Patents by Inventor Masaharu OONO

Masaharu OONO 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).

  • Medicine issuing device and container identifying device
    Patent number: 9073692
    Abstract: This medicine issuing device is a container identifying device for identifying tubular medicine containers (1,2,3) provided with identifying marks (4,5,6) on their external circumference, said medicine issuing device comprising: an operation component (7) that takes the medicine containers (1,2,3) out of a cassette (403); a movement path component (8) that moves the medicine containers (1,2,3) taken out by the operation component (7) to an identification position (9); a container rotation component (10) that rotates the medicine containers (1,2,3) that were moved to a specific identification position by the movement path component (8), around an outer peripheral face; and an identifying mark reader (11) that reads the identifying marks (4,5,6) of the medicine containers (1,2,3) rotated by the container rotation component (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Oono, Taizo Isshiki, Michimori Nakano
  • MEDICINE ISSUING DEVICE AND CONTAINER IDENTIFYING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140217165
    Abstract: This medicine issuing device is a container identifying device for identifying tubular medicine containers (1,2,3) provided with identifying marks (4,5,6) on their external circumference, said medicine issuing device comprising: an operation component (7) that takes the medicine containers (1,2,3) out of a cassette (403); a movement path component (8) that moves the medicine containers (1,2,3) taken out by the operation component (7) to an identification position (9); a container rotation component (10) that rotates the medicine containers (1,2,3) that were moved to a specific identification position by the movement path component (8), around an outer peripheral face; and an identifying mark reader (11) that reads the identifying marks (4,5,6) of the medicine containers (1,2,3) rotated by the container rotation component (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu OONO, Taizo ISSHIKI, Michimori NAKANO