Patents by Inventor Takaki Shimura
Takaki Shimura 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).
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Publication number: 20060194176Abstract: A dementia inspection apparatus includes an answer obtaining section and a dementia degree inspecting section. The answer obtaining section obtains answers made within predetermined answer time limits to the first and second examination charts. The first examination chart has inspection sentences where a character group constituting a story including color words each representing color is tinted with plural colors such that individual color word has characters of the same color, requires a determination as to whether the color of characters constituting the color word is the same color as color represented by the color word. The second examination chart has a combination of questions concerning contents of the inspection sentences and answers which are prepared for each question and one of which is to be selected. The dementia degree inspection section determines a dementia degree of the subject based on the answers obtained by the answer obtaining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2004Publication date: August 31, 2006Inventors: Takaki Shimura, Masako Ozaki, Mitsuo Kaneko
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Patent number: 6899678Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a puncture difficulty evaluating device which can readily evaluate the difficulty of puncture in a measuring point. To this end, a puncture difficulty device receives the ultrasound backscattered at the measurement point, determines an integral of the power of the ultrasound over a predetermined angle range, and generates a parameter indicating the difficulty of puncture in the measurement point based on the determined integral.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignees: Tokai University Educational System, Medico's Hirata Inc.Inventors: Takaki Shimura, Yasuharu Nimura, Wataru Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20040087855Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a puncture difficulty evaluating device which can readily evaluate the difficulty of puncture in a measuring point. To this end, a puncture difficulty device receives the ultrasound backscattered at the measurement point, determines an integral of the power of the ultrasound over a predetermined angle range, and generates a parameter indicating the difficulty of puncture in the measurement point based on the determined integral.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Applicant: TOKAI UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, MEDICO'S HIRATA INC.Inventors: Takaki Shimura, Yasuharu Nimura, Wataru Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20040019260Abstract: There is disclosed a home care system in which a center terminal and a patient terminal are detachably connected to each other through communication lines, such as a public telephone line, an ISDN (integrated services digital network), a CATV (cable television), a radio and the like, and further to center terminals and patient terminals which constitute such a home care system. The patient terminal has an urgency transmitter device for transmitting a predetermined urgency code to the center terminal, and the center terminal comprises an urgency receiver device for receiving, while connected to a first patient terminal, the urgency code transmitted from a second patient terminal, and an urgency alarm device for informing of the fact that the urgency code has been received.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Inventors: Takaki Shimura, Satoshi Mori, Keiichi Murakami, Nagaaki Koshino, Minoru Iwata, Takehito Takano, Keiko Nakamura, Junichi Koike, Keiichi Takeda
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Patent number: 6654695Abstract: The present invention relates to a dementia test system and the like for testing a dementia degree of a testee, and provides a dementia test system which is effective for preventing and finding, at early stage, an initial sign (initial dementia) of senile dementia.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Tokai University Educational SystemInventors: Takaki Shimura, Mitsuo Kaneko, Sohta Shimizu, Yuichi Iguchi
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Patent number: 6620099Abstract: There is disclosed a home care system in which a center terminal and a patient terminal are detachably connected to each other through communication lines, such as a public telephone line, an ISDN (integrated services digital network), a CATV (cable television), a radio and the like, and further to center terminals and patient terminals which constitute such a home care system. The patient terminal has an urgency transmitter device for transmitting a predetermined urgency code to the center terminal, and the center terminal comprises an urgency receiver device for receiving, while connected to a first patient terminal, the urgency code transmitted from a second patient terminal, and an urgency alarm device for informing of the fact that the urgency code has been received.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takaki Shimura, Satoshi Mori, Keiichi Murakami, Nagaaki Koshino, Minoru Iwata, Takehito Takano, Keiko Nakamura, Junichi Koike, Keiichi Takeda
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Publication number: 20020059031Abstract: The present invention relates to a dementia test system and the like for testing a dementia degree of a testee, and provides a dementia test system which is effective for preventing and finding, at early stage, an initial sign (initial dementia) of senile dementia.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Applicant: TOKAI UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMInventors: Takaki Shimura, Mitsuo Kaneko, Sohta Shimizu, Yuichi Iguchi
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Patent number: 6176826Abstract: There is disclosed a home care system in which a center terminal and a patient terminal are detachably connected to each other through communication lines, such as a public telephone line, an ISDN (integrated services digital network), a CATV (cable television), a radio and the like, and further to center terminals and patient terminals which constitute such a home care system. The patient terminal has an urgency transmitter device for transmitting a predetermined urgency code to the center terminal, and the center terminal comprises an urgency receiver device for receiving, while connected to a first patient terminal, the urgency code transmitted from a second patient terminal, and an urgency alarm device for informing of the fact that the urgency code has been received.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1999Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takaki Shimura, Satoshi Mori, Keiichi Murakami, Nagaaki Koshino, Minoru Iwata, Takehito Takano, Keiko Nakamura, Junichi Koike, Keiichi Takeda
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Patent number: 6110108Abstract: There is disclosed a home care system in which a center terminal and a patient terminal are detachably connected to each other through communication lines, such as a public telephone line, an ISDN (integrated services digital network), a CATV (cable television), a radio and the like, and further to center terminals and patient terminals which constitute such a home care system. The patient terminal has an urgency transmitter device for transmitting a predetermined urgency code to the center terminal, and the center terminal comprises an urgency receiver device for receiving, while connected to a first patient terminal, the urgency code transmitted from a second patient terminal, and an urgency alarm device for informing of the fact that the urgency code has been received.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takaki Shimura, Satoshi Mori, Keiichi Murakami, Nagaaki Koshino, Minoru Iwata, Takehito Takano, Keiko Nakamura, Junichi Koike, Keiichi Takeda
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Patent number: 5798779Abstract: An ultrasonic printing method by which recording of a high resolution can be achieved. In the ultrasonic printing method, some or all of a plurality of ultrasonic oscillators are selectively driven in such phases that a difference in phase at a predetermined point between a reference ultrasonic wave from one of the selected ultrasonic oscillators and another ultrasonic wave from any other one of the selected ultrasonic oscillators is equal to or less than one-fourth a wavelength of the ultrasonic waves in a transmission medium for the ultrasonic waves from the selected ultrasonic waves to the predetermined point. The ultrasonic printing method can be applied to various printing apparatus for which recording of a high resolution is required.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1995Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hirofumi Nakayasu, Yoshihiko Kaiju, Kotaro Kameya, Takaki Shimura, Atsuo Iida, Toshifumi Tanida
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Patent number: 5612723Abstract: There is provided an ultrasonic printer in which convergent ultrasounds are radiated to emit an ink near a convergent point of the convergent ultrasounds in the form of an ink droplet and deposit the ink droplet on a recording medium such as a paper sheet, thereby performing a recording on the recording medium with multiple ink dots, with higher resolution. The ultrasonic printer has a plurality of ultrasonic transducers which transmit phase-controlled ultrasonic waves to form an convergent ultrasonic acoustic beam.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1994Date of Patent: March 18, 1997Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takaki Shimura, Atsuo Iida, Yoshihiko Kaiju, Hirofumi Nakayasu, Masao Hiyane
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Patent number: 5594849Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing biomagnetic imaging to determine the location and intensity of current sources within a subject includes a sensor unit for sensing the magnetic field within the subject and for providing sensing signals. A signal processor defines a grid having multiple grid points and performs inverse estimation to determine the distribution of current sources on the defined grid based on the sensing signals. The signal processor then modifies the grid to improve the resolution of the current sources distributed on the grid. A control unit controls the operation of the signal processor and processes image data to provide magnified and non-magnified displays on a display unit. The biomagnetic imaging method and apparatus can be combined with a system for providing magnetic resonance imaging data so as to produce a superimposed display including an MRI image and a biomagnetic image.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1991Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignees: Yale University, Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Roman B. Kuc, James J. Szinger, Takehiko Hayashi, Takao Goto, Yoshiyasu Nakashima, Takaki Shimura, Kenji Kawabe
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Patent number: 5495849Abstract: In a method/apparatus of the present invention, a plurality or pickup coils are employed at a plurality of detection points so as to measure magnetic field intensities induced from electric current generated on living organ: the detection points are spatially interpolated/extrapolated; equations to determine relations of a hypothetically located current to the magnetic field intensities at the detection points and the interpolated detection points are established; the magnetic field intensities are measured with the pickup coils; magnetic field intensities are estimated at the interpolated/extrapolated detection points from the magnetic field intensities measured by the pickup coils; and the hypothetically located electric current is calculated by applying said magnetic field intensities at the detection points and said interpolated/extrapolated detection points to said equation. Thus, the electric current value is estimated.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1994Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takehiko Hayashi, Takaki Shimura, Takao Goto, Yoshiyasu Nakashima
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Patent number: 5355887Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasonic echographic diagnostic apparatus which is capable of displaying the characteristics and properties of tissue, such as the maximum displacement of tissue, the hardness of tissue, the velocity of propagation of vibrations through tissue, and the magnitude and direction of movement of tissue, in various display modes. The apparatus is capable of detecting and displaying the displacement of tissue caused by heartbeat or external pressure in a real-time mode by calculating the minute displacement of tissue or the differential of the same, calculating a temporal local maximum of the minute displacement varying with time, time corresponding to the temporal local maximum, the gradient of the time and the absolute magnitude of the gradient, and displaying the results of the calculations.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1992Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Miyuki Iizuka, Akira Shiba, Isamu Yamada, Takaki Shimura
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Patent number: 5350964Abstract: The present invention realates to an ultrasonic transducer providing a plurality of arranged vibrators as the piezoelectric materials. The present invention easily provide the shading to the polarization in the elevation direction of the piezoelectric materials in order to narrow the beam transmitted from the transducer. For this purpose, a structure of the present invention provides for the polarization (V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3) of piezoelectric material of arranged vibrators to be gradually reduced in mass like a staircase from the center of the arranged vibrators to both end portions in the direction orthogonally crossing the arrangment direction of a plurality of arranged vibrators.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1991Date of Patent: September 27, 1994Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yasushi Hara, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Kiyoto Matsui, Kenji Kawabe, Takaki Shimura
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Patent number: 5313950Abstract: An ultrasonic probe for use in hollow organs such as blood vessels of a living body and in other hollow objects of structures such as pipes, includes a piezoelectric transducer, a reflector and a rotor all housed in a tube. The rotor moves and/or rotates the piezoelectric transducer and/or the reflector and is driven by a stator located outside the object under examination.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1993Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kenji Kawabe, Takaki Shimura
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Patent number: 5285385Abstract: An estimated current dipole displaying system in which a weak magnetic field generated from the heart or brain is measured to estimate the position, direction, magnitude and depth from a body surface of a current dipole which is equivalent to a heart current or a current flowing in a nerve and the estimated current dipole is displayed on a two-dimensional display. A parameter, other than that used to indicate the magnitude and those inappropriate for combined use with the magnitude indicating parameter, is used as a depth indicating parameter and the current dipole is thus displayed.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1990Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Takaki Shimura, Takehiko Hayashi
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Patent number: 5273045Abstract: An Ultrasonic Equipment and its Catheter-type Ultrasonic Probe can be inserted in capillaries such as blood vessels, and comprises a catheter-type ultrasonic probe for generating ultrasonic waves by a piezoelectric transducer arrayed at its tip. A plurality of the piezoelectric transducer segments are arrayed on a two-dimensional plane, perpendicular or approximately perpendicular to the insertion direction of the probe into a capillary with their ultrasonic wave emitting surface faced in the insertion direction. A part of the plane is cut out to provide a guide unit for passing a treating catheter or a guide wire in the insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1992Date of Patent: December 28, 1993Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kunihiro Chihara, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kenji Kawabe, Takaki Shimura
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Patent number: 5265614Abstract: An acoustic coupler, combined with an ultrasound probe, is made of a gel a part of which is hardened for providing holding means for holding the probe for lifting up the probe with the coupler and another part of which is used to form an acoustically transparent path between the probe and a surface of an object to be acoustically inspected. Poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) is a typical material for the gel, and the coupler is fabricated by molding a PVA solution by partially increasing concentration of PVA and/or a repeating frequency of refrigerating and thawing the PVA solution, compared with those for the transparent path, in a molding process of the coupler.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1989Date of Patent: November 30, 1993Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kenichi Hayakawa, Kenji Kawabe, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kiyoto Matsui, Takaki Shimura, Shiro Takeda
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Patent number: 5250869Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasonic transducer for controlling an ultrasonic beam with the vibrators arranged and particularly to an ultrasonic transducer having improved the ultrasonic beam characteristic in the short axis direction in order to realize a high image quality ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus. The present invention is aimed at improving the ultrasonic beam characteristic and therefore the present invention discloses an ultrasonic transducer for controlling ultrasonic beam using many vibrators arranged in the form of an array in which a composite piezoelectric element (1) is used as an electric-acoustic conversion element of the vibrator and the electrode (2) divided in the short axis direction orthogonally crossing the arrangement direction of many vibrators is also provided on the composite piezoelectric vibrator (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1991Date of Patent: October 5, 1993Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kiyoto Matsui, Yasushi Hara, Kenji Kawabe, Takaki Shimura