Patents by Inventor Hirotsugu Muratsu

Hirotsugu Muratsu 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: 10966730
    Abstract: A bone resection apparatus may comprise a roughly planar blade body that has a tip saw blade and that carries out cutting of bone with which the tip saw blade makes contact as a result of high-speed oscillation; and a guide plate which has a roughly planar tip guide portion, which is located at a top side of the blade body, and which is connected in such fashion as to permit sliding in a front-and-back direction relative to the blade body, the guide plate being capable of sliding between a protruding guide state in which the tip guide portion is made to protrude toward the tip to a point beyond the tip saw blade of the blade body to cover the tip saw blade and to guide a location in a thickness direction at which cutting by the tip saw blade occurs, and a retracted guide state in which the tip guide portion is retracted to a point behind the tip saw blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Miyatani Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi Miyatani, Hirotsugu Muratsu
  • Publication number: 20200375609
    Abstract: A bone resection apparatus may comprise a roughly planar blade body that has a tip saw blade and that carries out cutting of bone with which the tip saw blade makes contact as a result of high-speed oscillation; and a guide plate which has a roughly planar tip guide portion, which is located at a top side of the blade body, and which is connected in such fashion as to permit sliding in a front-and-back direction relative to the blade body, the guide plate being capable of sliding between a protruding guide state in which the tip guide portion is made to protrude toward the tip to a point beyond the tip saw blade of the blade body to cover the tip saw blade and to guide a location in a thickness direction at which cutting by the tip saw blade occurs, and a retracted guide state in which the tip guide portion is retracted to a point behind the tip saw blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Naofumi MIYATANI, Hirotsugu MURATSU
  • Patent number: 7156853
    Abstract: An apparatus in a total knee replacement and arthroplasty operation for measuring a joint gap and ligament balance between a osteotomized surface at a femoral distal end and a osteotomized surface at a tibial proximal end. The apparatus is provided with a base 10, from which an engaging plate 14 extends by way of an arm, so that the engaging plate 14 contacts with the osteotomized surface at the tibial proximal end. A moving body 18 is vertically movably connected to the base 10, from which moving body 18 an arm 20 extends, to which arm a supporting plate 22 is rotatably mounted about a central axis. The supporting plate 22 has, at its top surface, a projected portion 48. to which an auxiliary guiding piece 50 is connected under a snap like fitted manner. A femoral component 52 is mounted, at its groove portion 54, to the osteotomized surface at the femoral distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Zimmer Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotsugu Muratsu
  • Publication number: 20040122441
    Abstract: An apparatus in a total knee replacement and arthroplasty operation for measuring a joint gap and ligament balance between a osteotomized surface at a femoral distal end and a osteotomized surface at a tibial proximal end. The apparatus is provided with a base 10, from which an engaging plate 14 extends by way of an arm, so that the engaging plate 14 contacts with the osteotomized surface at the tibial proximal end. A moving body 18 is vertically movably connected to the base 10, from which moving body 18 an arm 20 extends, to which arm a supporting plate 22 is rotatably mounted about a central axis. The supporting plate 22 has, at its top surface, a projected portion 48. to which an auxiliary guiding piece 50 is connected under a snap like fitted manner. A femoral component 52 is mounted, at its groove portion 54, to the osteotomized surface at the femoral distal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicant: ZIMMER KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotsugu Muratsu