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Tohru Aoki, Susono JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090200062	Electric supply device for slide structure - The present invention is to provide an electric supply device for a slide structure, which can prevent drooping of a wiring harness. The electric supply device for the slide structure has a wiring harness arranged to extend from a base body to a slide structure slidably provided on the base body, a guide rail arranged along a slide direction of the slide structure in one of the base body or the slide structure, a slider supporting one end of the wiring harness and slidabaly arranged on the guide rail, a supporting member supporting another end of the wiring harness and fixed in the other of the base body or the slide structure and an angel offset means. The angel offset means turns a derivation direction X leading the wiring harness from one of the slider or the supporting member above a horizontal direction H.	08-13-2009

Tohru Aoki, Kosai-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090095858	FEEDING STRUCTURE FOR SLIDING STRUCTURAL BODY - A feeding structure for a sliding structural body includes: a protector base arranged in one of the sliding structural body and a stationary structural body; a link arm pivotally supported by a shaft portion of the protector base; a harness holder pivotally connected to an end portion of the link arm; and a wire harness which is laid from one end of the protector base to the harness holder so as to be bent in a substantial S-shape, and laid from the harness holder to the other of the sliding structural body and the stationary structural body so as to be moved therebetween.	04-16-2009
20100089642	POWER FEEDING DEVICE FOR SLIDE STRUCTURE - A power feeding device for a slide structure, which includes a link arm	04-15-2010

Tohru Eguchi, Shizuoka-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100003577	Fuel gas supplying apparatus for fuel cell system - A fuel gas supplying apparatus for a fuel cell system includes an exhaust apparatus having an exhaust pipe; a fuel apparatus for supplying fuel to the fuel cell; a regulator arranged to reduce pressure of the fuel gas provided to the fuel cell; and a fuel gas emitting pipe confluence-connected to the exhaust pipe, to emit fuel gas to an outside of the fuel apparatus by using the exhaust pipe as a pipe for temporarily emitting gas to the atmosphere. The regulator includes a plurality of pressure relief valves, a pressure reducing portion, and a solenoid valve upstream of the pressure reducing portion. The pressure relief valves are connected upstream and downstream of the pressure reducing portion.	01-07-2010
20100252554	Arrangement structure of gaseous fuel filling port for motorcycle - A fuel filling port is inclined at a predetermined angle in a vertical direction such that a filling nozzle is inserted slantwise from above when a body is supported in an upright posture by a center stand to prevent a motorcycle from falling over even if a filling nozzle is pressingly inserted into the fuel filling port.	10-07-2010

Tohru Fukuda, Nishitokyo-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110191527	SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device comprises processors, a nonvolatile memory with channels, a list storage, and a command generator. The list storage is configured to store an erase address list includes erase addresses of each of the channels of the nonvolatile memory. The command generator is configured to continuously generate a series of erase commands concerning the erase addresses in the erase address list in response to a single erase request generated from any one of the processors.	08-04-2011
20110191529	SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a queuing buffer, a read module, a separating module, a write command issuing module, and a write module. The write command issuing module is configured to add a write address indicated by write pointer information to the management data obtained by the separating module in order to issue a write command, and to automatically queue the write command into the queuing buffer. The write module is configured to supply the write command issued by the write command issuing module to the nonvolatile memory in order to write data into the nonvolatile memory.	08-04-2011
20120011303	MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, MEMORY DEVICE, AND SHUTDOWN CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a memory control device includes a controller, a command queue module, a plurality of stage processors, and a skip module. The controller controls a data access command to a nonvolatile memory from a host. The command queue module queues a transfer request command corresponding to the data access command. The stage processors each perform stage processing related to the transfer request command queued by the command queue module. The skip module skips the stage processing by the stage processors in response to a shutdown command from the controller.	01-12-2012
20120017116	MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, MEMORY DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a memory control device includes a first controller, a second controller, an access module, and a response sort module. The first controller controls processing of a data access command to a nonvolatile memory from a host. The second controller controls processing assigned to the second controller between the first controller and the second controller. The access module performs data access to the nonvolatile memory in response to a command from the first controller or the second controller. When an error occurs in the data access by the access module, the response sort module returns a response to the second controller instead of the first controller.	01-19-2012
20120102262	MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a memory control device includes: queues in channels; first controller; generator; and second controller. The queues hold write commands for data pieces. The first controller causes: (i) when a read command is received, and until the write commands are held in the queues, the channels are synchronized with each other, and processes of the write commands become ready to be performed, a read process based on the read command prior to the write commands; and, (ii) when the processes of write commands become ready to be performed, synchronization of the channels and write processes for the data pieces based on the write commands. The generator generates error correction codes based on the data pieces when the channels are synchronized with each other and the processes based on the write commands are performed. The second controller writes the error correction codes on the storage medium.	04-26-2012
20120140561	MEMORY DEVICE CAPABLE OF IMPROVING WRITE PROCESSING SPEED AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory unit, a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a third storage unit, a data move unit, and a controller. The first storage unit stores a logical address and an intermediate address. The second storage unit stores the intermediate address and the physical address corresponding to the intermediate address. The third storage unit stores a flag corresponding to the logical address and the intermediate address. The flag represents whether read of latest data by a read operation has succeeded. When the flag stored in the third storage unit represents a success of the read of the latest data, the controller determines whether write has been done for the same logical address of the memory unit during the data move processing, and if the write has been done, invalidates the data move processing.	06-07-2012
20120144094	DATA STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FLASH MEMORY - According to one embodiment, a data storage apparatus includes a write command module, a read command module, and a controller. The write command module is configured to process a write command for writing data to the nonvolatile memories for a plurality of channels, respectively. The read command module is configured to process a read command usually and to process a read command for read modify write (RMW) operation. The controller is configured to control the read command module, causing to execute the read command for the RMW operation, prior to the normal read command, thereby to execute a flush command, and to control the write command module, causing to execute a write flush process that includes the processing of a write command for the RMW operation after the read command for the RMW operation has been executed.	06-07-2012
20140013031	DATA STORAGE APPARATUS, MEMORY CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING A DATA STORAGE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a data storage apparatus comprises a first controller, a second controller, a third controller, and a fourth controller. The first controller controls a flash memory, writing and reading data, in units of blocks, to and from the flash memory. The second controller detects any a write-interrupted block is interrupted by the first controller. The third controller sets the write-interrupted block detected by the second controller, as a block to be refreshed in another block. The fourth controller performs the process of refreshing.	01-09-2014

Tohru Hasegawa, Ebina-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110142480	HEATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A heating device includes: a heating member heating a recording medium; a pressure member forming a heating pressure portion between the pressure member and the heating member by coming into pressure contact with the heating member, the heating pressure portion passing through the recording medium; a tensioning member placed to face the pressure member across the heating member to provide a tension to the heating member; and a cooling unit cooling the pressure member, the cooling unit including: an air blower generating an air flow; a circulator circulating the air flow along the pressure member; and a group of protruding portions provided on the circulator to guide the air flow.	06-16-2011

Tohru Hasegawa, Yamato JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090287751	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILE RELOCATION - A method and system for file relocation is provided. A file relocation system is connected to multiple storage devices. The system obtains a number of times that each of a number of files stored on the multiple storage devices is requested simultaneously with a concerned file. The relocation system then classifies multiple files into multiple groups, such that groups of files simultaneously are put together into one group. Multiple files classified in to the same group are then relocated to a single storage device. The relocation system then switches a storage device not accessed for a certain period of time into a power-saving mode.	11-19-2009

Tohru Hayashi, Okayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080264524	High-Strength Steel and Metal Bolt Excellent In Character of Delayed Fracture - A high-strength steel having excellent character of delayed fracture can be manufactured at a low cost without adding expensive alloy elements such as Ni, Co or V in large quantities. The steel including a steel microstructure in which a ratio of martensite phase is 90% or more and a diameter of prior austenite grains is 10 μm or less, the steel microstructure being made by hardening and then tempering at 100° C. to 400° C., the steel including C: more than 0.30% and not more than 0.50% by mass, Si: not more than 1.0% by mass, Mn: not more than 1.5% by mass, Ti: not more than 0.1% by mass, Mo: not less than 0.3% and not more than 0.50% by mass, B: not less than 0.0005% and not more than 0.01% by mass, and a balance composed of Fe and inevitable impurities.	10-30-2008

Tohru Ifukube, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080241803	VOICE OUTPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, FILE SELECTION DEVICE, TELEPHONE SET, AND PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF THE SAME - A device, computer program and method for outputting linguistic information. The voice output device, for example, includes an output information acquisition unit acquiring linguistic information and attribute information. Attribute information includes an attribute added to each linguistic element included in the linguistic information. A tactile pattern storage unit stores a predetermined tactile pattern corresponding to each linguistic element. A tactile pattern acquisition unit acquires the tactile pattern from the tactile pattern storage unit. A voice output unit reads aloud the linguistic elements and a tactile pattern output unit outputs, in parallel with reading aloud each linguistic element, the tactile pattern corresponding to the attribute added to the linguistic element, thereby allowing a user to sense the tactile pattern by the sense of touch.	10-02-2008

Tohru Ikeda, Tochigi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110061228	EQUIPMENT FOR MANUFACTURING STATOR - Equipment for manufacturing a stator comprises a coil conduction mechanism which can supply a current to input terminals of a stator, and a heater mechanism having first and second panel heaters which are provided to face the stator. Heat is generated from a coil by supplying a current to the coil from the coil conduction mechanism and sealants filling the stator are heated. On the other hand, the first and second panel heaters are heated by supplying a current and the sealants are heated from the outside. The operation is controlled such that the heating temperature for the sealants by heat generated from the coil and the heating temperature for the sealants by the heater mechanism are uniform.	03-17-2011

Tohru Ikeda, Utsunomiya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090300906	STATOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A nozzle unit includes first, second, and third nozzles for discharging a sealant, and is movable toward and away from a stator by a vertically moving unit. The stator is disposed in a position facing the nozzle unit and is angularly movable successively through given angles by a rotary unit. The first, second, and third nozzles are moved radially outwardly in synchronism with each other by a link mechanism, and then lowered by the vertically moving unit at a position facing a first filling groove or a second filling groove of the stator. The first, second, and third nozzles thus lowered introduce the sealant into the first filling groove or the second filling groove.	12-10-2009

Tohru Ikuyama, Hyogo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090107620	MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR COMPOSITE MATERIAL STRUCTURAL COMPONENT FOR AIRCRAFT AND ITS STRUCTURAL COMPONENT - A method for manufacturing a structural component includes a first step of attaching at least one conductive member to a surface of a base material made of a composite material and a second step of forming the base material by conducting electricity to part or the whole of the conductive member to generate heat and/or making an assembly of the structural component by conducting electricity to part or the whole of the conductive member to generate heat. Part or the whole of the conductive member contained in the structural component produced in the first and second steps serves as a member giving to the aircraft at least one of a lightning strike protection function, an anti-icing and deicing function and an electromagnetic interference shielding function.	04-30-2009
20130119195	MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR COMPOSITE MATERIAL STRUCTURAL COMPONENT FOR AIRCRAFT AND ITS STRUCTURAL COMPONENT - A method for manufacturing a structural component includes a first step of attaching at least one conductive member to a surface of a base material made of a composite material and a second step of forming the base material by conducting electricity to part or the whole of the conductive member to generate heat and/or making an assembly of the structural component by conducting electricity to part or the whole of the conductive member to generate heat. Part or the whole of the conductive member contained in the structural component produced in the first and second steps serves as a member giving to the aircraft at least one of a lightning strike protection function, an anti-icing and deicing function and an electromagnetic interference shielding function.	05-16-2013

Tohru Imai, Inuyama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110039069	SELF-ADHESIVE FILM - The present invention provides a self-adhesive film which is a drawn polypropylene-based resin film comprising a laminated body containing an adhesive layer and a release layer which are provided on the surface of a base layer formed of a polypropylene-based resin, wherein an average surface roughness SRa of a surface of the above-described release layer is 0.200 μm or less, an average surface layer roughness SRa of a surface of the self-adhesive layer of the film is 0.030 μm or less, the contact area with the adherent, which is defined in the description, is 90% or more and 100% or less, and the film haze ranges from 1 to 40%. The self-adhesive film of the present invention is less likely to cause a blocking after the film is stored in a rolled state, and the processing suitability is excellent, and forming is less likely occur even when the film having been adhered to an adherend is processed at a high temperature, and further transparency is excellent.	02-17-2011

Tohru Imamura, Akashi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110000216	Gas turbine combustor - This invention provides a gas turbine combustor, which can enable only a swirler and a heat shield to be readily taken out from the combustor upon the exchange the swirler and the heat shield. The gas turbine combustor (	01-06-2011

Tohru Inoue, Nagakakyo-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080279529	DIGITAL VTR - A playback device for replaying a bit stream digitally transmitted which includes detecting means for detecting only intra-picture data in the bit stream that is replayed; extracting means for extracting the detected intra-picture data from the replayed bit stream, according to the result of the detection at the detecting means; replay mode designating means for selecting and designating one of normal replay, slow replay and still replay, as a replay mode; and replay data outputting means for storing the extracted intra-picture data, and outputting the detected intra-picture data as replay picture data, according to a mode signal output by said replay mode designating means.	11-13-2008

Tohru Inoue, Nishinomiya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110009454	COMPOSITION FOR AGRICULTURAL USE FOR CONTROLLING OR PREVENTING PLANT DISEASES CAUSED BY PLANT PATHOGENS - Disclosed is a composition for agricultural use, which is used for controlling or preventing plant diseases caused by plant pathogens. The composition for agricultural use contains a compound represented by formula (1), a salt thereof or a hydrate of the compound or the salt. (1) [In the formula, Z represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or NR	01-13-2011

Tohru Inoue, Ebina-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080226334	DISCHARGER, IMAGE CARRIER UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A discharger includes: a discharge electrode member that is placed opposedly to a member to be charged; an opposed electrode member that is placed opposedly to the discharge electrode member; and a power source circuit that applies a discharge voltage for generating a discharge between the discharge electrode member and the opposed electrode member, and the electrode member having a surface that includes a covered layer covered by a covering material is formed on a surface opposed thereto, and the covering material containing a carbon atom, or a carbon atom and another atom or other plural atoms as a main component, and having an SP3 structure by a carbon atom.	09-18-2008

Tohru Iwabae, Tosu City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100163077	TREATING APPARATUS, TREATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a treating apparatus capable of improving the throughput during successive processing of target objects without a bad influence on the target objects. The disclosed treating apparatus includes an extendable liquid treating mechanism, and a common handling unit for handling one target object and another target object in order. The treating apparatus includes a recipe producing unit for producing a recipe having a rinsing liquid treatment and a common handling. When one common handling for handling one target object by the common handling unit and another common handling for handling another target object by the common handling unit are temporally overlapped with each other, the recipe producing unit extends the extendable liquid treatment for another target object, and shifts another common handling to an extent that the extendable liquid treatment is extended, thereby avoiding the temporal overlapping of one common handling with another common handling.	07-01-2010

Tohru Iwabae, Tosu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090097950	Substrate processing system and substrate transfer method - A substrate processing system includes a control section configured to control a series of transfer operations and preset to control operation of a container transfer apparatus, operation at a substrate access area, and operation of a substrate handling apparatus independently of each other. The control section includes a schedule creating portion configured to create a transfer schedule by individually adjusting operation timing of the container transfer apparatus, operation timing at the substrate access area, and operation timing of the substrate handling apparatus such that, in a state while a first lot of substrates are treated in the processing system, but the container transfer apparatus and the substrate access area are unoccupied, a container with a second lot of unprocessed substrates stored therein is transferred onto the substrate access area, thereby making total transfer time pertinent.	04-16-2009

Tohru Joboji, Hokkaido JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090011319	Electrode and Membrane Electrode Assembly of Fuel Cell - A fuel cell system according to the present invention allows the fuel cell system to realize the higher output.	01-08-2009

Tohru Kaneko, Shinagawa-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090153328	Product display rack system and purchasing behavior analysis program - [OBJECT] To provide system and program for obtaining customers' purchase behavior information for products.	06-18-2009

Tohru Kawakami, Sendai-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110141715	SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - Surface light source device includes: point light sources (	06-16-2011
20110199786	SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A dichroic filter column (	08-18-2011
20120127398	BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A backlight system includes: a light-emitting section (	05-24-2012
20130201424	BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LCD DEVICE USING THE SAME - A backlight system (	08-08-2013
20150015456	MULTI-DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY MODULES - A multi-display device (	01-15-2015
20150036215	OPTICAL FILM - To provide a thin optical sheet having improved efficiency for light utilization, an optical sheet (	02-05-2015

Tohru Kawakami, Miyagi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110109663	ILLUMINATING DEVICE AND DISPLAY UNIT - An illuminating device capable of improving display luminance while decreasing light leakage in a range with a large view angle and a display unit are provided. In a light modulation device bonded to a light guide plate, a light modulation layer containing a bulk and microparticles is provided. Both the bulk and the microparticles have optical anisotropy, and each response speed to an electric field is different from each other. Thereby, by controlling the electric field, each optical axis orientation of the bulk and the microparticles is able to correspond with each other, or is able to be different from each other.	05-12-2011
20110141551	ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device is provided and includes: a light guide member; a light source provided on one or more side faces of the light guide member; and a light modulating element including a pair of transparent substrates disposed to oppose each other with a gap therebetween, a first electrode provided on a surface of one of the transparent substrates, a second electrode provided on a surface of the other of the transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer provided in the gap and expressing a scattering property or a transparency to light from the light source in accordance with a magnitude of an electric field. The first electrode, the second electrode, or both thereof is patterned, and a density of pattern of the first electrode, the second electrode, or both thereof to which the patterning is applied is varied depending on a distance from the light source.	06-16-2011
20110228558	PLANAR LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - Conventional planar light source devices have a problem that increasing a utilization ratio of light results in a very narrow angle distribution of light. A planar light source device of the present invention has a light source (	09-22-2011
20110242146	LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device includes: a light guide plate; a light source; and a light modulation element disposed on a surface of or in the inside of the light guide plate, and adhered to the light guide plate. The light modulation element has a pair of transparent substrates, a first electrode provided on a surface of one of the transparent substrates, a second electrode provided on a surface of the other of the transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer, provided in a gap between the transparent substrates, exhibiting a light-scattering property or a light-transmitting property concerning light from the light source depending on intensity of an electric field. One or both of the first and second electrodes include partial electrodes. First partial electrodes of the partial electrodes are adjacent to second partial electrodes of the partial electrodes, and have irregular shapes on edges adjacent to the second partial electrodes.	10-06-2011
20110249221	LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device includes: a light guide plate; a light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; and a light modulation element disposed on a surface or in the inside of the light guide plate and adhered to the light guide plate. The light modulation element has a pair of transparent substrates disposed separately and oppositely, a pair of electrodes provided on respective surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer provided in a gap between the pair of transparent substrates. The light modulation layer includes a first region, having optical anisotropy, responsive to an electric field, and a second region, having optical anisotropy, unresponsive to an electric field. The second region has a striped structure with average striped texture size of 0.05 μm to 10 μm both inclusive in a short axis direction.	10-13-2011
20110310330	THIN BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - According to a conventional backlight device for use in a thin full-color display device in which pixels are subjected to a color separation by colored lights, a large chromatic aberration occurs, thereby causing a deterioration in image quality. A thin backlight system in accordance with the present invention includes: a light emitting section (	12-22-2011

Tohru Kawamoto, Ibaraki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080266643	Electrode for Reversible Color Change Display Device and Method of Producing the Same, and Reversible Color Change Display Device and Reversible Color Change Lighting Control Device - An electrode member (	10-30-2008
20090211494	ULTRAFINE PARTICLES OF PRUSSIAN BLUE-TYPE METAL COMPLEX, DISPERSION LIQUID THEREOF AND THEIR PRODUCTION METHODS - Disclosed is a method for producing ultrafine particles of a Prussian blue-type metal complex wherein (A) an aqueous solution containing an anionic metal cyano complex having a metal atom M	08-27-2009
20110268963	METHOD OF PRODUCING STRUCTURAL MEMBER HAVING PRUSSIAN BLUE-TYPE METAL COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES, STRUCTURAL MEMBER OBTAINED BY THE METHOD, SUBSTRATE, ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE, RECTIFYING DEVICE, AND PHOTO RESPONDING DEVICE, USING THE STRUCTURAL MEMBER - A method of producing a structural member having Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles, the method including: constructing the structural member stabilized by a particular process in producing the structural member by providing nanoparticles consisting of Prussian blue-type metal complex onto a substrate; and a structural member having Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles, the structural member having water-dispersible nanoparticles consisting of Prussian blue-type metal complex provided on a substrate and the structural member being stabilized in water by a particular process.	11-03-2011

Tohru Kawamoto, Tsukuba-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100133487	METHOD OF PRODUCING PRUSSIAN BLUE-TYPE METAL COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES, AND PRUSSIAN BLUE-TYPE METAL COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES OBTAINED BY THE METHOD, DISPERSION OF THE NANOPARTICLES, METHOD OF REGULATING THE COLOR OF THE NANOPARTICLES, AND ELECTRODE AND TRANSMITTED LIGHT-REGULATOR EACH USING THE NANOPARTICLES - To provide a method of producing Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles without necessarily requiring complicated steps and an excessive amount of raw materials, but allowing one to obtain nanometer-size fine particles having desired fine particle properties, and Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles obtained by the method, a dispersion of the nanoparticles, a method of regulating the color of the nanoparticles, and an electrode and a transmitted light-regulator each using the nanoparticles; Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles are produced by: mixing an aqueous solution containing a metal cyano complex anion having predetermined metal atom M	06-03-2010
20120077037	METAL COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing metal complex nanoparticles, the method having: providing an aqueous solution containing a metal cyano complex anion having a metal atom M	03-29-2012

Tohru Kawaza, Kokubunji JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110091213	PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT METHOD - In a PON system with WDM, at the time of initial setting, each ONU negotiates with an OLT, and automatically acquires a wavelength which can be used by the ONU. One wavelength for negotiation of assigned wavelength is fixed as a default, and a newly connected ONU first uses the wavelength. The OLT	04-21-2011

Tohru Kinoshita, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080296056	Printed circuit board, production method therefor, electronic-component carrier board using printed circuit board, and production method therefor - A printed wiring board has a substrate having a first surface and a second surface on both sides of the substrate. A cavity is provided on the first surface. The cavity caves in towards the second surface. Several bumps are formed in the cavity as protruding towards the first surface. An insulation layer is filled in the cavity. The bumps are isolated from one another by the insulation layer. The top of each bump that protrudes towards the first surface and a zone in the cavity and close to the top are exposed in the cavity without being covered by the insulation layer.	12-04-2008

Tohru Kitagawa, Okazaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100032987	WASHER INLET ATTACHING STRUCTURE - A washer inlet attaching structure, configured to attach a washer inlet to a vehicle structural body made of resin, the washer inlet communicating with a tank main body adapted to store a windshield washer fluid and guiding the windshield washer fluid into the tank main body, the washer inlet attaching structure includes a washer inlet holding portion, configured to hold the washer inlet, the washer inlet holding portion being molded integrally with the vehicle structural body.	02-11-2010

Tohru Kobayashi, Makinohara-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110070763	LEVER-TYPE CONNECTOR - A lever-type connector includes a housing and a wire cover. Shafts are extended from the housing. A lever attached to the housing has a pair of parallel plates and a grip portion connecting the parallel plates. Each of the parallel plates is formed with a hole in which the shaft is inserted. A projection provided on the wire cover abuts one of the parallel plates in a state where the lever is attached to the housing so that the grip portion is disposed at a side of the lead-out port. A rotation preventing part is provided at one of the shafts and the hole of the one of the parallel plates and prevents a rotation of the lever in a state where the one of the parallel plates is deformed by the abutment of the projection.	03-24-2011
20110086529	LEVER-TYPE CONNECTOR - A lever type connector includes a lever which includes a pair of parallel plates and a grip portion connecting parallel plates each other and is attached to a connector housing. Each of the parallel plates is formed with a reception hole into which one of shafts is inserted and a cam groove. First and second retaining projections which retain the lever by engaging with a retaining portion provided on the lever are provided at opposite ends of the opposite sides of the connector housing. The lever is retained by the first retaining projection so as to be located at a position where a rear face is exposed so that a terminal connected with a wire can be inserted through the rear face, and is retained by the second retaining projection so as to dispose the cam groove at a position where the cam groove can receive a cam pin of a mating connector.	04-14-2011
20110086533	LEVER ENGAGEMENT TYPE CONNECTOR - A lever engagement type connector includes a first connector housing having a retaining portion and a second connector housing. A lever formed with a cam groove is rotatably attached to the first connector housing. An engagement pin engaged with the cam groove is projected on the second connector housing. A wire cover is attached to the first connector housing. An engagement portion engaged with the retaining portion is provided in the wire cover. The lever is formed with a jig insertion hole at a position where an engagement area between the retaining portion and the engagement portion is covered by the lever in a state that the lever is disposed at a position other than a predetermined position.	04-14-2011
20120208383	LEVER-TYPE CONNECTOR - A lever-type connector includes a connector housing, a cover attached to the connector housing, a lever rotatably mounted on the connector housing. The lever is rotated in a situation that a mating connector is fitted to the connector housing in a half-fitted condition, thereby moving the mating connector with respect to the connector housing from the half-fitting condition to a completely fitting condition. A retaining portion is provided on the lever. A lock portion provided on the cover is engaged with the retaining portion when the lever has been rotated. A lever claw portion is provided on the retaining portion. The lock portion is provided on a distal end portion of the lock arm. A lock protection portion is provided on the retaining portion so as to be positioned away from a rotation center of the lever than the lever claw portion so that the lock protection portion covers the lock portion.	08-16-2012
20130102168	LEVER TYPE CONNECTOR - There is provided a lever type connector. In the lever type connector in which an electric wire cover is attached to a connector housing to which a lever is already fitted, a false fitting preventing projection that protrudes from the electric wire cover and prevents the false fitting of the electric wire cover when this projection comes into contact with the lever is provided, and the false fitting preventing projection protrudes outward rather than the connector housing and an outer surface of the lever. The false fitting preventing projection absorbs an impact applied from the outside, and serves as a cushioning member against at least the connector housing.	04-25-2013
20130102172	LEVER TYPE CONNECTOR - A lever type connector in which workability in inserting terminals is enhanced is provided. A lever type connector	04-25-2013
20130115801	CONNECTOR - There is provided a lever type connector including a positioning lock provided in a lever and a jig pressing space in the positioning lock. A spacer pressing surface is in symmetrical position to the jig pressing space with respect to a center line of the lever that intersects orthogonally with the jig passing space in a longitudinal direction of a spacer. A terminal is inserted in a state that the spacer and the lever are attached to a connector housing, then the terminal is held in a temporarily latching state, and then the spacer pressing surface is pushed down by a jig and thus the terminal is held in a normally latching state. The spacer pressing surfaces is configured to be pushed by pushing pins which are provided on the jig in bilaterally symmetrical positions with respect to a center line that intersects orthogonally with the longitudinal direction.	05-09-2013
20130122728	CONNECTOR - In a connector, a flange portion is provided at an end portion of an electric wire fixing portion. A rib is provided on outer surface of the electric wire fixing portion. A biding band winding space is provided between an end of the rib and the flange portion. An interval therebetween has a width equal to a width of the binding band. The electric wire is fixed by the binding band wound on the binding band winding space. A band passing hole is formed between the end of the rib and the flange portion. A plurality of side ribs are symmetrically provided at both sides of the rib. The binding band is inserted through the band passing hole, in response to a volume of the electric wire or in response to a size of a radius of curvature of the electric wire led out from the connector housing.	05-16-2013
20130157522	CONNECTOR - A connector includes a connector housing having a terminal accommodating chamber, and a terminal fitting, and a lance. The terminal fitting includes: a lance sliding part formed in a shape of a flat face parallel to an inserting direction of the terminal fitting; a lance abutting part formed in a shape of a flat face which is different in level from the lance sliding part by a stepped part; and a lance engaging part. The lance includes a terminal engaging part which engages the lance engaging part; a terminal slide part which slides on the lance sliding part during an inserting process of the terminal fitting into the terminal accommodating chamber; and a chamfered part and a terminal abutting part which are located between the terminal engaging part and the terminal slide part.	06-20-2013

Tohru Koike, Hiroshima JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080317701	Phosphate Ion Adsorbent - The present invention is directed to a phosphate ion adsorbent comprising a polymer or a salt thereof with a metal complex group represented by the following general formula (II):	12-25-2008
20100099120	Method for staining substances having a phosphate group - It is intended to provide a method by which a substance having a phosphate group can be easily detected from a biological sample or the like, a method by which a phosphorylated amino acid residue is easily identified and a compound which can be used in the methods because of having a high coordinate bond forming capacity with a substance having a phosphate group. A metal complex compound represented by the general formula (I): {wherein M represents a metal atom which can be a divalent cation, Rs may be the same or different from one another and represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an acylalkyl group, an alkoxycarbonylalkyl group, a carboxyalkyl group, a carbamoylalkyl group, a cyanoalkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, an aminoalkyl group or a haloalkyl group (here, the carbon number of alkyl moiety of these groups is 1 to 16), a carboxyl group, a carbamoyl group, a cyano group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group or a halogen group, X represents a ligand and Y represents a labeling group} can easily identify a substance having a phosphate group because of having a high coordinate bond forming capacity with a substance having a phosphate group and having the labeling group.	04-22-2010
20100108515	Polyacrylamide gel for electrophoresis, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis method using the same, method of producing the same, and acrylamide compound - It is intended to provide a method for easily detecting a phosphopeptide (protein) in a test sample by using SDS-poly-acrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) which has been employed in analyzing a protein, a polyacrylamide gel for electrophoresis to be used in the above method, a method of producing the gel and an intermediate in synthesizing the gel. The polyacrylamide gel for electrophoresis to be used in the above method has a structure represented by the following general formula (I) in at least a part of the structure thereof: (I) wherein M	05-06-2010

Tohru Koike, Hiroshima-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090185181	Method for measuring a surface plasmon resonance and noble metal compound used for the same - The present invention provides a method for measuring a surface plasmon resonance, the method enabling easy detection of the existence of a phosphorylated peptide (protein) and determination whether a peptide is phosphorylated or not in biological materials. The present invention also provides a noble metal compound having high capability of coordination to a phosphorylated peptide, and being conveniently usable in the method. A first method for measuring surface plasmon resonance of the present invention comprises: placing a noble metal compound on a bottom face of a prism, irradiating a light to the prism to detect a reflected light, wherein, the noble metal compound has substituents of following formula (I) on a side opposite to a side contacting the prism, and a subject sample is added to a side having the substituent groups (I) in the noble metal compound.	07-23-2009

Tohru Koike, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110165523	SUBSTRATE TREATING SOLUTION AND METHOD EMPLOYING THE SAME FOR TREATING A RESIST SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides a resist substrate treating solution and a method employing the solution for treating a resist substrate. This treating solution enables to remove efficiently resist residues remaining on a surface of the resist substrate after development, and further to miniaturize a resist pattern. The solution is used for treating a resist substrate having a developed photoresist pattern, and comprises a solvent incapable of dissolving the photoresist pattern and a polymer soluble in the solvent. The developed resist substrate is brought into contact with the treating solution, and then washed with a rinse solution such as water to remove efficiently resist residues remaining on the resist substrate surface. The solvent and the polymer are preferably water and a water-soluble polymer, respectively.	07-07-2011

Tohru Kubota, Niigata JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090068081	METHOD FOR PURIFYING CHLOROSILANES - This method for purifying chlorosilanes includes: introducing oxygen (O	03-12-2009
20100119744	OPHTHALMIC LENS, CULTURE SUBSTRATE MATERIAL FOR CELL OR ORGAN, CONTAINER FOR LIVING THING AND TRANSPARENT GEL OBTAINED BY POLYMERIZATION OF CYCLIC SILOXANE AND THEIR PRODUCTION METHOD - Disclosed are an ophthalmic lens, a cell or organ culture substrate, a container for a biological material and a transparent gel which have excellent wetting and sticking properties and do not require any surface treatment. An ophthalmic lens, cell or organ culture substrate, container for a biological material or transparent gel produced by polymerizing a cyclic siloxane compound represented by the formula (A): (A) wherein Ra are Rb independently represent a hydrogen or a monovalent hydrocarbon group which may be substituted by a fluorine; Rc represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a phenyl group; X represents an organic group having an aliphatic unsaturated bond therein; and n is an integer of 1 to 10.	05-13-2010
20120121493	METHOD FOR PURIFYING CHLOROSILANES - The present invention provides a method for obtaining high purity chlorosilanes from chlorosilanes containing boron impurities and phosphorus impurities. On the basis of the finding that solid by-product formation in the purification of chlorosilanes by adding an aromatic aldehyde results from a catalytic reaction by iron ions or rust-like iron, a Lewis base having a masking effect is added to chlorosilanes. Examples of the Lewis base include a divalent sulfur-containing compound and an alkoxysilane. The divalent sulfur-containing compound is preferably a compound represented by the formula: R—S—R′ (wherein R is a hydrocarbon group or a carbonyl group; and the sum of the carbon atoms in R and R′ is 7 or more), and the alkoxysilane is preferably a compound represented by the formula: R	05-17-2012
20130177492	METHOD FOR PURIFYING CHLOROSILANES - The method comprises at least three steps of a hydrogenation step (	07-11-2013

Tohru Kubota, Joetsu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100099866	ORGANOSILICON COMPOUND HAVING AMINO GROUP AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD - An organosilicon compound having an amino group is provided. This compound is represented by the following general formula (1):	04-22-2010
20100105938	SILYL (METH)ACRYLATE COMPOUND CONTAINING A SILOXY GROUP HAVING A BULKY SUBSTITUENT AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD - A silyl (meth)acrylate compound containing a siloxy group having a bulky substituent is provided. The compound is represented by the following general formula (1):	04-29-2010
20100317852	AMINO-CONTAINING VINYLSILANE COMPOUNDS AND MAKING METHOD - Vinylsilane compounds having a specific amino group, typically diethylaminopropyldimethylvinylsilane, N-methylpiperazinylpropyldimethylvinylsilane, and bistrimethylsilylaminopropyldimethylvinylsilane are novel and useful as a modifier for polymers.	12-16-2010
20110160464	SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD FOR SOLID MATERIAL - A solid material is subjected to surface treatment by chemically bonding onto a surface of the solid material a stabilized monofunctional silanol represented by R	06-30-2011
20120006229	AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF PIPERAZINYL-CONTAINING SILANOL COMPOUND AND MAKING METHOD - An aqueous solution contains a piperazinyl-containing silanol compound having formula (1) wherein R	01-12-2012
20120209020	AMINO ACID-MODIFIED SILANE COMPOUNDS AND MAKING METHOD - Novel amino acid-modified silane compounds having a weakly acidic amino group and a weakly basic carboxyl group are useful as a surface treating agent or textile treating agent.	08-16-2012
20120263816	NANOIMPRINT-MOLD RELEASE AGENT, SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD, AND NANOIMPRINT MOLD - A nanoimprint-mold release agent including an alkoxysilane compound represented by general formula (1) is provided	10-18-2012
20120264962	SILAZANE COMPOUNDS HAVING FLUOROALKYL GROUP AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - Disclosed are silazane compounds having two fluoroalkyl groups, represented by the following general formula (1):	10-18-2012
20120264964	ALKOXYSILANE COMPOUNDS HAVING FLUOROALKYL GROUP AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - Alkoxysilane compounds having two fluoroalkyl groups and represented by the formula (1):	10-18-2012
20130296593	ORGANOXYSILANE COMPOUNDS HAVING SILYL-PROTECTED SECONDARY AMINO GROUP AND MAKING METHOD - A silane compound having a secondary amino group protected with a specific silyl group is useful as silane coupling agent, resin additive, textile treating agent, surface treating agent, paint additive, and adhesive.	11-07-2013
20140121398	[3-(2-NORBORNYL)-2-NORBORNYL]SILANE COMPOUND AND MAKING METHOD - A [3-(2-norbornyl)-2-norbornyl]silane compound having formula (1) is novel, wherein R	05-01-2014
20140357862	SILYL-PROTECTED NITROGEN-CONTAINING CYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND MAKING METHOD - Silyl-protected nitrogen-containing cyclic compounds having formula (1) are provided wherein R	12-04-2014

Tohru Maruyama, Kamakura-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090323432	NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell which stores data and which is capable of being rewritten electrically, a bit line which is connected electrically to one end of a current path of the memory cell, a control circuit which carries out a verify operation to check a write result after data is written to the memory cell, and a voltage setting circuit which sets a charging voltage for the bit line in a verify operation and a read operation and makes a charging voltage in a read operation higher than a charging voltage in a verify operation.	12-31-2009
20100155812	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A non-volatile memory of a semiconductor device has a tunnel insulation film provided on the active area; a floating gate electrode provided on the tunnel insulation film; a control gate electrode provided over the floating gate electrode; and an inter-electrode insulation film provided between the floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode, wherein, in a section of the non-volatile memory cell in a channel width direction, a dimension of a top face of the active area in the channel width direction is equal to or less than a dimension of a top face of the tunnel insulation film in the channel width direction, and the dimension of the top face of the tunnel insulation film in the channel width direction is less than a dimension of a bottom face of the floating gate electrode in the channel width direction.	06-24-2010
20130010541	NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell which stores data and which is capable of being rewritten electrically, a bit line which is connected electrically to one end of a current path of the memory cell, a control circuit which carries out a verify operation to check a write result after data is written to the memory cell, and a voltage setting circuit which sets a charging voltage for the bit line in a verify operation and a read operation and makes a charging voltage in a read operation higher than a charging voltage in a verify operation.	01-10-2013

Tohru Matsui, Nara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080307472	Moving Image Viewing Apparatus - A moving image viewing apparatus or system automatically records on memory all available broadcast programs simultaneously on air even if power switch off. A list of the broadcast programs simultaneously on air is displayed for selection with the power switch on. The system retrieves the selected broadcast program from the memory during the preceding part of the same broadcast program is being recorded. Such an incomplete broadcast program as recorded on the way or given up in midstream is disposed not to be retrieved. The system allows the memory to automatically overwrite the recorded broadcast program with a new one after the recorded broadcast program has been retrieved to the end. Also unselected broadcast program is allowed to be automatically overwritten with a new one after the on air of the broadcast program is over. The overwriting can be inhibited if a user wants to save the broadcast program.	12-11-2008
20110254966	Digital Camera with Communication Function - In a digital camera having a wireless communicator with a server, a storage controller treats full size image data and display size image data unequally if the full size image data has been already sent to the server. For example, the display size image data is not allowed to be replaced by new digital image data unless the digital camera is not in use over a prescribed time. Own image data and other's image data are treated equally. Image data received from outside and retrieved from inside memory are treated equally. Search key for own image data and related search keys existing in the outside are indicated in a comparable manner. The digital camera receives search key from neighboring advertiser to send it for Internet search of advertisement. Search key received from neighboring notable site is sent for Internet search of photographs of the notable site taken by others.	10-20-2011
20120105725	Television System, Television Set and Remote Controller - In response to an operation such as power-on or power-off, channel change and sound volume change, a television set combined with a personal computer automatically makes e-mail with information in a predetermined format indicative of the operation attached. The e-mail is automatically sent to another television set to inform the other television set of operation of the own television set. On the other hand, the e-mail can be sent to a rating company for audience share survey. The television set automatically reads the received e-mail and attachment to change the indication of display. The television set has storage of the received information for analysis of an abnormality. Abnormality can be also sensed through abnormal act on the remote controller apt to be taken by a person in panic or off the truck. The television set refuses information from unknown address for blocking an attack of a stranger.	05-03-2012
20120280785	Biometrics System, Biologic Information Storage, and Portable Device - In a biometrics system for a building entrance unlocking or a bank account authentication, reference information registered under administration by the system is transmitted to a room or mobile-phone for private storage, with the original reference information deleted from the system. Biologic information gotten upon authentication is transmitted through wireless system to the room or mobile-phone for comparison with the reference, the result being returned to the system. Or, the reference is tentatively sent back to the system for comparison with the gotten biologic information. The biologic information sent to mobile-phone also includes health control information for storage and display. Mobile-phone also can receive blood pressure information at a waiting lounge of medical institution though wireless local communication even if the main power shut down. The communication between the biometrics system and the mobile-phone is encrypted. The system includes sensor unit and protection unit, the abnormality thereof being separately checked.	11-08-2012
20140033244	Moving Image Data Delivery System, An Advertising Image Data Delivery System, and A Moving Image Viewing Apparatus - An advertisement provider issues coupons to an audiences of television set in exchange of viewing a commercial message and receives advertising rate from the advertiser of the commercial message in exchange of informing of the coupon issuance. A television station allows the audience to decompress a downloaded digital image data of a television program in exchange of presentation of the coupon. The television station receives allotment of the advertising rate in exchange of informing of the coupon presentation form audiences. The television station sorts the presented coupons by the advertisement providers to inform each advertisement provider of the coupon presentation. The television station allows the decompression even in a shortage of the presented coupon, provided that it will be compensated by money or later presentation of coupon by due data. The commercial messages are provided automatically or by request. The audience may voluntarily replace television program by commercial message.	01-30-2014
20140118546	Television System, Television Set and Remote Controller - In response to an operation such as power-on or power-off, channel change and sound volume change, a television set combined with a personal computer automatically makes e-mail with information in a predetermined format indicative of the operation attached. The e-mail is automatically sent to another television set to inform the other television set of operation of the own television set. On the other hand, the e-mail can be sent to a rating company for audience share survey. The television set automatically reads the received e-mail and attachment to change the indication of display. The television set has storage of the received information for analysis of an abnormality. Abnormality can be also sensed through abnormal act on the remote controller apt to be taken by a person in panic or off the truck. The television set refuses information from unknown address for blocking an attack of a stranger.	05-01-2014
20150066534	Biometrics System, Biologic Information Storage, and Portable Device - In a biometrics system for a building entrance unlocking or a bank account authentication, reference information registered under administration by the system is transmitted to a room or mobile-phone for private storage, with the original reference information deleted from the system. Biologic information gotten upon authentication is transmitted through wireless system to the room or mobile-phone for comparison with the reference, the result being returned to the system. Or, the reference is tentatively sent back to the system for comparison with the gotten biologic information. The biologic information sent to mobile-phone also includes health control information for storage and display. Mobile-phone also can receive blood pressure information at a waiting lounge of medical institution though wireless local communication even if the main power shut down. The communication between the biometrics system and the mobile-phone is encrypted. The system includes sensor unit and protection unit, the abnormality thereof being separately checked.	03-05-2015
20150067757	Moving image viewing apparatus - A moving image viewing apparatus or system automatically records all available broadcast programs simultaneously on air even if power a switch off. A list of the broadcast programs simultaneously on air is displayed for selection with the power switch on. The system retrieves a selected broadcast program during the preceding part of the same broadcast program is being recorded. Such a broadcast program as has started to record on the way or given up in midstream is disposed not to be retrieved. The system allows the memory to automatically overwrite the recorded broadcast program with a new one after the recorded broadcast program has been retrieved to the end. Also unselected broadcast program is allowed to be automatically overwritten with a new one after the on air of the broadcast program is over. The overwritten can be inhibited if a user wants to save the broadcast program.	03-05-2015

Tohru Morita, Susono-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090041947	Manufacturing method of a membrane electrode assembly - The present invention relates to a manufacturing method a membrane electrode assembly which has a low proton conduction resistance at a boundary of an electrolyte membrane and a catalyst layer. Catalyst ink including solvent, electrolyte	02-12-2009
20100227242	FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND OPERATION METHOD FOR FUEL CELL - A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that includes a solid polymer electrolyte membrane and an anode catalyst layer having a water-electrolytic catalyst, a movement portion that moves water from an oxygen electrode of the fuel cell to a side of a fuel electrode, a water content detection portion that detects the water content of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and a control portion that controls the movement portion on the basis of a result of detection of the water content detection portion.	09-09-2010

Tohru Morita, Susono JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090325029	MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR FUEL CELL AND FUEL CELL - A membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell that irrespectively of the front or backside of polymeric electrolyte membrane, exhibits high output performance, and that exhibits high junction at an interface between polymeric electrolyte membrane and electrode even under low humidification condition or high temperature condition, or in high current density region, realizing appropriate water management and excellent output characteristics. Further, there is provided a fuel cell including the above assembly. The membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell and fuel cell is one including a polymeric electrolyte membrane containing at least one type of proton conductive polymer; a fuel electrode disposed on one major surface of the polymeric electrolyte membrane; and an oxidizer electrode disposed on the other major surface of the polymeric electrolyte membrane, characterized in that in the use of water contact angle for specifying the hydrophilicity of each surface of the polymeric electrolyte membrane, the difference between the water contact angle on the one major surface of the polymeric electrolyte membrane and that on the other major surface thereof is 30° or less. The provided fuel cell is one having the above assembly.	12-31-2009

Tohru Nagai, Miyagi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080304155	OPTICAL ELEMENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, REPLICA SUBSTRATE CONFIGURED TO FORM OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING REPLICA SUBSTRATE - An optical element includes a base and many structures arranged at a fine pitch on a surface of the base, each of the structures being in the form of a projection or a depression, in which the structures constitute a plurality of arc tracks, and the structures in every three adjacent rows of the arc tracks are arranged in a tetragonal lattice pattern or a quasi-tetragonal lattice pattern.	12-11-2008

Tohru Nakamura, Katano-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090040894	Optical Head And Data Processing Apparatus Including The Same - An optical data processing apparatus reads and/or writes data from/on a data storage medium, in which first and second data storage layer are stacked. The apparatus includes: a light detector including at least one photodetector for generating a light quantity signal; a detecting optical system for guiding reflected light beams from a storage layer; and a signal processor for generating a layer sensing signal from the light quantity signal and determining, by the layer sensing signal, the type of data storage medium. The light detector includes a layer sensing photodetector arranged in view of an of an area of the light detector, and further includes a photodetector which is different from the layer sensing photodetector which receives the reflected light beam to generate a focus signal.	02-12-2009

Tohru Nakanishi, Shigaken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080290501	SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE - There is provided a semiconductor package including: a substrate having a plurality of electrode pads on a surface thereof; a semiconductor chip mounted on the substrate, the semiconductor chip electrically connecting with the plurality of electrode pads; and a stiffener arranged on the substrate so as to surround the semiconductor chip. The stiffener includes: an insulating material layer; and a rigid plate mounted substantially parallel to a surface of the substrate in the insulating material layer, the rigid plate having formed therein a plurality of through holes, at least a part of the through holes being filled with the insulating material.	11-27-2008
20080293191	SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE - There is provided a semiconductor package including: a substrate having a plurality of electrode pads on a surface thereof; a semiconductor chip mounted on the substrate, the semiconductor chip electrically connecting with the plurality of electrode pads; and a stiffener arranged on the substrate so as to surround the semiconductor chip. The stiffener includes: an insulating material layer; and a rigid plate mounted substantially parallel to a surface of the substrate in the insulating material layer, the rigid plate having formed therein a plurality of through holes, at least a part of the through holes being filled with the insulating material.	11-27-2008

Tohru Nomura, Kariya-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090152714	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same - An electronic device includes: a substrate having first and second surfaces, wherein the first surface is opposite to the second surface; a first electronic element mounted on the first surface of the substrate; a second electronic element mounted on the second surface of the substrate; and a resin mold sealing the first electronic element and the first surface of the substrate. The resin mold further seals the second electronic element on the second surface of the substrate. The second surface of the substrate has a portion, which is exposed from the resin mold. The second electronic element is not disposed on the portion of the second surface.	06-18-2009
20120223444	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic device includes: a substrate having first and second surfaces, wherein the first surface is opposite to the second surface; a first electronic element mounted on the first surface of the substrate; a second electronic element mounted on the second surface of the substrate; and a resin mold sealing the first electronic element and the first surface of the substrate. The resin mold further seals the second electronic element on the second surface of the substrate. The second surface of the substrate has a portion, which is exposed from the resin mold. The second electronic element is not disposed on the portion of the second surface.	09-06-2012
20140217620	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic device includes: a substrate having first and second surfaces, wherein the first surface is opposite to the second surface; a first electronic element mounted on the first surface of the substrate; a second electronic element mounted on the second surface of the substrate; and a resin mold sealing the first electronic element and the first surface of the substrate. The resin mold further seals the second electronic element on the second surface of the substrate. The second surface of the substrate has a portion, which is exposed from the resin mold. The second electronic element is not disposed on the portion of the second surface.	08-07-2014

Tohru Nunoi, Nara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090038682	Semiconductor substrate for solar cell, method for manufacturing the same, and solar cell - A semiconductor substrate for a solar cell, comprising the semiconductor substrate having a surface which constitutes a light incident face of the solar cell and having a surface irregularities structure, wherein the surface has an surface area from 1.2 to 2.2 times that of an imaginary smooth face and the standard deviation of the heights of the irregularities is 1.0 μm or less.	02-12-2009

Tohru Ogawa, Okayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100143389	IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT IN GUT - An object of the present invention is to provide an immunomodulating agent in gut that can be ingested continuously in daily diet without adverse side effect. The object is attained by providing an immunomodulating agent in gut comprising a cyclic tetrasaccharide as an effective ingredient.	06-10-2010

Tohru Ohta, Gunma-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080282832	Tilt steering apparatus - A tilt steering apparatus comprises a tilt adjusting mechanism in which a tilt lock release is established only when an oscillation-free end of an operating arm portion of a tilt operating lever is positioned toward a steering wheel side. Even when the tilt operating lever is oscillated to the steering wheel side, the tilt operating lever is prevented from returning under its own weight, thereby preventing it from being difficult to operate. The tilt steering apparatus is configured from an oscillation latch portion formed on the circumference of an oscillation center portion of an oscillation base portion of the tilt operating lever to move reciprocally in the circumferential direction, a hook portion formed in the movable bracket, and a spring that extends between the oscillation latch portion and the hook portion elastically urged in the direction of contraction. The centerline of the spring is able to pass through the oscillation center portion of the tilt operating lever as appropriate.	11-20-2008

Tohru Oiakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090027949	Magnetic storage device - A magnetic storage device is provided which has significantly reduced power consumption. In the magnetic storage device, a yoke is arranged so as to circumferentially surround part of a line extending in an arbitrary direction, and a magneto-resistive element to which information can be written by utilizing a magnetic field generated by the line is arranged in the vicinity of the line. In this case, the length of the magnetic path of the yoke is set to 6 μm or less.	01-29-2009

Tohru Oka, Kitakatsuragi-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090050936	NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERTER INCLUDING THE SAME - A nitride semiconductor device includes a RESURF layer containing p-type In	02-26-2009
20090206371	NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A nitride semiconductor device includes a first, a second, and a third nitride semiconductor layers that are laminated on a foundation semiconductor layer in stated order, the third nitride semiconductor layer having a wider band gap as compared with the second nitride semiconductor layer, a recess area that is dug from an upper surface of the third nitride semiconductor layer down to a middle of the second nitride semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode respectively formed on one side and the other side of the recess area so as to be in contact with one of the third nitride semiconductor layer and the second nitride semiconductor layer, a dielectric film formed on the third nitride semiconductor layer and an inner surface of the recess area, and a control electrode formed on the dielectric film in the recess area.	08-20-2009

Tohru Ono, Utsunomiya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080258504	Structure of rear part in vehicle body - A structure of a rear part in a vehicle body. A rear glass window is provided at a rear end part of a roof of the vehicle, and the rear glass window is inclined downward toward the back of the vehicle. A trunk compartment is formed from a part below an attachment part of the rear glass window to a rear end part of the vehicle body. A trunk lid is attached to a lower edge of the attachment part of the rear glass window in a manner such that the trunk lid can be opened and closed freely. A visual window for observing a field on the back side of the vehicle body is provided in a wall of the trunk lid, the wall being positioned on the back side of the vehicle body. A partition wall having an interior window may be provided below the rear glass window.	10-23-2008

Tohru Ono, Kawachi-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080283316	Vehicle Mounting Structure for Fuel Cell System - A vehicle mounting structure for a fuel cell system containing a vehicle floor; a vehicle skeletal member positioned under the vehicle floor, having floor frames provided on the sides of the vehicle body along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and a plurality of cross members provided in the width direction of the vehicle and connected to the floor frames; and a fuel cell unit and an auxiliary unit of the fuel cell disposed to be adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The fuel cell unit and the auxiliary unit is each sandwiched from both sides in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle by two of the cross members. This vehicle mounting structure for a fuel cell system prevents the length of piping and the length of wiring from becoming excessively long and improves collisional stabilization.	11-20-2008

Tohru Ozaki, Shinagawa-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100320518	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor device including: a transistor including: a source, a drain and a gate; first and second plugs on the source and the drain; a third plug on the gate to have a top face higher than that of the first plug; an interlayer insulating film covering the transistor and the first to the third plugs; a ferroelectric capacitor on the interlayer insulating film, one electrode thereof being connected to the first plug; a barrier film covering surfaces of the ferroelectric capacitor and the interlayer insulating film to prevent a substance affecting the ferroelectric capacitor from entering therethrough; and fourth and fifth plugs disposed on the second and the third plugs and connected thereto through connection holes formed in the barrier film.	12-23-2010
20120106252	NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a first region, a second region, and a plurality of word lines. The first region includes a plurality of electrically-rewritable memory transistors. The second region is located around the first region. The plurality of word lines are connected to the gates of the plurality of memory transistors respectively. The plurality of word lines includes interconnection portions and connection portions respectively. The interconnection portions extend in a first direction to head from the first region to the second region and are arrayed in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction with a first distance therebetween. The connection portions are extending from the interconnection portions, located in the second region, and electrically connected to contacts, respectively. The ends of the plurality of connection portions are formed along straight lines extending in the second direction.	05-03-2012

Tohru Saitho, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100001259	FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - A source electrode	01-07-2010

Tohru Saito, Mishima-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090297236	HEAT FIXING APPARATUS - The heat fixing apparatus includes a fixing heater and a pressure roller. The fixing heater has a plurality of resistance-type heat generation layers which are different in heat distribution in the longitudinal direction perpendicular to the direction of conveying a recording material. The recording material P is heated when passed through a fixing nip portion formed between the fixing heater and the pressure roller. The pressurization conditions between the fixing heater and the pressure roller can be changed. The heat fixing apparatus includes a fixing member which adjusts the lengthwise heat distribution of the fixing heater by changing the applied current proportion of the plurality of resistance-type heat generation layers according to the pressurization conditions between the fixing heater and the pressure roller.	12-03-2009
20090304421	IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - A ceramic heater in contact with an inner surface of an endless belt includes a substrate made of alumina and a heat generation resistor provided on the substrate. The heat generation resistor is disposed at a surface reverse to a surface facing the inner surface of the endless belt on the substrate. The substrate is one of a plurality of substrates which are divided from a large substrate along breaks formed on the large substrate, and a surface of the ceramic heater, which is on a side where the breaks are formed, is brought into contact with the inner surface of the endless belt. The holder for holding the ceramic heater has a projection for guiding the endless belt in such a manner that the endless belt cannot be brought into contact with the break of the substrate.	12-10-2009
20120033987	IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The task is accomplished by an image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus including a heating fixing portion and a host computer capable of instructing printing. In an image forming apparatus, a throughput can be changed and discriminated in accordance with a printing number, wherein for printing on a small size sheet, said system is operable in a normal small size sheet mode, and in a high speed small size sheet output mode in which the printing is effected at a throughput which is higher than in the normal small size sheet mode, and after completion of the printing, the image forming apparatus rests for a predetermined rest period, wherein said host computer includes a mode selector for selecting a mode from the high speed small size sheet output mode and the normal small size sheet mode, and a controller for transmitting the mode selected by said mode selector to said image forming apparatus.	02-09-2012
20120099910	HEAT FIXING APPARATUS - The heat fixing apparatus includes a fixing heater and a pressure roller. The fixing heater has a plurality of resistance-type heat generation layers which are different in heat distribution in the longitudinal direction perpendicular to the direction of conveying a recording material. The recording material P is heated when passed through a fixing nip portion formed between the fixing heater and the pressure roller. The pressurization conditions between the fixing heater and the pressure roller can be changed. The heat fixing apparatus includes a fixing member which adjusts the lengthwise heat distribution of the fixing heater by changing the applied current proportion of the plurality of resistance-type heat generation layers according to the pressurization conditions between the fixing heater and the pressure roller.	04-26-2012
20130121736	IMAGE HEATING DEVICE - An image heating device includes an endless belt including a base layer and an elastic layer formed around the base layer, a contact member contacting an inner surface of the endless belt, a pressure rotating member forming a nip portion configured to convey a recording material while nipping the recording material along with the contact member via the endless belt, wherein an image formed on the recording material is heated at the nip portion using heat from the endless belt, and wherein one end of the endless belt is coated with the elastic layer and the other end of the endless belt is not coated with the elastic layer, and a belt lateral shifting direction regulating mechanism configured to regulate a direction in which the endless belt shifts when the endless belt is rotated, toward the end coated with the elastic layer.	05-16-2013
20130272762	IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - The image heating apparatus includes an endless belt, a roller which contacts an outer face of the belt, a nip portion forming unit which contacts an inner face of the belt, and forms a nip portion with the roller, for nipping and conveying a recording material, the nip portion forming unit including a component which is longer than the belt in a generatrix direction of the belt; and a regulation portion provided to oppose an end face of the belt, for regulating a shift movement of the belt to the generatrix direction of the belt, wherein the regulation portion is integrally-molded with the component. Thereby, a damage of the end of the endless belt can be reduced.	10-17-2013

Tohru Sakata, Osaka-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110080543	COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal display device that allow suppressing the occurrence of liquid crystal alignment disorder in the vicinity of stack spacers without increasing the number of processes, even in a case where a colored layer is used as a base of the stack spacers. The color filter substrate of the present invention has a first pixel colored layer, a light-shielding layer and a second pixel colored layer that are disposed side by side on a substrate, wherein the light-shielding layer has a first wide portion and is disposed so as to partially overlap edges of the first pixel colored layer and the second pixel colored layer; the first wide portion includes a projection that projects towards the first pixel colored layer; the color filter substrate has a first stack spacer including the first wide portion and a first spacer colored layer; and the first spacer colored layer has the same color as the first pixel colored layer and is joined to the first pixel colored layer only at a root of the projection.	04-07-2011
20120327020	TOUCH PANEL-EQUIPPED DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch panel-equipped display device (	12-27-2012
20130208218	COLOR FILTER AND DISPLAY DEVICE - On a color filter substrate (color filter) that displays a plurality of colors that are different from each other, a base material, first and second color filter layers that are formed on the base material and respectively colored yellow and magenta, a first overcoat layer that functions as a color filter layer colored red, and a second overcoat layer that is provided so as to cover the first and second color filter layers and colored cyan are provided.	08-15-2013

Tohru Sasaki, Kumamoto JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100244169	SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND FABRICATION METHOD OF ANTI-REFLECTION STRUCTURE - A fabrication method of an anti-reflection structure includes the steps of: forming a resin film having micro-particles dispersed therein on a surface of a substrate; forming a protrusion dummy pattern on the resin film by etching the resin film using the micro-particles in the resin film as a mask while gradually etching the micro-particles; and forming a protrusion pattern on the surface of the substrate by etching back the surface of the substrate together with the resin film having the protrusion dummy pattern formed thereon, and transferring a surface shape of the protrusion dummy pattern formed on a surface of the resin film to the surface of the substrate.	09-30-2010

Tohru Suzuki, Tsukuba-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110195310	PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ELECTRODE FOR BATTERY, ELECTRODE PRODUCED BY PRODUCTION METHOD, AND BATTERY INCLUDING ELECTRODE - A production method for an electrode for a battery includes preparing a conductive substrate, and electrode material particles having ion conduction anisotropy; and producing an electrode by attaching the electrode material particles onto the conductive substrate, and applying a magnetic field in a predetermined direction.	08-11-2011
20130164533	PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A piezoelectric ceramic having excellent electrical characteristics, and in which all of three crystallographic axes are oriented is obtained by slip cast or sheet forming a ceramic slurry containing plate-shaped ceramic particles in magnetic field. The degree of orientation of a first axis (for example, a c axis) calculated with the Lotgering method based on an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern in a prescribed cross-section of this piezoelectric ceramic is not less than 0.30. With a cross-section where the degree of orientation of the first axis indicates a maximum value being defined as a reference plane, the degree of orientation of a second axis (for example, an a axis) calculated with the Lotgering method based on an X-ray diffraction pattern in a cross-section orthogonal to this reference plane is not less than 0.20. The degree of orientation of the second axis is represented by a value in such a cross-section that the degree of orientation of the second axis attains to a maximum value, among cross-sections orthogonal to the reference plane.	06-27-2013
20140038055	ELECTRODE BODY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE BODY, AND BATTERY PROVIDED WITH ELECTRODE BODY - In a (001) pole figure of the active material particles, where a plane parallel to the substrate is defined as the equatorial plane, a Lotgering factor f	02-06-2014

Tohru Suzuki, Niiza-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110058393	SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A switching power supply device that uses a SJ-MISFIT reduces a surge in voltage caused by the oscillation of drain current.	03-10-2011
20120267748	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SCHOTTKY BARRIER JUNCTION AND PN JUNCTION - A semiconductor device includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor stack including the recesses which extend from a first principal surface toward a second principal surface and have bottoms not reaching the second principal surface, the second conductivity-type anode regions which are embedded at a distance from one another in the first principal surface, each of which has a part of an outer edge region exposed to a side surface of the corresponding recess, an anode electrode which is provided on the first principal surface of the semiconductor stack to form a Schottky barrier junction with the semiconductor stack in a region where the plurality of anode regions are not formed and form ohmic junctions with the anode regions; and a cathode electrode provided on the second principal surface of the semiconductor stack.	10-25-2012

Tohru Takahashi, Kawaguchi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080277472	TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE SCANNER WITH GUIDE ILLUMINATION - A bar code scanner is disclosed which may include an LED. The LED includes a light source that emits light. The bar code scanner may also include a lens set. The lens set includes a back side and a front side. The front side includes a plurality of spherical lobes. When light from the light source is incident on the back side of the lens set, each of the spherical lobes preferably focuses the light into a light beam, which is then generated from each of the lobes. In certain embodiments of the invention, the LED can be mounted on the back side of a circuit board in such a fashion as to protrude through the aperture in the circuit board and then to shine light on the lens set.	11-13-2008
20100294839	OPTICAL CODE SCANNER WITH AUTOMATIC FOCUSING - A code scanner, which illuminates a scanned code from a distance, includes a liquid lens which focuses the reflected image of the code on an image sensor. The scanner includes a range detector, preferably laser-based, which determines the distance to the scanned code, and the liquid lens is controlled to focus at the detected distance. A source of illumination is uncontrolled to maintain its intensity substantially constant, regardless of the distance of the scanned code. This can be achieved by controlling the intensity of illumination (directly), or the dispersal angle of illumination in relationship to the distance.	11-25-2010
20100302656	METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR MOUNTING AN OPTICAL LENS - A liquid lens is mounted in a lens opening provided in a photographic instrument by making use of a mounting member made of a material which transmits light of predetermined wavelength and includes an inner wall shaped and dimensioned to receive the periphery of the lens in spaced, opposed relationship. The mounting member includes a portion mounted or to be mounted to the optical instrument. A bonding material is provided between the lens periphery and the mounting member wall, and the bonding material is activated by exposure to light of the predetermined wavelength, which is injected from outside, through the mounting member. Preferably, the light is injected with a guide member having an opening with an interior wall shaped and dimensioned to conform to an exterior wall of the guide member. The light may be injected from an edge of the guide member remote from the opening, through the guide member, and into the mounting member.	12-02-2010
20100302747	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUPLING A LENS TO A PRINTED CIRCUIT - An optical assembly is disclosed which may include a lens having first and second electrodes; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) configured for placement in proximity to the lens, wherein the FPC may include a bottom insulating layer; a top insulating layer; and an FPC electrode configured to contact the second electrode of the lens, wherein the FPC electrode may include a center portion disposed between the bottom and top insulating layers of the FPC; a post connected to the center portion and extending through the top insulating layer of the FPC; and a contact layer connected to the post and configured to provide the contact with the second electrode of the lens.	12-02-2010

Tohru Takahashi, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110244965	GAME EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - When a piece	10-06-2011
20130316929	PEPTIDE LIBRARY - The present invention provides a peptide selected from the following (i) and (ii): (i) a peptide having the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 in the Sequence Listing; and (ii) a peptide having an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 in the Sequence Listing by the conservative amino acid substitution, deletion, addition, or insertion of 1 to (inclusive) amino acids except at the 1st Xaa to the 11th Xaa counting from the amino terminus.	11-28-2013
20140288008	NOVEL BINDING PROTEINS FOR PCSK9 - The present disclosure relates to novel lipocalin muteins which bind to PCSK9. The disclosure also provides corresponding nucleic acid molecules encoding lipocalin muteins and methods for producing lipocalin muteins as well as their encoding nucleic acid molecules.	09-25-2014

Tohru Tani, Shiga JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100023001	Microwave endoscope forceps - Provided is an operating tool for organism, in particular, a microwave endoscope forceps. In terms of the operating tool for organism, provided is a multifunctional operating tool which has holding and scissors functions simultaneously, and may further perform coagulation (tissue fixation) by microwaves. The operating tool has no definite fulcrum, and has both the holding and scissors functions with a simple structure by deforming a long-track rod called beam. Two blades are insulated from each other so as to allow microwave current supply. With this structure, an operating tool having three functions, i.e., “a holding function”, “a coagulating function”, and “a cutting function” with a single tool may be developed.	01-28-2010
20100042090	Microwave Surgical Device - The solution of the problem to be solved is the provision of a means for determining timing both accurately and securely at which a treatment is shifted from gripping and coagulation (hemostasis or sealing) to resection by using a multifunctional treatment tool capable of exfoliation, gripping, coagulation (hemostasis or sealing) and resection of the treated region in a bipolar microwave treatment tool. A microwave surgical device control method and a device, in which the completion of coagulation (hemostasis or sealing) of tissue is detected and a microwave oscillation output is controlled by making use of the change in the direct current electric resistance value due to the reduction in the amount of water as the temperature rise of the tissue at the time of heating and coagulation of the tissue in the treated region with microwaves.	02-18-2010
20100249511	FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPE SUITABLE FOR MRI - Means to Solve The flexible endoscope	09-30-2010
20120066777	TEST AGENT FOR VISCERAL OBESITY AND USE THEREOF - Disclosed are: a method for detecting (diagnosing) visceral obesity in a subject; a test agent useful for the method; a method for searching for a substance that can be used as an active ingredient for ameliorating visceral obesity; and an ameliorating agent for visceral obesity or a medicinal agent for preventing a metabolic disease developed as a result of the progression of visceral obesity. As the test agent, a polynucleotide which comprises at least 15 nucleotides and can hybridize with a nucleotide sequence for coiled-coil domain containing protein 3 (CCDC3) gene or a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence under stringent conditions or an antibody capable of recognizing CCDC3 protein is used.	03-15-2012
20120078169	Surgical Suction Nozzle - The present invention provides a surgical suction cannula capable of sucking a liquid component such as a small amount of blood while keeping an ability to suck a large clot such as a blood clot and to sweep them. The present invention relates to a surgical suction cannula, including: a tip opening capable of sucking a clot such as a blood clot; and a suction structure in the front of the tip opening. Due to the suction structure, the liquid component such as a small amount of blood can be sucked. Further, even when the tip opening is pressed against the vicinity of an organ, the suction structure interposed between a suction port and a surface of the organ prevents choke between the organ and the cannula or damage to the organ due to choke by suction. In addition, in a case of bleeding in a surgical site, the blood is sucked while controlling the bleeding by pressurizing a bleeding site, to thereby provide a view enabling a hemostatic site to be treated.	03-29-2012
20120123409	MEDICAL TREATMENT DEVICE - Provided is a medical treatment device capable of eliminating inconvenience of manipulation in actual clinical use, and ensuring a visual field by introducing a curve in the vicinity of an electrode portion of an outer cylindrical tube. The medical treatment device has the following structure: an electrode portion including a first electrode and a second electrode arranged opposed to the first electrode, the electrode portion having a grasping function, a coagulating function, and a cutting function; an operation portion for executing drive of the respective functions of the first electrode and the second electrode; a shaft portion for connecting the electrode portion and the operation portion; a connector portion connectable to a microwave power source; and a conductive rod, which is provided inside the shaft portion, for transmitting a microwave to the electrode portion, the medical treatment device utilizing the microwave being configured to: hold body tissue between the first electrode and the second electrode; coagulate the body tissue by supplying the microwave to the first electrode and the second electrode; and cut the body tissue through a mutual action of the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the shaft portion and the electrode portion are connected to each other with a bent holder.	05-17-2012
20130282002	MICROWAVE SURGICAL TOOL - An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized microwave surgical instrument that improves the convenience of surgical work. The microwave surgical instrument	10-24-2013
20130317202	TEST AGENT FOR VISCERAL OBESITY AND USE THEREOF - Disclosed are: a method for detecting (diagnosing) visceral obesity in a subject; a test agent useful for the method; a method for searching for a substance that can be used as an active ingredient for ameliorating visceral obesity; and an ameliorating agent for visceral obesity or a medicinal agent for preventing a metabolic disease developed as a result of the progression of visceral obesity. As the test agent, a polynucleotide which comprises at least 15 nucleotides and can hybridize with a nucleotide sequence for coiled-coil domain containing protein 3 (CCDC3) gene or a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence under stringent conditions or an antibody capable of recognizing CCDC3 protein is used.	11-28-2013

Tohru Tominami, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110176217	Method for Manufacturing Optical Component, Lens, Lens Unit and Camera Module - Provided is an optical component manufacturing method wherein various types of information, including information relating to each optical component, can be relatively easily printed on each optical component, even in the case where a plurality of optical components are manufactured in a batch. A lens, a lens unit and a camera module manufactured by using such method are also provided. Prior to dividing camera modules into individual camera modules, a pattern to be printed on each camera module, i.e., printing contents determined based on information on a first lens array or the like after formation, is printed on the surface of the first lens array at one time. Thus, information specific to each camera module can be printed even by the relatively simple method.	07-21-2011

Tohru Tsujide, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090039274	SURFACE CONTAMINATION ANALYZER FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS, METHOD USED THEREIN AND PROCESS FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor wafer is radiated with an electron beam so that the inelastic scattering takes place in the narrow region, and current flows out from the narrow region; the amount of current is dependent on the substance or substances in the narrow region so that the analyst evaluates the degree of contamination on the basis of the substance or substances specified in the narrow region.	02-12-2009

Tohru Ueno, Hyogo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090201000	Synchronous Rectification Switching Regulator, Control Circuit Thereof, and Method of Controlling the Operation Thereof - A synchronous-rectification-type switching regulator is disclosed that includes a first switching element; an inductor charged with a voltage input to an input terminal of the switching regulator by the switching of the first switching element; a second switching element for synchronous rectification performing switching so as to discharge the inductor; a control circuit part controlling the switching of the first switching element so that an output voltage from an output terminal of the switching regulator is a predetermined constant voltage, and to cause the second switching element to perform the switching inversely to the first switching element; and a reverse current prevention circuit part interrupting a current that flows into the second switching element by cutting off the connection of the second switching element so as to prevent generation of a reverse current that flows in the direction of the second switching element from the output terminal.	08-13-2009

Tohru Wakabayashl, Hyogo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090303348	METADATA ADDING APPARATUS AND METADATA ADDING METHOD - According to the invention, search and extraction of images obtained by capturing the same region are enabled to be performed at low load and in an easy manner. A multi-angle information generating apparatus	12-10-2009

Tohru Watanabe, Zushi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090287530	PLAN EXECUTION CONTROL APPARATUS, PLAN EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD, AND PLAN EXECUTION CONTROL PROGRAM - The invention provides a plan execution control apparatus, a plan execution control method and a plan execution control program capable of giving instructions for sensitively and efficiently maintaining even installations located in a wide range. The plan execution control apparatus includes a linkage reliability calculating section for calculating a target reliability of a single or a plurality of mutually related installations, a damaged state transition control section that provides a damaged state transition structure of the installations, a maintenance time limit calculating section for calculating a time limit related to the maintenance work to meet the target level of reliability of each key point and section, the constraint control section for recognizing and recording the constraints related to traveling of maintenance personnel, the traveling workload and the acceptable workload, and the itinerary maintenance determining section for calculating the itinerary schedule indicating the assignment to the object to be maintained.	11-19-2009
20130110304	ELECTRIC-POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ELECTRIC-POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND SECTION CONTROLLER	05-02-2013
20140039714	SYSTEM CONTROL APPARATUS FOR EQUIPMENT - The system control apparatus for equipment for causing equipment to collaboratively operate includes: equipment profile management means for managing an equipment profile that is metadata representing the electrical properties of the equipment; control scenario management means for managing a control scenario in which is described metadata that states an operation to be fulfilled by the equipment; equipment detection means for detecting control-targeted equipment; electrical status monitoring means for monitoring an electrical status related to transfer of electrical power caused by equipment interconnections; equipment selection means for selecting equipment for use on the basis of the metadata described in the control scenario and the equipment profile; and control execution means for controlling the selected equipment.	02-06-2014

Tohru Yamaguchi, Tsukuba-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090123532	OLIGONUCLEIC ACID-BEARING COMPOSITE AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE COMPOSITE - The present invention provides a complex, which comprises a cationic liposome comprising 2-O-(2-diethylaminoethyl)carbamoyl-1,3-O-dioleoylglycerol and a phospholipid as main ingredients, and an oligo nucleic acid which is carried on the liposome. Also, the present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing the complex to be used for treating or preventing diseases caused by a target molecule of the oligo nucleic acid (target DNA, target RNA, target protein) since it is possible to administer the complex in vivo and to put the complex into practical use as a medicament because the complex can exhibit pharmacological efficacy in vivo.	05-14-2009

Tohru Yamakuni, Miyagi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110287106	COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AMELIORANT - A cognitive impairment ameliorant is provided that is useful for the prevention or treatment of cognitive impairment, and particularly Alzheimer's disease. The cognitive impairment ameliorant contains royal jelly as an active ingredient thereof.	11-24-2011

Tohru Yamashita, Osaka-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090281097	NITROGEN-CONTAINING HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND - The object of the present invention is to provide a compound having an ACC inhibitory action, which is useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiac failure, diabetic complications, metabolic syndrome, sarcopenia and the like, and has superior properties such as efficacy, duration of activity, specificity, low toxicity and the like.	11-12-2009
20100160255	SPIRO-CYCLIC COMPOUND - The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I):	06-24-2010

Tohru Yasukohchi, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090192320	MODIFIED BIO-RELATED SUBSTANCE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND INTERMEDIATE - A modified bio-related substance, wherein at least one poly(alkylene glycol)oxy group represented by the following formula (1) is combined in a molecule:	07-30-2009
20110082277	MODIFIED BIO-RELATED SUBSTANCE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND INTERMEDIATE - A modified bio-related substance, wherein at least one poly(alkylene glycol)oxy group represented by the following formula (1) is combined in a molecule:	04-07-2011