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Konuma, JP

Akiko Konuma, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100273855COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER - The invention features a method for treating cancer by administering a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule against a CX gene selected from the group consisting of C14orf78, MYBL2, UBE2S and UBE2T. The invention also features products, including the double-stranded nucleic acid molecules and vectors encoding them, as well as compositions comprising the molecules or vectors, useful in the provided methods. The methods of the invention are suited for the treatment of cancers including lung cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, esophagus cancer, prostate cancer, cholangiocellular carcinoma and testicular seminoma.10-28-2010

Atsushi Konuma, Fujinomiya-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090008052Chemical Solution-Containing Thin Paper - A chemical solution-containing thin paper wherein a chemical solution is contained in an amount of 5 to 40% by weight with respect to base paper, powders are included in an amount of 0.1 to 30% by weight with respect to the chemical solution, the powders are formed by blending first powders each having an average particle size of 3 to 15 μm and second powders each having an average particle size of 15 to 40 μm with a weight ratio of the first powders with respect to the second powders of 0.1:1.9 to 1.9:0.1, and the chemical solution does not include an adhesive ingredient.01-08-2009

Atsushi Konuma, Shizoka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100252475SANITARY THIN PAPER CONTAINING BOX - [Problem] To improve recycling efficiency10-07-2010

Hiroshi Konuma, Chiba-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100227253CATALYST, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND USES OF THE CATALYST - The present invention provides a catalyst which is not corroded in an acidic electrolyte or at a high potential, is excellent in durability and has high oxygen reduction ability. The catalyst of the present invention is characterized by including a niobium oxycarbonitride. The catalyst of the invention is also characterized by including a niobium oxycarbonitride represented by the composition formula NbC09-09-2010
20110229793METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYST, USE THEREOF, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYSTS - A metal oxide electrode catalyst which includes a metal oxide (Y) obtained by heat treating a metal compound (X) under an oxygen-containing atmosphere. The valence of the metal in the metal compound (X) is smaller than the valence of the metal in the metal oxide (Y). Further, the metal oxide electrocatalyst has an ionization potential in the range of 4.9 to 5.5 eV.09-22-2011

Nobuhiro Konuma, Yokohama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100238783OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup of this invention includes a first objective lens for a CD or DVD, a second objective lens for a BD, a photodetector, a light source for a CD or DVD, a light source for a BD; a first optical mechanism for guiding first reflected light from the CD or DVD toward the photodetector via the first objective lens, and a second optical mechanism for guiding second reflected light from the BD via the second objective lens and changing the direction of the second reflected light toward the first optical mechanism. After the second reflected light joins a light path of the first reflected light guided by the first optical mechanism, the second reflected light is supplied by the first optical mechanism to the photodetector.09-23-2010

Patent applications by Nobuhiro Konuma, Yokohama JP

Nobuyuki Konuma, Tochigi-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110152663MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A medical image diagnostic apparatus includes an input unit to input personal information of a subject, a communication unit to communicate with a personal information managing server for storing the personal information, and a judge unit to judge whether the personal information can be transmitted to a personal information managing server. The communication unit transmits the personal information to the personal information managing server and receives personally-identifying information for identifying the personal information in response to the personal information transmitted, when the judge unit judges that the personal information can be transmitted. A memory for examination information stores the personally-identifying information.06-23-2011

Osamu Konuma, Yokohama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120120484PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME - Provided is a projection optical system for an ultra-short focus image projection device. The disclosed projection optical system includes a first optical system for zooming an image formed by an image display device to form a first intermediate image, a second optical system for enlarging the first intermediate image to form a second intermediate image, and a reflection optical system for reflecting light which forms the second intermediate image. An optical axis of the first optical system translates parallel with respect to an optical axis of the second optical system in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the first optical system.05-17-2012

Ryouhei Konuma, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080278294Wireless tag reader and wireless tag status inference apparatus, system, and program - A system including wireless tags that transmit information from fixed locations to nearby wireless tag readers possessed by moving persons also includes a wireless tag status inference apparatus to which the wireless tag readers send identifying information received from the wireless tags. The wireless tag status inference apparatus logs the information received from the wireless tag readers, and compares the logged information with a stored list of installed wireless tags to identify suspected inoperable wireless tags. Wireless tags requiring replacement or repair can thereby be identified promptly and inexpensively, without the need to dispatch personnel on periodic inspection tours of all areas in which the wireless tags are installed.11-13-2008
20090129590COMMON KEY GENERATION SYSTEM, COMMON KEY GENERATION METHOD AND NODE USING THE SAME - First and second nodes generate numeric string elements from time interval by their physical changes. The first node generates a basic numeric string from the numeric string elements and similar numeric strings, encrypts the generated basic numeric string and the similar numeric strings, and generates a cipher value list that stores the numeric strings with corresponding cipher values. The second node generates a basic numeric string based on the numeric string elements generated by the second node, encrypts the generated basic numeric string in accordance with the same encryption rule as that for the first node, and transmits the generated cipher value to the first node. The first node receives a cipher value from the second node, and compares the received cipher value with the cipher values in the cipher value list to find a match, and transmits a match signal if a match is found.05-21-2009

Shinsuke Konuma, Yamagata JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110150264SPEAKER MAGNETIC CIRCUIT, SPEAKER DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPEAKER MAGNETIC CIRCUIT - The present invention is to provide a speaker magnetic circuit which, even if small in its thickness, can reduce an occurrence of magnetic flux leakage so as to obtain a sufficient magnetic flux density in a magnetic gap, particularly in a position where a voice coil is supported. The speaker magnetic circuit (06-23-2011

Shinya Konuma, Ehime JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090137769MANUFACTURING METHOD OF POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE - A problem of the invention is to provide polyethylene terephthalate, a molded article of which has low acetaldehyde content and oligomer content.05-28-2009

Sinsuke Konuma, Yamagata JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090161905SPEAKER AND MAGNETIC CIRCUIT - A high performance speaker is provided and includes a simple structure magnetic circuit achieved without the need of a complicated manufacturing process, and a high performance speaker is provided and includes a simple structure diaphragm achieved without the need of a difficult process for forming a U shape of a narrow width in the diaphragm. A speaker 06-25-2009

Sinsuke Konuma, Tendo-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100135520DIAPHRAGM AND SPEAKER DEVICE - A diaphragm and a speaker unit which can prevent generation of abnormal sound by suppressing rolling phenomenon. The speaker unit has a diaphragm. The diaphragm includes a portion for supporting a voice coil, and a sound emitting portion formed continuously to one end thereof. The voice coil supporting portion has a shape extending reversely to the sound emitting direction. The sound emitting portion includes a step portion having a surface substantially perpendicular to the sound emitting direction, and a bent portion having a cross-section bent toward the inside of the voice coil supporting portion from one end of the step portion. Consequently, the voice coil supporting portion is movable to describe an arc having a radius substantially equal to the radius of curvature at the bent portion of the voice coil supporting portion and a basic point substantially identical to the center of the bent portion in the bending direction as the voice coil moves in the sound emitting direction or in the reverse direction. Rolling phenomenon can thereby be retarded, the voice coil supporting portion can be prevented from colliding against a magnetic circuit when the speaker unit is driven and generation of abnormal sound can be prevented.06-03-2010

Tomohiro Konuma, Saitama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090154712APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OUTPUTTING SOUND INFORMATION - An azimuth and distance calculator calculates the relative direction and distance to the next intersection to be guided, based on information on the intersection supplied from storage for received information on an object to be guided and information on the moving histories of a user. Then, the calculator converts the relative direction into a horizontal angle and the distance to an elevation angle, and passes the angles to a stereophony generator. The stereophony generator creates output sound information having a sound image localized outside of a headphone and outputs the information to the headphone. In this manner, the user can accurately understand the distance to the object.06-18-2009

Tomohiro Konuma, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110208790LIFESTYLE COLLECTING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE DEVICE, AND LIFESTYLE COLLECTING METHOD - Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user.08-25-2011
20110209066VIEWING TERMINAL APPARATUS, VIEWING STATISTICS-GATHERING APPARATUS, VIEWING STATISTICS-PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND VIEWING STATISTICS-PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a viewing terminal apparatus that can present an appropriate result of statistics on viewing of a content for diversified viewing modes. The viewing terminal apparatus includes: a category determining unit that determines, as a viewer category, a relationship between viewers who are viewing a content displayed on a display; a transmitting unit that transmits, to the viewing statistics-gathering apparatus, first viewing status information indicating the content that is being viewed by the viewers and the viewer category determined by the category determining unit, the content being associated with the viewer category; and a viewing statistics presenting unit that obtains viewing statistics information from the viewing statistics-gathering apparatus, and presents a result of statistics that is (i) indicated by the obtained viewing statistics information and (ii) a result of statistics on viewing of a content only by viewers who belong to a predetermined viewer category.08-25-2011
20120063620HEARING AID APPARATUS - A call other than a conversion partner call and various sounds are detected by input audio signals from plural microphones without deteriorating a voice recognition precision. A hearing aid apparatus according to the present invention corrects a frequency characteristic of the call voice other than the conversation partner voice based on an arrival direction of the call voice other than the conversation partner voice, which is estimated based on the audio signal converted by the plural microphones, checks a call word standard pattern representing features of a phoneme and a syllabic sound based on other voice data picked up by using the microphones having one characteristic against a call voice other than the conversation partner voice in which the frequency characteristic is corrected by the frequency characteristic correction processing unit to determine whether the call voice is a call word, and forms a directivity in the direction other than the arrival direction of the voice of the conversation partner. Then, the hearing aid apparatus according to the present invention corrects the frequency characteristic of the call voice other than the conversation partner voice so as to provide the same characteristic as that of the microphones at the time of creating the audio standard pattern.03-15-2012
20120093327ANCHOR MODEL ADAPTATION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AV (AUDIO VIDEO) DEVICE, ONLINE SELF-ADAPTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - The present invention provides a device that performs online self-adaption of anchor models for an acoustic space, and a method thereof, the anchor models being used for categorization of an AV stream which is performed based on an audio stream in the AV stream. The device divides an input audio stream into audio segments, each being estimated to have a single acoustic feature, and estimates a single probability model for each audio segment. Then, the device performs clustering on the estimated probability models and probability models stored therein, thereby generating a new anchor model.04-19-2012

Tomohiro Konuma, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090150155KEYWORD EXTRACTING DEVICE - The present invention aims at extracting a keyword of conversation without preparations by advanced anticipation of keywords of conversation. A keyword extracting device of the present invention includes an audio input section 06-11-2009

Yasushi Konuma, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100026731Image processing circuit and image display apparatus - An image processing circuit includes: a detecting unit detecting pixel regions where luminance levels of image signals exceed a given luminance threshold; and a correcting unit applying basic gamma correction to image signals in regions other than the pixel regions detected, and applying luminance increasing gamma correction to image signals in the pixel regions detected. The luminance increasing gamma correction allows the luminance levels to be increased.02-04-2010

Yuuichi Konuma, Ibaraki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090108806ADAPTOR, ASSEMBLY OF BATTERY PACK AND ADAPTOR, AND ELECTRIC TOOL WITH THE SAME - When a battery pack having an output voltage of 14.4 V that is connectable to an electric tool in a sliding manner is used as a power supply source for the electric tool that is connectable to a battery pack in an insertion manner and has a rated voltage of 12 V, the electric tool and the battery pack are connected to each other with an adaptor interposed therebetween. The adaptor has an FET that is switched at a predetermined duty of a predetermined frequency. The battery pack and the electric tool are connected or disconnected to or from each other by the switching operation, thereby dropping the output voltage of the battery pack. The voltage from the battery pack is detected. When the detected voltage is out of a predetermined value range, it is judged that the overcurrent or overdischarge has occurred. Then, the FET is turned off to stop the electric tool.04-30-2009

Yuuichi Konuma, Ibaraki-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100062326Adapter for a Power Tool Battery Pack - An adapter includes an insertion part that is inserted into a body of a power tool and has terminals for electrically connecting with the power tool; a pair of rails for guiding insertion of a battery pack in a direction substantially orthogonal to the insertion direction of the insertion part; an operating part constituting tool-latching device for attaching to and detaching from the body of the power tool; and a receiving part constituting battery-latching device for attaching to and detaching from the battery pack. The operating part of the tool-latching device and the receiving-side of the battery-latching device are disposed in different positions when viewing the adapter in the insertion direction of the insertion part.03-11-2010