Patents by Inventor Michiaki Inoue

Michiaki Inoue 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: 20230386038
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a movement control unit, and a state evaluation unit. The first acquisition unit acquires, from a first imaging unit, image data relating to a first image of a head of a subject that is captured at a first angle of view. The second acquisition unit acquires, from a second imaging unit, image data relating to a second image of an eye region of the subject that is captured at a second angle of view narrower than the first angle of view. The movement control unit moves a visual field range of the second imaging unit. The state evaluation unit evaluates a change in state of the eye of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Shoji YACHIDA, Michiaki INOUE, Tomohiro SUEISHI
  • Patent number: 10159655
    Abstract: Provided is an agent for reducing odors of pyrazine derivatives based on an olfactory receptor antagonism. The agent for reducing odors of pyrazine derivatives includes at least one antagonist of olfactory receptor OR5K1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: KAO Corporation
    Inventors: Aya Kato, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Kayoko Nomizu
  • Patent number: 9877927
    Abstract: Provided is a substance inhibiting an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone. An inhibitor of an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone, comprising a substance inhibiting the response of an olfactory receptor OR5K1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aya Namba, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Toyabe
  • Publication number: 20170258742
    Abstract: Provided is an agent for reducing odors of pyrazine derivatives based on an olfactory receptor antagonism. The agent for reducing odors of pyrazine derivatives includes at least one antagonist of olfactory receptor OR5K1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Aya Kato, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Kayoko Nomizu
  • Publication number: 20160317470
    Abstract: Provided is an agent for reducing odors of pyrazine derivatives based on an olfactory receptor antagonism. The agent for reducing odors of pyrazine derivatives includes at least one antagonist of olfactory receptor OR5K1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Aya Kato, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Kayoko Nomizu
  • Patent number: 9274102
    Abstract: It is intended to identify a substance inhibiting an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone. The present invention provides a method for searching for an inhibitor of an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone, comprising: adding a test substance and 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone to an olfactory receptor OR5K1 or a polypeptide having at least 80% amino acid sequence identity thereto; measuring the response of the olfactory receptor or the polypeptide to 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone; and identifying a test substance inhibiting the response of the olfactory receptor or the polypeptide, on the basis of the measured response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Aya Namba, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Toyabe
  • Patent number: 9254248
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a substance inhibiting an odor caused by sotolone. The present invention provides an inhibitor of an odor caused by sotolone, comprising an antagonist of an olfactory receptor OR8D1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Aya Namba, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Toyabe
  • Patent number: 9057090
    Abstract: A method to identify an agent for reducing an odor of a pyrazine derivative, comprising: adding a test substance and a pyrazine derivative represented by the following Formula (I): wherein R1 represents methyl, ethyl, or acetyl; and R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent hydrogen or methyl, to an olfactory receptor OR5K1 or a polypeptide having at least 80% identity to the amino acid sequence of the olfactory receptor OR5K1; measuring a response of the olfactory receptor to the pyrazine derivative; and identifying a test substance inhibiting the response of the olfactory receptor on the basis of the measured response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aya Kato, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Kayoko Nomizu
  • Publication number: 20150110669
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a substance inhibiting an odor caused by sotolone. The present invention provides an inhibitor of an odor caused by sotolone, comprising an antagonist of an olfactory receptor OR8D1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Aya NAMBA, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Toyabe
  • Publication number: 20150110731
    Abstract: Provided is a substance inhibiting an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone. An inhibitor of an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone, comprising a substance inhibiting the response of an olfactory receptor OR5K1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Aya NAMBA, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Toyabe
  • Publication number: 20150111229
    Abstract: It is intended to identify a substance inhibiting an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone. The present invention provides a method for searching for an inhibitor of an odor caused by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone, comprising: adding a test substance and 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone to an olfactory receptor OR5K1 or a polypeptide having at least 80% amino acid sequence identity thereto; measuring the response of the olfactory receptor or the polypeptide to 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone; and identifying a test substance inhibiting the response of the olfactory receptor or the polypeptide, on the basis of the measured response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Aya NAMBA, Naoko Saito, Michiaki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Toyabe
  • Publication number: 20130280188
    Abstract: A self-tanning cosmetic comprising components (A), (B) and (C), and a self-tanning method reducing an odor derived from a compound represented by the following formula (1), comprising a step of application of the cosmetic to the skin for a browning reaction, wherein the cosmetic comprises: (A) dihydroxyacetone; (B) at least one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of 4-methyl-3-decen-5-ol, 2-ethyl-4-(2,2,3-trimethyl-3-cyclopenten-1-yl)-2-buten-1-ol, 2-hexyl-3-phenyl-2-propenal and 2-methyl-3-(4-iso-propylphenyl)propanal; and (C) at least one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of 3,7-dimethyl-1,6-nonadien-3-ol, 1-(2,2,6-trimethyl-2-cyclohexenyl)-2-buten-1-one, 1-(5,5-dimethyl-1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-4-penten-1-one, 1-(3,3-dimethyl-6-cyclohexen-1-yl)-4-penten-1-one, benzaldehyde and gamma-nonalactone; wherein R1 represents a methyl group, an ethyl group or an acetyl group, and R2, R3 and R4 represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Michiaki INOUE, Kayoko Nomizu, Masayuki Yabuki, Aya Kato
  • Patent number: 7228886
    Abstract: A foldable floor heating panel can be folded longitudinally and laterally. The foldable floor heating panel includes several small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration, which are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other. A flexible thin plate is attached to upper surfaces of the small plate-like members so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding. Heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in longitudinal and lateral folding portions of the panel so as to leave some play, and folding margin members are provided at the lateral folding portions. Fit-in members are attachably and detachably provided in respective heat carrier flexible tube passages with some play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Functional Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Patent number: 6926077
    Abstract: A foldable heat radiation board includes a plurality of elongated and narrow plate-like members with fluid tube embedding grooves provided therein, and the plate-like members are combined with each other in a quadrangular plan configuration. Fluid tubes are embedded in the embedding grooves, and a heat radiation sheet is attached to the entire surface on the front surface side, while a back surface material is attached to the entire or partial surface on the back surface side. A plurality of contact portions in which the end portions of adjacent plate-like members contact each other are set as folding portions, and a fluid tube outlet opening portion in the end portion of one of the plate-like members and a fluid tube inlet opening portion in the end portion of the other of the plate-like members are provided so as not to oppose each other but to be shifted from each other, this portion being set as a fluid tube passage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Functional Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuga, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Publication number: 20040250984
    Abstract: A foldable floor heating panel can be folded longitudinally and laterally. The foldable floor heating panel includes several small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration, which are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other. A flexible thin plate is attached to upper surfaces of the small plate-like members so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding. Heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in longitudinal and lateral folding portions of the panel so as to leave some play, and folding margin members are provided at the lateral folding portions. Fit-in members are attachably and detachably provided in respective heat carrier flexible tube passages with some play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Patent number: 6776222
    Abstract: A foldable floor heating panel can be folded longitudinally and laterally. The foldable floor heating panel includes several small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration, which are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other. A flexible thin plate is attached to upper surfaces of the small plate-like members so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding. Heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in longitudinal and lateral folding portions of the panel so as to leave some play, and folding margin members are provided at the lateral folding portions. Fit-in members are attachably and detachably provided in respective heat carrier flexible tube passages with some play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Functional Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Publication number: 20040055224
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provides a foldable heat radiation board, in which: a plurality of elongated and narrow plate-like members with fluid tube embedding grooves provided therein are combined with each other in a quadrangular plan configuration; fluid tubes are embedded in the embedding grooves; a heat radiation sheet is attached to the entire surface on the front surface side; a back surface material is attached to the entire or partial surface on the back surface side; a plurality of contact portions in which the end portions of adjacent plate-like members contact with each other are set as folding portions; and a fluid tube outlet opening portion in the end portion of one of the plate-like members and a fluid tube inlet opening portion in the end portion of the other of the plate-like members are provided so as not to oppose each other but to be shifted from each other, this portion being set as a fluid tube passage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuga, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Publication number: 20030098142
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a foldable floor heating panel which can be folded longitudinally and laterally, and in which the folding and developing operations are easy to perform, making the handling at the time of packaging, transportation, storage, and laying very easy. A first aspect of the invention provides a foldable floor heating panel in which a plurality of small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other, in which a flexible thin plate is attached to the upper surface thereof so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding, and in which heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in the longitudinal and lateral folding portions so as to leave some play, folding margin members being provided in the lateral folding portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima