Patents by Inventor Masanobu Matsuoka

Masanobu Matsuoka 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: 20220128321
    Abstract: A total heat exchanging element paper for use in a total heat exchanger, comprising a substrate sheet containing natural pulp, having excellent strength and gas barrier properties, and characterized in that the substrate sheet contains natural pulp having a length-weighted average fiber length of 0.7 to 1.7 mm, the natural pulp has a maximum frequency peak between 0.5 mm and 1.5 mm in the fiber length histogram, and the percentage of fibers having a fiber length of 1.0 mm or more is 20% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Kengo YAMANE, Masanobu MATSUOKA, Nobuyoshi MORI
  • Patent number: 7897012
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a sheet product that is excellent in moisture absorption amount, moisture absorption speed and moisture release speed and is capable of keeping a powder from falling off and that can have a large content of a moisture adsorbent, and the sheet product of this invention contains (a) a moisture adsorbent formed of a tubular or fibrous metal oxide, (b) a cellulosic fibrillated fiber, and (c) an organic fiber having a fineness of 0.01 dtex to 0.45 dtex and is characteristically produced by a paper-making method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Kazuchiyo Takaoka, Masanobu Matsuoka, Masatoshi Kito
  • Publication number: 20090321028
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a sheet product that is excellent in moisture absorption amount, moisture absorption speed and moisture release speed and is capable of keeping a powder from falling off and that can have a large content of a moisture adsorbent, and the sheet product of this invention contains (a) a moisture adsorbent formed of a tubular or fibrous metal oxide, (b) a cellulosic fibrillated fiber, and (c) an organic fiber having a fineness of 0.01 dtex to 0.45 dtex and is characteristically produced by a paper-making method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuchiyo Takaoka, Masanobu Matsuoka, Masatoshi Kito
  • Patent number: 6110712
    Abstract: This invention relates to a microorganism that is capable of producing a cellulosic product (referred to hereinafter as a "cellulose-producing bacterium") and belongs to a novel subspecies which is substantialy negative or very slightly positive in oxidation of acetates and lactates. This invention also relates to novel saccharide analog-resistant strains, amino acid analog-resistant strains and levan sucrase-defective strains. Further, this invention relates to a method for the production of cellulosic material (bacterial cellulose:"BC"), which comprises culturing these novel bactria and to bacterial cellulose which may be thus obtained. A larger amount of bacterial cellulose may be produced by culturing Acetobacter xylinum subsp. nonacetoxidans, the present resistant strains and the levan sucrase-defective strains, which have been derived and bred from the cellulose-producing bacteria, than by culturing the BPR 2001 strain in the medium containing especially sucrose or glucose as carbon sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Bio-Polymer Research Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayasu Tsuchida, Naoto Tonouchi, Akira Seto, Yukiko Kojima, Masanobu Matsuoka, Fumihiro Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 5962278
    Abstract: This invention relates to a microorganism that is capable of producing a cellulosic product (referred to hereinafter as a "cellulose-producing bacterium") and belongs to a novel subspecies which is substantialy negative or very slightly positive in oxidation of acetates and lactates. This invention also relates to novel saccharide analog-resistant strains, amino acid analog-resistant strains and levan sucrase-defective strains.Further, this invention relates to a method for the production of cellulosic material (bacterial cellulose: "BC"), which comprises culturing these novel bactria and to bacterial cellulose which may be thus obtained.A larger amount of bacterial cellulose may be produced by culturing Acetobacter xylinum subsp. nonacetoxidans, the present resistant strains and the levan sucrase-defective strains, which have been derived and bred from the cellulose-producing bacteria, than by culturing the BPR 2001 strain in the medium containing especially sucrose or glucose as carbon sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Bio-Polymer Research Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayasu Tsuchida, Naoto Tonouchi, Akira Seto, Yukiko Kojima, Masanobu Matsuoka, Fumihiro Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 5678217
    Abstract: An antenna switching device has a pair of first and second input terminals and a pair of first and second output terminals. It also has a first switch for selecting either of signals supplied to the first and second input terminals and for supplying the selected signal to the first output terminal, and a second switch for selecting either of the signals supplied to the first and second input terminals and for supplying the selected signal to the second output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Usui, Masanobu Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5254399
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric having excellent sheet formation comprises fibers of which diameter is 7 .mu.m or less and of which ratio of fiber length to fiber diameter (L/D) is in the range of 2000<L/D.ltoreq.6000, and optionally thermalbonding fibers, and the fibers being three-dimensionally entangled. A nonwoven fabric having excellent sheet formation comprises 10-90% by weight based on the weight of the nonwoven fabric of fibers of which diameter is 7 .mu.m or less and of which L/D is 2000 or less, 90-10% by weight based on the weight of the nonwoven fabric of fibers of which diameter is 7 .mu.m or less and of which ratio of fiber length to fiber diameter (L/D) is in the range of 2000<L/D.ltoreq.6000, and optionally thermalbonding fibers, the maximum pore size of the nonwoven fabric being 5 times the mean pore size or less, and the fibers being three-dimensionally entangled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Oku, Takeshi Yamasaki, Masanobu Matsuoka