Patents by Inventor Kohtaro Kodama

Kohtaro Kodama 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: 6218392
    Abstract: A fused pyridazine compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof which exhibits an inhibitory activity against cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase (hereinafter referred to as “cGMP-PDE”). The compounds are useful as preventive and therapeutic agents for diseases for which a cGMP-PDE inhibiting action is efficacious, for example, ischemic heart diseases such as angina pectoris, myocardial infarct and chronic and acute cardiac failure, pulmonary hypertension, arteriosclerosis and bronchial asthma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kabasawa, Yasutaka Takase, Fumihiro Ozaki, Keiji Ishibashi, Kazuki Miyazaki, Masayuki Matsukura, Shigeru Souda, Kazutoshi Miyake, Hiroki Ishihara, Kohtaro Kodama, Hideyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 5849741
    Abstract: A fused pyridazine compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof which exhibits an inhibitory activity against cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase (hereinafter referred to as "cGMP-PDE").The compounds are useful as preventive and therapeutic agents for diseases for which a cGMP-PDE inhibiting action is efficacious, for example, ischemic heart diseases such as angina pectoris, myocardial infarct and chronic and acute cardiac failure, pulmonary hypertension, arteriosclerosis and bronchial asthma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kabasawa, Yasutaka Takase, Fumihiro Ozaki, Keiji Ishibashi, Kazuki Miyazaki, Masayuki Matsukura, Shigeru Souda, Kazutoshi Miyake, Hiroki Ishihara, Kohtaro Kodama, Hideyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 5707998
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound exhibiting an inhibitory activity against cGMP-PDE. The compound represented by the formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a group represented by the formula: --NR.sup.4 R.sup.5 (wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represent hydrogen, lower alkyl or the like) or the like; R.sup.2 represents a group represented by the formula: ##STR2## (wherein R.sup.8 represents a carboxyl group which may be protected, or the like) or the like; and R.sup.3 represents a group represented by the formula: ##STR3## (wherein R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each represent hydrogen, lower alkyl or the like) or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Takase, Nobuhisa Watanabe, Hideyuki Adachi, Kohtaro Kodama, Hiroki Ishihara, Takao Saeki, Shigeru Souda
  • Patent number: 5614627
    Abstract: It relates to a quinazoline compound useful as a medicine exhibiting an inhibitory action on calmodulin-dependent cGMP-PDE.A quinazoline compound represented by the general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: ##STR1## (wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 may be the same or different from each other and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or the like; and R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 may be the same or different from each other and each represents a hydrogen atom, a carboxyl alkyl group or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Takase, Nobuhisa Watanabe, Hideyuki Adachi, Kohtaro Kodama, Hiroki Ishihara, Takao Saeki, Shigeru Souda