Patents by Inventor Minoru Yamamoto
Minoru Yamamoto 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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Publication number: 20120202817Abstract: A compound having the following formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein A is an aromatic five-membered heterocycle which optionally is fused with a cycloalkane ring; B is an alkylene; R1 and R2 are hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocycle, amino, alkylamino, arylamino or acyl, or R1 and R2 join together to form a heterocycle; X and Y are hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, mercapto, alkylthio, arylthio, carboxyl, an ester of carboxyl, an amide of carboxyl, cyano or nitro; p is 0, 1 or 2; and q is 0 or 1. The compound is useful for treating diseases in which angiogenesis or augmentation of vascular permeability is involved.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Honda, Hisashi Tajima, Yoshimasa Sasabuchi, Kenji Kawashima, Kazuyoshi Okamoto, Minoru Yamamoto, Masakazu Ban
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Publication number: 20120202808Abstract: A compound of formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 represent hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl or R3 represents hydroxyl, lower alkoxy, lower cycloalkyloxy, aryloxy, carboxy, lower alkoxycarbonyl, or NRaRb of the formula R4 and R5 represent halogen, lower alkyl, hydroxyl, or lower alkoxy; R6 represents halogen, lower alkyl, aryl, heterocyclic, hydroxy, lower alkoxy, mercapto, lower alkylthio, lower alkylcarbonyl, amino, nitro or cyano; R7 represents lower alkyl, hydroxyl or lower alkoxy; Ra and Rb represent hydrogen or lower alkyl; ring A represents a cyclic hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic ring; ring B represents a heterocyclic ring; X represents lower alkylene; Z represents a single bond or lower alkylene; Y represents lower alkylene and W1-W2 represents CH—CH, or represents a single bond and W1-W2 represents N—CH, CH—N or CH—CH; and 1, m, n and o represent 0, 1, 2, or 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Mogi, Hisashi Tajima, Noriko Mishina, Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Yoneda, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Junko Fujikawa, Minoru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8207194Abstract: A compound having the following formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein A is benzene or an aromatic five-membered heterocycle which optionally is fused with a cycloalkane ring; B is an alkylene; R1 and R2 are hydrogen, hydroxy, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocycle, amino, alkylamino, arylamino or acyl, or R1 and R2 join together to form a heterocycle; X and Y are hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, mercapto, alkylthio, arylthio, carboxyl, an ester of carboxyl, an amide of carboxyl, cyano or nitro; p is 0, 1 or 2; and q is 0 or 1. The compound is useful for treating diseases in which angiogenesis or augmentation of vascular permeability is involved.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Honda, Hisashi Tajima, Yoshimasa Sasabuchi, Kenji Kawashima, Kazuyoshi Okamoto, Minoru Yamamoto, Masakazu Ban
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Patent number: 8198271Abstract: A compound having the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein R1 and R2 represent hydrogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkenyl, a lower alkynyl or a group having the following formula (2): (R6)n—{circle around (A)}—Z—??(2), R3 represents hydroxy, a lower alkoxy, a lower cycloalkyloxy, an aryloxy, carboxy, a lower alkoxycarbonyl, or —NRaRb having the following formula (3): (R7)o—{circle around (B)}—??(3), R4 and R5 represent halogen, a lower alkyl, hydroxy, or a lower alkoxy; R6 represents halogen, a lower alkyl, an aryl group, a heterocyclic, a hydroxy, a lower alkoxy, mercapto, a lower alkylthio, a lower alkylcarbonyl, amino, nitro or cyano; R7 represents a lower alkyl, hydroxy or a lower alkoxy; Ra and Rb represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl; the ring A represents a cyclic hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic ring; the ring B represents a heterocyclic ring having one or more heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of nitrogen and oxygen; X represents a lower alkylene; Y represents a lower alkyleType: GrantFiled: May 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Mogi, Hisashi Tajima, Noriko Mishina, Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Yoneda, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Junko Fujikawa, Minoru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8193237Abstract: Disclosed is a compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof. The compound or a salt thereof has an inhibitory activity on IKK? and is therefore useful as preventive and/or therapeutic agent for a disease associated with IKK?. In the formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an aryl group, a hydroxy group, or the like; R2 represents a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkenyl group, a lower alkynyl group, or the like; and m represents 0, 1, 2, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Enomoto, Kenji Kawashima, Kazuhiro Kudou, Minoru Yamamoto, Masaaki Murai, Takaaki Inaba, Noriko Ishizaka
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Patent number: 8180488Abstract: A robot system includes a robot and a robot controller including a drive unit, a memory that stores an arm-occupied region and a movement-forbidden region, a target position calculation unit that outputs a target position of a tool or a workpiece, a movement-forbidden region entry monitoring unit that checks whether the arm-occupied region based on the target position enters the movement-forbidden region and outputs a stop request if it is checked that the arm-occupied region enters the movement-forbidden region, and a predicted-coasting-position calculating unit that calculates a predicted coasting position of each axis and a coasting position of the tool or the workpiece in the case that the robot is urgently stopped. The movement-forbidden region entry monitoring unit checks whether the arm-occupied region at the coasting position enters the movement-forbidden region and outputs another stop request if it is checked that the arm-occupied region enters the movement-forbidden region.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Hirokazu Kariyazaki, Shinichi Maehara, Minoru Yamamoto, Michiharu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120095121Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrophilic polyolefin sintered material which is a water-absorbing sintered material of a polyolefin resin ice having a graft chain composed of at least one molecular chain selected from hydrophilic ethylenically unsaturated group-containing monomers and their polymers. This hydrophilic polyolefin sintered material has an average porosity of 20-80% by volume and an open cell having an average pore diameter of 1-150 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2008Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Minoru Yamamoto, Shigeru Nakajima, Takahiro Deguchi
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Publication number: 20120085282Abstract: A substrate coating device is provided which is capable of reducing non-uniform film thickness areas that take place in a coating start portion and a coating end portion during coating using a slit nozzle coater. The substrate coating device (10) includes at least a slider driving motor (4), a pump (8), a delivery state quantity measuring section (82), and a control section (5). The slider driving motor (4) scans a slit nozzle (1) over a substrate (100) at an established velocity relative to the substrate (100). The pump (8) controls the supply of the coating liquid to the slit nozzle (1). The delivery state quantity measuring section (82) is configured to measure a state quantity indicative of a delivery state of the coating liquid from the tip of the slit nozzle (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: TAZMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Ikagawa, Mitsunori Oda, Minoru Yamamoto, Takashi Kawaguchi, Hideo Hirata, Masaaki Tanabe
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Publication number: 20120048498Abstract: A reduced size vacuum die-casting machine wherein an amount of powder release agent which is fed to a mold cavity each time is stable and loss of velocity of the air flow for sucking out the powder release agent is difficult, the apparatus provided with a powder control valve which has a powder release agent passage through which a powder release agent passes and which moves back and forth inside of a sleeve to switch between a state communicating a discharge hole with a molten metal holding chamber and a state communicating a discharge hole with a powder release agent passage, the powder release agent passage of the powder control valve formed inside of the powder control valve, the inlet and outlet of the powder release agent passage being formed at the outer surface of the powder control valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei INABA, Kenji YAMAZAKI, Minoru YAMAMOTO, Akihito MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20120024938Abstract: A solder drawing member (402) is detachably attached on the outer side of a jet nozzle (303) that jets molten solder pumped from a solder tank (102) storing the molten solder. The solder drawing member (402) is made of a material having higher wettability to the molten solder than the surface material of the jet nozzle (303). Thus a force of separating the solder from a point to be soldered can be increased by a surface tension of the molten solder flowing on the solder drawing member (402), thereby reducing bridge phenomena and icicle phenomena.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Yoshino, Minoru Yamamoto, Toshinori Mimura
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Publication number: 20120000420Abstract: The substrate coating device (10) includes a slit nozzle (1), a first camera (3), a second camera (4), a control section (5), a pump (8), and a pressure control chamber (9). The control section (5) controls the supply of the coating liquid from the pump (8) to the slit nozzle (1) in accordance with the result of comparison between a bead shape imaged by the first camera (3) and a reference shape. The control section (5) also controls the air pressure on the upstream side of the slit nozzle (1) by the pressure control chamber (9) in accordance with the result of comparison between a distance measured from an image taken by the second camera (4) and a reference distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: TAZMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Ikagawa, Mitsunori Oda, Minoru Yamamoto, Takashi Kawaguchi, Masaaki Tanabe, Hideo Hirata
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Patent number: 8088817Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: The compound has an inhibitory activity on the production of interleukin-6, and is therefore useful as a therapeutic agent for a disease associated with interleukin-6, ocular inflammatory diseases and the like. In the formula, R1 represents a halogen atom, a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group which may have a substituent, a formyl group, or a lower alkylcarbonyl group which may have a substituent, R2 represents a bicyclic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent or a bicyclic heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group which may have a substituent, an aryl group which may have a substituent, or an acyl group.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2009Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Kawashima, Noriko Kawashima, Hiroshi Enomoto, Minoru Yamamoto, Masaaki Murai
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Patent number: 8076332Abstract: The present invention relates to a study on the synthesis of a novel N-(2-aminophenyl)benzamide derivative having an urea structure and represented by the general formula (1); and the utilization of a pharmacological effect of the derivative. A compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof has an effect of cellular morphological change on trabecular meshwork cells and is effective in the prevention and/or treatment of a disease considered to be related to intraocular pressure. In the formula, R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, or the like; R3 represents a hydroxy group, a lower alkoxy group, a lower cycloalkyloxy group, an aryloxy group, or the like; R4 and R5 represent a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a hydroxy group, a lower alkoxy group, or the like; X represents a lower alkylene group or the like; Y represents a single bond, a lower alkylene group, or the like; l and m represent 0, 1, 2, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Mogi, Hisashi Tajima, Noriko Mishina, Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Yoneda, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Junko Fujikawa, Minoru Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110263589Abstract: A method of preventing or treating a glucocorticoid receptor-related disease involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of a 1,2-dihydroquinoline compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Matsuda, Toshiyuki Mori, Kenji Kawashima, Masato Nagatsuka, Sachiko Kobayashi, Minoru Yamamoto, Masatomo Kato, Miwa Takai, Tomoko Oda
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Patent number: 8017775Abstract: An object of the present invention is to study synthesis of a novel 1,2-dihydroquinoline derivative and to find a pharmacological action of the derivative. A compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof is effective in the treatment of a glucocorticoid receptor-related disease. In the formula, the ring X represents a benzene ring or a pyridine ring; R1 represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an amino group or the like; p represents an integer of 0 to 5; R2 represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxy group or the like; q represents an integer of 0 to 2; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or the like; R4 and R5 represent a hydrogen atom or the like; R6 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; A represents an alkylene group or the like; and R7 represents OR8, NR8R9, SR8, S(O)R8 or S(O)2R8, wherein R8 represents an aryl group, a heterocyclic group or the like and R9 represents a hydrogen atom or the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Matsuda, Toshiyuki Mori, Kenji Kawashima, Masato Nagatsuka, Sachiko Kobayashi, Minoru Yamamoto, Masatomo Kato, Miwa Takai, Tomoko Oda
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Patent number: 8012972Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to study the synthesis of a novel pyridinecarboxylic acid (2-aminophenyl)amide derivative having a novel urea structure and to find a pharmacological effect of the derivative. The invention provides a compound represented by the formula (1) or a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Mogi, Hisashi Tajima, Noriko Mishina, Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Yoneda, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Junko Fujikawa, Minoru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7977371Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to study on the synthesis of a novel pyrrole derivative having a ureido group and an aminocarbonyl group as substituents or a salt thereof, to find a pharmacological effect of the derivative or a salt thereof, and to find a medicinal agent which has a prophylactic and/or therapeutic effect on a retinal disease or the like through oral administration. A compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof has an inhibitory activity against the production of interleukin-6 and/or an inhibitory effect on choroidal neovascularization, and is therefore useful as a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for a disease associated with interleukin-6, an ocular inflammatory disease and/or a retinal disease.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Kawashima, Hiroshi Enomoto, Noriko Ishizaka, Minoru Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Kudou, Masaaki Murai, Takaaki Inaba, Kazuyoshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20110136794Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: The compound has an inhibitory activity on the production of interleukin-6, and is therefore useful as a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for a disease associated with interleukin-6, ocular inflammatory diseases and the like. In the formula, R1 represents a halogen atom, a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group which may have a substituent, a formyl group, or a lower alkylcarbonyl group which may have a substituent, R2 represents a bicyclic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent or a bicyclic heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group which may have a substituent, an aryl group which may have a substituent, or an acyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Kenji Kawashima, Noriko Kawashima, Hiroshi Enomoto, Minoru Yamamoto, Massaaki Murai
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Publication number: 20110124646Abstract: A method of treating a disease associated with angiogenesis by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound represented by the formula (1) or a salt thereof wherein the ring X represents R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl, an aryl or an aromatic heterocyclic; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxy, an alkoxy, an aryloxy, an alkyl, an aryl, an amino, an alkylamino, a cycloalkylamino, an arylamino, an alkylcarbonylamino, an arylcarbonylamino, a mercapto, an alkylthio, an arylthio, an alkylsulfinyl or a nonaromatic heterocyclic; A1 represents a sulfur atom, a sulfinyl or a sulfonyl; and A2 represents an alkylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Tajima, Takahiro Honda, Kenji Kawashima, Kazuyoshi Okamoto, Minoru Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110124668Abstract: The present invention relates to synthetic studies on novel indole derivatives having a carbamoyl group, a ureido group and a substituted oxy group or a salt thereof, and pharmaceutical actions of the derivatives. The compound and a salt thereof represented by the general formula (1) has an IKK? inhibitory activity and is useful as a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for diseases considered to be associated with IKK?.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Kawashima, Hiroshi Enomoto, Minoru Yamamoto, Masaaki Murai