Patents by Inventor Masafumi Inoue

Masafumi Inoue 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: 11961744
    Abstract: In a chamber, first processing is performed as preliminary processing. After the first processing has been finished, the temperature in a predetermined target region in the chamber is measured with a thermographic camera. Then, whether or not to start second processing on a substrate is determined in accordance with the acquired measured temperature information. If it is determined as a result that the second processing can be started, the second processing is performed. In this case, the second processing on the substrate can be started, with the temperature of the target region in the chamber having reached its stability. Accordingly, the second processing can be performed uniformly on a plurality of substrates. That is, it is possible to reduce variations in processing caused by temperature environments in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Fukatsu, Koji Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Fujiki, Masafumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240116943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a Pim-1 inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a compound of Formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and a pharmaceutical use thereof, and the like. wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masafumi Inoue, Yosuke Ogoshi, Takayuki Furukawa, Takuya Machida, Ikuo Mitani, Kazuhito Harada, Yuichi Nakagawa, Nobutaka Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20240061374
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing in which an exhaust port is formed, a fan, a duct extending in an exhausting direction and configured to accommodate the fan, the duct including a downstream end in the exhausting direction, and an exhaust filter disposed between the duct and the exhaust port in the exhausting direction, the exhaust filter including a first surface facing the exhaust port and a second surface facing the duct. Dimensions of the duct each orthogonal to the exhausting direction are smaller than dimensions of the exhaust filter each orthogonal to the exhausting directions. A perimeter of the downstream end of the duct in the exhausting direction is in contact with the second surface of the exhaust filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Takuya TSUJI, Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Kazuma HINOUE, Hotaka KAKUTANI, Masafumi INOUE, Haruka KIZU
  • Publication number: 20230411062
    Abstract: The present invention provides a choke coil suitable for high-frequency circuits with high occupancy ratio and high manufacturing efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SHT Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi INOUE, Yasuomi TAKAHASHI, Tsunetsugu IMANISHI
  • Publication number: 20230366031
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multiplexed amplification reaction kit for identifying a subject suffering from a malignancy sensitive to treatment with an inhibitor of the Wnt signaling pathway, comprising a primer pair capable of amplifying a PTPRK(e13)-RSPO3(e2) R-Spondin gene-fusion. Also disclosed is a method of identifying sensitivity to an inhibitor of Wnt signaling in a subject suffering from a malignancy, comprising detecting the PTPRK(e13)-RSPO3(e2) R-Spondin gene-fusion with a primer pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Bong Hwa GAN, Masafumi INOUE, Veronica DIERMAYR
  • Publication number: 20230365796
    Abstract: Provided are a heat-shrinkable label and a package each having solvent bonded-portion where solvent penetration-through is not caused even when the film is thin. Provided are particularly a heat-shrinkable label and a package each having solvent bonded-portion gaining a high peel strength stability even when the film is passed through a tubing step made high in speed. A heat-shrinkable label has a tubular shape, in which both end portions of a heat-shrinkable polyvinyl chloride-based film or a heat-shrinkable polystyrene-based film are bonded to each other with a solvent composition. The solvent composition contains at least one organic solvent selected from the group consisting of tetrahydrofuran (THE), methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and ethyl acetate, and at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polyester, polypropylene and hydrogenated petroleum resin, and the end portion bonded has a peel strength of 2 N/15 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi INOUE, Masayuki HARUTA, Hisao OKU
  • Patent number: 11816050
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is configured so that two or more master devices access a slave device via a bus. The semiconductor device includes: a priority generation circuit that generates a priority based on a transfer amount between a specific master device and a specific slave device; and an arbitration circuit that performs an arbitration based on the priority when competition of the accesses occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki Higuchi, Tsutomu Matsuzaki, Masafumi Inoue, Masakatsu Uneme
  • Patent number: 11649505
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multiplexed amplification reaction kit for identifying a subject suffering from a malignancy sensitive to treatment with an inhibitor of the Wnt signaling pathway, comprising a primer pair capable of amplifying a PTPRK(e13)-RSPO3(e2) R-Spondin gene-fusion. Also disclosed is a method of identifying sensitivity to an inhibitor of Wnt signaling in a subject suffering from a malignancy, comprising detecting the PTPRK(e13)-RSPO3(e2) R-Spondin gene-fusion with a primer pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Bong Hwa Gan, Masafumi Inoue, Veronica Diermayr
  • Patent number: 11643417
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a Pim-1 inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a compound of Formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and a pharmaceutical use thereof, and the like. wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Inoue, Yosuke Ogoshi, Takayuki Furukawa, Takuya Machida, Ikuo Mitani, Kazuhito Harada, Yuichi Nakagawa, Nobutaka Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20230023377
    Abstract: A compound of the following general formula [I]: wherein each symbol has the same meaning as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, and a pharmaceutical use of the same in treating organ transplant rejection, graft versus host reaction after transplantation, autoimmune disease, allergic disease and chronic myeloproliferative disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Noji, Makoto Shiozaki, Tomoya Miura, Yoshinori Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Katsuya Maeda, Akimi Hori, Masafumi Inoue, Yasunori Hase
  • Publication number: 20220403156
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a heat-shrinkable polyester film roll having decreased generation of wrinkles or longitudinal shrink mark. The present invention provides a film roll of a heat shrinkable polyester film, wherein a polyester of the polyester film contains recycled raw material from a PET bottle and an acid component of the polyester comprises isophthalic acid, and the film roll satisfies a specific average value of a shrinkage, specific isophthalic acid ratio, and specific thickness unevenness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi INOUE, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Patent number: 11465126
    Abstract: The production method includes: a gel-crushing step of grinding a crosslinked hydrogel polymer to obtain a particulate crosslinked hydrogel polymer; a heating drying step of obtaining dried particles from the particulate crosslinked hydrogel polymer by using a continuous stirring drying machine; a post-crosslinking step of post-crosslinking the particulate crosslinked hydrogel polymer or the dried particles; and a sizing step of adjusting a particle size of the dried particles or the post-crosslinked dried particles to obtain water-absorbent resin powder. The particulate crosslinked hydrogel polymer contains a gel fluidizer. A gel temperature of the particulate crosslinked hydrogel polymer containing the gel fluidizer, the gel temperature being measured by a contact thermometer, is not lower than 50° C. In the production method, the dried particles or the post-crosslinked dried particles is forcedly cooled before the sizing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Watabe, Mai Sato, Ryota Wakabayashi, Yoshihiro Shobo, Shin-ya Katsube, Motohiro Imura, Koji Honda, Yoshifumi Adachi, Tsuyoshi Yorino, Masafumi Inoue, Tomoyuki Arake, Hiroki Hayashi, Naoki Katakura, Shin-ichi Fujino, Kunihiko Ishizaki, Tokio Shuto
  • Patent number: 11442434
    Abstract: A parameter design assistance device (2) includes storage (24) and a controller (25). The storage (24) stores therein a recipe for controlling a substrate processing device (81). The controller (25) acquires one or more level values for each of control factors. The level values indicate conditions according to which the substrate processing device (1) is to process a substrate (11). The controller (25) generates, through statistical technique, combination information representing combinations of the level values acquired. The controller (25) creates an evaluation recipe for each of the combinations of the level values based on the combination information and the recipe stored in the storage (24). When the evaluation recipe includes a parameter corresponding to a control factor, the controller (25) sets a corresponding level value for the control factor as a parameter value of the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Masafumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220274731
    Abstract: A heat-shrinkable polyester film that has (1) a hot-water heat shrinkage of 40% or more in a main shrinkage direction of the film when immersed in hot water of 98° C. for 10 seconds; (2) a planar orientation coefficient of 0.035-0.070; (3) ethylene terephthalate as a main constituent component and 6-25 mol % diethylene glycol (DEG) constituent in 100 mol % of polyhydric alcohol in all the polyester resin constituting the film; (4) a maximum shrinkage stress of 2-17 MPa in the main shrinkage direction of the film when measured in hot air of 90° C.; and (5) a tensile elongation at break of 20% or more in a direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction after the film is aged in an atmosphere with an atmospheric temperature of 40° C. and a relative humidity of 85% for 28 days.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi INOUE, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20220267541
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat-shrinkable polyester film roll obtained by winding a heat-shrinkable polyester film on a paper tube with primary shrinkage in the longitudinal direction and a shrinkage rate of 40% or more, wherein the film has a winding length of 1000 to 30000 m, a width of 50 to 1500 mm, and a thickness of 5-30 ?m, the thickness irregularity of the film roll in the width direction is 20% or less, the paper tube has an inner diameter of 3 inches with a 0.5 mm or less difference in clearance and a 1700 N/100 mm or more flat compressive strength in the width direction after the film is removed from the film roll, the mean value of the winding hardness of the surface layer part of the film roll in the width direction is 500-850, and the natural shrinkage rate in the longitudinal direction is 2.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi INOUE, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Patent number: 11352234
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body, an image forming unit, a sheet tray disposed below the image forming unit, and a retransport assembly configured to transport a sheet along a retransport path including first, second, and third retransport path portions in a transport direction. The retransport assembly includes a portion of the sheet tray defining the first retransport path portion, a connecting unit and a retransport unit, which are disposed below the sheet tray. The connecting unit defines the second retransport path portion connected to an upstream end of the third retransport path portion in the transport direction. The retransport unit is movable between a stored position and a pulled-out position. The retransport unit at the stored position defines the first retransport path portion connected to an upstream end of the second retransport path portion in the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masafumi Inoue, Yuichiro Ichinose, Kenta Tosuji
  • Publication number: 20220162220
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a Pim-1 inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a compound of Formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and a pharmaceutical use thereof, and the like. wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Inoue, Yosuke Ogoshi, Takayuki Furukawa, Takuya Machida, Ikuo Mitani, Kazuhito Harada, Yuichi Nakagawa, Nobutaka YAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 11340549
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a retransport assembly, and a controller. The retransport assembly includes a first transport roller pair, a second transport roller pair, and a skew roller pair configured to alone transport, in a skewed manner, a sheet spaced from the first transport roller pair and the second transport roller pair, and a reference wall. The controller controls the retransport assembly and executes a waiting operation to cause the sheet to wait at the retransport assembly. The controller is configured to execute the waiting operation by stopping the skew roller pair and one of the first transport roller pair and the second transport roller pair in a state in which the sheet is nipped by the skew roller pair and the one of the first transport roller pair and the second transport roller pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Tosuji, Yuichiro Ichinose, Masafumi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11299595
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-shrinkable polyester film which has heat shrinkage properties in a main shrinkage direction in the longitudinal direction, a small variation in shrinkage in the width direction, and less likely generated wrinkles and strains at the time of shrinkage finishing. The polyester film is prepared from a polyester raw material resin comprising 50 mol % or more of an ethylene terephthalate unit in 100 mol % of constituent units of a polyester, diol components selected from aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic diols, and an amorphous monomer component that is 2% or more in 100 mol % of either a polyhydric alcohol component or a polybasic carboxylic acid component in the whole polyester resin, wherein the polyester does not contain polybasic carboxylic acids of tribasic or more, and the polyester film is obtained by uniaxial drawing in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Inoue, Masayuki Haruta
  • Patent number: 11274003
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a belt unit including a transfer belt and a first memory that stores a first sheet conveying speed of the transfer belt; a second memory storing a first reference value and a second sheet conveying speed of the fixing unit a controller configured to: control at least one of the belt motor and the fixing motor to bring the speed difference between the sheet conveying speed of the transfer belt and the sheet conveying speed of the fixing unit closer to the first reference value by setting a rotational speed of the fixing motor based on the first reference value and a first speed difference between the first sheet conveying speed read from the first memory and the second sheet conveying speed read from the second memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Masafumi Inoue, Shuji Ota, Shuhei Hatano