Patents by Inventor Shin Hirayama

Shin Hirayama 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: 20240144979
    Abstract: A sorbent breather filter for an electronic device such as a hard disk drive (HDD) is configured with a first chamber for housing a first sorbent and environmentally coupled with an external environment via at least a first orifice and a second orifice, a corresponding replaceable first sorbent such as zeolite or silica gel beads in the first chamber, a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber for housing a second sorbent, and a corresponding second sorbent such as carbon beads in the second chamber. The first orifice is a through-hole such that the first sorbent can be loaded into the first chamber therethrough, and the second orifice is a slitted or grated hole such that the first sorbent cannot move from the first chamber to the external environment through the second orifice while loading sorbent into the first chamber through an HDD first cover breather hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Takeji Sumiya, Shin Nagahiro, Hitoshi Tamura, Naoki Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20090131329
    Abstract: Provided are methods of treating a mammal at risk for allograft rejection. The methods comprise treating the mammal with a compound that reduces an interaction between a CXC chemokine and a CXC receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Edmund John Miller, Shin Hirayama, Takeshi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 7419673
    Abstract: Antiviral agents containing sea lettuce or an organic solvent extraction fraction thereof as an active component, and feeds containing the antiviral agents are disclosed. In addition, a process for preparing the antiviral agents is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Hirayama, Ryohei Ueda, Masashi Miyasaka, Kiyoshi Sugata
  • Publication number: 20050232945
    Abstract: Antiviral agents containing sea lettuce or an organic solvent extraction fraction thereof as an active component, and feeds containing the antiviral agents are disclosed. In addition, a process for preparing the antiviral agents is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Shin Hirayama, Ryohei Ueda, Masashi Miyasaka, Kiyoshi Sugata
  • Patent number: 6955812
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an anti-obesity agent comprising: D-cysteinolic acid represented by Formula I, as an active ingredient: Formula I:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Hirayama, Ryohei Ueda
  • Publication number: 20030228348
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an anti-obesity agent comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Hirayama, Ryohei Ueda
  • Publication number: 20030026811
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an anti-obesity agent comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Shin Hirayama, Ryohei Ueda
  • Publication number: 20020172686
    Abstract: Antiviral agents containing sea lettuce or an organic solvent extraction fraction thereof as an active component, and feeds containing the antiviral agents are disclosed. In addition, a process for preparing the antiviral agents is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Shin Hirayama, Ryohei Ueda, Masashi Miyasaka, Kiyoshi Sugata
  • Patent number: 5578472
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process and system for the production of ethanol wherein a microalga capable of accumulating starch in the cells thereof is cultured, the culture solution containing the grown algal cells is concentrated, and ethanol is formed by maintaining the resulting slurry in a dark and anaerobic atmosphere while keeping its pH in the range of 6.0 to 9.0. This process and system can further include additional steps and units for subjecting the residual slurry, from which ethanol has been separated, to methane fermentation, burning it to generate carbon dioxide, and using the carbon dioxide in the microalga culturing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohei Ueda, Shin Hirayama, Kiyoshi Sugata, Hiroshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 4026644
    Abstract: A device for inscribing additional informations on microfilms of a construction, wherein informations already recorded on microfilms are projected on an image screen by means of an enlarging and projecting device, additional informations to be entered on this microfilm are written in on the projected enlarged information images on the screen by a pen through guide means which moves on the projected image on the screen, the additional informations thus written-in on an appropriate portion on the projected image on the screen are reduced by a scale reducing means interlinked with the guide means and which reduces the movement of the guide means, and the thus reduced additional informations are then inscribed on the microfilm by means of write-in needle attached to the scale-reducing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hokushin Denki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuchida, Makoto Sato, Shin Hirayama