Patents by Inventor Yuichi Tamaoki
Yuichi Tamaoki 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: 7678568Abstract: The invention provides an incubator 1 wherein stackers 3 having a plurality of microplate accommodating portions are arranged in a chamber 11, and a microplate transport device 5 is arranged for transporting a microplate 31 within the chamber 11 and moving the microplate 31 into or out of a desired microplate accommodating portion. A camera 7 is provided on a position opposed to a microplate accommodating portion of an uppermost stage in the stacker 3. The camera 7 faces said microplate accommodating portion, whereby a sample on the microplate 31 can be photographed.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2006Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yasuhiko Yokoi, Mikio Houjou, Daisuke Etou, Ayako Michida, Akihiko Yamada, Akira Sakaguchi, Masaki Harada, Hiroki Busujima, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Patent number: 7628958Abstract: An object is to provide a reaction detecting device in which a height dimension of the device itself can be set to be small to realize space saving, unevenness of measurement sensitivity for each reaction container is minimized, and high-sensitivity and high-precision reaction detecting is possible, the device includes: a reflective plate disposed above a temperature controllable reaction block disposed in a reaction chamber constituted in a main body to reflect light; and a light source lamp and a camera arranged in the main body, the light from the light source lamp is reflected by the reflective plate to enter each reaction container from above, and light such as fluorescence directed upwards from a reaction specimen is reflected by the reflective plate to enter the camera.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Tadahisa Saga, Takashi Arai, Yasuhiro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20090155891Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for detecting a nucleic acid amplification product in real time, which is capable of effectively excluding or reducing apparatus error factors without using a second fluorescence signal used for correction. A plurality of wells 7A are given with temperature cycles and fluorescence strength from a nucleic acid amplification product is detected in real time in each well 7A. A fluorescence measurement value [DNA]raw obtained from the well 7A and a fluorescence measurement value [DNA]bg obtained from a-connection wall near the well 7A are detected, and the fluorescence measurement value [DNA]bg is subtracted from the fluorescence measurement value [DNA]raw to determine fluorescence strength [DNA]real of the well 7A.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Akifumi Iwama, Yasuaki Sonoda
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Publication number: 20070031290Abstract: An object is to provide a reaction detecting device in which a height dimension of the device itself can be set to be small to realize space saving, unevenness of measurement sensitivity for each reaction container is minimized, and high-sensitivity and high-precision reaction detecting is possible, the device includes: a reflective plate disposed above a temperature controllable reaction block disposed in a reaction chamber constituted in a main body to reflect light; and a light source lamp and a camera arranged in the main body, the light from the light source lamp is reflected by the reflective plate to enter each reaction container from above, and light such as fluorescence directed upwards from a reaction specimen is reflected by the reflective plate to enter the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Tadahisa Saga, Takashi Arai, Yasuhiro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 7141413Abstract: The invention provides an incubator 1 wherein stackers 3 having a plurality of microplate accommodating portions are arranged in a chamber 11, and a microplate transport device 5 is arranged for transporting a microplate 31 within the chamber 11 and moving the microplate 31 into or out of a desired microplate accommodating portion. A camera 7 is provided on a position opposed to a microplate accommodating portion of an uppermost stage in the stacker 3. The camera 7 faces said microplate accommodating portion, whereby a sample on the microplate 31 can be photographed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yasuhiko Yokoi, Mikio Houjou, Daisuke Etou, Ayako Michida, Akihiko Yamada, Akira Sakaguchi, Masaki Harada, Hiroki Busujima, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20060115892Abstract: The invention provides an incubator 1 wherein stackers 3 having a plurality of microplate accommodating portions are arranged in a chamber 11, and a microplate transport device 5 is arranged for transporting a microplate 31 within the chamber 11 and moving the microplate 31 into or out of a desired microplate accommodating portion. A camera 7 is provided on a position opposed to a microplate accommodating portion of an uppermost stage in the stacker 3. The camera 7 faces said microplate accommodating portion, whereby a sample on the microplate 31 can be photographed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2006Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yasuhiko Yokoi, Mikio Houjou, Daisuke Etou, Ayako Michida, Akihiko Yamada, Akira Sakaguchi, Masaki Harada, Hiroki Busujima, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Patent number: 6986262Abstract: With the intention of reducing power consumption and noise, there is provided a binary refrigeration unit which can be started even by a compressor equipped with a small-torque and compact motor. The binary refrigeration unit is constructed in such a manner that an evaporator 4 of a high-temperature side refrigerant circuit H and a condenser 12 of a low-temperature side refrigerant circuit L are disposed side by side, a refrigerant of the low-temperature side refrigerant circuit L is cooled to be condensed at the condenser 12 by vaporization heat of a refrigerant of the high-temperature side refrigerant circuit H evaporated by the evaporator 4, the condensed refrigerant of the low-temperature side refrigerant circuit L is evaporated at an evaporator 14, and accordingly a low temperature much lower than a low temperature obtained by the evaporator 4 is obtained by the evaporator 14.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., LtdInventors: Katsuzi Takasugi, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20050266392Abstract: An object is to provide electrical locks in a plurality of culture devices represented by incubators and in a plurality of preservation devices represented by chemical coolers, in order to build a system based on the idea of one chamber one donor; and to provide a central control system wherein the one chamber one donor is clearly indicated by a bar code and it is thus difficult to cause contamination of specimens corresponding to donors due to a human operational error.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC BIOMEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Atsushi Nakao
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Patent number: 6935567Abstract: The present invention provides an incubator which can release pressure applied to a vessel side by upper heating means, and can simplify an opening/closing structure of a reaction chamber. The gist of the present invention resides in an incubator comprising a reaction chamber disposed in an incubator body; a heat conductive reaction block disposed in the reaction chamber to hold one or plural vessels containing reaction samples; a cover for covering an upper part of the reaction chamber in an openable manner; upper heating means positioned on a lower surface of the cover to heat an upper part of the vessel held by the reaction block; and pressure means for pressing the upper heating means to the vessel side; the reaction block being heated/cooled while the upper part of the vessel is heated by the upper heating means, to incubate the reaction sample; wherein the cover is disposed rotatably and movably in a horizontal direction with respect to the incubator body.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahisa Saga, Takashi Arai, Hidetoshi Shinya, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20050084956Abstract: An entry of air from the outside of an incubator into an incubation room is prevented. The incubator comprises an adiabatic box main body having an opening on a front face thereof, an adiabatic door mounted to the adiabatic box main body to be opened/closed, a transparent inner door which closes the opening to be opened, and a storeroom surrounded with the inner door and the adiabatic box main body to incubate samples such as cells or microbes. The adiabatic box main body comprises a metal outer box, a metal inner box, a heat insulating material arranged in the outer box between the outer box and the inner box, and an air layer arranged more inside than the heat insulating material. Pressure of the storeroom is set higher than that of an outside space of the incubator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2004Publication date: April 21, 2005Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC BIOMEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Yasushi Sakata, Hidetoshi Shinya, Hiroki Busujima
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Publication number: 20050084955Abstract: The invention provides a culture apparatus or a reserving stock room which receives a lot of culture vessels without vibration. The culture apparatus or the reserving stock room is provided with storage shelves (12a, 12b, . . . ) for culture vessels arranged in a circular arc shape or an annular shape, and a carrying means (15) for taking in and out the culture vessels to an inner side of the circular arc shaped arrangement or the annular shaped arrangement from the storage shelves (12a, 12b, . . . ). Further, the culture apparatus or the reserving stock room is provided with storage shelves (12a, 12b, . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2003Publication date: April 21, 2005Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Takashi Arai, Tadahisa Saga, Hiroki Busujima
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Publication number: 20040188456Abstract: There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus that can effectively prevent the quality of medicines contained in a tablet case from changing due to moisture. The medicine supply apparatus includes a tablet case having an opening, a discharge mechanism for dropping a medicine in the tablet case through the opening so as to be discharged, a drive mechanism for driving the discharge mechanism, and a filling member for receiving the medicine discharged by the discharge mechanism, wherein the opening of the tablet case is closed by a detachable cover member to enable sealing the inside of the tablet case.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Arai, Yuichi Tamaoki, Manabu Haraguchi
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Publication number: 20040152188Abstract: The invention provides an incubator 1 wherein stackers 3 having a plurality of microplate accommodating portions are arranged in a chamber 11, and a microplate transport device 5 is arranged for transporting a microplate 31 within the chamber 11 and moving the microplate 31 into or out of a desired microplate accommodating portion. A camera 7 is provided on a position opposed to a microplate accommodating portion of an uppermost stage in the stacker 3. The camera 7 faces said microplate accommodating portion, whereby a sample on the microplate 31 can be photographed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yasuhiko Yokoi, Mikio Houjou, Daisuke Etou, Ayako Michida, Akihiko Yamada, Akira Sakaguchi, Masaki Harada, Hiroki Busujima, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20040118145Abstract: With the intention of reducing power consumption and noise, there is provided a binary refrigeration unit which can be started even by a compressor equipped with a small-torque and compact motor. The binary refrigeration unit is constructed in such a manner that an evaporator 4 of a high-temperature side refrigerant circuit H and a condenser 12 of a low-temperature side refrigerant circuit L are disposed side by side, a refrigerant of the low-temperature side refrigerant circuit L is cooled to be condensed at the condenser 12 by vaporization heat of a refrigerant of the high-temperature side refrigerant circuit H evaporated by the evaporator 4, the condensed refrigerant of the low-temperature side refrigerant circuit L is evaporated at an evaporator 14, and accordingly a low temperature much lower than a low temperature obtained by the evaporator 4 is obtained by the evaporator 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuzi Takasugi, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20040112969Abstract: The present invention provides an incubator which can release pressure applied to a vessel side by upper heating means, and can simplify an opening/closing structure of a reaction chamber. The gist of the present invention resides in an incubator comprising a reaction chamber disposed in an incubator body; a heat conductive reaction block disposed in the reaction chamber to hold one or plural vessels containing reaction samples; a cover for covering an upper part of the reaction chamber in an openable manner; upper heating means positioned on a lower surface of the cover to heat an upper part of the vessel held by the reaction block; and pressure means for pressing the upper heating means to the vessel side; the reaction block being heated/cooled while the upper part of the vessel is heated by the upper heating means, to incubate the reaction sample; wherein the cover is disposed rotatably and movably in a horizontal direction with respect to the incubator body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahisa Saga, Takashi Arai, Hidetoshi Shinya, Yuichi Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20040063195Abstract: To provide a CO2 incubator capable of accurately controlling the CO2 gas concentration in an incubation space and quickly coping with a sudden change of CO2 gas concentrations in the incubation space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Hiroki Busujima, Shinji Osawa, Yasuhiro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6593131Abstract: A cultivating apparatus designed so that cultivating containers for cultivating cultures can be mounted therein and the inside of the apparatus is hermetically sealed by closing a door of said apparatus to cultivate the cultures, is provided with a sterilizing lamp for emitting light for sterilizing germs such as bacteria, etc. contained in the gas in the apparatus. The sterilizing lamp comprises an ultraviolet lamp for emitting ultraviolet rays in which light of 200 nm or less in wavelength is cut off.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Hiroki Busujima, Tetsuya Miyoshi, Tadahisa Saga
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Patent number: 6529133Abstract: A repository including: an input unit (3) for setting the temperature of the interior (2) of a repository (1); a measuring unit (5,6) for measuring the temperature of the interior of the repository (1); a controller (4) for holding ID data to specify the repository itself and communicatively outputting the measurement data to the external; and an auxiliary power source (13) for communicating the measurement data to the external even during interruption of power supply. A central controller 11 for collecting the measured data from each repository and judging whether abnormality occurs or not is connected to plural repositories to fabricate a monitoring system. When abnormality is detected, the measured data as well as ID data and time data are transmitted to a user through the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Tetsuya Miyoshi
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Patent number: 6516969Abstract: The convenience of a medication supplying apparatus is improved. The medication supplying apparatus is equipped with a tablet case (1) having a dispensing drum for dispensing medications from an accommodating container that accommodates medications, a motor for driving the dispensing drum, a controlling means for controlling the operation of the motor, and a dispensing detection means for detecting the dispensing of a medication from the tablet case (1), wherein the controlling means reverses the motor if the dispensing detection means does not detect normal dispensing of a medication when the motor is rotated to dispense a medication.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2002Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuichi Tamaoki
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Publication number: 20020134790Abstract: The convenience of a medication supplying apparatus is improved. The medication supplying apparatus is equipped with a tablet case (1) having a dispensing drum for dispensing medications from an accommodating container that accommodates medications, a motor for driving the dispensing drum, a controlling means for controlling the operation of the motor, and a dispensing detection means for detecting the dispensing of a medication from the tablet case (1), wherein the controlling means reverses the motor if the dispensing detection means does not detect normal dispensing of a medication when the motor is rotated to dispense a medication.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2002Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventor: Yuichi Tamaoki