Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Watano
Hirotaka Watano 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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Patent number: 11953510Abstract: A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a sample container containing a sample, recognize relevant information related to reliability of a test result related to the sample based on the image, and derive reliability information indicating the reliability of the test result related to the sample based on the recognized relevant information.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Takeya Meguro, Kazuhiro Hirota, Yoshihiro Seto, Kaku Irisawa, Hirotaka Watano, Taiji Iwasaki, Tatsuyuki Denawa, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
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Publication number: 20220018863Abstract: A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire a captured image obtained by imaging an outer surface of each of plural sample containers which contains a sample and in which discrimination information for discriminating a subject from whom the sample is collected is given to the outer surface, and associate a test result related to the sample contained in each of the sample containers with a test order in which information of a discrimination image including the discrimination information is registered in advance for each subject, based on the captured image and the test order.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Kazuhiro HIROTA, Yoshihiro SETO, Takeya MEGURO, Kaku IRISAWA, Hirotaka WATANO, Taiji IWASAKI, Tatsuyuki DENAWA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
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Publication number: 20220018864Abstract: A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a sample container containing a sample, recognize relevant information related to reliability of a test result related to the sample based on the image, and derive reliability information indicating the reliability of the test result related to the sample based on the recognized relevant information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Takeya MEGURO, Kazuhiro HIROTA, Yoshihiro SETO, Kaku IRISAWA, Hirotaka WATANO, Taiji IWASAKI, Tatsuyuki DENAWA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
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Publication number: 20210394173Abstract: There is provided a biological specimen separation instrument with which a biological specimen can be stably separated into a predetermined component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hirotaka WATANO
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Publication number: 20210396634Abstract: There is provided a biological specimen separation instrument with which a biological specimen can be stably separated into a predetermined component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hirotaka WATANO
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Patent number: 10842928Abstract: A medicine-holding body is disposed in a flow path of a nozzle portion of an adapter for blood dispensing. The medicine-holding body is formed of a plurality of fibers which is made of polyester and is bundled by aligning a longitudinal direction thereof in a flowing direction which is a direction in which blood flows. The medicine-holding body holds an anticoagulant for suppressing coagulation of blood, as a medicine to be mixed into blood. The surface area of the medicine-holding body is greater than or equal to 10 mm2 and less than 600 mm2. In a case where the surface area of the medicine-holding body is greater than or equal to 10 mm2, the concentration of the anticoagulant becomes greater than or equal to a lower limit value of 10 U/mL even under most severe conditions such as a dispensing speed of 500 ?L/second. In a case where the surface area of the medicine-holding body is less than 600 mm2, it is possible to maintain the occurrence rate of hemolysis to be less than or equal to 10%.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihito Kimura, Toshiaki Kuniyasu, Hirotaka Watano, Akira Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Makino
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Publication number: 20180055990Abstract: A medicine-holding body is disposed in a flow path of a nozzle portion of an adapter for blood dispensing. The medicine-holding body is formed of a plurality of fibers which is made of polyester and is bundled by aligning a longitudinal direction thereof in a flowing direction which is a direction in which blood flows. The medicine-holding body holds an anticoagulant for suppressing coagulation of blood, as a medicine to be mixed into blood. The surface area of the medicine-holding body is greater than or equal to 10 mm2 and less than 600 mm2. In a case where the surface area of the medicine-holding body is greater than or equal to 10 mm2, the concentration of the anticoagulant becomes greater than or equal to a lower limit value of 10 U/mL even under most severe conditions such as a dispensing speed of 500 ?L/second. In a case where the surface area of the medicine-holding body is less than 600 mm2, it is possible to maintain the occurrence rate of hemolysis to be less than or equal to 10%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihito KIMURA, Toshiaki KUNIYASU, Hirotaka WATANO, Akira WAKABAYASHI, Hiroshi MAKINO
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Patent number: 9465116Abstract: A monocoque-structured housing accommodates a photoelectric conversion panel, a scintillator, and a circuit board in this order from an X-ray incidence side. The scintillator contains cesium iodide and converts X-rays into visible light. The scintillator is vapor-deposited on the photoelectric conversion panel. A plurality of pixels that photoelectrically convert the visible light into charges are formed in the photoelectric conversion panel. A signal processor, which reads out the charge from each pixel and generates image data, is mounted on the circuit board. A gap layer is formed between the scintillator and the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Fumito Nariyuki, Toshiyuki Nabeta, Yoshihiro Okada, Hirotaka Watano, Munetaka Kato, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
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Patent number: 9442200Abstract: There are provided a method for manufacturing a radiation image detection device, which can cover a scintillator without damaging the scintillator and which can easily form a scintillator protection film with a peripheral portion having a high adhesion to a substrate, and the radiation image detection device. A scintillator protection film that covers a planar scintillator provided on a photoelectric conversion panel is brought into close contact with a scintillator and the photoelectric conversion panel by a planar member having a surface with an irregular shape, and an irregular shape is formed on the scintillator protection film along the irregular shape of the planar member. A distance S between recesses of the irregular shape, the diameter D of the columnar crystal, and the width W of the peripheral portion satisfy the relationship of “D?S?W”.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hirotaka Watano
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Publication number: 20160178757Abstract: A radiographic image capture device of the present invention includes: a radiation detection panel including a photoelectric conversion element; a signal processing board that performs signal processing on electrical signals obtained by the radiation detection panel; a support member that is provided between the radiation detection panel and the signal processing board; a flexible substrate that includes a base film, wiring lines including a low wiring density region and a high wiring density region, and electronic component(s) that are electrically connected to the wiring lines; a housing that internally houses the radiation detection panel, the signal processing board, the support member and the flexible substrate; and a fixing member that fixes the low wiring density region of the flexible substrate to the at least one of the support member or the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hirotaka WATANO
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Publication number: 20150276940Abstract: A radiation detecting device of the present invention includes a scintillator that converts radiation into light, a substrate that supports the scintillator and includes plural sensor portions that generate charges according to the light converted by the scintillator, a thermoplastic resin layer provided on the scintillator, a first organic layer provided on the thermoplastic resin layer, and an inorganic reflection layer provided on the first organic layer. The melting start temperature of the thermoplastic resin layer is lower than the melting start temperature of the first organic layer, the scintillator includes a projection portion on a surface on the side provided with the thermoplastic resin layer, and a leading end of the projection portion penetrates the thermoplastic resin layer and makes contact with the first organic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hirotaka WATANO
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Publication number: 20150204986Abstract: A monocoque-structured housing accommodates a photoelectric conversion panel, a scintillator, and a circuit board in this order from an X-ray incidence side. The scintillator contains cesium iodide and converts X-rays into visible light. The scintillator is vapor-deposited on the photoelectric conversion panel. A plurality of pixels that photoelectrically convert the visible light into charges are formed in the photoelectric conversion panel. A signal processor, which reads out the charge from each pixel and generates image data, is mounted on the circuit board. A gap layer is formed between the scintillator and the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Fumito NARIYUKI, Toshiyuki NABETA, Yoshihiro OKADA, Hirotaka WATANO, Munetaka KATO, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
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Publication number: 20150060678Abstract: There are provided a method for manufacturing a radiation image detection device, which can cover a scintillator without damaging the scintillator and which can easily form a scintillator protection film with a peripheral portion having a high adhesion to a substrate, and the radiation image detection device. A scintillator protection film that covers a planar scintillator provided on a photoelectric conversion panel is brought into close contact with a scintillator and the photoelectric conversion panel by a planar member having a surface with an irregular shape, and an irregular shape is formed on the scintillator protection film along the irregular shape of the planar member. A distance S between recesses of the irregular shape, the diameter D of the columnar crystal, and the width W of the peripheral portion satisfy the relationship of “D?S?W”.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventor: Hirotaka WATANO
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Patent number: 8946634Abstract: A radiographic image capture device of the present invention includes: a radiation detection panel including a photoelectric conversion element that converts radiation into an electrical signal; a signal processing board that is disposed facing towards the radiation detection panel and that performs signal processing on electrical signals obtained by the radiation detection panel; a flexible substrate that includes wiring lines disposed on a base film provided between the radiation detection panel and the signal processing board and including a low wiring density region and a high wiring density region, and electronic component(s) that are electrically connected to the wiring lines; a reinforcement member that is provided at a low wiring density region and that raises the mechanical strength of the wiring lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hirotaka Watano
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Publication number: 20140027636Abstract: A radiographic image capture device of the present invention includes: a radiation detection panel including a photoelectric conversion element; a signal processing board that performs signal processing on electrical signals obtained by the radiation detection panel; a support member that is provided between the radiation detection panel and the signal processing board; a flexible substrate that includes a base film, wiring lines including a low wiring density region and a high wiring density region, and electronic component(s) that are electrically connected to the wiring lines; a housing that internally houses the radiation detection panel, the signal processing board, the support member and the flexible substrate; and a fixing member that fixes the low wiring density region of the flexible substrate to the at least one of the support member or the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventor: Hirotaka WATANO
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Publication number: 20140027637Abstract: A radiographic image capture device of the present invention includes: a radiation detection panel including a photoelectric conversion element that converts radiation into an electrical signal; a signal processing board that is disposed facing towards the radiation detection panel and that performs signal processing on electrical signals obtained by the radiation detection panel; a flexible substrate that includes wiring lines disposed on a base film provided between the radiation detection panel and the signal processing board and including a low wiring density region and a high wiring density region, and electronic component(s) that are electrically connected to the wiring lines; a reinforcement member that is provided at a low wiring density region and that raises the mechanical strength of the wiring lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventor: Hirotaka WATANO
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Patent number: 8263189Abstract: A layer-forming apparatus coats a solution containing a layer component and a flammable solvent on a surface of a base material, and forms a layer on the surface of the base material. In the layer-forming apparatus, a coating chamber in which the solution is coated on the surface of the base material is closed substantially hermetically, and a clean air is supplied from a clean-air supplier to the coating chamber. Then, ions that are produced by a corona discharger are sprayed to the surface of the base material in a state that a vapor concentration of the solvent in the coating chamber is below a burning lower limit, and dusts are removed from the base material. Then, the solution is coated on the surface of the base material from which the dusts are removed.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mataki, Hirotaka Watano, Seiichi Inoue
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Patent number: 8133536Abstract: The liquid coating method includes the step of ejecting droplets from nozzles of a recording head onto an imaging region of a surface of a substrate placed on a support plate, wherein a dot pitch ? that is an interval between landing positions of the droplets on the surface of the substrate satisfies a following condition: ? ? 2 ? 3 ? V ? ( 1 + cos ? ? ? a ) ? sin ? ? ? a ? ? ( 1 - cos ? ? ? a ) ? ( 2 + cos ? ? ? a ) 3 where V stands for a volume of a droplet ejected from each of the nozzles and ?a stands for an advancing contact angle of the droplet against the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mataki, Hirotaka Watano, Seiichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20090244144Abstract: The liquid coating method includes the step of ejecting droplets from nozzles of a recording head onto an imaging region of a surface of a substrate placed on a support plate, wherein a dot pitch ? that is an interval between landing positions of the droplets on the surface of the substrate satisfies a following condition: ? ? 2 ? 3 ? V ? ( 1 + cos ? ? ? a ) ? sin ? ? ? a ? ? ( 1 - cos ? ? ? a ) ? ( 2 + cos ? ? ? a ) 3 where V stands for a volume of a droplet ejected from each of the nozzles and ?a stands for an advancing contact angle of the droplet against the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mataki, Hirotaka Watano, Seiichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20090246402Abstract: A layer-forming apparatus coats a solution containing a layer component and a flammable solvent on a surface of a base material, and forms a layer on the surface of the base material. In the layer-forming apparatus, a coating chamber in which the solution is coated on the surface of the base material is closed substantially hermetically, and a clean air is supplied from a clean-air supplier to the coating chamber. Then, ions that are produced by a corona discharger are sprayed to the surface of the base material in a state that a vapor concentration of the solvent in the coating chamber is below a burning lower limit, and dusts are removed from the base material. Then, the solution is coated on the surface of the base material from which the dusts are removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mataki, Hirotaka Watano, Seiichi Inoue