Patents by Inventor Naoki INUZUKA
Naoki INUZUKA 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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Publication number: 20260151544Abstract: Provided are an instrument and a coating agent for use in blood vessels, which can be stably supplied, have excellent suppression of clot formation, and are unlikely to inhibit vascular endothelialization. The instrument according to the present invention comprises a base material and a coating layer that covers at least a part of the surface of the base material, and is intended to be used in a blood vessel. The coating layer has a monomolecular layer formed by treating the surface of the base material with a low-molecular-weight compound having a functional group such as an albumin-binding functional group, and satisfies at least one of predetermined requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2026Publication date: June 4, 2026Inventors: Naoki INUZUKA, Yuji TERAMURA, Yuya SATO
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Publication number: 20260131115Abstract: A distal stabilizer 1 is used to deliver a catheter in a biological lumen, and comprises: a linear delivery member 3; and a cylindrical part 2 that extends from the distal end of the linear delivery member 3 and is locked to an inner wall of the biological lumen. The cylindrical part 2 has a structure in which cells 20 in shapes surrounded by wire-like members are arrayed in a longitudinal direction, and is configured such that: the surface area of the cylindrical part 2 in an expanded-diameter state is 5-20% of the surface area of a virtual cylinder with identical dimensions in the longitudinal direction and in a radial direction; the expansive force per unit length in a contracted-diameter state with an external diameter of 1.5 mm is 0.015-0.06 N/mm; and the expansive force per unit length in a contracted-diameter state with an external diameter of 0.42 mm is 0.1-0.3 N/mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: May 14, 2026Applicant: Bolt Medical Inc.Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20260124432Abstract: This distal stabilizer used for catheter delivery in a biological lumen comprises a linear delivery member and a cylindrical part that extends from the distal end of the linear delivery member and that latches to the inner wall of the biological lumen. The cylindrical part has a structure in which cells 20 of a form surrounded by wire-shaped members are lined up along the long axis direction. At least one of the cells is an open cell having at least one free convex end 23. In the open cell, the wire-shaped member 22a that, from among the wire-shaped members forming the free convex end 23, extends in the direction in which the cells are lined up is disposed so as to be substantially parallel to the wire-shaped member 22c of another cell adjacent in the lateral direction with respect to the direction in which the cells are lined up.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: May 7, 2026Applicant: Bolt Medical Inc.Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20260041447Abstract: Provided is a distal stabilizer that can mitigate the scattering of foreign matter from a locking stent to the distal side. A distal stabilizer 1 is used for catheter delivery in a body lumen, and includes: a linear delivery member 3; and a self-expanding member 2 that is linked to the distal end of the linear delivery member 3, and that has a cylindrical body section 11 locked inside the body lumen. The body section 11 includes a filter unit 17 constituted of a wire member 14 that protrudes towards the center in a radial direction RD from the circumferential side.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: February 12, 2026Applicant: Bolt Medical Inc.Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Patent number: 12527470Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a first visual target presenting unit that presents a first eye chart including a visual target, at a first examination distance, to an examinee's eye of which a trial lens is disposed ahead, and a second visual target presenting unit that presents a second eye chart including a visual target, at a second examination distance different from the first examination distance, wherein the first eye chart and the second eye chart are presented adjacently in plan view in a presentation region in which no influence of aberration of the trial lens is present, within a range viewable by the examinee's eye through the trial lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Mizuno, Naoki Inuzuka
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Publication number: 20260007863Abstract: Provided is a distal stabilizer capable of suppressing a positional misalignment of a cylindrical part locked in a biological lumen. This distal stabilizer 1, used for catheter delivery in a biological lumen, comprises: a linear delivery member; and a cylindrical part 2 which extends from a distal end of the linear delivery member and locked to the inner wall of the biological lumen by means of a mesh pattern structure, wherein the cylindrical part 2 has, on the proximal side in the range of the effective length thereof, an easily deformable section 14 which more easily deforms than the distal side of the cylindrical part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: January 8, 2026Applicant: Bolt Medical Inc.Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20250242133Abstract: Provided is a distal stabilizer capable of more securely and more quickly identifying slack of a delivery wire or a microcatheter and aberrant of the same into a mass. The distal stabilizer 1, which is to be used for delivering a catheter in a biological lumen, comprises: a linear delivery member 3; an anchor device 2 extending from the distal end of the linear delivery member 3 and capable of being engaged to the inner wall of the biological lumen; and a visible part 4 provided on the distal side of the linear delivery member 3 and including a radiopaque part that is bendable in the axial direction together with the linear delivery member 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicant: Bolt Medical Inc.Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20250134368Abstract: A chin rest device, wherein the chin rest device is configured to be detachably attached to an optical table or a pedestal, the optical table of an ophthalmologic apparatus is configured to acquire information about a subject eye, and the pedestal is configured to support a measurement head for acquiring information about the subject eye such that the measurement head is movable in horizontal and vertical directions. The chin rest device comprises an attachment that is configured to be detachably attached to the optical table or the pedestal; and a chin rest portion that is configured to extend from the attachment toward a chin of an examinee to support the chin.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20230105121Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a first visual target presenting unit that presents a first eye chart including a visual target, at a first examination distance, to an examinee’s eye of which a trial lens is disposed ahead, and a second visual target presenting unit that presents a second eye chart including a visual target, at a second examination distance different from the first examination distance, wherein the first eye chart and the second eye chart are presented adjacently in plan view in a presentation region in which no influence of aberration of the trial lens is present, within a range viewable by the examinee’s eye through the trial lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Akira MIZUNO, Naoki INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20220233821Abstract: A distal stabilizer for use for catheter delivery in a biological lumen, the distal stabilizer comprising: a thread-like delivery member; and a locking device that extends from a distal end of the thread-like delivery member and is capable of locking onto an inner wall of the biological lumen with an expanding force. The distal stabilizer is usable in a catheter delivery operation including: releasing the locking device, which has been loaded in a first catheter while being in a reduced diameter state, from a distal end of the first catheter, thereby causing the locking device to lock onto the inner wall; and advancing a catheter including a second catheter having an inner diameter larger than the first catheter toward a distal side while the locking device remains locked on the inner wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Bolt Medical Inc.Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Patent number: 11395585Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an input portion configured to receive an ID that identifies at least one of an examiner or a subject; a storage portion configured to store examiner data with regard to a rotational position of a supporting arm member (support portion) about a vertical axis and a horizontal axis, the examiner data being predetermined to correspond to the ID; and a drive control portion configured to select the examiner data stored in the storage portion based on the ID received by the input portion, and to control a drive portion based on the examiner data and a detection result of the position detection portion so that the rotational position of the supporting arm member about the vertical axis and the horizontal axis coincides with a predetermined rotational position.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Inuzuka
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Publication number: 20190290115Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an input portion configured to receive an ID that identifies at least one of an examiner or a subject; a storage portion configured to store examiner data with regard to a rotational position of a supporting arm member (support portion) about a vertical axis and a horizontal axis, the examiner data being predetermined to correspond to the ID; and a drive control portion configured to select the examiner data stored in the storage portion based on the ID received by the input portion, and to control a drive portion based on the examiner data and a detection result of the position detection portion so that the rotational position of the supporting arm member about the vertical axis and the horizontal axis coincides with a predetermined rotational position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventor: Naoki INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20190090732Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus of an exemplary embodiment includes a storage and a difference processor. The storage stores a plurality of pieces of angiographic image data acquired by applying optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography to the fundus of a subject's eye a plurality of times. The difference processor generates difference data between the first angiographic image data and the second angiographic image data both read out from the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru OYAGI, Naoki INUZUKA
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Patent number: 9936873Abstract: An ophthalmology apparatus includes an apparatus body on which a first measurer and a second measurer are provided and which is movable relative to a base by a driver, a forehead support provided on the base, and a controller. The controller detects a first front position setting a distance between the second measurer and the forehead support as a first interval and a second front position setting a distance between the second measurer and the forehead support as a second interval larger than the first interval, and emits a warning when the apparatus body reaches the second front position in moving the apparatus body to a forehead support side and stops movement of the apparatus body to the forehead support side when the apparatus body reaches the first front position.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCONInventor: Naoki Inuzuka
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Patent number: 9867534Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ophthalmologic apparatus is configured such that an operation unit is attached thereto. The ophthalmologic apparatus includes a measuring head, a user interface, and a controller. The measuring head is configured to perform optical measurement of a subject's eye. The user interface is used for performing an operation in relation to the optical measurement of the subject's eye. The controller is configured to detect whether an operation on the operation unit is enabled. Further, the controller is configured to perform at least display control for the user interface in different operation modes between an enabled state in which the operation on the operation unit is enabled and a disabled state in which the operation on the operation unit is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Inuzuka, Tomohiro Sakurada, Naoki Kaneda
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Publication number: 20160317022Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ophthalmologic apparatus is configured such that an operation unit is attached thereto. The ophthalmologic apparatus includes a measuring head, a user interface, and a controller. The measuring head is configured to perform optical measurement of a subject's eye. The user interface is used for performing an operation in relation to the optical measurement of the subject's eye. The controller is configured to detect whether an operation on the operation unit is enabled. Further, the controller is configured to perform at least display control for the user interface in different operation modes between an enabled state in which the operation on the operation unit is enabled and a disabled state in which the operation on the operation unit is disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki INUZUKA, Tomohiro SAKURADA, Naoki KANEDA
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Publication number: 20160310003Abstract: An ophthalmology apparatus includes an apparatus body on which a first measurer and a second measurer are provided and which is movable relative to a base by a driver, a forehead support provided on the base, and a controller. The controller detects a first front position setting a distance between the second measurer and the forehead support as a first interval and a second front position setting a distance between the second measurer and the forehead support as a second interval larger than the first interval, and emits a warning when the apparatus body reaches the second front position in moving the apparatus body to a forehead support side and stops movement of the apparatus body to the forehead support side when the apparatus body reaches the first front position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCONInventor: Naoki INUZUKA