Patents by Inventor Toshiya Sawai
Toshiya Sawai 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: 9714942Abstract: It is intended to provide a detection method and a determination method for detection target capable of detecting and determining a detection target promptly and simply with high accuracy at low cost. The detection method includes the steps of: mixing a first conjugate 10 in which a first substance containing a stimulus-responsive polymer 11 and a particulate magnetic substance 19 is conjugated to a first antibody 13 against a detection target 50 with a sample; applying a magnetic force after placing the resulting mixture in a condition capable of aggregating the stimulus-responsive polymer 11; measuring a generated magnetic field; and detecting the detection target 50 based on the degree of increase in the magnetic field after applying the magnetic force.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiya Sawai, Eri Oowada, Hirokazu Nagaoka, Satoru Sugita, Toshiya Ueki
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Patent number: 9558862Abstract: The present invention is a conductive polymer composition containing a ?-conjugated conductive polymer, a polyanion, and a gemini surfactant. There can be provided a conductive polymer composition that has excellent antistatic performance and excellent application properties, does not adversely affect a resist, and can be suitably used in lithography using electron beam or the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignees: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD., SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiya Sawai, Takayuki Nagasawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Keiichi Masunaga
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Patent number: 9372187Abstract: A detection/determination kit with which a substance to be detected or the amount thereof can be rapidly, inexpensively, and easily detected or determined; and a detection/determination method. The kit, which is for detecting a substance to be detected (50) contained in a specimen, comprises: a first compound (10) comprising a first substance including a stimulus-responsive polymer (11) and, bonded to the first substance, a first antibody (13) against the substance (50); and a second compound (20) comprising a second substance (21) which is hydrophilic and, bonded thereto, a second antibody (23) against the substance (50). The first antibody (13) and second antibody (23) can simultaneously combine with the substance (50) at different sites in the substance (50).Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignees: ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiya Sawai, Eri Oowada, Yasunobu Sato, Hirokazu Nagaoka, Satoru Sugita
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Publication number: 20150140492Abstract: The present invention is a conductive polymer composition containing a ?-conjugated conductive polymer, a polyanion, and a gemini surfactant. There can be provided a conductive polymer composition that has excellent antistatic performance and excellent application properties, does not adversely affect a resist, and can be suitably used in lithography using electron beam or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Toshiya Sawai, Takayuki Nagasawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Keiichi Masunaga
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Publication number: 20110014713Abstract: A detection/determination kit with which a substance to be detected or the amount thereof can be rapidly, inexpensively, and easily detected or determined; and a detection/determination method. The kit, which is for detecting a substance to be detected (50) contained in a specimen, comprises: a first compound (10) comprising a first substance including a stimulus-responsive polymer (11) and, bonded to the first substance, a first antibody (13) against the substance (50); and a second compound (20) comprising a second substance (21) which is hydrophilic and, bonded thereto, a second antibody (23) against the substance (50). The first antibody (13) and second antibody (23) can simultaneously combine with the substance (50) at different sites in the substance (50).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2008Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicants: ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CHISSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiya Sawai, Eri Oowada, Yasunobu Sato, Hirokazu Nagaoka, Satoru Sugita
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Publication number: 20100330688Abstract: It is intended to provide a detection method and a determination method for detection target capable of detecting and determining a detection target promptly and simply with high accuracy at low cost. The detection method includes the steps of: mixing a first conjugate 10 in which a first substance containing a stimulus-responsive polymer 11 and a particulate magnetic substance 19 is conjugated to a first antibody 13 against a detection target 50 with a sample; applying a magnetic force after placing the resulting mixture in a condition capable of aggregating the stimulus-responsive polymer 11; measuring a generated magnetic field; and detecting the detection target 50 based on the degree of increase in the magnetic field after applying the magnetic force.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2008Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicants: ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CHISSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiya Sawai, Eri Oowada, Hirokazu Nagaoka, Satoru Sugita, Toshiya Ueki
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Patent number: 7517678Abstract: Provided is a novel comprising culturing host cells into which a foreign gene has been introduced for producing a protein in a soluble form encoded by the foreign gene, recombinant cells are cultured in the temperature range lower than or equal to the upper temperature limit for growth of the host cells and higher than 5 degrees below the upper temperature limit for growth of the host cells after induction of expression.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignees: Waseda University, Chisso CorporationInventors: Daisuke Koma, Kuniki Kino, Toshiya Sawai
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Publication number: 20080160120Abstract: PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly safe lapactic agent that exhibits a sufficient lapactic effect such as the promotion of catharsis even by the intake of a small quantity, and a food product containing such a lapactic agent having a lapactic effect. MEANS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS: A lapactic agent comprising (A) a basic polymer and/or the salt thereof, and (B) a dietary fiber, wherein (A) a basic polymer and/or the salt thereof is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinylamine, polyallylamine, polyethyleneimine, polyvinylpyridine, poly (N,N-dimethylaminoethyl acrylate), ?-polylysine, a copolymer formed from a monomer having an amino group selected from the group consisting of vinylamine, allylamine, vinylpyridine, vinylmethylimidazole, N,N-dimethylaminoethyl acrylate, and N,N-dimethylaminopropyl acrylate; and a salt of these polymers; and a food product containing such a lapactic agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: TOSHIYA SAWAI, Kenji Arakawa, Masakazu Hatakeyama, Jun Hiraki
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Publication number: 20060199249Abstract: To provide a novel method for obtaining a protein of interest efficiently in a soluble form when the protein is produced by expressing a foreign gene in host cells such as microorganisms etc. In a method for, by culturing host cells into which a foreign gene has been introduced, producing a protein encoded by the foreign gene, after induction of expression, recombinant cells are cultured in the temperature range lower than or equal to the upper temperature limit for growth of the host cells and higher than 5 degrees below the upper temperature limit for growth of the host cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2006Publication date: September 7, 2006Applicants: Waseda University, Chisso CorporationInventors: Daisuke Koma, Kuniki Kino, Toshiya Sawai
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Publication number: 20040062848Abstract: PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly safe lapactic agent that exhibits a sufficient lapactic effect such as the promotion of catharsis even by the intake of a small quantity, and a food product containing such a lapactic agent having a lapactic effect. MEANS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS: A lapactic agent comprising (A) a basic polymer and/or the salt thereof, and (B) a dietary fiber, wherein (A) a basic polymer and/or the salt thereof is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinylamine, polyallylamine, polyethyleneimine, polyvinylpyridine, poly (N,N-dimethylaminoethyl acrylate), &egr;-polylysine, a copolymer formed from a monomer having an amino group selected from the group consisting of vinylamine, allylamine, vinylpyridine, vinylmethylimidazole, N,N-dimethylaminoethyl acrylate, and N,N-dimethylaminopropyl acrylate; and a salt of these polymers; and a food product containing such a lapactic agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Inventors: Toshiya Sawai, Kenji Arakawa, Masakazu Hatakeyama, Jun Hiraki
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Patent number: 6476266Abstract: Provided is a diamino compound suitable for obtaining a polyimide which can form a liquid crystal alignment film capable of providing a liquid crystal display element, an intermediate therefor and a production process for the same. The above production process is characterized by reacting a cyclohexylbenzene derivative represented by Formula (3): with an acid halide represented by Formula (4): by the Frieldel-Crafts reaction to produce a cyclohexylphenylcarbonyl compound, and reducing the above compound after nitrating, whereby a compound represented by Formula (1) is obtained: (wherein A1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; A2 represents a single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and one or optional methylene groups which are not adjacent in the group may be substituted with an oxygen atom; X is Br or Cl; m represents an integer of 0 to 3, and n represents an integer of 1 to 5).Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Takahiro Mori, Toshiya Sawai, Shizuo Murata, Masaaki Yazawa, Satoshi Tanioka, Kumiko Hara
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Patent number: 6084058Abstract: A composition for a polyimide type liquid crystal aligning film characterized in that a diamino compound constituting polyimide contains one, two or more diamine selected from 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl methane, 3,3'-dimethyl-4,4'-diaminodiphenyl methane, 2,2'-dimethyl-4,4'-diaminodiphenyl methane, 3,3',5,5'-tetramethyl-4,4'-diaminodiphenyl methane and 4,4'-ethylene di-meta-toluidine.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1998Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Shizuo Murata, Toshiya Sawai, Satoshi Tanioka, Haruo Kato
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Patent number: 5807961Abstract: This invention is directed to a polyimide film useful as use applications for electronic materials; a liquid crystal aligning film using the same; a liquid crystal display element provided with the liquid crystal aligning film; and a polyamic acid used as a raw material of the polyimide constituting the polyimide film.The polyimide used for preparing the above polyimide films, consists of a diamine component, the 50% by mol or more based upon the total diamine, of which is a diamine having a core structure having no polar group such as 1,2-bis(4-(4-aminobenzyl)phenyl)ethane, 1,6-bis(4-(4-aminobenzyl)phenyl)hexane, 1,1-bis(4-(4-aminobenzyl)phenyl)heptane, etc., and a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, and if necessary, an aminosilicon compound, is used as a liquid crystal aligning film.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1997Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Toshiya Sawai, Masaaki Yazawa, Seiji Oikawa, Shizuo Murata, Masaharu Hayakawa, Etsuo Nakagawa
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Patent number: 5663440Abstract: An object of the invention is to propose diamino compounds expressed by the following general formula (1) which are suitable to obtain a raw material, a polyimide resin, for a liquid crystal aligning film without any image sticking and with a high voltage holding ratio at from a low temperature to a high temperature as well as the preparation thereof: ##STR1##Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1995Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Toshiya Sawai, Seiji Oikawa, Masaaki Yazawa, Shizuo Murata, Masaharu Hayakawa, Etsuo Nakagawa, Shinichi Sawada
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Patent number: 5545444Abstract: The present invention is to provide new diamino compounds useful for raw materials for production of liquid crystal aligning films that have excellent aligning properties and uniform and high pretilt angles over the whole display surface of wide substrates without afterimage phenomenons.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 13, 1996Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Minoru Nakayama, Toshiya Sawai, Shizuo Murata
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Patent number: 5501884Abstract: The present invention is to provide diamino compounds useful to polyamide raw materials for production of liquid crystal alignment layers having excellent voltage holding ratios without development of image-sticking phenomena, a method for producing the compounds and liquid crystal display devices equipping the liquid crystal alignment layers.The Diamino compounds are represented by the general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R indicates hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, further, X, Y and Z indicate hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or fluorine, respectively, and a part or all of them may be the same or different, and the positions of these substitutive groups may be ortho positions or meta positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1994Date of Patent: March 26, 1996Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Minoru Nakayama, Toshiya Sawai, Masaharu Hayakawa, Shizuo Murata, Yukino Abe
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Patent number: 5430195Abstract: The present invention is to provide new diamino compounds useful for raw materials for production of liquid crystal aligning films that have excellent aligning properties and uniform and high pretilt angles over the whole display surface of wide substrates without afterimage phenomenons.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1994Date of Patent: July 4, 1995Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Minoru Nakayama, Toshiya Sawai, Shizuo Murata
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Patent number: 5414126Abstract: The present invention is to provide new diamino compounds useful for raw materials for production of liquid crystal aligning films that have excellent aligning properties and uniform and high pretilt angles over the whole display surface of wide substrates without afterimage phenomenons.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1993Date of Patent: May 9, 1995Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Minoru Nakayama, Toshiya Sawai, Shizuo Murata
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Patent number: 5382688Abstract: The present invention is to provide diamino compounds useful to polyamide raw materials for production of liquid crystal alignment layers having excellent voltage holding ratios without development of image-sticking phenomena, a method for producing the compounds and liquid crystal display devices equipping the liquid crystal alignment layers.The Diamino compounds are represented by the general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R indicates hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, further, X, Y and Z indicate hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or fluorine, respectively, and a part or all of them may be the same or different, and the positions of these substitutive groups may be ortho positions or meta positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1993Date of Patent: January 17, 1995Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Minoru Nakayama, Toshiya Sawai, Masaharu Hayakawa, Shizuo Murata, Yukino Abe
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Patent number: 5149839Abstract: Silane coupling agents and a method of preparing the coupling agents are provided in which a silane coupling agent is prepared by reacting 2.3 to 4.0 mols of a haloalkylalkoxysilane with 1 mol of a diamine having N atoms to which 4 active hydrogen atoms are bound, by reacting 1.3 to 3.0 mols of a haloalkylalkoxysilane with 1 mol of a diamine having N atoms to which 3 active hydrogen atoms are bound and to which one alkylsilyl group is bound, or by reacting 0.3 to 2.0 mols of a haloalkylalkoxysilane with 1 mol of a diamine having N atoms to which 2 active hydrogen atoms are bound and to which 2 alkylsilyl groups are bound. In addition, a silane coupling agent may be prepared by reacting the diamine with a haloalkylalkoxysilane and a halomethylstyrene.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 1991Date of Patent: September 22, 1992Assignees: Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd., Chisso Corp.Inventors: Hideharu Waketa, Yoshiharu Suzuki, Motoharu Murakoshi, Hideaki Kakiuchi, Masuhito Ohgushi, Kenichi Watanabe, Toshiya Sawai