Patents by Inventor Ryo Shimokita

Ryo Shimokita 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: 11499961
    Abstract: A body fluid analysis device that irradiates a body fluid in a tube having translucency with light and analyzes the body fluid on the basis of light having passed through the tube is adapted to include: a base; an attachment that is attached to the base 1 so that the tube is pinched in its radial direction between the attachment and the base; a light emitting element that is provided to the base or the attachment; and a light receiving element that is provided to the base or the attachment, in which in a state where the attachment is attached to the base, between the base and the attachment, the light emitting element and the light receiving element are arranged so as to pinch the tube in the radial direction, or both of the light emitting element and the light receiving element are arranged in the base or the attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GENIAL LIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Shimokita, Tatsuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sawada, Taisuke Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11313788
    Abstract: A body fluid analysis device includes a light source, a detector, a normalization part, and a calculation part. The light source is configured to emit light at a first wavelength and light at a second wavelength different from each other to a body fluid. The detector is configured to receive light emitted from the light source and transmitted through the body fluid or light reflected by the body fluid, and is configured to detect intensity of the light. The normalization part is configured to calculate a ratio of an intensity of light emitted at the second wavelength to an intensity of light emitted at the first wavelength, both of which are detected by the detector. The calculation part is configured to calculate a concentration of a predetermined component included in the body fluid on the basis of the ratio calculated by the normalization part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GENIAL LIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Shimokita, Takashi Sawada, Tatsuyuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 11096592
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a light emitter that emits light beams including near-infrared light beams towards a subject; a light receiver that receives light beams having passed through the subject; and a controller that estimates biological information based on signals output from the light receiver. The light emitter includes a plurality of light emitting elements that emit near-infrared light beams having central wavelengths different from each other. The light emitter produces sets of light emissions by causing the plurality of light emitting elements to sequentially and intermittently emit the near-infrared light beams. In given two consecutive sets of light emissions produced by the light emitter, a second non-light-emission period of time T4 is longer than a first non-light-emission period of time T2. The controller estimates the biological information in a processing period of time T41 that is set in correspondence with the second non-light-emission period of time T4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Genial Light CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Otaki, Toshio Kawano, Naoki Ito, Ryo Shimokita
  • Publication number: 20210048385
    Abstract: A body fluid analysis device includes a light source, a detector, a normalization part, and a calculation part. The light source is configured to emit light at a first wavelength and light at a second wavelength different from each other to a body fluid. The detector is configured to receive light emitted from the light source and transmitted through the body fluid or light reflected by the body fluid, and is configured to detect intensity of the light. The normalization part is configured to calculate a ratio of an intensity of light emitted at the second wavelength to an intensity of light emitted at the first wavelength, both of which are detected by the detector. The calculation part is configured to calculate a concentration of a predetermined component included in the body fluid on the basis of the ratio calculated by the normalization part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMOKITA, Takashi SAWADA, Tatsuyuki FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20200363395
    Abstract: A body fluid analysis device that irradiates a body fluid in a tube having translucency with light and analyzes the body fluid on the basis of light having passed through the tube is adapted to include: a base; an attachment that is attached to the base 1 so that the tube is pinched in its radial direction between the attachment and the base; a light emitting element that is provided to the base or the attachment; and a light receiving element that is provided to the base or the attachment, in which in a state where the attachment is attached to the base, between the base and the attachment, the light emitting element and the light receiving element are arranged so as to pinch the tube in the radial direction, or both of the light emitting element and the light receiving element are arranged in the base or the attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMOKITA, Tatsuyuki FUJITA, Takashi SAWADA, Taisuke YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190336075
    Abstract: A device for measuring biological information includes at least one light emitting element configured to emit light having predetermined wavelength, a light receiving element configured to receive returned light from a subject with respect to the emitted light, an attachment determination unit configured to determine whether the device is attached to the subject with respect to the light receiving element based on an amount of returned light received, and a measurement-point determination unit configured to determine whether or not a point where the device is attached to the subject is suitable for measuring the biological information based on the amount of returned light received, when the attachment determination unit determines that the device is attached to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Toshio KAWANO, Yukio OTAKI, Ryo SHIMOKITA
  • Publication number: 20190290135
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a light emitter that emits light beams including near-infrared light beams towards a subject; a light receiver that receives light beams having passed through the subject; and a controller that estimates biological information based on signals output from the light receiver. The light emitter includes a plurality of light emitting elements that emit near-infrared light beams having central wavelengths different from each other. The light emitter produces sets of light emissions by causing the plurality of light emitting elements to sequentially and intermittently emit the near-infrared light beams. In given two consecutive sets of light emissions produced by the light emitter, a second non-light-emission period of time T4 is longer than a first non-light-emission period of time T2. The controller estimates the biological information in a processing period of time T41 that is set in correspondence with the second non-light-emission period of time T4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Yukio OTAKI, Toshio KAWANO, Naoki ITO, Ryo SHIMOKITA
  • Publication number: 20190192014
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes a housing, a measurement unit disposed in the housing and sending and receiving light to and from a subject, and an arithmetic unit disposed in the housing and estimating first information related to a biological body from a signal depending on the light received by the measurement unit, wherein the housing includes an attachment portion for attachment of a second information measurement device configured to obtain, from the subject, second information related to the biological body, the second information being different from the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Kaoru SOETA, Kiyoto KUSANO, Ryo SHIMOKITA
  • Publication number: 20180146903
    Abstract: For a sensor module that is easily positioned at a position at which biological information can be obtained when attached to an object under detection and a biological information displaying system that includes the sensor module, provided is a biological information displaying system 1 that includes a sensor module 10 that includes a light emitting part 11 including a light emitting element 11a1 and a light emitting element 11a2 arranged at an interval; and a light receiving part 12 including one light receiving element 12-1 sensitive to near-infrared light. The one light receiving element 12-1 is arranged to receive light emitted by the light emitting element 11a1 and the light emitting element 11b1, and the light emitting element 11a1 and the light emitting element 11b1 emit near-infrared light having a same central wavelength ?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Yukio OTAKI, Takashi YOSHIMURA, Masaru SAKURAI, Katsuyoshi CHAEN, Kaoru SOETA, Ryo SHIMOKITA
  • Patent number: 9320437
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intravital observation device that has a simple structure and that can observe a foreign material and both blood vessels of an artery and a vein inside a living body without requiring an angiographic agent, X-rays, or harming the body. The intravital observation device comprises a light source that irradiates light having a wavelength peak in a wavelength region of 800 to 1000 nm onto the living body and an imaging device that outputs an image data obtained by receiving the light that has passed through the living body. The imaging device is a digital camera whose minimum detection light amount per output at a time when receiving the light of 0.4 to 10 ?W is less than or equal to 0.055 ?W/bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: GENIAL LIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Shimokita
  • Patent number: 9119640
    Abstract: To provide a bone cutting device capable of selectively cutting only a bone easily and quickly, the device of the present invention is adapted to cut a bone by irradiating with a laser beam and includes a light source for emitting a laser beam of 1000 to 1500 nm with a peak output of 10 to 70 W/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: GENIAL LIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Shimokita
  • Patent number: 8790333
    Abstract: A skull cutting device for cutting a skull by means of laser comprises a body for emitting the laser introduced from a laser oscillator through an optical fiber from an exit opening arranged at a distal end thereof, a contact portion arranged in the body to determine the posture of the body such that a predetermined distance is set between a surface of the skull and the exit opening by touching the surface of the skull in a predetermined mode, a support bar of a predetermined length extending from the body toward the emitting direction of the laser while avoiding the optical path of the laser (R), and a light interception board arranged at a distal end of the support bar to block farther advance of the laser by interfering with the laser beam path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: The Graduate for the Creation of New Photonics Industries
    Inventor: Ryo Shimokita
  • Publication number: 20120257034
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intravital observation device that has a simple structure and that can observe a foreign material and both blood vessels of an artery and a vein inside a living body without requiring an angiographic agent, X-rays, or harming the body. The intravital observation device comprises a light source that irradiates light having a wavelength peak in a wavelength region of 800 to 1000 nm onto the living body and an imaging device that outputs an image data obtained by receiving the light that has passed through the living body. The imaging device is a digital camera whose minimum detection light amount per output at a time when receiving the light of 0.4 to 10 ?W is less than or equal to 0.055 ?W/bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: GENIAL LIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Shimokita
  • Publication number: 20110319879
    Abstract: To provide a bone cutting device capable of selectively cutting only a bone easily and quickly, the device of the present invention is adapted to cut a bone by irradiating with a laser beam and includes a light source for emitting a laser beam of 1000 to 1500 nm with a peak output of 10 to 70 W/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: GENIAL LIGHT CO,, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Shimokita
  • Publication number: 20100049183
    Abstract: A skull cutting device for cutting a skull by means of laser comprises a body for emitting the laser introduced from a laser oscillator through an optical fiber from an exit opening arranged at a distal end thereof, a contact portion arranged in the body to determine the posture of the body such that a predetermined distance is set between a surface of the skull and the exit opening by touching the surface of the skull in a predetermined mode, a support bar of a predetermined length extending from the body toward the emitting direction of the laser while avoiding the optical path of the laser (R), and a light interception board arranged at a distal end of the support bar to block farther advance of the laser by interfering with the laser beam path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries
    Inventor: Ryo Shimokita