Patents by Inventor Yoshiko Watanabe
Yoshiko Watanabe 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: 11120411Abstract: A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building. The system includes an operational cost predictor to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period, a maintenance cost predictor to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and a cost incentive manager to determine whether any cost incentives are available and, in response to a determination that cost incentives are available, identify the cost incentives. The system includes an objective function optimizer to optimize an objective function to predict a total cost associated with the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period. The objective function includes the predicted cost of operating the building equipment, the predicted cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and, if available, the cost incentives.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Robert D. Turney, Sudhi R. Sinha, Masayuki Nonaka, Zhizhong Pang, Yoshiko Watanabe, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel
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Publication number: 20190311332Abstract: A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building. The system includes an operational cost predictor to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period, a maintenance cost predictor to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and a cost incentive manager to determine whether any cost incentives are available and, in response to a determination that cost incentives are available, identify the cost incentives. The system includes an objective function optimizer to optimize an objective function to predict a total cost associated with the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period. The objective function includes the predicted cost of operating the building equipment, the predicted cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and, if available, the cost incentives.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Robert D. TURNEY, Sudhi R. SINHA, Masayuki NONAKA, Zhizhong PANG, Yoshiko WATANABE, Mohammad N. ELBSAT, Michael J. WENZEL
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Patent number: 10201561Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antiviral fiber assembly in which an antiviral agent is retained with chemical stability over a long period of time, and which is gentle to the human body. A further object of the present invention is to provide a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate that can exhibit sufficient antiviral activity over a long period of time. Further, another object of the present invention is to provide a textile product obtained using such a fiber assembly. The present invention provides a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate, wherein the hyaluronidase inhibitory activity is 50% or higher; and a process for producing a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate, including treating a fiber assembly with an aqueous cellulose sulfate solution and drying, then treating the same with a pH buffer solution and drying.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignees: ES FiberVisions CO., LTD., ES FiberVisions Hong Kong Limited, ES FiberVisions LP, ES FiberVisions ApSInventors: Yoshiko Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 8987358Abstract: The invention provides an adhesion-imparting agent having heat-resistant transparency and a high refractive index best suited for an addition hardening type composition including a reaction product of silsesquioxane and organopolysiloxane. The invention relates to a compound obtained by allowing a hydrosilylation addition reaction of (A), (B), and when necessary, (C) as described below, and a compound including an organopolysiloxane or silsesquioxane skeleton including as an essential component an isocyanuric ring skeleton and an epoxy group, and having an SiH group residue: (A) a compound including an organopolysiloxane or silsesquioxane skeleton and having three or more SiH groups in one molecule; (B) an epoxy derivative having one aliphatic unsaturated group in one molecule; and (C) organopolysiloxane having two alkenyl groups in one molecule, and having a number average molecular weight of 100 to 500,000, or an isocyanurate compound having two alkenyl groups in one molecule.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: JNC CorporationInventors: Kiichi Kawabata, Akio Tajima, Takashi Matsuo, Yoshiko Watanabe, Koichi Ayama
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Publication number: 20140148536Abstract: The invention provides an adhesion-imparting agent having heat-resistant transparency and a high refractive index best suited for an addition hardening type composition including a reaction product of silsesquioxane and organopolysiloxane. The invention relates to a compound obtained by allowing a hydrosilylation addition reaction of (A), (B), and when necessary, (C) as described below, and a compound including an organopolysiloxane or silsesquioxane skeleton including as an essential component an isocyanuric ring skeleton and an epoxy group, and having an SiH group residue: (A) a compound including an organopolysiloxane or silsesquioxane skeleton and having three or more SiH groups in one molecule; (B) an epoxy derivative having one aliphatic unsaturated group in one molecule; and (C) organopolysiloxane having two alkenyl groups in one molecule, and having a number average molecular weight of 100 to 500,000, or an isocyanurate compound having two alkenyl groups in one molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Kiichi Kawabata, Akio Tajima, Takashi Matsuo, Yoshiko Watanabe, Koichi Ayama
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Publication number: 20120058339Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antiviral fiber assembly in which an antiviral agent is retained with chemical stability over a long period of time, and which is gentle to the human body. A further object of the present invention is to provide a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate that can exhibit sufficient antiviral activity over a long period of time. Further, another object of the present invention is to provide a textile product obtained using such a fiber assembly. The present invention provides a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate, wherein the hyaluronidase inhibitory activity is 50% or higher; and a process for producing a fiber assembly with cellulose sulfate, including treating a fiber assembly with an aqueous cellulose sulfate solution and drying, then treating the same with a pH buffer solution and drying.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicants: ES FIBERVISIONS CO., LTD., ES FIBERVISIONS APS, ES FIBERVISIONS LP, ES FIBERVISIONS HONG KONG LIMITEDInventors: Yoshiko Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20050170047Abstract: The present invention relates to nutritionally enriched maple syrup, which is enriched in vitamins, and more particularly to nutritionally enriched maple syrup which contains vitamin C in an amount of 50 mg or more based on 100 ml of maple syrup obtained by thermally concentrating a maple sap. The present invention also includes maple syrup enriched in vitamins such as vitamin E and vitamin B1 and other nutrients. According to the present invention, the nutritional value and quality of maple syrup, particularly maple syrup obtained by thermal concentration, can be improved and the range of its use for other foods can be widened. Nutrient enrichment can be carried out by an efficient method suited for industrial scale production. Moreover, the nutritionally enriched maple syrup of the present invention exhibits a well-balanced flavor, and thus it can be widely added to various foods.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2003Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicants: MIC CO., LTD., L.B. MAPLE TREAT INC.Inventors: Yoshiko Watanabe, Luc Bergeron, Toshihiro Ishiguro
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Publication number: 20050089481Abstract: To obtain a composition for caries prevention, which has effects for efficiently suppressing demineralization and promoting remineralization and stability in keeping for a long time, 0.01 to 10% by weight of sodium carboxymethylcellulose having the etherification degree of 0.7 to 1.0 is used in a composition blended with a casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate complex (CPP-ACP) and/or a casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium fluoride phosphate complex (CPP-ACFP), a sodium carboxymethylcellulose, a viscosity regulator and water.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2004Publication date: April 28, 2005Applicant: GC CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuyuki Yamanaka, Takuya Sato, Eiichi Yoshii, Yoshiko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040259058Abstract: To enables a technician for dental care to grasp the risk of dental caries of a patient and show its state to the patient in an easily understandable way, a risk check sheet for dental caries is constituted of a list sheet provided with three kinds of risk items consisting of a risk of dental caries caused by a resistance, a risk of dental caries caused by intra-oral bacteria, and a risk of dental caries caused by eating habit, each having a plurality of check items, as to each of which one from a plurality of selection items having different ranks is to be alternatively selected, and numericalizing data of the risks of dental caries from by summing up evaluation scores given in the selection items for each risk item; and a chart sheet provided with a standard circle centering around an origin and having indicator circles provided radially with a distance of 120 degree centering around the origin from each other and allocated for data of the three kinds of risks of dental caries based on the numerical data byType: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicant: GC CorporationInventors: Satoshi Tosaki, Hiromi Nishikata, Masayuki Kumaoka, Yoshiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 6762058Abstract: To provide an examination method of buffer capacity of saliva and an examination instrument of buffer capacity of saliva, by which the buffer capacity of saliva of a subject can be examined simply without being influenced by an amount of saliva and preciously without being influenced by the subjectivity of an examiner, an end portion of an absorptive material in a predetermined shape, containing a pH indicator at least having one or more color transition range of pH 4.0 to 7.0 and an acid, is dipped in saliva to allow the saliva to penetrate into the absorptive material, and a buffer capacity of the saliva is examined from a distance where a color to be exhibited by the pH indicator has changed by the penetrated saliva from a predetermined place of the absorptive material and a distance where the saliva has penetrated from a predetermined place of the absorptive material.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: GC CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Takagi, Junichi Okada, Yoshiko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20030011191Abstract: To enables a technician for dental care to grasp the risk of dental caries of a patient and show its state to the patient in an easily understandable way, a risk check sheet for dental caries is constituted of a list sheet provided with three kinds of risk items consisting of a risk of dental caries caused by a resistance, a risk of dental caries caused by intra-oral bacteria, and a risk of dental caries caused by eating habit, each having a plurality of check items, as to each of which one from a plurality of selection items having different ranks is to be alternatively selected, and numericalizing data of the risks of dental caries from by summing up evaluation scores given in the selection items for each risk item; and a chart sheet provided with a standard circle centering around an origin and having indicator circles provided radially with a distance of 120 degree centering around the origin from each other and allocated for data of the three kinds of risks of dental caries based on the numerical data byType: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Applicant: GC CorporationInventors: Satoshi Tosaki, Hiromi Nishikata, Masayuki Kumaoka, Yoshiko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20020182742Abstract: To provide an examination method of buffer capacity of saliva and an examination instrument of buffer capacity of saliva, by which the buffer capacity of saliva of a subject can be examined simply without being influenced by an amount of saliva and preciously without being influenced by the subjectivity of an examiner, an end portion of an absorptive material in a predetermined shape, containing a pH indicator at least having one or more color transition range of pH 4.0 to 7.0 and an acid, is dipped in saliva to allow the saliva to penetrate into the absorptive material, and a buffer capacity of the saliva is examined from a distance where a color to be exhibited by the pH indicator has changed by the penetrated saliva from a predetermined place of the absorptive material and a distance where the saliva has penetrated from a predetermined place of the absorptive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: GC CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Takagi, Junichi Okada, Yoshiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 5474967Abstract: A pressure-sensitive recording sheet, comprising: a synthetic resin support sheet; a color developer layer coated on one face of the support sheet; a color former layer overcoated on the color developer layer and containing a microcapsulated color former; a first water-impermeable layer adhering on the other face of the support sheet through an adhesive; and a transparent second water-impermeable layer covering directly over the color former layer; and wherein the outer peripheries of the first and second water-impermeable layers are liquid-tightly closed to protect the support sheet, the color developer layer and the color former layer from attack by any aqueous liquid. The pressure-sensitive recording sheet or the support sheet is shaped to have a horseshoe-like contour to be used as an occlusion pressure detecting sheet. A wax coating layer may be provided on at least one surface of the occlusion pressure detecting sheet to record the dental arch pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1994Date of Patent: December 12, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoaki Komatsu, Kiyohiko Nouno, Shotaro Nakanishi, Yoshiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 5395239Abstract: A pressure-sensitive recording sheet, comprising: a synthetic resin support sheet; a color developer layer coated on one face of the support sheet; a color former layer overcoated on the color developer layer and containing a microcapsulated color former; a first water-impermeable layer adhering on the other face of the support sheet through an adhesive; and a transparent second water-impermeable layer covering directly over the color former layer; and wherein the outer peripheries of the first and second water-impermeable layers are liquid-tightly closed to protect the support sheet, the color developer layer and the color former layer from attack by any aqueous liquid. The pressure-sensitive recording sheet or the support sheet is shaped to have a horseshoe-like contour to be used as an occlusion pressure detecting sheet. A wax coating layer may be provided on at least one surface of the occlusion pressure detecting sheet to record the dental arch pattern.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1993Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoaki Komatsu, Kiyohiko Nouno, Shotaro Nakanishi, Yoshiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 4362710Abstract: The feed to be fed to baby pigs is composed of at least one kind of edible iron salt in an amount corresponding to 3.2 to 16.4% by weight as iron; at least one kind of edible organic acid or a salt thereof in an amount of 1 to 10% by weight, which is in solid form at room temperature; small amounts of a sweetener, a flavoring and, if desired, vitamins; and a base containing an oligosaccharide as the balance. This feed is in the form of pellets.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1981Date of Patent: December 7, 1982Assignee: Nissan Gosei Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiko Watanabe