Patents by Inventor Akira Yotsutsuji

Akira Yotsutsuji 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).

  • Patent number: 11446442
    Abstract: A gasket suitable for a syringe stopping with vacuum is provided. The gasket is compatible with sliding property within the sleeve and water-tightness of the syringe barrel after exiting the sleeve. The gasket includes a gasket body made of a liquid-resistant hard plastic having a tip surface contacting medicinal solution and a concave groove formed on a side surface facing an inner peripheral surface of a syringe barrel and formed continuously to the tip surface contacting medicinal solution; and a sliding contact ring made of an elastic material fitted in the concave groove. Then, an outer diameter D1 of a peripheral end of a tip portion including the tip surface contacting medicinal solution of the gasket body is set to be larger than the outer diameter D4 of the sliding contact ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: COKI ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20220243814
    Abstract: A gasket includes a gasket body and a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) film. The gasket body includes a solution contact portion and a slide contact portion. The PTFE film is attached to a solution contact surface of the solution contact portion of the gasket body. Besides, a circumferential end portion of the PTFE film is curved toward the slide contact portion of the gasket body such that a circumferential end surface of the PTFE film is buried in the slide contact portion of the gasket body so as not to be exposed to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Akira YOTSUTSUJI
  • Patent number: 11071830
    Abstract: A high-slidability syringe has high safety and sealability over a long period of time. The syringe includes a gasket having a lower sliding resistance to a syringe barrel. The syringe includes: a syringe barrel; a gasket adapted to be press-fitted in the syringe barrel and used in a sliding manner in the syringe barrel; and a piston rod with the gasket attached to a front end thereof. The gasket includes: a gasket main body that is formed of a rigid plastic having resistance to a drug solution to be loaded into the syringe barrel and has a recessed groove formed in a sliding contact surface thereof adapted to slidably contact an inner circumferential surface of the syringe barrel; and a sliding contact ring that is fitted in the recessed groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: COKI ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20200338272
    Abstract: Obtained is an innovative high-slidability syringe that has high safety and sealability over a long period of time and includes a gasket having a lower sliding resistance to a syringe barrel. A high-slidability syringe (A) includes: a syringe barrel (1); a gasket (10) adapted to be press-fitted in the syringe barrel (1) and used in a sliding manner in the syringe barrel (1); and a piston rod (5) with the gasket (10) attached to a front end thereof. The gasket (10) includes: a gasket main body (26) that is formed of a rigid plastic having resistance to a drug solution (30) to be loaded into the syringe barrel (1) and has a recessed groove (18) formed in a sliding contact surface (11) thereof adapted to slidably contact an inner circumferential surface (2) of the syringe barrel (1); and a sliding contact ring (19) that is fitted in the recessed groove (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventor: Akira YOTSUTSUJI
  • Publication number: 20200215269
    Abstract: A gasket suitable for a syringe stopping with vacuum is provided. The gasket is compatible with sliding property within the sleeve and water-tightness of the syringe barrel after exiting the sleeve. The gasket includes a gasket body made of a liquid-resistant hard plastic having a tip surface contacting medicinal solution and a concave groove formed on a side surface facing an inner peripheral surface of a syringe barrel and formed continuously to the tip surface contacting medicinal solution; and a sliding contact ring made of an elastic material fitted in the concave groove. Then, an outer diameter D1 of a peripheral end of a tip portion including the tip surface contacting medicinal solution of the gasket body is set to be larger than the outer diameter D4 of the sliding contact ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventor: Akira YOTSUTSUJI
  • Patent number: 10456527
    Abstract: A syringe is to be obtained by using PTFE for a gasket main body that makes a direct contact with an injection solution and using a slidable silicone rubber at a portion that does not make contact with the injection solution. A syringe A includes a syringe barrel 1, a gasket 10 press-fitted within the syringe barrel 1, and a plunger rod 5 mounted in the gasket 10. In the gasket 10, a concaved groove 18 is formed over the whole circumference of a slide-contact surface 11 of a main body portion 26 that is formed of a rigid plastic having a drug solution-resistant property against a drug solution 30 to be loaded in the syringe barrel 1 and that is configured to slidingly contact an inner circumferential surface 2 of the syringe barrel 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: COKI ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Patent number: 10004832
    Abstract: A method to make a PTFE skived film capable of exhibiting, with a single layer, sliding properties, barrier properties with regard to a liquid contact surface, and excellent tear resistance during injection molding. This skived film is obtained by cutting a polytetrafluoroethylene block or a modified polytetrafluoroethylene block subjected to a thermal fusion treatment under reduced pressure or subjected to a pressurized thermal fusion treatment after being subjected to fusion under reduced pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: COKI ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20170232202
    Abstract: A syringe is to be obtained by using PTFE for a gasket main body that makes a direct contact with an injection solution and using a slidable silicone rubber at a portion that does not make contact with the injection solution. A syringe A includes a syringe barrel 1, a gasket 10 press-fitted within the syringe barrel 1, and a plunger rod 5 mounted in the gasket 10. In the gasket 10, a concaved groove 18 is formed over the whole circumference of a slide-contact surface 11 of a main body portion 26 that is formed of a rigid plastic having a drug solution-resistant property against a drug solution 30 to be loaded in the syringe barrel 1 and that is configured to slidingly contact an inner circumferential surface 2 of the syringe barrel 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Akira YOTSUTSUJI
  • Publication number: 20160129160
    Abstract: A method to make a PTFE skived film capable of exhibiting, with a single layer, sliding properties, barrier properties with regard to a liquid contact surface, and excellent tear resistance during injection molding. This skived film is obtained by cutting a polytetrafluoroethylene block or a modified polytetrafluoroethylene block subjected to a thermal fusion treatment under reduced pressure or subjected to a pressurized thermal fusion treatment after being subjected to fusion under reduced pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20150148751
    Abstract: [Objective]: To provide a low-cost piston member for syringes, with sufficiently satisfying slidability and sealing performance such as non-leakage and vapor impermeability, without size limitation, from small to large diameters. [Solution]: A piston member 10, such as a gasket 10a or a middle piston 10b, is formed by cut-processing a PTFE block and is press-fitted in a syringe barrel 1 to be slidably used. Protruded rims 13 are formed at least in a circumferential direction of perimeter of a slide-contact surface 11a adjacent to a liquid contact surface 14 of a drug solution 30, in a slide-contact surface 11 of the piston member 10, slidingly making contact with an inner circumferential surface 2 of the syringe barrel 1. After cut-processing, pitch P of the protruded rims 13 is 50 ?m or smaller, and press-fit margin T to the syringe barrel 1 is 10 to 150 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20140207075
    Abstract: Provided is a PTFE skived film capable of exhibiting, with a single layer, sliding properties, barrier properties with regard to a liquid contact surface, and excellent tear resistance during injection molding. This skived film is characterized by being obtained by cutting a polytetrafluoroethylene block or a modified polytetrafluoroethylene block subjected to a thermal fusion treatment under reduced pressure or subjected to a pressurized thermal fusion treatment after being subjected to fusion under reduced pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: COKI ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20080271870
    Abstract: A metal mold capable of preventing a nonuniform wall thickness from occurring in a cylindrical formed product, wherein a gate (8) for filling molding material is formed in alignment with the center axis (CL) of a tubular mold cavity (4) so that metered resin can be injected and filled from the tip side of a core (5) into the mold cavity, whereby since the metered molding material injected from the gate into the mold cavity uniformly flows around the core, a force is uniformly applied to the side face of the core through all the periphery thereof to prevent the core from falling in one direction and to always position the core at the center of the mold cavity, the molded formed product cannot cause the nonuniform wall thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: COKI ENGINEERING INC
    Inventor: Akira Yotsutsuji
  • Patent number: 4285901
    Abstract: An element having a molding surface defining the cavity of a mold for molding thermoplastic resin and a method of making the element. To regulate the cooling speed of the molten resin to be injected or placed into the cavity, the molding surface is provided by a thin metal layer and a layer of heat insulating material is formed on the inner side of the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Inventors: Akira Yotsutsuji, Seiichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Iwami
  • Patent number: 4285661
    Abstract: A valve nozzle is used at an end of a hot runner or an injection molding machine for an injection molding. The valve nozzle comprises a cylinder as a body of the nozzle, and a piston. The cylinder has a gate and has a larger inner diameter at the rear end and a smaller inner diameter at the front end. The piston has a passage in the piston and has a large outer diameter at the rear end and a smaller outer diameter at the front end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Assignee: Osaka City
    Inventors: Akira Yotsutsuji, Seiichi Ueda, Kiyoshi Uemura
  • Patent number: 4225109
    Abstract: An insulated metal mold having a molding surface defining the cavity of a mold for molding thermoplastic resin. To regulate the cooling speed of the molten resin to be injected or placed into the cavity, the molding surface is provided by a thin metal layer and a layer of heat insulating material is formed on the inner side of the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Osaka City & Taiyo Manufacturing Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yotsutsuji, Seiichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Iwami
  • Patent number: 4171941
    Abstract: A gate of a mold for an injection molding machine comprises a valve cone having a circular cone shape or a pyramid shape and a valve seat corresponding to the valve cone wherein the valve cone is pushed toward the valve seat by a spring in the direction reverse to the injecting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1979
    Assignee: Osaka City
    Inventors: Akira Yotsutsuji, Seiichi Ueda, Kiyosi Uemura