Patents by Inventor Tomoko Shinomura

Tomoko Shinomura 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: 20090215161
    Abstract: There is disclosed a microorganism testing device in which various types of microorganisms can be easily concentrated. The microorganism testing device includes a detection chip, a carrier device, a controller, and a magnet. The detection chip includes a specimen container for holding a specimen containing microorganisms, a trapping particle liquid container for holding trapping particle liquid containing magnetic particles, a microorganism trapping section for trapping the microorganisms, and a liquid flow path. In a state where a magnetic force of the magnet acts on the microorganism trapping section, the controller controls the carrier device to flow the trapping particle liquid into the microorganism trapping section to form a filtration filter by trapping plural magnetic particles in the microorganism trapping section, and in this state, to flow the microorganisms into the microorganism trapping section so that the microorganisms within the specimen are deposited on one side of the filtration filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Yasuhiko SASAKI, Kei TAKENAKA, Tomoko SHINOMURA, Akira MOCHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 7499573
    Abstract: There are provided an image acquisition system capable of storing high-accuracy measurement of changes in the shape of a plant growing process in image information with high accuracy and an analyzing method for analyzing an acquired image to analyze plant growing. There is provided a plant growing analyzing system having operation detection means of a conveying mechanism of a plant in order that an observed plant in an image is photographed at a constantly fixed position or angle; a position detecting mark in the acquired image; a computation part for evaluating detected data to control a conveying amount; and a conveying control part, wherein the growing process of many plants is stored in image information in a long period, and the stored image is used to realize high-accuracy measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanari Tanabata, Tomoko Shinomura, Toru Ishizuka, Masafumi Kanetomo
  • Publication number: 20050180608
    Abstract: There are provided an image acquisition system capable of storing high-accuracy measurement of changes in the shape of a plant growing process in image information with high accuracy and an analyzing method for analyzing an acquired image to analyze plant growing. There is provided a plant growing analyzing system having operation detection means of a conveying mechanism of a plant in order that an observed plant in an image is photographed at a constantly fixed position or angle; a position detecting mark in the acquired image; a computation part for evaluating detected data to control a conveying amount; and a conveying control part, wherein the growing process of many plants is stored in image information in a long period, and the stored image is used to realize high-accuracy measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Takanari Tanabata, Tomoko Shinomura, Toru Ishizuka, Masafumi Kanetomo