Morioka, Kimiko Watanabe, Kazuya Masuda, Yoshinori Nakahira, Masaaki Kawakami, Takashi Sugitoh, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mariko Arai, Takahiro Kawakami, Toshinori Tsujii
  • Publication number: 20020001499
    Abstract: A serial recording apparatus in accordance with the present invention appropriately selects ink nozzles of an ink head and prints on a sheet so that the amount of printing is substantially equal to an ordinary amount, when an inadequate amount of sheet feed occurs, and then, selects the ink nozzles of the ink head in accordance with how the inadequate amount of sheet feed is so as to carry out the next printing. This avoids that the inadequate sheet feedings are accumulated in the succeeding printings. Accordingly, even when a plurality of inadequate sheet feedings occur during the printings with respect to a single sheet, the inadequate sheet feedings are not accumulated, thereby avoiding that the quality of the printing deteriorates. Thus, it is possible to provide a serial recording apparatus which can resolve the inadequate printing by detecting the amount of sheet feed for each feeding, determining the print area in accordance with each amount of sheet feed, and carrying out the printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hayashi, Kimiko Watanabe, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mikiya Okada, Kenichi Ueda, Yoshinori Nakahira