Patents by Inventor Takagi

Takagi 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).

  • INK CARTRIDGE
    Publication number: 20130162732
    Abstract: An ink cartridge includes an ink chamber, a shaft, and a pivotable member including a float The pivotable member is configured to move about the shaft between a first position and a second position when the float moves. The float is positioned higher when the pivotable member is in the first position than when the pivotable member is in the second position. The float has a triangular shape when viewed in an axial direction of the shaft, and the triangular shape comprises a first side having a first dimension, a second side having a second dimension, and a third side having a third dimension. The first dimension is greater than each of the second dimension and the third dimension, and the first side is positioned above a vertex between the second side and the third side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAGI, Tomohiro KANBE, Hirotake NAKAMURA
  • Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system
    Patent number: 8472468
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Takagi, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Yoriko Utsunomiya
  • Cancer cell-specific apoptosis-inducing agents that target chromosome stabilization-associated genes
    Patent number: 8470798
    Abstract: The present inventors discovered that inhibition of the expression of various genes associated with chromosome stabilization induces cancer cell-specific apoptosis and inhibits cell proliferation. Compounds that inhibit expression of a gene associated with chromosome stabilization or inhibit the function of a protein encoded by such a gene are thought to have cancer cell-specific apoptosis-inducing effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Genecare Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoki Takagi, Kazunobu Futami, Akira Shimamoto, Yasuhiro Furuichi
  • Package and high frequency terminal structure for the same
    Patent number: 8471382
    Abstract: A package includes: a metal wall disposed on a conductive base plate; a through-hole disposed in input/output portions of the metal wall; a lower layer feed through disposed on the conductive base plate; a wiring pattern disposed on the lower layer feed through; an upper layer feed through disposed on a part of the lower layer feed through and a part of the wiring pattern; and a terminal disposed on the wiring pattern, wherein a width of a part of the lower layer feed through and a width of the upper layer feed through are wider than a width of the through-hole, the lower layer feed through is adhered to a side surface of the metal wall, the upper layer feed through is adhered to the side surface of metal wall, and an air layer is formed between the wiring pattern and an internal wall of the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kazutaka Takagi
  • Heat-shrinkable film, moldings and heat-shrinkable labels made using the heat-shrinkable film, and containers made by using the moldings or fitted with the labels
    Patent number: 8470420
    Abstract: A heat-shrinkable film which is excellent in mechanical characteristics such as heat shrinkage characteristics, impact resistance, and transparency and in the finish of shrinkage and which is suitable for shrink packaging, shrink bundling, shrinkable labels, and so on. A film which is made from a mixed resin comprising as the main components either a polylactic acid resin (A) and a (meth)acrylic resin (B) or a polylactic acid resin (A) and a silicone/acrylic composite rubber (D) or has at least one layer made from the mixed resin and which exhibits a heat shrinkage percentage of 20% or above in the main shrinkage direction when dipped in water at 80° C. for 10 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Hiruma, Takeyoshi Yamada, You Miyashita, Kouichi Sawa, Kazuya Tanaka, Jun Takagi
  • Moving image processing apparatus, moving image processing method, and program
    Patent number: 8472788
    Abstract: There is provided a moving image processing apparatus, including a cut transition detection unit configured to detect inter-cut transition from a moving image including a plurality of cuts, a cut grouping unit configured to group the plurality of cuts into cut groups based on a degree of similarity among the cuts, an inter-cut distance calculation unit configured to calculate inter-cut distances based on inter-cut temporal distances in the moving image, an inter-cut group distance calculation unit configured to calculate inter-cut group distances by summing up the inter-cut distances, which are calculated with respect to the plurality of cuts, in each cut group, and a cut structure image generation unit configured to generate a cut structure image including representative images of the cuts belonging to the cut groups and information indicating the inter-cut group distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus
    Patent number: 8470504
    Abstract: The electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a support; and a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer and a photosensitive layer which are provided on the support in this order, in which the second intermediate layer contains a polyolefin resin and a metal oxide particle having a volume-average particle diameter of 20 nm or less, and the first intermediate layer contains a metal oxide particle, and the volume-average particle diameter of the metal oxide particle contained in the first intermediate layer is 10 times or more to 200 times or less as large as the volume average particle diameter of the metal oxide particle contained in the second intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michiyo Sekiya, Hideaki Nagasaka, Kunihiko Sekido, Shinji Takagi, Akihiro Maruyama
  • Liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same
    Patent number: 8471994
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, with a liquid crystal layer sealed therebetween; and first and second electrodes formed, respectively, on the first and second substrates. A first molecule orientation film is formed on the first substrate so as to cover the first electrode and a second molecule orientation film formed on the second substrate so as to cover the second electrode. A polarizer with a light absorption axis P is provided outside of the first substrate, and an analyzer with a light absorption axis A is provided outside of the second substrate. The light absorption axis A crosses the light absorption axis P. A plurality of micro structures are associated with at least one of the first and second electrodes, wherein the micro structures are obliquely arranged with respect to the light absorption axis P and the light absorption axis A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Kataoka, Arihiro Takeda, Takahiro Sasaki, Tsutomu Seino, Yoshio Koike, Hidefumi Yoshida, Yuichi Inoue, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Seiji Tanuma, Takatoshi Mayama, Kimiaki Nakamura, Hideo Chida, Seiji Doi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Hiroyasu Inoue
  • HEARING ASSISTANCE SUITABILITY DETERMINING DEVICE AND HEARING ASSISTANCE SUITABILITY DETERMINING METHOD
    Publication number: 20130156240
    Abstract: A hearing assistance suitability determining device, that determines suitability including whether a subject can clearly hear speech using dichotic hearing assistance, includes: a subject hearing ability information input unit; a hearing ability type determining unit that determines at least one hearing ability type that corresponds to the hearing ability information, based on hearing ability information frequency characteristics; a suitability determining unit that determines suitability for dichotic hearing assistance based on the at least one hearing ability type determined by the hearing ability type determining unit; and suitability presenting unit that presents the suitability determined by the suitability determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takagi, Takashi Katayama, Hikaru Takato
  • ELECTRIC CURRENT-SPIN CURRENT CONVERSION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130154633
    Abstract: An electric current-spin current conversion device according to the invention performs conversion between electric current and spin current utilizing the spin Hall effect or the inverse spin Hall effect of a 5d transition metal. A spin accumulation apparatus according to the invention includes a non-magnetic body in which injected spins are accumulated and an injection unit that injects spins into the non-magnetic body, wherein said injection unit comprises said electric current-spin current conversion device provided on said non-magnetic body, and an electric power source that supplies an electric current to said electric current-spin current conversion device in such a way that a spin current flowing toward said non-magnetic body is generated by the spin Hall effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: RIKEN
    Inventors: Kohei Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Fukuma, Jobu Matsuno, Yoshichika Otani, Hidenori Takagi
  • ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR CHARGING PORT COVER
    Publication number: 20130152474
    Abstract: An arrangement structure for a charging port cover includes a charging port (15) having a charging inlet (21) in a charging port opening portion (17) provided on a vehicle body, and a lid (7) that covers the charging port opening portion and is openable and closable on the vehicle body. The arrangement structure further includes a charging port cover (35) attached to the lid in an opened state to cover open sections (16, 18) between the charging port opening portion and the lid. The lid is fixed to the vehicle body by hinges (5) in an openable and closable manner. The open sections are located in side portions of the lid and the charging port opening portion in an axis direction (X) of the hinges and in a front portion in a direction (Y) orthogonal to the axis direction of the hinges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Yamamaru, Daisuke Takashima, Masaaki Takagi, Masato Inoue, Tooru Yamashita
  • CHARGING PORT COVER AND CHARGING PORT STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20130157485
    Abstract: A charging port cover including a cover body closing an open part formed between an opening-closing body and a vehicle body in a state where the opening-closing body is opened when a charging gun is attached to a charging inlet and charging for a vehicle-mounted battery is performed, the opening-closing body capable of opening and closing an opening portion which is provided in the vehicle body and includes the charging inlet. The cover body includes a cover-side engaging member and a cover-side engaged member which engage respectively with an engaged member and an engaging member configured to engage with the engaged member, the engaged member and the engaging member being configured to engage and lock the closed opening-closing body with the vehicle body. The cover-side engaging member and the cover-side engaged member are integrated with each other by a joining member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Junichi Yamamaru, Daisuke Takashima, Masaaki Takagi, Masato Inoue, Tooru Yamashita
  • MOVING PICTURE PROCESSING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20130156406
    Abstract: Transitions between cuts are detected from a moving picture containing a plurality of cuts, the plurality of cuts are categorized into a plurality of cut groups having mutually different feature amounts, and a plurality of cut pairs including two or more sequential cuts belonging to the mutually different cut groups and being repeated in the moving picture are identified, a predetermined number of the cut pairs, which are less than the plurality of cut pairs in number, are generated from the plurality of cut pairs by combining at least a portion of the plurality of cuts in a manner that two or more cuts constituting each cut pair belong to mutually different cut groups and a context of cut transitions in the moving picture is maintained, and a cut composition image including the generated cut pairs is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Method for electrochemically measuring 1,5-anhydroglucitol in whole blood
    Patent number: 8465940
    Abstract: By a method for measuring 1,5-anhydroglucitol, comprising the steps of: eliminating or converting glucose interfering with the measurement of 1,5-anhydroglucitol and/or a derivative thereof beforehand; and measuring 1,5-anhydroglucitol performed thereafter, wherein such glucose and/or a derivative thereof are/is eliminated or converted in whole blood as such without performing blood cell separation, an enzyme for measuring 1,5-anhydroglucitol is allowed to act on without performing blood cell separation, and 1,5-anhydroglucitol is electrochemically measured, it becomes possible to measure 1,5-anhydroglucitol using a small amount of whole blood without resort to a centrifuge or the like. Accordingly, this measurement method can be applied to rapid measurement of 1,5-anhydroglucitol at bedside or in a medical examination room or to home self-measurement thereof by a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Umegae, Reiko Machida, Hisako Takagi, Yayoi Irie, Takao Yokoyama, Toshio Tanabe
  • Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus and communication system
    Patent number: 8466968
    Abstract: A camera that is connected to a PC via a network sends an action decision program in response to an operation screen request from the PC, and obtains a decision result from the PC 300 by causing the PC to execute the action decision program. Based on the thus obtained decision result, data of an operation screen for operating the camera 100 is sent to the PC. As a result, the PC displays the operation screen based on the data. The user of the PC can then remotely control the camera using the operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Takagi, Ikuo Niimura
  • Base transceiver station and method of determining transmit power
    Patent number: 8467310
    Abstract: A base transceiver station (200) that transmits same data to a plurality of mobile stations (300) using a common channel includes a maximum transmit power detector (41) that detects a maximum transmit power value at each spreading factor during transmission of the data from a transmit power of the data transmitted to the plurality of mobile stations (300) in cells controlled by the base transceiver station (200), and a transmit power determination unit (42) that determines a transmit power at each spreading factor based on the relation between the maximum transmit power values detected and the spreading factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kenki Takagi
  • Solid state image device having a pair of overflow drains extends along the electron transfer direction at a boundary between channel region and channel stop isolation regions of the multiplication register
    Patent number: 8466498
    Abstract: In a solid state imaging device with an electron multiplying function, in a section normal to an electron transfer direction of a multiplication register EM, an insulating layer 2 is thicker at both side portions than in a central region. A pair of overflow drains 1N is formed at a boundary between a central region and both side portions of an N-type semiconductor region 1C. Each overflow drain 1N extends along the electron transfer direction of the multiplication register EM. Overflow gate electrodes G extend from the thin portion to the thick portion of the insulating layer 2. The overflow gate electrodes G are disposed between both ends of each transfer electrode 8 in a longitudinal direction and the insulating layer 2, and they also function as shield electrodes for each electrode 8 (8A and 8B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Hisanori Suzuki, Yasuhito Yoneta, Shin-ichiro Takagi, Kentaro Maeta, Masaharu Muramatsu
  • Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus
    Patent number: 8465889
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can reproduce good images with less positive ghost and also has a good photosensitivity, the electrophotographic photosensitive member is incorporated in its photosensitive layer with a copolymer having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (2), or a copolymer having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiko Sekido, Hideaki Nagasaka, Michiyo Sekiya, Shinji Takagi, Akihiro Maruyama
  • Throttle body for internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8464688
    Abstract: An throttle body for rotating a valve shaft of an air-intake throttle valve through a decelerating mechanism by a motor and change the opening area of an air-intake passage by rotating the valve shaft is equipped with a lever portion that is disposed so as to be interlocked with the decelerating mechanism and regulates the opening degree of the air-intake throttle valve under the full-open state, and an adjusting screw that is threadably inserted from the outside of the body portion and abuts against the lever portion in the body portion to change the opening degree of the air-intake throttle valve under the full-open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Kurita, Katsunari Takagi, Teruhiko Moriguchi, Hiromichi Tsugami
  • DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130143716
    Abstract: A drive control apparatus for a vehicle includes: a control unit that controls drive force output from an engine in accordance with operation of an accelerator pedal; and a shift mechanism capable of selectively switching a shift position to a driving position or a non-driving position. The shift mechanism transmits the drive force to wheels when the shift position is in the driving position, and interrupts transmission of the drive force when the shift position is in the non-driving position. The control unit executes a drive force restriction process of reducing the drive force when the shift position is switched from the non-driving position to the driving position while the accelerator pedal is in an on state, and, when the switching is from a neutral position, the control unit changes a mode of reducing the drive force in accordance with a continuation time of the neutral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Shinya KODAMA, Motonari OHBAYASHI, Yuki MINASE, Masashi TAKAGI, Toshihiro TAKAGI