Patents by Inventor Shoichi Nakamura

Shoichi Nakamura 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).

  • Publication number: 20150286076
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a binocular loupe, the method including radiating strobe light from a below-located operational manipulating position in a state that the operator wearing the frame on which the carrier lenses are mounted stares the operational manipulating position in a working posture to use the binocular loupe, photographing reflection light of the strobe light reflected from pupils of the operator with a camera 11, specifying pupil positions based on the image data, and determining downward wearing angles r1, r2 of the loupe units which are to be attached to the right and left carrier lenses based on distance A from the operational manipulating position P to the carrier lenses and a horizontal distance B from the operational manipulating position P to a vertical line passing through the carrier lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150248095
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tandem-method image forming system that makes it possible to share operations for forming images onto different areas of the recording paper sheet between the image forming apparatuses included therein. Each of the image forming apparatuses includes an image forming section that forms an image onto a paper sheet; and a control section that is provided with a function for adjusting a process condition to be employed when forming the image onto the paper sheet corresponding to a target density currently established, and another function for outputting a test chart under the process condition above-adjusted. Corresponding to the target density, each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, which are operated in conjunction with each other through the network, revises the process condition for a plural number of times within an adjustable range, and outputs the test chart at every time when the process condition is revised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9101526
    Abstract: A gas mist pressure bathing system for preparing a gas mist by pulverizing and dissolving a gas including carbon dioxide or oxygen or a mixed gas of carbon dioxide and oxygen, and a liquid, and causing the gas mist to directly contact skin and mucous membrane of a living organism, includes a gas supply device, a gas mist generating device having a liquid storage, a nozzle discharging the gas, and a liquid sucking pipe for sending the liquid to the nozzle, a covering member for covering the skin and mucous membrane, sensors, and a control device. The gas mist generating device further includes a gas introduction device for supplying the gas into the gas mist generating device, and generating an air current guiding the gas mist to the covering member to increase supplying pressure of the gas mist into the covering member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9101528
    Abstract: Provided are a gas mist pressure bathing method and a gas mist pressure bathing system that improve the efficiency of absorbing a gas mist from the skin and mucous membranes of a living body. The gas mist pressure bathing method is provided with a first step, a second step and a third step. The first step involves supplying a gas mist and gas for a predetermined time to at least a first cover 51 of a living body cover member 50 having said first cover 51 and a second cover 55 positioned outside of the first cover 51, the inside of said second cover 55 being substantially sealed; covering the skin and mucous membranes of the living body; and forming a space wherein the gas mist and gas supplied by a gas mist generating means 30 are sealed. The second step involves discharging the gas mist and gas from the first cover 51 and/or the second cover 55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9086668
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system including a feed tray, a printer unit, a first post-processing unit that performs first post-processing accompanying at least a change in a sheet size, a second post-processing unit that performs second post-processing other than the first post-processing, and a control unit that controls setting and performing feeding, outputting, and the post-processing of the sheet. In a case where the first post-processing and the second post-processing are set, the control unit acquires a feeding sheet size of a sheet fed from the feed tray, calculates a sheet size after the first post-processing based on the acquired feeding sheet size, and determines whether the set post-processings can be performed based on the calculated sheet size and a sheet size that can be processed by the second post-processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9062833
    Abstract: A medical light source device worn on the body of an operator enables the application range to be set at a state displaced from the direction in which the body currently faces. An acceleration sensor 106 is attached to a holder 7 to put an illumination section 1 on the body of the operator, and detects a motion of the body of the operator. When an application-range center position setting switch 107b is operated, a position detecting section 108 detects a center position based on the acceleration information detected by the acceleration sensor 106, and an optical axis adjusting section 108 fixes the optical axis of the illumination section 1 to the detected center position. Then, the application angle of application light from the illumination section 1 is capable of being adjusted in a plurality of stages by an application control section 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9017278
    Abstract: A cover for a gas mist pressure bath includes a bag shaped living-body cover member for covering the skin and mucous membrane of the living body; a tightening device disposed at one side of the living-body cover member to tighten an opening of the living-body cover member to prevent diffusion of the gas mist; a gas mist supply port communicating with an inside of the cover for the gas mist pressure bath for introducing the gas mist into the cover; an outlet attached to the living-body cover member for exhausting air, the gas mist or gas sealed in the cover for the gas mist pressure bath and controlling quantity of the air, gas mist, or gas, and a pressurizing device disposed on another side of the living-body cover member for pressurizing the inside of the living-body cover member, wherein when the pressurizing device is operating, a pressurization is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9005156
    Abstract: A gas mist pressure bathing system, which integrates a gas introduction part for increasing the supply pressure of a gas mist with a gas mist generator and enables the structure to be simplified and costs to be reduced, is provided. The gas mist pressure bathing system is provided with a gas supply means (10), a gas mist generating means (30), and a living body cover member (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8961478
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bathing system enabling to cause a gas mist to be absorbed into the skin and the mucous membrane of the living organism under an optimum condition of controlling the amounts of gas and liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150037702
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted cell stack system includes a cell stack that comprises a plurality of laminated power generating cells, and power collecting plates that sandwich both outermost power generating cells, electric wires connected to the power collecting plates, and an electric load connected to the power collecting plates via the electric wires and configured to be activated by electric power that is supplied from the cell stack. The electric wires are connected to the power collecting plates in a direction other than a cell laminating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Takahito Osada, Shoichi Nakamura, Naoko Abe, Mitsutaka Abe
  • Publication number: 20150015161
    Abstract: A medical light-source device for securing a long illumination time required for operations in the medical field, has an LED illumination section including an LED element; a holder to put the LED illumination section on a head of the operator; a battery power supply section that supplies power to the LED illumination section; a charger having an AC adaptor capable of being connected to a commercial power supply for charging the battery power supply section; and a battery holding belt to put the battery power supply section and the charger on the body of the operator. The battery holding belt has a switch section to switch on/off the LED illumination section and to adjust intensity of illumination of the LED element; and a control section to control a constant current, which is associated with the intensity of illumination, supplied to the LED illumination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 8920013
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a medical light-source device capable of securing a long illumination time required for being used in operations in the medical field, a medical light-source device is worn on the body of the operator to apply light to a target portion of the medical treatment, and has a battery power supply section 60, and a control section 54 feeds a rated value of current from the battery power supply section 60 to an LED illumination section 61 to emit by a first switch 55A being operated, and when the second switch 55B or 55C is operated, changes an average current value fed to the LED illumination section 61 to supply an increase value of current higher than the rated value for a predetermined time to increase the quantity of irradiated light for the period. Further, an acceleration sensor 80 is provided so as to control illuminance corresponding to a motion of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8911394
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bath device which enables to cause efficiently absorb a gas mist into a skin or mucous membrane of a living-body, and attains to be compact and to lower cost. The device 10 is to cause oxygen, carbon dioxide, or a mixed gas (called as “gas” hereafter) of oxygen and carbon dioxide at a density of not less than a predetermined value to contact the skin or mucous membrane of the living-body, and the device comprises a gas mist generating means 11 for generating and supplying a mist (called as “gas mist” hereafter) prepared by pulverizing and dissolving the gas and liquid, and a substantially bag shaped living-body cover member 21 for covering the living-body's skin or mucous membrane and sealing inside, and the gas mist is supplied into the living-body cover member in order to heighten internal pressure therein so that the gas mist is caused to contact the living-body's skin or mucous membrane at a pressure more than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8905982
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bath system, which is possible to control the amount of gas and liquid, pressure and others, and cause a gas mist to be absorbed through a skin and mucous membrane of a human living body under an optimum condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8900208
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bath system, which is possible to control the amount of gas and liquid, pressure and others, and cause a gas mist to be absorbed through a skin and mucous membrane of a human living body under an optimum condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140343588
    Abstract: A medical instrument includes a rod-shaped grasp portion at a base end thereof, a functional portion used in medical practice at a front end thereof, and a shape-memory portion including a rod-shaped shape-memory alloy provided between the grasp portion and the functional portion. The grasp portion includes a holding portion having a space in which one end of the shape-memory portion is inserted from the longitudinal direction. The instrument has a gap between an outer surface of the shape-memory portion and an inner surface of the holding portion, and in bending the shape-memory portion, the shape-memory portion is capable of deforming within the range of the gap. Then, by bending, the outer surface of the shape-memory portion comes into contact with an inner edge portion of an opening of the holding portion, and thereby restricts deformation of the shape-memory portion beyond the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8876748
    Abstract: A cover for gas mist pressure bath includes a living-body cover member having an extension part extending from substantially center part of the living-body cover member, an adhesive part adhering the cover member to the skin and the mucous membrane of the living-body, a gas mist supply port for introducing the gas mist into the cover member for gas mist pressure bath, an outlet for exhausting air, the gas mist or the mixed gas sealed in the cover member for the gas mist pressure bath and controlling amounts of the gas, a fixing member fixing the cover member on the living-body, including a pair of belts extending from an edge of the adhesive part and a pair of belt stoppers adjusting the pair of belts, and a constricting ring pressurizing an inside of the living-body cover member to carry out pressurization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8875698
    Abstract: A gas mist inhaler includes a gas supply device for supplying a gas containing oxygen, carbon dioxide, or a mixed gas of oxygen and carbon dioxide, a gas mist generation device connected to the gas supply device for storing a liquid inside thereof and generating a gas mist prepared by pulverizing and dissolving the liquid stored in the gas mist generation device and the gas supplied from the gas supply device, and an inhalation member connected to the gas mist generation device and containing an inhalation port of inhaling the gas mist into a living organism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8801651
    Abstract: Provided is a pressurized carbon dioxide bathing apparatus for causing even a small amount of carbon dioxide to be efficiently absorbed from skin of a living body with the structure of a cover suit simplified, and the pressurized carbon dioxide bathing apparatus is to bring carbon dioxide with a concentration of a predetermined value or more into contact with skin of the human body and thereby promote the blood circulation, and is characterized by being comprised of a carbon dioxide supply means 1 for supplying a mixed gas of carbon dioxide and water vapor, a compressed air supply means 2, a first cover suit 3A which is connected to the carbon dioxide supply means 1 via a connector 6, is filled with the mixed gas supplied from the carbon dioxide supply means 1, and forms an enclosed layer 4 to bring the mixed gas into direct contact with skin of the human body, and a second cover suit 3B which is connected to the compressed air supply means 2 via a connector 7 and forms an enclosed layer 5 filled with compres
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8790292
    Abstract: Provided is a pressurized carbon dioxide bathing apparatus for bringing carbon dioxide into contact with skin of a living body by a predetermined pressure value or more using compressed air, and thereby enabling carbon dioxide to be absorbed efficiently from the skin, and the pressurized carbon dioxide bathing apparatus is comprised of a carbon dioxide supply means 1 for supplying a mixed gas of carbon dioxide and water vapor containing one or a plurality of chemical agents, a compressed air supply means 2, and a cover suit 3 of a two-layer structure having an enclosed layer 4 that is connected to the carbon dioxide supply means 1 via a connector 6 to confine the mixed gas supplied from the carbon dioxide supply means 1 so as to bring the mixed gas into direct contact with skin of the human body and an enclosed layer 5 that is connected to the compressed air supply means 2 via a connector 7 to confine compressed air supplied from the compressed air supply means 2, where the carbon dioxide is brought into cont
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura