Patents by Inventor Minami MAEKAWA

Minami MAEKAWA 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: 11813440
    Abstract: There are provided an intradermal needle, a packaged article, and an injection device. The intradermal needle includes: a tubular needle that has a needle tip capable of puncturing a living body; a needle hub that holds the tubular needle; a flange part that extends in a flange shape from the needle hub; and a ring projection that extends toward a leading end of the flange part and is formed in a cylindrical shape to surround the tubular needle. The flange part has a cut portion formed by partially cutting to achieve downsizing of the flange part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minami Maekawa, Yoichiro Iwase, Eiji Kawamoto, Kentaro Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20230015065
    Abstract: A medical puncture needle is configured to reliably administer a sufficient amount of a liquid medicine to thin tissue. The medical puncture needle includes: a main body having a cylindrical shape and having inside a through hole; a blade surface that has an annular shape and that is cut into a tapered shape so that a thickness of the main body reduces toward a tip part of the main body; and a blade edge that has an annular shape, the blade edge being formed at a tip of the blade surface so as to extend along a plane orthogonal to a central axis of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro IWASE, Minami MAEKAWA, Yasuyuki YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220016340
    Abstract: A liquid medicine administration device configured to prevent leakage of liquid medicine when a blockage occurs in a delivery path of the medicine includes: a liquid medicine container having an opening at a tip end through which liquid medicine can be discharged; a gasket slidable in the container for expelling the liquid medicine; a plunger to press the gasket; a housing; a drive mechanism that advances the plunger toward the container tip; and a rotation restriction unit that restricts rotation of the plunger with respect to the housing. The drive mechanism includes: a motor a feed screw rotatable in response to motor rotation; and a transmission unit that transmits drive torque from the motor to the feed screw. The transmission unit includes a canceling unit that cancels transmission of drive torque from the motor to the feed screw, when receiving torque equal to or greater than a preset cancellation torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke HYAKKAN, Yoichiro IWASE, Manabu ARINOBE, Minami MAEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220008653
    Abstract: An indwelling needle for subcutaneous administration configured to be indwelled in subcutaneous tissue for subcutaneously administering a medicinal solution includes an inner needle including an inner needle main body at a distal end of which a sharp needle tip is formed, and an inner needle hub on a proximal end side of the inner needle main body, and an outer needle including an outer needle main body having a lumen through which the inner needle is inserted, and an outer needle hub on a proximal end side of the outer needle main body in which a hub insertion portion in which the inner needle hub is mounted is formed. The needle tip of the inner needle protrudes 2.5 to 9 mm in an axial direction from a distal end of the outer needle in a state in which the inner needle hub is mounted in the outer needle hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minami MAEKAWA, Manabu ARINOBE, Yoichiro IWASE
  • Publication number: 20220008650
    Abstract: This liquid medicine administration device includes a liquid medicine container, a gasket for expelling the liquid medicine in the liquid medicine container, a plunger that moves the gasket, a housing, a drive mechanism that advances the plunger, and a rotation restriction unit that restricts rotation of the plunger. The drive mechanism includes a motor and a feed screw. The plunger includes: a threaded portion threadedly engaged with the feed screw; and a plunger body that advances with feed screw rotation and that moves the gasket, while rotation of the plunger relative to the housing is restricted by the rotation restriction unit. The plunger includes a canceling mechanism that cancels transmission of a pressing force from the plunger body to the gasket when the plunger body receives an axial reaction force equal to or greater than a preset pressing force from the gasket during advancement with the feed screw rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu ARINOBE, Yusuke HYAKKAN, Minami MAEKAWA, Yoichiro IWASE
  • Publication number: 20210060254
    Abstract: A hollow medical needle is disclosed which includes: a hub part having an inner cavity connectable to a syringe; and a puncture part extending out toward an axial distal-end side of the hub part, by forming, at a distal end of the hub part, a puncture index part that includes a step perpendicular to an axial direction and is visible when abutting against a rubber stopper when the rubber stopper of a vial container is punctured by the puncture part, a position of an insertion terminal end substantially coincident with an outer surface of the rubber stopper is set at a fixed position when the puncture part is punctured into the rubber stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minami MAEKAWA, Eriko ITO, Yoichiro IWASE, Toshiaki TAKAKI
  • Publication number: 20200206434
    Abstract: There are provided an intradermal needle, a packaged article, and an injection device. The intradermal needle includes: a tubular needle that has a needle tip capable of puncturing a living body; a needle hub that holds the tubular needle; a flange part that extends in a flange shape from the needle hub; and a ring projection that extends toward a leading end of the flange part and is formed in a cylindrical shape to surround the tubular needle. The flange part has a cut portion formed by partially cutting to achieve downsizing of the flange part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minami MAEKAWA, Yoichiro IWASE, Eiji KAWAMOTO, Kentaro NAKAJIMA