Patents Assigned to Nipro Corporation
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Publication number: 20250145519Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide coating film-attached glass having a glass substrate, and a coating film provided on at least a part of a surface of the glass substrate. The coating film-attached glass includes a modified layer in a region at a depth of 100 nm from the surface of the glass substrate on the coating film side in the depth direction. The modified layer has a microcrystalline structure at least in part. The coating film is a silicon-free and fluorine-containing diamond-like carbon film or an amorphous fluorine resin film. Another object of the present disclosure is to provide a production method for coating film-attached glass in which a coating film is formed on at least a part of a surface of a glass substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Masamichi WADA, Atsushi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20250135485Abstract: Provided is a hypochlorous acid water spray device that utilizes ultrasonic spraying and inhibits decomposition of hypochlorous acid. The present invention relates to a hypochlorous acid water (7) spray device (100) including a storage unit (1) that stores hypochlorous acid water (7), an atomization mechanism (2) that atomizes the hypochlorous acid water (7) using ultrasonic vibration, and a guiding mechanism (3) that guides the hypochlorous acid water (7) to the atomization mechanism (2) by capillary action.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Sano, Yoshinaga Sudo, Makoto Mitsuhashi
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Publication number: 20250108229Abstract: A magnetic treatment apparatus for treating pain in an affected area of a living body by producing a biostimulation signal wave and stimulating the affected area as a result of irradiating the area with a magnetic field that is generated at a coil via the wave, including: an apparatus main body having a signal wave output part configured to produce and output a biostimulation high-frequency signal; and a probe separate from the body, having a coil for high-frequency output connected to the output part through a signal cable and supplied with the output from the output part; wherein a high-frequency current of 100 MHz or higher is applied to the coil for high-frequency output, the coil for high-frequency output is formed as a planar body on both surfaces of an insulating flexible sheet, and centers of magnetic fields generated by the coils on both surfaces are coincident with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicants: NIPRO CORPORATION, HARADA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki MURAKAMI, Koji NAKAZAWA, Masahide HARADA
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Publication number: 20250099775Abstract: A magnetic treatment apparatus is used to treat pain in an affected area, and includes: an apparatus main body having a signal wave output part configured to generate and output a biostimulation signal wave of a first frequency; and a probe formed separately from the apparatus main body and having a first coil that is connected to the signal wave output part through a signal cable and is supplied with the biostimulation signal wave of the first frequency outputted from the signal wave output part, wherein the first coil is formed as a planar body on one or both surfaces of a flexible sheet, and a coil for magnetic field intensity detection that is adjacent to the first coil is formed on one or both surfaces of the flexible sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: NIPRO CORPORATION, HARADA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji NAKAZAWA, Masaki MURAKAMI, Masahide HARADA
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Patent number: 12246147Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an indwelling needle assembly that has a novel structure and improves operability for the practitioner. An indwelling needle assembly 10 in which an inner needle unit 16 comprises a storage housing 14 for storing a protector 52, and which is provided with a connecting member 94 that connects the storage housing 14 to an outer needle hub 20. The protector 52 prevents movement of the connecting member 94 and holds the storage housing 14 and the outer needle hub 20 in a connected state. Deformation or displacement of the protector 52 due to retraction of an inner needle 12 permits the movement of the connecting member 94 and makes it possible to release the connected state between the storage housing 14 and the outer needle hub 20.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo Sakamoto
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Patent number: 12233024Abstract: A glass tube is treated with laser cutting for separating a hollow glass body from the glass tube. A laser beam used for laser cutting is focused on a wall of the glass tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventor: Michael Droessler
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Patent number: 12227447Abstract: A coating film-attached glass comprising a glass substrate, and a coating film provided on at least a part of a surface of the glass substrate, in which a region from the surface of the glass substrate on the coating film side to a predetermined depth is a modified layer, and the modified layer has a microcrystalline structure at least in part.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Masamichi Wada, Atsushi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 12201428Abstract: A biomedical electrode including: an attachment sheet being elastically stretchable and contractible with an electrically insulating property on a back surface side, an adhesive surface suitable for attachment to the skin; a plurality of electrodes located apart from one another on the back surface side of the attachment sheet and exposed on the back surface side; a plurality of connecting parts located at a central part on the back surface side of the attachment sheet and covered with electrical insulation while being exposed toward a front surface side through openings of the attachment sheet; and electrode connecting wires located on the back surface side of the attachment sheet and covered with electrical insulation that electrically connect respective ones of the plurality of electrodes with corresponding ones of the plurality of connecting parts, wherein at least one of the electrode connecting wires extends in a stretchable, contractible, and bendable manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignees: NIPRO CORPORATION, HARADA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Sano, Masahide Harada
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Patent number: 12188465Abstract: Provided is a tube set which is capable of easily determining whether a holder has been mounted when the holder is mounted on a housing. The tube set, which is provided in a tube pump that feeds a liquid, includes a pump tube and a holder. The holder has a flexible flat plate and includes first and second engagement portions located away from each other in a first direction. The first and second engagement portions are configured to be fitted into first and second engagement grooves formed in the housing, respectively, when the holder is pushed into the housing in a state of being bent in a thickness direction. The holder is elastically restored to be attached to the housing when the engagement portions are fitted into the respective engagement grooves. The holder has a flexural modulus of 500 MPa or more and 3500 MPa or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Sonoda, Kohzo Ishikura, Takeshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20250002341Abstract: A method for producing a purified hypochlorous acid aqueous solution, which comprises a step of extracting hypochlorous acid by subjecting a hypochlorous acid-containing water solution (1A) as a source liquid to vacuum evaporation at a temperature of 40° C. or less, and a vacuum evaporation apparatus (100) comprising a heater (3), an evaporation can (4), and a condenser (5) to purify the hypochlorous acid-containing water solution (1A), characterized in that the vacuum evaporation apparatus (100) comprises a mechanism to control an evaporation temperature to between 10° C. and 40° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko SANO, Kazuhiko SANO, Naohisa KAWAMURA, Yoshinaga SUDO, Yoichi SHIGE, Yosuke YAMAKAWA
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Patent number: 12178970Abstract: A hub assembly with a hub body connected to a tube from an external appliance, a hub outer casing which is coupled to the hub body and forms a liquid passage, a slitted separating wall disposed in the liquid passage in the hub outer casing, a filter disposed on the living body-side of the separating wall to allow the passage of gas and regulate the passage of liquid, and a ventilation passage which communicates between the liquid passage and the outside of the hub outer casing by way of the filter, wherein an end portion of the ventilation passage on the separating wall side of an opening portion facing the liquid passage is in a location at most 10 mm toward the distal end side relative to the distal end of the separating wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Nakagami, Shingo Sakamoto, Haruo Akimoto
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Patent number: 12171928Abstract: A suction bottle for a thrombus aspirator is equipped with a thrombus trapping member that spreads so as to separate the inside of the bottle into an upper region and a lower region. The thrombus trapping member is provided with a plurality of through-holes that cause blood guided to the upper surface to flow down from the upper region to the lower region.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Nakagawa, Junichi Muto, Kuniaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12172135Abstract: A hollow fiber porous membrane includes polyethersulfone or polysulfone. The hollow fiber porous membrane has an inner diameter from 300-600 ?m, a thickness from 70-200 ?m, a molecular weight cut-off of 10000 or lower, and a plurality of pores having a pore diameter from 0.1-0.5 ?m throughout an outer surface; and a bulging rate of less than 5%. For 20 or more of the hollow fiber porous membranes, after a membrane thickness in a cross section of each one of the hollow fiber porous membranes in the width direction is measured at randomly selected 10 or more locations, an average membrane thickness is calculated based on 200 or more locations in total, and the bulging rate is calculated by a formula below: Bulging Rate (%)=(location numbers where the membrane thickness as measured exceeded 1.3 times the average membrane thickness)/(membrane thickness measurement numbers)×100.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignees: DAICEN MEMBRANE-SYSTEMS LTD., NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Nakatsuka, Takashi Sunohara, Toshinari Takahashi
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Patent number: 12110480Abstract: An observation device includes a microscope. The microscope includes an illumination light beam source, an illumination optical system, and an observation optical system forming an optical image of an observation target from reflected light beams obtained by reflection of illumination light beams by the observation target. The observation optical system includes a phase plate changing the phase of directly reflected light beams reflected on a reflection surface among the reflected light beams. Both the illumination optical system and the observation optical system are arranged under the observation target. The observation device includes an image pickup device photoelectrically converting the optical image obtained by the observation optical system to create image data of the observation target and a display device displaying the image data. The illumination light beam emitted from the illumination optical system is a collimated light beam.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignees: NIPRO CORPORATION, SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Osamu Honmou, Daiki Tateyama, Kosuke Takahashi, Kosei Tateyama, Yoshihiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 12110972Abstract: The flow path switching device includes: a body 100 including an outer cylinder 101 having four ports 111 and a plug 102 having two arc-shaped tunnel-like flow paths 121 each connecting adjacent two of four openings 102a formed in a side surface of the plug 102. The plug 102 is rotatable between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position in which one of the flow paths 121 connects adjacent two of the four ports 111 and the other flow path 121 connects the remaining two ports, and the second position being a position in which each of the flow paths connects adjacent two of the ports 111 which are not connected when the plug 102 is located at the first position.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Nakagami, Minami Kawabe, Tomoe Morita, Issei Kamei
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Publication number: 20240299727Abstract: An extracorporeal circuit includes a tube holder holding a pump tube and line tubes. The tube holder has first and second tube holding portions holding the pump tube in a loop shape and holding the line tubes and a fixing plate coupling the first tube holding portion and the second tube holding portion to each other. The fixing plate is configured such that a line-tube-side end thereof is inclined to a pump tube side from a second tube holding portion side toward a first tube holding portion side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi YAMAGUCHI, Sachiko ISHIDA
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Patent number: 12071361Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a glass product including the following steps. An intermediate glass product is provided. A portion of the intermediate glass product is heated to a predetermined temperature. A tool and the heated portion of the intermediate glass product are brought into contact. Under a state that a tool contacts the heated portion, at least one of the tool and the intermediate glass product is rotated so that the tool and the intermediate glass product relatively rotate, wherein a part of the tool that contacts the heated portion comprises or is made of glassy carbon.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventor: Michael Droessler
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Publication number: 20240238495Abstract: A liquid storage reservoir that includes a housing, an inflow port, an outflow port, and an introduction pipe connected to a downstream-side end portion of the inflow port to introduce a liquid into the housing. The inflow port is connected to the housing in a posture intersecting a vertical direction. The introduction pipe is formed to be tubular, and has a shape extending vertically downward from the downstream-side end portion of the inflow port. The housing has an opposed wall formed at a position opposed to a lower end portion of the introduction pipe, and a guide wall that guides the liquid downward from the opposed wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa ISHIHARA, Yuji KUWAHARA, Eiichi KOISO
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Patent number: D1032872Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Yoshikawa, Masayuki Toyoshima, Ryosuke Nakamura, Kazunari Abe
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Patent number: D1041678Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Uchimura, Ryoko Masaki