Patents by Inventor Seiichi Ootsubo

Seiichi Ootsubo 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: 8920418
    Abstract: A PFO closing device includes: a clamper including a stick portion provided at a distal portion of a catheter for sticking to a foramen ovale valve and a sandwich member for sandwiching a biological tissue composed of the foramen ovale valve and an atrial septum secundum in cooperation with the stick portion; a cautery device including at least one electrode portion to be inserted into the foramen ovale between the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum; and an electric energy supply unit for supplying electric energy to the electrode portion, wherein the electrode portion is inserted into the foramen ovale and at the same time, the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum are sandwiched by the clamper, electric energy is supplied from the electric energy supply unit to the electrode portion and the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum are mutually fused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiichi Ootsubo
  • Patent number: 8460287
    Abstract: A PFO closing device includes: a clamper including a stick portion provided at a distal portion of a catheter for sticking to a foramen ovale valve and a sandwich member for sandwiching a biological tissue composed of the foramen ovale valve and an atrial septum secundum in cooperation with the stick portion; a cautery device including at least one electrode portion to be inserted into the foramen ovale between the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum; and an electric energy supply unit for supplying electric energy to the electrode portion, wherein the electrode portion is inserted into the foramen ovale and at the same time, the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum are sandwiched by the clamper, electric energy is supplied from the electric energy supply unit to the electrode portion and the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum are mutually fused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiichi Ootsubo
  • Patent number: 8394090
    Abstract: A medical device for fusing or necrosing biological tissue includes a pair of electrode members configured to sandwich the biological tissue, and an energy supply unit configured to supply electric energy to between the pair of electrode members, wherein the surface area of each of the pair of electrode members is mutually different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiichi Ootsubo
  • Patent number: 8382752
    Abstract: A medical device for fusing or necrosing a biological tissue, including a first electrode member and a second electrode member protruded from a non-electrically-conductive attachment portion configured to sandwich the biological tissue; and an energy supply unit configured to supply electric energy to between the first electrode member and the second electrode member, wherein the region of a predetermined length in a direction of axial line from the attachment portion in at least one of the electrode members within the first electrode member and the second electrode member is coated with an electrical insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiichi Ootsubo
  • Publication number: 20090069809
    Abstract: A PFO closing device includes: a clamper including a stick portion provided at a distal portion of a catheter for sticking to a foramen ovale valve and a sandwich member for sandwiching a biological tissue composed of the foramen ovale valve and an atrial septum secundum in cooperation with the stick portion; a cautery device including at least one electrode portion to be inserted into the foramen ovale between the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum; and an electric energy supply unit for supplying electric energy to the electrode portion, wherein the electrode portion is inserted into the foramen ovale and at the same time, the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum are sandwiched by the clamper, electric energy is supplied from the electric energy supply unit to the electrode portion and the foramen ovale valve and the atrial septum secundum are mutually fused.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiichi OOTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20090005776
    Abstract: A medical device for fusing or necrosing a biological tissue, including a first electrode member and a second electrode member protruded from a non-electrically-conductive attachment portion configured to sandwich the biological tissue; and an energy supply unit configured to supply electric energy to between the first electrode member and the second electrode member, wherein the region of a predetermined length in a direction of axial line from the attachment portion in at least one of the electrode members within the first electrode member and the second electrode member is coated with an electrical insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiichi OOTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20050234530
    Abstract: It is provided an apparatus for hyperthermia treatment capable of detecting emptiness of the storage unit or leakage of the cooling fluid. The apparatus for hyperthermia treatment by emitting body tissue with energy comprising: an applicator; a cooling fluid container holding cooling fluid to be circulated through said applicator; a storage unit for storing said cooling fluid to refill said cooling fluid container; a sensor for detecting whether said cooling fluid's amount held in said cooling fluid container is more than a preset amount or not; a refill control unit refilling said cooling fluid container with said cooling fluid from said storage unit when said cooling fluid's amount in said cooling fluid container is less than the preset amount; a total refill timer counting a total refill time required for refilling said cooling fluid container with said cooling fluid from said storage unit; and an abnormality notifying unit notifying an abnormality when said total refill time exceeds a preset time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takashino, Taisuke Sato, Masanobu Yamamoto, Shigeki Ariura, Akira Sakaguchi, Yuuichirou Irisawa, Wataru Karino, Seiichi Ootsubo
  • Publication number: 20050222556
    Abstract: The apparatus and method of the invention is equipped with an applicator for heating a target are of body tissue by a heating unit, a temperature sensor for measuring the body tissue's temperature, a target temperature calculating unit for calculating target temperatures based on temperature change pattern set up from an operating unit, and a control unit for controlling the laser power from the heating unit so that the temperature measured by the temperature sensor follow the calculated temperature change pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki Ariura, Seiichi Ootsubo, Akira Sakaguchi, Norihiko Hareyama