Patents by Inventor Yuko Kobayashi
Yuko Kobayashi 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: 20120120336Abstract: There is provided a high quality liquid crystal panel having a thickness with high accuracy, which is designed, without using a particulate spacer, within a free range in accordance with characteristics of a used liquid crystal and a driving method, and is also provided a method of fabricating the same. The shape of a spacer for keeping a substrate interval constant is made such that it is a columnar shape, a radius R of curvature is 2 ?m or less, a height H is 0.5 ?m to 10 ?m, a diameter is 20 ?m or less, and an angle ? is 65° to 115°. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the lowering of an opening rate and the lowering to of light leakage due to orientation disturbance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiharu HIRAKATA, Yuugo GOTO, Yuko KOBAYASHI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20120073937Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medium convey apparatus is provided with an oscillation unit, a cooling unit, a convey unit, a temperature detector and a controller. The oscillation unit applies oscillation to a thin medium as a to-be-conveyed target. The cooling unit cools the air around the thin medium. The convey unit conveys the thin medium. The temperature detector detects the temperature around the medium. The controller controls the cooling unit based on the temperature detected by the temperature detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Kiminori Toya, Hideki Nukada, Yuko Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7993643Abstract: Various human monoclonal antibodies that bind to human LOX-1 and inhibit the binding of in-vivo LOX-1 ligands to LOX-1, and the LOX-1-mediated incorporation of the ligands into cells, were obtained by immunizing human antibody-producing transgenic mice (created by genetic engineering) with soluble human oxidized LDL receptor (LOX-1). Furthermore, the human monoclonal antibodies were found to be effective in preventing and treating a variety of diseases.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Amgen Fremont, Inc.Inventors: Yuko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Masafumi Kamada, Tatsuya Sawamura
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Patent number: 7808009Abstract: There is provided a high quality liquid crystal panel having a thickness with high accuracy, which is designed, without using a particulate spacer, within a free range in accordance with characteristics of a used liquid crystal and a driving method, and is also provided a method of fabricating the same. The shape of a spacer for keeping a substrate interval constant is made such that it is a columnar shape, a radius R of curvature is 2 ?m or less, a height H is 0.5 ?m to 10 ?m, a diameter is 20 ?m or less, and an angle ? is 65° to 115°. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the lowering of an opening rate and the lowering of light leakage due to orientation disturbance.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2008Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Hirakata, Yuugo Goto, Yuko Kobayashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 7802785Abstract: In an apparatus, a pile of sheets is mounted on a support base, and is brought into contact with a guide. A high-frequency vibration is applied to the sheets from a vibrating part which is pressed to the pile. A sheet on the uppermost surface of the pile is transferred by a feed roller. The guide has a guide end defining a guide entrance between the guide end and the feed roller, through which the sheets is passed. The guide end is arranged substantially in a virtual plane including a contact position at which the vibrating part is in contact with the uppermost surface of the pile, and substantially parallel with the sheets. A separation section for separating sheets from each other is arranged behind the entrance, and an air blow-off section for blowing air into the side of the pile is provided in the vicinity of the entrance.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuko Kobayashi, Kiminori Toya, Hideki Nukada, Masaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 7768716Abstract: A zoom optical system that comprising: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power which are arranged in order from an object side, a space between the lens units being changed to perform variation of magnification, the first lens unit includes a negative lens, the second lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object side, the third lens unit includes a positive lens, and an electronic equipment provided with the zoom optical system.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yuko Kobayashi, Noriyuki Iyama, Ayami Imamura
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Patent number: 7708268Abstract: A pile of sheets is held by a separator/feeder and a vibrator is brought into contact with a first region of the pile with a first contact pressure. High frequency vibrations are applied from the vibrator to the sheet. A takeout mechanism is brought into contact with and pressed against the pile with a second contact pressure and sheets are taken out one by one from the top surface of the pile by the takeout mechanism. A first sensor detects the position of the vibrator and outputs a first detection signal, while a second sensor detects the uppermost surface of the pile and outputs a second detection signal. A control section selects first and second contact pressures according to the first and second detection signals and maintains the first and second contact pressures.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiminori Toya, Hideki Nukada, Yuko Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7694957Abstract: In a device that separates a sheet and extracts the sheet from a stack of the sheets, the stack of sheets is placed on a sheet feeding unit. A vibrator is in contact with the top surface of the stack at a spot to vibrate the sheets at a high frequency. The high-frequency vibration reduces the adhesion and frictional force among the sheets. A sheet extraction mechanism conveys each sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2006Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideki Nukada, Yuko Kobayashi, Kiminori Toya
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Patent number: 7662537Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a lithographic printing plate with a hydrophilic layer mainly made from resins which has a photosensitivity to the light in near infrared region, on which images can be printed directly with laser beam, requiring no development and wiping off operation, and immediately recovering from ink stains without any difficulties when an ink attaches to non-image areas on printing, and a photosensitive resin composition applied to the printing plate. A lithographic printing original plate having a photosensitive layer formed on a support is characterized in that the surface of the photosensitive layer has a phase-separation structure, and the recessed parts are formed on the surface of a photosensitive layer by the dissolution of one component of photosensitive layer constituting the phase-separation and the surface of the photosensitive layer is changed to have affinity for ink by irradiation with light.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Tomoya Terauchi, Yuji Inatomi, Toshinori Matsuda, Yuko Kobayashi, Akihiro Koide
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Publication number: 20090322698Abstract: There is provided a high quality liquid crystal panel having a thickness with high accuracy, which is designed, without using a particulate spacer, within a free range in accordance with characteristics of a used liquid crystal and a driving method, and is also provided a method of fabricating the same. The shape of a spacer for keeping a substrate interval constant is made such that it is a columnar shape, a radius R of curvature is 2 ?m or less, a height H is 0.5 ?m to 10 ?m, a diameter is 20 ?m or less, and an angle ? is 65° to 115°. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the lowering of an opening rate and the lowering of light leakage due to orientation disturbance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiharu HIRAKATA, Yuugo GOTO, Yuko KOBAYASHI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 7605902Abstract: There is provided a high quality liquid crystal panel having a thickness with high accuracy, which is designed, without using a particulate spacer, within a free range in accordance with characteristics of a used liquid crystal and a driving method, and is also provided a method of fabricating the same. The shape of a spacer for keeping a substrate interval constant is made such that it is a columnar shape, a radius R of curvature is 2 ?m or less, a height H is 0.5 ?m to 10 ?m, a diameter is 20 ?m or less, and an angle ? is 65° to 115°. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the lowering of an opening rate and the lowering of light leakage due to orientation disturbance.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Hirakata, Yuugo Goto, Yuko Kobayashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 7602437Abstract: An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain a color image, and a controller for implementing signal processing or image processing on the basis of an output from the electronic image pickup device. The optical element that takes part in determining the focal length in the image pickup system includes an optical element making use of a refraction phenomenon alone.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hisashi Goto, Yuji Miyauchi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Masahiro Imamura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tsutomu Uzawa, Toshihide Nozawa, Takuji Horie, Kouki Hozumi
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Publication number: 20090218752Abstract: In an apparatus, a pile of sheets is mounted on a support base, and is brought into contact with a guide. A high-frequency vibration is applied to the sheets from a vibrating part which is pressed to the pile. A sheet on the uppermost surface of the pile is transferred by a feed roller. The guide has a guide end defining a guide entrance between the guide end and the feed roller, through which the sheets is passed. The guide end is arranged substantially in a virtual plane including a contact position at which the vibrating part is in contact with the uppermost surface of the pile, and substantially parallel with the sheets. A separation section for separating sheets from each other is arranged behind the entrance, and an air blow-off section for blowing air into the side of the pile is provided in the vicinity of the entrance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuko Kobayashi, Kiminori Toya, Hideki Nukada, Masaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 7567288Abstract: An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain a color image, and a controller for implementing signal processing or image processing on the basis of an output from the electronic image pickup device. The optical element that takes part in determining the focal length in the image pickup system includes an optical element making use of a refraction phenomenon alone.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hisashi Goto, Yuji Miyauchi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Masahiro Imamura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tsutomu Uzawa, Toshihide Nozawa, Takuji Horie, Kouki Hozumi
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Patent number: 7564497Abstract: An optical system enables images to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device to obtain a color image and a controller for implementing signal processing or image processing on the basis of an output from the electronic image pickup device. The optical element that takes part in the determination of a focal length includes an optical element making use of a refraction phenomenon alone. The 400-nm wavelength input/output ratio is 10% or less with respect to an input-output ratio for a 400-nm to 800-nm wavelength at which an output signal strength ratio with respect to an input quantity of light is highest when the input quantity of light is defined by the quantity of a light beam emanating from the same object point and entering the image pickup optical system and the output signal strength is defined by the strength of a signal produced from the controller in response to the light beam.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hisashi Goto, Yuji Miyauchi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Masahiro Imamura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tsutomu Uzawa, Toshihide Nozawa, Takuji Horie, Kouki Hozumi
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Publication number: 20090040445Abstract: There is provided a high quality liquid crystal panel having a thickness with high accuracy, which is designed, without using a particulate spacer, within a free range in accordance with characteristics of a used liquid crystal and a driving method, and is also provided a method of fabricating the same. The shape of a spacer for keeping a substrate interval constant is made such that it is a columnar shape, a radius R of curvature is 2 ?m or less, a height H is 0.5 ?m to 10 ?m, a diameter is 20 ?m or less, and an angle ? is 65° to 115°. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the lowering of an opening rate and the lowering of light leakage due to orientation disturbance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiharu HIRAKATA, Yuugo GOTO, Yuko KOBAYASHI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20080305427Abstract: It relates to a processless lithographic printing plate requiring no post treatments after exposure to laser, wherein a difference between the lightness (L*1) of a laser unexposed area and the lightness (L*2) of a laser exposed area after irradiation with laser is 10?(L*2?L*1)<100. An object of the present invention is to provide plate bodies having excellent printing plate inspection in a lithographic printing plate in which drawing with laser light and processless are realized. When the lithographic printing plate of the present invention is used, it is possible to provide a processless lithographic printing plate, which is excellent in sensitivity and resolution, requires no treatments such as development, wiping-off or the like and is excellent in printing plate inspection in the laser exposed area by changing only the surface of the laser exposed area into the oleophilicity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2004Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Takayuki Sanada, Tomoya Terauchi, Akihiro Koide, Yuko Kobayashi, Hiroko Miyazaki
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Patent number: 7446948Abstract: The invention is concerned with a small-format yet high-performance zoom optical system with a fewer lenses count, and an electronic system that incorporates it. The zoom optical system comprises, in order from its object side, a first lens unit G1 of negative refracting power, a second lens unit G2 of positive refracting power and a third lens unit G3 of negative refracting power, in which zooming is implemented by movement of at least the second lens unit G2 and the third lens unit G3, thereby varying a space between adjacent lens units. The negative first lens unit G1 is composed of one negative lens, the positive second lens unit G2 is composed of one positive lens, and the negative third lens unit G3 is composed of one negative lens. The negative lens in the third lens unit G3 is in a negative meniscus shape with a concave surface on its image plane side.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Yuko Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080241134Abstract: Various human monoclonal antibodies that bind to human LOX-1 and inhibit the binding of in-vivo LOX-1 ligands to LOX-1, and the LOX-1-mediated incorporation of the ligands into cells, were obtained by immunizing human antibody-producing transgenic mice (created by genetic engineering) with soluble human oxidized LDL receptor (LOX-1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: ABGENIX, INC.Inventors: Yuko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Masafumi Kamada, Tatsuya Sawamura
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Publication number: 20080016519Abstract: A screen transition program generating device searches a processing program corresponding to an event in a screen defining file, which is source code to define the screen, when a user provides instructions to create an executable file for preview, and changes a processing program corresponding to the searched event into a runtime library calling program required for the transition between screens corresponding to the event by referencing screen transition information that defines relationship between the previously created event and the transition between screens. Then it generates the executable file for preview from the screen defining file including the runtime library calling program.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Yuko KOBAYASHI