Patents by Inventor Shinji Osawa
Shinji Osawa 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: 9464265Abstract: There is provided an incubator for an isolator, which is capable of reliably sterilizing a cultivation room of the incubator, a gas supply pipe and a sampling pipe. An incubator 1 for an isolator 40 includes a gas concentration control pipe 16 provided to communicate to a cultivation room 4 for control of concentration of cultivation gas in the cultivation room 4, a sterile gas circulation pipe 26 for circulating sterile gas from the cultivation room 4 to the gas concentration control pipe 16, and a circulation pump 24 provided in the sterile gas circulation pipe 26.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Tetsuya Miyoshi
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Patent number: 8462240Abstract: An imaging system may include an image sensor array and column randomizing multiplexers. The imaging system may include a data output circuit and image readout circuitry such as analog amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, and memory circuits. The column randomizing multiplexers may include a first column randomizing multiplexer between the image sensor array and at least some of the image readout circuitry. The first column randomizing multiplexer may randomly connect columns of the image sensor array to the image readout circuitry. The connections made by the first column randomizing multiplexer may be randomized as each row of the image sensor array is read out. The column randomizing multiplexers may include a second column randomizing multiplexer between at least some of the image readout circuitry and the data output circuit. The second column randomizing multiplexer may reorder image data for the image readout circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Aptina Imaging CorporationInventors: Shinji Osawa, Isao Takayanagi, Katsuyuki Kawamura, Toshiaki Sato, Norio Yoshimura, Shinichiro Matsuo, Hidenari Honda
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Patent number: 8455241Abstract: There is provided a culture observation system by which even a culture other than an observation target culture can be cultured and observation can be properly performed by a microscope during culturing of the culture. A culture observation system S includes a culturing cabinet 2 for forming an environment suitable for culturing cells in a culturing room 13 and an image pick-up device 3 for photographing a microscopic image of the cells. The image pick-up device 3 includes a light source 47 which is provided in the culturing room 13 and a table 37 which is provided in the culturing room 13 to hold the culture as an image pick-up target, and a shelf 7 for accommodating the cells is provided in the culturing room 13 other than the light source 47 and the table 37.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Tetsuya Miyoshi, Tadahisa Saga, Ryuzo Tobe, Hiroki Busujima
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Patent number: 8136899Abstract: A rack device having a receiver that can be prevented from being separated from a rack post in an incubator. A rack device in which a receiver is mounted between a pair of rack posts to hold a rack on the receiver includes a pair of engaging hooks which are formed in the receiver and a plurality of engaging holes which are formed in both the rack posts and in which both of the engaging hooks of the receiver disengageably engage, respectively. The rack posts are configured to be able to change an interval there between and select a first state in which the engaging hooks can be disengaged from the engaging holes and a second state in which the movement of the receiver is restricted while the engaging hooks be kept to engage in the engaging holes by changing the interval between the rack posts.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Hiroki Busujima
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Publication number: 20120062772Abstract: An imaging system may include an image sensor array and column randomizing multiplexers. The imaging system may include a data output circuit and image readout circuitry such as analog amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, and memory circuits. The column randomizing multiplexers may include a first column randomizing multiplexer between the image sensor array and at least some of the image readout circuitry. The first column randomizing multiplexer may randomly connect columns of the image sensor array to the image readout circuitry. The connections made by the first column randomizing multiplexer may be randomized as each row of the image sensor array is read out. The column randomizing multiplexers may include a second column randomizing multiplexer between at least some of the image readout circuitry and the data output circuit. The second column randomizing multiplexer may reorder image data for the image readout circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2010Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Isao Takayanagi, Katsuyuki Kawamura, Toshiaki Sato, Norio Yoshimura, Shinichiro Matsuo, Hidenari Honda
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Patent number: 7754477Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a multigas incubator capable of shortening humidity-returning time after closing its door. The incubator comprises an adiabatic box main body having an opening on a front face thereof, an adiabatic door mounted on the adiabatic box main body in an openable and closable manner, a transparent inner door for openably closing the opening, and an incubation room surrounded by the inner door and the adiabatic box main body for incubating samples such as cells, microbes and the like. The adiabatic box main body comprises an outer box made of a metal, an inner box made of a metal, a heat insulating material arranged inside the outer box between the outer and inner boxes, and an air layer arranged more inside than the heat insulating material. Gases supplied for controlling concentrations of gases in the incubation room are jetted into humidification water.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Yasuhiro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20090325280Abstract: There is provided a culture observation system by which even a culture other than an observation target culture can be cultured and observation can be properly performed by a microscope during culturing of the culture. A culture observation system S includes a culturing cabinet 2 for forming an environment suitable for culturing cells in a culturing room 13 and an image pick-up device 3 for photographing a microscopic image of the cells. The image pick-up device 3 includes a light source 47 which is provided in the culturing room 13 and a table 37 which is provided in the culturing room 13 to hold the culture as an image pick-up target, and a shelf 7 for accommodating the cells is provided in the culturing room 13 other than the light source 47 and the table 37.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Tetsuya Miyoshi, Tadahisa Saga, Ryuzo Tobe, Hiroki Busujima
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Publication number: 20090221064Abstract: There is provided an incubator for an isolator, which is capable of reliably sterilizing a cultivation room of the incubator, a gas supply pipe and a sampling pipe. An incubator 1 for an isolator 40 includes a gas concentration control pipe 16 provided to communicate to a cultivation room 4 for control of concentration of cultivation gas in the cultivation room 4, a sterile gas circulation pipe 26 for circulating sterile gas from the cultivation room 4 to the gas concentration control pipe 16, and a circulation pump 24 provided in the sterile gas circulation pipe 26.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: September 3, 2009Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Tetsuya Miyoshi
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Publication number: 20090195129Abstract: A rack device is provided in which a receiver can be prevented from being separated off from a rack post and an incubator having the rack device is also provided. A rack device 1 in which a receiver 11 is mounted between a pair of rack posts 8 and 9 to hold a rack on the receiver 11 includes a pair of engaging hooks 11C and 11D which are formed in the receiver and a plurality of engaging holes 14 and 18 which are formed in both the rack posts and in which both of the engaging hooks of the receiver disengageably engage, respectively. The rack posts are configured to be able to change an interval therebetween and select a first state in which the engaging hooks can be disengaged from the engaging holes and a second state in which the movement of the receiver is restricted while the engaging hooks be kept to engage in the engaging holes by changing the interval between the rack posts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2007Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Hiroki Busujima
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Patent number: 7322944Abstract: A guide wire which includes: (a) a core wire formed with a mounting portion at the distal end portion; and (b) a plurality of coil wires being fitted onto the mounting portion substantially in tandem, and having different mechanical properties, the adjacent coil wires being connected with each other at the corresponding ends thereof. One of the corresponding ends of the adjacent coil wires is formed into a tapered portion gradually reducing in outer diameter toward said end. The other one of the corresponding ends is formed into a receiving end portion into which the tapered portion is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Shinji Osawa, Hidekazu Miyauchi
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Patent number: 7186223Abstract: A guide wire, which has excellent follow-up characteristics, sufficients contrasting characteristics and flexibility at a distal end portion thereof and high elasticity at a proximal end portion thereof, includes a core wire, and a coil wire provided on the distal end portion of this core wire coaxially therewith. The coil wire is formed by winding a plurality of wires, which are formed of different constituent materials and placed side by side on a plane, uniformly in an axial direction of the core wire so that the wires are adjacent to each other on the same plane.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2002Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Katsuhiro Hiejima, Shinji Osawa
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Patent number: 7083577Abstract: A guide wire having an elongated core wire provided with a tabular distal end portion, and a coiled wire provided on an outer circumference of the core wire, wherein the distal end portion of the core wire is provided with a cutout section or a rased section so that a diametrical cross-sectional area of the distal end portion of the core wire gradually decreases toward a distal end thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2002Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Nipro CorporationInventors: Shinji Osawa, Hiroyuki Inoue, Kazuhiro Fukuchi, Masahisa Tanimoto
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Patent number: 6889569Abstract: A change speed apparatus for a working vehicle includes a first shaft for receiving driving torque from an engine, a second shaft for transmitting the driving torque to a rear wheel differential, a change speed mechanism for changing speed of the driving torque received from the first shaft and transmits the driving torque to the second shaft, and a shift lever for selectively switching the change speed mechanism. The change speed mechanism has a high forward speed stage, a low forward speed stage, a backward drive stage, and a neutral stage. The shift lever is movable along a transverse control path for the neutral stage, a first longitudinal control path for the high forward speed stage, a second longitudinal control path for the low forward speed stage, and a third longitudinal control path for the backward drive stage.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Isamu Morimoto, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Megumi Sawai, Kenichi Sato, Kiyoshi Hanamoto, Yasunobu Yamaue, Shinji Osawa, Makoto Saegusa, Shinji Yamamoto, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuyuki Kashimoto
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Publication number: 20050084420Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a multigas incubator capable of shortening humidity-returning time after closing its door. The incubator comprises an adiabatic box main body having an opening on a front face thereof, an adiabatic door mounted on the adiabatic box main body in an openable and closable manner, a transparent inner door for openably closing the opening, and an incubation room surrounded by the inner door and the adiabatic box main body for incubating samples such as cells, microbes and the like. The adiabatic box main body comprises an outer box made of a metal, an inner box made of a metal, a heat insulating material arranged inside the outer box between the outer and inner boxes, and an air layer arranged more inside than the heat insulating material. Gases supplied for controlling concentrations of gases in the incubation room are jetted into humidification water.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2004Publication date: April 21, 2005Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC BIOMEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Yasuhiro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20040210163Abstract: A guide wire which includes: (a) a core wire formed with a mounting portion at the distal end portion; and (b) a plurality of coil wires being fitted onto the mounting portion substantially in tandem, and having different mechanical properties, the adjacent coil wires being connected with each other at the corresponding ends thereof. One of the corresponding ends of the adjacent coil wires is formed into a tapered portion gradually reducing in outer diameter toward said end. The other one of the corresponding ends is formed into a receiving end portion into which the tapered portion is inserted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Hidekazu Miyauchi
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Publication number: 20040063195Abstract: To provide a CO2 incubator capable of accurately controlling the CO2 gas concentration in an incubation space and quickly coping with a sudden change of CO2 gas concentrations in the incubation space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Tamaoki, Hiroki Busujima, Shinji Osawa, Yasuhiro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20030083622Abstract: A guide wire having an elongated core wire provided with a tabular distal end portion, and a coiled wire provided on an outer circumference of the core wire, wherein the distal end portion of the core wire is provided with a cutout section or a rased section so that a diametrical cross-sectional area of the distal end portion of the core wire gradually decreases toward a distal end thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Inventors: Shinji Osawa, Hiroyuki Inoue, Kazuhiro Fukuchi, Masahisa Tanimoto
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Publication number: 20030033898Abstract: A change speed apparatus for a working vehicle that engages in an operation while moving forward and backward, includes a first shaft (14) for receiving driving torque from an engine, a second shaft (18) for transmitting the driving torque to a rear wheel differential, a change speed mechanism (9) for changing speed of the driving torque received from the first shaft and transmits the driving torque to the second shaft, and a shift lever (33) for selectively switching the change speed mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Isamu Morimoto, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Megumi Sawai, Kenichi Sato, Kiyoshi Hanamoto, Yasunobu Yamaue, Shinji Osawa, Makoto Saegusa, Shinji Yamamoto, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuyuki Kashimoto
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Publication number: 20020188188Abstract: A guide wire, which has excellent follow-up characteristics, sufficients contrasting characteristics and flexibility at a distal end portion thereof and high elasticity at a proximal end portion thereof, includes a core wire, and a coil wire provided on the distal end portion of this core wire coaxially therewith. The coil wire is formed by winding a plurality of wires, which are formed of different constituent materials and placed side by side on a plane, uniformly in an axial direction of the core wire so that the wires are adjacent to each other on the same plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2002Publication date: December 12, 2002Inventors: Katsuhiro Hiejima, Shinji Osawa
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Patent number: 4912560Abstract: A solid state image sensing device includes a plurality of light-receiving/storage elements formed on a semiconductor substrate, vertical registers vertically extending along the light-receiving/storage elements, a horizontal register connected to ends of the vertical registers and horizontally extending, a charge read section, arranged between the light-receiving/storage element and the vertical register, for reading charge from each light-receiving/storage element to the corresponding vertical register, and a charge injection section for injecting bias charge to each light-receiving/storage element. Excessive bias charge is discharged to the semiconductor substrate through the vertical registers by setting gates in the charge read sections to be low level.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1989Date of Patent: March 27, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinji Osawa, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Nozomu Harada