Patents by Inventor Kikuo Mitomo

Kikuo Mitomo 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: 10232153
    Abstract: A therapeutic instrument (20), includes: a support member (25) having a tongue-shaped supporting portion (50) for supporting a sheet-like therapeutic agent; a nozzle member (23) having a cylindrical portion (30) in which the supporting portion (50) supporting the therapeutic agent can be housed, and having an opening (34) through which the supporting portion (50) can be loaded and unloaded in/from a tip of the cylindrical portion (30); a syringe unit (22) that acts a positive pressure in the cylindrical portion (30) for pushing-out the therapeutic agent housed in the cylindrical portion (30) together with the supporting portion (50) to outside the cylindrical portion (30) through the opening (34); and a water flow forming part including a plurality of protrusions (53) formed on a surface of the supporting portion (50) so as to form a water flow at a place where the supporting portion (50) and the therapeutic agent are facing each other, when a medical water is fed into the cylindrical portion (30) in a state
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: Osaka University, Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Kohji Nishida, Takeshi Soma, Yusuke Goto, Kikuo Mitomo
  • Patent number: 9808372
    Abstract: There is provided a therapeutic instrument, for storing a sheet-type therapeutic substance to which a liquid is delivered, and delivering the stored therapeutic substance to an affected part, including: a nozzle member 23 having an opening 34 on a tip end of a tubular part 31 in which the therapeutic substance can be stored, for charging and discharging the therapeutic substance; and a syringe unit 22 that selectively causes a negative pressure and a positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 through a hole of a valve member 27, wherein the space 33 of the tubular part 31 is the space for sucking the therapeutic substance into the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the negative pressure in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when the therapeutic substance is stored therein, and is the space for pushing out the therapeutic substance to outside of the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Inoue, Kikuo Mitomo, Masako Oooka, Kazuyuki Tokumo
  • Publication number: 20170079838
    Abstract: A therapeutic instrument (20), includes: a support member (25) having a tongue-shaped supporting portion (50) for supporting a sheet-like therapeutic agent; a nozzle member (23) having a cylindrical portion (30) in which the supporting portion (50) supporting the therapeutic agent can be housed, and having an opening (34) through which the supporting portion (50) can be loaded and unloaded in/from a tip of the cylindrical portion (30); a syringe unit (22) that acts a positive pressure in the cylindrical portion (30) for pushing-out the therapeutic agent housed in the cylindrical portion (30) together with the supporting portion (50) to outside the cylindrical portion (30) through the opening (34); and a water flow forming part including a plurality of protrusions (53) formed on a surface of the supporting portion (50) so as to form a water flow at a place where the supporting portion (50) and the therapeutic agent are faced each other, when a medical water is fed into the cylindrical portion (30) in a state i
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Kohji NISHIDA, Takeshi SOMA, Yusuke GOTO, Kikuo MITOMO
  • Patent number: 9107747
    Abstract: There is provided a soft intraocular lens, comprising: an optical lens section 10 made of a foldable soft material; and a support arm section 20 formed so as to protrude outward from an outer peripheral edge of the optical lens section 10 for holding the optical lens section 10 in an eye, wherein a tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is made of a different kind of material which is harder than a soft material of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1, and adhesiveness of the tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is set to be lower than the adhesiveness of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Kikuo Mitomo
  • Publication number: 20130245554
    Abstract: There is provided a therapeutic instrument, for storing a sheet-type therapeutic substance to which a liquid is delivered, and delivering the stored therapeutic substance to an affected part, including: a nozzle member 23 having an opening 34 on a tip end of a tubular part 31 in which the therapeutic substance can be stored, for charging and discharging the therapeutic substance; and a syringe unit 22 that selectively causes a negative pressure and a positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 through a hole of a valve member 27, wherein the space 33 of the tubular part 31 is the space for sucking the therapeutic substance into the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the negative pressure in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when the therapeutic substance is stored therein, and is the space for pushing out the therapeutic substance to outside of the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when t
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanobu Inoue, Kikuo Mitomo, Masako Oooka, Kazuyuki Tokumo
  • Publication number: 20110313520
    Abstract: There is provided a soft intraocular lens, comprising: an optical lens section 10 made of a foldable soft material; and a support arm section 20 formed so as to protrude outward from an outer peripheral edge of the optical lens section 10 for holding the optical lens section 10 in an eye, wherein a tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is made of a different kind of material which is harder than a soft material of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1, and adhesiveness of the tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is set to be lower than the adhesiveness of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Kikuo Mitomo
  • Publication number: 20060122700
    Abstract: Single-piece type intraocular lens includes a stepped part provided in a boundary between an optic portion 1 and support portions in the posterior 1b of the optic portion 1, in such a way that the surface of a part shifting to the region of the support portion from the region of the optic portion shifts suddenly toward the anterior of the optic portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daijiro Kurosaka, Akihiko Shibuya, Kikuo Mitomo, Tomomitsu Tatsuishi
  • Patent number: 6786911
    Abstract: A storage case having a soft intraocular lens folding function, which has a constitution with excellent reliability and manufacturability, is capable of sterilely storing an intraocular lens produced in a production line without damaging it until a time of surgery, and enables an operator to perform an operation of picking a soft intraocular lens L with an extractor with ease and reliability, is provided. In the storage case having a soft intraocular lens folding function, which includes a base part 10, a movable part 40 and a lid part 70, the aforementioned base part 10 is slidably joined to the aforementioned movable part 40, and the lid part 70 is attachably and detachably fitted therein, thus making it possible to store the lens L sterilely without damaging it, and during a surgery, the lens L can be folded with ease and reliability by pressing a lever portion 42 at the movable part 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hoya Healthcare Corporation
    Inventors: Kikuo Mitomo, Tomomitsu Tatsuishi
  • Publication number: 20030209452
    Abstract: A storage case having a soft intraocular lens folding function, which has a constitution with excellent reliability and manufacturability, is capable of sterilely storing an intraocular lens produced in a production line without damaging it until a time of surgery, and enables an operator to perform an operation of picking a soft intraocular lens L with an extractor with ease and reliability, is provided. In the storage case having a soft intraocular lens folding function, which includes a base part 10, a movable part 40 and a lid part 70, the aforementioned base part 10 is slidably joined to the aforementioned movable part 40, and the lid part 70 is attachably and detachably fitted therein, thus making it possible to store the lens L sterilely without damaging it, and during a surgery, the lens L can be folded with ease and reliability by pressing a lever portion 42 at the movable part 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Kikuo Mitomo, Tomomitsu Tatsuishi
  • Patent number: 6352343
    Abstract: Gas-permeable hard contact lenses are produced by hot press-stretching a crosslined gas-permeable hard contact lens material and then machining the press-stretched material. The gas-permeable hard contact lenses are formed from a crosslinked gas permeable hard contact lens material which is hot press-stretched to have a compression ration of 5 to 50% and a compression-flexure fracture strength of 300 to 1,500 g. Efficiently produced gas-permeable hard contact lenses are produced which are free of optical strains, excellent in transparency, small internal stress and comfortable to wear with improved durability strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Hoya Healthcare Corporation
    Inventors: Kikuo Mitomo, Tohru Shirafuji, Hideo Suda, Teruhisa Shimizu, Yuichi Yokoyama