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Akio Kobayashi

Akio Kobayashi, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110003958Biopolymer Originating in Eucommia Ulmoides - Provided is an eucommia-derived biopolymer, which is obtained by biologically decaying an eucommia to obtain an eucommia decomposition product, and washing the eucommia decomposition product. The biopolymer is obtained by such a convenient method, and contains mainly a trans-isoprenoid and has a relatively high molecular weight. Therefore, the biopolymer is solid and elastomeric, and is useful as an industrial material.01-06-2011
20110083230GENE CLUSTER INVOLVED IN BIOSYNTHESIS OF ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE IN THE NON-MEVALONATE PATHWAY OF HEVEA BRASILIENSIS - According to this invention, a gene cluster involved in the non-mevalonate pathway of 04-07-2011

Patent applications by Akio Kobayashi, Osaka JP

Akio Kobayashi, Kanagawa JP

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20100248157METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A REFLECTION PLATE - It is to suppress the interference of the reflected light easily and securely even in a highly fine liquid crystal display device. The reflection plate comprises recessed or protruded parts and a reflection film formed over the recessed or protruded parts. A unit shape of the recessed or protruded parts is a polygon, an arbitrary point other than a centroid of the polygon that constitutes the recessed or protrude part is placed at a position that meets with an orderly-mannered lattice point as an origin, and each of the unit-shape polygons is arranged at a position that is rotated randomly with respect to the origin.09-30-2010

Akio Kobayashi, Suita-Shi JP

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20100186109GENES OF ENZYMES PARTICIPATING IN VITAMIN E BIOSYNTHESIS IN PARA RUBBER TREE - It is a subject of this invention to isolate a gene group of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin E of Para rubber tree, and to determine the base sequence of each gene. According to this invention, genes encoding enzymes involved in the vitamin E biosynthesis were isolated from Para rubber tree and the base sequences of these genes were determined. Since vitamin E is an antioxidant existing in nature, it is expected that transformation of a plant by using the genes obtained in the invention would result in an increase in the vitamin E content of the plant and, in its turn, contribute to the prevention of rubber from aging.07-22-2010
20100218272Long-Chain Trans-Prenyl Diphosphate Synthase Gene - A method for increasing the amount of trans-1,4-polyisoprene contained in a plant, and a method for effectively producing trans-1,4-polyisoprene using a plant are provided. A long-chain trans-prenyl diphosphate synthase gene that comprises DNA having at least one base sequence selected from the group consisting of a base sequence from positions 88 to 1134 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a complementary sequence thereof, a base sequence from positions 42 to 1088 of the base sequence of SEQ D NO: 3 or a complementary sequence thereof, and a base sequence from positions 91 to 1140 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 or a complementary sequence thereof are disclosed; as well as a plant transformed with an expression vector containing the gene.08-26-2010

Akio Kobayashi, Tokyo JP

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20080225228WAVEFRONT ABERRATION COMPENSATING APPARATUS AND OPHTHALMOLOGIC UNIT HAVING THE SAME - A wavefront aberration compensating apparatus, including: a deformable mirror which compensates a wavefront aberration of a light flux and includes electrodes, and a thin-film mirror which changes a configuration thereof in accordance with a voltage value applied to each of the electrodes; an optical system provided with the deformable mirror and including an object subjected to aberration compensation; a wavefront sensor which measures the wavefront aberration of the light flux; a memory which stores therein a voltage template provided for each expansion mode according to a polynomial of wavefront aberration, as a voltage alignment data for the electrodes which induces the corresponding expansion mode; and a controller configured to determine a superposition amplitude value of each of the expansion modes and calculate the voltage value applied to each of the electrodes by using the voltage templates stored such that the wavefront aberration obtained by the wavefront sensor becomes a desired aberration, and to repeat compensation of the configuration of the thin-film mirror on the basis of the calculated voltage value, such that the wavefront aberration of the light flux measured by the wavefront sensor is suppressed.09-18-2008
20080225229WAVEFRONT ABERRATION COMPENSATING APPARATUS AND OPTHALMOLOGIC UNIT HAVING THE SAME - A wavefront aberration compensating apparatus includes: a deformable mirror which compensates a wavefront aberration of a light flux entered, the deformable mirror including a plurality of electrodes, and a thin-film mirror which changes a configuration thereof in accordance with a voltage value applied to each of the electrodes; an optical system provided with the deformable mirror, and including an object subjected to aberration compensation; a wavefront sensor which receives the light flux traveled through the object and the deformable mirror, and which measures the wavefront aberration of the light flux; and a controller configured to calculate the voltage value applied to each of the electrodes, on the basis of differences, from a signal outputted from the wavefront sensor, between application points on the thin-film mirror and target points both corresponding to the electrodes, respectively, and to repeat compensation of the configuration of the thin-film mirror of the deformable mirror on the basis of the calculated voltage value, such that the wavefront aberration of the light flux measured by the wavefront sensor is suppressed.09-18-2008
20080225230WAVEFRONT ABERRATION COMPENSATING APPARATUS AND OPHTHALMOLOGIC UNIT HAVING THE SAME - A wavefront aberration compensating apparatus, which includes: a deformable mirror having electrodes and a thin-film mirror; an optical system provided with the deformable mirror and including an object; a wavefront sensor which measures a wavefront aberration of a light flux; and a controller configured to: calculate a first voltage value applied to each of the electrodes, on the basis of differences between application points on the thin-film mirror and target points both corresponding to the electrodes respectively; determine a superposition amplitude value of each expansion mode according to a polynomial of wavefront aberration, and calculate a second voltage value applied to each of the electrodes by using voltage templates previously stored, such that the wavefront aberration obtained by the wavefront sensor becomes a desired aberration; determine the voltage value applied to each of the electrodes, by mainly using the second voltage value in an initial stage of compensation of the configuration of the thin-film mirror and by mainly using the first voltage value in an end stage of the compensation; and repeat the compensation on the basis of the determined voltage value, such that the wavefront aberration of the light flux is suppressed.09-18-2008
20090040462DEFORMABLE MIRROR DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR OBSERVING RETINA OF EYE USING THE SAME - A deformable mirror device includes a substrate; a plurality of electrodes provided on the substrate; a spacer disposed on the substrate; a support member disposed above the spacer and having an opening passing through from a first face of the support member facing to the substrate to a second face of the support member opposite from the first face; a deformable electrode film formed below the first face of the support member so as to be opposed to the electrodes with a distance and so as to cover the opening; an insulation film provided between the deformable electrode film and the support member; and a reflection film provided on a face of the deformable electrode film opposite from the electrodes so as to overlap the opening. The electrodes are electrically insulated each other by a plurality of grooves radially extending from a region which includes a position corresponding to a center of the opening.02-12-2009
20090051874DEFORMABLE MIRROR DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR OBSERVING RETINA OF EYE USING THE SAME - A deformable mirror device includes a substrate; a plurality of electrodes provided on the substrate; a spacer disposed on the substrate; a support member disposed above the spacer and having an opening passing through from a first face of the support member facing to the substrate to a second face of the support member opposite from the first face; a deformable electrode film formed below the first face of the support member so as to be opposed to the electrodes with a distance and so as to cover the opening; an insulation film provided between the deformable electrode film and the support member; a reflection film provided on a face of the deformable electrode film opposite from the electrodes so as to overlap the opening; and a plurality of through holes passing through the reflection film and the deformable electrode film and disposed so as to overlap the opening.02-26-2009
20090161119MIXING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS USING SAME - For the purpose of mixing laser light (P06-25-2009

Patent applications by Akio Kobayashi, Tokyo JP

Akio Kobayashi, Toyonaka-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100186111GENE CLUSTER OF PRENYL TRANSFERASE FROM HEVEA BRASILIENSIS - According to the present invention, a gene cluster encoding various kinds of prenyl transferase of 07-22-2010

Patent applications by Akio Kobayashi, Toyonaka-Shi JP

Akio Kobayashi, Chiba JP

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20090260729HIGH-CARBON HOT-ROLLED STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet with excellent width-direction homogeneity is provided. The steel sheet contains 0.2% to 0.7% carbon, 0.01% to 1.0% silicon, 0.1% to 1.0% manganese, 0.03% or less phosphorus, 0.035% or less sulfur, 0.08% or less aluminum, and 0.01% or less nitrogen, and the balance is iron and incidental impurities. The structure is such that the average ferrite grain size of edge parts of the steel sheet is less than 35 μm, the average ferrite grain size of a part closer to the center of the steel sheet than the edge parts is less than 20 μm, and the average carbide grain size is 0.10 μm or more and less than 2.0 μm. The steel sheet is produced by roughly rolling the steel, finish-rolling the steel at a finishing temperature of more than (Ar3+40° C.), cooling the steel at a cooling rate of more than 120° C./s within two seconds after the finish rolling to a cooling termination temperature of more than 550° C. and less than 650° C., coiling the steel at a temperature of 550° C. or less, pickling the steel, and subjecting the steel to spheroidizing annealing at a temperature of 670° C. to the Ac1 transformation point by a batch annealing method.10-22-2009

Akio Kobayashi, Kawasaki JP

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20090095381High Strength Steel Sheet and Method for Manufacturing the Same - A high tensile steel sheet having 980 MPa or higher tensile strength with excellent elongation and stretch-flange formability, suitable for the press-forming of complex cross sectional shape such as automobile parts, is manufactured by adjusting the steel to consist essential of a ferrite single phase structure, to precipitate carbide containing Ti, Mo, and V, of smaller than 10 nm of average particle size, in dispersed state, and to have an average composition of the carbide containing Ti, Mo, and V satisfying [V/(Ti+Mo+V)≧0.3 (atomic ratio].04-16-2009
20090214892HIGH STRENGTH STEEL SHEET HAVING SUPERIOR DUCTILITY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.08-27-2009
20090251731Execution log generation apparatus and method - An execution log generation apparatus generates an execution log upon receiving, for each job operation, job operation data indicating content of a job operation performed in a job procedure from a job processing apparatus that performs job processes through job procedures. The execution log generation apparatus includes a definition file holding unit that holds a definition file in which job operations performed in the job procedures are defined along a flow of the job processes and the job procedures, and in which output items to be output as execution logs for the each job operation are listed in a common format; and an execution log output unit that selects, from the definition file, an output item corresponding to a job operation contained in the job operation data, and outputs, as an execution log, the same output item as the selected output item from the job operation data.10-08-2009

Patent applications by Akio Kobayashi, Kawasaki JP

Akio Kobayashi, Itabashi-Ku JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090244668METHOD OF DRIVING MEMS MIRROR SCANNER, METHOD OF DRIVING MEMS ACTUATOR SCANNER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ROTATION ANGLE OF MEMS ACTUATOR - A method of driving a MEMS mirror scanner having an electrostatic actuator, comprising a step of driving the electrostatic actuator according to an input signal in accordance with a driving waveform obtained by the following equation,10-01-2009

Akio Kobayashi, Tomi-City JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080238996PRINTER-PLOTTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING AND CUTTING - A printer-plotter includes first and second heads which are supported by a guide rail and are movable along a longitudinal direction of the guide rail, independently. A driving member is supported by the guide rail and configured to move along the longitudinal direction between the first head and the second head. A first connecting mechanism is configured to connect the first head to the driving member detachably. A second connecting mechanism is configured to connect the second head to the driving member detachably. The first head is connected to the driving member by the first connecting mechanism and the second head is separated from the driving member in order to make the first head operate. The second head is connected to the driving member by the second connecting mechanism and the first head is separated from the driving member in order to make the second head operate.10-02-2008
20080239332PRINTER-PLOTTER - A printer-plotter includes a guide rail, a first head, a second head, a driving device, a first connecting mechanism and a second connecting mechanism. The guide rail extends in a longitudinal direction. The first head is supported by the guide rail and movable along the longitudinal direction. The second head is supported by the guide rail and movable independently of the first head along the longitudinal direction. The driving device includes a driving force transmitting member and a driving mechanism configured to move the driving force transmitting member. The first connecting mechanism is configured to detachably connect the first head to the driving force transmitting member. The second connecting mechanism is configured to detachably connect the second head to the driving force transmitting member.10-02-2008
20080240834MEDIUM TRANSPORT APPARATUS, PRINTER, PLOTTER AND COMBINATION OF PRINTER AND PLOTTER - A medium transport apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to rotate around a rotational axis. A guide rail extends along the rotational axis. A slider is supported by the guide rail and movable along the rotational axis. A rotatable pinch roller is configured to clamp medium between the feeding roller and the pinch roller to move the medium. A lever is connected to the pinch roller and movable to change a clamping state with respect to the medium between the feeding roller and the pinch roller. An arm is connected to the slider and configured to take an engaging position where the arm moves the lever to change the clamping state when the slider moves along the rotational axis and a standby position where the arm is not engaged with the lever when the slider moves along the rotational axis.10-02-2008

Akio Kobayashi, Sano-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080204661DEFORMABLE MIRROR DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR OBSERVING RETINA OF EYE - It is made possible to improve the variations in the “generated force (load)—deflection characteristics”. A deformable mirror device includes: a substrate; a plurality of electrodes provided on the substrate; a spacer disposed on the substrate; a support member disposed above the spacer and having an opening passing through from a first face of the support member facing to the substrate to a second face of the support member facing opposite from the first face; a first insulation film provided around the opening on the first face of the support member; and a deformable electrode film disposed so as to be opposed to the electrodes at a spacing, formed so as to cover the opening, and supported by the support member with sandwiching the first insulation film. The electrode film includes a reflection portion on a face opposite to the electrodes.08-28-2008
20080239528DEFORMABLE MIRROR APPARATUS - It is made possible to provide a deformable mirror apparatus which is deformable to a complicated shape (high-order shape). A deformable mirror apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of electrodes provided on the substrate; a spacer fixed above the substrate, having a first opening passing through from a first face of the spacer facing to the substrate to a second face of the spacer facing opposite from the first face, surrounding the electrodes, and having a step on the second face; a drive part including a membrane part disposed so as to cover the step of the spacer and so as to be opposed to the electrodes, a casing part having an opening at a bottom face of which the membrane part is exposed and supporting the membrane part, and a reflection film provided on the membrane part; and a voltage generator configured to generate predetermined voltage patterns on the electrodes, respectively.10-02-2008