Patents by Inventor Satoshi YOKOTSUKA

Satoshi YOKOTSUKA 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: 11971424
    Abstract: An automatic analyzer is provided which is easier to investigate when some troubles such as data abnormality occur in a sample analysis result as compared with an automatic analyzer according to the related art. The automatic analyzer includes: analysis units that perform analysis and quality control analysis for ensuring quality of the analysis; a storage medium that stores quality control results of the quality control analysis performed by the analysis units; a monitor that displays the quality control results; and a control PC that controls an operation of the analysis units (8, 9, and 16), executes, when an arbitrary result is selected from the quality control results stored in the storage medium, based on the selected quality control result, statistical calculation of the selected result and a quality control result performed in the past, and causes the monitor to display a statistical calculation screen as a statistical calculation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION, ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Hirabayashi, Dai Inagi, Satoshi Yokotsuka, Youichi Aruga, Mohamed Abouelsoud
  • Publication number: 20240003924
    Abstract: There is provided an automatic analysis system and an information takeover method in the automatic analysis system, in which repair and maintenance can be accurately executed at an appropriate timing even when a change occurs in a system configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOTSUKA, Masashi AKUTSU, Hiroyuki MISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230056397
    Abstract: A first screen for displaying information of at least two analysis modules and a second screen for displaying information of only the specific analysis module among the analysis modules are separately displayed based on at least one piece of information among angle information of a display section, position information of the display section, and information of an operation performed on the analysis modules. Thus, the screen corresponding to a situation of an automatic analysis device can be accurately and reliably provided by a user as compared with the conventional one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuaki SHIBA, Satoshi YOKOTSUKA, Masashi AKUTSU, Masaki CHIKAHISA
  • Publication number: 20220147038
    Abstract: Provided are an automatic analysis apparatus in which plurality of units are connected and which can perform maintenance on any unit in parallel, and a maintenance guide method for the automatic analysis apparatus. The control unit 114 causes a display unit 116 to display a maintenance guide screen 201 in which maintenance guidance (a display region for sampler module 231, a display region for second analysis module 230, and a display region for first analysis module 232) independent of analysis modules 107, 207 and a sampler module 200 is arranged in the same screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Akutsu, Satoshi Yokotsuka, Hiroyuki Mishima
  • Publication number: 20210356483
    Abstract: The automatic analyzer is capable of performing other operations concurrently with a maintenance operation and notifying a user when a user action is required in executing maintenance and displaying guidance. Automatic analyzer includes analysis modules and that analyze a sample, a display device that displays information related to maintenance in the analyzer including the analysis modules and, and an overall management computer that controls a constant display area to be displayed on a display screen of the display device, in which when there is a need to notify a user of a maintenance status at a timing when the maintenance in the analyzer is executed in a background and a screen other than a maintenance screen is displayed on the display device, the overall management computer displays notification information on the screen including global areas and of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru CHIDA, Masashi AKUTSU, Chikook HA, Satoshi YOKOTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11041870
    Abstract: An automated analysis device includes a reagent disc on which a plurality of reagent containers are loaded; a reagent loader that loads a reagent from the outside onto the reagent disc and carries a reagent to the outside; a display unit that displays the reagents in the plurality of reagent containers, so as to be paired with corresponding analysis items for which the reagents are used; and a control unit that causes the reagent loader to simultaneously carry, to the outside of the reagent disc, a reagent which is selected, on the display unit, by an operation device used for an operation input from an operator instructing the reagent loader to take out the reagent and simultaneously carry a reagent which is to be used for a different analysis item to be performed simultaneously with the analysis item for the selected reagent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Yokotsuka, Toshiharu Suzuki, Rira Okashita
  • Publication number: 20210025907
    Abstract: An automatic analyzer is provided which is easier to investigate when some troubles such as data abnormality occur in a sample analysis result as compared with an automatic analyzer according to the related art. The automatic analyzer includes: analysis units that perform analysis and quality control analysis for ensuring quality of the analysis; a storage medium that stores quality control results of the quality control analysis performed by the analysis units; a monitor that displays the quality control results; and a control PC that controls an operation of the analysis units (8, 9, and 16), executes, when an arbitrary result is selected from the quality control results stored in the storage medium, based on the selected quality control result, statistical calculation of the selected result and a quality control result performed in the past, and causes the monitor to display a statistical calculation screen as a statistical calculation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichi HIRABAYASHI, Dai INAGI, Satoshi YOKOTSUKA, Youichi ARUGA, Mohamed ABOUELSOUD
  • Publication number: 20190011469
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with a reagent disc on which a plurality of reagent containers each containing therein a reagent to be used for specimen analysis are loaded; a reagent loader that loads a reagent from the outside onto the reagent disc and that carries a reagent to the outside; a display unit that displays the reagents in the plurality of reagent containers arranged on the reagent disc, so as to be paired with corresponding analysis items for which the reagents are used; and a control unit that causes the reagent loader to simultaneously carry, to the outside of the reagent disc, a reagent which is selected, on the display unit, by an operation device used for an operation input from an operator instructing the reagent loader to take out the reagent and simultaneously carry a reagent which is to be used for a different analysis item to be performed simultaneously with the analysis item for the selected reagent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOTSUKA, Toshiharu SUZUKI, Rira OKASHITA