Patents by Inventor Masuda Toshiaki

Masuda Toshiaki 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: 7017948
    Abstract: A connecting coupler which reduces the risk that an endotoxin or the like enters a dialysis solution and that the connecting coupler itself is deformed including a body made of an elastic material in which a tip portion of a connection plug of a dialyzer can be removably fitted into a plug-receiving opening portion of a solution transferring passage inside the body; a line connector which is fitted into the body and communicates with the solution transferring passage; a coupling tube which has a fixing portion fixedly fitted on the tip portion of the body and a coupling portion projecting from the fixing portion toward a front in an axial direction and removably fitable onto the connection plug; and a fixing mechanism which releasably fixes the coupling tube to the connection plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sunohara, Yasuhiko Morita, Masuda Toshiaki
  • Publication number: 20040262917
    Abstract: A connecting coupler which reduces the risk that an endotoxin or the like enters a dialysis solution and that the connecting coupler itself is deformed including a body made of an elastic material in which a tip portion of a connection plug of a dialyzer can be removably fitted into a plug-receiving opening portion of a solution transferring passage inside the body; a line connector which is fitted into the body and communicates with the solution transferring passage; a coupling tube which has a fixing portion fixedly fitted on the tip portion of the body and a coupling portion projecting from the fixing portion toward a front in an axial direction and removably fitable onto the connection plug; and a fixing mechanism which releasably fixes the coupling tube to the connection plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Takashi Sunohara, Yasuhiko Morita, Masuda Toshiaki