Patents by Inventor Shigenobu Fukuda
Shigenobu Fukuda 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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Patent number: 12247229Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a novel bacteriophage useful for treating bacterial endophthalmitis and a therapeutic agent for bacterial endophthalmitis comprising the novel bacteriophage. The therapeutic agent for bacterial endophthalmitis according to the present invention is characterized in comprising 1 or more bacteriophages selected from the group essentially consisting of Myoviridae Spounavirinae phiEF7H (accession number: NITE BP-02886), Myoviridae Spounavirinae phiEF19G (accession number: NITE BP-02887), Myoviridae Spounavirinae phiEF14H1 (accession number: NITE BP-02888), and mutants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOCHI UNIVERSITYInventors: Ken Fukuda, Shigenobu Matsuzaki, Atsuki Fukushima, Masanori Daibata, Jumpei Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20230264911Abstract: A roll accommodation unit includes: a roll support shaft; a pair of side walls; and a pair of roll bearings that are attached to the pair of side walls, recessed portions are formed at upper ends of the pair of side walls, the pair of rolling bearings are attached to the side walls at positions corresponding to bottoms of the recessed portions such that the rolling bearings project upward beyond inclined surfaces of the recessed portions, the roll support shaft includes a support shaft main body, and a pair of small-diameter portions that are provided at both ends of the support shaft main body, and the roll support shaft is supported with the small-diameter portions abutting on outer circumferential surfaces of the pairs of rolling bearings in a state in which the support shaft main body is located at an interval from the recessed portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kanta KAMBARA, Shigenobu FUKUDA, Masaru OCHI
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Patent number: 11679950Abstract: A roll accommodation unit includes: a roll support shaft; a pair of side walls; and a pair of roll bearings that are attached to the pair of side walls, recessed portions are formed at upper ends of the pair of side walls, the pair of rolling bearings are attached to the side walls at positions corresponding to bottoms of the recessed portions such that the rolling bearings project upward beyond inclined surfaces of the recessed portions, the roll support shaft includes a support shaft main body, and a pair of small-diameter portions that are provided at both ends of the support shaft main body, and the roll support shaft is supported with the small-diameter portions abutting on outer circumferential surfaces of the pairs of rolling bearings in a state in which the support shaft main body is located at an interval from the recessed portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Horizon International, Inc.Inventors: Kanta Kambara, Shigenobu Fukuda, Masaru Ochi
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Patent number: 11597228Abstract: The first cutter that cuts, in the direction transverse to the unwinding direction, a continuous sheet of additional member unwound and drawn by a length in accordance with the thickness of the book block is arranged at the input port of the trimming station, the transport mechanism that transports the cut additional member from the first cutter out in the unwinding direction of the continuous sheet of additional member is arranged downstream of the first cutter, the second cutter that trims the cut additional member being transported on the transport path in the unwinding direction is arranged in the transport path of the transport mechanism, and the position of the blades of the second cutter may be adjusted in the direction transverse to the unwinding direction in accordance with the head-to-foot length of the book block.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Horizon Inc.Inventors: Masaru Ochi, Shigenobu Fukuda, Kanta Kambara, Akira Nonoshita
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Patent number: 11554601Abstract: The embodiment includes: a roll accommodation unit that accommodates a roll of a continuous sheet of additional member; an unwinding unit that unwinds and draws the additional member from the roll accommodation unit to a trimming station; a trimming unit that is arranged in the trimming station and cuts and trims the additional member in accordance with the size of a book block to form a strip of additional member; a gripper that grips the strip of additional member while supporting the under face thereof, moves between a retracted position inside a housing and a forward position outside the housing, and moves between the forward position and a raised position above the forward position; and a handover unit that hands over the strip of additional member from the trimming station to the gripper located in the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Horizon Inc.Inventors: Masaru Ochi, Shigenobu Fukuda, Tomonori Yachi
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Patent number: 11529821Abstract: Provided is a book block feed device capable of feeding a book block always in an aligned state to a bookbinding machine. The book block feed device comprises an alignment unit and a press unit that are adjacently arranged in order along a conveying path of the book block from an inlet to an outlet of the conveying path. The alignment unit comprises a vibrator that vibrates the book block. The press unit includes a press surface that forms a part of a conveying surface of the conveying path, and a press plate that sandwiches and presses the book block between the press plate and the press surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Horizon International, Inc.Inventors: Kanta Kambara, Shigenobu Fukuda, Kohei Okamoto, Hiroto Otani, Takehito Yokogi, Shigeru Wakimoto
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Patent number: 11400745Abstract: A book block supplying machine includes a reader which reads job information from an information portion printed on a book block; and a timing adjusting portion which adjusts a supply timing at which the book block is fed toward the book binding machine. A controller includes: a job information acquisition portion which acquires the job information; an upper limit processing speed acquisition portion which acquires an upper limit processing speed; a making speed decision portion which adopts and decides the making speed; a making speed instruction portion which instructs the book binding machine to make the bound material at the making speed; a timing decision portion which decides the supply timing based on the making speed, upper limit processing speed and accumulating number; and a timing instruction portion which instructs the timing adjusting portion to supply the book block at the supply timing.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Shinya Kitayama, Shigenobu Fukuda, Takakazu Hori
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Patent number: 11267275Abstract: Provided is a book block aligning device that forms one processing line with paper processing devices on an upstream side and a downstream side, and is capable of stably performing alignment processing of a book block at a high speed. Provided is the book block aligning device comprising an air blowing control mechanism that controls start/stop of blowing of air from an air outlet, and an air volume of air, in accordance with timing when a book block passes through the air outlet opened in a conveying surface provided in a conveying path, and a vibration mechanism that vibrates a first conveying surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Horizon International, Inc.Inventors: Kohei Okamoto, Shigenobu Fukuda, Shigeru Wakimoto
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Publication number: 20210379919Abstract: The embodiment includes: a roll accommodation unit that accommodates a roll of a continuous sheet of additional member; an unwinding unit that unwinds and draws the additional member from the roll accommodation unit to a trimming station; a trimming unit that is arranged in the trimming station and cuts and trims the additional member in accordance with the size of a book block to form a strip of additional member; a gripper that grips the strip of additional member while supporting the under face thereof, moves between a retracted position inside a housing and a forward position outside the housing, and moves between the forward position and a raised position above the forward position; and a handover unit that hands over the strip of additional member from the trimming station to the gripper located in the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Horizon Inc.Inventors: Masaru OCHI, Shigenobu FUKUDA, Tomonori YACHI
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Publication number: 20210379920Abstract: The first cutter that cuts, in the direction transverse to the unwinding direction, a continuous sheet of additional member unwound and drawn by a length in accordance with the thickness of the book block is arranged at the input port of the trimming station, the transport mechanism that transports the cut additional member from the first cutter out in the unwinding direction of the continuous sheet of additional member is arranged downstream of the first cutter, the second cutter that trims the cut additional member being transported on the transport path in the unwinding direction is arranged in the transport path of the transport mechanism, and the position of the blades of the second cutter may be adjusted in the direction transverse to the unwinding direction in accordance with the head-to-foot length of the book block.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Horizon Inc.Inventors: Masaru Ochi, Shigenobu Fukuda, Kanta Kambara, Akira Nonoshita
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Publication number: 20210354944Abstract: A roll accommodation unit includes: a roll support shaft; a pair of side walls; and a pair of roll bearings that are attached to the pair of side walls, recessed portions are formed at upper ends of the pair of side walls, the pair of rolling bearings are attached to the side walls at positions corresponding to bottoms of the recessed portions such that the rolling bearings project upward beyond inclined surfaces of the recessed portions, the roll support shaft includes a support shaft main body, and a pair of small-diameter portions that are provided at both ends of the support shaft main body, and the roll support shaft is supported with the small-diameter portions abutting on outer circumferential surfaces of the pairs of rolling bearings in a state in which the support shaft main body is located at an interval from the recessed portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kanta KAMBARA, Shigenobu FUKUDA, Masaru OCHI
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Patent number: 11097567Abstract: A paper stack S supplied between clamping plates 1a, 1b of a carriage clamp 1 is pushed toward a positioning bar 2b by an alignment bar 5. A nip head 7 of a paper stack supplying unit 3 has first and second nip plates 9, 10, and a nip plate drive mechanism 11 moving each nip plate from a protruding position at which the nip plate protrudes from the nip head and a retracted position at which the nip plate retracts into the nip head, and translating the second nip plate taking the protruding position relative to the first nip plate taking the protruding position between a first position at which the first and second nip plates receive the paper stack therebetween and a second position at which the second nip plate cooperates with the first nip plate to grip the paper stack.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: HORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Kanta Kambara, Shigenobu Fukuda, Shigeru Wakimoto
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Publication number: 20210138822Abstract: Provided is a book block feed device capable of feeding a book block always in an aligned state to a bookbinding machine. The book block feed device comprises an alignment unit and a press unit that are adjacently arranged in order along a conveying path of the book block from an inlet to an outlet of the conveying path. The alignment unit comprises a vibrator that vibrates the book block. The press unit includes a press surface that forms a part of a conveying surface of the conveying path, and a press plate that sandwiches and presses the book block between the press plate and the press surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kanta KAMBARA, Shigenobu FUKUDA, Kohei OKAMOTO, Hiroto OTANI, Takehito YOKOGI, Shigeru WAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210138821Abstract: Provided is a book block aligning device that forms one processing line with paper processing devices on an upstream side and a downstream side, and is capable of stably performing alignment processing of a book block at a high speed. Provided is the book block aligning device comprising an air blowing control mechanism that controls start/stop of blowing of air from an air outlet, and an air volume of air, in accordance with timing when a book block passes through the air outlet opened in a conveying surface provided in a conveying path, and a vibration mechanism that vibrates a first conveying surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kohei OKAMOTO, Shigenobu FUKUDA, Shigeru WAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210046775Abstract: A book block supplying machine includes a reader which reads job information from an information portion printed on a book block; and a timing adjusting portion which adjusts a supply timing at which the book block is fed toward the book binding machine. A controller includes: a job information acquisition portion which acquires the job information; an upper limit processing speed acquisition portion which acquires an upper limit processing speed; a making speed decision portion which adopts and decides the making speed; a making speed instruction portion which instructs the book binding machine to make the bound material at the making speed; a timing decision portion which decides the supply timing based on the making speed, upper limit processing speed and accumulating number; and a timing instruction portion which instructs the timing adjusting portion to supply the book block at the supply timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Shinya Kitayama, Shigenobu Fukuda, Takakazu Hori
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Publication number: 20210039416Abstract: A paper stack S supplied between clamping plates 1a, 1b of a carriage clamp 1 is pushed toward a positioning bar 2b by an alignment bar 5. A nip head 7 of a paper stack supplying unit 3 has first and second nip plates 9, 10, and a nip plate drive mechanism 11 moving each nip plate from a protruding position at which the nip plate protrudes from the nip head and a retracted position at which the nip plate retracts into the nip head, and translating the second nip plate taking the protruding position relative to the first nip plate taking the protruding position between a first position at which the first and second nip plates receive the paper stack therebetween and a second position at which the second nip plate cooperates with the first nip plate to grip the paper stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kanta Kambara, Shigenobu Fukuda, Shigeru Wakimoto
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Patent number: 10766290Abstract: A bookbinding machine calculates a rotational speed coefficient, which represents the percent change of a rotational speed of a pump 6 relative to the reference rotational speed of the pump, depending on a thickness of a book block P to be bound and a conveying speed of a clamper by use of a first function defining a relationship between the thickness of the book block and the rotational speed coefficient and a second function defining a relationship between the rotational speed coefficient and the conveying speed of the clamper, calculates the set value of the rotational speed of the pump based on the rotational speed coefficients and the reference rotational speed, and sets the rotational speed of the pump according to the set value of the rotational speed.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: HORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Shigeyoshi Tago, Shigenobu Fukuda, Shinya Kitayama, Kosuke Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20200147991Abstract: A bookbinding machine calculates a rotational speed coefficient, which represents the percent change of a rotational speed of a pump 6 relative to the reference rotational speed of the pump, depending on a thickness of a book block P to be bound and a conveying speed of a clamper by use of a first function defining a relationship between the thickness of the book block and the rotational speed coefficient and a second function defining a relationship between the rotational speed coefficient and the conveying speed of the clamper, calculates the set value of the rotational speed of the pump based on the rotational speed coefficients and the reference rotational speed, and sets the rotational speed of the pump according to the set value of the rotational speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2017Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Shigeyoshi Tago, Shigenobu Fukuda, Shinya Kitayama, Kosuke Fujiwara
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Patent number: 10479125Abstract: A bookbinding device includes a control unit for calculating set parameter values for a clamper and a processing unit on the basis of thickness on a book body to be bound, and initially setting the clamper and the processing unit in accordance with the set parameter values. The control unit includes an input unit for receiving an input of a reference parameter value for two or more different book body thicknesses; a function generation unit for generating, on the basis of the reference parameter value, a function for calculating a set parameter value that has been adjusted in accordance with the book body thickness; a parameter calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of the book body thickness, the set adjusted parameter value by using the function; and an initial setting unit for initially setting the clamper and the processing unit in accordance with the set adjusted parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Shigenobu Fukuda, Takehito Yokogi, Yoshihide Iwayama
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Publication number: 20190152249Abstract: A bookbinding device includes a control unit for calculating set parameter values for a clamper and a processing unit on the basis of thickness on a book body to be bound, and initially setting the clamper and the processing unit in accordance with the set parameter values. The control unit includes an input unit for receiving an input of a reference parameter value for two or more different book body thicknesses; a function generation unit for generating, on the basis of the reference parameter value, a function for calculating a set parameter value that has been adjusted in accordance with the book body thickness; a parameter calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of the book body thickness, the set adjusted parameter value by using the function; and an initial setting unit for initially setting the clamper and the processing unit in accordance with the set adjusted parameter value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Shigenobu FUKUDA, Takehito YOKOGI, Yoshihide IWAYAMA