Patents by Inventor Hiroyasu TSUKIOKA

Hiroyasu TSUKIOKA 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: 9517497
    Abstract: A rinsing device is comprised of a rinsing head including a first flow path extending horizontally, and a second flow path extending horizontally and being disposed below or above the first flow path so as not to communicate with the first flow path; one or more nozzles arranged horizontally and projecting vertically downward from the rinsing head; and one or more sliding members including passages in fluid communication with the nozzles, the sliding members slidably fitting in the rinsing head and being movable between a first position to place the passages in fluid communication with the first flow path and a second position to place the passages in fluid communication with the second flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: MEDICATEC Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Tsukioka
  • Patent number: 9050598
    Abstract: A device for dispensing directional objects is comprised of: a case for housing the objects in a horizontal direction; a shutter covering the case and capable of leaving a window; a pivot pivotally supporting the case to allow the case to swing around the pivot; a conveyor including a plurality of slots respectively holding the objects in the horizontal direction and being disposed to receive the objects dropped through the window into the slots; a guide including a bottom end and a slit opened upward to receive the objects dropped from the conveyor and gravitationally feed the objects toward the bottom; and a dropper coupled with the bottom end of the guide, where the objects are dispensed with the tip ends thereof directed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MEDICATEC Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Tsukioka
  • Patent number: 8758705
    Abstract: The dispenser includes a dispensing head extending downward from a cylinder body section with a cylindrical inner space and having a dispensing cylinder with the diameter smaller than that of the inner space of the cylinder body section; a piston capable of being inserted from the inner space of the cylinder body section into the dispensing cylinder section and moving up and down between a dispensing start position located in an upper portion of the dispensing cylinder section and a dispensing end position in a lower portion of the dispensing cylinder section; and a sucking mechanism sucking a liquid from a dripping port at a tip of the dispensing cylinder section up to a position above the dispensing start position inside the inner space of the cylinder body section. The piston is always at the dispensing start position under a liquid surface whenever the dispensing operation is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Medicatec Kabushiki-Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Tsukioka
  • Publication number: 20140076920
    Abstract: A device for dispensing directional objects is comprised of: a case for housing the objects in a horizontal direction; a shutter covering the case and capable of leaving a window; a pivot pivotally supporting the case to allow the case to swing around the pivot; a conveyor including a plurality of slots respectively holding the objects in the horizontal direction and being disposed to receive the objects dropped through the window into the slots; a guide including a bottom end and a slit opened upward to receive the objects dropped from the conveyor and gravitationally feed the objects toward the bottom; and a dropper coupled with the bottom end of the guide, where the objects are dispensed with the tip ends thereof directed downward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: MEDICATEC Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu TSUKIOKA
  • Publication number: 20140020724
    Abstract: A rinsing device is comprised of a rinsing head including a first flow path extending horizontally, and a second flow path extending horizontally and being disposed below or above the first flow path so as not to communicate with the first flow path; one or more nozzles arranged horizontally and projecting vertically downward from the rinsing head; and one or more sliding members including passages in fluid communication with the nozzles, the sliding members slidably fitting in the rinsing head and being movable between a first position to place the passages in fluid communication with the first flow path and a second position to place the passages in fluid communication with the second flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Hiroyasu TSUKIOKA
  • Publication number: 20120255378
    Abstract: The dispenser includes a dispensing head extending downward from a cylinder body section with a cylindrical inner space and having a dispensing cylinder with the diameter smaller than that of the inner space of the cylinder body section; a piston capable of being inserted from the inner space of the cylinder body section into the dispensing cylinder section and moving up and down between a dispensing start position located in an upper portion of the dispensing cylinder section and a dispensing end position in a lower portion of the dispensing cylinder section; and a sucking mechanism sucking a liquid from a dripping port at a tip of the dispensing cylinder section up to a position above the dispensing start position inside the inner space of the cylinder body section. The piston is always at the dispensing start position under a liquid surface whenever the dispensing operation is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: MEDICATEC KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyasu TSUKIOKA