Patents by Inventor Masahiro Shirakawa

Masahiro Shirakawa 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: 10663032
    Abstract: In a torsional vibration reducing device, a protrusion projecting radially outward of the rotating body is formed on an inner wall surface. The protrusion is formed on a rotation direction side of a rotating body relative to a straight line passing through a rotation center of the rotating body and a center of a rolling element when the rolling element is located in a middle between both end positions to which the rolling element swings within the roller chamber, and while the rolling element is located at an end portion of a roller chamber on the rotation direction side of the rotating body, a gap is equal to or less than a predetermined value between the rolling element and a wall surface of the roller chamber on a straight line passing through a rotation center of the rotating body and a tip of the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takafumi Inagaki, Toshiya Yamashita, Takuya Okada, Atsushi Muto, Masahiro Shirakawa, Yusuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190128369
    Abstract: In a torsional vibration reducing device, a protrusion projecting radially outward of the rotating body is firmed on an inner wall surface. The protrusion is formed on a rotation direction side of a rotating body relative to a straight line passing through a rotation center of the rotating body and a center of a rolling element when the rolling element is located in a middle between both end positions to which the rolling element swings within the roller chamber, and while the rolling element is located at an end portion of a roller chamber on the rotation direction side of the rotating body, a gap is equal to or less than a predetermined value between the rolling element and a wall surface of the roller chamber on a straight line passing through a rotation center of the rotating body and a tip of the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takafumi INAGAKI, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Takuya OKADA, Atsushi MUTO, Masahiro SHIRAKAWA, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10029021
    Abstract: As a substance used as a contrast agent for a method of nuclear magnetic resonance analysis or a method of magnetic resonance imaging, a substance with high selectivity and high sensitivity was demanded. According to the present invention, when a polymer having, in a side chain thereof, a sequence of a 1H—13C—15N, 1H—15N—13C or 1H—13C—13C bond, that is, a structure labeled with stable isotopes of 13C and 15N, is used, the abundance of such a sequence in one molecule can be increased, and hence, high selectivity and higher sensitivity can be attained when used as a contrast agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruyuki Kondo, Yasuhiro Aoyama, Hisatsugu Yamada, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Hidehito Tochio, Yu Kimura, Masahiro Shirakawa, Fuminori Sugihara, Tetsuya Matsuda, Shinsuke Sando, Masato Minami, Fumio Yamauchi, Tetsuya Yano, Hidetoshi Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 10001657
    Abstract: The phosphor ceramic has pores with a pore diameter of 3.0 ?m or more and 12.0 ?m or less. In the phosphor ceramic, a pore volume percentage of pores with a pore diameter of 3.0 ?m or more and 12.0 ?m or less is 1.5% by volume or more and 9.5% by volume or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironaka Fujii, Masahiro Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20180145231
    Abstract: The method for producing a phosphor plate includes, in sequence, a step (1), in which a phosphor sheet is prepared, a step (2), in which through holes and penetration faces fronting the through holes are formed in the phosphor sheet, and a step (3), in which the phosphor sheet is cut to form a plurality of phosphor plates including the penetration faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironaka FUJII, Masahiro SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170139224
    Abstract: The phosphor ceramic has pores with a pore diameter of 3.0 ?m or more and 12.0 ?m or less. In the phosphor ceramic, a pore volume percentage of pores with a pore diameter of 3.0 ?m or more and 12.0 ?m or less is 1.5% by volume or more and 9.5% by volume or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironaka FUJII, Masahiro SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170037312
    Abstract: A method for producing a wavelength conversion member includes preparing an element-disposed substrate including a substrate, a plurality of phosphor ceramic elements disposed on the substrate in spaced-apart relation in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the substrate; embedding the plurality of phosphor ceramic elements in a curable layer containing the inorganic substance; producing a cover layer by curing the curable layer; and cutting the cover layer and the substrate in the thickness direction so as to include at least one of the phosphor ceramic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironaka FUJII, Masahiro SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170040502
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion bonding member includes a phosphor ceramic element and a bonding layer provided on one side of the phosphor ceramic element, wherein the bonding layer has a thermal conductivity of more than 0.20 W/m·K, and the bonding layer has a reflectivity of 90% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironaka FUJII, Masahiro SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170030556
    Abstract: A method for producing a wavelength conversion member includes disposing a phosphor ceramic layer on a substrate; removing a portion of the phosphor ceramic layer so that a plurality of phosphor ceramic elements are disposed in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the substrate in spaced-apart relation; forming a cover layer containing an inorganic substance on the substrate so as to cover the surface of the phosphor ceramic element; and cutting the cover layer and the substrate in the thickness direction so as to include at least one of the phosphor ceramic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro SHIRAKAWA, Hironaka FUJII
  • Patent number: 9465035
    Abstract: A nanodiamond particle including an NV center having ODMR intensity enhanced, of which surface is modified with a functional group containing a heteroatom, is provided. This nanodiamond particle as being chemically modified can serve for a fluorescent molecular probe which can be made use of in a biological system. By tracking a rotational motion of the NV center included in this fluorescent molecular probe, structural change of a protein can be analyzed in real time. The functional group containing a heteroatom can be at least any functional group of a hydroxyl group and a hydroxyalkyl group, or a carboxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Masahiro Shirakawa, Shingo Sotoma, Ryuji Igarashi, Yoshie Harada
  • Publication number: 20150276754
    Abstract: A nanodiamond particle including an NV center having ODMR intensity enhanced, of which surface is modified with a functional group containing a heteroatom, is provided. This nanodiamond particle as being chemically modified can serve for a fluorescent molecular probe which can be made use of in a biological system. By tracking a rotational motion of the NV center included in this fluorescent molecular probe, structural change of a protein can be analyzed in real time. The functional group containing a heteroatom can be at least any functional group of a hydroxyl group and a hydroxyalkyl group, or a carboxyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro Shirakawa, Shingo Sotoma, Ryuji Igarashi, Yoshie Harada
  • Patent number: 9080103
    Abstract: A phosphor layer attaching kit includes a phosphor layer and a silicone pressure-sensitive adhesion composition for attaching the phosphor layer to an optical semiconductor element or an optical semiconductor element package. A percentage of the peel strength of the silicone pressure-sensitive adhesion composition is 30% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Shirakawa, Hironaka Fujii, Hisataka Ito
  • Patent number: 8980543
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate probe capable of detecting enzyme activity with high accuracy and a method for detecting the enzyme activity by a multi nuclear magnetic resonance method using the substrate probe. Multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance is performed by using a substrate probe, which is used for measuring enzyme activity by a multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance method and characterized by containing a enzyme recognition site that is selectively recognized by an active-state enzyme, as at least one constitutional unit, and a group to which at least three nuclear magnetic resonance active nuclei each having a nuclear spin and a different resonance frequency are connected, being present specifically to the enzyme recognition, thereby detecting presence of the substrate probe and the enzyme activity. Alternatively, imaging of the enzyme activity is performed by a multi-dimensional nuclear resonance imaging method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumio Yamauchi, Kimihiro Yoshimura, Katsuaki Kuge, Tetsuya Yano, Masahiro Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Aoyama, Shinsuke Sando
  • Publication number: 20150071861
    Abstract: As a substance used as a contrast agent for a method of nuclear magnetic resonance analysis or a method of magnetic resonance imaging, a substance with high selectivity and high sensitivity was demanded. According to the present invention, when a polymer having, in a side chain thereof, a sequence of a 1H—13C—15N, 1H—15N—13C or 1H—13C—13C bond, that is, a structure labeled with stable isotopes of 13C and 15N, is used, the abundance of such a sequence in one molecule can be increased, and hence, high selectivity and higher sensitivity can be attained when used as a contrast agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruyuki Kondo, Yasuhiro Aoyama, Hisatsugu Yamada, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Hidehito Tochio, Yu Kimura, Masahiro Shirakawa, Fuminori Sugihara, Tetsuya Matsuda, Shinsuke Sando, Masato Minami, Fumio Yamauchi, Tetsuya Yano, Hidetoshi Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 8773126
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for measuring nuclear magnetic resonance that employs a compound in which a plurality of nuclei is labeled with isotopes as a probe agent, highly selectively and highly sensitively obtains a nuclear magnetic resonance signal of the above described probe agent, and can attach a spatial positional information to the above described nuclear magnetic resonance signal, and an apparatus therefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuaki Kuge, Kimihiro Yoshimura, Fumio Yamauchi, Tetsuya Yano, Masahiro Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20140091346
    Abstract: A phosphor adhesive sheet includes a phosphor layer containing a phosphor and an adhesive layer laminated on one surface in a thickness direction of the phosphor layer. The adhesive layer is formed from a silicone pressure-sensitive adhesive composition. A percentage of the peel strength of the phosphor adhesive sheet is 30% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironaka FUJII, Masahiro SHIRAKAWA, Hisataka ITO
  • Publication number: 20140091347
    Abstract: A phosphor layer attaching kit includes a phosphor layer and a silicone pressure-sensitive adhesion composition for attaching the phosphor layer to an optical semiconductor element or an optical semiconductor element package. A percentage of the peel strength of the silicone pressure-sensitive adhesion composition is 30% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro SHIRAKAWA, Hironaka FUJII, Hisataka ITO
  • Publication number: 20130288345
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate probe capable of detecting enzyme activity with high accuracy and a method for detecting the enzyme activity by a multi nuclear magnetic resonance method using the substrate probe. Multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance is performed by using a substrate probe, which is used for measuring enzyme activity by a multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance method and characterized by containing a enzyme recognition site that is selectively recognized by an active-state enzyme, as at least one constitutional unit, and a group to which at least three nuclear magnetic resonance active nuclei each having a nuclear spin and a different resonance frequency are connected, being present specifically to the enzyme recognition, thereby detecting presence of the substrate probe and the enzyme activity. Alternatively, imaging of the enzyme activity is performed by a multi-dimensional nuclear resonance imaging method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Fumio Yamauchi, Kimihiro Yoshimura, Katsuaki Kuge, Tetsuya Yano, Masahiro Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Aoyama, Shinsuke Sando
  • Patent number: 8481254
    Abstract: Substrate probe capable of detecting enzyme activity with high accuracy and a method for detecting the enzyme activity by a multi nuclear magnetic resonance method using the substrate probe. Multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance is performed by using a substrate probe, which is used for measuring enzyme activity by a multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance method and characterized by containing a enzyme recognition site that is selectively recognized by an active-state enzyme, as at least one constitutional unit, and a group to which at least three nuclear magnetic resonance active nuclei each having a nuclear spin and a different resonance frequency are connected, being present specifically to the enzyme recognition, thereby detecting presence of the substrate probe and the enzyme activity. Alternatively, imaging of the enzyme activity is performed by a multi-dimensional nuclear resonance imaging method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumio Yamauchi, Kimihiro Yoshimura, Katsuaki Kuge, Tetsuya Yano, Masahiro Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Aoyama, Shinsuke Sando
  • Publication number: 20100248279
    Abstract: Substrate probe capable of detecting enzyme activity with high accuracy and a method for detecting the enzyme activity by a multi nuclear magnetic resonance method using the substrate probe. Multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance is performed by using a substrate probe, which is used for measuring enzyme activity by a multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance method and characterized by containing a enzyme recognition site that is selectively recognized by an active-state enzyme, as at least one constitutional unit, and a group to which at least three nuclear magnetic resonance active nuclei each having a nuclear spin and a different resonance frequency are connected, being present specifically to the enzyme recognition, thereby detecting presence of the substrate probe and the enzyme activity. Alternatively, imaging of the enzyme activity is performed by a multi-dimensional nuclear resonance imaging method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumio Yamauchi, Kimihiro Yoshimura, Katsuaki Kuge, Tetsuya Yano, Masahiro Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Aoyama, Shinsuke Sando