Patents by Inventor Taiichiroh Meguro

Taiichiroh Meguro 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: 7150723
    Abstract: In a medical guide wire 1, a rear half of a leading bulge portion (ellipsoidal helical spring) 5 forms a truncated cone shaped front catheter engagement portion 8. An inner wall of a balloon catheter 2 forms a flared end portion 2A which absorbably fits into the front catheter engagement portion 8 due to the physical adhesion so to provisionally connect the balloon catheter 2 to the front catheter engagement portion 8. The medical guide wire 1 and the balloon catheter 2 are inserted into the blood vessel with one single step procedure when the medical guide wire 1 is introduced into the blood vessel to place the balloon portion 10 at the stricture blood vessel area (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignees: C-I-Medic Co., Ltd., Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiichiroh Meguro, Masashi Momota, Tomihisa Kato
  • Publication number: 20050228431
    Abstract: In a medical guide wire 1, a rear half of a leading bulge portion (ellipsoidal helical spring) 5 forms a truncated cone shaped front catheter engagement portion 8. An inner wall of a balloon catheter 2 forms a flared end portion 2A which absorbably fits into the front catheter engagement portion 8 due to the physical adhesion so to provisionally connect the balloon catheter 2 to the front catheter engagement portion 8. The medical guide wire 1 and the balloon catheter 2 are inserted into the blood vessel with one single step procedure when the medical guide wire 1 is introduced into the blood vessel to place the balloon portion 10 at the stricture blood vessel area (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Taiichiroh Meguro, Masashi Momota, Tomihisa Kato
  • Publication number: 20020087076
    Abstract: With an introducing catheter (A) accommodated by a diagnostic-therapeutic catheter (B), the necessity of a sheath is eliminated to render the diagnostic-therapeutic catheter (B) as large as the sheath. This enables a manipulator to fully treat a patient with the use of diagnostic-therapeutic catheter (E). With the elimination of the sheath, the diagnostic-therapeutic catheter (B) is directly inserted into tubular human organs (e.g., radial artery and brachial artery). Coaxially provided are inner and outer tubes 12, 13 with the diagnostic-therapeutic catheter (B) to have an annular space 14, at least a part of which forms a drug-releasable open end 15 exposed to a shaft portion 11. The outer tube 13 has a plurality of drug-releasable side holes 9 to release an anti-spasmodic drug toward a blood vessel through the drug-releasable open end 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: C-I-Medic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiichiroh Meguro, Yasuyuki Kawahara, Jiang Lan, Masashi Momota, Masahiko Miyata
  • Publication number: 20020065475
    Abstract: In a medical guide wire 1, a rear half of a leading bulge portion (ellipsoidal helical spring) 5 forms a truncated cone shaped front catheter engagement portion 8. An inner wall of a balloon catheter 2 forms a spiral groove 9. The spiral groove 9 fits into the front catheter engagement portion 8 to provisionally connect the balloon catheter 2 to the front catheter engagement portion 8. The medical guide wire 1 and the balloon catheter 2 are inserted into the blood vessel with one single step procedure when the medical guide wire 1 is introduced into the blood vessel to place the balloon portion 10 at the stricture blood vessel area (P) to cure the stricture blood vessel area (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: C-I-MEDIC Co., Ltd. and Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiichiroh Meguro, Masashi Momota, Tomihisa Kato