Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Honda

Yoshitaka Honda 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: 9888959
    Abstract: A therapeutic treatment system includes a holding section configured to hold a biological tissue, electrodes provided in the holding section and capable of outputting first high-frequency energy for sealing the biological tissue at a first sealing temperature and second high-frequency energy for dissecting the biological tissue at a first dissection temperature higher than the first sealing temperature, electrodes provided in the holding section and capable of outputting first thermal energy for sealing the biological tissue at a second sealing temperature higher than the first sealing temperature and second thermal energy for dissecting the biological tissue at a second dissection temperature lower than the first dissection temperature and higher than the second sealing temperature, and a control section configured to control temperature of each of the electrodes to output the second thermal energy after the output of the first high-frequency energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Honda, Tsuyoshi Hayashida, Kazue Tanaka, Sumihito Konishi
  • Patent number: 9878183
    Abstract: A surgical operation system includes a US signal output section, an HV signal output section, a probe having a treatment section which has an HV signal applied thereto and vibrates by ultrasound, an HV signal main control section that performs feedback control of the HV signal output section based on the HV signal, a US signal main control section that performs feedback control of the US signal output section based on a US signal, and an HV signal auxiliary control section that controls the HV signal output section based on the US signal, and has a response time shorter than that of the HV signal main control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazue Tanaka, Takashi Mihori, Yoshitaka Honda, Ryoichi Honda
  • Publication number: 20170331084
    Abstract: A battery assembly for a medical instrument that an operator can grip by a hand and operate, includes: a battery including a first laminated body unit including a solid electrolyte layer and configured to generate electrical energy; a casing including a wall section configured to store the battery inside; and a support provided in the casing and configured to support the battery apart from the wall section in a lamination direction of the first laminated body unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka HONDA, Tatsuro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9801649
    Abstract: A treatment device includes a probe having a treatment portion to treat a biological tissue by using the ultrasonic vibration generated in an ultrasonic transducer; an action portion being able to be close to and away from the treatment portion and including a pressing portion that presses the biological tissue to the treatment portion; and a vibration damping portion disposed in a part of the pressing portion in a state of facing the treatment portion, moving following the treatment portion to which the ultrasonic vibration is transmitted when abutting on the treatment portion in a state where the ultrasonic vibration is transmitted to the treatment portion, and prevented from being grinded by the treatment portion to which the ultrasonic vibration is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunetaka Akagane, Yoshitaka Honda, Tsuyoshi Hayashida, Tadashi Kitayama
  • Patent number: 9782218
    Abstract: A thermocoagulation/cutting device 11 includes an exothermic part 13 made of a meta; a first current supply portion 41 projecting integrally from the exothermic part 13; a second current supply portion 42 projecting integrally from the exothermic part 13; and a third current supply portion 43 projecting integrally from the exothermic part 13. The thermocoagulation/cutting device 11 includes a controller 16. The controller 16 is capable of causing an electric current to flow between the first current supply portion 41 and second current supply portion 42, between the first current supply portion 41 and third current supply portion 43, or between the second current supply portion 42 and third current supply portion 43.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumihito Konishi, Tsuyoshi Hayashida, Yoshitaka Honda
  • Publication number: 20170252094
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a heat treatment device, wherein the heat treatment device includes: a heating resistor configured to be electrically connected to an energy output source to form a circuit such that the energy output source causes current flow through the heating resistor to generate heat for treating a target object, and wherein the control device includes: a detection circuit configured to detect one or more of a resistance component and a capacitance component of the circuit caused by a fluid; and one or more processors configured to control the energy output source to control a characteristic of the current flow through the heating resistor based on the one or more of the resistance component and the capacitance component detected by the detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka HONDA, Norihiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170252088
    Abstract: The energy treatment instrument includes an end effector performing treatment using treatment energy, and a moving part disposed so as to be movable relative to a housing and moving relative to the housing based on an operation input to move the end effector or an operation input to supply treatment energy to the end effector. The energy treatment instrument includes an energy converter converting kinetic energy due to a movement of the moving part into electric energy and storing the converted electric energy in an electricity storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka HONDA
  • Publication number: 20170252091
    Abstract: An energy treatment device includes, a first power accumulator which accumulates electric power; a clock generation portion which generates a clock signal based on the electric power; a controller which uses the clock signal to control supply of an energy to be used for treatment at a treatment portion; a trigger portion which generates a trigger signal that permits the clock generation portion and the first power accumulator to be electrically connected so that the controller receives the clock signal; and a switching portion which, in accordance with a presence/absence of the trigger signal at the trigger portion, switches between a connected state, where the clock generation portion and the first power accumulator are electrically connected, and a disconnected state, where the clock generation portion and the first power accumulator are electrically separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka HONDA
  • Publication number: 20170245880
    Abstract: An energy treatment instrument includes a held unit capable of being held, and an electric-receiver-side resonator including an electric receiver coil wound around a coil axis, and resonating at the same resonance frequency as an electric-supplier-side resonator, thereby electric power being supplied from an electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil. The energy treatment instrument includes an energy generator generating energy for use in a treatment by using the electric power supplied to the electric receiver coil, and a magnetic member including a magnetic material and located distant from the coil axis of the electric receiver coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka HONDA, Tatsuro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170224407
    Abstract: A heating treatment apparatus to treat a living tissue by heating the living tissue includes a first holding member and a second holding member, a first heat generating element provided on the first holding member, a second heat generating element provided on the second holding member, a power supply unit supplying electric power to cause the first heat generating element and the second heat generating element to generate heat, and a control unit controlling operations of the power supply unit. The control unit switches a mode between a first mode and a second mode during treatment of the living tissue. Temperatures of the first heat generating element and the second heat generating element are controlled to the same temperature in the first mode and to different temperatures in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sadayoshi TAKAMI, Yoshitaka HONDA, Takashi IRISAWA, Kazue TANAKA, Toshifumi KATSURAGI
  • Patent number: 9687291
    Abstract: A treatment system comprises a first power supply apparatus and a second power supply apparatus each connectable with a surgical device and a neutral electrode, the first power supply apparatus being electrically connected with the second power supply apparatus, the treatment system treating a living tissue while performing transmission and reception of information between the first and second power supply apparatuses, wherein, in a case where the neutral electrode is connected to only one of the first and second power supply apparatuses, an output of the surgical device connected to the second power supply apparatus is inhibited during an output of the surgical device connected to the first power supply apparatus, and the output of the surgical device connected to the first power supply apparatus is inhibited during the output of the surgical device connected to the second power supply apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ko Shimizu, Yoshitaka Honda, Sumihito Konishi, Tsuyoshi Hayashida, Akinori Kabaya
  • Publication number: 20160310207
    Abstract: A therapeutic treatment system includes a holding section configured to hold a biological tissue, electrodes provided in the holding section and capable of outputting first high-frequency energy for sealing the biological tissue at a first sealing temperature and second high-frequency energy for dissecting the biological tissue at a first dissection temperature higher than the first sealing temperature, electrodes provided in the holding section and capable of outputting first thermal energy for sealing the biological tissue at a second sealing temperature higher than the first sealing temperature and second thermal energy for dissecting the biological tissue at a second dissection temperature lower than the first dissection temperature and higher than the second sealing temperature, and a control section configured to control temperature of each of the electrodes to output the second thermal energy after the output of the first high-frequency energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka HONDA, Tsuyoshi HAYASHIDA, Kazue TANAKA, Sumihito KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20160278804
    Abstract: A treatment device includes a support section having conductivity, for which a separate position separated from the probe is switched to a support position at which the support section abuts the probe to support the probe when bent in a direction off of the central axis in accordance with a load which is applied to the probe, and subserviently moved with the vibration of the probe. The support section absorbs the vibration transmitted in the probe when the support section is at the support position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunetaka AKAGANE, Yoshitaka HONDA, Tsuyoshi HAYASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160249975
    Abstract: A thermocoagulation/cutting device 11 includes an exothermic part 13 made of a meta; a first current supply portion 41 projecting integrally from the exothermic part 13; a second current supply portion 42 projecting integrally from the exothermic part 13; and a third current supply portion 43 projecting integrally from the exothermic part 13. The thermocoagulation/cutting device 11 includes a controller 16. The controller 16 is capable of causing an electric current to flow between the first current supply portion 41 and second current supply portion 42, between the first current supply portion 41 and third current supply portion 43, or between the second current supply portion 42 and third current supply portion 43.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumihito KONISHI, Tsuyoshi HAYASHIDA, Yoshitaka HONDA
  • Publication number: 20160235432
    Abstract: A treatment device includes a probe having a treatment portion to treat a biological tissue by using the ultrasonic vibration generated in an ultrasonic transducer; an action portion being able to be close to and away from the treatment portion and including a pressing portion that presses the biological tissue to the treatment portion; and a vibration damping portion disposed in a part of the pressing portion in a state of facing the treatment portion, moving following the treatment portion to which the ultrasonic vibration is transmitted when abutting on the treatment portion in a state where the ultrasonic vibration is transmitted to the treatment portion, and prevented from being grinded by the treatment portion to which the ultrasonic vibration is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunetaka AKAGANE, Yoshitaka HONDA, Tsuyoshi HAYASHIDA, Tadashi KITAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9414882
    Abstract: A treatment system includes a power source for heat generation which outputs power for heat generation, a grasping member having a heating element which applies the power for heat generation as thermal energy to a living tissue, and a control section which performs constant temperature control on the power source for heat generation on the basis of temperature of the heating element, and controls the power source for heat generation so as to finish application of the thermal energy and complete treatment if the power for heat generation becomes not more than predetermined threshold power which is independent of a type of the living tissue or if a rate of decrease in the power for heat generation becomes not more than a predetermined threshold rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazue Tanaka, Yoshitaka Honda, Takashi Irisawa, Sadayoshi Takami
  • Publication number: 20160143684
    Abstract: A living tissue bonding system including: a sandwiching section for sandwiching living tissue; a power source for supplying to the living tissue treatment energy for bonding the living tissue sandwiched by the sandwiching section; a temperature measuring section for measuring a temperature of the living tissue sandwiched by the sandwiching section; a calculation section calculating, from the temperature of the living tissue measured by the temperature measuring section and a time period of applying the treatment energy, a time integral value of the temperature of the living tissue; a comparison section comparing the time integral value of the temperature of the living tissue calculated by the calculation section with a predetermined setting value; and an instruction section giving an instruction based on a result of the comparison by the comparison section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka HONDA, Takashi IRISAWA, Kazue TANAKA, Sadayoshi TAKAMI, Toshifumi KATSURAGI, Hiroko SAKAMOTO, Satomi SAKAO
  • Publication number: 20160106492
    Abstract: A living tissue bonding system includes a treatment instrument having a heating element which applies thermal energy to living tissue, an element temperature measuring section configured to measure an element temperature T1 of the heating element, a power source configured to generate power, a first calculating section configured to estimate a temperature difference ?T between the element temperature T1 and a temperature T2 of the living tissue using a table or an equation stored beforehand in order to estimate the temperature difference ?T based on an output value of the power source, a second calculating section configured to estimate the tissue temperature T2 from the element temperature T1 and the temperature difference ?T estimated by the first calculating section, and a control section configured to control the power source based on the tissue temperature T2 estimated by the second calculating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka HONDA, Takashi IRISAWA, Kazue TANAKA, Sadayoshi TAKAMI, Toshifumi KATSURAGI
  • Publication number: 20160074093
    Abstract: A treatment system comprises a first power supply apparatus and a second power supply apparatus each connectable with a surgical device and a neutral electrode, the first power supply apparatus being electrically connected with the second power supply apparatus, the treatment system treating a living tissue while performing transmission and reception of information between the first and second power supply apparatuses, wherein, in a case where the neutral electrode is connected to only one of the first and second power supply apparatuses, an output of the surgical device connected to the second power supply apparatus is inhibited during an output of the surgical device connected to the first power supply apparatus, and the output of the surgical device connected to the first power supply apparatus is inhibited during the output of the surgical device connected to the second power supply apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Ko SHIMIZU, Yoshitaka HONDA, Sumihito KONISHI, Tsuyoshi HAYASHIDA, Akinori KABAYA
  • Patent number: 9204992
    Abstract: A treatment system includes a holding section that has a heat generation section for applying thermal energy and holds a living tissue, a signal output section that supplies a drive signal to the heat generation section, a signal detection section that detects the drive signal, a signal extraction section that extracts an extracted signal of a predetermined frequency band from the drive signal detected by the signal detection section, a fault detection section that detects when a precursory phenomenon of a fault of the heat generation section the extracted signal reaches or exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a control section that performs control, when the fault detection section detects the precursory phenomenon, so as to reduce power of the drive signal supplied from the signal output section to the heat generation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Honda, Takashi Irisawa, Sadayoshi Takami, Toshifumi Katsuragi, Kazue Tanaka