Patents by Inventor Tadashi Kimura
Tadashi Kimura 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: 11958495Abstract: A vehicle display control device, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to cause a display unit provided in a vehicle cabin to display an inducement image requesting that an occupant grip a steering wheel in a case in which it is necessary for the occupant to grip the steering wheel, and cause the display unit to display the inducement image more prominently in a case of requesting that the occupant grip the steering wheel before the vehicle switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously, than in a case of requesting that the occupant continue to grip the steering wheel as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Ryo Ogata, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita
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Patent number: 11953384Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an ultrasonic sensor attached to a rear surface side of the structural body having the multilayer structure, an acquisition unit configured to, through the ultrasonic sensor, acquire a signal of a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave incident at the internal side of the structural body, an extraction unit configured to extract, from the signal of the reflected wave, a domain including a reflected wave reflected on a surface on the internal side of the structural body, and an identification unit configured to, based on a signal of the reflected wave in the extracted domain, identify the temperature of the surface on the internal side of the structural body.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masaya Kawano, Masahiro Sugihara, Tadashi Kimura, Shinsuke Sato
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Patent number: 11826131Abstract: A non-invasive and accurate vagina evaluation device and uterine evaluation devices are provided that measure the receptivity (uterine implantation capacity) of the mother's body to a fertilized egg implanting itself into the uterus. A first vagina evaluation device includes: a main body stretchable and expandable after insertion into a vagina, followed by air injection thereinto; four electrodes brought into contact with the vagina wall as the main body expands and stretches; and fixation means configured to fix the interval of arrangement of the electrodes. Second and third uterine evaluation device include: a flexible and rod-shaped main body for insertion into a uterine cavity; and four or two impedance electrodes arranged with a predetermined interval therebetween in an insertion direction of the main body and brought into contact with an endometrium of the uterine cavity to measure a uterine endometrial impedance generated between the endometrium and each of the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hitomi Nakamura, Tadashi Kimura, Takayoshi Hosono
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Publication number: 20230272371Abstract: A method for screening for a polypeptide that acts on a target protein, including (1) providing a polynucleotide library constituted of a plurality of expression vectors that can be expressed in a gram-negative bacterium, where the plurality of expression vectors each include a first polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide different from one another, a secretory signal sequence positioned upstream of the first polynucleotide, and a second polynucleotide encoding a target protein, (2) transforming a gram-negative bacterium with the expression vector to express the polypeptide in a periplasmic space and the target protein on an inner membrane surface, (3) contacting the polypeptide with the target protein in the periplasmic space, (4) allowing the gram-negative bacterium to form a spheroplast to measure activity of the polypeptide on the target protein by a patch clamp technique, and (5) identifying the polypeptide that acts on the target protein based on the measured activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Tadashi KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220107228Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an ultrasonic sensor attached to a rear surface side of the structural body having the multilayer structure, an acquisition unit configured to, through the ultrasonic sensor, acquire a signal of a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave incident at the internal side of the structural body, an extraction unit configured to extract, from the signal of the reflected wave, a domain including a reflected wave reflected on a surface on the internal side of the structural body, and an identification unit configured to, based on a signal of the reflected wave in the extracted domain, identify the temperature of the surface on the internal side of the structural body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Masaya KAWANO, Masahiro SUGIHARA, Tadashi KIMURA, Shinsuke SATO
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Publication number: 20200163579Abstract: A non-invasive and accurate vagina evaluation device and uterine evaluation devices are provided that measure the receptivity (uterine implantation capacity) of the mother's body to a fertilized egg implanting itself into the uterus. A first vagina evaluation device includes: a main body stretchable and expandable after insertion into a vagina, followed by air injection thereinto; four electrodes brought into contact with the vagina wall as the main body expands and stretches; and fixation means configured to fix the interval of arrangement of the electrodes. Second and third uterine evaluation device include: a flexible and rod-shaped main body for insertion into a uterine cavity; and four or two impedance electrodes arranged with a predetermined interval therebetween in an insertion direction of the main body and brought into contact with an endometrium of the uterine cavity to measure a uterine endometrial impedance generated between the endometrium and each of the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Hitomi NAKAMURA, Tadashi KIMURA, Takayoshi HOSONO
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Patent number: 10602955Abstract: A non-invasive and accurate vagina evaluation device and uterine evaluation devices are provided that measure the receptivity (uterine implantation capacity) of the mother's body to a fertilized egg implanting itself into the uterus. A first vagina evaluation device includes: a main body stretchable and expandable after insertion into a vagina, followed by air injection thereinto; four electrodes brought into contact with the vagina wall as the main body expands and stretches; and a fixation device configured to fix the interval of arrangement of the electrodes. Second and third uterine evaluation device include: a flexible and rod-shaped main body for insertion into a uterine cavity; and four or two impedance electrodes arranged with a predetermined interval therebetween in an insertion direction of the main body and brought into contact with an endometrium of the uterine cavity to measure a uterine endometrial impedance generated between the endometrium and each of the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Osaka UniversityInventors: Hitomi Nakamura, Tadashi Kimura, Takayoshi Hosono
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Publication number: 20200015855Abstract: A suture needle for uterine hemostatic compression comprises at least one suture needle and a suture thread. The at least one suture needle includes a body portion extending linearly in a lengthwise direction and a puncture portion provided at a tip of the body portion in the lengthwise direction to be thrust into a uterus. The suture thread is attached to a base end portion that is on an opposite side of the puncture portion in the suture needle. The puncture portion is formed as a spherical surface that bulges toward a tip side of the lengthwise direction. The spherical surface has a radius in a connection portion with the body portion substantially identical to a radius of the body portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Toshimi SHIONO, Shinji FURUTA, Shinya MATSUZAKI, Tadashi KIMURA, Masayuki ENDO
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Publication number: 20190223755Abstract: A non-invasive and accurate vagina evaluation device and uterine evaluation devices are provided that measure the receptivity (uterine implantation capacity) of the mother's body to a fertilized egg implanting itself into the uterus. A first vagina evaluation device includes: a main body stretchable and expandable after insertion into a vagina, followed by air injection thereinto; four electrodes brought into contact with the vagina wall as the main body expands and stretches; and fixation means configured to fix the interval of arrangement of the electrodes. Second and third uterine evaluation device include: a flexible and rod-shaped main body for insertion into a uterine cavity; and four or two impedance electrodes arranged with a predetermined interval therebetween in an insertion direction of the main body and brought into contact with an endometrium of the uterine cavity to measure a uterine endometrial impedance generated between the endometrium and each of the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Hitomi NAKAMURA, Tadashi KIMURA, Takayoshi HOSONO
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Patent number: 10271760Abstract: A non-invasive and accurate vagina evaluation device and uterine evaluation devices are provided that measure the receptivity (uterine implantation capacity) of the mother's body to a fertilized egg implanting itself into the uterus. A first vagina evaluation device includes: a main body stretchable and expandable after insertion into a vagina, followed by air injection thereinto; four electrodes brought into contact with the vagina wall as the main body expands and stretches; and fixation means configured to fix the interval of arrangement of the electrodes. Second and third uterine evaluation device include: a flexible and rod-shaped main body for insertion into a uterine cavity; and four or two impedance electrodes arranged with a predetermined interval therebetween in an insertion direction of the main body and brought into contact with an endometrium of the uterine cavity to measure a uterine endometrial impedance generated between the endometrium and each of the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Osaka UniversityInventors: Hitomi Nakamura, Tadashi Kimura, Takayoshi Hosono
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Patent number: 10247349Abstract: In a configuration of a method for preventing progression of corrosion in a steel pipe structure according to the present invention, two or more types of liquids 150 are injected, while being mixed, into a steel pipe that constitutes the steel pipe structure, from an opening at one of both ends of the steel pipe, and the inside of the steel pipe is filled with resin foam product (foam product 152) by foam expansion and hardening of the two or more types of liquids.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Nitto Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaishi, Takehiro Miyazawa, Yoshio Tamura, Takuhiko Ohashi, Masashi Suematsu, Osamu Hatsumi, Tadashi Kimura, Makoto Ide, Isao Naganuma, Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Tetsuya Matayoshi, Kouei Miyazato, Shinichi Suzuki, Nobuo Okamura, Kozo Hatsumi, Hiromi Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20180276020Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more virtual machines, a container scaling apparatus, and a virtual-machine scaling apparatus. The container scaling apparatus performs autoscaling processing of a container that runs on a virtual machine among the one or more virtual machines. The virtual-machine scaling apparatus performs autoscaling processing of the one or more virtual machines and that stops a virtual machine whose protective state with respect to scale-in has been cancelled among the one or more virtual machines when performing scale-in. Each of the one or more virtual machines includes a controller that performs control in such a manner that the virtual machine is set to a protective state with respect to the scale-in performed by the virtual-machine scaling apparatus if one or more containers are running on the virtual machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Tadashi KIMURA
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Patent number: 9843945Abstract: A communication apparatus is configured to work by power supplied through a communication line, the communication apparatus includes: a controller, when the controller detects that the power supplied through the communication line decreases in a predetermined range, configured to degrade operation of the communication apparatus, the degraded operation including at least one of stop of partial function among functions held by the communication apparatus and a decrease in performance of the functions held by the communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Tadashi Kimura
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Patent number: 9823587Abstract: This disclosure provides a lithography apparatus including: a lens barrel having an optical system configured to irradiate a substrate with a beam; and a stage apparatus configured to repeat a long distance movement in a primary scanning direction of the substrate and a short distance movement which is shorter than the long distance movement in terms of the amount of movement in a secondary scanning direction of the substrate, and being configured to form a pattern on the substrate with the beam, wherein the stage apparatus includes: a first moving body configured to move in the primary scanning direction; a floating unit configured to support the first moving body, so as to float by a magnetic force and be movable in the primary scanning direction; a second moving body configured to move in the secondary scanning direction; and a guide using a rolling body configured to support the second moving body in contact therewith so as to be movable in the secondary scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadashi Kimura, Nobushige Korenaga
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Patent number: 9700024Abstract: A lentiviral vector was used to produce non-human animals that express human sFLT1 specifically in the murine placenta, to provide model animals of diseases such as pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome that are close to the clinical conditions, methods for producing the model animals, methods of screening for candidate compounds as therapeutic agents for diseases such as pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome by using the model animals, and therapeutic agents for diseases such as pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome. As a result, the model animals were found to exhibit symptoms that are very close to the clinical conditions in human, which are presentation of hypertension as well as placental insufficiency, intrauterine growth retardation, glomerulosclerosis, and proteinuria during pregnancy, and improvement of those symptoms postpartum.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignees: FUSO PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masaru Okabe, Masahito Ikawa, Tadashi Kimura, Keiichi Kumasawa
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Patent number: 9694460Abstract: When measuring the dimensions of a tool having a cutting portion at an edge of a planar portion, first a plurality of points are measured on the planar portion using a measuring probe, then a planar formula for a measurement plane containing the planar portion is determined from these measured values. Next, the measuring probe is moved along the measurement plane expressed by the planar formula from the exterior of the cutting portion toward the cutting portion until the measuring probe contacts the cutting portion. The position of the cutting portion is determined based on the position of the measuring probe when the measuring probe comes into contact with the cutting portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Kousuke Sugiyama, Tadashi Kimura, Tadahiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20170128053Abstract: A non-invasive and accurate vagina evaluation device and uterine evaluation devices are provided that measure the receptivity (uterine implantation capacity) of the mother's body to a fertilized egg implanting itself into the uterus. A first vagina evaluation device includes: a main body stretchable and expandable after insertion into a vagina, followed by air injection thereinto; four electrodes brought into contact with the vagina wall as the main body expands and stretches; and fixation means configured to fix the interval of arrangement of the electrodes. Second and third uterine evaluation device include: a flexible and rod-shaped main body for insertion into a uterine cavity; and four or two impedance electrodes arranged with a predetermined interval therebetween in an insertion direction of the main body and brought into contact with an endometrium of the uterine cavity to measure a uterine endometrial impedance generated between the endometrium and each of the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Hitomi NAKAMURA, Tadashi KIMURA, Takayoshi HOSONO
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Publication number: 20160319981Abstract: In a configuration of a method for preventing progression of corrosion in a steel pipe structure according to the present invention, two or more types of liquids 150 are injected, while being mixed, into a steel pipe that constitutes the steel pipe structure, from an opening at one of both ends of the steel pipe, and the inside of the steel pipe is filled with resin foam product (foam product 152) by foam expansion and hardening of the two or more types of liquids.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKAISHI, Takehiro MIYAZAWA, Yoshio TAMURA, Takuhiko OHASHI, Masashi SUEMATSU, Osamu HATSUMI, Tadashi KIMURA, Makoto IDE, Isao NAGANUMA, Marco VOLPATO, Maurizio CORTI, Tetsuya MATAYOSHI, Kouei MIYAZATO, Shinichi SUZUKI, Nobuo OKAMURA, Kozo HATSUMI, Hiromi HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20160174084Abstract: A communication apparatus is configured to work by power supplied through a communication line, the communication apparatus includes: a controller, when the controller detects that the power supplied through the communication line decreases in a predetermined range, configured to degrade operation of the communication apparatus, the degraded operation including at least one of stop of partial function among functions held by the communication apparatus and a decrease in performance of the functions held by the communication apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventor: Tadashi KIMURA
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Patent number: 9280068Abstract: A stage apparatus has a base; a movable portion including a stage movable relative to the base; a flexible utility line for supplying utility to the movable portion; and a cover for covering the utility line, the cover including: a housing member provided to one of the base and the movable portion, in which an opening is formed; and a sealing member provided to the other of the base and the movable portion, which is arranged opposite to a side, in which the opening is formed, of the housing member with a gap therebetween, and has a side for sealing the opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Morohashi, Tadashi Kimura, Nobushige Korenaga