Patents by Inventor Takashi Mihori

Takashi Mihori 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: 11141212
    Abstract: A surgical operation system includes a US signal output section, an HV signal output section, a probe having a treatment section which has an HV signal applied thereto and vibrates by ultrasound, an HV signal main controller that performs feedback control of the HV signal output section based on the HV signal, a US signal main controller that performs feedback control of the US signal output section based on a US signal, and an HV signal auxiliary controller that controls the HV signal output section based on the US signal, and has a response time shorter than that of the HV signal main controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazue Tanaka, Takashi Mihori, Yoshitaka Honda, Ryoichi Honda
  • Publication number: 20180111009
    Abstract: A surgical operation system includes a US signal output section, an HV signal output section, a probe having a treatment section which has an HV signal applied thereto and vibrates by ultrasound, an HV signal main controller that performs feedback control of the HV signal output section based on the HV signal, a US signal main controller that performs feedback control of the US signal output section based on a US signal, and an HV signal auxiliary controller that controls the HV signal output section based on the US signal, and has a response time shorter than that of the HV signal main controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazue Tanaka, Takashi Mihori, Yoshitaka Honda, Ryoichi Honda
  • Patent number: 9878183
    Abstract: A surgical operation system includes a US signal output section, an HV signal output section, a probe having a treatment section which has an HV signal applied thereto and vibrates by ultrasound, an HV signal main control section that performs feedback control of the HV signal output section based on the HV signal, a US signal main control section that performs feedback control of the US signal output section based on a US signal, and an HV signal auxiliary control section that controls the HV signal output section based on the US signal, and has a response time shorter than that of the HV signal main control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazue Tanaka, Takashi Mihori, Yoshitaka Honda, Ryoichi Honda
  • Patent number: 8663215
    Abstract: A high-frequency cauterization power source is an electrosurgical apparatus for joining biological tissues. The electrosurgical apparatus includes a high frequency power supply portion for supplying a high frequency power that is applied to biological tissues; a detection portion for detecting a voltage and a current of a high frequency power that is output from the high frequency power supply portion; a tissue impedance calculating portion that calculates an impedance of biological tissue based on respective values for voltage and current detected at the detection portion; and a control portion that controls so as to substantially stop supply of the high frequency power from the high frequency power supply portion based on whether or not an increase greater than or equal to a predetermined value in the impedance that is calculated at the tissue impedance calculating portion occurs two times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Akinori Kabaya, Takashi Mihori
  • Patent number: 8454599
    Abstract: A treatment apparatus to treat living tissues by applying energy to the living tissues, includes an energy source which supplies energy, a pair of holding faces to hold the living tissues, a joining treatment portion arranged in at least one of the holding faces to join the living tissues held between the holding faces, a detection portion which detects, through the joining treatment portion, living information of the living tissues by supplying energy to the living tissues through the joining treatment portion, a fluid feed portion disposed on at least one of the holding faces to feed fluid to the living tissues, and the fluid fed from the fluid feed portion guides energy to the living tissues, and a control portion to control a feed rate of the fluid fed from the fluid feed portion based on the living information of the living tissues detected by the detection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Genri Inagaki, Takashi Mihori, Akinori Kabaya
  • Patent number: 8292883
    Abstract: An electrosurgical apparatus in the present invention has a high frequency power generation section which generates high frequency power to be applied to a living tissue, a voltage detection section which detects the voltage of the high frequency power, a current detection section which detects the current of the high frequency power, an impedance computation section which computes the impedance of the living tissue on the basis of the voltage and the current, and a control section which, when the impedance exceeds a predetermined threshold value, performs control for increasing the frequency of the high frequency power stepwise on the high frequency power generation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Akinori Kabaya, Takashi Mihori
  • Publication number: 20120136279
    Abstract: An ultrasound surgical apparatus includes: an ultrasound transducer that generates ultrasound vibrations; a driving portion that supplies a driving signal to the ultrasound transducer; a distal end portion that is mechanically coupled with the ultrasound transducer and treats a living tissue through a liquid; a detecting portion that detects a cavitation level signal corresponding to a state of cavitation generated in the liquid by ultrasound vibrations of the distal end portion; and an information acquiring portion that acquires information of the living tissue on the basis of the cavitation level signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Kazue TANAKA, Yukihiko SAWADA, Norihiro YAMADA, Takashi MIHORI
  • Patent number: 8142429
    Abstract: A high-frequency treatment apparatus includes a treatment high-frequency wave output unit configured to output a treatment high-frequency wave to be applied to a treatment target living tissue, a detection unit for detecting an impedance of the treatment target living tissue, and a control unit configured to control the treatment high-frequency wave output unit on the basis of the result of the detection in the detection unit, the control unit configured to set a treatment frequency of the treatment high-frequency wave to a first treatment frequency in order to treat the living tissue primarily by Joule heat when the impedance of the treatment target living tissue is lower than a threshold value and to set the treatment frequency to a second treatment frequency higher than the first treatment frequency in order to treat the living tissue primarily by high-frequency dielectric heating when the impedance of the treatment target living tissue is higher than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Akinori Kabaya, Takashi Mihori
  • Patent number: 7744593
    Abstract: A high-frequency power supply device and an electrosurgical device are provided which can automatically control the output of an appropriate high-frequency current in accordance with the condition of a biological tissue to be treated. A phase detection unit detects respective phases of a high-frequency voltage and a high-frequency current outputted in a high-frequency power generation unit, and thereafter a phase difference calculation unit calculates the phase difference based on the respective phases. Meanwhile, an impedance calculation unit calculates the impedance on the basis of respective magnitudes of the high-frequency voltage and the high-frequency current. In this case, on the basis of at least one of the impedance and the phase difference and the output state of an instruction signal, a control unit performs a control to output a high-frequency voltage and a high-frequency current having a predetermined waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Takashi Mihori
  • Patent number: 7722602
    Abstract: An electrosurgical device is provided which can prevent the decrease of the effect of a treatment performed by an operator or the like on a biological tissue. A high-frequency voltage generated in an alternating power supply is transformed in a transformer. A high-frequency current in accordance with the transformed high-frequency voltage is supplied to the biological tissue via two high-frequency current supply lines. In this case, the impedance between the two high-frequency current supply lines is set in an impedance matching circuit so as to become maximum with respect to the frequency of the high-frequency current. Accordingly, the decrease of the effect of the treatment performed on the biological tissue can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Takashi Mihori
  • Publication number: 20100094277
    Abstract: A high-frequency surgical device includes: a treatment section provided with electrodes for supplying high-frequency power to living tissue of a patent foramen ovale; a high-frequency power supplying section for supplying high-frequency power to living tissue around the electrodes through the electrodes; a blood flow detecting section for detecting intracardiac blood flow information based on biological information inputted from outside; and a control section for controlling high-frequency power to be supplied to the side of electrodes based on the blood flow information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Taisuke SATO, Manabu ISHIKAWA, Makoto INABA, Takashi MIHORI, Yoshitaka HONDA
  • Publication number: 20100094276
    Abstract: A high-frequency cauterization power source is an electrosurgical apparatus for joining biological tissues. The electrosurgical apparatus includes a high frequency power supply portion for supplying a high frequency power that is applied to biological tissues; a detection portion for detecting a voltage and a current of a high frequency power that is output from the high frequency power supply portion; a tissue impedance calculating portion that calculates an impedance of biological tissue based on respective values for voltage and current detected at the detection portion; and a control portion that controls so as to substantially stop supply of the high frequency power from the high frequency power supply portion based on whether or not an increase greater than or equal to a predetermined value in the impedance that is calculated at the tissue impedance calculating portion occurs two times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Akinori KABAYA, Takashi MIHORI
  • Publication number: 20100094282
    Abstract: An electrosurgical apparatus in the present invention has a high frequency power generation section which generates high frequency power to be applied to a living tissue, a voltage detection section which detects the voltage of the high frequency power, a current detection section which detects the current of the high frequency power, an impedance computation section which computes the impedance of the living tissue on the basis of the voltage and the current, and a control section which, when the impedance exceeds a predetermined threshold value, performs control for increasing the frequency of the high frequency power stepwise on the high frequency power generation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Akinori KABAYA, Takashi MIHORI
  • Publication number: 20100087894
    Abstract: A high-frequency treatment apparatus includes a treatment high-frequency wave output unit configured to output a treatment high-frequency wave to be applied to a treatment target living tissue, a detection unit for detecting an impedance of the treatment target living tissue, and a control unit configured to control the treatment high-frequency wave output unit on the basis of the result of the detection in the detection unit, the control unit configured to set a treatment frequency of the treatment high-frequency wave to a first treatment frequency in order to treat the living tissue primarily by Joule heat when the impedance of the treatment target living tissue is lower than a threshold value and to set the treatment frequency to a second treatment frequency higher than the first treatment frequency in order to treat the living tissue primarily by high-frequency dielectric heating when the impedance of the treatment target living tissue is higher than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Akinori Kabaya, Takashi Mihori
  • Patent number: 7667592
    Abstract: A treatment instrument output data analysis section includes a probe ID extraction section, an output waveform extraction section, a data analysis section and an analysis result output section. The analysis result output section of the treatment instrument output data analysis section can display on a centralized display panel a synthetic image made by synthesizing a frame image stored in an image storage section of an endoscopic camera apparatus and an analysis result analyzed by the data analysis section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Masahide Ohyama, Hideyuki Shoji, Sumihiro Uchimura, Masanori Gocho, Takashi Mihori, Shinji Hatta, Mitsumasa Okada, Makoto Inaba, Masakazu Gotanda, Yoshitaka Honda
  • Publication number: 20100042101
    Abstract: A treatment apparatus to treat living tissues by applying energy to the living tissues, includes an energy source which supplies energy, a pair of holding faces to hold the living tissues, a joining treatment portion arranged in at least one of the holding faces to join the living tissues held between the holding faces, a detection portion which detects, through the joining treatment portion, living information of the living tissues by supplying energy to the living tissues through the joining treatment portion, a fluid feed portion disposed on at least one of the holding faces to feed fluid to the living tissues, and the fluid fed from the fluid feed portion guides energy to the living tissues, and a control portion to control a feed rate of the fluid fed from the fluid feed portion based on the living information of the living tissues detected by the detection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Genri Inagaki, Takashi Mihori, Akinori Kabaya
  • Publication number: 20090048595
    Abstract: An electric processing system is provided with a treatment instrument which subjects a living tissue to a first treatment based on a cauterization process for adhesion using high-frequency power and a second treatment based on a desiccation process for dehydrating a region healed by the adhesion, a detector for detecting a phase difference signal from the output high-frequency power, and a controller which controls the entire system. The controller switches the first treatment over to the second treatment when the phase difference signal is detected. When a predetermined phase difference as a criterion is exceeded by the phase difference detected during the second treatment, the controller stops the output of the high-frequency power, whereupon the second treatment terminates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi MIHORI, Takashi IRISAWA, Kazue TANAKA, Tamaki SHIRAI, Akinori KABAYA
  • Publication number: 20080129527
    Abstract: A treatment instrument output data analysis section includes a probe ID extraction section, an output waveform extraction section, a data analysis section and an analysis result output section. The analysis result output section of the treatment instrument output data analysis section can display on a centralized display panel a synthetic image made by synthesizing a frame image stored in an image storage section of an endoscopic camera apparatus and an analysis result analyzed by the data analysis section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Masahide Ohyama, Hideyuki Shoji, Sumihiro Uchimura, Masanori Gocho, Takashi Mihori, Shinji Hatta, Mitsumasa Okada, Makoto Inaba, Masakazu Gotanda, Yoshitaka Honda
  • Publication number: 20080114351
    Abstract: A high-frequency operation apparatus comprises a high-frequency energy generating section that generates and outputs high-frequency energy to be used for treating an object tissue. A parameter monitoring section monitors the change with time of an electrical parameter indicting the condition of the object tissue when the high-frequency energy output from the high-frequency energy generating section is supplied to the object tissue and a control section controls the output of the high-frequency energy according to the outcome of the monitoring by the parameter monitoring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Irisawa, Takashi Mihori, Kazue Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20080103495
    Abstract: A high-frequency cauterization power supply apparatus is provided with an electrosurgical scalpel device. When an operator starts to excise a living tissue in a conductive liquid, high-frequency power is applied to a treatment electrode. When an output impedance detected at that time is lower than a preset value, a variable DC power source circuit (HVPS) is set to a constant-current control mode. High-frequency power including an instantaneous high voltage is intermittently applied to the treatment electrode in a state that current output is kept at a fixed value, whereby a discharging operation starts. When the output impedance value is larger than a preset value or is large, the variable DC power source circuit is set to a constant-voltage control mode, electric power having a predetermined voltage value is supplied to the treatment electrode, whereby a living tissue to be cauterized is cauterized by using an appropriate high-frequency current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi MIHORI, Tsuyoshi HAYASHIDA, Toru NAGASE, Aya ARIURA