Patents by Inventor Tetsumaru Kubota

Tetsumaru Kubota 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: 7306599
    Abstract: A medical instrument includes an elongated insertion section, a pair of holding portions which hold tissue, a heat source portion, and an operation section which relatively opens/closes the holding portions. The holding portions are provided at a distal end portion of the insertion section. The heat source portion is provided to at least one of the holding portions, generates heat, and transfers the heat toward the other holding portion. At least a part of the heat source portion is covered with an insulating member provided to the holding portions. The operation section is provided at a proximal end portion of the insertion section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Karasawa, Tetsumaru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20050021017
    Abstract: A medical instrument includes an elongated insertion section, a pair of holding portions which hold tissue, a heat source portion, and an operation section which relatively opens/closes the holding portions. The holding portions are provided at a distal end portion of the insertion section. The heat source portion is provided to at least one of the holding portions, generates heat, and transfers the heat toward the other holding portion. At least a part of the heat source portion is covered with an insulating member provided to the holding portions. The operation section is provided at a proximal end portion of the insertion section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Hitoshi Karasawa, Tetsumaru Kubota
  • Patent number: 5836897
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus comprises at least one hand piece, a plurality of probes, and an ultrasonic drive device. The hand piece has an ultrasonic oscillation device for generating ultrasonic vibration. Each probe is adapted to be attached to the hand piece and designed to transmit the ultrasonic vibration generated by the hand piece. The ultrasonic drive device is connected to the hand piece, for driving the ultrasonic oscillation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Hideo Nagazumi, Kazuya Hijii, Toshihiko Suzuta, Masahiro Kudo, Kenji Yoshino, Tetsumaru Kubota, Tatsuya Kubota, Hiroaki Kagawa, Yuichi Ikeda, Mitsumasa Okada, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tadao Hagino
  • Patent number: 5743847
    Abstract: A pupil division type stereoscopic endoscope includes a relay lens system, a pupil dividing stop unit, and a camera head. The relay lens system includes by an image-forming lens for forming an image of an object, and a relay lens portion for transmitting the image formed by the image-forming lens, and has one optical axis. The pupil dividing stop unit divides an object image transmitted by the relay lens system to obtain a plurality of object images which are to be subjected to stereoscopic observation. The camera head receives the plurality of object images that are formed through division by the pupil dividing stop unit and performs stereoscopic observation. The relay lens system and the pupil dividing stop unit constitute an integral optical, system yet are axially movable relative to one another. The main body of the optical lens system side and the camera head can be attached with and detached from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motokazu Nakamura, Tetsumaru Kubota
  • Patent number: 5697939
    Abstract: An apparatus for holding a medical instrument, such as an endoscope, in place without exerting an undue force on an insertion hole in an abdominal cavity of a subject even when the arm of a scope-holding section is unlocked, includes a four-link parallelogram mechanism. The four-link parallelogram mechanism includes a support arm for supporting a treating tool, an arm section parallel to the support arm and upper and lower arm sections connected to the upper and lower end sides of the support arm and arm section in a parallel relation. A support mechanism supports the arm sections of the four-link parallelogram mechanism to allow the arm sections to be moved in left/right and up/down directions, while being rotated, so that a straight line connecting an intersecting point P of a center line of the treating instrument inserted into an insertion hole in an abdominal wall of a subject and the center of the insertion hole to spherical bearings of the arm is set parallel to the upper and lower arm sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kubota, Takashi Fukaya, Koji Yasunaga, Masanori Kaneda, Hitoshi Karasawa, Kyo Imagawa, Tetsumaru Kubota, Hideyuki Adachi, Yoshinao Oaki, Kenji Yoshino, Masaya Yoshihara, Hitoshi Mizuno, Akihiro Taguchi, Yoshihiro Kosaka, Masaaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5688235
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus comprises at least one hand piece, a plurality of probes, and an ultrasonic drive device. The hand piece has an ultrasonic oscillation device for generating ultrasonic vibration. Each probe is adapted to be attached to the hand piece and designed to transmit the ultrasonic vibration generated by the hand piece. The ultrasonic drive device is connected to the hand piece, for driving the ultrasonic oscillation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Hideo Nagazumi, Kazuya Hijii, Toshihiko Suzuta, Masahiro Kudo, Kenji Yoshino, Tetsumaru Kubota, Tatsuya Kubota, Hiroaki Kagawa, Yuichi Ikeda, Mitsumasa Okada, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tadao Hagino
  • Patent number: 5582588
    Abstract: An ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus comprising an apparatus body including a drive source for ultrasonic oscillation, a hand piece including an ultrasonic vibrator and removably connected to the apparatus body, a drive unit in the apparatus body for applying voltage to the ultrasonic vibrator of the hand piece, thereby driving the ultrasonic vibrator, a probe removably connected to the hand piece and adapted to be vibrated by ultrasonic vibration produced as the ultrasonic vibrator is driven, thereby treating organic tissue, a water supply unit for supplying cooling water to cool the probe, a suction unit for removing waste matter by suction from the organic tissue treated by means of the cooling water and the probe, an ultrasonic output setting section for setting a preset value for an ultrasonic output from the ultrasonic vibrator, a feedwater output setting section for setting a preset value for a feedwater output from the water supply unit, a feedwater output control section for controlling the feedwater
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Yukiko Nagaoka, Tetsumaru Kubota, Yuichi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5577991
    Abstract: A three-dimensional vision endoscopic apparatus according to the present invention comprises a pair of optical systems for transmitting an image of a subject as two subject images having a parallax between them, a pair of imaging devices for picking up subject images transmitted by the optical systems, at least one visual field mask, a display unit for displaying the two subject images alternately or concurrently, an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the position of one or both of the imaging devices so that the display images will become consistent on the screen of the display unit, and an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the relative position of the visual field mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Akui, Satoshi Honma, Iwao Kanamori, Susumu Takahashi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Takashi Fukaya, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tetsumaru Kubota, Toshihiko Hashiguchi, Akihiko Mochida, Akihiro Taguchi, Akio Nakada, Kenji Yoshino, Atsushi Kidawara
  • Patent number: 5575756
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an endoscope having an insertion section; and a sheath attached thereto so as to cover at least the insertion section of the endoscope, wherein the endoscope apparatus is equipped with: a forward end gap portion formed between the inner surface of an edge portion formed in the forward end portion of the sheath and the outer surface of the forward end portion of the insertion section of the endoscope; and a fluid passage which communicates with the forward end gap portion and which is formed between the inner surface of the sheath and the outer surface of the insertion section of the endoscope, and wherein a liquid feeding passage or a suction passage for passing a cleaning fluid or a sucked object is provided in the fluid passage, and a nozzle section for spraying the cleaning fluid onto an observation window portion in the forward end portion of the insertion section of the endoscope is provided in the forward end gap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Karasawa, Norio Kobayashi, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Tetsumaru Kubota, Yukio Kawase, Mitsumasa Okada, Takao Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5462522
    Abstract: An ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus comprising an apparatus body including a drive source for ultrasonic oscillation, a hand piece including an ultrasonic vibrator and removably connected to the apparatus body, a drive unit in the apparatus body for applying voltage to the ultrasonic vibrator of the hand piece, thereby driving the ultrasonic vibrator, a probe removably connected to the hand piece and adapted to be vibrated by ultrasonic vibration produced as the ultrasonic vibrator is driven, thereby treating organic tissue, a water supply unit for supplying cooling water to cool the probe, a suction unit for removing waste matter by suction from the organic tissue treated by means of the cooling water and the probe, an ultrasonic output setting section for setting a preset value for an ultrasonic output from the ultrasonic vibrator, a feedwater output setting section for setting a preset value for a feedwater output from the water supply unit, a feedwater output control section for controlling the feedwater
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Yukiko Nagaoka, Tetsumaru Kubota, Yuichi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5391144
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus comprises at least one hand piece, a plurality of probes, and an ultrasonic drive device. The hand piece has an ultrasonic oscillation device for generating ultrasonic vibration. Each probe is adapted to be attached to the hand piece and designed to transmit the ultrasonic vibration generated by the hand piece. The ultrasonic drive device is connected to the hand piece, for driving the ultrasonic oscillation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Hideo Nagazumi, Kazuya Hijii, Toshihiko Suzuta, Masahiro Kudo, Kenji Yoshino, Tetsumaru Kubota, Tatsuya Kubota, Hiroaki Kagawa, Yuichi Ikeda, Mitsumasa Okada, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tadao Hagino
  • Patent number: 5387190
    Abstract: An ultrasonic aspirator has a probe having the inside path made an aspirating path by being provided on the base side with an ultrasonic vibrator. The probe is used as an ultrasonic vibration transmitting member and is in contact at the tip with an object within a body cavity to crush the object and to discharge the crushed object out of the probe through the aspirating path. A device, for detecting a break of the probe, is provided so that, when the probe breaks, the vibration of the above mentioned ultrasonic vibrator will be stopped by a signal from the detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Gotanda, Tatsuya Kubota, Tetsumaru Kubota, Yuichi Ikeda, Toshihiko Hashiguchi, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tadao Hagino
  • Patent number: 5255669
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe having an ultrasonic vibration generator for generating ultrasonic vibrations and a vibration transmission member for transmitting generated vibrations, and a sheath for covering at least an outer peripheral surface of the vibration transmission member of the ultrasonic probe, and a fluid supply unit, attached to an attaching portion of the sheath, for supplying a fluid into a path defined between the vibration transmission member and the sheath. A seal member for sealing the path is arranged nearer to the vibration generator than the attaching portion of the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kubota, Kazuya Hijii, Tetsumaru Kubota, Yuichi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5211625
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus comprises a hand piece, and an RF power supply unit. The hand piece includes vibrator cover, a sheath connected thereto, a hollow cylindrical member, an ultrasonic vibrator in the cover for generating ultrasonic vibrations, a probe arranged in the sheath, for externally transmitting ultrasonic vibrations generated by the vibrator, and a cord for transmitting a high-frequency current from the RF power supply unit to the probe. The cover and sheath are composed of an insulating member, for preventing the high-frequency current transmitted by the probe from being externally leaked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Tetsumaru Kubota, Tatsuya Kubota, Hiroaki Kagawa, Yuichi Ikeda, Mitsumasa Okada, Hitoshi Karasawa, Hideo Nagazumi, Kazuya Hijii, Toshihiko Suzuta, Masahiro Kudo, Kenji Yoshino, Tadao Hagino
  • Patent number: 5178135
    Abstract: A therapeutical apparatus includes a measuring apparatus including a probe which generates an X-ray or ultrasonic wave in order to detect the location of a target to be treated such as calculi situated within the kidney, liver, biliary ducts. A therapeutical energy generator generates a shock wave of sufficient energy for purpose of therapy externally of the physical body and focusses it upon the target. Structure is provided for causing a displacement of the generator and the measuring apparatus around the surface of a patient. Structure is provided to activate the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Uchiyama, Takashi Tsukaya, Kouichiro Ishihara, Sakae Takehana, Tetsumaru Kubota, Syuichi Takayama, Akira Taniguchi, Nobuhiko Watanabe, Naomi Sekino, Hiroki Hibino, Masaaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5163433
    Abstract: An ultrasound type treatment apparatus includes an inner sheath covering an ultrasonic transmission member having a first suction passage and defining a space relative to the ultrasound transmission member and an outer sheath covering the inner sheath and defining a space relative to the inner sheath. In the treatment apparatus, a liquid medium supply passage is provided at one of the space between the ultrasound transmission member and the inner sheath and space between the inner sheet and the outer sheet to supply a liquid medium to the distal end of the ultrasound transmission member. A second suction passage is formed at the other of the space between the ultrasound transmission means and the inner sheath and space between the inner sheath and the outer sheath. The first suction passage is connected by a suction tube to the second suction passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kagawa, Tomohisa Sakurai, Tetsumaru Kubota, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tatsuya Kubota, Yuichi Ikeda, Mitsumasa Okada, Toshihiko Suzuta, Hideo Nagazumi, Kazuya Hijii, Masahiro Kudo, Kenji Yoshino, Tadao Hagino
  • Patent number: 5154723
    Abstract: A cerebral surgery endoscope apparatus comprises a stereotaxic instrument secured to the head of a patient and adapted to effect positioning of an affected part; an adjusted support means whose inserting direction is determined by its orientation to the stereotaxic instrument and which determines the direction in which a treating instrument is inserted into the head of the patient; a viewing device such as an endoscope supported on the support means and having a channel into which a treating instrument can be inserted, the treating instrument being inserted into a channel of the viewing device and then into the head of the patient. A fixing device is connected to the stereotaxic instrument and adapted to secure the support means, the viewing device and/or the treating instrument in a fixed position on with respect to the affected part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsumaru Kubota, Hitoshi Karasawa, Yuichi Ikeda, Toshihiko Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 5076276
    Abstract: An ultrasound type treatment apparatus includes an ultrasonic oscillation device for outputting an ultrasonic oscillation wave, a drive circuit for driving the ultrasonic oscillation device, a probe connected to the ultrasonic oscillation device to transmit that ultrasonic oscillation wave to an affected region of interest of a human being, a sheath formed around the probe, through which cooling medium is passed and a supply tank for supplying cooling medium to the sheath. In this treatment apparatus, an arithmetic operation circuit monitors a drive state of the ultrasonic oscillation device, a comparator is provided for receiving monitor information from the arithmetic operation circuit and for determining whether or not the supply of cooling medium to the sheath is normal and a controller is provided for stopping a drive of the ultrasonic oscillation device when the supply of the cooling medium is determined by the comparator as being not normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Tetsumaru Kubota, Hitoshi Karasawa, Tatsuya Kubota, Yuichi Ikeda, Mitsumasa Okada, Toshihiko Suzuta, Hideo Nagazumi, Kazuya Hijii, Masahiro Kudo, Hiroaki Kagawa, Kenji Yoshino, Tadao Hagino
  • Patent number: 5065741
    Abstract: A therapeutical apparatus includes a measuring apparatus including a probe which generates an X-ray or ultrasonic wave in order to detect the location of a target to be treated such as calculi situated within the kidney, liver, biliary ducts. A therapeutical energy generator generates a shock wave of sufficient energy for purposes of therapy externally of the physical body and focuses it upon the target. Structure is provided for causing a displacement of the generator and the measuring apparatus around the surface of a patient. Structure is provided to activate the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Uchiyama, Takashi Tsukaya, Kouichiro Ishihara, Sakae Takehana, Tetsumaru Kubota, Syuichi Takayama, Akira Taniguchi, Nobuhiko Watanabe, Naomi Sekino, Hiroki Hibino, Masaaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5047043
    Abstract: A medical resecting device is disclosed in which, a living organism tissue is resected with ultrasonic vibrations while the corresponding body cavity is observed with an optical observation pipe. The resecting device includes an ultrasonic vibrator for generating ultrasonic vibrations, a horn connected to the vibrator, a probe connected to the front portion of the horn to transmit the ultrasonic vibrations generated by the vibrator, the probe being provided with a rod-like shaft and a distal end portion with a resecting blade, a power source unit for supplying a drive voltage to the vibrator, and an optical observation pipe having a guide hole in which the shaft of the probe is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsumaru Kubota, Tatsuo Nagasaki, Koji Taguchi, Hiroyoshi Fujimori, Akio Nakada, Syuichi Takayama, Daisaku Negoro, Toshiki Terayama, Hiroyuki Kusunoki, Shinji Hatta, Hitoshi Karasawa, Masaaki Hayashi, Tadao Hagino, Akihiro Taguchi