Patents by Inventor Makoto Yoshioka

Makoto Yoshioka 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: 10164287
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid battery that includes preparing a first green sheet as a green sheet for at least any one of a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer and a second green sheet as a green sheet for a solid electrolyte layer, stacking the first green sheet and the second green sheet to form a stacked body, and firing the stacked body with a setter placed in contact with at least one surface of the stacked body. The setter in contact with the at least one surface of the stacked body is 0.11 ?mRa or more and 50.13 ?mRa or less in surface roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masutaka Ouchi, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180305344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that bind to and otherwise modulate the activity of bromodomain-containing proteins, to processes for preparing these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and to methods of using these compounds for treating a wide variety of conditions and disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Strovel, Makoto Yoshioka, David J. Maloney, Shyh Ming Yang, Ajit Jadhav, Daniel Jason Urban
  • Publication number: 20180294520
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte having a garnet type crystal structure. The garnet type crystal structure contains Li, La, Zr, O and Ga and at least one element selected from Al, Mg, Zn and Sc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Ryohei Takano, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeo lshikura, Akisuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20180134715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that bind to and otherwise modulate the activity of bromodomain-containing proteins, to processes for preparing these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and to methods of using these compounds for treating a wide variety of conditions and disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Hariprasad Vankayalapati, Makoto Yoshioka, Jeffrey W. Strovel, Janak Khimchand Padia
  • Patent number: 9778872
    Abstract: A storage area allocation method for allocating a storage area with a requested allocation size area may include receiving an allocation request for a storage area that includes the requested allocation size, acquiring an available storage area whose size is a smallest size of a product of all of the product of power-of-2 sizes and the region allocation unit size encompassing the requested allocation size from the region; obtaining a binary expression whose value is the requested allocation size divided by the allocation unit size; and allocating a contiguous storage area comprised of storage areas each of whose size is a product of the allocation unit size and a power of 2 of a value of a bit position wherein a 1 is set in the binary expression and which contiguous storage area is conjoined by the storage areas in a sequence of magnitude of sizes of the storage areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventor: Makoto Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9695179
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that bind to and otherwise modulate the activity of bromodomain-containing proteins, to processes for preparing these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and to methods of using these compounds for treating a wide variety of conditions and disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ConverGene LLC
    Inventors: Hariprasad Vankayalapati, Makoto Yoshioka, Jeffrey William Strovel, Janak Khimchand Padia
  • Patent number: 9619151
    Abstract: To provide a technology that, regardless of the capacity of a storage device, enables its areas to be flexibly partitioned and managed, and, when a file is allocated to a region also, can also use its areas effectively by means of an efficient method. When a region size of a storage device is expressed as the sum of mutually differing power-of-2 values, and areas whose size is one of the power-of-2 sizes configuring that sum are taken to be master partitions, to partition the areas into partitions each of whose size is the size made by successively dividing each master partition in half and to generate an allocation table holding allocation information expressing the allocation status of each of the files that have partitions with each of the sizes included in the master partitions. To manage a region based on the allocation information stored in the allocation table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Makoto Yoshioka
    Inventors: Makoto Yoshioka, Mitsuhiro Kokubun, Toshio Shinjo
  • Publication number: 20160266837
    Abstract: A storage area allocation method for allocating a storage area with a requested allocation size area may include receiving an allocation request for a storage area that includes the requested allocation size, acquiring an available storage area whose size is a smallest size of a product of all of the product of power-of-2 sizes and the region allocation unit size encompassing the requested allocation size from the region; obtaining a binary expression whose value is the requested allocation size divided by the allocation unit size; and allocating a contiguous storage area comprised of storage areas each of whose size is a product of the allocation unit size and a power of 2 of a value of a bit position wherein a 1 is set in the binary expression and which contiguous storage area is conjoined by the storage areas in a sequence of magnitude of sizes of the storage areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Makoto Yoshioka, Mitsuhiro Kokubun, Toshio Shinjo
  • Patent number: 9368828
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid battery that includes: preparing a first green sheet as a green sheet for at least any one of a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer; preparing a second green sheet as a green sheet for a solid electrolyte layer; forming a stacked body by stacking the first green sheet and the second green sheet; and firing the stacked body while a pressure of 0.01 kg/cm2 or more and 100 kg/cm2 or less is applied in the stacking direction of the stacked body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masutaka Ouchi, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9268297
    Abstract: An indicator disposed on an openably closable door disposed on a part of an exterior panel includes a light source disposed on a housing positioned in an interior of the door and a diffusion lens disposed on the door and opposed to the light source, wherein the light source is mounted on a support part disposed on the housing so that an optical axis of the light source is coincident with that of the diffusion lens. The door includes a recessed portion including a retainer, and the diffusion lens is supported in the recessed portion with the retainer pressing an external surface of the diffusion lens entirely so that the light from the light source is prevented from leaking from the surface of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20160024096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that bind to and otherwise modulate the activity of bromodomain-containing proteins, to processes for preparing these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and to methods of using these compounds for treating a wide variety of conditions and disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: CONVERGENE LLC
    Inventors: Hariprasad Vankayalapati, Makoto Yoshioka, Jeffrey William Strovel, Janak Khimchand Padia
  • Patent number: 9190652
    Abstract: A layered solid-state battery that includes a first unit cell, a second unit cell, and an internal collection layer that is disposed to intervene between the first unit cell and the second unit cell. Each of the unit cells is constituted of a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer that are sequentially stacked. The internal collection layer is disposed to be in contact with each of the negative electrode layers of the unit cells. Also, the internal collection layer contains an electron conductive material and an ion-conductively electrically conductive specific conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hayashi, Masutaka Ouchi, Kunio Nishida, Makoto Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9164902
    Abstract: A storage area management method for a data storage apparatus partitions an acquired storage area into storage areas with differing power-of-2 sizes and manages each of them. Also, a storage area allocation method receives an allocation request for a storage area that includes a requested allocation size, and acquires an available storage area whose size is the smallest power-of-2 size encompassing the requested allocation size, and obtains a binary expression of the requested allocation size, and in response to the received allocation request, allocates a contiguous storage area comprised of storage areas each of whose size is a power of 2 of a value of a bit position wherein a 1 is set in the binary expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto Yoshioka, Mitsuhiro Kokubun, Toshio Shinjo, Koutaro Shinjo
  • Patent number: 9118068
    Abstract: A layered solid-state battery that includes a first unit cell, a second unit cell, and an internal collection layer that is disposed to intervene between the unit cells. Each of the unit cells includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer that are sequentially stacked. The internal collection layer has one side surface that is in contact with the positive electrode layer of the first unit cell and the other side surface that is in contact with the negative electrode layer of the second unit cell. Also, the internal collection layer contains an electron conductive material and an ion-conductively insulating specific conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hayashi, Masutaka Ouchi, Kunio Nishida, Makoto Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8818234
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a process cartridge detachably installable in a main body of the image forming apparatus, a main reference portion receiver to receive a main reference portion provided to the process cartridge, a sub-reference portion receiver to receive a sub-reference portion provided to the process cartridge, and a pressing mechanism to press the process cartridge to cause the main reference portion to contact the main reference portion receiver upon installation of the process cartridge in the main body of the image forming apparatus. The pressing mechanism presses the process cartridge in a direction angled with respect to a line connecting a center of the main reference portion with a contact position where the pressing mechanism contacts the process cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hideyuki Takemoto, Makoto Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20140154586
    Abstract: A laminate for an all-solid type battery which is an electrode/electrolyte laminate used in an all-solid type battery. The laminate includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode layer in this order, and at least one intermediate layer disposed between (a) the positive electrode layer and the solid electrolyte layer and (b) the negative electrode layer and the solid electrolyte layer. The solid electrolyte layer contains a Li-containing oxide having a garnet crystal structure, and the intermediate layer contains monoclinic Li2MO3, where M represents Ti or Mn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hayashi, Masutaka Ouchi, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeo Ishikura, Akisuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20140134483
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid battery that includes preparing a first green sheet as a green sheet for at least any one of a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer and a second green sheet as a green sheet for a solid electrolyte layer, stacking the first green sheet and the second green sheet to form a stacked body, and firing the stacked body with a setter placed in contact with at least one surface of the stacked body. The setter in contact with the at least one surface of the stacked body is 0.11 ?mRa or more and 50.13 ?mRa or less in surface roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masutaka Ouchi, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20140120421
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid battery that includes: preparing a first green sheet for at least any one of a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, preparing a second green sheet for at least any one of a solid electrolyte layer and a current collector layer; and stacking the first green sheet and the second green sheet to form a stacked body while applying pressure so that the stacked body has an elongation percentage of 2.0% or less in the planar direction of the first and second green sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masutaka Ouchi, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20140120409
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid battery that includes: preparing a first green sheet as a green sheet for at least any one of a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer; preparing a second green sheet as a green sheet for a solid electrolyte layer; forming a stacked body by stacking the first green sheet and the second green sheet; and firing the stacked body while a pressure of 0.01 kg/cm2 or more and 100 kg/cm2 or less is applied in the stacking direction of the stacked body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masutaka Ouchi, Makoto Yoshioka, Takeshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8587847
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming unit, an image reading unit arranged above an upper part of the image forming unit, a sheet ejection space between the image forming unit and the image reading unit, and a supporting unit arranged on the upper part of the image forming unit to surround at least two sides of the sheet ejection space in different directions. The image reading unit is secured to the upper part of the image forming unit through the supporting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Ota, Wataru Hojo, Hideyuki Takemoto, Makoto Yoshioka