Patents by Inventor Naoki Koike

Naoki Koike 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: 12311678
    Abstract: A recording method includes a white ink attachment step, in which a white ink composition containing a white colorant is attached to a recording medium; a non-white ink attachment step, in which a non-white ink composition containing a non-white colorant is attached to overlap the attached white ink composition; a first treatment liquid attachment step, accompanying the white ink attachment step and in which a treatment liquid containing a flocculant is attached to the recording medium; and a second treatment liquid attachment step, accompanying the non-white ink attachment step and in which a treatment liquid containing a flocculant is attached to the recording medium. The white ink composition experiences a five-fold or greater increase in viscosity when mixed with a 7% by mass aqueous solution of calcium formate in a ratio by mass of 10:1, the white ink composition to the aqueous solution of calcium formate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Ippei Okuda
  • Patent number: 12195220
    Abstract: To provide a drug discharge device capable of reducing complexity when distributing a drug into a manual distribution device. A drug discharge device includes a manual distribution member 15 that includes a plurality of recessed portions 20 in which a solid drug is distributed, discharge means that discharges the drug distributed in the recessed portions 20 to a downstream side directly or via another member, and a control device that controls the discharge means, in which the discharge means is capable of individually discharging a drug corresponding to a predetermined recessed portion 20, the control device assigns the same drug to the recessed portions 20 in adjacent regions based on prescription information including information on a drug to be provided to a plurality of patients or one patient, and the discharge means discharges the drugs in a predetermined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Koike
  • Patent number: 12138228
    Abstract: A drug packaging device includes a drug accommodating/dispensing unit that supplies various types of drugs, a drug packaging portion in which a drug supplied from the drug accommodating/dispensing unit is packaged in a packaging sheet, a drug packaging introducing member that drops the drug to be packaged into the packaging sheet in the drug packaging portion), a pooling portion that pools, upstream of this drug packaging introducing member, the drug, and a drug imaging device that captures an image of the drug in the pooling portion. The drug imaging device performs an imaging process of capturing an image of the drug in the pooling portion in a non-backlit state, and an imaging process of capturing an image of the drug in the pooling portion in a backlit state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Masao Fukada, Ryosuke Fukamori, Thanhxuan Huynh
  • Patent number: 11987715
    Abstract: A radiation curable ink jet composition includes polymerizable compounds and a photopolymerization initiator, the polymerizable compounds include a monofunctional monomer, a content of the monofunctional monomer with respect to a total mass of the polymerizable compounds is 90 percent by mass or more, and the photopolymerization initiator includes ethyl (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phenylphosphinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Toru Saito, Kyohei Tanaka, Kiyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11944592
    Abstract: A rotor having a plurality of tablet guide paths is rotatably contained in a cassette main body. The rotor facing an inverse conical-shaped inclined inner surface of the cassette main body includes an inclined outer surface in each of the plurality of tablet guide paths. A distance between the inverse conical-shaped inclined inner surface of the cassette main body and the inclined outer surface of the table guide path can be adjusted by raising and lowering the rotor with respect to the cassette main body. A distance between a partitioning member and a tablet support table can be adjusted by raising and lowering the tablet support table provided on a lower side of the partitioning member. A distance between a first vertical protruding piece and a second vertical protruding piece constituting the tablet guide path can be adjusted by relatively rotating a first movable member and a second movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Ryosuke Fukamori
  • Patent number: 11884828
    Abstract: A radiation curable ink jet composition includes polymerizable compounds; and a photopolymerization initiator, the polymerizable compounds include a vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylate represented by the following general formula (I), a content of the vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylate with respect to a total mass of the radiation curable ink jet composition is 15 percent by mass or more, and the photopolymerization initiator includes ethyl (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phenylphosphinate. H2C?CR1—CO—OR2—O—CH?CH—R3??(I) In the above formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents a divalent organic residue having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic residue having 1 to 11 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nakamura, Toru Saito, Toshiyuki Yoda, Naoki Koike
  • Patent number: 11745954
    Abstract: A rotor (4) is received rotatably in a cassette body (3) for receiving tablets. The rotor comprises a tablet guiding path (4b) formed between a slanted inner face (6a) of the cassette body and a slanted outer face (22a) of the rotor for guiding the tablets received in the cassette body to a tablet discharging hole (7) disposed to the cassette body. The rotor comprises a separating member (8) disposed above the tablet discharging hole of the cassette body for separating a space between a tablet at a bottom position and a tablet at an upper position, a tablet supporting pedestal (53) disposed elevatably to the tablet guiding path for supporting the tablet at the bottom position in the tablet guiding path and a height adjustment mechanism (50) for adjusting a tablet discharging height between the tablet supporting pedestal and the separating member. The height adjustment mechanism makes the tablet supporting pedestal elevate to a direction inclined to a rotation shaft of the rotor along the tablet guiding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Akira Maeda
  • Patent number: 11718100
    Abstract: A non-aqueous ink jet ink composition is provided that can form an image having excellent weather resistance, abrasion resistance, and coloring property. The non-aqueous ink jet ink composition includes a cyclic ester compound, at least one first solvent represented by the following General Formula (1) and having a flash point of 140° C. or lower: R1O—(R2O)m—R3, a second solvent represented by the General Formula (1), and C.I. Pigment Orange-43 (PO-43) as a pigment. In the at least one first solvent represented by General Formula (1), R1 and R3 each independently represent hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and m represents an integer of 2 to 6. The second solvent represented by General Formula (1) includes a glycol monoether compound in which at least one of R1 and R3 is hydrogen. A volume average particle diameter of the PO-43 is 100 nm or more and 400 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Keiji Iida, Kenichiro Kubota, Naoki Koike, Jun Ito, Makoto Nagase
  • Patent number: 11680177
    Abstract: A radiation-curing ink jet ink composition includes a urethane (meth)acrylate including one (meth)acryloyl group, the amount of the urethane (meth)acrylate being 5.0% by mass or more and 30.0% by mass or less of the total amount of the ink composition, and a (meth)acrylate including an aromatic ring and one (meth)acryloyl group, the amount of the (meth)acrylate being 4.0% by mass or more and 50.0% by mass or less of the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Toru Saito, Toshiyuki Yoda
  • Patent number: 11629260
    Abstract: A radiation-curable ink jet composition includes a multifunctional monomer and a vinyl methyl oxazolidinone. The content of the multifunctional monomer is 5 to 50 mass % based on the total amount of the radiation-curable ink jet composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Toru Saito, Naoki Koike, Toshiyuki Yoda, Kyohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11407908
    Abstract: A radiation-curable ink jet composition includes a monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer and vinyl methyl oxazolidinone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventors: Toru Saito, Naoki Koike, Toshiyuki Yoda, Kyohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11406567
    Abstract: A medicine cassette 100 includes a side-wall constituent body 110, a first rotating body 120, a second rotating body 130 and a medicine discharging part 144c. The medicine cassette 100 can scrape up medicines prepared in a medicine containing part 182 along with a rotation of the first rotating body 120 to transfer and place the medicines onto the second rotating body 130 and transfer the medicines toward a downstream side of a rotational direction of the second rotating body 130 to discharge the medicines from the medicine discharging part 144c. An expanding portion 110a expanding toward an outer side of a radial direction of the second rotating body 130 is provided in the side-wall constituent body 110 on a lower side of the second rotating body 130.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Takanori Yorozu, Shoichiro Okada, Kenichi Takada
  • Patent number: 11407909
    Abstract: A radiation-curable ink jet composition includes vinyl methyl oxazolidinone and a vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylate represented by the following formula (1): H2C?CR1—CO—OR2—O—CH?CH—R3 (where, R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 is a divalent C2-C20 organic residue, and R3 is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent C1-C11 organic residue).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yoda, Toru Saito, Naoki Koike, Kiyoshi Nakamura, Kyohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11215971
    Abstract: A design support system includes memory, a receiving unit, and an associating unit. The memory stores information on design element classification that classifies a design element included in a product, and information on design requirement classification that classifies a design requirement required for the product. The receiving unit receives technical information regarding a design trouble. The associating unit refers to technical information regarding a design trouble, received by the receiving unit, and associates a classification item in the design requirement classification to which the design trouble belongs and a classification item in the design element classification to which a design element causing the design trouble belongs with each other, along with information on a phenomenon indicating a failure status of the design element included in the technical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Miyazawa, Makoto Fuchigami, Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Okamoto, Hiroshi Murano, Nobukazu Takahashi, Masaki Suda, Mari Horie, Naoki Koike, Masao Okubo
  • Publication number: 20210403732
    Abstract: A radiation curable ink jet ink composition includes vinyl methyl oxazolidinone; and a monomer having at least two vinyl ether groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Toru Saito, Toshiyuki Yoda
  • Patent number: 11197804
    Abstract: Provided is a tablet guiding path adjusting apparatus that adjusts a tablet guiding path adjusting mechanism in the tablet cassette, comprising a rotor rotatably equipped within a cassette body and having a tablet guiding path for receiving at least one of tablets received within the cassette body and guiding to a discharging orifice of the cassette body; a partition member for entering the tablet guiding path and being located between a tablet at the lowest part and a tablet at the upper side thereof; and tablet guiding paths adjusting mechanisms configured to adjust at least either dimension of the depth and width of the tablet guiding path to the rotor; wherein the tablet guiding path adjusting apparatus engages with engaging parts of the tablet guiding path adjusting mechanisms to operate the tablet guiding path adjusting mechanism, and adjusts a dimension of the tablet guiding path in accordance with the shape or size of tablets received within the cassette body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Mitsuhiro Mitani, Akira Maeda
  • Patent number: 11142663
    Abstract: A UV-curable ink jet ink composition includes: 10.00% by mass or more and 60.00% by mass or less, relative to a total mass of the ink composition, of a compound represented by formula (A); 10.00% by mass or more and 50.00% by mass or less, relative to the total mass of the ink composition, of one or more monofunctional monomers having an alicyclic hydrocarbon group or a cyclic ether group; 0.05% by mass or more and 0.50% by mass or less, relative to the total mass of the ink composition, of one or more fluorescent brighteners including a compound represented by formula (b1), (b2), (b3), or (b4); and 3.00% by mass or more and 8.00% by mass or less, relative to the total mass of the ink composition, of one or more acylphosphine oxide polymerization initiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Toru Saito, Naoki Koike, Toshiyuki Yoda, Kiyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11090229
    Abstract: A tablet cassette is provided that can easily adjust the width of a guide groove of a rotor depending on the size of a tablet to be dispensed. The tablet cassette includes a groove width adjustment mechanism that relatively moves both sides of each of the tablet guide grooves in a circumferential direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike
  • Patent number: 11066563
    Abstract: A radiation curable ink comprises a compound represented by the following Formula (I): a compound represented by the following Formula (II): and a compound represented by the following Formula (III):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nakamura, Toru Saito, Naoki Koike, Toshiyuki Yoda
  • Patent number: 10919311
    Abstract: An ink jet ink composition is provided that can form an image having excellent weather resistance, abrasion resistance, and coloring property. The non-aqueous ink jet ink composition includes at least one solvent represented by R1O—(R2O)m—R3 and having a flash point of 140° C. or lower and C.I. Pigment Orange-43 (PO-43) as a pigment, wherein R1 and R3 each independently represent hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and m represents an integer of 2 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Keiji Iida, Kenichiro Kubota, Naoki Koike, Jun Ito, Makoto Nagase