Patents by Inventor Masanori Yamaguchi
Masanori Yamaguchi 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: 11971915Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to enabling acquisition of information of an argument corresponding to a case. The present disclosure is a language processing apparatus which refers to an argument emergence history database 14 which stores argument emergence patterns associated with cases and arguments of verbs for each meaning of a word or usage of a verb, acquires an argument emergence pattern which matches a verb and a case of the verb included in a request from a user from the argument emergence history database 14, and generates a response to the user using an argument included in the argument emergence pattern acquired from the argument emergence history database 14.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi Ogura, Masanori Ogawara, Takahiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11961318Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Fumi Kosaka, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Junichi Shimizu, Shinya Nakamura, Jun Ando, Masanori Yoshizuka, Akane Abe
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Patent number: 11374245Abstract: A hydrogen injector disclosed herein may include a solenoid valve connected to a hydrogen tank and a controller configured to supply a current to a coil of the solenoid valve. The controller may monitor a rate of change of the current while supplying the current equal to or greater than a first current value. The controller may decrease the current to a second current value which is lower than the first current value upon when the rate of change increases.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masanori Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20210108287Abstract: Provided is sponge titanium produced by the Kroll method, in which the total of a chlorine content and a magnesium content is 350 ppm by mass or lower, and a filling density is 1.65 g/cm3 to 1.95 g/cm3. The present invention can provide sponge titanium for large ingot production that is difficult to cause problems due to chloride inclusion at the time of melting production of the large ingot by a melting method not associated with compression molding and has easy component control and also provide a method for industrially efficiently producing the sponge titanium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Inoue, Masanori Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10975346Abstract: The present invention provides a novel sialo-sugar chain, a process for producing the sialo-sugar chain, and a device for producing the sialo-sugar chain. A sialo-sugar chain can be easily and efficiently mass-produced by reacting a sugar wherein a hydroxy groups is substituted with an alkynyl group (herein sometimes referred to as “alkynylated sugar”) with a specific sialic acid donor in the presence of a sialic acid-introducing enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITYInventor: Masanori Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20210020973Abstract: A hydrogen injector disclosed herein may include a solenoid valve connected to a hydrogen tank and a controller configured to supply a current to a coil of the solenoid valve. The controller may monitor a rate of change of the current while supplying the current equal to or greater than a first current value. The controller may decrease the current to a second current value which is lower than the first current value upon when the rate of change increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masanori Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20170162745Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor light-emitting device having good life characteristics and higher light extraction efficiency than conventional devices. This semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate; semiconductor layers including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer; a first electrode; and a second electrode. The opposite surface of the first semiconductor layer from the active layer comprises a smooth surface portion and a roughened surface portion, the smooth surface portion is provided in a region where the first electrode is formed, the roughened surface portion is provided at least in a part of a region where the first electrode is not formed, and the second semiconductor layer and the second electrode are in contact with each other at a position outside an outer edge of the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kengo MORIYASU, Masanori YAMAGUCHI, Kensuke FUKUSHIMA, Akihiko SUGITANI, Masashi TSUKIHARA, Saori KANAHASHI
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Publication number: 20170110630Abstract: This method for producing a semiconductor light emitting element includes: a step (a) of preparing a growth substrate; a step (b) of growing a first layer made of Alx1Gay1In1-x1-y1N (0<x1?1, 0?y1?1) on an upper layer of the growth substrate in a <0001> direction; a step (c) of forming a groove portion extending along a <11-20> direction of the first layer with respect to the first layer with such a depth that a surface of the growth substrate is not exposed; a step (d) of growing a second layer made of Alx2Gay2In1-x2-y2N (0<x2?1, 0?y2?1) on an upper layer of the first layer with at least a {1-101} plane serving as a crystal growth plane; and a step (e) of growing an active layer on an upper layer of the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoichi KAWAKAMI, Mitsuru FUNATO, Ken KATAOKA, Masanori YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160160163Abstract: The present invention provides a novel sialo-sugar chain, a process for producing the sialo-sugar chain, and a device for producing the sialo-sugar chain. A sialo-sugar chain can be easily and efficiently mass-produced by reacting a sugar wherein a hydroxy groups is substituted with an alkynyl group (herein sometimes referred to as “alkynylated sugar”) with a specific sialic acid donor in the presence of a sialic acid-introducing enzyme.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventor: Masanori YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 9290532Abstract: The present invention provides a novel sialo-sugar chain, a process for producing the sialo-sugar chain, and a device for producing the sialo-sugar chain. A sialo-sugar chain can be easily and efficiently mass-produced by reacting a sugar wherein a hydroxy groups is substituted with an alkynyl group (herein sometimes referred to as “alkynylated sugar”) with a specific sialic acid donor in the presence of a sialic acid-introducing enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITYInventor: Masanori Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9184559Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an electron-beam-pumped light source capable of irradiating one surface of a semiconductor light-emitting device uniformly with an electron beam, and capable of obtaining a high light output without increasing an accelerating voltage of the electron beam and, in addition, capable of efficiently cooling the semiconductor light-emitting device. An electron-beam-pumped light source of the present invention includes: an electron beam source and a semiconductor light-emitting device excited by an electron beam emitted from the electron beam source, and characterized in that the electron beam source includes a planar electron beam emitting portion and arranged in the periphery of the semiconductor light-emitting device, and light exits from a surface through which the electron beam from the electron beam source of the semiconductor light-emitting device enters.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Yamaguchi, Ken Kataoka, Tsuyoshi Maesoba, Hiroyuki Takada, Hiroshige Hata
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Publication number: 20140322775Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel NAD+-independent myo-inositol 2-dehydrogenase which converts myo-inositol into scyllo-inosose in the absence of NAD+; a novel enzyme scyllo-inositol dehydrogenase which stereospecifically reduces scyllo-inosose into scyllo-inositol in the presence of NADH or NADPH; and a novel microorganism which belongs to the genus Acetobacter or Burkholderia and can convert myo-inositol into scyllo-inositol. By using these enzymes or the microorganism, scyllo-inositol is produced. Furthermore, scyllo-inositol is purified by adding boric acid and a metal salt to a liquid mixture containing scyllo-inositol and a neutral saccharide other than scyllo-inositol to form a scyllo-inositol/boric acid complex, separating the complex from the liquid mixture, dissolving the thus separated complex in an acid to give an acidic solution or an acidic suspension and then purifying scyllo-inositol from the acidic solution or the acidic suspension.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: HOKKO CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Yamaguchi, Yuichi Kita, Tetsuya Mori, Kenji Kanbe, Akihiro Tomoda, Atsushi Takahashi, Wakako Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20140235839Abstract: The present invention provides a novel sialo-sugar chain, a process for producing the sialo-sugar chain, and a device for producing the sialo-sugar chain. A sialo-sugar chain can be easily and efficiently mass-produced by reacting a sugar wherein a hydroxy groups is substituted with an alkynyl group (herein sometimes referred to as “alkynylated sugar”) with a specific sialic acid donor in the presence of a sialic acid-introducing enzyme.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventor: Masanori Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8715974Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel NAD+-independent myo-inositol 2-dehydrogenase which converts myo-inositol into scyllo-inosose in the absence of NAD+; a novel enzyme scyllo-inositol dehydrogenase which stereospecifically reduces scyllo-inosose into scyllo-inositol in the presence of NADH or NADPH; and a novel microorganism which belongs to the genus Acetobacter or Burkholderia and can convert myo-inositol into scyllo-inositol. By using these enzymes or the microorganism, scyllo-inositol is produced. Furthermore, scyllo-inositol is purified by adding boric acid and a metal salt to a liquid mixture containing scyllo-inositol and a neutral saccharide other than scyllo-inositol to form a scyllo-inositol/boric acid complex, separating the complex from the liquid mixture, dissolving the thus separated complex in an acid to give an acidic solution or an acidic suspension and then purifying scyllo-inositol from the acidic solution or the acidic suspension.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Hokko Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Yamaguchi, Yuichi Kita, Tetsuya Mori, Kenji Kanbe, Akihiro Tomoda, Atsushi Takahashi, Wakako Ichikawa
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Patent number: 8686401Abstract: Provided is a compact ultraviolet irradiation apparatus which is capable of emitting ultraviolet radiation with high efficiency. This ultraviolet irradiation apparatus includes, in a vessel, a semiconductor multi-layered film element and an electron beam irradiation source for irradiating the semiconductor multi-layered film element with an electron beam, the vessel being hermetically sealed to have a negative internal pressure and having an ultraviolet transmitting window. Furthermore, the semiconductor multi-layered film element includes an active layer having a single quantum well structure or a multi quantum well structure of InxAlyGa1-x-yN (0?x<1, 0<y?1, x+y?1), and the active layer of the semiconductor multi-layered film element is irradiated with an electron beam from the electron beam irradiation source. This allows the semiconductor multi-layered film element to emit ultraviolet radiation out of the vessel through the ultraviolet transmitting window.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignees: Kyoto University, Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi Kawakami, Mitsuru Funato, Takao Oto, Ryan Ganipan Banal, Masanori Yamaguchi, Ken Kataoka, Hiroshige Hata
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Publication number: 20130322484Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an electron-beam-pumped light source capable of irradiating one surface of a semiconductor light-emitting device uniformly with an electron beam, and capable of obtaining a high light output without increasing an accelerating voltage of the electron beam and, in addition, capable of efficiently cooling the semiconductor light-emitting device. An electron-beam-pumped light source of the present invention includes: an electron beam source and a semiconductor light-emitting device excited by an electron beam emitted from the electron beam source, and characterized in that the electron beam source includes a planar electron beam emitting portion and arranged in the periphery of the semiconductor light-emitting device, and light exits from a surface through which the electron beam from the electron beam source of the semiconductor light-emitting device enters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Yamaguchi, Ken Kataoka, Tsuyoshi Maesoba, Hiroyuki Takada, Hiroshige Hata
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Patent number: 8522802Abstract: An optical irradiation equipment provided with a cage body having an UV radiation transmission window, and an excimer lamp which is arranged in an interior of said cage body, wherein gas flow openings being connected to one of a cooling gas supply mechanism and a cooling gas suction mechanism are provided at a periphery of said UV radiation transmission window.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akinobu Nakashima, Shinji Sugioka, Masanori Yamaguchi, Hideki Fujitsugu
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Publication number: 20130196417Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel NAD+-independent myo-inositol 2-dehydrogenase which converts myo-inositol into scyllo-inosose in the absence of NAD+; a novel enzyme scyllo-inositol dehydrogenase which stereospecifically reduces scyllo-inosose into scyllo-inositol in the presence of NADH or NADPH; and a novel microorganism which belongs to the genus Acetobacter or Burkholderia and can convert myo-inositol into scyllo-inositol. By using these enzymes or the microorganism, scyllo-inositol is produced. Furthermore, scyllo-inositol is purified by adding boric acid and a metal salt to a liquid mixture containing scyllo-inositol and a neutral saccharide other than scyllo-inositol to form a scyllo-inositol/boric acid complex, separating the complex from the liquid mixture, dissolving the thus separated complex in an acid to give an acidic solution or an acidic suspension and then purifying scyllo-inositol from the acidic solution or the acidic suspension.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: HOKKO CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Yamaguchi, Yuichi Kita, Tetsuya Mori, Kenji Kanbe, Akihiro Tomoda, Atsushi Takahashi, Wakako Ichikawa
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Patent number: D711785Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kouji Tabata, Yasutake Tsuchida, Takanori Tsubaki, Masashi Aikawa, Hideki Nakamura, Yoshito Iwauchi, Ryousuke Nozaki, Masanori Yamaguchi
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Patent number: D718661Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kouji Tabata, Yasutake Tsuchida, Yoshito Iwauchi, Ryousuke Nozaki, Masanori Yamaguchi