Patents by Inventor Shingo Okamoto

Shingo Okamoto 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: 12280194
    Abstract: A pressure detector that includes a case connectable to a flow route for liquid, and a membrane member attached inside the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion. The pressure detector includes an inlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route for the liquid, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid flows into an inlet opening of the liquid-phase portion; and an outlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route for the liquid, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid having flowed into the liquid-phase portion is discharged from an outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Ryo Kato
  • Publication number: 20240342457
    Abstract: An access port member includes: a body 8 internally including a flow path 8b for circulating blood and having an opening 8c communicating with the flow path 8b; a valve 9 made of an elastic member covering the opening 8c and attached to an attachment part 8d of the body 8, the valve 9 including a slit 9a that makes a transition from a closed state to an open state when pressed by a tip 11a of a syringe 11 capable of collecting blood or injecting a drug; a cap part 10 welded and fixed to the body 8 with the valve 9 interposed therebetween and the slit 9a facing outward; and a depression 8e formed at a position between a welding part Y1 and the attachment part 8d of the body 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuhide ONO, Hiroyuki KAWAJIRI, Shingo OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11931500
    Abstract: A pressure detector that includes a case connectable to a flow route for liquid, and a membrane member provided in the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion. The gas-phase portion has an opening through which the gas is allowed to be introduced or discharged in accordance with the displacement of the membrane member, and a secured portion secured for the introduction or discharge of the gas through the opening during the displacement of the membrane member toward a side of the gas-phase portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Shingo Okamoto, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 11931499
    Abstract: A pressure detector including a case connectable to a flow route and attachable to a predetermined attaching surface; and a membrane member attached inside the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion. The pressure detector includes an inlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid flows into an inlet opening of the liquid-phase portion; and an outlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid having flowed into the liquid-phase portion is discharged from an outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 11872334
    Abstract: A pressure detector is provided that includes a case connectable to a flow route for liquid, and a membrane member attached inside the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion with a pressure detection sensor. The pressure detector includes a hydrophobic portion that allows gas to pass through but blocks liquid from passing through, the hydrophobic portion being provided between the gas-phase portion and the pressure detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Shingo Okamoto, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 11554202
    Abstract: Microbubbles detached from a blood circuit and a blood purification unit are discharged with the use of a backflow generated at the instant that a roller of a blood pump releases a squeezable tube. In a normal rotation step, a region filled with a priming solution after a priming step is closed by a closing unit, and a rotor of a blood pump is rotated normally until a roller of the blood pump releases a squeezable tube to generate a backflow. After the backflow is generated at the release of the squeezable tube by the roller of the blood pump, bubbles are moved by reversely rotating the rotor while disabling the closing by the closing unit. Thus, the bubbles are discharged through a discharge unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shunichi Koda, Shunsuke Kawamura, Shingo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11478885
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a medical device including a case having a first and a second case portion mated together. The case having a space inside and an elastic membrane attached to the case. A first housing space covered by the first case portion and a second housing space covered by the second case portion. Fixing parts at peripheries of the first and the second case portions and at which the first and the second case portions are mated. Holding surfaces at the peripheries of the first and the second case portions. A sealing part at the periphery of the first or the second ease portions with respect to the fixing parts and that seals an entirety of the peripheral edge of the elastic membrane. Forming an air gap between the sealing part and the fixing parts by depressurization or heating the fixing parts that connect the case portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Kosei Nishida
  • Patent number: 11406747
    Abstract: An extracorporeal circulation apparatus including a blood circuit including an arterial blood circuit and a venous blood circuit whose proximal ends are connected to a blood purifier, the blood circuit allowing a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate from a distal end of the arterial blood circuit to a distal end of the venous blood circuit; a discharge unit through which a priming solution supplied into the blood circuit is discharged to an outside; a negative-pressure-generating unit that generates a negative pressure in a region of the blood circuit, the region being filled with the priming solution; and a control unit that controls the negative-pressure-generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shunichi Koda, Shunsuke Kawamura, Shingo Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20210107100
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Kosei Nishida
  • Publication number: 20210106744
    Abstract: A medical device includes a case obtained by mating a liquid-phase-portion case and a gas-phase-portion case to each other, a membrane member as an elastic member with which a liquid-phase portion covered by the liquid-phase-portion case and a gas-phase portion covered by the gas-phase-portion case are separated from each other, fixing parts and at which the liquid-phase-portion case and the gas-phase-portion case that are mated to each other are fixed to each other, holding surfaces and between which a peripheral edge of the membrane member is held, and a sealing part that seals the entirety of the peripheral edge of the membrane member held between the holding surfaces and. The medical device has a releasing part that releases the pressure in an air gap produced between the sealing part and the fixing parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Kosei Nishida, Kazuhide Ono
  • Publication number: 20210052801
    Abstract: A pressure detector including a case connectable to a flow route and attachable to a predetermined attaching surface; and a membrane member attached inside the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion. The pressure detector includes an inlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid flows into an inlet opening of the liquid-phase portion; and an outlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid having flowed into the liquid-phase portion is discharged from an outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Ryo Kato
  • Publication number: 20210052796
    Abstract: A pressure detector is provided that includes a case connectable to a flow route for liquid, and a membrane member attached inside the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion with a pressure detection sensor. The pressure detector includes a hydrophobic portion that allows gas to pass through but blocks liquid from passing through, the hydrophobic portion being provided between the gas-phase portion and the pressure detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Shingo Okamoto, Ryo Kato
  • Publication number: 20210052800
    Abstract: A pressure detector that includes a case connectable to a flow route for liquid, and a membrane member attached inside the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion. The pressure detector includes an inlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route for the liquid, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid flows into an inlet opening of the liquid-phase portion; and an outlet port including a connecting portion connectable to the flow route for the liquid, and a flow-route portion through which the liquid having flowed into the liquid-phase portion is discharged from an outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Ryo Kato
  • Publication number: 20210052797
    Abstract: A pressure detector that includes a case connectable to a flow route for liquid, and a membrane member provided in the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion. The gas-phase portion has an opening through which the gas is allowed to be introduced or discharged in accordance with the displacement of the membrane member, and a secured portion secured for the introduction or discharge of the gas through the opening during the displacement of the membrane member toward a side of the gas-phase portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawajiri, Shingo Okamoto, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 10879410
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes: a solar cell; a conductive light-reflective film disposed on a back surface side of the solar cell, the conductive light-reflective film extending from an edge portion of the solar cell; an insulating member disposed between a back surface of the solar cell and the conductive light-reflective film; and a back-surface side encapsulant covering the solar cell and the conductive light-reflective film from the back surface side of the solar cell, wherein the insulating member is made of a material harder than a material of the back-surface side encapsulant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwata, Tasuku Ishiguro, Haruhisa Hashimoto, Youhei Murakami, Akimichi Maekawa, Shingo Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20200206407
    Abstract: Microbubbles detached from a blood circuit and a blood purification unit are discharged with the use of a backflow generated at the instant that a roller of a blood pump releases a squeezable tube. In a normal rotation step, a region filled with a priming solution after a priming step is closed by a closing unit, and a rotor of a blood pump is rotated normally until a roller of the blood pump releases a squeezable tube to generate a backflow. After the backflow is generated at the release of the squeezable tube by the roller of the blood pump, bubbles are moved by reversely rotating the rotor while disabling the closing by the closing unit. Thus, the bubbles are discharged through a discharge unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shunichi Koda, Shunsuke Kawamura, Shingo Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20200206406
    Abstract: An extracorporeal circulation apparatus including a blood circuit including an arterial blood circuit and a venous blood circuit whose proximal ends are connected to a blood purifier, the blood circuit allowing a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate from a distal end of the arterial blood circuit to a distal end of the venous blood circuit; a discharge unit through which a priming solution supplied into the blood circuit is discharged to an outside; a negative-pressure-generating unit that generates a negative pressure in a region of the blood circuit, the region being filled with the priming solution; and a control unit that controls the negative-pressure-generating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shunichi Koda, Shunsuke Kawamura, Shingo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10483419
    Abstract: On a projected plane in parallel to the main surface of the solar cell module 100, an output interconnection 10 includes: a first output interconnection section 10a arranged along an conductive member 4 in a power non-generating field; and a second output interconnection section 10b leading to the first output interconnection section 10a in a power generating section X.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Nakajima, Atsushi Nakauchi, Teruhiko Ienaga, Shingo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10337765
    Abstract: Provided is a solar cell module having improved weatherability. A frame body has a groove. A module main body is inserted into the groove. An adhesive material is disposed in the groove. The adhesive material is provided at least on a part of a frame body portion excluding frame body corner portions. Through holes communicating with the groove are provided at the corner portions of the frame body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Tsujimoto, Shingo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10315022
    Abstract: An object is to provide a co-injection member which can smoothly collect a liquid of an internal flow route, which can smoothly inject a liquid into the internal flow route, and which can reliably prevent congestion of the liquid in the internal flow route. A co-injection member includes a main body that can be connected to a blood circuit through which blood is circulated, an internal flow route that is formed inside the main body, and that can circulate the liquid of the blood circuit, an inlet flow route that is formed inside the main body, and that introduces the blood into the internal flow route, an outlet flow route that is formed inside the main body, and that can discharge the blood of the internal flow route, and a rubber member that is attached to an opening formed in the main body, and that separates the inside and the outside of the internal flow route from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventors: Shingo Okamoto, Kazuhide Ono, Katsumi Imigi