Patents by Inventor Akinobu Okuda
Akinobu Okuda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11894133Abstract: A pharmaceutical storage box to be stored in a pharmaceutical refrigerator and managed by a controller, the pharmaceutical storage box includes: a storage portion to store a pharmaceutical, the pharmaceutical having an IC tag attached thereto; and an antenna configured to receive information of the IC tag.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Akinobu Okuda, Hideyuki Morii, Susumu Takagi
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Publication number: 20230395226Abstract: A pharmaceutical refrigerator operation support system includes a server, a pharmaceutical refrigerator, a first computer that sends to the server information about a first medicine, information about a first RFID tag attached to the first medicine, and information about a first pharmaceutical distribution institution, and a second computer that sends to the server information about a second medicine, information about a second RFID tag attached to the second medicine, and information about a second pharmaceutical distribution institution. The server manages a status of medicine in the pharmaceutical refrigerator by identifying the first medicine as a medicine delivered by the first pharmaceutical distribution institution and identifying the second medicine as a medicine delivered by the second pharmaceutical distribution institution, based on information received from the pharmaceutical refrigerator, the first computer, and the second computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventor: Akinobu OKUDA
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Publication number: 20210161766Abstract: A pharmaceutical management system includes: an IC tag attached to a pharmaceutical; a pharmaceutical storage box to store the pharmaceutical and read information of the IC tag; a controller to acquire the information of the IC tag from the pharmaceutical storage box and manage the pharmaceutical; and a pharmaceutical refrigerator to store the pharmaceutical storage box to refrigerate the pharmaceutical.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Akinobu OKUDA, Hideyuki MORII, Susumu TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20210158954Abstract: A pharmaceutical storage box to be stored in a pharmaceutical refrigerator and managed by a controller, the pharmaceutical storage box includes: a storage portion to store a pharmaceutical, the pharmaceutical having an IC tag attached thereto; and an antenna configured to receive information of the IC tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Akinobu OKUDA, Hideyuki MORII, Susumu TAKAGI
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Patent number: 9597645Abstract: A drug container is arranged in a horizontal state where a central axis extends along a horizontal direction, and the drug container is rotated about the central axis. In such a way, a drug solution in the drug container is moved along an inner surface of the drug container, and the drug container is reciprocally vibrated along the central axis in a state where the drug container is rotated, to stir the drug solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Takenaka, Akinobu Okuda, Tsuyoshi Tojo, Tohru Nakamura
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Patent number: 9433558Abstract: A medicine mixing apparatus transfusing a medicine using a syringe includes a medicine cassette holding a medicine container, a lifting unit moving the medicine cassette upward and downward to a middle position or a lower position of a main body while maintaining a horizontal attitude of the medicine cassette, a first holding portion held by the main body, and a second driving unit which drives a plunger of the syringe held by the first holding portion to transfuse the medicine.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akinobu Okuda, Tsuyoshi Tojo, Tohru Nakamura
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Patent number: 9254243Abstract: A drug transferring needle includes a needle base portion, a first needle portion having therein an air passage, and a second needle portion longer than the first needle portion and arranged parallel to the first needle portion. In the first needle portion, a first air vent being one end of the air passage is provided on a distal end side of the second needle portion from a second air vent being the other end of the air passage. In the second needle portion, one end of a liquid passage is connected to the inside of the needle base portion, and the other end thereof is a liquid pass opening of the second needle portion. The second needle portion has a distal end having the liquid pass opening, a base portion connected to the needle base portion, and an intermediate portion connecting the distal end and the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Higuchi, Akinobu Okuda, Akihiro Ohta, Yuki Takenaka, Tohru Nakamura
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Patent number: 9240044Abstract: A drug solution inspection device includes a jig that mounts thereon a syringe containing a drug solution, an imaging unit that captures an image of the syringe mounted on the jig, an exposure unit that performs exposure on the syringe mounted on the jig, and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the exposure unit to acquire inspection information. In order to inspect an amount of the drug solution in the syringe, the first control unit transmits the captured image of the syringe while changing an exposure state of the exposure unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akinobu Okuda, Tamao Okamoto
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Patent number: 9089195Abstract: Provided is an automatic hair washing apparatus for washing person's hair in a safe and effective manner without applying a straining force on person's neck. An automatic hair washing apparatus 100 comprises a bowl 101 having a head support 11; washing units 12L and 12R arranged with the head support 11 interposed therebetween, the support shafts thereof being attached to the bowl 101; a driving section for rotating the washing units 12L and 12R about the respective support shafts 104L and 104R; and a control section for controlling the driving of the driving section; wherein each of the washing units 12L and 12R comprises a plurality of contacts 109 on a surface opposite to the surface supported by the support shaft 104L and 104R.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Mizuno, Soichiro Fujioka, Tohru Nakamura, Akinobu Okuda, Tsuyoshi Tojo
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Patent number: 8937553Abstract: A syringe drive device 11 includes a fixing section 15 fixing an outer tube 14, a movable holder 16 holding a plunger 13, and a drive section 42 driving the holder 16 along an axis of the plunger to push and pull the plunger with respect to the outer tube 14. An internal pressure detector 18 has a positive pressure detection switch 63 detecting an internal pressure of a syringe 12. A determination section 41 determines the issuance of an alert when the holder 16 is stopped and the positive pressure detection switch 63 is ON. A display section 19 is lit to indicate the alert when the determination section 41 determines to issue the alert.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Soichiro Fujioka, Tohru Nakamura, Osamu Mizuno, Akinobu Okuda, Akihiro Ohta
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Patent number: 8926554Abstract: A medicinal solution injection apparatus 10 includes a composite needle 12 including a needle base portion 12c, an injection needle 12d, and an adjustment needle 12e, a pressure generating portion 13 configured to discharge a compressed air, a measuring portion 14 configured to measure a filling amount and a filling speed of a medicinal solution by measuring a position of a gasket 17a of a syringe 17, and a control portion 15 configured to control the pressure generating portion 13 and the measuring portion 14. The compressed air is introduced into a vial container 16 through an edge 12h of the adjustment needle 12e located above a liquid surface 16a of the medicinal solution in the vial container 16 (outside the liquid surface) to press the liquid surface 16a of the medicinal solution downward, so that a medicinal solution 16b is injected into the syringe 17 through an edge 12i of the injection needle 12d in the medicinal solution 16b.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Akinobu Okuda, Tohru Nakamura, Soichiro Fujioka, Osamu Mizuno, Akihiro Ohta
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Publication number: 20140311621Abstract: A medicine mixing apparatus transfusing a medicine using a syringe includes a medicine cassette holding a medicine container, a lifting unit moving the medicine cassette upward and downward to a middle position or a lower position of a main body while maintaining a horizontal attitude of the medicine cassette, a first holding portion held by the main body, and a second driving unit which drives a plunger of the syringe held by the first holding portion to transfuse the medicine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Akinobu Okuda, Tsuyoshi Tojo, Tohru Nakamura
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Publication number: 20140230952Abstract: A drug transferring needle includes a needle base portion, a first needle portion having therein an air passage, and a second needle portion longer than the first needle portion and arranged parallel to the first needle portion. In the first needle portion, a first air vent being one end of the air passage is provided on a distal end side of the second needle portion from a second air vent being the other end of the air passage. In the second needle portion, one end of a liquid passage is connected to the inside of the needle base portion, and the other end thereof is a liquid pass opening of the second needle portion. The second needle portion has a distal end having the liquid pass opening, a base portion connected to the needle base portion, and an intermediate portion connecting the distal end and the base portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Akira Higuchi, Akinobu Okuda, Akihiro Ohta, Yuki Takenaka, Tohru Nakamura
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Patent number: 8696634Abstract: A syringe drive device 15 according to the present invention includes: an outer tube fixing portion 31 that detachably fixes an outer tube 22 of a syringe 16; a plunger holder 21 that holds a plunger 17 of the syringe 16; and a drive portion that moves the plunger holder 21 along an axis of the syringe.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Soichiro Fujioka, Tohru Nakamura, Osamu Mizuno, Akinobu Okuda, Akihiro Ohta, Mizuho Sakakibara, Toshihide Ueda
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Patent number: 8690828Abstract: A syringe drive device 1 includes a cylinder holding section 3 configured to detachably hold a cylinder 201, a piston manipulating section 4 detachably coupled with a piston, and a piston drive section 5 including racks 31A and 31B coupled with the piston manipulating section 4 and configured to move the piston manipulating section 4 so that a piston 202 is moved in a push-in direction or a pull-out direction. A cylinder 200A having a given capacity (for example, 50 cc) is directly loaded in the syringe drive device 1 with no adapter therebetween. A syringe 200C having a different capacity (for example, 20 cc) is loaded in the syringe drive device 1 by means of a cylinder adapter 81 and a piston adapter 82.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Soichiro Fujioka, Tohru Nakamura, Osamu Mizuno, Akinobu Okuda, Akihiro Ohta
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Publication number: 20140060696Abstract: A drug solution transfer method includes step S1 of inserting a needle into a drug solution container through a rubber stopper and sucking drug solution in the drug solution container, step S2 of checking whether or not a solution collection inlet at a tip of the needle has shifted into the rubber stopper upon extracting the needle from the drug solution container, step S3 of pulling a plunger of a syringe provided with the needle so that an inside of the needle and an inner space of the syringe have negative pressure, and step S4 of relatively shifting the needle along with the syringe to be distant from the drug solution container so as to extract the solution collection inlet of the needle from the rubber stopper.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Akinobu Okuda, Akihiro Ohta, Yuki Takenaka, Tsuyoshi Tojo, Tohru Nakamura, Akira Higuchi
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Patent number: 8647305Abstract: A syringe drive device drives a syringe including a cylindrical cylinder and a piston. The cylinder includes a solution supply port at one end, and an opening at the other end. The piston is inserted into the cylinder through the opening. The syringe drive device includes a cylinder holder to rotatably hold the cylinder of the syringe, and a piston driver to drive the piston in its axial direction with respect to the cylinder held in the cylinder holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Akihiro Ohta, Tohru Nakamura, Osamu Mizuno, Soichiro Fujioka, Akinobu Okuda, Tsuyoshi Tojo
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Publication number: 20140036615Abstract: A stirring apparatus includes a container support section supporting a medicine container, a rotational driving section rotating the medicine container supported by the container support section around a central axis of the medicine container, a vibration driving section reciprocal vibrating the medicine container supported by the container support section along the central axis of the medicine container, pressing rollers arranged opposed to the container support section, the pressing rollers pressing the medicine container across the medicine container between the pressing rollers and the container support section, and a control part controlling the rotational driving section and the vibration driving section. The pressing rollers are diagonally arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Akinobu OKUDA, Yuki TAKENAKA
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Publication number: 20140016431Abstract: A drug container is arranged in a horizontal state where a central axis extends along a horizontal direction, and the drug container is rotated about the central axis. In such a way, a drug solution in the drug container is moved along an inner surface of the drug container, and the drug container is reciprocally vibrated along the central axis in a state where the drug container is rotated, to stir the drug solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Yuki TAKENAKA, Akinobu OKUDA, Tsuyoshi TOJO, Tohru NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20130343620Abstract: A drug solution inspection device includes a jig that mounts thereon a syringe containing a drug solution, an imaging unit that captures an image of the syringe mounted on the jig, an exposure unit that performs exposure on the syringe mounted on the jig, and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the exposure unit to acquire inspection information. In order to inspect an amount of the drug solution in the syringe, the first control unit transmits the captured image of the syringe while changing an exposure state of the exposure unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Akinobu OKUDA, Tamao OKAMOTO