Patents by Inventor Kunihiko Akita

Kunihiko Akita 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).

  • Publication number: 20230398277
    Abstract: Provided is a blood purification apparatus configured to keep a blood pump from being driven until a puncture needle is removed. The blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit which is coupled with a puncture needle punctured into a patient and through which blood from the patient flows; a blood pump that is provided to the blood circuit and delivers liquid in the blood circuit by being driven; a needle removal detector that detects removal of the puncture needle from the patient; and a controller that starts a blood return process to return the blood in the blood circuit to the patient and puts the blood pump in a non-active state in response to determination that the blood return process ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Chiaki, Takumi Homma, Yuya Menjoh, Kazuya Tsuji, Kunihiko Akita
  • Publication number: 20230270923
    Abstract: A blood circuit and a dialysate circuit bidirectionally circulate a fluid through a blood purification membrane of a blood purifier, and include a first flow route that causes a dialysate to flow from the dialysate circuit into the blood circuit through a connection flow route connecting the dialysate circuit to the blood circuit while bypassing the blood purifier, and a second flow route that causes the dialysate to flow from the dialysate circuit into the blood circuit through the blood purification membrane. The controller performs control such that blood in the blood circuit is returned to the body by feeding the dialysate to one of these flow routes, determine if a flow amount of the dialysate reaches a predetermined flow amount, and control such that the blood in the blood circuit is returned to the body by feeding the dialysate to the other one of these flow routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Hikaru Chiaki, Yuya Menjoh, Kazuya Tsuji, Kunihiko Akita
  • Patent number: 11471574
    Abstract: A blood-purification-treatment support system is capable of making an accurate judgement of whether or not any treatment conditions for blood purification treatment should be changed. The blood-purification-treatment support system is capable of supporting blood purification treatment. The system includes a storage device that stores patient-specific patient data that are acquired on a plurality of days including at least no-treatment days on which blood purification treatment is not conducted, an estimating device that compares the patient data for the plurality of days stored in the storage device with one another and estimates a pre-treatment patient state regarding blood purification treatment, and a judging device that judges from the pre-treatment patient state estimated by the estimating device whether or not any treatment conditions for blood purification treatment should be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11458237
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that detects dislodgement of a puncture needle is provided. The apparatus includes an arterial electrode, a venous electrode, a power source capable of causing a current to flow through an arterial puncture needle and a venous puncture needle that are stuck in a patient, a body-surface electrode closely attached to a body surface of the patient, a detection device capable of acquiring a heart rate of the patient in accordance with an electrical signal detected by the body-surface electrode, a monitoring device capable of monitoring in real time the current flowing through the arterial electrode or the venous electrode and a change in an impedance in a body of the patient that is detected by the detection device, and an identifying device capable of identifying a dislodged state where the arterial puncture needle or the venous puncture needle is dislodged from the patient, in accordance with the change in the impedance that is an object of monitoring by the monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11458238
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided that is capable of detecting an abnormal state of puncture into a blood vessel with an arterial puncture needle or a venous puncture needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Masahiro Toyoda, Tomoya Murakami, Kunihiko Akita
  • Patent number: 11419963
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus with a blood circuit that allows a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate and a blood purifier connected to the blood circuit and that purifies the blood in extracorporeal circulation are attachable, the blood purification apparatus including a dialysate introduction line through which dialysate is introduced into the blood purifier; a dialysate drain line through which waste dialysate resulting from blood purification performed by the blood purifier is drained from the blood purifier; and a concentration-detecting unit that detects a concentration of a predetermined substance in the waste dialysate flowing through the dialysate drain line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Satoru Kawarabayashi, Shinya Hasegawa, Tomoya Murakami, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20220211924
    Abstract: A blood purification device for blood purification therapy performed through a blood purifier, the blood purification device includes piping; a plurality of sensors of different detection types that are provided on the piping; and a liquid chemical identification unit that identifies a type of a cleaning/disinfection liquid chemical flowing through the piping by using the plurality of sensors. The liquid chemical identification unit is configured to be able to identify types of the liquid chemicals of at least not less than the number of the plurality of sensors by using the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi Ichikawa, Shinya Hasegawa, Masamichi Sakamaki, Kunihiko Akita, Hiroaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11311251
    Abstract: An exercise support apparatus is capable of supporting exercise taken by a patient during blood purification treatment and includes an estimation generating device that generates an estimation representing a circulating-blood-volume rate of change regarding a circulating blood volume that is estimated to be observed after the exercise is started, the estimation being generated after the blood purification treatment is started and from a continuous measurement of the circulating-blood-volume rate of change as regarding changes in circulating blood volume that is conducted before the exercise is started; a calculating device that calculates a difference between a measured value of the circulating-blood-volume rate of change that is acquired after the exercise during the blood purification treatment is started and a value of the estimation generated by the estimation generating device; and a first monitoring device that monitors whether the difference or ratio calculated by the first calculating device is over a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Kunihiko Akita, Nobuhiko Aida
  • Patent number: 11179507
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus to which a blood circuit that allows a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate and a blood purifier connected to the blood circuit and that purifies the blood in extracorporeal circulation are attachable, the blood purification apparatus including a dialysate introduction line through which dialysate is introduced into the blood purifier; a dialysate drain line through which waste dialysate resulting from blood purification performed by the blood purifier is drained from the blood purifier; and a concentration-detecting unit that detects a concentration of a predetermined substance in the waste dialysate resulting from the blood purification by the blood purifier and flowing through the dialysate drain line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Satoru Kawarabayashi, Shinya Hasegawa, Tomoya Murakami, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11123463
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus in which the error in the amount of discharge from a blood pump that is caused by the change in the suction pressure of the blood pump is reduced. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit through which blood of a patient is extracorporeally circulated; a dialyzer connected to proximal ends of an arterial blood circuit and a venous blood circuit and that purifies the blood extracorporeally circulating through the blood circuit; a squeezable tube connected to the arterial blood circuit; a blood pump allowing liquid in the squeezable tube to flow by squeezing the squeezable tube in a lengthwise direction while compressing the squeezable tube in a radial direction; and a pressure-detecting device attached to a predetermined position of the arterial blood circuit that is nearer to a distal end than a position where the blood pump is provided, the pressure-detecting device being capable of detecting a suction pressure of the blood pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Makoto Tokunaga, Kunihiko Akita
  • Patent number: 11090419
    Abstract: Provided is a blood purification apparatus which can continue to accurately monitor a blood purification treatment state even if treatment conditions are changed during blood purification treatment. The blood purification apparatus can perform real-time monitoring on the blood purification treatment state, based on a concentration change in a discharge solution which is obtained by an arithmetic device. The blood purification apparatus includes a treatment condition change device that sets or changes treatment conditions as requested, and that causes a discharge solution concentration sensor to previously detect concentration of the discharge solution under the respective treatment conditions, and a storage device that stores the concentration of the discharge solution under the respective treatment conditions which is detected by the discharge solution concentration sensor in the treatment condition change device, as a first predetermined value corresponding to the respective treatment conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoya Murakami, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20210077704
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that accurately calculates the colloid osmotic pressure of a patient's blood. A dialyzer included in the blood purification apparatus has thereinside blood flow routes and dialysate flow routes that are separated from each other by hollow fibers. An ultrafiltration pump draws out water from the blood in the blood flow routes through the hollow fibers into the dialysate flow routes. Four detecting units measure the pressures of liquid flowing into the blood flow routes, the liquid discharged from the blood flow routes, dialysate flowing into the dialysate flow routes, and the dialysate discharged from the dialysate flow routes. The pressures at the four positions, the transmembrane pressure difference can be calculated. The blood flow routes are filled with a priming solution, and the transmembrane pressure difference (TMPa) is measured. Subsequently, the blood flow routes are filled with the patient's blood, and the transmembrane pressure difference (TMPb) is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shinya Hasegawa, Satoru Kawarabayashi, Masahiro Toyoda, Kunihiko Akita
  • Publication number: 20210077703
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus including a blood circuit including an arterial blood circuit and a venous blood circuit and that allows a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate from a distal end of the arterial blood circuit to a distal end of the venous blood circuit; a blood purifier between the arterial blood circuit and the venous blood circuit that purifies the blood flowing through the blood circuit having a blood flow route through which the blood extracorporeally circulating through the blood circuit flows and a dialysate flow route through which dialysate flows, the blood flow route and the dialysate flow route being separated from each other by a blood purification membrane for purifying the blood; an ultrafiltration unit that performs ultrafiltration by filtering out water from the blood in the blood flow route through the blood purification membrane and draining the water through the dialysate flow route; and a substitution-fluid supply unit that supplies substitution fluid into the blood c
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shinya Hasegawa, Satoru Kawarabayashi, Masahiro Toyoda, Kunihiko Akita
  • Publication number: 20210052799
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that includes a blood circuit including an arterial blood circuit provided with an arterial puncture needle and a venous blood circuit provided with a venous puncture needle with which an access vessel is puncturable, the blood circuit allowing blood of the patient to extracorporeally circulate; a blood purifier connected to the arterial blood circuit and to the venous blood circuit and that purifies the blood flowing through the blood circuit; a blood pump provided to the arterial blood circuit; a recirculating-blood-detecting unit capable of detecting recirculating blood when the blood of the patient is caused to extracorporeally circulate through the blood circuit by activating the blood pump, the recirculating blood being blood once returned to the patient from the venous blood circuit and reintroduced into the arterial blood circuit; and a recirculation-rate-calculating unit capable of calculating recirculation rate, the recirculation rate being a proportion of the recircul
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kunihiko Akita, Shinya Hasegawa, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20200237991
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus to which a blood circuit that allows a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate and a blood purifier connected to the blood circuit and that purifies the blood in extracorporeal circulation are attachable, the blood purification apparatus including a dialysate introduction line through which dialysate is introduced into the blood purifier; a dialysate drain line through which waste dialysate resulting from blood purification performed by the blood purifier is drained from the blood purifier; and a concentration-detecting unit that detects a concentration of a predetermined substance in the waste dialysate resulting from the blood purification by the blood purifier and flowing through the dialysate drain line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru Kawarabayashi, Shinya Hasegawa, Tomoya Murakami, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20200237988
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus with a blood circuit that allows a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate and a blood purifier connected to the blood circuit and that purifies the blood in extracorporeal circulation are attachable, the blood purification apparatus including a dialysate introduction line through which dialysate is introduced into the blood purifier; a dialysate drain line through which waste dialysate resulting from blood purification performed by the blood purifier is drained from the blood purifier; and a concentration-detecting unit that detects a concentration of a predetermined substance in the waste dialysate flowing through the dialysate drain line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru Kawarabayashi, Shinya Hasegawa, Tomoya Murakami, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20200147291
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided that is capable of detecting an abnormal state of puncture into a blood vessel with an arterial puncture needle or a venous puncture needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Masahiro Toyoda, Tomoya Murakami, Kunihiko Akita
  • Patent number: 10610634
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit through which blood of a patient extracorporeally circulate, and a dialyzer that purifies the blood flowing in the blood circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shinya Hasegawa, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20200038577
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that detects dislodgement of a puncture needle is provided. The apparatus includes an arterial electrode, a venous electrode, a power source capable of causing a current to flow through an arterial puncture needle and a venous puncture needle that are stuck in a patient, a body-surface electrode closely attached to a body surface of the patient, a detection device capable of acquiring a heart rate of the patient in accordance with an electrical signal detected by the body-surface electrode, a monitoring device capable of monitoring in real time the current flowing through the arterial electrode or the venous electrode and a change in an impedance in a body of the patient that is detected by the detection device, and an identifying device capable of identifying a dislodged state where the arterial puncture needle or the venous puncture needle is dislodged from the patient, in accordance with the change in the impedance that is an object of monitoring by the monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Kunihiko Akita, Masahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20190274639
    Abstract: To provide an exercise support apparatus that can offer safer exercise to be taken during blood purification treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Hitoshi Goto, Kunihiko Akita, Nobuhiko Aida