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).
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Publication number: 20210079354Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 10870833Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, MEUI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180362934Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 9354240Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.Inventors: Youhei Yamagata, Masafumi Goto, Kimiko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20150368615Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130345087Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicants: MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD., TOHOKU UNIVERISTYInventors: Youhei Yamagata, Masafumi Goto, Kimiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 7042584Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 2000Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kimiko Watanabe, Naoyuki Kamei, Fumikazu Nagano, Yoshinori Hayashi
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Patent number: 6920295Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20040013441Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2003Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: 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
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Patent number: 6669320Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Hayashi, Kimiko Watanabe, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mikiya Okada, Kenichi Ueda, Yoshinori Nakahira
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Patent number: 6603937Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2001Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20020159786Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: 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
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Publication number: 20020001499Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventors: Yoshinori Hayashi, Kimiko Watanabe, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mikiya Okada, Kenichi Ueda, Yoshinori Nakahira