Patents by Inventor Yuji Sakurai

Yuji Sakurai 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: 11513529
    Abstract: An audio system includes an audio apparatus, a charger, and a conveyer. The audio apparatus includes a sound receiver to receive ambient sound, and a battery. The charger charges the battery of the audio apparatus. The conveyer includes a motor to transport the audio apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Ueda, Hisashi Nagai, Naoaki Kurita, Yuji Sakurai, Hisanobu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220096379
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide lymphatically-transported self-emulsifying formulations for enhancing membrane permeability of poorly membrane-permeable compounds in oral administration of the compounds. It was discovered that by applying lymphatically-transported self-emulsifying formulations containing a surfactant containing oleic acid as a moiety or oily component to poorly membrane-permeable compounds containing a cyclic peptide and having features (i) and (ii) below, the membrane permeability and absorbability of the compounds can be improved: (i) log D (pH 7.4) value of the compounds is 3.2 or greater; and (ii) Caco-2 Papp (cm/sec) value of the compounds is 1.8E-6 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TAMPO, Ryusuke Takano, Nozomi Hisada, Kenichi Sakai, Kazuhisa Ozeki, Yuji Sakurai, Atsuko Higahida
  • Patent number: 10976683
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic member in which density unevenness of an image is less likely to occur even in the case of outputting an image after standing in a high-temperature and high-humidity environment for a long period of time. The electrophotographic member includes: an electroconductive substrate; an electroconductive elastic layer on or above the substrate; and an insulating portion on the elastic layer, an outer surface of the electrophotographic member being composed of an outer surface of the insulating portion and an outer surface of the elastic layer that is not covered with the insulating portion, wherein the elastic layer contains a urethane resin as a first resin, and the elastic layer has a region from the outer surface of the elastic layer constituting the outer surface of the electrophotographic member to a depth of 1 ?m, the region further containing a second resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishida, Yuji Sakurai, Minoru Nakamura, Ryo Sugiyama, Toru Ishii, Kenta Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 10935903
    Abstract: The developing roller includes an electro-conductive substrate and a covering layer on the electro-conductive substrate, the covering layer including a matrix and an electro-conductive particle dispersed in the matrix, an arithmetic mean value of the current value is 300 pA or less and the standard deviation of the current value is 0.1-fold or less of the current value, a standard deviation of a potential is 3.0 V or more, and an arithmetic mean value of a volume resistivity is 1010 ?·cm or less, and a standard deviation of the volume resistivity is 1-fold or more of the arithmetic mean value of the volume resistivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryo Sugiyama, Yuji Sakurai, Kazutoshi Ishida
  • Publication number: 20200401156
    Abstract: An audio system includes an audio apparatus, a charger, and a conveyer. The audio apparatus includes a sound receiver to receive ambient sound, and a battery. The charger charges the battery of the audio apparatus. The conveyer includes a motor to transport the audio apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Taku UEDA, Hisashi NAGAI, Naoaki KURITA, Yuji SAKURAI, Hisanobu SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10642186
    Abstract: The developing member includes a substrate, and an electroconductive layer on the substrate, wherein the electroconductive layer has electrically insulating domains on an outer surface thereof, the domains being independent from each other, the developing member has an outer surface including a surface of the electroconductive layer and surfaces of the domains, and wherein, when each of the domains is orthographically projected onto the surface of the electroconductive layer, defining respective areas of projected images of the domains as S, and defining respective areas of convex envelopes of the projected images as H, at least one domain satisfies the relation represented by 0.05?S/H?0.80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Sakurai, Minoru Nakamura, Ryo Sugiyama, Kazutoshi Ishida, Hiroshi Morishita, Kenta Matsunaga, Kentarou Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200041926
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic member in which density unevenness of an image is less likely to occur even in the case of outputting an image after standing in a high-temperature and high-humidity environment for a long period of time. The electrophotographic member includes: an electroconductive substrate; an electroconductive elastic layer on or above the substrate; and an insulating portion on the elastic layer, an outer surface of the electrophotographic member being composed of an outer surface of the insulating portion and an outer surface of the elastic layer that is not covered with the insulating portion, wherein the elastic layer contains a urethane resin as a first resin, and the elastic layer has a region from the outer surface of the elastic layer constituting the outer surface of the electrophotographic member to a depth of 1 ?m, the region further containing a second resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishida, Yuji Sakurai, Minoru Nakamura, Ryo Sugiyama, Toru Ishii, Kenta Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20190380958
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide lymphatically-transported self-emulsifying formulations for enhancing membrane permeability of poorly membrane-permeable compounds in oral administration of the compounds. It was discovered that by applying lymphatically-transported self-emulsifying formulations containing a surfactant containing oleic acid as a moiety or oily component to poorly membrane-permeable compounds containing a cyclic peptide and having features (i) and (ii) below, the membrane permeability and absorbability of the compounds can be improved: (i) log D (pH 7.4) value of the compounds is 3.2 or greater; and (ii) Caco-2 Papp (cm/sec) value of the compounds is 1.8E-6 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TAMPO, Ryusuke TAKANO, Nozomi HISADA, Kenichi SAKAI, Kazuhisa OZEKI, Yuji SAKURAI, Atsuko HIGASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20190324382
    Abstract: The developing roller includes an electro-conductive substrate and a covering layer on the electro-conductive substrate, the covering layer including a matrix and an electro-conductive particle dispersed in the matrix, an arithmetic mean value of the current value is 300 pA or less and the standard deviation of the current value is 0.1-fold or less of the current value, a standard deviation of a potential is 3.0 V or more, and an arithmetic mean value of a volume resistivity is 1010 ?·cm or less, and a standard deviation of the volume resistivity is 1-fold or more of the arithmetic mean value of the volume resistivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Ryo Sugiyama, Yuji Sakurai, Kazutoshi Ishida
  • Publication number: 20190265609
    Abstract: The developing member includes a substrate, and an electroconductive layer on the substrate, wherein the electroconductive layer has electrically insulating domains on an outer surface thereof, the domains being independent from each other, the developing member has an outer surface including a surface of the electroconductive layer and surfaces of the domains, and wherein, when each of the domains is orthographically projected onto the surface of the electroconductive layer, defining respective areas of projected images of the domains as S, and defining respective areas of convex envelopes of the projected images as H, at least one domain satisfies the relation represented by 0.05?S/H?0.80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Yuji Sakurai, Minoru Nakamura, Ryo Sugiyama, Kazutoshi Ishida, Hiroshi Morishita, Kenta Matsunaga, Kentarou Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10310447
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic member which can suppress adhesion of the toner component and fogging even in the case of printing a large number of sheets. The electrophotographic member includes an electroconductive support and an elastic layer and has convex portions composed of the elastic layer on a surface of the electrophotographic member and a filled portion containing a resin at a valley portion between the convex portions, the filled portion has a height lower than heights of the convex portions, and the surface of the electrophotographic member has a specific Martens hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morishita, Yuji Sakurai, Kazutoshi Ishida, Minoru Nakamura, Toru Ishii, Ryo Sugiyama, Kenta Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20190018362
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic member which can suppress adhesion of the toner component and fogging even in the case of printing a large number of sheets. The electrophotographic member includes an electroconductive support and an elastic layer and has convex portions composed of the elastic layer on a surface of the electrophotographic member and a filled portion containing a resin at a valley portion between the convex portions, the filled portion has a height lower than heights of the convex portions, and the surface of the electrophotographic member has a specific Martens hardness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morishita, Yuji Sakurai, Kazutoshi Ishida, Minoru Nakamura, Toru Ishii, Ryo Sugiyama, Kenta Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 10082741
    Abstract: Provided is a member for electrophotography that enables stable formation of a high-quality electrophotographic image even when used as a developing member over a long period of time. The member for electrophotography includes: a support; an electro-conductive elastic layer on the support; and a plurality of electrically insulating domains on the electro-conductive elastic layer, in which a surface of the member for electrophotography includes surfaces of the electrically insulating domains and an exposed portion of the electro-conductive elastic layer free of being covered by the electrically insulating domains, and in which the electrically insulating domains each contain a resin having a specific structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishida, Yuji Sakurai
  • Patent number: 9971276
    Abstract: A developing member includes a conductive substrate, a conductive elastic layer on the conductive substrate, and a plurality of insulating domains on the conductive elastic layer, wherein the surface of the developing member includes the surfaces of the insulating domains and an exposed portion of the conductive elastic layer not covered with the insulating domains. The conductive elastic layer contains a resin and an anion, wherein the resin has a specific cationic structure synthesized from an ion conductive agent composed of a cation including at least one reactive functional group and an anion and a compound that can react to the ion conductive agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishida, Yuji Sakurai, Ryo Sugiyama, Rieko Takabe, Sosuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9952532
    Abstract: The developing apparatus includes: a developing roller rotatable in a first rotation direction; and a developer regulating member, wherein the developing roller includes: a substrate; an electro-conductive elastic layer on the substrate; and insulating domains on the electro-conductive elastic layer, wherein the electro-conductive elastic layer has a certain Martens hardness, the developing roller has a surface including surfaces of the insulating domains and a surface of the electro-conductive elastic layer, which is uncovered with the insulating domains at a certain area ratio, wherein the developer regulating member comprises: an abutting portion which is in contact with the surface of the developing roller, and a certain projection portion extending to an upstream side from the abutting portion in the first rotation direction, the developing apparatus has a certain gap between a side of the projection portion facing to the developing roller, and the surface of the developing roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Sugiyama, Yuji Sakurai, Yoshinobu Ogawa, Kazutoshi Ishida, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Patent number: 9921518
    Abstract: It is directed to providing a developing roller capable of forming a high-quality electrophotographic image. The developing roller includes a substrate, an electro-conductive elastic layer on the substrate, and a plurality of electrical insulating domains on the electro-conductive elastic layer. The developing roller has a length L of 200 mm or more in a longitudinal direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction thereof. The surface of the developing roller includes the surfaces of the domains and an exposed portion of the electro-conductive elastic layer, the exposed portion being uncovered with the domains. The developing roller has protrusions on the surface thereof, the protrusion being formed by the domains. The electro-conductive elastic layer has a plurality of protrusions at the exposed portion. The developing roller has an Asker C hardness of 50 degrees or more and 90 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Sakurai, Kazutoshi Ishida, Ryo Sugiyama, Rieko Takabe
  • Publication number: 20180031997
    Abstract: The developing apparatus includes: a developing roller rotatable in a first rotation direction; and a developer regulating member, wherein the developing roller includes: a substrate; an electro-conductive elastic layer on the substrate; and insulating domains on the electro-conductive elastic layer, wherein the electro-conductive elastic layer has a certain Martens hardness, the developing roller has a surface including surfaces of the insulating domains and a surface of the electro-conductive elastic layer, which is uncovered with the insulating domains at a certain area ratio, wherein the developer regulating member comprises: an abutting portion which is in contact with the surface of the developing roller, and a certain projection portion extending to an upstream side from the abutting portion in the first rotation direction, the developing apparatus has a certain gap between a side of the projection portion facing to the developing roller, and the surface of the developing roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Ryo Sugiyama, Yuji Sakurai, Yoshinobu Ogawa, Kazutoshi Ishida, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Patent number: 9862301
    Abstract: A vehicular rear panel with a new configuration is provided. The vehicular rear panel according to an aspect of the present disclosure is made of a resin material and disposed on a rear vehicle body part. The vehicular rear panel includes a light guiding unit configured to guide light from the light source along an extending direction of the vehicular rear panel and a light emitting unit configured to emit light in the light guiding unit to a rear side of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Masaaki Nakabayashi, Koji Uchino, Manabu Maeda, Noriaki Ito, Norimasa Yamamoto, Asami Nakada, Yuji Sakurai, Hiroya Koizumi, Tsukasa Tokida, Takao Muramatsu, Tomoaki Otani, Motohiro Komatsu, Akihiro Matsumoto, Takashi Terayama, Hiroki Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20170248867
    Abstract: It is directed to providing a developing roller capable of forming a high-quality electrophotographic image. The developing roller includes a substrate, an electro-conductive elastic layer on the substrate, and a plurality of electrical insulating domains on the electro-conductive elastic layer. The developing roller has a length L of 200 mm or more in a longitudinal direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction thereof. The surface of the developing roller includes the surfaces of the domains and an exposed portion of the electro-conductive elastic layer, the exposed portion being uncovered with the domains. The developing roller has protrusions on the surface thereof, the protrusion being formed by the domains. The electro-conductive elastic layer has a plurality of protrusions at the exposed portion. The developing roller has an Asker C hardness of 50 degrees or more and 90 degrees or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Yuji Sakurai, Kazutoshi Ishida, Ryo Sugiyama, Rieko Takabe
  • Patent number: 9695610
    Abstract: A cover body (22) includes side surface portions (22a, 22b) that surround a housing (2) of a speaker (1) in an installed state, and a ceiling surface portion (22c) that covers the side surface portions (22a, 22b). An open portion (23) that can expose an operation portion (9) of the speaker (1) is formed in one of the side surface portions (22b), and an overhang portion (24) that protrudes from the surface of the side surface portion (22b) is provided above the open portion (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Sonoda, Kenji Ishibashi, Akihiro Sonogi, Tsutomu Watanabe, Yuji Sakurai