Patents by Inventor Isao Aoki
Isao Aoki 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: 7751866Abstract: A detecting system of the position and the posture of a capsule medical device includes a main body of the capsule medical device that is inserted in a living body, a coil in a capsule that is arranged to the main body of the capsule medical device and forms a resonant circuit, a magnetic field generating device that is arranged around the living body and generates the Alternating magnetic field for generating an induced magnetic field in the coil in the capsule, and a plurality of magnetic field detecting devices that detect the strength of the induced magnetic field generated by the coil in the capsule by the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generating device.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2005Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Isao Aoki, Akio Uchiyama, Kenichi Arai, Kazushi Ishiyama, Shin Yabukami
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Patent number: 7737282Abstract: A novel crystal of (R)-2-[[[3-methyl-4-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-2-pyridinyl]methyl]sulfinyl]-1H-benzimidazole or a salt thereof of the present invention is useful for an excellent antiulcer agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company LimitedInventors: Akira Fujishima, Isao Aoki, Keiji Kamiyama
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Patent number: 7685035Abstract: A network system is provided that connects, on the network, a plurality of devices having document processing functions, a plurality of clients instructing the devices on necessary job executions, and a server. The server includes a collection recorder that collects information of a job executed by a device to record the information as job data, and a count processor that counts jobs according to count parameters set by a client. A browser installed to the client can select a count parameter, direct the count process, and view the count results generated by the count process.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd.Inventor: Isao Aoki
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Patent number: 7624939Abstract: A kneader includes a casing with a papermaking material supply opening and a papermaking material outlet located below the papermaking material supply opening; at least first, second, third and fourth rotational shafts provided inside the casing; first blades attached to the first rotational shaft; second blades attached to the second rotational shaft; third blades attached to the third rotational shaft; and fourth blades attached to the fourth rotational shaft. The first rotational shaft and the second rotational shaft are located at the same height and are arranged parallel to each other, and the third rotational shaft and the fourth rotational shaft are located at the same height and are arranged parallel to each other. The third rotational shaft is located under the first rotational shaft and the fourth rotational shaft is located under the second rotational shaft, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignees: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., Aikawa Iron Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sugino, Takashi Onizaki, Isao Aoki, Hisashi Iwabuchi, Yoshihiko Aikawa
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Publication number: 20090253999Abstract: A capsule medical apparatus includes a tissue obtaining unit that obtains a tissue from a body site of a subject; a detecting unit that detects a state of the tissue obtaining unit that varies depending on whether the tissue obtaining unit succeeds in obtaining a tissue; an output unit that outputs information representing whether the tissue obtaining unit succeeds in obtaining a tissue; and a control unit that determines whether the tissue obtaining unit succeeds in obtaining a tissue based on the state of the tissue obtaining unit, which is detected by the detecting unit, and causes the output unit to output the information representing whether the tissue obtaining unit succeeds in obtaining a tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Isao AOKI, Miho KATAYAMA
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Patent number: 7569697Abstract: A novel crystal of (R)-2-[[[3-methyl-4-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-2-pyridinyl]methyl],sulfinyl]-1H-benzimidazole or a salt thereof of the present invention is useful for an excellent antiulcer agent.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company LimitedInventors: Akira Fujishima, Isao Aoki, Keiji Kamiyama
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Publication number: 20090171152Abstract: An endoscope insertion assisting instrument 7 as an insertion assisting instrument for a medical device of the present invention comprises an elongated assisting instrument insertion portion 31 having flexibility for guiding an endoscope 2, which is the medical device, into a deep portion in an intracoelomic duct, a helical structure portion 33 provided on the outer circumference of the assisting instrument insertion portion 31, and a plurality of balloons 32 as locking portions for holding at least a part of the shape of the intracoelomic duct into which the endoscope 2 is inserted and for locking the assisting instrument insertion portion 31 in the intracoelomic duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2006Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Isao Aoki, Hironobu Takizawa
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Publication number: 20090163553Abstract: A novel crystal of (R)-2-[[[3-methyl-4-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-2-pyridinyl]methyl]sulfinyl]-1H-benzimidazole or a salt thereof of the present invention is useful for an excellent antiulcer agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Akira FUJISHIMA, Isao AOKI, Keiji KAMIYAMA
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Publication number: 20080306340Abstract: An encapsulated medical device guidance system, and a method of controlling the system, in which guidance coils are arranged to divide a magnetic field generating plane into at least two front and rear areas, a magnetic field for canceling gravity applied to a capsule endoscope itself is formed, and superposed on a magnetic field for moving or changing an attitude, a frictional resistance in moving a capsule endoscope is reduced by decreasing an area of an endoscope to contact the surface of an intracavital.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicants: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP., OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Akio UCHIYAMA, Atsushi KIMURA, Isao AOKI
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Publication number: 20080300453Abstract: An intra-subject observation system includes a first liquid inserted into a desired organ of a subject; and a second liquid inserted into the organ without being mixed with the first liquid due to a specific gravity lighter than that of the first liquid. The system also includes a capsule medical apparatus inserted into the organ with an intermediate specific gravity between the specific gravity of the first liquid and that of the second liquid to acquire intra-subject information, which is output out of the subject by radio.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Isao AOKI, Katsumi HIRAKAWA, Hironobu TAKIZAWA, Hidetake SEGAWA, Hironao KAWANO, Hideo ITO, Hideki SHIMONAKA
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Publication number: 20080294006Abstract: An encapsulated medical device guidance system, and a method of controlling the system, in which a magnetic generator acts on a magnet built into a capsulated medical device, and generates a magnetic field for controlling the position and/or posture of the capsulated medical device, and a control unit has a dynamic torque estimation unit to estimate a dynamic torque to be applied to the encapsulated medical device in a target posture, controls a magnetic field generated from the magnetic field generator so that a magnetic torque generated by the magnetic field generator becomes proportional to a dynamic torque estimated by the dynamic torque estimation unit, and controls the posture of a capsule endoscope by considering gravity applied to the capsule endoscope itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Akio UCHIYAMA, Atsushi KIMURA, Isao AOKI
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Publication number: 20080281188Abstract: A detecting system of the position and the posture of a capsule medical device includes a main body of the capsule medical device that is inserted in a living body, a coil in a capsule that is arranged to the main body of the capsule medical device and forms a resonant circuit, a magnetic field generating device that is arranged around the living body and generates the Alternating magnetic field for generating an induced magnetic field in the coil in the capsule, and a plurality of magnetic field detecting devices that detect the strength of the induced magnetic field generated by the coil in the capsule by the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Aoki, Akio Uchiyama, Kenichi Arai, Kazushi Ishiyama, Shin Yabukami
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Publication number: 20080241522Abstract: A thermal spraying powder contains 30 to 50% by mass of chromium carbide with the remainder being an alloy containing chromium, aluminum, yttrium, and at least one of cobalt and nickel. The thermal spraying powder has an average particle size of 20 to 60 ?m. The thermal spraying powder may contain 20% by mass or less of yttrium oxide in place of a part of the alloy. A thermal spray coating obtained by thermal spraying of the thermal spraying powder, particularly, a thermal spray coating obtained by high-velocity flame spraying of the thermal spraying powder is suitable for the purpose of a hearth roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicants: FUJIMI INCORPORATED, TOCALO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki MIZUNO, Satoshi TAWADA, Isao AOKI, Noriyuki YASUO, Tatsuo SUIDZU, Sho HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 7420070Abstract: A process for preparing optically active 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran compounds which comprises subjecting a 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran compound represented by the general formula or a salt thereof to optical resolution with an optically active acid compound: [wherein R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group; R3 is an optionally substituted aromatic group; and C is a benzene ring which may further have a substituent in addition to the amino group]. The process enables industrially advantageous production of intermediates for the synthesis of optically active 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran compounds useful as preventive and/or therapeutic drugs for neurodegenerative diseases and so on.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2005Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Takoda Pharmaceutical Company LimitedInventors: Isao Aoki, Mari Adachi, Hiroyuki Tawada, Makoto Yamashita, Misayo Sera
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Publication number: 20080177177Abstract: A detecting system of the position and the posture of a capsule medical device includes a main body of the capsule medical device that is inserted in a living body, a coil in a capsule that is arranged to the main body of the capsule medical device and forms a resonant circuit, a magnetic field generating device that is arranged around the living body and generates the Alternating magnetic field for generating an induced magnetic field in the coil in the capsule, and a plurality of magnetic field detecting devices that detect the strength of the induced magnetic field generated by the coil in the capsule by the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Aoki, Akio Uchiyama, Kenichi Arai, Kazushi Ishiyama, Shin Yabukami
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Publication number: 20080177178Abstract: A detecting system of the position and the posture of a capsule medical device includes a main body of the capsule medical device that is inserted in a living body, a coil in a capsule that is arranged to the main body of the capsule medical device and forms a resonant circuit, a magnetic field generating device that is arranged around the living body and generates the Alternating magnetic field for generating an induced magnetic field in the coil in the capsule, and a plurality of magnetic field detecting devices that detect the strength of the induced magnetic field generated by the coil in the capsule by the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Aoki, Akio Uchiyama, Kenichi Arai, Kazushi Ishiyama, Shin Yabukami
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Publication number: 20080132547Abstract: A novel crystal of (R)-2-[[[3-methyl-4-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-2-pyridinyl]methyl],sulfinyl]-1H-benzimidazole or a salt thereof of the present invention is useful for an excellent antiulcer agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2008Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Akira Fujishima, Isao Aoki, Keiji Kamiyama
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Publication number: 20080115725Abstract: A thermal spray powder contains granulated and sintered particles composed of an oxide of any of the rare earth elements having an atomic number from 60 to 70. The average particle size of the primary particles constituting the granulated and sintered particles is 2 to 10 ?m. The crushing strength of the granulated and sintered particles is 7 to 50 MPa. A plasma resistant member includes a substrate and a thermal spray coating provided on the surface of the substrate. The thermal spray coating is formed by thermal spraying, preferably plasma thermal spraying, the thermal spray powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicants: FUJIMI INCORPORATED, TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hiroyuki IBE, Isao AOKI, Junya KITAMURA, Hiroaki MIZUNO, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Nobuyuki NAGAYAMA
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Publication number: 20080112873Abstract: A thermal spray powder contains particles composed of an oxide of any of the rare earth elements having an atomic number of 39 or from 59 to 70. The crushing strength of the particles is 80 MPa or greater. The ratio of bulk specific gravity to true specific gravity of the thermal spray powder is 0.15 or greater. The particles are preferably granulated and sintered particles. The average particle size of primary particles constituting the granulated and sintered particles is preferably 6 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: FUJIMI INCORPORATEDInventors: Isao AOKI, Hiroyuki IBE, Junya KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20080078853Abstract: A kneader includes a casing with a papermaking material supply opening and a papermaking material outlet located below the papermaking material supply opening; at least first, second, third and fourth rotational shafts provided inside the casing; first blades attached to the first rotational shaft; second blades attached to the second rotational shaft; third blades attached to the third rotational shaft; and fourth blades attached to the fourth rotational shaft. The first rotational shaft and the second rotational shaft are located at the same height and are arranged parallel to each other, and the third rotational shaft and the fourth rotational shaft are located at the same height and are arranged parallel to each other. The third rotational shaft is located under the first rotational shaft and the fourth rotational shaft is located under the second rotational shaft, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicants: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD, AIKAWA IRON WORKS CO., LTDInventors: Mitsuhiro Sugino, Takashi Onizaki, Isao Aoki, Hisashi Iwabuchi, Yoshihiko Aikawa