Patents by Inventor Keio OKANO

Keio OKANO 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: 11905598
    Abstract: An object is to coat a target position on a substrate with a dense film. In order to achieve the object, while a substrate on which a base containing a coating material is formed is transported, an auxiliary agent is applied to the substrate, and then a main agent containing a coating material is applied to the substrate to react the main agent with the auxiliary agent, so that a portion on the substrate where the base is formed is coated with the coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eijiro Iwase, Keio Okano, Katsuyuki Nukui
  • Publication number: 20230002907
    Abstract: An object is to coat a target position on a substrate with a dense film. In order to achieve the object, while a substrate on which a base containing a coating material is formed is transported, an auxiliary agent is applied to the substrate, and then a main agent containing a coating material is applied to the substrate to react the main agent with the auxiliary agent, so that a portion on the substrate where the base is formed is coated with the coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eijiro IWASE, Keio OKANO, Katsuyuki NUKUI
  • Patent number: 11452854
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a microneedle array in which an active ingredient is concentrated at a tip while an active ingredient content is guaranteed. In order to achieve the object, a method of manufacturing a microneedle array in which needle-like recessed portions of a mold are filled with a liquid to form one dose of a patch includes determining a filling amount of the liquid from a difference in mass of the mold before and after filling of the liquid, determining a filling state of the liquid in the mold filled with the liquid, sucking the mold in which the filling amount and the filling state of the liquid are determined to be normal from a rear face, and evaporating and drying a solvent of the liquid of the sucked mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sakazaki, Ikuo Takano, Satoshi Wakamatsu, Keio Okano, Kenichiro Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11135413
    Abstract: A method of producing a transdermal absorption sheet includes: filling needle-like recessed portions of a mold with a drug solution that is a polymer solution containing a drug; drying the drug solution filling the needle-like recessed portions to form a drug layer containing the drug; supplying a polymer layer forming solution to the mold, the mold provided with a step portion that has a height different from a height of a region in which the needle-like recessed portion is formed in a periphery of the region in which the needle-like recessed portion is formed in a range of equal to or greater than the step portion as seen from above, and then fixing a contact position of the polymer layer forming solution and the mold to the step portion while reducing the polymer layer forming solution; and drying the polymer layer forming solution to form a polymer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio Okano, Satoshi Wakamatsu, Yoshinobu Katagiri
  • Patent number: 10870223
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a needle-like array sheet includes supplying a first needle-like array-forming solution consisting of an aqueous solution on a first mold having a first recess; interrupting drying in a wet state and forming a needle-like distal end part; supplying a second needle-like array-forming solution consisting of an aqueous solution on a second mold having a second recess; peeling a sheet part molding product, which is dried and solidified and has a protrusion corresponding to the second recess, after the sheet part molding product is formed; inserting the protrusion of the sheet part molding product into the first recess of the first mold; drying and solidifying the needle-like distal end part and the sheet part molding product after inserting the protrusion, bonding the needle-like distal end part and the protrusion of the sheet part molding product together, and forming a needle-like array sheet having the needle-like array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro Ogawa, Keio Okano
  • Patent number: 10639822
    Abstract: A method of producing a transdermal absorption sheet including: preparing a mold having needle-like recessed portions including tapered inlet portions; preparing a liquid feeder including an opening portion and a lip land portion; filling the needle-like recessed portions with a solution by feeding the solution to the mold and moving the liquid feeder in a traveling direction while bringing an upstream end of the lip land portion on an upstream side of the liquid feeder in the traveling direction into contact with the mold; and forming needle portions and a sheet portion using a polymer solution. In the filling of the solution, when the upstream end of the lip land portion on the upstream side aligns with an upstream side inlet surface of one of the needle-like recessed portions, the shortest distance from a downstream side inlet surface of the needle-like recessed portion to a surface of the lip land portion on the upstream side is 220 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio Okano, Yoshinobu Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20200094034
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a transdermal absorption sheet capable of suppressing the entrainment of bubbles in a liquid material. A method for producing a transdermal absorption sheet includes a step of preparing a mold having a plurality of needle-like recessed portions, and a step portion which surrounds the plurality of needle-like recessed portions and is higher than a needle-like recessed portion formed surface, and a step of supplying a liquid material for a transdermal absorption sheet from a jetting opening of a filling head to a region surrounded the step portion of the mold, in which the filling head includes a head main body having an inner wall surface defining a supply pipe, and the inner wall surface includes a tapered pipe surface defining a tapered pipe having a diameter gradually increased toward the jetting opening of the head main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio OKANO, Satoshi WAKAMATSU
  • Patent number: 10512765
    Abstract: The method includes the steps of: preparing a mold and a liquid filling device; and filling needle-like recessed portions with a liquid medicine by repeating the following: a filling operation in which the liquid medicine is supplied to the mold from the liquid filling device and the needle-like recessed portions are filled with the liquid medicine while a nozzle tip is brought into pressed contact with a surface of the mold; and a moving operation in which a nozzle is relatively moved with respect to the mold while the nozzle tip and the surface of the mold are in contact with each other, wherein the nozzle is held in a Z-axis drive unit configured to vertically move the nozzle while an elastic body is provided in the Z-axis drive unit, while the nozzle tip is brought into pressed contact with the surface of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio Okano, Yoshinobu Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20190351204
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a microneedle array in which an active ingredient is concentrated at a tip while an active ingredient content is guaranteed. In order to achieve the object, a method of manufacturing a microneedle array in which needle-like recessed portions of a mold are filled with a liquid to form one dose of a patch includes determining a filling amount of the liquid from a difference in mass of the mold before and after filling of the liquid, determining a filling state of the liquid in the mold filled with the liquid, sucking the mold in which the filling amount and the filling state of the liquid are determined to be normal from a rear face, and evaporating and drying a solvent of the liquid of the sucked mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki SAKAZAKI, Ikuo TAKANO, Satoshi WAKAMATSU, Keio OKANO, Kenichiro TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20180243952
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a sheet having needle-like protrusions capable of individually manufacturing sheets on a mold. The manufacturing method of a sheet having needle-like protrusions includes, for a mold provided with needle-like recesses and an annular groove provided around a region where the needle-like recesses are formed, a first polymer solution supplying step of supplying a first polymer solution, which is to become a first layer, to the needle-like recesses; a second polymer solution supplying step of filling the needle-like recesses and the groove with a second polymer solution by supplying the second polymer solution, which is to become a second layer, to a surface of the mold; a drying step of forming a laminate of the first layer and the second layer by drying the first polymer solution and the second polymer solution; and a peeling step of peeling the laminate away from the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio OKANO, Yoshinobu KATAGIRI, Satoshi WAKAMATSU, Ikuo TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180065280
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a needle-like array sheet includes supplying a first needle-like array-forming solution consisting of an aqueous solution on a first mold having a first recess; interrupting drying in a wet state and forming a needle-like distal end part; supplying a second needle-like array-forming solution consisting of an aqueous solution on a second mold having a second recess; peeling a sheet part molding product, which is dried and solidified and has a protrusion corresponding to the second recess, after the sheet part molding product is formed; inserting the protrusion of the sheet part molding product into the first recess of the first mold; drying and solidifying the needle-like distal end part and the sheet part molding product after inserting the protrusion, bonding the needle-like distal end part and the protrusion of the sheet part molding product together, and forming a needle-like array sheet having the needle-like array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro OGAWA, Keio OKANO
  • Publication number: 20180029258
    Abstract: The method of producing a transdermal absorption sheet includes: preparing a mold having needle-like recessed portions and an angle of an inlet portion of 120° to 160°, and a liquid feeder including an opening portion and a lip land portion; filling the needle-like recessed portions with a solution by feeding the solution to the mold and moving the liquid feeder while bringing a rear end of a lip land portion on the secondary side of the liquid feeder into contact with the mold; and forming needle portions and a sheet portion using a polymer solution. In the filling of the solution, when the rear end of the lip land portion on the secondary side matches with a secondary side inlet of the needle-like recessed portion, the shortest distance from a primary side inlet of the needle-like recessed portion to a secondary side block is 220 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio OKANO, Yoshinobu KATAGIRI
  • Publication number: 20170361082
    Abstract: A method of producing a transdermal absorption sheet includes: filling needle-like recessed portions of a mold with a drug solution that is a polymer solution containing a drug; drying the drug solution filling the needle-like recessed portions to form a drug layer containing the drug; supplying a polymer layer forming solution to the mold, the mold provided with a step portion that has a height different from a height of a region in which the needle-like recessed portion is formed in a periphery of the region in which the needle-like recessed portion is formed in a range of equal to or greater than the step portion as seen from above, and then fixing a contact position of the polymer layer forming solution and the mold to the step portion while reducing the polymer layer forming solution; and drying the polymer layer forming solution to form a polymer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio OKANO, Satoshi WAKAMATSU, Yoshinobu KATAGIRI
  • Publication number: 20170282417
    Abstract: The manufacturing method of the sheet having the needle-like protruding portions includes: preparing a mold including needle-like recessed portions, and a solution supply device including a slit-like opening formed at a nozzle distal end portion; supplying a solution from the solution supply device to the mold in a state that the nozzle distal end portion is pressed to a front surface of the mold, and filling the solution in the needle-like recessed portions; and moving the solution supply device relatively to the mold in a state that the nozzle distal end portion is brought into contact with the front surface of the mold, and, as a hardness distribution in a thickness direction of the mold, an average value of a Young's modulus at a part within 40 ?m from the front surface of the mold is 1.9 MPa or higher and 100 MPa or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio OKANO, Yoshinobu KATAGIRI
  • Publication number: 20170120026
    Abstract: The method includes the steps of: preparing a mold and a liquid filling device; and filling needle-like recessed portions with a liquid medicine by repeating the following: a filling operation in which the liquid medicine is supplied to the mold from the liquid filling device and the needle-like recessed portions are filled with the liquid medicine while a nozzle tip is brought into pressed contact with a surface of the mold; and a moving operation in which a nozzle is relatively moved with respect to the mold while the nozzle tip and the surface of the mold are in contact with each other, wherein the nozzle is held in a Z-axis drive unit configured to vertically move the nozzle while an elastic body is provided in the Z-axis drive unit, while the nozzle tip is brought into pressed contact with the surface of the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keio OKANO, Yoshinobu KATAGIRI
  • Publication number: 20140326151
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithographic printing plate support, comprising an aluminum plate and an anodized film of aluminum formed on the aluminum plate and having micropores extending in the anodized film from a surface of the anodized film opposite from the aluminum plate in a depth direction, wherein each of the micropores has a large-diameter portion having a specific shape and a small-diameter portion having a specific shape and communicating with a bottom of the large-diameter portion; at least a part of an inside of the small-diameter portion is sealed with protrusions made of boehmite; and a ratio of an average height of protrusions made of boehmite inside the large-diameter portion to an average diameter of the large-diameter portion at the surface of the anodized film is up to a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke NAMBA, Keio OKANO, Shinya KUROKAWA, Hirokazu SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20140023793
    Abstract: A conductive film producing method according to the present invention contains a conductive metal portion forming step of forming a conductive metal portion containing a conductive substance and a binder on a support, and a vapor contact step of bringing the conductive metal portion into contact with a superheated vapor. This method may further contain a smoothing treatment step of smoothing the conductive metal portion, such that the smoothed conductive metal portion is brought into contact with the superheated vapor in the vapor contact step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toyomi MATSUDA, Keio OKANO
  • Patent number: 8632949
    Abstract: A presensitized plate bringing about the lithographic printing plate which exhibits a high resistance to scumming and in which formation of bulges causing image dropouts is suppressed is provided with the lithographic printing plate support which includes an aluminum plate and an anodized film of aluminum provided on the aluminum plate, and has a micropore extending in the anodized film in the direction of depth from a film surface opposite with a film surface facing the aluminum plate. The micropore is sealed at least partially on its inside with protrusions made of boehmite, and the protrusions made of boehmite which are located on the anodized film have a mean height of less than 15 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Namba, Keio Okano, Shinya Kurokawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120021356
    Abstract: A presensitized plate bringing about the lithographic printing plate which exhibits a high resistance to scumming and in which formation of bulges causing image dropouts is suppressed is provided with the lithographic printing plate support which includes an aluminum plate and an anodized film of aluminum provided on the aluminum plate, and has a micropore extending in the anodized film in the direction of depth from a film surface opposite with a film surface facing the aluminum plate. The micropore is sealed at least partially on its inside with protrusions made of boehmite, and the protrusions made of boehmite which are located on the anodized film have a mean height of less than 15 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAMBA, Keio OKANO, Shinya KUROKAWA, Hirokazu SAWADA, Akio UESUGI
  • Publication number: 20110076417
    Abstract: A conductive film producing method according to the present invention contains a conductive metal portion forming step of forming a conductive metal portion containing a conductive substance and a binder on a support, and a vapor contact step of bringing the conductive metal portion into contact with a superheated vapor. This method may further contain a smoothing treatment step of smoothing the conductive metal portion, such that the smoothed conductive metal portion is brought into contact with the superheated vapor in the vapor contact step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyomi MATSUDA, Keio OKANO