Patents by Inventor Yuko Shimizu

Yuko Shimizu 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).

  • Publication number: 20230294898
    Abstract: The frozen gyoza dumplings with a support, containing a plurality of frozen gyoza dumplings connected by a wing-forming frozen composition, and a support in contact with a connecting surface thereof, wherein the support has a shape permitting the frozen gyoza dumplings in a connected state to slide thereon, or is deformed so as to permit sliding, make it possible to arrange gyoza dumplings all at once on a cooking utensil such as a frying pan by sliding them on the support without touching the gyoza dumplings with a hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yuko SHIMIZU, Daiki SAITO, Yui SAITO, Yoshinori KODANI, Kaoru HOSOKAWA
  • Patent number: 11222764
    Abstract: A charged particle beam device includes: a charged particle source; an optical system which acts on a charged particle beam emitted from the charged particle source; a control unit which controls the optical system; and a storage unit which stores previous setting values of the optical system. The optical system includes a first optical element and a second optical element for controlling a state of the charged particle beam to be incident on the first optical element. The control unit obtains an initial value of a setting value of the second optical element based on previous setting values of the second optical element; and changes a state of the charged particle beam by changing the setting value of the second optical element from the obtained initial value and obtains the setting value of the second optical element based on the change in the state of the charged particle beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamazaki, Yuko Shimizu, Hirofumi Iijima, Takuma Fukumura, Naoki Hosogi, Tomohiro Nakamichi
  • Publication number: 20200343072
    Abstract: A charged particle beam device includes: a charged particle source; an optical system which acts on a charged particle beam emitted from the charged particle source; a control unit which controls the optical system; and a storage unit which stores previous setting values of the optical system. The optical system includes a first optical element and a second optical element for controlling a state of the charged particle beam to be incident on the first optical element. The control unit obtains an initial value of a setting value of the second optical element based on previous setting values of the second optical element; and changes a state of the charged particle beam by changing the setting value of the second optical element from the obtained initial value and obtains the setting value of the second optical element based on the change in the state of the charged particle beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamazaki, Yuko Shimizu, Hirofumi Iijima, Takuma Fukumura, Naoki Hosogi, Tomohiro Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 10741358
    Abstract: An electron microscope comprises: an electron microscope main body including a phase plate that imparts a phase change to an electron wave, a moving mechanism that moves the phase plate, and a detector that acquires an image formed by an electron beam transmitted through a sample; and a control unit that controls the electron microscope main body. The control unit performs a phase plate image acquisition process of acquiring a phase plate image which is an image of the phase plate; an unevenness determination process of determining whether or not the phase plate has unevenness based on the phase plate image; and a moving mechanism control process of moving the phase plate by controlling the moving mechanism when the control unit has determined that the unevenness is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Hirofumi Iijima, Naoki Hosogi, Jun Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10540799
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus receives operational information indicating a content of each of user operations sequentially performed to generate or edit an object using any of guest tools; for each operational information, determine one of the guest tools that a user has used to perform the user operation indicated by the operational information; in response to receiving each operational information, register processing information including the operational information in one of a plurality of processing lists for the determined guest tool; in response to receiving each operational information, point with a pointer the processing information including the currently received operational information; and display a display image including the object, generated by sequentially performing editing according to the first-registered processing information to the currently-received processing information registered in each of the processing lists for the plurality of guest tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Yasumasa Ando, Fumiko Tsuwano, Yoshikazu Itoh, Yuko Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200013582
    Abstract: An electron microscope comprises: an electron microscope main body including a phase plate that imparts a phase change to an electron wave, a moving mechanism that moves the phase plate, and a detector that acquires an image formed by an electron beam transmitted through a sample; and a control unit that controls the electron microscope main body. The control unit performs a phase plate image acquisition process of acquiring a phase plate image which is an image of the phase plate; an unevenness determination process of determining whether or not the phase plate has unevenness based on the phase plate image; and a moving mechanism control process of moving the phase plate by controlling the moving mechanism when the control unit has determined that the unevenness is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Hirofumi Iijima, Naoki Hosogi, Jun Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10407380
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for isomerizing a cyclohexanediamine, which simply and highly actively realizes an isomerization reaction of a cyclohexanediamine, without passing through a high-pressure reaction and a complicated multi-stage process. The isomerization method has an isomerization step of isomerizing a cyclohexanediamine in the presence of a compound represented by the following formula (1) and at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkali metal-containing compound, an alkaline earth metal or an alkaline earth metal-containing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10394413
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided, each of which: displays, on a display, a plurality of windows for a user to perform inputting for an application; receives selection of a first window to be set to an active state out of the plurality of displayed windows, the active state being capable of receiving user's operation; reads a function related to image editing, the function having been enabled in a second window of the plurality of displayed windows different than the first window, which has been in an active state immediately before receiving selection of the first window; and changes a display of the first window to an active state with the read function enabled in the first window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Fumiko Tsuwano, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10294194
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to simply and highly actively realize an isomerization reaction of an industrially important compound, diaminodicyclohexylmethane, without passing through a complicated multi-stage process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10287235
    Abstract: An isomerization reaction of a predetermined compound, without passing through a high pressure reaction and a complicated multi-stage process. The isomerization method includes isomerizing, 1,3,3-trimethyl-1-(aminomethyl)aminocyclohexane in the presence of a compound represented by formula (1) and at least one compound selected from no alkali metal, an alkali metal-containing compound, an alkaline earth metal and an alkaline earth metal-containing compound: where R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent group selected from a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group and an acyl group, R1 and R2 may mutually bind to form a ring, R3 represents a hydrogen atom and an n-valent group selected from a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group, and n represents as integer of 1 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10118888
    Abstract: A method for isomerizing a bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane, including isomerizing a bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane while introducing an inert gas in a reaction solution containing a bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane, at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkali metal-containing compound, an alkaline earth metal and an alkaline earth metal-containing compound, and a benzylamine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10072377
    Abstract: A fiber reinforced composite material having high interlaminar toughness and compressive strength under wet heat conditions, as well as an epoxy resin composition for production thereof and a prepreg producible from the epoxy resin composition is described. The prepreg includes at least constituents [A], [B], and [C] as specified below and reinforcement fiber, wherein 90% or more of constituent [C] exists in the depth range accounting for 20% of the prepreg thickness from the prepreg surface: [A] epoxy resin; [B] epoxy resin curing agent; and [C] polymer particles insoluble in epoxy resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Nobuyuki Tomioka, Shirou Honda, Maki Nagano, Yuji Echigo, Hiroshi Takezaki, Junko Kawasaki, Hiroshi Taiko
  • Patent number: 10020162
    Abstract: There is provided a beam alignment method capable of easily aligning an electron beam with a coma-free axis in an electron microscope. The method starts with tilting the electron beam (EB) in a first direction (+X) relative to a reference axis (A) and obtaining a first TEM (transmission electron microscope) image. Then, the beam is tilted in a second direction (?X) relative to the reference axis, the second direction (?X) being on the opposite side of the reference axis (A) from the first direction (+X), and a second TEM image is obtained. The reference axis is incrementally varied so as to reduce the brightness of the differential image between a power spectrum of the first TEM image and a power spectrum of the second TEM image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Akira Yasuhara, Kazuya Yamazaki, Fumio Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20180050979
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to simply and highly actively realize an isomerization reaction of an industrially important compound, diaminodicyclohexylmethane, without passing through a complicated multi-stage process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko SHIMIZU, Yoshiaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180044279
    Abstract: A method for isomerizing a bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane, including isomerizing a bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane while introducing an inert gas in a reaction solution containing a bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane, at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkali metal-containing compound, an alkaline earth metal and an alkaline earth metal-containing compound, and a benzylamine compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko SHIMIZU, Yoshiaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180037537
    Abstract: An isomerization reaction of a predetermined compound, without passing through a high pressure reaction and a complicated multi-stage process. The isomerization method includes isomerizing, 1,3,3-trimethyl-1-(aminomethyl)aminocyclohexane in the presence of a compound represented by formula (1) and at least one compound selected from no alkali metal, an alkali metal-containing compound, an alkaline earth metal and an alkaline earth metal-containing compound: where R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent group selected from a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group and an acyl group, R1 and R2 may mutually bind to form a ring, R3 represents a hydrogen atom and an n-valent group selected from a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group, and n represents as integer of 1 to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko SHIMIZU, Yoshiaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180037536
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for isomerizing a cyclohexanediamine, which simply and highly actively realizes an isomerization reaction of a cyclohexanediamine, without passing through a high-pressure reaction and a complicated multi-stage process. The isomerization method has an isomerization step of isomerizing a cyclohexanediamine in the presence of a compound represented by the following formula (1) and at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkali metal-containing compound, an alkaline earth metal or an alkaline earth metal-containing compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko SHIMIZU, Yoshiaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180024699
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided, each of which: displays, on a display, a plurality of windows for a user to perform inputting for an application; receives selection of a first window to be set to an active state out of the plurality of displayed windows, the active state being capable of receiving user's operation; reads a function related to image editing, the function having been enabled in a second window of the plurality of displayed windows different than the first window, which has been in an active state immediately before receiving selection of the first window; and changes a display of the first window to an active state with the read function enabled in the first window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko SHIMIZU, Fumiko TSUWANO, Hiroki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180012388
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus receives operational information indicating a content of each of user operations sequentially performed to generate or edit an object using any of guest tools; for each operational information, determine one of the guest tools that a user has used to perform the user operation indicated by the operational information; in response to receiving each operational information, register processing information including the operational information in one of a plurality of processing lists for the determined guest tool; in response to receiving each operational information, point with a pointer the processing information including the currently received operational information; and display a display image including the object, generated by sequentially performing editing according to the first-registered processing information to the currently-received processing information registered in each of the processing lists for the plurality of guest tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Yasumasa ANDO, Fumiko TSUWANO, Yoshikazu ITOH, Yuko SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20170301507
    Abstract: There is provided a beam alignment method capable of easily aligning an electron beam with a coma-free axis in an electron microscope. The method starts with tilting the electron beam (EB) in a first direction (+X) relative to a reference axis (A) and obtaining a first TEM (transmission electron microscope) image. Then, the beam is tilted in a second direction (?X) relative to the reference axis, the second direction (?X) being on the opposite side of the reference axis (A) from the first direction (+X), and a second TEM image is obtained. The reference axis is incrementally varied so as to reduce the brightness of the differential image between a power spectrum of the first TEM image and a power spectrum of the second TEM image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Akira Yasuhara, Kazuya Yamazaki, Fumio Hosokawa