Patents by Inventor Kenichi HIRAMI

Kenichi HIRAMI 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: 10955431
    Abstract: Uneven wear causes degradation of the individual parts of a syringe pump. Specifically, a seal piece composed of a soft material is easily damaged by uneven wear. To solve this problem, an automatic analysis device has a syringe pump that feeds and aspirates a liquid into and from a dispensing unit. The syringe pump has a syringe tube that stores a liquid, a plunger that moves up and down in the syringe tube, a plunger upper pressing component that contacts the plunger, a motive force transmitting part that transmits motive force to the plunger via the plunger upper pressing component, and a plunger lower pressing component that contacts the motive force transmitting part. The plunger upper pressing component and the motive force transmitting part make point contact with each other, and the motive force transmitting part and the plunger lower pressing component make point contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Hirami, Hajime Yamazaki, Hidemi Koike, Eriko Otsu
  • Publication number: 20200124632
    Abstract: Uneven wear causes degradation of the individual parts of a syringe pump. Specifically, a seal piece composed of a soft material is easily damaged by uneven wear. To solve this problem, an automatic analysis device has a syringe pump that feeds and aspirates a liquid into and from a dispensing unit. The syringe pump has a syringe tube that stores a liquid, a plunger that moves up and down in the syringe tube, a plunger upper pressing component that contacts the plunger, a motive force transmitting part that transmits motive force to the plunger via the plunger upper pressing component, and a plunger lower pressing component that contacts the motive force transmitting part. The plunger upper pressing component and the motive force transmitting part make point contact with each other, and the motive force transmitting part and the plunger lower pressing component make point contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi HIRAMI, Hajime YAMAZAKI, Hidemi KOIKE, Eriko OTSU
  • Patent number: 10145858
    Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus capable of obtaining an analysis result of a specimen high in urgency in a shorter time is provided. When a first rack 50 is present in a sampling line 103 and an analysis request for a second rack higher in the degree of urgency for analysis than the first rack 50 is detected, a control unit unloads the first rack 50 onto a transport line 100 through a return line 102, allows the first rack 50 to stand by at a rack standby position 120 on a transport line 101 between a loading line 101 and the return line 102 under control, and loads the second rack from the transport line 101 onto the sampling line 103 through the loading line 101 and transports the second rack to the dispensing position 111 under control while allowing the first rack 50 to stand by.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Hirami, Kazuhiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170219617
    Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus capable of obtaining an analysis result of a specimen high in urgency in a shorter time is provided. When a first rack 50 is present in a sampling line 103 and an analysis request for a second rack higher in the degree of urgency for analysis than the first rack 50 is detected, a control unit unloads the first rack 50 onto a transport line 100 through a return line 102, allows the first rack 50 to stand by at a rack standby position 120 on a transport line 101 between a loading line 101 and the return line 102 under control, and loads the second rack from the transport line 101 onto the sampling line 103 through the loading line 101 and transports the second rack to the dispensing position 111 under control while allowing the first rack 50 to stand by.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi HIRAMI, Kazuhiro NAKAMURA