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: 20120004599
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a gas mist mask device which is compact and economical, and enables to take a mist bath for the face or the eyes by using the physiological actions of oxygen or carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicants: Shoichi Nakamura, ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8074364
    Abstract: A holder for a surgical knife blade has a holder body, a slide member supported slidably by the blade storage barrel, an attaching finger formed in part of the slide member to attach the surgical knife blade, a slide operating piece integrally formed with the slide member, a lock hook member that prevents the slide member from sliding, locking concave grooves disposed in a slide guide edge of the holder body which guides the slide member slidably and engaging in the lock hook member, and a lever device, coupled to the slide member, for supporting the lock hook member while biasing the lock hook member toward the locking concave groove. The locking concave grooves are formed in an attachment position where the surgical knife blade is attached to the attaching finger in the slide member. In a storage position, the surgical knife blade is stored in the storage barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignees: ACP Japan Co., Ltd., Shoichi Nakamura
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110270291
    Abstract: To provide a medical knife which enables the angle of the blade with respect to the grasp portion to be varied with ease without requiring attaching and detaching of the blade and is safe, hygienic and excellent in visibility, the medical knife has a knife body having a grasp portion, a blade and a blade holder portion for holding the blade, a blade cover that covers part of the knife body, and a lock portion that permits the blade cover to be locked in a storage portion for storing the blade in the knife body and in an exposure position for exposing the blade from the knife body, the lock portion permits the blade cover and the knife body to be locked in the storage position and a plurality of exposure positions, and the angles of the blade exposed in the plurality of exposure positions are made mutually different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicants: SHOICHI NAKAMURA, ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8045266
    Abstract: Provided is a binocular loupe capable of adapting to current vision of a worker of a medical operation or precise operation in operating. The binocular loupe has frame means, a pair of binocular loupe bodies, attaching means for fixing the binocular loupe bodies to the frame means, focus adjusting means for adjusting a focal length of each of the binocular loupe bodies, and supporting means for detachably attaching the focus adjusting means to eyepiece portions of the binocular loupe bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignees: ACP Japan, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110257589
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bathing cover which is simple in a structure and easy in pressurization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110247610
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a gas mist inhaler being simple and excellent in effects by using physiological actions of carbon dioxide or oxygen. The gas mist inhaler has a gas supply means for supplying oxygen, carbon, or a mixed gas (called as “gas” hereafter) of oxygen and carbon dioxide, a gas mist generation means connected to the gas supply means for storing a liquid inside thereof and generating a mist (called as “gas mist” hereafter) prepared by pulverizing and dissolving the stored liquid and the gas, and an inhalation member connected to the gas mist generation means and having an inhalation port of inhaling the gas mist into a living organism, wherein the gas mist inhaler inhales the gas mist into the upper airway and the lower airway of the living organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110220101
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a gas mist inhaler making use of physiological actions of carbon dioxide or oxygen, which is simple in a structure and excellent in effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicants: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110208116
    Abstract: The invention to provide a gas mist pressure bath system which is possible to control the amounts, pressures and others of gas and liquid, and cause the gas mist to be absorbed through the skin and mucous membrane of a human living organism under an optimum condition. This system is for preparing a mist (gas mist) by pulverizing and dissolving a gas (carbon dioxide or oxygen, otherwise a mixed gas) and a liquid at a density of not less than a predetermined value, and contacting the mist to the skin and mucous membrane of a living organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7990586
    Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to realize a high productivity in the booklet outputting operation. The apparatus comprises: an image data acquiring section to acquire consecutive image data, which include main content image data and at least a part of cover sheet image data succeeding the main-content sheet image data; an image forming section to conduct an image forming operation based on the main content image data and the cover sheet image data, acquired by the image data acquiring section; an image data presence-or-absence detecting section to detect a presence or absence of (i+1)th image data acquired by the image data acquiring section, wherein “i” represents a page number of image data sets necessary for forming cover sheet images on a cover sheet; and a control section to control the image forming section so as to commence the image forming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110170127
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image based on job information, an operation section that enables an operator to conduct an input operation, and a controller that controls the image forming section, the operation section and a job, and is capable of conducting an output setting for the job. The controller causes the operation section to designate a part of pages of the job which is outputted in progress and to change the output setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7913990
    Abstract: There is described an image forming system, which comprises an image forming apparatus to produce a printing material as one group of recording mediums or plural printing materials as plural groups of recording mediums from a single document set, and a finisher to apply a finish processing to said recording mediums, wherein the image forming system includes a controlling section to control so that, if a mixture mode is set, a non-finished recording medium and a finished recording medium within the single group are stacked at a same recording-medium stacking position on a stacking tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Nakamura, Kenichi Hosoi, Takaaki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20110060258
    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: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110060259
    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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD., Shoichi NAKAMURA (individual)
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110060257
    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: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110046545
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cover for a gas mist pressure bath, which can cause to efficiently absorb a gas mist into a skin and mucous membrane of a living-body, exhaust air, gas or gas mist within a cover for a gas mist pressure bath, and easily control pressure inside of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicants: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110028889
    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: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicants: ACP Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110028888
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a cover for a gas mist pressure bath, which can cause to efficiently absorb a gas mist into a skin and mucous membrane of a living-body, exhaust air, gas or gas mist within a cover for a gas mist pressure bath, and easily control pressure inside of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7862029
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an input unit for input of setting information, an image forming unit, a conveying unit, a control unit, and a jam detecting unit, wherein a set of a plurality of different kinds of special sheets disposed in a predetermined order is used. When occurrence of a jam is detected by the jam detecting unit, the control unit recognizes whether a special sheet having been fed is present in the image forming system, and if it is recognized that a special sheet is present in the image forming system, the control unit controls the conveying unit, after the jam being released, to eject a special sheet or sheets as unnecessary up to one that is disposed preceding a special sheet that is of the same kind as a most front one that was present in the image forming system at the time of the occurrence of the jam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Yokobori, Takao Kurohata, Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100305498
    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 the liquid nozzle 32 of pulverizing and dissolving the gas supplied from the gas supply means 11 as well as 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 t
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicants: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100298786
    Abstract: The invention to provide a carbon dioxide mist pressure bath system which is possible to cause the carbon dioxide mist to be absorbed efficiently through the skin and mucous membrane of the human living-body. The system comprises a carbon dioxide supply means 11; a liquid supply means 21; a carbon dioxide mist generating means 31 for pulverizing and dissolving carbon dioxide and the liquid to generate the carbon dioxide mist; a living-body cover member 41 for covering the skin and mucous membrane of the living-body and formed with a space of sealing inside the carbon dioxide mist generated by the carbon dioxide mist generating means 31; and a liquid circulation means 61 for again supplying a liquid collected in the carbon dioxide mist generating means 31 into the carbon dioxide mist generating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicants: Shoichi Nakamura, ACP Japan Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura