Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Kurano
Yoshihiro Kurano 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: 7799484Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Patent number: 7749635Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an hard disc drive, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20090075143Abstract: In order to inhibit a gasket (1) adhered to a plate body such as a separator (3) of a fuel battery or the like from being adversely affected by an elution component from an adhesion means, the gasket has a main lip (11), a back surface seal portion (12) formed in a back surface of the main lip and closely contacted with a separator (a plate body to be adhered) (3), an adhesion portion (14) arranged in a position in an opposite side to a space (S) to be sealed with respect to the back surface seal portion (12) and adhered to a bottom portion (31a) of a gasket installation groove (31) of the separator (3) via an adhesive agent (2), and an adhesive agent sump (15) formed between the back surface seal portion (12) and the adhesion portion (14) and holding an excess adhesive agent (2a).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Yoshihiro Kurano, Takashi Mashimo
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Patent number: 7504173Abstract: In order to provide a constituting part for a fuel battery in which a number of steps of assembling the constituting parts for the fuel battery can be reduced, and in which the replacing property and the maintenance property of fuel battery cell parts can be improved and the cost for parts can be reduced, the structure is made such that a separator made of a carbon plate or substantially similar material, a gas diffusion layer made of a carbon fiber or substantially similar material, and a gasket made of a liquid rubber cured material or substantially similar material are integrally formed, and further, gaskets are respectively provided on both surfaces of a pair of gas diffusion layers holding an independent electrolyte membrane from both sides thereof between the pair.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2001Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20080254440Abstract: A monoclonal antibody which specifically recognizes SARS virus is provided, and an immunoassay, immunoassay reagent and immunoassay device for detecting the SARS virus using the monoclonal antibody are disclosed. The monoclonal antibody according to the present invention is a monoclonal antibody against a nucleoprotein of a corona virus causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2004Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Nobuyuki Fujii, Yoshihiro Kurano, Masahisa Okada, Hiroyuki Kogaki, Yasuji Kido, Kazushige Miyake
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Publication number: 20070196717Abstract: In order to prevent an electrolyte membrane from being broken, and make an assembling steps of a cell easy, in a fuel cell provided with a membrane electrode complex in which catalyst layers are respectively arranged on both surfaces of a electrolyte membrane, first and second gas diffusion layers which are arranged on both surfaces of the electrode complex, separators for respectively supplying reaction gas to the first and second gas diffusion layers, and a gasket for sealing the reaction gas, the gasket is formed on a surface of the gas diffusion layer so as to oppose to the separator, at least the gasket forming portion of the gas diffusion layer has a lower void content than the portion in contact with the catalyst layer, and the gasket arranged in the first and second gas diffusion layers is integrally formed at least via a through hole passing through the first and second gas diffusion layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue, Atsushi Oma, Yasuji Ogami, Kazuo Saito
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Publication number: 20070190390Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an hard disc drive, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2007Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20070154769Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: July 5, 2007Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20070148525Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20070148524Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Patent number: 7226686Abstract: In order to prevent an electrolyte membrane from being broken, and make an assembling steps of a cell easy, in a fuel cell provided with a membrane electrode complex in which catalyst layers are respectively arranged on both surfaces of a electrolyte membrane, first and second gas diffusion layers which are arranged on both surfaces of the electrode complex, separators for respectively supplying reaction gas to the first and second gas diffusion layers, and a gasket for sealing the reaction gas, the gasket is formed on a surface of the gas diffusion layer so as to oppose to the separator, at least the gasket forming portion of the gas diffusion layer has a lower void content than the portion in contact with the catalyst layer, and the gasket arranged in the first and second gas diffusion layers is integrally formed at least via a through hole passing through the first and second gas diffusion layers.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2002Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignees: NOK Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue, Atsushi Oma, Yasuji Ogami, Kazuo Saito
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Publication number: 20060131819Abstract: In order to inhibit a gasket (1) adhered to a plate body such as a separator (3) of a fuel battery or the like from being adversely affected by an elution component from an adhesion means, the gasket has a main lip (11), a back surface seal portion (12) formed in a back surface of the main lip and closely contacted with a separator (a plate body to be adhered) (3), an adhesion portion (14) arranged in a position in an opposite side to a space (S) to be sealed with respect to the back surface seal portion (12) and adhered to a bottom portion (31a) of a gasket installation groove (31) of the separator (3) via an adhesive agent (2), and an adhesive agent sump (15) formed between the back surface seal portion (12) and the adhesion portion (14) and holding an excess adhesive agent (2a).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Yoshihiro Kurano, Takashi Mashimo
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Patent number: 7052855Abstract: A novel monoclonal antibody which specifically binds to apo-B-48 is disclosed. The monoclonal antibody specifically binds to apo-B-48 but does not bind to apo-B-100.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Fujirebio, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Yoshihiro Kurano
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Publication number: 20040175755Abstract: A novel monoclonal antibody which specifically binds to apo-B-48 is disclosed. The monoclonal antibody specifically binds to apo-B-48 but does not bind to apo-B-100.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2003Publication date: September 9, 2004Applicant: Fujirebio, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Yoshihiro Kurano
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Publication number: 20040137303Abstract: In order to prevent an electrolyte membrane from being broken, and make an assembling steps of a cell easy, in a fuel cell provided with a membrane electrode complex in which catalyst layers are respectively arranged on both surfaces of a electrolyte membrane, first and second gas diffusion layers which are arranged on both surfaces of the electrode complex, separators for respectively supplying reaction gas to the first and second gas diffusion layers, and a gasket for sealing the reaction gas, the gasket is formed on a surface of the gas diffusion layer so as to oppose to the separator, at least the gasket forming portion of the gas diffusion layer has a lower void content than the portion in contact with the catalyst layer, and the gasket arranged in the first and second gas diffusion layers is integrally formed at least via a through hole passing through the first and second gas diffusion layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue, Atsushi Oma, Yasuji Ogami, Kazuo Saito
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Publication number: 20040075224Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20030148374Abstract: A monoclonal antibody which enables to distinguish the abnormal type prion from the normal type prion, as well as production process thereof, is disclosed. The anti-abnormal type prion monoclonal antibody of the invention reacts with abnormal type prion by antigen-antibody reaction but does not substantially react with normal type prion by antigen-antibody reaction. The anti-abnormal type prion monoclonal antibody of the invention may be obtained by immunizing an animal with an immunogen including a peptide containing a plurality of regions in the abnormal type prion, which regions are discontinuous each other in primary amino acid sequence of the abnormal type prion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2001Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Yoshihiro Kurano, Atsushi Umetani, Hideo Miyakoshi, Takayuki Yanagiya
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Publication number: 20030104262Abstract: In order to provide a constituting part for a fuel battery in which a number of steps of assembling the constituting parts for the fuel battery can be reduced, and in which a replacing property and a maintenance property of fuel battery cell parts can be improved and a cost for parts can be reduced, the structure is made such that a separator made of a carbon plate or the like, a gas diffusion layer made of a carbon fiber or the like, and a gasket made of a liquid rubber cured material or the like are integrally formed, and further, gaskets are respectively provided on both surfaces of a pair of gas diffusion layers holding an independent electrolyte membrane from both sides thereof between the pair.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Patent number: 6534281Abstract: An immunoassay for selectively measuring human C-peptide as well as a kit therefor is disclosed. In the method, human C-peptide contained in a sample, a first anti-human C-peptide antibody, and a second anti-human C-peptide antibody which is immobilized on a solid support are reacted to form an immune complex among these three components. The formed immune complex is separated from the non-reacted antibodies and sample; and then the separated immune complex is quantified. The first antibody recognizes an epitope existing in the region from 1st to 16th amino acid residue from the N-terminal of the human C-peptide, and the second antibody recognizes an epitope existing in the region from 1st to 16th amino acid residue from the N-terminal of human C-peptide; with the proviso that the first and second antibodies do not recognize the same epitope so that they can simultaneously bind to said human C-peptide.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2001Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Fujirebio Inc.Inventors: Sachiko Kitajima, Yoshihiro Kurano, Kaoru Nakatsubo, Isao Nishizono
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Publication number: 20020160435Abstract: An immunoassay for selectively measuring human C-peptide as well as a kit therefor is disclosed. In the method, human C-peptide contained in a sample, a first anti-human C-peptide antibody, and a second anti-human C-peptide antibody which is immobilized on a solid support are reacted to form an immune complex among these three components. The formed immune complex is separated from the non-reacted antibodies and sample; and then the separated immune complex is quantified. The first antibody recognizes an epitope existing in the region from 1st to 16th amino acid residue from the N-terminal of the human C-peptide, and the second antibody recognizes an epitope existing in the region from 1st to 16th amino acid residue from the N-terminal of human C-peptide; with the proviso that the first and second antibodies do not recognize the same epitope so that they can simultaneously bind to said human C-peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Sachiko Kitajima, Yoshihiro Kurano, Kaoru Nakatsubo, Isao Nishizono