Patents by Inventor Yuka Saito

Yuka Saito 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: 11932880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein having pentosidine oxidase activity, a method for measuring pentosidine comprising: contacting the protein with a specimen; and detecting a change caused by the contact, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Kikkoman Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Marushima, Yuka Saito, Yuki Tsukada, Takuya Sato, Yasuko Araki, Atsushi Ichiyanagi
  • Patent number: 11932666
    Abstract: Provided is a polymerizable compound represented by a Formula E-1 or Formula E-2 shown in the description. In Formula E-1 or Formula E-2, R1 represents an alkoxy group, —NRN2, a hydroxy group, an aryl group, or an alkyl group, wherein RN each independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; n represents an integer from 1 to 5; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, an acetyl group, a phenoxyacetyl group, a pivaloyl group, a benzyl group, a 4-methoxybenzyl group, a benzoyl group, a triphenylmethyl group, a 4,4?-dimethoxytrityl (DMTr) group, a 4-methoxytrityl (MMTr) group, a 9-phenylxanthenyl group, a trimethylsilyl group, a cyanomethoxymethyl group, a 2-(cyanoethoxy)ethyl group, or a cyanoethoxymethyl group; and X represents a structure represented by any one of Formula B-1 to Formula B-5 shown in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Wada, Tatsuya Saito, Yuka Ishii, Yohei Nukaga
  • Publication number: 20240068380
    Abstract: There is provided a pit initiation evaluation system or the like capable of predicting pit initiation effectively and at low cost. In a pit initiation evaluation system of an embodiment, a pit initiation evaluation unit creates and retains, based on a dry-wet alternate time data, a deposit impurity concentration data, and a pit initiation data on pitting corrosion initiated in each of a plurality of turbine stages when an operation is actually performed in the steam turbine, a pit initiation evaluation table presenting a relationship between a dry-wet alternate time, a deposit impurity concentration, and pit initiation. Further, the pit initiation evaluation unit is configured to evaluate, by using the pit initiation evaluation table, pitting corrosion to be initiated in each of the plurality of turbine stages in an operation planned for the steam turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka TSUKADA, Kazuhiro SAITO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Yoshikazu NINOMIYA, Osamu TANAKA, Yasuteru KAWAI, Shinichi TERADA, Makoto SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200407699
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein having pentosidine oxidase activity, a method for measuring pentosidine comprising: contacting the protein with a specimen; and detecting a change caused by the contact, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuya Marushima, Yuka Saito, Yuki Tsukada, Takuya Sato, Yasuko Araki, Atsushi Ichiyanagi
  • Publication number: 20200139793
    Abstract: Provided is a resin substrate for the pillarless windshield which is large yet light-weight and provides excellent visibility, and has further realized a high strength to withstand a load calculated based on air resistance under the driving speed of 150 km/h. The resin substrate for the pillarless windshield has the longest side (SA) fixed to car body (3), wherein the resin substrate is an uneven-thickness structure having viewing section (1) with a mean thickness (d1) of 3-7 mm and thick-walled section (2) with a thickness of 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Miwa NAKAMURA, Kozo NAITO, Yuka SAITO, Takashi YODA, Hiroshi KISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9802650
    Abstract: This vehicle of monocoque construction is formed by fastening together resin parts which are an upper body integrally made of a transparent thermoplastic resin composition, a lower body integrally made of a thermoplastic resin composition and a floor integrally made of a thermoplastic resin composition, wherein the vehicle is characterized in that the lower body is provided with a flange part rising up from the entire perimeter of the bottom surface and, in the center of the bottom surface, a convex rib part that continues rearward from the front of the vehicle, and the upper body and the floor being fastened to the flange part and the convex rib part of the lower body. In so doing, there can be provided a vehicle which is lightweight, affords a good field of view during driving, is simple in construction, and has the necessary rigidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Shintaro Nishida, Yuka Saito, Kunio Iwasaki, Shigeru Aoki
  • Patent number: 9628665
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes an acquisition part creating a first information request, a first transmitter transmitting the first information request to the second information processing apparatus, a first receiver receiving the first information from the second information processing apparatus, a display controller controlling displaying the first information, and a first storage storing second information, the display controller controlling displaying the second information when the second information is stored in the first storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Okada, Hiroya Uruta, Yuka Saito, Akiko Kitayama, Yuto Shibata, Chan Gu, Keisuke Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20160155093
    Abstract: A main body of the image forming apparatus includes a first user-information storage unit configured to store user information. An information processing terminal includes: a data processing unit configured to acquire attendance information; a user-information processing unit configured to acquire, from the main body of the image forming apparatus, user information of a user who has clocked in determined based on the attendance information and acquire user information read in by the reader from the user-information recording medium for user authentication; and, a second user-information storage unit configured to store the user information of the user who has clocked in. The user-information processing unit being configured to perform user authentication by using the user information stored by the second user-information storage unit and the user information read in by the reader from the user-information recording medium for user authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuto SHIBATA, Daisuke OKADA, Chan GU, Keisuke NAKAZAWA, Hiroya URUTA, Akiko KITAYAMA, Yuka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20160150123
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes an acquisition part creating a first information request, a first transmitter transmitting the first information request to the second information processing apparatus, a first receiver receiving the first information from the second information processing apparatus, a display controller controlling displaying the first information, and a first storage storing second information, the display controller controlling displaying the second information when the second information is stored in the first storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke OKADA, Hiroya URUTA, Yuka SAITO, Akiko KITAYAMA, Yuto SHIBATA, Chan GU, Keisuke NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160137229
    Abstract: This vehicle of monocoque construction is formed by fastening together resin parts which are an upper body integrally made of a transparent thermoplastic resin composition, a lower body integrally made of a thermoplastic resin composition and a floor integrally made of a thermoplastic resin composition, wherein the vehicle is characterized in that the lower body is provided with a flange part rising up from the entire perimeter of the bottom surface and, in the center of the bottom surface, a convex rib part that continues rearward from the front of the vehicle, and the upper body and the floor being fastened to the flange part and the convex rib part of the lower body. In so doing, there can be provided a vehicle which is lightweight, affords a good field of view during driving, is simple in construction, and has the necessary rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Shintaro NISHIDA, Yuka SAITO, Kunio IWASAKI, Shigeru AOKI
  • Publication number: 20160072977
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an address information storage storing recipient information relating to a recipient and the recipient's address with an address identifier as address information; a program storage storing setting information in association with a program identifier as program information, the setting information including program identification information specifying a program and the address identifier; a program execution unit executing the program associated with the program identifier based on the setting information; an address information change unit changing the address information in the address information storage, and changing the address identifier along with the change in the address information; and an information change adjusting unit adjusting, upon detecting a change in one of the address identifier and the address information, the address identifier of the program information including the address identifier in the program storage in response to the change in the
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki SASAYAMA, Daisuke OKADA, Chan GU, Yuto SHIBATA, Akiko KITAYAMA, Daisuke MASUI, Masashi TANIGUCHI, Noboru TAMURA, Naoya TAMURA, Yuka SAITO, Hiroya URUTA
  • Patent number: 9235788
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Masui, Hiroya Uruta, Tomoyuki Takahira, Yuka Saito, Naohiko Kubo, Naoya Tamura
  • Patent number: 9212991
    Abstract: A refractive index measurement apparatus includes a light source, a measurement cell including a sample as an object of refractive index measurement and diffracting light incident from the light source, a detector that detects the amount of diffracted light in at least one diffraction order other than zero order of diffracted light exiting from the measurement cell, and a control unit that determines refractive index of the sample based on the measured value of the amount of diffracted light by the detector. The measurement cell includes two substrates disposed so as to be opposed to each other and a diffraction grating disposed between the two substrates, and the diffraction grating has a plurality of members whose width decreases stepwise as approaching from one of the substrates to the other of the substrates, the sample being filled in the space between the substrates not occupied by the diffraction grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuka Saito, Nobuyuki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150339548
    Abstract: A processing function proposing apparatus includes a status detector that detects a current status of a resource, a request acquisition unit that acquires a composite function requested to be executed from multiple composite functions, each composite function combining multiple unit functions, a function selecting unit to select at least one unit function combined that executes the requested composite function based on the current status of the resource, and a proposing unit that proposes the unit function selected by the function selecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Akiko KITAYAMA, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Daisuke Masui, Daisuke Okada, Yuka Saito, Yuto Shibata, Hiroya Uruta, Naoya Tamura, Noboru Tamura, Kazuki Sasayama, Masashi Taniguchi, Chan Gu
  • Patent number: 9176333
    Abstract: A light modulator element includes a liquid crystal element which has a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned along a first direction, and two transparent electrodes disposed in opposition to each other with the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, and which controls the phase of linear polarization light and passing through said liquid crystal layer by applying an electric voltage between said two transparent electrodes; a polarizer plate which is disposed between a light source and said liquid crystal element and which has the transmission axis along the first direction or along a direction orthogonal to said first direction; and a rotation mechanism which supports the liquid crystal element and the polarizer plate and which rotates the liquid crystal element and the polarizer plate integrally in one unit with the optical axis of the liquid crystal element as the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Yokoyama, Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Makoto Kurihara, Kenji Matsumoto, Ayano Tanabe, Yuka Saito
  • Publication number: 20150073935
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage control unit that stores, in a storage medium, device number information for identifying the information processing apparatus and a consumables list of consumables available in the information processing apparatus identified by the device number information; and a processing unit that acquires the consumables list from an order receiving server via a network, causes the consumables list to be displayed, and send order information received from the user to the order receiving server when being connected to the network, causes the consumables list to be displayed and causes the storage control unit to store order information received from the user when being not connected to the network, and sends the order information stored to the order receiving server when the information processing apparatus is recovered from a state of being not connected to the network to a state of being connected to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Yuto SHIBATA, Noboru Tamura, Yuka Saito, Hiroya Uruta, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Daisuke Masui, Masashi Taniguchi, Naoya Tamura, Chan Gu
  • Patent number: 8736892
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores print data and transformation data transformed into a printable format by reflecting a print condition on the print data; a detection unit that detects an error when the transformation data stored in the storage unit is printed; a decision unit that decides a resolution print condition which is a print condition for resolving an error based on a content of the error and a device state when the error is detected; a transformation unit that acquires the print data from the storage unit and transforms the acquired print data into transformation data on which the decided resolution print condition is reflected; and a print control unit that prints the transformation data transformed by the transformation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naohiko Kubo, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Kohji Yamamoto, Daisuke Masui, Yuka Saito, Yusuke Kudo
  • Patent number: 8681360
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores therein print data and first converted data obtained by reflecting a first print condition in the print data and converting the print data into a printable form; an input receiving unit that receives an input of a reprint instruction to reprint the first converted data; an acquiring unit that acquires a second print condition for reprinting the first converted data; a determining unit that determines whether the first converted data is printable in the second print condition by comparing the acquired second print condition against the first print condition; a converting unit that converts, when it is determined that the first converted data is unprintable in the second print condition, the print data into second converted data by reflecting the second print condition in the print data; a print control unit prints out the second converted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuka Saito, Daisuke Okada, Nobuhiro Shindo, Hideaki Matsui, Naohiko Kubo, Nobuyuki Iwata, Masahiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130342768
    Abstract: A light modulator element includes a liquid crystal element which has a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned along a first direction, and two transparent electrodes disposed in opposition to each other with the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, and which controls the phase of linear polarization light and passing through said liquid crystal layer by applying an electric voltage between said two transparent electrodes; a polarizer plate which is disposed between a light source and said liquid crystal element and which has the transmission axis along the first direction or along a direction orthogonal to said first direction; and a rotation mechanism which supports the liquid crystal element and the polarizer plate and which rotates the liquid crystal element and the polarizer plate integrally in one unit with the optical axis of the liquid crystal element as the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Yokoyama, Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Makoto Kurihara, Kenji Matsumoto, Ayano Tanabe, Yuka Saito
  • Publication number: 20130321849
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke MASUI, Hiroya URUTA, Tomoyuki TAKAHIRA, Yuka SAITO, Naohiko KUBO, Naoya TAMURA