Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Yoshikawa

Tsutomu Yoshikawa 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: 20240002495
    Abstract: An antibody has an antagonistic effect against IL-33. An isolated human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody has framework regions with amino acid sequences from a germline, including combinations and fragments of such sequences. The epitopes for a plurality of anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibodies were identified, human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies were obtained, and the complementarity-determining regions that achieve high binding ability to IL-33 was specified by introducing mutations in the complementarity-determining regions. The identified complementarity-determining regions were used to produce the foregoing human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies having framework regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ochi
  • Patent number: 11725049
    Abstract: An antibody has an antagonistic effect against IL-33. In particular an isolated human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody has framework regions with amino acid sequences from a germline, including combinations and fragments of such sequences. The epitopes for a plurality of anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibodies were identified, human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies were obtained, and the complementarity-determining regions that achieve high binding ability to IL-33 was specified by introducing mutations in the complementarity-determining regions. The identified complementarity-determining regions were used to produce the foregoing human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies having framework regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ochi
  • Publication number: 20230059441
    Abstract: A magnetic fluid drive device for driving a magnetic fluid having temperature sensitivity in accordance with heat reception, the magnetic fluid drive device includes: a heat receiver having a flow channel through which the magnetic fluid flows, to receive heat; a magnet member disposed outside the flow channel to generate a magnetic field; and a drive mechanism that changes a position of the magnet member with respect to the heat receiver from a first position that is adjacent to the heat receiver with the magnet member applying the magnetic field to the magnetic fluid in the flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Tsutomu YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10809604
    Abstract: A phosphor wheel includes a disk-shaped member that is rotated about a rotation axis, and a phosphor layer disposed on an outer face of the disk-shaped member. The disk-shaped member has a hollow-box structure that forms an enclosed space. A coolant is sealed in the enclosed space. The coolant evaporates to a gas state from a liquid state at more than or equal to a predetermined temperature. In the liquid state, a volume of the coolant is smaller than a capacity of the enclosed space. A light conversion device includes the phosphor wheel described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10527840
    Abstract: A light conversion device includes a phosphor wheel, a circulation fan, a motor, a casing unit, and a heat absorber. The phosphor wheel has a first side on which a phosphor layer is formed. The circulation fan blows an air flow to the phosphor layer. The motor rotatably drives the phosphor wheel. The casing unit houses the phosphor wheel, the circulation fan, and the motor. In the casing unit, a circulation path of the air flow created by the circulation fan is formed. The heat absorber is in the shape of a cylinder. The heat absorber includes a fin structure including a plurality of fins arranged along a radial direction of the casing unit and provided so as to extend in a height direction of the cylinder. The air flow is supplied to the heat absorber to cool the air flow that has absorbed heat generated at the phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20190330329
    Abstract: An antibody has an antagonistic effect against IL-33. In particular an isolated human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody has framework regions with amino acid sequences from a germline, including combinations and fragments of such sequences. The epitopes for a plurality of anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibodies were identified, human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies were obtained, and the complementarity-determining regions that achieve high binding ability to IL-33 was specified by introducing mutations in the complementarity-determining regions. The identified complementarity-determining regions were used to produce the foregoing human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies having framework regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ochi
  • Patent number: 10363645
    Abstract: A workpiece simulation part estimates the amount of movement of the workpiece from drive information and estimates the current position of the workpiece by adding the amount of movement to the previous position of the workpiece, the drive information being generated for, among at least one actuator, an actuator that is assumed to constrain the workpiece under the constraint conditions. A sensor simulation part uses the current position of the workpiece to generate sensor simulation information. An input/output switching part transmits the drive information to the workpiece simulation part and transmits the sensor simulation information as alternate information of the sensor information to the control-program execution part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagatani, Hideaki Minamide, Tsutomu Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20190146314
    Abstract: The phosphor wheel in the present disclosure includes a disk-shaped member that is rotated about a rotation axis, and a phosphor layer disposed on one face of the disk-shaped member. The disk-shaped member has a hollow-box structure that forms an enclosed space. A coolant is sealed in the enclosed space. The coolant evaporates to a gas state from a liquid state at more than or equal to predetermined temperature. In the liquid state, a volume of the coolant is smaller than a capacity of the enclosed space. The present disclosure further provides a light conversion device including the phosphor wheel of the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: TSUTOMU YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10156780
    Abstract: The phosphor wheel device includes a phosphor wheel, a circulation fan, a motor and a casing unit. The phosphor wheel is disc-shaped, and includes an annular phosphor layer formed on a first face and a plurality of openings disposed on an inner circumferential side. The circulation fan is mounted to a second face opposite to the first face, and blows air through the openings to the phosphor layer side. The motor drives and rotates the phosphor wheel and the circulation fan. The casing unit accommodates the phosphor wheel, the circulation fan, and the motor, and includes a circulation path formed for an airflow generated by the circulation fan to circulate. The casing unit includes an outer cylindrical portion and an inner cylindrical portion disposed substantially concentrically inside the outer cylindrical portion. Both ends of the outer cylindrical portion communicate with both ends of the inner cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20180327191
    Abstract: A workpiece simulation part estimates the amount of movement of the workpiece from drive information and estimates the current position of the workpiece by adding the amount of movement to the previous position of the workpiece, the drive information being generated for, among at least one actuator, an actuator that is assumed to constrain the workpiece under the constraint conditions. A sensor simulation part uses the current position of the workpiece to generate sensor simulation information. An input/output switching part transmits the drive information to the workpiece simulation part and transmits the sensor simulation information as alternate information of the sensor information to the control-program execution part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya NAGATANI, Hideaki MINAMIDE, Tsutomu YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10126726
    Abstract: A technique for enabling reduction in user operations. A program generating apparatus includes a control distribution unit and a communication function adding unit. The control distribution unit allocates respective control blocks of a control model to controllers, based on the control model received by a control model input unit, and setting information and connection information received by a setting information input unit. The communication function adding unit adds, when first and second ones of the control blocks are connected to each other, a communication control block to a connected part between the first and second control blocks, the first and second control blocks being allocated to different ones of the controllers in the allocated control model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagatani, Hideaki Minamide, Tsutomu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10073238
    Abstract: A lens barrel: an optical system; a focusing manipulation unit capable of changing a focal position of the optical system in a normal photographing area and in a macro photographing area where the focal position can be changed for an object located at a position shorter than a shortest distance position of the normal photographing area; a photographing mode switching unit for switching between a normal photographing mode and a macro photographing mode; and an index ring having a normal scale and a macro scale, the normal scale indicating an object distance in the normal photographing mode, and the macro scale indicating the object distance in the macro photographing mode. Then, the photographing mode switching unit switches a display position of the index ring between the normal scale and the macro scale, and the focusing manipulation unit changes the focal position displayed on the index ring by rotation manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Ikeo, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Masahiro Inata, Hideo Onishi
  • Publication number: 20180224731
    Abstract: The phosphor wheel device includes a phosphor wheel, a circulation fan, a motor and a casing unit. The phosphor wheel is disc-shaped, and includes an annular phosphor layer formed on a first face and a plurality of openings disposed on an inner circumferential side. The circulation fan is mounted to a second face opposite to the first face, and blows air through the openings to the phosphor layer side. The motor drives and rotates the phosphor wheel and the circulation fan. The casing unit accommodates the phosphor wheel, the circulation fan, and the motor, and includes a circulation path formed for an airflow generated by the circulation fan to circulate. The casing unit includes an outer cylindrical portion and an inner cylindrical portion disposed substantially concentrically inside the outer cylindrical portion. Both ends of the outer cylindrical portion communicate with both ends of the inner cylindrical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: TSUTOMU YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9941778
    Abstract: The periodic magnetic field generator includes a flat-shaped first yoke, and a plurality of main permanent magnets, an auxiliary permanent magnet, and a side permanent magnet on the first yoke. The plurality of main permanent magnets are magnetized in a first direction of generating magnetic fields, the direction being perpendicular to the first yoke, and disposed such that orientations of the magnetization become opposite alternately in the first direction. The auxiliary permanent magnet is magnetized in a second direction perpendicular to side faces of the plurality of main permanent magnets, and placed between the side faces of the main permanent magnets. The side permanent magnet is magnetized in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction, and disposed so as to cover end faces of the main permanent magnets and the auxiliary permanent magnet, the end faces being perpendicular to the side faces of the main permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20180088317
    Abstract: A light conversion device includes a phosphor wheel, a circulation fan, a motor, a casing unit, and a heat absorber. The phosphor wheel has a first side on which a phosphor layer is formed. The circulation fan blows an air flow to the phosphor layer. The motor rotatably drives the phosphor wheel. The casing unit houses the phosphor wheel, the circulation fan, and the motor. In the casing unit, a circulation path of the air flow created by the circulation fan is formed. The heat absorber is in the shape of a cylinder. The heat absorber includes a fin structure including a plurality of fins arranged along a radial direction of the casing unit and provided so as to extend in a height direction of the cylinder. The air flow is supplied to the heat absorber to cool the air flow that has absorbed heat generated at the phosphor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: TSUTOMU YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180074470
    Abstract: A technique for enabling reduction in user operations. A program generating apparatus includes a control distribution unit and a communication function adding unit. The control distribution unit allocates respective control blocks of a control model to controllers, based on the control model received by a control model input unit, and setting information and connection information received by a setting information input unit. The communication function adding unit adds, when first and second ones of the control blocks are connected to each other, a communication control block to a connected part between the first and second control blocks, the first and second control blocks being allocated to different ones of the controllers in the allocated control model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya NAGATANI, Hideaki MINAMIDE, Tsutomu YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170283494
    Abstract: An antibody has an antagonistic effect against IL-33. In particular an isolated human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody has framework regions with amino acid sequences from a germline, including combinations and fragments of such sequences. The epitopes for a plurality of anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibodies were identified, human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies were obtained, and the complementarity-determining regions that achieve high binding ability to IL-33 was specified by introducing mutations in the complementarity-determining regions. The identified complementarity-determining regions were used to produce the foregoing human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies having framework regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ochi
  • Patent number: 9758578
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antibody having antagonistic effect against IL-33, in particular an isolated human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody wherein amino acid sequences of framework regions are amino acid sequences that are amino acid sequences from a germline or a combination of amino acid sequences thereof, or a fragment thereof. The epitopes for a plurality of anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibodies were identified, human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies were obtained, and the complementarity-determining regions that achieve high binding ability to IL-33 was specified by introducing mutations in the complementarity-determining regions. The identified complementarity-determining regions were used to produce a human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody having framework regions comprising amino acid sequences that are amino acid sequences of a germline or a combination of amino acid sequences thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ochi
  • Patent number: 9725508
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antibody having antagonistic effect against IL-33, in particular an isolated human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody wherein amino acid sequences of framework regions are amino acid sequences that are amino acid sequences from a germline or a combination of amino acid sequences thereof, or a fragment thereof. The epitopes for a plurality of anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibodies were identified, human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies were obtained, and the complementarity-determining regions that achieve high binding ability to IL-33 was specified by introducing mutations in the complementarity-determining regions. The identified complementarity-determining regions were used to produce a human anti-IL-33 neutralizing monoclonal antibody having framework regions comprising amino acid sequences that are amino acid sequences of a germline or a combination of amino acid sequences thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ochi
  • Patent number: 9720400
    Abstract: When change amount information calculated by a change amount information calculating unit satisfies a start condition and a signal condition is true for an operation instruction the start condition and the signal condition of which are defined, an operation instruction execution control unit determines a start of the corresponding operation instruction and determines operation completion based on a completion condition determined in advance of the operation instruction. An operation instruction executing unit executes the operation instruction the start of which is determined by the operation instruction execution control unit and stops the operation instruction when the operation completion is determined by the operation instruction execution control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagatani, Hideaki Minamide, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Kimihiro Mizuno, Makoto Nishimura