Patents by Inventor Manabu Hiraoka

Manabu Hiraoka 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: 5627868
    Abstract: A computerized tomography apparatus is disclosed which reconstructs a tomography image of data from multi-directional projection data in a period of time less than the time required for a scan operation for data acquisition and displays the tomography image after a lapse of a given period of time from the termination of the scan operation. This avoids the time interval between scan and image display becoming irregular. Accordingly, tomography images can be displayed successively like motion picture to observe the internal movements of a section of a human body under examination in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuo Nobuta, Yusuke Toki, Manabu Hiraoka, Naoki Sugihara, Masahiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 5612985
    Abstract: A computer tomography apparatus of the present invention can select one of an ON state in which X-ray radiation is performed to continuously acquire projection data and an OFF state in which acquisition of projection data is stopped, and even in the OFF state, rotation of an X-ray tube is continued, thus allowing quick switching from the OFF state to the ON state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusuke Toki, Manabu Hiraoka, Ichiro Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Onuki, Tatsuya Ban, Tetsuro Hada, Takeo Nabatame, Masao Yamahana, Masakuni Fujise, Yoshihiko Aochi, Makoto Hayashibara, Masahiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 5608772
    Abstract: A computerized tomography apparatus is disclosed which reconstructs a tomography image of data from multi-directional projection data in a period of time less than the time required for a scan operation for data acquisition and displays the tomography image after a lapse of a given period of time from the termination of the scan operation. This avoids the time interval between scan and image display becoming irregular. Accordingly, tomography images can be displayed successively like motion picture to observe the internal movements of a section of a human body under examination in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuo Nobuta, Yusuke Toki, Manabu Hiraoka, Naoki Sugihara, Masahiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 5594772
    Abstract: A computer tomography apparatus of the present invention can select one of an ON state in which X-ray radiation is performed to continuously acquire projection data and an OFF state in which acquisition of projection data is stopped, and even in the OFF state, rotation of an X-ray tube is continued, thus allowing quick switching from the OFF state to the ON state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusuke Toki, Manabu Hiraoka, Ichiro Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Onuki, Tatsuya Ban, Tetsuro Hada, Takeo Nabatame, Masao Yamahana, Masakuni Fujise, Yoshihiko Aochi, Makoto Hayashibara, Masahiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 5566218
    Abstract: A computerized tomography apparatus is disclosed which reconstructs a tomography image of data from multi-directional projection data in a period of time less than the time required for a scan operation for data acquisition and displays the tomography image after a lapse of a given period of time from the termination of the scan operation. This avoids the time interval between scan and image display becoming irregular. Accordingly, tomography images can be displayed successively like motion picture to observe the internal movements of a section of a human body under examination in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuo Nobuta, Yusuke Toki, Manabu Hiraoka, Naoki Sugihara, Masahiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 5513237
    Abstract: A computerized tomography apparatus is disclosed which reconstructs a tomography image of data from multi-directional projection data in a period of time less than the time required for a scan operation for data acquisition and displays the tomography image after a lapse of a given period of time from the termination of the scan operation. This avoids the time interval between scan and image display becoming irregular. Accordingly, tomography images can be displayed successively like motion picture to observe the internal movements of a section of a human body under examination in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuo Nobuta, Yusuke Toki, Manabu Hiraoka, Naoki Sugihara, Masahiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 5026283
    Abstract: A capsule for a tooth-restoring material includes a cylinder containing therein the predetermined amount of a powder component of the tooth-restoring material and fitted at its rear end with an extruding plunger; a breakable package held in front of an extreme end opening in the cylinder, the package containing therein an amount of a liquid component of the tooth-restoring material and having its cylinder-facing side formed of a weak material; and a member for holding the package having a nozzle at its outermost end; wherein at a position of the plunger corresponding to the extreme end opening in the cylinder is provided a member capable of breaking through the package of a size small enough not to close up the opening and the nozzle, when the plunger moves to and reaches the package-holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: G-C Dental Industrial Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Osanai, Manabu Hiraoka