Patents by Inventor Kaoru HANAIE

Kaoru HANAIE 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: 20200268307
    Abstract: A swallowing movement measuring device measures an examinee's swallowing movement. The device measures a movement of the examinee's larynx when the examinee swallows a food bolus. This device has a capacitive sensor to be brought into contact with a body skin of the examinee's laryngeal part, and a measuring unit that measures a change of the capacitive sensor in capacitance. This capacitive sensor includes a sensor body comprising sheet-like dielectric layer, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first and the second electrode layers are formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the dielectric layer respectively, and are at least partially opposed to each other across the dielectric layer. The partially opposed portions of the electrode layers constitute a detection portion. The sensor body is reversibly deformable to change areas of the top and bottom surfaces of the dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi OHTA, Hideo OTAKA, Yusuke BESSHO, Akira ISHIKAWA, Akio YAMAMOTO, Kaoru HANAIE, Takumi YAMAGUCHI, Ken UMEHARA