Patents by Inventor Minoru Imazato

Minoru Imazato 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: 9192450
    Abstract: A dental treating apparatus has a head unit having a holder for drivably holding a cutting tool, a hand piece body connected to the head unit for transmitting power to drive the cutting tool, and a controller for controlling the driving of the cutting tool. The dental treating apparatus further has a conductive body disposed in an inside of the hand piece body for transmitting an electric signal, contact members electrically connecting the cutting tool or the holder with the conductive body, a connection failure detector for applying a predetermined input signal to the conductive body and detecting a connection failure of the contact members based on a response to the input signal obtained via the cutting tool, and a notifier for notifying a user based on the detection result of the connection failure detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: J. Morita Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Minoru Imazato, Kazunari Matoba
  • Patent number: 7570984
    Abstract: A diagnostic imaging apparatus of hand piece type suitable for medical or dental use, comprising a main body held by operator's fingers, a luminous means for irradiating at least one of lights selected from excitation light, infrared light and ultraviolet light, and an imaging means provided in a forward portion of the main body. The imaging means comprises a solid-state image sensing device and an optical means for forming an optical image of a diagnosis object to be examined on the solid-state image sensing device and is so constructed as to output a predetermined diagnostic image information by receiving the light reflected from the diagnosis object and/or the fluorescence generated from the diagnosis object when irradiation of light from the luminous means to the diagnosis object is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: J. Morita Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Katsuda, Kenji Kino, Kazunari Matoba, Minoru Imazato
  • Publication number: 20050033119
    Abstract: A small-sized and high-powered medical illuminating device, and other devices, such as a medical photopolymerizer and a medical hand-piece, including the medical illuminating device. The medical illuminating device includes plural light emitting components which are integrated with a base forming into a light emission module. The base includes a substrate member having at least a concave, and the light emitting component is mounted on a bottom surface of the concave. Side surfaces of the concave of the substrate member function as a reflector for reflecting the light emitted from the light emitting component towards its front.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Shinichi Okawa, Kazunari Matoba, Minoru Imazato
  • Publication number: 20050003323
    Abstract: A diagnostic imaging apparatus of hand piece type suitable for medical or dental use, comprising a main body held by operator's fingers, a luminous means for irradiating at least one of lights selected from excitation light, infrared light and ultraviolet light, and an imaging means provided in a forward portion of the main body. The imaging means comprises a solid-state image sensing device and an optical means for forming an optical image of a diagnosis object to be examined on the solid-state image sensing device and is so constructed as to output a predetermined diagnostic image information by receiving the light reflected from the diagnosis object and/or the fluorescence generated from the diagnosis object when irradiation of light from the luminous means to the diagnosis object is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Naoki Katsuda, Kenji Kino, Kazunari Matoba, Minoru Imazato
  • Publication number: 20020151941
    Abstract: A small-sized and high-powered medical illuminating device, and other devices, such as a medical photopolymerizer and a medical hand-piece, including the medical illuminating device. The medical illuminating device includes plural light emitting components which are integrated with a base forming into a light emission module. The base includes a substrate member having at least a concave, and the light emitting component is mounted on a bottom surface of the concave. Side surfaces of the concave of the substrate member function as a reflector for reflecting the light emitted from the light emitting component towards its front.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Shinichi Okawa, Kazunari Matoba, Minoru Imazato
  • Patent number: 4665331
    Abstract: A brushless DC micromotor made up of a stator coil and a rotor housed inside thereof with magnet poles formed therein, which micromotor is characterized in that the stator coil is formed by coaxially winding more than one coil sheet formed on an insulating sheet, on which coil sheet a plurality of coil patterns are continuously provided in series in the direction of winding. The motor of the present invention can be made smaller, thinner and lighter than the conventional counterpart made by the use of a wound copper wire coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignees: Kangyo Denkikiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Morita Seisakusho
    Inventors: Michio Sudo, Toshihiro Hotta, Minoru Imazato
  • Patent number: 4482320
    Abstract: This invention relates to a face bow for a mandibular motion diagnostic device and more particularly to a face bow as a component of a device for measuring a patient's mandibular motion and reproducing it precisely by the use of a mandibular model on the basis of the measured data. The face bow is attached in a fixed positional relationship to the patient's mandible as measurement is taken of the motion thereof and is shifted onto the mandibular model upon completion of the measurement so that the patient's dental arch in its actual position is precisely reproduced in the mandibular model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Morita Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kenzo Kataoka, Minoru Imazato