Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Sugimoto

Hirofumi Sugimoto 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: 20060144802
    Abstract: Herein discloses is a testing device, comprising therein an inlet port introducing a blood specimen thereinto, a blood separating chamber held in fluid communication with the inlet port through a fluid passageway to receive a blood specimen, and a hemolyzed blood chamber having accommodated therein a hemolyzed blood fluid. The testing device is operative to be rotated around a rotation center and stop from being rotated to have the blood specimen accommodated in the blood separating chamber into blood cells and a blood plasma fluid, and the blood separating chamber is held in fluid communication with the passageway merging area through a fluid passageway to have the blood plasma fluid separated from the blood specimen flowed through the fluid passageway, in such a manner that the hemolyzed blood fluid is mixed and diluted with the blood plasma fluid in the passageway merging area at a predetermined dilution ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihisa Kitawaki, Toshihiko Yoshioka, Hirotaka Tanaka, Hirofumi Sugimoto, Masanori Tanaka