Patents by Inventor Yohei Shimizu

Yohei Shimizu 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: 20240065083
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a display device that can enhance thermal diffusion performance of a display panel in its plane direction. The display device includes a plate-shaped display cell that displays an image, and a thin plate-shaped heat conduction member stuck on a rear face side of the display cell. The heat conduction member is formed with a thickness of approximately 0.3 to 1.0 mm. The technology according to the present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a television receiver or a display in which an OLED cell is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ikuma, Song Han, Yohei Shimizu, Yoshimi Saito, Yuji Arai, Tomio Aoki, Yasutake Furukoshi
  • Publication number: 20230389658
    Abstract: Fastening part includes: a two-dimensional arrangement of engagement elements including a plurality of engagement elements arranged corresponding to a plurality of lattice points of a planar lattice; a plurality of first ribs; a plurality of second ribs, and a plurality of apertures formed in a fastening region in which the two-dimensional arrangement is provided. The first rib connects the engagement elements adjacently arranged in a first direction. The second rib connects the engagement elements adjacently arranged in a second direction that is different from the first direction. The plurality of first ribs and/or the plurality of second ribs is arranged to allow the plurality of apertures to include two or more apertures each having an aperture area corresponding to two or more unit cells of the planar lattice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Madoka NANBU, Yohei SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11697238
    Abstract: An extruder which can be applied to various types of resin and elastomer without having to replace a die is provided. An extruder of the present inventions has: a barrel to which raw material, that is raw elastomer or raw material resin, is supplied; a screw that is driven to rotate in the barrel in order to process the raw material together with the barrel; and die 5 that is provided at a discharge point of the barrel and that discharges the raw material that has been processed. Die 5 includes first flat plate 11 having at least one first hole 13 and second flat plate 12 having at least one second hole 14, wherein first flat plate 11 and second flat plate 12 are arranged adjacent to each other along longitudinal axis X1 of the barrel, and at least either first flat plate 11 or second flat plate 12 is movable relative to the other flat plate such that an overlapping part of first hole 13 and second hole 14 can be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Handa, Yohei Shimizu, Makoto Tojo, Jun Kakizaki
  • Patent number: 11642247
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is provided. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes crater portions, each crater portion being concavely formed on an adhesive surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. A surface of the crater portion has a plurality of through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shirotani, Yohei Shimizu, Yasutomi Matsushima, Junichi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11486779
    Abstract: A tactile sensor has an elastically deformable sheet, a coil that is provided in the sheet, a powdery or fibrous magnetic material that is provided in the sheet with the coil, and a detection portion that detects an inductance of the coil. The coil is wound in a spiral shape and the powdery or fibrous magnetic material is dispersed in the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220324152
    Abstract: A resin extruder capable of efficiently improving performance of kneading a resin material is provided. A resin extruder (1) according to one embodiment includes a cylinder (20), and a rotor-type screw (33) that is disposed in the cylinder (20) and kneads a resin material (51). In the rotor-type screw (33), a top part (33b) of a flight (33a) is formed in such a way that a gap between the top part (33b) and an inner surface of the cylinder (20) is changed from a front point to a rear point of the rotor-type screw in a rotation direction in a cross section that is vertical to an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto ISHIKAWA, Kyouhei YATA, Yohei SHIMIZU, Masao KURIHARA
  • Patent number: 11458708
    Abstract: A decorative sheet having a surface-protecting layer, the surface-protecting layer having excellent contamination resistance, alkali resistance, etc., for a long period of time, while limiting the occurrence of breakage and cracks when an impact is applied thereto or during processing; and a decorative plate using the decorative sheet is provided. Specifically, a decorative sheet comprising a laminate, the laminate comprising at least a base material sheet and a first surface-protecting layer in sequence in the thickness direction; (1) the first surface-protecting layer comprising an ionizing radiation-curable resin containing two kinds of aliphatic urethane acrylates, i.e., resin A and resin B, wherein resin A is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an isocyanurate skeleton, and resin B is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an alicyclic skeleton without an isocyanurate skeleton, and (2) the first surface-protecting layer having a nanoindentation hardness of 160 MPa or more and 240 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Shimizu, Jin Arakida, Masataka Wada
  • Patent number: 11379674
    Abstract: A magnetic field generation device may include a coil generating a magnetic field, a drive part configured to apply a voltage to the coil or supply a current to the coil, a monitoring part configured to acquire state information whose value is varied together with temperature of the coil, and a control part which controls the voltage applied by the drive part or the current supplied by the drive part based on the state information acquired by the monitoring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Miyazawa, Yohei Shimizu, Satoru Aoki
  • Patent number: 11286285
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a streptavidin mutant reduced in affinity to the naturally-occurring biotin, and to provide a modified biotin which shows a high affinity to such streptavidin mutant reduced in affinity to the naturally-occurring biotin. This invention can provide a compound composed of a dimer of modified biotin, a streptavidin mutant, and usage of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAVID THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Sugiyama, Hirofumi Doi, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Eiichi Mizohata, Tatsuya Kawato, Tomohiro Meshizuka, Motomu Kanai, Yohei Shimizu, Noriaki Takasu, Mari Takatsu
  • Patent number: 11161884
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a streptavidin mutant reduced in affinity to the naturally-occurring biotin, and to provide a modified biotin which shows a high affinity to such streptavidin mutant reduced in affinity to the naturally-occurring biotin. This invention can provide a compound composed of a dimer of modified biotin, a streptavidin mutant, angsd usage of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAVID THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Sugiyama, Hirofumi Doi, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Eiichi Mizohata, Tatsuya Kawato, Tomohiro Meshizuka, Motomu Kanai, Yohei Shimizu, Noriaki Takasu, Mari Takatsu
  • Patent number: 11152017
    Abstract: A card reader includes a writing coil that is provided to a magnetic head for recording magnetic data in a magnetic card, and a drive circuit that supplies a write current to the writing coil. The drive circuit is a chopping circuit that supplies a chopping current, on/off of which is switched in a specified cycle, as the write current to the writing coil. An on/off cycle of the chopping current is a cycle in which a length of a magnetized pattern in a recording direction is shorter than a reading gap formed in a core around which the writing coil is wound or a core around which a reading coil being separately provided from the writing coil is wound, the magnetized pattern in the recording direction being formed in the magnetic card by the chopping current in a period including one each of the on and the off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jo Tanaka, Yohei Shimizu, Yufei Gu
  • Patent number: 11124549
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a streptavidin mutant reduced in affinity to the naturally-occurring biotin, and to provide a modified biotin which shows a high affinity to such streptavidin mutant reduced in affinity to the naturally-occurring biotin. This invention can provide a compound composed of a dimer of modified biotin, a streptavidin mutant, angsd usage of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAVID THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Sugiyama, Hirofumi Doi, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Eiichi Mizohata, Tatsuya Kawato, Tomohiro Meshizuka, Motomu Kanai, Yohei Shimizu, Noriaki Takasu, Mari Takatsu
  • Publication number: 20210276309
    Abstract: A decorative sheet having a surface-protecting layer, the surface-protecting layer having excellent contamination resistance, alkali resistance, etc., for a long period of time, while limiting the occurrence of breakage and cracks when an impact is applied thereto or during processing; and a decorative plate using the decorative sheet is provided. Specifically, a decorative sheet comprising a laminate, the laminate comprising at least a base material sheet and a first surface-protecting layer in sequence in the thickness direction; (1) the first surface-protecting layer comprising an ionizing radiation-curable resin containing two kinds of aliphatic urethane acrylates, i.e., resin A and resin B, wherein resin A is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an isocyanurate skeleton, and resin B is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an alicyclic skeleton without an isocyanurate skeleton, and (2) the first surface-protecting layer having a nanoindentation hardness of 160 MPa or more and 240 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Shimizu, Jin Arakida, Masataka Wada
  • Publication number: 20210256228
    Abstract: A magnetic field generation device may include a coil generating a magnetic field, a drive part configured to apply a voltage to the coil or supply a current to the coil, a monitoring part configured to acquire state information whose value is varied together with temperature of the coil, and a control part which controls the voltage applied by the drive part or the current supplied by the drive part based on the state information acquired by the monitoring part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Keiji MIYAZAWA, Yohei SHIMIZU, Satoru AOKI
  • Publication number: 20210214376
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a halogenated biotin-modified dimer, which is capable of imaging diagnosis or treatment by labeling with a halogen, a biotin-modified dimer having a high affinity for a mutant streptavidin with a low affinity for natural biotin. The present invention provides a compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein the meaning of each symbol is the same as that described in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, SAVID THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: Motomu KANAI, Yohei SHIMIZU, Kenzo YAMATSUGU, Toshifumi TATSUMI, Tatsuhiko KODAMA, Akira SUGIYAMA, Masanobu TSUKAGOSHI
  • Patent number: 11007700
    Abstract: According to the present invention, devolatilization of a synthetic resin formed from a polymer or synthetic rubber can be improved and the synthetic resin can be foamed at a low temperature by injecting a devolatilization agent through a devolatilization agent injection nozzle provided in a downstream end segment cylinder of a cylinder assembly. In a vented twin-screw kneading extrusion apparatus and extrusion method according to the present invention, a devolatilization agent, which is injected through a downstream end devolatilization agent injection nozzle provided on a downstream end segment cylinder constituted by a segment cylinder positioned on a downstream end of a cylinder assembly, is dispersed in molten resin in the downstream end segment cylinder and kneaded by a downstream end kneading portion such that the molten resin is foamed by the devolatilization agent and then extruded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Shimizu, Jun Kakizaki, Kiyoshi Handa
  • Patent number: 10952511
    Abstract: An end cover to be attached to an end of a string is provided. The end cover includes a finger-hooking projecting portion having a first finger-hooking face, and a base portion having a second finger-hooking face, and the second finger-hooking face is provided at a position to suppress a rotation of the end cover as a support point of the first finger-hooking face when a pulling force acts on the string using the first finger-hooking face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Yohei Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20210030882
    Abstract: A bis-iminobiotin compound which has a structure that enables the easy bonding of a bis-iminobiotin moiety to a drug or a fluorescent compound and is useful for the delivery of a drug to a streptavidin-labeled substance. The bis-iminobiotin compound is represented by general formula 9. In the formula, A, D and E independently represent a spacer capable of bonding two bicyclo rings to each other, wherein E represents a structure that may be branched, each of A, D and E may have a substituent, and A, D and E may together form a cyclic structure; J represents a functional group for achieving a click reaction; G represents a spacer capable of bonding E to J; and R represents a hydrogen atom, an acetyl group, a benzyl group, a trifluoroacetyl group or a Boc group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicants: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., The University of Tokyo, Savid Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuneji SUZUKI, Kosuke MANO, Yoshiyuki TOTANII, Yohei SHIMIZU, Akira SUGIYAMA, Masanobu TSUKAGOSHI
  • Publication number: 20200393314
    Abstract: A tactile sensor has an elastically deformable sheet, a coil that is provided in the sheet, a powdery or fibrous magnetic material that is provided in the sheet with the coil, and a detection portion that detects an inductance of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: D972452
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Takazakura, Kenichi Yoshie, Yohei Shimizu, Tetsuya Miyama