Patents by Inventor Tomotaka Kodama

Tomotaka Kodama 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: 9144910
    Abstract: The workability of operation to be performed, while preventing chemical or biological contamination, using a biosafety cabinet and gloves attached to the cabinet is improved. A biosafety cabinet includes a workspace formed in a main body cabinet thereof. Air in the workspace is discharged to outside via filters. A vertically movable front shutter is disposed on a front of the workspace. A front opening is formed below the front shutter to be at a front of the workspace. The front shutter includes plural laterally movable small windows which are overlapped like layered sliding doors. One of the plural small windows is provided, on the workspace side thereof, with a pair of glove ports to which a pair of gloves for use in operation in the workspace can be air-tightly attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Ono, Tomotaka Kodama
  • Publication number: 20120019110
    Abstract: The workability of operation to be performed, while preventing chemical or biological contamination, using a biosafety cabinet and gloves attached to the cabinet is improved. A biosafety cabinet includes a workspace formed in a main body cabinet thereof. Air in the workspace is discharged to outside via filters. A vertically movable front shutter is disposed on a front of the workspace. A front opening is formed below the front shutter to be at a front of the workspace. The front shutter includes plural laterally movable small windows which are overlapped like layered sliding doors. One of the plural small windows is provided, on the workspace side thereof, with a pair of glove ports to which a pair of gloves for use in operation in the workspace can be air-tightly attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Keiichi ONO, Tomotaka Kodama