Patents Assigned to ASTI Corporation
  • Patent number: 11117135
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid-sealed cartridge in which a liquid is transferred by a centrifugal force generated when the liquid-sealed cartridge is rotated around a rotation shaft, including: a liquid storage portion configured to store the liquid therein; a seal having an outer peripheral portion connected to the liquid storage portion, the seal being configured to seal the liquid storage portion; a flow path connected to the liquid storage portion via the seal, through which the liquid in the liquid storage portion is transferred by the centrifugal force in a direction away from the rotation shaft, wherein, when the seal receives a pressing force, the seal is inclined in a pressing direction, with one portion of the outer peripheral portion thereof remaining connected with the liquid storage portion, and the other portion of the outer peripheral portion being separated from the liquid storage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: Sysmex Corporation, ASTI Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Horii, Takao Fujiwara, Tomoyuki Nose, Yasunori Maekawa, Noriyuki Ogai, Yasuhiro Toda
  • Publication number: 20210178087
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an injection needle and an injection device which are capable of adjusting the puncture depth of a needle. The present invention is equipped with: a needle; a needle base holding the needle such that the needle protrudes from the distal end side; and an adjuster provided on the outer periphery of the needle base so as to be movable in the axial direction of the needle base. By adjusting the axial-direction position of the adjuster, the protrusion length of the needle can be adjusted. Consequently, the puncture depth of the needle can be adjusted, and there is no need to prepare a plurality of type of injection needles having different protrusion lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: ASTI Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori INOH, Isamu NONAKA, Noriyuki OGAI
  • Publication number: 20160082239
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide: a microneedle array which is capable of inserting a microneedle into the skin at an oblique angle and thereby, upon injection with the microneedle, is capable of both relieving the patient's pain and preventing a drug solution from leaking; and a microneedle array device which comprises the microneedle array. To this end, a microneedle array comprises: a microneedle unit that includes microneedles; and a microneedle unit support member that includes an opening, guides both ends of the microneedle unit through inclined grooves, and arranges tips of the microneedles so as to project through the opening in an inclined manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: ASTI Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya TAMARU, Noriyuki OGAI, Ryo SUGIMURA, Isamu NONAKA, Yuko WADA
  • Publication number: 20130218084
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jig for microneedle array placement that is provided with a main jig body with through holes through which the microneedles of the microneedle array will pass and a guiding part that guides the microneedle array to be incorporated into the main jig body and leads the microneedles into the through holes, and a microneedle array device using the jig for microneedle array placement. The invention prevents the deformation of the skin surface during puncture and allows penetration of the microneedles to the prescribed depth under the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: ASTI Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Tamaru, Isamu Nonaka, Yuko Wada
  • Patent number: 7229540
    Abstract: To provide a biochip, a biochip manufacturing method, an electrophoresis method, and an electrophoresis apparatus, by which the detection accuracy may improve, there is a biochip introducing a sample in band form into a sample separation passage, by a means for reducing the band width of sample, at which the sample is before being introduced in the sample separation passage in band form. The band of sample supplied to the sample separation passage is compressed, and the expansion by diffusion may be prevented, thus the detection accuracy may improve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignees: President of Shizuoka University, a Japanese Government Agency, ASTI Corporation
    Inventors: Naomichi Okamoto, Noriyuki Okumiya, Ryo Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20040084311
    Abstract: To provide a biochip, a biochip manufacturing method, an electrophoresis method, and an electrophoresis apparatus, by which the detection accuracy may improve, there is a biochip introducing a sample in band form into a sample separation passage, by a means for reducing the band width of sample, at which the sample is before being introduced in the sample separation passage in band form. The band of sample supplied to the sample separation passage is compressed, and the expansion by diffusion may be prevented, thus the detection accuracy may improve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicants: President of Shizuoka University, A Japanese Government Agency, ASTI Corporation
    Inventors: Naomichi Okamoto, Noriyuki Okumiya, Ryo Sugimura
  • Patent number: 5528421
    Abstract: A signal mirror includes an irradiation device for reflecting incident light by a same reflection function as a plane mirror and irradiating reflected light to an irradiation target; and an optical axis finding device including a sheet having at least a surface on an irradiation device side as a retroreflection face, for reflecting incident light incident on the sheet from the irradiation device side in an opposite direction to the irradiation target using retroreflection and reflection by the irradiation device, thereby ensuring finding of an optical axis of reflected light irradiated on the irradiation target by the irradiation device. The reflected light can be irradiated on the irradiation target by the irradiation device while the optical axis of the reflected light is found by the optical axis finding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: ASTI Corporation
    Inventor: Hajime Kashibuchi