Patents by Inventor Makoto Ito

Makoto Ito 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: 20240150605
    Abstract: To provide a pretreatment liquid for inkjet textile printing, having excellent color development in the inkjet textile printing process, excellent color fastness to washing on printed fabrics, and little pretreatment trace residue. The solution therefor is a pretreatment liquid for inkjet textile printing containing 100 parts by mass of a cationic polymer (A), 5 parts by mass or more and less than 100 parts by mass of a (meth)acrylate-based vinyl copolymer (B), and 2 parts by mass or more and less than 30 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent (C), each being in solid content, and water, the liquid having a solid content by weight of 2 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryutaro ITO, Hiroko HIGUCHI, Makoto TERANISHI, Hayato KUROIWA
  • Publication number: 20240151372
    Abstract: A lighting device includes: a light source that is disposed on one surface; a first reflective portion that reflects light from the light source toward a first direction that is one direction along the one surface and a second direction that is along the one surface and crosses the first direction; and a second reflective portion that is disposed on a side of the first reflective portion in the second direction and reflects light from the first reflective portion toward the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Makoto ITO
  • Publication number: 20240152146
    Abstract: A watercraft propulsion system includes a bow thruster, at least two propulsion devices, a translation/bow turning operator to apply a translation command to translate a hull and a bow turning command to turn a bow of the hull, and a controller configured or programmed to drive the bow thruster, and drive one of the at least two propulsion devices forward and another of the at least two propulsion devices in reverse while controlling the steering angles of the at least two propulsion devices so that propulsive force action lines of the at least two propulsion devices cross each other in the hull in a translation watercraft maneuvering mode to translate the hull in response to an operation of the translation/bow turning operator. The controller includes a calibration mode in which calibration is performed for the translation watercraft maneuvering mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro TAGATA, Katsutoshi NAITO, Makoto ITO
  • Publication number: 20240149594
    Abstract: A processing device includes a processing unit and a medium accommodation portion, and the medium accommodation portion includes a flexible sheet-like accommodation member, a pivot shaft to which one end of the accommodation member is coupled, an operation portion to which the other end of the accommodation member is coupled and that is provided separably from the pivot shaft, and a pair of support portions that supports both ends of the operation portion, and the accommodation member is wound around the pivot shaft and stored inside the housing when the operation portion approaches the pivot shaft, and is unwound from the pivot shaft and hung down to accommodate the medium when the operation portion is separated from the pivot shaft, and holds a weight closer to the other end than to an intermediate position between the one end and the other end in the advance and retreat direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto BOSOKU, Shun ITO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Yosuke NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240150604
    Abstract: A pretreatment composition is used to form a wet precoat layer for forming an image on a fabric by an inkjet method, wherein [1] the water-based ink composition contains water, a pigment, a resin emulsion, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a surfactant, [2] the pretreatment composition is used to form the wet precoat layer in which an amount of the pretreatment composition applied per unit area is more than 0.035 g/cm2 and less than 0.070 g/cm2, [3] the pretreatment composition contains water, more than 1.4 mass % and less than 10.5 mass % of a cationic polymer, and 0.1 mass % or more and less than 2.7 mass % of a crosslinking agent with respect to the total mass of the pretreatment composition, and [4] the cationic polymer contains at least one selected from an allylamine structural unit, a diallylamine structural unit, a diallylammonium structural unit, and an epihalohydrin structural unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto TERANISHI, Hiroko HIGUCHI, Ryutaro ITO, Hayato KUROIWA
  • Patent number: 11973251
    Abstract: A fuel cell is provided with: a membrane electrode assembly (MEA); and a cathode-side separator assembled to the MEA, the cathode-side separator including first passages on a first surface of the cathode-side separator on a side closer to the MEA, and second passages on a second surface of the cathode-side separator on an opposite side, the first and second passages allowing oxidant gas to flow through the first and second passages, respectively. The first passages include first recessed portions on the first surface so as to extend from one end of the cathode-side separator to the other end, the second passages include second recessed portions on the second surface so as to extend from the one end to the other end and to be arranged alternately with the first recessed portions, and a penetration hole on a bottom face of the second recessed portion penetrating through the cathode-side separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Adachi, Naoki Takehiro, Masaaki Matsusue, Masayuki Ito, Hideo Nagaosa
  • Publication number: 20240134474
    Abstract: A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Hirokazu Hatayama, Masaaki Shiomura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Takayuki Noto, Takashi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240128020
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a laminated coil component, in which a laminated coil component is manufactured by laminating insulator sheets in order on which conductors having predetermined patterns are formed, the insulator sheets are laminated such that a distance in a lamination direction between a first lead-out conductor laminated first and a first coil conductor laminated next is larger than a distance in the lamination direction between a second lead-out conductor laminated last and a second coil conductor laminated immediately before the second lead-out conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya OSHIMA, Junichi OTSUKA, Yohei TADAKI, Shinichi KONDO, Koki ITO, Yoji TOZAWA, Shigeshi OSAWA, Tsubasa OZAWA, Makoto YOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11958878
    Abstract: The present invention establishes a molecular therapy for glycogen storage disease type Ia. The present invention provides an oligonucleotide of 15-30 bases comprising a nucleotide sequence complementary to die cDNA of G6PC gene with c.648G>T mutation, wherein the oligonucleotide comprises a sequence complementary to a region comprising any site between the 82nd to the 92nd nucleotide from the 5? end of exon 5 of the G6PC gene with c.648C>T mutation, a pharmacologically acceptable salt or solvate thereof. Also provided is a pharmaceutical drug comprising the oligonucleotide, a pharmacologically acceptable salt or solvate thereof (e.g., therapeutic drug for glycogen storage disease type Ia).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Kobe Gakuin Educational Foundation
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Yoshiyuki Onishi, Takeshi Masuda, Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, Yukiko Sekiguchi, Kentaro Ito, Shinnosuke Tsuji, Masafumi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11952344
    Abstract: Provided is a heterocyclic compound that can have an antagonistic action on an NMD A receptor containing the NR2B subunit and that is expected to be useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for depression, bipolar disorder, migraine, pain, peripheral symptoms of dementia and the like. A compound represented by the formula (I), wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Yuya Oguro, Makoto Kamata, Shuhei Ikeda, Takeshi Wakabayashi, Norihito Tokunaga, Taku Kamei, Mitsuhiro Ito, Shigemitsu Matsumoto, Hirotaka Kamitani, Takaharu Hirayama, Toshio Tanaka, Hiroshi Banno, Nobuyuki Takakura, Jinichi Yonemori, Takuya Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11955596
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte that includes a lithium ion conductive material having a garnet-type structure, a lithium ion conductive material having a LISICON-type structure, and a compound containing Li and B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Takano, Makoto Yoshioka, Akisuke Ito, Takeo Ishikura
  • Publication number: 20240111465
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to display a clearing method for clearing an initial error among errors that have occurred, on a display part, while the clearing method of the initial error of which the clearing method is displayed on the display part is displayed, receive a temporary clearing instruction for processing the initial error as being temporarily cleared, each time the temporary clearing instruction is received, display clearing methods of subsequent errors on the display part in order in a switched manner, and in a case where clearing operations for all clearing methods of the errors that have occurred are completed, resume processing of a job paused by the errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ai NAKAO, Haruhiko KOJIMA, Joji SAITO, Makoto ITO
  • Patent number: 11947263
    Abstract: A laser chamber of a discharge-excitation-type gas laser apparatus may include a container which contains laser gas therein; a pair of discharge electrodes arranged in the container; a cross flow fan configured to supply the laser gas to a discharge space between the discharge electrodes, the cross flow fan including a rotation shaft with which the cross flow fan rotates in a predetermined rotation direction and a plurality of blades, each longitudinal direction of which is parallel to an axial direction of the rotation shaft; and a stabilizer arranged outside a rotation trajectory of the cross flow fan, and arranged such that a difference between a maximum position and a minimum position of an end portion in the rotation direction on a side opposite to the rotation direction is larger than 0 and is smaller than an interval of two blades adjacent to each other among the plurality of blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Tanaka, Yosuke Fujimaki, Takashi Ito, Yousuke Kawagoe
  • Patent number: 11941549
    Abstract: The management device of an autonomous driving vehicle includes a congestion rate calculation unit and a waiting place setting unit. The congestion rate calculation unit is able to calculate the congestion rate of a parking lot adjoining each of a plurality of commercial facilities. In a case where the congestion rate of a neighbor parking lot, or a parking lot in the neighborhood of a boarding place contained in reservation information for an autonomous driving vehicle reserved for dispatch, during a waiting time period before the scheduled boarding time, is less than a congestion threshold, the waiting place setting unit sets the neighbor parking lot as a waiting place for the autonomous driving vehicle to wait during the waiting time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Katsuya Hoshi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahisa Sawada, Hiroyuki Ito, Makoto Segi, Hiroki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11942242
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a wiring body and a pattern. The wiring body includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members and a base material. The plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed to the base material in an aligned state, and the pattern is provided on the wiring body. The pattern makes a two-dimensional position of at least a part of a portion related to the base material recognizable in the wiring body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Yasuda, Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Koichiro Goto, Junichi Shirakawa, Yoshitaka Kami, Yasushi Nomura, Sofia Barillaro
  • Patent number: 11942596
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte material that includes a composite oxide containing Li and Bi, and at least one solid electrolyte having a garnet structure, a perovskite structure, and a LISICON structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Takano, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeo Ishikura, Akisuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20240092240
    Abstract: It has at least one fixing plate arranged on the seat back and at least one support member arranged on the fixing plate, and the support member can be arranged at an arbitrary angle at an arbitrary position on the front surface of the fixing plate. Therefore, the position of the support member can be adjusted not only in the vertical direction but also in the horizontal direction with respect to the seat back, but also in the angle. Therefore, it is possible to increase the degree of freedom in the position and the angle of the support member as compared with the related art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KAWAMURA, Makoto OMURA, Keita ITO
  • Publication number: 20240092597
    Abstract: A sheet feeder includes: multiple sheet feeding trays each configured to house one or more print media sheets; and a processor configured to cause a sheet feeding tray assigned a top priority to feed a print media sheet after the sheet feeding tray is set up for sheet feeding and a state of the sheet feeding tray is fixed, the top priority being highest among priorities that are assigned to the multiple sheet feeding trays and that are determined in advance with regard to sheet feeding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Joji SAITO, Makoto ITO, Haruhiko KOJIMA, Ai NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20240097524
    Abstract: This rotating electric machine comprises: a stator having a stator core around which a plurality of coils are wound; a rotor supported to be rotatable relative to the stator with a predetermined gap therebetween; a rotor case that holds the rotor; and a first bearing and a second bearing that rotatably support the rotor case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Akeshi TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya SUTO, Makoto ITO
  • Patent number: D1024961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Suto, Akihiro Namba, Akeshi Takahashi, Makoto Ito