Patents by Inventor Teruyoshi Munakata

Teruyoshi Munakata 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: 11624048
    Abstract: A switching valve includes a rotor having a pair of rollers rotatably mounted on both ends thereof, a rotor drive unit rotationally driving the rotor, a pair of pressing members, each being provided at a position where each of the pair of pressing members cooperates with each of the pair of rollers outside a revolution orbit of each of the pair of rollers revolving by rotation of the rotor, and a pair of tubes, each being disposed between the revolution orbit of each of the pair of rollers and each of the pair of pressing members. A rotation center axis of the rotor is disposed on a straight line connecting centers of rotation of the pair of rollers, and each pressing member has the pair of pressing areas symmetrical with respect to a straight line passing through the center of rotation of the rotor and extending a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: RORZE LIFESCIENCE INC., RORZE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruyoshi Munakata, Atsuyoshi Tanioka, Yukito Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20210054329
    Abstract: A switching valve includes a rotor having a pair of rollers rotatably mounted on both ends thereof, a rotor drive unit rotationally driving the rotor, a pair of pressing members, each being provided at a position where each of the pair of pressing members cooperates with each of the pair of rollers outside a revolution orbit of each of the pair of rollers revolving by rotation of the rotor, and a pair of tubes, each being disposed between the revolution orbit of each of the pair of rollers and each of the pair of pressing members. A rotation center axis of the rotor is disposed on a straight line connecting centers of rotation of the pair of rollers, and each pressing member has the pair of pressing areas symmetrical with respect to a straight line passing through the center of rotation of the rotor and extending a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Teruyoshi MUNAKATA, Atsuyoshi TANIOKA, Yukito YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 10865375
    Abstract: Since a drive unit is disposed in a body of a switching valve included in a suction-discharge device in the related art and a sample flows in the body of the switching valve, a treatment, such as autoclave sterilization, could not be performed. For this reason, a contamination cause, such as bacteria, could not be completely removed. Since a switching valve of the invention is formed of a mechanism for blocking tubes by pressing the tubes, in which a sample flows, from the outside, a contamination cause, such as bacteria, is not spread to the switching valve. Further, tubes and a syringe pump, which are installed on a suction-discharge device of the invention, form an assembly that can be easily replaced even though contamination is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: RORZE LIFESCIENCE INC., RORZE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruyoshi Munakata, Atsuyoshi Tanioka, Yukito Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20180201893
    Abstract: Since a drive unit is disposed in a body of a switching valve included in a suction-discharge device in the related art and a sample flows in the body of the switching valve, a treatment, such as autoclave sterilization, could not be performed. For this reason, a contamination cause, such as bacteria, could not be completely removed. Since a switching valve of the invention is formed of a mechanism for blocking tubes by pressing the tubes, in which a sample flows, from the outside, a contamination cause, such as bacteria, is not spread to the switching valve. Further, tubes and a syringe pump, which are installed on a suction-discharge device of the invention, form an assembly that can be easily replaced even though contamination is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Teruyoshi Munakata, Atsuyoshi Tanioka
  • Patent number: 8348255
    Abstract: A disc holding apparatus including a plurality of movable holding claws, which have a holding section abutting to the outer circumference of a wafer having a notch and are arranged in the circumference direction of the wafer. The wafer is held by having each holding section on the inner edge side of each movable holding claw abut to the outer circumference of the wafer, thereby, at the time of detecting the notch by a sensor including a light source and a light receiving section, even when one of the holding sections abuts to the outer circumference of the wafer at a part where the notch exists, light from the light source is permitted to enter the light receiving section through the notch without being blocked by the holding section. Even when the wafer is held at the part where the notch exists, the wafer is not required to be correctly held again and throughput is improved with a shortened process time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Is Technology Japan, Inc., Raytex Corporation
    Inventor: Teruyoshi Munakata
  • Patent number: 8118153
    Abstract: A shuttle-type conveying system to convey an article. The system includes a feeding and collecting device capable of setting a cassette in which articles to be conveyed are stacked as they are on a rotating and feeding table, a pickup device taking out the article and placing it on a receiving/delivery table, and a conveying device feeding the article on the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table by a shuttle conveying portion traveling on conveying paths below the receiving/delivery table. After the article is lifted up by the shuttle conveying portion and moved to outside the receiving/delivery table, the article is lowered below the receiving/delivery table and made to travel under the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Rorze Corporation, Is Technology Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukito Yamasaki, Teruyoshi Munakata
  • Publication number: 20110200419
    Abstract: A shuttle-type conveying system to convey an article. The system includes a feeding and collecting device capable of setting a cassette in which articles to be conveyed are stacked as they are on a rotating and feeding table, a pickup device taking out the article and placing it on a receiving/delivery table, and a conveying device feeding the article on the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table by a shuttle conveying portion traveling on conveying paths below the receiving/delivery table. After the article is lifted up by the shuttle conveying portion and moved to outside the receiving/delivery table, the article is lowered below the receiving/delivery table and made to travel under the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicants: RORZE CORPORATION, Is Technology Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukito YAMASAKI, Teruyoshi Munakata
  • Patent number: 7954624
    Abstract: A shuttle-type conveying system to convey an article. The system includes a feeding and collecting device capable of setting a cassette in which articles to be conveyed are stacked as they are on a rotating and feeding table, a pickup device taking out the article and placing it on a receiving/delivery table, and a conveying device feeding the article on the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table by a shuttle conveying portion traveling on conveying paths below the receiving/delivery table. After the article is lifted up by the shuttle conveying portion and moved to outside the receiving/delivery table, the article is lowered below the receiving/delivery table and made to travel under the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignees: Rorze Corporation, Is Technology Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukito Yamasaki, Teruyoshi Munakata
  • Publication number: 20100025908
    Abstract: A disc holding apparatus including a plurality of movable holding claws, which have a holding section abutting to the outer circumference of a wafer having a notch and are arranged in the circumference direction of the wafer. The wafer is held by having each holding section on the inner edge side of each movable holding claw abut to the outer circumference of the wafer, thereby, at the time of detecting the notch by a sensor including a light source and a light receiving section, even when one of the holding sections abuts to the outer circumference of the wafer at a part where the notch exists, light from the light source is permitted to enter the light receiving section through the notch without being blocked by the holding section. Even when the wafer is held at the part where the notch exists, the wafer is not required to be correctly held again and throughput is improved with a shortened process time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicants: Is Technology Japan, Inc., Raytex Corporation
    Inventor: Teruyoshi Munakata
  • Publication number: 20090287345
    Abstract: A shuttle-type conveying system to convey an article. The system includes a feeding and collecting device capable of setting a cassette in which articles to be conveyed are stacked as they are on a rotating and feeding table, a pickup device taking out the article and placing it on a receiving/delivery table, and a conveying device feeding the article on the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table by a shuttle conveying portion traveling on conveying paths below the receiving/delivery table. After the article is lifted up by the shuttle conveying portion and moved to outside the receiving/delivery table, the article is lowered below the receiving/delivery table and made to travel under the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: RORZE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukito Yamasaki, Teruyoshi Munakata, Seishi Yamashita