Patents by Inventor Keiji Shigeno

Keiji Shigeno 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: 20190142569
    Abstract: Disclosed is an artificial trachea comprising: a hollow tubular base material whose cross-section in a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the tube has an approximately circular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakamura, Yuji Inada, Keiji Shigeno
  • Patent number: 9603969
    Abstract: Provided are a scaffold material that functions as a scaffold material for two weeks or more in vivo and causes substantially no foreign-body reaction, and a method for producing the scaffold material. Specifically, a porous scaffold material comprising collagen fibers is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Akira Nakada, Keiji Shigeno, Tatsuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140221615
    Abstract: Provided are a scaffold material that functions as a scaffold material for two weeks or more in vivo and causes substantially no foreign-body reaction, and a method for producing the scaffold material. Specifically, a porous scaffold material comprising collagen fibers is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Nakada, Keiji Shigeno, Tatsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8709095
    Abstract: A structure made of collagen for improving promotion of nerve tissue regeneration, curing and regeneration of a defective part of a soft biological tissue and so on without using laminin or nerve growth factor (NGF), and a member for tissue regeneration including the same. The structure made of collagen has a thin film multilocular formation and is therefore a structure different from a colloid form, a gel form, and a fiber form. When the new structure made of collagen is used as a member for tissue regeneration, surprisingly, promotion of regeneration, shortening of a treatment period, functional recovery, or the like of bodily tissue such as nerve tissue, subdermal tissue, submucosal tissue, membranous tissue, fat tissue, muscle tissue, skin tissue, and gingival tissue can be improved. When the structure is used in a patient having neuropathic pain, the member has an effect on the disappearance of the pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakamura, Yuji Inada, Keiji Shigeno
  • Patent number: 8388692
    Abstract: A new structure made of collagen for improving promotion of nerve tissue regeneration, curing and regeneration of a defective part of a soft biological tissue and so on without using laminin or nerve growth factor (NGF), and a member for tissue regeneration including the same. The structure made of collagen has a thin film multilocular formation and is therefore a new structure different from a colloid form, a gel form, and a fiber form. When the new structure made of collagen is used as a member for tissue regeneration, surprisingly, promotion of regeneration, shortening of a treatment period, functional recovery, or the like of bodily tissue such as nerve tissue, subdermal tissue, submucosal tissue, membranous tissue, fat tissue, muscle tissue, skin tissue, and gingival tissue can be improved. When the structure is used in a patient having neuropathic pain, the member has an effect on the disappearance of the pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakamura, Yuji Inada, Keiji Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20090280161
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new structure made of collagen for improving promotion of nerve tissue regeneration, curing and regeneration of a defective part of a soft biological tissue and so on without using laminin or nerve growth factor (NGF), and a member for tissue regeneration including the same. The structure made of collagen according to the present invention has a thin film multilocular formation and therefore a new structure different from a colloid form, a gel form, and a fiber form. Therefore, when the new structure made of collagen according to the present invention is used as a member for tissue regeneration, surprisingly, promotion of regeneration, shortening of a treatment period, functional recovery, or the like of bodily tissue such as nerve tissue, subdermal tissue, submucosal tissue, membranous tissue, fat tissue, muscle tissue, skin tissue, and gingival tissue can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakamura, Yuji Inada, Keiji Shigeno