Patents by Inventor Kunihiro FUJIKI

Kunihiro FUJIKI 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).

  • Transfer apparatus, sample processing system, and conveyance method
    Patent number: 11460478
    Abstract: In a first transfer station, a second transfer station, and a third transfer station, a plurality of sample containers are transferred while being stored from a transfer source rack to a transfer destination rack row. In this case, for each of the sample containers to be a transfer target, a specific transfer destination rack is selected from the transfer destination rack row based on a content of processing to be applied in the future to a sample within the sample container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Sugiyama, Shigeki Okuno, Kunihiro Fujiki, Yoshinori Takeyama, Hidehiko Fushimi, Hideaki Kataho
  • TRANSFER APPARATUS, SAMPLE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONVEYANCE METHOD
    Publication number: 20200256883
    Abstract: In a first transfer station, a second transfer station, and a third transfer station, a plurality of sample containers are transferred while being stored from a transfer source rack to a transfer destination rack row. In this case, for each of the sample containers to be a transfer target, a specific transfer destination rack is selected from the transfer destination rack row based on a content of processing to be applied in the future to a sample within the sample container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta SUGIYAMA, Shigeki OKUNO, Kunihiro FUJIKI, Yoshinori TAKEYAMA, Hidehiko FUSHIMI, Hideaki KATAHO