Patents by Inventor Keiichi KUDO

Keiichi KUDO 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: 11219571
    Abstract: A dental instrument hanger has the body of a reader/writer, or an antenna connected to the body, arranged in a hanger unit so as to read identification information from a wireless tag, in a state that an instrument having the wireless tag preliminarily attached thereto is placed in the hanger unit. The hanger includes: an identification information storage that stores the read identification information in a database; a reading history detector that, in response to a driving instruction having been inputted, detects the latest reading history and a reading history read before the instrument displaced from the hanger unit has been displaced with reference to said storage; an identification information specifier that determines a difference between the two reading histories to specify a wireless tag attached to the instrument which has been instructed to drive; and a usage information generator that generates usage information of the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi Sato, Yoshiki Gotani, Keiichi Kudo
  • Patent number: 11179217
    Abstract: A medical treatment instrument temperature information management device includes: a wireless tag that is disposed at an instrument; and a reader-writer as a reading unit that reads data from the wireless tag. The wireless tag includes: a temperature sensor; and an IC chip including a storage part. The wireless tag makes the storage part store therein temperature information on temperature of the instrument based on a value detected by the temperature sensor. This makes it possible to manage the temperature information on temperature of the instrument such as a medical treatment instrument with reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: THE YOSHIDA DENTAL MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yaginuma, Yoshiki Gotani, Takafumi Sato, Keiichi Kudo
  • Patent number: 10905523
    Abstract: A lubrication information management device includes: a lubrication detector provided to a lubrication unit; an instrument wireless tag provided to an instrument; and a read-write unit which is either an antenna or a reader-writer. Moreover, the read-write unit communicates lubrication information to the instrument wireless tag when the lubrication detector detects any of lubrication of the instrument and an operation for lubrication. This makes it possible to reliably manage the lubrication of a dental instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: THE YOSHIDA DENTAL MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Gotani, Takafumi Sato, Keiichi Kudo
  • Publication number: 20190290383
    Abstract: A medical treatment instrument temperature information management device includes: a wireless tag that is disposed at an instrument; and a reader-writer as a reading unit that reads data from the wireless tag. The wireless tag includes: a temperature sensor; and an IC chip including a storage part. The wireless tag makes the storage part store therein temperature information on temperature of the instrument based on a value detected by the temperature sensor. This makes it possible to manage the temperature information on temperature of the instrument such as a medical treatment instrument with reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAGINUMA, Yoshiki GOTANI, Takafumi SATO, Keiichi KUDO
  • Publication number: 20190175302
    Abstract: A lubrication information management device includes: a lubrication detector provided to a lubrication unit; an instrument wireless tag provided to an instrument; and a read-write unit which is either an antenna or a reader-writer. Moreover, the read-write unit communicates lubrication information to the instrument wireless tag when the lubrication detector detects any of lubrication of the instrument and an operation for lubrication. This makes it possible to reliably manage the lubrication of a dental instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiki GOTANI, Takafumi SATO, Keiichi KUDO
  • Publication number: 20190070055
    Abstract: A dental instrument hanger has the body of a reader/writer, or an antenna connected to the body, arranged in a hanger unit so as to read identification information from a wireless tag, in a state that an instrument having the wireless tag preliminarily attached thereto is placed in the hanger unit. The hanger includes: an identification information storage that stores the read identification information in a database; a reading history detector that, in response to a driving instruction having been inputted, detects the latest reading history and a reading history read before the instrument displaced from the hanger unit has been displaced with reference to said storage; an identification information specifier that determines a difference between the two reading histories to specify a wireless tag attached to the instrument which has been instructed to drive; and a usage information generator that generates usage information of the instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi SATO, Yoshiki GOTANI, Keiichi KUDO