Patents by Inventor Takahiro Hirata
Takahiro Hirata 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: 10050576Abstract: An inverter control device that controls an inverter unit that converts a DC voltage from a converter unit to an AC voltage and supplies the AC voltage to the DC motor includes a storage unit that stores therein information regarding a synchronization-loss limit; a synchronization-loss limit-current calculation unit that calculates the limitation value on the synchronization-loss limit current on the basis of the magnet temperature of the DC motor, the bus voltage to be applied to the inverter unit, and the information regarding a synchronization-loss limit; and a control unit that compares the primary current to be input to the converter unit with the limitation value and that, when the primary current exceeds the limitation value, outputs an adjustment command to adjust the operating frequency of the DC motor such that the primary current becomes equal to or less than the limitation value.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takahiro Hirata, Makoto Tanikawa, Tomomi Higashikawa, Akiyoshi Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20170331407Abstract: An inverter control device that controls an inverter unit that converts a DC voltage from a converter unit to an AC voltage and supplies the AC voltage to the DC motor includes a storage unit that stores therein information regarding a synchronization-loss limit; a synchronization-loss limit-current calculation unit that calculates the limitation value on the synchronization-loss limit current on the basis of the magnet temperature of the DC motor, the bus voltage to be applied to the inverter unit, and the information regarding a synchronization-loss limit; and a control unit that compares the primary current to be input to the converter unit with the limitation value and that, when the primary current exceeds the limitation value, outputs an adjustment command to adjust the operating frequency of the DC motor such that the primary current becomes equal to or less than the limitation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Takahiro HIRATA, Makoto TANIKAWA, Tomomi HIGASHIKAWA, Akiyoshi MURAMATSU
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Patent number: 8741650Abstract: The present invention provides methods for producing a minus-strand RNA viral vector, which comprise using a promoter comprising a cytomegalovirus enhancer and a chicken ?-actin promoter, to induce the transcription of the genome RNA of a minus-strand RNA viral vector and the expression of minus-strand RNA viral proteins that form a ribonucleoprotein with the genome RNA. The methods of the present invention enable high efficiency production of highly safe minus-strand RNA viral vectors. The methods of the present invention are particularly useful for producing minus-strand RNA viral vectors that are deficient in envelope-constituting protein genes.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: DNAVEC Research Inc.Inventors: Akihiro Iida, Hiroshi Ban, Makoto Inoue, Takahiro Hirata, Mamoru Hasegawa
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Patent number: 7601532Abstract: A microarray for predicting the prognosis of neuroblastoma, wherein the microarray has 25 to 45 probes related to good prognosis, which are hybridized to a gene transcript whose expression is increased in a good prognosis patient with neuroblastoma and are selected from 96 polynucleotides consisting of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ. ID NOs. 1, 5, 6, 14. 16, 17, 19, 22-24, 28, 29, 31, 37, 39, 40, 43, 44, 47-52, 54, 57-60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 72-75, 77, 78, 80-82, 84, 87, 89-91, 94, 100, 103, 112, 113, 118, 120, 129, 130, 132, 136, 138, 142, 144, 145, 148, 150-153, 155, 158-160, 163-165, 169-171, 173, 174, 177, 178, 180-182, 184, 186, 187, 189, 191, 192, 194, 195, 198-200 or their partial continuous sequences or their complementary strands, and 25 to 45 probes related to poor prognosis, which are hybridized to a gene transcript whose expression is increased in a poor prognosis patient with neuroblastoma and are selected from 104 polynucleotides consisting of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ. ID NOs.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2004Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignees: Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., NGK Insulators, Ltd., Chiba-PrefectureInventors: Akira Nakagawara, Miki Ohira, Shin Ishii, Takeshi Goto, Hiroyuki Kubo, Takahiro Hirata, Yasuko Yoshida, Saichi Yamada
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Publication number: 20070161110Abstract: The present invention provides methods for producing a minus-strand RNA viral vector, which comprise using a promoter comprising a cytomegalovirus enhancer and a chicken ?-actin promoter, to induce the transcription of the genome RNA of a minus-strand RNA viral vector and the expression of minus-strand RNA viral proteins that form a ribonucleoprotein with the genome RNA. The methods of the present invention enable high efficiency production of highly safe minus-strand RNA viral vectors. The methods of the present invention are particularly useful for producing minus-strand RNA viral vectors that are deficient in envelope-constituting protein genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2005Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventors: Akihiro Iida, Hiroshi Ban, Makoto Inoue, Takahiro Hirata, Mamoru Hasegawa
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Patent number: 7226786Abstract: F gene-deficient virus virions are successfully recovered by using an F gene-deficient Sendai virus genomic cDNA. Further, F gene-deficient infectious viral particles are successfully constructed by using F-expressing cells as helper cells. Also, F gene and HN gene-deficient virus virions are successfully recovered by using a virus genomic cDNA deficient in both F gene and HN gene. Further, F gene and HN gene-deficient infectious viral particles are successfully produced by using F- and HN-expressing cells as helper cells. A virus deficient in F gene and HN gene and having F protein is constructed by using F-expressing cells as helper cells. In addition, M gene-deficient infectious virus particles were produced using helper cells expressing M protein. From cells infected with M gene-deficient viruses, release of virus-like particles was inhibited. Further, a VSV-G pseudo type virus is successfully constructed by using VSV-G-expressing cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: DNAVEC Research Inc.Inventors: Kaio Kitazato, Tsugumine Shu, Hidekazu Kuma, Yasuji Ueda, Makoto Asakawa, Mamoru Hasegawa, Akihiro Iida, Fumino Tokito, Takahiro Hirata, Tsuyoshi Tokusumi, Makoto Inoue, Yumiko Tokusumi
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Publication number: 20070009949Abstract: A functional RNP containing negative-strand single-stranded RNA derived from Sendai virus, which has been modified so as not to express at least one envelope protein, has been successfully prepared. An RNP comprising a foreign gene is prepared and inserted into a cell with the use of a cationic liposome, thereby successfully expressing the foreign gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: Kaio Kitazato, Tsugumine Shu, Hidekazu Kuma, Yasuji Ueda, Makoto Asakawa, Mamoru Hasegawa, Akihiro Iida, Takahiro Hirata, Makoto Inoue, Yumiko Tokusumi
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Patent number: 7100595Abstract: In relation to a blade cutting stone or concrete, a blade, preventing wearing of a core while preventing the core from wobbling, cuttable at a stable speed is provided. In a blade formed by providing slots on the outer peripheral edge of a circular core and fixing a superabrasive layer to a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the core located between the slots, the superabrasive layer consists of a first superabrasive layer having an extension formed by partially extending the superabrasive layer toward the inner periphery of the core and a second superabrasive layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: A.L.M.T. Corp.Inventors: Akihiro Koike, Takahiro Hirata
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Publication number: 20050287541Abstract: A microarray for predicting the prognosis of neuroblastoma, wherein the microarray has 25 to 45 probes related to good prognosis, which are hybridized to a gene transcript whose expression is increased in a good prognosis patient with neuroblastoma and are selected from 96 polynucleotides consisting of the nucleotide sequences of Seq. ID No. 1 to 96 or their partial continuous sequences or their complementary strands, and 25 to 45 probes related to poor prognosis, which are hybridized to a gene transcript whose expression is increased in a poor prognosis patient with neuroblastoma and are selected from 104 polynucleotides consisting of the nucleotide sequences of Seq. ID No. 97 to 200 or their partial continuous sequences or their complementary strands.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2004Publication date: December 29, 2005Applicants: Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., NGK Insulators, Ltd., Chiba-PrefectureInventors: Akira Nakagawara, Miki Ohira, Shin Ishii, Takeshi Goto, Hiroyuki Kubo, Takahiro Hirata, Yasuko Yoshida, Saichi Yamada
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Publication number: 20050121017Abstract: In relation to a blade cutting stone or concrete, a blade, preventing wearing of a core while preventing the core from wobbling, cuttable at a stable speed is provided. In a blade formed by providing slots on the outer peripheral edge of a circular core and fixing a superabrasive layer to a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the core located between the slots, the superabrasive layer consists of a first superabrasive layer having an extension formed by partially extending the superabrasive layer toward the inner periphery of the core and a second superabrasive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2003Publication date: June 9, 2005Inventors: Akihiro Koike, Takahiro Hirata
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Patent number: 6692343Abstract: A superabrasive wheel (100, 200) for mirror finishing includes an annular base plate (120, 220) having an annular end surface (121, 221) and a plurality of superabrasive members (110, 210), each having a peripheral end surface (111), arranged along the periphery of the annular base plate (120, 220) at intervals from each other in a circumferential direction and fixed onto the end surface (121, 221) of the base plate (120, 220). Each of the superabrasive members (110, 210) has a flat plate shape, and is so arranged that the peripheral end surface (111) is substantially parallel to the rotary shaft of the superabrasive wheel (100, 200). A surface (113) defined by the thickness of the flat plate shape of each superabrasive member (110, 210) is fixed onto the end surface (121, 221) of the base plate (120, 220). In the superabrasive members (110, 210), superabrasive grains are bonded by a binder of a vitrified bond.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: A.L.M.T. Corp.Inventors: Takahiro Hirata, Yukio Okanishi
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Publication number: 20030170266Abstract: F gene-deficient virus virions are successfully recovered by using an F gene-deficient Sendai virus genomic cDNA. Further, F gene-deficient infectious viral particles are successfully constructed by using F-expressing cells as helper cells. Also, F gene and HN gene-deficient virus virions are successfully recovered by using a virus genomic cDNA deficient in both F gene and HN gene. Further, F gene and HN gene-deficient infectious viral particles are successfully produced by using F- and HN-expressing cells as helper cells. A virus deficient in F gene and HN gene and having F protein is constructed by using F-expressing cells as helper cells. In addition, M gene-deficient infectious virus particles were produced using helper cells expressing M protein. From cells infected with M gene-deficient viruses, release of virus-like particles was inhibited. Further, a VSV-G pseudo type virus is successfully constructed by using VSV-G-expressing cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventors: Kaio Kitazato, Tsugumine Shu, Hidekazu Kuma, Yasuji Ueda, Makoto Asakawa, Mamoru Hasegawa, Akihiro Iida, Fumino Tokito, Takahiro Hirata, Tsuyoshi Tokusumi, Makoto Inoue, Yumiko Tokusumi
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Publication number: 20030166252Abstract: A functional RNP containing negative-strand single-stranded RNA derived from Sendai virus, which has been modified so as not to express at least one envelope protein, has been successfully prepared. An RNP comprising a foreign gene is prepared and inserted into a cell with the use of a cationic liposome, thereby successfully expressing the foreign gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventors: Kaio Kitazato, Tsugumine Shu, Hidekazu Kuma, Yasuji Ueda, Makoto Asakawa, Mamoru Hasegawa, Akihiro Iida, Takahiro Hirata, Makoto Inoue, Yumiko Tokusumi
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Publication number: 20030022376Abstract: A functional RNP containing negative-strand single-stranded RNA derived from Sendai virus, which has been modified so as not to express any envelope protein, has been successfully prepared. An RNP comprising a foreign gene is prepared and inserted into a cell with the use of a cationic liposome, thereby successfully expressing the foreign gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Kaio Kitazato, Tsugumine Shu, Hidekazu Kuma, Yasuji Ueda, Makoto Asakawa, Mamoru Hasegawa, Akihiro Iida, Takahiro Hirata, Makoto Inoue
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Publication number: 20030003858Abstract: A superabrasive wheel (100, 200) for mirror finishing comprises an annular base plate (120, 220) having an end surface (121, 221) and a plurality of superabrasive layers (110, 210), each having a peripheral end surface (111), arranged along the peripheral direction of the annular base plate (120, 220) at intervals from each other and fixed onto the end surface (121, 221) of the base plate (120, 220). Each of the plurality of superabrasive layers (110, 210) has a flat plate shape, and is so arranged that the peripheral end surface (111) is substantially parallel to the rotary shaft of the superabrasive wheel (100, 200). A surface (113) defined by the thickness of the flat plate shape of each of the plurality of superabrasive layers (110, 210) is fixed onto the end surface (121, 221) of the base plate (120,220). In the superabrasive layers (110, 210), superabrasive grains are bonded by a binder of a vitrified bond.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Takahiro Hirata, Yukio Okanishi
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Publication number: 20020169306Abstract: F gene-deficient virus virions are successfully recovered by using an f gene-deficient Sendai virus genomic cDNA. Further, F gene-deficient infectious viral particles are successfully constructed by using F-expressing cells as helper cells. Also, F gene and HN gene-deficient virus virions are successfully recovered by using a virus genomic cDNA deficient in both F gene and HN gene. Further, F gene and HN gene-deficient infectious viral particles are successfully produced by using F- and HN-expressing cells as helper cells. A virus deficient in F gene and HN gene and having F protein is constructed by using F-expressing cells as helper cells. In addition, M gene-deficient infectious virus particles were produced using helper cells expressing M protein. From cells infected with M gene-deficient viruses, release of virus-like particles was inhibited. Further, a VSV-G pseudo type virus is successfully constructed by using VSV-G-expressing cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: November 14, 2002Inventors: Kaio Kitazato, Tsugumine Shu, Hidekazu Kuma, Yasuji Ueda, Makoto Asakawa, Mamoru Hasegawa, Akihiro Iida, Fumino Tokitou, Takahiro Hirata, Tsuyoshi Tokusumi, Makoto Inoue
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Patent number: 4434319Abstract: A POF cable line which comprises a steel pipe and three cable cores drawn in the steel pipe. At least one curved offset section is arranged on the steel pipe at a part spaced from a cable joint at a predetermined distance, with a straight portion of the steel pipe interposed therebetween. The curved offset section prevents the cable cores in the part of the steel pipe from snaking hard and consequently prevents the insulation paper in the part from making soft spots or creases. The snaking occurs easily in the offset section when the cable core thermally expands.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1981Date of Patent: February 28, 1984Assignees: The Chuba Electric Power Company Inc., The Fujikura Cable Works, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki Gomi, Takahiro Hirata, Michio Takaoka, Tsuneaki Mohtai, Kazuya Akashi
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Patent number: D512293Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: A.L.M.T. Corp.Inventors: Akihiro Koike, Takahiro Hirata
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Patent number: D483631Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: A.L.M.T. Corp.Inventors: Akihiro Koike, Takahiro Hirata