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Sekiya, JP

Akira Sekiya, Tsukuba-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090105510	Fluorination catalysts, method for their preparation, and method for producing fluorinated compounds using the catalysts - A method for the preparation of a novel fluorinated compound, particularly 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane (HFC-245fa), by using a fluorination catalyst obtained by treating a metal salt containing a chromium salt such as chromium oxide with chlorine gas and/or oxygen gas. Examples of the metal salt may include, besides a chromium salt, one or more catalytically active metal salts selected from magnesium salts, aluminum salts, zinc salts, sodium salts, nickel salts, iron salts, cobalt salts, vanadium salts, manganese salts and copper salts.	04-23-2009
20100191013	PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF CARBONYL FLUORIDE - The present invention provides a method for inexpensively, efficiently, safely, and continuously producing COF	07-29-2010

Akira Sekiya, Ibaraki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080274334	Dry Etching Gas and Method of Dry Etching - A dry etching gas comprising a C	11-06-2008
20110061587	METHOD OF PRODUCING PRETREATED METAL FLUORIDES AND FLUORIDE CRYSTALS - [Problem] To provide a method of producing a pretreated metal fluoride containing impurities such as oxygen in decreased amounts and a fluoride crystal containing impurities such as oxygen in decreased amounts and having excellent optical properties such as transparency.	03-17-2011

Harukazu Sekiya, Mishima-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090283965	SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An apparatus of the present invention includes a first guide supported by a cover body in such a manner that the first guide can swing around a hinge with respect to the main body of the apparatus and a second guide provided on the apparatus main body. The first guide is supported in such a manner that it can move with respect to the cover body. When the cover body swings so as to open a sheet conveyance path, a site of the first guide on the side of the hinge swings with respect to the cover body in such a direction so as to separate from the second guide.	11-19-2009

Hitoshi Sekiya, Atsugi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100220778	FREQUENCY CONVERTING SYSTEM - In a frequency converting system, an input signal x(t) is supplied to a signal branching section for dividing a predetermined frequency domain into M bands, extracting signal components of the respective divided bands. The respective signal components and local signals each including a frequency difference corresponding to a predetermined intermediate frequency with respect to a center frequency of each band are input to a frequency converting part. The signals of the respective divided bands are converted into signals of intermediate frequency bands each including the predetermined intermediate frequency as the center frequency, the conversion outputs are sampled by using a common clock signal, whereby the conversion outputs are converted into digital signals. Further, after being subjected to phase correction processing, the digital signals are subjected to frequency conversion and combination processing by a signal regeneration part.	09-02-2010

Junichi Sekiya, Ibaraki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100048628	METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING DISCOLORATION OVER TIME OF ADHESIVE PREPARATION CONTAINING DONEPEZIL - [Object] Discoloration, over time, of a donepezil-containing adhesive preparation is suppressed.	02-25-2010
20100062045	METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING COLORING OF ADHESIVE PREPARTION CONTAINING DONEPEZIL AND METHOD FOR REDUCING AMOUNTS OF DONEPEZIL-RELATED SUBSTANCES FORMED - [Object] By suppressing coloring of an adhesive preparation containing donepezil, a naturally colored appearance is realized.	03-11-2010
20110123598	PATCH AND PATCH PREPARATION - The patch according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a support; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on at least one surface of the support, wherein: the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains an acrylic copolymer obtained by copolymerizing monomer components containing (a) at least one kind of a monomer of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and (b) at least one kind of a monomer of an N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide; a content of the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester monomer (a) with respect to a total amount of the monomer components is 50 wt % to 90 wt % and a content of the N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide monomer (b) with respect to the total amount is 1 wt % to 20 wt %; and the monomer components are substantially free of a monomer having a carboxyl group.	05-26-2011
20110124833	MEDICAL PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION - There is provided a medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including an acrylic copolymer obtained by copolymerizing monomer components containing (a) at least one kind of a monomer of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and (b) at least one kind of a monomer of an N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide, wherein: a content of the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester monomer (a) with respect to a total amount of the monomer components is 50 weight % to 99.9 weight % and a content of the N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide monomer (b) with respect to the total amount is 0.1 weight % to 20 weight %; and the monomer components are substantially free of a monomer having a carboxyl group. The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention is particularly suitable for applications such as medical patches and patch preparations.	05-26-2011

Junichi Sekiya, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090166229	Patch package structure - The main object of the present invention is to provide a patch package structure including a patch containing a physiologically active ingredient and a package housing the patch, which is capable of stably retaining the physiologically active ingredient in the patch during preservation. This object can be achieved by employing the following constitution.	07-02-2009
20090166236	Patch package structure - The main object of the present invention is to provide a patch package structure capable of stably retaining the physiologically active ingredient in a patch during preservation of the patch. This object can be achieved by employing the following constitution.	07-02-2009
20100010043	PERCUTANEOUSLY ABSORBABLE PREPARATION - The present invention provides a percutaneously absorbable preparation comprising 2-[(1-benzylpiperidin-4-yl)methyl]-5,6-dimethoxyindan-1-one and/or a hydrochloride thereof wherein the percuneously absorbable preoaration is able to administer to a patient such that Cmax per unit surface area of the percutaneously absorbable preparation is 0.025 to 0.5 ng/ml·cm	01-14-2010
20110056863	ADHESIVE PREPARATION CONTAINING DONEPEZIL, AND PACKAGE OF THE SAME - [Object] An adhesive preparation containing donepezil is provided in which adhesive layer discoloration over time is inhibited.	03-10-2011
20110223235	SELEGILINE-CONTAINING ADHESIVE PREPARATION - The present invention provides an adhesive preparation, which includes a backing and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on at least one side of the backing, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing (−)-(R)—N,α-dimethyl-N-2-propynylphenethylamine and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a pressure-sensitive adhesive and one or two or more stabilizers selected from the group consisting of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole, sodium sulfite, butylhydroxyanisole and butylhydroxytoluene.	09-15-2011

Katsuhiko Sekiya, Ota-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110097875	WAFER PROCESSING METHOD - A wafer processing method for dividing a wafer into individual devices along a plurality of crossing streets formed on the front side of the wafer, the individual devices being respectively formed in a plurality of regions partitioned by the streets. The wafer processing method includes the steps of attaching the front side of the wafer to a dicing tape supported to an annular dicing frame, grinding the back side of the wafer to reduce the thickness of the wafer to a predetermined thickness, forming a break start point along each street from the back side of the wafer, applying an external force to the wafer to break the wafer along each street where the break start point is formed, thereby dividing the wafer into the individual devices, attaching the back side of the wafer to a front side of an adhesive tape supported to an annular frame and next removing the adhesive tape from the front side of the adhesive tape, and peeling off and picking up each device from the adhesive tape.	04-28-2011

Katsuhiko Sekiya, Higashihiroshima-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100103415	MIST MEASURING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a mist measuring apparatus in which visual confirmation performance is enhanced, and high-accuracy detection is enabled. In the mist measuring apparatus including a housing, and a light source that is provided in this housing and emits light to a misty cutting fluid, the housing is provided around an ejection part of the misty cutting fluid, the light emitted from the light source is a visible ray, and the housing is provided with an observation part for observing scattered light from the misty cutting fluid.	04-29-2010
20100120337	CUTTING METHOD AND CUTTING DEVICE FOR HARD MATERIAL - A method of cutting a workpiece made of a highly-hard material is provided. The workpiece is cut by a machining device including a workpiece holder that holds the workpiece, a spindle device that rotates the workpiece holder, a tool holder that holds a tool, and a relative moving mechanism that relatively moves the workpiece holder and the tool holder at least in two axial directions orthogonal to each other. In the machining device, positioning errors in the axial directions are within 5 nm.	05-13-2010

Kazunari Sekiya, Fuchu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080258411	POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND DEPOSITION METHOD USING THE POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - A power supply apparatus includes a power supply mechanism which supplies, from an external power supply, electric power to be supplied to an electrostatic chuck. The power supply mechanism includes a first conductive annular member fixed to the end portion of a strut, and capable of rotating together with the strut, a second conductive annular member fixed to a housing, and brought into surface contact with the first conductive annular member, and a first power supply member which supplies a supplied first voltage to an electrode of the electrostatic chuck via the second conductive annular member and the first conductive annular member.	10-23-2008

Kazuo Sekiya, Aomori JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120007900	FIELD-SEQUENTIAL COLOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING COLORS THEREOF - A control drive circuit provided in an FSC-LCD comprises an input stage signal processing/controlling circuit (	01-12-2012

Kazuo Sekiya, Miyagi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110310330	THIN BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - According to a conventional backlight device for use in a thin full-color display device in which pixels are subjected to a color separation by colored lights, a large chromatic aberration occurs, thereby causing a deterioration in image quality. A thin backlight system in accordance with the present invention includes: a light emitting section (	12-22-2011

Kou Sekiya, Gunma JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100047100	TUBE PUMP AND ROTOR FOR TUBE PUMP - A tube pump rotor including a rotor element, a plurality of first swing portions supported pivotally at their base end portions by the rotor element, second arm-shaped swing portions supported pivotally at their base end portions individually by the first swing portions, rollers supported rotatably by the individual free ends of the second swing portions, and buffer members made to confront the side faces of the second swing portions so that the rollers may be individually directed radially outward of the rotor.	02-25-2010

Kuninobu Sekiya, Chiba JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100079718	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged so as to be opposed to each other for sandwiching a liquid crystal; an image display portion; a sealing material which seals the liquid crystal; and a light-shielding film which is formed on a liquid crystal side of the second substrate so that a part of the light-shielding film extends beyond the image display portion to overlap with the sealing material, and which has openings in the image display portion, at least in regions of the multiple pixels, in which the part of the light-shielding film that overlaps with the sealing material has a recessed portion formed on a sealing material side of the light-shielding film continuously or discontinuously along a circumferential direction of the sealing material, to a depth that is smaller than a thickness of the light-shielding film.	04-01-2010

Makoto Sekiya, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100238487	Print system - A print system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a terminal apparatus, a print server, and a printing apparatus connected to each other via a network. The terminal apparatus includes a transmission unit for transmitting a print job of a user to the print server as a print job addressed to another user. The print server includes a storage unit for storing the print job of the user that has been transmitted from the terminal apparatus, as a print job addressed to the other user, and a transfer unit for transferring the print job addressed to the other user to the printing apparatus in response to a request from the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a transfer request unit for requesting the print server to transfer the print job addressed to the other user stored in the print server.	09-23-2010
20110103819	Image forming apparatus and function display method thereof - An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) transmits, when a user selects a mode, information representing the selected mode to a server. Receiving the information representing the mode from the MFP, the server reads extended functions corresponding to the received mode, forms display data for displaying the read extended function on the MFP, and transmits the formed display data to the MFP. Receiving the display data from the server, the MFP displays standard functions and displays the extended functions using the received display data, in an initial setting image for the mode selected by the user.	05-05-2011

Makoto Sekiya, Wako-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090143931	MOBILE APPARATUS AND MOBILE APPARATUS SYSTEM - Mobile apparatuses capable of moving or acting autonomously, without contacting each other, in an environment where movements of the mobile apparatuses are not managed by a server are provided. In a robot functioning as a first mobile apparatus, it is recognized that an object corresponds to a second mobile apparatus, and based on this recognition, a target trajectory is searched for and determined. Further, the first mobile apparatus causes another robot functioning as the second mobile apparatus to recognize a part or a whole of the target trajectory. In the second mobile apparatus, the part or the whole of the target trajectory of the first mobile apparatus is recognized, and based on this recognition, a target trajectory that the second mobile apparatus should follow is searched for and determined. This allows the mobile apparatuses to move along their respective target trajectories to avoid contact with each other.	06-04-2009
20090143932	MOBILE APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A mobile apparatus capable of moving or acting autonomously while flexibly avoiding contact with a moving object in accordance with various situations is provided. In a case where a second safety condition is not satisfied because, e.g., a first target trajectory cannot be found, a second target trajectory causing a first spatial element to approach the boundary of an element passing region is searched for and determined. A robot autonomously approaches the boundary of the passable region in accordance with the second target trajectory determined as a provisional target trajectory, and stops at the position corresponding to the end point of the second target trajectory. Such movement of the robot along the second target trajectory increases the space, making it possible to prompt an object to move through the space.	06-04-2009
20100082196	MOBILE APPARATUS - Even when a first moving condition is not satisfied, when it is determined that a second moving condition is satisfied and at the same time an object belongs to a first classification, an operation of a robot is controlled so as to prompt the object to move according to a first pattern or an arbitrary pattern. The second moving condition is a condition that the robot is capable of moving in according to a current target position trajectory without being obstructed by the object when the object is displaced according to the first pattern. The first classification is a classification of the object as an object capable of recognizing an action pattern of the robot and capable of moving autonomously.	04-01-2010

Makoto Sekiya, Nara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090303518	IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing system which facilitate management against unauthorized use by creating a job log according to a usage status of a user. A creation section creates a different job log for each individual user. The job log has storage conditions of image data included in the job log set according to a storage level. The storage conditions are a color of an image, a resolution of the image data and whether or not necessary to create OCR data of the image data. To increase efficiency of a follow-up research by using such a job log, the storage level of the image data relating to the user having performed unauthorized use is raised.	12-10-2009

Makoto Sekiya, Yamatokoriyama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080256459	Control apparatus, program, computer-readable storage medium, imaging apparatus control system, and control method - A multifunctional apparatus control system includes a multifunctional apparatus an authentication information input device, an I/F converter, and a control server. The control server includes: a UI control section which transmits, to the multifunctional apparatus over a network, data of authentication screen which prompts the user to make preparations for causing the authentication information input device to acquire authentication information; an authentication information input device driver which controls the operation of the authentication information input device over the network and receives, over the network, the authentication information that the authentication information input device has acquired; an authenticating section which performs authentication based on the authentication information that the authentication information input device driver has received; and a device control section which permits the multifunctional apparatus to execute the job, in accordance with the authentication result of the authenticating section. This arrangement makes it possible to construct a flexible authentication system.	10-16-2008

Makoto Sekiya, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110153138	MOVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - Even when a first moving condition is not satisfied, when it is determined that a second moving condition is satisfied and at the same time an object belongs to a second classification, an operation of a robot is controlled so as to prompt the object to move according to a first pattern or an arbitrary pattern. The “first moving condition” is a condition that the robot is capable of moving without being obstructed by the object when the robot moves according to a current target position trajectory. The “second moving condition” is a condition that the robot is capable of moving according to the current target position trajectory without being obstructed by the object when the object is displaced according to the first pattern. The “second classification” means a classification of the object which is capable of being moved by a force from the robot acting thereon.	06-23-2011

Mamoru Sekiya, Neyagawa-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090066377	PULSE WIDTH MODULATION CIRCUIT AND SWITCHING AMPLIFIER USING THE SAME - A pulse width modulation circuit of the present invention changes a voltage of a charging circuit based on an input signal voltage and in synchronization with a first switching signal; changes, during a predetermined second period following a first period during which the voltage of the charging unit is changed, the voltage of the charging unit in an opposite direction to a direction in which the voltage is changed during the first period, based on a constant bias current; detects time starting from when the second period starts to when the voltage of the charging unit reaches a predetermined reference voltage; and generates, based on the detected time which is repeatedly output each time the first switching signal is output, a pulse signal having a pulse width of the time.	03-12-2009
20090121342	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING MAIN SUBSTRATE AND SUB SUBSTRATES AND FABRICATION METHOD OF THE SAME - A semiconductor device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a semiconductor device including a main substrate and one or more sub substrates, and the semiconductor device includes first heat generating devices mounted on the sub substrates, sub-substrate heatsinks mounted to the first heat generating devices, and a main-substrate heatsink mounted to the main substrate, wherein the sub-substrate heatsinks and the main-substrate heatsink are secured to each other, such that there is a predetermined positional relationship between the sub substrates and the main substrate.	05-14-2009
20090140786	PULSE WIDTH MODULATION CIRCUIT AND SWITCHING AMPLIFIER USING THE SAME - A pulse width modulation circuit includes a first electric-charge accumulator; a second electric-charge accumulator; a first current generator which generates a first current corresponding to the amplitude of an input AC voltage; a second current generator which generates a second current with a constant value; a first current supply controller which supplies the first current to the first electric-charge accumulator; a second current supply controller which supplies the second current to the first electric-charge accumulator; a third current supply controller which supplies the first current to the second electric-charge accumulator; a fourth current supply controller which supplies the second current to the second electric-charge accumulator; and a current limiter which limits the first current to a third current with a predetermined current value, if the amplitude of the AC voltage in the negative side exceeds a predetermined level.	06-04-2009
20090214075	LOUDSPEAKER - The loudspeaker includes a dome diaphragm that is made of a base material impregnated in a thermosetting resin; a cone diaphragm whose outer circumference side end portion is coupled with an outer circumference end portion of the dome diaphragm; and a voice coil having a bobbin whose one end is coupled to a back surface of the dome diaphragm, and whose outer curved surface is coupled with an inner circumference end portion of the cone diaphragm, wherein the dome diaphragm is provided with a plurality of cone-shaped projections that is formed by hardening the thermosetting resin, projecting from the back surface, and disposed in a circular pattern with a space between each other, the plurality of cone-shaped projections defining a coupling portion to which the one end of the bobbin is coupled.	08-27-2009

Masahiro Sekiya, Fuchu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100223529	COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM USING TWO OR MORE CODING SCHEMES - A communication method includes causing a transmitter to apply error correcting or detecting code systems to multiple frames or packets and to transmit the multiple frames or packets in succession, causing a receiver to receive the transmitted frames or packets and to decode each of the frames or packets received, and causing the receiver to send an acknowledgment signal to the transmitter on the basis of the results of decoding of the frames or packets. The transmitter applies two or more error correcting or detecting code systems to the frames or packets.	09-02-2010

Michiyo Sekiya, Mishima-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080233499	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photosensitive member having a charge generation layer containing a phenanthrene compound, a phenanthroline compound or an acenaphthene compound. Also disclosed are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have the electrophotographic photosensitive member.	09-25-2008
20090297218	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photosensitive member having a charge generation layer containing a phenanthrene compound, a phenanthroline compound or an acenaphthene compound. Also disclosed are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have the electrophotographic photosensitive member.	12-03-2009
20110104597	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a conductive support, an intermediate layer provided on the conductive support, and a photosensitive layer provided on the intermediate layer in which the intermediate layer contains a polyolefin resin containing a specific component at a specific mass ratio, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member.	05-05-2011
20110104598	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER,PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - The electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a support; and a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer and a photosensitive layer which are provided on the support in this order, in which the second intermediate layer contains a polyolefin resin and a metal oxide particle having a volume-average particle diameter of 20 nm or less, and the first intermediate layer contains a metal oxide particle, and the volume-average particle diameter of the metal oxide particle contained in the first intermediate layer is 10 times or more to 200 times or less as large as the volume average particle diameter of the metal oxide particle contained in the second intermediate layer.	05-05-2011
20110104599	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support; an intermediate layer, a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer which are provided on a conductive support in this order, in which the intermediate layer contains an ethylene-acrylic acid binary copolymer and a polyolefin resin in which repeating structural units are contained in a particular ratio.	05-05-2011
20110104601	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photosensitive member obtained by providing, on a conductive support, a conductive layer containing conductive particles having a volume-average particle diameter of 0.1 μm or more, an intermediate layer, and a photosensitive layer in the stated order in which the conductive layer contains a polyolefin resin containing a specific repeating structural unit at a specific ratio, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member.	05-05-2011
20110129768	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - According to aspects of the present invention, an electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a surface layer comprising a cured resin obtained by polymerizing a compound having at least one polymerizable functional group. Aspects of the present invention provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member whose surface layer comprises a compound (urea derivative) having a certain structure, a method for producing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus including the electrophotographic photosensitive member.	06-02-2011
20110143273	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photosensitive member obtained by providing an intermediate layer and a photosensitive layer on a conductive support in the stated order, the electrophotographic photosensitive member being characterized in that the intermediate layer contains a specific polyolefin resin and a specific organic electron-transporting substance, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member.	06-16-2011
20110268472	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can reproduce good images with less positive ghost and also has a good photosensitivity, the electrophotographic photosensitive member is incorporated in its photosensitive layer with a copolymer having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (2), or a copolymer having a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a repeating structural unit represented by the formula (3).	11-03-2011

Michiyo Sekiya, Shizuoka-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090185822	ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive layer, an intermediate layer and a photosensitive layer in this order on a substrate, in which the conductive layer contains a binder resin and conductive particles. The conductive particles are TiO	07-23-2009

Mitsuru Sekiya, Odawara-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090176616	Continuously variable transmission - A continuously variable transmission includes an input shaft rotatably supported in a housing; a first speed change unit and a second speed change unit, provided within the housing and disposed facing each other symmetrically with respect to a plane normal to the axial direction of the input shaft, to continuously vary the speed of rotation of the input shaft using traction force; an output rotating gear supported to be able to rotate freely about the input shaft so that the rotation of the output rotating gear is synchronized with the rotation which has been varied in speed by the first speed change unit and the second speed change unit; and an output shaft. The torque of the input shaft can be doubled by the two speed change units while continuously varying the speed, and the thrust loads generated in the axial direction of the input shaft cancel each other out.	07-09-2009

Momoyo Sekiya, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110215763	SERIAL CHARGING AND DISCHARGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF DISCONNECTING CELL IN SERIAL CHARGING AND DISCHARGING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a serial charging and discharging system includes a cell connected in series to a power source for charging and discharging the cell, a diode provided upstream of the cell, a first switch connected in parallel to the diode, a second switch connected in series between the diode and the cell, a bypass circuit which bypasses the upstream of the diode and the downstream of the cell, a third switch connected to the bypass circuit; and a controller which controls the make and break of the first switch, the second switch, and the third switch.	09-08-2011

Motoyoshi Sekiya, Kawasaki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090220241	CHROMATIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION DESIGNING METHOD IN OPTICAL NETWORK AND A SYSTEM THEREOF - A residual chromatic dispersion target value at a terminal node is set for each wavelength path, and also, candidates of a dispersion compensation amount settable in each chromatic dispersion compensation module on an optical network are set, and further, computation processing is executed for selecting the dispersion compensation amount in each chromatic dispersion compensation module from the candidates so that the sum of errors between the residual chromatic dispersion amounts and the set residual chromatic dispersion target values at the terminal nodes for all of wavelength paths becomes minimum. As a result, for each wavelength path on the optical network, the dispersion compensation amount in each chromatic dispersion compensation module can be designed in optimum so as to satisfy the desired optical signal quality at the terminal node, while considering the residual chromatic dispersion during the transmission.	09-03-2009
20100128809	COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is provided for communicating over a network. A plurality of transmission devices are disposed within a network and connected by transmission channels. A control device calculates initial data required during an initial operation of the transmission devices and sets the initial data to the transmission devices. The transmission devices perform reception processing using maximum likelihood sequence estimation, and the control device obtains, as the initial data, with respect to paths that are signal communication pathways between the transmission devices and in accordance with transmission states of individual paths, initial likelihood information that is initial-stage likelihood information for performing the maximum likelihood sequence estimation.	05-27-2010
20100153084	NETWORK DESIGN METHOD AND NETWORK DESIGN DEVICE - A network design method includes an input step for inputting a network condition at each of plural timings in advance, an acceptance step for accepting restricting conditions concerning respective costs at the plural timings, a design step for designing a network satisfying a restricting condition accepted in the acceptance step under the network condition input in the input step, and an output step for outputting a design result of the design step.	06-17-2010
20100220998	Network management system, repeater, and repeating method - A repeater includes a reception part configured to receive an optical signal transmitted by wavelength division multiplexing from a preceding repeater in a path from a source to a destination; a determination part configured to determine the channel allocation of the signal received by the reception part by determining a bit rate and a modulation technique with respect to each of channels in the received signal; and a detection part configured to detect a prohibited channel not to be included in the optical signal to be transmitted from the repeater, based on the channel allocation and a predetermined criterion.	09-02-2010
20110236014	OPTICAL-TRANSMISSION-LINE INSPECTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND OPTICAL-TRANSMISSION-LINE INSPECTION METHOD - An apparatus includes a pulse generator configured to generate a wavelet pulse defined by a setting device, an optical modulator configured to output an optical wavelet pulse based on the wavelet pulse generated by the pulse generator to an optical transmission line, and an analyzer configured to analyze a reflected wavelet pulse from the optical transmission line.	09-29-2011
20120008957	Optical transmission system and optical transmission method - An optical transmission system includes a plurality of optical nodes that transmits wavelength multiplexing light including a plurality of signal light components having different wavelengths, wherein each of the optical nodes includes superimposed signal light generation circuit which superimposes a low frequency signal having a common frequency on a corresponding signal light component included in the wavelength multiplexing light; low frequency signal extraction circuit which extracts a low frequency signal having a frequency of a given range from a corresponding signal light component; and pass-through node number measurement circuit which measures, for each of the signal light components, a pass-through node number based on the frequency of the low frequency signal extracted by the low frequency signal extraction circuit, the pass-through node number being the number of optical nodes through which the signal light component has passed before being transmitted to a specific optical node.	01-12-2012

Noritaka Sekiya, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110126528	EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING DEVICE - An exhaust gas purifying device having sufficient exhaust gas purifying performance and using a reduced amount of noble metal. An exhaust gas purifying device (	06-02-2011

Sachio Sekiya, Hitachinaka-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110106358	Cooling System of Electric Vehicle - A cooling system of an electric vehicle includes a cooling medium circulation path that circulates a cooling medium to an electrically powered drive unit of a vehicle, a heat exchange unit between the cooling medium and external air, a cooling medium circulation unit, a blower unit that blows air against the heat exchange unit, and a control unit that controls the cooling medium circulation unit and the blower unit, thus controlling cooling of the electrically powered drive unit. The control unit controls the cooling medium circulation unit and the blower unit in a first cooling mode, when a drive force for the vehicle is in a first operational region, and controls in a second cooling mode that provides a higher cooling capability than the first cooling mode, when the drive force for the vehicle is in a second operational region that is higher than the first operational region.	05-05-2011
20110113800	Vehicle Air-Conditioning Apparatus - A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus, including: a refrigerant circulation channel that flows a refrigerant, the refrigerant circulation channel provided in a refrigeration cycle system including, as connected in a cyclic pattern, a compressor for the refrigerant, an outdoor heat-exchanger exchanging heat between the refrigerant and an outdoor air, an expansion valve reducing pressure of the refrigerant, and an air-conditioning heat-exchange circuit exchanging heat between the refrigerant and air to be introduced into a vehicle interior; and an equipment heat-exchange circuit connected in parallel to the circuit and exchanging heat between the refrigerant and in-vehicle equipment. The circuit includes a cooling heat-transfer medium circulation channel that circulates a heat-transfer medium for cooling. The cooling channel has a cooling heat-exchanger exchanging heat between the refrigerant in the channel and a cooling heat-transfer medium for cooling the in-vehicle equipment and a cooling circulation pump for circulating the cooling heat-transfer medium.	05-19-2011

Sachio Sekiya, Hitachinaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110072841	Thermodynamic cycle system for moving vehicle - A thermodynamic cycle system for a moving vehicle, including a refrigeration cycle system through which a refrigerant flows, a first heat-transferring system through which a heat-transferring medium flows, the heat-transferring medium being used for adjusting temperatures of heat-liberation components, a second heat-transferring system through which a heat-transferring medium flows, the heat-transferring medium being used for adjusting an indoor air state, an intermediate heat exchanger provided between the refrigeration cycle system and the first heat-transferring system, an intermediate heat exchanger provided between the refrigeration cycle system and the second heat-transferring system, an indoor heat exchanger provided in the first heat-transferring system, and an indoor heat exchanger provided in the second heat-transferring system.	03-31-2011

Sadanori Sekiya, Kyoto-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100116982	ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETER - While applying a square wave voltage to the ion electrode (	05-13-2010

Satoshi Sekiya, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090050702	PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An IC card stores history information indicating information relating to a command executed for each logical channel in a storage portion and determines the validity of the command based on history information of a logical channel specified by the command stored in the storage portion when the command is supplied from an external device, performs a process corresponding to the command when the validity of the command is determined, and stores information relating to the executed command in the storage portion as history information of the logical channel.	02-26-2009
20090132852	PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A portable electronic device includes a storage unit in which information indicating correct process contents is stored. A reception unit of the portable electronic device receives a command for requesting a process from an external device, and the portable electronic device determines whether or not process contents to be executed according to the received command are matched with process contents stored in the storage unit. When it is determined that process contents according to the received command are matched with process contents stored in the storage unit, the portable electronic device executes a process according to the command received by the reception unit.	05-21-2009
20100205149	MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD IN MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A data memory of an IC card serving as a mobile electronic apparatus stores a record file which stores record data. The data memory has a record area which stores the record data and a data saving area which stores backup data to the record data stored in the record area. When a CPU of the IC card receives a command which requests record data in the record file to be rewritten from an IC card processing apparatus through a communication control unit and an interface, the CPU stores the record data stored in the record area as backup data in the data saving area. The CPU of the IC card rewrites the record data stored in the record area after the backup data is stored in the data saving area.	08-12-2010
20110231617	PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a portable electronic apparatus executing performing process based on command input from an external apparatus, and storing a plurality of TLV data objects, the apparatus includes, a storage unit configured to store the data class and data character of each TLV data object, respectively in two storage areas spaced apart from each other, and to store addresses of a fixed length, representing the positions of the data characters, in association with the each data classes.	09-22-2011

Shigenobu Sekiya, Wako-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080211153	SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC DEVICE - A system for controlling an electric device comprises: a power supply for supplying electric power to an electric device; switch portion connected between the power supply and the electric device for controlling the electric power supplied to the electric device; an LC filter disposed between the switch portion and the electric device; and current detection portion for detecting an electric current supplied to the electric device.	09-04-2008
20090043452	CONTROL APPARATUS OF A VARIABLE DAMPING FORCE DAMPER - A control apparatus of a variable damping force damper comprises first and second low-pass filters for cutting off high frequency components of a target current of the damper, where the first and second low-pass filters have different response characteristics. The control apparatus further comprises a low-pass filter selection unit for selecting one of the first and second low-pass filters based on at least one of the dynamic state of the vehicle body and the road surface condition.	02-12-2009
20110022265	CONTROL DEVICE FOR DAMPING-FORCE ADJUSTABLE DAMPER - A damping-force-adjustable-damper control device includes a target damping force setting unit which sets target damping force, a stroke position detecting unit which detects a stroke position of the damping-force adjustable damper, a stroke speed calculating unit which calculates a stroke speed, and a target output calculating unit which calculates a target output value to be output to the damping-force adjustable damper in accordance with an obtained target damping force and an obtained stroke speed. The control device also includes a processing-period setting unit which sets the processing periods of the stroke speed calculating unit and the target output calculating unit in accordance with a resonant frequency of unsprung mass, and which sets the processing period of the target damping force setting unit to be longer than the processing periods of the stroke speed calculating unit and the target output calculating unit in accordance with a resonant frequency of sprung mass.	01-27-2011

Shigenobu Sekiya, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080251982	VARIABLE DAMPER - In a variable damper using magneto-rheological fluid that comprises a cylinder (	10-16-2008
20100017057	CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTABLE DAMPING FORCE - Upon searching control parameter used to adjust damping force of a damper from a map in accordance with damper speed and target damping force decided based on moving condition of the vehicle, the map sets the control parameter, which are relatively higher than the actual damping force characteristics, as map data in the area where the damper speed is less than a predetermined value, the area where the noise has the great influence on the sensor outputs. Therefore, it can be prevented that the control parameter of the damping force is varied largely or varied in a short period by the influence of noise, and the driving stability control of the vehicle can be executed exactly and the noise caused by switching the damping force of the damper can be reduced.	01-21-2010

Shunsuke Sekiya, Utsunomiya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090069455	Extruded styrenic resin foam and method for producing the same - The present invention relates to an extruded styrenic resin foam and a method for producing the same, wherein a base resin composing the extruded styrenic resin foam is a styrenic resin mixture of a styrene-(meth)acrylic ester copolymer, or a combination of a styrene-(meth)acrylic ester copolymer and polymethyl methacrylate, and a styrenic resin except the styrene-(meth)acrylic ester copolymer, and the styrenic resin mixture contains a (meth)acrylic ester component at a ratio of 4 to 45% by weight with reference to the styrenic resin mixture. The present invention provides an extruded styrenic resin foam having an apparent density of 20 to 60 kg/m	03-12-2009

Tadanobu Sekiya, Hachioji-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100136267	THERMAL TRANSFER IMAGE RECEIVING SHEET AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - A thermal transfer image receiving sheet containing a substrate having thereon a thermal insulation layer, an intermediate layer and an image receiving layer in that order, wherein the thermal insulation layer, the image receiving layer and the intermediate layer each is formed by an aqueous coating method.	06-03-2010

Takafumi Sekiya, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090213246	Camera - A camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject created by a photographic lens, creates an image to be recorded when a release start command is issued, and creates a through image for composition confirmation before starting of the release; a body in which the image-capturing unit is disposed; a tilt angle detection unit that detects the tilt angle of the body about the optical axis of the photographic lens; a composite image creation unit that creates and outputs a composite image for display for displaying the through image and the image to be recorded in a single screen; and a display unit that displays the composite image for display. The composite image creation unit creates the composite image for display so that the photographic subject that appears in the image to be recorded is displayed upon the display unit as being approximately erect.	08-27-2009

Takashi Sekiya, Chiba JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110084261	ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR - A bottom-contact type organic thin film transistor comprising at least a gate electrode, an insulator layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and an organic semiconductor layer, on a substrate, wherein at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode has a multilayer structure formed by stacking an oxide layer and a metal layer, and the metal layer is surface-modified with an organic thin film layer.	04-14-2011

Takashi Sekiya, Kiyosu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110211017	DECORATIVE PRINTING METHOD - The present invention is used for a printing target having a non-flat surface portion in at least a portion of a printing surface. To form a decorative printing film on the printing surface of a base material, ink droplets of the same color as the color of the printing film are ejected from nozzles of an inkjet printer onto the printing surface. The distance from the nozzles to the printing surface is represented by X (mm). The droplet amount of the ink is represented by Y (pl). When the maximum value of the distance X is greater than 5 mm, the droplets are ejected from the nozzles each by an amount greater than the droplet amount Y represented by the equation: Y=0.9X	09-01-2011

Takayuki Sekiya, Nissin-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110283774	GAS CONCENTRATION DETECTION SENSOR - The sensor element	11-24-2011
20110283775	GAS CONCENTRATION DETECTION SENSOR - First outer gas apertures	11-24-2011

Takayuki Sekiya, Nisshin City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110036716	GAS SENSOR - A gas sensor, that represses a manufacturing cost, obtains high responsiveness and can effectively reduce adhesion of water to a sensor element and intrusion of water into the sensor element, is provided. In the gas sensor that has the sensor element mainly containing a solid electrolyte with oxygen ion conductivity and a protective cover arranged to surround the sensor element and detects a predetermined gas component in a measurement gas, the protective cover includes an inner protective cover that is formed into a bottomed cylindrical shape, has a plurality of inner gas distributing holes formed in two rows on its side surface in a longitudinal direction of the sensor element and surrounds one front end of the sensor element, and an outer protective cover that is formed into a bottomed cylindrical shape, has a plurality of outer gas distributing holes on its side surface and surrounds the inner protective cover.	02-17-2011

Takayuki Sekiya, Nissin-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110126610	Gas concentration detection sensor - A flow path from outer gas introduction apertures	06-02-2011

Takayuki Sekiya, Nishin-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090196804	PLASMA REACTOR - A plasma reactor includes a first tabular electrode, a plural second tabular electrodes that are disposed in parallel at given intervals perpendicularly to the first electrode, a honeycomb structure disposed between the first electrode and each of the plural second electrodes, and a pulse power supply that applies an electrical pulse between the first electrode and each of the plural second electrodes.	08-06-2009

Takeshi Sekiya, Abiko-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110002717	IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus starts a separation operation of separating at least one of a plurality of image bearing members and an intermediate transfer member from each other at a first speed, and when the at least one of a plurality of image bearing members and the intermediate transfer member are not separated from each other within a predetermined period of time from the start of the separation operation, the image forming apparatus performs the separation operation at a second speed lower than the first speed. With such a configuration, even when a sudden load to the separation motor occurs, a load increases due to aging degradation, etc., the occurrence of a separation operation failure of the intermediate transfer belt may be reduced to increase the service life of the image forming apparatus.	01-06-2011
20110024980	MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A motor control apparatus includes a stepping motor which includes a rotor and a stator, and a control unit, wherein, in a case where the stator is excited in a second excitation pattern before rotation drive of the stepping motor is started in a first excitation pattern, the control unit performs phase adjustment of the rotor by exciting the stator in the first excitation pattern by one cycle or a plurality of cycles of the first excitation pattern with a drive pulse of a frequency within a self-start range of the stepping motor, and starts the rotation drive of the stepping motor by exciting the stator in the first excitation pattern to a target frequency which exceeds a self-start frequency of the stepping motor by changing the drive pulses.	02-03-2011

Takuma Sekiya, Kashiwazaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100295251	CHROMIUM NITRIDE ION-PLATING COATING AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD, AS WELL AS PISTON RING USED FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - [Task] The chromium nitride ion-plating coating has a property that it is hard but is liable to peel off. Year by year, the required level of wear resistance and scuffing resistance becomes higher in a diesel engine. The property of a coating is improved to enhance the wear resistance and scuffing resistance and also to improve resistance against peeling off.	11-25-2010

Takuro Sekiya, Yokohama City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100194829	CONTINUOUS MULTI-NOZZLE INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A continuous multi-nozzle inkjet recording apparatus includes a multi-nozzle inkjet head including a liquid chamber, an ink nozzle plate, and a heating unit, a gas flow applicator, a cap, and a gutter unit. The ink nozzle plate includes ink jetting nozzles to jet ink column. The heating unit stimulates the pressurized ink at an exit opening of the ink jetting nozzles to separate ink droplets from the ink column. The gas flow applicator applies a gas flow to flying ink droplets. The gas flow applicator includes an opening to jet the gas flow. The cap shields an area of the gas flow from an ambient atmosphere space existing around a transporting and image forming area for the recording medium. The gutter unit catches ink droplets. Ink droplets not caught by the gutter unit are directed onto a recording medium to form an image on the recording medium.	08-05-2010

Takuro Sekiya, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100073697	ELECTRIC CHARGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An electric charging apparatus and an image forming apparatus using the electric charging apparatus, capable of stably discharging electrons and reducing deterioration in an electron discharging member, which includes an electric field forming device including two electrodes facing each other to form electric field therebetween including an electron discharging member provided at a portion of one of the electrodes, where the portion faces the other electrode, to discharge electrons into the electric field, and a voltage applying controller to control voltage applied to the electrodes, wherein the voltage applying controller selects two or more intensities of the electric field.	03-25-2010

Tomoaki Sekiya, Nagano JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090021072	VEHICLE BRAKE HYDRAULIC PRESSURE CONTROL APPARATUS - A the control unit	01-22-2009
20110118949	VEHICLE BRAKE FLUID PRESSURE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: a controller configured to control fluid pressures in wheel brakes to increase or reduce by controlling normally open electromagnetic valves and normally closed electromagnetic valves, wherein the controller perform: a pressure reducing in a pressure reducing cycle in which a basic pressure reducing control and a gradual pressure control are performed continuously in a case that the controller determines to execute a pressure reducing control with wheel speeds decreasing; a pressure reducing control in a basic pressure reducing amount in the basic pressure reducing control; and a temporary holding control for holding the fluid pressure and a fine pressure reducing control for executing a pressure reducing in an amount smaller than the basic pressure reducing amount in a case that the wheel speeds tend to decrease after the temporary holding control in the gradual pressure reducing control.	05-19-2011

Tomoko Sekiya, Tsukuba-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100168014	Screening method - The present inventors have found that relaxin-3 has a feeding-stimulating activity, a body weight increasing activity, and fat weight increasing activity by intracerebroventricularly administering relaxin-3 to rats and observing the amount of feeding, body weight and fat weight, and so on after the administration. According to the present invention, a polypeptide having useful effects in stimulating feeding, increasing body weight, and fattening; a therapeutic agent containing said polypeptide; a method of screening for a compound, a substance, or a salt thereof which activates or suppresses a receptor of said polypeptide; a kit for said screening; and an agent which comprises a substance which inhibits expression of said polypeptide, such as a feeding-surpressing agent, a therapeutic agent for the treatment of obesity, and a therapeutic agent for the treatment of diabetes.	07-01-2010
20110183318	METHOD FOR SCREENING OF SUBSTANCE EFFECTIVE ON DISEASE USING GPR120 AND PHOSPHOLIPASE - The present invention provides a screening method for determining whether a substance of interest is a substance which alters GPR120 mediated cell stimulating activities, comprising using a substance of interest, a biomembrane containing GPR120, or cells containing said biomembrane, and phospholipase or salts thereof. According to a screening method of the present invention, the method can screen substances such as CCK and GLP-1 which are involved in the secretion of hormones in gastrointestinal tracts.	07-28-2011

Tomoko Sekiya, Ibaraki-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090311185	Peptide having antianxiety activity and screening method therefor - The objects of the present invention are to provide a polypeptide having an antianxiety activity; a therapeutic agent containing the polypeptide; a method for treating anxiety using the polypeptide; a method of screening for a compound capable of activating or suppressing a receptor for the polypeptide and involved in the regulation of anxiety, a salt thereof, or a hydrate of them; and a kit for the screening. There is provided an antianxiety agent containing relaxin-3.	12-17-2009
20100227350	Method of Screening Substance Useful in Treating Disease With the Use of GPR40 and Phospholipase - The present invention relates to a screening method for determining whether a substance of interest is a substance which alters GPR40-mediated cell stimulating activities, comprising using a substance of interest, a biomembrane containing GPR40, or cells containing said biomembrane, and phospholipase or salts thereof. According to the present invention, substances involved in insulin secretion can be screened. In addition, according to the present invention, substance useful for the prevention or treatment of diabetes, diabetic complications and degenerative diseases, hyperglycemia, polyuria, ketonemia, acidosis, insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, neurodegenerative diseases, insulinoma, cancers, hyperinsulinemia, hyperglyceridemia, fatty liver, hypoglycemia due to insulin hypersecretion, arteriosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, cerebral stroke, obesity, various diseases induced by diabetes or obesity, and the like.	09-09-2010

Yasuhisa Sekiya, Aichi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080299884	Grinding Wheel - In a grinding wheel in which abrasive tips for rough grinding and abrasive tips for finish grinding are alternately bonded to a periphery of a disk type base rotating about a rotation axis, each abrasive tip includes the abrasive layer for ed by bonding abrasive grains and a lower layer overlaid and integrally for led with the abrasive layer. The abrasive tip is attached to the periphery of the base at the lower layer. A Young's modulus of the lower layer of the abrasive tip for finish grinding relative to a load acting on the grinding surface of the abrasive tip in an inward direction of the grinding wheel is less than that of the abrasive tip for rough grinding. Thereby, the surface of a workpiece can be both rough-ground and finish-ground with superhigh-precision surface roughness with using one grinding wheel	12-04-2008
20090011198	VITRIFIED BOND GRINDING WHEEL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - In a vitrified bonded grinding wheel having superabrasive grains	01-08-2009

Yoshiharu Sekiya, Chikusei JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080208473	METHOD FOR CALCULATING ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD, PROGRAM FOR CALCULATING ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD, AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING UNITS - A technology is provided in which it is not necessary to modify a system on a production side, and in which man-hours required for registering an environmental load value on a supplier side are not increased, in cases of an item having a mismatch between units, in a process of adding up the environmental load values of a post-production product. The technology includes generating correction information for calculating the environmental load that is registered by the supplier at design time, and calculating the environmental load value at design time by using the correction information. In cases of calculating the environmental load value of a product actually produced from a designed product, the environmental load value is calculated using the correction information generated at design time.	08-28-2008

Yoshihide Sekiya, Aichi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110272230	BRAKING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - An electronic control unit inputs from temperature sensors a temperature of the heating side of a thermoelectric conversion section assembled to each of brake units provided for left and right rear wheels. When the temperature of the heating side is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature, the electronic control unit drives and controls a brake hydraulic pressure control section so as to operate the brake units preferentially over brake units provided for left and right front wheels. With this operation, each of the brake units generates friction heat, and heats the heating side of the corresponding thermoelectric conversion section, whereby the thermoelectric conversion section efficiently collects thermal energy and generates electrical power. Meanwhile, when the heating side temperature is higher than the predetermined temperature, the electronic control unit drives and controls the brake hydraulic pressure control section so as to decrease the proportion of the braking forces applied by the brake units and increase the proportion of the braking forces applied by the brake units.	11-10-2011

Yoshihide Sekiya, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090008193	DISC BRAKE DEVICE - A disc brake apparatus which can securely suppress clunking sounds not only at the time of forward braking of a vehicle but also at the time of back braking of the vehicle is provided. When a backing metal	01-08-2009

Yoshihiro Sekiya, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090049853	Air conditioner for vehicle - Noise occurring in an upright air-conditioning unit is greatly reduced. An upright air-conditioning unit	02-26-2009

Yuuichi Sekiya, Miyazaki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100127771	DRIVING CIRCUIT INCLUDING TESTING FUNCTION - The disclosure provides a driving circuit including a testing function including: an amplification circuit that amplifies an input signal and that outputs an amplified signal from an output terminal to one of a pair of input terminals of an electric device; an inversion circuit that inverts the amplified signal and that outputs an inverted signal from an output terminal to the other input terminal of the electric device; and a switching circuit that, when testing the electric device, puts the amplification circuit and the inversion circuit into a non-operating state and that switches to connect one of the output terminal of the amplification circuit or the output terminal of the inversion circuit to a first potential, and to connect the other output terminal of the amplification circuit and the output terminal of the inversion circuit to a second potential which is lower than the first electric potential.	05-27-2010