Patents Assigned to Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11934246
    Abstract: Object Provided is a power supply device and the like capable of improving convenience. Solving means A power supply device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure include a power supply unit that supplies power to an electromedical device, a first impedance control unit disposed on a path of a circulation path of the power between the power supply unit and the electromedical device, excluding an input path for inputting an electrical signal obtained in the electromedical device to another device, and a second impedance control unit disposed on the input path of a path between the power supply unit and the other device. An impedance state of each of the first and second impedance control units transitions in accordance with a supply state of the power to the electromedical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisao Miyamoto, Yusuke Oshima
  • Patent number: 11534236
    Abstract: An ablation needle device can maintain flexibility of an injection needle even when the length of an electrode constituted at a distal end portion thereof is increased and can perform cooling with small nonuniformity in the electrode during ablation. The ablation needle device includes: a hollow needle that is composed of a proximal end portion that is insulation-coated and a distal end portion constituting an electrode; a hub that includes a liquid injection port and a discharge port; an electric connector; a thermocouple; and cooling liquid introducing pipes each of which extends in the inside of the hollow needle, each of which has a distal end positioned in the inside of the distal end portion of the hollow needle, and each of which ejects liquid injected from the injection port from a distal end opening thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Mori
  • Publication number: 20220323717
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catheter including a novel strain relief that prevents or suppresses kinks of a catheter body. An electrode catheter 100 including a hollow tube-shaped strain relief 200 that includes a hollow part 210 penetrating through in an axial direction, and a catheter body 10 having a base end part 10a inserted into the hollow part is provided, in which the strain relief has an outer-diameter gradually-decreasing part 230 toward a tip end, and the gradual decrease rate of the outer diameter in the outer-diameter gradually-decreasing part increases toward the tip end. The strain relief 200 includes at least two gradient change parts 241 and 242 where the gradual decrease rate of the outer diameter changes. In the strain relief 200, the inner diameter of the hollow part 210 gradually decreases from the base end to the tip end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki NIWA
  • Patent number: 11344240
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an electrode catheter in which, when a rotational operation portion is operated, the rotational operation portion and an operating wire do not interfere with a lead wire, do not generate noise during the operation, and do not cause damage or breakage of the lead wire even when the operation is repeated. An electrode catheter according to the present invention includes a tube member 10, a handle 20 having a rotational operation portion 23, electrodes 31 attached to the tube member 10, lead wires 41, an electrode connector 50, and operating wires 71 and 72. A proximal end portion 12 of the tube member 10 is inserted from a distal end of the handle 20 to an inside of the handle 20, and extends in the inside of the handle 20 in the proximal end direction beyond the rotational operation portion 23. Side holes 111 and 115 are formed in a pipe wall of the proximal end portion 12 of the tube member 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Masuda
  • Publication number: 20220133203
    Abstract: To prevent unintended concentration of radially protruding arm members. An electrode catheter (1) includes a catheter body (10) and an electrode unit (100) attached to a distal-end portion (10a) of the catheter body. The electrode unit includes a plurality of arm members (110) in which a one-end portion (110a) in a longitudinal direction is supported by the catheter body and the other-end portion (110b) in a longitudinal direction radially protrudes from the distal-end portion of the catheter body, ring-shaped electrodes (120) attached to the arm members, and core wires (130) as regulating units that regulate actions of adjacent ones of the arm members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuto IIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11272978
    Abstract: An ablation needle device is a needle device intended for an ablation treatment of an adrenal tumor with transvenous introduction of an injection needle into an adrenal gland. The ablation needle device includes a metal injection needle including a pointed tubular distal portion and a tubular proximal portion, and a grip portion attached to a proximal side of the injection needle. The proximal portion of the injection needle is given flexibility by forming a helical slit in a distal region of the proximal portion. An outer surface of the proximal portion is coated with resin. A distal end of the distal portion of the injection needle is closed. A plurality of fine holes are formed in an outer surface of the distal portion including the closed part. The grip portion has a liquid-injection port for supplying liquid into the lumen of the injection needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Mori
  • Patent number: 11076912
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a balloon-type ablation catheter that can measure the electric potential around the entire circumference of the pulmonary vein at a position near the left atrium with electrodes attached to a catheter distal end part of an electrode catheter inserted in a shaft in a state where a balloon is pressed against the area around the ostium of the pulmonary vein. The balloon-type ablation catheter of the present invention includes a catheter shaft (10) having a multi-lumen structure in which a plurality of lumens (11 to 17) are formed that include a liquid feeding lumen (13), (16) and an electrode catheter insertion lumen (12), a distal end tip (30) attached to the distal end of the catheter shaft (10), a balloon (50) attached to the distal end part of the catheter shaft (10), and a high-frequency current application electrode (70) provided in the balloon (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Mori
  • Patent number: 10070920
    Abstract: Provided is a catheter that is manufacturable in a simplified fashion. The catheter 1 includes: a catheter tube 11 including a tip-flexible part 11A that has an inner tube (first tube 61) and a plurality of divided tube members 620 to 625 that are disposed on outer circumference of the inner tube and independent of each other; one or a plurality of metal rings disposed in the tip-flexible part 11A; one or a plurality of temperature sensors disposed corresponding to the one or the plurality of metal rings; and a handle 12 attached at a base end of the catheter tube 11. A rate of a thickness of the metal ring to an outer diameter of the metal ring is 7.5% or greater. The metal ring and the plurality of divided tube members 621 to 625 are both so disposed in the tip-flexible part 11A as to be fitted on an outer circumferential surface of the inner tube side by side in an axial direction of the catheter tube 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Masuda
  • Patent number: 9931080
    Abstract: Provided is a catheter that includes a catheter tube and a temperature sensor. The catheter tube includes a tip-flexible part and a base end part. The base end part includes a first base end section having rigidity higher than the tip-flexible part, and a second base end section having rigidity lower than the first base end section. The tip-flexible part has an axial length from 40 mm to 100 mm, the first base end section has an axial length from 200 mm to 400 mm, and the second base end section has an axial length from 200 mm to 900 mm. A value of the rigidity of each of the first and the second base end sections decreases linearly from the first base end section to the second base end section, in a region around a boundary between the first base end section and the second base end section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Masuda
  • Patent number: 9789230
    Abstract: A medical guide wire including a core wire having a distal end-side small-diameter portion and a proximal end-side large-diameter portion, and a coil spring installed on an outer periphery of the distal end-side small-diameter portion of the core wire along an axial direction, having a front end-side small-diameter portion, a tapered portion and a rear end-side large-diameter portion, and fixed to the core wire, wherein the front end-side small-diameter portion of the coil spring has a length of 5 to 100 mm, and the outside diameter of a coil thereof is at most 0.012 inch, the front end portion of the coil spring is fixed to the core wire by a gold-containing solder, and a length of a distal end portion stiffened by the gold-containing solder is 0.1 to 0.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20170281270
    Abstract: Provided is a catheter that is manufacturable in a simplified fashion. The catheter 1 includes: a catheter tube 11 including a tip-flexible part 11A that has an inner tube (first tube 61) and a plurality of divided tube members 620 to 625 that are disposed on outer circumference of the inner tube and independent of each other; one or a plurality of metal rings disposed in the tip-flexible part 11A; one or a plurality of temperature sensors disposed corresponding to the one or the plurality of metal rings; and a handle 12 attached at a base end of the catheter tube 11. A rate of a thickness of the metal ring to an outer diameter of the metal ring is 7.5% or greater. The metal ring and the plurality of divided tube members 621 to 625 are both so disposed in the tip-flexible part 11A as to be fitted on an outer circumferential surface of the inner tube side by side in an axial direction of the catheter tube 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Masuda
  • Patent number: 9550013
    Abstract: A medical guide wire which has a core wire having a distal end-side small-diameter portion and a proximal end-side large-diameter portion having a larger outside diameter than the outside diameter of the distal end-side small-diameter portion, and a coil spring installed on an outer periphery of the distal end-side small-diameter portion of the core wire along an axial direction and fixed to the core wire at at least the front end portion and rear end portion thereof. The outside diameter of the proximal end-side large-diameter portion of the core wire and the outside diameter of coil of the coil spring are each at most 0.012 inch. The front end portion of the coil spring is fixed to the core wire by gold-containing solder. The length of a distal end portion stiffened by the gold-containing solder is 0.1 to 0.5 mm. The medical guide wire is high in fixing strength of the coil spring to the core wire and can shorten a shaping length compared with a conventional medical guide wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9326729
    Abstract: An electrode catheter is provided with a catheter shaft (10), an operating handle (20) provided with a connector (70), a tip electrode (31), ring-shaped electrodes (32 to 34), lead wires (41 to 44) connected to the tip electrode (31) and the ring-shaped electrodes (32 to 34), respectively, and a pull wire (50) fixed to the tip electrode (31). The catheter shaft (10) is constituted of a shaft proximal end portion (11) formed of a metal tube having a spiral slit (115) formed in a tip portion, a shaft distal end portion (12) formed of a resin tube of multi-lumen structure, and a resin covering layer (13) covering outer peripheries of the shaft proximal end portion (11) and a rear end portion of the shaft distal end portion (12). The lead wires (41 to 44) and the pull wire (50) extend through different lumens of the resin tube constituting the shaft distal end portion (12). This electrode catheter can exhibit good kink resistance, torque transmissibility and pushability in the entire shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Mori
  • Patent number: 8626284
    Abstract: An intracardiac defibrillation catheter system equipped with a defibrillation catheter, a power source device and an electrocardiograph. The defibrillation catheter is equipped with a first DC electrode group and a second DC electrode group. The power source device is equipped with a DC power source unit, a catheter-connected connector, an electrocardiograph-connected connector, an arithmetic processing unit, which controls the DC power source unit and has an output circuit for outputting a direct current voltage from the DC power source unit, and a changeover unit, in which the catheter-connected connector is connected to a common contact. The electrocardiograph-connected connector is connected to a first contact, and the arithmetic processing unit is connected to a second contact. In the intracardiac defibrillation catheter system, electric energy necessary and sufficient for defibrillation can be surely supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Onodera, Yasuhiro Kojima, Kenji Mori, Yasuo Sakano
  • Publication number: 20120059279
    Abstract: A medical guide wire which has a core wire having a distal end-side small-diameter portion and a proximal end-side large-diameter portion, and a coil spring installed on an outer periphery of the distal end-side small-diameter portion of the core wire along an axial direction, having a front end-side small-diameter portion, a tapered portion and a rear end-side large-diameter portion, and fixed to the core wire at at least the front end portion and rear end portion thereof, wherein the length of the front end-side small-diameter portion of the coil spring is 5 to 100 mm, and the outside diameter of coil thereof is at most 0.012 inch, the front end portion of the coil spring is fixed to the core wire by gold-containing solder, and the length of a distal end portion stiffened by the gold-containing solder is 0.1 to 0.5 mm. This medical guide wire is high in fixing strength of the coil spring to the core wire and can shorten a shaping length compared with a conventional one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20110319872
    Abstract: A medical guide wire which has a core wire having a distal end-side small-diameter portion and a proximal end-side large-diameter portion having a larger outside diameter than the outside diameter of the distal end-side small-diameter portion, and a coil spring installed on an outer periphery of the distal end-side small-diameter portion of the core wire along an axial direction and fixed to the core wire at least the front end portion and rear end portion thereof. The outside diameter of the proximal end-side large-diameter portion of the core wire and the outside diameter of coil of the coil spring are each at most 0.012 inch. The front end portion of the coil spring is fixed to the core wire by gold-containing solder. The length of a distal end portion stiffened by the gold-containing solder is 0.1 to 0.5 mm. The medical guide wire is high in fixing strength of the coil spring to the core wire and can shorten a shaping length compared with a conventional medical guide wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 7722605
    Abstract: A radiofrequency electric current ablation catheter comprising a tip electrode, a means for detecting temperature of the tip electrode, a catheter shaft and a portion for operation at proximal end, wherein the tip electrode has a shape formed by connecting three or more spherical or approximately spherical surfaces having centers on the same straight line to each other with a curved surface. The catheter has the tip electrode which has a small diameter, is brought into excellent contact with organisms, can provide a great output power and is easily cooled with the circulating blood stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawabata, Tadatsugu Onuma, Yasuo Sakano
  • Publication number: 20060130934
    Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel was produced by the melting method. The ferritic stainless steel was worked to the shape of a medical device for living soft tissue to obtain a medical device body. The medical device body was brought into contact with gas including nitrogen at a 800° C. treatment temperature or more to make the ferritic stainless steel forming the medical device body absorb the nitrogen and transform at least part of the ferritic stainless steel to austenite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2003
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicants: Independent Administrative Institution National Institute For Materials Science, Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kuroda, Takao Hanawa, Morihide Makino, Takashi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20050261626
    Abstract: A balloon catheter comprises a connecting member, a catheter shaft, a balloon and a heat-generating member contacting a fluid in the balloon or in a distal portion of the catheter shaft. A medical apparatus have the balloon catheter. In a method for treating a living organ, a low temperature fluid is introduced and flows through the balloon, energy is introduced into the catheter shaft, is converted into heat by the heat-generating member and heats the fluid, and a living organ is heated and cooled for a medical treatment. A portion of disease is heated from 35˜40° C. to 60˜80° C. within 30 seconds, expanded by applying a pressure of 500 kPa or smaller to the balloon, and cooled to 45° C. or lower within 40 seconds. A living organ can be heated and cooled within a very short time to cure a diseased tissue. A blood vessel can be expanded without damages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicants: KEIO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN LIFELINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsunenori Arai, Atsushi Utsumi, Takashi Kawabata