Patents by Inventor Norimasa Tsukada

Norimasa Tsukada 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).

  • Publication number: 20110184401
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a treatment device utilized in the freezing treatment method and its treatment planning device, and has an object to settle a freezing periodĀ·defrosting period according to a size of a treatment portion. A cryotherapy device comprises a gas supply-exhaust system 100, a control system 200 therefore and a freezing probe system 300. The gas supply-exhaust system 100 supplies a freezing gas and a defrosting gas to a probe 60 of the freezing probe system 300 to freeze and defrost the treatment portion surrounding the tip of the probe 60 by the JouleĀ·Thomson effect. The control system 200 controls the gas supply-exhaust system 100 and makes treatment planning data for this control. The treatment planning data includes a freezingĀ·defrosting sequence to determine the freezing period and the defrosting period. The determination of this sequence is performed by the computer in the control system 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Kansei Iwata, Yasushi Iwata, Taisuke Nagasawa, Masafumi Kawamura, Yotaro Izumi, Masanori Inoue, Norimasa Tsukada, Hideki Yashiro