Patents by Inventor Seiji Kuramoto
Seiji Kuramoto 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: 11026762Abstract: Provided is a medical observation device which includes a detection unit configured to detect a pressing operation based on an operation signal according to the pressing operation which is output from an external operation device equipped with a switch pressed by a mouth, and a processing unit configured to perform a process corresponding to the detected pressing operation. The process corresponding to the pressing operation includes some or all of a process related to an imaging operation of an imaging device, a process related to a display of a medical captured image which is captured in the imaging device, and an identification process of identifying a user's input indicating the process related to the imaging operation or the process related to the display of the medical captured image.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Seiji Kuramoto
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Publication number: 20200197122Abstract: Provided is a medical observation device which includes a detection unit configured to detect a pressing operation based on an operation signal according to the pressing operation which is output from an external operation device equipped with a switch pressed by a mouth, and a processing unit configured to perform a process corresponding to the detected pressing operation. The process corresponding to the pressing operation includes some or all of a process related to an imaging operation of an imaging device, a process related to a display of a medical captured image which is captured in the imaging device, and an identification process of identifying a user's input indicating the process related to the imaging operation or the process related to the display of the medical captured image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventor: Seiji KURAMOTO
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Publication number: 20020004786Abstract: An information offering method including: disclosing summary information about a designated product via a designated communication line; judging whether or not the user reading said summary information disclosed by said summary information disclosing step and desiring to read detailed product information about the product about which said summary information is disclosed is a user who is permitted to read detailed information; and disclosing detailed information about the product about which said summary information is disclosed, to the user who is judged to be permitted to read detailed information by said judgment step.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Applicant: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO LTDInventors: Motoyuki Tagawa, Takeaki Nakamura, Akio Nakada, Norio Seki, Seiji Kuramoto, Naoki Mori, Takao Tabata, Yukiko Furukawa
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Patent number: 5906625Abstract: A surgical instrument for fastening together opposing portions of a body organ. The instrument comprises a first support for supporting the first opposing portion of the body organ, a second support opposing the first support, for supporting the second opposing portion of the body organ, and a displacement-preventing member connected to the first or second support for preventing the supports from displacing relative to each other. The member comprises a pin protruding from one of the supports and a hole formed in the other of the supports. The pin is made of thermoplastic resin. When heated, the pin is softened and deformed, whereby the first and second supports are secured to each other, fastening together the opposing portions of the body organ.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiro Bito, Isami Hirao, Kazuhiko Oozeki, Minoru Tsuruta, Akito Mukaizawa, Akio Nakada, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Toshihiko Suzuta, Shuichi Kimura, Seiji Kuramoto, Naoki Uchiyama, Norikiyo Shibata
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Patent number: 5873828Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis and treatment system having a thin tube which is capable of being inserted into a body cavity, and which has at its extreme end an observing ultrasonic vibrator for emitting ultrasonic waves for observation and a treating ultrasonic vibrator for emitting strong ultrasonic waves for treatment. Observation and treatment are performed by using ultrasonic wave. The system further includes a processing device for performing an operation other than the ultrasonic treatment at least on a region observed by using ultrasonic waves. A guide for enabling the processing device to reach the region observed by using ultrasonic waves is provided on the thin tube.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1995Date of Patent: February 23, 1999Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Fujio, Isami Hirao, Sakae Takehana, Yasuhiro Ueda, Takashi Tsukaya, Yoshinao Oaki, Seiji Kuramoto
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Patent number: 5797931Abstract: A surgical instrument for fastening together opposing portions of a body organ. The instrument comprises a first support for supporting the first opposing portion of the body organ, a second support opposing the first support, for supporting the second opposing portion of the body organ, and a displacement-preventing member connected to the first or second support for preventing the supports from displacing relative to each other. The member comprises a pin protruding from one of the supports and a hole formed in the other of the supports. The pin is made of thermoplastic resin. When heated, the pin is softened and deformed, whereby the first and second supports are secured to each other, fastening together the opposing portions of the body organ.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1996Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiro Bito, Isami Hirao, Kazuhiko Oozeki, Minoru Tsuruta, Akito Mukaizawa, Akio Nakada, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Shuichi Kimura, Toshihiko Suzuta, Seiji Kuramoto, Naoki Uchiyama
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Patent number: 5658300Abstract: A surgical instrument for fastening together opposing portions of a body organ. The instrument comprises a first support for supporting the first opposing portion of the body organ, a second support opposing the first support, for supporting the second opposing portion of the body organ, and a displacement-preventing member connected to the first or second support for preventing the supports from displacing relative to each other. The member comprises a pin protruding from one of the supports and a hole formed in the other of the supports. The pin is made of thermoplastic resin. When heated, the pins is softened and deformed, whereby the first and second supports are secured to each other, fastening together the opposing portions of the body organ.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiro Bito, Isami Hirao, Kazuhiko Oozeki, Minoru Tsuruta, Akito Mukaizawa, Akio Nakada, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Shuichi Kimura, Toshihiko Suzuta, Seiji Kuramoto
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Patent number: 5649937Abstract: A surgical instrument for fastening together opposing portions of a body organ. The instrument comprises a first support for supporting the first opposing portion of the body organ, a second support opposing the first support, for supporting the second opposing portion of the body organ, and a displacement-preventing member connected to the first or second support for preventing the supports from displacing relative to each other. The member comprises a pin protruding from one of the supports and a hole formed in the other of the supports. The pin is made of thermoplastic resin. When heated, the pins is softened and deformed, whereby the first and second supports are secured to each other, fastening together the opposing portions of the body organ.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiro Bito, Isami Hirao, Kazuhiko Oozeki, Minoru Tsuruta, Akito Mukaizawa, Akio Nakada, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Shuichi Kimura, Toshihiko Suzuta, Seiji Kuramoto
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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
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Patent number: 5582611Abstract: A surgical device for stapling and fastening body tissues, comprises an insertion section extending from an operation section for insertion into a body cavity, stapling member connected to a distal end of the insertion section, for treating body tissues with a high-frequency current within a body cavity. The stapling member includes an anvil and a cartridge between which the tissues are sandwiched, and a cutter. Staples are applied to the anvil from the cartridge for stapling the tissues and the cutter cuts the tissue while it applies a high-frequency current thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1994Date of Patent: December 10, 1996Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Tsuruta, Shiro Bito, Shuichi Kimura, Seiji Kuramoto, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Akio Nakata, Toshihiko Suzuta
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Patent number: 5471988Abstract: Provided on the side of a distal end of an insertion part are an observation ultrasonic transducer for acquiring an ultrasonic image and a therapeutic ultrasonic transducer for outputting a therapeutic ultrasonic wave so as to be focused. Positioning or the like between the observation ultrasonic transducer and the therapeutic ultrasonic transducer is so conducted that a focusing point at which the therapeutic ultrasonic wave is focused is locked to a predetermined position within a scanning range of the observation ultrasonic wave. If the position of the focusing point is locked whereby a lesion part to be treated is set to a predetermined position on an ultrasonic image, it is necessarily possible to conduct the position setting to the focusing point. It is also made possible to confirm the position of the lesion part and to acoustically observe a state of the lesion part during irradiation of the therapeutic ultrasonic wave.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1994Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Fujio, Isami Hirao, Sakae Takehana, Yasuhiro Ueda, Takashi Tsukaya, Yoshinao Oaki, Seiji Kuramoto
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Patent number: 5467911Abstract: Disclosed herein is a surgical device for applying surgical fasteners to body tissues in order to fasten the body tissues together. The device comprises an operation section having a housing having an inner space completely sealed from the outside, drive elements electrically driven and arranged in the inner space of the operation section, an insertion section including a housing which has a first end portion containing the fasteners and having an opening through which the fasteners are to be applied, and a second end portion removably coupled to the housing of the operation section, fastener-applying elements located in the housing of the insertion section, for applying the fasteners from the opening to body tissues, and force-transmitting elements for transmitting drive force from the drive elements to the fastener-applying elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1994Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Tsuruta, Toshihiko Suzuta, Akio Nakada, Seiji Kuramoto, Hiroki Hibino, Shiro Bito, Akito Mukaizawa
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Patent number: 5423848Abstract: A trocar comprises an obturator having a piercing tip, and a cannula for forming a passage in tissue that is punched by the piercing tip. The cannula is formed from a flexible tube or a coil tube and transforms and libitum in accordance with the shape of the surgical tool that is to be inserted into the body cavity through the cannula. Therefore, the trocar of the invention allows insertion of a surgical tool curved in a circular arc into the body cavity without requiring no enlargement of the inside diameter of the cannula.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1994Date of Patent: June 13, 1995Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuhiko Washizuka, Yasuhiko Oomagari, Tsuruo Hatori, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Minoru Tsuruta, Seiji Kuramoto, Shuichi Kimura, Akio Nakada, Shiro Bito, Shinichi Nishigaki, Kenji Yoshino, Keisuke Saito, Yasuo Goto
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Patent number: 5395030Abstract: A surgical device for stapling and fastening body tissues, which comprises a staple-applying section containing a plurality of staples, a staple pusher incorporated in the staple-applying section, for applying the staples, an anvil section for deforming the staples, thereby to staple the body tissues together, an operation section for operating the staple pusher and the anvil section, an observation window located near the anvil section, and an ocular section for displaying images supplied from the observation window.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1993Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Kuramoto, Shiro Bito, Minoru Tsuruta, Shuichi Kimura, Akito Mukaizawa, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Akihiro Taguchi, Akio Nakada
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Patent number: 5389098Abstract: A surgical device for stapling and fastening body tissues, comprises an insertion section extending from an operation section for insertion into a body cavity, stapling member connected to a distal end of the insertion section, for treating body tissues with a high-frequency current within a body cavity. The stapling member includes an anvil and a cartridge between which the tissues are sandwiched, and a cutter. Staples are applied to the anvil from the cartridge for stapling the tissues and the cutter cuts the tissue while it applies a high-frequency current thereto.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1993Date of Patent: February 14, 1995Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Tsuruta, Shiro Bito, Shuichi Kimura, Akito Mukaizawa, Seiji Kuramoto, Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi, Akio Nakata, Akihiro Taguchi, Kazuhiko Oozeki, Hitoshi Mizno, Shuichi Takayama, Yoshinao Oaki, Keisuke Saito, Toshihiko Suzuta