Patents by Inventor Shoji Tokunaga

Shoji Tokunaga 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).

  • Patent number: 10302659
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of a pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample. The method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease of the present invention has a step for (a) measuring the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample taken from a subject and a step for (b) evaluating the possibility of the subject suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker measured in step (a) and the age of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Nakata, Hiromi Sanuki, Tetsuhide Takeyama, Shoji Tokunaga, Masao Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180238906
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of a pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample. The method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease of the present invention has a step for (a) measuring the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample taken from a subject and a step for (b) evaluating the possibility of the subject suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker measured in step (a) and the age of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari NAKATA, Hiromi SANUKI, Tetsuhide TAKEYAMA, Shoji TOKUNAGA, Masao TANAKA
  • Patent number: 5300729
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument is provided with an operator and a function switch, adding to a controller having a shape similar to that of woodwind instrument and a tone source unit. The function switch selects a function such as a controll function of a musical tone parameter, or a musical play expression to be assigned to the operator such as a wheel switch or a foot switch. The operator performs the function assigned by the function switch during playing. Player can widen range of playing by selecting proper function and play effectively with the proper music play expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji Tokunaga, Harada Minoru
  • Patent number: 5070756
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument having a key-depression-detecting circuit for detecting a depressed key on a keyboard and for generating tone-pitch data corresponding to the depressed key, a tone-color-designating circuit for sequentially designating a desired tone color among a plurality of tone colors, a tone-color-data-storing circuit for storing tone-color data associated with the tone colors sequentially designated by the tone-color-designating circuit, an ensemble-tone-designating circuit for designating a predetermined number of tone colors among the most recently designated tone-color data stored in the tone-color-data-storing circuit; and a musical-tone-signal-generating circuit for generating a plurality of musical-tone signals in a parallel fashion, each of the musical-tone signals having a tone color corresponding to one of the tone colors designated by the ensemble-tone-designating circuit, and having a tone-pitch corresponding to the tone-pitch data generated by the key-depression-detecting cir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunao Abe, Shoji Tokunaga, Kotaro Mizuno