Patents by Inventor Kenji Oyama
Kenji Oyama 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).
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Publication number: 20240420188Abstract: A property management device configured using a computer and configured to manage at least one of a tangible property and an intangible property includes: a property information storage unit configured to store property identification information for identifying a property that is a management target, user information for identifying a user who manages the property that is the management target, and publication identification information for identifying publication or non-publication of each of the property identification information and the user information; a publication management unit configured to manage publication of at least one of the property identification information and the user information based on the publication identification information stored by the property information storage unit; and a property value evaluation unit configured to determine a value of the property that is a management target.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: BROADLEAF CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji OYAMA
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Patent number: 11441115Abstract: When detachment of a cell sheet from a culture dish has started at an unintended timing, immediately detach the cell sheet from the culture dish while preventing generation of wrinkles and the like in the cell sheet. A cell culture device captures an image of cells in the culture dish, and controls a cooling mechanism and a shaking mechanism based on the image so as to shake the cells while cooling them.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD., OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taro Nagai, Yoshiki Sawa, Shigeru Miyagawa, Kenji Oyama
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Publication number: 20220275316Abstract: A container is disclosed for isolating living cells. The container for crushing a sample by pressing includes a container main body having an opening part and a partition which separates an upper space and a lower space of the container main body, in which at least a part of the partition has a portion which is not horizontal with respect to the bottom of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Risa YUKI, Kenji OYAMA, Isamu MATSUDA, Fumiya OHASHI
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Publication number: 20220265901Abstract: A method for enhancing activity selected from the group consisting of cytokine production capacity, proliferation capacity, engraftment capacity, angiogenesis-inducing capacity, and tissue regeneration capacity in a graft, particularly in a sheet-shaped cell culture containing a somatic cell, involves incubating the graft at a temperature of 25° C. or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji OYAMA, Isamu MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20220249613Abstract: Cell cultures for treating peripheral arterial disease, methods for producing the cell cultures and methods for treating peripheral arterial disease using the cell cultures are provided. The cell cultures may be 100 to 500 ?m in size and may possess an extracellular matrix on an outer surface of the cell culture, and the like are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki SAWA, Shigeru MIYAGAWA, Keisuke MIYAKE, Kenji OYAMA
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Patent number: 11395863Abstract: A method is disclosed for modifying a sheet-shaped cell culture containing at least two types of cells. The method includes soaking the sheet-shaped cell culture in a low nutrient isotonic solution; and changing a content ratio of the at least two cell types constituting the sheet-shaped cell culture.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Oyama, Ryohei Takeuchi, Toshikazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20220114622Abstract: A property management device that is configured using a computer and manages at least one of a tangible property and an intangible property managed by a user includes: a property information storage unit configured to store property identification information for identifying a property managed by the user and user information for identifying the user who manages the property; a publication management unit configured to manage publication of at least one of the property identification information and the user information; a transaction application information storage unit configured to store transaction application information including application information for acquisition or renting of the property identified by at least one of the property identification information and the user information publicized by the publication management unit; and a property evaluation unit configured to calculate a market value of the property identified by at least one of the property identification information and the user inType: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: BROADLEAF CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji OYAMA
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Publication number: 20220114683Abstract: A property management device that is configured using a computer and manages at least one of a tangible property and an intangible property managed by a user includes: a property information storage unit configured to store property identification information for identifying a property managed by the user, user information for identifying the user who manages the property, and publication identification information for identifying publication or non-publication of at least one of the property identification information and the user information; and a publication management unit configured to manage publication of at least one of the property identification information and the user information based on the publication identification information stored in the property information storage unit. The publication identification information enables selection of not publicizing both the property identification information and the user information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Broadleaf Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji OYAMA
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Publication number: 20210272021Abstract: An AI creation verification device includes: an input information processing unit configured to acquire input information of an artificial intelligence device, hold the input information, and output the input information to the artificial intelligence device; and a creation information processing unit configured to acquire creation information outputted from the artificial intelligence device, and hold the creation information in association with the input information acquired by the input information processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: BROADLEAF CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji OYAMA
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Patent number: 11064891Abstract: An object information acquiring apparatus employed in the present invention includes: a plurality of transducers that generate an electric signal upon reception of an acoustic wave from a measurement subject; a supporter that supports the plurality of transducers such that directional axes of at least a part of the plurality of transducers are gathered together; a point sound source; means for controlling relative positions of the measurement subject and the supporter; a processor that determines respective distances from the plurality of transducers to a focus position of the measurement subject and generates property information relating to the focus position; and a corrector that determines correction data.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Oyama, Robert A Kruger
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Publication number: 20210009934Abstract: When detachment of a cell sheet from a culture dish has started at an unintended timing, immediately detach the cell sheet from the culture dish while preventing generation of wrinkles and the like in the cell sheet. A cell culture device captures an image of cells in the culture dish, and controls a cooling mechanism and a shaking mechanism based on the image so as to shake the cells while cooling them.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicants: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD., OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taro NAGAI, Yoshiki SAWA, Shigeru MIYAGAWA, Kenji OYAMA
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Publication number: 20200390936Abstract: Disclosed is a method for cryopreserving cells for transplantation capable of being suitably used for treatment of various diseases, a method for culturing the cells thawed after cryopreservation, a method for producing a graft containing a sheet-shaped cell culture containing the cells for transplantation, a graft produced by the production method, a composition and medical drug containing the graft, and a method for treating a disease using the graft. The cryopreservation method involves freezing a cell suspension containing cells for transplantation on a culture substrate. The method for culturing cells for transplantation includes incubation of a cell population in a medium containing a cryoprotective agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji OYAMA, Fumiya OHASHI
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Publication number: 20200392466Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a high-quality graft from pluripotent stem cell-derived differentiation-induced cells, a graft produced by using the method, and a method for treating a disease using the graft are described Embodiments of a method for producing a graft are described, which include a step of performing an operation for removing undifferentiated cells in a cell population containing pluripotent stem cell-derived differentiation-induced cells, optionally a step of freezing the cell population and thereafter thawing the cell population, and a step of seeding the obtained cell population on a culture substrate and performing graft-forming culture.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki Sawa, Shigeru Miyagawa, Kenji Oyama, Fumiya Ohashi
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Patent number: 10588503Abstract: A method and a medical elongate body are configured to prevent stagnation or turbulence of blood flow in a recess of a rugged pattern formed in a blood vessel due to bulging of a blood vessel wall at a lesion part of the blood vessel. The method involves partitioning an inside of the blood vessel into upstream and downstream sides of the recess, and introducing gel into the recess to at least partially fill the recess. A blood vessel lumen forming method and medical elongate body to form such a lumen are other aspects of the disclosure and involve introducing gel into the recess to at least partially fill the recess with the gel, and drilling the gel to remove at least some of the gel to form a passage and secure blood flow in the blood vessel.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shouta Arahira, Hironori Shiga, Kenji Oyama, Yuusuke Sekine
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Patent number: 10495567Abstract: A photoacoustic apparatus includes a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate a subject with light a plurality of times; a driving unit configured to move a supporting member so that relative positions of the supporting member and the subject differ at each of the plurality of times; a plurality of transducers configured to receive acoustic waves generated through the plurality of times of irradiation and output a plurality of groups of reception signals corresponding to the plurality of times of irradiation; the supporting member configured to support the transducers such that directional axes of at least some of the transducers converge; a first memory configured to store the groups of reception signals; and a processing unit configured to obtain subject information at a target position by assigning, to each of the groups of reception signals, a weight corresponding to relative positions of the supporting member and the target position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Robert A. Kruger, Takeshi Sekiya, Kenji Oyama, Kazuhito Oka
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Publication number: 20190275088Abstract: To provide a preservative solution for live cells or a composition containing live cells, a method for preserving live cells or a composition containing live cells by use of the preservative solution and the like, the preservative solution being easy to prepare and exhibiting a high cytoprotective effect, especially during low-temperature storage. The preservative solution for live cells or a composition containing live cells contains vitamin C and/or vitamin E or edaravone in a solution serving as a base of the preservative solution, for example, a physiological isotonic solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji OYAMA, Ryohei TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20190274300Abstract: To provide a preservative solution for live cells or a composition containing live cells, a method for preserving live cells or a composition containing live cells by use of the preservative solution and the like, the preservative solution being easy to prepare and exhibiting a high cytoprotective effect, especially during low-temperature storage. The preservative solution for live cells or a composition containing live cells contains vitamin C and/or vitamin E or edaravone in a solution serving as a base of the preservative solution, for example, a physiological isotonic solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji OYAMA, Ryohei TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20190076576Abstract: A method is disclosed for modifying a sheet-shaped cell culture containing at least two types of cells. The method includes soaking the sheet-shaped cell culture in a low nutrient isotonic solution; and changing a content ratio of the at least two cell types constituting the sheet-shaped cell culture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji OYAMA, Ryohei TAKEUCHI, Toshikazu TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20180368698Abstract: Provided is an information acquiring apparatus having: an information generating unit generating image data based on signals derived from photoacoustic waves; and a display displaying an image based on the image data, wherein the information generating unit generates first image data based on the signals output from part of a plurality of elements before completing light irradiation, the display displays an image based on the first image data before completing light irradiation, the information generating unit generates second image data based on the signals output from more elements than the part of the plurality of elements, after completing light irradiation, and the display displays an image based on the second image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventor: Kenji Oyama
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Publication number: 20180146859Abstract: An information acquisition apparatus includes a light emission unit configured to emit light to irradiate a subject with the light, and an ultrasonic probe configured to receive an ultrasonic wave generated from irradiation of the subject with the light to output an electric signal wherein the light emission unit is provided in such a manner that a surface of the light emission unit in contact with the subject protrudes more toward a side of the subject than a surface of the ultrasonic probe in contact with the subject, and wherein an emission direction of the light emitted from the light emission unit is inclined in a direction in which the emission direction is away with respect to a line perpendicular to the surface of the ultrasonic probe where the ultrasonic probe is in contact with the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Kenji Oyama, Toshinobu Tokita, Takaaki Nakabayashi