Patents by Inventor Koji Yanagihara

Koji Yanagihara 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: 20160051429
    Abstract: A medical equipment table having a placement surface on which a subject is placed. The medical equipment table is equipped with door structures provided at side faces extending along a longitudinal direction of the medical equipment table. Each of the door structures has a door section, a horizontal axis rotation lock mechanism enabling horizontal axis rotation with one end in a vertical direction of the door section being taken as a support axis, and locks at a plurality of horizontal axis rotating positions, and a vertical axis rotation lock mechanism enabling vertical axis rotation with one end in a horizontal direction of the door section being taken as a support axis, and locks at a plurality of vertical axis rotating positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Koji YANAGIHARA, Akira MIZUKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20110201927
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a housing and an arm extending in a direction of front and back of the apparatus above the housing. The arm configured to rotate upwardly and downwardly and attaching to an attachment provided above the housing. The apparatus further includes an operation panel provided at a distal end of the arm. The attachment is oriented at a certain position from an upper surface of the housing such that the arm is rotatable upward and downward from a horizontal position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hayakawa, Akimasa Asai, Koji Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20100049045
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus body adapted to generate an ultrasonic image on the basis of an echo signal obtained by transmission of an ultrasonic wave, and a display unit including a display section for the display of the ultrasonic image generated by the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus body. The display section is supported by a support member installed on a floor surface. The display unit can be attached to and detached from the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MATSUMURA, Koji YANAGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20090247870
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an operating device for an operator to input an instruction, an image display device for displaying an ultrasonic image, and a processing device that generates the ultrasonic image based on a reception signal resulting from transmission of an ultrasonic wave for display on the display device. The image display device is mounted removably through an arm, which has a movable portion and extends up to near a table for resting a subject thereon, to any of a ceiling, a wall, and a floor surface of an installation room, or to an image display device mounting member fixed within the installation room. The operating device is mounted removably to an operating device mounting member arranged near the table. The processing device is mounted removably to a processing device mounting member arranged near the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Shinichi Amemiya, Dai Morita, Koji Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20090198135
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an operating device for an operator to input an instruction, an image display device for displaying an ultrasonic image, a processing device which controls producing the ultrasonic image based on an echo signal obtained by sending and receiving a ultrasonic wave and displaying it, and a table on which a patient lies. Said operating device is provided separately from said image display device, said processing device, and said table. Said table, said image display device, and said processing device are integrally provided on the side where said operating device is not placed with respect to the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Koji Yanagihara, Shinichi Amemiya
  • Publication number: 20090198136
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an image display device that displays an ultrasonic image, and a processing device that controls to generate an ultrasonic image on the basis of an echo signal obtained through the transmission of an ultrasonic wave and to display the ultrasonic image on the image display device. The image display device is mounted separate from the processing device, and attached at a ceiling or a wall of a room, to which the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is installed, through an arm, and the arm has a movable portion for changing the position of the image display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Koji Yanagihara, Akimasa Asai, Kazuhiko Hayakawa, Hiroyuki Hatakenaka
  • Publication number: 20090131786
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus body having a console interface device that permits changeable connection of a plurality of consoles of different types, a console identifying device that identifies the type of the connected console and an operation mode control device that so performs control as to accomplish operation in the diagnostic mode corresponding to the identified console, and a console of at least one type of the plurality of consoles of different types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Shinichi Amemiya, Koji Yanagihara, Dai Morita
  • Publication number: 20090062657
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an operating device for an operator to input an instruction, a probe for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves, an image display device for displaying an ultrasonic image, and a processing device. The processing device controls driving the probe based on the instruction, generates the ultrasonic image based on a received signal, and displays the ultrasonic image on the image display device. The operating device is formed separately from the processing device and the image display device is supported by an arm extending from a column support along the processing device or by an arm extending from the processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Koji Yanagihara, Kiyoshi Matsumura, Osamu Furuta, Akimasa Asai, Kazuhiko Hayakawa, Hiroyuki Hatakenaka
  • Publication number: 20090054777
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a plurality of transmitter-receiver units each having a probe connector, a transmitter-receiver and a power supply; a plurality of display units each having an image display and a power supply; a plurality of operation units each having an operating part and a power supply; and a control unit. The plural transmitter-receiver units, the plural display units and the plural operation units can be connected to the control unit, and the control unit can control the thus-connected plural transmitter-receiver units, plural display units and plural operation units each independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Shinichi Amemiya, Dai Morita, Koji Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20090005686
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an operating device for an operator to input an instruction; a probe for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves; an image display device for displaying an ultrasonic image; and an processing device which drives the probe based on the instruction, produces the ultrasonic image, and displays the image on the image display device. The processing device is mounted on an installation platform or placed on a floor. A cable receiving space is provided inside the processing device or the installation platform for receiving a cable of probe. A probe connector is provided above an opening of the cable receiving space such that the cable is received into the cable receiving space in the shape of a U. A movable pulley is hung from a lower end of the U-shaped cable, and the movable pulley is supported on a rail in a vertically movable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Koji Yanagihara, Kiyoshi Matsumura, Osamu Furuta
  • Publication number: 20080281198
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus main body unit includes: a main body wireless communication device for wireless communicating with separate operation units; and a main body control device which accepts operation instructions given from the plural operation units and activates the function of an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in accordance with the operation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Tetsuo Koide, Dai Morita, Shinichi Amemiya, Koji Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20050113700
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ultrasonic probe, which is soft for the subject, and which has an ultrasonic transceiver unit and an enclosure for housing the unit. The integrated enclosure includes a first partial enclosure made of hard plastics and having an opening at one end, and a second partial enclosure molded together with the first partial enclosure so as to cover the opening to expand beyond the end, the transmission/reception surface of the ultrasonic transceiver unit being in contact therewith from inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Koji Yanagihara, Tadashi Tsukahara, Mitsuhiro Nozaki, Timothy Maack
  • Patent number: D457885
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Koji Yanagihara, Osamu Furuta, Tadashi Tsukahara, Kiyoshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: D701965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsumura, Koji Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D725275
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsumura, Koji Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D728802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsumura, Koji Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D746995
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsumura, Koji Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D748808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsumura, Koji Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D770049
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Koji Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D840541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Koji Yanagihara