Patents by Inventor Tadashi Imai

Tadashi Imai 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: 20180085760
    Abstract: A centrifuge (70) is provided with a cup (80) configured to house a blood bag system (10a) and centrifugally separates blood in the blood bag system (10a) by rotating the cup (80). The cup (80) has a segment holding section (86) capable of holding a plurality of segment tubes (44a), aligned in a parallel state by being folded at a sealing portion (44b) of an outlet-side tube (44), along a direction in which a centrifugal force acts during centrifugal processing or a direction inclined with respect to the direction in which the centrifugal force acts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadashi Imai
  • Patent number: 9923607
    Abstract: There is provided an input/output apparatus. Among information terminals of an input/output connector provided in an information terminal device, at least one information terminal of information terminals to switch an internal operation of the information terminal device is used also as an antenna input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Satoru Tsuboi, Tadashi Imai, Akira Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9820912
    Abstract: A blood bag system (10) includes a blood bag (14) to which centrifugal force is provided in a state where whole blood or a blood component is stored, and a first tube (22) that circulates a fluid centrifugally separated from the blood bag (14). The first tube (22) includes an extending portion (112) extending in an approximately perpendicular direction to a centrifugal direction into which the centrifugal force is applied. Further, a branch tube (114) that can store blood existing in the extending portion (112) is provided at a side of the centrifugal direction of the extending portion (112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadashi Imai
  • Publication number: 20170281923
    Abstract: A blood bag system includes a clamp installed in a flexible first tube. The clamp includes: a base section having a protrusion section, an opening/closing section having a pressing protrusion section that presses a side surface of the first tube, and a bent section that connects the base section and opening/closing section. The base section is provided with a pair of cutout sections opened to a side surface where the first tube can be inserted by interposing the protrusion section. The clamp is configured such that a portion of the first tube where the clamp is installed is bent while the clamp is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi IMAI, Masanori SATO
  • Publication number: 20170043071
    Abstract: A hanging device (100A) used in an additive solution transfer method includes an upper hanging section (106) and a support mechanism (lower hanging section (108)). The upper hanging section (106) is used to hang a medical fluid bag (54) upside down. The support mechanism (lower hanging section (108)) supports a primary bag (50) or a transfer line (55) in a predetermined state such that, when a red blood cell preservation liquid (M) is transferred from the medical fluid bag (54) to the primary bag (50) using the height difference between the primary bag (50) and the medical fluid bag (54), air from the medical fluid bag (54) is stopped in the middle of the transfer line (55).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadashi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20160317727
    Abstract: In order to prevent or suppress a blood component from being unnecessarily mixed to other bags by returning blood moved to a tube from a bag before centrifuge to the bag during the centrifuge. A blood bag system (10) has a cassette (50) (tube holder) for holding at least a part of the first transfer tube (21). The cassette (50) holds the first transfer tube (21) such that a distance between a rotation center (O) in application of a centrifugal force and the first transfer tube (21) increases toward the blood collection bag (11) side across a length between a flow path close position caused by the first clamp (71) in the first transfer tube (21) and the blood collection bag (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicants: Terumo BCT, Inc., Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto HIRABUKI, Tadashi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20160243300
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system box for holding a bag system and methods for separating composite liquids are described. In embodiments, a bag system may be a blood bag system used to collect blood, separate the blood into components, store the components, and utilize the components in patients. The system box may hold the blood bag system. Processes can then be performed to separate components from the blood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicants: Terumo BCT, Inc., Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kris NACKAERTS, Makoto HIRABUKI, Marcellus GEISELMANN, Bruce ELLINGBOE, Hong Duc NGUYEN, Timothy M. TAGA, Ross TICHOTA, Tadashi IMAI, Armin BRENDLE, Christoph PABST, Roland BISET, Wilfried MERTENS, Klaus-Günter EBERLE
  • Patent number: 9337945
    Abstract: A first high frequency processing unit detects a first broadcasting wave transmitted using a first frequency band, and extracts a first high frequency signal. Further, a second high frequency processing unit detects a second broadcasting wave transmitted using a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, and extracts a second high frequency signal. Furthermore, at least one local oscillator generates a local oscillation signal used in the first high frequency processing unit and the second high frequency processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Imai, Takayuki Kaida, Satoru Kawakami, Hitoshi Masumura
  • Publication number: 20160045394
    Abstract: A blood bag system (10) includes a blood bag (14) to which centrifugal force is provided in a state where whole blood or a blood component is stored, and a first tube (22) that circulates a fluid centrifugally separated from the blood bag (14). The first tube (22) includes an extending portion (112) extending in an approximately perpendicular direction to a centrifugal direction into which the centrifugal force is applied. Further, a branch tube (114) that can store blood existing in the extending portion (112) is provided at a side of the centrifugal direction of the extending portion (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadashi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20150055020
    Abstract: Provided is an input/output apparatus including information terminals for an input/output connector provided in an information terminal device, at least one of the information terminals including both a function as a standard information terminal based on a general-purpose interface standard and a function as an antenna input terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Satoru Tsuboi, Tadashi Imai, Akira Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 8947311
    Abstract: An antenna is realized by a simple mechanism without use of a dedicated antenna element. An antenna includes a first conductor 2b (2d) that has a first line length from a start point 4 to a folded point 3; and a second conductor 2b (2d) that has a second line length in a direction from the folded point 3 to the start point 4 and is electrically connected to the first conductor at the folded point 3. A first received signal with a first frequency is received with a first antenna length including both the first line length and the second line length. A second received signal with a second frequency is received with a second antenna length including only one of the first line length and the second line length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Satoru Tsuboi, Tadashi Imai, Akira Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 8923748
    Abstract: There are provided a high frequency module and a receiver capable of exhausting an electric field and a magnetic field to the outside of a shield, more closely arranging electronic components inside the shield, and being downsized. The high frequency module has integrated circuits (IC) 112, 113 each incorporating an oscillator including an inductor, and a shield case 114 as a shield for covering the ICs 112, 113, and the shield case 114 as a shield is formed with openings 116A, 116B having a size equal to or more than half the shape size of the ICs 112, 113 in areas opposed to the arrangement positions of the ICs 112, 113.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Imai, Takayuki Kaida, Hitoshi Masumura
  • Patent number: 8869213
    Abstract: A reception device includes a first input terminal receiving a first television broadcast signal of a first frequency band or a mixed wave of the first television broadcast signal and a second television broadcast signal of a second frequency band; a second input terminal receiving the second television broadcast signal; first and second tuner; a matching unit extracting a second broadcast signal from a broadcast signal received from a first circuit terminal and outputting the extracted second broadcast signal from a second circuit terminal; a first connection portion selectively performing a connection between the first input terminal and the first circuit terminal of the matching unit; and a second connection portion setting an input path of the second television broadcast signal to the second tuner to a path from the second input terminal or a path from the second circuit terminal of the matching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Imai, Takayuki Kaida, Kunihiko Morozumi, Katsuki Hirabayashi, Hitoshi Masumura
  • Patent number: 8836452
    Abstract: A tuner module includes a tuner module substrate having a tuner function part formed thereon, a case body having a shielding function of holding and incorporating at least the tuner module substrate, a circuit board on which the tuner module substrate is mounted, and at least one antenna connector to be fixed to the case body and having a core wire connected to the tuner module substrate incorporated in the case body. A part of the circuit board is contained inside the case body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Imai, Makoto Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sudo, Toshiyuki Nagano, Mitsuru Ikeda, Teruyuki Toyoda, Hideaki Ozawa, Tomonori Nakajima, Goujin Arakawa, Norio Uchida, Hiroyuki Takamatsu
  • Patent number: 8760586
    Abstract: Provided are a tuner module and a receiving apparatus capable of providing great degrees of variation and freedom to a layout in a main board, improving a degree of freedom of design, and achieving low cost. A tuner module includes a tuner module board on which a tuner functional unit is formed, a main board on which the tuner module board is surface-mounted, and a shield casing including at least one antenna connector, arranged to cover the surface-mounted tuner module board, and fixed to the main board. In the shield casing, a length of a longest long-side is a length equal to or less than ¼ of a wavelength of a highest received frequency in the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Imai, Teruyuki Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20140168519
    Abstract: There is provided a tuner module of the present disclosure includes a tuner module board on which a tuner function unit is formed, a case body that holds at least the tuner module board so as to contain the board, and at least one antenna connector fixed to the case body and whose core wire is connected to the tuner module board contained in the case body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Imai, Hideaki Ozawa, Toshiyuki Nagano, Teruyuki Toyoda, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Goujin Arakawa, Toshiyuki Sudo, Norio Uchida, Hiroyuki Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20140160709
    Abstract: Provided is a tuner module including a tuner module main body involving a tuner board, a first leg projected from the tuner module main body and to be inserted into a first hole formed on a circuit board main body, a second leg projected from the tuner module main body and to be inserted into a second hole formed on the circuit board main body, the second leg being shorter than the first leg, and a signal terminal projected from the tuner board and to be inserted into a third hole formed on the circuit board main body, the signal terminal being shorter than the second leg. A taper is formed on at least tip end parts of the first leg and the second leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Tadashi Imai, Keisuke Yoshida, Kazunari Ueda, Toshiyuki Sudo, Makoto Makishima
  • Patent number: D825391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, David Tadashi Imai, Randy Rodriguez
  • Patent number: D825392
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, David Tadashi Imai, Randy Rodriguez
  • Patent number: D829149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, David Tadashi Imai, Randy Rodriguez, Julien Bilodeau