Patents by Inventor Kazunari Shima

Kazunari Shima 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: 11933752
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes: a gas-sensitive body layer disposed above a substrate and including a metal oxide layer; a first electrode on the gas-sensitive body layer; and a second electrode on the gas-sensitive body layer, being apart from the first electrode by a gap. The gas-sensitive body layer has a resistance change characteristic that reversibly transitions to a high-resistance state and a low-resistance state on basis of a voltage applied across the first electrode and the second electrode. At least a part of the gas-sensitive body layer is exposed to the gap. The gas-sensitive body layer has a resistance that decreases when gas containing a hydrogen atom is in contact with the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Satoru Fujii, Zhiqiang Wei, Kazunari Homma, Shinichi Yoneda, Yasuhisa Naito, Hisashi Shima, Hiroyuki Akinaga
  • Patent number: 11058386
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnosis system includes a plurality of devices, operating circuitry, processing circuitry, and a display. The plurality of devices is to be inserted into a body of an object. The operating circuitry operates at least one of the devices. The processing circuitry obtains a medical image of the object and specifies a device being operated based on movement of the device in the medical image when the device is being operated by the operating circuitry. The display identifiably displays a device to be operated by the operating circuitry based on a result of specification by the processing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Shima, Hajime Yoshida, Kazuhiro Taniyama, Satoru Ohishi, Takeo Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 10973473
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray movable diaphragm and processing circuitry. The X-ray movable diaphragm limits an irradiation field of an X-ray. The processing circuitry sets an FOV size related to the irradiation field, sets a virtual field of view having the FOV size, the virtual field of view being able to include an outside region of an X-ray detection region and at least a part of the X-ray detection region, and controls the X-ray movable diaphragm so as to apply the X-ray to a common region between the virtual field of view and the X-ray detection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Kazunari Shima, Hayato Kasaoka, Takahiro Tanaka, Hisanori Kato, Nobuo Kobayashi, Norimitsu Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20180368788
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray movable diaphragm and processing circuitry. The X-ray movable diaphragm limits an irradiation field of an X-ray. The processing circuitry sets an FOV size related to the irradiation field, sets a virtual field of view having the FOV size, the virtual field of view being able to include an outside region of an X-ray detection region and at least a part of the X-ray detection region, and controls the X-ray movable diaphragm so as to apply the X-ray to a common region between the virtual field of view and the X-ray detection region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Kazunari Shima, Hayato Kasaoka, Takahiro Tanaka, Hisanori Kato, Nobuo Kobayashi, Norimitsu Kosugi
  • Patent number: 9693741
    Abstract: A mammographic apparatus that includes X-ray detectors configured to detect X-rays entering the X-ray detectors, and attached to a holding-arm placed on a floor. The mammographic apparatus further includes circuitry configured to move the X-ray detectors between a scanning position and a waiting position. The X-ray detectors in the scanning position face an X-ray tube that generates X-rays across a breast-table, and the X-ray detectors in the waiting position are closer to the holding-arm than are the X-ray detectors in the scanning position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Haruki Iwai, Rie Ochiai, Koichiro Watanabe, Kazunari Shima
  • Publication number: 20170135662
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnosis system includes a plurality of devices, operating circuitry, processing circuitry, and a display. The plurality of devices is to be inserted into a body of an object. The operating circuitry operates at least one of the devices. The processing circuitry obtains a medical image of the object and specifies a device being operated based on movement of the device in the medical image when the device is being operated by the operating circuitry. The display identifiably displays a device to be operated by the operating circuitry based on a result of specification by the processing circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Shima, Hajime Yoshida, Kazuhiro Taniyama, Satoru Ohishi, Takeo Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20160073998
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an radiography system radiographs the subject, a support frame movably supports the radiography system, a communication circuitry obtains skin dose information of the subject, a processing circuitry decides the irradiation range at the movement destination of the radiography system based on the skin doses of the subject, a control circuitry controls the support frame to move the radiography system to an radiography position corresponding to the decided irradiation range at the movement destination. The irradiation range at the movement destination comes close to the irradiation range on the subject immediately before the movement, and a skin dose corresponding to the irradiation range at the movement destination is less than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari SHIMA, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Yusuke NARABU
  • Publication number: 20150157282
    Abstract: A mammographic apparatus that includes X-ray detectors configured to detect X-rays entering the X-ray detectors, and attached to a holding-arm placed on a floor. The mammographic apparatus further includes circuitry configured to move the X-ray detectors between a scanning position and a waiting position. The X-ray detectors in the scanning position face an X-ray tube that generates X-rays across a breast-table, and the X-ray detectors in the waiting position are closer to the holding-arm than are the X-ray detectors in the scanning position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Haruki IWAI, Rie OCHIAI, Koichiro WATANABE, Kazunari SHIMA
  • Publication number: 20020059110
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a receiving circuit receiving order-acceptance information from a user, a user management database storing the order-acceptance information and expectation information of production and distribution, a production management database storing production state information and production instruction information, a distribution management database storing distribution state information and distribution instruction information, a standard process step database storing production standard process step information and distribution standard process step information, and a schedule control unit controlling the expectation information, the distribution instruction information and the production instruction information based on the order-acceptance information, the distribution state information, the production state information, the production standard process step information and the distribution standard process step information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Suzuki, Norimasa Sounai, Kazunari Shima, Kiyohiko Takada, Masayuki Ehiro, Teruaki Morita