Patents by Inventor Haruo OKUBO

Haruo OKUBO 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: 11795427
    Abstract: A culture vessel that can suppress foaming in a culture medium when a common nozzle is used to supply a liquid culture medium and a gas together. This culture vessel includes: a vessel body having an opening portion that communicates with a housing space; a lid that closes the opening portion; and a nozzle that passes through the and extends to the housing space, and supplies a liquid culture medium and a gas together. The nozzle has a vent opening portion that is formed so as to open in a side of the nozzle and serves as a movement path of the gas from inside of the nozzle into the housing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Tsukada, Toru Yakabe, Haruo Okubo, Masaharu Kiyama, Midori Kato, Hikaru Saito
  • Publication number: 20210002600
    Abstract: A culture vessel that can suppress foaming in a culture medium when a common nozzle is used to supply a liquid culture medium and a gas together. This culture vessel includes: a vessel body having an opening portion that communicates with a housing space; a lid that closes the opening portion; and a nozzle that passes through the and extends to the housing space, and supplies a liquid culture medium and a gas together. The nozzle has a vent opening portion that is formed so as to open in a side of the nozzle and serves as a movement path of the gas from inside of the nozzle into the housing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ryohei Tsukada, Toru Yakabe, Haruo Okubo, Masaharu Kiyama, Midori Kato, Hikaru Saito
  • Patent number: 10472598
    Abstract: A cell aggregate culture vessel (1) is a vessel for culturing a cell aggregate. The cell aggregate culture vessel (1) includes a well (21) having a culture space capable of storing the cell aggregate and culture fluid and a tubular body (3) which is disposed on the well on a plane at which the well has an opening and have an inner cavity communicating with the culture space, and one or more communication portion (3a) capable of discharging the culture fluid without allowing passage of the cell aggregate to the outside of the tubular body (3) is formed in a tubular wall of the tubular body (3). The communication portion (3a) may be, for example, a slit having a width of 0.1 mm or larger and 0.5 mm or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Tsukada, Haruo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20170267960
    Abstract: A cell aggregate culture vessel (1) is a vessel for culturing a cell aggregate. The cell aggregate culture vessel (1) includes a well (21) having a culture space capable of storing the cell aggregate and culture fluid and a tubular body (3) which is disposed on the well on a plane at which the well has an opening and have an inner cavity communicating with the culture space, and one or more communication portion (3a) capable of discharging the culture fluid without allowing passage of the cell aggregate to the outside of the tubular body (3) is formed in a tubular wall of the tubular body (3). The communication portion (3a) may be, for example, a slit having a width of 0.1 mm or larger and 0.5 mm or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei TSUKADA, Haruo OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20150184119
    Abstract: A microwell plate includes a plate body having a surface on which wells are formed. Each of the wells has an open end, a bottom end and an interior space extended from the open end to the bottom end. Each of the wells has, in the interior space, an opening-side portion, a bottom-side portion and a transition portion which is continuously connected to the opening-side portion and to the bottom-side portion, the opening-side portion has a polygonal cross section in parallel to the surface of the plate body, and the bottom-side portion has cross sections in parallel to the surface which have areas that gradually decrease toward the bottom end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryouhei TSUKADA, Haruo OKUBO
  • Patent number: D838863
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisato Hayashi, Haruo Okubo