Patents by Inventor Takanao Tanaka

Takanao Tanaka 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: 9082250
    Abstract: An automatic drug dispenser comprises: a non-filled tray unit for holding vacant trays, a drug feeding unit for feeding a stored drug to a tray in accordance with a pharmacist's instruction, a printer unit for outputting a printed sheet and feeding the printed sheet to the tray; a filled tray unit for holding the tray containing the drug and the printed sheet; and a tray-carrying unit. The tray is provided with an electronic card, in which patient's data is written, and the printer unit is provided, with an electronic card-writing unit for writing the patient's data to the electronic card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoshi Kainoh, Takumi Nishimura, Takanao Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130054014
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic drug dispenser by which the time required for dispensing a drug can be minimized, errors in writing patient's data in an indicator such as an electronic card can be reduced and leakage of patient's data to outsiders can be prevented. An automatic drug dispenser (101) which comprises: a non-filled tray unit (102) for holding vacant trays; a drug feeding unit (103) for feeding a stored drug to a tray in accordance with a pharmacist's instruction; a printer unit (104) for making a print and feeding the print to the tray; a filled tray unit (105) for holding the tray containing the drug and print having been fed thereto; and a tray-carrying unit (106), wherein the tray is provided with an electronic card (301), in which patient's data is written, and the printer unit (104) is provided, in the lower part thereof, with an electronic card-writing unit (401) for writing the patient's data in the electronic card (301).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Naoshi Kainoh, Takumi Nishimura, Takanao Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20070255660
    Abstract: Data and digital contents which are normally purchased through a network are temporarily stored in a user's communication terminal such as a personal computer, information for preventing illegal copy and additional information for identifying a disk are recorded or printed on a label surface, and only when an authentication is established by a one-to-one relation of the additional information, the normally purchased data and the digital contents, the user is allowed to write the same in a writable optical disk, and the disk is licensed as a product disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventor: Takanao Tanaka