Patents by Inventor Shuichi Hirai

Shuichi Hirai 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: 11880528
    Abstract: A stimulus transmission device suppresses power consumption, and effectively transmits a physical stimulus to a user. The stimulus transmission device has a pressure receiving portion which receives pressure from part of a human body, an actuator which drives the pressure receiving portion, and a supporting portion which supports the actuator. The actuator does not move in conjunction with the supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Koji Osaki, Shuichi Hirai, Natsuo Koda
  • Publication number: 20230323289
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for pluripotent cell undifferentiated state maintenance culture and a culture method using the same, which are capable of improving the growth rate of pluripotent cells or reducing the frequency of cellular death of pluripotent cell in the pluripotent cell maintenance culture in an undifferentiated state. A composition for pluripotent cell undifferentiated state maintenance culture includes microbubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: Aichi Medical University, Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Hatayama, Munekazu Naito, Shuichi Hirai, Kaori Fukushige, Shunji Oyama
  • Publication number: 20230152921
    Abstract: A stimulus transmission device suppresses power consumption, and effectively transmits a physical stimulus to a user. The stimulus transmission device has a pressure receiving portion which receives pressure from part of a human body, an actuator which drives the pressure receiving portion, and a supporting portion which supports the actuator. The actuator does not move in conjunction with the supporting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Norio NAKAMURA, Koji OSAKI, Shuichi HIRAI, Natsuo KODA
  • Publication number: 20230095770
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vasodilator composition capable of adjusting a dosage of nitric oxide (NO). A vasodilator composition of the present invention includes microbubbles, wherein the microbubbles contain NO as a gas component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Aichi Medical University
    Inventors: Naoyuki Hatayama, Munekazu Naito, Shuichi Hirai, Kaori Fukushige
  • Patent number: 11609655
    Abstract: A stimulus transmission device suppresses power consumption, and effectively transmits a physical stimulus to a user. The stimulus transmission device has a pressure receiving portion which receives pressure from part of a human body, an actuator which drives the pressure receiving portion, and a supporting portion which supports the actuator. The actuator does not move in conjunction with the supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Koji Osaki, Shuichi Hirai, Natsuo Koda
  • Publication number: 20230055597
    Abstract: A recommendation item determination system is configured to: compute an emotion index of a user based on a voice signal acquired from a conversation between the user and a conversational partner of the user, compute a personality element index based on a speech text generated by voice recognition on the voice signal of the user; generate a first personality model of the user based on the emotional index and the personality element index, compute, respectively for a plurality of personality types, personality type similarities each of which is a similarity between the first personality model of the user and the first personality model of the personality type; generate a second personality model of the user based on the plurality of personality type similarities; extract one or more items from a group of items represented by the second personality model; and determine a recommendation item based on the extracted one or more items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Niiro, Atsushi Nakajima, Shuichi Hirai
  • Publication number: 20220387333
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing an electrolyte solution which can contain a high concentration of microbubbles, and a method for producing a microbubble-containing solvent which can be used for preparing the electrolyte solution, by suppressing decrease in microbubbles during filtration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicants: Aichi Medical University, Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Hatayama, Munekazu Naito, Shuichi Hirai, Kaori Fukushige, Shigeki Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20210195887
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that can preserve biomaterials. The biomaterial preservation composition of the present invention includes a microbubble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicants: Aichi Medical University, Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Hatayama, Munekazu Naito, Shuichi Hirai, Shigeki Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20210137098
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that can preserve cells. The composition of the present invention includes a microbubble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicants: Aichi Medical University, Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Hatayama, Munekazu Naito, Shuichi Hirai, Kaori Fukushige, Shigeki Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20200249814
    Abstract: A stimulus transmission device suppresses power consumption, and effectively transmits a physical stimulus to a user. The stimulus transmission device has a pressure receiving portion which receives pressure from part of a human body, an actuator which drives the pressure receiving portion, and a supporting portion which supports the actuator. The actuator does not move in conjunction with the supporting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Norio NAKAMURA, Koji OSAKI, Shuichi HIRAI, Natsuo KODA
  • Patent number: 5244554
    Abstract: A method of producing recording media which comprises steps of arranging substrates for recording media on a carrier which is purified by etching with a plasma state gas; and forming a plurality of sputtered layers on the substrates.An apparatus for producing recording media which comprises a sputtering chamber which forms a recording layer; and a treatment chamber which precedes the sputtering chamber, and in which a carrier to be arranged with substrates for the recording media is purified by a plasma state gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriaki Yamagata, Nobuyuki Yoshino, Shuichi Hirai