Patents by Inventor Ayumu Kawashima

Ayumu Kawashima 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).

  • Publication number: 20240225425
    Abstract: A guide tube of the embodiment includes a long tube main body to be inserted into a body, and a handle part provided on a proximal end side of the tube main body, in which the handle part includes an inner sheath to which a proximal end part of the tube main body is connected and a protection sheath externally inserted into the inner sheath, and the inner sheath includes a port part for supplying and discharging a fluid to and from the tube main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya ABE, Ayana FURUTA, Ayumu KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220369898
    Abstract: An object is to provide a balloon mounting jig capable of reducing the burden of an operation of mounting a balloon in an insertion part of an endoscope. A balloon mounting jig (100) for mounting a balloon (60) including a first sleeve part (60A), a second sleeve part (60B), and a balloon main body (60C), to an insertion part (12) of an endoscope (10) or an insertion assisting tool, the balloon mounting jig (100) including: a main body (102) formed in a hollow cylindrical shape to be folded flat and having a first opening part (104) and a second opening part (106); a pair of guide pieces (108a, 108b) that face each other and are provided in the second opening part (106). A sliding surface (120) on which an outer peripheral surface of the insertion part (12) or the insertion assisting tool is slidable is provided on inner surfaces of the main body (102) and the pair of guide pieces (108a, 108b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu TAKAHASHI, Ayumu KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11419484
    Abstract: Provided are a package of a mounting jig mounted balloon and a balloon mounting method capable of reducing the burden of an operation of mounting a balloon in an insertion part of an endoscope. A balloon includes a first sleeve part, a second sleeve part, and a balloon main body. A balloon mounting jig is formed to be folded flat in a hollow cylindrical shape, and has a main body having a first opening part and a second opening part, and a pair of guide pieces that is provided on the second opening part and face each other. A package of a mounting jig mounted balloon is configured so that the balloon mounting jig and the balloon are contained in the container, in which in the container, the balloon is disposed so that the second sleeve part is disposed inside the folded balloon main body and the pair of guide pieces is disposed inside the first sleeve part and the second sleeve part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu Takahashi, Ayumu Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20200305694
    Abstract: Provided are a package of a mounting jig mounted balloon and a balloon mounting method capable of reducing the burden of an operation of mounting a balloon in an insertion part of an endoscope. A balloon includes a first sleeve part, a second sleeve part, and a balloon main body. A balloon mounting jig is formed to be folded flat in a hollow cylindrical shape, and has a main body having a first opening part and a second opening part, and a pair of guide pieces that is provided on the second opening part and face each other. A package of a mounting jig mounted balloon is configured so that the balloon mounting jig and the balloon are contained in the container, in which in the container, the balloon is disposed so that the second sleeve part is disposed inside the folded balloon main body and the pair of guide pieces is disposed inside the first sleeve part and the second sleeve part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu TAKAHASHI, Ayumu KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 6296587
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a flexible seamed endless belt having high strength and good smoothness, in which the seamed portion is as thick as the other part of the belt. The seamed endless belt is formed from a flexible belt-like member by joining its ends together. The belt-link member has end structures which can be engaged with each other such that the resulting seamed portion is unseparable in the advancing direction thereof. The seamed portion is covered with a cured film formed by curing a resin composition containing a curable resin. The curable resin may be a thermosetting resin and the cured film may be formed by heating the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Tateishi, Seiichi Katoh, Ayumu Kawashima