Patents by Inventor Yukiko Mori

Yukiko Mori 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: 8409563
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the genus Bacillus which is able to produce purine-derived substance and has been modified so that enzymatic activity of fructose bisphosphatase is decreased, and collecting the purine-derived substance from the medium or cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Asahara, Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori
  • Patent number: 8298791
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a Bacillus bacterium which has an ability to produce a purine-derived substance and has enhanced activity of an enzyme of the oxidative pentosephosphate pathway. The purine-derived substance is produced in the medium or the bacterial cells, and can be collected from the medium or the bacterial cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori, Takayuki Asahara
  • Patent number: 8236531
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the genus Bacillus which has an ability to produce a purine-derived substance and has been modified so that enzymatic activity of transaldolase is decreased in a medium to cause accumulation of a purine-derived substance in the medium or cells, and collecting the purine-derived substance from the medium or cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Asahara, Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20110062964
    Abstract: A method for measuring surface properties according to the present invention includes the steps of: with distance control feedback applied so that a desired physical quantity to be measured that is attributed to an interaction between a probe and a sample is actually measured while changing a measured distance between the probe and the sample in accordance with a relationship between the desired physical quantity and the measured distance, (i) setting a set value, corresponding to the desired physical quantity, which serves to change the measured distance; and (ii) recording, for each set value thus set, a relationship between the measured distance changed by the set value set in the step (i) and a physical quantity measured with the probe and the sample placed at that measured distance. This allows precise and quick measurement of a physical quantity even in a region where the probe and the sample are very close to each other, while avoiding a collision between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hosokawa, Kei Kobayashi, Hirofumi Yamada, Kazumi Matsushige, Yukiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20100047874
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the genus Bacillus which has an ability to produce a purine-derived substance and has been modified so that enzymatic activity of transaldolase is decreased in a medium to cause accumulation of a purine-derived substance in the medium or cells, and collecting the purine-derived substance from the medium or cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Takayuki Asahara, Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20090186384
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a Bacillus bacterium which has an ability to produce a purine-derived substance and has enhanced activity of an enzyme of the oxidative pentosephosphate pathway. The purine-derived substance is produced in the medium or the bacterial cells, and can be collected from the medium or the bacterial cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori, Takayuki Asahara
  • Publication number: 20090104665
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the genus Bacillus which is able to produce purine-derived substance and has been modified so that enzymatic activity of fructose bisphosphatase is decreased, and collecting the purine-derived substance from the medium or cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Takayuki Asahara, Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori
  • Patent number: 7419810
    Abstract: L-Arginine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which an arginine repressor involved in L-arginine biosynthesis is deleted by disrupting a gene coding for the repressor, and which has L-arginine producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate L-arginine in the medium, and collecting the L-arginine from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Patent number: 7326546
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a Bacillus bacterium which has an ability to produce a purine-derived substance and has enhanced activity of an enzyme of the oxidative pentosephosphate pathway. The purine-derived substance is produced in the medium or the bacterial cells, and can be collected from the medium or the bacterial cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori, Takayuki Asahara
  • Patent number: 7297521
    Abstract: A DNA fragment which encodes a polypeptide defined in the following (a) or (b), and a polypeptide defined in the following (c) or (d): (a) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID NO: 2 shown in Sequence Listing, (b) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID NO: 2 shown in Sequence Listing including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition, or inversion of one or several amino acids, and can constitute a protein having a carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase activity with a large subunit of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3, (c) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 shown in Sequence Listing, (d) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 shown in Sequence Listing including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition, or inversion of one or several amino acids, and can constitute a protein having a car
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Kuwabara, Kenichi Hashiguchi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: 7292896
    Abstract: A multiplexing control system has a common process input/output unit for distributing process signals from sensors for measuring the same state variable of a process to digital controllers. One process input/output unit for inputting/outputting a process signal between the multiplexing control system and plant is provided for each process signal. The process input/output unit for the process signal of high importance is triplexed. A process controller having an operating function is provided to each of the triplexed process input/output units. A process input/output unit for the process signal of intermediate importance is diplexed. A process input/output unit for the process signal of low importance is monoplexed. The process signals of the diplexed process input/output units and the monoplexed process input/output unit are controlled by a controller having a master right among the process controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miura, Shoei Takahashi, Kazuyasu Asakura, Yoshio Maruyama, Katsuhito Shimizu, Yukiko Mori, Tohru Akatsu
  • Patent number: 7292897
    Abstract: A multiplexing control system has a common process input/output unit for distributing process signals from sensors for measuring the same state variable of a process to digital controllers. One process input/output unit for inputting/outputting a process signal between the multiplexing control system and plant is provided for each process signal. The process input/output unit for the process signal of high importance is triplexed. A process controller having an operating function is provided to each of the triplexed process input/output units. A process input/output unit for the process signal of intermediate importance is diplexed. A process input/output unit for the process signal of low importance is monoplexed. The process signals of the diplexed process input/output units and the monoplexed process input/output unit are controlled by a controller having a master right among the process controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miura, Shoei Takahashi, Kazuyasu Asakura, Yoshio Maruyama, Katsuhito Shimizu, Yukiko Mori, Tohru Akatsu
  • Patent number: 7189543
    Abstract: Cadaverine dicarboxylate is produced by performing an enzymatic decarboxylation reaction of a lysine solution while adding a dicarboxylic acid containing 4 to 10 carbons to the lysine solution to maintain pH of the solution at a level sufficient for the enzymatic decarboxylation reaction to occur, for example, 4.0 to 8.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Nishi, Shuichi Endo, Yukiko Mori, Kazuhiko Totsuka, Yoshinori Hirao
  • Publication number: 20070031946
    Abstract: L-Arginine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which an arginine repressor involved in L-arginine biosynthesis is deleted by disrupting a gene coding for the repressor, and which has L-arginine producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate L-arginine in the medium, and collecting the L-arginine from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Patent number: 7160705
    Abstract: L-Arginine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which an arginine repressor involved in L-arginine biosynthesis is deleted by disrupting a gene coding for the repressor, and which has L-arginine producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate L-arginine in the medium, and collecting the L-arginine from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Publication number: 20060275874
    Abstract: A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a Bacillus bacterium which has an ability to produce a purine-derived substance and has enhanced activity of an enzyme of the oxidative pentosephosphate pathway. The purine-derived substance is produced in the medium or the bacterial cells, and can be collected from the medium or the bacterial cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsuno, Yukiko Mori, Takayuki Asahara
  • Patent number: 6908754
    Abstract: A DNA fragment which encodes a polypeptide defined in the following (a) or (b), and a polypeptide defined in the following (c) or (d): (a) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID NO: 2 shown in Sequence Listing, (b) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID NO: 2 shown in Sequence Listing including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition, or inversion of one or several amino acids, and can constitute a protein having a carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase activity with a large subunit of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3, (c) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 shown in Sequence Listing, (d) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 shown in Sequence Listing including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition, or inversion of one or several amino acids, and can constitute a protein having a car
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Kuwabara, Kenichi Hashiguchi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20050095680
    Abstract: A DNA fragment which encodes a polypeptide defined in the following (a) or (b), and a polypeptide defined in the following (c) or (d): (a) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID NO: 2 shown in Sequence Listing, (b) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID NO: 2 shown in Sequence Listing including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition, or inversion of one or several amino acids, and can constitute a protein having a carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase activity with a large subunit of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3, (c) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 shown in Sequence Listing, (d) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 shown in Sequence Listing including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition, or inversion of one or several amino acids, and can constitute a protein having a carb
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Kuwabara, Kenichi Hashiguchi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: 6881566
    Abstract: A DNA fragment which encodes a polypeptide defined in the following (a) or (b), and a polypeptide defined in the following (c) or (d): (a) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID NO: 2 shown in Sequence Listing, (b) a polypeptide which has at least the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 50 to 393 in SEQ ID No: 2 shown in Sequence Listing including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition, or inversion of one or several amino acids, and can constitute a protein having a carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase activity with a large subunit of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase having the amino acid sequence comprising at least the amino acid numbers 55 to 1113 of SEQ ID NO: 3, (c) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence comprising at least the amino acid numbers 55 to 1113 of SEQ ID NO: 3 shown in Sequence Listing, (d) a polypeptide which has the amino acid sequence comprising at least the amino acid numbers 55 to 1113 of SEQ ID NO: 3 sh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Kuwabara, Kenichi Hashiguchi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20050003497
    Abstract: Cadaverine dicarboxylate is produced by performing an enzymatic decarboxylation reaction of a lysine solution while adding a dicarboxylic acid containing 4 to 10 carbons to the lysine solution to maintain pH of the solution at a level sufficient for the enzymatic decarboxylation reaction to occur, for example, 4.0 to 8.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Nishi, Shuichi Endo, Yukiko Mori, Kazuhiko Totsuka, Yoshinori Hirao