Patents by Inventor Kimio Sugawara

Kimio Sugawara 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).

  • Publication number: 20130299005
    Abstract: An overheating detection unit is attached between an oxygen concentrator and a cannula, making it possible to reliably detect a high-temperature environment to cut the supply of oxygen when a user inhales oxygen using the cannula and is exposed to a fire or an abnormal high-temperature environment. An overheating detection unit includes a main body including a connecting member connected to an oxygen outlet and an oxygen outlet portion connected to a tube and also includes a housing covering the main body. The main body includes a temperature sensor in the oxygen outlet portion to detect the temperature of the oxygen outlet portion and a blocking structure portion that blocks a passage between the connecting member and the oxygen outlet portion to cut the supply of oxygen when the temperature sensor detects a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: IKIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Enomoto, Kimio Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20130008438
    Abstract: To provide an oxygen concentrator that can ensure safety by interrupting oxygen in a case where the oxygen concentrator is exposed to fire or an abnormal high-temperature environment when a user thereof is inhaling oxygen with a cannula. The oxygen concentrator includes: a compressor separating compressed air by compressing raw air; an oxygen outlet for discharging oxygen acquired from the compressed air; a coupler mounted on a tube of a cannula and removably connecting the tube to the oxygen outlet, and moreover having a temperature sensor; and a control unit stopping operation of the compressor to interrupt the supply of oxygen when a temperature sensed by the temperature sensor reaches a predetermined temperature or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicants: Ikiken Co., Ltd., Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimio Sugawara, Hisashi Enomoto