National University Corporation University of Toyama Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150237442 | Digital Microphone and Position-to-Frequency Converter - A digital microphone includes: a cavity resonator operatable in a micrometer, millimeter, or electromagnetic waveband, the cavity resonator having a metal wall including a conductive membrane | 08-20-2015 |
20150225309 | METHOD OF PRODUCING OLEFIN HAVING 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PROPYLENE - A method of producing olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, including a process of reacting at least one kind of a catalyst (D) selected from the group consisting of below catalysts (A) to (C) with synthesis gas in the presence of a dispersion medium through a Fischer-Tropsch reaction, in which the catalyst (A) contains iron and one to three kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of alkali metal and alkali earth metal, the catalyst (B) contains cobalt, provided that the catalyst (B) is a catalyst except a catalyst obtained by reducing a cobalt ion and an iron ion in a dispersion liquid or a solution containing the cobalt ion, the iron ion and a dispersant that interacts with the cobalt ion and the iron ion, and the catalyst (C) contains nickel or ruthenium. | 08-13-2015 |
20140377360 | COMPOSITION FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE OF PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCE - A composition for controlled release of a physiologically active substance can release a physiologically active substance in vivo at the desired timing. The composition includes an inner layer that is formed of a biodegradable substance that supports a physiologically active substance, and an outer layer that is formed of a biodegradable substance that differs from that of the inner layer. | 12-25-2014 |
20140037770 | Burdock Fruit Extract Containing Arctigenin and Method for Producing Same - The present invention is intended to provide a burdock fruit extract comprising arctigenin and arctiin at a definite ratio and a method for producing the same. More particularly, the present invention is intended to provide a method for producing a burdock fruit extract comprising arctigenin and arctiin at a weight ratio of approximately 1:1. | 02-06-2014 |
20140031528 | METHOD FOR SELECTING PLASMA CELLS OR PLASMABLASTS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING TARGET ANTIGEN SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES, AND NOVEL MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES - [Problem] To provide a method that efficiently produces antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies from a wide range of animal species, and to provide a new antigen-specific monoclonal antibody using this technique. [Solution] A nonhuman animal is immunized with a target antigen, lymph fluid or the like is collected from the immunized nonhuman animal, or lymph fluid or the like is collected from a human having antibodies to the target antigen, the collected lymph fluid or the like is combined with (1) a labeled target antigen and (2) a marker that can selectively binds to plasma cells and/or plasmablasts, and cells that have bound to (1) the labeled target antigen and (2) the marker are then selected. The plasma cells and or the plasmablasts that have specifically bound to the target antigen by the method are selected, an gene of an antibody for the target antigen is collected from the selected cells, the base sequence thereof is identified, an antibody or antibody fragment is prepared on the basis of the base sequence of the identified gene, and an antibody or antibody fragment specific to the target antigen is produced. | 01-30-2014 |
20130145812 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL GUIDE FOR WIRE FOR FORMING PEDICLE SCREW INSERTION HOLE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A three-dimensional guide for a wire for forming a pedicle screw insertion hole is produced based on a CT image of a spine, and includes a contact surface section that comes in surface contact with a morphological surface of a bone at an insertion site, and a guide block section that is provided upright from the contact surface section. The guide block section has a guide hole that restricts the insertion direction of the wire. The guide hole has an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the wire. The guide hole has a length of 15 to 30 mm to restrict the insertion position and the insertion direction of the wire. | 06-13-2013 |
20130029325 | FLUORESCENT PROBE FOR PLASMA CELL IDENTIFICATION AND ISOLATION, AND PLASMA CELL IDENTIFICATION OR ISOLATION METHOD USING THE PROBE - A method which can isolate plasma cells and plasmablasts efficiently and with high purity, from mammals and birds, without using a cell surface marker is provided. | 01-31-2013 |
20130023009 | METHOD FOR SPECIFICALLY PRODUCING A JOINED DNA FRAGMENT COMPRISING A SEQUENCE DERIVED FROM A TARGET GENE - Provided is a method for selectively obtaining, for a given target gene, a “joined DNA fragment” wherein just a target gene fragment is joined with desired other DNA fragments, regardless of whether a DNA fragment containing a target gene sequence has been purified. In the provided method, a double-stranded joining DNA fragment containing a sequence A and/or a sequence B is selectively joined to the ends of a target gene fragment. A mixture of a double-stranded gene fragment, the 3′ end of which is protruding, and the double-stranded joining DNA fragment, which are related in a prescribed manner, undergoes at least two cycles of thermal denaturation, reassociation, and DNA synthesis, resulting in a “joined DNA fragment,” which is a double-stranded DNA fragment including at least one instance of a sequence resulting from joining sequence A, the target gene sequence, and sequence B. A “single-side joined DNA fragment” can also be obtained, by a similar method. | 01-24-2013 |
20110218558 | TISSUE PIECE FORMING DEVICE AND TISSUE PIECE FORMING METHOD - A tissue piece forming device suitable for forming a tissue piece required in the process of fabricating a novel tissue array chip having many benefits such as the one that the tissue array chip can be fabricated even if the tissue included in a tissue block has a small thickness. The tissue piece forming device ( | 09-08-2011 |
20110213041 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING UNSATURATED HYDROCARBON AND OXYGENATED COMPOUND, CATALYST, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - The method for manufacturing an unsaturated hydrocarbon and an oxygen-containing compound according to the present invention comprises: a first step of dispersing a catalyst in poly-α-olefin and reducing the catalyst with carbon monoxide or synthesis gas, wherein the catalyst is prepared by supporting iron on a support containing manganese and having an average pore size of 2 to 100 nm; and a second step of bringing the catalyst after reduction in the first step into contact with synthesis gas under the conditions of a reaction temperature of 100 to 600° C. and a reaction pressure of 0.1 to 10 MPa to obtain a reaction product containing an unsaturated hydrocarbon and an oxygen-containing compound. | 09-01-2011 |
20110129816 | DEVICE FOR DETECTION OF INFLUENZA VIRUS - A device for detecting or quantifying influenza viruses in a sample, which comprises a detection region having a human anti-influenza virus nucleoprotein antibody immobilized onto a support, a sample supply region, and a sample-migrating region; and a kit for detecting or quantifying influenza viruses, which comprises a solid phase in which a human anti-influenza virus nucleoprotein antibody is fixed onto a carrier. | 06-02-2011 |
20110117609 | Homologous Recombination Method, Cloning Method, and Kit - Disclosed is a method which can achieve the homologous recombination of a gene of interest selectively. Also disclosed is a recombinant DNA molecule produced by the method. Specifically disclosed is a homologous recombination method which uses a PCR product and a linearized vector. The PCR product comprises a sequence for a target gene and amplification primer sequences P | 05-19-2011 |
20110020879 | REACTION DEVICE, REACTION METHOD AND METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING cDNA - The present invention provides a device and a method whereby plural kinds of reaction operations and washing operations can be conducted in parallel without washing or replacing an instrument used in transferring a solution and the like in each operation. A reaction device having a plurality of projecting barriers provided in a line on one surface of a substrate, wherein the projecting barrier has at least one cutoff portion and an inner space capable of holding a droplet, and at least the face holding the droplets of the substrate surface has a contact angle to pure water of from 90 to 150 degrees. A reaction method using the above reaction device wherein a substance immobilized on magnetic beads is sequentially transferred in and between droplets of a solution containing a surface tension reducing agent that are held in the spaces for holding a droplet defined by the above-described projecting barriers by means of a magnet located on the opposite surface of the substrate to the surface having the projecting barriers to thereby conduct reactions and washings. | 01-27-2011 |
20100280398 | LASER DOPPLER BLOOD FLOW MEASURING METHOD AND DEVICE - [Subject] To provide laser Doppler blood flow measuring method and device which achieve multi-dimensional measurement efficiently at a high degree of accuracy over a wide range with a simple optical system and device. | 11-04-2010 |
20100274511 | SIGNAL ANALYSIS METHOD, SIGNAL ANALYSIS DEVICE AND SIGNAL ANALYSIS PROGRAM - Provided is a signal analysis device that has a high frequency resolution not depending on an analysis window length and can analyze a frequency with considerably high accuracy. When the signal analysis device inputs therein an analysis object signal to be analyzed, the device obtains a frequency f′, amplitude A′ and an initial phase φ′ such that the sum of squares of a difference between the analysis object signal and a sinusoidal model signal expressed by a phase using the frequency f′ and the initial phase φ′ and by the amplitude A′ is a minimum value. | 10-28-2010 |
20100145052 | FUSED TRICYCLIC COMPOUND HAVING ALDOSE REDUCTASE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY - A fused tricyclic compound having aldose reductase inhibitory activity and shown by the following formula, | 06-10-2010 |
20100087333 | PROCESS OF FABRICATING TISSUE ARRAY BLOCK, PROCESS OF FABRICATING TISSUE ARRAY SHEET, TISSUE ARRAY BLOCK, TISSUE ARRAY CHIP, SYSTEM OF FABRICATING TISSUE ARRAY BLOCK AND SYSTEM OF FABRICATING TISSUE ARRAY SHEET - [Task] A process of fabricating a tissue array block; a process of fabricating a tissue array sheet; a tissue array block; a tissue array chip; a system of fabricating a tissue array block; and a system of fabricating a tissue array sheet are proposed, in which the tissue array block can be fabricated even in the case of that having a small thickness, is little affected by tissue hardness and, when having been processed into a tissue array chip, does not suffer any defect in a piece of tissue or at a site of interests, enables the collection of pieces of tissue from a dispersed area, also enables the establishment of positional relationship between the inside of a tissue piece and the inside of a tissue block, and scarcely affects the utilization of the tissue block remaining after collecting the pieces of tissue. | 04-08-2010 |
20100079219 | PLANAR STRUCTURE MICROWAVE SIGNAL MULTI-DISTRIBUTOR - In a conventional Bagley polygon power divider of a planar configuration, a length of transmission lines from an input port to output ports adjacent thereto on both sides is determined to be a quarter wavelength and a geometry thereof is an odd regular polygon with each side being a length equal to half of a wavelength at a designed frequency, which is large in size. Since the output ports are located at vertices of the regular polygon, inconvenience can be caused, e.g., in arrangement of the output ports. | 04-01-2010 |
20100025672 | THIN-FILM LAMINATE AND ORGANIC TRANSISTOR USING THE SAME - An organic transistor includes a semiconductor section that includes a thin-film laminate in which a first organic thin film and a second organic thin film are alternately stacked. The thin-film laminate includes at least two layers of the first organic thin film. The first organic thin film is a pentacene thin film, and the second organic thin film is an amorphous organic thin film. The pentacene thin film may be a pentacene bilayer thin film, and the amorphous organic thin film may be a tetraaryldiamine thin film. The tetraaryldiamine thin film may be an α-NPD thin film. The organic transistor has improved transistor characteristics (e.g., mobility, ON/OFF ratio, or threshold value control). | 02-04-2010 |
20090232339 | DIGITAL MICROPHONE - A digital microphone comprises a ΔΣ modulator. The ΔΣ modulator has a resonator including a membrane which vibrates by receiving a sound wave and a wiring pattern disposed opposite to the membrane, an oscillator, including the resonator, for outputting an FM signal according to the vibration of the membrane, and a one-bit quantizer for outputting a one-bit quantized signal by sampling the FM signal with a high-frequency clock. | 09-17-2009 |
20090061446 | METHOD FOR QUICKLY IDENTIFYING PATHOGENIC BACTERIA RESPONSIBLE FOR INFECTION - A system rapidly detects and identifies pathogenic bacteria responsible for infection (particularly septicemia), and selects an appropriate antimicrobial drug. A method according to the present invention for detecting and identifying pathogenic bacteria includes performing gene amplification such as real-time PCR, and analyzing the combination of the melting temperatures (Tm values) determined by gene amplification product melting curve analysis or the difference between the Tm values. Specifically, real-time PCR is performed using 4 to 16 primer sets including 1 to 7 primer sets for the 16S ribosomal RNA of bacteria, 1 to 6 primer sets for the 18S ribosomal RNA of fungi, and one primer set respectively for the spa gene and the mecA gene specific to MRSA, and the combination of the Tm values of the amplification product or the combination of the differences between the Tm values is compared with a database to identify pathogenic bacteria responsible for septicemia. Pathogenic bacteria responsible for infection (particularly septicemia) can be rapidly detected and identified using the method according to the invention so that a rapid septicemia diagnosis method and evidence-based medicine in septicemia treatment are implemented. | 03-05-2009 |