Patents Assigned to Nikkiso Company Limited
  • Patent number: 10967113
    Abstract: A dialysate-extracting apparatus in which a collecting port can be disinfected with no disinfecting work to be performed by a worker. A dialysate-extracting apparatus includes a dialysate-extracting device having an introduction port and a discharge port each of which is connected to the flow route for liquid and allows the liquid to flow therethrough, and a collecting port from which the liquid flowing in the flow route is collectable; and an opening-and-closing device that is movable between a closing position where the opening-and-closing device covers the collecting port of the dialysate-extracting device and an opening position where the opening-and-closing device 6 opens the collecting port. The dialysate-extracting apparatus further includes an ultraviolet-applying device attached to the opening-and-closing device and that is capable of applying ultraviolet rays to the collecting port when the opening-and-closing device is at the closing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10940253
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus where neither an arterial puncture needle nor a venous puncture needle is stuck in the patient can be checked automatically when it is attempted to activate a blood pump in an unconnected step. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit for circulating blood, a dialyzer for purifying the blood, a blood pump provided to an arterial blood circuit for delivering liquid when activated, and a control device that executes a connected step when blood pump is activated with an arterial puncture needle (a) and a venous puncture needle (b) being stuck in the patient and an unconnected step in which the blood pump is activated with neither the arterial puncture needle (a) nor the venous puncture needle (b) being stuck in the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Toyoda, Akira Sugioka
  • Patent number: 10940252
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus with an arterial puncture needle or a venous puncture needle is stuck in the patient can be easily notified at the activation of a blood pump in an unconnected step. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit for circulating blood, a dialyzer capable of purifying the blood, a blood pump provided to an arterial blood circuit for delivering a liquid, and a control device that executes a connected step in which the blood pump is activated when an arterial puncture needle (a) and a venous puncture needle (b) are in the patient and an unconnected step in which the blood pump is activated with neither the arterial puncture needle (a) nor the venous puncture needle (b) being stuck in the patient. The control device establishes, in the unconnected step, a restricted state where the behavior of the blood pump at the activation of the blood pump is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Toyoda, Akira Sugioka
  • Patent number: 10820846
    Abstract: To provide a storage tray in which flexible tubes are to be stored and with which the efficiency of work to be performed after priming can be improved. A storage tray that stores a flexible tube to be attached to a medical apparatus, the flexible tube allowing fluid to flow therethrough. The storage tray includes a tray body that is securable to a predetermined portion of the medical apparatus and in which the flexible tube is storable, and a receiving portion that is included in the tray body and is capable of receiving a priming solution, which is used for flushing the flexible tube attached to the medical apparatus, and storing a predetermined volume of priming solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Ryo Kato, Hiroshi Miyaji, Masatoshi Tarumi, Shigeaki Funamura
  • Patent number: 10775252
    Abstract: A medical liquid-pressure-detecting device capable of detecting both the negative and positive pressure of liquid, whereby the misconnection of the device to a liquid flow route can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeaki Funamura, Hiroaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10751462
    Abstract: A medical apparatus in which the measurement of an electrocardiogram and the detection of blood leakage that may occur if an accessing unit comes off the patient can be performed accurately without fail, and with which the efficiency in the operation to be performed before the treatment can be improved. A medical apparatus includes a blood purification device including an accessing unit formed of a venous puncture needle stickable into a patient, electrocardiogram-measuring devices closely attached to a skin of the patient and being capable of measuring an electrocardiogram of the patient, and a blood-leakage-detecting device attached to a position near the accessing unit and being capable of detecting blood of the patient that may leak from the accessing unit. The medical apparatus further includes an integrated detecting device provided as a unit including the electrocardiogram-measuring device and the blood-leakage-detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Masahiro Toyoda, Tomoya Murakami, Shigeaki Funamura
  • Patent number: 10751459
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus employing a single-needle double-pump method and being capable of automatically discharging a priming solution that has undergone substitution from a blood circuit during blood removal. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit to which an only puncture needle is connectable, a dialyzer that purifies blood flowing in the blood circuit, a first blood pump, a second blood pump, and a control device that allows the blood of a patient to be extracorporeally circulated through the blood circuit by causing the first blood pump and the second blood pump to alternately undergo normal rotation. During blood removal, the control device operates to substitute a priming solution in the blood circuit with the blood of the patient and to discharge the priming solution having undergone the substitution from the blood circuit by causing the first blood pump to undergo normal rotation and the second blood pump to undergo reverse rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shinya Hasegawa, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Satoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10729838
    Abstract: To provide a blood purification apparatus in which the hot-water-disinfection time can be optimized with consideration for environmental conditions. A blood purification apparatus provided with a dialyzer for giving dialysis treatment to a patient, and with a tube for introducing dialysate into or discharging drain liquid from the dialyzer. The apparatus includes a thermistor that is capable of detecting an environmental condition at a time of a hot-water-disinfection process in which the tube is disinfected with hot water or a parameter regarding the environmental condition, and an estimating device that estimates a hot-water-disinfection time required for the hot-water disinfection of the tube in accordance with the environmental condition or the parameter regarding the environmental condition detected by thermistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Fumihiko Ishizaki, Shinya Hasegawa, Yuki Obata
  • Patent number: 10653827
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to a blood purification apparatus in which the connection of a substitution line to a collecting port can be checked accurately and instantly and even during blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit, a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line, a substitution line one end of which is connected to a collecting port provided at a predetermined position of the dialysate introduction line and an other end of which is connected to the blood circuit, a substitution pump configured to form a pressure-increasing portion that includes the collecting port, and a pressure-measuring device capable of measuring a pressure in the pressure-increasing portion. The blood purification apparatus performs a testing process by increasing a liquid pressure in the pressure-increasing portion by utilizing a liquid-feeding pressure applied from a liquid-feeding device and measuring the pressure with the pressure-measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Takeuchi, Kazuya Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10625007
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus and a blood purification system that is operable with increased ease even if a blood purifier requires special treatment conditions and operational settings is used. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood purifier for giving blood purification treatment by purifying blood of a patient; and a control device that executes, in accordance with preset treatment conditions and/or operational settings, an operation for performing the blood purification treatment or an operation associated with the blood purification treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Kentaro Kogoshi, Masahiro Aoshima, Satoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10612533
    Abstract: A reciprocation pump has a supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber and a waste liquid side sub-pumping chamber for containing and sending out liquid adapted to communicate with the supply liquid-side pumping chamber and with the waste liquid-side pumping chamber, respectively. The supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side sub-pumping chamber are interlocked with a reciprocation mechanism to vary their volume reversely to that of the volume variation of the supply liquid-side pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side pumping chamber, respectively. The reciprocating motion of the reciprocation mechanism enables the liquid to be supplied to the objective apparatus through the supply liquid-side pumping chamber and the supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber. Also, it enables the waste liquid from the objective apparatus to be discharged to the outside through the waste liquid-side pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side sub-pumping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10610634
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit through which blood of a patient extracorporeally circulate, and a dialyzer that purifies the blood flowing in the blood circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shinya Hasegawa, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10578553
    Abstract: These measurement devices are each provided with: irradiation unit that irradiate a fluid with light; a light-receiving unit that receives light scattered by the fluid; an acquiring unit that acquires fluid information which indicates the flow rate or the flow velocity of the fluid; and a control unit that controls the irradiation unit on the basis of the fluid information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mitsuru Sato, Kiyoshi Tateishi, Wataru Onodera, Atsuya Ito, Tomoya Murakami, Akari Agata, Genki Adachi
  • Patent number: 10532143
    Abstract: An installation member and a peristaltic pump are provided that allow work of attachment and work of detachment of a flexible tube to be peristaltic to and from a stator to be performed more easily and smoothly. An installation member that is to be detachably attached to a peristaltic pump including: a stator including an attachment recessed portion, in which a flexible tube to be peristaltic, is attached; a rotor that is rotatably driven in the attachment recessed portion; and a roller that causes the fluid to flow by imparting peristaltic motion to the flexible tube to be peristaltic attached to the attachment recessed portion in a longitudinal direction in association with rotation of the rotor while compressing the flexible tube to be peristaltic in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10518018
    Abstract: A blood purification system that is capable of notifying any changes in the patient's condition on the basis of noninvasive vital sings of the patient that are observed during the blood purification treatment. An external information-processing apparatus includes an external input device into which a vital sign detected by a detecting device is inputtable in real time; a checking device capable of checking whether or not the vital sign inputted in real time into the external input device satisfies a predetermined condition; and an external output device capable of outputting, if it is determined by the checking device that the vital sign satisfies the predetermined condition, a result of the checking or checked information including the vital sign leading to the result of the checking to a blood purification apparatus. The checked information outputted from the external output device is displayable on a display included in the blood purification apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Tomoya Murakami, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10512768
    Abstract: A clamp device for a flexible tube which can minimize the sealing area and prevent leakage of fluid and achieve easy release of the clamp device of a flexible tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Daiki Tsukamoto, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 10471202
    Abstract: The present teachings provide a blood purification apparatus in which inadvertent replacement of a container bag attached to a hanger portion can be avoided the blood purification apparatus including a holding device capable of holding a container bag that contains a liquid for blood purification treatment, such as dialysate, substitution fluid, or anticoagulant, the blood purification apparatus being capable of performing blood purification treatment using the liquid in the container bag, and the holding device including a hanger portion including an attachment portion to which the container bag can be attached, and movable between a use position and a replacement position, a measuring device capable of measuring the weight of the container bag held by the hanger portion, and a restricting device that restricts attachment and detachment of the container bag to and from the attachment portion when the hanger portion is in the use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10471200
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus capable of achieving a simplified configuration and switching between hemodialysis treatment (HD), hemofiltration treatment (HF), and hemodiafiltration treatment (HDF) as well as selecting from pre-dilution, post-dilution and pre and post-dilution easily and smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10441699
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit, a dialyzer capable of purifying the blood flowing through the blood circuit, a blood pump provided to an arterial blood circuit and that delivers the blood in the blood circuit, and an air-trap chamber capable of collecting air in the blood flowing through the blood circuit. A peristaltic pump (a substitution-fluid-infusion device) that is capable of infusing a substitution fluid is connected to the air-trap chamber. A substitution fluid layer is formable on a blood layer in the air-trap chamber. The air-trap chamber is provided with a blood-interface-detecting device that is capable of detecting an interface between the blood layer and the substitution fluid layer that are formed in the air-trap chamber. A lack of substitution fluid in the air-trap chamber is detectable on the basis of the interface between the blood layer and the substitution fluid layer that is detected by the blood-interface-detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20190277875
    Abstract: This fluid measuring device is provided with: an irradiation unit that irradiates a fluid with light; a light receiving unit that receives light scattered by the fluid; a detecting unit that detects a backflow of the fluid on the basis of a light reception signal from the light receiving unit; and a calculating unit that calculates, on the basis of the detection result by the detection unit and the light reception signal from the light receiving unit, estimated fluid information indicating the flow rate or flow speed of the fluid. Accordingly, even when a backflow of the fluid temporarily occurs, the flow speed of the fluid can be precisely measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiyoshi TATEISHI, Wataru ONODERA, Atsuya ITO, Tomoya MURAKAMI, Akari AGATA, Genki ADACHI