Patents by Inventor Hidehiro Hosaka

Hidehiro Hosaka 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).

  • Patent number: 7433731
    Abstract: A biological signal detection system includes a pair of electrodes, adapted to be attached on a living body; a transmitter, adapted to be attached on the living body, and including an electric circuit operable to process the biological signal and to telemeter the processed signal; and a biological signal inputting apparatus. The system may also include a receiver-transmitter operable to receive the processed signal telemetered from the transmitter and to telemeter the processed signal to the biological signal inputting apparatus by way of a wide area network; and a storage for storing the processed signal telemetered from the transmitter as biological signal data and for inputting the biological signal data to the biological signal inputting apparatus. Also, the system may include a storage for storing the processed signal telemetered from the transmitter as biological signal data and for inputting the biological signal data to the biological signal inputting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka, Shin Suda, Kohei Ono
  • Patent number: 7089048
    Abstract: An electrode 4 for detecting a biological signal and a loop antenna 3 are integrally mounted on a support 2 placed on the surface of a living body and a transmitter 5 is placed on the support 2. A biological signal detected on the electrode 4 is input through a connector 11 to electric circuitry 10 of the transmitter 5 and an electric signal processed by the electric circuitry 10 is output through connectors 12 and 13 to both ends of the loop antenna 3 from which the biological signal is emitted to a receiver. At this time, the opening face of the loop antenna 3 is in a direction almost perpendicular to the surface of a living body for improving sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20050143669
    Abstract: An electrode 4 for detecting a biological signal and a loop antenna 3 are integrally mounted on a support 2 placed on the surface of a living body and a transmitter 5 is placed on the support 2. A biological signal detected on the electrode 4 is input through a connector 11 to electric circuitry 10 of the transmitter 5 and an electric signal processed by the electric circuitry 10 is output through connectors 12 and 13 to both ends of the loop antenna 3 from which the biological signal is emitted to a receiver. At this time, the opening face of the loop antenna 3 is in a direction almost perpendicular to the surface of a living body for improving sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka, Shin Suda, Kohei Ono
  • Publication number: 20050119581
    Abstract: A communication system has a Holter electrocardiograph having a biological signal detection apparatus having a transmitter 10 for processing and telemetering signals detected by a plurality of electrodes supported on supports for detecting biological signals, a receiver 14 for receiving the signal telemetered from the transmitter, demodulating the received signal, and outputting the demodulated signal to a biological signal input section of required record means, and a recorder 16 having record means for recording the demodulated signal by the receiver. The recorder of the Holter electrocardiograph has transmitting and receiving means 17 for telemetering the signal stored in the record means, receiving an external transmission signal, and telemetering some or all of the signals stored in the record means as instructed by the external transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka, Shin Suda, Kohei Ono
  • Publication number: 20050119582
    Abstract: An electrode 4 for detecting a biological signal and a loop antenna 3 are integrally mounted on a support 2 placed on the surface of a living body and a transmitter 5 is placed on the support 2. A biological signal detected on the electrode 4 is input through a connector 11 to electric circuitry 10 of the transmitter 5 and an electric signal processed by the electric circuitry 10 is output through connectors 12 and 13 to both ends of the loop antenna 3 from which the biological signal is emitted to a receiver. At this time, the opening face of the loop antenna 3 is in a direction almost perpendicular to the surface of a living body for improving sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka, Shin Suda, Kohei Ono
  • Publication number: 20050107714
    Abstract: A communication system has a Holter electrocardiograph having a biological signal detection apparatus having a transmitter 10 for processing and telemetering signals detected by a plurality of electrodes supported on supports for detecting biological signals, a receiver 14 for receiving the signal telemetered from the transmitter, demodulating the received signal, and outputting the demodulated signal to a biological signal input section of required record means, and a recorder 16 having record means for recording the demodulated signal by the receiver. The recorder of the Holter electrocardiograph has transmitting and receiving means 17 for telemetering the signal stored in the record means, receiving an external transmission signal, and telemetering some or all of the signals stored in the record means as instructed by the external transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Akata, Hidehiro Hosaka, Shin Suda, Kohei Ono
  • Publication number: 20020107453
    Abstract: An electrode 4 for detecting a biological signal and a loop antenna 3 are integrally mounted on a support 2 placed on the surface of a living body and a transmitter 5 is placed on the support 2. A biological signal detected on the electrode 4 is input through a connector 11 to electric circuitry 10 of the transmitter 5 and an electric signal processed by the electric circuitry 10 is output through connectors 12 and 13 to both ends of the loop antenna 3 from which the biological signal is emitted to a receiver. At this time, the opening face of the loop antenna 3 is in a direction almost perpendicular to the surface of a living body for improving sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20020103441
    Abstract: An electrode 4 for detecting a biological signal and a loop antenna 3 are integrally mounted on a support 2 placed on the surface of a living body and a transmitter 5 is placed on the support 2. A biological signal detected on the electrode 4 is input through a connector 11 to electric circuitry 10 of the transmitter 5 and an electric signal processed by the electric circuitry 10 is output through connectors 12 and 13 to both ends of the loop antenna 3 from which the biological signal is emitted to a receiver. At this time, the opening face of the loop antenna 3 is in a direction almost perpendicular to the surface of a living body for improving sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6389309
    Abstract: An electrode 4 for detecting a biological signal and a loop antenna 3 are integrally mounted on a support 2 placed on the surface of a living body and a transmitter 5 is placed on the support 2. A biological signal detected on the electrode 4 is input through a connector 11 to electric circuitry 10 of the transmitter 5 and an electric signal processed by the electric circuitry 10 is output through connectors 12 and 13 to both ends of the loop antenna 3 from which the biological signal is emitted to a receiver. At this time, the opening face of the loop antenna 3 is in a direction almost perpendicular to the surface of a living body for improving sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6379910
    Abstract: One end of a thin-tube type solid phase in which a receptor specific for a material or an organism to be measured which can induce a pH-change of substrate solution is immobilized is soaked in a sample solution and then taken out therefrom. The one end of the thin-tube type solid phase is disposed in a measurement cell and a sensing portion of a pH electrode disposed in the measurement cell is in the vicinity of the one end of the thin-tube type solid phase. The measurement cell and the thin-tube type solid phase are filled with a substrate solution so that a reaction takes place. Thereafter, the substrate solution in the thin-tube type solid phase is moved to the sensing portion by a solution feed pump. The output of the pH electrode at this timing is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Michihiro Nakamura, Harutoshi Terasawa, Hiroyuki Okada, Hidenori Yukawa, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6267928
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying infrared radiation to a respiratory gas and detects a signal associated with the quantity of transmitted radiation for measuring the concentration of CO2 in the respiratory gas. The capnometer detects a maximum value of the detection signal from the thermal detector during the present inspiration phase, stores the detected maximum value in RAM, performs the first approximation, Kalman filtering or some other suitable method to compute a corrected value that is valid for the time being until a maximum value is detected in the next inspiration phase, and determines a density signal by calculating the difference between the corrected value and the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamori, Hidehiro Hosaka, Kohei Ono, Masami Ito, Masayuki Inoue, Masaki Sugiura, Noriaki Todokoro, Yoshinobu Nakae
  • Patent number: 6267723
    Abstract: A sensor device a sensor unit which detects a biomedical signal, and a transmitter which converts the biomedical signal into a radio signal and then transmits the radio signal. The transmitter has an electrode detachment detection unit 12 which detects electrode detachment on the basis of an output of the sensor unit, and transmits an electrode detachment signal indicative of the detachment. In a receiver, the biomedical signal transmitted from the transmitter is received, the signal is attenuated by an attenuation unit, and the attenuated signal is supplied to a wired sensor input portion of another device through a switch and a connection unit. In the receiver, when the electrode detachment signal is detected from the signal transmitted from the transmitter, the switch is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka, Kohei Ono
  • Patent number: 6223750
    Abstract: A seat face part 20 of a chair 1 is provided with a stimulating coil 3. A projection 10 is made on the top of the stimulating coil 3. When a treated patient sits in the chair 1, the anus of the treated patient is placed on the top of the projection 10, whereby the treated patient can be made to sit at the optimum position for urinary incontinence treatment relative to the stimulating coil 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Shin Suda, Tadashi Sasaki, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6191421
    Abstract: A capnometer includes an airway adaptor for introducing a respiratory gas into the analyzer, an infrared radiation source emitting infrared radiation passed through the airway adaptor, a beam splitter for reflecting and transmitting infrared radiation that impinges on the beam splitter, first detecting means for detecting the infrared radiation reflected by said beam splitter and transmitting through said beam splitter, second detecting means for detecting the infrared radiation reflected by said beam splitter and transmitting through said beam splitter; a gas cell filled with CO2 gas, said gas cell being located between one of said first and second detecting means and said beam splitter and processing means for processing a concentration of carbon dioxide gas by using output signals of said first and second detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamori, Hidetoshi Dainobu, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6179769
    Abstract: A magnetic stimulus type urinary incontinence treatment coil apparatus for generating flux for generating eddy current in a physiological body by providing a coil having an upper surface curved in a concave manner at least in a longitudinal direction such that the coil is fitted to at least part of an area from a front face region of a urethra opening to a rear face region of an anus, the coil wound around the area; and a support for supporting the coil at a position at which the coil is fitted to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Shin Suda, Tadashi Sasaki, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6161036
    Abstract: An electrode 4 for detecting a biological signal and a loop antenna 3 are integrally mounted on a support 2 placed on the surface of a living body and a transmitter 5 is placed on the support 2. A biological signal detected on the electrode 4 is input through a connector 11 to electric circuitry 10 of the transmitter 5 and an electric signal processed by the electric circuitry 10 is output through connectors 12 and 13 to both ends of the loop antenna 3 from which the biological signal is emitted to a receiver. At this time, the opening face of the loop antenna 3 is in a direction almost perpendicular to the surface of a living body for improving sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Tetsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sakata, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6123657
    Abstract: When a motor 2 rotates, a permanent magnet 4a held by a magnet holding member 3a is rotated. When a case 1 is caused to approach the living body 6 under this state, a varying magnetic field is generated in the living body 6 and eddy currents are generated, thereby treating the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Hidehiro Hosaka, Hiroichi Nakamura, Keiichiro Kon
  • Patent number: 6083171
    Abstract: A pulse wave propagation time is counted constantly. Not only it is judged whether or not a pulse wave propagation time change .DELTA.T exceeds a pulse wave propagation time change threshold .DELTA.Ts, but also it is judged whether or not cardiovascular dynamic changes .DELTA.HR, r.sub.1, r.sub.2 exceed thresholds thereof .DELTA.HRs, r.sub.1 s, r.sub.2 s, whereby a sudden turn for the worse in the blood pressure fluctuation of a subject is monitored. If any one of the changes exceeds the threshold thereof, a blood pressure measurement using a cuff 2 is made on the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Ono, Hiromitsu Kasuya, Yoshihiro Sugo, Takeshi Sohma, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 6024450
    Abstract: A pupil dilating dilution is dropped into one of the left eye or the right eye of a subject. Video cameras 1A, 1B are directed toward the bulbs of the eyes 22A, 22B, and output video signals on the pupils of both left and right eyes. These video signals are delivered to an area calculating circuit 7 through video camera control units 4A, 4B and an image receiving circuit 6. The area calculating circuit 7 calculates the areas of the given pupils of both left and right eyes, and applies the calculated results to a digital computer 8. The digital computer 8 calculates a difference between the given pupil areas of both the left and right eyes, calculates an index value relating to the magnification of the pupil area based on the calculated difference, and judges whether or not the subject is affected with Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Katsumi Nakaichi, Hidehiro Hosaka, Munetaka Haida, Yukito Shinohara
  • Patent number: RE37852
    Abstract: A blood pressure monitoring system includes a blood pressure measurement device for measuring blood pressure using a cuff, a memory for storing an externally inputted pulse wave propagation time fluctuation threshold, a time interval detection reference point detection section for detecting a time interval detection reference point in a pulse wave on the side of aortae of a living organism, a pulse wave detection section for detecting a pulse wave on the side of peripheral blood vessels appearing with a time lag with respect to the pulse wave on the side of aortae, a pulse wave propagation time measurement section for measuring a pulse wave propagation time based on respective detected outputs from the time interval detection reference point detection section and the pulse wave detection section, an operation device for calculating a pulse wave propagation fluctuation from two measured pulse wave propagation times, a judgment device for judging whether or not the calculated pulse wave propagation time fluctua
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Aso, Hiroshi Sakata, Yoshihiro Sugo, Hidehiro Hosaka