Patents by Inventor Oda

Oda 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: 20240125559
    Abstract: A body sheet for a vapor chamber includes a first body surface, a second body surface disposed opposite to the first body surface, and a penetration space extending from the first body surface to the second body surface. The penetration space extends in a first direction in plan view. As seen in a cross section perpendicular to the first direction, the penetration space includes a first opening positioned on the first body surface and a second opening positioned on the second body surface. The second opening extends from a region overlapping with the first opening in plan view to a position overlapping with the first groove in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori ODA, Shinichiro TAKAHASHI, Takayuki OTA, Toshihiko TAKEDA, Shinya KIURA, Makoto YAMAKI, Isao INOUE
  • Patent number: 11958971
    Abstract: Provided is a photocurable composition used for forming a resin layer of a concave-convex structure including a substrate and a resin layer provided on the substrate and having fine concavities and convexities formed on a surface thereof. A cured film of the photocurable composition has a surface free energy of 15 mJ/m2 to 40 mJ/m2 as measured based on the Kitazaki-Hata theory and a hardness of 0.05 GPa to 0.5 GPa as measured using a nanoindenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Oda, Hisanori Ohkita, Hiroko Wachi, Shingo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11957641
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a needle extending from a cartridge body and fluidly coupled to at least one of the controllable fluid pathways. A vial puck is provided for attachment to a vial to be fluidly coupled to the cartridge by the needle. The vial puck may include a hygroscopic member to absorb fluid from the needle to ensure a dry disconnect. A shuttle valve may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Dereck S. Ferdaws
  • Patent number: 11959109
    Abstract: A horseshoe crab Factor C protein having activity of Factor C, wherein the horseshoe crab is selected from Tachypleus tridentatus, Limulus polyphemus, and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, and wherein the horseshoe crab Factor C protein is produced through being recombinantly expressed from a Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) DG44 cell or HEK cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Mizumura, Toshio Oda, Shun-ichiro Kawabata
  • Patent number: 11962184
    Abstract: In the production of a non-oriented electrical steel sheet by subjecting a steel slab having a certain component composition to a hot rolling, a hot-band annealing, a cold rolling and a finish annealing, the conditions of the finish annealing are controlled such that a yield stress of the steel sheet after the finish annealing is not less than 480 MPa. Also, when a motor core is produced by using the above steel sheet, there can be provided a non-oriented electrical steel sheet capable of producing a rotor core and a stator core as the same raw material where the stator core is subjected to a stress relief annealing at a soaking temperature of 780 to 950° C. in an atmosphere having a nitrogen content of not more than 30 vol % and a dew point of not higher than ?20° C., while a motor core is produced with such a steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Tomoyuki Okubo, Takaaki Tanaka, Yukino Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11959147
    Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yumi Murakami, Nobuhiko Oda, Yusuke Fujii, Goro Okuyama, Shota Amano, Shinji Koseki, Shingo Sato, Yukio Takahashi, Ryo Kawabata, Naoki Kikuchi, Atsuo Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20240119094
    Abstract: This data classification device comprises an acquisition unit, a data classification unit, an output unit, and an input unit. The acquisition unit acquires data to be classified as input data. The data classification unit uses a classification model to estimate the classification of the input data. The output unit outputs display data displaying: an image divided into a plurality of groups based on a group division standard based on the confidence level when the classification model estimates the classification of the input data; and an image for changing the group division standard. The input unit acquires the data for changing the group division standard as an input result. Moreover, the output unit outputs display data in which the classified data is divided into the plurality of groups based on the group division standard indicated by the input result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Banri ODA, Kenichi Yasuda, Yutong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240117081
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition includes a water-soluble monofunctional acrylamide compound, a water-soluble photoradical initiator, a water-soluble photosensitizer, and an aqueous solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji HARA, Kazuteru NAGASAKA, Masatomi IRISAWA, Yuji ODA
  • Publication number: 20240116125
    Abstract: A bolt feeder is for supplying a bolt to a resistance welding machine that performs resistance-welding of a workpiece and the bolt using a lower electrode. The bolt feeder comprises a holding unit configured to receive the bolt fed by a bolt feeding unit with a head located above a shaft, a moving unit configured to move the holding unit, and a pusher member configured to protrude from and retract into a tip end of the upper electrode. The bolt includes a projection on a top surface of the head which is opposite to a surface provided with the shaft. The lower electrode includes an insertion hole into which the shaft is inserted. The shaft is inserted into the insertion hole by the pusher member protruding from the tip end of the upper electrode and pushes an area of the top surface where the projection is absent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Seki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji SAKOTA, Seiji MIURA, Masayasu HANDA, Naoki ODA
  • Publication number: 20240117219
    Abstract: Provided is a polishing composition that can reduce increase in temperature of a polishing pad during polishing. The polishing composition provided by the present invention contains water, oxidant A selected from compounds other than peroxide, a first metal salt selected from alkaline-earth metal salts, and a second metal salt selected from salts each of which has a cation of a metal belonging to groups 3 to 16 in the periodic table, and an anion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuaki ITO, Hiroyuki ODA, Yuichiro NAKAGAI, Shogaku IDE, Naoto NOGUCHI, Shinichiro TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240117218
    Abstract: Provided are a polishing method and a polishing composition that are applied to polishing of silicon carbide and allows reduction of rise in pH of the polishing composition and increase in pad temperature during polishing. Provided is a method of polishing an object to be polished having a surface formed of silicon carbide. The method includes steps of preparing a polishing composition, and supplying the polishing composition to the object to be polished and polishing the object to be polished. The polishing composition contains permanganate, a metal salt A, and water. The metal salt A is a salt of a metal cation having a pKa of less than 7.0 in form of a hydrated metal ion, and an anion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yuichiro NAKAGAI, Hiroyuki ODA, Yasuki ITO, Shogaku IDE, Shinichiro TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240117184
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polycarbonate resin composition having excellent low-temperature impact resistance, durability, and flame retardancy. The present invention is directed to a polycarbonate resin composition comprising, relative to 100 parts by weight of a resin component containing 10 to 90 parts by weight of (A) a polycarbonate-polydiorganosiloxane copolymer (component A) and 90 to 10 parts by weight of (B) a polycarbonate resin (component B), 0.5 to 7 parts by weight of (C) a phosphazene compound (component C) and 0.1 to 0.5 parts by weight of (D) a fluorine-containing anti-dripping agent (component D), wherein the ratio of the viscosity average molecular weight of the component A to that of the component B (Mv (component A)/Mv (component B)) is 1 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouji ODA
  • Patent number: 11951558
    Abstract: A component supply device is configured to feed a component having a through hole to a target position. The component supply includes: a rod including at its distal end a holding portion to be inserted into the through hole; an actuator; a valve mounted on the rod; and a fixing portion by which the valve that advances with the rod passes. The rod includes a gas outlet located in an outer periphery of the holding portion and configured to blow gas rearward, and a gas passage extending inside the rod and configured to send gas supplied from a gas source to the gas outlet. The valve includes a push switch configured to be switched between an advanced attitude and a withdrawn attitude, and a biasing unit configured to bias the push switch to the withdrawn attitude. The fixing portion includes a pressing wall portion facing the push switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Oda, Seiji Miura, Kouji Sakota
  • Patent number: 11955205
    Abstract: A high-temperature bimetal capable of being inhibited from considerably shifting from an original position when the temperature has fallen to an ordinary temperature is provided. This high-temperature bimetal (1) includes a high thermal expansion layer (2) made of austenitic stainless steel and a low thermal expansion layer (3) made of a thermosensitive magnetic metal having a Curie point and bonded to the high thermal expansion layer. The high-temperature bimetal is employed over both a high temperature range of not less than the Curie point and a low temperature range of less than the Curie point, while an upper limit of operating temperatures in the high temperature range of not less than the Curie point is at least 500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Oda, Masaaki Ishio
  • Patent number: 11951098
    Abstract: A method for suppressing obstruction of meibomian gland in a mammalian subject, the method comprising administering to the mammalian subject an eye drop comprising 0.01 to 0.5% (w/v) of sirolimus or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as a sole active ingredient, wherein the eye drop is administered to an eye of the mammalian subject 1 to 2 times per day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Miyake, Tomoko Oda, Daisuke Shii
  • Patent number: 11954858
    Abstract: A CPU acquires a distance image which indicates a distance to an imaging target and is captured by a TOF camera that captures the distance image using, as the imaging target, a mammography apparatus which is an abnormality determination target. In addition, the CPU acquires reference distance image as reference distance information related to a reference value of a distance between the abnormality determination target in a reference state and the TOF camera. Further, the CPU performs determination on an abnormality appearing in an outward appearance of the abnormality determination target on the basis of the distance image and the reference distance image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinari Oda
  • Publication number: 20240108037
    Abstract: A food composition contains a solid composition, the solid composition containing starch derived from beans and/or cereals, in a seasoning liquid. The food composition satisfies all of the following (a) to (c): (a) the sodium chloride content of the food composition is 2 mass % or less in terms of wet mass; (b) when measured in accordance with [Procedure a] using a rapid visco analyzer, the final viscosity of the seasoning liquid at a lowered temperature of 50° C. is higher than 5.0 cP and not higher than 550 cP; and (c) when measured by dynamic headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, the 2-pentylfuran peak area ratio of the seasoning liquid to the solid composition is 100 or less. In [Procedure a] a sample is heated from 50° C. to 95° C. with a rapid visco analyzer, maintained for 3 minutes, and then cooled to 50° C. followed by the measurement of the viscosity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Oda, Yasushi Ogasawara, Mizuki Yasui
  • Publication number: 20240110080
    Abstract: Provided is a polishing composition containing an abrasive, permanganate, an aluminum salt, and water. In the polishing composition, a relation of a content W1 [% by weight] of the abrasive, a concentration C1 [mM] of the permanganate, and a concentration C2 [mM] of the aluminum salt satisfies at least one condition of the following conditions [A], [B], and [C]: satisfying both of 500?(C1/W1) and 0.04?(C2/C1);??[A] satisfying both of 200?(C1/?(W1)) and 8?C2; and??[B] satisfying both of 500?(C1/W1) and 8?C2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuichiro NAKAGAI, Yasuaki ITO, Hiroyuki ODA, Shogaku IDE, Shinichiro TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240110262
    Abstract: There is provided an Al wiring material which can achieve sufficient bond reliability of bonded parts in a high-temperature environment at the time when a semiconductor device operates. The Al wiring material containing one or more of Pd and Pt so as to satisfy 3?x1a?90 or 10?x1b?250, and 3?(x1a+x1b)?300, where x1a and x1b are respectively a content of Pd [mass ppm] and a content of Pt [mass ppm], with the balance comprising Al, and an average crystal grain diameter on a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the Al wiring material is 3 to 35 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro UNO, Yuya SUTO, Tetsuya OYAMADA, Daizo ODA, Yuto KURIHARA, Motoki ETO
  • Patent number: 11946123
    Abstract: Provided is a method of easily producing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that contains substantially no Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn and has low iron loss, comprising hot rolling a slab having a specified chemical composition to obtain a hot-rolled sheet; coiling the hot-rolled sheet; cold rolling the hot-rolled sheet once or twice with intermediate annealing being performed therebetween, to obtain a cold-rolled sheet; and subjecting the cold-rolled sheet to final annealing, wherein the hot-rolled sheet after the hot rolling is cooled at an average cooling rate from 800° C. to 650° C. of 30° C./s or more, and thereafter the coiling is performed at 650° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Uesaka, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Tomoyuki Okubo, Hiroaki Nakajima, Yoshihiko Oda