Patents by Inventor Akira Kondo
Akira Kondo 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: 10632253Abstract: A liquid medicine administration apparatus includes: a drive section; an operation section configured to operate a pusher member that is slidably located in a liquid medicine container; a transmission mechanism configured to transmit a driving force of the drive section to the operation section; an occlusion detection mechanism located in the transmission mechanism and configured to detect occlusion of a passage of liquid medicine administered from the liquid medicine container; a rotation detector configured to detect rotation of the drive section; and a notification section configured to notify a user when the rotation detector detects stoppage of rotation of the drive section.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Joji Uchiyama, Akira Kondo, Hideyuki Sato
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Publication number: 20200001004Abstract: A liquid medication administration device includes a cylindrical body, a gasket, a plunger body that pushes a liquid medication out of the cylindrical body, an advancing mechanism that advances the plunger body, a drive mechanism that drives the advancing mechanism, a chassis member that supports at least the cylindrical body and the advancing mechanism, and a housing that houses the cylindrical body, the plunger body, the advancing mechanism, the drive mechanism, and the chassis member. The chassis member includes a first supporting portion that supports a distal surface of a first supported portion of the cylindrical body and a second supporting portion that supports a proximal surface of a second supported portion of the advancing mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akira KONDO
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Publication number: 20190337225Abstract: [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus to be used for a modeling apparatus including a stage, a regulation member, an irradiation unit, and a moving mechanism and includes an acquisition unit, an irradiation position control unit, and a compensation unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire the plurality of slice image data items. The irradiation position control unit is configured to variably control, in accordance with the number of laminated layers of a material, an irradiation position of the energy ray to the material in a direction of relative movement of the stage and the regulation member within a modeling surface of the stage. The compensation unit is configured to compensate for a reference position of at least one slice image data item of the plurality of slice image data items in accordance with a change of the irradiation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2017Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: NOBUHIRO KIHARA, AKIRA KONDO, MOTOHIKO WATANABE, YEDAN SUN
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Publication number: 20190283327Abstract: [Solving Means] In a modeling apparatus (100), a stage (10) includes a modeling surface (12) on which a modeled object is formed. A regulation member (30) includes a surface (32) including an adjacent region, the regulation member being capable of being arranged with respect to the stage to form a holding region for holding a material between the adjacent region and the stage. An irradiation unit (40) selectively radiates an energy ray to a region of the material held in the holding region via the adjacent region of the regulation member. A first moving mechanism (61) moves the stage and the regulation member relative to each other in a direction along the modeling surface. A second moving mechanism (62) moves the stage and the regulation member relative to each other in a lamination direction of the material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: NOBUHIRO KIHARA, AKIRA KONDO
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Publication number: 20180207358Abstract: A liquid medicine administration apparatus includes: a drive section; an operation section configured to operate a pusher member that is slidably located in a liquid medicine container; a transmission mechanism configured to transmit a driving force of the drive section to the operation section; an occlusion detection mechanism located in the transmission mechanism and configured to detect occlusion of a passage of liquid medicine administered from the liquid medicine container; a rotation detector configured to detect rotation of the drive section; and a notification section configured to notify a user when the rotation detector detects stoppage of rotation of the drive section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Joji UCHIYAMA, Akira KONDO, Hideyuki SATO
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Publication number: 20180200425Abstract: A medicinal device includes a first member; and a second member configured to be attachable to and detachable from the first member, the second member being a part of a medicinal-liquid administering device and including: a first member comprising a first-member-side power transmission part, and a second member comprising a second-member-side power transmission part; wherein the first-member-side power transmission part and the second-member-side power transmission part are configured to be engaged with each other for administering medicinal liquid into a living body; and wherein the second member is configured to open a housing covering the first-member-side power transmission part to engage the second-member-side power transmission part with the first-member-side power transmission part at a time of attaching the first member to the second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira KONDO, Joji UCHIYAMA, Hideyuki SATO
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Patent number: 9943642Abstract: A medical solution administration device includes a medical solution storage unit configured to store a medical solution; a channel part having a channel through which the medical solution is flowable from the medical solution storage unit to a living body; a piston; a cylinder part having an internal space; a driving unit configured to slide the piston between a press end position at which a front end of the piston is located at a first end of the internal space of the cylinder part and a pulled-back position at which the front end of the piston is located at a second end of the internal space of the cylinder part; and a seal located at an end of the cylinder part and positioned adjacent to the front end of the piston when the piston is in the pulled-back position, the seal being configured to circumferentially contact the piston.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akira Kondo
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Publication number: 20170368269Abstract: A medicinal-liquid administering device is for administering medicinal liquid filling a tubular body into a living body under a pressing action of a plunger. The medicinal-liquid administering device includes: a disposable part including: the tubular body, the plunger, and a movable part configured to be moved from an initial position and to press the plunger toward a distal-end side; a reusable part that is attachable to and detachable from the disposable part, the reusable part including: at least part of a driving part configured to move the movable part, a first position detection sensor configured to detect whether or not the movable part is at the initial position in a state before the movable part is moved, and an alarm part configured to output a first alarm when the first position detection sensor detects that the movable part is not at the initial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akira Kondo
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Patent number: 9776755Abstract: A drug supply device includes a hopper that collects solid drugs discharged from tablet cases on the basis of predetermined prescription data, an inspection device that inspects the solid drugs introduced from the hopper, and a packaging device that fills and packages the inspected solid drugs into a packaging sheet. The inspection device includes inspection containers that each hold a single administration dosage of the solid drugs, a movement mechanism that moves the inspection containers, and an imaging device that captures an image of the solid drugs in the inspection containers. As a result of capturing the image of the solid drugs in the inspection container by the imaging device, when a number of the solid drugs is different from the prescription data, the solid drugs are disposed of.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kondo, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takashi Mori
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Publication number: 20170089483Abstract: A switching valve has a cylinder, an end port, a side wall port, a sliding core, a poppet seal, a biasing member, and a sliding core internal channel. The cylinder guides the sliding core in a slidable manner, and has a valve seat. The poppet seal guided in a slidable manner in a sliding core inner space is biased toward a seal engagement protrusion by the biasing member. The poppet seal can be seated on the valve seat by a biasing force given by the biasing member to close a channel for controlled fluid, and can be separated from the valve seat to open the channel for the controlled fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Hiroyuki AIHARA, Akira KONDO
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Publication number: 20150258274Abstract: A medical solution administration device includes a medical solution storage unit configured to store a medical solution; a channel part having a channel through which the medical solution is flowable from the medical solution storage unit to a living body; a piston; a cylinder part having an internal space; a driving unit configured to slide the piston between a press end position at which a front end of the piston is located at a first end of the internal space of the cylinder part and a pulled-back position at which the front end of the piston is located at a second end of the internal space of the cylinder part; and a seal located at an end of the cylinder part and positioned adjacent to the front end of the piston when the piston is in the pulled-back position, the seal being configured to circumferentially contact the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akira KONDO
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Publication number: 20140318078Abstract: A drug supply device includes a hopper that collects solid drugs discharged from tablet cases on the basis of predetermined prescription data, an inspection device that inspects the solid drugs introduced from the hopper, and a packaging device that fills and packages the inspected solid drugs into a packaging sheet. The inspection device includes inspection containers that each hold a single administration dosage of the solid drugs, a movement mechanism that moves the inspection containers, and an imaging device that captures an image of the solid drugs in the inspection containers. As a result of capturing the image of the solid drugs in the inspection container by the imaging device, when a number of the solid drugs is different from the prescription data, the solid drugs are disposed of.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Akira KONDO, Hideyuki TAKAHASHI, Takashi MORI
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Patent number: 8782999Abstract: A tablet supply apparatus including a main body having a case accommodating unit at the upper portion thereof, plural tablet cases that are secured in the case accommodating unit and in which tablets are accommodated, a chute through which tablets discharged from each of the tablet cases drop, a hopper that is disposed below the chute and provided in the main body, a filling device for filling tablets received by the hopper into a container, and at least one tablet feeder for freely putting into the hopper tablets whose kinds are other than the kinds of the tablets accommodated in the table cases. The tablet feeder has an opening for putting tablets, a shutter for temporarily trapping the tables put from the opening and a switch for opening the shutter, and is designed so that the put tablets on the shutter are visually recognizable.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kondo, Takashi Mori, Koichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8257882Abstract: The cathode 114 is formed by forming several layers comprising an inorganic material that is primarily electron conductive and a complex oxide B that is primarily oxygen ion conductive and that supports an oxygen dissociation-promoting catalyst, on an electrolytic membrane 112. The electrolytic membrane 112 and the outermost layer of the cathode 114 (layer of mixture furthest from the electrolytic membrane 112) facing the separator 120 are physically and electrically continuous by means of the inorganic material a and complex oxide B disposed between them.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Ito, Akira Kondo
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Patent number: 8147418Abstract: The present invention enables making uniform contact with the tragus using inner and outer cuffs, each of said inner and outer cuffs being comprised of a cuff member 40 connected to a duct 4 and a cuff bladder 22 having a body 27 which is fixed onto said cuff member in an air-tight manner and can expand and contract, comprised in such manner in order to carry out accurate blood pressure measurement at any one given point in time without being affected by the pinch width of the tragus and depth to the tragus even with repeated mounting and removal from the ear auricle, and also comprised such that a lid 23 of said cuff bladder forms a pressing surface 25 in a shape of a protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Kondo, Shuichi Oonishi, Masaru Nakanishi, Takashi Watanabe, Hitoshi Ozawa
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Patent number: 8071494Abstract: The present invention provides a glass substrate for flat panel display in which yellowing occurring in a case of forming silver electrodes on glass substrate surface is inhibited. A glass substrate for flat panel display, which is formed by a float method, which has a composition consisting essentially of, in terms of oxide amount in mass %: SiO2 50 to 72%, Al2O3 0.15 to 15%, MgO + CaO + SrO + BaO 4 to 30%, Na2O more than 0% and at most 10%, K2O 1 to 21%, Li2O 0 to 1%, Na2O + K2O + Li2O 6 to 25%, ZrO2 0 to 10%, and Fe2O3 0.0725 to 0.15%; and wherein the average Fe2+ content in a surface layer of the glass substrate within a depth of 10 ?m from the a top surface is at most 0.0725% in terms of Fe2O3 amount.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Kei Maeda, Ryoji Akiyama, Akira Kondo, Daiki Akie
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Patent number: 7834869Abstract: A display panel driver has two driver circuits that drive separate halves of a display panel. Each driver circuit occupies a separate integrated circuit chip. The driver has a screen saving mode in which each driver circuit displays an independent screen saving image that moves in synchronization with a timing signal. The timing signal is generated in one driver circuit and transmitted by a chip-to-chip interface to the other driver circuit. The two screen saving images are thereby coordinated to create what appears to be a single screen saving display.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kondo, Naoya Kimura, Haruyo Takayanagi, Tetsuro Hara, Takayuki Shimizu, Hiroyoshi Ichkura
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Patent number: 7773053Abstract: The object of the invention is elimination of an occurrence of instantaneous light in the center part of a display, a border between the upper half and the lower half of the display. An scanning method of the display, dividing the display panel to a first filed and a second filed, starts a counter therein, synchronized with the timing of driving a first row electrode of the first filed thereof, and drives a first row electrode of the second filed thereof, every time the counter value changes.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruyo Takayanagi, Akira Kondo, Tetsuro Hara, Naoya Kimura, Takayuki Shimizu, Shuji Furuichi
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Patent number: 7754177Abstract: A hollow carbon nanoballoon structure having a relatively large closed space, and a method of producing a carbon nanoballoon structure capable of easily and stably producing such a structure. The carbon nanoballoon structure is obtained by heating soot prepared by an arc discharge using carbon electrodes, soot prepared by vaporizing carbon by laser irradiation, or carbon black having a specific surface area of 1000 m2/g or more and a primary particle diameter of 20 nm or more at a high temperature in an inert gas atmosphere, and includes graphite sheets linked to form a curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignees: Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd., Futaba CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Takikawa, Akira Kondo, Kazuo Yoshikawa, Shigeo Itoh
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Patent number: 7696962Abstract: A color balancing circuit for a flat panel display such as an electroluminescent display generates a primary current that can be varied to adjust the overall brightness of the display. Three currents related to the primary current by selectable ratios are generated, by current mirror circuits, for example; the ratios can be individually varied to adjust the color balance. Driving currents are generated from the three adjusted currents, by mirroring the adjusted currents, for example, and are used to drive display elements that emit light in the three primary colors. Image brightness and color balance can accordingly be adjusted separately, even though both are adjusted by adjusting the driving current. Circuit size is reduced in that the same primary current is used for all three primary colors.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro Hara, Naoya Kimura, Takayuki Shimizu, Akira Kondo, Haruyo Takayanagi, Shinichi Satoh