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).
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Publication number: 20240068464Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Yoshiyuki SONODA, Kohzo ISHIKURA, Takeshi YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11852129Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Sonoda, Kohzo Ishikura, Takeshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11331454Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiei Ono, Kohzo Ishikura, Tatsuya Kudo, Takeshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20200230307Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Yoshiyuki SONODA, Kohzo ISHIKURA, Takeshi YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190160265Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Yoshiei ONO, Kohzo ISHIKURA, Tatsuya KUDO, Takeshi YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 9238128Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Uchimura, Kohzo Ishikura
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Patent number: 8992483Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Katsuhiro Hiejima, Katsunori Kawai
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Patent number: 8926645Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Tomohiro Uchimura, Ken Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140316350Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Uchimura, Kohzo Ishikura
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Publication number: 20130238007Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Kohzo ISHIKURA, Tomohiro UCHIMURA, Ken Suzuki
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Patent number: 8439941Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Tomohiro Uchimura, Ken Suzuki
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Patent number: 8262685Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Ken Suzuki, Takeshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20120191122Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2010Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Uchimura, Kohzo Ishikura, Ken Suzuki
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Publication number: 20110313439Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Kóhzo ISHIKURA, Tomohiro UCHIMURA, Ken SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20100249819Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Ken Suzuki, Takeshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20100057021Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Kohzo ISHIKURA, Naoko Ishihara, Takeshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20080249478Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Inventors: Kohzo Ishikura, Katsuhiro Hiejima, Katsunori Kawai