Patents by Inventor Kootaroo Yamashita

Kootaroo Yamashita 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).

  • Automatic processing system
    Patent number: 5988857
    Abstract: An automatic processing system and method which has high flexibility, extendibility and failure resistance. An automatic processing system and method that provides for the decentralized control of processings of plural samples. The invention combines a plurality of processing instruments and makes use of sample containers for each sample. Each sample container includes an information processing mechanism, a memory mechanism and a communication mechanism. The sample container has stored therein an abstract processing procedure, and determines, based on information concerning the processing instruments obtained from the processing instruments and the abstract processing procedure, a processing procedure for processing the sample. Thereafter, the processing instruments process the sample based on the processing procedure determined by the sample container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ozawa, Kootaroo Yamashita, Yuji Miyahara, Toshiyuki Ikeda