Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Kobayashi
Toshihiro Kobayashi 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: 20110258715Abstract: It is revealed that an organ such as pancreas can be regenerated by utilizing a fact that the deficiency of an organ is complemented by injecting an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell) into a developed blastocyst in a blastocyst complementation method. Thus, the present invention has solved the above-described object. This provides a method for producing a target organ, using an iPS cell, in a living body of a non-human mammal having an abnormality associated with a lack of development of the target organ in a development stage, the target organ produced being derived from a different individual mammal that is an individual different from the non-human mammal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Yamaguchi, Sanae Hamanaka
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Publication number: 20110067125Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method which constantly enables organ regeneration for the purpose of achieving organ regeneration with higher efficiency. It has been discovered that, in a blastocyst complementation method, a next generation is born when a deficiency in an organ, such as pancreas and kidney, is complemented by injection of ES cells into a generated blastocyst, and further discovered that a transgenic animal having a pancreas or a kidney thus complemented can transmit the phenotype to the next generation as a founder. This discovery has revealed that organ regeneration can be accomplished by using such a founder. Thus, the present invention achieved the above-described object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7841333Abstract: A cooking stove in which heat exchange between combustion gas and the bottom surface of a cooking container is sufficiently conducted and heat exchange efficiency is improved is provided. On a top plate, a plate that supports a cooking container is arranged concentrically with the burner head of the burner viewed from above. This plate is disc-shaped where an opening which is larger than the burner head is defined at the center. Moreover, eight protrusions having an angular cross section where slopes become gentler as they extend toward the outer circumferential side are spirally arranged around the opening viewed from above, and these protrusions are formed by press forming.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Paloma Industries, LimitedInventor: Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7817167Abstract: An information processing method of adjusting the position/orientation of a virtual object combined with a physical object includes steps of: acquiring position information of a virtual index defined on the virtual object; informing a user of the position of the virtual index; acquiring position information of a physical index on the physical object corresponding to the virtual index based on the position information of a pointing unit operated by the user; and defining position/orientation information of the virtual object based on the position information of the virtual index and the position information of the physical index.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Toshikazu Ohshima, Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7810456Abstract: To provide a storage water heater capable of increasing thermal efficiency and quickly boiling when tap water is supplied into a hot-water tank. A storage water heater can heat low-temperature water having a high density because hot water in a hot-water tank is led from a lead-in pipe positioned at the bottom of the hot-water tank to a gas heater. Also, a water supply pipe outlet and a lead-in pipe inlet are provided so as to be opposed to each other on the same axis. Therefore, when tap water is supplied from a water supply pipe, the tap water lower in temperature than the hot water in the hot-water tank is preferentially led to the gas heater. With this, hot water at the lowest temperature in the hot-water tank can be selectively heated, thereby increasing thermal efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Paloma Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7783175Abstract: A fryer is set up in a cooking area of a restaurant or the like for use, and allows a standby temperature of cooking oil to be switched according to congestion of customers in a hall of the restaurant. The congestion of customers is evaluated by counting per unit time the count of an entrance switch when a customer enters the hall. When the count number per unit time is equal to or greater than a predetermined count, the oil temperature in a oil vessel of the fryer is set at a standby temperature T1 (degrees Celsius) allowing food materials to be quickly heated or fried. On the other hand, if the count is smaller than p1 times, the oil temperature is set at a standby temperature T2 (degrees Celsius) which is lower than the standby temperature T1 thereby conserving energy.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Paloma Industries, LimitedInventor: Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7721727Abstract: According to a gas table 1, combustion gas (including the flame) is jetted from a flame port 17 of a burner 14 diagonally upward entirely twisted in the burner circumferential direction. The combustion gas flows into plural combustion gas routes sectioned into spiral shape, and hits trivet claws 22, and goes through. That is, the combustion gas is guided in spiral shape by the trivet claws 22, and exhausted along a cooking container P bottom surface toward the outer circumferential direction. As a result, in the combustion gas route, the combustion gas is always subject to direction changing force and the flow thereof is disturbed, and accordingly, a heat transmission border film is unlikely to be formed on the cooking container P bottom surface, and the heat of the combustion gas is transmitted to the bottom surface of the cooking container P preferably.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Paloma Industries, LimitedInventor: Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20100122360Abstract: An object of the present invention is to produce a mammalian organ having a complicated cellular composition composed of multiple kinds of cells, such as kidney, pancreas, thymus and hair, in the living body of a non-human animal. The inventors of the present invention applied the chimeric animal assay described above, to a novel solid organ production method. More specifically, the inventors has shown that a model mouse which is deficient of kidney, pancreas, thymus or hair due to the dysfunction of the metanephric mesenchyme that is differentiated into most of an adult kidney, is rescued by blastocyst complementation by the chimeric animal assay, and whereby a kidney, a pancreas, thymus or hair can be newly produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: The University of TokyoInventors: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Younsu Lee, Joichi Usui, Tomoyuki Yamaguchi, Sanae Hamanaka
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Patent number: 7660796Abstract: There is provided an information processing method for setting the exclusive control right of a data item by a specific process in a system in which a plurality of clients connected via a network share data including a plurality of data items. In this method, when a desired data item is designated so as to set its exclusive control right, data items which belong to layers lower than the designated data and are related to the designated data item are retrieved on the basis of the hierarchical structure information of the plurality of data items. Then, the exclusive control right is set for the designated data item and retrieved data items.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Toshikazu Ohshima, Masakazu Fujiki
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Patent number: 7623324Abstract: A magnetic sensing element including a laminate and a bias layer is provided. A first reactive-ion-etching (RIE) stop layer is disposed on a free magnetic layer. Second RIE stop layers are disposed on bias layers. The first and second RIE stop layers function as stop layers when layers on the first and second RIE stop layers are removed by reactive ion etching in a production process. Reactive ion etching is completed when the first RIE stop layer and the second RIE stop layers are exposed, the first and second RIE stop layers being disposed at almost the same height. Also provided is a process for producing the magnetic sensing element.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Kenji Honda, Naohiro Ishibashi, Daigo Aoki, Yasuo Hayakawa, Yoshihiro Nishiyama, Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7535701Abstract: A case for a computer has a solid shape formed by outer panels assembled together into which are installed bays for mounting modules. Switches and insertion/removal openings for external storage modules are provided on front side of the case. Connectors are at least provided on a rear side. The frame members comprise outer frames that are arranged so as to form an outline of each face of the solid shape. Corner parts are arranged at the corners of the sold shape and connect adjacent outer frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2003Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Grow Up Japan, Inc.Inventor: Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7518859Abstract: An HDD case is provided that enables direct connection of an interface connector and houses an HDD and that is superior in regard to vibration absorption, sound insulation, radiating heat, and waterproofness, and that consists of (1) a rectangular box-like case body, (2) a cover that have a heat sink, mounted via an adhesive synthetic-resin mat, and sound-absorbing materials; (3) a relay board that includes an internal connector fitted with an interface connector of the HDD, an external connector exposed to the outside so as not to protrude beyond the outside surface of the cover when the cover is closed, and wiring that connects the connectors; and (4) a waterproof seal that is applied all along the mating surface between the cover and the opening at the top of the case body and between the cover and the upper opening surface of the external connector.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2007Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Grow Up Japan, Inc.Inventor: Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7516204Abstract: An information processing method for maintaining, in a system in which each of a plurality of client processes, connected via an information transmission medium, holds and uses shared data to be shared by the plurality of client processes, consistency of shared data held by the respective plurality of client processes, includes a holding step of holding the shared data, and a first issuance step of issuing, in response to a manipulation event request, a manipulation event that represents the manipulation to the shared data to the server process. In addition, a first manipulation execution step executes a manipulation to the shared data in response to a manipulation event received from the server process, and a second issuance step issues an issuance inhibition event to the server process.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Toshikazu Ohshima, Masakazu Fujiki
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Publication number: 20080264355Abstract: The object is to provide a water heater capable of efficiently transmitting radiation heat of a burner to hot water in a hot water storage chamber, and improving thermal efficiency. In water heater, a second restriction part having a shallower depth than a restriction part is partially arranged along a peripheral edge of a lower mirror plate of a hot water storage chamber, a protrusion part protruding in a ring shape toward the center side of the lower mirror plate is arranged between the restriction part and the second restriction part, and a burner is provided so as to position a burner head of the burner to face the protrusion part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Paloma Industries, LimitedInventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Oda
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Publication number: 20080242576Abstract: A probe cleaning sheet for removing foreign objects attached to tip part of a probe is formed with a plastic sheet having a flat and even surface and a uniform thickness and a cleaning layer with a flat and even surface and a uniform thickness formed on the surface of this plastic sheet. The cleaning layer has viscoelastic properties. Its Young's modulus is 30 MPa or more and 700 MPa les less, its storage modulus at 25° C. is 1.2×108 dyn/cm2 or more and 1.2×109 dyn/cm2 or less, and the value of its storage modulus at 25° C. is 1.2 or more and 3.0 or less times the value of its storage modulus at 150° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Jun Tamura, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Jun Watanabe
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Patent number: 7379060Abstract: An image processing method includes a position/orientation acquisition step of acquiring a position and orientation of a viewpoint, a virtual image creation step of creating a virtual image on the basis of the position and orientation of the viewpoint, and a holding step of holding an environment mapping image. In addition, an image extraction step extracts a mapping image area rotated according to a viewpoint rotation component about an axis in a line-of-sight direction from the environment mapping image on the basis of the line-of-sight direction of the viewpoint and the viewpoint rotation component about the axis in the line-of sight direction, and an environment mapping step executes environment mapping processing for the virtual image created in the virtual image creation step by using an image included in the mapping image area extracted in the image extraction step.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Toshikazu Ohshima
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Patent number: 7360535Abstract: A hot water apparatus is provided in which heat recovery is performed as much as possible allowing condensate to be generated and excellent heat efficiency is achieved without providing a plurality of heat exchangers by effectively evaporating generated condensate. In a water heater 1, the condensate evaporator 11 is disposed inclining so that its side facing the high temperature portion of the heat exchanger 10 is at a lower position. The generated condensate drops on the condensate receiver guiding portion 28, and moves by its own weight to the side facing the high temperature portion. Then the condensate is heated and evaporated. In this evaporation, the same amount of heat as that of recovered latent heat is discharged to the exhaust gas, however, sensible heat can be recovered as much as possible without limiting condensate generation in the heat exchanger 10.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Paloma Industries, LimitedInventor: Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080037901Abstract: Indices in an image of a physical space on which a plurality of indices are allocated are identified, and the positions and orientations, on the physical space, of all or some identified indices are calculated (S142).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Yonezawa, Kenji Morita, Akihiro Katayama, Rika Takemoto, Kiyohide Satoh, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Sonoko Maeda
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Patent number: 7330197Abstract: In exhibition of a synthesized image which is obtained by synthesizing a virtual world image with a real world image observed from a viewpoint position and direction of a user, data representing a position and orientation of a user is acquired, a virtual image is generated based on the data representing the position and orientation of the user, and the virtual image is synthesized with a real image corresponding to the position and orientation of the user. Based on a measurable area of the position and orientation of the user, area data is set. Based on the data representing the position of the user and the area data, notification related to the measurable area is controlled.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Toshikazu Ohshima
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Publication number: 20080029077Abstract: A cooking stove in which heat exchange between combustion gas and the bottom surface of a cooking container is sufficiently conducted and heat exchange efficiency is improved is provided. On a top plate 2, a plate 7 that supports a cooking container P is arranged concentrically with the burner head 5 of the burner 4 viewed from above. This plate 7 is disc-shaped where an opening 8 which is larger than the burner head 5 is defined at the center. Moreover, eight protrusions 9, 9 . . . having an angular cross section where slopes become gentler as they extend toward the outer circumferential side are spirally arranged around the opening 8 viewed from above, and these protrusions 9 are formed by press forming.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: Paloma Industries, LimitedInventor: Toshihiro KOBAYASHI
