Patents Assigned to Arkray
  • Publication number: 20250142196
    Abstract: A urine component analyzer: captures an image of a urine sample with video and stores the image of the urine sample captured as video in a storage device in cases in which movement of a material component has been detected from plural still images captured as a time series of a urine sample by an imaging device; and stores an image of the urine sample captured as a still image in the storage device without capturing an image of the urine sample with video in cases in which a movement of a material component has not been detected from the still images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji FUJIMOTO, Yurino HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250138033
    Abstract: A method of producing a solution containing hemoglobin A2 and a method of producing a hemoglobin precision control substance, the methods including contacting a solution containing hemoglobin and having a pH of from 7.8 to 9.5 with an anion exchanger, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Chie AMANO, Kazumasa OMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250138003
    Abstract: A measurement system including a first element in which a test sample carrier applied with a test sample suspected to contain a measurement target is to be held, a second element to which the first element is assembled, an imaging section capturing a verification area containing a measurement region in which the measurement target in the test sample applied to the test sample carrier is to be positioned in the first element and acquiring a verification image, and an analysis section analyzing the verification image and detecting an assembly error of the first element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru ODAGAKI, Hyuga SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250138030
    Abstract: A method for stabilizing hemoglobin A2 and hemoglobin F and a method of producing a hemoglobin solution, the methods including preparing a solution containing a buffer, sucrose, and hemoglobin, wherein: the solution has a pH of from 6.0 to 9.6, a concentration of the buffer in the solution is from 5 to 150 mM, a concentration of the hemoglobin in the solution is from 5 to 20 g/L, and the hemoglobin contains at least hemoglobin A2 and hemoglobin F; and a hemoglobin solution, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Chie AMANO, Kazumasa OMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250137933
    Abstract: A measurement system that includes: a test strip including an introduction portion at an upstream side into which a sample is introduced, a measurement portion at a downstream side on which a reaction reagent that reacts with a measurement target contained in the sample is immobilized, and a developing portion for spreading the sample from the introduction portion to downstream of the measurement portion; a light source radiating light of a predetermined wavelength onto the test strip into which the sample is introduced; an imaging section acquiring optical information of the test strip irradiated by the light source; and an analysis section determining a type of the sample from the optical information of an upstream region located at an upstream side in the developing portion from among the optical information acquired by the imaging section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki UMENO, Fumito HIRAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250137964
    Abstract: An electrophoresis unit, having: a first flow path including a first liquid reservoir, a first inflow path at which a solution flows into the first liquid reservoir, a first outflow path at which the solution flows out from the first liquid reservoir, and a first liquid level adjustment section open to an exterior; a second flow path including a second liquid reservoir, a second inflow path at which the solution flows into the second liquid reservoir, a second outflow path at which the solution flows out from the second liquid reservoir, and a second liquid level adjustment section open to the exterior; a capillary that leads from the first liquid reservoir to the second liquid reservoir; and an electrode arranged at respective interiors of the first and the second flow paths. Vertical direction positions of the first and the second liquid level adjustment sections are equal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Eri TAKANE, Yasumasa HONDA, Soichiro MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20250137966
    Abstract: An electrophoresis unit including: a capillary flow path (CFP) through which a sample solution (SS) moves when the CFP is filled with a running solution (RS); a pair of electrodes installed near both ends of the CFP; a detector provided at an intermediate part of the CFP; a first flow path (FFP) and a second flow path (SFP) communicating with the both sides of the CFP, respectively; a first supply source (FSS) supplying the SS to the FFP; a second supply source (SSS) supplying the RS to the SFP; a pump moving the RS from the SSS to the SFP and moving the SS from the FSS to the FFP; a first auxiliary supply source supplying insulating fluid to the FFP; a second auxiliary supply source supplying insulating fluid to the SFP; and a switch switching a fluid path of fluid supplied to the FFP and the SFP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Eri TAKANE, Chiaki MIYAMOTO, Yasumasa HONDA
  • Publication number: 20250127428
    Abstract: According to an aspect, provided is a biosensor capable of highly accurate measurement. The present disclosure relates, in an aspect, to a biosensor including: a substrate with a conductive part provided on one main surface, the conductive part including an electrode pair having a working electrode and a counter electrode; a reagent layer placed on the working electrode and the counter electrode; and a flow channel for allowing a sample to flow from a sample supply port to the reagent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Ayano NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20250132002
    Abstract: An information input support mechanism allows text generative AI to generate guidance comments on a management item for a target person to be managed. An information input support mechanism that includes a data acquisition unit, a command creation unit, and an instruction unit. The data acquisition unit includes a target person information acquisition portion that acquires target person data belonging to the target person to be managed, and a guidance information acquisition portion that acquires guidance item data indicating the content of guidance that is offered in the guidance comments. The command creation unit creates instruction commands that instruct the text generative AI to generate text based on the target person data and the guidance item data that have been acquired by the data acquisition unit. The instruction unit provides the text generative AI with the instruction commands created by the command creation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Akinori KAI
  • Publication number: 20250123783
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a memorization unit, an image capture unit, an identification unit, an acquisition unit and a display unit. The memorization unit memorizes display information to be displayed in correspondence with parts of an apparatus. The image capture unit captures an image of the apparatus. The identification unit identifies a part of the apparatus included in an image that has been captured or is being captured by the image capture unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from the memorization unit, display information that is to be displayed in correspondence with the part of the apparatus identified by the identification unit. The display unit displays the display information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu UEHATA
  • Publication number: 20250126446
    Abstract: A measurement system includes: a measurement device that includes a first communication unit and a second communication unit and acquires a measurement result of biological information of a user, the first communication unit performing communication by a first communication method and the second communication unit performing communication by a second communication method different from the first communication method; a terminal device that includes a terminal communication unit that performs communication with the first communication unit of the measurement device, and a terminal notification unit that notifies of the measurement result acquired by the terminal communication unit; and a notification device that includes a notification communication unit that performs communication with the second communication unit of the measurement device by the second communication method, and a notification unit that notifies of the measurement result acquired by the notification communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki ARIMA, Kei MUROTSUKI
  • Publication number: 20250125967
    Abstract: A measurement system includes: a measurement device that includes a first communication unit performing communication by a first communication method and a second communication unit performing communication by a second communication method different from the first communication method and that acquires a measurement result of biological information of a user; a terminal device that includes a terminal communication unit that performs communication with the first communication unit of the measurement device; and a notification device that includes a notification communication unit that performs communication with the second communication unit of the measurement device by the second communication method, and a notification unit that notifies of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroki ARIMA
  • Publication number: 20250125021
    Abstract: In a case in which a K value, which is a value related to a concentration of the analyte, is predicted using the prediction model, a control unit of an analysis device acquires a prescribed number of output values indicating a characteristic of the analyte every interval a from a specific time for plural analytes repeatedly a prescribed number of times, and creates learning data by associating a reference K value, which is a K value obtained from a time when a first repetition is executed with the output values of each of the analytes acquired during each repetition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Norihiro IMANAKA
  • Patent number: 12265049
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electrochemical sensor includes an electrode forming step of forming an electrode, made of a porous material with electroconductivity, on an insulating substrate, and a resist forming step of coating a coating region on the electrode by a resist with non-electroconductivity in a solution state, and permeating communicating pores of the porous material with the resist, thereby adjusting a resistance value of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Sato
  • Patent number: 12253450
    Abstract: A particle recovery device for recovering particles contained in a liquid sample, the particle recovery device comprising: a flow cell having a flow path through which the liquid sample flows; a density acquisition unit that acquires a density of the liquid sample; standing wave forming means that applies an ultrasonic wave into the flow path to generate a standing wave; a control unit that determines a frequency of the ultrasonic wave that generates the standing wave in the flow path based on the density acquired by the density acquisition unit and causes the standing wave forming means to apply the ultrasonic wave of the determined frequency; and recovery means that recovers particles focused in the flow path by the standing wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Yukio Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250073720
    Abstract: A measuring device, which measures a specimen by using a sheet-shaped sensor, includes: a housing; a guiding surface which is one end surface of the housing and which is surrounded by peripheral edges; and an insertion port which is formed in the guiding surface at a position that is distant from all of the peripheral edges, and into which the sensor is inserted, wherein the guiding surface is recessed continuously from the peripheral edges toward the insertion port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki ARIMA, Oki SATO, Shun NARUSE
  • Publication number: 20250076243
    Abstract: Provided is a measurement device that measures a specimen using a sheet-shaped sensor. The measurement device includes: a main body portion in which an insertion port into which the sensor is inserted is formed and a measurement unit that executes measurement related to the specimen is provided; and a movable portion that is movable with respect to the main body portion in a direction along a sheet surface of the sensor in a state of being inserted into the insertion port, and is movable between a storage position and an extension position where an area of the main body portion in planar view is increased more than an area when the movable portion is disposed at the storage position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki ARIMA, Oki SATO, Shun NARUSE
  • Publication number: 20250006309
    Abstract: A hemoglobin species determination method includes preparing a trained model generated by using, as a learning data set for machine learning, a data set including learning frequency analysis data generated by performing frequency analysis on separation data generated by a separation process on a learning blood sample in which a species of hemoglobin is known and including the known species of hemoglobin, preparing test frequency analysis data by performing frequency analysis on separation data generated by a separation process on a test blood sample in which the species of hemoglobin is unknown, and determining the species of hemoglobin contained in the test blood sample by inputting the test frequency analysis data to the trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiki GOTO, Junya KASAHARA, Tetsuya HIGASHIYAMA, Kenji TORITSUKA, Masaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20240426777
    Abstract: Provided are a sample analysis method and a sample analysis apparatus capable of specifying a component included in a sample regardless of a concentration of the component included in the sample. A sample analysis method or the like includes a step of separating plural components included in a sample by capillary electrophoresis; a step of obtaining an electropherogram of the sample; a step of acquiring a detection time of each peak and a concentration corresponding to each peak from the electropherogram; and a step of specifying a component included in the sample using a parameter indicating a correlation between a detection time and a concentration calculated using a known component with respect to the acquired detection time and the acquired concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Naotsugu ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20240385157
    Abstract: An analysis system includes: an analyzer that analyzes a specimen, the analyzer being switchable between a first measurement mode and a second measurement mode that includes a measurement item different from a measurement item of the first measurement mode; and a management unit that selects a measurement mode from the first measurement mode and the second measurement mode of the analyzer based on information on a clinical department that has requested a test to be set for the specimen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro DEMURA, Shunichi SUZUKI