Patents by Inventor Koshiro Umemura

Koshiro Umemura 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: 5158071
    Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus for thereapeutical use, especially for remedying a malignant tumor, through activation of a drug at a desired local portion inside of a living body by sequentially irradiating a plurality kinds of convergent ultrasonic waves having different focal positions of different acoustic pressure distribution shapes but having a mutually overlapping focal zone and by switching them within a short period. The drug is activated as a promotor for an ultrasonic therapeutical effect through continuous generation and rupture of cavitation caused by the irradiated and switched ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Umemura, Nagahiko Yumita, Koshiro Umemura, Kageyoshi Katakura