Patents by Inventor Manabu Suzuki
Manabu Suzuki 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: 20120329846Abstract: Disclosed is an agent for use in the treatment or prevention of inflammatory bowel disease. Also disclosed is an agent for inhibiting the production of TNF-?. A therapeutic or prophylactic agent for inflammatory bowel disease comprising at least one amino acid selected from the group consisting of lysine, histidine, phenylalanine, methionine, tryptophan, glutamine, glycine, cysteine, cystine and threonine, the amino acid being administered at a dose of 0.1 to 4000 mg/kg per day; and a TNF-? production inhibitor comprising an amino acid selected from the group consisting of histidine, phenylalanine and tryptophan, the amino acid being administered at a dose of 0.1 to 4000 mg/kg per day.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Hideki Matsumoto, Tomohisa Okutsu, Tomoko Takeda, Hideki Suzuki, Tetsuo Yano, Masaki Hashimoto, Miho Ono, Manabu Suzuki
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Patent number: 8288070Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrophotography which exhibits an excellent heat-resistant storage property and a wide fusing temperature range, and a process for producing the toner for electrophotography.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mizuhata, Yutaka Murai, Manabu Suzuki, Hiromi Nambu
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Publication number: 20120258392Abstract: A method for producing an electrophotographic toner, including (1) a step of preparing a thermally treated resin particle dispersion by retaining, for one hour or longer at a temperature satisfying a specific formula, a dispersion of resin particles (A) having a volume median particle size of 0.02 ?m to 2 ?m and containing a resin containing a crystalline polyester (a1) in an amount of 1 to 50 wt % and an amorphous polyester (b1); (2) a step of preparing an aggregated particle dispersion by aggregating thermally treated resin particles contained in the thermally treated resin particle dispersion prepared through step 1; (2a) a step of preparing resin-fine-particle-attached aggregated particles by adding, to the aggregated particle dispersion prepared through step 2, a dispersion of resin fine particles (B) containing an amorphous polyester (b2) in an amount of 70 wt % or more; and (3) a step of unifying the resin-fine-particle-attached aggregated particles prepared through step 2a.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Shoichi Murata, Eiji Shirai, Hiroshi Mizuhata, Manabu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20120251940Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing a toner for electrophotography including the following (1) to (4): (1): adding an aggregating agent to a resin particle dispersion (a) so as to attain an aggregating agent concentration Ea (wt %), to thereby produce an aggregated particle dispersion (A); (2): adding a resin microparticle dispersion (b) to the dispersion (A), to thereby produce a dispersion (B) having an aggregating agent concentration Eb (wt %) satisfying 0.60?Eb/Ea<1; (3): modifying the aggregating agent concentration of the dispersion (B), to thereby produce a dispersion (C) of resin microparticle-deposited aggregated particles, having an aggregating agent concentration Ec (wt %) satisfying 0<Ec/Ea?0.30; and (4): heating the resin microparticle-deposited aggregated particles in the dispersion (C) at a temperature falling within a range between Tg and Tg+20 (0 C.) of the resin microparticles in the resin microparticle dispersion (b), to thereby coalesce the aggregated particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: KAO CorporationInventors: Manabu Suzuki, Hiroshi Mizuhata
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Patent number: 8257574Abstract: A plating method for pre-plating or plating a cylinder inner peripheral surface to be treated of a cylinder block by introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface by using a plating apparatus provided with a sealing jig having a sealing member and an electrode to which the seal jig is mounted includes the steps, which are performed successively: sealing the cylinder inner peripheral surface by bringing the sealing jig into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface; introducing the treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface; and treating the cylinder inner peripheral surface by applying predetermined charge to the electrode of the plating apparatus and the cylinder block to thereby perform pre-plating or plating process in a state that a liquid to be treated fills a space including the cylinder inner peripheral surface. In the method, the treatment liquid introducing step is performed after confirmation of sealing by the sealing step.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 8168669Abstract: Disclosed is an agent for use in the treatment or prevention of inflammatory bowel disease. Also disclosed is an agent for inhibiting the production of TNF-?. A therapeutic or prophylactic agent for inflammatory bowel disease comprising at least one amino acid selected from the group consisting of lysine, histidine, phenylalanine, methionine, tryptophan, glutamine, glycine, cysteine, cystine and threonine, the amino acid being administered at a dose of 0.1 to 4000 mg/kg per day; and a TNF-? production inhibitor comprising an amino acid selected from the group consisting of histidine, phenylalanine and tryptophan, the amino acid being administered at a dose of 0.1 to 4000 mg/kg per day.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Hideki Matsumoto, Tomohisa Okutsu, Tomoko Takeda, Hideki Suzuki, Tetsuo Yano, Masaki Hashimoto, Miho Ono, Manabu Suzuki
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Patent number: 8152487Abstract: An inverter-integrated electric compressor that is capable of solving various problems caused by thermal expansion of a gel material filled inside an inverter accommodating section for vibration prevention and moisture prevention and capable of increasing reliability is provided. In the inverter-integrated electric compressor, an inverter accommodating section (11) is integrated with a periphery of a housing (2) accommodating an electric compressor; an inverter device (20) is accommodated inside the inverter accommodating section; a gel material (30) for vibration prevention and moisture prevention is filled in the upper section thereof so as to leave an air layer (31); an upper opening in the inverter accommodating section is sealed with a cover member (18); and a vent valve (40) formed of a moisture-permeable waterproof membrane (42) is provided in the cover member.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Manabu Suzuki, Yuki Ichise, Yukihiro Sakaguchi, Takeshi Hirano, Akinori Yoshioka, Takayuki Hagita
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Patent number: 8142628Abstract: A cylinder block plating apparatus preplates or plates a cylinder bore of each cylinder in a cylinder block of a multi-cylinder engine using a process liquid introduced into the cylinder bore in a condition of sealing an end of the cylinder bore when a communication hole is formed at the end of the cylinder bore, the cylinder block plating apparatus includes a sealing jig including a sealing unit including a cylinder bore seal for sealing the end of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder bore and a communication hole seal for sealing a portion, near a communication hole, opposite to the cylinder inner peripheral surface, and a clamping unit disposed in the sealing unit to be pushed open and adapted to cause the communication hole seal to seal the portion located on the opposite side of the cylinder bore near the communication hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Osamu Narita, Manabu Suzuki, Tetsuya Kuroda, Hiroyuki Oishi
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Publication number: 20120058497Abstract: The present invention provides a reagent and a method of safely, conveniently, and specifically diagnosing Crohn's disease. Provided are a diagnostic method for Crohn's disease in a subject, including measuring antibodies against one kind or more of dietary components selected from the group consisting of grapefruit, alfalfa, avocado, cabbage, green pepper, lettuce, onion, potato (white), spinach, tomato, oat, pecan, yeast, cane sugar, celery, buckwheat, corn, rice and soy, and a diagnostic reagent or kit for Crohn's disease, containing the above-mentioned preparation of a dietary component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.Inventors: Yasuyo SUGA, Maiko MORI, Masaki HASHIMOTO, Manabu SUZUKI, Tomomi MORIGUCHI, Takaaki KAWAGUCHI, Keiko SAITO, Masakazu TAKAZOE
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Patent number: 8114564Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a toner for electrophotography which includes the steps of (A) forming resin-containing core particles having a volume median particle size (D50) of from 1 to 10 ?m in an aqueous medium; (B) adding composite fine particles containing a polyester-containing resin and a charge control agent, or composite fine particles containing “fine particles of the charge control agent” and “fine particles of the polyester-containing resin”, to the core particles obtained in the step (A) to allow the composite fine particles to adhere onto the core particles, thereby obtaining “composite fine particle-adhering core particles”; and (C) heating the “composite fine particle-adhering core particles” obtained in the step (B), to obtain coalesced particles.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Nobumichi Kamiyoshi, Manabu Suzuki, Yutaka Murai
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Patent number: 8110077Abstract: A sealing jig comes into contact with a cylinder inner peripheral surface as a surface to be processed of a cylinder block and seals the cylinder inner peripheral surface in introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The sealing jig includes: a sealing member made of an expandable material and having a ring-buoy shape; a lower plate for supporting a lower side of the sealing member; and a seal base disposed so as to face the lower plate and to support an upper side of the sealing member. The sealing member is regulated by the lower plate and the seal base and expanded only in a radial direction to come into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface when air is introduced inward.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
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Publication number: 20110223531Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrophotography which exhibits an excellent heat-resistant storage property and a wide fusing temperature range, and a process for producing the toner for electrophotography.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2008Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Mizuhata, Yutaka Murai, Manabu Suzuki, Hiromi Nambu
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Publication number: 20110162961Abstract: A cylinder block plate processing apparatus in which one end side of an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder of a cylinder block is sealed to circulate a process liquid to perform pre-plating or plating processing of the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The apparatus includes: an apparatus body having a workpiece mount table on which the cylinder block is placed; a workpiece holding tool that is provided on the workpiece mount table so as to be vertically movable; an electrode support member including an electrode cylinder mounted to the apparatus body; a processing solution supply member that supplies a processing solution to the electrode support member; an electrode operated by the electrode cylinder; a sealing jig provided to one end of the electrode; a driving mechanism that drives the sealing jig; and a control circuit that controls operations of the processing solution supply member and the driving mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Tomohiro Asou, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa, Minoru Imai
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Patent number: 7973076Abstract: The present invention provides compositions having, as active ingredients, a stilbene derivative and a platinum coordination compound which is highly efficacious and highly safe for treating tumors, particularly for the treatment of solid or malignant tumors and thus methods of cancer and tumor treatment using the composition are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Morinaga, Yukio Nihei, Yasuyo Suga, Manabu Suzuki, Kazuo Ohishi, Akira Okano
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Publication number: 20110133575Abstract: Disclosed is an in-vehicle integrated-inverter electric compressor (1) in which an inverter accommodating section (3) is provided on the periphery of a housing (2), an inverter device is installed in the inverter accommodating section (3), and the opening portion of the inverter accommodating section (3) is sealed by means of a cover member (4) to be fixed with screws. A safety mechanism (7) is provided such that some of the fixing screws (5) fixing the cover member (4) to the inverter accommodating section (3) cannot be removed when the electric compressor (1) is mounted in a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Noriaki Arashi, Manabu Suzuki, Takeshi Hirano, Minoru Kawada, Takayuki Watanabe, Ichiro Yogo
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Patent number: 7939977Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electrical device to be arranged to face to a stator, comprises a rotor iron core extending axially and including a plurality of slots arranged with a predetermined circumferential interval, a rotor coil contained by the slots, a coil support member of electrically insulating property arranged between parts of the rotor coil at an axial end of the rotor coil, and a retaining ring covering the coil support member and the axial end of the rotor coil, the coil support member has two fitted portions and a connecting portion connecting the fitted portions to each other to form H-shape of cross section and to form a space between the rotor coil and each of opposite sides of the connecting portion, and the coil support member further has a communicating path communicating to the spaces.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Tadaaki Kakimoto, Akitomi Semba, Mitsuru Saeki, Takashi Shibata, Manabu Suzuki, Naomi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20110091337Abstract: It is an object to provide an integrated-inverter electric compressor in which variations in sealing performance hardly occur, thus reliably enhancing the waterproofing performance of an inverter accommodating section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Manabu Suzuki, Ichiro Yogo, Tomoyasu Osaki
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Publication number: 20110060046Abstract: Provided is an agent for the prophylaxis or improvement of functional gastrointestinal disorders, which contains glutamic acid or a salt thereof other than arginine glutamate, and arginine or a salt thereof other than arginine glutamate, as active ingredients. The prophylactic or improvement agent can be produced conveniently and at low cost and is high safe and particularly effective for functional dyspepsia (FD) such as abdominal pain, heavy stomach, heartburn and the like, and upper gastrointestinal dysfunction such as esophageal reflux (GERD) and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC.Inventors: Shinichi Fujita, Ikumi Ishibashi, Saori Ogawa, Manabu Suzuki
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Patent number: 7902179Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition containing a heterocyclic compound of the formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, an isomer thereof, a solvate thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient has a superior TNF-? production suppressing action. Accordingly, it is useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of various diseases caused by abnormal production of TNF-?.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2002Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kohichi Fujita, Yoshitomo Chujoh, Syunsuke Fukuda, Yuka Ikenoue, Tomoyuki Tagami, Akira Chiba, Ariko Kodaira, Hideki Matsumoto, Tadakiyo Nakagawa, Tatsuhiro Yamada, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Murata
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Patent number: 7893574Abstract: In a rotor of a rotary-electric machine, in order to improve a cooling performance of a rotor winding on an end portion of the rotor in an axial direction, the rotor winding being held by a retaining ring of the rotor winding formed by laminating conductors in slots of a rotor iron core extending in an axial direction and having slots formed at predetermined intervals in a peripheral direction, ventilation channels through which cooling air flows are formed in the surfaces of the conductors along a longitudinal direction. The ventilation channels have air inlet holes which guide the cooling air and exhaust holes which exhaust the cooling air, the conductors are laminated to constitute the rotor winding, and the conductors include openings of the air inlet holes in bottoms of the conductors on a side opposite to a side on which the ventilation channels are formed.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Mitsuru Saeki, Akitomi Semba, Tadaaki Kakimoto, Takashi Watanabe, Manabu Suzuki, Takashi Shibata, Seijiro Muramatsu