Patents by Inventor Kyoko Yamamoto
Kyoko Yamamoto 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: 11971673Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a process unit, a heating unit, and a controller unit. The process unit is configured to transfer an image onto a sheet. The heating unit is configured to fix the image transferred at the process unit onto the sheet, and to transfer a transfer layer onto an image formed on a sheet overlaid on a multilayer film. The controller unit is capable of operating in a first printing mode in which processes of transferring an image at the process unit, fixing the image at the heating unit, and transferring the transfer layer at the heating unit are executed, and a second printing mode in which processes of transferring an image at the process unit and fixing the image at the heating unit are not executed, and a process of transferring the transfer layer at the heating unit is executed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoya Ichikawa, Tomoya Yamamoto, Ryosuke Sakai, Kentaro Mori, Kyoko Sugiyama, Ayaka Ohira, Isami Fujisawa
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Patent number: 11808671Abstract: It is necessary to efficiently agitate a small amount of sample (such as blood) and reagent (such as diluted solution) in a short time with a dispensing probe having a constant tube inner diameter. An automatic analysis device, by a dispensing probe, executes an aspiration step of aspirating a reagent from a reagent vessel; a first dispensing and aspiration step of dispensing a first liquid amount of the aspirated reagent to a reaction vessel and aspirating, from the reaction vessel, a second liquid amount of a mixed liquid obtained by mixing the reagent and the sample in the reaction vessel; and a final dispensing step of dispensing the aspirated mixed liquid and the reagent in a predetermined dispensing amount. A first liquid amount Va is less than a predetermined dispensing amount Vdil.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Sakuichiro Adachi, Kyoko Yamamoto, Chie Yabutani, Rei Konishi, Akihisa Makino
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Publication number: 20230258669Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress time and effort into generating a calibration curve while ensuring accuracy of the calibration curve in an analysis step of generating the calibration curve by using two or more standard solutions (two or more concentrations).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Kyoko YAMAMOTO, Sakuichiro ADACHI, Chie YABUTANI
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Publication number: 20210072241Abstract: A fluorescent probe can be used to detect and visualize carboxypeptidase activity with high sensitivity. The fluorescent probe has, as a base nucleus, a fluorescent skeleton that functions in the visible light region, and makes carboxypeptidase activity detectable and visible, for example, within a cell or clinical specimen, with high sensitivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Yasuteru URANO, Mako KAMIYA, Minoru KAWATANI, Hirohisa IWAKI, Kyoko YAMAMOTO, Haruki KUME, Daisuke YAMADA
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Publication number: 20210025911Abstract: It is necessary to efficiently agitate a small amount of sample (such as blood) and reagent (such as diluted solution) in a short time with a dispensing probe having a constant tube inner diameter. An automatic analysis device, by a dispensing probe, executes an aspiration step of aspirating a reagent from a reagent vessel; a first dispensing and aspiration step of dispensing a first liquid amount of the aspirated reagent to a reaction vessel and aspirating, from the reaction vessel, a second liquid amount of a mixed liquid obtained by mixing the reagent and the sample in the reaction vessel; and a final dispensing step of dispensing the aspirated mixed liquid and the reagent in a predetermined dispensing amount. A first liquid amount Va is less than a predetermined dispensing amount Vdil.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Sakuichiro ADACHI, Kyoko YAMAMOTO, Chie YABUTANI, Rei KONISHI, Akihisa MAKINO
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Publication number: 20200346972Abstract: The present invention relates to a base material that comes into contact with water and contains a base material main body and a surface layer provided on at least a part of a surface that comes into contact with water of the base material main body, (1) in which the surface layer is composed of a cured product of a composition containing a compound having a biocompatible moiety and a reactive silyl group, the biocompatible moiety has a specific structure, the composition has a content of the biocompatible moiety being 25 to 83% by mass and a content of the reactive silyl group being 2 to 70% by mass, in a solid component, or (2) in which the surface layer has an elastic modulus showing a measured value in water being 0.1% to 63% with respect to a measured value after drying in the air.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: AGO IncInventors: Hajime EGUCHI, Kyoko YAMAMOTO, Ryohei KOGUCHI, Yosuke AMINO, Noriko TANABE
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Publication number: 20200330653Abstract: To provide a medical device, whereby the non-specific absorption amount is reduced, its durability is excellent and eluents from the surface layer are reduced. The medical device comprises a device substrate and a surface layer provided on at least part of the surface of the device substrate in contact with water, wherein at least part of the surface of the device substrate is made of an inorganic material, the surface layer is made of a cured product of a compound having a biocompatible group and an alkoxysilyl group, the content of the biocompatible group in the compound is from 25 to 83% by mass, and the content of the alkoxysilyl group is from 2 to 70% by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryohei Koguchi, Hajime Eguchi, Kyoko Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20200299626Abstract: To provide a cell culture container capable of preparing spheroids having a uniform size highly efficiently, and capable of microscopic observation simply, particularly fluorescence microscopic observation. A cell culture container comprising: side walls forming an opening, a bottom comprising a light-transmitting glass material, closing the lower end of the opening and having a plurality of recesses in a region which the opening faces on its upper surface, and a surface layer inhibiting cell adhesion formed on the inner surface of the recesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryohei KOGUCHI, Hajime EGUCHI, Lijun ZHU, Kyoko YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200266378Abstract: A light-emitting device having a high current efficiency is provided. The light-emitting device includes, in sequence, a cathode, an electron transport layer, a light-emitting layer, and an anode. The light-emitting device further optionally includes an electron injection layer between the cathode and the electron transport layer. The electron transport layer contains particles and a non-particle electron transport material. A refractive index of light n1 at a wavelength of 550 nm of a material that constitutes the particles and a refractive index of light n2 at a wavelength of 550 nm of the non-particle electron transport material satisfies the following relation: n1?n2??0.15. The particles have a Z-average size of 110 to 300 nm as determined by dynamic light scattering.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Takayuki IIJIMA, Kyoko YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 10345498Abstract: Provided is an infrared cut filter including: an infrared absorbing layer of a transparent resin containing an infrared absorber; and a selected wavelength cut layer stacked on the infrared absorbing layer, wherein the following requirements are satisfied. (i) In a spectral transmittance curve for an incident angle of 0°, an average transmittance in a 450-600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in a 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and D0 represented by the following expression is less than 0.04. D0 (%/nm)=(Tmax·0?Tmin·0)/(?(Tmax·0)??(Tmin·0)) (ii) wherein a spectrum transmittance curve for an incident angle of 30°, an average transmittance in the 450 to 600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in the 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and D30 represented by the following expression is less than 0.04.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Kyoko Yamamoto, Takaaki Murakami, Mitsuyuki Tatemura, Hiroshi Kumai
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Publication number: 20190077966Abstract: To provide a protein adhesion inhibitor from which a cured product having excellent protein non-adhesion and having excellent form stability so that a film formed therefrom will not warp, can be formed, a cured product using it, and an article. A protein adhesion inhibitor comprising a non-polymerizable fluorinated polymer having a specific group such as —(CnH2nO)— and a fluorine atom content QF of from 5 to 60 mass %, and at least one curable monomer selected from the group consisting of a vinyl monomer and a cyclic ether monomer, wherein the coefficient ? is at most 10. A cured product of the protein adhesion inhibitor. A medical device 1 comprising a substrate 2 and a coating layer 3 formed of the cured product of the protein adhesion inhibitor on the substrate 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryohei KOGUCHI, Kyoko Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10138312Abstract: To provide an inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion capable of easily forming a coating layer which is excellent in water resistance, from which coating components are less likely to be eluted, on which protein is less likely to be adsorbed and which is excellent in biocompatibility; a coating solution; a medical device having a coating layer employing this inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion; a method for producing the same; and a fluoropolymer to be used in this inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion. A compound for inhibiting protein adhesion comprising a fluoropolymer that has units having a biocompatible group, a fluorine atom content of from 5 to 60 mass % and a proportion P represented by the following formula of from 0.1 to 4.5%. (Proportion P)=((proportion (mass %) of units having a biocompatible group to all units of the fluoropolymer))/(fluorine atom content (mass %) of the fluoropolymer))×100.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryohei Koguchi, Kyoko Yamamoto, Yuriko Kaida, Tohru Itoh, Aya Wada, Hajime Eguchi
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Publication number: 20180298178Abstract: To provide a resin composition which is used to coat the substrate surface, thereby to selectively trap a variety of target substances via a ligand which specifically binds to the target substances on the substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hiroki SATO, Tatsuaki MIWA, Alimjan IDIRIS, Ryohei KOGUCHI, Kyoko YAMAMOTO, Hajime EGUCHI
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Patent number: 9666823Abstract: Organic electroluminescent element capable of conveniently and precisely establishing the emission color of the element. The organic electroluminescent element includes a pair of electrodes and a light-emitting layer provided between the electrodes and presents an emission color at the coordinate Ao (Xo, Yo) in CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system. The light-emitting layer contains in the same layer, a light emitting material A1 that presents an emission color at the coordinate A1 (x1, y1) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system and a light emitting material A2 that presents an emission color at the coordinate A2 (x2, y2) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system; a distance LAo-A1 between the coordinates Ao (Xo, Yo) and A1 (x1, y1) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system satisfies LAo-A1?0.20; and a distance LA1-A2 between the coordinates A1 (x1, y1) and A2 (x2, y2) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system satisfies 0.13?LA1-A2?0.35 s.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Kyoko Yamamoto, Yoshinobu Ono
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Publication number: 20170101497Abstract: To provide an inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion capable of easily forming a coating layer which is excellent in water resistance, from which coating components are less likely to be eluted, on which protein is less likely to be adsorbed and which is excellent in biocompatibility; a coating solution; a medical device having a coating layer employing this inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion; a method for producing the same; and a fluoropolymer to be used in this inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion. A compound for inhibiting protein adhesion comprising a fluoropolymer that has units having a biocompatible group, a fluorine atom content of from 5 to 60 mass % and a proportion P represented by the following formula of from 0.1 to 4.5%. (Proportion P)=((proportion (mass %) of units having a biocompatible group to all units of the fluoropolymer))/(fluorine atom content (mass %) of the fluoropolymer))×100.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Ryohei KOGUCHI, Kyoko Yamamoto, Yuriko Kaida, Tohru Itoh, Aya Wada, Hajime Eguchi
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Patent number: 9605123Abstract: A process for producing a resin substrate having a hard coating layer on at least one side of a resin substrate, comprising, in the following order, a step of applying a hard coating composition containing an organopolysiloxane to at least one side of the resin substrate to form a coating film of the composition, and then applying a first heat treatment to the coating film to form a cured film; an irradiation step of applying a Xe2 excimer light irradiation treatment to the cured film in an atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of at most 5 vol %; and a step of applying an oxidation treatment to the cured film obtained by the irradiation step and then further applying a second heat treatment to form the hard coating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Kyoko Yamamoto, Takashi Shibuya
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Patent number: 9580557Abstract: An organo polysiloxane to improve the abrasion and weather resistance of a hard coating layer obtained from a silicone-type hard coating composition. The hard coating composition contains a first organo polysiloxane having silicone-containing bond units selected from the group consisting of R—Si(—OX)2(—O*—), R—Si(—OX)(—O*—)2 and R—Si(—O*—)3) and a second organo polysiloxane having the same, where the second organo polysiloxane has a weight average molecular weight of 1/10 to 1/1.5 times that of the first organo polysiloxane. Further, a resin substrate having a hard coating layer made of a cured product of the hard coating composition that has improved abrasion and weather resistance. For resin substrates used in a bent state, the hard coating layer also improves the cracking resistance associated with mechanical stress.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Kyoko Yamamoto, Takashi Shibuya, Tatsuya Miyajima
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Publication number: 20160018576Abstract: Provided is an infrared cut filter including: an infrared absorbing layer of a transparent resin containing an infrared absorber; and a selected wavelength cut layer stacked on the infrared absorbing layer, wherein the following requirements are satisfied. (i) In a spectral transmittance curve for an incident angle of 0°, an average transmittance in a 450-600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in a 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and D0 represented by the following expression is less than 0.04. D0 (%/nm)=(Tmax·0?Tmin·0)/(?(Tmax·0)??(Tmin·0)) (ii) wherein a spectrum transmittance curve for an incident angle of 30°, an average transmittance in the 450 to 600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in the 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and D30 represented by the following expression is less than 0.04.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Kyoko Yamamoto, Takaaki Murakami, Mitsuyuki Tatemura, Hiroshi Kumai
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Publication number: 20150284305Abstract: The present invention relates to a method containing reacting a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by a formula Rf1X under light irradiation in a halogen-containing solvent in the presence of a thiosulfate salt and thereby obtaining a fluorine-containing compound represented by the following formula (2) and/or a fluorine-containing compound represented by the following formula (3), in which X represents an iodine atom or a bromine atom, Rf1 represents a fluorine-containing alkyl group having a carbon number of from 1 to 12, in which one or more fluorine atoms directly bond to the carbon atom that serves as an atomic bond, m is an integer of 1 or more, n is an integer of 0 or more, and m+n is an integer of 1 or more and 4 or less,Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Tomoko YAJIMA, Emiko NOGAMI, Kyoko YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9087996Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fluorine-containing aromatic compound represented by the following formula (2-1) or formula (2-2): R1 is a linear perfluoroalkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 3; X2 to X5 are a halogen atom or a hydrogen atom; R2 to R5, L1 and L2 are a monovalent hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 1 to 12, a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group, a monovalent hetero aromatic group, a halogen atom, or a hydrogen atom; one or more groups selected from R2 to R5 are a monovalent hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 1 to 12, a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group, or a monovalent heteroaromatic group; and m is an integer of 0 or more, n is an integer of 1 or more, and m+n is an integer of 2 or more and 6 or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Takashi Yamazaki, Shigeyuki Yamada, Kyoko Yamamoto