Patents by Inventor Kikuo Hirasawa

Kikuo Hirasawa 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).

  • System for culturing human cells and tissues
    Patent number: 7241616
    Abstract: Disclosed is a human cell/tissue culturing system including a plurality of incubators, each incubator capable of aseptically storing/culturing cell(s) or tissue(s) derived from a (human) individual and identifying the cell(s) or the tissue(s) during incubation, wherein each incubator comprises a detector corresponding to an individual key, the response of the detector permitting opening/closing of a door of each incubator, the response of the detector of one incubator triggering the interception of the function of the detector(s) of other incubator(s) to consequently inhibit opening/closing of the door(s) of the other incubator(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignees: Jikei University School of Medicine, Hirasawa Works
    Inventors: Tsuneya Ohno, Kikuo Hirasawa, Masanobu Hattori
  • System for culturing human cells and tissues
    Publication number: 20030232429
    Abstract: Disclosed is a human cell/tissue culturing system including a plurality of incubators, each incubator capable of aseptically storing/culturing cell(s) or tissue(s) derived from a (human) individual and identifying the cell(s) or the tissue(s) during incubation, wherein each incubator comprises a detector corresponding to an individual key, the response of the detector permitting opening/closing of a door of each incubator, the response of the detector of one incubator triggering the interception of the function of the detector(s) of other incubator(s) to consequently inhibit opening/closing of the door(s) of the other incubator(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: Tsuneya Ohno, Kikuo Hirasawa, Masanobu Hattori