Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Konishi
Tomohiro Konishi 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: 20240124859Abstract: A method for producing a protein encoded by a target gene, comprising the step of expressing the target gene in a bacterium of the genus Burkholderia, wherein the bacterium lacks one or more genes selected from the group consisting of BSFP_068740, BSFP_068730, and BSFP_068720, or has inhibited expression of the genes or proteins encoded by the genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ASAHI KASEI PHARMA CORPORATIONInventors: Keitaro YOSHIDA, Yoshiaki YASUTAKE, Tomohiro TAMURA, Kenji KONISHI, Shin-ichi SAKASEGAWA, Shuji MURAMATSU
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Patent number: 11653820Abstract: An in-body image capturing device (camera unit) with high reliability is suggested. A camera unit (11) includes an image capturing unit that includes a lens (26) and a first illumination unit (27a) and is capable of being introduced into a body. The first illumination unit (27a) and the image capturing unit are housed in a casing (22) that is integrally molded with an integral light-transmitting body (22x) and an integral light shielding body (22y).Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hitoshi Aoki, Toshihisa Gotoh, Kei Urakawa, Kishoh Takamatsu, Tomohiro Konishi, Tsuguhisa Inoue
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Publication number: 20210338068Abstract: An in-body image capturing device (camera unit) with high reliability is suggested. A camera unit (11) includes an image capturing unit that includes a lens (26) and a first illumination unit (27a) and is capable of being introduced into a body. The first illumination unit (27a) and the image capturing unit are housed in a casing (22) that is integrally molded with an integral light-transmitting body (22x) and an integral light shielding body (22y).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Hitoshi AOKI, Toshihisa GOTOH, Kei URAKAWA, Kishoh TAKAMATSU, Tomohiro KONISHI, Tsuguhisa INOUE
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Patent number: 10898065Abstract: An in-vivo monitoring camera system includes an image capturing portion (camera unit 11) that is capable of being introduced into a body, a support tube (13) that has a connection portion (trocar connection portion 13x) with a tubular tool (trocar 31) which is capable of being introduced into the body on one end side and has a joining portion (protrusion type joining portion 13y) to the image capturing portion on another end side, a cable (camera-side cable 12) that is connected with the image capturing portion and passes through the support tube, and a control system that is electrically connected with the cable and includes at least a display device (18).Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hitoshi Aoki, Toshihisa Gotoh, Kei Urakawa, Kishoh Takamatsu, Tomohiro Konishi, Kazunori Morita, Tadahiko Sato
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Publication number: 20200002661Abstract: There is provided a cell observation apparatus having a sterile chamber 3 containing a culture vessel 1 and a transparent observation window 11 provided in a bottom portion of the sterile chamber 3 and having the culture vessel 1 placed thereabove, wherein the camera 4 and the lighting 5 are provided below the observation window 11. The cells in the culture vessel 1 are imaged through the observation window 11 by setting the focus of the camera 4 to a bottom surface 1d of the culture vessel 1. The lighting 5 emits inspection light L as spot light where the light is not diffused, and an imaging range of the camera 4 is positioned inside an irradiation range of the inspection light L on the bottom surface 1d of the culture vessel 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Toru KESYOU, Daisuke WATANABE, Tomohiro KONISHI
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Publication number: 20180317755Abstract: An in-body image capturing device (camera unit) with high reliability is suggested. A camera unit (11) includes an image capturing unit that includes a lens (26) and a first illumination unit (27a) and is capable of being introduced into a body. The first illumination unit (27a) and the image capturing unit are housed in a casing (22) that is integrally molded with an integral light-transmitting body (22x) and an integral light shielding body (22y).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Hitoshi AOKI, Toshihisa GOTOH, Kei URAKAWA, Kishoh TAKAMATSU, Tomohiro KONISHI, Tsuguhisa INOUE
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Patent number: 10031101Abstract: An ion sensor is configured such that part of a P well on which part a sensing section is provided is different, in dopant concentration, from the other part of the P well so that electric charges are injected merely to the sensing section in a state where a voltage is applied to an N-type substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORP TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITYInventors: Satoshi Saitoh, Toshio Yoshida, Tomohiro Konishi, Kazuaki Sawada
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Publication number: 20180132707Abstract: An in-vivo monitoring camera system includes an image capturing portion (camera unit 11) that is capable of being introduced into a body, a support tube (13) that has a connection portion (trocar connection portion 13x) with a tubular tool (trocar 31) which is capable of being introduced into the body on one end side and has a joining portion (protrusion type joining portion 13y) to the image capturing portion on another end side, a cable (camera-side cable 12) that is connected with the image capturing portion and passes through the support tube, and a control system that is electrically connected with the cable and includes at least a display device (18).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2016Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Hitoshi AOKI, Toshihisa GOTOH, Kei URAKAWA, Kishoh TAKAMATSU, Tomohiro KONISHI, Kazunori MORITA, Tadahiko SATO
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Patent number: 9737881Abstract: A method of producing a regenerated hydrotreating catalyst, including a first step of preparing a hydrotreating catalyst that has been used for hydrotreatment of a petroleum fraction and has a metal element selected from Group 6 elements of the periodic table; a second step of performing regeneration treatment for part of the catalyst prepared in the first step, then performing X-ray absorption fine structure analysis for the catalyst after the regeneration treatment, and obtaining regeneration treatment conditions in which a ratio IS/IO of a peak intensity IS of a peak attributed to a bond between the metal element and a sulfur atom to a peak intensity IO of a peak attributed to a bond between the metal element and an oxygen atom is in the range of 0.1 to 0.3 in a radial distribution curve obtained from an extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimu Iwanami, Takashi Sano, Tomohiro Konishi, Makoto Nakamura, Souichirou Konno
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Publication number: 20160109404Abstract: An ion sensor is configured such that part of a P well on which part a sensing section is provided is different, in dopant concentration, from the other part of the P well so that electric charges are injected merely to the sensing section in a state where a voltage is applied to an N-type substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Satoshi SAITOH, Toshio YOSHIDA, Tomohiro KONISHI, Kazuaki SAWADA
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Publication number: 20130233769Abstract: A method of producing a regenerated hydrotreating catalyst, including a first step of preparing a hydrotreating catalyst that has been used for hydrotreatment of a petroleum fraction and has a metal element selected from Group 6 elements of the periodic table; a second step of performing regeneration treatment for part of the catalyst prepared in the first step, then performing X-ray absorption fine structure analysis for the catalyst after the regeneration treatment, and obtaining regeneration treatment conditions in which a ratio IS/IO of a peak intensity IS of a peak attributed to a bond between the metal element and a sulfur atom to a peak intensity IO of a peak attributed to a bond between the metal element and an oxygen atom is in the range of 0.1 to 0.3 in a radial distribution curve obtained from an extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimu Iwanami, Takashi Sano, Tomohiro Konishi, Makoto Nakamura, Souichirou Konno
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Patent number: 8525199Abstract: In a solid-state image capturing device having the locations of photodiodes in each pixel unit to be different according to a sequence, the light receiving sensitivity and the luminance shading characteristic are improved. A circumferential portion of a microlens 12 which is arranged above a corresponding photodiode 11 is formed so as to overlap an adjacent microlens 12 thereto, and the locations of microlenses 12 in each pixel unit are different according to a sequence. Light of an image that is incident upon each of the microlenses 12 is incident upon approximately the same portion (e.g., central portion) of each of the respective photodiodes 11.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Konishi
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Patent number: 8217481Abstract: A solid-state image capturing device according to the present invention includes: a photoelectrical conversion section formed in a semiconductor substrate or in a substrate area provided on a substrate; a first transparent film provided on the photoelectrical conversion section; and a lens provided at a position above the first transparent film corresponding to the photoelectrical conversion section, where the lens is formed by using a second transparent film layered by changing a refractive index successively or incrementally, and at least one of top and bottom surfaces of the second transparent film is formed in a convex shape.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Nakai, Tomohiro Konishi
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Publication number: 20100025788Abstract: In a solid-state image capturing device having the locations of photodiodes in each pixel unit to be different according to a sequence, the light receiving sensitivity and the luminance shading characteristic are improved. A circumferential portion of a microlens 12 which is arranged above a corresponding photodiode 11 is formed so as to overlap an adjacent microlens 12 thereto, and the locations of microlenses 12 in each pixel unit are different according to a sequence. Light of an image that is incident upon each of the microlenses 12 is incident upon approximately the same portion (e.g., central portion) of each of the respective photodiodes 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Konishi
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Publication number: 20100020215Abstract: A decrease in a light receiving sensitivity at a peripheral portion of an image capturing area is suppressed, thereby obtaining a solid-state image capturing device with an excellent luminance shading characteristic. In a solid-state image capturing device in which an image capturing area 1 is structured having a plurality of light receiving sections 12 arranged at a top portion of a semiconductor substrate 11 in a two-dimensional array; metal wirings 14 and 15 of a plurality of layers of wirings is provided to avoid areas above the light receiving sections 12; and the plurality of layers of wirings are connected to via contact sections, a position of each metal wiring 15 of the uppermost layer and each via contact 16 relative to a unit pixel (light receiving section 12) is designed offset so as to be closer to the center of the image capturing area 1 as an observed portion of the image capturing area 1 moves from a central portion 2 toward peripheral portions 3 and 4 of the image capturing area 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2006Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Konishi
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Publication number: 20090256225Abstract: A solid-state image capturing device according to the present invention includes: a photoelectrical conversion section formed in a semiconductor substrate or in a substrate area provided on a substrate; a first transparent film provided on the photoelectrical conversion section; and a lens provided at a position above the first transparent film corresponding to the photoelectrical conversion section, where the lens is formed by using a second transparent film layered by changing a refractive index successively or incrementally, and at least one of top and bottom surfaces of the second transparent film is formed in a convex shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Nakai, Tomohiro Konishi
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Patent number: 7173298Abstract: An imaging area is provided on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and light-receiving portions and transfer channels are provided in the imaging area. A group of transfer electrodes extends in a direction crossing the transfer channels on the imaging area. A group of transfer signal lines, which are provided for every transfer signal of each phase along the periphery of the imaging area on the semiconductor substrate, is included. A transfer signal line connected to a transfer electrode having a large surface area on the transfer channel, of the group of the transfer electrodes, has an electrical resistance smaller than that of a transfer signal line connected to a transfer electrode having a small surface area on the transfer channel in the group of the transfer electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2005Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Konishi
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Publication number: 20060291491Abstract: A wireless LAN board includes a wired LAN connector connected to a wired LAN board, an antenna connecting terminal connected with an antenna for performing radio signal transmission/reception, a wired LAN section connected to the wired LAN connector to transmit/receive a data signal to/from the wired LAN board, a wireless LAN section connected to the antenna connecting terminal to transmit/receive a data signal to/from an external device with the use of a radio signal through the antenna, and a controller section connected to the wired LAN section and the wireless LAN section to control the wired LAN section and the wireless LAN section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Inventors: Yoshinori Sakata, Tomohiro Konishi, Keiichi Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20060192203Abstract: An imaging area is provided on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and light-receiving portions and transfer channels are provided in the imaging area. A group of transfer electrodes extends in a direction crossing the transfer channels on the imaging area. A group of transfer signal lines, which are provided for every transfer signal of each phase along the periphery of the imaging area on the semiconductor substrate, is included. A transfer signal line connected to a transfer electrode having a large surface area on the transfer channel, of the group of the transfer electrodes, has an electrical resistance smaller than that of a transfer signal line connected to a transfer electrode having a small surface area on the transfer channel in the group of the transfer electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2005Publication date: August 31, 2006Inventor: Tomohiro Konishi
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Patent number: 7053948Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device has a discharge gate and a discharge drain provided adjacent to a connection of a vertical CCD and a horizontal CCD so that charges accumulated for an arbitrary pixel can be completely depleted. Data can be read at an arbitrary decimation rate only by changing a drive condition of the discharge gate. An arbitrary decimation rate can be achieved and a frame rate, resolution or the like can easily changed while vertical transfer electrodes can keep the same wiring structure as in a still mode (normal reading) without making a complicated wiring structure of vertical transfer electrodes such as the prior art. Therefore, this solid-state image pickup device can achieve an arbitrary decimation rate and easily change a frame rate, resolution or the like only by changing drive conditions without making a complicated wiring structure of vertical transfer electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2001Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Konishi