Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Kitagawa

Tsuyoshi Kitagawa 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: 11981125
    Abstract: A roll supporting device includes: a pair of supporting rollers which support an outer circumferential surface of a rolled medium, and which are provided so as to rotate together with the rolled medium; a side wall which has a reference surface coming into contact with one end surface of the rolled medium in an axial direction along a central axis of the rolled medium; and a pair of restricting members which press another end surface of the rolled medium toward the reference surface. The pair of supporting rollers are disposed on both sides of the central axis of the rolled medium when viewed in the axial direction of the rolled medium. The pair of restricting members are disposed outside a space between the pair of supporting rollers in a circumferential direction of the rolled medium, and are respectively adjacent to the supporting rollers, and are provided so as to be movable independently from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitagawa, Tsuyoshi Yamazaki, Hirokatsu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11975551
    Abstract: A printer includes a medium feeding device that is one of different types of medium feeding devices including a first medium feeding device that feeds an elongate medium from a first print medium including the medium, and a second medium feeding device that feeds the medium from a second print medium including the medium and a plurality of wireless communication elements provided at intervals in the longitudinal direction of the medium, and a printing device including a printing portion that performs printing on the medium fed from one of the medium feeding devices. The printing device includes a connector portion that is selectively connectable to the common connection portion of each of the different types of medium feeding devices. The second medium feeding device includes a wireless communication portion that communicates with the wireless communication elements, and a terminal portion that connects the wireless communication portion to the printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitagawa, Tsuyoshi Yamazaki, Hirokatsu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240132648
    Abstract: Provided are a low-viscosity ultraviolet curable silicone composition capable of being used even in a surface exposure method and a lift-up method etc.; and a cured product superior in tensile strength and elongation at break.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki MATSUMOTO, Kohei OTAKE, Taichi KITAGAWA, Tsuyoshi MATSUDA, Toshiyuki OZAI
  • Patent number: 11945882
    Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Takashi Kouko, Shigeru Noguchi, Yohei Yamane, Fumikatsu Kondo, Takahiro Aoki, Tadahiro Takeda, Kohei Sakanishi, Hitoshi Sato, Tsuyoshi Ueda, Shinji Matuura, Kei Kurahashi, Yutaka Kitagawa, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11883139
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a sensor module and a blood pressure measurement device that improves the protection strength of and prevents damage to a surface that comes into contact with a living body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Jumpei Mano, Takanobu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11564570
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus includes a detector, a measuring unit, a calculator, and a determining unit. The detector detects pulse waves continuously. The measuring unit measures first biological information. The calculator calculates second biological information from the pulse waves based on the first biological information. The measuring unit suspends the measurement and resumes the measurement after a lapse of a period in a case where the determining unit does not determine that the result of measurement is normal, and the measuring unit continues the measurement in other cases where the body motion is not generated, the pulse waves are not irregular or the blood pressure value fails to vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Yuki Ota
  • Patent number: 11553847
    Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes: a pressure pulse wave detector which is configured to press a pressing surface in which a pressure detecting element is formed, against a radial artery under a skin of a wrist of a subject, and which is configured to detect a pressure pulse wave from the radial artery; and a housing which accommodates the pressure pulse wave detector in a state where the pressing surface is exposed toward the wrist. The housing is configured so that a compression pressure which is exerted by the housing in an attachment state where the housing is attached to the wrist, and which is applied onto the radial artery is smaller than a compression pressure which is exerted by the pressing surface in the attachment state, and which is applied onto the radial artery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Brian Brigham, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Shingo Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 11412955
    Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus performs blood pressure measurement of a person to be measured. The apparatus includes: setting a measurement mode including at least a nocturnal blood pressure measurement mode to perform the measurement; and determining whether a blood pressure measurement posture is good under a first determination condition based on a height difference between a position of the apparatus and a heart position of the person in a sitting posture, and under a second determination condition based on a height difference between a position of the apparatus and a heart position of the person in a supine posture. A determination condition of the determining is switched to the second determination condition when the nocturnal blood pressure measurement mode is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Ota, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11304612
    Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the second axis and a rotation angle about the first axis in a state where a roll angle of the sensor section is controlled to the optimal roll angle. Then, the control unit, presses the sensor section against the body surface in a state where the sensor section is controlled into the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, detects a pulse wave based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements during the increase, and calculates vital information based on the detected pulse wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Patent number: 11278210
    Abstract: The pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section in which two element rows consisting of a plurality of pressure detecting elements arranged in a direction B are arranged in a direction A perpendicular to the direction B, and an air bag pressing the sensor section to a body surface in a state that the direction B intersects a direction in which an artery below the body surface of a living body. An arrangement interval between the two element rows in the direction A is 5 mm or more and 15 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 11266317
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with pressure sensors, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface toward a radius artery that runs under a skin of a living body; an air bag drive unit for controlling the pressing force of the air bag, and a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in the radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by all of the pressure sensors in a process that the pressing force was increased or decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 11234603
    Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the first axis based on DC components of pressure detecting elements included in element rows. Then, in a state where the sensor section is controlled to the optimal pitch angle, the sensor section is pressed against the body surface, and a pulse wave is detected based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements in this state, and vital information is calculated based on the detected pulse wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Patent number: 11134852
    Abstract: A pressure pulse wave detector includes: a pressing member which includes a pressing face in which element arrays each including pressure detecting elements arranged in one direction are arranged in a direction intersecting with the one direction; a pressing mechanism which presses the pressing face against a body surface of a living body; a rotation driving mechanism which rotates the pressing face around each of two axes which are perpendicular to a pressing direction of the pressing face pressed by the pressing mechanism and include a first axis extending in the one direction and a second axis perpendicular to the one direction; a support member which supports the pressing mechanism, the rotation driving mechanism and the pressing member; a housing which houses therein the support member; and a movement mechanism which moves the support member in the one direction inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Hiroyuki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11122984
    Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the second axis and a rotation angle about the first axis in a state where the sensor section is pressed against the body surface with a prescribed pressing force. After determining the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, the control unit reduces the pressing force to a reset value smaller than the prescribed pressing force and larger than zero, increases the pressing force from this state, detects a pulse wave based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements during the increase, and calculates vital information based on the detected pulse wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Yuki Kato
  • Patent number: 11116411
    Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the first axis, and determines a rotation angle about the second axis in a state where a pitch angle of the sensor section is controlled to the optimal pitch angle. Then, in a state where the sensor section is controlled to the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, the sensor section is pressed against the body surface, and a pulse wave is detected in this state based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements, and vital information is calculated based on the detected pulse wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Publication number: 20210059537
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a sensor module and a blood pressure measurement device that improves the protection strength of and prevents damage to a surface that comes into contact with a living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Jumpei Mano, Takanobu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 10772515
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a blood pressure measurement device equipped with a pressing surface having plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body part in a state that the one direction crosses a direction in which the radius artery T runs, an air bag drive unit, a rotational drive unit for driving the pressing surface rotationally about at least one of axes X and Y, and a control unit which performs a rotation control on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by the pressure sensors in a process that the pressing force was increased and calculates blood pressure values on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by the pressure sensors after the rotation control in a process that the pressing force was decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 10736520
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction and an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in the one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body, a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in a radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that are detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing surface is pressed against the living body by the air bag, and a rotational drive unit for performing driving to rotate the pressing surface about each of axes that are perpendicular to a pressing direction of the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 10582861
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a blood pressure measurement device equipped with an air bag drive unit, a pressing surface formed with pressure sensors, and a control unit which calculates first blood pressure values on the basis of a first pressure pulse wave that was detected by the pressure sensors, generates calibration data using the first blood pressure values, and calculates second blood pressure values by calibrating, using the calibration data, a second pressure pulse wave that is detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing force is set at an optimum pressing force. The control unit performs the processing of calculating second blood pressure values by calibrating the second pressure pulse wave if detection conditions of the second pressure pulse wave coincide with detection conditions of a pressure pulse wave used for generation of the calibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Publication number: 20190380579
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a biological information measuring apparatus including a sensing apparatus and a calibration device. The calibration device includes a measuring device and a transmitter. The sensing apparatus includes a detector, a receiver, and a calculator. The measuring device intermittently measures first biological information. The transmitter transmits data including the first biological information to the sensing apparatus. The detector detects a pulse wave continuously in time. The receiver receives the data from the calibration device. The calculator calibrates the pulse wave based on the first biological information, and calculates second biological information based on the pulse wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KITAGAWA, Shingo YAMASHITA