Patents by Inventor Yasuyoshi Ueda
Yasuyoshi Ueda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11970207Abstract: To provide a vehicle position processing apparatus, a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle position processing method, and a vehicle control method capable of increasing the number of the position information of front object used for generation of the trajectory and improving the generation accuracy of the trajectory. A vehicle position processing apparatus, a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle position processing method, and a vehicle control method that obtains positions of a target object, sets a trajectory generation range which is a continuous range including a position of the target object close to a position of the present own vehicle, selects positions of the target object included in the trajectory generation range among the plural positions of the target object, as target object positions for trajectory generation, and generates a trajectory of the target object based on the target object positions for trajectory generation.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takahiro Urabe, Masaya Endo, Yasuyoshi Hori, Kunio Ueda
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Publication number: 20220162564Abstract: A production method for pluripotent stem cells is provided, the method including the following (a) and (b): (a) a process filling a culture container with a liquid medium and thereafter raising, the temperature of the liquid medium in the culture container to the temperature at which pluripotent stem cells can proliferate; and (b) a process seeding pluripotent stem cells in the liquid medium in the culture container and culturing the pluripotent stem cells in suspension.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotoshi MATSUTA, Yasuyoshi UEDA
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Patent number: 9926580Abstract: A process for producing on an industrial scale the oxidized coenzyme Q10, includes culturing a reduced coenzyme Q10-producing microorganism selected from the group consisting of the genus Rhodobacter, the genus Saitoella, the genus Schizosaccharomyces and the genus Trichosporon, to obtain microbial cells containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a ratio of not less than 70 mole % among the entire coenzymes Q10; and one of: (a) oxidizing thus-obtained reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10 and then extracting the oxidized coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent; or (b) extracting reduced coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent and oxidizing the extracted reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Yajima, Takahisa Kato, Akihisa Kanda, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9776029Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an extinguishing agent which has excellent fire-extinguishing property and which exhibits high safety to the environment and human body. The fire extinguishing agent of the present invention is characterized in comprising a biosurfactant.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Izumida, Satohiro Yanagisawa, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9556098Abstract: With respect to reduced coenzyme Q10, there has been no report about the presence of crystal polymorphism, and it has been considered that a conventionally obtained crystal form is only one form. The present invention relates to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal having an endothermic peak indicating melting at 54±2° C. during temperature rise at a rate of 5° C./min by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and/or to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal showing characteristic peaks at diffraction angles (2?±0.2°) of 11.5°, 18.2°, 19.3°, 22.3°, 23.0° and 33.3° by powder X-ray (Cu—K?) diffraction. The crystal form is a novel reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal which has a higher melting point and a lower solubility in a solvent, and is more excellent in stability than the conventionally known reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Kawachi, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9532957Abstract: The present invention provides a stabilization method, a preservation method and the like method of reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as functional nutritive foods, specific health foods and the like. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining reduced coenzyme Q10 of high quality and by a method suitable for a commercial production. It is possible to handle and stably preserve reduced coenzyme Q10 under a condition that oxidation by a molecular oxygen is inhibited by contacting reduced coenzyme Q10 with, an ascorbic acid and citric acid or a related compound thereof, and thus a stabilized composition is obtained. Moreover, reduced coenzyme Q10 is converted into a crystalline state in such a condition that the formation of oxidized coenzyme Q10 as a byproduct is minimized by crystallizing reduced coenzyme Q10 in the presence of ascorbic acid or a related compound thereof etc., and thus a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal of high quality is produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ueda, Tadao Ono, Mitsutoshi Moro, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20160304915Abstract: A process for producing on an industrial scale the oxidized coenzyme Q10, includes culturing a reduced coenzyme Q10-producing microorganism selected from the group consisting of the genus Rhodobacter, the genus Saitoella, the genus Schizosaccharomyces and the genus Trichosporon, to obtain microbial cells containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a ratio of not less than 70 mole % among the entire coenzymes Q10; and one of: (a) oxidizing thus-obtained reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10 and then extracting the oxidized coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent; or (b) extracting reduced coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent and oxidizing the extracted reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Kazuyoshi Yajima, Takahisa Kato, Akihisa Kanda, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20160289152Abstract: With respect to reduced coenzyme Q10, there has been no report about the presence of crystal polymorphism, and it has been considered that a conventionally obtained crystal form is only one form. The present invention relates to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal having an endothermic peak indicating melting at 54±2° C. during temperature rise at a rate of 5° C./min by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and/or to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal showing characteristic peaks at diffraction angles (2?±0.2°) of 11.5°, 18.2°, 19.3°, 22.3°, 23.0° and 33.3° by powder X-ray (Cu—K?) diffraction. The crystal form is a novel reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal which has a higher melting point and a lower solubility in a solvent, and is more excellent in stability than the conventionally known reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo KAWACHI, Shiro KITAMURA, Yasuyoshi UEDA
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Patent number: 9440901Abstract: Provided is a production method of Form I crystal of reduced coenzyme Q10 or a crystalline solid thereof, which is substantially free of Form II crystal, including a step of holding a solution containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a temperature exceeding 47° C. for at least 60 minutes, and a step of crystallization thereafter.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Kawachi, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9388109Abstract: With respect to reduced coenzyme Q10, there has been no report about the presence of crystal polymorphism, and it has been considered that a conventionally obtained crystal form is only one form. The present invention relates to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal having an endothermic peak indicating melting at 54±2° C. during temperature rise at a rate of 5° C./min by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and/or to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal showing characteristic peaks at diffraction angles (2?±0.2°) of 11.5°, 18.2°, 19.3°, 22.3°, 23.0° and 33.3° by powder X-ray (Cu—K?) diffraction. The crystal form is a novel reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal which has a higher melting point and a lower solubility in a solvent, and is more excellent in stability than the conventionally known reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Kawachi, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9315839Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 which comprises obtaining microbial cells containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a ratio of not less than 70 mole % among the entire coenzymes Q10, optionally disrupting the cells and recovering thus produced reduced coenzyme Q10. The present invention also relates to a process for producing oxidized coenzyme Q10 which comprises either recovering oxidized coenzyme Q10 after oxidizing the above-mentioned microbial cells or disrupted product thereof, or recovering reduced coenzyme Q10 from the above-mentioned microbial cells or disrupted product thereof to oxidize thus-obtained reduced coenzyme Q10 thereafter. According to the processes of the present invention, reduced coenzyme Q10 and oxidized coenzyme Q10 can be produced simply on the industrial scale.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Yajima, Takahisa Kato, Akihisa Kanda, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20150284311Abstract: Provided is a production method of Form I crystal of reduced coenzyme Q10 or a crystalline solid thereof, which is substantially free of Form II crystal, including a step of holding a solution containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a temperature exceeding 47° C. for at least 60 minutes, and a step of crystallization thereafter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Kawachi, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9040747Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a substance characterized by ability to reduce oxidized coenzyme Q10 and ability to stabilize reduced coenzyme Q10, which contains nutrients, has a favorable taste, and is excellent in general versatility, and a method for using the same. The present invention relates to a method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 comprising reducing oxidized coenzyme Q10 with a particular amino acid. The present invention also relates to a method for stabilizing reduced coenzyme Q10 in the presence of a particular amino acid and a composition stabilized by the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Takaaki Jikihara, Takao Yamaguchi, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 8853464Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing reduced coenzyme Q10 crystals suitable for commercial scale production thereof. According to a method of the present invention of producing a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal which comprises a crystallization of reduced coenzyme Q10 in a solution of alcohols and/or ketones, reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal excellent in slurry properties and crystalline properties maybe obtained. Moreover, an isolation process including a crystal separation or the whole process including the isolation process maybe minimized and simplified. Thus, highly pure reduced coenzyme Q10 may be obtained in a high yield.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ueda, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20140290970Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an extinguishing agent which has excellent fire-extinguishing property and which exhibits high safety to the environment and human body. The fire extinguishing agent of the present invention is characterized in comprising a biosurfactant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Izumida, Satohiro Yanagisawa, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20140212402Abstract: The present invention provides a stabilization method, a preservation method and the like method of reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as functional nutritive foods, specific health foods and the like. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining reduced coenzyme Q10 of high quality and by a method suitable for a commercial production. It is possible to handle and stably preserve reduced coenzyme Q10 under a condition that oxidation by a molecular oxygen is inhibited by contacting reduced coenzyme Q10 with, an ascorbic acid and citric acid or a related compound thereof, and thus a stabilized composition is obtained. Moreover, reduced coenzyme Q10 is converted into a crystalline state in such a condition that the formation of oxidized coenzyme Q10 as a byproduct is minimized by crystallizing reduced coenzyme Q10 in the presence of ascorbic acid or a related compound thereof etc., and thus a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal of high quality is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ueda, Tadao Ono, Mitsutoshi Moro, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20140120073Abstract: With respect to reduced coenzyme Q10, there has been no report about the presence of crystal polymorphism, and it has been considered that a conventionally obtained crystal form is only one form. The present invention relates to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal having an endothermic peak indicating melting at 54±2° C. during temperature rise at a rate of 5° C./min by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and/or to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal showing characteristic peaks at diffraction angles (2?±0.2°) of 11.5°, 18.2°, 19.3°, 22.3°, 23.0° and 33.3° by powder X-ray (Cu—K?) diffraction. The crystal form is a novel reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal which has a higher melting point and a lower solubility in a solvent, and is more excellent in stability than the conventionally known reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Kawachi, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 8703155Abstract: The present invention provides a stabilization method, a preservation method and the like method of reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as functional nutritive foods, specific health foods and the like. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining reduced coenzyme Q10 of high quality and by a method suitable for a commercial production. It is possible to handle and stably preserve reduced coenzyme Q10 under a condition that oxidation by a molecular oxygen is inhibited by contacting reduced coenzyme Q10 with an ascorbic acid and citric acid or a related compound thereof, and thus a stabilized composition is obtained. Moreover, reduced coenzyme Q10 is converted into a crystalline state in such a condition that the formation of oxidized coenzyme Q10 as a byproduct is minimized by crystallizing reduced coenzyme Q10 in the presence of ascorbic acid or a related compound thereof, etc., and thus a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal of high quality is produced.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2002Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ueda, Tadao Ono, Mitsutoshi Moro, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 8562975Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for stabilizing reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as an ingredient in good foods, functional nutritive foods, specific health foods, nutritional supplements, nutrients, animal drugs, drinks, feeds, cosmetics, medicines, remedies, preventive drugs, etc., and to a composition therefor. The composition comprises reduced coenzyme Q10, a fat and oil (excluding olive oil) and/or a polyol, and doesn't substantially inhibit the stabilization of reduced coenzyme Q10. Additionally, the composition is a reduced coenzyme Q10-containing composition which comprises reduced coenzyme Q10, a polyglycerol fatty acid ester, and a fat and oil and/or a polyol.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2003Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Yasuyoshi Ueda, Takahiro Ueda, Tadao Ono, Shiro Kitamura, Kenji Fujii, Kazunori Hosoe
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Patent number: 8506956Abstract: The present invention has its object to provide a method for stabilizing reduced coenzyme Q10, which is usable as foods, functional nutritive foods, specific health foods, nutritional supplements, nutrients, animal drugs, drinks, feeds, cosmetics, medicines, remedies, preventive drugs and the like. Reduced coenzyme Q10, which is readily oxidized in the air, is stabilized by causing ascorbic acid or a related compound thereof to coexist with a polyglycerol fatty acid ester with a polymerization degree of glycerol being not lower than 3 and/or a condensed ricinoleic acid polyglyceride in a mixture of the reduced coenzyme Q10 and an oil and fat.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ueda, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda