Patents by Inventor Yoshikuni Kikutani

Yoshikuni Kikutani 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: 20240125786
    Abstract: A stable isotope-labeled indole carboxylic acid compound represented by Formula (I) is provided. In Formula (I), X1 to X8 are each independently C or 13C; Y is N or 15N; M is H, Na, K, Li, CH3, or C2H5; R1 is H or D; R2 is H, CH3, 13CH3, C2H5, or 13C2H5; R3 is H, CH3, 13CH3, C2H5, or 13C2H5; R4 is H or D; and R5 is H or D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikuni Kikutani, Masaki Takiwaki, Hiroshi Umemura, Seketsu Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 11927510
    Abstract: A standard calibration solution includes water, a non-alcoholic solvent that is mixed with water, and a steroid hormone, and a content of the non-alcoholic solvent is 10% by volume or more and 50% by volume or less. The standard calibration solution is used for quantitative measurement using a mass spectrometry device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Takiwaki, Seketsu Fukuzawa, Yoshikuni Kikutani, Kiyotaka Fujino, Kentaro Abe, Yoshiyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20230242480
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a compound useful to analyze a vitamin D compound. The present invention provides an alkyne compound represented by Formula (I): where in Formula (I), A is a linear carbon chain having an alkynyl group at an end and having a vinyl group at another end; X1 is CH or 13CH; X2 is CHY, CDY, 13CHY, 13CDY, CO, 13CO, C18O, or 13C18O; m is an integer from 1 to 4; when m is 2 or more, X2s are identical or different; Y is H, D, NH2, 15NH2, OH, 18OH, SH, OR, O(CO)R, OSO3H, OSO3Na, or a sugar substituent; when Formula (I) contains two or more Ys, Ys are identical or different; R is an alcohol protective group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or an aryl group; X3 is C or 13C; and at least one selected from the group consisting of X1, X2(s), and X3 is modified with a stable isotope D, 13C, 18O, or 15N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Akiko Nagata, Yuka Mizumoto, Ryota Sakamoto, Kazuo Nagasawa, Masaki Takiwaki, Yoshikuni Kikutani, Koji Takahashi, Seketsu Fukuzawa
  • Publication number: 20210156770
    Abstract: A standard calibration solution includes water, a non-alcoholic solvent that is mixed with water, and a steroid hormone, and a content of the non-alcoholic solvent is 10% by volume or more and 50% by volume or less. The standard calibration solution is used for quantitative measurement using a mass spectrometry device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Masaki Takiwaki, Seketsu Fukuzawa, Yoshikuni Kikutani, Kiyotaka Fujino, Kentaro Abe, Yoshiyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 9120032
    Abstract: Provided is a microchip capable of integrating liquid evaporation as an operation on the microchip. In the microchip 10 having a gas flow path 13 inside, liquid is dispersed by capillary action and pooled in a pool portion 12 at a bottom of the gas flow path 13, and at least a part of the liquid pooled in the pool portion 12 is evaporated. As the capillary action is used, the liquid can be dispersed and pooled in the pool portion 12 at the bottom of the gas flow path 13 inside the microchip 10. Besides, the liquid pooled in the pool portion 12 remains in the pool portion by a surface tension even if gas is made to flow in the gas flow path 13 or the gas flow path is evacuated for evaporation. This enables highly efficient evaporation inside the microchip 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignees: JFE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohsaki, Shigeki Yamazaki, Takehiko Kitamori, Masaharu Ueno, Kazuma Mawatari, Yoshikuni Kikutani
  • Publication number: 20100247429
    Abstract: Provided is a microchip capable of integrating liquid evaporation as an operation on the microchip. In the microchip 10 having a gas flow path 13 inside, liquid is dispersed by capillary action and pooled in a pool portion 12 at a bottom of the gas flow path 13, and at least a part of the liquid pooled in the pool portion 12 is evaporated. As the capillary action is used, the liquid can be dispersed and pooled in the pool portion 12 at the bottom of the gas flow path 13 inside the microchip 10. Besides, the liquid pooled in the pool portion 12 remains in the pool portion by a surface tension even if gas is made to flow in the gas flow path 13 or the gas flow path is evacuated for evaporation. This enables highly efficient evaporation inside the microchip 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicants: JFE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Ohsaki, Shigeki Yamazaki, Takehiko Kitamori, Masaharu Ueno, Kazuma Mawatari, Yoshikuni Kikutani
  • Publication number: 20050106078
    Abstract: A microchip pileup type chemical reaction system characterized in that a specified number of microchips, each having a reaction material liquid introducing section, a reaction product liquid discharge section and a reaction region, i.e. microchannels, interconnected therewith, are laid integrally in layers, the same kind of reaction material is introduced from the reaction material liquid introducing section into each microchip and the same kind of reaction product is collected from the reaction product liquid discharge section. The novel system for high efficiency chemical reaction makes the most use of the feature of microspace where general organic synthesis reaction is performed in the microchips while enabling mass synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Takehiko Kitamori, Hideaki Hisamoto, Yoshikuni Kikutani