Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Shimizu

Yoshihiro 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).

  • Patent number: 12111314
    Abstract: A test device includes a specimen having a circular cross section that accommodates a test target, a specimen holding part that holds a plurality of the specimens in a row, light emitting elements in which light is incident on two adjacent specimens among the plurality of specimens, a first light guide path 46 that guides light emitted by the light emitting elements, and a second light guide path that is formed to have a smaller diameter than a diameter of the first light guide path and that guides the light emitted by the light emitting elements from the first light guide path to the specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kaku Irisawa, Yoshihiro Seto, Hitoshi Shimizu, Takahiro Miyato
  • Publication number: 20240301171
    Abstract: The fine hollow particle of the present invention is a fine hollow particle composed of a resin film comprising a melamine-based resin, in which the resin film is composed of a plurality of small piece-shaped portions and a bonding portion for bonding the plurality of small piece-shaped portions. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide stable fine hollow particles having excellent solvent resistance and heat resistance, good dispersibility, and a large particle diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicants: KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY, Tokuyama Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro YOSHIDA, Takayuki TAKEI, Yoshihiro OHZUNO, Kengo NISHIO, Yasutomo SHIMIZU, Kazuishi FUKUDA, Takayoshi KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 12052675
    Abstract: A base station that can transmit a synchronization signal at a predetermined transmission interval in a plurality of cycles includes a processor configured to continuously transmit the synchronization signal in a plurality of radio signals; and control radio measurement of a mobile station connected to the base station such that the mobile station detects the synchronization signal under a condition in accordance with second information that has been scaled by using first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Masatsugu Shimizu, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Takayoshi Ode
  • Patent number: 12038710
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first, second, and third acquisition processing portions. The first acquisition processing portion acquires the potential value of a charged area, charged by the charging member, on the image-carrying member. The second acquisition processing portion acquires a state value regarding the state of a surface layer of the image-carrying member based on the potential value of the charged area acquired by the first acquisition processing portion and the current value of a charging current flowing through the charging member during formation of the charged area. The third acquisition processing portion acquires the electrical resistance value of the transfer member based on the state value acquired by the second acquisition processing portion, the voltage value of a transfer voltage applied to the transfer member, and the current value of a transfer current flowing through the charged area in response to application of the transfer voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota Okui, Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Tamotsu Shimizu, Kazuhiro Nakachi, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230063302
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method that are to enable a user to virtually experience cooking for making a dish while sharing with another user. A data processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology includes: a generation unit configured to integrate virtual-cooking-process data indicating a process of virtual cooking in which a detail changes in response to a user operation on a cooking application for achievement of the virtual cooking as virtual cooking on an application, as integrated virtual-cooking-process data indicating the process of the virtual cooking by each of a plurality of users, for sharing between the plurality of users, the generation unit being configured to generate recipe data for a dish. The present technology is applicable to an application for smartphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: SUBARU KITAE, YOSHIHIRO SHIMIZU, KEISUKE ITO, NATSUMI HAMAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220413541
    Abstract: An operation device includes at least one operation knob on which at least one detection area is set, a contact detection unit to detect contact of a user with the at least one detection area, an operation detection unit to detect an operation performed on the at least one operation knob, and a control unit that controls a controlled object by a combination of a detection area in which contact has been detected and an operation performed on an operation knob including the detection area, and when a predetermined operation on the operation knob is detected while contact remains undetected, the control unit selects a control related to the operation knob from the combination and controls the controlled object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SHIMIZU, Yusuke USUI
  • Patent number: 11286481
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining a complex in which a gene (mRNA) and a peptide as a translation product thereof are linked via a peptide receptor molecule, and utilization thereof. In the method of the present invention, at least one 2?-modified nucleoside derivative is introduced into a 5? end side of an antisense strand of a template DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CUBICSTARS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ueda, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Shoko Harada, Katsuhiko Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10883204
    Abstract: A conductive woven fabric consisting of multiple weft yarns and multiple warp yarns and having at least one conductive part, wherein one of weft and warp is consisting of non-conductive yarns and the other of weft and warp is consisting of conductive yarns and non-conductive yarns which are parallel to each other, characterized in that said non-conductive yarns parallel to the conductive yarns are shrinking-processed yarns and the conductive part is formed by a repeating woven structure wherein the conductive yarns pass through the upper side of at least two of non-conductive yarns orthogonal to the conductive yarns and then pass through the back side of at least one of non-conductive yarns orthogonal to the conductive yarns, and a process for producing the same, and also provides a conductive member using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SEIREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Shimizu, Nobuaki Ankyu
  • Publication number: 20200283761
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining a complex in which a gene (mRNA) and a peptide as a translation product thereof are linked via a peptide receptor molecule, and utilization thereof. In the method of the present invention, at least one 2?-modified nucleoside derivative is introduced into a 5? end side of an antisense strand of a template DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki UEDA, Yoshihiro SHIMIZU, Shoko HARADA, Katsuhiko MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190301058
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive woven fabric consisting of multiple weft yarns and multiple warp yarns and having at least one conductive part, wherein one of weft and warp is consisting of non-conductive yarns and the other of weft and warp is consisting of conductive yarns and non-conductive yarns which are parallel to each other, characterized in that said non-conductive yarns parallel to the conductive yarns are shrinking-processed yarns and said conductive part is formed by a repeating woven structure wherein said conductive yarns pass through the upper side of at least two of non-conductive yarns orthogonal to said conductive yarns and then pass through the back side of at least one of non-conductive yarns orthogonal to said conductive yarns, and a process for producing the same, and also provides a conductive member using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SHIMIZU, Nobuaki ANKYU
  • Publication number: 20180017573
    Abstract: The polynucleotide construct of (1) or (2) below is used to perform ribosome display, CIS display and/or mRNA display in order to screen a Fab against an antigen of interest: (1) a polynucleotide construct which monocistronically comprises a ribosome-binding sequence, Fab first chain-coding sequence, linker peptide-coding sequence, Fab second chain-coding sequence and scaffold-coding sequence in this order, and further comprises at its 3?-end a structure necessary for maintaining a complex with the Fab encoded by itself; and (2) a polynucleotide construct which comprises a Fab first chain-expressing cistron and a Fab second chain-expressing cistron each containing a ribosome-binding sequence, a Fab first chain-coding sequence or Fab second chain-coding sequence, and a scaffold-coding sequence in this order, the first Fab-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3?-end a ribosome stall sequence, said Fab second chain-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3?-end a structure necessary for maintaining
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yasuhiro FUJINO, Risako FUJITA, Kouichi WADA, Kotomi ODA, Takuya UEDA, Yoshihiro SHIMIZU, Takashi KANAMORI
  • Patent number: 9753040
    Abstract: The polynucleotide construct of (1) or (2) below is used to perform ribosome display, CIS display and/or mRNA display in order to screen a Fab against an antigen of interest: (1) a polynucleotide construct which monocistronically comprises a ribosome-binding sequence, Fab first chain-coding sequence, linker peptide-coding sequence, Fab second chain-coding sequence and scaffold-coding sequence in this order, and further comprises at its 3?-end a structure necessary for maintaining a complex with the Fab encoded by itself; and (2) a polynucleotide construct which comprises a Fab first chain-expressing cistron and a Fab second chain-expressing cistron each containing a ribosome-binding sequence, a Fab first chain-coding sequence or Fab second chain-coding sequence, and a scaffold-coding sequence in this order, the first Fab-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3?-end a ribosome stall sequence, said Fab second chain-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3?-end a structure necessary for maintaining
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Risako Fujita, Kouichi Wada, Kotomi Oda, Takuya Ueda, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kanamori
  • Patent number: 8828714
    Abstract: The sterilizing effect of particle irradiation on microorganisms for the sterilizing treatment thereof can be evaluated. The evaluation can be done by supplying microorganisms in the space inside a container (8), allowing particles (7) for the sterilizing treatment of microorganisms to irradiate the microorganisms, sampling the microorganisms by a sampling means (6) after the irradiation of the particles (7) and measuring the sampled microorganisms. The microorganisms as the subject for the sterilizing treatment can be a combination of one or more members selected from the group consisting of bacteria, mycete, viruses and allergens. As the particles, for example, positive ions, negative ions, and gases of positive ions and negative ions in mixture, charged particles such as ? rays and ? rays, various plasma gas particles, particles such as ozone and radical particles, and particles of chemical agent can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Nishikawa, Hisaharu Yagi, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Tetsuyuki Ohtani, Hideo Nojima, Miyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 8696392
    Abstract: A contact includes a plate with a width that ranges from 0.1 mm or more to 1 mm or less, and a stress concentrated place, where a surface roughness (Ra) on the stress concentrated place is 0.2 ?m or less. When samples whose surface roughness Ra is 0.040 ?m, 0.080 ?m, 0.120 ?m, and 0.180 ?m were used to study a number of repetitive fracture times, as the surface roughness Ra was smaller, the number of repetitive fracture times became larger. Particularly, it is found that the surface roughness Ra may be 0.200 ?m or less in order to satisfy 3000 times as a number of operating times of the battery connector. Further, the surface roughness Ra may be 0.080 ?m or less in order to satisfy 6000 times as the number of operating times when a safety factor is 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yoshida, Hidekazu Yoshioka, Takahiro Sakai, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Toshio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8685328
    Abstract: In order to remove a pathogenic effect of a microorganism in a room or a work space in a short period of time, an ion diffusing apparatus, which includes an ion generator (17, 18) for generating positive ions each including H+(H2O)m and negative ions each including O2?(H2O)n, where m and n are arbitrary integers, and a blower for delivering the positive ions and the negative ions, which are generated from the ion generator (17), from a blowout opening, is operated to widely distribute, with a high concentration, the positive ions and the negative ions in the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Okano, Kazuo Nishikawa, Hisaharu Yagi, Norihiro Matsuoka, Tomonori Akai, Misaki Nakamura, Yoshihiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8671773
    Abstract: An electronic flow meter includes a magnetic sensor, phase-A and phase-B drivers, a phase-A comparator, a phase-B comparator, a two-phase encoder, and a rotational speed timer. The two-phase encoder determines a normal/reverse direction where the impeller is rotated based on event signals sampled by the phase-A and the phase-B comparators, respectively, causing a counter to count up or to count down according to the normal/reverse direction as determined, thereby outputting an event count signal. The rotational speed timer calculates a rotational frequency of the impeller from the event count signal outputted by the two-phase encoder and sets frequencies of respective sampling signals of the phase-A and the phase-B comparators at a time when the rotational frequency of the impeller is measured next, and respective drive periods of the phase-A and the phase-B drivers in accordance with the rotational frequency of the impeller as calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Ono, Osamu Karino, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Yoshihiro Miyagawa, Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Takehiro Furukawa
  • Patent number: 8627531
    Abstract: When the electrically driven fan (14) of a vacuum cleaner is driven, air containing dust is drawn into the cleaner main body (1) through a hose (7) connected to a hose socket (8) and is exhausted into the outside of the cleaner main body (1) through an exhaust port (1b) via first and second suction passageways (10, 13). Disposed outside the first suction passageway (10) is an ion generator (23), it being arranged that plus and minus ions generated in the ion generator (23) are fed to the air stream flowing in the first suction passageway (10). Since the plus and minus ions kill floating germs in the air stream, the exhaust can be purified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Ninomiya, Mikio Yagi, Shigenori Hato, Kazumasa Hayashi, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Hideo Nojima, Hisaharu Yagi, Kazuo Nishikawa, Tetsuyuki Ohtani
  • Publication number: 20130288908
    Abstract: The polynucleotide construct of (1) or (2) below is used to perform ribosome display, CIS display and/or mRNA display in order to screen a Fab against an antigen of interest: (1) a polynucleotide construct which monocistronically comprises a ribosome-binding sequence, Fab first chain-coding sequence, linker peptide-coding sequence, Fab second chain-coding sequence and scaffold-coding sequence in this order, and further comprises at its 3?-end a structure necessary for maintaining a complex with the Fab encoded by itself, and (2) a polynucleotide construct which comprises a Fab first chain-expressing cistron and a Fab second chain-expressing cistron each containing a ribosome-binding sequence, a Fab first chain-coding sequence or Fab second chain-coding sequence, and a scaffold-coding sequence in this order, the first Fab-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3?-end a ribosome stall sequence, said Fab second chain-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3?-end a structure necessary for maintaining
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujino, Risako Fujita, Kouichi Wada, Kotomi Oda, Takuya Ueda, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kanamori
  • Patent number: 8423850
    Abstract: A pulse transmission technique is used for wireless communication between a microcomputer (13) having a debugging support circuit (17) and a debugger (13). The pulse transmission technique is based on magnetic field coupling between a first coil (14) provided for the microcomputer and a second coil (8) coupled with the debugger. During an initialization operation, the microcomputer performs a process of configuring a communication condition of the wireless communication to perform the wireless communication. The microcomputer awaits control from the debugger when the microcomputer establishes communication with the debugger. The debugger awaits establishment of the communication and proceeds to control of the microcomputer in accordance with the wireless communication. It is possible to provide contactless interface for system debugging without the need for a large antenna or a large-scale circuit for modulation and demodulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Renesas Electronics Corporation, Keio University
    Inventors: Shunichi Iwata, Yoichi Takahata, Toshihiko Sugahara, Yutaka Takikawa, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Hiroki Ishikuro, Tadahiro Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20120315626
    Abstract: The sterilizing effect of particle irradiation on microorganisms for the sterilizing treatment thereof can be evaluated. The evaluation can be done by supplying microorganisms in the space inside a container (8), allowing particles (7) for the sterilizing treatment of microorganisms to irradiate the microorganisms, sampling the microorganisms by a sampling means (6) after the irradiation of the particles (7) and measuring the sampled microorganisms. The microorganisms as the subject for the sterilizing treatment can be a combination of one or more members selected from the group consisting of bacteria, mycete, viruses and allergens. As the particles, for example, positive ions, negative ions, and gases of positive ions and negative ions in mixture, charged particles such as a rays and ? rays, various plasma gas particles, particles such as ozone and radical particles, and particles of chemical agent can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuo NISHIKAWA, Hisaharu YAGI, Yoshihiro SHIMIZU, Tetsuyuki OHTANI, Hideo NOJIMA, Masato AOKI, Miyuki Aoki