Patents by Inventor Makoto Endo

Makoto Endo 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).

  • Patent number: 10244691
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a root-knot nematode resistance marker for tomato plants; a novel root-knot nematode resistant tomato plant; a method for producing a root-knot nematode resistant tomato plant; and a screening method for a root-knot nematode resistant tomato plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Takii & Company Limited
    Inventors: Yutaka Fukunaga, Takehiro Yokokawa, Kazuo Kosugi, Ryohei Arimoto, Makoto Endo, Hitomi Aoike
  • Publication number: 20190066900
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic component that includes: a base having a main surface; a passive element part formed on the main surface of the base; a magnetic resin layer formed on the main surface of the base so as to embed the passive element part therein, the magnetic resin layer having a surface extending substantially parallel to the main surface of the base; an insulating coat layer formed on a first area of the surface of the magnetic resin layer, the insulating coat layer having higher smoothness than the surface of the magnetic resin layer; and a terminal electrode formed on a second area of the surface of the magnetic resin layer and electrically connected to the passive element part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro NAKAJIMA, Kenichi HIRENZAKI, Makoto ENDO, Masanori SUZUKI, Tomonaga NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10208173
    Abstract: Sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers include reinforcing fibers and a sizing agent containing a polyrotaxane, the reinforcing fibers being coated with the sizing agent. Provided are sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers that provide a fiber-reinforced composite material with excellent mechanical properties, a method for producing the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers, a prepreg including the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers, and a fiber-reinforced composite material with excellent mechanical properties including the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takumi Hiasa, Daigo Kobayashi, Tomoko Ichikawa, Makoto Endo
  • Patent number: 10199168
    Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component provided with a component main body formed by alternatively laminating multiple dielectric ceramic layers and multiple internal electrode layers, and external electrodes disposed on the end faces where the internal electrode layers of the component main body are exposed, wherein at least a part of the multiple internal electrode layers exposed on the end faces of the component main body are provided with end-face electrode portions that connect the adjacent internal electrode layers, the connecting portions are present between the end-face electrode portions and the dielectric ceramic layers that contact with the end-face electrode portions, and the external electrodes are disposed so that the end-face electrode portions are covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Yamaguchi, Keisuke Ishida, Makoto Endo, Shimpei Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10184034
    Abstract: The carbon fiber forming raw material is a carbon fiber forming raw material (Z) as a prepreg including sizing agent-coated carbon fibers and a thermosetting resin or a carbon fiber forming raw material (Y) as a forming material that includes sizing agent-coated carbon fibers and has a woven fabric form or a braid form. The sizing agent includes components (A) and (B). The component (A) is an epoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups or two or more types of functional groups. The component (B) is one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a tertiary amine compound, a tertiary amine salt, a quaternary ammonium salt, a quaternary phosphonium salt, and a phosphine compound. The component (B) is contained in an amount of 0.1 to 25 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the component (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Nakayama, Toshiya Kamae, Daigo Kobayashi, Makoto Endo
  • Publication number: 20190014754
    Abstract: A denitrifying device and an aquatic organism breeding system are provided which are capable of efficiently denitrifying breeding water for an aquatic organism under an aerobic condition. A denitrifying device 20 according to an embodiment is a denitrifying device 20 for breeding water used for breeding an aquatic organism, including: a filtering tank 21 into which the breeding water stored in a breeding water tank 2 is supplied by a pump 3; a filtering medium 22 housed in the filtering tank 21, and on which denitrifying bacteria that reduce nitrate nitrogen in the breeding water are fixed; and an intermittent water discharging unit 23 that intermittently performs an oxygen taking operation of discharging the breeding water stored in the filtering tank 21 into the breeding water tank 2 to expose the filtering medium 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORP. TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Makoto ENDO, Takeshi TERAHARA
  • Publication number: 20180346668
    Abstract: Sizing agent coated carbon fibers obtained by coating carbon fibers with a sizing agent comprising at least one of (A) to (C) in a total amount of 80 mass % or more with respect to the whole sizing agent, the carbon fibers each having a surface layer which has a thickness of 10 nm or larger and has an oxygen content of 4% or higher with respect to all the elements, wherein when the sizing agent coated carbon fibers are subjected three times to a 10-minute ultrasonic treatment in an acetone solvent, then the amount of the remaining sizing agent is 0.1-0.25 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the sizing agent coated carbon fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko ICHIKAWA, Kazuki YOSHIHIRO, Hisafumi MIZUTA, Makoto ENDO
  • Patent number: 10138593
    Abstract: Sizing agent-coated carbon fibers includes: a sizing agent including an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1) as an aromatic compound (B); and carbon fibers coated with the sizing agent, wherein the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers have an (a)/(b) ratio of 0.50 to 0.90 where (a) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (284.6 eV) assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (286.1 eV) assigned to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of a surface of the sizing agent applied onto the carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using AlK?1,2 as an X-ray source at a photoelectron takeoff angle of 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ichikawa, Makoto Endo, Hiroshi Taiko, Masanobu Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Arai, Jun Misumi
  • Patent number: 10090106
    Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component with a cuboid-shaped element main body having a first main face and a second main face elongating along the length direction and the width direction, a first side face and a second side face elongating along the length direction and the height direction, and a first end face and a second end face elongating along the width direction and the height direction; and a pair of internal electrode layers opposite to each other in the height direction inside the element main body with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween in such a manner that they are exposed at the first end face or the second end face, wherein the thickness of the dielectric layer becomes larger from central portion to the first side face and the second side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Endo, Keisuke Ishida, Koichi Yamaguchi, Shimpei Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180277296
    Abstract: There is provided a coil component including a coil portion that has at least one layer of planar coil including a coil-wound portion and an insulative layer which covers the periphery of the coil-wound portion, a covering portion that covers the coil portion and is constituted of a mixture including magnetic fillers and resin, and a conductor post that is penetratingly provided inside the covering portion and extends from the coil-wound portion to an upper surface of the covering portion along an axial direction of the planar coil. The conductor post has a post portion which extends from the coil-wound portion in the axial direction of the planar coil, and a lid portion which is exposed from the covering portion and extends from an end portion of the post portion on the upper surface side along a surface direction of the upper surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto ENDO, Mitsunori HIRAOKA, Kazuhiko ITO
  • Patent number: 9978521
    Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes an element body having an internal electrode layer and a dielectric layer. These layers are substantially parallel to a plane including a first axis and a second axis and are alternately laminated along a third axis direction. A pair of side surfaces facing each other in the first axis direction of the element body is respectively equipped with an insulating layer. A pair of end surfaces facing each other in the second axis direction of the element body is respectively equipped with an external electrode electrically connected to the internal electrode layer. The insulating layer has a mountain portion formed on a peripheral edge of the side surface and a plane portion of a central portion of the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Okai, Makoto Endo, Hiroshi Shindo, Yui Sugiura, Tomomichi Gunji, Yohei Noda, Hirobumi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9972440
    Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes an element body having an internal electrode layer and a dielectric layer. These are substantially parallel to a plane including a first axis and a second axis and are alternately laminated along a third axis direction. Side surfaces facing each other in the first axis direction are respectively equipped with an insulating layer. End surfaces facing each other in the second axis direction are respectively equipped with an external electrode. An elastic modulus of the insulating layer is 12 GPa to 140 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Okai, Makoto Endo, Yohei Noda, Hirobumi Tanaka, Tomomichi Gunji, Yui Sugiura, Hiroshi Shindo
  • Publication number: 20180022900
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a polyamide moulding composition consisting of the following components: a) 45 to 75% by weight of at least one partially crystalline polyamide consisting of at least one diamine and at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid, whereupon the at least one diamine has 4 to 18 carbon atoms and is selected from a group of diamines consisting of linear aliphatic diamines, branched aliphatic diamines and cycloaliphatic diamines, b) 5 to 20% by weight of at least one fibrous reinforcing agent, c) 10 to 40% by weight of at least one non-sized filler which is different from the fibrous reinforcing agent in b), d) 0 to 10% by weight of a at least one additive, with the proviso that the component b) and c) add up to 25 to 45% by weight and the entirety of components a) to d) add up to 100% by weight. Moreover, the present invention refers to a moulded article producible from this moulding composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: EMS-PATENT AG
    Inventors: Kosuke NAKANO, Makoto ENDO, Minoru HATTA
  • Patent number: 9865397
    Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes an element body having an internal electrode layer and a dielectric layer. These are substantially parallel to a plane including a first axis and a second axis and are alternately laminated along a third axis direction. Side surfaces facing each other in the first axis direction are respectively equipped with an insulating layer. End surfaces facing each other in the second axis direction are respectively equipped with an external electrode. A main component of the insulating layer is constituted by glass containing Si at 25 wt % or more. The external electrode includes glass containing at least Si. The external electrode covers an end portion in the second axial direction of the insulating layer. A diffusing layer is partially present at least at a bonding portion of the insulating layer with the external electrode in the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirobumi Tanaka, Yohei Noda, Keisuke Okai, Makoto Endo
  • Publication number: 20170327657
    Abstract: A prepreg includes; sizing agent-coated carbon fibers coated with a sizing agent; and a thermosetting resin composition impregnated into the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers. The sizing agent includes an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic compound (B) at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1). The thermosetting resin composition includes a thermosetting resin (D) and a latent hardener (E), and optionally includes an additive (F) other than the thermosetting resin (D) and the latent hardener (E). The (a)/(b) ratio is within a predetermined range where (a) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of the surfaces of the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki ARAI, Tomoko ICHIKAWA, Hiroshi TAIKO, Makoto ENDO, Masanobu KOBAYASHI, Jun MISUMI
  • Publication number: 20170316867
    Abstract: Provided is a coil component including a coil portion that has two ring-shaped planar coil portions individually including a coil-wound portion and an insulative resin layer which covers the periphery of the coil-wound portion within the same layer as the coil-wound portion, an insulative resin layer being interposed between the planar coil portions adjacent to each other in the stacking direction of the planar coil portions, and a pair of insulative resin layers being respectively positioned on one end side and the other end side of the two planar coil portions in the stacking direction; and a covering portion that covers the coil portion. In regard to the stacking direction, the thickness of the insulative resin layer is thinner than the thickness of each of the pair of insulative resin layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi KAMIJIMA, Masamichi TANIGUCHI, Makoto ENDO, Tohru INOUE
  • Patent number: 9771681
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a sizing agent-coated carbon fibers, wherein at least one kind of sizing agent that is selected from the group consisting of sizing agents (a), (b) and (c) is used for coating, in each of the sizing agents a bi- or higher functional epoxy compound (A1) and/or an epoxy compound (A2) being used as a component (A), and the epoxy compound (A2) having a mono- or higher functional epoxy group and at least one functional group that is selected from among a hydroxyl group, an amide group, an imide group, a urethane group, a urea group, a sulfonyl group and a sulfo group. The sizing agent is applied to carbon fibers and the resulting is subjected to a heat treatment within the temperature range of 160-260° C. for 30-600 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Nakayama, Toshiya Kamae, Daigo Kobayashi, Makoto Endo
  • Patent number: 9765194
    Abstract: A prepreg includes; sizing agent-coated carbon fibers coated with a sizing agent; and a thermosetting resin composition impregnated into the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers. The sizing agent includes an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic compound (B) at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1). The thermosetting resin composition includes a thermosetting resin (D) and a latent hardener (E), and optionally includes an additive (F) other than the thermosetting resin (D) and the latent hardener (E). The (a)/(b) ratio is within a predetermined range where (a) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of the surfaces of the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Arai, Tomoko Ichikawa, Hiroshi Taiko, Makoto Endo, Masanobu Kobayashi, Jun Misumi
  • Patent number: 9683326
    Abstract: A prepreg is formed by impregnating sizing agent-coated carbon fibers coated with a sizing agent with a thermosetting resin composition. The sizing agent contains an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic compound (B) at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1). The sizing agent-coated carbon fibers has an (a)/(b) ratio of 0.50 to 0.90 where (a) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (284.6 eV) assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (286.1 eV) assigned to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of a surface of the sizing agent applied onto the carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using AlK?1,2 as an X-ray source at a photoelectron takeoff angle of 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Arai, Tomoko Ichikawa, Hiroshi Taiko, Makoto Endo, Masanobu Kobayashi, Jun Misumi
  • Publication number: 20170162316
    Abstract: In a coil component, an inorganic layer which is provided on a lower surface side of a coil has a thermal conductivity higher than that of a resin layer with which an upper surface of the coil is covered and gaps between windings are filled. As a result, heat transfer from the inside of the coil to the outside is supplemented via the inorganic layer. That is, heat transfer of the coil via the inorganic layer is facilitated, and heat dissipation of the coil component improves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto ENDO, Masamichi TANIGUCHI, Katsunori OSANAI