Patents by Inventor Kosuke Nishio
Kosuke Nishio 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: 20230299452Abstract: In a transmission line, a multilayer body includes a hollow portion above a signal conductor layer and below a ground conductor layer and overlapping the ground conductor layer when viewed in an up-down direction, and a spacer facing the hollow portion. In a cross section orthogonal to a front-back direction, an overlapping region is a region in the hollow portion in which the hollow portion overlaps the spacer in the up-down direction. In a cross section orthogonal to the front-back direction, a non-overlapping region is a region in the hollow portion in which the hollow portion does not overlap the spacer in the up-down direction. A length of the hollow portion in the up-down direction in the overlapping region is shorter than a length of the hollow portion in the up-down direction in the non-overlapping region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Nobuo IKEMOTO, Noriaki OKUDA, Kosuke NISHIO, Keisuke ARAKI
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Publication number: 20230290537Abstract: In a transmission line, a signal conductor layer extends in a front-back direction orthogonal to an up-down direction. A ground conductor layer is above the signal conductor layer. When viewed in a first orthogonal direction, first hollow portions are arranged in the front-back direction in a first direction of the signal conductor layer, and second hollow portions are arranged in the front-back direction in a second direction of the signal conductor layer. Each of regions between adjacent first hollow portions in the front-back direction is a first region. Each of regions between adjacent second hollow portions in the front-back direction is a second region. Each of the first hollow portions overlaps with a corresponding one of the second regions when viewed in a second orthogonal direction. Each of the second hollow portions overlaps with a corresponding one of the first regions when viewed in the second orthogonal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Nobuo IKEMOTO, Noriaki OKUDA, Kosuke NISHIO, Masanori OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230291086Abstract: In a transmission line, a hollow portion overlaps a first ground conductor layer in an up-down direction. In a first orthogonal direction, the hollow portion includes a first portion extending in a second orthogonal direction of a signal conductor layer. In the first portion, a portion at which a width of the first portion in the second orthogonal direction has a first portion maximum width value is a first portion maximum width portion. A portion at which the width of the first portion in the second orthogonal direction has a first portion minimum width value is a first portion minimum width portion. A portion at which the width of the first portion in the second orthogonal direction has a first portion intermediate width value is a first portion intermediate width portion located between the first portion maximum width portion and the first portion minimum width portion in the front-back direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Nobuo IKEMOTO, Noriaki OKUDA, Kosuke NISHIO, Masanori OKAMOTO, Kentarou KAWABE
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Patent number: 11751898Abstract: A medical device and can remove an object inside a biological lumen while allowing a positional change of the device inside the biological lumen. The medical device includes a drive shaft, an outer tube accommodating the drive shaft, a cutting portion fixed to a distal portion of the drive shaft, and a hub unit housing proximal portions of the drive shaft and the outer tube. The hub unit has an operation unit fixed to the outer surface of the outer tube to rotate the outer tube, a first support portion rotatably supporting the operation unit, a first housing having an aspiration port for discharging fluid to outside, and causing communication of an aspiration lumen of the outer tube with the aspiration port, and a first seal between the first housing and the outer tube. The first support portion and the first seal are disposed in parallel along an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taiga Nakano, Junichi Kobayashi, Tomonori Hatta, Kosuke Nishio
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Publication number: 20230284381Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes laminated insulating layers each including a main surface on which a conductor is provided. The multilayer substrate also includes a signal line defined by the conductors, and a shield conductor defined by the conductors. The shield conductor includes an opening and a portion overlapping the signal line in plan view. At least one of the insulating layers includes a void that communicates with the opening and that is larger than the opening in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventor: Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20230239996Abstract: A board main body includes first and second resin layers contacting each other and including thermoplastic resin, a first signal conductor layer on an upper main surface of the second resin layer, an overlapping region in which the first and second resin layers are present when viewed in an up-down direction, and a non-overlapping region in which the first resin layer is not present and the second resin layer is present when viewed in the up-down direction. The first signal conductor layer includes a first curved portion in which the first signal conductor layer is curved in the up-down direction such that the first signal conductor layer in the first non-overlapping region is above the first signal conductor layer in the overlapping region. The first signal conductor layer is electrically connectable to an element on the board main body in the first non-overlapping region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventor: Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20230156910Abstract: A circuit board includes a board body, a signal conductor, a power supply conductor, and a first reference conductor. The signal conductor is in the board body and a high frequency signal is transmitted through the signal conductor. The power supply conductor is in the board body and is connected to a power supply potential. The power supply conductor extends along at least a portion of the signal conductor. The first reference conductor is in the board body and is insulated from the signal conductor and the power supply conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Kosuke KIKUCHI, Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20230156913Abstract: A circuit board includes a first section on a left side of a third section in a signal-conductor-layer left-right direction and extending in parallel or substantially in parallel with the third section in a signal-conductor-layer front-back direction when viewed in a stacking direction. The first section includes first thin line portions and first thick line portions, each of the first thick line portions has a line width greater than a line width of each of the first thin line portions. The first thin line portions and the first thick line portions are alternately arranged in the signal-conductor-layer front-back direction. In the signal-conductor-layer left-right direction, center lines of the first thin line portions are positioned leftward relative to center lines of the first thick line portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventor: Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20230053211Abstract: A multilayer board includes thermoplastic resin layers laminated together, a first-class conductor pattern including a conductor foil on a first surface of one of the thermoplastic resin layers, a second-class conductor pattern in contact with a second surface of the one of the thermoplastic resin layers, and an interlayer connection conductor in the one of the thermoplastic resin layers and including a first end surface connected to the first-class conductor pattern and a second end surface connected to a second-class conductor pattern. The second-class conductor pattern and the first interlayer connection conductor include a conductor of a single material including a resin, or a conductor of a single material including a metal with a melting point lower than that of the conductor foil.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventor: Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20230036907Abstract: A multilayer substrate module includes a first substrate portion including a first substrate portion body including first insulator layers stacked in a vertical direction and a first conductor layer and/or a first interlayer connection conductor provided at the first substrate portion body. A second substrate portion includes a second substrate portion body including second insulator layers stacked in the vertical direction and a second conductor layer and a second interlayer connection conductor provided at the second substrate portion body, and is mounted on an upper surface of the first substrate portion. A mount device is mounted on an upper surface or a lower surface of the second substrate portion. At least a portion of an inductance component is defined by the first conductor layer and the first interlayer connection conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Noriaki OKUDA, Tomohiro NAGAI, Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20220418102Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a multilayer body in which insulating layers are laminated in a laminating direction, a front electrode that is provided on a front surface side of a first insulating layer which is positioned on a front surface side of the multilayer body among the insulating layers, a first internal electrode that is provided on an opposite side to the front electrode with the first insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a first interlayer connection conductor that electrically connects the front electrode and the first internal electrode with each other. The first interlayer connection conductor includes a front side connection surface that is electrically connected with the front electrode and a back side connection surface that is electrically connected with the first internal electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Kosuke NISHIO, Kazuya SODA
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Publication number: 20220418103Abstract: A resin multilayer substrate includes a multilayer body including resin base-material layers laminated in a thickness direction and a circuit conductor therein, an end-surface ground conductor provided directly on each end surface of the multilayer body in the thickness direction, an adhesion layer on a side surface of the multilayer body, and a side-surface ground conductor on the adhesion layer. The end-surface and side-surface ground conductors are made of a ground conductor material with a coefficient of thermal expansion whose difference from a coefficient of thermal expansion of the resin base-material layers in a plane direction is smaller than a difference from a coefficient of thermal expansion of the resin base-material layers in the thickness direction. The adhesion layer is made of a material with higher adhesiveness to the side surface of the multilayer body than adhesiveness of the ground conductor material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Atsushi KASUYA, Tomohiko NARUOKA, Noriaki OKUDA, Kosuke NISHIO, Nobuo IKEMOTO
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Publication number: 20220401123Abstract: A medical device capable of safely cutting a lesion area with relatively high accuracy while supplying a liquid into a body and discharging a cut object. The medical device that removes an object in a body lumen includes: a rotatable drive shaft; a cutting portion fixed to a distal portion of the drive shaft and configured to cut the object; an outer tubular shaft configured to rotatably accommodate the drive shaft; and a handle, in which the outer tubular shaft includes a tubular inner layer and a tubular outer layer fixed to the inner layer and surrounding the inner layer, a first lumen is formed between the outer layer and the inner layer, a second lumen is formed between the inner layer and the drive shaft, and the outer tubular shaft is rotatable with respect to the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taiga NAKANO, Cang LAM, Kosuke NISHIO
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Patent number: 11525476Abstract: Provided are a bearing and a medical device in which a gap is secured between an inner ring and an outer ring, and the gap can be used as a flow path for a fluid or an object. A bearing having a plurality of rolling elements between an inner ring and an outer ring is provided with a raceway surface on which the rolling elements roll on the outer ring and receiving portions for rotatably accommodating the rolling elements at a position of the inner ring facing the raceway surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke Nishio
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Publication number: 20220361912Abstract: A medical device that reduces stress concentration on a part of a drive shaft and has stable rotation and durability. The medical device that removes an object in a body lumen includes: a rotatable drive shaft; a driving portion configured to apply torque to a proximal portion of the drive shaft and having a specified rated rotation direction; a cutting portion fixed to a distal portion of the drive shaft and configured to cut the object; an outer tubular shaft rotatably accommodating the drive shaft, in which the drive shaft includes a proximal coil and a distal coil disposed on a distal side with respect to the proximal coil, and the distal coil is more deformable in a radial direction than the proximal coil by receiving load torque while the drive shaft is rotating in the rated rotation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20220323100Abstract: A medical device includes: a drive shaft that is rotatable; a drive unit that is connected to a proximal portion of the drive shaft and rotates the drive shaft; a housing that accommodates the proximal portion of the drive shaft; and a handle portion that accommodates the drive unit and the housing, in which the housing includes an accommodation portion that is provided therein, a shaft support that is disposed in the accommodation portion and has a lumen through which the proximal portion of the drive shaft is inserted, and an elastic body that is disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the shaft support and an inner peripheral surface of the accommodation portion, and since an outer diameter of the shaft support is smaller than an inner diameter of the accommodation portion, the shaft support is movable in the accommodation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taiga NAKANO, Kosuke NISHIO
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Publication number: 20220304722Abstract: A medical device that cuts an object in a body lumen includes: a drive shaft; a shaft portion connected to the drive shaft; a cutting portion connected to the shaft portion; and first and second bearings that rotatably support the shaft portion. The first bearing has a ring shape, the second bearing has a ring shape and is spaced from a proximal side of the first bearing. The shaft portion includes a first sliding portion slidably supported by the first bearing, a second sliding portion slidably supported by the second bearing, and an intermediate portion between the first and second sliding portions. The intermediate portion has a protruding portion protruding radially outward, the protruding portion is disposed between the first bearing (81) and the second bearing in an axial direction, and the shaft portion has a passage that communicates from the first sliding portion to the second sliding portion).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taiga NAKANO, Kosuke NISHIO, Vivian TRAN, Dan BAO, Lam CANG
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Patent number: 11452542Abstract: A medical device and a treatment method are disclosed, which can improve safety by reducing damage to a biological tissue while an object inside a biological lumen can be cut. A medical device is disclosed for cutting an object inside a biological lumen includes a rotatable drive shaft, and a rotary structure that interlocks with a distal side of the drive shaft so as to be rotated by the drive shaft. The rotary structure has a cutting portion for cutting the object, and a non-cutting portion capable of smoothly coming into contact with a biological tissue. The non-cutting portion is located in a maximum outer diameter portion of the rotary structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke Nishio, Tomonori Hatta
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Publication number: 20220270804Abstract: A transmission line component includes an insulation substrate, signal line conductors, and a common-mode choke coil. The insulation substrate is made of a flexible material, and has a shape extending in a first direction. The signal line conductors are on or in the insulation substrate, and extend mainly in the first direction. The common-mode choke coil includes linear conductors on or in the insulation substrate, and is connected to the signal line conductors. The insulation substrate includes a first signal line portion in which the signal line conductors are provided, and a coil portion in which the common-mode choke coil is provided in the first direction. The insulation substrate includes a bent portion in the first signal line portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Noriaki OKUDA, Kosuke NISHIO, Tomohiro NAGAI
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Patent number: 11389191Abstract: A method is disclosed comprising: introducing a treatment member into a living body and positioning the treatment member adjacent substance in the living body to be ground; moving the treatment member in at least a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction about a central axis, which is different from an axis of rotation of the treatment member while the treatment member is positioned adjacent the substance to be ground in the living body to grind the substance; and shearing debris resulting from the grinding of the substance to reduce a size of the debris.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taiga Nakano, Junichi Kobayashi, Tomonori Hatta, Kosuke Nishio