Patents Assigned to Gunze Limited
  • Patent number: 9642934
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a bone regeneration material kit, a paste-like bone regeneration material, a bone regeneration material, and a bone bonding material, which contain particles including a bioabsorbable polymer; and can fill a bone defect or damage and secure the mechanical strength of the bone in the short term and can promote regeneration of the patient's own bone in the long term. In addition, they can exhibit anti-washout properties after filling even when they are in contact with water such as blood or biological fluids. The present invention relates to a bone regeneration material kit comprising: a particle comprising a calcium salt and having an inositol phosphate or salt thereof adsorbed on the surface; a particle comprising a bioabsorbable polymer; and an aqueous medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Gunze Limited, Meiji University, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Keishi Kiminami, Hidetoshi Arimura, Mamoru Aizawa, Minori Mizumoto, Toshiisa Konishi
  • Patent number: 9594406
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a first planar body having a first electrode patterned on one surface of a first substrate and a first lead-out wiring electrically connected to the first electrode, a cover sheet, a second planar body provided between the first planar body and the cover sheet except a predetermined region of a side edge of the first substrate, and a flexible wiring board interposed at a gap portion formed between the predetermined region of the side edge of the first substrate and the cover sheet, wherein the flexible wiring board includes a connector portion fixed onto the connection terminal of the first lead-out wiring held by the first planar body and electrically connected with the first lead-out wiring, and a spacer member that abuts with both the connector portion and the cover sheet is disposed between the connector portion and the cover sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsutomu Yamada, Masaya Nakagoshi, Kousuke Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9550977
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method for producing auricular cartilage tissue having a sufficient thickness and mechanical strength, and auricular cartilage tissue produced by the method for producing auricular cartilage tissue. The present invention provides a method for producing auricular cartilage tissue, including the steps of: seeding auricular chondrocytes onto a non-woven fabric consisting of a bioabsorbable material having an average fiber diameter of 0.90 to 7.00 ?m; and forming a composite of the non-woven fabric seeded with the auricular chondrocytes and a mesh-like framework consisting of a non-bioabsorbable material, and shaping the composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Noritaka Isogai, Yoshihito Itani, Akeo Hagiwara, Shinichiro Morita, Kosuke Sawai, Koichi Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20160291713
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a transparent substrate, a decorative layer formed on the transparent substrate, a first hard coat layer covering the transparent substrate and the decorative layer, a second hard coat layer formed on a surface of the transparent substrate, the surface being opposite to the first hard coat layer, and a plurality of first electrodes formed on a surface of the second hard coat layer. Electrodes and wirings are formed without being affected by unevenness caused by the decorative layer, so that pattern precision of the electrodes and the wirings is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Hosoe, Keisuke Matsubara
  • Patent number: 9338878
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel that has excellent visibility without being dependent on positional accuracy of bonding between substrates on which electrodes are formed, and without being affected by the substrates. A touch panel 100 includes a first planar body 1 including, on one surface of a first substrate 11, a plurality of first electrodes 12a mutually extending in a substantially identical direction, and a second planar body 2 including, on one surface of a second substrate 21, a plurality of second electrodes 22a mutually extending in a substantially identical direction which is different from the direction in which the first electrodes 12a extend, the first planar body and the second planar body being arranged in a vertical direction, wherein each of the first electrodes 12a and each of the second electrodes 22a are bent-line-shaped electrode wires having a plurality of bend points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideaki Mizumoto, Kunitomo Tsureyama
  • Patent number: 9296829
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for hydrophilic cellulose fibers capable of inhibiting decrease in the degree of polymerization and whiteness degree of oxidized cellulose fibers in oxidized cellulose in which a carbon at position 6 of each glucose unit in the cellulose fiber starting material is oxidized to a carboxyl group, the method comprising (A) the step of performing dehalogenation together with reduction, the dehalogenation comprising mixing a dehalogenation agent, a reducing agent, and oxidized cellulose fibers, and removing halogens remaining in the oxidized cellulose fibers, and the reduction comprising reducing a ketone group at position 2 and/or position 3 of each glucose unit in the oxidized cellulose fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Isogai, Chiaki Tanaka, Yoshinari Yui
  • Publication number: 20160074023
    Abstract: There is provided a defect hole closing material which achieves minimally invasive medical treatment for Atrial Septal Defect, and poses little possibility of occurrence of a failure in the body in some distant future. The defect hole closing material (100) comprises two bioabsorbable material-made cylindrical bodies (the first cylindrical section (110) and the second cylindrical section (120)) having a mesh-like structure in the form of an hourglass shape, a numeral “8” shape, a double spindle shape, or a peanut shape. With the first end (112) kept held securely, the second end, or the other end (122) is pulled toward the first end (112) by operating the string (140), whereupon the cylinder diameter is increased, and also the first cylindrical section (110) and the second cylindrical section (120) move close to each other with respect to the substantially central section (130) serving as a center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki SAKAMOTO, Kensuke TAKI, Hidetaka NAKAYAMA, Noriko KAWADA
  • Publication number: 20150362948
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel and a film body, which ensure that a region where the touch panel and a display section are in contact with each other is hard to be conspicuous and that an apparatus formed by the touch panel and a display device can be made thinner. The touch panel is a transparent touch panel which is disposed with air gaps provided at predetermined intervals between the transparent touch panel and a surface of a display section of a display device, wherein a back surface of the transparent touch panel facing the surface of the display section is provided with a projection formation layer on which a plurality of fine projections protruding toward the surface side of the display section are dispersively formed, the surface of the projection formation layer is configured to have an average irregularity height (Ra) of equal to or more than 0.01 ?m and equal to or less than 0.06 ?m and a maximum irregularity height (Ry) of equal to or more than 0.15 ?m and equal to or less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenzo WADA, Haruya KAKUTA
  • Patent number: 9213362
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel and a film body, which ensure that a region where the touch panel and a display section are in contact with each other is hard to be conspicuous and that an apparatus formed by the touch panel and a display device can be made thinner. The touch panel is a transparent touch panel which is disposed with air gaps provided at predetermined intervals between the transparent touch panel and a surface of a display section of a display device, wherein a back surface of the transparent touch panel facing the surface of the display section is provided with a projection formation layer on which a plurality of fine projections protruding toward the surface side of the display section are dispersively formed, the surface of the projection formation layer is configured to have an average irregularity height (Ra) of equal to or more than 0.01 ?m and equal to or less than 0.06 ?m and a maximum irregularity height (Ry) of equal to or more than 0.15 ?m and equal to or less than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenzo Wada, Haruya Kakuta
  • Publication number: 20150306354
    Abstract: A medical guide wire which can have both slidability and operability and can be easily manufactured is provided. A medical guide wire (1) includes a long flexible wire body (2), and a wire-like material structure (3) including a wire-like material (31) arranged on the surface of the wire body (2), in which the wire-like material structure (3) is thermally fused onto the wire body (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Junya KANETAKE, Makoto KAWAHARA, Takashi KURAOKA
  • Patent number: 9103065
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hydrophilized cellulose fiber producing method, comprising oxidizing cellulose fibers in a reaction solution containing a N-oxyl compound, an oxidizing agent, and a co-catalyst and oxidizing other cellulose fibers using the reaction solution again. The present invention relates to a hydrophilized cellulose fiber producing method, comprising the steps of: (1a) oxidizing cellulose fibers in a reaction solution containing a N-oxyl compound, an oxidizing agent, and sodium sulfate to provide oxidized cellulose fibers; and (1b) separating the obtained oxidized cellulose fibers from the reaction solution, and then adding other additional cellulose fibers and oxidizing agent to the reaction solution to oxidize the cellulose fibers again to provide oxidized cellulose fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Chiaki Tanaka, Yoshinari Yui, Akira Isogai
  • Patent number: 9092102
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a touch switch that enables reduction in the low-sensitivity region where the contact by fingers cannot be detected. The touch switch of the present invention comprises an insulating layer; sensor electrodes as a plurality of first electrodes provided on one surface of the insulating layer; a plurality of wire portions provided on one surface of the insulating layer, individually connected to the sensor electrodes; and auxiliary electrodes as a plurality of second electrodes provided on the other surface of the insulating layer, each auxiliary electrode being provided in a portion opposite each sensor electrode, wherein a boundary of adjacent auxiliary electrodes is provided in a region between adjacent sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsumasa Kono, Keisaku Kimura
  • Patent number: 9028933
    Abstract: The present invention is a shrink label, comprising a heat-shrinkable multilayer resin film comprising an intermediate layer comprising a polystyrene type resin and outer surface layers comprising a polyester type resin, with said intermediate layer interposed therebetween, as a base film, wherein the polystyrene type resin composing said intermediate layer is an aromatic vinyl hydrocarbon-conjugated diene copolymer, and said intermediate layer is bonded to said outer surface layers with an adhesive layer comprising a hydrogen addition product of an aromatic vinyl hydrocarbon-conjugated diene copolymer, having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic group, an acid anhydride group, an amino group, an epoxy group and a hydroxyl group in a molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Gunze Limited
    Inventors: Naoyuki Maruichi, Takanori Nozaki, Akira Morikawa
  • Patent number: 8999466
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a multilayer stretched polyamide-based film having excellent bending resistance, thermal dimensional stability and aroma retention, whose lamination strength is measureable when a sealing layer is laminated thereon. Specifically, the invention provides a multilayer stretched polyamide-based film obtained by biaxially stretching a multilayer laminate including three layers consisting of a polyester layer (Layer A), an adhesive layer (Layer B), and a polyamide layer (Layer C), wherein Layer A contains a crystalline polyester, Layer B contains a modified polyester-based elastomer, Layer C contains an aliphatic polyamide, and Layer C has a thickness of 5 ?m or more, and wherein a sealing layer is to be laminated on Layer C by a lamination method, after biaxially stretching the multilayer laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Gunze Limited, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Uehara, Naoyuki Maruichi, Hiroyuki Yoshizaki, Atsushi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20140360856
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel that has excellent visibility without being dependent on positional accuracy of bonding between substrates on which electrodes are formed, and without being affected by the substrates. A touch panel 100 includes a first planar body 1 including, on one surface of a first substrate 11, a plurality of first electrodes 12a mutually extending in a substantially identical direction, and a second planar body 2 including, on one surface of a second substrate 21, a plurality of second electrodes 22a mutually extending in a substantially identical direction which is different from the direction in which the first electrodes 12a extend, the first planar body and the second planar body being arranged in a vertical direction, wherein each of the first electrodes 12a and each of the second electrodes 22a are bent-line-shaped electrode wires having a plurality of bend points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideaki Mizumoto, Kunitomo Tsureyama
  • Patent number: 8904903
    Abstract: A sliding cable is provided that basically includes a cable main body and a mesh structural body. The cable main body is made of a plurality of steel wires bundled together. The mesh structural body is arranged on an outer surface of the cable main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignees: Shimano Inc., Gunze Limited
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Nishimura, Kenji Ose, Takamoto Asakawa, Shoichi Tsukada, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Koji Nishiya
  • Patent number: 8902190
    Abstract: In a touch panel, a rectangular resistive film is formed on a substrate and electrodes are provided along the four sides of the resistive film. Each electrode includes a plurality of gaps and a plurality of divided electrodes. The divided electrodes are linearly arranged along the corresponding side of the resistive film, and the electrode, in which the divided electrodes at both ends are connected to terminals, respectively, is formed by arranging the divided electrodes of the same shape and repeating this same shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Gunze Limited
    Inventors: Hisao Itaya, Tsutomu Yamada, Masahiro Hosoe
  • Publication number: 20140347578
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a first planar body having a first electrode patterned on one surface of a first substrate and a first lead-out wiring electrically connected to the first electrode, a cover sheet, a second planar body provided between the first planar body and the cover sheet except a predetermined region of a side edge of the first substrate, and a flexible wiring board interposed at a gap portion formed between the predetermined region of the side edge of the first substrate and the cover sheet, wherein the flexible wiring board includes a connector portion fixed onto the connection terminal of the first lead-out wiring held by the first planar body and electrically connected with the first lead-out wiring, and a spacer member that abuts with both the connector portion and the cover sheet is disposed between the connector portion and the cover sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsutomu Yamada, Masaya Nakagoshi, Kousuke Nakajima
  • Patent number: D755965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Gunze Limited
    Inventors: Makoto Kawahara, Koji Kuroda
  • Patent number: D777916
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Gunze Limited
    Inventors: Koji Kuroda, Makoto Kawahara