Patents by Inventor Masahiro Murata
Masahiro Murata 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: 7279484Abstract: The inventive subject matter relates to compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits containing a heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (I) wherein R is an alkyl group optionally having substituent(s) etc., X is an amino group optionally having substituent(s), Y1 and Y2 are nitrogen atoms etc., an isomer or solvate thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Tatsuhiro Yamada, Tadakiyo Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kohichi Fujita, Tomoyuki Tagami, Yuka Ikenoue, Shunsuke Fukuda, Yoshitomo Chujo, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Murata
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Patent number: 7250516Abstract: Phenylalanine derivatives of the following formula, analogues thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have an antagonistic activity to ?4 integrin. They are used as therapeutic agents or preventive agents for various diseases concerning ?4 integrin in which ?4 integrin-depending adhesion process participates in the pathology, such as inflammatory diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, Sjögren's syndrome, asthma, psoriasis, allergy, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arterial sclerosis, restenosis, tumor proliferation, tumor metastasis and transplantation rejection. wherein R1 is a methyl group and R2 is a methoxy group.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2004Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya Okuzumi, Kazuyuki Sagi, Toshihiko Yoshimura, Yuji Tanaka, Eiji Nakanishi, Miho Ono, Masahiro Murata
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Patent number: 7204271Abstract: A bottom wall 11 of a valve chamber 13 of an electric switching valve 10 includes a laminated structure having a bottom cover 11 to which pipe fittings 14, 15, 16 are connected; a valve seat 19 on which the valve ports 19C, 19D are opened and which an end wall of the valve body 20 slidably contacts; an intermediate plate 17 interposed between the bottom cover 11 and the valve seat 19 with communication openings 17D, 17E for connecting the pipe fittings 15, 16 to the valve ports 19C, 19D. At least one of the valve ports 19C, 19D is biased toward a rotation center of the valve body 20 against the center of the corresponding pipe fitting 15, 16.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Saginomiya SeisakushoInventors: Akira Kasai, Masahiro Murata, Yasumasa Takada, Morio Kaneko, Takashi Hirakawa, Kaori Yokota
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Patent number: 7193108Abstract: Specified phenylpropionic acid derivatives and analogues thereof have an antagonistic activity to ? 4 integrin. They are used as therapeutic agents or preventive agents for various diseases concerning ? 4 integrin, such as inflammatory diseases in which ? 4 integrin-depending adhesion process participates in the pathology, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, Sjögren's syndrome, asthma, psoriasis, allergy, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arterial sclerosis, restenosis, tumor proliferation, tumor metastasis and transplantation rejection.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Akira Chiba, Kazuyuki Sagi, Toshihiko Yoshimura, Tatsuya Okuzumi, Hiroyuki Izawa, Masahiro Murata
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Patent number: 7179722Abstract: A method of dividing, along dividing lines, a wafer having function elements formed in areas sectioned by the dividing lines formed in a lattice pattern on the front surface, which comprises: a protective member affixing step for affixing a protective member to the front surface of the wafer; a polishing step for polishing the back surface of the wafer having the protective member affixed to the front surface; a deteriorated layer formation step for forming a deteriorated layer along the dividing lines in the inside of the wafer by applying a pulse laser beam capable of passing through the wafer to the wafer along the dividing lines from the polished back surface side of the wafer; a frame holding step for affixing the back surface of the wafer in which the deteriorated layers have been formed along the dividing lines, to a dicing tape mounted on an annular frame; a dividing step for dividing the wafer into individual chips along the dividing lines by exerting external force along the dividing lines where theType: GrantFiled: February 2, 2005Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Disco CorporationInventors: Masahiro Murata, Yusuke Nagai, Yukio Morishige, Satoshi Kobayashi, Naoki Ohmiya
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Publication number: 20070031898Abstract: A kit for the determination of the ability of a peripheral blood mononuclear cell to bind to a polysaccharide herein provided comprises a detection reagent comprising a fluorescence-labeled immunostimulant polysaccharide; and a reference reagent comprising a fluorescence-labeled material of a polysaccharide different from that used in the fluorescence-labeled immunostimulant polysaccharide, and/or an immunostimulant polysaccharide which is not labeled with any fluorescent material and whose polysaccharide moiety is identical to that included in the fluorescence-labeled immunostimulant polysaccharide. The use of this kit would permit the estimation of the polysaccharide-binding ability of a peripheral blood mononuclear cell in a higher precision of estimation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INCInventors: Tetsuya Suga, Yasuyo Suga, Masahiro Murata
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Patent number: 7160874Abstract: Specified phenylalanine derivatives and analogues thereof have an antagonistic activity to ?4 integrin. They are used as therapeutic agents for various diseases concerning ?4 integrin.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Toshihiko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Izawa, Chieko Ejima, Mitsuhiko Kojima, Yuko Satake, Eiji Nakanishi, Nobuyasu Suzuki, Shingo Makino, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Murata
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Patent number: 7153963Abstract: Specified phenylalanine derivatives and analogues thereof have an antagonistic activity to ?4 integrin.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Shingo Makino, Tatsuya Okuzumi, Toshihiko Yoshimura, Yuko Satake, Nobuyasu Suzuki, Hiroyuki Izawa, Kazuyuki Sagi, Akira Chiba, Eiji Nakanishi, Masahiro Murata, Takashi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20060223836Abstract: Specified phenylalanine derivatives and analogues thereof have an antagonistic activity to ?4 integrin. They are used as therapeutic agents for various diseases concerning ?4 integrin.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Shingo Makino, Tatsuya Okuzumi, Toshihiko Yoshimura, Yuko Satake, Nobuyasu Suzuki, Hiroyuki Izawa, Kazuyuki Sagi, Akira Chiba, Eiji Nakanishi, Masahiro Murata, Takashi Tsuji
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Patent number: 7105520Abstract: Phenylalanine derivatives of the following formulae and analogues thereof have an antagonistic activity to ?4 integrin.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Nobuyasu Suzuki, Toshihiko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Izawa, Shingo Makino, Eiji Nakanishi, Masahiro Murata, Takashi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20060141230Abstract: The surface-treated steel sheet has a zinc-based plated steel sheet, a surface-treatment coating being formed on the surface of the zinc-based steel sheet by applying and drying a surface treatment coating composition thereon, and a top coating being formed by applying and drying a coating composition for top coating on the surface-treatment coating. The surface treatment coating composition contains a water-epoxy resin dispersion, a silane coupling agent, and phosphoric acid and/or a hexafluorometal acid. The coating composition for top coating contains a high molecular weight epoxy group-containing resin having number average molecular weights ranging from 6000 to 20000.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2004Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Miyoshi, Kenichi Sasaki, Naoto Yoshimi, Akira Matsuzaki, Kazuhisa Okai, Takao Ooshima, Takashi Nakano, Masahiro Murata, Syoichi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20060128755Abstract: Amide derivatives represented by the formula (I): wherein: A is a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group or a heteroaryl group; X is a nitrogen atom or CR17; Y is —NRa—, —(CRbRb?)m—, and the like; m is 0 to 4; and R1 to R17 may be the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, a carboxyl group, a formyl group, a hydroxyl group, an ammonium group, an alkyl group optionally having one or more substituents, ZR18 and the like, Z is —O—, —S(O)p—, —S(O)pO—, —NH—, —NR19—, and the like; or R1 and R2 may in combination form a ring, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof, or a solvate thereof may be applied to pharmaceutical use such as anti-inflammatory and analgesic action and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INCInventors: Tadakiyo Nakagawa, Tamotsu Suzuki, Kaoru Takenaka, Shinichi Fujita, Youji Yamada, Yoichiro Shima, Tatsuya Okuzumi, Toshihiko Yoshimura, Masanao Yoshida, Masahiro Murata
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Publication number: 20060079155Abstract: A wafer grinding method for grinding the surface to be ground of a wafer having an arcuatedly chamfered outer peripheral surface, comprising an outer peripheral portion removal step for removing the outer peripheral portion of the wafer by applying a laser beam from one surface side of the wafer along the outer periphery at a location on the inside of the outer periphery by a predetermined distance; and a grinding step for grinding the surface to be ground of the wafer whose outer peripheral portion has been removed, to a predetermined finish thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2005Publication date: April 13, 2006Inventors: Masaru Nakamura, Yosuke Watanabe, Satoshi Kobayashi, Noboru Takeda, Masanori Yoshida, Takashi Sanpei, Masahiro Murata
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Publication number: 20060070671Abstract: A bottom wall 11 of a valve chamber 13 of an electric switching valve 10 includes a laminated structure having a bottom cover 11 to which pipe fittings 14, 15, 16 are connected; a valve seat 19 on which the valve ports 19C, 19D are opened and which an end wall of the valve body 20 slidably contacts; an intermediate plate 17 interposed between the bottom cover 11 and the valve seat 19 with communication openings 17D, 17E for connecting the pipe fittings 15, 16 to the valve ports 19C, 19D. At least one of the valve ports 19C, 19D is biased toward a rotation center of the valve body 20 against the center of the corresponding pipe fitting 15, 16.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2004Publication date: April 6, 2006Inventors: Akira Kasai, Masahiro Murata, Yasumasa Takada, Morio Kaneko, Takashi Hirakawa, Kaori Yokota
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Publication number: 20060028787Abstract: The electrolytic capacitor and the electric double-layer capacitor both have difficulties to satisfy recent demands that the capacitor should have lower resistance, larger capacitance and moreover smaller size and thinner film thickness, altogether. The present invention provides a wet electrolytic capacitor which comprises a porous anode substance wherein at least a surface of a porous material made of a powder of a valve metal is an oxide film of the valve metal, a cathode formed of either an active carbon layer or a porous material made of a powder of a valve metal and an acid electrolytic solution contained between the porous anode substance and the cathode electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2005Publication date: February 9, 2006Inventors: Katsuhiro Yoshida, Yoshihiko Saiki, Hiroyuki Kamisuki, Masahiro Murata
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Publication number: 20050250796Abstract: The inventive subject matter relates to compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits containing a heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (I) wherein R is an alkyl group optionally having substituent(s) etc., X is an amino group optionally having substituent(s), Y1 and Y2 are nitrogen atoms etc., an isomer or solvate thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Tatsuhiro Yamada, Tadakiyo Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kohichi Fujita, Tomoyuki Tagami, Yuka Ikenoue, Shunsuke Fukuda, Yoshitomo Chujo, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Murata
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Publication number: 20050170613Abstract: A method of dividing, along dividing lines, a wafer having function elements formed in areas sectioned by the dividing lines formed in a lattice pattern on the front surface, comprising: a frame holding step for affixing the back surface of the wafer to a dicing tape mounted on an annular frame; a deteriorated layer forming step for forming a deteriorated layer along the dividing lines in the inside of the wafer by applying a pulse laser beam capable of passing through the wafer to the wafer along the dividing lines, from the side of the front surface of the wafer held on the frame; a dividing step for dividing the wafer into individual chips along the dividing lines by exerting external force along the dividing lines where the deteriorated layers have been formed of the wafer held on the frame; an expansion step for enlarging the interval between chips by stretching the dicing tape affixed to the wafer divided into individual chips; and a picking up step for picking up each chip from the expanded dicing tapeType: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Yusuke Nagai, Yukio Morishige, Satoshi Kobayashi, Naoki Ohmiya
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Publication number: 20050170616Abstract: A method of dividing, along dividing lines, a wafer having function elements formed in areas sectioned by the dividing lines formed in a lattice pattern on the front surface, which comprises: a protective member affixing step for affixing a protective member to the front surface of the wafer; a polishing step for polishing the back surface of the wafer having the protective member affixed to the front surface; a deteriorated layer formation step for forming a deteriorated layer along the dividing lines in the inside of the wafer by applying a pulse laser beam capable of passing through the wafer to the wafer along the dividing lines from the polished back surface side of the wafer; a frame holding step for affixing the back surface of the wafer in which the deteriorated layers have been formed along the dividing lines, to a dicing tape mounted on an annular frame; a dividing step for dividing the wafer into individual chips along the dividing lines by exerting external force along the dividing lines where theType: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Yusuke Nagai, Yukio Morishige, Satoshi Kobayashi, Naoki Ohmiya
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Publication number: 20050147832Abstract: The invention is to provide a surface-treated steel sheet of good white rust resistance with no chromium in its surface treatment film, and it has realized a surface-treated steel sheet of higher-level corrosion resistance by forming a reaction layer of plating metal with a barrier layer effective for anticorrosion not in a two-layered film but in a single-layered film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2003Publication date: July 7, 2005Inventors: Kazuhisa Okai, Akira Matsuzaki, Naoto Yoshimi, Takahiro Kubota, Masaaki Yamashita, Hisato Noro, Haruo Nakamichi, Kaoru Sato, Hiroyasu Matsuki, Reijiro Nishida, Masahiro Murata, Shoichi Tanaka, Yoshikazu Morohoshi, Shingo Amaki
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Publication number: 20050127299Abstract: An apparatus for checking a laser processed deteriorated layer formed in the inside of a workpiece by applying a laser beam capable of passing through the workpiece to the workpiece, comprising a workpiece holding means for holding the workpiece; a light application means for applying light capable of passing through the workpiece held on the workpiece holding means to the exposed surface of the workpiece at a predetermined angle; a light receiving means for receiving light that is applied from the light application, passes through the inside of the workpiece and is reflected from the workpiece; and a display means for displaying the state of light received by the light receiving means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2004Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Yusuke Nagai, Satoshi Kobayashi, Yukio Morishige, Masaru Nakamura, Masahiro Murata