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).

  • Patent number: 7799484
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7749635
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20090075143
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kurano, Takashi Mashimo
  • Patent number: 7504173
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20080254440
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Nobuyuki Fujii, Yoshihiro Kurano, Masahisa Okada, Hiroyuki Kogaki, Yasuji Kido, Kazushige Miyake
  • Publication number: 20070196717
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue, Atsushi Oma, Yasuji Ogami, Kazuo Saito
  • Publication number: 20070190390
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070154769
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070148524
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070148525
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7226686
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignees: NOK Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue, Atsushi Oma, Yasuji Ogami, Kazuo Saito
  • Publication number: 20060131819
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kurano, Takashi Mashimo
  • Patent number: 7052855
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Fujirebio, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Yoshihiro Kurano
  • Publication number: 20040175755
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: Fujirebio, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Yoshihiro Kurano
  • Publication number: 20040137303
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue, Atsushi Oma, Yasuji Ogami, Kazuo Saito
  • Publication number: 20040075224
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20030148374
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kurano, Atsushi Umetani, Hideo Miyakoshi, Takayuki Yanagiya
  • Publication number: 20030104262
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 6534281
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Fujirebio Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiko Kitajima, Yoshihiro Kurano, Kaoru Nakatsubo, Isao Nishizono
  • Publication number: 20020160435
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Sachiko Kitajima, Yoshihiro Kurano, Kaoru Nakatsubo, Isao Nishizono