Patents by Inventor Minoru Takeuchi

Minoru Takeuchi 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: 20250073903
    Abstract: The invention provides a tape material applicator and computer program capable of applying relatively short tape materials and reducing the difficulty in tape application. The tape material applicator unit 60, mounted on the sixth axis of a robot, includes a disc-shaped member 50 and a roller swing mechanism 80. The tape material clamping device 200, attached to the disc-shaped member 50, clamps one end 304 of the tape material 300, while the guide 100, attached to the roller swing mechanism 80, holds the other end 305 of the tape material 300. The roller 90 presses the tape material 300 onto the workpiece 40. The tape material 300 is applied from one end 304 to the other end 305 along the application path by pressing with the roller 90, while maintaining the unattached part of the tape material 300 elevated from the workpiece 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Minoru TAKEUCHI, Hiromoto ITO, Yusuke TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20250075035
    Abstract: Provided is a new agent for increasing the melting temperature (Tm value) of a nucleic acid. The present invention uses a specific (di)allylamine-based compound that meets a specific relationship between the molecular weight of the (di)allylamine-based compound and a numerical value calculated from a specific parameter related to the chemical structure of the (di)allylamine-based compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nahohiro FUJIMURA, Ami TACHIBANA, Tomoaki UCHIKI, Minoru TAKEUCHI, Yoko TERUUCHI, Koji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250051831
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a convenient method capable of detecting a mutant gene at a mutant gene content rate that is lower than the detection limit of the mutant gene according to a clamp-PCR method; and a kit that implements the same. It is another object of the present invention to provide a convenient method capable of selectively inhibiting amplification of a target base sequence in a nucleic acid amplification reaction; and a kit for implementing the same. Inhibitory effect on the amplification of a nucleic acid having a base sequence complementary to a clamp nucleic acid in a nucleic acid amplification reaction by the clamp nucleic acid is enhanced in the coexistence of an amphoteric copolymer comprising a cationic structural unit (1) with an amino acid and an anionic structural unit (2), the mole ratio of the cationic structural unit (1) to the anionic structural unit (2) (cationic structural unit (1)/anionic structural unit (2)) being in the range of 0.13 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nahohiro FUJIMURA, Ami TACHIBANA, Tomoaki UCHIKI, Minoru TAKEUCHI, Yoko TERUUCHI, Koji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250043328
    Abstract: In order to address problems in the prior art, the present invention provides a novel agent for raising the melting temperature (Tm) of a double-stranded nucleic acid, methods for detecting mismatching of a double-stranded nucleic acid or mutation with respect to a standard nucleic acid in a sample nucleic acid, and kits for carrying out these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nahohiro FUJIMURA, Ami TACHIBANA, Tomoaki UCHIKI, Minoru TAKEUCHI, Yoko TERUUCHI, Koji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250043335
    Abstract: One purpose of the present invention is to provide a simple method by which a mutant gene can be detected at a lower mutant gene content than the mutant gene detection limit by the ordinary clamp-PCR method, and a kit for performing the method. Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a simple method by which, in a nucleic acid amplification reaction, the amplification of a target base sequence can be selectively inhibited, and a kit for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nahohiro FUJIMURA, Ami TACHIBANA, Tomoaki UCHIKI, Minoru TAKEUCHI, Yoko TERUUCHI, Koji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240373886
    Abstract: Puffed food composition contains a pulse/millet and satisfies (1)-(7): (1) containing dietary fibers at 3 mass % or more (dry mass); (2) containing starch at 5 mass % or more (dry mass); (3) containing protein at 4 mass % or more (dry mass); (4) containing a soluble carbohydrate being contained in edible plants of pulses, millet, potatoes, seeds, vegetables and fruit at 2 mass % or more (dry mass); (5) containing edible parts of a pulse/millet and a dietary fiber localized portion of an edible plant at 10 mass % or more (dry mass) to the composition; (6) a number-based average diameter of composition particles in a dispersion liquid in an ultrasonicated state is 30 ?m or less; and (7) a maximum particle diameter of composition particles in a non-ultrasonicated state is 300 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240375083
    Abstract: Provided is: a blood cell separation agent capable of exhibiting excellent blood cell separation ability with avoiding contamination of a sample with a polymer contained in the agent for use in blood cell separation, and a method of separating blood cell using the same. A blood cell separation agent comprising: an inorganic carrier; and polymer(s) having structural units with amino groups, wherein at least some of the amino group(s) are a primary, secondary, or tertiary amino group; at least some of the polymer(s) are carried on the inorganic carrier, and others of the polymer(s) are crosslinked to the polymer(s) carried on the inorganic carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Amiko MASUYA, Koji WATANABE, Yuya TERUUCHI, Yoko TERUUCHI, Minoru TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 11412767
    Abstract: A liquid or semisolid emulsion seasoning may include fine food particles comprising dietary fibers, a fat or oil, an organic acid, and a food-derived emulsifier. The dietary fibers may include a water-soluble dietary fiber and a water-insoluble dietary fiber. The emulsion seasoning may contain the dietary fibers in a total amount of 0.8% to 23% by mass. The fine food particles may have a modal diameter of 0.3 ?m to 115 ?m, and the emulsion seasoning may have a water content of 20% by mass or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eri Shibata, Minoru Takeuchi, Hideaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20210015130
    Abstract: A solid food in which a core food is coated with a fat/oil composition containing a finely pulverized product of an edible part and/or an inedible part of a foodstuff containing an insoluble dietary fiber is provided. A ratio of a total mass of a mass of the finely pulverized product of an edible part and an inedible part of a foodstuff containing an insoluble dietary fiber and a mass of the fat/oil composition to a surface area of the core food is 0.1 g or more per 100 cm2, and/or a ratio of a mass of the finely pulverized product of an edible part and an inedible part of a foodstuff containing an insoluble dietary fiber to a surface area of the core food is 0.03 g or more per 100 cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: MIZKAN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minoru Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20200353757
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a platen roller having a first end and a second end, each of the first and second ends being rotatably supported by the frame, a thermal head that faces the platen roller and that forms an image on a printing medium, the thermal head having a first end and a second end, a gear that is provided on the first end of the platen roller and that is rotated by a motor, the rotation of the gear causing the platen roller to rotate, and a pair of urging units that urges the first end and the second end of the platen roller or the thermal head, wherein an urging force generated by one of the pair of urging units on the first end is smaller than an urging force generated by the other of the pair of urging units on the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HONDA, Teru NISHIYAMA, Minoru TAKEUCHI, Masahiko KITAMURA, Takumi TOHATA, Akira YANAGIDA, Yoshibumi ABE, Munenari CHIBA, Takehiro KOBA
  • Publication number: 20200221742
    Abstract: A food mixture may include an oil/fat composition that comprises fine plant particles and a plant oil or fat, and a plant-derived dried food that is embedded in the oil/fat composition. The fine plant particles may have as average particle diameter of 0.3 to 30 ?m , the plant oil/fat may be a fluid at 20° C., and the oil/fat composition may contain the fine plant particles in an amount of 10 to 80 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: MIZKAN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Takeuchi, Daisuke Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20200205455
    Abstract: A liquid or semisolid emulsion seasoning may include fine food particles comprising dietary fibers, a fat or oil, an organic acid, and a food-derived emulsifier. The dietary fibers may include a water-soluble dietary fiber and a water-insoluble dietary fiber. The emulsion seasoning may contain the dietary fibers in a total amount of 0.8% to 23% by mass. The fine food particles may have a modal diameter of 0.3 ?m to 115 ?m, and the emulsion seasoning may have a water content of 20% by mass or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: MIZKAN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eri Shibata, Minoru Takeuchi, Hideaki Taguchi
  • Patent number: 9512534
    Abstract: There is provided a method of well filling copper in a conductivity-rendered non-through hole having an aspect ratio (depth/hole diameter) of 5 or more on a substrate in a short period of time, and the method comprises using an acidic copper plating bath comprising a water-soluble copper salt, sulfuric acid, chlorine ion, a brightener and a copolymer of diallylamines and sulfur dioxide and filling copper in the non-through hole by periodic current reversal copper plating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION, NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kondo, Takeyasu Saito, Naoki Okamoto, Masaru Bunya, Minoru Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8901266
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a copolymer of diallyldialkylammonium salt and a maleic acid which copolymer is free of residual monomers and polymerization initiator and hence stably exhibits excellent performances in various uses, and the process comprises polymerizing a monomer mixture comprising diallyldialkylammonium salt and maleic acid in the presence of persulfate as a radical polymerization initiator in water or a polar solvent, and completion of the polymerization-reaction, decomposing the radical polymerization initiator to produce a copolymer comprising diallyldialkylammonium salt constituent unit and a maleic acid constituent unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukushima, Yasuhito Nakata, Minoru Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8687106
    Abstract: A mobile phone apparatus 10 is equipped with a camera module 36 including an image sensor (52), an AE evaluation circuit (60), etc. When a camera function is executed, an exposure is adjusted such that an exposure evaluated value is equal to an exposure target value, whereby, an AF controlling processing is executed. For example, when a shutter key is operated, the exposure target value is changed to an exposure target value for AF control being smaller than an exposure target value for normal photographing. Furthermore, a frame rate is increased such that the exposure evaluated value having a correlation to the frame rate is smaller than the exposure target value in response to the change of the exposure target value. Then, the AF controlling processing is executed on the basis of the image data every frame output from the image sensor (52) at the increased frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20130334053
    Abstract: There is provided a method of well filling copper in a conductivity-rendered non-through hole having an aspect ratio (depth/hole diameter) of 5 or more on a substrate in a short period of time, and the method comprises using an acidic copper plating bath comprising a water-soluble copper salt, sulfuric acid, chlorine ion, a brightener and a copolymer of diallylamines and sulfur dioxide and filling copper in the non-through hole by periodic current reversal copper plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicants: NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD., OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo KONDO, Takeyasu Saito, Naoki Okamoto, Masaru Bunya, Minoru Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8273232
    Abstract: A method of filling copper in a non-through hole on a substrate that has been treated to render it conductive, which comprises plating said substrate in an acidic copper plating bath comprising a water-soluble copper salt, sulfuric acid and a filling additive that is a polymer having the activities of both of a brightener and a leveler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Osaka Prefecture University Public Corporation, Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Okamoto, Kazuo Kondo, Hideyuki Kuri, Masaru Bunya, Minoru Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20120188440
    Abstract: A mobile phone apparatus is provided with a camera module 36 having an image sensor and an exposure evaluating circuit. When a camera function is turned on, an image sensor outputs image data, and the exposure evaluating circuit performs AE controlling processing based on an exposure time in correspondence with a luminance evaluated value of the image data. Also, in a case that the ambient is dark, and thus, illumination of an object is low, that is, in a case that the luminance evaluated value of the image data is less than a predetermined value, an LED 40 emits light as a flash in imaging. At this time, the AE controlling processing is suspended to thereby change the current exposure time into a predicted exposure time. Then, the AE controlling processing is started regarding the changed predicted exposure time as a starting point of the control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minoru TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20120162462
    Abstract: A mobile phone apparatus 10 is equipped with a camera module 36 including an image sensor (52), an AE evaluation circuit (60), etc. When a camera function is executed, an exposure is adjusted such that an exposure evaluated value is equal to an exposure target value, whereby, an AF controlling processing is executed. For example, when a shutter key is operated, the exposure target value is changed to an exposure target value for AF control being smaller than an exposure target value for normal photographing. Furthermore, a frame rate is increased such that the exposure evaluated value having a correlation to the frame rate is smaller than the exposure target value in response to the change of the exposure target value. Then, the AF controlling processing is executed on the basis of the image data every frame output from the image sensor (52) at the increased frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minoru TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20120116011
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a copolymer of diallyldialkylammonium salt and a maleic acid which copolymer is free of residual monomers and polymerization initiator and hence stably exhibits excellent performances in various uses, and the process comprises polymerizing a monomer mixture comprising diallyldialkylammonium salt and maleic acid in the presence of persulfate as a radical polymerization initiator in water or a polar solvent, and completion of the polymerization-reaction, decomposing the radical polymerization initiator to produce a copolymer comprising diallyldialkylammonium salt constituent unit and a maleic acid constituent unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukushima, Yasuhito Nakata, Minoru Takeuchi