Patents by Inventor Tugumasa Fujiwara

Tugumasa Fujiwara 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: 4281660
    Abstract: A method for the fixation of a permanent pervenous electrode for atrial pacing, comprising the steps of inserting an inspection catheter into the right atrium to determine the optimum position inside the right atrium for the fixation of a pervenous electrode, causing a guidewire slidably built in the inspection catheter to be forced out and allowed to form a loop along the endocardium of the right atrium, inserting into the right atrium an induction steel wire via a double lumen needle pierced through the chest wall in the direction of the loop of guidewire, causing the loop to tighten around and catch firm hold of the induction steel wire and withdrawing completely the inspection catheter while the induction steel wire is held in a state caught fast in the contracted loop of guidewire at the end of the catheter, replacing the inspection catheter with the permanent pervenous electrode, drawing the steel wire backwardly and thereby introducing the pervenous electrode into the right atrium and suturally fixing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Inventor: Tugumasa Fujiwara