Patents by Inventor Masako Mizutani

Masako Mizutani 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: 20240088688
    Abstract: A storage battery management device according to one embodiment includes a hardware processor that causes a display device to display first remaining life information and second remaining life information. The first remaining life information indicates current remaining life of a storage battery system. The first remaining life information is calculated on the basis of a state of health (SOH) of each of multiple storage battery modules constituting the storage battery system. The second remaining life information indicates remaining life of the storage battery system and corresponds to a case where one or more of the multiple storage battery modules are replaced with one or more other storage battery modules. The second remaining life information is calculated on the basis of an SOH of each storage battery module not being replaced and an SOH of each of the one or more other storage battery modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto IDE, Mami MIZUTANI, Yukitaka MONDEN, Masako KIUCHI, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Takahiro KASE, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Yoshihisa SUMIDA
  • Publication number: 20240069106
    Abstract: A storage battery management device includes an acquisition unit, a selection unit, an estimation unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a battery characteristic and an operation condition of a storage battery device. The selection unit selects data values from a data value group of a data item in which variation in data value is caused out of data items included in the battery characteristic and the acquired operation condition. The estimation unit estimates, for each of the selected data values, a battery characteristic after operation corresponding to a case where the storage battery device is operated under the operation condition. The battery characteristic is estimated on the basis of the battery characteristic and the operation condition acquired by the acquisition unit. The display control unit displays the battery characteristic estimated by the estimation unit in a comparable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukitaka MONDEN, Makoto IDE, Masako KIUCHI, Mami MIZUTANI, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Takahiro KASE, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Yoshihisa SUMIDA
  • Patent number: 8658779
    Abstract: A transcriptional regulatory region of perilla anthocyanin 3-acyltransferase is useful for altering the flower color of plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Masako Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8629258
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and agents useful in the manipulation of plant physiological or biochemical properties. More particularly, the present invention provides genetic and proteinaceous agents capable of modulating or altering the level of acidity or alkalinity in a cell, group of cells, organelle, part or reproductive portion of a plant. Genetically altered plants, plant parts, progeny, subsequent generations and reproductive material including flowers or flowering parts having cells exhibiting an altered cellular pH compared to a non-genetically altered plant are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignees: Vereniging voor Christelijk Hoger Onderwijs, Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en Patientenzorg, Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Francesca Quattrocchio, Ronald Koes, Walter Verweij, Filippa Brugliera, Kees Spelt, Masako Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8628938
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel UDP-glucuronosyltransferase and a polynucleotide encoding the same, for example, a polynucleotide comprising nucleotides 1 to 1359 of SEQ ID NO: 4, nucleotides 1 to 1365 of SEQ ID NO: 10, nucleotides 1 to 1371 of SEQ ID NO: 12, and nucleotides 1 to 1371 of SEQ ID NO: 22; or a polynucleotide encoding a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NOS: 5, 11, 13 or 23. The invention provides a novel UDP-glucuronosyltransferase with a broad substrate specificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Eiichiro Ono, Akio Noguchi, Yuko Fukui, Masako Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8455713
    Abstract: The invention relates to plants and their progeny with improved morphogenesis in a variety of organs; to a method for producing the plants; and to a method for producing calli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kasukabe, Izumi Ihara, Shoji Tachibana, Keisuke Matsui, Masako Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8410335
    Abstract: A method for producing a rose characterized by artificially suppressing the rose endogenous metabolic pathway and expressing the pansy gene coding for flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yuko Fukui, Junichi Togami, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Masako Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8350125
    Abstract: There is provided a gene coding for the amino acid sequence listed as SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 70, for example. Co-expression of the 4?CGT gene and AS gene in a plant lacking natural aurone synthesis ability is carried out to successfully accumulate aurones and alter the flower color to have a yellow tint. In addition to the expression of both genes, the flavonoid pigment synthesis pathway of the host plant itself is inhibited to obtain flowers with a more defined yellow color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Eiichiro Ono, Noriko Nakamura, Masako Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8206928
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining whether or not a wild rose of interest is crossed with a cultivated rose. The method comprises the steps of: examining whether or not a KSN gene containing a transposon (an indicator) is contained in the rose of interest; and determining that the rose of interest is crossed with a cultivated rose when the individual has the transposon-containing KSN gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Noriko Nakamura, Masako Mizutani, Yoshikazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120159669
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel method for altering the depth of flower color for the lighter or deeper. Specifically disclosed is a method for altering the depth of flower color of a plant for the lighter or deeper by varying the anthocyanin content in petals of the plant, which comprises a step of regulating the expression of type IV chalcone isomerase in the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Iida, Yasumasa Morita, Atsushi Hoshino, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Masako Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20120042421
    Abstract: There is provided a novel promoter useful for altering flow color of plants. The present invention relates to a nucleic acid selected from the group consisting of: (1) a nucleic acid containing the nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 1; (2) a nucleic acid able to function as a transcriptional regulatory region of perilla anthocyanin 3-acyltransferase, and containing a nucleotide sequence in which the nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 1 has been modified by addition, deletion and/or substitution of one or several nucleotides; (3) a nucleic acid able to function as a transcriptional regulatory region of perilla anthocyanin 3-acyltransferase, and able to hybridize under high stringent conditions with a nucleic acid consisting of a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Masako Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20120036598
    Abstract: The invention relates to plants and their progeny with improved morphogenesis in a variety of organs; to a method for producing the plants; and to a method for producing calli.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa KASUKABE, Izumi IHARA, Shoji TACHIBANA, Keisuke MATSUI, Masako MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 8053634
    Abstract: A method of acylating the 3? position of anthocyanin using an enzyme that transfers an aromatic acyl group to a sugar at the 3? position of anthocyanin or a gene encoding the enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Masako Mizutani, Yuko Fukui, Junichi Togami
  • Patent number: 8053629
    Abstract: The invention relates to plants and their progeny with improved morphogenesis in a variety of organs; to a method for producing the plants; and to a method for producing calli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kasukabe, Izumi Ihara, Shoji Tachibana, Keisuke Matsui, Masako Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20110126320
    Abstract: A method for producing a rose characterized by artificially suppressing the rose endogenous metabolic pathway and expressing the pansy gene coding for flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yuko Fukui, Junichi Togami, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Masako Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20110055963
    Abstract: A method of acylating the 3? position of anthocyanin using an enzyme that transfers an aromatic acyl group to a sugar at the 3? position of anthocyanin or a gene encoding the enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: International Flower Developments Proprietary Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Masako Mizutani, Yuko Fukui, Junichi Togami
  • Publication number: 20100323402
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel UDP-glucuronosyltransferase and a polynucleotide encoding the same (for example, a polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide consisting of one nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of the nucleotide sequence at positions 1 to 1359 in the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 4, the nucleotide sequence at positions 1 to 1365 in the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 10, the nucleotide sequence at positions 1 to 1371 in the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 12, and the nucleotide sequence at positions 1 to 1371 in the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 22; or a polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide encoding a protein having one amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS: 5, 11, 13 and 23), etc. This provides a novel UDP-glucuronosyltransferase with a broad substrate specificity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Eiichiro Ono, Akio Noguchi, Yuko Fukui, Masako Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20100306877
    Abstract: A novel flavonoid glucosyltransferase originating from rose, a nucleic acid encoding that enzyme, for example, a flavonoid glucosyltransferase having an amino acid sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 2 or SEQ ID NO. 4, a nucleic acid encoding that enzyme, a method for changing the color of a rose flower using that nucleic acid, and a rose plant capable of changing color, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: International Flower Development Proprietary Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Yuko Fukui, Masako Mizutani, Junichi Togami
  • Publication number: 20100287668
    Abstract: The invention provides a rose characterized by comprising a flavone and delphinidin added by a genetic modification method. The flavone and delphinidin are typically produced by expression of a transferred flavone synthase gene and flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase gene, respectively. The flavone synthase gene is, for example, a flavone synthase gene of the family Scrophulariaceae, and specifically it may be the flavone synthase gene of snapdragon of the family Scrophulariaceae, or the flavone synthase gene of torenia of the family Scrophulariaceae. The flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase gene is, for example, the pansy (Viola×wittrockiana) flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: International Flower Developments Proprietary Limi ted
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Yuko Fukui, Masako Mizutani, Noriko Nakamura, Junichi Togami
  • Publication number: 20100287667
    Abstract: The invention provides a rose characterized by comprising a flavone added by a genetic modification method. The flavone is typically produced by expression of a transferred flavone synthase gene. The flavone synthase gene is, for example, a flavone synthase gene of the family Scrophulariaceae, and specifically it may be the flavone synthase gene of snapdragon of the family Scrophulariaceae, or the flavone synthase gene of torenia of the family Scrophulariaceae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: International Flower Developments Proprietary Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Yuko Fukui, Masako Mizutani, Noriko Nakamura, Junichi Togami