Patents by Inventor Yuki Kuwano
Yuki Kuwano 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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Publication number: 20240109842Abstract: Provided is an acrylamide compound, which is useful for the promotion of platelet production from platelet progenitor cells such as megakaryocytes in vitro and represented by general formula [I]: wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki HAYASHI, Ryosuke TAGA, Yuki SAKAMOTO, Nozomi KUWANO, Kurumi MINENO, Kazuhiro OHDACHI, Yusuke FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20240092784Abstract: A condensed heterocyclic compound has a sepiapterin reductase inhibitory action and is particularly useful for treatment of a pain. The condensed heterocyclic compound represented by Formula (I) below (R1 represents a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 and R3 represent a hydrogen atom or the like; R4, X, and Y represent defined substituents), a tautomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, or a solvate of any of these.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SHIONOGI & CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro KAMAURA, Yusuke INABA, Yusuke SHINTANI, Yuki KUWANO, Moemi NAKAO, Hiroshi NAGAI, Noriyuki KUROSE, Kenji TAKAYA, Mado NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 11784334Abstract: An electric power supply device supplies electric power to a work machine having an electric power source. The electric power supply device includes a fuel cell different from the electric power source and an electric power connecting section for transferring electric power between the electric power source and the electric power supply device. A control device for controlling the electric power supply device includes a rated capability obtaining section for obtaining the information indicating the rated value of the charge and discharge capability of the electric power source of the work machine in response to the electric power supply device being mounted in the work machine or the electric power supply device being able to utilize the electric power of the electric power source, and an operating condition determining section for determining the operating condition of the electric power supply device based on the rated value.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Kitamoto, Yuki Kuwano, Kotaro Shigeno
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Publication number: 20230311677Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle includes each of an FC stack and a battery, as a power source for supplying electric power to a DU. The fuel cell vehicle also includes a temperature acquisition unit that acquire a temperature of a power source, an SOC acquisition unit that acquires an SOC of the battery, an electric power supply control unit that selects the power source which supplies the electric power to the DU when the fuel cell vehicle is activated, based on a temperature of the power source and the SOC of the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Yuki KUWANO, Akihiro MATSUI
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Patent number: 11616464Abstract: A power feed control system includes: a first drive unit configured to include a first electrically driven device, a first inverter, a first fuel battery system, and a first voltage converter; a second drive unit configured to include a second electrically driven device, a second inverter, a second fuel battery system, and a second voltage converter; a common battery; and a control unit configured to perform control of the first inverter or/and the first voltage converter such that each current value of the first inverter and the first fuel battery system achieves a target value of a first current value that is determined on the basis of the first current value flowing between the first drive unit and the battery and a second current value flowing between the second drive unit and the battery and perform control of the second inverter or/and the second voltage converter such that each current value of the second inverter and the second fuel battery system achieves a target value of the second current value thType: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Kitamoto, Kenichi Shimizu, Yuki Kuwano
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Publication number: 20220257676Abstract: [Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a novel technology capable of regulating female hormone secretion. [Solution] Provided is an agent for regulating female hormone secretion, which contains the lactobacillus strain Lactobacillus gasseri strain CP2305 (accession No.: FERM PB-11331), a treated product of said lactobacillus strain, or extracts thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicants: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., Tokushima UniversityInventors: Daisuke SAWADA, Shigeru FUJIWARA, Tomonori SUGAWARA, Kazuhito ROKUTAN, Kensei NISHIDA, Yuki KUWANO
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Publication number: 20220024326Abstract: A power supply control system includes: an electric device; an inverter; a first drive unit including a first fuel cell system, a first voltage converter, and a first battery; a second drive unit including a second fuel cell system, a second voltage converter, and a second battery; and a control unit that controls the inverter and/or the first fuel cell system so that a first current value flowing through the first battery reaches a target value of the first current value and controls the second voltage converter and/or the second fuel cell system so that a second current value flowing through the second battery reaches the target value of the first current value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Ryota Kitamoto, Kenichi Shimizu, Yuki Kuwano
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Publication number: 20220029571Abstract: A power feed control system includes: a first drive unit configured to include a first electrically driven device, a first inverter, a first fuel battery system, and a first voltage converter; a second drive unit configured to include a second electrically driven device, a second inverter, a second fuel battery system, and a second voltage converter; a common battery; and a control unit configured to perform control of the first inverter or/and the first voltage converter such that each current value of the first inverter and the first fuel battery system achieves a target value of a first current value that is determined on the basis of the first current value flowing between the first drive unit and the battery and a second current value flowing between the second drive unit and the battery and perform control of the second inverter or/and the second voltage converter such that each current value of the second inverter and the second fuel battery system achieves a target value of the second current value thType: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Ryota Kitamoto, Kenichi Shimizu, Yuki Kuwano
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Publication number: 20210296664Abstract: The electric power supply device supplies electric power to a work machine. The electric power supply device includes a fuel cell and a utility connecting section for transferring utility to be utilized for an operation of a fuel cell between the work machine and the electric power supply device. A control device for controlling the electric power supply device for supplying electric power to the work machine includes a rated capability obtaining section for obtaining information indicating a rated value of a capability with which the work machine supplies the utility to the fuel cell in response to the electric power supply device being mounted in the work machine, or the electric power supply device being able to utilize the utility, and an operating condition determining section for determining an operating condition of the electric power supply device based on the rated value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Ryota KITAMOTO, Yuki KUWANO, Nobutaka NAKAJIMA, Takamasa MORI
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Publication number: 20210296669Abstract: An electric power supply device supplies electric power to a work machine having an electric power source. The electric power supply device includes a fuel cell different from the electric power source and an electric power connecting section for transferring electric power between the electric power source and the electric power supply device. A control device for controlling the electric power supply device includes a rated capability obtaining section for obtaining the information indicating the rated value of the charge and discharge capability of the electric power source of the work machine in response to the electric power supply device being mounted in the work machine or the electric power supply device being able to utilize the electric power of the electric power source, and an operating condition determining section for determining the operating condition of the electric power supply device based on the rated value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Ryota KITAMOTO, Yuki KUWANO, Kotaro SHIGENO
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Patent number: 11008049Abstract: A lower vehicle-body structure comprises a vehicle floor comprising a bottom face portion and a floor tunnel which protrudes upwardly and extends in a vehicle longitudinal direction, a pair of right-and-left floor cross members extending in a vehicle width direction on both sides of the floor tunnel, and a connecting member provided to extend in the vehicle width direction at a position which overlaps the floor cross members in the vehicle longitudinal direction and be fixed to at least one of the vehicle floor and the floor cross members at plural fixation positions. These plural fixation positions are located at plural different levels in a range of a height of the floor cross members.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Natsume, Kazuhiro Kageyama, Hiroaki Suumen, Yuki Kuwano, Tsuyoshi Iwata, Keisuke Ebisumoto, Hidenori Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20190382054Abstract: A lower vehicle-body structure comprises a vehicle floor comprising a bottom face portion and a floor tunnel which protrudes upwardly and extends in a vehicle longitudinal direction, a pair of right-and-left floor cross members extending in a vehicle width direction on both sides of the floor tunnel, and a connecting member provided to extend in the vehicle width direction at a position which overlaps the floor cross members in the vehicle longitudinal direction and be fixed to at least one of the vehicle floor and the floor cross members at plural fixation positions. These plural fixation positions are located at plural different levels in a range of a height of the floor cross members.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka NATSUME, Kazuhiro KAGEYAMA, Hiroaki SUUMEN, Yuki KUWANO, Tsuyoshi IWATA, Keisuke EBISUMOTO, Hidenori MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20190202286Abstract: In a vehicle in which a power transmission mechanism in a floor tunnel is supported by a mount member, it is possible to achieve compatibility between suppression of deformation of the floor tunnel and reliable support of the mount member while achieving weight reduction of the vehicle body and simplification of the vehicle body structure. The mount member that supports the power transmission mechanism arranged in the floor tunnel from below is fixed at a predetermined fixed position with respect to at least one of the vehicle body floor and the floor cross member, and the fixed position is arranged to overlap with the floor cross member in the vehicle longitudinal direction, is arranged outside of the floor tunnel in a vehicle width direction, and is arranged upward of the bottom surface part of the vehicle body floor in a vehicle vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Hirotaka Natsume, Hidenori Matsuoka, Keisuke Ebisumoto, Tsuyoshi Iwata, Hiroaki Suumen, Yuki Kuwano
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Patent number: 8643328Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device includes a power management module to which a power is supplied from an external power source, a power source supply circuit to which a power is supplied from the power management module via a first input terminal, a latch circuit configured to be operated by a power supplied from the power supply circuit or a power supplied via a second input terminal, a circuit configured to output a logic signal that sets a shutdown signal output from the latch circuit to a third input terminal, and a logic communication circuit to which a logic signal is supplied via the third input terminal and which supplies the logic signal to a forth terminal of the larch circuit. The shutdown signal output from the latch circuit is set to an predetermined level when the logic signal is set to a second level from a first level.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Shinichiro Kosugi, Yuki Kuwano, Nobuo Shibuya, Kazuto Kuroda
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Patent number: 8384351Abstract: A battery system includes a battery unit in which battery arms are connected in parallel, and a charge/discharge control device that controls charge/discharge of the battery unit. Each of the battery arms includes: a battery composed of one or more battery cells connected in series; a switch connected in series to the battery; and a battery monitoring device that, in a case of having detected abnormality of the battery, opens the switch to thereby isolate the battery arm including the abnormal battery, and sends a switch opening signal indicating that the switch has been opened to the charge/discharge control device. The charge/discharge control device performs a control to reduce a charge/discharge current or charge/discharge power of the battery unit when the switch opening signal is sent from the battery monitoring device of the battery unit to the charge/discharge control device.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yukitaka Monden, Ryuichi Morikawa, Mami Mizutani, Yuki Kuwano, Masayuki Kubota, Yasuyuki Ito
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Patent number: 8368353Abstract: According to one embodiment, the power supply management portion includes a timer configured to output an ON signal every time set by the control circuit, an OR circuit configured to receive supply of an output signal from the timer, an external signal supplied from outside, and a switch control signal output from the control circuit, and a switch circuit configured to switch output of the power source voltage from an external power source according to an output signal from the OR circuit, and the control circuit turns on a switch control signal after confirming which of the output signal from the timer or the external signal has turned on the switch circuit and turns off the switch control signal when both of the output signal from the timer and the signal supplied from outside are turned off.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Akiba, Mami Mizutani, Fumiyuki Yamane, Yuki Kuwano, Ryuichi Morikawa, Shuji Ono, Nobuo Shibuya, Kazuto Kuroda, Shinichiro Kosugi, Yasuhiro Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20110076530Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device includes a power management module to which a power is supplied from an external power source, a power source supply circuit to which a power is supplied from the power management module via a first input terminal, a latch circuit configured to be operated by a power supplied from the power supply circuit or a power supplied via a second input terminal, a circuit configured to output a logic signal that sets a shutdown signal output from the latch circuit to a third input terminal, and a logic communication circuit to which a logic signal is supplied via the third input terminal and which supplies the logic signal to a forth terminal of the larch circuit. The shutdown signal output from the latch circuit is set to an predetermined level when the logic signal is set to a second level from a first level.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: Yasuhiro MIYAMOTO, Shinichiro Kosugi, Yuki Kuwano, Nobuo Shibuya, Kazuto Kuroda
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Publication number: 20110050169Abstract: According to one embodiment, the power supply management portion includes a timer configured to output an ON signal every time set by the control circuit, an OR circuit configured to receive supply of an output signal from the timer, an external signal supplied from outside, and a switch control signal output from the control circuit, and a switch circuit configured to switch output of the power source voltage from an external power source according to an output signal from the OR circuit, and the control circuit turns on a switch control signal after confirming which of the output signal from the timer or the external signal has turned on the switch circuit and turns off the switch control signal when both of the output signal from the timer and the signal supplied from outside are turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Takashi AKIBA, Mami Mizutani, Fumiyuki Yamane, Yuki Kuwano, Ryuichi Morikawa, Shuji Ono, Nobuo Shibuya, Kazuto Kuroda, Shinichiro Kosugi, Yasuhiro Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20100244845Abstract: A current integrating circuit device, including a current sensor to detect a current flowing through a current path, a first-order lag filter to filter an output of the current sensor, an A/D converter to convert an analog signal filtered by the first-order lag filter into a digital signal, and a proportional integrator to proportionally integrate the digital signal outputted from the A/D converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Ryuichi Morikawa, Masayuki Kubota, Mami Mizutani, Yukitaka Monden, Yuki Kuwano, Masahiro Tohara
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Publication number: 20100079108Abstract: A battery system includes a battery unit in which battery arms are connected in parallel, and a charge/discharge control device that controls charge/discharge of the battery unit. Each of the battery arms includes: a battery composed of one or more battery cells connected in series; a switch connected in series to the battery; and a battery monitoring device that, in a case of having detected abnormality of the battery, opens the switch to thereby isolate the battery arm including the abnormal battery, and sends a switch opening signal indicating that the switch has been opened to the charge/discharge control device. The charge/discharge control device performs a control to reduce a charge/discharge current or charge/discharge power of the battery unit when the switch opening signal is sent from the battery monitoring device of the battery unit to the charge/discharge control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yukitaka MONDEN, Ryuichi Morikawa, Mami Mizutani, Yuki Kuwano, Masayuki Kubota, Yasuyuki Ito