Patents by Inventor Masanobu Inoue
Masanobu Inoue 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).
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Patent number: 10517717Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion device and a cartridge which enable the intraocular lens to be inserted into an eye more stably and easily than ever before. A supporting portion 102 of an intraocular lens 100 arranged on a lens-advancing side in a lens-advancing direction x is pressed against a protrusion 21 so as to be bent backward. Thus, releasing the intraocular lens 100 from a nozzle portion 13 is allowed to begin with the releasing of a curved portion of the supporting portion 102 that has become U-shaped and hard to move freely. As a result, there can be provided an intraocular lens insertion device and a cartridge which enable the intraocular lens 100 to be inserted into an eye more steadily and easily than ever before.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 9907647Abstract: Provided is an intraocular lens insertion device capable of omitting a repeated operation after the intraocular lens is inserted into the eye. The intraocular lens insertion device (1) comprises a lens setting part (11) for mounting an intraocular lens (5) having an optic (6) and one or two or more supporting portions (7a and 7b) disposed at the outer edge of the optic (6), a plunger (4) for pushing out the intraocular lens (5) mounted in the lens setting part (11), and a nozzle (13) for releasing the intraocular lens (5) pushed out by the plunger (4). This plunger (4) includes a lens contact portion (32) for abutting against the outer edge of the optic (6), and a pushing portion (33) for pushing out the supporting portion (7b) arranged in the backward direction of a lens advancing axis (A).Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 9808372Abstract: There is provided a therapeutic instrument, for storing a sheet-type therapeutic substance to which a liquid is delivered, and delivering the stored therapeutic substance to an affected part, including: a nozzle member 23 having an opening 34 on a tip end of a tubular part 31 in which the therapeutic substance can be stored, for charging and discharging the therapeutic substance; and a syringe unit 22 that selectively causes a negative pressure and a positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 through a hole of a valve member 27, wherein the space 33 of the tubular part 31 is the space for sucking the therapeutic substance into the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the negative pressure in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when the therapeutic substance is stored therein, and is the space for pushing out the therapeutic substance to outside of the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when tType: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Masanobu Inoue, Kikuo Mitomo, Masako Oooka, Kazuyuki Tokumo
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Patent number: 9730787Abstract: An intraocular lens of the present invention has a substantially circular or elliptical optical lens portion made of a soft material, and an arm-shaped support arm portion attached to outer peripheral edges of this optical lens portion, and out of the peripheral edges of the optical lens portion that are contiguous to both sides in a width direction of a root of the support arm portion, at least one outer peripheral edge has a portion recessed inward from the convex curve. Thus, there is provided a soft intraocular lens that can be inserted into an eye from a further smaller incision, without damaging an optical function as much as possible.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20170151056Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion device and a cartridge which enable the intraocular lens to be inserted into an eye more stably and easily than ever before. A supporting portion 102 of an intraocular lens 100 arranged on a lens-advancing side in a lens-advancing direction x is pressed against a protrusion 21 so as to be bent backward. Thus, releasing the intraocular lens 100 from a nozzle portion 13 is allowed to begin with the releasing of a curved portion of the supporting portion 102 that has become U-shaped and hard to move freely. As a result, there can be provided an intraocular lens insertion device and a cartridge which enable the intraocular lens 100 to be inserted into an eye more steadily and easily than ever before.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 9554894Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion device and a cartridge which enable the intraocular lens to be inserted into an eye more stably and easily than ever before. A supporting portion 102 of an intraocular lens 100 arranged on a lens-advancing side in a lens-advancing direction x is pressed against a protrusion 21 so as to be bent backward. Thus, releasing the intraocular lens 100 from a nozzle portion 13 is allowed to begin with the releasing of a curved portion of the supporting portion 102 that has become U-shaped and hard to move freely. As a result, there can be provided an intraocular lens insertion device and a cartridge which enable the intraocular lens 100 to be inserted into an eye more steadily and easily than ever before.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20160113759Abstract: Provided is an intraocular lens insertion device capable of omitting a repeated operation after the intraocular lens is inserted into the eye. The intraocular lens insertion device (1) comprises a lens setting part (11) for mounting an intraocular lens (5) having an optic (6) and one or two or more supporting portions (7a and 7b) disposed at the outer edge of the optic (6), a plunger (4) for pushing out the intraocular lens (5) mounted in the lens setting part (11), and a nozzle (13) for releasing the intraocular lens (5) pushed out by the plunger (4). This plunger (4) includes a lens contact portion (32) for abutting against the outer edge of the optic (6), and a pushing portion (33) for pushing out the supporting portion (7b) arranged in the backward direction of a lens advancing axis (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 9186246Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of easily positioning a circumference of an optical portion of an intraocular lens with respect to a distal end of a plunger. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises: a cartridge 3 having a lens placement section 16 in which an intraocular lens 2 is to be placed; an insertion device main body 4 having a plunger 5 for pushing out the intraocular lens 2 with the cartridge 3 being attached to the insertion device main body 4; and a deforming means 6 for deforming the lens placement section 16. A slit 21 is formed on the lens placement section 16, and the deforming means 6 deforms the lens placement section 16 in a diameter-decreasing direction thereof when attaching the cartridge 3 to the insertion device main body 4.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 9114006Abstract: Provided is an intraocular lens insertion device capable of omitting a repeated operation after the intraocular lens is inserted into the eye. The intraocular lens insertion device (1) comprises a lens setting part (11) for mounting an intraocular lens (5) having an optic (6) and one or two or more supporting portions (7a and 7b) disposed at the outer edge of the optic (6), a plunger (4) for pushing out the intraocular lens (5) mounted in the lens setting part (11), and a nozzle (13) for releasing the intraocular lens (5) pushed out by the plunger (4). This plunger (4) includes a lens contact portion (32) for abutting against the outer edge of the optic (6), and a pushing portion (33) for pushing out the supporting portion (7b) arranged in the backward direction of a lens advancing axis (A).Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 8702795Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion device (1) includes a main body (2), an operational portion (3) provided on an end (2a) of the main body (2), a knock mechanism (4) for moving the operational portion (3) forward and backward with respect to the main body (2), and a cartridge (5) attached to the other end (2b) of the main body (2) and serving as an insertion tube. The device is constructed, as a whole, such that the knock mechanism (4) moves the operational portion (3) repeatedly forward and backward so that an intraocular lens (6) placed in the cartridge (5) can be pushed out stepwise. The knock mechanism (4) is structured so as to move the operational portion (3) pushed forward toward a backward direction and automatically return it to an original position prior to the same being pushed forward.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 8623084Abstract: A soft intraocular lens is provided, with IRHD hardness thereof being 40 to 60, wherein distance L is in a range of 3.75 mm-4.50 mm, which is a distance from an optical central axis of the optical part to a reference point of a supporting part side edge of the transition part, and an angle ? is in a range of 35°-50°, which is formed by a surface including the optical central axis and a reference point of the supporting part side edge of the transition part, and a surface including the optical central axis and in contact with a tip of the supporting part, with a width of the transition part being larger than a width of the supporting part, and a width Wm of the transition part in a middle of the optical part side edge and the supporting part side edge of the transition part being 1.5 times to 3 times of a width Ws of the supporting part.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20130245635Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of easily positioning a circumference of an optical portion of an intraocular lens with respect to a distal end of a plunger. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises: a cartridge 3 having a lens placement section 16 in which an intraocular lens 2 is to be placed; an insertion device main body 4 having a plunger 5 for pushing out the intraocular lens 2 with the cartridge 3 being attached to the insertion device main body 4; and a deforming means 6 for deforming the lens placement section 16. A slit 21 is formed on the lens placement section 16, and the deforming means 6 deforms the lens placement section 16 in a diameter-decreasing direction thereof when attaching the cartridge 3 to the insertion device main body 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20130245554Abstract: There is provided a therapeutic instrument, for storing a sheet-type therapeutic substance to which a liquid is delivered, and delivering the stored therapeutic substance to an affected part, including: a nozzle member 23 having an opening 34 on a tip end of a tubular part 31 in which the therapeutic substance can be stored, for charging and discharging the therapeutic substance; and a syringe unit 22 that selectively causes a negative pressure and a positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 through a hole of a valve member 27, wherein the space 33 of the tubular part 31 is the space for sucking the therapeutic substance into the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the negative pressure in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when the therapeutic substance is stored therein, and is the space for pushing out the therapeutic substance to outside of the tubular part 31 together with the liquid by causing the positive pressure to act in the tubular part 31 by the syringe unit 22 when tType: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Masanobu Inoue, Kikuo Mitomo, Masako Oooka, Kazuyuki Tokumo
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Patent number: 8501281Abstract: There are provided: a method for forming a shining coating film which can form a coating film extremely excellent in a leveling property and a brightness with good workability and can also realize the reduction of environmental burden; and a coated article excellent in a design property obtained by this method. In a method comprising the steps of sequentially coating a shining material-containing solvent type first base coat coating, a shining material-containing solvent type second base coat coating and a top clear coating onto a base material and baking a formed multilayered coating film at the same time, an improvement is made so that the resin composition and coating nonvolatile concentration of the first and second base coat coatings and the amount of nonvolatiles in the first and second base coating films will have specific conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nippon Paint Co., Ltd., Nippon Bee Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Emi Nomi, Takeshi Ogawa, Atsuo Magoshi, Koji Nakajima, Masanobu Inoue, Yoshiki Takaira
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Patent number: 8470032Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of more easily inserting an intraocular lens into an eye. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises a main body 2, an operation portion 5 and a cartridge 4 attached to the main body 2. The operation portion 5 has a plunger 6 integrally provided thereon and serving as a transmitting member, and a rod 7 provided on a distal end of the plunger 6 and serving to push out the intraocular lens. The intraocular lens insertion device 1 further comprises a restraint portion 10, and thus allows the rod 7 to first push an intraocular lens 8 by a predetermined distance and then be temporarily stopped before the intraocular lens 8 is released from the cartridge 4 toward the outside.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Masanobu Inoue, Noriyuki Shoji
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Patent number: 8382769Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of easily positioning a circumference of an optical portion of an intraocular lens with respect to a distal end of a plunger. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises: a cartridge 3 having a lens placement section 16 in which an intraocular lens 2 is to be placed; an insertion device main body 4 having a plunger 5 for pushing out the intraocular lens 2 with the cartridge 3 being attached to the insertion device main body 4; and a deforming means 6 for deforming the lens placement section 16. A slit 21 is formed on the lens placement section 16, and the deforming means 6 deforms the lens placement section 16 in a diameter-decreasing direction thereof when attaching the cartridge 3 to the insertion device main body 4.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventor: Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20120298250Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for producing a heat-shrinkable tube. An apparatus 100 includes a pair of pinch rollers 105 that can be moved along a feeding path of a tube 101 and that can be opened and closed with the feeding path therebetween, an air vent 104 that supplies air from an end of the tube 101 to the inside of the tube, a pair of pinch rollers 106 that is arranged closer to the air vent 104 than the pinch rollers 105 and that can be opened and closed with the feeding path therebetween, and a control unit 114 that adjusts inflation of the tube by supplying air in the tube while the pinch rollers 105 are closed and the pinch rollers 106 are opened, then closing the pinch rollers 106, and changing a distance between the pinch rollers 105 and the pinch rollers 106.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukumoto, Hong-Phuc Nguyen, Kazuaki Ikeda, Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20110270264Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion device for more easily inserting an intraocular lens into the eye. The intraocular lens insertion device (1) includes a main body (2), an operational portion (3) provided on an end (2a) of the main body (2), a knock mechanism (4) for moving the operational portion (3) forward and backward with respect to the main body (2), and a cartridge (5) attached to the other end (2b) of the main body (2) and serving as an insertion tube. The device is constructed, as a whole, such that the knock mechanism (4) moves the operational portion (3) repeatedly forward and backward so that an intraocular lens (6) placed in the cartridge (5) can be pushed out stepwise. The knock mechanism (4) is structured so as to move the operational portion (3) pushed forward toward a backward direction and automatically return it to an original position prior to the same being pushed forward.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20110264101Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of more easily inserting an intraocular lens into an eye. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises a main body 2, an operation portion 5 and a cartridge 4 attached to the main body 2. The operation portion 5 has a plunger 6 integrally provided thereon and serving as a transmitting member, and a rod 7 provided on a distal end of the plunger 6 and serving to push out the intraocular lens. The intraocular lens insertion device 1 further comprises a restraint portion 10, and thus allows the rod 7 to first push an intraocular lens 8 by a predetermined distance and then be temporarily stopped before the intraocular lens 8 is released from the cartridge 4 toward the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Masanobu Inoue, Noriyuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20110130832Abstract: A soft intraocular lens is provided, with IRHD hardness thereof being 40 to 60, wherein distance L is in a range of 3.75 mm-4.50 mm, which is a distance from an optical central axis of the optical part to a reference point of a supporting part side edge of the transition part, and an angle ? is in a range of 35°-50°, which is formed by a surface including the optical central axis and a reference point of the supporting part side edge of the transition part, and a surface including the optical central axis and in contact with a tip of the supporting part, with a width of the transition part being larger than a width of the supporting part, and a width Wm of the transition part in a middle of the optical part side edge and the supporting part side edge of the transition part being 1.5 times to 3 times of a width Ws of the supporting part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2008Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue