Patents by Inventor Yukio Okada

Yukio Okada 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: 11762365
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tool system allowing a tool to be controlled on a work object basis before the work is started. A tool system includes a portable tool and an identification unit. The tool includes a driving unit to operate with power supplied from a battery pack. The identification unit identifies, by a contactless method, a current work object, to which the tool is set in place, out of a plurality of work objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Dobashi, Yukio Okada
  • Patent number: 11550289
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tool system allowing a tool to be controlled on a work object basis before the work is started. A tool system includes a portable tool and an identification unit. The tool includes a driving unit to operate with power supplied from a battery pack. The identification unit identifies, by a contactless method, a current work object, to which the tool is set in place, out of a plurality of work objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Dobashi, Yukio Okada
  • Publication number: 20220221834
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tool system allowing a tool to be controlled on a work object basis before the work is started. A tool system includes a portable tool and an identification unit. The tool includes a driving unit to operate with power supplied from a battery pack. The identification unit identifies, by a contactless method, a current work object, to which the tool is set in place, out of a plurality of work objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuo DOBASHI, Yukio OKADA
  • Publication number: 20190294138
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tool system allowing a tool to be controlled on a work object basis before the work is started. A tool system includes a portable tool and an identification unit. The tool includes a driving unit to operate with power supplied from a battery pack. The identification unit identifies, by a contactless method, a current work object, to which the tool is set in place, out of a plurality of work objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicants: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo DOBASHI, Yukio OKADA
  • Patent number: 9551411
    Abstract: A seal member is attached to a cover which occludes a gear case as a housing unit. The seal member is formed of elastomer and integrally formed with: a plate-shaped portion formed into a disc shape which covers the inner surface of the cover; an inner seal portion which is positioned on the inner peripheral edge of a through-hole, and comes into sliding contact with the outer peripheral surface of an output member; an outer seal portion which is positioned on the periphery of the cover, and comes into contact with the opening end of the housing unit; and anchor portions which latch onto the front surface of the cover via mounting holes provided to the cover. The boundary between the seal member and the cover extends only to the outside of the gear case, and does not extend to the inside of the gear case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Suto, Yuichi Takamura, Masaki Mita, Hiroyuki Uchimura, Isao Abe, Makoto Ogiwara, Naruhito Ogino, Yukio Okada, Junichi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 9303274
    Abstract: The present invention provides a microorganism belonging to the genus Enterobacter, wherein the microorganism has an ability to assimilate glycerol to produce hydrogen gas and 1,3-propanediol, and wherein the microorganism is capable of assimilating glycerol in the presence of 10 mass % glycerol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAPPORO BREWERIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Yukio Okada
  • Publication number: 20160033027
    Abstract: A seal member is attached to a cover which occludes a gear case as a housing unit. The seal member is formed of elastomer and integrally formed with: a plate-shaped portion formed into a disc shape which covers the inner surface of the cover; an inner seal portion which is positioned on the inner peripheral edge of a through-hole, and comes into sliding contact with the outer peripheral surface of an output member; an outer seal portion which is positioned on the periphery of the cover, and comes into contact with the opening end of the housing unit; and anchor portions which latch onto the front surface of the cover via mounting holes provided to the cover. The boundary between the seal member and the cover extends only to the outside of the gear case, and does not extend to the inside of the gear case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi Suto, Yuichi Takamura, Masaki Mita, Hiroyuki Uchimura, Isao Abe, Makoto Ogiwara, Naruhito Ogino, Yukio Okada, Junichi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 9188214
    Abstract: A seal member is attached to a cover which occludes a gear case as a housing unit. The seal member is formed of elastomer and integrally formed with: a plate-shaped portion formed into a disc shape which covers the inner surface of the cover; an inner seal portion which is positioned on the inner peripheral edge of a through-hole, and comes into sliding contact with the outer peripheral surface of an output member; an outer seal portion which is positioned on the periphery of the cover, and comes into contact with the opening end of the housing unit; and anchor portions which latch onto the front surface of the cover via mounting holes provided to the cover. The boundary between the seal member and the cover extends only to the outside of the gear case, and does not extend to the inside of the gear case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Suto, Yuichi Takamura, Masaki Mita, Hiroyuki Uchimura, Isao Abe, Makoto Ogiwara, Naruhito Ogino, Yukio Okada, Junichi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 9100103
    Abstract: A master unit and a plurality of slave units perform a multi-hop communication. The plurality of slave units include hybrid slave units are configured to select at least one of wireless communication and power line carrier communication. One hybrid slave unit includes a function of reporting, to the other hybrid slave unit in which a hop number in the power line carrier communication between the one hybrid slave unit and the other hybrid slave unit is one, the minimum route cost when the wireless communication is used for a channel on an upper side. The one hybrid slave unit includes a function of adopting the power line carrier communication when a route cost reported by the other hybrid slave unit is smaller than the minimum route cost of the one hybrid slave unit, and otherwise adopting the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Okada
  • Patent number: 9095139
    Abstract: In a herbicidal composition containing a sulfonylurea compound of the formula (I): a carboxymethylcellulose salt, a ligninsulfonic acid salt, a surfactant and water, growth of particle of the sulfonylurea compound suspended in the herbicidal composition scarcely occurs after the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukio Okada, Motofumi Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20150043661
    Abstract: A master unit and a plurality of slave units perform a multi-hop communication. The plurality of slave units include hybrid slave units are configured to select at least one of wireless communication and power line carrier communication. One hybrid slave unit includes a function of reporting, to the other hybrid slave unit in which a hop number in the power line carrier communication between the one hybrid slave unit and the other hybrid slave unit is one, the minimum route cost when the wireless communication is used for a channel on an upper side. The one hybrid slave unit includes a function of adopting the power line carrier communication when a route cost reported by the other hybrid slave unit is smaller than the minimum route cost of the one hybrid slave unit, and otherwise adopting the wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Yukio Okada
  • Publication number: 20140128266
    Abstract: In a herbicidal composition containing a sulfonylurea compound of the formula (I): a carboxymethylcellulose salt, a ligninsulfonic acid salt, a surfactant and water, growth of particle of the sulfonylurea compound suspended in the herbicidal composition scarcely occurs after the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukio OKADA, Motofumi MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20130220073
    Abstract: A seal member is attached to a cover which occludes a gear case as a housing unit. The seal member is formed of elastomer and integrally formed with: a plate-shaped portion formed into a disc shape which covers the inner surface of the cover; an inner seal portion which is positioned on the inner peripheral edge of a through-hole, and comes into sliding contact with the outer peripheral surface of an output member; an outer seal portion which is positioned on the periphery of the cover, and comes into contact with the opening end of the housing unit; and anchor portions which latch onto the front surface of the cover via mounting holes provided to the cover. The boundary between the seal member and the cover extends only to the outside of the gear case, and does not extend to the inside of the gear case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Suto, Yuichi Takamura, Masaki Mita, Hiroyuki Uchimura, Isao Abe, Makoto Ogiwara, Naruhito Ogino, Yukio Okada, Junichi Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20130034889
    Abstract: The present invention provides a microorganism belonging to the genus Enterobacter, wherein the microorganism has an ability to assimilate glycerol to produce hydrogen gas and 1,3-propanediol, and wherein the microorganism is capable of assimilating glycerol in the presence of 10 mass % glycerol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: SAPPORO BREWERIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Yukio Okada
  • Patent number: 8298758
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a multiple detection method that can detect contaminating microorganisms existing in foods, including pathogenic Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella spp., with high sensitivity comparable or even superior to official methods, comprising the steps of amplifying a plural number of target genes with a single PCR reaction tube and analyzing the same. The following steps are performed consecutively: (A) a step of extracting DNA of the target microorganisms to be detected by treating with at least a lytic enzyme such as Achromopepidase and Lysozyme and/or bacteriocin having lytic activity such as Enterolysine, a surfactant and a protein denaturing agent; and (B) a step of mixing a specific primer to the target microorganisms to be detected to perform multiplex PCR. Further, it is preferable to add a step of culturing with a culture condition where 1 CFU/100 g microorganisms becomes 10.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: Prima Meat Packers, Ltd., National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
    Inventors: Naoko Horikoshi, Susumu Kawasaki, Yukio Okada, Kazuko Takeshita, Takashi Sameshima, Shinichi Kawamoto, Kenji Isshiki
  • Publication number: 20100279284
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to screen for hop varieties with low cohumulone ratio and low colupulone ratio, as well as hop varieties with high contents of farnesene and/or linalool within a short time period utilizing a molecular screening method that employs a breeding marker. The invention provides a breeding marker using a polymorphism at the position of the 623rd nucleotide or a polymorphism at the position of the 1820th nucleotide of a polynucleotide consisting of the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: SAPPORO BREWERIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukio Okada, Koichiro Koie
  • Publication number: 20100203500
    Abstract: The invention provides a detection method for hop latent virus that comprises an extraction step in which hop latent virus RNA is extracted from a specimen, an amplification step in which a primer set containing 4 different oligonucleotides consisting of the nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 1-4 of the Sequence Listing is used for amplification of cDNA by RT-LAMP using the RNA as template, and a judging step in which hop latent virus is judged to be present when amplification of cDNA containing the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 8 of the Sequence Listing has occurred in the amplification step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: Sapporo Breweries Limited
    Inventors: Yukio Okada, Yutaka Itoga
  • Publication number: 20100143909
    Abstract: The invention provides a detection method for apple mosaic virus that comprises an extraction step in which apple mosaic virus RNA is extracted from a specimen, an amplification step in which a primer set containing 4 different oligonucleotides consisting of the nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 1-4 of the Sequence Listing is used for amplification of cDNA by RT-LAMP using the RNA as template, and a judging step in which apple mosaic virus is judged to be present when amplification of cDNA containing the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 8 of the Sequence Listing has occurred in the amplification step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SAPPORO BREWERIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukio Okada, Yutaka Itoga
  • Patent number: 7703787
    Abstract: A cap member of a swing arm for a rear wheel of a vehicle can be structured to provide an excellent outer appearance to the swing arm and to increase strength and be made thinner. The cap member to be attached to a rear end of the swing arm supporting the rear wheel of the vehicle is formed with a rounded outer surface shape which is approximately continuously connected to an outer surface shape of the swing arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawamura, Norikazu Matsumura, Yukio Okada
  • Publication number: 20100055692
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to screen for hop varieties with high ? acid contents, as well as hop varieties with high contents of ? acids, ? acids, myrcene and/or xanthohumol in addition to ? acids, within a short time period utilizing a molecular screening method that employs a breeding marker. The invention provides a breeding marker represented by the following (a) or (b), which is used for screening of hop varieties with high ? acid contents. (a) A polynucleotide consisting of a nucleotide sequence of 20-1587 continuous nucleotides including nucleotide No. 899 of the polynucleotide consisting of the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5 (wherein the 899th nucleotide is t). (b) A polynucleotide consisting of the sequence complementary to the polynucleotide of (a) above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: SAPPORO BREWERIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukio Okada, Koichiro Koie