Patents by Inventor Masamitsu Shimada

Masamitsu Shimada 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).

  • Securing method and securing apparatus for bearing housing
    Patent number: 8789258
    Abstract: Turbine casings LP1, PL2 and HP are secured to storing spaces S1 to S3 formed in a concrete frame 12. Cubic blocks 16, 40 and 80 are secured to depressions C2, C3 and C1 respectively. The cubic block 16 has transverse anchors 20a and 20b projecting upward from an upper wall 18. A bearing housing 35 for supporting a rotor shaft 34 rotatably is positioned and secured by transverse anchors 22a and 22b in a direction perpendicular to a rotor shaft (a direction of an arrow a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Adachi, Masamitsu Shimada, Yasuhiro Kobayashi
  • Composition for inhibiting function of human Flt3
    Patent number: 8138159
    Abstract: To provide a means of controlling the function of Flt3. A composition for inhibiting the function of human Flt3, a method of inducing apoptosis by using the composition, and a kit for the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Takara Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Masazumi Yasumoto, Masamitsu Shimada, Fumitsugu Hino, Ikunoshin Kato
  • SECURING METHOD AND SECURING APPARATUS FOR BEARING HOUSING
    Publication number: 20120013033
    Abstract: Turbine casings LP1, PL2 and HP are secured to storing spaces S1 to S3 formed in a concrete frame 12. Cubic blocks 16, 40 and 80 are secured to depressions C2, C3 and C1 respectively. The cubic block 16 has transverse anchors 20a and 20b projecting upward from an upper wall 18. A bearing housing 35 for supporting a rotor shaft 34 rotatably is positioned and secured by transverse anchors 22a and 22b in a direction perpendicular to a rotor shaft (a direction of an arrow a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Adachi, Masamitsu Shimada, Yasuhiro Kobayashi
  • Endoribonuclease
    Patent number: 8017356
    Abstract: A polypeptide having a endoribonuclease activity; a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide; recombinant DNA having the nucleic acid therein; a transformant transformed with the recombinant DNA; a process for producing the polypeptide comprising the steps of cultivating the transformant and collecting the polypeptide from the culture; a process for producing a digest of single-stranded RNA comprising the step of reacting the polypeptide with the single-stranded RNA; and a method for the digestion of single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Takara Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimada, Masanori Takayama, Kiyozo Asada, Ikunoshin Kato
  • Endoribonuclease
    Patent number: 7989184
    Abstract: A polypeptide having a novel endoribonuclease activity; a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide; recombinant DNA having the nucleic acid therein; a transformant transformed with the recombinant DNA; a process for producing the polypeptide comprising the steps of cultivating the transformant and collecting the polypeptide from the culture; a process for producing a digest of single-stranded RNA comprising the step of reacting the polypeptide with the single-stranded RNA; and a method for the digestion of single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Takara Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimada, Masanori Takayama, Kiyozo Asada, Ikunoshin Kato
  • Composition for inhibiting function of human flt3
    Publication number: 20110105582
    Abstract: To provide a means of controlling the function of Flt3. A composition for inhibiting the function of human Flt3, a method of inducing apoptosis by using the composition, and a kit for the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Masazumi Yasumoto, Masamitsu Shimada, Fumitsugu Hino, Ikunoshin Kato
  • NOVEL ENDORIBONUCLEASE
    Publication number: 20100330616
    Abstract: A polypeptide having a novel endoribonuclease activity; a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide; recombinant DNA having the nucleic acid therein; a transformant transformed with the recombinant DNA; a process for producing the polypeptide comprising the steps of cultivating the transformant and collecting the polypeptide from the culture; a process for producing a digest of single-stranded RNA comprising the step of reacting the polypeptide with the single-stranded RNA; and a method for the digestion of single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Takaara Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimada, Masanori Takayama, Kizoyo Asada, Ikunoshin Kato
  • Endoribonuclease
    Patent number: 7745190
    Abstract: A novel endoribonuclease activity exhibiting polypeptide; a nucleic acid coding for the polypeptide; a recombinant DNA comprising the nucleic acid; a transformant obtained by transformation using the recombinant DNA; a process for producing the polypeptide, characterized by including the steps of culturing the transformant and collecting the polypeptide from the culture; a process for producing single-strand RNA fragments, characterized by including the step of causing the polypeptide to act on a single-strand RNA; and a method of fragmenting a single-strand RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Takara Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimada, Masanori Takayama, Kiyoza Asada, Ikunoshin Kato
  • NOVEL ENDORIBONUCLEASE
    Publication number: 20100093026
    Abstract: A polypeptide having a novel endoribonuclease activity; a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide; recombinant DNA having the nucleic acid therein; a transformant transformed with the recombinant DNA; a process for producing the polypeptide comprising the steps of cultivating the transformant and collecting the polypeptide from the culture; a process for producing a digest of single-stranded RNA comprising the step of reacting the polypeptide with the single-stranded RNA; and a method for the digestion of single-stranded RNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimada, Masanori Takayama, Kiyozo Asada, Ikunoshin Kato
  • NOVEL ENDORIBONUCLEASE
    Publication number: 20090047709
    Abstract: A novel endoribonuclease activity exhibiting polypeptide; a nucleic acid coding for the polypeptide; a recombinant DNA comprising the nucleic acid; a transformant obtained by transformation using the recombinant DNA; a process for producing the polypeptide, characterized by including the steps of culturing the transformant and collecting the polypeptide from the culture; a process for producing single-strand RNA fragments, characterized by including the step of causing the polypeptide to act on a single-strand RNA; and a method of fragmenting a single-strand RNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: TAKARA BIO INC.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimada, Masanori Takayama, Kiyozo Asada, Ikunoshin Kato
  • Shaft-misalignment-measuring device, a shaft-misalignment-measuring method, a single-shaft combined plant using the shaft-misalignment-measuring device and a start-up method of the single-shaft combined plant
    Patent number: 7175342
    Abstract: In a control equipment 10, shaft-misalignment amount of a shaft 3a of a gas turbine 3 and a shaft 5a of a steam turbine 5 is measured and speed-increase ratio of rotation speed and heat soak time of the steam turbine 5 are set in accordance with the measured shaft-misalignment amount so as to have the shaft-misalignment amount stay within a permissible range when a clutch 7 connects the shafts 3a and 5a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Masamitsu Shimada, Kenyu Takeda, Ryutaro Kitagawa, Fumikatsu Inoue
  • Shaft-misalignment-measuring device, a shaft-misalignment-measuring method, a single-shaft combined plant using the shaft-misalignment-measuring device and a start-up method of the single-shaft combined plant
    Publication number: 20050074049
    Abstract: In a control equipment 10, shaft-misalignment amount of a shaft 3a of a gas turbine 3 and a shaft 5a of a steam turbine 5 is measured and speed-increase ratio of rotation speed and heat soak time of the steam turbine 5 are set in accordance with the measured shaft-misalignment amount so as to have the shaft-misalignment amount stay within a permissible range when a clutch 7 connects the shafts 3a and 5a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Masamitsu Shimada, Kenyu Takeda, Ryutaro Kitagawa, Fumikatsu Inoue
  • Method of detecting pathogenic microorganism
    Publication number: 20040185455
    Abstract: Oligonucleotide probes and primers useful in detecting pathogenic microorganisms; a method of detecting a pathogenic microorganism by using the same; and kits for this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimada, Fumitsugu Hino, Ikunoshin Kato
  • Polypeptide with cell-spreading activity
    Patent number: 5102988
    Abstract: A polypeptide having the cell-spreading activity of human fibronectin. Methods of preparing the polypeptide are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fusao Kimizuka, Shouichi Goto, Yoh'ichi Ohdate, Masamitsu Shimada, Ikunoshin Kato