Patents by Inventor Masanao Majima

Masanao Majima 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: 11630071
    Abstract: An analysis method for detecting an amount of a substance by irradiating an analysis chip containing the substance and detecting a quantity of light output from the analysis chip. The analysis method including irradiating an incident surface of the analysis chip and another surface adjacent to the incident surface with detection light while changing a relative position of the detection light with respect to the analysis chip, detecting reflected light from the incident surface of the analysis chip, and acquiring information on a position of the analysis chip from a relationship between a quantity of the reflected light detected and the relative position. The analysis method determines if the analysis chip is abnormal when a quantity of target reflected light is equal to or lower than a predetermined light quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Noda, Masanao Majima, Yuuya Shouji
  • Patent number: 11103131
    Abstract: A laparoscopic device includes a flexible insertion part including an imaging optical system and an illumination optical system that are covered with an exterior tube; and an operational part connected to a base end of the insertion part. The insertion part is inserted into a peritoneal dialysis catheter for observation of an abdominal cavity, and the insertion part includes a distal extended part that is extendable from the peritoneal dialysis catheter in the abdominal cavity during use and formed in a shape with a curved part having a cumulative central angle between 180° and 360°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masanao Majima, Yasuyuki Natsuno, Akira Kunimoto, Katsumi Fujiwara, Junichi Jono
  • Publication number: 20200271593
    Abstract: An analysis method for detecting an amount of a substance by irradiating an analysis chip containing the substance and detecting a quantity of light output from the analysis chip. The analysis method including irradiating an incident surface of the analysis chip and another surface adjacent to the incident surface with detection light while changing a relative position of the detection light with respect to the analysis chip, detecting reflected light from the incident surface of the analysis chip, and acquiring information on a position of the analysis chip from a relationship between a quantity of the reflected light detected and the relative position. The analysis method determines if the analysis chip is abnormal when a quantity of target reflected light is equal to or lower than a predetermined light quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuya NODA, Masanao MAJIMA, Yuuya SHOUJI
  • Publication number: 20200256844
    Abstract: To provide an inspection cartridge capable of preventing a user from using a blood sample of a wrong vacuum blood collection tube when the user dispenses the blood sample from the vacuum blood collection tube to the inspection cartridge, and a blood inspection device which performs a blood inspection using the same. An inspection cartridge used for performing a blood inspection with a blood inspection device provided with an identifier for identifying an anticoagulant usable in the inspection cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Masanao MAJIMA, Makiko OTANI, Masataka MATSUO, Takanori MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200124623
    Abstract: This blood inspection device is for inspecting blood in a blood collection tube. The blood inspection device comprises an output unit for outputting, to the outside, first information about the anticoagulants that can and cannot be used for each inspection item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventor: Masanao MAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170143200
    Abstract: A laparoscopic device includes a flexible insertion part including an imaging optical system and an illumination optical system that are covered with an exterior tube; and an operational part connected to a base end of the insertion part. The insertion part is inserted into a peritoneal dialysis catheter for observation of an abdominal cavity, and the insertion part includes a distal extended part that is extendable from the peritoneal dialysis catheter in the abdominal cavity during use and formed in a shape with a curved part having a cumulative central angle between 180° and 360°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masanao Majima, Yasuyuki Natsuno, Akira Kunimoto, Katsumi Fujiwara, Junichi Jono
  • Publication number: 20100182483
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device manufacturing method, which has the step of forming a plurality of imaging elements on one surface of a silicon wafer, the step of sealing a light receiving pixel portion for each imaging element by an imaging optical system, the step of cutting the silicon wafer into the individual imaging elements, the step of placing the cut imaging elements on a substrate, the step of connecting the substrate and the imaging elements electrically, the step of molding the substrate, the imaging optical system and the imaging elements integrally by a mold having identification marks with respect to each imaging element, and the step of cutting and separating the molded substrate into each every imaging element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventor: Masanao Majima