Patents by Inventor Ken KUDOU

Ken KUDOU 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).

  • Cooling device for sub-MRI units and MRI apparatus
    Patent number: 9810754
    Abstract: A cooling device for sub-MRI units of an embodiment includes a tank in which cooling water for cooling a heat generating unit that an MRI apparatus has is stored, a pump which circulates the cooling water stored in the tank through a circulation path starting from the tank and traveling around the heat generating unit, a heat exchanger which cools the cooling water, and a controller which decides that a water leakage has occurred on the circulation path when a decreasing rate of the cooling water in the tank is greater than a given reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tanaka, Ken Kudou, Masashi Hori
  • COOLING DEVICE FOR SUB-MRI UNITS AND MRI APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140203809
    Abstract: A cooling device for sub-MRI units of an embodiment includes a tank in which cooling water for cooling a heat generating unit that an MRI apparatus has is stored, a pump which circulates the cooling water stored in the tank through a circulation path starting from the tank and traveling around the heat generating unit, a heat exchanger which cools the cooling water, and a controller which decides that a water leakage has occurred on the circulation path when a decreasing rate of the cooling water in the tank is greater than a given reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hidekazu TANAKA, Ken KUDOU, Masashi HORI