Patents by Inventor Masahiro Fukuoka

Masahiro Fukuoka 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).

  • Publication number: 20060252056
    Abstract: The invention relates to a set of isolated marker genes comprising at least one gene identified as having differential expression as between patients who are responders and non responders to an erbB receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor; said gene set comprising one or more genes selected from at least the group consisting of the 51 genes listed herein including gene-specific oligonucleotides derived from said genes; and uses of such sets in diagnostic applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Takashi Tsuruo, Yusuke Nakamura, Saburo Sone, Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 6309812
    Abstract: There is disclosed an emulsified dispersion of photographic hydrophobic compound fine grains (with a proviso of excluding silver halides), which comprises an added water-soluble monovalent- or polyvalent-metal salt. The emulsified dispersion whose particle size is small, is excellent in the stability of the particle size with the lapse of time. There is also disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, which contains the emulsified dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Aogaki, Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 6056357
    Abstract: An apparatus for vibrating a seat for effectively preventing a driver from dozing off during driving is provided which includes a seat fixed on a sliding mechanism mounted on a floor surface of an automobile, a direct current motor placed within a seat bottom of the seat, unbalanced weights connected with a rotation shaft of the direct current motor whereby the direct current motor is actuated so as to rotate the unbalanced weights and produce vibration for vibrating the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Yukihiko Saitoh
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5726000
    Abstract: A dispersion of fine solid particles having good production suitability, good dispersion stability and high spectral absorption, which is obtained by pulverizing an aqueous slurry of a dye represented by general formula (II) in the presence of a polyalkylene oxide represented by general formula (I-a) or (I-b): ##STR1## wherein a and b each represents a value of 5 to 500.D--(X).sub.y (II)wherein D represents a compound residue having a chromophore, X represents dissociative hydrogen or a group having dissociative hydrogen, and y is an integer of 1 to 7. An embodiment that a compound represented by general formula (I) is present together with the polyalkylene oxide of general formula (I-a) or (I-b) is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakanishi, Yukoh Saitoh, Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5647633
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5593206
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5556161
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5542741
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5538321
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5533784
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5516192
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5507557
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5498061
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5490713
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5348370
    Abstract: A driver's seat having a vibration generator connected to the driver's seat and controls for turning the vibration generator on and off for vibrating the driver's seat so that when a driver feels drowsiness coming on, the driver can operate the controls for switching on-off the vibration generator so that the driver's seat can be vibrated and prevent the driver from dozing during driving and prevent an accident from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Fukuoka Kagaku Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 4688411
    Abstract: A wire rod is payed out from a pay-off stand and descaled in a descaling process. After preheating to a predetermined temperature by a preheating device, it is subjected to a lubrication pretreatment through a zinc calcium phosphate solution applied with ultrasonic wave in the lubrication pretreatment process. After rinsing process, the lubrication-pretreated wire rod is coated with a calcium stearate or a sodium stearate in lubricating process. Thereafter, the wire rod is dried sufficiently in drying process, and then added with a predies lubricant in wire drawing process and coiled by a coiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyoji Hagita, Takashi Fukuda, Shigeru Maeda, Hideo Imamura, Kazutosi Ogata, Masahiro Fukuoka