Patents by Inventor Tomonori Inoue
Tomonori Inoue 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: 7083573Abstract: A cuff of a wrist-mount blood pressure monitor includes an inflatable bag to which a predetermined quantity of fluid is supplied in order to press predetermined artery of a wrist, and a fixing member for mounting the inflatable bag on the wrist. The fixing member has a first half split ring-shaped fixing tool and a second half split ring-shaped fixing tool having an approximately ring shape with rigidity for preventing elastic deformation in a state where the inflatable bag is inflated.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2003Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Ken-Ichi Yamakoshi, Tomonori Inoue, Takahide Tanaka, Yoshihiko Sano, Shojiro Oku
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Publication number: 20060149153Abstract: Provide is a blood pressure meter cuff capable of avoiding an influence of an edge effect by pressurizing only a portion of a blood vessel in the downward vicinity of the body surface to thereby measure a correct blood pressure. A blood pressure meter cuff 1 includes: a fluid bag into which a fluid is injected; and a fixing tool fixing the fluid bag on a limb of a human body or the like, wherein a width in the axial direction of the limb, of the fluid bag is a value suitable for selectively pressurizing only a portion of a blood vessel present in the downward vicinity of the skin. In a case where pressurization is imposed on only a portion of the radial artery present in the downward vicinity of the body surface and adjacent to a radial styloid process of a wrist, a width, in the axial direction of a limb, of the fluid bag is set to 15 mm or more and 25 mm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2006Publication date: July 6, 2006Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Shirasaki, Yoshihiko Sano, Toshio Ohtani, Tomonori Inoue
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Publication number: 20050283085Abstract: An electronic blood pressure monitor has a main body provided with an arm insertion portion having a throughhole and provided with a cylindrical cuff, that is provided with an elbow rest receiving an elbow of an arm inserted through and thus placed outside the arm insertion portion. The elbow rest is rotatably supported at a lower portion of a rear side of the main body by a support shaft to be positionally changeable between elbow supporting and unused positions and at the unused position it is accommodated by the main body upper than the support shaft. The elbow rest includes a proximal support, a distal support and an elbow support. When blood pressure is measured the elbow rest is set to take the elbow supporting position to receive an elbow placed outside the arm insertion portion. An advantage of a home blood pressure monitor can be maintained and accurate blood pressure measurement can also be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomonori Inoue, Tomoya Ishida, Hiroya Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20050240109Abstract: In wrapping a blood pressure measurement cuff enclosing therein a bladder, which is inflated when supplied with air, around a region for measurement, first, a predetermined amount of air is supplied to the bladder and then enclosed therein. Then, the blood pressure measurement cuff is wrapped around the region for measurement of a subject for the purpose of measuring his/her blood pressure. During this wrapping process, relative variations in the pressure in the bladder are sequentially detected. The time period in which the detection results indicate that the variation has not reached a predetermined threshold value, the wrapping proceeds. When the detection results indicate that the variation has reached the predetermined threshold value, the wrapping is terminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomonori Inoue, Yoshihiko Sano, Takahide Tanaka, Yukiya Sawanoi, Minoru Taniguchi, Hiroya Nakanishi, Takefumi Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20050234350Abstract: Prior to blood pressure calculations, air is enclosed in a blood pressure measurement bladder to be wound and mounted around the region for measurement, in advance. By referring to the variation in the pressure therein, the circumferential length of the region for measurement is detected based on the variation in the pressure therein during the winding correction determination process for the region for measurement. Then, the process enters blood pressure measurement, and the blood pressure measurement bladder is pressurized or depressurized. The pressure in the blood pressure measurement bladder is detected. A blood pressure based on the detected pressure is calculated according to the circumferential length of the region for measurement which has been detected in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2005Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukiya Sawanoi, Takahide Tanaka, Hiroya Nakanishi, Takefumi Nakanishi, Yoshihiko Sano, Minoru Taniguchi, Tomonori Inoue
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Publication number: 20050192501Abstract: A blood pressure monitor includes a main unit casing placed on a table, a living body insert portion casing of an approximately cylindrical shape, positioned on the main unit casing in a non-use state and having a cuff arranged on its inner peripheral surface, the cuff having a hollow portion to which an upper arm of a subject is inserted, and a connection mechanism for connecting the living body insert portion casing with the main unit casing in a movable manner such that, upon application of the cuff to the subject, the living body insert portion casing can move to come closer to the subject than the main unit casing. Thus, a blood pressure monitor provided with an automatic cuff winding mechanism enabling measurement of blood pressure with high accuracy, not giving unnecessary pain to the subject, and allowing measurement with an unconstrained posture can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2005Publication date: September 1, 2005Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Sano, Takefumi Nakanishi, Takahide Tanaka, Minoru Taniguchi, Tomonori Inoue, Hiroya Nakanishi, Yukiya Sawanoi
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Publication number: 20050187484Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes a fixed main body unit and a removable display unit. The main body unit includes a cuff mounted on a region for measurement of a living body, a control unit including a CPU for measuring a blood pressure with adjusting a pressure of the cuff, and a main body operation unit operated by a subject to externally provide instructions for a measurement operation of the control unit. The display unit includes a display memory storing data of the measurement with the control unit, a display portion displaying measurement data in the display memory, and a display operation unit operated by a subject to externally provide instructions for a display operation of the display portion. A measurement result stored in the display memory of the removable display unit can be displayed on the display portion by operating the display operation unit when the display unit is removed from the main body unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Sano, Takefumi Nakanishi, Takahide Tanaka, Yukiya Sawanoi, Kenji Eda, Minoru Taniguchi, Hiroya Nakanishi, Tomonori Inoue, Tetsuya Nakada
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Patent number: 6932773Abstract: Provide is a wrist type blood pressure meter cuff not oppressing the non-selected artery so as to prevent its pulse waves from mixing into pulse waves of the selected artery necessary for measurement, in a cuff used in a blood pressure meter for measuring blood pressures by selecting and oppressing one artery of the wrist. A wrist type blood pressure meter cuff comprises a fluid bag for oppressing a selected artery of either radial artery or ulnar artery located at the wrist by feeding fluid inside to inflate, and a fixing member for fixing the fluid bag at the wrist. By forming a gap between the fixing member and the wrist, the oppressing pressure directly applied from the fixing member to the wrist at which the non-selected artery is located is set smaller than the oppressing pressure directly applied from the fixing member to other position of the wrist when oppressing the wrist by inflating the fluid bag. This gap is produced by a swollen part provided in the fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Omron HealthCare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomonori Inoue, Osamu Shirasaki, Yoshihiko Sano, Toshio Ohtani
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Publication number: 20050182332Abstract: A device for securing a living body by pressing includes a living body pressing air bag, a curled elastic member of an approximately cylindrical shape, disposed on the outside of the living body pressing air bag and changeable in size in a radial direction, and a curled elastic member pressing air bag, disposed on the outside of the curled elastic member and inflated to press an outer peripheral surface of the curled elastic member inward to reduce a diameter of the curled elastic member, to thereby press the living body pressing air bag against the living body via the curled elastic member. This can provide a living body pressing and securing device provided with a novel automatic cuff winding mechanism that can simplify and downsize the winding mechanism, hardly causes skin tension on the body surface, and ensures uniform winding strength over the entire surface of the pressed site.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Sano, Minoru Taniguchi, Takahide Tanaka, Takefumi Nakanishi, Tomonori Inoue, Hiroya Nakanishi, Yukiya Sawanoi
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Patent number: 6866636Abstract: In a cuff of a blood pressure monitor, a distance along bending of a first expandable portion is set so as to be different from a distance along bending of a second expandable portion at the time of deflation. When a fluid bladder for pressurizing is inflated with a fluid fed thereinto, the second expandable portion expands longer. As a result, force, which is generated on a cuff fixing element which is pushed by the fluid bladder for pressurizing, acts to a vertical direction with respect to an axial direction of a subject.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2003Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Tomonori Inoue, Yoshihiko Sano, Takahide Tanaka, Takashi Inagaki, Minoru Taniguchi
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Patent number: 6843024Abstract: A weather strip having a high sealing capability and an aesthetic appearance when attached to a vehicle body. The weather strip includes an extruded portion and a molded portion connected to the extruded portion and having a trim and a hollow seal. The trim includes a first wall from which the hollow seal extends. The first wall has a slot provided with a rounded corner. A second wall extends from the first wall in a direction opposite the hollow seal. A third wall extends from the second wall in a manner opposing the first wall. The third wall includes a cutaway portion defined at a position facing the slot of the first wall. The cutaway portion includes a rounded corner. A core used to mold the hollow seal of the molded portion is removed from the molded portion through the slot and the cutaway portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2002Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Yoshihisa Kubo, Tomonori Inoue
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Publication number: 20040260187Abstract: Provided is a blood pressure meter cuff fastener having a function capable of switching between a winding length of a blood pressure meter cuff fastener in measurement of a blood pressure and a winding length of the blood pressure meter cuff fastener which is mounted for a long time other than measurement of a blood pressure with ease. A blood pressure meter cuff fastener has a first body section 102, a second body section 103 provided pivotably around a pivot section 142 on the other end side of the first body section 102 so as to be folded on the first body section 102, and a third body section 104 provided pivotably around a pivot section 141 on the other side of the second body section 103 from the side on which the first body section 102 thereof is provided so as to be folded on the second body section 103, and selection can be easily conducted of one of three states including a measuring winding length state, a non-measuring winding state and a mount/demount length state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Sano, Osamu Shirasaki, Tomonori Inoue, Toshio Ohtani
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Publication number: 20040204653Abstract: Provide is a blood pressure meter cuff capable of avoiding an influence of an edge effect by pressurizing only a portion of a blood vessel in the downward vicinity of the body surface to thereby measure a correct blood pressure. A blood pressure meter cuff 1 includes: a fluid bag into which a fluid is injected; and a fixing tool fixing the fluid bag on a limb of a human body or the like, wherein a width, in the axial direction of the limb, of the fluid bag is a value suitable for selectively pressurizing only a portion of a blood vessel present in the downward vicinity of the skin. In a case where pressurization is imposed on only a portion of the radial artery present in the downward vicinity of the body surface and adjacent to a radial styloid process of a wrist, a width, in the axial direction of a limb, of the fluid bag is set to 15 mm or more and 25 mm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Shirasaki, Yoshihiko Sano, Toshio Ohtani, Tomonori Inoue
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Publication number: 20040193059Abstract: Provide is a wrist type blood pressure meter cuff not oppressing the non-selected artery so as to prevent its pulse waves from mixing into pulse waves of the selected artery necessary for measurement, in a cuff used in a blood pressure meter for measuring blood pressures by selecting and oppressing one artery of the wrist. A wrist type blood pressure meter cuff comprises a fluid bag for oppressing a selected artery of either radial artery or ulnar artery located at the wrist by feeding fluid inside to inflate, and a fixing member for fixing the fluid bag at the wrist. By forming a gap between the fixing member and the wrist, the oppressing pressure directly applied from the fixing member to the wrist at which the non-selected artery is located is set smaller than the oppressing pressure directly applied from the fixing member to other position of the wrist when oppressing the wrist by inflating the fluid bag. This gap is produced by a swollen part provided in the fixing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomonori Inoue, Osamu Shirasaki, Yoshihiko Sano, Toshio Ohtani
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Publication number: 20040034308Abstract: In a cuff of a blood pressure monitor, a distance along bending of a first expandable portion is set so as to be different from a distance along bending of a second expandable portion at the time of deflation. When a fluid bladder for pressurizing is inflated with a fluid fed thereinto, the second expandable portion expands longer. As a result, force, which is generated on a cuff fixing element which is pushed by the fluid bladder for pressurizing, acts to a vertical direction with respect to an axial direction of a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: February 19, 2004Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Tomonori Inoue, Yoshihiko Sano, Takahide Tanaka, Takashi Inagaki, Minoru Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20040010198Abstract: A cuff of a wrist-mount blood pressure monitor includes an inflatable bag to which a predetermined quantity of fluid is supplied in order to press predetermined artery of a wrist, and a fixing member for mounting the inflatable bag on the wrist. The fixing member has a first half split ring-shaped fixing tool and a second half split ring-shaped fixing tool having an approximately ring shape with rigidity for preventing elastic deformation in a state where the inflatable bag is inflated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Ken-Ichi Yamakoshi, Tomonori Inoue, Takahide Tanaka, Yoshihiko Sano, Shojiro Oku
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Publication number: 20020178656Abstract: A weather strip having a high sealing capability and an aesthetic appearance when attached to a vehicle body. The weather strip includes an extruded portion and a molded portion connected to the extruded portion and having a trim and a hollow seal. The trim includes a first wall from which the hollow seal extends. The first wall has a slot provided with a rounded corner. A second wall extends from the first wall in a direction opposite the hollow seal. A third wall extends from the second wall in a manner opposing the first wall. The third wall includes a cutaway portion defined at a position facing the slot of the first wall. The cutaway portion includes a rounded corner. A core used to mold the hollow seal of the molded portion is removed from the molded portion through the slot and the cutaway portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Yoshihisa Kubo, Tomonori Inoue