Patents by Inventor Yohei Miyagi
Yohei Miyagi 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: 11863719Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit, a reversing unit, a discharge unit, a mounting portion, and a pressing portion. The discharge unit discharges a document that is reversed by the reversing unit. On the mounting portion, the document discharged by the discharge unit is mounted. The pressing portion presses the document toward the mounting portion. The pressing portion has a moving member that is provided and configured to move toward the mounting portion, and an elastic member that applies an elastic force to the moving member so that the moving member comes into contact with the document on the mounting portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yohei Miyagi, Yuhei Hamada, Keita Fuji
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Patent number: 11831826Abstract: A scanner includes the following. A paper support guides an original document to a supplying port. An inverting unit inverts a front and a back of the original document fed through the supplying port. A reading unit reads the original document before being inverted. A discharging unit discharges the original document after being inverted. A portion of the original document is placed on a placement plate. A pressing unit presses the original document toward the placement plate at least at a downstream end portion in a discharging direction of the original document on the placement plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yohei Miyagi
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Publication number: 20230239415Abstract: A scanner includes the following. A paper support guides an original document to a supplying port. An inverting unit inverts a front and a back of the original document fed through the supplying port. A reading unit reads the original document before being inverted. A discharging unit discharges the original document after being inverted. A portion of the original document is placed on a placement plate. A pressing unit presses the original document toward the placement plate at least at a downstream end portion in a discharging direction of the original document on the placement plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventor: Yohei MIYAGI
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Patent number: 11639278Abstract: A media feeding apparatus includes a media mounting section, a first feed roller, a media pressing section for pressing media sheets against the first feed roller, and a pressing force adjuster for adjusting the pressing force of the media pressing section. The controller sets the pressing force of the media pressing section to first pressing force and drives the first feed roller and the second feed roller in a forward rotation direction, and in a case in which the first detector detects a passage of a leading edge of the media sheet and the second detector detects no passage of the leading edge of the media sheet after predetermined first set time has passed, the controller continues the rotation of the first feed roller and the second feed roller with second pressing force of the media pressing section greater than or equal to the first pressing force.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yohei Miyagi
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Publication number: 20230094383Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit, a reversing unit, a discharge unit, a mounting portion, and a pressing portion. The discharge unit discharges a document that is reversed by the reversing unit. On the mounting portion, the document discharged by the discharge unit is mounted. The pressing portion presses the document toward the mounting portion. The pressing portion has a moving member that is provided and configured to move toward the mounting portion, and an elastic member that applies an elastic force to the moving member so that the moving member comes into contact with the document on the mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Yohei MIYAGI, Yuhei HAMADA, Keita FUJI
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Patent number: 11597617Abstract: A medium feeding apparatus includes a feed roller that feeds media. A separation roller nips the media together with the feed roller to separate it and is rotated in a first direction to feed the media. A motor applies driving torque to the separation roller in a second direction opposite to the first direction. A torque limiter, when rotation torque applied to the separation roller in the first direction exceeds a preset upper torque limit, causes the separation roller to rotate at idle in the first direction independently of the driving torque. During feeding operations, including feeding of first and second media, a controller that controls the motor provides a break period in which the motor is not driven. The break period contains the timing when a rear edge of the first medium leaves a nip position between the feeding and separation rollers.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Namiki, Kiyotaka Nakamura, Takayuki Shiota, Yohei Miyagi, Katsuhiko Nishizaka
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Publication number: 20210287802Abstract: A method of evaluating pancreatic cancer includes (I) an obtaining step of obtaining amino acid concentration data on a concentration value of an amino acid in blood collected from a subject to be evaluated, and (II) an evaluating step of evaluating a state of pancreatic cancer in the subject by calculating a value of a formula using the amino acid concentration data of the subject obtained at the obtaining step and the formula previously established for evaluating the state of pancreatic cancer, including an explanatory variable to be substituted with the concentration value of the amino acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Nobukazu ONO, Atsuko SHINHARA, Takahiko MURAMATSU, Shinya KIKUCHI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Koichi SHIRAISHI, Kazuhiro KATAYAMA, Nobuyasu FUKUTAKE, Masahiko HIGASHIYAMA, Shinichi OHKAWA, Makoto UENO, Yohei MIYAGI, Naoyuki OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210208148Abstract: One embodiment of this invention is a method for confirming expression of the PRDM14 gene from blood or lymphatic fluid collected from a subject by: (1) detecting PRDM14 positive CTC which expresses the PRDM14 gene; or (2) measuring the concentration of at least one protein selected from the group consisting of leptin receptor (LEPR), macrophage-derived chemokine (MDC) and gamma-interferon (IFN?).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicants: The University of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefectural Hospital OrganizationInventors: Kohzoh Imai, Hitoshi Zembutsu, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Anri Saitoh, Yohei Miyagi
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Publication number: 20210188582Abstract: A media feeding apparatus includes a media mounting section, a first feed roller, a media pressing section for pressing media sheets against the first feed roller, and a pressing force adjuster for adjusting the pressing force of the media pressing section. The controller sets the pressing force of the media pressing section to first pressing force and drives the first feed roller and the second feed roller in a forward rotation direction, and in a case in which the first detector detects a passage of a leading edge of the media sheet and the second detector detects no passage of the leading edge of the media sheet after predetermined first set time has passed, the controller continues the rotation of the first feed roller and the second feed roller with second pressing force of the media pressing section greater than or equal to the first pressing force.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventor: Yohei MIYAGI
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Publication number: 20200264161Abstract: A cancer risk evaluation method is provided, which makes it possible to estimate the risk of suffering from cancer of a subject with high accuracy, which do not have the disadvantages of early degeneration and high cost that arise in the case where the in-blood amino acid concentrations are utilized, and which are capable of estimating which site of cancer a subject has. This method includes the step S1 of measuring the concentrations of a set of evaluation elements contained in a serum sample 2 taken from a subject, the step S2 of applying concentration data of the set of elements thus measured and age data of the subject to a discriminant function or functions for discriminating to which of a case group and a control group the subject belongs to perform an operation; and the step S3 of obtaining an indicator for discriminating whether or not the subject suffers from any type of cancer based on a correlation among the set of evaluation elements obtained in the step S2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: Renatech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiichi Inagaki, Naoyuki Okamoto, Haruo Mikami, Yohei Miyagi
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Publication number: 20200071100Abstract: A medium feeding apparatus includes a feed roller that feeds media. A separation roller nips the media together with the feed roller to separate it and is rotated in a first direction to feed the media. A motor applies driving torque to the separation roller in a second direction opposite to the first direction. A torque limiter, when rotation torque applied to the separation roller in the first direction exceeds a preset upper torque limit, causes the separation roller to rotate at idle in the first direction independently of the driving torque. During feeding operations, including feeding of first and second media, a controller that controls the motor provides a break period in which the motor is not driven. The break period contains the timing when a rear edge of the first medium leaves a nip position between the feeding and separation rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Masaki NAMIKI, Kiyotaka NAKAMURA, Takayuki SHIOTA, Yohei MIYAGI, Katsuhiko NISHIZAKA
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Patent number: 10071869Abstract: A medium feeder includes a medium mounter, a pair of edge guides, and a sheet number limiter. The medium mounter has a mounting surface on which a medium to be fed is placed. The pair of edge guides is provided at the medium mounter to guide side edges of the medium in a direction that intersects with a feeding direction in which the medium is fed. The sheet number limiter is provided at the pair of edge guides to limit the number of media mountable on the medium mounter. The sheet number limiter has an extension that extends in a feeding direction of the medium such that a distance between the extension and the mounting surface increases downstream.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yohei Miyagi
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Publication number: 20170267476Abstract: A medium feeder includes a medium mounter, a pair of edge guides, and a sheet number limiter. The medium mounter has a mounting surface on which a medium to be fed is placed. The pair of edge guides is provided at the medium mounter to guide side edges of the medium in a direction that intersects with a feeding direction in which the medium is fed. The sheet number limiter is provided at the pair of edge guides to limit the number of media mountable on the medium mounter. The sheet number limiter has an extension that extends in a feeding direction of the medium such that a distance between the extension and the mounting surface increases downstream.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventor: Yohei MIYAGI
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Patent number: 9465031Abstract: According to the method of evaluating prostatic disease of the present invention, amino acid concentration data on concentration values of amino acids in blood collected from a subject to be evaluated is measured, and the state of prostatic disease including at least one of prostatic cancer and prostatic hypertrophy in the subject is evaluated based on the concentration value of at least one of Tau, Thr, Ser, Asn, Glu, Pro, Gly, Ala, Cit, ABA, Val, Met, Ile, Leu, Phe, His, Trp, Orn, Lys, and Cys2 contained in the measured amino acid concentration data of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Naoyuki Okamoto, Takeshi Miura, Yohei Miyagi, Akira Imaizumi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Takahiko Muramatsu, Toshihiko Ando, Noriko Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150254411Abstract: A method of evaluating pancreatic cancer includes (I) an obtaining step of obtaining amino acid concentration data on a concentration value of an amino acid in blood collected from a subject to be evaluated, and (II) an evaluating step of evaluating a state of pancreatic cancer in the subject by calculating a value of a formula using the amino acid concentration data of the subject obtained at the obtaining step and the formula previously established for evaluating the state of pancreatic cancer, including an explanatory variable to be substituted with the concentration value of the amino acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Nobukazu Ono, Atsuko Shinhara, Takahiko Muramatsu, Shinya Kikuchi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Koichi Shiraishi, Kazuhiro Katayama, Nobuyasu Fukutake, Masahiko Higashiyama, Shinichi Ohkawa, Makoto Ueno, Yohei Miyagi, Naoyuki Okamoto
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Publication number: 20130314526Abstract: Provided is a cell concentration/purification device having a function of successively locating cells in a specific area of a microchannel, and a function of sequentially capturing cell images by use of light from a plurality of monochromatic light sources on an image basis, and performing comparative analysis of the cell images to recognize individual cells based on information on the shape of the cells and an absorption spectral distribution of the cells or inside of the cells, thereby selectively separating/purifying the cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2011Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Kenji Yasuda, Hideyuki Terazono, Hyonchol Kim, Masahito Hayashi, Akihiro Hattori, Kazuto Nishio, Tokuzo Arao, Yohei Miyagi, Takashi Ohtsu
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Publication number: 20110138889Abstract: According to the method of evaluating prostatic disease of the present invention, amino acid concentration data on concentration values of amino acids in blood collected from a subject to be evaluated is measured, and the state of prostatic disease including at least one of prostatic cancer and prostatic hypertrophy in the subject is evaluated based on the concentration value of at least one of Tau, Thr, Ser, Asn, Glu, Pro, Gly, Ala, Cit, ABA, Val, Met, Ile, Leu, Phe, His, Trp, Orn, Lys, and Cys2 contained in the measured amino acid concentration data of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Naoyuki Okamoto, Takeshi Miura, Yohei Miyagi, Akira Imaizumi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Takahiko Muramatsu, Toshihiko Ando, Noriko Takahashi