Patents by Inventor Shuji Kawai
Shuji Kawai 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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Publication number: 20100230025Abstract: A bicycle tire provides a first sidewall and a second sidewall each including an interior portion and an exterior portion. A rim attaching portion including a slipping reduction portion having an extended rim contact surface is connected to an inner circumference of each of the first sidewall and the second sidewall. A tire tread portion is connected to an outer circumference of the first sidewall and the second sidewall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventor: Shuji Kawai
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Publication number: 20100230028Abstract: A bicycle tire provides a first sidewall and a second sidewall each including an interior portion and an exterior portion. A rim attaching portion is connected to an inner circumference of each of the first sidewall and the second sidewall. A tire tread portion is connected to an outer circumference of the first sidewall and the second sidewall. A portion of the first sidewall and the second sidewall proximate to the inner circumference of the first sidewall and the second sidewall has a varying thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventor: Shuji Kawai
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Patent number: 7659507Abstract: Axial adjustments of an aberration corrector are made roughly. Whenever plural values of voltage are applied to an electrode in the first stage of the corrector, a different value of voltage is applied to the electrodes in the stage whose center is passed through by the reference orbit in the aberration corrector. At this time, a scanning deflector scans the electron beam over a specimen, producing a scanned image signal. Based on the scanned image signal, the amounts of positional deviations of the image are calculated. Based on the calculated amounts of positional deviations and on the voltages applied to the electrode in the first stage, an optimum value of voltage is calculated and fed back to the electrode in the first stage of the corrector.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Jeol Ltd.Inventor: Shuji Kawai
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Publication number: 20080078943Abstract: Axial adjustments of an aberration corrector are made roughly. Whenever plural values of voltage are applied to an electrode in the first stage of the corrector, a different value of voltage is applied to the electrodes in the stage whose center is passed through by the reference orbit in the aberration corrector. At this time, a scanning deflector scans the electron beam over a specimen, producing a scanned image signal. Based on the scanned image signal, the amounts of positional deviations of the image are calculated. Based on the calculated amounts of positional deviations and on the voltages applied to the electrode in the first stage, an optimum value of voltage is calculated and fed back to the electrode in the first stage of the corrector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: JEOL LTD.Inventor: Shuji Kawai
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Publication number: 20080050807Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA fragment encoding alkaline liquefying ?-amylase, recombinant DNA containing the DNA fragment, a transformed microorganism harboring the recombinant DNA, as well as a method for producing alkaline liquefying ?-amylase using the transformant. The method of the present invention enables mass production of alkaline liquefying ?-amylase useful as a detergent component. The present invention is directed to a liquefying alkaline alph?-amylase, and a DNA encoding for the same and functional fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2004Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventors: Yuji Hatada, Katsuya Ozaki, Katsutoshi Ara, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Patent number: 6979731Abstract: The present invention is directed to a liquefying alkaline alpha-amylase, and a DNA encoding for the same and functional fragments thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Katsuya Ozaki, Katsutoshi Ara, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Patent number: 6710001Abstract: A porous sintered body in which the leaching amounts of heavy metals are small and having high availability contains 0.5-15 weight % of B2O3, preferably contains 20-60 weight % of Al2O3, 18-60 weight % of SiO2, 1-12 weight % of the sum of Na2O, K2O, Li2O, and P2O5, 1-30 weight % of the sum of CaO, SrO, BaO, and MgO, and 0.5-15 weight % of B2O3.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Inax CorporationInventors: Osamu Watanabe, Shuji Kawai
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Patent number: 6689874Abstract: The present invention provides: a nucleotide sequence encoding alkaline pullulanase and exhibiting both alkaline &agr;-amylase and alkaline pullulanase activity; a nucleotide sequence encoding alkaline &agr;-amylase possessing an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:3; a nucleotide sequence encoding alkaline pullulanase possessing an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:4; recombinant DNAs containing these nucleotide sequences, and transformed microorganisms harboring the recombinant DNAs. The technique of the present invention enables mass production of alkaline pullulanase exhibiting both alkaline &agr;-amylase and alkaline pullulanase activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Kazuaki Igarashi, Katsuya Ozaki, Katsutoshi Ara, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Patent number: 6638748Abstract: The present invention is directed to a liquefying alkaline alpha-amylase, and a DNA encoding for the same and functional fragments thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Katsuya Ozaki, Katsutoshi Ara, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Patent number: 6509183Abstract: A DNA fragment coding for alkaline pullulanase, which contains about 6.3 Kb base pairs and has a restriction map shown in FIG. 2, a recombinant vector containing the DNA fragment, and a microorganism carrying the vector. Also disclosed is a method of preparing alkaline pullulanase which comprises culturing a transformant microorganism which has been transformed with a recombinant vector containing a DNA fragment coding for alkaline pullulanase, having a restriction enzyme map shown in FIG. 2 and having about 6.3 Kb base pairs. According to the method of the invention, alkaline pullulanase which is useful as a component of detergents can be mass-produced in a low cost.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1994Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Katsutoshi Ara, Kazuaki Igarashi, Katsuhisa Saeki, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Publication number: 20020182699Abstract: The present invention provides: a nucleotide sequence encoding alkaline pullulanase and exhibiting both alkaline &agr;-amylase and alkaline pullulanase activity; a nucleotide sequence encoding alkaline &agr;-amylase possessing an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:3; a nucleotide sequence encoding alkaline pullulanase possessing an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:4; recombinant DNAs containing these nucleotide sequences, and transformed microorganisms harboring the recombinant DNAs. The technique of the present invention enables mass production of alkaline pullulanase exhibiting both alkaline &agr;-amylase and alkaline pullulanase activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Kazuaki Igarashi, Katsuya Ozaki, Katsutoshi Ara, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Publication number: 20020102698Abstract: The present invention is directed to a liquefying alkaline alpha-amylase, and a DNA encoding for the same and functional fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2001Publication date: August 1, 2002Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Katsuya Ozaki, Katsutoshi Ara, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Publication number: 20020037798Abstract: A porous sintered body in which the leaching amounts of heavy metals are small and having high availability contains 0.5-15 weight % of B2O3, preferably contains 20-60 weight % of Al2O3, 18-60 weight % of SiO2, 1-12 weight % of the sum of Na2O, K2O, Li2O, and P2O5, 1-30 weight % of the sum of CaO, SrO, BaO, and MgO, and 0.5-15 weight % of B2O3.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Applicant: INAX CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Watanabe, Shuji Kawai
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Patent number: 6338959Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA fragment encoding alkaline pullulanase exhibiting alkaline &agr;-amylase activity, alkaline &agr;-amylase possessing both an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:3 and a DNA fragment encoding the amylase, alkaline pullulanase possessing both an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:4 and a DNA fragment encoding the pullulanase, recombinant DNAs containing these DNA fragments, and transformed microorganisms harboring the recombinant DNAs. The technique of the present invention enables mass production of alkaline pullulanase exhibiting alkaline &agr;-amylase activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Kazuaki Igarashi, Katsuya Ozaki, Katsutoshi Ara, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Patent number: 5654489Abstract: There is provided a process for producing an alicyclic diketone compound represented by the formula (1) ##STR1## wherein X is a single bond, --CH.sub.2 --, --C(CH.sub.3).sub.2 --, --O-- or --SO.sub.2 --, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, m and n are 0 to 2, comprising dehydrogenating an alicyclic diol compound represented by the formula (2) ##STR2## wherein X, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, m and n are as defined above in a liquid phase in the presence of at least one member selected from the group consisting of copper type catalysts and Raney type catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1995Date of Patent: August 5, 1997Assignee: New Japan Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Kawai, Noboru Araki, Hiroshi Itoh
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Patent number: 5635468Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquefying alkaline .alpha.-amylase having the enzymatic properties described below, a production process thereof and a detergent composition containing the same.1) Action:It hydrolyzes .alpha.-1,4-glucosidic linkages in starches, amylose, amylopectin and partial degradation products thereof and from amylose, forms glucose (G1), maltose (G2), maltotriose (G3), maltotetraose (G4), maltopentaose (G5) and maltohexaose (G6). It however does not act on pullulan.2) Isoelectric point:It has an isoelectric point higher than 8.5 when measured by an isoelectric focusing electrophoresis.The amylase according to the present invention has a liquefying activity capable of permitting degrading starches and starchy polysaccharides at high random, and has an optimum pH on the alkaline side. Owing to the high isoelectric point, it can be purified readily. Detergents with the amylase incorporated therein have excellent detergency especially against the soil of smeared food.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1995Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Katsutoshi Ara, Katsuhisa Saeki, Kazuaki Igarashi, Mikio Takaiwa, Takaaki Uemura, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito, Hiroshi Hagihara, Tohru Kobayashi, Atsushi Tanaka, Eiichi Hoshino
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Patent number: 5344770Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel enzyme called alkaline proteinase K-16 that is characterized as having an optimum pH in an alkaline range, and stability in the presence of various surface active agents, such as sodium linear alkylbenzene sulfonate, sodium polyoxyethylene alkyl sulfate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, sodium .alpha.-olefin sulfonate, sodium alkyl sulfonate, and .alpha.-sulfo-fatty acid ester. The present invention further provides for the microorganism Bacillus sp. Ferm BP-3376, which is capable of producing the novel alkaline proteinase, and a process for producing the novel alkaline proteinase. Alkaline-proteinase K-16 of the present invention exhibits an excellent action against insoluble proteins and maintains sufficient activity over a wide temperature range and in the presence of surface active agents thus providing a use as an enzyme for detergents.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1993Date of Patent: September 6, 1994Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Jun Hitomi, Shigehito Adachi, Yoshihiro Hakamada, Mikio Takaiwa, Tadashi Yoshimatsu, Yoko Watanabe, Tohru Kobayashi, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Patent number: 5296367Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel enzyme called alkaline proteinase K-16 that is characterized as having an optimum pH in an alkaline range, and stability in the presence of various surface active agents, such as sodium linear alkylbenzene sulfonate, sodium polyoxyethylene alkyl sulfate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, sodium .alpha.-olefin sulfonate, sodium alkyl sulfonate, and .alpha.-sulfo-fatty acid ester. The present invention further provides for a microorganism producing the novel alkaline proteinase, and a process for producing the novel alkaline proteinase. Alkaline proteinase K-16 of the present invention exhibits an excellent action against insoluble proteins and maintains sufficient activity over a wide temperature range and in the presence of surface active agents thus providing a use as an enzyme for detergents.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1992Date of Patent: March 22, 1994Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Jun Hitomi, Shigehito Adachi, Yoshihiro Hakamada, Mikio Takaiwa, Tadashi Yoshimatsu, Yoko Watanabe, Tohru Kobayashi, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito
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Patent number: 5045464Abstract: A novel alkaline cellulase is disclosed. The alkaline cellulase is produced by Bacillus sp KSM-635 (FERM BP-1485) and possesses: (1) C.sub.x enzyme activity to act on carboxymethyl cellulose and weak C.sub.1 enzyme .beta.-glucosidase activities, (2) substrate specificity to act on carboxymethyl cellulose, cellulose cotton, Avicel, filter paper, cellobiose, and p-nitrophenyl cellobioside, (3) a working pH range of 4-12 and an optimum pH range of 9-10, (4) stable pH range of 4.5-10.5 when allowed to stand at 40.degree. C. for 10 minutes, and (5) working temperature range of 10.degree.-65.degree. C. and optimum temperature range at around 40.degree. C. Its activity is not inhibited by chelating agents nor by surface active agents. It is particularly effective as an additive for laundry detergent compositions.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1989Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Susumu Ito, Shuji Kawai, Shitsuw Shikata, Katsuya Ozaki, Tadashi Yoshimatsu
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Patent number: 4962030Abstract: Alkaline cellulases having an optimum pH in an alkaline range and being stable over a broad pH range are produced by microorganisms which belong to the genus Bacillus and grow in a neutral medium.These alkaline cellulases are rarely inhibited by ingredients ordinarily incorporated in detergents such as surface active agents, proteinases and chelating agents, so that they can be conveniently used in detergent compositions.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1987Date of Patent: October 9, 1990Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Shuji Kawai, Kazushi Oshino, Hiromi Okoshi, Hajime Mori, Katsuya Ozaki, Shitsuw Shikata, Susumu Ito, Kikuhiko Okamoto