Patents Assigned to Junkosha Inc.
  • Patent number: 12287052
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conduit support device having high reliability even under severe conditions. A conduit support including a conduit, a support member configured to extend along a longitudinal direction of the conduit, and integrally support the conduit, and be capable of being bent at an arbitrary position in the longitudinal direction, and an accommodation member within which the conduit and the support member are stored, wherein an intermediate member is arranged between the support member and the accommodation member is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Hiraoka, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Misu
  • Publication number: 20250122870
    Abstract: A tube to be used for a pump that transports a fluid by peristalsis, includes: a flow path that serves as a transport path of the fluid and extends in a first direction; and a main body portion formed around the flow path, the main body portion includes a first layer formed on the flow path and a second layer having a characteristic different from that of the first layer and formed on the first layer, and when an elastic modulus ratio R1 of the first layer is defined as a tensile elastic modulus of the first layer in the first direction/a tensile elastic modulus of the first layer in a circumferential direction, the elastic modulus ratio R1 is larger than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventor: Kouichi YANAI
  • Patent number: 12257808
    Abstract: A tube is for use in a pump that transports a fluid by peristaltic movement and includes: a flow path that serves as a transport path of the fluid and extends in a first direction; and a body portion formed around the flow path, the body portion includes a first layer formed on the flow path and a second layer formed on the first layer, a flexural modulus of elasticity in a radial direction of the second layer is smaller than a flexural modulus of elasticity in a radial direction of the first layer, and the elastic modulus ratio R2 of the second layer is larger than the elastic modulus ratio R1 of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Kouichi Yanai, Yukihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12249441
    Abstract: A transmission line including a conductor and a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer includes plural bubbles and plural acicular nucleating agents, and when, based on observed lengths of the plurality of acicular nucleating agents observed in a cross section of the dielectric layer, the nucleating agents having lengths longer than a median value of the observed lengths are classified into a long nucleating agent group and the nucleating agents having lengths shorter than the median value of the observed lengths are classified into a short nucleating agent group, an average length of the nucleating agents in the long nucleating agent group is 3.5 times or less an average length of the nucleating agents in the short nucleating agent group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventor: Ryo Sato
  • Publication number: 20240414709
    Abstract: There is provided a supporting member having excellent durability and an apparatus including the supporting member. The supporting member includes an elastic member and a plurality of block members formed thereon. The supporting member is deformable from a shape in which end surfaces of the block members are in contact with each other to a shape in which the end surfaces are separated from each other. The elastic member includes a fixed region whose deformation is restricted by being fixed to a bottom surface of the block member, and the supporting member includes a flexure reduction unit for reducing flexure at a position near the fixed region of the elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Daiki HIRAOKA, Hiroshi TAKEUCHI, Yasuhiro MISU, Tetsuya HIROSE
  • Patent number: 12090453
    Abstract: A nozzle for spouting a liquid phase, in which one liquid phase in a two-liquid phase system can be stably jetted as highly dispersible droplets while suppressing coalescence of droplets, and accumulation of fine solid components in the nozzle hardly occurs. The nozzle has a structure in which capillary tubes or pores are assembled. Further, the capillary tubes or the pores are formed using a suitable material having a low affinity for organic or a low affinity for water, or a material subjected to appropriate surface treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Junkosha Inc.
    Inventors: Hirochika Naganawa, Tetsushi Nagano, Hirofumi Ito, Ryosuke Sato
  • Patent number: 12095243
    Abstract: There is provided a supporting member having excellent durability and an apparatus including the supporting member. The supporting member includes an elastic member and a plurality of block members formed thereon. The supporting member is deformable from a shape in which end surfaces of the block members are in contact with each other to a shape in which the end surfaces are separated from each other. The elastic member includes a fixed region whose deformation is restricted by being fixed to a bottom surface of the block member, and the supporting member includes a flexure reduction unit for reducing flexure at a position near the fixed region of the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Hiraoka, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Misu, Tetsuya Hirose
  • Patent number: 12083248
    Abstract: A polytetrafluoroethylene tube is provided and has a thickness of 0.1 mm or less, a tensile elongation at break of 350% or more, and a melting energy of 0.6 J/g or more which is calculated from an endothermic peak at 370° C.±5° C. in a procedure of increasing a temperature in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Nozomi Ohshika, Syunsuke Munakata
  • Patent number: 11998663
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thin-walled PTFE tube with appropriate elongation, sufficient strength, and good uniformity during stretching and a medical tube with excellent flexibility and dimensional accuracy. The polytetrafluoroethylene tube according to the present invention is a polytetrafluoroethylene tube having a wall thickness of about 0.04 mm or less, wherein the wetting tension of either of or both outer and inner surfaces of the polytetrafluoroethylene tube is 46 mN/m or more, and in a stress-strain curve obtained by a tensile test performed under an atmosphere of 200° C., tensile stress at 20% strain ?20 (N/mm2) of the polytetrafluoroethylene tube and tensile stress at 50% strain ?50 (N/mm2) of the polytetrafluoroethylene tube satisfy 2.0?0.1×?20+0.3×?50<5.5 (Inequality (1)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Junkosha Inc.
    Inventors: Masamichi Takahashi, Ayumi Matsuda, Koichiro Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20240153670
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission line having an excellent transmission characteristic. [Means for resolution] There is provided a transmission line including a conductor and a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer includes plural bubbles and plural acicular nucleating agents, and when, based on observed lengths of the plurality of acicular nucleating agents observed in a cross section of the dielectric layer, the nucleating agents having lengths longer than a median value of the observed lengths are classified into a long nucleating agent group and the nucleating agents having lengths shorter than the median value of the observed lengths are classified into a short nucleating agent group, an average length of the nucleating agents in the long nucleating agent group is 3.5 times or less an average length of the nucleating agents in the short nucleating agent group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventor: Ryo SATO
  • Publication number: 20240002765
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-permeable container, and for example, to a gas-permeable container suitable for culturing aerobic microorganisms or animal or plant cells. An object of the present invention is to provide a container having excellent gas permeability, and a culture apparatus and a culture system each using the container. The object is achieved by a gas-permeable container according to the present invention to be used while storing a liquid, in which at least the container uses a membrane material having a ratio of water evaporation amounts of about 1.1 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Masato YOTSUYA, Mitsuru KURODA
  • Publication number: 20230335982
    Abstract: There is provided a supporting member having excellent durability and an apparatus including the supporting member. The supporting member includes an elastic member and a plurality of block members formed thereon. The supporting member is deformable from a shape in which end surfaces of the block members are in contact with each other to a shape in which the end surfaces are separated from each other. The elastic member includes a fixed region whose deformation is restricted by being fixed to a bottom surface of the block member, and the supporting member includes a flexure reduction unit for reducing flexure at a position near the fixed region of the elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Daiki HIRAOKA, Hiroshi TAKEUCHI, Yasuhiro MISU, Tetsuya HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20230293850
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tube including at least one layer formed of polytetrafluoroethylene, and an object of the invention is to provide a tube in which flexibility is adjusted while high mechanical strength is maintained. The object can be appropriately achieved by a tube including at least one layer formed by spirally winding a PTFE film, in which the tube has an endothermic peak in a range of 380° C.±10° C. in a temperature increasing process of DSC of the tube, and in at least one of the at least one layer, the number of windings per length of 10 mm in a longitudinal direction is not constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Suguru TANABE, Naoya YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230296194
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tube comprising polytetrafluoroethylene, and an object of the present invention is to provide a tube having an appropriate tensile strength and flexibility and being excellent internal insertion property. The object can he achieved by a tube comprising polytetralluoroethylene according to the present invention, in which, in a case where a surface shape of an inner surface of the tube is measured, when a direction of the measurement is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the tube and the measurement is performed in a forward direction and a reverse direction, a variation rate between a size of a periodic step measured in the forward direction and a size of the periodic step measured in the reverse direction is 5% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Suguru TANABE, Naoya YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11763962
    Abstract: An insulating cable having a conductor and an insulator configured by a plurality of resin layers on the conductor, wherein the plurality of resin layers contain the same kind of fluorine resin, a difference in refractive index between a resin layer having the largest refractive index and a resin layer having the smallest refractive index among the plurality of resin layers is 0.03 or less, a layer thickness of an outermost resin layer of the insulator is 0.03 mm or less, and a deviation (coefficient of variation CV) in thickness of the insulator in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the cable is 0.035 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Junkosha Inc.
    Inventor: Shigeo Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20230250896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conduit support device having high reliability even under severe conditions. A conduit support including a conduit, a support member configured to extend along a longitudinal direction of the conduit, and integrally support the conduit, and be capable of being bent at an arbitrary position in the longitudinal direction, and an accommodation member within which the conduit and the support member are stored, wherein an intermediate member is arranged between the support member and the accommodation member is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Daiki HIRAOKA, Hiroshi TAKEUCHI, Yasuhiro MISU
  • Patent number: 11721966
    Abstract: There is provided a supporting member having excellent durability and an apparatus including the supporting member. The supporting member includes an elastic member and a plurality of block members formed thereon. The supporting member is deformable from a shape in which end surfaces of the block members are in contact with each other to a shape in which the end surfaces are separated from each other. The elastic member includes a fixed region whose deformation is restricted by being fixed to a bottom surface of the block member, and the supporting member includes a flexure reduction unit for reducing flexure at a position near the fixed region of the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Hiraoka, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Misu, Tetsuya Hirose
  • Patent number: 11655916
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conduit support device having high reliability even under severe conditions. A conduit support including a conduit, a support member configured to extend along a longitudinal direction of the conduit, and integrally support the conduit, and be capable of being bent at an arbitrary position in the longitudinal direction, and an accommodation member within which the conduit and the support member are stored, wherein an intermediate member is arranged between the support member and the accommodation member is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Hiraoka, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Misu
  • Publication number: 20230047117
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a tube having excellent long-term reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventors: Kouichi YANAI, Yukihiko HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11469532
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an internal conductor configured as a movable element, thereby providing a connector for preventing the occurrence of the breakdown or damage of a pin of a male connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Junkosha Inc.
    Inventor: Hiromi Yasumoto