Patents by Inventor Kevin Galle
Kevin Galle 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: 4844887Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus for effecting chemical analyses for various sample liquids such as blood, urine, and the like, comprising a sample delivery pump for metering a sample liquid into a reaction cuvette, a reagent delivery pump for delivering to the reaction cuvette a given amount of a given reagent selected from a plurality of reagents contained in a reagent cassette, to form a test liquid, a feed mechanism for successively supplying reaction cuvettes along a circular reaction line, a plurality of photometering sections arranged along the reaction line for effecting a plurality of photometric and/or nephelometric and/or fluorometric measurements for each test liquid at different time instances to produce a plurality of photometric results, and circuitry for receiving the photometric results and selecting therefrom given quantitative analytical data of a given test item.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1987Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Galle, Ryoichi Orimo, Masahiko Sakurada, Taiichi Banno, Sugio Manabe
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Patent number: 4781891Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus for effecting chemical analyses for various sample liquids such as blood, urine, and the like, comprising a sample delivery pump for metering a sample liquid into a reaction cuvette, a reagent delivery pump for delivering to the reaction cuvette a given amount of a given reagent selected from a plurality of reagents contained in a reagent cassette, to form a test liquid, a feed mechanism for successively supplying reaction cuvettes along a circular reaction line, a plurality of photometering sections arranged along the reaction line for effecting a plurality of photometric and/or nephelometric and/or fluorometric measurements for each test liquid at different time instances to produce a plurality of photometric results, and circuitry for receiving the photometric results and selecting therefrom given quantitative analytical data of a given test item.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1983Date of Patent: November 1, 1988Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Galle, Ryoichi Orimo, Masahiko Sakurada, Taiichi Banno, Sugio Manabe
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Patent number: 4634576Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus for effecting chemical analyses for various sample liquids such as blood, urine, and the like, comprising a sample delivery pump for metering a sample liquid into a reaction cuvette, a reagent delivery pump for delivering to the reaction cuvette a given amount of a given reagent selected from a plurality of reagents contained in a reagent cassette, to form a test liquid, a feed mechanism for successively supplying reaction cuvettes along a circular reaction line, a plurality of photometering sections arranged along the reaction line for effecting a plurality of photometric and/or nephelometric and/or fluorometric measurements for each test liquid at different time instances to produce a plurality of photometric results, and circuitry for receiving the photometric results and selecting therefrom given quantitative analytical data of a given test item.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1983Date of Patent: January 6, 1987Assignee: Olympus Optical Co. Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Galle, Ryoichi Orimo, Masahiko Sakurada, Taiichi Banno, Sugio Manabe
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Patent number: 4558946Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus for effecting chemical analyses for various sample liquids such as blood, urine, and the like, comprising a sample delivery pump for metering a sample liquid into a reaction cuvette, a reagent delivery pump for delivering to the reaction cuvette a given amount of a given reagent selected from a plurality of reagents contained in a reagent cassette, to form a test liquid, a feed mechanism for successively supplying reaction cuvettes along a circular reaction line, a plurality of photometering sections arranged along the reaction line for effecting a plurality of photometric and/or nephelometric and/or fluorometric measurements for each test liquid at different time instances to produce a plurality of photometric results, and circuitry for receiving the photometric results and selecting therefrom given quantitative analytical data of a given test item.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1983Date of Patent: December 17, 1985Assignee: Olympus Optical Co. Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Galle, Ryoichi Orimo, Masahiko Sakurada, Taiichi Banno, Sugio Manabe
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Patent number: 4517160Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus for effecting chemical analyses for various sample liquids such as blood, urine, and the like, comprising a sample delivery pump for metering a sample liquid into a reaction cuvette, a reagent delivery pump for delivering to the reaction cuvette a given amount of a given reagent selected from a plurality of reagents contained in a reagent cassette, to form a test liquid, a feed mechanism for successively supplying reaction cuvettes along a circular reaction line, a plurality of photometering sections arranged along the reaction line for effecting a plurality of photometric and/or nephelometric and/or fluorometric measurements for each test liquid at different time instances to produce a plurality of photometric results, and circuitry for receiving the photometric results and selecting therefrom given quantitative analytical data of a given test item.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1983Date of Patent: May 14, 1985Assignee: Olympus Optical Company LimitedInventors: Kevin Galle, Ryoichi Orimo, Masahiko Sakurada, Taiichi Banno, Sugio Manabe
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Patent number: 4338279Abstract: An automatic chemical analyzing apparatus comprising means for feeding successive reaction vessels along a circular reaction line, a sample delivery pump for delivering a given amount of sample liquids to be tested into the reaction vessels, a reagent delivery pump for delivering a given amount of reagent (corresponding to a particular test item to be measured) selected from a plurality of reagents, a first photometering means provided along the circular reaction line for monitoring the reaction condition of a test liquid in the reaction vessel on the reaction line, a second photometering means arranged in a precise photometering section positioned underneath the reaction line, means for transporting the reaction vessel from the reaction line into the precise photometering section after the test liquid in the relevant vessel has been monitored to reach a given reaction condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1980Date of Patent: July 6, 1982Assignee: Olympus Optical Company LimitedInventors: Ryoichi Orimo, Masahiko Sakurada, Taiichi Banno, Sugio Manabe, Kevin Galle