Patents by Inventor Jiro Namikawa

Jiro Namikawa 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: 4852132
    Abstract: The present invention which relates to a method of collecting data which enables exact opposing view data to be obtained as the real data with respect to data on any channel in an X-ray tomograph which uses fan beam X-rays is characterized in that the timing for collecting the output data of each detection channel is so selected that the relationship in which a pair of items of data based on a pair of X-ray beams which pass a substantially common route formed in a target in the opposite directions to each other are detected by a pair of channels which are situated at substantially symmetrical positions with respect to the center of an X-ray detector may be established with respect to all channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Yokogawa Medical Systems
    Inventor: Jiro Namikawa
  • Patent number: 4491734
    Abstract: An X-ray detector, used in an X-ray computerized tomograph systems, and method of making the same. The X-ray detector has a casing filled with gas for detecting X-rays, and flat signal electrode plates and bias electrode plates are disposed alternately at regular intervals within the casing to form a number of spatially partitioned detection chambers. When X-rays enter the detection chambers after being transmitted through an object under examination, the X-ray energy is converted into electric current flowing across the electrodes of the signal electrode plates, whereby the transmitted X-ray can be detected by an output circuit.Improvements are provided to enable the signal electrode plates and the bias electrode plates to be more densely packed into the casing, thereby to obtain higher resolution X-ray computerized tomograms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Yokogawa Hokushin Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiki Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Tomarikawa, Haruo Kurochi, Jiro Namikawa, Shigeru Matsumura, Ryo Takahashi, Shiro Mori