Patents by Inventor Masahiko Ito
Masahiko Ito 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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Patent number: 11973272Abstract: A spacecraft includes: a main-reflection unit configured to reflect and emit a radio wave outside, a sub-reflection unit configured to face the main-reflection unit, a radiator arranged to face the sub-reflection unit and configured to radiate the radio wave in a direction of the sub-reflection unit, a main body configured to be able to accommodate at least one part of the sub-reflection unit therein, and a delivery device connected to the sub-reflection unit and configured to deliver the sub-reflection unit, at least one part of which is accommodated in the main body, to a position where the sub-reflection unit is able to reflect the radio wave radiated from the radiator to the main-reflection unit and cause the main-reflection unit to radiate the radio wave outside.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.Inventors: Shunsuke Onishi, Tetsuo Yasaka, Kazuo Kuno, Masahiko Uetsuhara, Yohei Koga, Shinji Ito, Yonosuke Ichiki, Kazuo Kiso, Mutsuhito Tobo
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Publication number: 20240131626Abstract: There is provided a blank in which two or more starting materials that overlap each other are joined with each other by laser welding, including the blank has a single layer region, in which only one of the starting materials is present, and a multi-layer region, in which two or more of the starting materials overlap each other, laser welding is continuously applied to the multi-layer region and the single layer region, and one end of a laser weld zone is located at an end portion of the single layer region of the blank, and the one end forms a concave-shaped welding end portion having a concave shape when the blank is viewed from an end face.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko ABE, Yasuhiro ITO
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Patent number: 11967763Abstract: Spacecraft and antenna apparatus that can be more easily deployed from a stored state can include: a main-reflection unit including a plurality of ribs formed to be deployable in a stored state in which the ribs are folded and a sheet body provided between a plurality of the ribs and configured to be capable of reflecting a radio wave radiated from a radiator and emitting the radio wave outside, and a restriction member configured to restrict deployment of the plurality of ribs in the stored state, and release the restriction by operation of a restriction release member different from the main-reflection unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.Inventors: Shunsuke Onishi, Tetsuo Yasaka, Kazuo Kuno, Masahiko Uetsuhara, Yohei Koga, Shinji Ito, Yonosuke Ichiki, Kazuo Kiso, Mutsuhito Tobo
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Publication number: 20240125527Abstract: Provided is a air purge device that can effectively discharge air.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Nobuki OKA, Ryo KAMITO, Yoshiaki ITO, Taichi YOSHII, Tatsuo ISHIGURO, Yoshie TOGANO, Norihisa HORAGUCHI, Masahiko NAGAI, Naoya MIYOSHI
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Patent number: 11952297Abstract: Provided are an extract, which is a fractionated component 1 of a water extract of a plant powder, wherein the fractionated component 1 is a fractionated component having a fractionation molecular weight of 12,000 or greater, wherein an ethanol-undissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to cellulose in a gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) measurement, and wherein an ethanol-dissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in the FT-IR measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to a plant protein in the GC-MS measurement, and a water-purifying agent containing the extract.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Fujita, Ryu Shimada, Masahiko Ito, Masato Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20240109653Abstract: In a state where lift is generated in a front wing and a rear wing, a control device for an aircraft controls the pitch of each blade and the stopped state rotation angle of each VTOL rotor to control the force generated in each VTOL rotor in a state where rotation of the VTOL rotor is stopped, thereby applying a force to a fuselage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Masahiko Asanuma, Susumu Mashio, Yusuke Nakai, Takahiro Ito
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Publication number: 20240097219Abstract: A battery system comprises a plurality of battery modules, each of the battery modules includes an assembled battery configured to include a plurality of battery cells connected in series, a monitoring unit configured to monitor the assembled battery, and an external member configured to be electrically connected to the monitoring unit, and the monitoring unit of each of the battery modules has a generation unit configured to generate, based on an electric signal input from the external member, an identification information item on the corresponding one of the battery modules, the identification information items of the respective battery modules being different from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Naoto YAMASHITA, Masahiko Ito, Masakazu Kouda, Hisanaga Onishi
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Publication number: 20240082560Abstract: A connector (1) is constituted by a first member (10) and a second member (40). The first member (10) has a male connecting portion (11) at a first end and a screwing structure (26) at a second end. The male connecting portion (11) is inserted into a female connecting portion (41) of the second member (40). A first engagement structure (15) is provided on the first member (10), and a second engagement structure (45) is provided on the second member (40) so as to be able to abut against the first engagement structure (15) in the circumferential direction. When a rotational force of a predetermined value or greater is applied to the first member (10) in a tightening direction (R1) of the screwing structure (26), one of the first engagement structure (15) and the second engagement structure (45) is plastically deformed by the other, so that the first member (10) is then rotatable in both forward and reverse directions relative to the second member (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Maho ITO, Takaya FUJII, Hitoshi TACHIZAKI, Masahiko TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 11876193Abstract: A battery system includes a plurality of battery modules, each of the battery modules has an assembled battery, which includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series, a monitoring unit that monitors the assembled battery, and an external member that is electrically connected to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit of each of the battery modules has a generation unit that generates, based on an electric signal input from the external member, an identification information item on the corresponding one of the battery modules, the identification information items of the respective battery modules being different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Naoto Yamashita, Masahiko Ito, Masakazu Kouda, Hisanaga Onishi
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Patent number: 11866354Abstract: Provided are an extract, which is a fractionated component 1 of a water extract of a plant powder, wherein the fractionated component 1 is a fractionated component having a fractionation molecular weight of 12,000 or greater, wherein an ethanol-undissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to cellulose in a gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) measurement, and wherein an ethanol-dissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in the FT-IR measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to a plant protein in the GC-MS measurement, and a water-purifying agent containing the extract.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Fujita, Ryu Shimada, Masahiko Ito, Masato Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11718841Abstract: Provided is a method for improving the production amount of a tri- or higher galactooligosaccharide and the reaction rate by a method for producing a galactooligosaccharide characterized by allowing ?-galactosidase to react with a substrate in the presence of 5 to 60 mM sodium ions and 0.5 to 8 mM magnesium ions.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Masakazu Ikeda, Masahiko Ito
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Publication number: 20230242423Abstract: Provided are an extract, which is a fractionated component 1 of a water extract of a plant powder, wherein the fractionated component 1 is a fractionated component having a fractionation molecular weight of 12,000 or greater, wherein an ethanol-undissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to cellulose in a gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) measurement, and wherein an ethanol-dissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in the FT-IR measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to a plant protein in the GC-MS measurement, and a water-purifying agent containing the extract.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Takanori FUJITA, Ryu Shimada, Masahiko Ito, Masato Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11529509Abstract: Provided is a blood pump controller capable of preventing an operation error in performing a battery exchange with a small-sized and light-weighted configuration and exhibiting high waterproof property. A blood pump controller includes: a controller body for driving a blood pump; a battery pack having a first surface on which an electricity-supply-side battery connection connector is disposed and supplying stored electricity to the controller body; and a battery housing body having a slot which has a second surface on which an electricity-receiving-side battery connection connector is disposed and in which the battery pack is housed and held. When the battery pack is housed in the slot, an electrical connection is made between a pair of the battery connection connectors, the first surface and the second surface opposedly face each other, and a first sealing member provides sealing such that the first sealing member surrounds the pair of battery connection connectors.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: SUN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto Shinohara, Masahiko Ito, Masaaki Hanaoka, Nozomi Koike, Hiroaki Fujimori
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Patent number: 11506718Abstract: A connection part which connects a terminal part and a processing part include an equalization resistor that is inserted into each main line and a 0-? resistor that is a short circuit line for short circuiting a main line of a first terminal and a main line of a second terminal. In the terminal part, the second terminal s unused, and a battery cell adjacent to a high-potential side of a stack bar is connected between the first terminal and a third terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Inventors: Masahiko Ito, Shunichi Kubo, Hayato Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 11498457Abstract: A vehicle control system monitors an infant possibly left behind in a cabin of a vehicle. The vehicle control system performs a danger avoidance process of either avoiding or reducing a danger to the infant based on a monitoring result. The vehicle control system includes an image acquirer for acquiring one or more vehicle stationary images indicating an interior of the cabin. The one or more vehicle stationary images are captured by an imaging device during stopping of the vehicle. A leaving behind determiner is provided to determine presence or absence of an infant left behind in the cabin based one or more vehicle stationary images.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiko Ito
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Patent number: 11440821Abstract: Provided is a water-purifying agent formed of a granulated product including a mixture of a plant powder and a polymeric flocculant, wherein a surface of the granulated product includes a coated portion in which the plant powder is coated with the polymeric flocculant and a non-coated portion in which the plant powder is not coated with the polymeric flocculant.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Masahiko Ito, Ryu Shimada, Takanori Fujita
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Publication number: 20220265992Abstract: Provided is a left ventricular assist system that includes at least: a blood pump; and a controller that controls the rotation of a rotary body of the blood pump. The controller controls the blood pump such that a rotational speed of the rotary body is periodically switched between a first rotational speed and a second rotational speed that is larger than the first rotational speed with a transition time required for switching the rotational speed set to substantially 0 (zero). Periodic switching of the rotational speed of the rotary body is asynchronous with a cardiac cycle of a user, and the rotary body rotates substantially only at rotational speeds of two values consisting of the first rotational speed and the second rotational speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Nozomi KOIKE, Masahiko ITO, Shinji KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11390691Abstract: Provided are: an oligosaccharide powder having high working properties, the oligosaccharide powder being characterized by containing a dextrin having a dextrose equivalent of 10 to 18 and an oligosaccharide; and a method for manufacturing the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Masakazu Ikeda, Ryo Aoki, Masahiko Ito
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Publication number: 20220112533Abstract: Provided is a method for improving the production amount of a tri- or higher galactooligosaccharide and the reaction rate by a method for producing a galactooligosaccharide characterized by allowing ?-galactosidase to react with a substrate in the presence of 5 to 60 mM sodium ions and 0.5 to 8 mM magnesium ions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Masakazu IKEDA, Masahiko ITO
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Publication number: 20210380444Abstract: Provided are an extract, which is a fractionated component 1 of a water extract of a plant powder, wherein the fractionated component 1 is a fractionated component having a fractionation molecular weight of 12,000 or greater, wherein an ethanol-undissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to cellulose in a gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) measurement, and wherein an ethanol-dissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in the FT-IR measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to a plant protein in the GC-MS measurement, and a water-purifying agent containing the extract.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Takanori FUJITA, Ryu SHIMADA, Masahiko ITO, Masato HASEGAWA