Patents by Inventor Takashi Ito

Takashi Ito 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).

  • CATHETER
    Publication number: 20210308416
    Abstract: A catheter having a tubular body including a lumen communicating from a proximal end to a distal end and in which a braided reinforcement body is embedded, and an operation unit disposed on a proximal side of the tubular body. The reinforcement body includes a plurality of first wire filaments helically wound in a first direction of a circumferential direction, toward a distal end direction of the tubular body, and a plurality of second wire filaments intersecting with the first wire filaments and helically wound in a second direction, which is a direction opposite to the first direction. At least one of the first wire filaments is a thick wire filament having a cross section larger than a cross section of a largest second wire filament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi ITO, Daisuke SHIMADA, Kei OZAWA
  • Torque device
    Publication number: 20210299413
    Abstract: A torque device that has good manual operability and rather easily attaches to an elongated body such as a guide wire. A torque device for holding an elongated body comprises a first member and a second member in which is formed a connected space through which the elongated body can be inserted in the length direction. The first member and the second member are able to rotate with each other in a state in which the elongated body is being held, and have an opening that allows the space to communicate with the outside in the radial direction. At least one of the first member and the second member has a diameter decreasing portion that reduces the diameter of the space as a result of the first member and the second member rotating with each another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke SHIMADA, Takashi ITO, Shouta ARAHIRA
  • Thermal transfer printing device and thermal transfer sheet
    Patent number: 11117388
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet is provided, which can be produced with enhanced working efficiency and is identifiable, and a thermal transfer printing device which uses the thermal transfer sheet is also provided. The thermal transfer sheet includes a substrate, and a yellow dye layer, a magenta dye layer and a cyan dye layer disposed on the substrate. An interval between the yellow dye layer and the magenta dye layer is different from an interval between the magenta dye layer and the cyan dye layer. Alternatively, the yellow dye layer and the magenta dye layer overlap partially, and the magenta dye layer and the cyan dye layer overlap partially. The transfer printing device identifies the type of the thermal transfer sheet based on the interval between the dye layers or the widths of the overlaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Ito
  • BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF BATTERY
    Publication number: 20210280837
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group including positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a current collecting tab, a clip plate, and a connection lead. The clip plate includes a first engagement part, and is attached to the current collecting tab. The connection lead includes a second engagement part engageable with the first engagement part of the clip plate, and is connected to the current collecting tab via the clip plate. Movement of the connection lead relative to the clip plate is restricted by engagement of the second engagement part with the first engagement part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi ITO, Takahiro AIZAWA, Kazuo SHIMOKAWA
  • BUNDLING METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF BATTERY, AND BUNDLING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210280841
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a bundling method and a bundling apparatus of a plurality of band-shaped parts of a current collecting tab in an electrode group, in which the current collecting tab projects, are provided. In the bundling method and apparatus, the current collecting tab is deformed by moving a bundling tool, with the bundling tool being abutted to the current collecting tab from an outer side in a lamination direction of a plurality of band-shaped parts. At this time, the bundling tool is moved so that a moving direction of the bundling tool is inclined with respect to the lamination direction of the plurality of band-shaped parts, toward a side opposite to a side where the current collecting tab projects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takahiro AIZAWA, Kazuo SHIMOKAWA, Takashi ITO, Masatoshi TANABE
  • ELECTRODE GROUP AND BATTERY
    Publication number: 20210280840
    Abstract: An electrode group includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a current collecting tab. The current collecting tab is provided in one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and protrudes relative to the other of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The current collecting tab is formed with one or more slit parts penetrating the current collecting tab in a thickness direction intersecting a protruding direction of the current collecting tab. Each of the one or more slit parts extends along a width direction intersecting both the protruding direction and the thickness direction. At each of the one or more slit parts, a circular portion is formed at at least one of the two ends in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masatoshi TANABE, Kazuo SHIMOKAWA, Takahiro AIZAWA, Takashi ITO
  • Rust proofing treatment liquid for threaded part, method for producing rust-proofed threaded part, and rust-proofed threaded part
    Patent number: 11111946
    Abstract: Threaded parts such as bolts are rust-proofed by using a treatment liquid including a binder resin containing silica and at least one of a modified epoxy resin obtained by graft polymerization using a carboxylic acid-containing acrylic polymer as a side chain and a modified acrylic resin obtained by graft polymerization using a carboxylic acid-containing acrylic polymer as a side chain. By using this treatment liquid, coating treatment can be carried out at one time without need to use an organic solvent. There is an advantage that the friction coefficient does not increase even when tightening is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Nakajima, Takashi Ito
  • Image-recording device issuing notification concerning quantity of liquid in tank
    Patent number: 11104143
    Abstract: In an image-recording device, a cartridge has a first chamber and a outlet. A mount body includes a tank, first and second sensors. The tank has an inlet, and a second chamber. The liquid in the first chamber flows into the second chamber via the outlet and the inlet. The first sensor outputs a first signal when a level of the liquid in the second chamber is higher than a first position, and outputs a second signal when the level is lower than the first position. The second sensor outputs a third signal when the level is higher than a second position higher than the first position, and outputs the fourth signal when the level is lower than the second position. A controller controls a notification device to issue a notification if a condition based on the first and second signals is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Horade, Takashi Ito
  • Medical instrument having hydrophilic member and hydrophobic member stacked
    Patent number: 11096807
    Abstract: A medical instrument is disclosed having a structure capable of preventing liquid circulation between an inner layer side and an outer layer side of a peripheral wall portion. The medical instrument includes a main body portion in which a center hole and a radially outward space are partitioned by a tubular peripheral wall portion. The peripheral wall portion includes at least a first layer on which a hydrophilic member, in which a hydrophilic coating is formed on a first base portion, is disposed and a second layer on which a hydrophobic member, in which a hydrophobic coating is formed on a second base portion, is disposed. The peripheral wall portion is configured by the first layer and the second layer being stacked along a radial direction. As a result of swelling of the hydrophilic coating, the adjacent hydrophilic members come into contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Ito
  • Heat treatment apparatus of light irradiation type and heat treatment method
    Patent number: 11081409
    Abstract: A first mass flow controller is provided in an inert gas pipe for feeding nitrogen gas. A second mass flow controller is provided in a reactive gas pipe for feeding ammonia. A joint pipe communicatively connects a joint portion of the inert gas pipe and the reactive gas pipe to a chamber for treating a semiconductor wafer. The joint pipe is provided with a mass flowmeter. A detector detects gas leakage by comparing a total value of flow rates of nitrogen controlled by the first mass flow controller and of ammonia controlled by the second mass flow controller with a measurement value of a flow rate of a treatment gas, obtained by the mass flowmeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mao Omori, Takashi Ito, Nobuhiko Nishide
  • CATHETER
    Publication number: 20210220606
    Abstract: A catheter is disclosed, which includes an inner tube, and a coil tube disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inner tube, the inner tube being a coil obtained by winding a wire. In addition, in the coil tube, a first coil and a second coil are arranged concentrically with each other. The first coil and the second coil have mutually different winding directions of the wire. Then, the inner tube and the coil tube are rotatable relative to each other around a central axis of the coil tube. In addition, in a natural state where no external force is applied to the catheter, a gap is formed between the inner tube and the coil tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi ITO
  • Endoscope having observation window with circumferential side surface and cleaning nozzles directed to circumferential side surface
    Patent number: 11042020
    Abstract: An endoscope including an elongated insertion section; a side observation window that includes a tapered part on a side circumference intersecting in a longitudinal axis direction of the insertion section, a circumferential side surface formed in a cone shape; and a cleaning nozzle that includes an opening through which liquid cleaning the circumferential side surface of the side observation window is ejected. The opening is inclined to direct an ejection direction of the liquid toward a distal end of the tapered part. A center position of the opening part of the cleaning nozzle is provided on a proximal end side with respect to a center position of the side observation window in the longitudinal axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Watanabe, Hiromasa Okano, Takashi Ito
  • Powdered oil and/or fat, food and drink containing powdered oil and/or fat, and method for manufacturing powdered oil and/or fat
    Patent number: 10993455
    Abstract: A powdered oil and/or fat that includes a high proportion of a medium-chain fatty-acid triglyceride, has excellent solubility and fluidity, and gives rise to little oil flotation during dissolution. The powdered oil and/or fat includes a medium-chain fatty-acid triglyceride, an octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch mixture, and a dextrin, in which the octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch mixture includes a first octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch of which the viscosity of a 10 mass % aqueous solution at 25° C. is less than 30 mPa·S, and a second octenylsuccinic acid-treated starch of which the viscosity of a 10 mass % aqueous solution at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: THE NISSHIN OILLIO GROUP, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitatani, Takashi Ito, Ryuji Noda
  • Catheter
    Patent number: 10994094
    Abstract: A catheter is disclosed, which includes an inner tube, and a coil tube disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inner tube, the inner tube being a coil obtained by winding a wire. In addition, in the coil tube, a first coil and a second coil are arranged concentrically with each other. The first coil and the second coil have mutually different winding directions of the wire. Then, the inner tube and the coil tube are rotatable relative to each other around a central axis of the coil tube. In addition, in a natural state where no external force is applied to the catheter, a gap is formed between the inner tube and the coil tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Ito
  • ELECTROMAGNETIC BRAKE FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS
    Publication number: 20210126507
    Abstract: An electromagnetic brake for an electric motor includes a brake core having a coil bobbin holder in which a coil bobbin is housed and a connector insertion hole into which a connector is inserted. The coil bobbin includes plural terminal casings in each of which a terminal is set. The terminal has a first contact, which creates a connection with a winding engaged in catches of the terminal casing with the terminal inserted in the terminal casing, and a second contact which contacts an electrode of the connector inserted in the connector insertion hole with the terminal set in place in the terminal casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi ITO
  • Time measurement device, time measurement method, light-emission-lifetime measurement device, and light-emission-lifetime measurement method
    Patent number: 10962932
    Abstract: A time measurement device for calculating a time from an input of a first trigger signal to an input of a second trigger signal as a measured time includes a start gate configured to generate a start signal, a stop gate configured to generate a stop signal, a TDC circuit configured to generate a digital code corresponding to the time from an input of a start signal to an input of a stop signal, a delay circuit configured to delay an input of at least one of the start signal and the stop signal to the TDC circuit by a predetermined delay time, and a control unit configured to calculate a measured time on the basis of a plurality of digital codes generated by the TDC circuit, wherein the time delay unit selects at least two delay times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Ken Kitazawa, Mitsunori Nishizawa, Takashi Ito
  • WIRE BONDING APPARATUS AND WIRE BONDING METHOD
    Publication number: 20210091038
    Abstract: A wire bonding apparatus according to an embodiment bonds a wire to a bonding portion by generating an ultrasonic vibration in a state of pressing the wire onto the bonding portion. The wire bonding apparatus includes a bonding tool that causes the wire to contact the bonding portion and applies a load, an ultrasonic horn that generates the ultrasonic vibration, a load sensor that continuously detects the load applied from the bonding tool to the bonding portion, and a controller that controls the operation of the bonding tool and the ultrasonic horn. The controller analyzes data of the load output from the load sensor between when the wire contacts the bonding portion and when the ultrasonic vibration is generated, and controls the operation of the bonding tool and the ultrasonic horn based on an analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Tanabe, Takashi Ito, Kazuo Shimokawa, Akira Tojo
  • AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION METHOD OF AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND AUDIO PROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210064326
    Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes a first input port, a second input port, a first processor that processes an audio signal input to the first input port and that includes a first adjuster which adjusts acoustic characteristics of the audio signal, a second processor that processes an audio signal input to the second input port, and output ports having a first particular output port. In a first operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an effective state and each of an audio signal as processed by the first processor and an audio signal as processed by the second processor is output from one or more of the output ports. In a second operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an ineffective state and an audio signal as processed by the first processor is output from the first particular output port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki Hagiwara, Toru Kitayama, Takashi Ito
  • Registration destination determination device, searchable encryption system, destination determination method, and computer readable medium
    Patent number: 10936757
    Abstract: A registration destination determination device (50) determines which data management device, among a plurality of data management devices (20A, 20B), is to manage registration data, such that, with a data type constituting the registration data as a target type, an appearance frequency distribution of values set for the target type of the registration data managed by each of the plurality of data management devices (20A, 20B) is different from an appearance frequency distribution of values set for the target type of the registration data managed by the whole of the plurality of data management devices (20A, 20B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ito, Nori Matsuda, Mitsuhiro Hattori, Yoichi Shibata, Takumi Mori, Takato Hirano, Yoshihiro Koseki
  • ABSORBENT ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20210022932
    Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article including an absorbent including water-absorbing resin particles, wherein the water-absorbing resin particles satisfy the following requirements (a), (b), and (c). (a) A release restoration rate represented by Formula (1) is 5% or more. (k2?k1)/k1×100(%) ??(1) (b) A water absorption rate measured by a vortex method is 5 seconds or less. (c) A retention capacity of physiological saline is 15 to 39 g/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi ITO, Miki SAKODA, Mutsumi MATSUOKA