Patents by Inventor Makoto Shimizu

Makoto Shimizu 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: 11915609
    Abstract: Provided is a hollow organ model unit. The hollow organ model unit includes a base that includes a recessed part, a hollow organ model that is placed in the recessed part, a filler that is filled in the recessed part, and a sensor that performs a measurement on the hollow organ model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoichi Haga, Makoto Ohta, Yasutomo Shimizu, Tadao Matsunaga, Noriko Tsuruoka, Soyoka Osaki, Hiroshi Yoshida, Simon Andre Tupin, Kaihong Yu
  • Publication number: 20230360842
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a core part including: a winding shaft, and a flange part provided on an axial-direction end of the winding shaft, which has an exterior face on the opposite side of the winding shaft, first and second side faces, and first and second groove parts provided on the exterior face and having a cut-out part on each the first and second side faces; a coil part including: a winding part of a conductor wound around the winding shaft, and two lead parts of the conductor led out from the winding part; and two terminal parts formed on the exterior face of the flange part; wherein the two lead parts are led in from the cut-out parts on the first and second side faces and fitted inside the groove parts, respectively, on the exterior face, and included in the pair of terminal parts, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Makoto SHIMIZU, Tomoo KASHIWA
  • Patent number: 11749450
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a core part including: a winding shaft; and a flange part provided on an axial-direction end of the winding shaft, which has an exterior face on the opposite side of the winding shaft, first and second side faces, and first and second groove parts provided on the exterior face and having a cut-out part on each the first and second side faces; a coil part including: a winding part of a conductor wound around the winding shaft; and two lead parts of the conductor led out from the winding part; and two terminal parts formed on the exterior face of the flange part; wherein the two lead parts are led in from the cut-out parts on the first and second side faces and fitted inside the groove parts, respectively, on the exterior face, and included in the pair of terminal parts, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Tomoo Kashiwa
  • Publication number: 20230182130
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a system comprising microfluidic devices of extraction, capacitance analysis, together with the smartphone-controlled potentiostat, consisting of a portable system that can be applied on offshore platforms and offering an analytical procedure that requires low levels of samples and chemical ingredients. In addition, the assembly provides the in loco, fast analysis of species having fouling features with high analytical frequency. The ability to carry out these analyzes in low BSW oils represents a strong analytical improvement view of the technical difficulties observed in traditional methods that use liquid-liquid extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Rogerio Mesquita De Carvalho, Gabriela Furlan Giordano, Aline Machado De Azevedo Novaes, Igor Domingos Rodrigues, Rafaella Magliano Balbi De Faria, Angelo Luiz Gobbi, Renato Sousa Lima, Alexandre Ataíde Da Silva, Giulia Silva Da Silva, Rui Cesar Murer, Flavio Makoto Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20230149631
    Abstract: A prefilled syringe includes an outer cylinder, a gasket, a plunger, and a drug housed in the outer cylinder. The outer cylinder includes a flange part that is located at a proximal end part. The plunger includes a gasket pressing part and a shaft part that extends in a proximal end direction from a gasket pressing part. The shaft part includes indicator parts that are located on a proximal side of the gasket pressing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei TONO, Makoto SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230087839
    Abstract: First transmission device includes a first counter that generates counter value incremented in a specified cycle. Second transmission device includes a second counter that generates counter value incremented in the specified cycle. Polarization variation monitoring device acquires a first counter value generated by the first counter and a second counter value extracted by the first transmission device from a received frame transmitted from the second transmission device when the first transmission device detects polarization variation, and a third counter value generated by the second counter and a fourth counter value extracted by the second transmission device from a frame transmitted from the first transmission device when the second detector detects the polarization variation. The polarization variation monitoring device determines an occurrence position of the polarization variation based on the first counter value, the second counter value, the third counter value and the fourth counter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Ichiro YOKOKURA, Junichi SUGIYAMA, Makoto SHIMIZU, Toshihiro SUZUKI, Takeshi NOMA, Hisao NAKASHIMA, Yuji IKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20230082206
    Abstract: First transmission device includes a first counter that generates counter value incremented in a specified cycle. Second transmission device includes a second counter that. generates counter value incremented in the specified cycle. Polarization variation monitoring device acquires a first counter value generated by the first counter and a second counter value extracted by the first transmission device from a received frame transmitted from the second transmission device when the first transmission device detects polarization variation, and a third counter value generated by the second counter and a fourth counter value extracted by the second transmission device from a frame transmitted from the first transmission. device when the second detector detects the polarization variation. The polarization variation monitoring device determines an occurrence position of the polarization variation based on the first counter value, the second counter value, the third counter value and the fourth counter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Ichiro YOKOKURA, Junichi SUGIYAMA, Makoto SHIMIZU, Toshihiro SUZUKI, Takeshi NOMA, Hisao NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11551863
    Abstract: A drum-type magnetic body includes: a pair of flange parts that are facing each other; and a shaft part connecting the pair of flange parts, wherein an outer periphery of a cross section of the shaft part in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the shaft part has an oval shape constituted by a pair of parallel straight parts and a pair of arc parts connecting end parts of the pair of parallel straight parts, and the flange parts each have an outer principal face running orthogonal to the axis of the shaft part, and the pair of parallel straight parts are running in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the principal face of the flange part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Yusuke Nagai
  • Publication number: 20220351895
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a core part including: a winding shaft; and a flange part provided on an axial-direction end of the winding shaft, which has an exterior face on the opposite side of the winding shaft, first and second side faces, and first and second groove parts provided on the exterior face and having a cut-out part on each the first and second side faces; a coil part including: a winding part of a conductor wound around the winding shaft; and two lead parts of the conductor led out from the winding part; and two terminal parts formed on the exterior face of the flange part; wherein the two lead parts are led in from the cut-out parts on the first and second side faces and fitted inside the groove parts, respectively, on the exterior face, and included in the pair of terminal parts, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto SHIMIZU, Tomoo KASHIWA
  • Patent number: 11476035
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a magnetic body part having a first compact containing a first magnetic material and a first resin, and a second compact placed on the outside of the first compact and containing a second magnetic material and a second resin; a coil formed by a conductive wire which comprises a metal conductor covered with an insulating film, and embedded in the magnetic body part; and lead parts of the coil placed on the outside of the first compact; wherein the filling rate of the first magnetic material constituting the first compact is higher than the filling rate of the second magnetic material constituting the second compact. The filling rate of magnetic grains can be improved while also ensuring the insulating property of the coil, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Tomoo Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 11443891
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a core part including: a winding shaft; and a flange part provided on an axial-direction end of the winding shaft, which has an exterior face on the opposite side of the winding shaft, first and second side faces, and first and second groove parts provided on the exterior face and having a cut-out part on each the first and second side faces; a coil part including: a winding part of a conductor wound around the winding shaft; and two lead parts of the conductor led out from the winding part; and two terminal parts formed on the exterior face of the flange part; wherein the two lead parts are led in from the cut-out parts on the first and second side faces and fitted inside the groove parts, respectively, on the exterior face, and included in the pair of terminal parts, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Tomoo Kashiwa
  • Publication number: 20220145183
    Abstract: Provided is a laser oscillation element including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, in which even in a case where the intensity of excitation light is weak, laser oscillation can be induced. The laser oscillation element includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer obtained by cholesteric alignment of a liquid crystal compound, in which in a cross-section of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer observed with a scanning electron microscope, bright portions and dark portions derived from the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase are tilted with respect to a main surface of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer includes a colorant that emits light by excitation, and a luminescence wavelength range of the colorant and a selective reflection wavelength range of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer at least partially overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito SAITOH, Katsumi SASATA, Makoto SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11217705
    Abstract: A semiconductor element capable of adjusting a barrier height ?Bn and performing zero-bias operation and impedance matching with an antenna for improving detection sensitivity of high-frequency RF electric signals, a method of manufacturing the same, and a semiconductor device having the same. In the semiconductor element, a concentration of InGaAs (n-type InGaAs layer) is intentionally set to be high over a range for preventing the “change of the barrier height caused by the bias” described above up to a deep degeneration range. An electron Fermi level (EF) increases from a band edge of InGaAs (n-type InGaAs layer) to a band edge of InP (InP depletion layer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Hiroki Itoh, Tadao Ishibashi, Isamu Kotaka
  • Patent number: 10978253
    Abstract: A capacitor circuit (capacitor device 20, 30, 34, 50) in which a plurality of capacitors (41 to 45) are connected to each other is included, one or two or more capacitors (overvoltage short-circuiting capacitors 40, 40a, 40b, 40c, 40d) in the capacitor circuit have a dielectric breakdown voltage made lower than that of another capacitor, and the one or two or more capacitors having the lower dielectric breakdown voltage are subjected to dielectric breakdown due to application of an overvoltage earlier than the other capacitor so that the capacitor circuit is short-circuited. As a result, the safety of the capacitor device and a device connected thereto can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON CHEMI-CON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Kenichi Onda
  • Publication number: 20200401043
    Abstract: A pattern forming method includes applying a photoresist composition onto a substrate to form a resist film. The resist film is exposed to an ArF excimer laser. The exposed resist film is developed with a developer. the photoresist composition includes a polymer and a radiation-sensitive acid generator. The polymer has a structural unit having an acid-dissociable group, does not have a phenolic hydroxyl group and exhibits decreased solubility in the developer by dissociation of the acid-dissociable group. The developer includes a nitrogen-containing compound, and the nitrogen-containing compound is at least one of: a condensed ring compound or bridged cyclic compound including at least two nitrogen atoms as ring-forming atoms, a compound having a nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic structure and an acyclic tertiary amine structure in a molecule thereof, an onium salt compound represented by Formula (A-1), or a compound represented by Formula (A-2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAJIRI, Noboru OOTSUKA, Makoto SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10870765
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition which has excellent curability at low temperatures. The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition which contains an aqueous resin having a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group (A), a water-dispersible blocked polyisocyanate compound (B), a hydrophilicized carbodiimide compound (C), and an aqueous polyurethane resin (D), wherein the aqueous resin having a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group (A) has a hydroxyl value of 80 to 200 mgKOH/g and an acid value of 10 to 40 mgKOH/g in terms of resin solid content, the aqueous polyurethane resin (D) has a glass transition point (Tg) of ?50° C. or less, and a cured film of the aqueous polyurethane resin (D) has an elongation at break of 400% or more at ?20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Nishioka, Makoto Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200328806
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a memory, and circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to obtain first time stamp information transmitted from the first transmission device and added to a first frame in which an error has occurred in the transmission line, obtain second time stamp information transmitted from the second transmission device and added to a second frame in which an error has occurred in the transmission line, and specifies the error occurrence position in the transmission line on the basis of the first time stamp information, the second time stamp information, and a light speed, wherein the first time stamp information is added to the first frame by the first transmission device in time synchronization with the second transmission device, and the second time stamp information is added to the second frame by the second transmission device in time synchronization with the first transmission device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto SHIMIZU, Naoki AINAKA, Kenji Ota
  • Publication number: 20200312523
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a magnetic body part having a first compact containing a first magnetic material and a first resin, and a second compact placed on the outside of the first compact and containing a second magnetic material and a second resin; a coil formed by a conductive wire which comprises a metal conductor covered with an insulating film, and embedded in the magnetic body part; and lead parts of the coil placed on the outside of the first compact; wherein the filling rate of the first magnetic material constituting the first compact is higher than the filling rate of the second magnetic material constituting the second compact. The filling rate of magnetic grains can be improved while also ensuring the insulating property of the coil, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto SHIMIZU, Tomoo KASHIWA
  • Publication number: 20200283639
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition which has excellent curability at low temperatures. The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition which contains an aqueous resin having a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group (A), a water-dispersible blocked polyisocyanate compound (B), a hydrophilicized carbodiimide compound (C), and an aqueous polyurethane resin (D), wherein the aqueous resin having a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group (A) has a hydroxyl value of 80 to 200 mgKOH/g and an acid value of 10 to 40 mgKOH/g in terms of resin solid content, the aqueous polyurethane resin (D) has a glass transition point (Tg) of ?50° C. or less, and a cured film of the aqueous polyurethane resin (D) has an elongation at break of 400% or more at ?20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miho NISHIOKA, Makoto SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10696866
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a multilayer coating film including an intermediate coating film formation step of applying an aqueous intermediate coating composition to an object to be coated to form an uncured intermediate coating film; a base coating film formation step of applying an aqueous base coating composition onto the resulting uncured intermediate coating film to form an uncured base coating film; and a curing step of curing the resulting uncured intermediate coating film and the base coating film by heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Oka, Makoto Shimizu, Yoshiki Takaira, Manabu Horiuchi, Daisuke Segawa