Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Akiguchi

Shunsuke Akiguchi 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).

  • Laser doppler blood flow measuring method and device
    Patent number: 9031640
    Abstract: [Subject] To provide laser Doppler blood flow measuring method and device which achieve multi-dimensional measurement efficiently at a high degree of accuracy over a wide range with a simple optical system and device. [Solving Means] Laser light from a semiconductor laser 12 is split and formed into sheet lights Ls using a cylindrical lens 22, and the sheet lights Ls are crossed with each other at a predetermined position. A lens system 30 configured to form an image of scattered lights into a linear shape at a linear irradiation site Lx where the sheet lights Ls cross with each other is provided. An optical fiber array 32 having a plurality of optical fibers 34 is provided at an image-forming position of the lens system 30. Avalanche photodiodes 42 configured to convert the scattered lights which are shifted in frequency by the Doppler effect caused by the blood flow into electric signals for the each optical fiber 34 are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Institute of National Colleges of Technology, Japan, National Univeristy Corporation of Toyama
    Inventors: Tadashi Hachiga, Hiroki Ishida, Shunsuke Akiguchi, Hiroki Shirakawa, Tsugunobu Andoh, Yasushi Kuraishi
  • LASER DOPPLER BLOOD FLOW MEASURING METHOD AND DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100280398
    Abstract: [Subject] To provide laser Doppler blood flow measuring method and device which achieve multi-dimensional measurement efficiently at a high degree of accuracy over a wide range with a simple optical system and device. [Solving Means] Laser light from a semiconductor laser 12 is split and formed into sheet lights Ls using a cylindrical lens 22, and the sheet lights Ls are crossed with each other at a predetermined position. A lens system 30 configured to form an image of scattered lights into a linear shape at a linear irradiation site Lx where the sheet lights Ls cross with each other is provided. An optical fiber array 32 having a plurality of optical fibers 34 is provided at an image-forming position of the lens system 30. Avalanche photodiodes 42 configured to convert the scattered lights which are shifted in frequency by the Doppler effect caused by the blood flow into electric signals for the each optical fiber 34 are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicants: Institute of National Colleges of Technology, Japan, National University Corporation University of Toyama
    Inventors: Tadashi Hachiga, Hiroki Ishida, Shunsuke Akiguchi, Hiroki Shirakawa, Tsugunobu Andoh, Yasushi Kuraishi