Patents by Inventor Ryoji Masubuchi
Ryoji Masubuchi 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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Patent number: 7475697Abstract: There is a disclosed a cleaning for a medical instrument, including a nozzle main body detachably to a surgical ultrasonic treatment instrument including a channel, and the nozzle main body includes a water supply port opened in a position connected to the channel, when mounted in the surgical ultrasonic treatment instrument.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Katsumi Sasaki, Shinya Masuda, Eiji Murakami, Ryoji Masubuchi
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Patent number: 7264618Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus of the invention is provided with an improved cleaning ability and easy recyclability. A grasping member (1720) includes a first element (1721) molded of a heat resistant resin, and a second element (1722) located inside the first element (1721) as a reinforcement in such a manner that the first element (1721) covers the outer surface of the second element (1722) entirely.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2004Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Eiji Murakami, Ryoji Masubuchi
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Patent number: 7229455Abstract: An ultrasonic calculus treatment apparatus includes a longitudinal-vibration piezoelectric oscillator for vibrating in the axial direction of an ultrasonic transmitting member and a torsional-vibration piezoelectric oscillator for vibrating about the axial direction, and further includes driving circuits for driving the piezoelectric oscillators at respective resonance frequencies and a mode selection switch for permitting the oscillators to vibrate independently or in combination, so that lithotripsy can be performed effectively in accordance with the size of a calculus or a function of an operating tool.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2002Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Ryoji Masubuchi, Yoshitaka Honda, Hiroo Ono
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Publication number: 20060289043Abstract: There is a disclosed a cleaning for a medical instrument, including a nozzle main body detachably to a surgical ultrasonic treatment instrument including a channel, and the nozzle main body includes a water supply port opened in a position connected to the channel, when mounted in the surgical ultrasonic treatment instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Inventors: Katsumi SASAKI, Shinya MASUDA, Eiji MURAKAMI, Ryoji MASUBUCHI
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Publication number: 20040186463Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus of the invention is provided with an improved cleaning ability and easy recyclability. A grasping member (1720) includes a first element (1721) molded of a heat resistant resin, and a second element (1722) located inside the first element (1721 ) as a reinforcement in such a manner that the first element (1721) covers the outer surface of the second element (1722) entirely.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Murakami, Ryoji Masubuchi
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Publication number: 20040118440Abstract: There is disclosed a cleaning device which is mounted in a surgical treatment instrument so as to be attachable/detachable and in which a cleaning cover having a shape to surround a distal-end function portion is disposed and includes a jet port opening toward the distal-end function portion of the surgical treatment instrument and which supplies cleaning water into the cleaning cover via the jet port to clean the distal-end function portion of the surgical treatment instrument disposed in the cleaning cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Sasaki, Shinya Masuda, Eiji Murakami, Ryoji Masubuchi
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Publication number: 20040084070Abstract: There is disclosed a cleaning device for a medical instrument, including a nozzle main body detachably attached to a surgical ultrasonic treatment instrument including a channel, and the nozzle main body includes a water supply port opened in a position connected to the channel, when mounted in the surgical ultrasonic treatment instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Katsumi Sasaki, Shinya Masuda, Eiji Murakami, Ryoji Masubuchi
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Publication number: 20030045887Abstract: An ultrasonic calculus treatment apparatus includes a longitudinal-vibration piezoelectric oscillator for vibrating in the axial direction of an ultrasonic transmitting member and a torsional-vibration piezoelectric oscillator for vibrating about the axial direction, and further includes driving circuits for driving the piezoelectric oscillators at respective resonance frequencies and a mode selection switch for permitting the oscillators to vibrate independently or in combination, so that lithotripsy can be performed effectively in accordance with the size of a calculus or a function of an operating tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohisa Sakurai, Ryoji Masubuchi, Yoshitaka Honda, Hiroo Ono
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Patent number: 6080102Abstract: A system for evulsing subcutaneous tissue includes an endoscope adapted to be inserted into subcutaneous tissue through a skin cut portion to observe tissue to be evulsed and existing under the skin, a dissecting unit adapted to be inserted into the subcutaneous tissue through the skin cut portion so as to dissect the tissue, to be evulsed, from surrounding tissue in order to form a adapted cavity along the tissue to be evulsed and below the skin, a cavity maintaining unit adapted to be inserted from the skin cut portion into the cavity formed by the dissecting unit and to be retained in the cavity in order to maintain, around the tissue to be evulsed, a treatment space which permits the endoscope to be inserted and removed and which enables treatment of the tissue to be evulsed, and at least one treatment tool adapted to be inserted into the treatment space maintained by the cavity maintaining unit in order to perform, in the treatment space, treatment required to evulse the tissue to be evulsed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryoichi Konou, Ryoji Masubuchi, Jin Kira, Takahiro Kogasaka, Hiroshi Okabe
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Patent number: 5759150Abstract: A system for evulsing subcutaneous tissue includes an endoscope adapted to be inserted into subcutaneous tissue through a skin cut portion to observe tissue to be evulsed and existing under the skin, a dissecting unit adapted to be inserted into the subcutaneous tissue through the skin cut portion so as to dissect the tissue, to be evulsed, from surrounding tissue in order to form a cavity along the tissue to be evulsed and below the skin, a cavity maintaining unit adapted to be inserted from the skin cut portion into the cavity formed by the dissecting unit and to be retained in the cavity in order to maintain, around the tissue to be evulsed, a treatment space which permits the endoscope to be inserted and removed and which enables treatment of the tissue to be evulsed, and at least one treatment tool adapted to be inserted into the treatment space maintained by the cavity maintaining unit in order to perform, in the treatment space, treatment required to evulse the tissue to be evulsed.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1996Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryoichi Konou, Ryoji Masubuchi, Jin Kira, Takahiro Kogasaka, Hiroshi Okabe
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Patent number: 5630795Abstract: A cleaning tube apparatus for an endoscope, comprises the endoscope having an observation optical system for observing a subject part at a forward-end portion, a cleaning tube detachable with respect to said endoscope, said cleaning tube being provided with a plurality of fluid jetting openings in a peripheral direction at one end of said cleaning tube, said fluid jetting openings being provided for leading cleaning fluid at least to said observation optical system, and a fluid supply unit connected to said cleaning tube, for supplying the cleaning fluid to said cleaning tube.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1995Date of Patent: May 20, 1997Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Kuramoto, Ryoji Masubuchi, Akio Nakada, Yasuhiko Omagari, Ichiro Nakamura, Nobuhiko Washizuka, Yoshinao Oaki