Patents by Inventor Yuichi Murayama
Yuichi Murayama 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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Patent number: 11921405Abstract: A camera can perform two different photographing operations with a lens at different positions without vignetting while preventing entry of light and dust. A camera includes a frame including a film compartment to contain a photographic film and a barrel extending from the film compartment in an optical axis direction, and a lens barrel movable in the barrel in X-direction. The lens barrel includes cylinders movable frontward relative to the barrel, and a cylinder movable frontward relative to the cylinder. The camera includes a rear bellows connecting the frame and the cylinder, and a front bellows connecting the cylinder and the cylinder. In a first photographing state in which the cylinders extend frontward relative to the barrel and the cylinder is accommodated inside the cylinder, the rear bellows is expanded and the front bellows is partially contracted. In a second photographing state, the cylinder extends frontward relative to the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION, FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Tomihiro Wakayama, Yuichi Ozawa, Yoshiki Murayama, Takehisa Kirihara, Hisashi Tasaka
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Publication number: 20220378948Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a peptide that selectively binds to a metal surface. Specifically, the present invention relates to a peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 7, or SEQ ID NO: 8, or a peptide substantially identical to the aforementioned peptide, and a method for detecting a metal surface of a medical device, using these peptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: The Jikei UniversityInventors: Yuji TERAMURA, Akifumi YOSHIHARA, Tomonobu KODAMA, Yuichi MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20210085807Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a peptide that selectively binds to a metal surface. The present invention relates to a peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 7, SEQ ID NO: 8, SEQ ID NO: 9, SEQ ID NO: 10, SEQ ID NO: 11, SEQ ID NO: 12, SEQ ID NO: 13, SEQ ID NO: 14, SEQ ID NO: 15, SEQ ID NO: 16, SEQ ID NO: 17, SEQ ID NO: 18, SEQ ID NO: 19, SEQ ID NO: 20, or SEQ ID NO: 21, or a peptide substantially identical to the aforementioned peptide, and a method for detecting a metal surface of a medical device, using these peptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2019Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicants: The University of Tokyo, The Jikei University School of MedicineInventors: Yuji Teramura, Tomoyuki Azuma, Akifumi Yoshihara, Tomonobu Kodama, Yuichi Murayama
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Patent number: 10373326Abstract: A control device defines, for three-dimensional blood vessel data of a blood vessel corresponding to a branched center line, a cylindrical coordinate system, thereby converting this into blood vessel data in an orthogonal coordinate system. The control device uses a coordinate value of the coordinate axis in a radial direction at a first coordinate value of the coordinate axis in a center line direction and a coordinate value of the coordinate axis in the radial direction at a second coordinate value of the coordinate axis in the center line direction, thereby interpolating a coordinate value of the coordinate axis in the radial direction between the first coordinate value and the second coordinate value. The control device converts, after interpolation, the blood vessel data into blood vessel data in the cylindrical coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: PENTAS Inc.Inventors: Shigeru Yoneyama, Hiroyuki Takao, Takashi Suzuki, Yuichi Murayama, Toshimitsu Furuchi, Teppei Sakano
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Publication number: 20180204339Abstract: A control device defines, for three-dimensional blood vessel data of a blood vessel corresponding to a branched center line, a cylindrical coordinate system, thereby converting this into blood vessel data in an orthogonal coordinate system. The control device uses a coordinate value of the coordinate axis in a radial direction at a first coordinate value of the coordinate axis in a center line direction and a coordinate value of the coordinate axis in the radial direction at a second coordinate value of the coordinate axis in the center line direction, thereby interpolating a coordinate value of the coordinate axis in the radial direction between the first coordinate value and the second coordinate value. The control device converts, after interpolation, the blood vessel data into blood vessel data in the cylindrical coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Shigeru YONEYAMA, Hiroyuki TAKAO, Takashi SUZUKI, Yuichi MURAYAMA, Toshimitsu FURUCHI, Teppei SAKANO
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Patent number: 9736464Abstract: The present invention is intended to convert a video input from a surgical microscope into a three-dimensional video.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: ALLM INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Takao, Yuichi Murayama, Harunobu Endo, Teppei Sakano, Shogo Kaku
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Publication number: 20160295199Abstract: The present invention is intended to convert a video input from a surgical microscope into a three-dimensional video.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKAO, Yuichi MURAYAMA, Harunobu ENDO, Teppei SAKANO, Shogo KAKU
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Publication number: 20150363574Abstract: Treatment contents to be given to a user are notified to an operating person of an emergency response apparatus. An emergency medical service system 100 includes an emergency response apparatus 200 operated by an operating person to give first aid to a user when the user needs the first aid and an emergency medical information providing apparatus 300 connected to the emergency response apparatus through a communication line. The emergency response apparatus 200 receives treatment contents information from the emergency medical information providing apparatus 300 and notifies, to the operating person, treatment contents specified based on the treatment contents information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: ALLM INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKAO, Yuichi MURAYAMA, Teppei SAKANO
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Patent number: 8979918Abstract: A stent (1) comprising a hoselike body obtained by braiding a multiplicity of thin wires (2) of superelastic metal into plaited form. In the longitudinal intermediate portion of the hoselike body, mutually neighboring individual thins wires (2) of superelastic metal are in contact with each other or close to each other with a minute interspace and are formed into a thin wire densely braided hose portion (3) with a length needed to block any opening of blood vessel dilation. At both side portions thereof, mutually neighboring individual thin wires (2) of superelastic metal are formed into a thin wire coarsely braided hose portion (4) provided with an interstice allowing passage of blood flow. The hoselike body when pulled in the longitudinal direction causes the individual thin wires (2) of superelastic metal to stretch into fine gathering, and when released from pulling can make resilient restoration to the original hoselike body.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Daisuke KAWABEInventor: Yuichi Murayama
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Patent number: 8388643Abstract: A embolic, bioabsorbable polymeric material (BPM) is incorporated into a coil to improve long-term anatomic results in the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. The material includes at least one biocompatible and bioabsorbable polymer and growth factors, is carried by hybrid bioactive coils and is used to accelerate histopathologic transformation of unorganized clot into fibrous connective tissue in aneurysms. An endovascular cellular manipulation and inflammatory response are elicited from implantation in a vascula location. Thrombogenicity of the biocompatible and bioabsorbable polymer is controlled by the composition of or proportioning the ratio of constituents making up the polymer. The biocompatible and bioabsorbable polymer is at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polyglycolic acid, polyglycolic acid/poly-L-lactic acid copolymers, polycaprolactive, polyhydroxybutyrate/hydroxyvalerate copolymers, poly-L-lactide. Polydioxanone, polycarbonates, and polyanhydrides.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Yuichi Murayama, Fernando Vinuela
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Publication number: 20120022885Abstract: This application discloses a treatment support system making it easy for a physician in charge to ask another specialist physician, especially another expert physician, for an opinion. The support system is much useful in providing an optimal treatment for an emergency disease, reviewing an expert-physician's opinion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: TRYFOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi MURAYAMA, Hiroyuki TAKAO
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Publication number: 20110124843Abstract: A method for efficiently amplifying abnormal prion protein (PrPSc) derived from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is provided. Ultimately, the invention aims at eradicating the transmission of a prion disease by detecting a BSE-infected cow early and developing a method for inactivating prions and permitting early examination of prion inactivation. Provided is a method for efficiently amplifying PrPSc derived from BSE, wherein the method is based on a PMCA (protein misfolding cyclic amplification) method in which normal prion protein (PrPC) is used as a source and PrPSc is used as a seed, and PrPSc derived from BSE is amplified by stir-mixing, incubating, and sonicating both the PrPC and the PrPSc repeatedly, and wherein the method includes performing stir-mixing-incubation-sonication in the presence of a polysaccharide sulfate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Yuichi Murayama, Miyako Yoshioka, Kentaro Masujin, Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshifumi Iwamaru, Morikazu Imamura, Yuichi Matsuura, Takashi Yokoyama, Shirou Mohri
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Patent number: 7828754Abstract: An ultrasonic cerebral infarction therapeutic apparatus that does not produce side effects of destruction of brain cells, occurrence of intracerebral hemorrhage, destruction of nerve cells, etc. by avoiding formation of a standing wave by interference between an irradiated beam of an ultrasonic wave irradiated to the inside of the cranium and its reflected beam. An ultrasonic probe cap is constructed by arranging a plurality of laminated small transducers each made up of a PVDF film, a PZT ceramic, or the like in a mosaic-like pattern or in other form on the inside of the cap and one or more transducers are selected and activated according to a thrombus position. As a high frequency for actuating a transducer, a continuous sinusoidal wave, a burst wave, or a pulse wave shall be used so that no standing wave may be produced inside the cranium.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Inventors: Hiroshi Furuhata, Toshiaki Abe, Yuichi Murayama, Takayuki Saguchi, Toshihiro Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20100217160Abstract: An ultrasonic wave radiator suitable for a cerebral infarction therapy apparatus that is attached to indeterminate curvilinear surface of the scalp of a patient under therapy and dissolves thrombus inside a cerebral blood vessel by outputting ultrasonic vibrations of a plurality of frequencies or an ultrasonic vibration having a wide frequency band. The ultrasonic transducer 20 are arranged on one surface of a flexible sheet 11 in a grid configuration or in other configurations and are bonded thereto and a adhesive layer is provided on the other surface of said sheet 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2006Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventors: Takayuki Saguchi, Hiroshi Furuhata, Toshiaki Abe, Yuichi Murayama, Toshihiro Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20100211154Abstract: A stent (1) comprising a hoselike body obtained by braiding a multiplicity of thin wires (2) of superelastic metal into plaited form. In the longitudinal intermediate portion of the hoselike body, mutually neighboring individual thins wires (2) of superelastic metal are in contact with each other or close to each other with a minute interspace and are formed into a thin wire densely braided hose portion (3) with a length needed to block any opening of blood vessel dilation. At both side portions thereof, mutually neighboring individual thin wires (2) of superelastic metal are formed into a thin wire coarsely braided hose portion (4) provided with an interstice allowing passage of blood flow. The hoselike body when pulled in the longitudinal direction causes the individual thin wires (2) of superelastic metal to strech into fine gathering, and when released from pulling can make resilient restoration to the original hoselike body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventor: Yuichi Murayama
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Patent number: 7776579Abstract: Disclosed is an agent for digesting a protein highly resistant to denaturation and degradation, comprising as an active ingredient an enzyme exhibiting an activity of digesting a protein highly resistant to denaturation and degradation and having the following properties: (a) activity and substrate specificity: hydrolyzing a peptide bond of a protein highly resistant to denaturation and degradation; (b) molecular weight: 31,000 (determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis using a homogeneous gel having a gel concentration of 12%); (c) isoelectric point: pI 9.3 (determined by polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing electrophoresis); (d) optimum pH: pH 9.0 to 10.0; and (e) optimum temperature for activity: 60 to 70° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiro Miwa, Koji Nishizawa, Yoshie Hayashi, Manabu Watanabe, Yuichi Murayama, Miyako Yoshioka, Katsuhiro Miura
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Publication number: 20090099482Abstract: An ultrasonic cerebral infarction therapeutic apparatus that does not produce side effects of destruction of brain cells, occurrence of intracerebral hemorrhage, destruction of nerve cells, etc. by avoiding formation of a standing wave by interference between an irradiated beam of an ultrasonic wave irradiated to the inside of the cranium and its reflected beam. An ultrasonic probe cap is constructed by arranging a plurality of laminated small transducers each made up of a PVDF film, a PZT ceramic, or the like in a mosaic-like pattern or in other form on the inside of the cap and one or more transducers are selected and activated according to a thrombus position. As a high frequency for actuating a transducer, a continuous sinusoidal wave, a burst wave, or a pulse wave shall be used so that no standing wave may be produced inside the cranium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2005Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Hiroshi Furuhata, Toshiaki Abe, Yuichi Murayama, Takayuki Saguchi, Toshihiro Ishibashi
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Patent number: 7485317Abstract: An intralumenal implant material, which comprises, a polymer having a sol-gel transition temperature in an aqueous solution thereof, shows a substantial water-insolubility at a temperature higher than the sol-gel transition temperature, and shows a thermo-reversible water-solubility at a temperature lower than the sol-gel transition temperature. Such an intralumenal implant is capable to be endovascularly or percutaneuosly delivered into a vascular lumen in a liquid state at the temperature lower than the sol-gel transition temperature, is capable to be instantly converted into a gel state in the vascular lumen at the blood temperature higher than the sol-gel transition temperature and is capable of occluding aneurysms, vascular tumors or vascular malformation. Such intralumenal implant material shows excellent biocompatibility and mechanical matching for the vascular tissue and the surrounding tissue because it is a highly water-containing hydrogel.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1999Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Yuichi Murayama, Fernando Vinuela, Yuichi Mori
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Publication number: 20070093889Abstract: Non-fragmenting low friction bioactive absorbable coils are disclosed that improve long-term anatomic results in the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. The coils are composed of at least one biocompatible and bioabsorbable polymer. The coils are then coated with a polymer to reduce the friction. The coating can contain drugs, such as growth factors, and can be used to accelerate histopathologic transformation in aneurysms. The coil can be a polymer such as polyglycolic acid (PGA), poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA), polycaprolactive, poly-L-lactide, polydioxanone, polycarbonates, polyanhydrides, polyglycolic acid/poly-L-lactic acid copolymers, polyhydroxybutyrate/hydroxyvalerate copolymers, or combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2006Publication date: April 26, 2007Inventors: Benjamin Wu, Fernando Vinuela, Yuichi Murayama, Yuhuan Xu
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Patent number: 7070607Abstract: A new embolic agent, bioabsorbable polymeric material (BPM) is incorporated to a Guglielmi detachable coil (GDC) to improve long-term anatomic results in the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. The embolic agent, comprised at least in part of at least one biocompatible and bioabsorbable polymer and growth factors, is carried by hybrid bioactive coils and is used to accelerate histopathologic transformation of unorganized clot into fibrous connective tissue in experimental aneurysms. An endovascular cellular manipulation and inflammatory response are elicited from implantation in a vascular compartment or any intraluminal location. Thrombogenicity of the biocompatible and bioabsorbable polymer is controlled by the composition of the polymer. The coil further is comprised at least in part of a growth factor or more particularly a vascular endothelial growth factor, a basic fibroblast growth factor or other growth factors.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Yuichi Murayama, Fernando Vinuela