Patents by Inventor Takafumi Ueno

Takafumi Ueno 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: 20240399251
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a program for instructing a computer to perform: before the start of a battle game, accepting selection of a plurality of attributes of a game media to be included in a deck used in the battle game, the selection being made by a user, administering the deck such that, for each of the plurality of attributes selected by the user, the number of game media associated with that attribute becomes equal to or larger than a minimum number predetermined for each attribute, and displaying the plurality of attributes selected by the user and the plurality of attributes of the predetermined number of game media included in the deck used by an opponent that the user plays against.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sato, Takafumi Goto, Yuki Okabe, Junya Kumada, Yingnan Liu, Takafumi Ueno, Yuki Shibata, Shigeyoshi Mori, Takashi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20240402255
    Abstract: A management device includes: a first communication unit that receives state data of an energy storage device; a second communication unit that receives identification data transmitted from a host device; an external terminal to which a switch is connected and which receives an input from the switch; a state detection unit that detects a state of the switch via the external terminal; and a processing unit that stores the identification data in a storage unit when the second communication unit receives the identification data and the state detection unit detects that the switch is in a specific state, in which the state data received by the first communication unit is transmitted to the host device or another device in association with the identification data stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu ITO, Syuichi TAKEMOTO, Kenta YOSHIMOTO, Masayuki IWASAKI, Kazuo HARUKI, Tatsuya INOUE, Tsutomu UENO, Takafumi AKAGI, Yuya YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240316181
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to establish means for providing a component vaccine which can selectively or intensively induce cell-mediated immunity mainly attributable to MHC class I, and humoral immunity mainly attributable to MHC class II. The inventors have found that the object can be attained by providing a component vaccine containing, as an active ingredient, a trimer and/or a hexamer of a molecular needle carrying a peptide binding to MHC class I and/or a peptide binding to MHC class II. The inventors have also found an information acquisition method that can determine the MHC class or the like of a test peptide or a similar substance by detecting a change in secretion of a physiologically active substance such as a cytokine in a test animal which has been infected with a target microorganism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE KITASATO INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Takafumi UENO, Dan Que NGUYEN, Kazuhiko KATAYAMA, Reiko TODAKA, Kei HAGA, Akihito SAWADA
  • Patent number: 12087135
    Abstract: An information processing system is configured to execute: storing game media possessed by a player; storing, in a preliminary period, first group information for identifying game media corresponding to a first game condition in a first storage area and second group information for identifying game media corresponding to a second game condition in a second storage area; storing, in a post period, the second group information in the first storage area; enabling, in the preliminary period, the execution of games using the first and second group information; enabling, in the post period, the execution of a game using the second group information stored in the first storage area and disabling the execution of a game using the first group information; and storing, in the first storage area in the post period, the second group information stored in the second storage area in the preliminary period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuki Okabe, Takashi Ueno, Takafumi Goto, Kensuke Nakata
  • Patent number: 11701748
    Abstract: A sintered magnet sawing apparatus is provided comprising a cylindrical work carrier mounted on a horizontal rotating spindle and having a regular polygonal shape in a perpendicular cross section, and a plurality of endless elastic belts adapted to force a work of sintered magnet against the carrier surface to secure the work thereto and adapted to travel synchronously with and counter to the rotation of the carrier in a circulatory manner. In accordance with rotation of the carrier, the work is delivered to the peripheral surface of the carrier, secured thereto by the elastic belts, moved further forward and cutoff machined by an outer cutoff blade. The divided work is moved further forward, released and discharged from the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Inami, Takafumi Ueno, Kazuhito Akada, Masaki Kasashima
  • Publication number: 20230159975
    Abstract: A production method for a crystal of a crystalline protein, the method including a step of inducing expression of a crystalline protein in Escherichia coli into which an expression construct of the crystalline protein has been introduced, and incubating the Escherichia coli for a predetermined time until a crystal of the crystalline protein is formed inside the Escherichia coli, and a crystal structure analysis method including a step of subjecting a crystal produced by the above-described production method to an X-ray crystal structure analysis together with the Escherichia coli, are useful as technologies for conveniently producing and analyzing a crystal of a protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Takafumi UENO, Satoshi ABE, Mariko KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11517616
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the issue of providing a norovirus component vaccine for subcutaneous, intradermal, percutaneous, or intramuscular administration which vaccine can readily immunize the target cells, an associated product of a molecular needle serving as an active ingredient of the vaccine, and a production method for the associated product. The invention provides a norovirus component vaccine containing, as an active ingredient, an associated product including a hexamer formed through bonding of two molecules of a trimer of a molecular needle represented by the following formula (1). W-L1-Xn—Y (1) [wherein W represents an amino acid sequence of P domain of the capsid protein of norovirus as an immunogen; L1 represents a first linker sequence having 0 to 100 amino acids; X represents an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1; Y represents an amino acid sequence of a cell introduction domain; n is an integer of 1 to 3].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: Denka Company Limited, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE KITASATO INSTITUTE, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
    Inventors: Takafumi Ueno, Kengo Yoshikawa, Megumi Mano, Kazuhiko Katayama, Motohiro Miki, Reiko Todaka, Yoshimasa Takahashi, Taishi Onodera
  • Publication number: 20220362370
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to establish means for providing a component vaccine which can elicit immunity to a non-structural protein. The present inventors have found that the object can be attained by providing a component vaccine containing an associated product containing a trimer and/or a hexamer of a molecular needle to which a non-structural protein of a pathogenic virus is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE KITASATO INSTITUTE, DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Takafumi UENO, Dan Que NGUYEN, Kazuhiko KATAYAMA, Reiko TODAKA, Kei HAGA, Akihito SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20220275023
    Abstract: This method for producing a protein crystal includes: a step (a) for adding, to a protein synthesis system, a nucleic acid that encodes crystalline protein; and a step (b) for incubating the protein synthesis system during the predetermined time until the crystalline protein encoded by the added nucleic acid is expressed and the expressed crystalline protein completes the formation of crystals, wherein the protein synthesis system is a cell-free protein synthesis system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi UENO, Satoshi ABE, Mariko KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11383616
    Abstract: A vehicle battery life tracking system includes a vehicle battery, an electronic control unit and a wireless communication unit. The vehicle battery has a plurality of individual battery units. The electronic control unit is provided to a vehicle having the vehicle battery. The electronic control unit is programmed to monitor and store chargeability information associated with the individual battery units. The wireless communication unit is provided to the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to control the wireless communication unit to upload the chargeability information to an external memory storage upon the occurrence of one or more predetermined incidents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Ueno, Kaori Wilson, David Nishijima
  • Publication number: 20220063049
    Abstract: A sintered magnet sawing apparatus is provided comprising a cylindrical work carrier mounted on a horizontal rotating spindle and having a regular polygonal shape in a perpendicular cross section, and a plurality of endless elastic belts adapted to force a work of sintered magnet against the carrier surface to secure the work thereto and adapted to travel synchronously with and counter to the rotation of the carrier in a circulatory manner. In accordance with rotation of the carrier, the work is delivered to the peripheral surface of the carrier, secured thereto by the elastic belts, moved further forward and cutoff machined by an outer cutoff blade. The divided work is moved further forward, released and discharged from the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Inami, Takafumi Ueno, Kazuhito Akada, Masaki Kasashima
  • Patent number: 11185958
    Abstract: A sintered magnet sawing apparatus is provided comprising a cylindrical work carrier mounted on a horizontal rotating spindle and having a regular polygonal shape in a perpendicular cross section, and a plurality endless elastic belts adapted to force a work of sintered magnet against the carrier surface to secure the work thereto and adapted to travel synchronously with and counter to the rotation of the carrier in a circulatory manner. In accordance with rotation of the carrier, the work is delivered to the peripheral surface of the carrier, secured thereto by the elastic belts, moved further forward and cutoff machined by an outer cutoff blade. The divided work is moved further forward, released and discharged from the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Inami, Takafumi Ueno, Kazuhito Akada, Masaki Kasashima
  • Publication number: 20210339649
    Abstract: A vehicle battery life tracking system includes a vehicle battery, an electronic control unit and a wireless communication unit. The vehicle battery has a plurality of individual battery units. The electronic control unit is provided to a vehicle having the vehicle battery. The electronic control unit is programmed to monitor and store chargeability information associated with the individual battery units. The wireless communication unit is provided to the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to control the wireless communication unit to upload the chargeability information to an external memory storage upon the occurrence of one or more predetermined incidents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Takafumi UENO, Kaori WILSON, David NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210299240
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the issue of providing a norovirus component vaccine for subcutaneous, intradermal, percutaneous, or intramuscular administration which vaccine can readily immunize the target cells, an associated product of a molecular needle serving as an active ingredient of the vaccine, and a production method for the associated product. The invention provides a norovirus component vaccine containing, as an active ingredient, an associated product including a hexamer formed through bonding of two molecules of a trimer of a molecular needle represented by the following formula (1). W-L1-Xn—Y (1) [wherein W represents an amino acid sequence of P domain of the capsid protein of norovirus as an immunogen; L1 represents a first linker sequence having 0 to 100 amino acids; X represents an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1; Y represents an amino acid sequence of a cell introduction domain; n is an integer of 1 to 3].
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicants: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE KITASATO INSTITUTE, JAPAN AS REPRESENTED BY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
    Inventors: Takafumi UENO, Kengo YOSHIKAWA, Megumi MANO, Kazuhiko KATAYAMA, Motohiro MIKI, Reiko TODAKA, Yoshimasa TAKAHASHI, Taishi ONODERA
  • Patent number: 10960512
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet block is cutoff machined into pieces by rotating cutoff abrasive blades. Improvements are made by setting the blades on one side of the magnet block, rotating the blades, starting machining operation to form cutting grooves in the magnet block from one side, interrupting the machining operation, moving the blades to the other side of the magnet block, and restarting the machining operation to form cutting grooves in the magnet block from the other side, until the cutting grooves formed from the one and other sides merge with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Jibiki, Kazuhito Akada, Takafumi Ueno, Kennosuke Izumi
  • Patent number: 10639816
    Abstract: A fastening jig for securing a magnet block (M) when the magnet block is cutoff machined into pieces is provided, the jig comprising a lower clamp (31) on which the magnet block is rested, an upper clamp (32) disposed on the magnet block, and a press unit (33) for pressing the clamps to apply a pressing force to the magnet block. A portion of the lower clamp (31) which is disposed adjacent to the magnet block is provided with a generally horizontal channel (311) to define a resilient cantilever (312), whereby the magnet block is held between the clamps by the repulsion force of the cantilever (312).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Jibiki, Kazuhito Akada, Takafumi Ueno, Kennosuke Izumi
  • Patent number: 10478734
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a game control program, a game control method, and a game control device with which the operability regarding movement instructions for a game character can be improved. A game control device 1 includes a touchscreen 10; a first determination unit 32 that determines, as a first touch operation, an operation in which contact with the touchscreen 10 is maintained and in which the contact position is moved continuously; a trajectory generating unit 33 that generates an anticipated movement trajectory of a character in the game in accordance with the direction and movement amount of the first touch operation; a second determination unit 35 that determines, as a second touch operation, new contact with the touchscreen 10 while the contact in the first touch operation is being continued; and a trajectory changing unit 36 that changes the anticipated movement trajectory in accordance with the kind, contact position, or movement amount of the second touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Takafumi Ueno, Shoji Kawano
  • Publication number: 20180339391
    Abstract: A sintered magnet sawing apparatus is provided comprising a cylindrical work carrier mounted on a horizontal rotating spindle and having a regular polygonal shape in a perpendicular doss section and a plurality endless elastic belts adapted to force a work of sintered magnet against the carrier surface to secure the work thereto and adapted to travel synchronously with and counter to the rotation of the carrier in a circulatory manner. In accordance with rotation of the carrier, the work is delivered to the peripheral surface of to the carrier, secured thereto by the elastic belts, moved further forward and cutoff machined by an outer cutoff blade. The divided work is moved further forward, released and discharged from the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Inami, Takafumi Ueno, Kazuhito Akada, Masaki Kasashima
  • Publication number: 20180178345
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet block is cutoff machined into pieces by rotating cutoff abrasive blades. Improvements are made by setting the blades on one side of the magnet block, rotating the blades, starting machining operation to form cutting grooves in the magnet block from one side, interrupting the machining operation, moving the blades to the other side of the magnet block, and restarting the machining operation to form cutting grooves in the magnet block from the other side, until the cutting grooves formed from the one and other sides merge with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Jibiki, Kazuhito Akada, Takafumi Ueno, Kennosuke Izumi
  • Publication number: 20180178410
    Abstract: A fastening jig for securing a magnet block (M) when the magnet block is cutoff machined into pieces is provided, the jig comprising a lower clamp (31) on which the magnet block is rested, an upper clamp (32) disposed on the magnet block, and a press unit (33) for pressing the clamps to apply a pressing force to the magnet block. A portion of the lower clamp (31) which is disposed adjacent to the magnet block is provided with a generally horizontal channel (311) to define a resilient cantilever (312), whereby the magnet block is held between the clamps by the repulsion force of the cantilever (312).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Jibiki, Kazuhito Akada, Takafumi Ueno, Kennosuke Izumi