Patents by Inventor Kohzo Ishikura

Kohzo Ishikura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240068464
    Abstract: Provided is a tube set which is capable of easily determining whether a holder has been mounted when the holder is mounted on a housing. The tube set, which is provided in a tube pump that feeds a liquid, includes a pump tube and a holder. The holder has a flexible flat plate and includes first and second engagement portions located away from each other in a first direction. The first and second engagement portions are configured to be fitted into first and second engagement grooves formed in the housing, respectively, when the holder is pushed into the housing in a state of being bent in a thickness direction. The holder is elastically restored to be attached to the housing when the engagement portions are fitted into the respective engagement grooves. The holder has a flexural modulus of 500 MPa or more and 3500 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki SONODA, Kohzo ISHIKURA, Takeshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11852129
    Abstract: Provided is a tube set which is capable of easily determining whether a holder has been mounted when the holder is mounted on a housing. The tube set, which is provided in a tube pump that feeds a liquid, includes a pump tube and a holder. The holder has a flexible flat plate and includes first and second engagement portions located away from each other in a first direction. The first and second engagement portions are configured to be fitted into first and second engagement grooves formed in the housing, respectively, when the holder is pushed into the housing in a state of being bent in a thickness direction. The holder is elastically restored to be attached to the housing when the engagement portions are fitted into the respective engagement grooves. The holder has a flexural modulus of 500 MPa or more and 3500 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sonoda, Kohzo Ishikura, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11331454
    Abstract: The present invention provides a needle tip protector of a novel structure for an indwelling needle, which enables improvements in safety, etc. as compared with conventional needle tip protectors. A needle tip protector 10 for an indwelling needle includes a tubular peripheral wall 58, and is externally attached over a needle hub 22 of an indwelling needle 16 and moved toward a needle tip 14 side so as to cover the needle tip 14. Detents 74, 74, which are to be detained with the needle hub 22 at a position in a movement of the protector toward the needle tip 14 side of the indwelling needle 16 so as to inhibit backward movement of the protector to the proximal end side of the indwelling needle 16 and to prevent the needle tip 14 from being reexposed, are formed within an inside enclosed by the peripheral wall 58, and are integrally molded with the peripheral wall 58.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiei Ono, Kohzo Ishikura, Tatsuya Kudo, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200230307
    Abstract: Provided is a tube set which is capable of easily determining whether a holder has been mounted when the holder is mounted on a housing. The tube set, which is provided in a tube pump that feeds a liquid, includes a pump tube and a holder. The holder has a flexible flat plate and includes first engagement portion and second engagement portions that arc located away from each other in a first direction. The first engagement portion and second engagement portions are configured to be fitted into first engagement groove and second engagement grooves formed in the housing, respectively, when the holder is pushed into the housing in a state of being bent in a thickness direction. The holder is elastically restored to be attached to the housing when the first engagement portion and the second engagement portions are fitted into the respective first engagement groove and the second engagement grooves, respectively. The holder has a flexural modulus of 500 MPa or more and 3500 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki SONODA, Kohzo ISHIKURA, Takeshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190160265
    Abstract: The present invention provides a needle tip protector of a novel structure for an indwelling needle, which enables improvements in safety, etc. as compared with conventional needle tip protectors. A needle tip protector 10 for an indwelling needle includes a tubular peripheral wall 58, and is externally attached over a needle hub 22 of an indwelling needle 16 and moved toward a needle tip 14 side so as to cover the needle tip 14. Detents 74, 74, which are to be detained with the needle hub 22 at a position in a movement of the protector toward the needle tip 14 side of the indwelling needle 16 so as to inhibit backward movement of the protector to the proximal end side of the indwelling needle 16 and to prevent the needle tip 14 from being reexposed, are formed within an inside enclosed by the peripheral wall 58, and are integrally molded with the peripheral wall 58.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiei ONO, Kohzo ISHIKURA, Tatsuya KUDO, Takeshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9238128
    Abstract: A bottomed, tubular hollow elastic body that opens toward an outlet side of a drug solution flow path is accommodated and arranged in an accommodation part formed in a housing, and a middle protrusion is provided protruding toward an inlet side of the drug solution flow path from a center part of a bottom wall of the hollow elastic body. Insertion of a male luer causes the bottom wall of the hollow elastic body to be elastically deformed so as to enter inside a peripheral wall, increasing the volume of the drug solution flow path, which is formed between an outer surface of the hollow elastic body and an inner surface of the accommodation part. Removing the male luer and canceling the elastic deformation of the hollow elastic body causes the volume of the drug solution flow path to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Uchimura, Kohzo Ishikura
  • Patent number: 8992483
    Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly and protector. The indwelling needle assembly has an inner needle, an inner needle hub, an outer needle, an outer needle hub, and a protector for protecting the needle point of the inner needle arranged on the outer periphery of the inner needle so as to be slidable in the axial direction. The protector includes a protecting member in which the needle point of the inner needle is stored and a closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the protecting member so as to be capable of sliding, a displaceable side wall which is capable of being displaced inward so as to close a distal opening of the protecting member, the displaceable side wall being displaced inwardly by the closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the distal end portion of the protecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Katsuhiro Hiejima, Katsunori Kawai
  • Patent number: 8926645
    Abstract: A disposable lancing device including: a lancet housed in a housing and urged by a spring member such that a puncture member provided at a distal end of the lancet is adapted to extend out from the housing so as to carry out a puncturing operation; a locking ring disposed within the housing such that the lancet is allowed to displace in an extension direction through the locking ring; a locking protrusion provided to the lancet and adapted to be engaged by the locking ring so as to hold the lancet in a puncture-ready position located deep in the housing with the spring member being compressed; and an operating member adapted to carry out the puncturing operation by rotating the locking ring so as to disengage the locking protrusion from the locking ring and displace the lancet in the extension direction by means of the spring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Tomohiro Uchimura, Ken Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140316350
    Abstract: A bottomed, tubular hollow elastic body that opens toward an outlet side of a drug solution flow path is accommodated and arranged in an accommodation part formed in a housing, and a middle protrusion is provided protruding toward an inlet side of the drug solution flow path from a center part of a bottom wall of the hollow elastic body. Insertion of a male luer causes the bottom wall of the hollow elastic body to be elastically deformed so as to enter inside a peripheral wall, increasing the volume of the drug solution flow path, which is formed between an outer surface of the hollow elastic body and an inner surface of the accommodation part. Removing the male luer and canceling the elastic deformation of the hollow elastic body causes the volume of the drug solution flow path to be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Uchimura, Kohzo Ishikura
  • Publication number: 20130238007
    Abstract: A disposable lancing device including: a lancet housed in a housing and urged by a spring member such that a puncture member provided at a distal end of the lancet is adapted to extend out from the housing so as to carry out a puncturing operation; a locking ring disposed within the housing such that the lancet is allowed to displace in an extension direction through the locking ring; a locking protrusion provided to the lancet and adapted to be engaged by the locking ring so as to hold the lancet in a puncture-ready position located deep in the housing with the spring member being compressed; and an operating member adapted to carry out the puncturing operation by rotating the locking ring so as to disengage the locking protrusion from the locking ring and displace the lancet in the extension direction by means of the spring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohzo ISHIKURA, Tomohiro UCHIMURA, Ken Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8439941
    Abstract: A disposable lancing device including: a lancet housed in a housing and urged by a spring member such that a puncture member provided at a distal end of the lancet is adapted to extend out from the housing so as to carry out a puncturing operation; a locking ring disposed within the housing such that the lancet is allowed to displace in an extension direction through the locking ring; a locking protrusion provided to the lancet and adapted to be engaged by the locking ring so as to hold the lancet in a puncture-ready position located deep in the housing with the spring member being compressed; and an operating member adapted to carry out the puncturing operation by rotating the locking ring so as to disengage the locking protrusion from the locking ring and displace the lancet in the extension direction by means of the spring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Tomohiro Uchimura, Ken Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8262685
    Abstract: A disposable lancing device including: a housing; a spring member; a lancet having a skin puncture needle, the spring member and the lancet being housed within the housing such that a needle tip of the skin puncture needle is adapted to be projected out from the housing under urging of the lancet by the spring member to perform skin puncture procedure; and a protective cap having a needle passage hole and covering the needle tip of the skin puncture needle, the protective cap being adapted to separate from the skin puncture needle and rotate so that the needle passage hole of the protective cap is positioned on a path of projection of the skin puncture needle, and the skin puncture procedure is performed with the protective cap supported on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Ken Suzuki, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20120191122
    Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable blood collecting instrument that stably secures a sufficient volume of blood with a single puncture. A tip portion of a piercing body of a lancet contained within a housing projects by means of a biasing force of a spring assembly, and a surrounding area of an opening of the housing is made a transparent visible portion with a visible interior. Additionally, the disposable blood collecting instrument has been formed such that the spring assembly is contained within housing farther behind the piercing body than a position of the tip portion of the piercing body that has entered within the housing after piercing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Uchimura, Kohzo Ishikura, Ken Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110313439
    Abstract: A disposable lancing device including: a lancet housed in a housing and urged by a spring member such that a puncture member provided at a distal end of the lancet is adapted to extend out from the housing so as to carry out a puncturing operation; a locking ring disposed within the housing such that the lancet is allowed to displace in an extension direction through the locking ring; a locking protrusion provided to the lancet and adapted to be engaged by the locking ring so as to hold the lancet in a puncture-ready position located deep in the housing with the spring member being compressed; and an operating member adapted to carry out the puncturing operation by rotating the locking ring so as to disengage the locking protrusion from the locking ring and displace the lancet in the extension direction by means of the spring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kóhzo ISHIKURA, Tomohiro UCHIMURA, Ken SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20100249819
    Abstract: A disposable lancing device including: a housing; a spring member; a lancet having a skin puncture needle, the spring member and the lancet being housed within the housing such that a needle tip of the skin puncture needle is adapted to be projected out from the housing under urging of the lancet by the spring member to perform skin puncture procedure; and a protective cap having a needle passage hole and covering the needle tip of the skin puncture needle, the protective cap being adapted to separate from the skin puncture needle and rotate so that the needle passage hole of the protective cap is positioned on a path of projection of the skin puncture needle, and the skin puncture procedure is performed with the protective cap supported on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Ken Suzuki, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20100057021
    Abstract: A subcutaneous infusion device includes an indwelling member which has a base portion and a cannula reaching an inside of a body of a user when the base portion is fixed to a surface of the body of the user, and a coupling member which is attached to the indwelling member in a detachable/attachable manner. The coupling member includes a main body portion, a needle provided at the main body portion and communicated with the cannula when the coupling member is attached to the indwelling member, a lid portion provided turnably with respect to the main body portion, an engagement portion locking the lid portion to the main body portion, and an elastic member biased when the lid portion is locked to the main body portion and capable of biasing the lid portion in a turning direction when the locking is being released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Kohzo ISHIKURA, Naoko Ishihara, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20080249478
    Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly and protector. The indwelling needle assembly has an inner needle, an inner needle hub, an outer needle, an outer needle hub, and a protector for protecting the needle point of the inner needle arranged on the outer periphery of the inner needle so as to be slidable in the axial direction. The protector includes a protecting member in which the needle point of the inner needle is stored and a closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the protecting member so as to be capable of sliding, a displaceable side wall which is capable of being displaced inward so as to close a distal opening of the protecting member, the displaceable side wall being displaced inwardly by the closing member arranged on the outer periphery of the distal end portion of the protecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Katsuhiro Hiejima, Katsunori Kawai