Patents Assigned to Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20140213184
    Abstract: An intra-body communication apparatus includes an antenna coil configured to wirelessly communicate a magnetic induction signal with communication equipment by using magnetic induction at a carrier frequency, an electrode for a human body, the electrode connected to the antenna coil, and a resonance circuit including the antenna coil. The resonance circuit resonates at the carrier frequency. The intra-body communication apparatus is configured to transmit the magnetic induction signal from the communication equipment received by the antenna coil to the human body via the resonance circuit at the carrier frequency, without converting or changing a frequency of the magnetic induction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20140212345
    Abstract: An isolator includes: a working chamber for conducting work on cells, the working chamber including an opening on a front face thereof; a transparent plate member, made of a resin, through which an interior of the working chamber can be viewed, the plate member being mounted to the working chamber so as to close the opening; and a working chamber sterilization device configured to sterilize the interior of the working chamber by supplying hydrogen peroxide gas into the working chamber, and thereafter discharge the hydrogen peroxide gas in the working chamber, the plate member having at least a face, facing the working chamber, formed to have a water absorption rate equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji KOUNO, Hironobu SEKINE, Yasuhiko YOKOI, Koichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140207058
    Abstract: This pharmaceutical injection device comprises a main body case (2) having an injection needle extension/retraction opening (1); a pharmaceutical syringe mounting portion (3) provided inside the main body case (2); a piston (5) capable of moving relative to the pharmaceutical syringe mounting portion (3); a drive mechanism (6) for the piston (5); a controller (7) that is electrically connected to the drive mechanism (6); and an orientation sensor (8) that is electrically connected to the controller (7). The controller (7) controls the speed of the piston (5) in order to reduce liquid leakage during pharmaceutical mixing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Hata, Tatsuya Kawabata, Seiji Kikuchi, Tsuguhiro Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20140205507
    Abstract: A sterilizer is connectable to an external chamber. A sterilization gas generator is configured to generate sterilization gas. A gas supply system including a first gas supply system which is configured to supply the sterilization gas from the sterilization gas generator to a sterilization chamber; and a second gas supply system which is different from the first gas supply system and configured to supply the sterilization gas from the sterilization gas generator to the external chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko YOKOI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Atsushi NAKAO, Jiro OHNISHI, Shinji FUKUI, Akifumi IWAMA, Masaki HARADA, Yoshiaki SUGIMURA, Katsuya HIRAI
  • Patent number: 8782999
    Abstract: A tablet supply apparatus including a main body having a case accommodating unit at the upper portion thereof, plural tablet cases that are secured in the case accommodating unit and in which tablets are accommodated, a chute through which tablets discharged from each of the tablet cases drop, a hopper that is disposed below the chute and provided in the main body, a filling device for filling tablets received by the hopper into a container, and at least one tablet feeder for freely putting into the hopper tablets whose kinds are other than the kinds of the tablets accommodated in the table cases. The tablet feeder has an opening for putting tablets, a shutter for temporarily trapping the tables put from the opening and a switch for opening the shutter, and is designed so that the put tablets on the shutter are visually recognizable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kondo, Takashi Mori, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8784381
    Abstract: A drug injection device includes a main body case having an injection needle let-in/let-out opening, a drug syringe mounting component that is provided inside the main body case and in which a drug syringe is mounted, a piston that is movable with respect to the drug syringe mounting component, a drive mechanism that drives the piston, a controller that is electrically connected to the drive mechanism, and an acceleration sensor that is electrically connected to the controller. This drug injection device allows the injection of a drug to be carried out safely and properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Seiji Kikuchi, Tsuguhiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8783864
    Abstract: Electronic spectacles include a spectacle frame; lenses having electric elements; a control unit that generates electric signals for driving the electric elements of the lenses; electric connector that transmit the signals from the control unit to wiring connector pads; and the electric connector have one end connected to a control unit for controlling the electric element and an another end extended to the inside of a rim of the spectacle frame. The electric connector passes through rim locks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatomo Matsui
  • Patent number: 8783865
    Abstract: Electronic spectacles include a spectacle frame; lenses having electric elements; a control unit that generates electric signals for driving the electric elements of the lenses; electric connectors that transmit the signals from the control unit to wiring connector pads; and the electric connector have one end connected to a control unit for controlling the electric element and an another end connected to lens electrode pads. The lens has an inverted V-shaped protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatomo Matsui
  • Patent number: 8785143
    Abstract: Provided are a method for increasing an amount of streptavidin to be immobilized on the self-assembled monolayer and a sensor which comprises streptavidin immobilized with the method. The method of the current technology is characterized by that one molecule of an amino acid is interposed between the self-assembled monolayer and the molecule of streptavidin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukari Hataoka
  • Patent number: 8778698
    Abstract: In a chromatography quantitative measuring apparatus, a beam applied from a light source to a chromatography test strip is formed into an elliptical shape by an optical means such as a cylindrical lens, a variation in absorbance that accompanies elution of a marker regent is detected while the elliptical beam is applied between a marker reagent hold part and a detection part, and a measurement is automatically started in a prescribed period of time since the detection of variation. According to the chromatography quantitative measuring apparatus so configured, non-uniform coloration is reduced by shaping the beam elliptically with the optical means, whereby the accuracy of quantitative analysis is enhanced, and the apparatus can be operated easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Miyoshi, Masahiro Aga, Kaoru Shigematsu
  • Patent number: 8773520
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for controlling an observation unit including an observation device for allowing a sample to be observed to acquire an observation image of the sample and an illumination device for illuminating the sample when the sample is observed with the observation device, the control device including a first control unit for controlling the illumination device to adjust an illuminance of the illumination device when a search mode is set for the observation unit, and a second control unit for controlling the illumination device to adjust the illuminance of the illumination device when a time lapse mode is set for the observation unit. Here, the illuminance set for the illumination device by the first control unit by adjusting the illuminance of the illumination device is lower than the illuminance set for the illumination device by the second control unit by adjusting the illuminance of the illumination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Inoue, Yoshitaro Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 8769915
    Abstract: A tablet supply apparatus including a main body having a case accommodating unit at the upper portion thereof, plural tablet cases provided in the case accommodating unit, each of the tablet cases having tablets accommodated therein, a hopper provided at the lower side of the tablet case in the main body, a nozzle for filling tablets received by the hopper into a container, the nozzle comprising a passage through which tables drop, a shutter which is freely opened and closed so as to allow or prohibit passage of dropping tablets through the nozzle, and a sensor for detecting passage of the tablets dropping through the passage at an upper side of the shutter. Furthermore, a tablet feeder for adding deficient tablets to the hopper comprises plural cells for accommodating tablets and an endless belt on which the cells are arranged on a line side by side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kobayashi, Takashi Mori
  • Publication number: 20140182327
    Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus includes an insulation housing including an inner box. The inner box has side plates and first and second refrigerating circuits including a first evaporation pipe and a second evaporation pipe, respectively. The first and second evaporation pipes are disposed on the side plates. The first and second evaporation pipes are bent so as to form a first comb shape and a second comb shape, respectively. The first and the second comb shapes form a nested structure. The first and second evaporation pipes include a first straight portion and a second straight portion extending the horizontal direction, respectively. A first distance between the first straight portion of the first evaporation pipe and the first straight portion of the second evaporation pipe and a second distance between the first straight portion of the second evaporation pipe and the second straight portion of the second evaporation pipe are substantially equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu KOBAYASHI, Jiro YUZAWA, Satoshi OKUDA, Hidetoshi SHINYA, Tadahisa SAGA
  • Publication number: 20140182328
    Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus includes an insulation housing including an inner box. The inner box has first and second side plates and a first curved corner connecting the first and second side plates; and a first refrigerating circuit including a first compressor and a first evaporator constituted by a first evaporation pipe, the first evaporation pipe including a first portion extending a horizontal direction and a second portion extending a vertical direction. The first portion of the first evaporation pipe is disposed to contact to the first and second side plates and the first curved corner of the inner box, and the second portion of the first evaporation pipe is disposed outside of the first portion of the first evaporation pipe at the first curved corner so that the first portion of the first evaporation pipe locates between the first curved corner and the second portion of the first evaporation pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu KOBAYASHI, Jiro YUZAWA, Satoshi OKUDA, Hidetoshi SHINYA, Tadahisa SAGA
  • Patent number: 8768531
    Abstract: A centralized-monitoring apparatus, which centralized monitors a device including a storage, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature therein, and a temperature-variable device to cool or heat inside the storage such that the temperature reaches a set object-preservation temperature, comprises: an input device to be input with first information indicative of a time zone in which the temperature-variable device performing power-saving operation and second information indicative of a set temperature of the time zone; a storage device to store the first-and-second information from the input device; a timing device to measure a current time; and a control device to control the temperature-variable device, based on the first-and-second information and current time, so as to start operation of turning the temperature to the set temperature when the current time reaches a starting time of the time zone, and terminate the operation when the current time reaches an ending time thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Sonoda, Masanaga Tanaka, Ikue Nono, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8764682
    Abstract: Disclosed are a measurement device and a puncture device that prevent thermal loss and enable decreased cost in laser units. A laser unit (200) of a measurement device (100) is equipped with a lens barrel (210), a laser rod (220) disposed inside the lens barrel (210), a flash lamp (230) which is disposed opposite the laser rod (220) inside the lens barrel (210) and in which an inert gas is sealed inside a hard glass tube (231), and supports (241, 242, 243, 244), which are made from a material with thermal conductivity of 100 W/(mK) or more, at least parts of which are disposed outside of the lens barrel (210), and which support the circumferential surface of the hard glass tube (231) in a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Horikawa, Takeshi Nishida, Yoshinori Amano, Tetsuya Takashima, Keisuke Matsumura, Masahiro Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 8765064
    Abstract: A sterile-substance-supplying apparatus comprising: an atomization unit including a reservoir unit to reserve hydrogen peroxide, and an ultrasound vibrator to impart ultrasound vibration to the reserved hydrogen peroxide to be atomized; an evaporation unit, provided above the reservoir unit, that heats the atomized hydrogen peroxide to be evaporated; a connecting member connecting the evaporation unit and the atomization unit to each other; a hydrogen-peroxide-supply port to allow the hydrogen peroxide to be supplied to the reservoir unit; a carrier-gas-supply port, provided at the connecting member, that allows carrier gas for allowing the atomized hydrogen peroxide to flow to the evaporation unit to be supplied; and a container portion to reserve a substance for transmitting the ultrasound vibration generated by the ultrasound vibrator, and a metal vibrating plate, provided at a bottom portion of the reservoir unit, that transmits to the hydrogen peroxide the ultrasound vibration transmitted through the sub
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yokoi, Jiro Ohnishi, Shinji Fukui, Akifumi Iwama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Masaki Harada, Tatsuya Hirose
  • Patent number: 8765079
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus includes: a dish mounting portion having a mounting surface mounted with a dish having a bottom surface and a side surface surrounding the bottom surface; a syringe, arranged above the dish mounting portion, having a nozzle configured to discharge liquid toward an interior of the dish; and a first driving portion configured to change the syringe in direction with respect to a first axis as a center, wherein the first axis is orthogonal to a normal to the mounting surface of the dish mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Tokumaru
  • Publication number: 20140174932
    Abstract: A measurement cell comprises a measurement chamber; an inflow aperture through which a sample liquid flows into the measurement chamber; an outflow aperture through which the sample liquid flows out of the measurement chamber; a measurement electrode which is provided in the measurement chamber at a position toward the outflow aperture, traps microorganisms contained in the sample liquid that flows in the measurement chamber, and to which a measurement AC voltage is applied for measuring the quantity of the microorganisms; a concentration electrode which is provided in the measurement chamber at a position toward the inflow aperture, and to which a concentration-use AC voltage is applied for imparting a repulsive force that guides the microorganisms contained in the sample liquid to the measurement electrode side; and insulators which are provided on the concentration electrode, and on which is formed an electrical field convergence unit that produces a repulsive force in a portion of the insulators when the
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo HAMADA, Junya SUEHIRO
  • Patent number: 8757496
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to reduce costs for biological sample measurement devices by means of providing a novel method for easily and reliably identifying types of biological sample measurement sensors. Specifically, the present invention provides a biological sample measurement device provided with a main body case, a sensor insertion port, a connector, a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element disposed inside of the main body case in the vicinity of the connector, and a connector terminal. The light-emitting element can irradiate light onto a biological sample measurement sensor attached to the connector. The light-receiving element can receive reflected light or transmitted light from the biological sample measurement sensor attached to the connector. The type of the biological sample measurement sensor is identified on the basis of the light received and recognized by the light-receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Watanabe