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Christine Kurata, Lajolla, CA US
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| 20090095896 | METHODS FOR DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF IMPURITIES - Provided is a method comprising introducing a sample comprising a plurality of oligonucleotides into an ion pair high performance liquid chromatography column having a buffered mobile phase and allowing at least a portion of the oligonucleotides to separate; allowing the oligonucleotides to elute from the column; and introducing the oligonucleotides into a mass spectrometer and quantifying at least a portion of the oligonucleotides by mass spectrometry. In the method, at least a portion of the oligonucleotides are co-eluting oligonucleotides that differ in mass by no more than 20%; and the buffered mobile phase causes at least 50 mole percent of co-eluting oligonucleotides to have the same charge when they enter the mass spectrometer. | 04-16-2009 |
Fumito Kurata, Shizuoka JP
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| 20120123655 | VEHICLE OPERATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a vehicle operation device capable of reducing a sense of discomfort imposed on a driver when the driver carries out a driving operation and suppressing a vehicle behavior not intended by the driver. A vehicle operation ECU determines control amounts of a throttle actuator and a brake actuator in accordance with operation amounts of an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal. When a steering is being operated, a dead zone for a control amount according to an operation of a pedal is adjusted. For example, when the steering is turned to the left, the dead zone of the accelerator pedal disposed on the right side, that is, on a turning outer wheel side of the vehicle is increased. | 05-17-2012 |
Fumito Kurata, Shizuoka-Ken, JP
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| 20110180336 | VEHICLE MOTOR DRIVING SYSTEM - A vehicle motor driving system includes a motor that is installed to an unsprung vehicle body and that generates power for rotating a wheel by being fed with electric power, an inverter that is installed to a sprung vehicle body and that converts direct-current electric power into alternating-current electric power and then feeds the electric power to the motor, and a shielded wire as a power cable that electrically connects the motor to the inverter. A shield layer of the shielded wire is grounded at least one of a location near a connecting portion at which a motor case that accommodates the motor is connected to a suspension arm and a location near a mounting portion at which a hub bearing is mounted in the motor case. | 07-28-2011 |
Gouo Kurata, Kusatsu-Shi JP
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| 20110286237 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A light guide plate is formed of a light introducing part positioned to face a point light source for confining light and a light guide plate body having a thickness smaller than the thickness of an end of the light introducing part on a point light source side and causing the confined light to be output from a light exit surface to outside. The light introducing part has an inclined surface, and a directivity conversion pattern formed on the inclined surface. The directivity conversion pattern is configured by arranging V grooves in parallel to each other, each having a vertical angle of 120°, and each extends in a direction approximately perpendicular to a light incidence end face of the light guide plate. The length of the inclined surface in a inclination direction where part of light incident to the light introducing part enters the inclined surface at least twice. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286238 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A light guide plate includes a light introducing portion which is positioned facing a point light source and which confines light, and a light guide plate body which is thinner than a maximum thickness of the light introducing portion and which causes a light exit means to emit the confined light outward. The light introducing portion has an inclined face which is inclined from a portion having the maximum thickness to a surface of the light guide plate body. The inclined face includes a directivity converting pattern for converting a directional characteristic of the light that has entered the light introducing portion. The directivity converting pattern's structure includes a plurality of V-shaped grooves. An inscribed circle of the directivity converting pattern passes through both ends of a light exit window of the point light source. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110304784 | AREA LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An area light source device has a first light guide plate, a first light source arranged facing a first end of the first light guide plate, a second light guide plate, and a second light source arranged facing a first end of the second light guide plate, the first light guide plate and the second light guide plate being overlapped to configure a light guide body. The first light guide plate and the second light guide plate are overlapped so that the first end face of the first light guide plate and a second end face positioned on an opposite side of the first end face of the second light guide plate are positioned on the same side. | 12-15-2011 |
Hajime Kurata, Yokohama JP
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| 20120119299 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes: forming a first active region and a second active region in a semiconductor substrate; forming a first gate insulating film on the first active region and a second gate insulating film thinner than the first gate insulating film on the second active region by using material containing silicon oxide; forming first and second gate electrodes on the first and second gate insulating films respectively; forming an insulating film on the semiconductor substrate, and anisotropically etching the insulating film to leave first side wall insulating films on side walls of the first and second gate electrodes; removing the first side wall insulating film on the first gate electrode; and after removing the first side wall insulating film on the first gate electrode, thermally treating in an oxidizing atmosphere the semiconductor substrate to form a second side wall insulating film on the first gate electrode. | 05-17-2012 |
Hideaki Kurata, Kodaira JP
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| 20110235386 | Semiconductor Memory Device and Manufacturing Method of the Same - The invention provides a voltage applying structure having a reduced area penalty with respect to a data line. A wiring forming a global data line and a local data line formed in a p-type well region are connected via a select transistor. Two select lines are formed on a gate electrode of the select transistor. One select line is electrically connected to the gate electrode of the select transistor, however, the other select line is not connected to the select transistor. That is, an insulator film is formed between the select line and the gate electrode. As mentioned above, two select lines shorter than a gate length are provided on one select transistor. The select line is structured such as to be connected to the other select transistor. | 09-29-2011 |
Hideaki Kurata, Kokubunji JP
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| 20120123764 | Computer System, Program, and Method for Assigning Computational Resource to be Used in Simulation - The cost necessary for introducing and maintaining a development environment that includes multiple simulators is suppressed, and a sharing of designing information is promoted, to make parameter adjustment of simulators easy. Provided is a service that unifies development environment on a computer provided with: a working computer system that can guarantee that there is no leaking of designing files; a user behavior monitoring system that collects utilization history of simulators or software, for each of the users, and selects development process of each of the users from the collected information; and a dynamic computational-resource distribution system that can conduct an automatic optimization of a complex simulation configuration, from information collected by the aforementioned user behavior monitoring system. | 05-17-2012 |
Hirokazu Kurata, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20080226654 | Uses of mammalian cytokine; related reagents - Provided are methods of treatment for bone disorders related to bone deposition and resorption dysfunction. These bone disorders may be the result of inflammation, cancers, etc. Provided are methods of using agonists or antagonists of a cytokine molecule. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090155242 | MAMMALIAN GENES; RELATED REAGENTS AND METHODS - Nucleic acids encoding mammalian, e.g., primate or rodent, genes, purified proteins and fragments thereof. Antibodies, both polyclonal and monoclonal, are also provided. Methods of using the compositions for both diagnostic and therapeutic utilities are provided. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100104576 | MAMMALIAN GENES; RELATED REAGENTS AND METHODS - Nucleic acids encoding mammalian, e.g., primate or rodent, genes, purified proteins and fragments thereof. Antibodies, both polyclonal and monoclonal, are also provided. Methods of using the compositions for both diagnostic and therapeutic utilities are provided. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110165165 | MAMMALIAN GENES; RELATED REAGENTS AND METHODS - Nucleic acids encoding mammalian, e.g., primate or rodent, genes, purified proteins and fragments thereof. Antibodies, both polyclonal and monoclonal, are also provided. Methods of using the compositions for both diagnostic and therapeutic utilities are provided. | 07-07-2011 |
Kou Kurata, Saitama JP
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| 20110233207 | FUEL TANK FOR VEHICLE - In a fuel tank for a vehicle in which a lower opening part of a fuel supply guide tube is covered with a flame arrester, to enable a fuel to be extracted via a fuel supply port. In the fuel tank for a vehicle provided with a fuel supply port device, the fuel supply port device includes an insertion hole through which the inside of the fuel supply port device and the inside of a tank body communicate with each other and through which a tool for extracting the fuel is inserted, and an open-close lid for opening and closing the insertion hole. | 09-29-2011 |
Masafumi Kurata, Novi, MI US
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| 20110200860 | BATTERY COOLING WITH MIST EVAPORATION AND CONDENSATION - A battery pack cooling system may utilize a shroud defining a throat and a body, which may contain a battery pack. An evaporator may be arranged against the battery pack. A liquid coolant delivery pipe may deliver liquid coolant from a reservoir to the throat section with the aid of gravity, a pump, or an ultrasonic misting device. A spray nozzle may also deliver liquid coolant into the throat. When in the throat, liquid coolant mixes with air blown by a fan. Gaps in the battery pack may align with gaps of the evaporator to permit liquid and air to be blown completely through the battery pack and through the evaporator. A refrigeration system including a refrigerant compressor, a condenser and an expansion device work to cool the evaporator to condense, cool and remove liquid coolant from the liquid and air mixture, and deposit it in the reservoir. | 08-18-2011 |
Masanori Kurata, Kanagawa-Ken JP
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| 20120129449 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to an embodiment, the first signal line is provided on the substrate and has one end connected to the communication unit. The coaxial line is provided by a surface side of the substrate and includes second and third signal lines. The third signal line is provided at an outside of the second signal line through a dielectric. One end of the second signal line is connected to the other end of the first signal line. One end of the third signal line is connected to the ground electrode though a via. The electrode unit includes a reference potential electrode and a signal electrode. The signal electrode is provided around the reference potential electrode with a space left in between. The reference potential electrode is connected to the other end of the third signal line whereas the signal electrode is connected to the other end of the second signal line. | 05-24-2012 |
Minoru Kurata, Nagoya-Shi JP
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| 20110239531 | METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND SEPARATING ALGAE - The object of the present invention is to provide a method for aggregating and separating algae dispersed in a liquid efficiently. | 10-06-2011 |
Minoru Kurata, Nagoya-City JP
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| 20110308355 | Adsorption agent for noble metal, method for manufacturing the same, and method for recovering noble metal - A noble metal adsorption agent includes algae or residue of algae having an amino group as a functional group. A noble metal is retrieved by a method including: adsorbing the noble metal on the noble metal adsorption agent; and retrieving the noble metal. The noble metal is solved in a liquid. Thus, by using the noble metal adsorption agent, the noble metal is selectively retrieved. | 12-22-2011 |
Nobuhiko Kurata, Yokohama-Shi JP
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| 20110309522 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE COMPRISING DIFFERENT LEVEL INTERCONNECTION LAYERS CONNECTED BY CONDUCTOR LAYERS INCLUDING CONDUCTOR LAYER FOR REDUNDANCY - A third interconnection layer is disposed near a first interconnection layer and a second interconnection layer disposed above the first interconnection layer. The first interconnection layer and second interconnection layer are connected to each other by a regular via plug and a via plug for redundancy. The via plug for redundancy is disposed by the side of the regular via plug and between the regular via plug and the third interconnection layer. | 12-22-2011 |
Noriyoshi Kurata, Aichi JP
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| 20110206305 | SINTERED BEARING - With use of separated alloy powder ( | 08-25-2011 |
Shinya Kurata, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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| 20110189666 | NUCLEIC ACID PROBE SET AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A nucleic acid probe set includes (A) a fluorescent probe and (B) a binding probe. The fluorescent probe (A) is formed of an oligonucleotide including (a) a nucleotide labeled with a fluorescent substance. The binding probe (B) is formed of an oligonucleotide having (b | 08-04-2011 |
Taishi Kurata, Kobe-Shi JP
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| 20120043179 | Equipment and Process for Upgrading Oil - Equipment and a process for upgrading oil are provided to produce a refined oil lighter than a material oil by cracking the heavier material oil with the addition of hydrogen under relatively relaxed production conditions. An equipment for upgrading oil according to one aspect of the invention includes an emulsion making portion ( | 02-23-2012 |
Takaomi Kurata, Chiba JP
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| 20110180402 | Vacuum Processing Apparatus - To provide a vacuum processing apparatus capable of supporting and conveying a substrate by a method suitable for a processing content in each processing step and capable of suppressing various mechanisms provided within a processing chamber from being adversely affected. More particularly, the CVD chamber of the apparatus is configured to be horizontal, and hence the above-mentioned problem can be solved. Further, by configuring a sputtering apparatus as the vertical type processing apparatus, problems with abnormal electrical discharge can be solved. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110195562 | Sputtering Apparatus, Thin-Film Forming Method, and Manufacturing Method for a Field Effect Transistor - [Object] To provide a sputtering apparatus, a thin-film forming method, and a manufacturing method for a field effect transistor, which are capable of reducing damage of a base layer. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110198213 | Sputtering Apparatus, Thin-Film Forming Method, and Manufacturing Method for a Field Effect Transistor - [Object] To provide a sputtering apparatus, a thin-film forming method, and a manufacturing method for a field effect transistor, which are capable of reducing damage of a base layer. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110201150 | Sputtering Apparatus, Thin-Film Forming Method, and Manufacturing Method for a Field Effect Transistor - [Object] To provide a sputtering apparatus, a thin-film forming method, and a manufacturing method for a field effect transistor, which are capable of reducing damage of a base layer. | 08-18-2011 |
Takebumi Kurata, Kanagawa-Ken JP
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| 20110226025 | STEERING LOCK DEVICE - In a steering lock device, a lever extending along an axial direction of a key rotor is provided between a housing and a key cylinder. A pivot-point portion protruded toward the key cylinder is provided on the lever. The lever swings about the pivot-point portion as its swing center in a radial direction of the key cylinder in a state where the pivot-point portion contacts with a pivot-point receive portion on the key cylinder. Then the lever is displaced in the radial direction of the key rotor with its end portion as its pivot point. According to the steering lock device, a pin as a swing center is not required, and locking/unlocking the lock member can be controlled by the lever along with insertion/removal of the key. | 09-22-2011 |
Takehiro Kurata, Kariya-City JP
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| 20120003916 | Ventilating device - A ventilating device includes a housing; a gas concentration detector; a passage portion defining an outside air passage and an inside air passage; a permeable membrane disposed at an interface between the outside air passage and the inside air passage; an air sending portion to generate at least one of a flow of outside air in the outside air passage and a flow of inside air in the inside air passage; and a controller. The controller controls at least one of the flow of inside air and the flow of outside air by controlling the air sending portion, based on a gas concentration of a predetermined gas detected by the gas concentration detector. | 01-05-2012 |
Takeshi Kurata, Wako JP
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| 20110208397 | STARTING-CLUTCH CONTROL APPARATUS - A starting-clutch control apparatus is configured to control connection between a driving side and a driven side of a vehicle using a starting clutch disposed therebetween. A driving-shaft rotation speed detector is configured to detect a rotation speed of a driving shaft of the starting clutch. A driven-shaft rotation speed detector is configured to detect a rotation speed of a driven shaft of the starting clutch. A cumulative work amount calculator is configured to calculate a cumulative work amount of the starting clutch based on pressure applied to the starting clutch, the rotation speed of the driving shaft, and the rotation speed of the driven shaft. A torque output restricting device is configured to restrict an output torque of a driving source of the vehicle when the starting clutch is in a transient engagement state and the cumulative work amount exceeds a first specific value. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110239743 | VEHICLE WORKING-FLUID EVALUATING SYSTEM - A vehicle working-fluid evaluating system includes an obtaining device configured to obtain a plurality of deterioration elements related to deterioration factors that are generated as a vehicle travels and that accelerate deterioration of working fluid. A deterioration-level calculator is configured to calculate, based on the plurality of deterioration elements obtained by the obtaining device, an oil deterioration estimate. A severity determining device is configured to determine, in accordance with the oil deterioration estimate calculated by the deterioration-level calculator, severity of usage of the working fluid for a transmission mounted on the vehicle. A change-timing determining device is configured to determine the working-fluid change timing in accordance with the severity of usage of the working fluid determined by the severity determining device. A notification device is configured to indicate the determined working-fluid change timing determined by the change-timing determining device. | 10-06-2011 |
Takeshi Kurata, Saitama JP
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| 20120108389 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle control apparatus is configured to set a desired speed of an engine to be inputted to a CVT based on a vehicle speed and an accelerator opening AP, calculate a desired output of the engine based on the accelerator opening; calculate a correction coefficient based on the vehicle speed, and calculate a corrected desired output by correcting the desired output with the correction coefficient such that the vehicle speed reaches a regulatory vehicle speed when the accelerator opening AP reaches a fully-opened position, i.e., to vary the characteristics of the accelerator opening in accordance with the vehicle speed in the vicinity of the regulatory vehicle speed. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109475 | OUTPUT TORQUE CONTROL DEVICE - Detection-time torque of a drive source is determined when a value that varies in accordance with depression of an accelerator pedal has exceeded a predetermined value, first torque is determined on the vehicle speed and the transmission gear ratio, second torque is determined on the detection-time torque and the first torque, third torque is determined on the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal and the second torque, and fourth torque is determined on the depression of the accelerator pedal, and the output torque is limited to the third torque as long as the third torque is less than the fourth torque. The third torque is determined such a that in the case where the detection-time torque is greater than the first torque, an increase of the third torque is suppressed further than where the detection-time torque is not greater than the first torque. | 05-03-2012 |
Tomoko Kurata, Aichi JP
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| 20110204603 | KNEE AIRBAG DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - It is an object to ensure that, even when knee regions of an occupant are in a near state with respect to a storage section of a knee airbag at the time of a frontal collision of a vehicle, the knee regions can be restrained appropriately by the knee airbag. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110253000 | GAS GENERATOR FOR RESTRAINING DEVICE OF VEHICLE - The present invention provides a filterless gas generator, including a housing having a closure shell, a diffuser and a flange portion, an inner tube member accommodating an igniter coaxially with the central axis of the housing, an opening end of the inner tube member located in a bottom plate of the closure shell and a ventilating portion formed at the opening end, | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110272929 | KNEE AIRBAG DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A knee airbag device for a vehicle, configured in such a manner that, when a knee airbag is inflated and expanded with the knees of a vehicle occupant located close to an airbag door, a load to the lower legs is reduced. A first tear section ( | 11-10-2011 |
Tomoko Kurata, Ibaraki JP
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| 20110259234 | GAS GENERATOR FOR RESTRAINING DEVICE OF VEHICLE - The present invention provides a filterless gas generator, including, a housing having closure shell, a diffuser shell including a gas discharge ports, and a flange portion, an inner tube member defining a combustion chamber in an outside thereof for accommodating a gas generating agent, | 10-27-2011 |
Toru Kurata, Ageo JP
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| 20120098985 | METHOD TO INCREASE THE ACCURACY OF PHASE CORRELATION MOTION ESTIMATION IN LOW-BIT-PRECISION CIRCUMSTANCES - A method and system to improve the performance of phase correlation motion estimation for low-bit-precision implementation are described herein. Phase correlation uses the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) with operations with infinite-precision constants. Since physical implementations use finite-precision arithmetic, there is some loss in precision relative to the ideal infinite-precision case. In low-complexity implementations, it is desirable to use as few bits as possible, and if the precision is too low, the performance of traditional phase correlation suffers. A pre-processing technique is applied to the data prior to taking the FFT, which minimizes the negative effects of finite precision in the FFT and allows high quality results from phase correlation. The pre-processing step is a content-dependent contrast adjustment that maps the range of the input images' pixel values to the range of input values for the FFT. There is no post-processing required after the FFT to compensate for the pre-processing step. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098986 | METHOD TO IMPROVE ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY OF MOTION ESTIMATED WITH PHASE CORRELATION - A method of improving accuracy and reliability of motion estimation is described herein. In one aspect, a 2D neighborhood of phase correlation peak is approximated with an outer-product of two 1D vectors to eliminate the sub-pixel error. In another aspect, estimation of reliability is improved. In yet another aspect, two-pass phase correlation is implemented to eliminate sub-pel motion bias. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099651 | METHOD TO IMPROVE DETECTION OF MOTION WITH PHASE CORRELATION - Phase correlation is an established method for computing motion which relies on the ability to find peaks in a computed phase correlation surface. Two methods to improve the ability to detect peaks in the phase correlation surface are described herein. The first method applies a theoretically-derived and spatially-varying gain to the phase correlation surface. The gain compensates for peaks whose amplitudes have been decreased due to windowing effects; such effects are unavoidable in phase correlation. The second method uses concepts from matched filters to improve detection of peaks whose amplitudes are diminished due to a spreading of the peak energy into surrounding positions in the phase correlation surface. Peak detection filters allow such low-amplitude peaks to be properly detected. It is possible to use only the first method, or only the second method or both methods combined. | 04-26-2012 |