Patents by Inventor Yasunori Chiba
Yasunori Chiba 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: 20190082041Abstract: A battery cover structure including a battery accommodation section which has a battery insertion/removal opening provided on one surface side of a housing, a battery cover which openably covers the battery insertion/removal opening, and a gasket which is fitted into a groove provided in a periphery of the battery cover or a periphery of the battery insertion/removal opening so as to hermetically seal the battery accommodation section by the battery cover, in which the lateral pressure to the gasket fitted into the groove is greater in corner areas of the gasket than in linear areas of the gasket.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasunori CHIBA
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Publication number: 20190026518Abstract: A portable terminal including a grip section capable of being gripped by a hand of a user in a predetermined gripping style, a first switch section provided such that at least a pressing target portion is exposed from a first surface of a terminal main body and capable of being operated by an index finger of the hand of the user gripping the grip section in the gripping style, and a second switch section provided such that at least a pressing target portion is exposed from a second surface of the terminal main body positioned opposite to the first surface and capable of being operated by a thumb of the gripping hand of the user in the gripping style, in which the pressing target portion of the first switch section is set to require operating force greater than operating force required for the pressing target portion of the second switch section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Satoshi OGASAWARA, Shinya OKUMURA, Yoshiaki MOCHIZUKI
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Publication number: 20190026515Abstract: A portable terminal including a grip section provided as one end of a terminal main body and capable of being gripped by one hand of a user in a gripping style where the user places the thumb on a first surface of the terminal main body and holds a second surface on the rear side thereof by the index and middle fingers, in which the second surface has a first raised portion provided such that a first vertex portion is positioned between the index and middle fingers, and a second raised portion having a second vertex portion such that the index finger is interposed between the first and second vertex portions, and in which a switch section is provided such that a pressing target portion is exposed to a sloped surface area of the second raised portion on a side opposite to a side where the index finger is positioned.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Satoshi OGASAWARA, Shinya OKUMURA, Yoshiaki MOCHIZUKI
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Publication number: 20190026517Abstract: A portable terminal including a grip section provided as one end of a terminal main body and structured to be gripped by one hand in a gripping style where a user places a thumb of the one hand on a first surface of the terminal main body and holds a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface by at least an index finger and a middle finger extended from a side of the terminal main body, a raised portion provided on the second surface of the grip section such that a vertex portion is positioned between the index finger and the middle finger in the gripping style, and a switch section provided such that a pressing target portion is exposed in a sloped surface area of the raised portion where the index finger is positioned in the gripping style.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Satoshi OGASAWARA, Shinya OKUMURA, Yoshiaki MOCHIZUKI
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Publication number: 20190028600Abstract: A portable terminal including a battery accommodating section having an opening for battery insertion and removal which is provided at a position shifted to one end of a terminal main body on a predetermined surface of the terminal main body, a battery cover for covering the opening, and a switch section provided closer to an other end of the terminal main body than the battery accommodating section, on the predetermined surface of the terminal main body, in which the battery cover is provided extending from the one end to a position beyond the switch section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Satoshi OGASAWARA, Shinya OKUMURA, Yoshiaki MOCHIZUKI
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Publication number: 20180226184Abstract: A coil device includes a conductor and a terminal electrode. The conductor is embedded in a core body and wound in a coil shape. The terminal electrode is formed on an end surface of the core body and connected with a lead end of the conductor. The coil device further includes a dummy conductor embedded in the core body separately from the conductor. An end part of the dummy conductor exposed from the end surface of the core body separately from the lead end is connected with the terminal electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KUDO, Makoto MORITA, Fuyuki MIURA, Naoki SATOU, Kyohei TONOYAMA, Yasunori CHIBA, Masanori SUGAI, Junichi AOYADO
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Publication number: 20180217638Abstract: A portable terminal elongated in a longitudinal direction and having a key operation section provided in a substantially lower area in the longitudinal direction of the front surface, in which a finger-hooking section that is a projection portion projecting in the thickness direction of the portable terminal is provided on a rear surface on the rear side of the key operation section, and has a first projection area that extends in the longitudinal direction and a second projection area that is located adjacent to the first projection area while extending toward a lower side in the longitudinal direction and is gradually widened in the lateral direction as extending toward the lower side in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Masatoshi OHTAKA, Yasunori CHIBA, Manabu OOTAKE
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Patent number: 10039196Abstract: A portable device of the present invention includes an exterior member of which an inside is hollow, a plurality of support parts provided in the inside of the exterior member so as to stand up in a direction perpendicular to a front or back surface of the exterior member, a plurality of buffer members provided around each of the plurality of support parts, and an inner member kept in the inside of the exterior member in parallel with the front or back surface of the exterior member without being in contact with the exterior member by the plurality of buffer members.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromasu Meguro, Yasunori Chiba, Shinya Okumura
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Publication number: 20180134756Abstract: A Wisteria floribunda monomeric lectin polypeptide is provided. The Wisteria floribunda monomeric lectin polypeptide includes any one of the amino acid sequences selected from the group consisting of: (1) the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2; (2) the amino acid sequence defined in (1) above, except that one to 20 amino acids at positions other than Cys272 position is/are deleted, substituted, inserted, or added; and (3) the amino acid sequence defined in (1) or (2) above, further having an N-terminus deletion of one to 30 amino acids, in which Cys272 is alkylated, and the polypeptide is capable of specifically binding to a GalNAc terminal sugar chain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Takashi Sato, Yasunori Chiba, Hiroaki Tateno, Hiroyuki Kaji, Masanori Goto, Hisashi Narimatsu
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Publication number: 20180084660Abstract: A watertight cap used with an electronic apparatus is provided with a cap body to be set in an installing recess of the apparatus case of the electronic apparatus, an insertion part provided on the cap body and inserted into a through hole formed in the installing recess, a watertight projection provided on the peripheral surface of the insertion part to be resiliently pressed against the surface defining the through hole, a reinforce member embedded in the cap body and the insertion part for preventing the insertion part from deforming inwards, and a hook part provided on the insertion part so as to project into the apparatus case to engage with the stopping part in the through hole, when the insertion part is inserted in the through hole, thereby securing enhanced watertight of the apparatus case and preventing the cap body from slipping out from the apparatus case accidentally.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromasu MEGURO, Yasunori CHIBA, Shinya OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20180084654Abstract: A portable device of the present invention includes an exterior member of which an inside is hollow, a plurality of support parts provided in the inside of the exterior member so as to stand up in a direction perpendicular to a front or back surface of the exterior member, a plurality of buffer members provided around each of the plurality of support parts, and an inner member kept in the inside of the exterior member in parallel with the front or back surface of the exterior member without being in contact with the exterior member by the plurality of buffer members.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromasu MEGURO, Yasunori CHIBA, Shinya OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20180075270Abstract: A reading device includes a reading unit configured to illuminate a light beam towards an object to be read, to receive reflected light thereof and to read information of the object to be read, and an imaging unit configured to capture the object to be read, as an image, wherein an illumination direction of the light beam from the reading unit and an imaging direction of the imaging unit are set to be same.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromasu MEGURO, Yasunori CHIBA, Shinya OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20180074555Abstract: A portable device includes a device case, and an inner case arranged in the device case. The inner case includes a first frame arranged in the device case, a second frame arranged in parallel with the first frame in the device case, a coupling part configured to couple the first frame and the second frame, and a buffer member provided at the coupling part and configured to buffer shock to be applied to the first frame and the second frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromasu MEGURO, Yasunori CHIBA, Shinya OKUMURA
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Patent number: 9796765Abstract: [Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to stably supply high-quality and highly uniform Wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) that recognizes biologically important sugar-chain markers, to elucidate the sugar-chain recognition activity in detail, and to furthermore increase the specificity of the sugar-chain recognition activity. [Solution] The present invention involves the development of a technique for cloning genes for coding Wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) and producing recombinant WFA having the same sugar-chain recognition activity as natural WFA from transformed bacteria. Natural WFA is reduced to thereby manufacture a reduced WFA monomer for specifically recognizing terminal GalNAc residue. A recombinant monomer WFA for recognizing LDN (GalNAc?1, 4GlcNAc) sugar chain, which is important as a diagnostic marker among sugar chains having a terminal GalNAc residue, is manufactured by introducing cysteine mutation to recombinant WFA or by C-terminal-side amino acid deletion.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Takashi Sato, Yasunori Chiba, Hiroaki Tateno, Hiroyuki Kaji, Masanori Goto, Hisashi Narimatsu
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Publication number: 20170240655Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] The importance of sugar chains having ?2,3- or ?2,6-linked sialic acid at their non-reducing ends is known. Industrial production has been demanded for these sugar chain compounds. Particularly, the production of glycoprotein drugs or the like inevitably requires producing in quantity sugar chains having homogeneous structures by controlling the linking pattern (?2,6-linkage or ?2,3-linkage) of sialic acid. Particularly, a triantennary or tetraantennary N-type complex sugar chain having sialic acid at each of all non-reducing ends is generally considered difficult to chemically synthesize. There has been no report disclosing that such a sugar chain was chemically synthesized. Furthermore, these sugar chains are also difficult to efficiently prepare enzymatically.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: Glytech, Inc.Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Yoshie Takahashi, Hisashi Narimatsu, Kazuhiro Fukae
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Publication number: 20170211063Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a production system that is capable of high-level secretory production of a protein (and in particular, a protein with a complicated structure such as a structure with S—S bonds) in a host cell such as yeast and is suitable for industrial production with high safety that does not require explosion-proof facilities. The present invention provides a transformed yeast into which a chaperone gene has been introduced and in which the aox1 gene and/or the protease gene have been disrupted and a method for producing a protein involving the use of such transformed yeast.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Daiichi Sankyo Company, LimitedInventors: Koichi NONAKA, Takeshi SUZUKI, Masashi TSUDA, Satoshi BABA, Kimihisa ICHIKAWA, Yasunori CHIBA, Takehiko YOKO-O, Rie ITO
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Patent number: 9436861Abstract: A board connection structure including a wiring board having a contact point section provided at one end portion and opposed to a switch button, and a holding member to which the wiring board is attached with flat surfaces of the contact point section and the connection section on the same surface intersecting with each other by the folding of the wiring board.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromasu Meguro, Satoshi Ogasawara, Jun Uchino, Yasunori Chiba, Youichi Ushigome
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Patent number: 9407805Abstract: An electronic device of the present invention has a flat-type device case whose front surface is provided with an imaging section and which is covered by a foldable cover, and includes an open/close detecting section which detects an open/close angle of the cover when the cover covers the device case, and outputs a detection signal for causing the imaging section to perform imaging.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Casio Computer Co., LtdInventors: Masatoshi Ohtaka, Masatoshi Maruyama, Yasunori Chiba, Yasuaki Ogawa
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Patent number: 9376506Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] The importance of sugar chains having ?2,3- or ?2,6-linked sialic acid at their non-reducing ends is known. Industrial production has been demanded for these sugar chain compounds. Particularly, the production of glycoprotein drugs or the like inevitably requires producing in quantity sugar chains having homogeneous structures by controlling the linking pattern (?2,6-linkage or ?2,3-linkage) of sialic acid. Particularly, a triantennary or tetraantennary N-type complex sugar chain having sialic acid at each of all non-reducing ends is generally considered difficult to chemically synthesize. There has been no report disclosing that such a sugar chain was chemically synthesized. Furthermore, these sugar chains are also difficult to efficiently prepare enzymatically.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: GLYTECH, INC.Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Yoshie Takahashi, Hisashi Narimatsu, Kazuhiro Fukae
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Patent number: 9371519Abstract: The present invention provides a novel endo-?-N-acetylglucosaminidase (Endo-Om) using a transformant produced by cloning an endo-?-N-acetylglucosaminidase (Endo-Om) gene originated from a methylotrophic yeast Ogataea minuta IFO10746 strain. The Endo-Om according to the present invention has a specific activity 13-fold higher than that of known Endo-M and a Vmax value 55-fold higher than that of the known Endo-M, and is useful for the analysis of the structures of sugar chains, including complex type sugar chains, in glycoproteins and the modification of the sugar chains.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yasunori Chiba, Satoshi Murakami, Hisashi Narimatsu