Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Ueda
Yasuhiro Ueda 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).
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Publication number: 20200391839Abstract: The present invention provides an unmanned watercraft capable of sufficiently cooling equipment that generates a large amount of heat, capable of cooling such equipment without using energy in the watercraft, and capable of improving mean time between failures (MTBF) of a cooling device. An unmanned watercraft 1 has a cooling structure CS for cooling a central processing unit CPU1 for image recognition and a central processing unit CPU2 for control that constitute a central processing unit CPU as a heat-generating body. The cooling structure CS includes a waterproof container 7 that accommodates the heat-generating body (an insulating envelope that surrounds the heat-generating body in an electrically insulated state). The waterproof container 7 is arranged outside a submerged part 3 of the unmanned watercraft 1 so as to be in contact with water present outside the unmanned watercraft 1, the submerged part 3 being submerged in water.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicants: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd., c/o Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and TechnologyInventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Tadahiro Hyakudomne, Ryotaro Suga, Takashi Yoshioka, Hisashi Sugiura, Hideki Endou, Yasuhiro Ueda, Yuichiro Dake, Tomoya Fukukawa, Ryuji Nakazono
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Patent number: 10850086Abstract: A medical connector includes a male connector portion, an engagement portion, and a locking portion that slides on the engagement portion to set a locked state in which the engagement portion is inhibited from being pulled out of another medical connector when the male connector portion is inserted into a female connector portion of the other medical connector.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Takeshi Toyama
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Publication number: 20200323734Abstract: Medical devices are provided comprising a spike including proximal and distal ends, and a central axis extending from the proximal to the distal end; a valve body; a biasing body which biases the valve body; a distal tube that moves integrally with the valve body to both sides in the axial direction relative to the spike; a proximal tube fixed in the axial direction relative to the spike, the distal tube comprising a guided portion guided toward the proximal tube, and an engagement control unit which moves the guided portion toward one side in the radial direction by connection of the different medical device to the distal tube allowing the guided portion to engage with the proximal tube, and moves the guided portion toward the other side in the radial direction releasing engagement with the proximal tube when the different medical device is detached from the distal tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: YASUHIRO UEDA, KAZUYA AKIYAMA
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Patent number: 10799693Abstract: A connector of the present invention includes a housing and a valve, wherein the housing has a flow path and a pipe connecting port, and the valve is formed of an elastic material and is adapted to block the pipe connecting port. The valve has a substantially columnar deformable portion. The deformable portion has a top surface exposed from the pipe connecting port, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, and a slit that reaches extends from the top surface to the bottom surface. When the top surface is pressed by the pipe, the deformable portion of the valve will be displaced toward the flow path while elastically deforming, so that inner surfaces that define the slit will face the flow path, and the top surface will form an opening that communicates with the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Yasunobu Zushi
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Publication number: 20200238069Abstract: A connector includes an elastic valve body that includes a top face on which a slit is formed and a bottom face opposite the top face; and a holding section that is in contact with the top face and the bottom face of the elastic valve body and holds the elastic valve body. The holding section surrounds the slit, and the elastic valve body includes a peripheral section that is positioned outward of a portion of the elastic valve body that is held by the holding section. The elastic valve body and the holding section are configured such that a volume of the peripheral section in a state in which the elastic valve body is held by the holding section is larger than a volume of the peripheral section in a state in which the elastic valve body is not held by the holding section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro UEDA, Toshihiko KAKINOKI, Ryouhei FUJIEDA
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Patent number: 10716929Abstract: A connector includes: a male connector portion; a first female connector portion; and a second female connector portion. The connector defines a flow path therein. The male connector portion is shaped to be connectable to a medical device female connector portion that is equal in shape to the first female connector portion. The male connector portion is shaped to not be connectable to a medical device female connector portion that is equal in shape to the second female connector portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Ueda
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Patent number: 10688293Abstract: A medical connector includes: a housing including a male connector connection portion comprising a male connector connection port having a cylindrical shape, a medical instrument connection portion, and a valve body housing portion; and a valve body configured to open and close the male connector connection port, the valve body including a head portion, and a barrel portion that connects to the head portion. When a male connector is inserted into the male connector connection port, the head portion moves from the male connector connection port into the valve body housing portion and a slit in the head portion opens, such that a flow passage from the male connector connection portion to the medical instrument connection portion is formed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Takeshi Toyama
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Patent number: 10500390Abstract: A medical connector of the present invention is characterized in that: when a male connector portion is inserted into a female connector portion, a first locking portion is engaged with the female connector portion to achieve a first locked state as well as a second locked state; when the second locked state is released by operation of a second unlock operating portion and the female connector portion is moved in a disengagement direction with respect to the male connector portion, the locking member is moved in the disengagement direction together with the female connector portion while keeping the first locked state; and when the female connector portion is rotated with respect to the male connector portion, the first locked state is released.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Takeshi Toyama
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Patent number: 10406342Abstract: A medical connector coupling assisting tool for use with a lock connector part interconnecting at least two medical connectors, each of which includes a construction part, includes: at least two insertion parts configured to be inserted into respective portions defined by the constriction parts such that the insertion parts are thereby detachably mounted on the constriction parts; and a coupling part formed integrally with the at least two insertion parts and coupling the insertion parts together.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Akifumi Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10322274Abstract: A medical connector includes a cap having a male connector connecting part; a holder having a medical instrument connecting part; and a valve body configured to block the male connector connecting part and configured to be pushed in by a male connector such that a liquid flow channel in the male connector communicates with a liquid flow channel in the medical instrument connecting part when the male connector is connected to the male connector connecting part. The cap and the holder are linked to each other so as to be rotatable about an axis of the male connector connecting part.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Ueda
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Publication number: 20190117951Abstract: A medical connector includes a tubular male connector unit, an engaging unit arranged on an outer side of the male connector unit in a radial direction of the male connector unit, at least a part of the engaging unit being elastically deformable inward in the radial direction, a locking unit movable between a first position and a second position in which at least a part of the engaging unit is elastically deformed inward in the radial direction relative to the first position, and a blocking mechanism configured to block the locking unit from moving from the first position to the second position in a predetermined state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryouhei FUJIEDA, Yasuhiro UEDA, Takeshi TOYAMA
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Publication number: 20190117953Abstract: A connector includes: a housing that includes a tubular body connecting unit to which a tubular body is connectable, a concave portion inside the housing, and a receiving portion; and a valve body configured such that, when the tubular body is connected to the tubular body connecting unit, the valve body is pressed by the tubular body against a biasing force, thereby sliding from a closed position to an opened position. The valve body includes an overriding portion configured such that, as the valve body slides from a closed position side toward an opened position side, the overriding portion is pressed against the receiving portion of the housing and rides over the receiving portion by elastic deformation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro UEDA, Takeshi TOYAMA
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Publication number: 20190111654Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for producing a vegetable fiber-containing board, including a press molding step of heating and pressing a fiber mat which includes vegetable fibers and a thermoplastic resin fiber containing a thermoplastic resin, from both the front and back sides, at a temperature at which the thermoplastic resin fiber melts, wherein the thermoplastic resin contains an acid-modified thermoplastic resin having an acid modification degree of 0.03 to 0.09.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki IZAWA, Yasuhiro UEDA
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Patent number: 10238858Abstract: A connector includes a housing including: an insertion section into which a male connector is insertable from an outside of the housing, and a flow path communicating with the insertion section; and an elastic valve body having a slit and configured to block the insertion section. An inner wall of the housing defining the flow path is integrally formed with a liquid barrier face. The housing is configured such that, when the male connector is inserted in the insertion section, the liquid barrier face faces a tip opening of the male connector in an insertion direction of the male connector such that liquid flowing out from the tip opening collides with the liquid barrier face.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Kazuya Akiyama
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Patent number: 10232162Abstract: A connector includes a connector main body having a flow path, an insertion body having a tip serving as a connection opening for the flow path, a valve body formed of an elastic body and arranged on the tip of the insertion body to block the connection opening, and a cap which holds the valve body together with the insertion body. The valve body includes a valve main body having slits, an inner projection formed in an annular shape having an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the insertion body and projecting from a bottom face of the valve main body, and a pair of outer projections arranged point-symmetrically to each other with respect to the axis of the inner projection, each of the pair of outer projections projecting from the bottom face on the outer side in the radial direction with respect to the inner projection and being arranged on the inner side of the insertion body.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Ueda
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Patent number: 10220199Abstract: A connector is disclosed, which includes a main body and a valve body. The main body can include a main line flow channel capable of circulating an infusion solution, and valve body arrangement portions and connecting to the main line flow channel. The valve body includes an operable and closable slit provided to a deformed portion. The valve body is provided along an opening/closing direction of the slit, and includes a guide portion configured to facilitate opening and closing of the slit, and a thickened portion protrusively formed so as to extend through near both ends in a longitudinal direction of the slit and on both sides of the guide portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Yoshikazu Hama
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Patent number: 10159827Abstract: A disinfection cap is provided with a cap main body and a wiping body held by the cap main body. The cap main body includes a cap side locking section that prevents pullout of the cap main body by engagement with a medical connector side locking section. The wiping body includes an impregnation section impregnated with an antiseptic solution and is movable with respect to the cap main body so as to wipe at least the surface of a top face wall, the inner peripheral face of an opening of the top face wall, or the surface of a valve body in a male connector connection section of a medical connector with the impregnation section with the cap side locking section engaged with the medical connector side locking section.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Hitoshi Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20180326199Abstract: A connector of the present invention includes a housing and a valve, wherein the housing has a flow path and a pipe connecting port, and the valve is formed of an elastic material and is adapted to block the pipe connecting port. The valve has a substantially columnar deformable portion. The deformable portion has a top surface exposed from the pipe connecting port, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, and a slit that reaches extends from the top surface to the bottom surface. When the top surface is pressed by the pipe, the deformable portion of the valve will be displaced toward the flow path while elastically deforming, so that inner surfaces that define the slit will face the flow path, and the top surface will form an opening that communicates with the flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Yasunobu Zushi
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Patent number: 10046157Abstract: A connector of the present invention includes a housing and a valve, wherein the housing has a flow path and a pipe connecting port, and the valve is formed of an elastic material and is adapted to block the pipe connecting port. The valve has a substantially columnar deformable portion. The deformable portion has a top surface exposed from the pipe connecting port, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, and a slit that extends from the top surface to the bottom surface. When the top surface is pressed by the pipe, the deformable portion of the valve will be displaced toward the flow path while elastically deforming, so that inner surfaces that define the slit will face the flow path, and the top surface will form an opening that communicates with the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Yasunobu Zushi
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Patent number: 10046153Abstract: A connector includes in a main body, first to third ports each having a flow channel allowing inflow or outflow of an infusion solution, an internal flow channel configured to communicate between flow channels of the first port and the second port, and a through hole connected to an internal flow channel. In the internal flow channel, an upstream side wall surface is provided which guides infusion solution flowing into the internal flow channel from the first port to the through hole, and reduces the cross-sectional area of the flow channel for the infusion solution near the through hole relative to the cross-sectional area of the flow channel of the first port in order to increase a flow rate of the infusion solution.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Ueda, Tsukasa Takahashi