Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Takagi
Tsutomu Takagi 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: 11920015Abstract: To provide an expansion molded product not only excellent in sound absorption properties and rigidity but also resistant to tearing after bending deformation, and a web and a stampable sheet suitable for producing the expansion molded product. The presently disclosed web, stampable sheet, and expansion molded product contain a reinforcing fiber containing an inorganic fiber and an organic fiber, a thermoplastic resin, and a thermal expandable particle, where the proportion of the reinforcing fiber is 20 mass % or more and 55 mass % or less based on a total amount of the reinforcing fiber and the thermoplastic resin, the proportion of the organic fiber is 25 mass % or more and 77 mass % or less based on a total amount of the organic and inorganic fibers, the reinforcing fiber has an average length of 8 mm or more, and the organic fiber has a breaking elongation of 15% or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: K-PLASHEET CORPORATION, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Araki, Seiji Hanatani, Tadaaki Yasumi, Tsutomu Takagi, Atsuhiro Hattori
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Publication number: 20230264749Abstract: A vehicular interior component to be mounted on a body panel includes a core layer having a vehicular exterior side surface and a cover layer covering the vehicular exterior side surface of the core layer and having a cover layer vehicular exterior surface. The cover layer includes a first section and a second section. The first section has a first vehicular exterior side surface that is flat and is a portion of the cover layer vehicular exterior surface and the second section has a second vehicular exterior side surface that is an uneven surface and is another portion of the cover layer vehicular exterior side surface. The second section includes projection portions that are to be contacted with the body panel or a vehicular component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsutomu TAKAGI, Yosuke TAGAMI
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Patent number: 11511683Abstract: The vehicle headliner includes a base layer, a skin layer disposed on one side of the base layer, and an infrared reflecting layer and a protection layer, in this order, disposed on the other side of the base layer. The base layer contains thermoplastic resin and fiber. The protection layer is a non-stretched resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 200° C. or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, K-PLASHEET CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Kumamoto, Tsutomu Takagi, Atsuhiro Hattori
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Publication number: 20200407527Abstract: To provide an expansion molded product not only excellent in sound absorption properties and rigidity but also resistant to tearing after bending deformation, and a web and a stampable sheet suitable for producing the expansion molded product. The presently disclosed web, stampable sheet, and expansion molded product contain a reinforcing fiber containing an inorganic fiber and an organic fiber, a thermoplastic resin, and a thermal expandable particle, where the proportion of the reinforcing fiber is 20 mass % or more and 55 mass % or less based on a total amount of the reinforcing fiber and the thermoplastic resin, the proportion of the organic fiber is 25 mass % or more and 77 mass % or less based on a total amount of the organic and inorganic fibers, the reinforcing fiber has an average length of 8 mm or more, and the organic fiber has a breaking elongation of 15% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicants: K-PLASHEET CORPORATION, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka ARAKI, Seiji HANATANI, Tadaaki YASUMI, Tsutomu TAKAGI, Atsuhiro HATTORI
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Publication number: 20190111859Abstract: The vehicle headliner includes a base layer, a skin layer disposed on one side of the base layer, and an infrared reflecting layer and a protection layer, in this order, disposed on the other side of the base layer. The base layer contains thermoplastic resin and fiber. The protection layer is a non-stretched resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 200° C. or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki KUMAMOTO, Tsutomu TAKAGI, Atsuhiro HATTORI
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Patent number: 7311051Abstract: Sewing machine provided with an indication device including a display that is so large that the lower leftward portion protrudes into the stitch working area of the machine. The display may be moved up and down by of a switch and may be moved up until the lower end side of the display aligns with the lower end side of the machine arm and may be stopped at an upper optional position. At the lowest position, the upper end side of display has the upper side located in alignment with the top side of machine body and has the front side plane planar with the front side of the arm and has the lateral end side planar with the lateral end side of the machine body. The display has no part protruding from the machine body at the lowest position, and is thus placed compactly in the machine frame of machine body.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Ninomiya, Tsutomu Takagi, Koshiro Omiya, Takehiro Kodama
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Patent number: 7293515Abstract: Embroidery sewing machine having a Y-direction drive mechanism including an elongated arm which is normally accommodated in a cutout portion formed at a bed of the machine body and forms a part of that body. The upper side of the arm is continuous with the upper side of the bed in a same plane. The arm has a frame support to which an embroidery frame is removably attached, the frame holding a work to be embroidered. The arm is arranged as turnable to extend from the rear side of the bed into the depth direction (Y-direction) of the machine, where the arm is operative for embroidery stitching. The arm is connected to an X-direction drive mechanism arranged in the machine body and may be moved in the width direction (X-direction) of the machine body, by the X-direction drive mechanism while the embroidery frame is moved in the Y-direction along the arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koshiro Omiya, Masashi Ninomiya, Shuzo Morimoto, Tsutomu Takagi, Akira Orii
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Publication number: 20060278147Abstract: An embroidery sewing machine is described. The sewing machine has a Y-direction drive mechanism including an elongated arm 1 which is normally accommodated in a cutout portion 3 formed at a bed 90 of the machine body and forms a part of the machine body, wherein the upper side 10 of the elongated arm 1 is continuous with the upper side 91 of the bed 90 in a same plane. The elongated arm 1 has a frame support piece 19 to which an embroidery frame is removably attached, the embroidery frame holding a work to be embroidered. Further the elongated arm 1 is arranged as being turnable to extend from the rear side 93 of the bed 90 into the depth direction of the sewing machine, that is, in the Y direction where the elongated arm 1 is operative for embroidery stitching.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventors: Koshiro Omiya, Masashi Ninomiya, Shuzo Morimoto, Tsutomu Takagi, Akira Orii
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Publication number: 20060278145Abstract: The invention relates to a sewing machine which may be provided with an indication device including a large sized display is substantially square. The display 98 is so large that the lower leftward portion protrudes into the stitch working area 70 of the sewing machine. The display 98 may be moved up and down by operation of a switch 75 and may be moved up until the lower end side 59 of the display 98 comes into alignment with the lower end side 72 of the arm 95 and may be stopped at an upper optional position. At the lower most position, the upper end side 57 of display 98 has the upper side 57 located in alignment with the top side 71 of machine body B and has the front side 56 located in a same plane with the front side 77 of the arm 95 and has the lateral end side 58 located in a same plane with the lateral end side 73 of the machine body B. Thus the display 98 has no part protruding from the machine body B at the lower most position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2006Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventors: Masashi Ninomiya, Tsutomu Takagi, Koshiro Omiya, Takehiro Kodama
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Patent number: 7109682Abstract: A contactless power transmitting device is provided including a power transmitting device functioning as a charger, a power transmitting-receiving sharing device functioning as a charger and including a secondary battery, and a power receiving device including a secondary battery. The power transmitting-receiving sharing device is used as a power supply for portable computers. The power receiving device is used as a power supply for cellular phones. The power transmitting device forms a contactless power transmitting device respectively by electromagnetically coupling to either the power transmitting-receiving sharing device or the power receiving device to charge the secondary battery or the secondary battery. The power transmitting-receiving sharing device forms the contactless power transmitting device by electromagnetically coupling to the power receiving device. In this case, the power transmitting-receiving sharing device charges the secondary battery included in the power receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Takagi, Koji Ishizawa
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Publication number: 20050134213Abstract: A contactless power transmitting device is provided including a power transmitting device functioning as a charger, a power transmitting-receiving sharing device functioning as a charger and including a secondary battery, and a power receiving device including a secondary battery. The power transmitting-receiving sharing device is used as a power supply for portable computers. The power receiving device is used as a power supply for cellular phones. The power transmitting device forms a contactless power transmitting device respectively by electromagnetically coupling to either the power transmitting-receiving sharing device or the power receiving device to charge the secondary battery or the secondary battery. The power transmitting-receiving sharing device forms the contactless power transmitting device by electromagnetically coupling to the power receiving device. In this case, the power transmitting-receiving sharing device charges the secondary battery included in the power receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2004Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: Tsutomu Takagi, Koji Ishizawa
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Publication number: 20040002100Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for screening and identifying therapeutic agents or preventive agents for central nervous system diseases which comprises assaying a suppressing effect of a test substance on an expression of a splicing variant transcribed from presenilin-2 gene and to a method for examining central nervous system diseases which comprises detecting an expression of a splicing variant transcribed from presenilin-2 gene in a test sample originated from an animal individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Takagi, Naoya Sato, Masaya Tohyama
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Patent number: 6579679Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for screening and identifying therapeutic agents or preventive agents for central nervous system diseases which comprises assaying a suppressing effect of a test substance on an expression of a splicing variant transcribed from presenilin-2 gene and to a method for examining central nervous system diseases which comprises detecting an expression of a splicing variant transcribed from presenilin-2 gene in a test sample originated from an animal individual.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2000Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Takagi, Naoya Sato, Masaya Tohyama
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Patent number: 6293212Abstract: A sewing machine with an embroidery stitching function is disclosed, wherein a needle is vertically reciprocated to form stitches on a work held by an embroidering frame (19) which is moved in X-Y directions by a frame moving device relative to the needle on a working surface (2a) of a working bed (2), the frame moving device being composed of composed of a first mechanism (A) for moving said embroidering frame in the Y direction and a second mechanism (B) for moving the embroidering frame in the X direction, the first mechanism (A) being located on the working surface and connected to the embroidering frame (19) and the second mechanism (B) being housed in the sewing machine, the first mechanism (A) being moved by the second mechanism (B) to one end of the working bed (2) where the first mechanism (A) is rotated to a retreated position at the time of carrying out the ordinary stitching operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Janome Sewing Machine Co., LtdInventors: Yoshikazu Ebata, Tsutomu Takagi, Eiichi Shomura
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Patent number: 6089172Abstract: A lock stitch sewing machine with an automatic thread tension adjusting device is disclosed, wherein the sewing machine has a plurality of thread tension adjusting mechanisms 7, each of which including a pair of thread tension disks 12, 13, one of which is normally pressed by a spring toward the other. A sensor 4 is responsive to the operation of a thread tension releasing lever 20 made by a user with a slight touch applied thereto to give a signal. A CPU1 is responsive to the signal to compare the value of the existing thread tension of the thread tension adjusting mechanisms 7 with a predetermined one. If the value of the existing thread tension is higher than the predetermined one, the CPU1 is operated reduce the value of the existing thread tension to a predetermined one. Thus the tension releasing operation ability is increased.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1999Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Takenoya, Yoshikazu Ebata, Akira Orii, Yoshitaka Takahashi, Eiji Murakami, Eiichi Shomura, Tsutomu Takagi, Yukio Hosaka
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Patent number: 5367616Abstract: An apparatus for adding isopleths to image data includes an input device for sequentially inputting image data to be displayed on an image screen of a display device, a horizontal delay circuit for delaying the inputted data by one horizontal scanning period, a column comparator for comparing the inputted data, that is, a sample, with a delayed sample from the horizontal delay circuit to thereby generate a signal indicating a sample to be converted into isopleth data, a sample delay circuit for delaying the sample outputted from the horizontal delay circuit by one sampling period, a row comparator for comparing the sample outputted from the horizontal delay circuit with the sample outputted from the sample delay circuit to thereby generate a signal indicating a sample to be converted into isopleth data, and an isoplete data generator responsive to the output of the column and row comparators for replacing the indicated input sample by predetermined distinguishable data and for outputting the predetermined disType: GrantFiled: July 16, 1991Date of Patent: November 22, 1994Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Naozane Yoshida, Tsutomu Takagi, Nobuhiro Washiya, Hitoshi Abe, Katsutoshi Tajima
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Patent number: 5353405Abstract: A method of controlling an image memory system wherein non-interlace image data is written into the odd field and the even field memories, and the contents written into the odd field and even field memories are respectively read out so as to be converted into interlace image data. Each line of the non-interlace image data is alternately written into the odd field and even field memories in units of a plurality of dots. If the plurality of dots include dots for the odd field and dots for the even field, the image data of the plurality of dots are simultaneously written into both the odd field memory and the even field memory. When reading the image data out from the odd field memory, the image data for the even field written into the odd field memory is invalidated. Similarly, when reading the image data out from the even field memory, the image data for the odd field written into the even field memory is invalidated.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1992Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video & Information System, Inc., Hitachi Computer Electronics, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyotaka Doi, Kanji Masuyama, Tsutomu Takagi, Hitoshi Abe, Katsutoshi Tajima, Tamotsu Hirota
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Patent number: 4772334Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing highly pure rhamnose from gum arabic, which the process comprises after partially hydrolyzing gum arabic in an aqueous solution of a mineral acid, neutralyzing and condensing the liquid hydrolyzate, thereby obtaining an aqueous solution containing from 40 to 70% by weight of organic substances, adding a polar organic solvent in an amount of from 5 to 20 times by volume of the amount of the aqueous solution, thereby precipitating an insolubilized substance, removing the insolubilized substance from a mixture of the aqueous solution and the polar organic solvent, removing the polar organic solvent from the mixture, thereby obtaining an aqueous solution containing monosaccharides formed by the hydrolysis of gum arabic, and subjecting the thus obtained aqueous solution to strongly cationic ion-exchanging resin-chromatography and then to a method of adsorption and separation by using activated carbon, thereby obtaining the highly pure rhamnose from the aqueous solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1986Date of Patent: September 20, 1988Assignee: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayoshi Hatanaka, Eizi Yokoyama, Masatoshi Sano, Satoru Kumazawa, Tsutomu Takagi
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Patent number: 4656136Abstract: A novel microorganism of the genus Serratia containing a hybrid plasmid prepared by integrating a plasmid with a deoxyribonucleic acid carrying the gene for aspartase which is obtained from a microorganism of the genus Serratia. An industrially advantageous method for producing L-aspartic acid comprising contacting a culture of the novel microorganism, microbial cells collected from the culture or a processed material of the microbial cells with fumaric acid and ammonia to produce L-aspartic acid and then collecting L-aspartic acid thus produced is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1984Date of Patent: April 7, 1987Assignee: Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Kisumi, Tsutomu Takagi
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Patent number: 4455372Abstract: A method for the fermentative production of L-proline which comprises cultivating a L-proline-producing mutant of a microorganism belonging to the genus Serratia in a broth to produce and accumulate L-proline therein and collecting accumulated L-proline. The mutant is preferably that of Serratia marcescens which is deficient in L-proline oxidase and is resistant to proline analong under a high osmotic pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1982Date of Patent: June 19, 1984Assignee: Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Chibata, Masahiko Kisumi, Masaki Sugiura, Tsutomu Takagi