Patents by Inventor Koichi Hayakawa

Koichi Hayakawa 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: 11938269
    Abstract: A pressure controller 1 supplies fluid to a cuff and controls an internal pressure of the cuff. The pressure controller 1 has a housing 10 having a flattened shape. In the housing 10, a pump 31 having a discharge port 33 through which the fluid is discharged and which is directed in a thickness direction of the housing 10, and a control module 20 which controls the pump 31 such that the internal pressure of the cuff falls within a predetermined range, are disposed. A filter 39 which has elasticity and has lower thermal conductivity than the housing 10 is disposed at a side opposite to the discharge port 33 and between the pump 31 and an inner surface of the housing 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Hayakawa, Reo Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11833316
    Abstract: A guide wire, a medical device, and a medical method are able to achieve satisfactory workability and while ensuring safety by preventing a puncture needle portion from performing erroneous puncture. A guide wire for guiding a dilator to be inserted into a living body includes a shaft portion, a puncture portion fixed to a distal portion of the shaft portion, and whose distal side includes a needle portion for forming a hole in a biological tissue, and a deformable deformation portion fixed to the shaft portion or the puncture portion. The deformation portion located inside the dilator restricts deflection of the distal portion of the shaft portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Hayakawa, Kazunari Fukami
  • Publication number: 20230325413
    Abstract: An error cause estimation device comprising: a data pre-processing unit that uses data to be processed and generates training data that has an appropriate format for input to a machine learning model; and a model tree generation unit that generates error detection models that are training models for detecting errors and uses the training data as inputs therefor, and generates a model tree that expresses the relationship between error detection models by using a tree structure that has the error detection models as node therefor. Thus, it is possible to generate a training model that detects errors for each of a plurality of types of errors that occur, even when there has been no prior annotation of error causes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiro YOSHIDA, Masayoshi ISHIKAWA, Fumihiro SASAJIMA, Masami TAKANO, Koichi HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230306857
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: an estimation unit that estimates a wind or turbulence distribution at a predetermined altitude; and a planning unit that plans a path along which a flight vehicle flies at the predetermined altitude on the basis of the wind or turbulence distribution estimated by the estimation unit. The planning unit plans the path along which the flight vehicle flies on the basis of a wind change cost corresponding to a change in wind received at a position on the path along which the flight vehicle flies. The wind change cost includes a temporal change component of the wind and a temporal change component of the wind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventor: KOICHI HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220289376
    Abstract: A flying body includes a control unit that acquires inclination information regarding inclination of a landing point and sets a horizontal speed according to the inclination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220227479
    Abstract: A flying body includes a control unit configured to set a horizontal ground speed on the basis of wind information including information about a wind direction and a wind speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11014494
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a mobile body that make it easy to acquire information regarding a convoy of mobile bodies such as vehicles. The information processing apparatus is disposed in a first mobile body, and includes a convoy information detection section, a convoy information generation section, and an output control section. The convoy information detection section detects, based on a first optical signal outputted from a second mobile body preceding the first mobile body, convoy information regarding a convoy of mobile bodies including up to the second mobile body. The convoy information generation section updates the convoy information by adding information regarding the first mobile body to the convoy information. The output control section controls an output section in such a manner as to output a second optical signal to rearward of the first mobile body in accordance with the updated convoy information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamori Yamaguchi, Koichi Hayakawa, Masahiro Tamori
  • Patent number: 10918401
    Abstract: A medical device, a medical system, and a treatment method are disclosed, which are capable of effectively crushing an object in a body lumen. The medical device can be used after being inserted into a capturing device capturing thrombi in a blood vessel and removing the thrombi to the outside of a body has at least two elongated shaft portions spaced apart from each other side by side and a cutting unit extending to a distal side from distal portions of at least two shaft portions, the cutting unit has linear portions inclined with respect to the shaft portions and a distal continuous portion extending to the distal side from distal portions of at least two linear portions, and at least the linear portions have sharp cutting blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20200376237
    Abstract: A guide wire and a medical device are disclosed that have high workability, restrain erroneous puncture by a needle portion for puncture, and assure relative safety. A guide wire for guiding an elongated tubular body or dilator, and which is configured to be inserted in a living body. The guide wire includes a shaft portion, a puncture portion that is fixed to a distal portion of the shaft portion and that forms a hole in living body tissue, and a cover portion that is elastically deformable and that covers the puncture portion, in which when the cover portion is exposed from the elongated tubular body or dilator, the cover portion covers the puncture portion and the cover portion is bent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Hayakawa, Kazunari Fukami
  • Publication number: 20200361369
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a mobile body that make it easy to acquire information regarding a convoy of mobile bodies such as vehicles. The information processing apparatus is disposed in a first mobile body, and includes a convoy information detection section, a convoy information generation section, and an output control section. The convoy information detection section detects, based on a first optical signal outputted from a second mobile body preceding the first mobile body, convoy information regarding a convoy of mobile bodies including up to the second mobile body. The convoy information generation section updates the convoy information by adding information regarding the first mobile body to the convoy information. The output control section controls an output section in such a manner as to output a second optical signal to rearward of the first mobile body in accordance with the updated convoy information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: TAKAMORI YAMAGUCHI, KOICHI HAYAKAWA, MASAHIRO TAMORI
  • Patent number: 10569066
    Abstract: A medical device and treatment method for treating veins. The medical device includes: an elongated outer sheath; an inner member extending through inside of the outer sheath, the inner member protruding distally beyond the outer sheath; an expansion portion positioned between a distal portion of the outer sheath and a distal portion of the inner member, the expansion portion having a plurality of linear material portions extending along an axial direction of the inner member, the expansion portion being expandable in a radial direction of the inner member; a biasing member disposed inside the outer sheath biasing the inner member proximally relative to the outer sheath; and a fixing portion configured to fix the relative positions of the inner member and the outer sheath in a state in which the expansion portion has been expanded. The fixing portion is also configured to be released from the fixed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Hayakawa, Yuri Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20200023168
    Abstract: A guide wire, a medical device, and a medical method are able to achieve satisfactory workability and while ensuring safety by preventing a puncture needle portion from performing erroneous puncture. A guide wire for guiding a dilator to be inserted into a living body includes a shaft portion, a puncture portion fixed to a distal portion of the shaft portion, and whose distal side includes a needle portion for forming a hole in a biological tissue, and a deformable deformation portion fixed to the shaft portion or the puncture portion. The deformation portion located inside the dilator restricts deflection of the distal portion of the shaft portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi HAYAKAWA, Kazunari FUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190111224
    Abstract: A pressure controller 1 supplies fluid to a cuff and controls an internal pressure of the cuff. The pressure controller 1 has a housing 10 having a flattened shape. In the housing 10, a pump 31 having a discharge port 33 through which the fluid is discharged and which is directed in a thickness direction of the housing 10, and a control module 20 which controls the pump 31 such that the internal pressure of the cuff falls within a predetermined range, are disposed. A filter 39 which has elasticity and has lower thermal conductivity than the housing 10 is disposed at a side opposite to the discharge port 33 and between the pump 31 and an inner surface of the housing 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi HAYAKAWA, Reo MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 9962506
    Abstract: An applicator insertable into a living body includes a nozzle having an elongated nozzle main body and a nozzle head on a front end side of the nozzle main body and through which a liquid together with a gas are expelled, with the nozzle main body including a flexible curved section. The applicator also includes an outer tube in which is positioned a portion of the nozzle main body so as to be movable along a longitudinal direction. An angle or a degree of curvature of the curved section is changed by inserting the curved section into the outer tube to thereby adjust a direction of the nozzle head relative to an axis of the nozzle main body. In addition, a longitudinally extending gap exists between the outer tube and the nozzle. The gap functions as a discharge path for discharging a gas within a body cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 9877762
    Abstract: To easily and accurately place a bone filling material in a cured state at a bone treatment target, a bone treatment system includes a placement device and a deployment operation device. The placement device includes a shaft having a flow path which enables a bone filling material to be placed on a space of a radius to flow therethrough, and a filling balloon to be filled with the bone filling material via the flow path 38 disposed in a distal end portion of the shaft. The deployment operation device 16 can be inserted into the flow path, and exposes the bone filling material by breaking the filling balloon after being filled with the bone filling material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20160095602
    Abstract: A medical device and treatment method for treating veins. The medical device includes: an elongated outer sheath; an inner member extending through inside of the outer sheath, the inner member protruding distally beyond the outer sheath; an expansion portion positioned between a distal portion of the outer sheath and a distal portion of the inner member, the expansion portion having a plurality of linear material portions extending along an axial direction of the inner member, the expansion portion being expandable in a radial direction of the inner member; a biasing member disposed inside the outer sheath biasing the inner member proximally relative to the outer sheath; and a fixing portion configured to fix the relative positions of the inner member and the outer sheath in a state in which the expansion portion has been expanded. The fixing portion is also configured to be released from the fixed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi HAYAKAWA, Yuri AKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150094730
    Abstract: To easily and accurately place a bone filling material in a cured state at a bone treatment target, a bone treatment system includes a placement device and a deployment operation device. The placement device includes a shaft having a flow path which enables a bone filling material to be placed on a space of a radius to flow therethrough, and a filling balloon to be filled with the bone filling material via the flow path 38 disposed in a distal end portion of the shaft. The deployment operation device 16 can be inserted into the flow path, and exposes the bone filling material by breaking the filling balloon after being filled with the bone filling material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20150094731
    Abstract: To favorably discharge gas internally present in a device during filling of a bone filling material, a bone treatment system has a shaft that has a flow path which enables a bone filling material to be placed on a space of a radius to flow therethrough, and a filling balloon that communicates with the flow path in a distal portion of the shaft and that is filled with the bone filling material. Furthermore, the bone treatment system includes a gas discharge portion that causes air (gas) inside the flow path to flow in a direction toward a proximal end rather than the filling balloon, when the bone filling material is supplied to the flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 8777888
    Abstract: A method of applying a liquid or powder in a body cavity of a living body involves positioning the distal portion of an applicator in the living body, using an applicator that includes an outer tube and a nozzle having an elongated nozzle main body and a nozzle head at the distal end side of the nozzle main body. The method also includes relatively moving the outer tube and the nozzle so a curved section of the nozzle main body moves proximally relative to the outer tube and enters the outer tube to adjust the direction in which the nozzle is facing, conveying the liquid/powder through the nozzle main body and to the nozzle head, expelling the liquid or the powder from the nozzle head toward a surface in the body cavity, and discharging gas in the body cavity into a longitudinally extending gap and to outside the body cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8763933
    Abstract: A sprayer capable of avoiding clogging caused in the nozzle includes liquid supplies for supplying a liquid, and a nozzle connected to the liquid supply. The nozzle includes a first internal tube and a second internal tube through which a first liquid and a second liquid supplied from the liquid supply pass, respectively, and an external tube into which respective internal tubes are inserted, and which allows a gas to pass through the gap between it and each internal tube, for ejecting the first liquid and the second liquid with the gas. At least a part of the longitudinal direction of each internal tube is formed of a coil including a helically wound wire rod, so that the gas can flow into the inside of the coil from between the adjacent portions of the wire rod of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Hayakawa