Patents by Inventor Takashi Saotome
Takashi Saotome 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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Patent number: 12048458Abstract: A trocar apparatus includes a trocar and a trocar shaft. The trocar has a retractable-type camera section and a seal unit. The seal unit has a dome type seal and a first mount. A step is formed on the proximal side of a puncture member at the distal end of the trocar shaft. A relationship between a puncture member length L1 of the puncture member and an interval L2 in the axial direction of the trocar from the boundary position between a pipe section and a head section to a first mount opening satisfies conditional formula (A) given below: L1>L2??(A).Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takaharu Fujii, Takashi Saotome
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Publication number: 20240241341Abstract: A lens unit includes a lens, a frame, a barrel housing the frame therein and is connectable to a substrate for mounting an imaging element, and a temperature compensation member including first and second portions apart from each other in an optical-axis parallel direction. The temperature compensation member is in contact with the barrel at the first portion and with the frame at the second portion. The frame is movable in the optical-axis parallel direction with respect to the barrel. The length of extension in the optical-axis parallel direction per unit temperature of a part of the temperature compensation member between the first and second portions differs from the length of extension in the optical-axis parallel direction per unit temperature of a part of the barrel closer to a barrel side connected to the substrate than a part of the barrel in contact with the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takaharu FUJII, Takashi SAOTOME, Satoru KIHARA, Akihiro KAIZUKA
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Patent number: 11846758Abstract: An imaging lens may be a retrofocus type imaging optical system including, in order from an object side, a first lens group, an aperture and a second lens group. The first lens group may include, from the object side, a meniscus as a first lens in which a convex surface is formed on the object side, and a meniscus lens as a second lens in which a convex surface is formed on the object side. The second lens group may include a convex lens as a third lens, a biconvex lens as a fourth lens, a biconvex lens as a fifth lens and a sixth lens, and the fifth lens and the sixth lens may be joined to each other. The imaging lens may be constructed with 6 elements and 5 groups including the first lens group and the second lens group.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takashi Saotome, Daisuke Kanai, Takaharu Fujii, Satoru Kihara, Kousuke Sugiki
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Publication number: 20220146778Abstract: An imaging lens unit includes a resin lens barrel and a plurality of lenses incorporated in the lens barrel. The lens barrel has a lens barrel body and a box-shaped part. A plurality of lens receiving parts are arranged at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the lens barrel body and protrude from an inner peripheral surface of the lens barrel body. The fourth lens is fixed to the lens barrel in a state of being engaged with the plurality of lens receiving parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Takaharu FUJII, Kousuke SUGIKI, Satoru KIHARA, Takashi SAOTOME, Daisuke KANAI
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Publication number: 20220121017Abstract: An imaging lens includes a front group having negative power, an aperture stop, and a rear group having positive power, in order from an object side. In the front group, a first lens surface has a convex shape toward the object side. In the rear group, a second lens surface has a convex shape toward the object side, a third lens surface has a convex shape toward the image side, and the third lens surface has an infrared ray cut coat. A curvature radius of the second lens surface is represented by Rr, a curvature radius of the third lens surface is represented by Re, a distance from the second lens surface to the third lens surface on an optical axis is represented by Da, and the following condition is satisfied: 1.6<(Rr+|Re |)/Da<2.3.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Takashi SAOTOME, Daisuke KANAI, Takaharu FUJII, Satoru KIHARA, Kousuke SUGIKI
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Patent number: 11209348Abstract: Provided are a hair observation method, a phase contrast microscope system, and a preparation. The hair observation method includes capturing an infrared image of the hair using an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light. A phase contrast microscope system includes: a stage having a sample placed thereon; an infrared light irradiation source for irradiating infrared light to the sample placed on the stage; an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light and configured to capture an infrared image of the sample; and a display apparatus configured to display the infrared image captured by the image sensor. The preparation includes a microscope glass and a plurality of hair pieces that are obtained by cutting one hair and arranged on the microscope glass in a manner parallel with one another from one end to another end in a cutting order.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: KYOCERA CORPORATION, RIKEN, ORGAN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Takashi Tsuji, Koh-ei Toyoshima, Kazuto Miyazaki, Takashi Saotome
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Patent number: 11083489Abstract: A trocar for inserting a surgical instrument in a body may include: a pipe including an outer cylinder relatively slidable in an axial direction, and an inner cylinder; a head located on a proximal end of the pipe; a camera that is journaled in a distal end notch of the pipe inner cylinder so as to be turnable between a deployment state in which the camera rotates to the outside of the pipe and a storage state in which the camera is stored inside the pipe; and a coil spring biasing the camera to the deployment state.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takaharu Fujii, Takashi Saotome, Hiroki Taoka
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Publication number: 20210102890Abstract: Provided are a hair observation method, a phase contrast microscope system, and a preparation. The hair observation method includes capturing an infrared image of the hair using an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light. A phase contrast microscope system includes: a stage having a sample placed thereon; an infrared light irradiation source for irradiating infrared light to the sample placed on the stage; an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light and configured to capture an infrared image of the sample; and a display apparatus configured to display the infrared image captured by the image sensor. The preparation includes a microscope glass and a plurality of hair pieces that are obtained by cutting one hair and arranged on the microscope glass in a manner parallel with one another from one end to another end in a cutting order.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Takashi TSUJI, Koh-ei TOYOSHIMA, Kazuto MIYAZAKI, Takashi SAOTOME
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Publication number: 20210088756Abstract: An imaging lens may be a retrofocus type imaging optical system including, in order from an object side, a first lens group, an aperture and a second lens group. The first lens group may include, from the object side, a meniscus as a first lens in which a convex surface is formed on the object side, and a meniscus lens as a second lens in which a convex surface is formed on the object side. The second lens group may include a convex lens as a third lens, a biconvex lens as a fourth lens, a biconvex lens as a fifth lens and a sixth lens, and the fifth lens and the sixth lens may be joined to each other. The imaging lens may be constructed with 6 elements and 5 groups including the first lens group and the second lens group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Takashi SAOTOME, Daisuke KANAI, Takaharu FUJII, Satoru KIHARA, Kousuke SUGIKI
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Patent number: 10944949Abstract: A trocar with camera has a camera section. The camera section obtains a trocar image that includes an image of a white part on a surface of a puncture member by performing imaging when the puncture member of a trocar shaft is exposed at a deployed position. A white balance setting section for trocar image sets a white balance for the trocar image based on the image of the white part in the trocar image.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kazuto Miyazaki, Takaharu Fujii, Takashi Saotome
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Publication number: 20210018715Abstract: An imaging lens unit with a plurality of lenses may be incorporated in a lens barrel of resin, the lenses may include, in order from the object side, a first lens group, an aperture, and a second lens group. The first lens group may include, from the object side, a meniscus lens as a first lens with a convex surface on the object side, and a meniscus lens as a second lens with a convex surface on the object side. The second lens group may include, from the object side, a convex lens as a third lens, a biconvex lens as a fourth lens, a biconvex lens as a fifth lens, and a concave lens as a sixth lens. The first lens to the sixth lens may be incorporated in the lens barrel with a reference position between the third lens and the fourth lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Takaharu FUJII, Satoru KIHARA, Takashi SAOTOME, Daisuke KANAI, Kousuke SUGIKI
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Publication number: 20190350619Abstract: A trocar apparatus includes a trocar and a trocar shaft. The trocar has a retractable-type camera section and a seal unit. The seal unit has a dome type seal and a first mount. A step is formed on the proximal side of a puncture member at the distal end of the trocar shaft. A relationship between a puncture member length L1 of the puncture member and an interval L2 in the axial direction of the trocar from the boundary position between a pipe section and a head section to a first mount opening satisfies conditional formula (A) given below: L1>L2??(A).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Takaharu FUJII, Takashi SAOTOME
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Publication number: 20190268581Abstract: A trocar with camera has a camera section. The camera section obtains a trocar image that includes an image of a white part on a surface of a puncture member by performing imaging when the puncture member of a trocar shaft is exposed at a deployed position. A white balance setting section for trocar image sets a white balance for the trocar image based on the image of the white part in the trocar image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Kazuto Miyazaki, Takaharu Fujii, Takashi Saotome
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Publication number: 20180289391Abstract: A trocar for inserting a surgical instrument in a body, comprises: a pipe including an outer cylinder relatively slidable in an axial direction, and an inner cylinder; a head located on a proximal end of the pipe; a camera that is journaled in a distal end notch of the pipe inner cylinder so as to be turnable between a development state in which the camera turns to the outside of the pipe and a storage state in which the camera is stored inside the pipe; and a coil spring biasing the camera to the development state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Takaharu FUJII, Takashi SAOTOME, Hiroki TAOKA
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Patent number: D828560Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takaharu Fujii, Takashi Saotome
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Patent number: D829906Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation, KYOCERA OPTEC Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaharu Fujii, Takashi Saotome
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Patent number: D902406Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Takaharu Fujii, Takashi Saotome, Hiroki Taoka