Patents by Inventor Akira Taniguchi
Akira Taniguchi 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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Publication number: 20140376693Abstract: An X-ray image capturing device of bone-in meat for capturing an X-ray image of the bone-in meat that is from an arm part or a thigh part of a livestock carcass in a state where the bone-in meat is suspended, comprises: an X-ray source for irradiating the bone-in meat with an X-ray; a shielding box for covering the bone-in meat while the X-ray image is captured; a sensor which is disposed in the shielding box and which detects the X-ray which passes through the bone-in meat; and a filter which is disposed between the bone-in meat and the X-ray source and which adjusts an intensity distribution of the X-ray with which the bone-in meat is irradiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Akira TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SAKURAYAMA, Osamu GOTO, Masaru TOKUMOTO, Hiroaki MURANAMI
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Publication number: 20140378040Abstract: A shoulder blade removal device of bone-in meat includes: a bottom holder which is configured to be in contact with a lower side of the bone-in meat such that the lower side of the bone-in meat is lifted upward and moved in a horizontal direction; a support member for bending the bone-in meat in cooperation with the bottom holder such that an end of the shoulder blade; and a chuck unit attached to a robot arm and gripping the tip part of the shoulder blade in cooperation with the robot arm. The chuck unit includes: a base member fixed to the robot arm; a grip member; and a lock member supported by the base member such that the lock member can be advanced or retracted toward or away from the lateral plate part, the lock member pinching the shoulder blade in cooperation with the lateral plate part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Akira TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SAKURAYAMA, Osamu GOTO, Masaru TOKUMOTO, Hiroaki MURANAMI
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Publication number: 20140378041Abstract: A deboning system for an arm part of bone-in meat includes: a clamp; at least one forearm-bone incision making device; an olecranon incision making device; and a forearm-bone separation device, wherein the at least one forearm-bone incision making device includes a robot arm and a forearm cutter attached to the robot arm, and the olecranon incision making device includes a pair of olecranon cutters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Akira TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SAKURAYAMA, Osamu GOTO, Masaru TOKUMOTO, Hiroaki MURANAMI
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Publication number: 20140228135Abstract: A grease composition which provides, in the working range of 150° C. to ?40° C., an enhanced temperature control performance, a reduced low-temperature rotational torque and an improved boot resistance; and a constant velocity joint wherein the grease composition is filled; are provided. A grease composition for a constant velocity joint comprising the following components (A) to (E): (A) a base oil containing 10 to 95% by mass of an ester synthetic oil produced from an aliphatic alcohol and an aromatic carboxylic acid and 90 to 5% by mass of a synthetic hydrocarbon oil; (B) a thickener; (C) molybdenum disulfide; (D) molybdenum dialkyldithiocarbamate e; and (E) zinc dithiophosphate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicants: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD., NTN CorporationInventors: SHINYA KONDO, Akira Taniguchi, Ko Tanimura, Shinichi Takabe, Takaaki Shibata, Shinya Chuujou
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Publication number: 20130156687Abstract: The present invention provides an ammonia oxidation/decomposition catalyst including a support composed of an oxidizable and reducible metal oxide and a catalytically active metal supported thereon. By bringing the ammonia oxidation/decomposition catalyst including a support composed of an oxidizable and reducible metal oxide and a catalytically active metal supported thereon into contact with ammonia and air at ordinary temperature, the support in a reduced state reacts with oxygen to generate oxidation heat, and the temperature of the catalyst layer is increased in a moment. Once the temperature of the catalyst layer is increased to a temperature at which ammonia and oxygen react with each other, the ammonia oxidation reaction proceeds autonomously after that. The heat generated in this exothermic reaction is used in the course of decomposing ammonia in the presence of the catalytically active metal, thereby producing hydrogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATIONInventors: Sadao Araki, Susumu Hikazudani, Takuma Mori, Akira Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8403010Abstract: There is provided a tablet filling device, which can smoothly supply vials without any stop of the device even if the vials cause a jam within a stocker. The tablet filling device is related to removing a vial 9 from a stocker 21 accommodating a large number of vials 9 according to a prescription data, dispensing tablets into the vial 9 to fill the vial, and discharging the vial 9 filled with the tablets. The stocker 21 includes: a vial removing device 24 configured to scoop the vial 9 accommodated in the stocker 21 upward to remove the vial; and a vial conveying device 23 configured to convey the vial 9 toward the vial removing device 24. When a jam of the vial 9 occurs, the vial conveying device 23 is reversely driven.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Yuyama Mfg., Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Taniguchi, Minoru Tano, Yoshinori Maeji
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Publication number: 20130021336Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a stereoscopic display device, a receiving unit, and a display controller. The stereoscopic display device displays a stereoscopic image that is capable of being viewed stereoscopically using a parallax image group as a plurality of parallax images generated by performing rendering processing on volume data as three-dimensional medical image data. The receiving unit receives a region of interest in the stereoscopic image. The display controller causes the stereoscopic display device to display the parallax image group that has been generated by performing the rendering processing on the volume data based on a plurality of viewpoint positions of which sight line directions intersect with one another at a position of the volume data that corresponds to the region of interest received by the receiving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Takashi TSUTSUMI, Akira TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 8221308Abstract: A direction of movement, an insertion amount and an insertion force amount at a time when an insertion section of an endoscope is inserted in a large intestine, which is an object of an inspection, are detected by detection unit. The direction of movement, the insertion amount and the insertion force amount of the insertion section are displayed on a display device which is separably disposed. Thereby, a high-precision insertion operation can simply and easily be realized, and a handling operability is improved.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Toshiaki Noguchi, Akira Taniguchi, Masanobu Koitabashi, Kouji Nakamoto
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Patent number: 8216983Abstract: The present invention provides a grease composition for use in a constant velocity joint, which is excellent in the resistance to flaking. The grease composition comprises the following components (a) to (d): (a) a base oil; (b) a thickener; (c) an organic molybdenum compound; and (d) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of oxides of divalent typical metals having a Mohs hardness lower than that of the steel and compounds of the foregoing divalent typical metals, which can immediately be converted into the corresponding oxides of these metals having a Mohs hardness lower than that of the steel under the boundary lubrication conditions. In particular, the present invention relates to a grease composition for use in a constant velocity joint, wherein the component (d) is zinc oxide or zinc carbonate and wherein the component (c) is molybdenum dithiocarbamate.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Taniguchi, Shinya Kondo
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Patent number: 8204621Abstract: There is provided a tablet discharging method capable of discharging a vial to an outlet corresponding to a size of the vial even if the size of the vial is changed. The tablet discharging method is related to removing a vial from a stocker accommodating a large number of vials according to a prescription data, dispensing tablets into the vial to fill the vial and discharging the vial filled with the tablets. The tablet discharging method includes the following steps of: determining a vial of an appropriate size according to a prescription data; checking for a stock of the determined vial; fixing a size by changing the determined vial to a vial of a size larger than that of the determined vial when the vial of the determined size is out-of-stock; and discharging the vial filled with the tablets to an outlet holding the vial of the fixed size.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Yuyama Mfg., Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi Imai, Akira Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8167008Abstract: A tablet filling instrument 1 for dispensing tablets into a vial 9 in accordance with prescription data and discharging the vial 9 filled with the tablets in an outlet 113 includes a pair of holding members 111 each provided with at least one slope extending from an upper end located within the instrument 1 to a lower end located in the outlet 113, the holding members 111 being designed to receive at the upper ends the vial 9 filled with the tablets and to allow the vial 9 to slide down under its own weight to the lower ends with supporting a flange 9a around an outer periphery of the vial 9.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Taniguchi, Takafumi Imai, Yoshinori Maeji
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Patent number: 8096942Abstract: A first and a second pumps for supplying a gas to a balloon for fixation mounted at an outer circumference portion at a tip end portion of an insertion portion of an endoscope and a balloon for fixation mounted at an outer circumference portion at a tip end portion of an overtube into which the endoscope is inserted and a control portion for controlling pressure in the respective balloons by operating the first and the second pumps are provided, and the control portion controls display of balloon inflation/deflation display portions and balloon during operation display portions of a remote controller on the basis of inflation-state information detected by a state detection output portion detecting inflation states of the respective balloons.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2006Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takatoshi Yoshida, Sumihiro Uchimura, Akira Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8038605Abstract: At a distal end side of an insertion portion of an endoscope, an image pickup portion for capturing an image and a bending portion capable of being bent are provided, and a bending instruction operation portion executes a bending instruction operation for the bending portion. According to the bending instruction operation by the bending instruction operation portion, the bending control portion executes the controlling bending of the bending portion. As a bending control mode for executing the operation of the bending control by the bending control portion, a first bending control mode for bending control corresponding to a first image captured by the image pickup portion and a second bending control mode for bending control displaying the distal end side of the insertion portion are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Kiyoshi Tsuji, Akira Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8038016Abstract: To reliably bias drugs to a rotor side without upsizing a device, with little layout limitations, and without damaging the drugs. Biasing means that biases drugs stored in a cassette 3 to a rotor 23 side to arrange the drugs includes: a casing 35; a constant load spring 36 provided in the casing 35 and having a spring part 41 fixed to the rotor 23 side of the cassette 3 at its tip; a locking plate 42 provided in the casing 35 and having a gear part 46 that engaged with and disengaged from a locking rack 26 formed in the cassette 3; and a pressing block 43 projected so as to be pressed from the contact surface of the casing 35 in contact with the drugs and rotating the locking plate 42 by pressing to release the gear part 46 from the locking rack 26.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Akira Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20110190587Abstract: A container body includes an illumination section and an image pickup section. A tube body is integrally provided to the container body. A distal end of a hollow duct line provided in the tube body penetrates the container body to have an opening on an outer surface of the container body. First and second illumination and image pickup units are provided in the container body having opposite reference view field directions and are respectively freely tilted in an arbitrary direction within predetermined inclination angles from the reference view field direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Sumihiro Uchimura, Akira Taniguchi, Toshiaki Noguchi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Katsuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 7963914Abstract: In an endoscope, air/water feed pipe lines are arranged through an elongated insertion portion having an image pickup unit at its front end. In an operation portion arranged at the rear end of the insertion portion, there are provided an antenna, and a wireless transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting, using this antenna, information including image data on a subject picked up by the image pickup unit, to endoscope peripheral apparatuses in the outside.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Sumihiro Uchimura, Akira Taniguchi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Toshiaki Noguchi, Katsuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 7942810Abstract: An endoscope of the present invention includes an insert section inserted in a subject body, an operation section provided at a base end of the insert section, a control process section provided in the operation section, for controlling an image pickup section for capturing a subject body image and a predetermined function in the operation section, a signal circuit extending from the control process section, and a connection section provided to the operation section, for allowing detachable connection of a tube unit through which at least one duct line is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Sumihiro Uchimura, Fumiyuki Onoda, Toshiaki Noguchi, Akira Taniguchi, Katsuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 7938772Abstract: An insertion apparatus includes: an introducing duct including; insertion portion cover portion for covering an insertion portion extending from a distal side portion of a handling portion constituting an endoscope; and a spiral duct which is disposed on an inner circumferential surface side of the insertion portion cover portion, and has on a circumferential surface of the spiral duct, a propulsion power generating portion for applying a propulsion power for introducing the insertion portion into a deep portion in a body cavity, to the insertion portion covered by the insertion portion cover, and a rotating device comprising a rotating portion for rotating the spiral duct equipped to the introducing duct.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yasuhito Kura, Takahiro Kishi, Akira Suzuki, Akira Taniguchi, Katsutaka Adachi, Makoto Abe
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Patent number: 7935047Abstract: An endoscope system, serving as a double-balloon endoscope system, includes an endoscope apparatus for examinations using an endoscope, a shape detection apparatus used in combination with the endoscope apparatus, and a balloon controller. The shape detection apparatus detects positions of respective points in an insertion section of the endoscope, estimates the shape of the insertion section on the basis of the detected positions, and displays an image representing the modeled shape of the insertion section corresponding to the estimated shape. The balloon controller controls balloons, serving as insertion support units, attached to the endoscope. The shape detection apparatus detects the states of the balloons controlled through the balloon controller and reflects the controlled states of the balloons on an image representing the shape of the insertion section. With this arrangement, the inflation/deflation states of the balloons and the insertion state can be visually confirmed in real time with ease.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2006Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takatoshi Yoshida, Sumihiro Uchimura, Akira Taniguchi
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Patent number: 7914443Abstract: An endoscope is provided that can reduce examination costs by realizing commonality of an operating unit by making an inserting unit and the operating unit attachable/detachable with respect to each other to enable the exchange of inserting units. The endoscope of this invention includes an operating unit, an inserting unit that can be detachably connected to the operating unit, and transmission and reception coils provided in the operating unit and the inserting unit, respectively, for sending and receiving signals in a non-contact manner between the operating unit and the inserting unit when the inserting unit is connected to the operating unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Sumihiro Uchimura, Akira Taniguchi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Toshiaki Noguchi, Katsuya Suzuki