Patents Assigned to Panasonic Healthcare Holdings, Co., Ltd
  • Patent number: 9453832
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a biological sample measurement device, which is intended to be easier to use. To achieve this object, the present invention comprises a main body case (1) having a sensor insertion opening into which a sensor for measuring biological samples is inserted, a connection terminal (20) provided within the main body case (1) behind the sensor insertion opening, (5) and a shutter 7 that is provided within the main body case (1) between the sensor insertion opening (5) and the connection terminal (20) and that opens and closes the sensor insertion opening (5). This configuration makes the device easy to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Uenosono, Tadashi Okada
  • Patent number: 9448249
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus includes: a dish mounting portion having a mounting surface configured to be 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 rotate an inner bottom surface of the dish mounted on the dish mounting portion with respect to a first axis as a center of rotation, wherein the first axis is parallel to the mounting surface of the dish mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Tokumaru
  • Patent number: 9446206
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical injection device (100) comprises a main body (1), a movable member (11), a pharmaceutical holding member (10), and a first detector (28). The movable member (11) is mounted movably in the lengthwise direction of the main body (1). The pharmaceutical holding member (10) is mounted to the movable member (11), has a needle mount (17) for an injection needle (16) on one end, and houses a pharmaceutical syringe (50) containing the drug to be injected into a body. The first detector (28) is provided to the movable member (11) and detects the mounting of the needle (16) on the needle mount (17). The pharmaceutical injection device (100) improves the accuracy of detecting the mounting of a needle and/or a pharmaceutical syringe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Iio, Yukihiro Takabatake
  • Patent number: 9410916
    Abstract: In a biological information measurement device for measuring, for example, a blood glucose level, it is intended to improve measurement accuracy. In a voltage sweep mode A (a biological information characteristic detection mode), different voltage values are applied between a first input terminal and a second input terminal from a voltage applying unit 15 in a first period and a second period, a plurality of various factors that affect variation in the measurement of biological information are considered as changes in the current value in the voltage sweep mode A (the biological information characteristic detection mode), thereby a biological information correction value is calculated from the changes in the current value, and the biological information measurement value measured during the biological information measurement mode C is corrected by the biological information correction value. Thus, the measurement accuracy can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eriko Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9404912
    Abstract: A protective cap 2 is engaged with a latch 10 of a diluent container 5 so as to fix the diluent container 5 at a liquid holding position of a diluent container containing section 11. The engagement is released when the protective cap 2 is set to an open position against the engagement so as to expose an inlet 13. When the protective cap 2 is shifted from the open position to a closed position, the protective cap 2 pushes the diluent container 5 into a liquid discharge position. Thus, it is possible to preserve a diluent for a long period of time and to easily open the diluent container 5 without having to complicate the structure of an analysis apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fujii, Kenji Okada
  • Patent number: 9406459
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device of the present invention includes: measurement unit (7) connected to sensor mounting unit (4); control unit (8) connected to measurement unit (7); power source switch (14) interposed between control unit (8) and power source (13); and power source switch drive circuit (11) connected to sensor mounting unit (4). One-shot pulse circuit (12) is interposed between sensor mounting unit (4) and power source switch drive circuit (11), and power source switch drive circuit (11), which is driven by an output of one-shot pulse circuit (12), opens and closes power source switch (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9395320
    Abstract: The concentration measurement method includes: introducing a predetermined amount of the biological sample into the capillary; measuring a temperature of the biological sample by applying a first voltage to the electrode unit when the temperature of the biological sample is measured, the first voltage allowing the temperature measurement to be less affected by increase and reduction in an amount of the analyte contained in the biological sample; measuring the concentration of the analyte contained in the biological sample by applying a second voltage to the electrode unit; measuring an environmental temperature in a surrounding of the biological sample; and correcting the concentration of the measured analyte based on the measured temperature of the biological sample and the measured environmental temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9395282
    Abstract: An isolator system includes first and second isolators respectively forming first and second workspaces hermetically sealed from ambient environment, and a pass box provided between the first and second isolators and forming a transport space enabled to communicate the first and second workspaces while maintaining hermeticity, wherein the pass box has a tray on which an article used in work is mounted, and a moving mechanism enabling movement of the tray toward directions to both sides of the first and second isolators, the tray has a first end on the first isolator side located in the first workspace when moved to the first isolator side, and a second end on the second isolator side located in the second workspace when moved to the second isolator side, and the first and second ends of the tray each has a grip bended downward from a mounting face of the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kobayashi, Yasuhiko Yokoi
  • Patent number: 9387155
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tablet-inspecting device in which the control unit gives, to the continuous drug packet-driving unit, operation instructions to move the continuous drug packet from an upstream side to a downstream side of the conveyor path, and reciprocating operation instructions to alternately move the continuous drug packet to the upstream side and the downstream side of the conveyor path, the control unit gives, to the rod control unit, rod unit pressing operation instructions to press the rod unit against the side portion of the drug packet, and when the control unit gives the reciprocating operation instructions, the rod unit pressing operation instructions has been given, it is possible to enhance determining precision of the number of tablets or the kinds of tablet, and to stably inspect drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Morioka, Hiroshi Ehara, Toshiaki Ueta, Yoichi Oki, Akiji Tanaka, Shinichi Yasui
  • Patent number: 9384650
    Abstract: An organism sample measurement device is capable of suppressing the degradation of the performance of an organism sample measurement sensor by notifying that the lid of a housing part housing the organism sample measurement sensor is open. In this organism sample measurement device (1), a measurement unit (21) measures organism information using the organism sample measurement sensor mounted in a sensor mounting part. A first detection switch (13) detects that the lid of a sensor bottle is open. A display unit (2) notifies the measurement result of the organism information measured by the measurement unit (21), and on the basis of the result of the detection by the first detection switch (13), displays error information indicating that the lid is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9381068
    Abstract: A sensor storage container includes: a lid configured to cover in an openable and closable manner an opening of an open-topped main body case that stores an elongated plate-like sensor lying flat; and a sensor ejecting tool configured to take the sensor out of the main body case. The sensor ejecting tool is elongated, and includes two ends, one end being linked to one of end sides of an opening portion of the main body case, and the other end being rotatable in a vertical direction between a bottom portion of the main body case and a position above the opening portion. A sensor adhesive portion at the other end of the sensor ejecting tool is provided with an adhesive face on a side of the sensor adhesive portion facing a bottom face of the main body case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Konishi
  • Patent number: 9366666
    Abstract: A protective cap 2 is engaged with a latch 10 of a diluent container 5 so as to fix the diluent container 5 at a liquid holding position of a diluent container containing section 11. The engagement is released when the protective cap 2 is set to an open position against the engagement so as to expose an inlet 13. When the protective cap 2 is shifted from the open position to a closed position, the protective cap 2 pushes the diluent container 5 into a liquid discharge position. Thus, it is possible to preserve a diluent for a long period of time and to easily open the diluent container 5 without having to complicate the structure of an analysis apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Higashi, Masaaki Kitoh, Hirofumi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9360238
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kobayashi, Jiro Yuzawa, Satoshi Okuda, Hidetoshi Shinya, Tadahisa Saga
  • Patent number: 9347858
    Abstract: A dispensing device includes: a syringe including a nozzle; a first pump configured to generate a pressure to discharge a liquid in the syringe through the nozzle; and a control unit configured to, when discharging the liquid in the syringe, discharge a part of the liquid in the syringe with the pressure generated by the first pump and then cause the liquid in the syringe to run out under its own weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi Tokumaru, Takahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 9335070
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kobayashi, Jiro Yuzawa, Satoshi Okuda, Hidetoshi Shinya, Tadahisa Saga
  • Patent number: 9333498
    Abstract: An isolator system including: a body case; a sterilizing unit; an air conditioning unit; a display unit; a control unit; and a storage unit, the control unit being configured to, after startup, confirm whether a concentration of a sterilizing substance in a work area is equal to or less than a predetermined concentration, or not, and when the concentration of the sterilizing substance exceeds the predetermined concentration, store a high concentration flag in the storage unit, and thereafter, check an operation of the air conditioning unit, if there is no problem with the operation of the air conditioning unit, confirm whether the flag is stored, and when the flag is stored, operate the air conditioning unit for a predetermined time period, to lower the concentration of the sterilizing substance, and when the flag is not stored, end check of the operation of the air conditioning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ayako Michida
  • Patent number: 9332932
    Abstract: Provided are a blood collecting puncture device having high safety which can hygienically maintain the inside of a magazine and prevent infection, and the magazine. A blood collecting puncture device has a blood collecting puncture device body removably incorporating a magazine for housing lancets for puncturing human skin. The blood collecting puncture device body has a first housing section for housing not-yet-used lancets and a second housing section for housing used lancets to be disposed of. When a rotor is rotated, individual lancets are sequentially conveyed on a one-by-one basis to a stock position, a puncture position, and a disposal position, and this causes a not-yet-used lancet to be housed in the first housing section and also causes a used lancet to be housed in the second housing section, so that the lancets are separately housed in spaces isolated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Okuyama, Akio Nagao, Yoshiki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9322583
    Abstract: The oil separator 11 separates oil in the refrigerant discharged from the compressor 4 and returns the oil back to the compressor 4. And includes a tank 21 into which refrigerant discharged from the compressor 4 flows, a float 24 whose inside is hollow formed by welding a plurality of members and made vertically movable according to the changes in the oil surface 20 inside the tank 21, and a needle valve 29 that returns oil inside the tank 21 to the compressor 4 according to the vertical movement of the float 24. The float 24 is provided such that the end point 24E of the welded portion comes above the oil surface 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rikio Tadano
  • Patent number: 9320579
    Abstract: Dental molded product for milling having excellent aesthetic quality, compatibility for machine and moldability from the moldable composition is provided. The dental molded product for milling is obtained by curing the moldable composition which includes a polymerizable monomer, a polymerization initiator, a first spherical inorganic filler and a second spherical inorganic filler. An average particle size of the first spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 0.2 to 10 ?m. A content of the first spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 50 to 85 mass %. An average particle size of the second spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 0.005 to 0.1 ?m. A content of the second spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 1 to 18 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20160109385
    Abstract: A pill inspection apparatus of the present invention includes: an illumination portion 30 for irradiating light to a medical envelope 20 in which at least a translucent pill 22 is enclosed; an imaging portion 11 for acquiring a transmission image of the irradiated medical envelope 20; and an image processing portion 12 for detecting, as the translucent pill 22, a pill having a brightness value of its outer periphery lower than that of its center using the transmission image, the illumination portion 30 includes a light emitting portion 31, and a light-collecting portion 33 for collecting light is provided between the light emitting portion 31 and the medical envelope 20. By obtaining a uniform outline of the translucent pill 22 irrespective of a shooting position, it is possible to inspect the translucent pill 22 irrespective of a permeation rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanobu Tanimoto, Hitoshi Yamashita, Hiroshi Ehara