Patents by Inventor Koji Yoshikawa
Koji Yoshikawa 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: 11939504Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a scintillator which has a short fluorescence decay time, whose fluorescence intensity after a period of time following radiation irradiation is low, and which shows largely improved light-transmittance. A scintillator represented by the following General Formula (1), the scintillator including Zr, having a Zr content of not less than 1500 ppm by mass therein, and being a block of a sintered body. QxMyO3z:A . . . (1) (wherein in General Formula (1), Q includes at least one or more kinds of divalent metallic elements; M includes at least Hf; and x, y, and z independently satisfy 0.5?x?1.5, 0.5?y?1.5, and 0.7?z?1.5, respectively).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Koji Hazu, Kentaro Horibe, Tetsuya Kawano, Keiji Yamahara, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Akira Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20230369699Abstract: A battery protection device installed in a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery pack arranged inside the vehicle body is provided, wherein the battery protection device includes a vehicle body reinforcing structure provided to extend along a length direction of either side surface of the battery pack, two ends of the vehicle body reinforcing structure are fixed to the vehicle body respectively; and a battery protection structure that extends along the length direction of either side surface of the battery pack and is installed on a side of the vehicle body reinforcing structure far from the battery pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Jianli Yu, Koji Yoshikawa, Doudou Wang, Nobuo Aizawa
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Publication number: 20230365194Abstract: A vehicle body reinforcing structure installed in a vehicle including a vehicle body and a battery pack provided in the vehicle body includes a first reinforcing member including at least a cross connection portion; and a second reinforcing member including at least a reinforcing portion arranged to extend along a longitudinal direction of a side surface of the battery pack, wherein both the first reinforcing member and the second reinforcing member are arranged along the longitudinal direction of the side surface of the battery pack, and the two ends of the first reinforcing member and the second reinforcing member are connected to the vehicle body respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Jianli Yu, Koji Yoshikawa, Yao Yang, Nobuo Aizawa
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Patent number: 11667331Abstract: A vehicle body including side is provided. The vehicle body includes left and right side frames that extend in a vehicle body forward-rearward direction and support a collision load acting from the front or the rear, and a coupling member that is joined to open ends of the side frames and restricts displacement between the open ends in a direction in which the open ends are away from each other. The side frame has a plurality of low-strength sections disposed with high-strength sections interposed therebetween in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction and having a lower strength than the high-strength sections in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction. The low-strength section closer to the open end has a lower strength in the forward-rearward direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Hasegawa, Keiichiro Tsuji, Koji Yoshikawa, Takayuki Fujii, Yusuke Miura, Tomohiro Shimizu, Yumi Saito
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Publication number: 20210291909Abstract: A vehicle body including side is provided. The vehicle body includes left and right side frames that extend in a vehicle body forward-rearward direction and support a collision load acting from the front or the rear, and a coupling member that is joined to open ends of the side frames and restricts displacement between the open ends in a direction in which the open ends are away from each other. The side frame has a plurality of low-strength sections disposed with high-strength sections interposed therebetween in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction and having a lower strength than the high-strength sections in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction. The low-strength section closer to the open end has a lower strength in the forward-rearward direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi HASEGAWA, Keiichiro TSUJI, Koji YOSHIKAWA, Takayuki FUJII, Yusuke MIURA, Tomohiro Shimizu, Yumi Saito
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Patent number: 11097780Abstract: Each rear side member (4) of a vehicle body rear structure includes a first deformable portion (41), a second deformable portion (42), a third deformable portion (43), and a fourth deformable portion (44) in that order from a rear end thereof on an inboard side and an outboard side in an alternating manner and in a mutually spaced apart relationship, and the distances between the adjacent deformable portions are substantially 1:2:1:1 in ratio as measure from the rear end of the rear side member.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Hasegawa, Koji Yoshikawa, Yusuke Miura, Ryota Yamane, Tomohiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 10955660Abstract: There is provided an optical element, an imaging lens and an imaging device preventing from occurring ghosts and flares caused by unnecessary light reflected on a surface of the edge part or inside the same of the optical element, and reproducing a clear image quality. The optical element 100 includes an effective optical portion 101, 103 and an edge part 102, 104 forming at the circumference of the effective optical portion 101, 103. A light shielding area SSI which changes in quality by laser irradiation is provided from a surface to the inside of the edge part or the inside of the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Ohtsu, Koji Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20200130747Abstract: Each rear side member (4) of a vehicle body rear structure includes a first deformable portion (41), a second deformable portion (42), a third deformable portion (43), and a fourth deformable portion (44) in that order from a rear end thereof on an inboard side and an outboard side in an alternating manner and in a mutually spaced apart relationship, and the distances between the adjacent deformable portions are substantially 1:2:1:1 in ratio as measure from the rear end of the rear side member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Atsushi HASEGAWA, Koji YOSHIKAWA, Yusuke MIURA, Ryota YAMANE, Tomohiro SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20200105808Abstract: An imaging device is provided includes a plurality of pixels (200-1). A pixel (200-1) of the plurality of pixels includes: a first wiring coupled to a floating diffusion (221); a second wiring opposed to the first wiring such that a wiring capacitance (Cfd-vsl) is formed; a pixel amplifier (214) with a feedback capacitance that is based on the wiring capacitance; and a vertical signal line (22) arranged to output a signal from the floating diffusion. The wiring capacitance is formed between the floating diffusion and the vertical signal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Yukio Tagawa, Koji Yoshikawa, Yuhi Yorikado, Koichi Baba
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Publication number: 20190317318Abstract: There is provided an optical element, an imaging lens and an imaging device preventing from occurring ghosts and flares caused by unnecessary light reflected on a surface of the edge part or inside the same of the optical element, and reproducing a clear image quality. The optical element 100 comprises an effective optical portion 101, 103 and an edge part 102, 104 forming at the circumference of the effective optical portion 101, 103. A light shielding area SSI which changes in quality by laser irradiation is provided from a surface to the inside of the edge part or the inside of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Nobuyuki OOTSU, Koji YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9463236Abstract: A composition comprising the following composition: an AD vehicle including a synthetic peptide and a lipid, wherein the synthetic peptide includes the amino acid sequence KnLm (wherein n is 4 to 8 and m is 11 to 20), a carboxylvinyl polymer and an RSV antigen. The composition has an antibody producing ability which is further higher than that of a conventional mucosal vaccine, hence capable of exerting excellent anti-virus antigen-specific IgA antibody- and IgG antibody-inducing effect in the nasal wash and the serum, respectively, even with an extremely small quantity of an RSV antigen.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroshi Kido, Dai Mizuno, Hirotsugu Ueda, Koji Yoshikawa, Keisuke Ohsumi, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Kenji Sudo
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Publication number: 20150297713Abstract: A composition comprising the following composition: an AD vehicle including a synthetic peptide and a lipid, wherein the synthetic peptide includes the amino acid sequence KnLm (wherein n is 4 to 8 and m is 11 to 20), a carboxylvinyl polymer and an RSV antigen. The composition has an antibody producing ability which is further higher than that of a conventional mucosal vaccine, hence capable of exerting excellent anti-virus antigen-specific IgA antibody- and IgG antibody-inducing effect in the nasal wash and the serum, respectively, even with an extremely small quantity of an RSV antigen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Hiroshi KIDO, Dai MIZUNO, Hirotsugu UEDA, Koji YOSHIKAWA, Keisuke OHSUMI, Nobuyaki YAMAMOTO, Kenji SUDO
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Patent number: 8957673Abstract: A rotational angle sensor and a method for manufacturing the same, and a throttle control device with a rotational angle sensor, which may lower the cost, are provided. The rotational angle sensor includes each sensor IC for detecting a rotational angle of a rotor based on a magnetic field generated between a pair of magnets respectively disposed across the rotational axis of the rotor; each main terminal connected with each connection terminal of each sensor IC; and a holder member for holding each sensor IC and connection portions of each main terminal on each sensor side. A sensor assembly is constructed to form the sensor ICs the main terminals and the holder member into an assembly. A potting material is potted into the holder member.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Ikeda, Yoshihiro Sakuma, Masaharu Nagasaka, Koji Yoshikawa, Kazumasa Nakashima
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Patent number: 8598115Abstract: A compound useful as an antifungal agent, particularly a therapeutic agent for deep-seated mycoses, is provided. A fungus Acremonium persicinum was collected, and cyclic compounds were isolated from culture liquids thereof. The present inventors confirmed that the cyclic compounds or salts thereof have a potent antifungal activity and are useful as medicaments, particularly an antifungal agent, and thus the present invention was completed. The cyclic compound and the salt thereof according to the present invention can be used as an agent for preventing or treating mycoses, particularly deep-seated mycoses.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Ikuko Nakamura, Koji Yoshikawa, Keisuke Ohsumi, Ryuichi Kanasaki, Shigehiro Takase
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Patent number: 8487394Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion element, a light blocking section, and a protective layer. The protective layer protects the photoelectric conversion element and the light blocking section. A step section is formed on a surface of the protective layer. The step section is formed having a difference in height in a direction perpendicular to an irradiation surface of the photoelectric conversion element. The step section is provided in the light receiving area.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takeshi Fushimi, Takashi Takahashi, Junichi Ide, Yasushi Itabashi, Koji Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 8260560Abstract: A fuel property determining apparatus may comprise a first sensor and second sensor. The first sensor may detect a concentration of an alcohol contained in fuel. The second sensor may detect a vapor pressure of the target fuel. The fuel property determining apparatus may further comprise a memory and a processor. The memory may store first data for determining a “heavy/light gravity—vapor pressure” relationship based on the concentration of the alcohol. The processor may determine the fuel property of the target fuel based on the first data stored in the memory, the alcohol concentration detected by the first sensor, and the vapor pressure detected by the second sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Yoshikawa, Hisashi Kino, Naoaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 8241872Abstract: A microorganism which produces compounds useful as an antifungal agent, particularly a therapeutic agent for deep-seated mycoses, such as mycotic sinusitis, is provided. The present inventors have conducted intensive studies on naturally-occurring microorganisms as a research for antifungal compounds, and found a fungus Acremonium persicinum which produces cyclic compounds having a potent antifungal activity and useful as a medicament, particularly an antifungal agent, and the present invention was completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Ikuko Nakamura, Koji Yoshikawa, Teruhisa Masaki, Ryuichi Kanasaki, Neelam Shahab
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Publication number: 20120032670Abstract: A rotational angle sensor and a method for manufacturing the same, and a throttle control device with a rotational angle sensor, which may lower the cost, are provided. The rotational angle sensor includes each sensor IC for detecting a rotational angle of a rotor based on a magnetic field generated between a pair of magnets respectively disposed across the rotational axis of the rotor; each main terminal connected with each connection terminal of each sensor IC; and a holder member for holding each sensor IC and connection portions of each main terminal on each sensor side. A sensor assembly is constructed to form the sensor ICs the main terminals and the holder member into an assembly. A potting material is potted into the holder member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Tsutomu Ikeda, Yoshihiro Sakuma, Masaharu Nagasaka, Koji Yoshikawa, Kazumasa Nakashima
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Patent number: 8044659Abstract: A rotational angle sensor and a method for manufacturing the same, and a throttle control device with a rotational angle sensor, which may lower the cost, are provided. The rotational angle sensor includes each sensor IC 50(1), 50(2) for detecting a rotational angle of a rotor based on a magnetic field generated between a pair of magnets respectively disposed across the rotational axis of the rotor; each main terminal 61, 62, 63, 64 connected with each connection terminal 55, 56, 57 of each sensor IC 50(1), 50(2); and a holder member 90 for holding each sensor IC 50(1), 50(2) and connection portions of each main terminal 61, 62, 63, 64 on each sensor IC 50(1), 50(2) side. A sensor assembly 100 is constructed to form the sensor ICs 50(1), 50(2), the main terminals 61, 62, 63, 64 and the holder member 90 into an assembly. A potting material 102 is potted into the holder member 90.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2005Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Ikeda, Yoshihiro Sakuma, Masaharu Nagasaka, Koji Yoshikawa, Kazumasa Nakashima
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Publication number: 20110096214Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion element, a light blocking section, and a protective layer. The protective layer protects the photoelectric conversion element and the light blocking section. A step section is formed on a surface of the protective layer. The step section is formed having a difference in height in a direction perpendicular to an irradiation surface of the photoelectric conversion element. The step section is provided in the light receiving area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takeshi FUSHIMI, Takashi Takahashi, Junichi Ide, Yasushi Itabashi, Koji Yoshikawa