Patents by Inventor Michiru Fujioka

Michiru Fujioka 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: 20240123405
    Abstract: A solid type nano-pore sequencer is arrayed easily. In a liquid column separation device including first and second base materials, a liquid feeding unit supplies fluids to a gap between the two base materials. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions are disposed on a surface of the second base material, and the hydrophilic region is disposed to oppose a predetermined position of the first base material where a substance to be measured is made to pass through. Also, a flow passage space includes at least one inlet and outlet through which fluids can flow in and out. A representative length of the hydrophilic region is made larger than a distance between the first and second base materials, and thereby a liquid column capable of connecting the first base material and the second base material is formed by making two or more immiscible fluids to flow by the liquid feed unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ruochi HSU, Kei TAKENAKA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Nobuhiro TSUKADA, Yohei HANAZAKI, Nobuaki YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230268032
    Abstract: Provided is a method for generating a trained model for classifying blocking event data representing nanopore blocking events in a biomolecule measurement device. The method includes generating a first trained model by executing machine learning of a training model using first teacher data, the first teacher data includes teacher blocking event data and a teacher label, the teacher label indicates whether the teacher blocking event data is classified as Good data or bad data, and the first trained model is configured to classify the blocking event data into good data or bad data. In addition, a method for determining a base sequence a biomolecule and a biomolecule measurement device are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAKAGAWA, Yusuke GOTO, Rena AKAHORI, Michiru FUJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230220450
    Abstract: A biomolecule is more easily and reliably reciprocated in a nanopore. An adapter molecule that directly or indirectly binds to a biomolecule to be analyzed comprises a three-dimensional structure formation domain consisting of a single-stranded nucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Rena AKAHORI, Yusuke GOTO, Michiru FUJIOKA, Itaru YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20230175056
    Abstract: In a base sequence determination system that performs a complementary strand synthesis reaction of a template DNA strand using DNA polymerase, a complementary strand synthesized by DNA polymerase is degraded by exonuclease in a solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Michiru FUJIOKA, Yusuke GOTO
  • Patent number: 11656219
    Abstract: An apparatus for storing a thin film device, the apparatus including: a thin film device 3 having an insulating thin film containing Si and having a thickness of 100 nm or less; a solution in contact with the thin film; and a container having a tank that seals the solution, wherein the solution is a solution that satisfies any of the following conditions (1) to (3). (1) A solution containing water in a volume ratio of 0% or more to 30% or less (2) A solution cooled and maintained at a temperature equal to or higher than a solidification point and lower than 15° C. (3) A solution that contains a salt with a concentration of 1 mol/L or more and a saturation concentration or less and is cooled and maintained to a temperature equal to or higher than a solidification point and lower than 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Matsui, Michiru Fujioka, Yusuke Goto
  • Publication number: 20230152273
    Abstract: An electrophoresis device of the present disclosure includes an electrophoresis path of a sample, a dispersion element for dispersing light from the sample within the electrophoresis path, a photodetector for detecting the light dispersed by the dispersion element, and a computation unit for determining a spectrum of the light on the basis of a signal from the photodetector, and is characterized in that the computation unit corrects the spectrum using correction factors determined for each migration condition or fluorescent dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Noriyuki SUMIDA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Motohiro YAMAZAKI, Isao HARAURA, Yoshimasa MOMOSE, Masateru KUMAGAI
  • Publication number: 20230124845
    Abstract: An electrophoresis system includes a plurality of capillaries in which electrophoresis of a sample is performed, a light source that irradiates detection positions of the capillaries with light, a light detector that detects light generated by the irradiation with the light by the light source that depends on components contained in the sample, and a buffer storage unit into which one end of the plurality of capillaries are inserted at a time of the electrophoresis of the sample and in which a buffer is stored. A computer controls an electrophoresis condition of each of the plurality of capillaries such that arrival times for the components that move in the plurality of capillaries to reach the detection positions are shifted from each other. As a result, it is possible to detect fluorescence signals at different timings in each of the plurality of capillaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Michiru FUJIOKA, Takashi ANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220396829
    Abstract: A double-stranded DNA to be analyzed is analyzed without subjecting it to a modification treatment. An adapter molecule to be bound to the double-stranded DNA to be analyzed has a double-stranded nucleic acid region having base sequences complementary to each other, a pair of single-stranded nucleic acid regions having base sequences non-complementary to each other, and a block molecule placed in one of the single-stranded nucleic acid regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Michiru FUJIOKA, Yusuke GOTO, Rena AKAHORI
  • Publication number: 20220397549
    Abstract: In an electrophoresis apparatus using a capillary, electrophoresis using a single capillary sometimes requires replacement of a sieving matrix. Replacement with a different sieving matrix has conventionally required cleaning with sieving matrix cleaning liquid, which has increased costs and time required. An electrophoresis apparatus according to the present invention comprises an anodic capillary head provided at a distal end of the capillary, a sieving matrix container filled with a sieving matrix used for electrophoresis, and a filling mechanism for filling the capillary with the sieving matrix via the sieving matrix container. The filling mechanism fills the capillary, which is already filled with the sieving matrix, with a sieving matrix different from the already-filled sieving matrix without using sieving matrix cleaning liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Asami TERAKADO, Michiru FUJIOKA
  • Patent number: 11474065
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a biomolecule measuring device that can decrease the influence of crosstalk between chambers. A biomolecule measuring device according to the present invention supplies, to electrodes equipped on chambers, voltages modulated differently to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Yanagawa, Yusuke Goto, Michiru Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20220326179
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a biological sample analysis device which achieves an improvement in accuracy of an analysis result, a reduction in reagent cost, and shortening of a required time. The biological sample analysis device according to the present invention compares first measurement data acquired by measuring a biological sample and second measurement data acquired by measuring a reference sample and determines that when the difference between the two exceeds a threshold value, it is necessary to remeasure the reference sample before remeasuring the biological sample and reacquire a reference value (refer to FIG. 3A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Ayaka OKUNO, Michiru FUJIOKA, Toru YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11448638
    Abstract: Provided are a first tank; a second tank; a thin film having a nanopore, which communicates the first tank to the second tank, and disposed between the first and second tanks; a first electrode provided in the first tank; and a second electrode provided in the second tank. A wall surface of the nanopore has an ion adsorption preventing structure to prevent desorption/adsorption of an ion contained in a solution filling the first tank and/or the second tank, and a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes to measure an ion current flowing through the nanopore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Matsui, Yusuke Goto, Rena Akahori, Takahide Yokoi, Michiru Fujioka
  • Patent number: 11402368
    Abstract: A biological sample analyzer using a nanopore, said analyzer comprising: a first chamber that storing a solvent; a baseboard provided with a nanopore through which a biological sample passes; a second chamber which is positioned adjacently to the first chamber via the baseboard and stores the solvent; a first electrode formed in the first chamber; a second electrode formed in the second chamber; a detector detecting the biological sample which has passed through the nanopore; and a stirrer stirring the solvent in the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Michiru Fujioka, Nobuyuki Isoshima, Wataru Sato
  • Publication number: 20220236183
    Abstract: In an analysis method and an analysis system for detecting fluorescences from each of a plurality of light-emitting points in a plurality of wavelength bands in order to identify fluorescence emissions of a plurality of types of fluorophores from the plurality of light-emitting points, spatial crosstalk and spectral crosstalk are present between the plurality of light-emitting points and between the plurality of wavelength bands, and then performance of the identification is reduced. The spatial crosstalk and the spectral crosstalk are eliminated and concentrations of each of the plurality of types of fluorophores at each of the plurality of light-emitting points are derived by inputting all detection signals in the plurality of wavelength bands for the plurality of light-emitting points to a predetermined arithmetic operation expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi ANAZAWA, Ryoji INABA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Taro NAKAZAWA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Motohiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220229013
    Abstract: A multicapillary electrophoresis device includes: a capillary array formed by arranging a plurality of capillaries; a light source irradiating the capillaries with excitation light; a photodetector detecting fluorescence from a sample in the capillaries; and an arithmetic control unit calculating a signal intensity of the fluorescence according to a signal from the photodetector. The arithmetic control unit is configured so as to correct the signal intensity according to a correction index determined for each of the combinations of any of the capillaries and a fluorophore labeled to the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Noriyuki SUMIDA, Takashi ANAZAWA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Motohiro YAMAZAKI, Taro NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220214326
    Abstract: A biopolymer analysis device includes an insulating thin film that is made of an inorganic material, a first liquid tank and a second liquid tank that are separated by the thin film, a plurality of first electrodes that is arranged in the first liquid tank, and a second electrode that is disposed in the second liquid tank. A water-repellent liquid and a plurality of liquid droplets are introduced into the first liquid tank, the plurality of first electrodes is configured to be able to convey the plurality of droplets introduced into the first liquid tank by electro wetting on dielectric by applying a certain voltage, and the plurality of droplets is conveyed to portions coming into contact with the plurality of first electrodes, and is insulated from each other by the water-repellent liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke GOTO, Michiru FUJIOKA, Tatsuo NAKAGAWA, Yoshimitsu YANAGAWA, Naoshi ITABASHI
  • Patent number: 11371980
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for treating biomolecules and a method for analyzing biomolecules with which it is possible to effectively suppress the clog of nanopores. The present invention is a method for treating biomolecules for analysis in which nanopores are used, wherein the method includes a step for preparing a sample solution that includes ammonium cations represented by a prescribed formula and biomolecules in which at least a portion of the higher-order structure has been fused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiru Fujioka, Yusuke Goto
  • Publication number: 20220189577
    Abstract: A genotype analysis device includes an electrophoresis device and a data analysis device. A mobility model management unit including an environment information receiving unit, a prediction model storage unit, and a mobility prediction unit is provided in an STR analysis unit of the data analysis device. The mobility prediction unit generates a prediction model for predicting a correction amount of a standard base length of an allele, based upon an environmental condition at the time of electrophoresis received by the environmental information receiving unit and an electrophoresis result of an allelic ladder. A base length of the allele is corrected from the environmental condition without using the allelic ladder by using the prediction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru YOKOYAMA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Ayaka OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20220048023
    Abstract: Since a few kilovolts of an application voltage is necessary to take in a biological sample, an EWOD electrode, for example, is destroyed, and the electrode becomes non-reusable for moving a droplet. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a biochemical cartridge usable for multiple times for taking in a biological sample by a capillary array, for example, and a biochemical analysis device using the biochemical cartridge. In order to solve the problem, the biochemical cartridge according to the present invention includes a passage through which a sample is transported, a plurality of electrodes disposed on the passage along a direction in which a sample is transported, the plurality of electrodes being provided to transport a sample, and an opening provided opposite to the plurality of electrodes disposed on a downstream side of the passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Michiru FUJIOKA, Sakuichiro ADACHI, Toshiaki HIRATSUKA, Asami TERAKADO
  • Publication number: 20210356426
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophoresis device for enhancing its analysis performance. In order to achieve the task, the electrophoresis device includes a capillary array constituted by a capillary, a capillary head for bundling an end of the capillary, an electrode holder for holding an electrode provided at the other end of the capillary and a detector provided for the capillary, a first heater for heating the capillary, and an irradiation detection unit for irradiating a light to the detector to detect a fluorescence generated from a fluorescence labelled sample in the capillary. The electrophoresis device further includes a second heater for heating the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jin MATSUMURA, Ayaka OKUNO, Ryusuke KIMURA, Takashi ANAZAWA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Wataru SATO, Taro NAKAZAWA, Motohiro YAMAZAKI