Patents by Inventor Ryouichi Konou

Ryouichi Konou 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: 5178515
    Abstract: A medical pump comprises a casing having side walls, a peripheral wall, and a pump chamber defined thereby, an inlet port formed substantially in the central portion of one of the side walls of the casing, an outlet port formed in the peripheral wall of the casing so as to extend tangent thereto, a rocker substantially concentric with the inner peripheral surface of the casing and disposed in the chamber, and a rocker driving unit for rocking the rocker so as to vary the volume of the space between the rocker and the outlet port with the lapse of time, thereby producing a rotating flow in fluid in the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiichi Tsuchiya, Nobuyuki Kabei, Ryouichi Konou
  • Patent number: 4989588
    Abstract: A medical treatment device for resecting, e.g., a prostate or breaking a bladder stone, which includes a vibrator for generating ultrasonic vibrations, a horn connected to the vibrator, a casing for accommodating the vibrator and the horn, a probe connected to the front portion of the horn to transmit ultrasonic vibrations generated by the vibrator, and a power source unit for supplying a drive voltage to the vibrator, the power source unit having an oscillator for producing a wave having a frequency for vibrating the probe and a frequency switching circuit for selecting an oscillating frequency at which the distal end of the probe serves as a loop of vibration or a frequency at which the distal end of the probe serves as a node of vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsumaru Kubota, Akira Shiga, Akio Nakada, Syuichi Takayama, Ryouichi Konou, Yasuhiro Ueda, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tatsuo Nagasaki, Koji Taguchi, Hiroyoshi Fujimori, Shinichi Imade, Shinji Hatta, Yutaka Ohshima, Hiroyuki Kusunoki, Toshiki Terayama, Masaaki Hayashi, Tadao Hagino, Akihiro Taguchi