Patents by Inventor Makoto Inaba

Makoto Inaba 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: 20100094277
    Abstract: A high-frequency surgical device includes: a treatment section provided with electrodes for supplying high-frequency power to living tissue of a patent foramen ovale; a high-frequency power supplying section for supplying high-frequency power to living tissue around the electrodes through the electrodes; a blood flow detecting section for detecting intracardiac blood flow information based on biological information inputted from outside; and a control section for controlling high-frequency power to be supplied to the side of electrodes based on the blood flow information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Taisuke SATO, Manabu ISHIKAWA, Makoto INABA, Takashi MIHORI, Yoshitaka HONDA
  • Patent number: 7667592
    Abstract: A treatment instrument output data analysis section includes a probe ID extraction section, an output waveform extraction section, a data analysis section and an analysis result output section. The analysis result output section of the treatment instrument output data analysis section can display on a centralized display panel a synthetic image made by synthesizing a frame image stored in an image storage section of an endoscopic camera apparatus and an analysis result analyzed by the data analysis section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Masahide Ohyama, Hideyuki Shoji, Sumihiro Uchimura, Masanori Gocho, Takashi Mihori, Shinji Hatta, Mitsumasa Okada, Makoto Inaba, Masakazu Gotanda, Yoshitaka Honda
  • Publication number: 20090084597
    Abstract: There is provided a circuit board including a first and a second circuit substrate located with a spacing, on which a first and a second conductor pad are provided respectively; and a connection substrate including a first and a second conductor post projecting from one or the other side; the connection substrate being disposed so as to cover a portion of the first and the second circuit substrate, and bridged therebetween; the first conductor post and the first conductor pad, as well as the second conductor post and the second conductor pad, being disposed so as to oppose each other; the circuit board also including a connector portion to be formed upon melting a metal coating layer, formed in advance on a surface of at least one of the first conductor post and the first conductor pad, and on a surface of at least one of the second conductor post and the second conductor pad; the first and the second circuit substrate and the connection substrate being electrically connected through the connector portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Chuma, Makoto Inaba
  • Publication number: 20080293993
    Abstract: A catheter unit comprising an elbowed catheter having an insert section capable of being inserted into the body cavity and an elbow section and a winged catheter capable of being attached to the elbowed catheter so as to cover the insert section of the elbowed catheter. The two catheters are introduced into the body cavity by utilizing the bending function and fixed in the body cavity by means of a wing portion attached to the winged catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Inaba
  • Publication number: 20080129527
    Abstract: A treatment instrument output data analysis section includes a probe ID extraction section, an output waveform extraction section, a data analysis section and an analysis result output section. The analysis result output section of the treatment instrument output data analysis section can display on a centralized display panel a synthetic image made by synthesizing a frame image stored in an image storage section of an endoscopic camera apparatus and an analysis result analyzed by the data analysis section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Masahide Ohyama, Hideyuki Shoji, Sumihiro Uchimura, Masanori Gocho, Takashi Mihori, Shinji Hatta, Mitsumasa Okada, Makoto Inaba, Masakazu Gotanda, Yoshitaka Honda
  • Patent number: 7329257
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a heat generating element to be current-carried is provided at a grasp portion on the tip side of a treatment portion, the patient's body tissue grasped between a pair of grasp portions is coagulated by heat of the heat generating element, and a metal scissors blade for cutting the patient's body tissue is provided on the rear side of the grasp portion in the treatment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kanehira, Koji Iida, Naomi Sekino, Makoto Inaba, Norihiko Hareyama, Taisuke Sato, Kenichi Kimura, Hideto Yoshimine
  • Publication number: 20040147799
    Abstract: A catheter unit comprising an elbowed catheter having an insert section capable of being inserted into the body cavity and an elbow section and a winged catheter capable of being attached to the elbowed catheter so as to cover the insert section of the elbowed catheter. The two catheters are introduced into the body cavity by utilizing the bending function and fixed in the body cavity by means of a wing portion attached to the winged catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Inaba
  • Patent number: 6764485
    Abstract: The thermal treatment apparatus is equipped with a laser generator for supplying laser beams, a laser irradiation unit for applying the supplied laser beams to tissues, and a control unit for totally controlling various parts of the system. The laser irradiation unit is equipped with a movable laser emission part for emitting laser beams to tissues, a motor for reciprocating a laser emission part, and a guide lumen for supporting an endoscope in such a way as to enable it to move in the direction of the laser emission part. The control unit controls the motor that drives the laser emission part to make reciprocation motion in such a way that the laser emission part stops at a position where it does not interfere with the moving passage of the endoscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignees: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihiko Hareyama, Takefumi Uesugi, Taisuke Sato, Shigenobu Iwahashi, Shigeki Ariura, Wataru Karino, Makoto Inaba, Shin Maki
  • Publication number: 20040078035
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a heat generating element to be current-carried is provided at a grasp portion on the tip side of a treatment portion, the patient's body tissue grasped between a pair of grasp portions is coagulated by heat of the heat generating element, and a metal scissors blade for cutting the patient's body tissue is provided on the rear side of the grasp portion in the treatment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kanehira, Koji Iida, Naomi Sekino, Makoto Inaba, Norihiko Hareyama, Taisuke Sato, Kenichi Kimura, Hideto Yoshimine
  • Publication number: 20030171747
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a heat generating element to be current-carried is provided at a grasp portion on the tip side of a treatment portion, the patient's body tissue grasped between a pair of grasp portions is coagulated by heat of the heat generating element, and a metal scissors blade for cutting the patient's body tissue is provided on the rear side of the grasp portion in the treatment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kanehira, Koji Iida, Naomi Sekino, Makoto Inaba, Norihiko Hareyama, Taisuke Sato, Kenichi Kimura, Hideto Yoshimine
  • Patent number: 6605082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal treatment apparatus capable of irradiating targeted lesions with energy to obtain good treatment results. The invention displays the diagnostic images 2201 of the lesion overlaid upon the laser irradiation areas a, b, c, and d and is capable of setting up the laser emission angle, output and time using the graphical user interface displayed on the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignees: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihiko Hareyama, Toru Nagase, Makoto Inaba, Takefumi Uesugi, Satoshi Mizukawa, Shin Maki, Shigeki Ariura
  • Patent number: 6544257
    Abstract: A thermal treatment apparatus comprises a control unit 251a that stops issuing a signal for laser beam activation transmitted over the foot switch signal cable 291 when the temperature obtained by the mirror temperature sensor 111 that detects the temperature of the laser emission part 122 provided at the laser irradiation unit 1 exceeds a predetermined value. This stops the output of the laser beam from the laser generator 3. Alternatively, the control unit can adjust the output value of the laser beam generated by the laser beam generator 3 by transmitting a signal via the communication cable 293 to change it in accordance with the detection signal of the mirror temperature sensor 111.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignees: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Nagase, Norihiko Hareyama, Takefumi Uesugi, Satoshi Mizukawa, Makoto Inaba, Akira Sakaguchi, Shigenobu Iwahashi, Shigeki Ariura, Shin Maki, Wataru Karino
  • Publication number: 20030065315
    Abstract: The thermal treatment apparatus is equipped with a laser generator for supplying laser beams, a laser irradiation unit for applying the supplied laser beams to tissues, and a control unit for totally controlling various parts of the system. The laser irradiation unit is equipped with a movable laser emission part for emitting laser beams to tissues, a motor for reciprocating a laser emission part, and a guide lumen for supporting an endoscope in such a way as to enable it to move in the direction of the laser emission part. The control unit controls the motor that drives the laser emission part to make reciprocation motion in such a way that the laser emission part stops at a position where it does not interfere with the moving passage of the endoscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Norihiko Hareyama, Takefumi Uesugi, Taisuke Sato, Shigenobu Iwahashi, Shigeki Ariura, Wataru Karino, Makoto Inaba, Shin Maki
  • Publication number: 20020022869
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal treatment apparatus capable of irradiating targeted lesions with energy to obtain good treatment results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Norihiko Hareyama, Toru Nagase, Makoto Inaba, Takefumi Uesugi, Satoshi Mizukawa, Shin Maki, Shigeki Ariura
  • Publication number: 20020022829
    Abstract: A thermal treatment apparatus comprises a control unit 251a that stops issuing a signal for laser beam activation transmitted over the foot switch signal cable 291 when the temperature obtained by the mirror temperature sensor 111 that detects the temperature of the laser emission part 122 provided at the laser irradiation unit 1 exceeds a predetermined value. This stops the output of the laser beam from the laser generator 3. Alternatively, the control unit can adjust the output value of the laser beam generated by the laser beam generator 3 by transmitting a signal via the communication cable 293 to change it in accordance with the detection signal of the mirror temperature sensor 111.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Toru Nagase, Norihiko Hareyama, Takefumi Uesugi, Satoshi Mizukawa, Makoto Inaba, Akira Sakaguchi, Shigenobu Iwahashi, Shigeki Ariura, Shin Maki, Wataru Karino
  • Patent number: 5380319
    Abstract: A heat using therapeutic device includes an applicator provided with an insertion section, a balloon enclosing a high frequency warming electrode attached to the insertion section of the applicator; medicine ejecting holes arranged on the balloon; and a medicine passage for connecting the medicine ejecting holes to a medicine mouth piece attached to a rear end of the applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Saito, Makoto Inaba, Motoyuki Tagawa, Toru Nagase
  • Patent number: 5331961
    Abstract: In a probe, two scintillators are arranged in tandem, the front end surfaces of two optical fibers transmitting the light emitted by the scintillators are connected to the rear of the scintillators and two photoelectric converters converting the light to pulse signals are connected to the rear of the optical fibers. A gate delay generator produces a gate signal from one pulse signal. A delay amplifier delays the other pulse signal. An M.C.A. will count up in case the pulse signal output by the delay amplifier is obtained during the gate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Inaba, Masakazu Gotanda, Hiromu Takahashi, Takashi Nakamura, Masatoshi Itoh, Masaki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Watabe
  • Patent number: 5088492
    Abstract: A radioactive ray detecting endoscope comprises an elongated insertable part having an observing window in the tip part, an imaging apparatus converting an image of an observed part obtained through the observing window to an electric signal and a radioactive ray detecting apparatus detecting radioactive rays from inside the visual field of the imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus has, for example, a solid state imaging device imaging an optical image of an object. Also, a collimator regulating the radioactive ray detecting direction is provided, for example, around the radioactive ray detecting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Takayama, Masaaki Hayashi, Eiichi Fuse, Koichiro Ishiwara, Mutsumi Yoshikawa, Motoyuki Tagawa, Makoto Inaba
  • Patent number: 5014708
    Abstract: The radioactive ray detecting therapeutic apparatus of the present invention has an insertable part to be inserted toward an affected part. A therapeutic apparatus for treating the affected part, and a radioactive ray detecting apparatus for detecting radioactive rays discharged out of the affected part and providing signals by which to direct the therapeutic apparatus to the affected part, are provided in the tip part of the insertable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co.
    Inventors: Masaaki Hayashi, Koichiro Ishihara, Yutaka Ohshima, Yutaka Yanagawa, Motoyuki Tagawa, Shuichi Takayama, Takashi Tsukaya, Makoto Inaba, Toshihiko Hashiguchi, Hiroki Hibino, Hiroyuki Sasa
  • Patent number: 4995396
    Abstract: A radioactive ray detecting endoscope comprises an elongated insertable part, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus provided in the tip part of the insertable part for transmitting ultrasonic waves toward an observed part, for receiving echoes from the observed part by these ultrasonic waves, and for outputting a signal for forming an ultrasonic image and a radioactive ray detecting apparatus arrangeable in the tip part of the insertable part for detecting radioactive rays. Preferably, the observing direction of the ultrasonic imaging apparatus and the detecting direction of the radioactive ray detecting apparatus substantially coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Inaba, Masaaki Hayashi, Toshihiko Hashiguchi, Hiroki Hibino, Hiroyuki Sasa, David E. Barlow, Yutaka Ohshima, Kohichiro Ishihara, Yutaka Yanagawa, Motoyuki Tagawa, Shuichi Takayama, Takashi Tsukaya, Frank Klosterman, Jack Goodman