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Keiko Abe

Keiko Abe, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090269646ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AND FUEL CELL - An electrolyte membrane with high durability is provided. The electrolyte membrane includes a porous film containing a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring or a cyano group, and a proton conductive component existing in pores of the porous film, wherein the proton conductive component includes a polymer compound containing at least a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, a cyano group, and an acidic group in one molecule.10-29-2009
20100028751FUEL CARTRIDGE AND FUEL CELL - A fuel cell including a fuel cartridge with a fuel storage portion and a fuel feed opening and a fuel cell body with an output terminal and a power generation portion. The fuel cell comprises a wiring portion for electrically connecting the output terminal and power generation portion of the fuel cell body with each other when the fuel cartridge is mounted to the fuel cell body to place a fuel in a state in which the fuel is feedable from the fuel cartridge to the fuel cell body and for electrically disconnecting the output terminal and power generation portion of the fuel cell body when the fuel cartridge is removed from the fuel cell body.02-04-2010
20110065949COMPOUND FOR SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE - An unsaturated compound including a urethane bond in a main chain and a sulfonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, an alkylsulfonic acid group, or an alkylphosphoric acid group on a benzene ring in a side chain is provided. In addition, a solid polymer electrolyte membrane containing a compound prepared by polymerizing the above-mentioned compound and an electrolyte membrane-electrode assembly including diffusion layers adhered on both surfaces of the electrolyte membrane are provided. Furthermore, a solid polymer fuel cell using the electrolyte membrane-electrode assembly is provided.03-17-2011

Patent applications by Keiko Abe, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Keiko Abe, Warabi-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110020926NOVEL TASTE-MODIFYING POLYPEPTIDE NAS, DNA THEREOF AND USE THEREOF - Disclosed is a polypeptide shown below in (A) or (B), a protein dimer neoculin comprising the polypeptide Neoculin Acidic Subunit (NAS) and the polypeptide Neoculin Basic Subunit (NBS) and having a taste-modifying activity: 01-27-2011

Keiko Abe, Yokohama-Shi JP

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20080243978RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR - A random number generator includes an amplifier to amplify a difference between a noise signal and a reference signal to generate an amplified signal, a plurality of binarization circuits configured to binarize the amplified signal by using different inherent threshold values to obtain a plurality of binarized signals, and an exclusive OR circuit to perform an exclusive OR operation on the a plurality of binarized signals to generate random number sequence.10-02-2008
20080298117SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A semiconductor integrated circuit device, has a first variable resistor element and a second variable resistor element whose resistances are changed complementarily depending on a current; and a current path switching circuit that supplies said current from a power supply by switching between current paths according to whether a normal operation mode or a read mode is input externally, wherein said power supply is turned off and then turned on again in said normal operation mode, and in this state, data corresponding to the relationship between the magnitudes of the resistances of said first variable resistor element and said second variable resistor element is read in said read mode.12-04-2008
20090108896Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Apparatus - It is made possible to provide a flip-flop circuit capable of implementing the error correction function with a small area increase as far as possible and a pipeline system using such a flip-flop circuit. A flip-flop circuit includes: a flip-flop configured to operate based on a rising edge or a falling edge of a first clock signal; a decision circuit configured to compare an input of the flip-flop with an output thereof and output a request signal when the input of the flip-flop is different from the output thereof; and a control circuit configured to receive a second clock signal from outside and generate the first clock signal and a confirmation signal. When the request signal is sent from the decision circuit after the flip-flop has been activated, the control circuit inverts the first clock signal, sends the confirmation to the decision circuit, and makes the decision circuit cancel the request signal.04-30-2009
20090217222SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a plurality of processor elements each including a test circuit which tests whether there is a failure in the processor element and outputs a result of the test; a plurality of switch boxes provided so as to be respectively associated with processor elements, each of the switch boxes configured to have a table to store information of another processor element and transmit information of a corresponding processor element to the other processor element based on information stored in the table; a plurality of identification circuits provided so as to be respectively associated with processor elements, each of the identification circuits configured to identify a defective processor element on the basis of the result of the test and output location information of the defective processor element; and a transmission circuit configured to transmit the location information of the defective processor element output from the identification circuit to the switch boxes.08-27-2009
20100073991STORAGE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a storage apparatus includes: a first inverter; a second inverter; a first storage element having a first state and a second state; and a second storage element having a third state and a fourth state, wherein the first storage element is brought into the first state when a current flows from the first storage element to the first storage element and is brought into the second state when the current flows from the first storage element to the first storage element, wherein the second storage element is brought into the fourth state when a current flows from the second storage element to the second storage element and is brought into the third state when the current flows from the second storage element to the second storage element.03-25-2010
20100080054NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND ITS READING METHOD - A reading method includes: selecting the memory cell; performing a read operation on the selected memory cell to supply the read voltage, amplifying a first voltage read out from the selected memory element, outputting a second voltage obtained by amplifying the first voltage, and storing the second voltage as a first read state; performing a write operation on the selected memory cell to supply one of the first and second write voltages, regarding a third voltage appearing on the second line during the write operation as a second read state, comparing the first read state with the second read state, and deciding a state stored in the memory element before the read operation, as a read logic state on the basis of a result of the comparison; and writing the decided read logic state into the memory element if a logic state written in the write operation is different from the decided read logic state.04-01-2010
20110216573SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes first and second inverters, a first transistor which has a gate connected to a word line, a source connected to a first bit line, and a drain connected to an input terminal of the second inverter, a second transistor which has a gate connected to the word line, a source connected to a second bit line, and a drain connected to an input terminal of the first inverter, a first variable resistive element which has a first terminal connected to the drain of the first transistor, and a second terminal connected to an output terminal of the first inverter, and a second variable resistive element which has a first terminal connected to the drain of the second transistor, and a second terminal connected to an output terminal of the second inverter.09-08-2011

Patent applications by Keiko Abe, Yokohama-Shi JP

Keiko Abe, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080205847Program ancillary data producing device, picture program editing device and picture program producing device - An apparatus for producing program ancillary data pertinent to each scene of a picture program to be recorded includes a display control unit for demonstrating, on a display picture, an input form having, as an input item, the information pertinent to a scene as an object of preparation, and a program ancillary data generating unit for correlating the information specifying an associated scene with the information as input through the input form, and for outputting the resulting information.08-28-2008
20080259208Program ancillary data producing device, pictrure program editing device and picture program producing device - An apparatus for producing program ancillary data pertinent to each scene of a picture program to be recorded includes a display control unit for demonstrating, on a display picture, an input form having, as an input item, the information pertinent to a scene as an object of preparation, and a program ancillary data generating unit for correlating the information specifying an associated scene with the information as input through the input form, and for outputting the resulting information.10-23-2008
20100057813PROGRAM ANCILLARY DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A program ancillary data processing apparatus is provided which includes a program ancillary data extraction unit for extracting program ancillary data pertinent to commodities or services appearing in each scene, from picture program data, and a display control unit for displaying, on a display picture, the information relevant to the commodities or services appearing in each scene, and the sum total of the number of times of scene-based access events by the audience to a database supervising the detailed information relevant to the commodities or services, based on the preset layout information.03-04-2010

Patent applications by Keiko Abe, Kanagawa JP

Keiko Abe, Saitama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080305522Novel Taste-Modifying Polypeptide Nas, Dna Thereof and Use Thereof - It is an object of the invention to find a substance with a better taste-modifying function and determine the structure of the taste-modifying substance, as well as to elucidate the structure thereof at a gene level and determine the primary structure of the substance and obtain the gene encoding the substance. Additionally, it is an object of the invention to provide a novel taste-modifying composition characteristically containing the taste-modifying substance.12-11-2008
20100040754PROTEIN HAVING SWEETNESS - An object of the present invention is to discover a substance with sweetness independent of pH and to provide a novel composition with sweetness characterized by containing the substance. Provided are: an NAS variant characterized by having sweetness independent of pH in the case of combination with a polypeptide NBS variant by causing substitution mutation or deletion mutation in one or several amino acids out of the amino acid residues constituting a polypeptide NAS; an NBS variant characterized by having sweetness independent of pH in the case of combination with a polypeptide NAS variant by causing substitution mutation or deletion mutation in one or several amino acids out of the amino acid residues constituting a polypeptide NBS; a diner comprising a combination of the NAS variant and the NBS variant; a recombinant vector containing a gene encoding the NAS variant and a gene encoding the NBS variant; and a transformant containing the vector.02-18-2010

Keiko Abe, Kawasaki-Shu JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100040928POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE - The present invention can provide a polymer electrolyte membrane having power generation characteristics with a high output and long life and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell using the same. The present invention provides a polymer electrolyte membrane having a porous polymer film and a proton conducting component present in a hole of the porous polymer film, characterized in that the proton conducting component has a compound having a proton conducting group and a bicyclo ring structure.02-18-2010

Keiko Abe, Mito JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110196633ACCUMULATOR DEVICE, AND STATE OF CHARGE EVALUATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACCUMULATOR - There are implemented a method which allows a present state of charge to be precisely estimated not only for a new battery, but also for a lead accumulator that has deteriorated with the lapse of a certain period since first use thereof, and a lead accumulator which can be increased in lifetime and reduced in cost using information on the precisely determined state of charge. An accumulator device includes an accumulator, a terminal voltage measurement unit for measuring a terminal voltage of the accumulator, a current measurement unit for measuring a current flowing in the accumulator, multi-dimensional characteristic models in which a plurality of relational models each between the measured terminal voltage, current and the state of charge are prepared for each of deterioration degrees, a deterioration degree estimation unit for estimating a present deterioration degree of the accumulator, a corresponding model selective determination unit for selectively determining, based on the deterioration degree determined by the deterioration degree estimation unit, a corresponding model from among the multi-dimensional characteristic models, and a state of charge estimation unit for estimating the present state of charge using the model selectively determined by the corresponding model selective determination unit.08-11-2011

Keiko Abe, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110205780Semiconductor Integrated Circuit - In one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first resistive-change element, a second resistive-change element and a first switching element. The first resistive-change element includes one end having a first polarity connected to a first power source. The first resistive-change element includes another end having a second polarity connected to an output node. The second resistive-change element includes one end having the second polarity connected to the output node. The first switching element includes a first terminal connected to another end of the second resistive-change element. The first switching element includes a second terminal connected to a second power source.08-25-2011

Keiko Abe, Kashiwa-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110236800METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY - A membrane electrode assembly composed of a polymer electrolyte membrane and diffusion layers bonded to both surfaces of the polymer electrolyte membrane, as well as a polymer electrolyte fuel cell including the membrane electrode assembly, are provided. The polymer electrolyte membrane includes a porous polymer membrane, proton conductive groups disposed in pores of the porous polymer membrane, and a catalyst-supporting conductive material embedded in the pores at least in the neighborhood of at least one surface of the porous polymer membrane. A method for forming the assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell including the assembly are also provided.09-29-2011