Patents by Inventor Makoto Kodama
Makoto Kodama 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: 20240144507Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors executing the instructions to acquire a captured image and a distance image, detect an object from the captured image, acquire first distance information indicating a distance to the detected object, acquire a grounding position of the detected object based on the captured image and acquire second distance information indicating a distance to the detected object based on the first distance information and the acquired grounding position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kazuya Nobayashi, Shin Tanaka, Makoto Oigawa, Shigeo Kodama, Tomoyuki Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20240120142Abstract: The electronic component includes an element body, an internal conductor, a cover layer, and a conductor layer. The internal conductor is disposed in the element body. The cover layer is disposed on an outer surface of the element body and has an electrical insulation property. The conductor layer is disposed on the cover layer and is electrically connected to the internal conductor. The conductor layer includes a portion. The portion protrudes toward the element body through the cover layer and is physically and electrically connected to the internal conductor. The conductor layer is electrically connected to the internal conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoji TOZAWA, Masashi SHIMOYASU, Akihiko OIDE, Daiki KATO, Makoto YOSHINO, Takashi ENDO, Takuya KODAMA, Akira AKASAKA, Ken ITOH
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Patent number: 11927225Abstract: A sliding spline shaft device of the present invention includes a male spline and a female spline that is fitted to the male spline in an axially slidable manner, and at least one of the splines has a surface processed layer. The surface processed layer includes an undercoat layer, an intermediate layer containing phosphate, and a topcoat layer containing solid lubricant, in this order. The undercoat layer contains iron nitride and/or iron carbide. Thus, the surface of a base material has high hardness. As a result, microscopic deformation of the sliding surface is reduced, and increase in a real contact area is suppressed, whereby stick-slip is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigetoshi Kashiwabara, Kunio Katada, Shunsuke Hiraiwa, Akihumi Kawaguchi, Takeo Nishijima, Shinichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Katsumada, Makoto Nakajima, Tokunori Kodama, Masato Ito, Aiki Iwasa
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Patent number: 11921065Abstract: An exclusion module (21) is configured to calculate a coating amount of each component whose measurement element is not contained in the base layers, for each of corresponding measurement lines, on an assumption that that component solely makes up the thin film and to adopt a maximum coating amount as an initial value of the coating amount of that component; and to calculate a coating amount of each component whose measurement element is contained in the base layers, for each of corresponding measurement lines, on the basis of initial values of coating amounts of individual components whose measurement elements are not contained in the base layers, if calculation results for all the corresponding measurement lines give errors, to exclude that component from analysis targets as an unquantifiable component, and in other cases, to adopt a maximum coating amount as an initial value of the coating amount of that component.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Rigaku CorporationInventors: Shinya Hara, Yasujiro Yamada, Kenji Kodama, Makoto Doi
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Patent number: 8435781Abstract: The present invention provides a bioreactor having a system that can grow cells, tissue, etc. while maintaining or improving their function, and finally recover the cells as they are with good efficiency. The bioreactor has a porous sheet-form material disposed in its main body, the porous sheet-form material being formed from a nonwoven fabric, etc. having high cell affinity in order to retain cells. This porous sheet-form material has a thermosensitive polymer and a cell-adhesive substance incorporated thereinto, and the porous sheet-form material is not only cell-adhesive but also allows cells and tissue to be detached from the porous sheet-form material as they are by, for example, cooling from 37° C. to 25° C. Furthermore, in order to efficiently ensure the bioactivity or the survival of the cells, it is arranged so that circulation of a culture medium in a culturing space of the bioreactor is of a radial flow type.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2005Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Kyushu Institute of TechnologyInventor: Makoto Kodama
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Publication number: 20090017541Abstract: The present invention provides a bioreactor having a system that can grow cells, tissue, etc. while maintaining or improving their function, and finally recover the cells as they are with good efficiency. The bioreactor has a porous sheet-form material disposed in its main body, the porous sheet-form material being formed from a nonwoven fabric, etc. having high cell affinity in order to retain cells. This porous sheet-form material has a thermosensitive polymer and a cell-adhesive substance incorporated thereinto, and the porous sheet-form material is not only cell-adhesive but also allows cells and tissue to be detached from the porous sheet-form material as they are by, for example, cooling from 37° C. to 25° C. Furthermore, in order to efficiently ensure the bioactivity or the survival of the cells, it is arranged so that circulation of a culture medium in a culturing space of the bioreactor is of a radial flow type.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2005Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventor: Makoto Kodama
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Publication number: 20080281408Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to retain on an artificial blood vessel material an endothelial cell growth-promoting agent, for example the angiogenic factor HGF, without impairing its activity, thereby providing an artificial blood vessel having the function of promoting endothelialization. Such an object can be attained by an artificial blood vessel that includes a porous tubular structure formed from, for example, polytetrafluoroethylene and, layered and immobilized in sequence onto at least the inner surface thereof, (1) a polyamino acid urethane copolymer, (2) collagen or gelatin, and (3) an endothelial cell growth-promoting agent having collagen-binding activity. Preferred examples of the endothelial cell growth-promoting agent include a fusion protein of a polypeptide having collagen-binding activity such as, for example, a fibronectin-derived polypeptide and an angiogenic factor, in particular, HGF.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Makoto Kodama, Takashi Kitajima
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Patent number: 5597456Abstract: A plastic tube extruded from an extruder is conveyed through a plasma treatment apparatus. The plasma treatment apparatus is equipped with a tubular electrode body having a high-voltage side electrode and a grounded-side electrode disposed on a tubular insulator and a high frequency electric power source connected to the electrodes. When the plastic tube is conveyed through the electrode body with one end of the tube open to the atmosphere, a mixture of a glow discharge-stabilizing gas and a treating gas is fed into the other end of the tube and an alternating-current high-voltage is applied to generate a plasma region at a pressure near to atmospheric pressure in which the tube is treated with a glow discharge plasma. This method allows an interior and/or exterior surface of a plastic tube designed to convey a medical fluid to be continuously treated by a glow discharge plasma at atmospheric pressure to form an anti-thrombotic and blood-compatible film on the surface treated.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1996Date of Patent: January 28, 1997Assignees: Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Sachiko Okazaki, Masuhiro Kogoma, Kawasumi Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Tohru Maruyama, Michio Abe, Hiroaki Nomiyama, Sachiko Okazaki, Masuhiro Kogoma, Makoto Kodama
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Patent number: 5028597Abstract: An antithrombogenic material is described, comprising an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene base having a collagen layer provided on the surface thereof, and further provided thereon a composite layer of collagen and a mucopolysaccharide, and said collagen is crosslinked with a crosslinking agent.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1990Date of Patent: July 2, 1991Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Watanabe Pharmaceutical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kodama, Tsukasa Sakai, Keishiro Tsuda, Koichi Okita, Shigeru Asako, Masaharu Komamiya, Hiroshi Oinuma
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Patent number: 4464743Abstract: Record playing apparatus includes a housing having an opening at its front end; a record carrier assembly having a turntable for supporting a record disc and a tone arm assembly for reproducing signals from the disc; guide rollers which support the record carrier assembly for horizontal movement through the opening between a first position within the housing and a second position withdrawn from the housing; a dust cover; a pair of elongated arms pivotally mounted at one end thereof to opposing sides of the record carrier assembly and having the dust cover connected to the free ends thereof; springs for biasing the arms to move the dust cover to a first cover position in blocking relation to the opening when the record carrier assembly is moved to its first position; and cam bars for biasing the arms against the force of the springs when the record carrier assembly is moved to its second position so as to move the dust cover out of the aforementioned blocking relation and into a slot formed in a mounting frameType: GrantFiled: November 2, 1983Date of Patent: August 7, 1984Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Takizawa, Takao Izumi, Makoto Kodama
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Patent number: 4196907Abstract: A record player with a turntable mounted for rotation in a substantially fixed horizontal plane on a chassis and a tone arm for reproducing signals recorded on the surface of a record disc which faces upwardly when the disc is rotatably supported on the turntable, is provided with a record turn-over mechanism comprised of a support structure, for example, in the form of lever assemblies, mounted on the chassis for swinging between raised and lowered positions about an axis which extends parallel to a diameter of the turntable and is disposed to one side of the latter, a pair of spaced apart gripping devices directed inwardly towards each other from end portions, respectively, of the support structure and being axially movable between gripping positions at which the gripping devices are engageable with diametrically opposed locations on the periphery of a record disc and released positions, the gripping devices also being turnable relative to the support structure about a common axis parallel with the axis ofType: GrantFiled: February 16, 1978Date of Patent: April 8, 1980Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Takizawa, Toshio Sato, Makoto Kodama, Shiro Yasuda
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Patent number: D268999Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1981Date of Patent: May 17, 1983Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kouji Nakano, Makoto Kodama
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Patent number: D410215Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1997Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Murata, Makoto Kodama