Patents by Inventor Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita 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: 20240332680Abstract: A power storage device packaging material, including a laminate including at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order from an outer side, wherein the barrier layer has a thickness of 38 ?m or more, the laminate has a bending resistance of 1.1 mN or more, as measured under predetermined conditions in accordance with the provisions of JIS L1085: 1998, and the number of double folds until a pinhole is formed in the laminate is 600 or more, as measured under predetermined conditions in accordance with the provisions of JIS P8115: 2001.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto AMANO, Masahiro TATSUZAWA, Takanori YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20240309016Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Mitsunori KONO, Yusuke SASAKI, Yuya OGURO, Zenichi IKEDA, Osamu KUBO, Masaki SETO, Toru YAMASHITA, Makoto KAMATA, Kenjiro SATO, Matthew Thomas REYNOLDS, Kazuaki TAKAMI, Asato KINA, Takafumi YUKAWA, Minoru NAKAMURA, Taku KAMEI, Hiroyuki KAKEI, Fumie YAMAGUCHI, Tomohiro OHASHI, Keiko KAKEGAWA, Takuto KOJIMA, Florian PÜNNER, Masataka MURAKAMI, Takahiko TANIGUCHI, Tatsuki KOIKE, Yuichi KAJITA, Yuhei MIYANOHANA, Kohei TAKEUCHI, Yoshiteru ITO, Norihito TOKUNAGA, Yasushi HATTORI, Eiji KIMURA, Martin Alexander PAWLICZEK, Marilena PIRA, Shuhei IKEDA, Noriyuki TEZUKA, Yoshikazu WATANABE, Kevin CURRAN, Nicolle DOERING, Maria HOPKINS, Ben JOHNSON, Andre KIRYANOV, Jon LAM, Sean MURPHY, Natasha O'ROURKE, Holly REICHARD, Paul TANIS, Yunlong ZHANG
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Patent number: 12064951Abstract: A casing material for a power storage device, including a laminate that includes, in order, at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-fusible resin layer. The heat-fusible resin layer includes a single layer or a plurality of layers. The heat-fusible resin layer includes at least one layer having a hardness of at least 70 MPa from a cross-section in the lamination direction of the laminate, measured using a nanoindentation method using an indentation load of 100 ?N.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Yasuda, Makoto Amano, Takanori Yamashita
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Publication number: 20240261398Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an adjuvant having high safety to living bodies and an action to sufficiently reinforce immune function, and a vaccine comprising the adjuvant. Specifically, the present invention relates to 34 novel adjuvant candidate compounds, which have been identified by screening 145 food additives and 51 injection additives, using, as indicators, an increase in the antibody titer against influenza virus and a protective effect against infection with influenza virus, and then selecting those having the function of increasing the antiviral antibody titer in blood and the protective effect against viral infection. In addition, the present invention also relates to a vaccine comprising these adjuvant candidate compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: The University of TokyoInventors: Yoshihiro KAWAOKA, Huapeng FENG, Tokiko WATANABE, Makoto YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20240156879Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition which contains an intestinal bacterium belonging to the genus Veillonella and having an inflammation reducing activity, or a substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity and which has at least one activity selected from an anti-inflammatory activity, an immunoregulation activity, an epithelial barrier restoring activity, an IL-10-inducing activity, and an IL-22-inducing activity, and to an ameliorating agent for an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, or an infectious disease containing the intestinal bacterium and the substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicants: JUNTENDO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Dai ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KOIZUMI, Makoto YAMASHITA, Fuhito YAMAZAKI, Nakayuki HONMA, Itaru URAKAWA, Susumu IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240148799Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition which contains an intestinal bacterium belonging to Bacteroidetes and having an inflammation reducing activity, or a substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity and which has at least one activity selected from an anti-inflammatory activity, an immunoregulation activity, an epithelial barrier restoring activity, an IL-10-inducing activity, and an IL-22-inducing activity, and to an ameliorating agent for an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, or an infectious disease containing the intestinal bacterium and the substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: JUNTENDO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Dai ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KOIZUMI, Makoto YAMASHITA, Fuhito YAMAZAKI, Mikiro HAYASHI, Nakayuki HONMA, Itaru URAKAWA, Susumu IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240066076Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for preventing and/or treating a virus infection contains administering a type I and/or type III interferon production promoter including Clostridium butyricum or a culture thereof to a subject in need thereof. In another embodiment, a method for promoting production of an interferon contains administering an effective amount of Clostridium butyricum or a culture thereof to a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Mao HAGIHARA, Hiroshige MIKAMO, Yuka YAMAGISHI, Makoto YAMASHITA, Motomichi TAKAHASHI, Kentaro OKA, Tadashi ARIYOSHI
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Publication number: 20230381904Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus 10 having a lower jig plate 46 for arranging a substrate 2 as an object to be pressurized, a support member 45 including an installation portion 52 for installing columnar members 50 supporting the lower jig plate 46, in which the columnar members 50 are placed to the installation portion 52 in accordance with a in-plane distribution of a load applied to the lower jig plate 46.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei SATO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Toshinobu MIYAGOSHI, Osamu SHINDO, Seijiro SUNAGA, Makoto YAMASHITA, Yasuo KATO, Mitsuyoshi MAKIDA, Masashi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230382070Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus 10 applies pressure to a substrate 2 which is an object to be pressurized arranged on an upper jig plate 44. The substrate processing apparatus 10 includes a lower jig plate 46 arranged below the upper jig plate 44, an installation base 47 provided on the lower jig plate 46 and the substrate 2 is arranged; and the installation base is temporarily fixed to the installation base 47 in a deformable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei SATO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Toshinobu MIYAGOSHI, Osamu SHINDO, Seijiro SUNAGA, Mitsuyoshi MAKIDA, Makoto YAMASHITA, Yasuo KATO, Ryo SHINDO, Masashi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230382069Abstract: Provided is a substrate processing apparatus capable applying a uniform load to an object to be pressurized. The substrate processing apparatus includes a lower jig plate 46 for arranging a substrate 2 which is an object to be pressurized, an upper jig plate 44 applying pressure to the substrate 2 arranged to the lower jig plate 46, and a support member 45 supporting the lower jig plate 46 and providing a support force to the lower jig plate 46 in accordance with a in-plane distribution of a load applied to the lower jig plate 46.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei SATO, Osamu SHINDO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Makoto YAMASHITA, Yasuo KATO, Mitsuyoshi MAKIDA, Masashi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230210987Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an adjuvant having high safety to living bodies and an action to sufficiently reinforce immune function, and a vaccine comprising the adjuvant. Specifically, the present invention relates to 34 novel adjuvant candidate compounds, which have been identified by screening 145 food additives and 51 injection additives, using, as indicators, an increase in the antibody titer against influenza virus and a protective effect against infection with influenza virus, and then selecting those having the function of increasing the antiviral antibody titer in blood and the protective effect against viral infection. In addition, the present invention also relates to a vaccine comprising these adjuvant candidate compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: The University of TokyoInventors: Yoshihiro KAWAOKA, Huapeng FENG, Tokiko WATANABE, Makoto YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230187258Abstract: [Object] Provided are a stamp tool whose transport head can be easily shared, a transport device capable of allowing the stamp tool to easily pick up an transport object element disposed on a surface of a substrate from the substrate and transporting the element without being left on the substrate side, and an element array manufacturing method using the same. [Solution] A stamp tool 10 includes a stamp layer 12 allowing an element 32r as an transport object element to detachably adhere thereto, a support plate 14 to which the stamp layer 12 is fixed, and an adapter plate 16 having a mounting surface 16a, the support plate 14 being replaceably attached thereto, and a transport head 22 being allowed to be detachably attached thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Seijiro SUNAGA, Makoto YAMASHITA, Toshinobu MIYAGOSHI, Yasuo KATO, Tatsunori OTOMO, Mitsuyoshi MAKIDA, Yohei SATO
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Publication number: 20230140856Abstract: A stamp tool holding device capable of holding a stamp tool while keeping a stamp surface of the stamp tool clean, a stamp tool positioning device that easily positions a stamp tool with respect to a transport head, a multi-element transfer device for efficiently transferring a transport object element such as an element using a stamp tool, and a method of manufacturing an element array using the same, wherein the stamp tool holding device has an installation stage on which a stamp tool is detachably installed. The installation stage has an installation surface on which a housing recess for accommodating a stamp layer of the stamp tool is formed, and a suction hole capable of detachably adsorbing a part of the stamp tool located around the stamp layer is formed on the installation surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Seijiro SUNAGA, Makoto YAMASHITA, Toshinobu MIYAGOSHI, Yasuo KATO, Tatsunori OTOMO, Mitsuyoshi MAKIDA, Yohei SATO
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Publication number: 20230093241Abstract: An element array pressurizing device has a pressurizing plate having a pressurizing unit that pressurizes an element array comprising a plurality of elements disposed on a mounting substrate. The pressurizing unit has a plate-shaped hard material for which a surface precision is higher than that of a surface of the pressurizing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Yasuo KATO, Makoto YAMASHITA, Mitsuyoshi MAKIDA, Ryo SHINDO, Osamu SHINDO, Hiroshi IIZUKA, Seijiro SUNAGA, Toshinobu MIYAGOSHI
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Patent number: 11438749Abstract: An acoustic apparatus according to each of the embodiments includes a reception unit, an operation unit, and a control unit. The reception unit is configured to receive a packet to which voice data and a signal for azimuth estimate are added. The operation unit is configured to operate a signal angle of the packet by using the signal for azimuth estimate. The control unit is configured to control information related to a sound image of the voice data according to the signal angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto Yamashita
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Publication number: 20220078594Abstract: An acoustic apparatus according to each of the embodiments includes a reception unit, an operation unit, and a control unit. The reception unit is configured to receive a packet to which voice data and a signal for azimuth estimate are added. The operation unit is configured to operate a signal angle of the packet by using the signal for azimuth estimate. The control unit is configured to control information related to a sound image of the voice data according to the signal angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventor: Makoto Yamashita
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Publication number: 20210106680Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an adjuvant having high safety to living bodies and an action to sufficiently reinforce immune function, and a vaccine comprising the adjuvant. Specifically, the present invention relates to 34 novel adjuvant candidate compounds, which have been identified by screening 145 food additives and 51 injection additives, using, as indicators, an increase in the antibody titer against influenza virus and a protective effect against infection with influenza virus, and then selecting those having the function of increasing the antiviral antibody titer in blood and the protective effect against viral infection. In addition, the present invention also relates to a vaccine comprising these adjuvant candidate compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: The University of TokyoInventors: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Huapeng Feng, Tokiko Watanabe, Makoto Yamashita
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Patent number: 10959084Abstract: A wireless communication system according to an embodiment comprises a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device is configured to transmit a signal related to program. The second wireless communication device is configured to compute an angle of departure from the first wireless communication device based on a radio wave transmitted from the first wireless communication device, and to perform updating of the program when a computed angle of departure is a predetermined angle.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto Yamashita
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Publication number: 20210058765Abstract: A wireless communication system according to an embodiment comprises a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device is configured to transmit a signal related to program. The second wireless communication device is configured to compute an angle of departure from the first wireless communication device based on a radio wave transmitted from the first wireless communication device, and to perform updating of the program when a computed angle of departure is a predetermined angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 10280272Abstract: A laminate having excellent abrasion resistance to physical stimuli such as dust. The laminate comprises a base layer, a hard coat layer and a top coat layer comprising flaky metal oxide fine particles all of which are formed in this order. The flaky metal oxide fine particles are hardened by at least one method selected from the group consisting of ionizing material exposure, ionizing radiation exposure, infrared exposure, microwave exposure and high-temperature vapor exposure.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Tatsuya Ekinaka, Takehiro Suga, Toshio Kita, Ryo Niimi, Yuta Toyoshima, Tetsuya Shichi, Daisuke Yoshioka, Makoto Yamashita, Sohei Okazaki, Yuji Kaneko
