Patents by Inventor Hideaki Hirobe
Hideaki Hirobe 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: 8438067Abstract: Locations of storage on a rack 70 for arranging and storing medical resources are partitioned by a partition member 75. A medical resource detecting member 73 and a retrieval guidance member 72 are provided in each partition on the rack. By configuring the partition member 75 to be removable from a depression 71 in the rack 70, and by providing an input for configuration in a control unit 30 to designate whether or not the partition member 75 is inserted, the control unit 30 is operable to collectively process medical resource detecting members 73 and retrieval guidance members 72. In this way, a large variety of large and small medical resources can be stored for automatic management.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2005Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Tosho Inc.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Hideaki Hirobe, Yoshihito Omura, Takehiko Imura
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Patent number: 8360271Abstract: A sliding surface having a gentle slope for carrying pharmaceutical products such as infusion bottles (20) is formed by a row of rollers (15) extending in the direction of slope. An ejecting member (14) for sequentially ejecting the products (20) is formed as a series of a flat plate (14a) and a curved plate (14c). The flat plate (14a) is pivotably supported such that the pivot center is on an extension of the sliding surface. The curved plate (14c) is provided below the flat plate (14a), maintaining a constant distance from the pivot center. An actuator such as an electric motor (12) for pivotally moving the ejecting member (14) is provided beneath the sliding surface. Since the pharmaceutical product at the head of a queue assists the pivotal movement, it is ensured that a small actuator serves the purpose.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2005Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Tosho Inc.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Yoshihito Omura, Hideaki Hirobe, Shunji Ogaya
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Patent number: 8083078Abstract: A vibration-assisted ejection cassette includes: outer plates 11 which align PTP-packaged drugs 20 for storage; a top frame 12 which is provided above an open front and which prevents accommodated drugs from being falling forward; an inner plate 13 which carries the accommodated drugs and advances the drugs when vibrated; and a vibrating member 15 which vibrates the inner plate 13. Thereby, vibration is exploited to maintain the drugs 20 in alignment with each other, advance the drugs while maintaining the drugs in alignment and eject them one by one. Additionally, a retention member 18 for retaining an ejected drug is provided in front of the open front. A control circuit 17 activates or stops activating the vibrating member 15 in accordance with whether or not an ejection detecting member detects that a drug is being retained. In this way, it is ensured that drugs are either manually picked up one by one or ejected by an automatic mechanism in an equally easy and stable manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Tosho Inc.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Yoshihito Omura, Hideaki Hirobe
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Patent number: 7922037Abstract: A device for manually dispensing medications is realized, which allows the operator to perform preliminary manual medication dispensing in advance of several subsequent dispensing steps, while facilitating the operator's ability to recognize the region to which each medication is to be dispensed, there by allowing the operator to easily and precisely perform manual dispensing of various kinds of medications.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Tosho Inc.Inventors: Yoshihito Ohmura, Hideaki Hirobe
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Publication number: 20110016027Abstract: Locations of storage on a rack for arranging and storing medical resources are partitioned by a partition member, where a medical resource detecting member and a retrieval guidance member are provided in each partition on the rack, by configuring the partition member to be removable from a depression in the rack, and by providing an input for configuration in a control unit to designate whether or not the partition member is inserted, the control unit is operable to collectively process medical resource detecting members and retrieval guidance members, such that a large variety of large and small medical resources can be stored for automatic management.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: Tosho Inc.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Hideaki Hirobe, Yoshihito Omura, Takehiko Imura
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Publication number: 20090152291Abstract: A device for manually dispensing medications is realized, which allows the operator to perform preliminary manual medication dispensing in advance of several subsequent dispensing steps, while facilitating the operator's ability to recognize the region to which each medication is to be dispensed, there by allowing the operator to easily and precisely perform manual dispensing of various kinds of medications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: TOSHO INC.Inventors: Yoshihito Ohmura, Shunji Ogaya, Hideaki Hirobe
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Publication number: 20090014461Abstract: A sliding surface having a gentle slope for carrying pharmaceutical products such as infusion bottles (20) is formed by a row of rollers (15) extending in the direction of slope. An ejecting member (14) for sequentially ejecting the products (20) is formed as a series of a flat plate (14a) and a curved plate (14c). The flat plate (14a) is pivotably supported such that the pivot center is on an extension of the sliding surface. The curved plate (14c) is provided below the flat plate (14a), maintaining a constant distance from the pivot center. An actuator such as an electric motor (12) for pivotally moving the ejecting member (14) is provided beneath the sliding surface. Since the pharmaceutical product at the head of a queue assists the pivotal movement, it is ensured that a small actuator serves the purpose.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2005Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: TOSHO INC.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Yoshihito Omura, Hideaki Hirobe, Shunji Ogaya
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Patent number: 7465225Abstract: A clean room unit which is equipped with a work room and a clean bench unit can be independently installed inside a building, can generate an air shower in the work room, and can realize miniaturization and cost reduction. The clean room has a work room, a clean bench unit which has a work opening and has the work opening installed to look onto the work room, an air conditioning system which can perform purification and pressure control of air inside the work room and the clean bench unit and can generate an air shower in the work room, and a control unit. The air conditioning system is controlled by the control unit to switch exclusively between the air shower mode, the ventilation mode, the positively-pressurized work mode, and the negatively-pressurized work mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2004Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Tosho, Inc.Inventors: Shiro Ohmura, Yoshihito Ohmura, Hideaki Hirobe, Takehiko Imura
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Publication number: 20080061071Abstract: A vibration-assisted ejection cassette includes: outer plates 11 which align PTP-packaged drugs 20 for storage; a top frame 12 which is provided above an open front and which prevents accommodated drugs from being falling forward; an inner plate 13 which carries the accommodated drugs and advances the drugs when vibrated; and a vibrating member 15 which vibrates the inner plate 13. Thereby, vibration is exploited to maintain the drugs 20 in alignment with each other, advance the drugs while maintaining the drugs in alignment and eject them one by one. Additionally, a retention member 18 for retaining an ejected drug is provided in front of the open front. A control circuit 17 activates or stops activating the vibrating member 15 in accordance with whether or not an ejection detecting member detects that a drug is being retained. In this way, it is ensured that drugs are either manually picked up one by one or ejected by an automatic mechanism in an equally easy and stable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2005Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: TOSHO INC.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Yoshihito Omura, Hideaki Hirobe
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Publication number: 20080065264Abstract: Locations of storage on a rack 70 for arranging and storing medical resources are partitioned by a partition member 75. A medical resource detecting member 73 and a retrieval guidance member 72 are provided in each partition on the rack. By configuring the partition member 75 to be removable from a depression 71 in the rack 70, and by providing an input for configuration in a control unit 30 to designate whether or not the partition member 75 is inserted, the control unit 30 is operable to collectively process medical resource detecting members 73 and retrieval guidance members 72. In this way, a large variety of large and small medical resources can be stored for automatic management.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2005Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: Tosho Inc.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Hideaki Hirobe, Yoshihito Omura, Takehiko Imura
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Publication number: 20070066205Abstract: A clean room unit which is equipped with a work room and a clean bench unit can be independently installed inside a building, can generate an air shower in the work room, and can realize miniaturization and cost reduction. The clean room has a work room, a clean bench unit which has a work opening and has the work opening installed to look onto the work room, an air conditioning system which can perform purification and pressure control of air inside the work room and the clean bench unit and can generate an air shower in the work room, and a control unit. The air conditioning system is controlled by the control unit to switch exclusively between the air shower mode, the ventilation mode, the positively-pressurized work mode, and the negatively-pressurized work mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Shiro Ohmura, Yoshihito Ohmura, Hideaki Hirobe, Takehiko Imura
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Patent number: 6684126Abstract: A medicine storage apparatus includes a cassette having an inlet-outlet opening for delivering/receiving items of medicine therethrough and adapted to store items of medicine arranged in array while a force is applied to the items of medicine toward the inlet-outlet opening; a support mechanism for supporting the cassette while the inlet-outlet opening is exposed; and a counting mechanism for counting the number of items of medicine stored in the cassette. A user takes out items of medicine stored in the cassette from the inlet-outlet opening in an arrayed sequence when the medicine is to be used. Among the delivered items of medicine, unused items of medicine are pushed back into the cassette from the inlet-outlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Tosho, Inc.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Hideaki Hirobe
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Publication number: 20010008984Abstract: A medicine storage apparatus includes a cassette having an inlet-outlet opening for delivering/receiving items of medicine therethrough and adapted to store items of medicine arranged in array while a force is applied to the items of medicine toward the inlet-outlet opening; a support mechanism for supporting the cassette while the inlet-outlet opening is exposed; and a counting mechanism for counting the number of items of medicine stored in the cassette. A user takes out items of medicine stored in the cassette from the inlet-outlet opening in an arrayed sequence when the medicine is to be used. Among the delivered items of medicine, unused items of medicine are pushed back into the cassette from the inlet-outlet opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: TOSHO, INC.Inventors: Shiro Omura, Hideaki Hirobe