Patents by Inventor Tomoakira Kawai

Tomoakira Kawai 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).

  • Publication number: 20220285014
    Abstract: A time period that is required for dealing with the need to access another place in advance of a device which is generating an alarm is reduced. Information of a task being presently executed by a laboratory technician present in a clinical laboratory is acquired from a responsible person schedule management table. Information based on a distance between the present position of the laboratory technician present in the clinical laboratory and a positional information reference point that indicates the position first accessed by the laboratory technician to deal with the alarm and that is specified from an alarm information management table and an alarm handling access position management table is also acquired. Based on the acquired information, ordering for issuing a notification of the alarm of which generation has been detected is performed for the laboratory technician present in the clinical inspection room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SEKI, Tomoakira KAWAI, Shigeru YANO, Misato FUKAMI, Ai MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20210270858
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis system that reduces a personnel burden and increases an operating rate using an autonomous mobile robot while suppressing an initial cost. The automatic analysis system includes: a plurality of devices that are disposed in an automatic analysis area 101 and includes analyzing units 103 and 104 included in an automatic analyzer; and a robot 102 that moves in the automatic analysis area, in which an operation screen of the analyzing unit has a first screen mode for an operator and a second screen mode for the robot and is switchable between the first screen mode and the second screen mode, and the robot obtains state information of the analyzing unit from the operation screen in the second screen mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta Imai, Tomoakira Kawai, Taku Sakazume, Shigeru Yano, Manabu Minegishi, Takahiro Suzuki, Atsushi Watanabe