Patents by Inventor Yumi Ito

Yumi Ito 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: 20240108186
    Abstract: A charging base includes: a base seat installed on a floor surface; a columnar tower part provided on the base seat; a first support provided on the tower part and capable of supporting a vertical first electric vacuum cleaner; and a second support provided on the tower part and capable of supporting a vertical second electric vacuum cleaner. An electric vacuum cleaner system includes the charging base configured as described above, the vertical first electric vacuum cleaner, and the vertical second electric vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Koshiro TAKANO, Eigo SHIMIZU, Yumi KUROKAWA, Shigeyuki NAGATA, Eunjin CHOI, Isamu OKUDA, Tsutomu MATSUBARA, Takenori SEKIGUCHI, Hiroaki ITO, Kenji YANAGISAWA
  • Patent number: 10894809
    Abstract: A novel technique for improving secretory production of a heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria is described, and thereby a method for secretory production of a heterologous protein is provided. A coryneform bacterium able to secrete a heterologous protein modified so that the activity of RegX3 protein is reduced is cultured to produce the heterologous protein by secretory production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yumi Ito, Yoshihiko Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10894810
    Abstract: A novel technique for improving secretory production of a heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria is described, and thereby a method for secretory production of a heterologous protein is provided. A coryneform bacterium able to secrete a heterologous protein and modified so that the activity of HrrSA system is reduced is cultured to produce the heterologous protein by secretory production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yumi Ito, Yoshihiko Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10538798
    Abstract: A novel technique for improving secretory production of a heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria is described, as well as a method for secretory production of a heterologous protein. A coryneform bacterium is described that has been modified to have a specific mutation so as to harbor a phoS gene, and when cultured, is able to to produce a heterologous protein by secretory production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Matsuda, Yumi Ito, Yukari Kashima, Naoko Yamada, Noriko Tsurui, Hiroshi Itaya
  • Publication number: 20190241621
    Abstract: A novel technique for improving secretory production of a heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria is described, and thereby a method for secretory production of a heterologous protein is provided. A coryneform bacterium able to secrete a heterologous protein modified so that the activity of RegX3 protein is reduced is cultured to produce the heterologous protein by secretory production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yumi Ito, Yoshihiko Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20190241622
    Abstract: A novel technique for improving secretory production of a heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria is described, and thereby a method for secretory production of a heterologous protein is provided. A coryneform bacterium able to secrete a heterologous protein and modified so that the activity of HrrSA system is reduced is cultured to produce the heterologous protein by secretory production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yumi Ito, Yoshihiko Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10328615
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a molding equipment of a composite material includes a vessel, a decompression system and a heating medium supply system. The vessel houses a molding target sealed by a sealing object. The decompression system performs bending forming of the molding target and pressurization on the molding target after the bending forming by decompressing a region surrounded by the sealing object in the vessel. The heating medium supply system supplies a heating medium into the vessel. The heating medium is supplied for the bending forming, and heating and curing of the molding target under the pressurization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: SUBARU CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA ASHIDA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yumi Ito, Masanori Nakajima, Takeshi Ashida
  • Patent number: 10197567
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of efficiently constructing a library abundant in diversity and also usable for screening of a compound that binds to a target substance having protease activity. The present invention provides a method of constructing an azoline compound library containing two or more azoline compounds having an azoline backbone introduced into at least one of Cys, Ser, Thr, and 2,3-diamino acid, and analogs thereof of Xaa0 of a peptide represented by the following formula (I): A-(Xaa0)n-B??(I) [wherein, m numbers of Xaa0s respectively represent arbitrary amino acids, at least one of which is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Cys, Ser, Thr, and 2,3-diamino acid, and analogs thereof, m represents an inter selected from 2 to 40, and A and B each independently represent a peptide composed of from 0 to 100 amino acids].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hiroaki Suga, Yuki Goto, Yumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20180037918
    Abstract: A novel technique for improving secretory production of a heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria is described, as well as a method for secretory production of a heterologous protein. A coryneform bacterium is described that has been modified to have a specific mutation so as to harbor a phoS gene, and when cultured, is able to to produce a heterologous protein by secretory production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Matsuda, Yumi Ito, Yukari Kashima, Naoko Yamada, Noriko Tsurui, Hiroshi Itaya
  • Patent number: 9660149
    Abstract: An LED light emitting device is provided that has high color rendering properties and is excellent color uniformity and, at the same time, can realize even luminescence unattainable by conventional techniques. A phosphor having a composition represented by formula: (Sr2-X-Y-Z-?BaXMgYMnZEu?)SiO4 wherein x, y, z, and ? are respectively coefficients satisfying 0.1<x<1, 0<y<0.5, 0<z<0.1, y>z, and 0.01<?<0.2 is provided. The phosphor is used in combination with ultraviolet and blue light emitting diodes having a luminescence peak wavelength of 360 to 470 nm to form an LED light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Yoshitaka Funayama, Yumi Ito, Yasumasa Ooya, Ryo Sakai, Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 9277160
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a program listing display control apparatus including: a program listing picture storage block configured to store a program listing picture in which are disposed program time slots to which a plurality of broadcast programs are allocated; a display control block configured to control a display apparatus to display the program listing picture; a control information input block configured to input control information for controlling the acquisition of additional information to be added to the program listing picture; and an information acquisition block configured to acquire program identification information for identifying the programs to which the additional information is added and the additional information regarding the programs identified by the program identification information, on the basis of the control information input through the control information input block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Ohde, Yumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20160049558
    Abstract: An LED light emitting device is provided that has high color rendering properties and is excellent color uniformity and, at the same time, can realize even luminescence unattainable by conventional techniques. A phosphor having a composition represented by formula: (Sr2-X-Y-Z-?BaXMgYMnZEu?)SiO4 wherein x, y, z, and ? are respectively coefficients satisfying 0.1<x<1, 0<y<0.5, 0<z<0.1, y>z, and 0.01<?<0.2 is provided. The phosphor is used in combination with ultraviolet and blue light emitting diodes having a luminescence peak wavelength of 360 to 470 nm to form an LED light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Yoshitaka Funayama, Yumi Ito, Yasumasa Ooya, Ryo Sakai, Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 9169436
    Abstract: An LED light emitting device is provided that has high color rendering properties and is excellent color uniformity and, at the same time, can realize even luminescence unattainable by conventional techniques. A phosphor having a composition represented by formula: (Sr2-X-Y-Z-?BaXMgYMnZEu?)SiO4 wherein x, y, z, and ? are respectively coefficients satisfying 0.1<x<1, 0<y<0.5, 0<z<0.1, y>z, and 0.01<?<0.2 is provided. The phosphor is used in combination with ultraviolet and blue light emitting diodes having a luminescence peak wavelength of 360 to 470 nm to form an LED light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Yoshitaka Funayama, Yumi Ito, Yasumasa Ooya, Ryo Sakai, Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 9039218
    Abstract: A white LED lamp including: a conductive portion; a light emitting diode chip mounted on the conductive portion, for emitting a primary light having a peak wavelength of 360 nm to 420 nm; a transparent resin layer including a first hardened transparent resin, for sealing the light emitting diode chip; and a phosphor layer covering the transparent resin layer, the phosphor layer being formed by dispersing a phosphor powder into a second hardened transparent resin, and the phosphor powder receiving the primary light and radiating a secondary light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light. An energy of the primary light contained in the radiated secondary light is 0.4 mW/Im or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasumasa Ooya, Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Yumi Ito, Masaki Toyoshima, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Ryo Sakai
  • Publication number: 20150060926
    Abstract: A white LED lamp including: a conductive portion; a light emitting diode chip mounted on the conductive portion, for emitting a primary light having a peak wavelength of 360 nm to 420 nm; a transparent resin layer including a first hardened transparent resin, for sealing the light emitting diode chip; and a phosphor layer covering the transparent resin layer, the phosphor layer being formed by dispersing a phosphor powder into a second hardened transparent resin, and the phosphor powder receiving the primary light and radiating a secondary light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light. An energy of the primary light contained in the radiated secondary light is 0.4 mW/lm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasumasa Ooya, Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Yumi Ito, Masaki Toyoshima, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Ryo Sakai
  • Patent number: 8869231
    Abstract: An information processing unit includes: a receiving unit which receives, via a communication network, first specifying information which is used by a content source to specify the content, from a display device which receives and displays broadcast content; a converting unit which, upon retrieval request from the display device for related information which is related to the content, converts the first specifying information into second specifying information, which is used by a source of the related information to specify the content; a retrieval controlling unit which transmits the second specifying information to a retrieval device, which retrieves the related information based on the second specifying information, via the communication network and controls retrieval of the related information; and a providing unit which provides the display device with the related information acquired from the retrieval device via the communication network upon retrieval request for the related information to the retriev
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yumi Ito
  • Patent number: 8723412
    Abstract: According to the embodiment, a white lighting device includes a semiconductor light-emitting element emitting near-ultraviolet light, and a phosphor layer containing at least a blue-green phosphor emitting blue-green light and a red phosphor emitting red light and emits white light having a correlated color temperature of 5000 K or less and a deviation duv from a blackbody locus of not less than ?0.01 nor more than 0.01, in which a ratio of a content of the red phosphor to a content of the blue-green phosphor in the phosphor layer by mass is not less than 35 nor more than 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Yumi Ito, Masahiko Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20140113830
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of efficiently constructing a library abundant in diversity and also usable for screening of a compound that binds to a target substance having protease activity. The present invention provides a method of constructing an azoline compound library containing two or more azoline compounds having an azoline backbone introduced into at least one of Cys, Ser, Thr, and 2,3-diamino acid, and analogs thereof of Xaa0 of a peptide represented by the following formula (I): A-(Xaa0)n-B??(I) [wherein, m numbers of Xaa0s respectively represent arbitrary amino acids, at least one of which is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Cys, Ser, Thr, and 2,3-diamino acid, and analogs thereof, m represents an inter selected from 2 to 40, and A and B each independently represent a peptide composed of from 0 to 100 amino acids].
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Hiroaki Suga, Yuki Goto, Yumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20130241394
    Abstract: According to the embodiment, a white lighting device includes a semiconductor light-emitting element emitting near-ultraviolet light, and a phosphor layer containing at least a blue-green phosphor emitting blue-green light and a red phosphor emitting red light and emits white light having a correlated color temperature of 5000 K or less and a deviation duv from a blackbody locus of not less than ?0.01 nor more than 0.01, in which a ratio of a content of the red phosphor to a content of the blue-green phosphor in the phosphor layer by mass is not less than 35 nor more than 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Yumi Ito, Masahiko Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8487330
    Abstract: An LED light emitting device is provided that has high color rendering properties and is excellent color uniformity and, at the same time, can realize even luminescence unattainable by conventional techniques. A phosphor having a composition represented by formula: (Sr2-X-Y-Z-?BaXMgYMnZEu?)SiO4 wherein x, y, z, and ? are respectively coefficients satisfying 0.1<x<1, 0<y<0.5, 0<z<0.1, y>z, and 0.01<?<0.2 is provided. The phosphor is used in combination with ultraviolet and blue light emitting diodes having a luminescence peak wavelength of 360 to 470 nm to form an LED light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Yoshitaka Funayama, Yumi Ito, Yasumasa Ooya, Ryo Sakai, Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shirakawa