Patents by Inventor Minoru Takebe

Minoru Takebe 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).

  • Patent number: 9242604
    Abstract: Provided is a head-up display device that can detect background brightness with a simple constitution. A HUD device (1) is provided with: a display device (20) that outputs display light (L) that shows a display image; a combiner (50) that has a concave surface (50a) to which the display light (L) output by the display device (20) is incident, said combiner (50) concentrating the incident display light (L) so as to allow an observer (2) to see the display image from the concave surface (50a) side superimposed on a background from the front; and an optical sensor (31) that is positioned below the combiner (50) and detects the brightness of the light reaching that optical sensor (31). The combiner (50) has a light guide body (60) which is at the lower edge part thereof and is integrated with the combiner (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Takashi Yamazoe, Takeshi Yachida, Minoru Takebe
  • Publication number: 20150035725
    Abstract: Provided is a head-up display device that can detect background brightness with a simple constitution. A HUD device (1) is provided with: a display device (20) that outputs display light (L) that shows a display image; a combiner (50) that has a concave surface (50a) to which the display light (L) output by the display device (20) is incident, said combiner (50) concentrating the incident display light (L) so as to allow an observer (2) to see the display image from the concave surface (50a) side superimposed on a background from the front; and an optical sensor (31) that is positioned below the combiner (50) and detects the brightness of the light reaching that optical sensor (31). The combiner (50) has a light guide body (60) which is at the lower edge part thereof and is integrated with the combiner (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Takashi Yamazoe, Takeshi Yachida, Minoru Takebe
  • Patent number: 8319653
    Abstract: A meter for vehicle capable of improving design and visibility in an after-meter of single face type is provided. The meter for vehicle includes a transmitting ring-shaped member 4 placed to surround an analog display portion 1 between a case body 2 and a cover member 3, a first light source 5 emitting first illumination light L1, and a second light source 6 emitting second illumination light L2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Naoaki Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110018702
    Abstract: A meter for vehicle capable of improving design and visibility in an after-meter of single face type is provided. The meter for vehicle includes a transmitting ring-shaped member 4 placed to surround an analog display portion 1 between a case body 2 and a cover member 3, a first light source 5 emitting first illumination light L1, and a second light source 6 emitting second illumination light L2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Naoaki Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20100207530
    Abstract: A meter driving apparatus is provided in which the display luminance of a plurality of placed meters can be adjusted in synchronization to enhance the appearance of the whole additional meter system. The driving apparatus is for a plurality of meters 2 and 3. The meters include the first meter (digital meter) 2 including an optical sensor 2d for detecting the surrounding brightness and having an auto-light-adjustment function of obtaining light-adjustment data for adjusting the display luminance of the meter 2 in accordance with the detection result of the optical sensor 2d and the second meter (analog data) 3 having no optical sensor. The driving apparatus has a control unit 1 which transmits the light-adjustment data obtained by the first meter 2 to the second meter. The second meter 3 adjusts the display luminance thereof based on the light-adjustment data received from the control unit 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yousuke Maruyama, Minoru Takebe, Kenichiro Hiroe, Osamu Shima
  • Patent number: 7024837
    Abstract: A screw capper 1 includes a capping head 6 which grips a cap 5, a servo motor 7 which rotates the capping head, a voltmeter 10 which measures the torque of the capping head, an encoder 11 which detects the rotational angle of the capping head, and a control device 8 which controls the servo motor. In the screw capper, whether rotational fastening is acceptable is to be determined during the rotational fastening, the measured value of the encoder is measured from a predetermined measurement starting point until a rotational fastening completion point, and if the measured rotational angle is in the range of an acceptable decision angle which is set in advance, it is determined that the rotational fastening has been acceptably performed, whereas if the measured rotational angle is not in the range of the acceptable decision angle, it is determined that the rotational fastening is unacceptable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Mitsuru Kasai, Kenichiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20060052440
    Abstract: The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention for treating sudden deafness containing, as an active ingredient, isoflavone aglycone derived from soybean germ can be used to prevent sudden deafness in humans by manifesting an action that is effective in treating disease in humans. The pharmaceutical composition for treating sudden deafness of the present invention is characterized in that it contains a product that is an isoflavone aglycone concentrate and is obtained by fermenting soybean germ, that is a raw material, using koji mold thus decomposing proteins; then executing hydrolysis thereon; and extracting and concentrating a resulting product using a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: Nichimo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Takebe
  • Publication number: 20050123633
    Abstract: Biological activity-promoting compositions containing soybean germ-origin isoflavone aglycone which promote human or mammalian health and exert effective effects of preventing or treating diseases when absorbed into the body by oral administration, instillation, etc., thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human or mammalian health, prevention of diseases and so on. The biological activity-promoting compositions are characterized by comprising an isoflavone aglycone concentrate which is prepared by fermenting the soybean germ with koji mold to thereby decompose proteins, then hydrolyzing the same and further extracting and concentrating the resultant product with a solvent. The compositions are further characterized in that the content of daidzein amounts is at least 70% by weight based on the isoflavone aglycone in the concentrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventor: Minoru Takebe
  • Publication number: 20030185853
    Abstract: An arteriosclerosis-preventing material, immune-activating material, vertebrate that has eaten these, and eggs of such vertebrate. Such materials are produced by inoculating koji mold on a pulse crop to effect koji preparation and adding water to a product of the koji preparation, thus hydrolyzing proteins and/or saccharides contained in the product of said koji preparation and by utilizing the activity common to lactic acid bacteria naturally contained in the starting materials and lactic acid bacteria that is added to the product of the koji preparation. An arteriosclerosis-preventing material possessing arteriosclerosis-preventing capability, an immune-activating material possessing immune-activating capability that are effective in maintaining the health of vertebrates, a vertebrate other than a human being that has been reared by adding these arteriosclerosis-preventing material and immune-activating material to feed, and the egg of such a vertebrate, are obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: Nichimo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Takebe
  • Publication number: 20030082247
    Abstract: Anti-obesity material of the present invention is absorbed in vivo by oral ingestion, drops, etc. so as to act against the causes of overeating and control food consumption, and it can thereby promote fat metabolism and control accumulation of body fat while at the same time can inhibit elevation of blood pressure, all without compromising immune system function, thus safely controlling an increase in body weight (obesity). There have previously been no anti-obesity materials like that of the present invention whatsoever. The main characteristic of the present invention is that an anti-obesity material having the above-described excellent effects is obtained since the anti-obesity material has isoflavone aglycone and/or isoflavone glycoside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventor: Minoru Takebe
  • Publication number: 20030054549
    Abstract: The stem cell-augmenting material of the present invention being capable of augmenting stem cells consisting of somatic stem cells, particularly hematopoietic stem cells of bone marrow, and embryonic stem cells by being absorbed in vivo by oral ingestion, drops, etc. and capable of augmenting stem cells using isoflavone aglycone, which has estrogen-like activity and does not block the enzyme activity of enzymes that act on cell proliferation factor. There have been no stem cell-augmenting materials like the present invention whatsoever. The main characteristic of the present invention is that a stem cell-augmenting material that has the excellent activity is obtained because it has isoflavone aglycone that has a stem cell-augmenting activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Weijun Pan
  • Patent number: 6517831
    Abstract: A product which contains a health-promoting component and a process for preparing such a product, in the present invention, using a pulse crop as a raw material. The product accomplishes health promotion very effectively by means of at least one member of the group consisting of liver function improving constituents, cardiac function improving constituents, anti-inflammatory constituents, antifat constituents, antioxidation consititents, antimutagen constituents, and components which have an intestine-regulating effect in single-stomached animals; and the method produces such a product with good efficiency. The product of the present invention can be used directly “as is”; and alternatively, specified components may be concentrated or may be usefully utilized in applied products which use the product of the present invention as a raw material, e.g., food products, livestock feeds, pet foods or drug raw materials, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Nichimo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Jitsuo Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20020148205
    Abstract: A screw capper 1 includes a capping head 6 which grips a cap 5, a servo motor 7 which rotates the capping head, a voltmeter 10 which measures the torque of the capping head, an encoder 11 which detects the rotational angle of the capping head, and a control device 8 which controls the servo motor. In the screw capper, when whether rotational fastening is acceptable is to be determined during the rotational fastening, the measured value of the encoder is measured from a predetermined measurement starting point until a rotational fastening completion point, and if the measured rotational angle is in the range of an acceptable decision angle which is set in advance, it is determined that the rotational fastening has been acceptably performed, whereas if the measured rotational angle is not in the range of the acceptable decision angle, it is determined that the rotational fastening is unacceptable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Mitsuru Kasai, Kenichiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6410699
    Abstract: A process for preparation of isoflavone compounds, comprising separating isoflavone compounds from a starting material containing isoflavone compounds and/or their precursors by means of extraction, wherein the starting material is subjected to removal of fat prior to the separation of isoflavone compounds by means of extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Nichimo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Jitsuo Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20020012659
    Abstract: A product which contains a health-promoting component and a process for preparing such a product, in the present invention, using a pulse crop as a raw material. The product accomplishes health promotion very effectively by means of at least one member of the group consisting of liver function improving constituents, cardiac function improving constituents, anti-inflammatory constituents, antifat constituents, antioxidation consititents, antimutagen constituents, and components which have an intestine-regulating effect in single-stomached animals; and the method produces such a product with good efficiency. The product of the present invention can be used directly “as is”; and alternatively, specified components may be concentrated or may be usefully utilized in applied products which use the product of the present invention as a raw material, e.g., food products, livestock feeds, pet foods or drug raw materials, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Applicant: NICHIMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Jitsuo Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 6303161
    Abstract: A product which contains a health-promoting component and a process for preparing such a product, in the present invention, using a pulse crop as a raw material. The product accomplishes health promotion very effectively by means of at least one member of the group consisting of liver function improving constituents, cardiac function improving constituents, anti-inflammatory constituents, antifat constituents, antioxidation consititents, antimutagen constituents, and components which have an intestine-regulating effect in single-stomached animals; and the method produces such a product with good efficiency. The product of the present invention can be used directly “as is”; and alternatively, specified components may be concentrated or may be usefully utilized in applied products which use the product of the present invention as a raw material, e. g., food products, livestock feeds, pet foods or drug raw materials, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Nichimo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Jitsuo Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 6045819
    Abstract: The process for preparing a product containing a healthful component according to the present invention is capable of providing a product containing a healthful component comprising at least one member of the group consisting of liver function improving constituents, cardiac function improving constituents, anti-inflammatory constituents antifat constituents, antioxidation constituents, and antimutagen constituents; and applied products containing the plain product as an ingredient, for example, foods which can be ingested in a large amount, livestock feeds and aquacultural feeds, cosmetics, diets of pets, and precursory products for pharmaceutical preparations. The process is capable of simply preparing the above-mentioned product in a large amount at a low cost. Heretofore, such products as the product of the present invention have not been provided at all.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Nichimo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Takebe
  • Patent number: 5885632
    Abstract: A process for preparing a product from a pulse crop as a starting material and a food containing the product prepared from a pulse crop as a starting material are disclosed according to the present invention, thereby enabling a food, a livestock feed, an aquacultural feed or the like to be efficiently prepared, which is made from a leguminous crop or a defatted product thereof or the like, which has excellent carcinopreventive and carcinostatic activities, osteoprosis therapeutic effect and immunosuppressive effect, and which can be ingested in a sufficient amount, and thereby enabling a wholesome food such as a biscuit having the above-mentioned excellent pharmacological activities. Any conventional product made from a pulse crop does not have such excellent pharmacological activities and a process for preparing the same is poor in efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Nichimo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Yoshio Ando, Sunao Kikushima
  • Patent number: 5853779
    Abstract: A process for preparing grain products to use as foods, livestock feeds, aquacultural feeds. The grains used are soybean, rice, barley, wheat, oats, rye and corn, and defatted products or brans thereof, and the like and which are extremely excellent in digestion efficiency. Conventional products made from a grain are poor in digestion efficiency, and processes for preparing such products are also poor in efficiency. One of the main features of the process resides in that phytic acid in a grain is hydrolyzed removed to obtain a product having high digestion efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Nichimo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Takebe, Yoshio Ando, Sunao Kikushima