Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Taniguchi

Tomohiro Taniguchi 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: 20060079585
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for rapidly producing an emulsion and microcapsules in a simple manner is provided wherein a dispersion phase is ejected from a dispersion phase-feeding port toward a continuous phase flowing in a microchannel in such a manner that flows of the dispersion phase and the continuous phase cross each other, thereby obtaining microdroplets, formed by the shear force of the continuous phase, having a size smaller than the width of the channel for feeding the dispersion phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Applicant: Japan Science and Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Higuchi, Toru Torii, Takashi Nishisako, Tomohiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20050064423
    Abstract: To provide a PCR method utilizing electrostatic transportation which allows separate control of individual DNA-containing droplets by accurately transporting the droplets, suitably controlling the temperature thereof and allowing a primer to react therewith; a hybridization method utilizing electrostatic transportation which allows rapid and easy detection of hybridization; and devices therefor. A biological sample (droplets containing DNA and primer) (9) is prepared in a chemically inert liquid layer (8), is electrostatically transported by the action of an electrostatic transportation plate (1) with electrostatic transportation electrodes (2) and is heated at a predetermined position of the electrostatic transportation plate (1), thus carrying out PCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Toshiro Higuchi, Toru Torii, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Tetsuo Katayama
  • Publication number: 20040265221
    Abstract: A method of producing hollow alumina particles capable of controlling the grain size of hollow alumina particles and providing high formation ratio of hollow particles while suppressing the formation of solid particles, the method comprising irradiating supersonic waves to an aqueous solution containing aluminum nitrate or aluminum acetate, and a surfactant or an organic acid to generate micro-liquid droplets in an atomized state, introducing the generated micro-liquid droplets only for the portion of minute liquid droplets having a certain grain size or less by an air stream and burning them in air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kato, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Makoto Egashira, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Takeo Hyodo, Kazutaka Kamitani
  • Publication number: 20040134854
    Abstract: A liquid particulate-handling method and device, in which the evaporation of the droplets is prevented and therefore the handing of the droplets is appropriately performed, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiro Higuchi, Toru Torii, Tomohiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20040068019
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process and apparatus for rapidly producing an emulsion and microcapsules in a simple manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiro Higuchi, Toru Torii, Takashi Nishisako, Tomohiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6153679
    Abstract: Titanium oxide and a thermoplastic resin composition incorporated therewith, said titanium oxide being characterized by its property that it disperses into ethylene glycol (as a dispersing medium) to give a 13 wt % suspension which has a specific resistance higher than 7000 .OMEGA..multidot.cm and passes through a filter paper with a pore size of 6 .mu.m such that the filtration pressure does not exceed 100 kPa after filtration for 4 minutes at a flow rate of 1.73 cm.sup.3 /min.multidot.cm.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomio Kawaji, Ryosuke Asakura, Tomohiro Taniguchi