Patents by Inventor Yuko Taniguchi

Yuko Taniguchi 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: 11965049
    Abstract: Photosensitive compositions containing nanosized light emitting materials and (meth)acrylic polymer are suitable for use in a variety of optical applications, for example the preparation of quantum material doped photoresist films, especially for optical devices. Optical films can be prepared be by: a) providing the photosensitive composition onto a substrate, and b) polymerizing the photosensitive composition by exposing the photosensitive composition to radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Tadashi Kishimoto, Yuko Arai, Masayoshi Suzuki, Daishi Yokoyama, Katsuto Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20240118700
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a camera, a display that displays a display screen including a mobile robot that autonomously travels, and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a first planned route of the mobile robot, displays, on the display, a screen having the first planned route superimposed on a camera image taken by the camera, detects a contact point on the display on which the screen is displayed, generates a second planned route of the mobile robot that travels through the contact point, and transmits the second planned route to the mobile robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yuko TSUSAKA, Mikiya NAKATA, Hiroki TAKEUCHI, Tadahiro TANIGUCHI, Yoshinobu HAGIWARA
  • Patent number: 11602261
    Abstract: An endoscope button for an endoscope including a cylinder communicating with tubes includes: a first unit and a second unit that are attachable and detachable with respect to a fitting part fixed to the cylinder, and that are separable from each other in a state being removed from the fitting part. The first unit has a cylindrical shape, and includes a cylindrical member that is attachable and detachable with respect to the fitting part. The second unit includes: a fixing member that is inserted inside the cylindrical member in a state in which the endoscope button is attached to the fitting part, and is fixed to the cylindrical member; and a first movable member that is installed movably with respect to the fixing member, and that is movable back and forth inside the cylinder in the state in which the endoscope button is attached to the fitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuko Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11432797
    Abstract: An ultrasound endoscope, includes: an insertion portion configured to be inserted into a subject, acquire an optical subject image, and transmit and receive ultrasound; an ultrasound transducer configured to emit the ultrasound in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the insertion portion, and perform scanning in a circumferential direction of an axis parallel to the longitudinal direction; a forward field optical portion that is provided at a distal end of the insertion portion in the longitudinal direction, the distal end being where observation light coming from a forward field enters; and a side field optical portion that is provided at a distal end side of the insertion portion in the longitudinal direction and is where observation light from a side field including a part of a scan plane of the ultrasound transducer enters, the side field being a field in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuko Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200037989
    Abstract: An ultrasound endoscope includes: an insertion part including a distal-end rigid part, a curve part joined to a proximal end side of the distal-end rigid part, and a flexible tube part joined to a proximal end side of the curve part; an ultrasound transducer in which a plurality of piezoelectric elements capable of transmitting and receiving ultrasound are arranged annularly along a circumferential direction of the distal-end rigid part; an imaging sensor provided in the distal-end rigid part; an ultrasound cable including a plurality of coaxial cores that are electrically connected to the piezoelectric elements, respectively, and a metallic integration shield that covers the coaxial cores, the ultrasound cable being fixed to a proximal end side of the distal-end rigid part and on a side of an outer circumference; and a flexible substrate configured to electrically connect the piezoelectric elements and the coaxial cores to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuko TANIGUCHI, Katsuhiro WAKABAYASHI, Satoshi YOSHIDA, Sunao SATO, Takuya IMAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190209124
    Abstract: An ultrasound endoscope, includes: an insertion portion configured to be inserted into a subject, acquire an optical subject image, and transmit and receive ultrasound; an ultrasound transducer configured to emit the ultrasound in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the insertion portion, and perform scanning in a circumferential direction of an axis parallel to the longitudinal direction; a forward field optical portion that is provided at a distal end of the insertion portion in the longitudinal direction, the distal end being where observation light coming from a forward field enters; and a side field optical portion that is provided at a distal end side of the insertion portion in the longitudinal direction and is where observation light from a side field including a part of a scan plane of the ultrasound transducer enters, the side field being a field in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuko TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190125167
    Abstract: An endoscope button for an endoscope including a cylinder communicating with tubes includes: a first unit and a second unit that are attachable and detachable with respect to a fitting part fixed to the cylinder, and that are separable from each other in a state being removed from the fitting part. The first unit has a cylindrical shape, and includes a cylindrical member that is attachable and detachable with respect to the fitting part. The second unit includes: a fixing member that is inserted inside the cylindrical member in a state in which the endoscope button is attached to the fitting part, and is fixed to the cylindrical member; and a first movable member that is installed movably with respect to the fixing member, and that is movable back and forth inside the cylinder in the state in which the endoscope button is attached to the fitting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuko TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10191342
    Abstract: According to the display panel, when a disconnection occurs in a first auxiliary capacitor wiring at a location outside from the outermost wiring among the plurality of second auxiliary capacitor wirings of an active area, the first auxiliary capacitor wiring and an auxiliary capacitor spare wiring are short-circuited at an overlapped portion A, and the auxiliary capacitor spare wiring and a normal first auxiliary capacitor wiring are short-circuited at an overlapped portion B, such that a path is formed through which a signal is transmitted by bypassing the location of the disconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Taniguchi, Takuya Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20170319175
    Abstract: An ultrasound endoscope includes: an insertion portion configured to be inserted into a living body; an ultrasound transmitting and receiving unit; a balloon surrounding the ultrasound transmitting and receiving unit; a water supply port for supplying water to the balloon; an operating unit provided at a proximal end side of the insertion portion; a cable extending from the operating unit; a channel provided in the insertion portion and leading to the water supply port to supply water toward the water supply port; a pipe provided in the cable; a cylinder provided at the operating unit, one end of the channel and one end of the pipe being opened to the cylinder; an injection port provided in the pipe; and a duct having one end leading to the pipe via the injection port and having the other end to which a syringe for injecting water or supplying air is attachable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuko TANIGUCHI, Hiroshi KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20160259222
    Abstract: According to the display panel, when a disconnection occurs in a first auxiliary capacitor wiring at a location outside from the outermost wiring among the plurality of second auxiliary capacitor wirings of an active area, the first auxiliary capacitor wiring and an auxiliary capacitor spare wiring are short-circuited at an overlapped portion A, and the auxiliary capacitor spare wiring and a normal first auxiliary capacitor wiring are short-circuited at an overlapped portion B, such that a path is formed through which a signal is transmitted by bypassing the location of the disconnection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Yuko Taniguchi, Takuya Ohishi
  • Patent number: 7452338
    Abstract: An intracoelomic mobile body comprising: a capsule body which has a body to be rotated and can be introduced into the human body; and a rotation drive unit which has a rotation shaft for freely rotating the body to be rotated back and forth. The rotation drive unit is arranged in the capsule body in such a way that a first line obtained by linking the positions of center of gravity of cross-sections formed up to a limit of the formation when the capsule body is cut along a plane perpendicular to the rotation shaft does not overlap a second line obtained by extending the rotation shaft as the same line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Yuko Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20050148863
    Abstract: A magnetic fluid detection device includes an exciting unit for generating an exciting magnetic field to excite a magnetic fluid staying in a subject, a coil for detecting a local distortion in magnetic field distribution occurring due to the magnetic fluid excited with the exciting magnetic field generated by the exciting unit, and a control unit for signal-processing an output from the coil and informing the resultant signal magnitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Toshiro Okamura, Shinji Hatta, Yuko Taniguchi, Mitsuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20050119577
    Abstract: An intracoelomic mobile body comprising: a capsule body which has a body to be rotated and can be introduced into the human body; and a rotation drive unit which has a rotation shaft for freely rotating the body to be rotated back and forth. The rotation drive unit is arranged in the capsule body in such a way that a first line obtained by linking the positions of center of gravity of cross-sections formed up to a limit of the formation when the capsule body is cut along a plane perpendicular to the rotation shaft does not overlap a second line obtained by extending the rotation shaft as the same line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Yuko Taniguchi