Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Imori

Hirokazu Imori 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: 20220096740
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a cannula inserter, comprising a cannula, a needle, a first movable body, a second movable body, and a biasing means comprising a first coil spring and a second coil spring in a casing, the needle being able to be moved in the cannula, wherein the first coil spring and the second coil spring each of which is in a compression state before a use are arranged side by side in parallel, the first coil spring is capable of extending in an advance direction of the needle to bias the first movable body, and the second coil spring is capable of extending in a retraction direction of the needle to bias the second movable body, wherein a non-piercing end of the needle is secured to the second movable body, and a non-piercing end of the cannula is configured to be pressed by at least one of the first movable body and the second movable body, wherein the compression state of the first coil spring is released such that the first movable body is biased b
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuharu SEKI, Shogo SHIRAIWA, Hirokazu IMORI
  • Patent number: 10687748
    Abstract: There is provided an injector having an improvement in a linear launching profile. The injector of the present invention is used for launching a lancet to provide a pricking. The injector of the present invention comprises a plunger capable of launching the lancet in a pricking direction, an injector housing which surrounds the plunger, and an injector cap capable of being attached and detached with respect to the injector housing. In particular, an inner face of the injector cap is provided with a rib, and the rib and the plunger moving for the pricking are capable of contacting with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hirokazu Imori
  • Publication number: 20180360360
    Abstract: There is provided an injector having an improvement in a linear launching profile. The injector of the present invention is used for launching a lancet to provide a pricking. The injector of the present invention comprises a plunger capable of launching the lancet in a pricking direction, an injector housing which surrounds the plunger, and an injector cap capable of being attached and detached with respect to the injector housing. In particular, an inner face of the injector cap is provided with a rib, and the rib and the plunger moving for the pricking are capable of contacting with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventor: Hirokazu IMORI
  • Patent number: 9693712
    Abstract: A lancet pricking device comprises a lancet, a launching spring, a trigger part and a holder housing the lancet, launching spring and trigger part. The lancet comprises a lancet body, lancet cap and pricking needle. The pricking needle is in both the lancet body and lancet cap. The trigger part has a pair of arms positioned inside the holder. The launching spring is attached to the lancet body. The lancet body is secured to the arms of the trigger part by an abutment of the lancet body on the arms such that the launching spring is compressed before a pricking operation. The trigger part cannot be pushed toward the inside of the holder before the lancet cap is removed, but can be pushed toward the inside of the holder after the cap is removed. The lancet body warps when pressed to release the secured lancet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED, IZUMI-COSMO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hyoue, Hideaki Saeki, Hirokazu Imori
  • Patent number: 9676127
    Abstract: There is provided a process of producing a lancet which suppresses curving (or flexing) of the front end portion of the pricking member. In the production of a lancet by injection molding of a resin with a pricking member inserted in a mold, upon forming at least a portion of a lancet cap in which portion a molten resin supplied to the mold surrounds a front end portion of the pricking member, a mold is used which is configured such that at least a portion of the molten resin which forms said portion of the lancet cap flows along the front end portion including a leading end of the pricking member toward its leading end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hirokazu Imori
  • Publication number: 20170027490
    Abstract: There is provided a lancet wherein a lancet cap is composed at least of a grip member and a pricking-component protective member, and the pricking-component protective member has a two-part structure of a flexible part and a rigid part, the flexible part having a relative flexibility with respect to the rigid part, the rigid part having a relative rigidity with respect to the flexible part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hideaki SAEKI, Hirokazu IMORI
  • Patent number: 9282919
    Abstract: A lancet pricking device comprises a lancet, a launching spring, a trigger part and a holder housing the lancet, launching spring and trigger part. The lancet comprises a lancet body, lancet cap and pricking needle. The pricking needle is in both the lancet body and lancet cap. The trigger part has a pair of arms positioned inside the holder. The launching spring is attached to the lancet body. The lancet body is secured to the arms of the trigger part by an abutment of the lancet body on the arms such that the launching spring is compressed before a pricking operation. The trigger part cannot be pushed further into the holder before the lancet cap is removed, but can be pushed further into the holder after the cap is removed. The pair of arms warp when pressed to release the secured lancet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED, IZUMI-COSMO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hyoue, Hideaki Saeki, Hirokazu Imori
  • Patent number: 9138185
    Abstract: A lancet assembly includes a lancet, a lancet engaging part, and a lancet case housing the lancet and the lancet engaging part. In the lancet assembly of the present invention, the lancet engaging part and the lancet cap are disposed such that they are capable of making contact with each other. When the lancet engaging part is forced to move forward with respect to the lancet in a pricking direction, the lancet cap is pressed by the lancet engaging part, and thereby the bridging component is broken so that the lancet cap is separated from the lancet body. When the lancet engaging part is forced to further move forward, the separated lancet cap moves to the position off a pricking pathway of the pricking component within the lancet case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignees: IZUMI-COSMO COMPANY, LIMITED, ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideaki Saeki, Hirokazu Imori, Kazuharu Seki
  • Patent number: 9044177
    Abstract: A lancet pricking device comprises a lancet, a launching spring, a trigger part and a holder housing the lancet, launching spring and trigger part. The lancet comprises a lancet body, lancet cap and pricking needle. The pricking needle is in both the lancet body and lancet cap. The trigger part has a pair of arms positioned inside the holder. The launching spring is attached to the lancet body. The lancet body is secured to the arms of the trigger part by an abutment of the lancet body on the arms such that the launching spring is compressed before a pricking operation. The trigger part cannot be pushed toward the inside of the holder before the lancet cap is removed, but can be pushed toward the inside of the holder after the cap is removed. The lancet body warps when pressed to release the secured lancet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignees: ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED, IZUMI-COSMO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hyoue, Hideaki Saeki, Hirokazu Imori
  • Publication number: 20150133818
    Abstract: There is provided an injector capable of launching a lancet to provide a pricking. The injector comprises a plunger part capable of launching the lancet in a pricking direction, and an injector casing, the plunger part being located in an interior space of the casing. The plunger part comprises a lancet-attachment portion in its tip, and the lancet-attachment portion has a dual cylindrical structure composed of an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder such that respective bodies of the outer and inner cylinders are spaced away from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Hideaki Saeki, Hirokazu Imori
  • Publication number: 20150112375
    Abstract: A lancet pricking device comprises a lancet, a launching spring, a trigger part and a holder housing the lancet, launching spring and trigger part. The lancet comprises a lancet body, lancet cap and pricking needle. The pricking needle is in both the lancet body and lancet cap. The trigger part has a pair of arms positioned inside the holder. The launching spring is attached to the lancet body. The lancet body is secured to the arms of the trigger part by an abutment of the lancet body on the arms such that the launching spring is compressed before a pricking operation. The trigger part cannot be pushed toward the inside of the holder before the lancet cap is removed, but can be pushed toward the inside of the holder after the cap is removed. The lancet body warps when pressed to release the secured lancet body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HYOUE, Hideaki SAEKI, Hirokazu IMORI
  • Publication number: 20150012029
    Abstract: A lancet pricking device comprises a lancet, a launching spring, a trigger part and a holder housing the lancet, launching spring and trigger part. The lancet comprises a lancet body, lancet cap and pricking needle. The pricking needle is in both the lancet body and lancet cap. The trigger part has a pair of arms positioned inside the holder. The launching spring is attached to the lancet body. The lancet body is secured to the arms of the trigger part by an abutment of the lancet body on the arms such that the launching spring is compressed before a pricking operation. The trigger part cannot be pushed toward the inside of the holder before the lancet cap is removed, but can be pushed toward the inside of the holder after the cap is removed. The lancet body warps when pressed to release the secured lancet body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HYOUE, Hideaki SAEKI, Hirokazu IMORI
  • Publication number: 20130012976
    Abstract: There is provided a process of producing a lancet which suppresses curving (or flexing) of the front end portion of the pricking member. In the production of a lancet by injection molding of a resin with a pricking member inserted in a mold, upon forming at least a portion of a lancet cap in which portion a molten resin supplied to the mold surrounds a front end portion of the pricking member, a mold is used which is configured such that at least a portion of the molten resin which forms said portion of the lancet cap flows along the front end portion including a leading end of the pricking member toward its leading end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: Hirokazu Imori
  • Publication number: 20120215246
    Abstract: There is provided a lancet pricking device, comprising a lancet, a launching spring, a trigger part and a holder for housing therein the lancet, the launching spring and the trigger part. In the lancet pricking device, the lancet comprises a lancet body, a lancet cap and a pricking needle, and the pricking needle is disposed in both the lancet body and the lancet cap, and the trigger part has a pair of arms positioned inside the holder, and the launching spring is attached to the lancet body, and the lancet body is secured to the arms of the trigger part by an abutment of the lancet body on the arms such that the launching spring is kept compressed before a pricking operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hyoue, Hideaki Saeki, Hirokazu Imori
  • Publication number: 20120095488
    Abstract: There is provided a lancet pricking device which is prevented from being re-used, and also the pricking pathway of the needle thereof is improved. The lancet pricking device comprising a lancet equipped with a pricking needle and a trigger for launching the pricking needle. The trigger comprises a first trigger part and a second trigger part disposed such as to cover the first trigger part. The lancet is in engagement with the first trigger part before the pricking needle is launched. When the second trigger part is pushed from the outside for the launching of the pricking needle, the displacement of the first trigger part is caused by the second trigger part, and thereby ceasing the engagement between the lancet and the first trigger part to launch the pricking needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Hideaki SAEKI, Hirokazu Imori, Teruyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 7588876
    Abstract: A resist material includes a base polymer containing a compound having a unit represented by a general formula of the following Chemical Formula 1: wherein R1, R2 and R3 are the same or different and are a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a straight-chain alkyl group, a branched or cyclic alkyl group or a fluoridated alkyl group with a carbon number not less than 1 and not more than 20; R4 is a straight-chain alkylene group or a branched or cyclic alkylene group with a carbon number not less than 0 and not more than 20; R5 is a hydrogen atom, a straight-chain alkyl group, a branched or cyclic alkyl group or a fluoridated alkyl group with a carbon number not less than 1 and not more than 20, or a protecting group released by an acid; and R6 is a group having a cyclic ester compound, a group having an alicyclic compound including a hydroxyl group or a group having a compound including hexafluoroisopropyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Kishimura, Masayuki Endo, Masaru Sasago, Mitsuru Ueda, Hirokazu Imori, Toshiaki Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 7413843
    Abstract: A base polymer of a resist material includes a unit represented by a general formula of the following Chemical Formula 3: wherein R1, R2 and R3 are the same or different and are a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a straight-chain alkyl group, a branched or cyclic alkyl group or a fluoridated alkyl group with a carbon number not less than 1 and not more than 20; R4 is a straight-chain alkylene group or a branched or cyclic alkylene group with a carbon number not less than 0 and not more than 20; and R5 and R6 are the same or different and are a hydrogen atom, a straight-chain alkyl group, a branched or cyclic alkyl group, a fluoridated alkyl group with a carbon number not less than 1 and not more than 20, or a protecting group released by an acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kishimura, Masayuki Endo, Masaru Sasago, Mitsuru Ueda, Hirokazu Imori, Toshiaki Fukuhara
  • Patent number: D746458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Polyslider Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Imori, Hiroshi Hanafusa
  • Patent number: D879950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirokazu Imori, Ko Isozaki, Kei Suzuki
  • Patent number: D923789
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI POLYSLIDER COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hirokazu Imori