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).

  • Patent number: 8480613
    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, in which a mist is prepared by pulverizing and dissolving carbon dioxide or oxygen or a mixed gas of carbon dioxide and oxygen and a liquid at a density of not less than a predetermined value, and the thus prepared gas mist is directly contacted to the skin and mucous membrane of the living-body, the gas mist pressure bath system comprises a gas supply means 11, a liquid supply means 21, a gas mist supply means 31 for generating and supplying the gas mist prepared by blowing off gas supplied from the gas supply means into the liquid supplied from the liquid supply means 21, and the living body cover member 41 of covering the skin and mucous membrane of the living-body and forming a space of sealing the gas mist inside thereof, and the gas mist pressur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd., Nakamura, Shoichi (Individual)
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130079703
    Abstract: Circulation of blood in an ischemic region can be improved or promoted, and furthermore ischemic disease in a living organism can be prevented, improved or cured through either direct contact of, or contact through clothing of carbon dioxide gas with the skin or mucous membrane of the living organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130072863
    Abstract: Carbon dioxide is contacted to a skin and mucous membrane of a living organism directly or through clothing, thereby to improve or promote circulation of the blood in a myocardial region, and furthermore to prevent, improve or cure myocardial infarction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130066164
    Abstract: To provide a medical instrument for enabling a functional portion provided at the front end of the instrument to be attached and detached to be disposable, while enabling the angle to be adjusted freely to ensure excellent visual recognition, in a medical instrument 10A provided with a rod-shaped grasp portion 20 at its base end and a functional portion 40A used in a medical practice at its front end, a shape memory portion 30 made of a rod-shaped shape memory alloy is provided in between the grasp portion 20 and the functional portion 40A, the grasp portion 20, the functional portion 40A and the shape memory portion 30 are made mutually attachable and detachable, and the shape memory portion 30 is subjected to memory treatment in a linear state, is bent as necessary to use, and is returned to its original shape subjected to the memory treatment by heating the shape memory portion 30 to a memory recovery temperature after using.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8373884
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a setting unit to set a printing condition of a job, the printing condition containing a condition indicating whether check print is to be executed or not; an image forming unit to execute image forming processing in accordance with the printing condition set by the setting unit; and a control unit to determine one or more pages to be subjected to the check print based on the printing condition and a predetermined determination condition if the printing condition set by the setting unit indicates that the check print is to be executed, and to cause the image forming unit to execute the image forming processing for the check print with respect to the determined one or more pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130035655
    Abstract: To provide a surgical pad which does not cause waste threads and fluff on the pad surface to remain in an operation site during an operation, is not hardened in absorbing body fluids such as lymph, blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and which is detectable by X-ray contrast after the operation, the surgical pad, which absorbs body fluids such as lymph, blood and cerebrospinal fluid during surgery, is provided with a pad portion formed by layering a plurality of pieces of cloth having absorption, and a radiopaque substance containing sheet disposed between layered pieces of cloth or on the surface of the pad portion. Herein, by coating the surface of the pad portion with resin, waste threads and fluff of the pad surface are prevented from peeling off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120303049
    Abstract: The invention is to offer a surgical instrument, where the pressure-opposing force and bending characteristics of the spring parts can be easily adjusted and the manipulability is improved. This surgical instrument comprises functional parts 11 that perform nipping or cutting of the object, operating parts 13 that operate the functional parts 11 by a user adding force, and spring parts 14 composed of a pair of elastic strip-shaped parts that impel the operating part 13 in the direction of opening the functional parts 11, wherein multiple grooves 14A are formed in the strip-shaped members of the spring parts 14, thereby to cause changes in pressure-opposing force and in bending characteristics of the spring parts 14, and allowing adjustment of manipulability of the functional parts 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120281390
    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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120232467
    Abstract: The present invention is to offer an oxygen bath system, which supplies highly concentrated oxygen and a mist of liquid at a predetermined pressure value into a chamber, thereby enabling to efficiently cause oxygen and the mist to be absorbed into the skin and the mucous membrane of a human organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120232468
    Abstract: The present invention is to offer an oxygen bath system, which supplies a mist of liquid at a predetermined pressure value together with highly concentrated oxygen into a chamber of accommodating a human organism and being foldable, thereby enabling to efficiently cause oxygen and the mist to be absorbed into the skin and the mucous membrane of a human organism. The oxygen bath system comprises a chamber (51) of accommodating the human organism therein; a gas supply means (11, 41) of pressurizing and supplying air gas containing oxygen gas of 25 to 40% by adding oxygen gas to air into the chamber; a liquid supply means (21) of supplying a liquid; and a mist generating means (31) of generating a mist of the liquid; and supplies the generated mist into the chamber. Herein, the chamber (51) is structured with a vinyl chloride material having flexibility, and can withstand against internal pressure of at least 1.4 air pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8230853
    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, in which a mist is prepared by pulverizing and dissolving carbon dioxide or oxygen or a mixed gas of carbon dioxide and Oxygen and a liquid at a density of not less than a predetermined value, and the thus prepared gas mist is directly contacted to the skin and mucous membrane of the living-body, the gas mist pressure bath system comprises a gas supply, a liquid supply, a gas mist supply for generating and supplying the gas mist prepared by the liquid nozzle of pulverizing and dissolving the gas supplied from the gas supply as well as the liquid supplied from the liquid supply, and the living body cover member of covering the skin and mucous membrane of the living-body and forming a space of sealing the gas mist inside thereof, and the gas mist pressu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120184976
    Abstract: The present invention is to offer such a surgical clip enabling to be attached to and detached from safely and easily even without using a forceps. The surgical clip according to this invention has a clipping portion 20 having a pair of feet 11A, 11B for holding an object, a crossed portion 30 of the feet 11A, 11B crossing each other, and a gripper 40 coupling the crossing feet 11A, 11B in loop and releasing the clipping portion by gripping on its outside. Further, this surgical clip 10 has a balancer 50 connecting to the gripper 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120167926
    Abstract: To provide a cleaning sterilization apparatus capable of sterilizing an object to be cleaned such as a medical instrument effectively in a short time by generating and using ozone water containing ozone with particle diameters hard to disappear in water, the cleaning sterilization apparatus is provided with cleaning water supply means, ozone water generating means, and squirting means for squirting cleaning water and ozone water toward the object to be cleaned inside a container, where the ozone water generating means is provided with a mixing pump which takes in ozone and water to mix and generates ozone-mixed water, ozone supply means for supplying ozone to the mixing pump, stirring means for colliding the ozone-mixed water from the mixing pump sequentially with a plurality of protrusions with running-water pressure applied inside an enclosed running-water channel with the plurality of protrusions arranged therein, and thereby making ozone contained in the ozone-mixed water finer to generate ozone water, an
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicants: SHOICHI NAKAMURA, ACP JAPAN CO., LTD
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120165236
    Abstract: To prevent a photocatalyst-containing cleansing agent from deteriorating and maintain the sterilizing cleansing and deodorant effects, provided is a cleansing agent characterized by containing a photocatalyst, fine powder of charcoal that is activated carbon, and cyclodextrin. It is desirable that the charcoal is charcoal or activated carbon. By adding a fine powder of charcoal in addition to the photocatalyst, it is possible to inhibit the oxidation reaction of the photocatalyst during storage by the light blocking effect, and to prevent the effects of the cleansing agent from degrading. Further, it is possible to efficiently exert cooperative action of adsorbing excess sebum, pore-clogging dirt, cuticle, waste products, smells, etc. due to the porous structure of charcoal, and further, decomposing the adsorbed materials by the photocatalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicants: Shoichi NAKAMURA, ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120157910
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bathing system which controls amounts and pressure of gas and liquid for causing a gas mist to be absorbed into the skin and mucous membrane of the living organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicants: Shoichi NAKAMURA, ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120141965
    Abstract: To provide a compact surgical training device for enabling skills of techniques to be improved efficiently and effectively before acquiring clinical experiences in surgeries with high degrees of difficulty, particularly, vascular anastomosis, the surgical training device 10 to perform simulations and practices of vascular anastomosis is provided with a first holder 110 that holds a first pseudo blood vessel BV1, a second holder 120 that holds a second pseudo blood vessel BV2 to be anastomosed to the first pseudo blood vessel BV1, and a support mount 100 that supports the first and second holders 110, 120 so as to cause the entire surgical training device 10 to stand, while enabling the first and second pseudo blood vessels BV1, BV2 to be placed in respective arbitrary positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120062925
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming system including: a plurality of image forming apparatuses provided in a series so that each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses form an image on a sheet of paper, wherein the plurality of image forming apparatuses each include: an image forming section; and a control section which, when a predetermined adjustment condition occurs, stops an image forming operation, performs a predetermined adjustment, resumes the image forming operation after the adjustment is complete, and performs a notification that the adjustment is performed to the other image forming apparatus when the adjustment is performed, and when there is a notification that the adjustment is performed from the other image forming apparatus, the control section stops the driving of the image forming section and puts the image forming section in a driving stopped state while the adjustment is performed in the other image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 8115961
    Abstract: In the image forming system, there is provided an image processing section which determines a rotation standard for rotating image information so that an orientation of an image which is to be formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is not to be conducted agrees with an orientation of an image formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is to be conducted, if a booklet division mode is set by the setting section, and which conducts rotation processing on the image information based on the rotation standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Nakamura, Takao Kurohata, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20120022432
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120004600
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bath device, which causes to contact carbon dioxide, oxygen or a mixed gas of carbon dioxide and oxygen to the skin or mucous membrane of the head of a living body at pressure higher than a predetermined value for efficiently enabling skin-pass absorption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura