Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Ozawa

Tomoyuki Ozawa 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: 8113368
    Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle is provided with a shape that improves rigidity and strength in a lateral direction, without increasing the cost of material to thicken the bottle wall. The synthetic resin bottle is provided at a low cost in such a way that the bottles can be used smoothly on the carrier line, in vending machines, and in storage in stacks with no deformation. The bottles are capable of performing a vacuum-absorbing function enough to be used in hot filling. Multiple pillar sections in a projected strip-like shape are disposed on the body of a synthetic resin bottle, the pillar sections being inclined spirally at a uniform angle of gradient (?) relative to a central axis of the bottle and disposed in parallel to one another, so that the cylindrical body wall is prevented from being deformed by a pressure force acting in a lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Oguchi, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20120015828
    Abstract: A low cost sample analysis chip in which liquid is supplied to wells formed on the chip so as to carry out reaction by a simple liquid supply method with no variation in the amount of liquid in each well, the sample analysis chip including a plurality of wells and a flow passage leading to the respective wells, wherein the flow passage includes a main flow passage which supplies liquid to each well, and the sample analysis chip has the main flow passage provided closer to the rotation center side than the well, and is formed so as to have one peak between neighboring wells in the direction of rotation center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Nao Nishijima, Ming Yin
  • Publication number: 20100314281
    Abstract: A laminated bottle with a gas barrier resin layer arranged between polyester resins layers is provided. The gas barrier resin layer includes a plurality of quadrangular segments with two sides extending along the bottle axis and two sides extending around the bottle axis, wherein the segments are arranged at a distance to each other via connecting layers which connect the inner layer and the outer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Toyoda, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Hiroshi Hosokoshiyama, Hideaki Soyama
  • Publication number: 20100311616
    Abstract: A reaction chip includes: a first base which contains a metallic base and has a first surface; and a second base which contains a resin base and has a second surface, wherein the first surface and the second surface are joined so as to face each other; the first surface has a plurality of first recess portions and a groove portion located between the plurality of the first recess portions; the second surface has a plurality of second recess portions located corresponding to the plurality of the first recess portions; the plurality of the first recess portions and the plurality of the second recess portions are configured so as to form a plurality of reaction vessels; and the groove portion is configured so as to form a flow passage that communicates among the plurality of reaction vessels with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Ming Yin, Nao Azuma, Masaaki Chino, Yusuke Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100227383
    Abstract: A genetic detection and determination apparatus which detects or determines genetic information, provided with a reaction container having a reaction vessel, including: a container set portion on which the reaction container is set; a moving mechanism which moves the container set portion along a track; a reaction vessel dividing portion which divides the reaction vessel into a plurality of reaction chambers by deforming the reaction vessel; a heating and cooling portion which heats and cools the reaction container; and a measuring portion which is movable above the container set portion in parallel to an upper surface of the reaction container provided on the container set portion and which measures a reaction within each of the reaction chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicants: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., RIKEN
    Inventors: Masahiko Amano, Masaaki Chino, Hiroyuki Kuroki, Makiko Dejima, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Eiji Kawata, Ryoko Imagawa, Shuichi Akashi, Yusuke Nakamura, Eiji Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Tomaru, Hajime Mogi
  • Patent number: 7784401
    Abstract: The invention provides, with a simple technique, a jig for reliably stemming one or a plurality of flow paths and/or a portion of reaction fields continuously provided in a reaction chip, and for making the flow paths and/or reaction fields independent, and a reaction ship processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Hiroyuki Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20100139507
    Abstract: The invention provides, with a simple technique, a jig for reliably stemming one or a plurality of flow paths and/or a portion of reaction fields continuously provided in a reaction chip, and for making the flow paths and/or reaction fields independent, and a reaction ship processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Hiroyuki Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20100089865
    Abstract: The technical problem to be solved by this invention is to design a bottle shape that improves the bottle rigidity and strength in the lateral direction, without increasing the cost of material required to thicken the bottle wall. The object of this invention is to provide a synthetic resin bottle at a low cost in such a way that the bottles can be used smoothly on the carrier line, in the vending machines, and in storage on the stacks with no deformation, and are capable of performing a vacuum-absorbing function enough to be used in hot filling. Multiple pillar sections in a projected strip-like shape are disposed on the body of a synthetic resin bottle, wherein the pillar sections are inclined spirally at a uniform angle of gradient (?) relative to central axis of the bottle and disposed in parallel to one another, so that the cylindrical body wall is prevented from being deformed by the pressure force that acts in a lateral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Oguchi, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20100032405
    Abstract: A round bottle that gives an overall impression of a slim body, while maintaining a basic shape of the round bottle and a vacuum absorbing function. An object is to provide a round synthetic resin bottle having a differentiated shape not found in conventional art. This involves narrowing down a diameter of the body in a tapered manner toward a middle height position of the body to form a tapered portion at either one of an upper end or a lower end of the basically cylindrical body and thus to form a waist portion in a narrowest part of this tapered portion, and forming a plurality of dented vacuum absorbing panels in a height range lying next to the waist portion of the body and in a configuration that each of the panels is disposed in parallel in a circumferential direction and dented by a stepped portion surrounding each panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Yoshino Kogyosho Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20090289028
    Abstract: A technical problem of this invention especially in the case of large-size bottles is to form a grip, without changing the bottle shape to a large extent, so that the body can be firmly held. The object of this invention is to provide a synthetic resin square bottle that can be used reliably because the bottle can be held firmly with a hand. A major means of solving the problem is a synthetic resin square bottle comprising a body having a rectangular shape in a plane cross-section and a groove-like waist portion disposed at a middle height of the bottle, wherein a pair of recessed portions for use as finger stops are formed in respective long side walls of said rectangular body over a predetermined area ranging from said waist portion downward to ensure that a plural number of fingers can be placed in at least one recessed portion for a finger stop purpose, and wherein a grip for holding the bottle is formed from both the pair of recessed portions and the waist portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Yoshino Kogyosho Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20090011947
    Abstract: A detection chip comprises a substrate and a well-shaped reaction portion formed in the substrate, in which the well-shaped reaction portion comprises a bottom portion having a planar shape and a side portion the width between which is widen from the bottom portion toward an opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicants: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Hiroyuki Kuroki, Nobuhiro Hanafusa, Koretsugu Ogata
  • Patent number: 7296701
    Abstract: A bottle-shaped synthetic resin container (1) includes a body portion (3), and a circumferential groove (10) extending along an outer surface of the body portion (3). The circumferential groove (10) is defined by a groove bottom wall (11) and groove side walls (12a, 12b) extending from the groove bottom (11) to the outer surface of the body portion (3). At least one of the groove side walls (12a, 12b) extends substantially linearly, as seen in a longitudinal-sectional plane including a center axis (A) of the body portion (3), and forms an angle (?, ?) of not more than 20° relative to a reference line (L) perpendicular to the center axis (A) of the body portion (3) in the longitudinal-sectional plane of the container (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka, Shoji Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20060289379
    Abstract: A bottle-shaped synthetic resin container (1) includes a body portion (3), and a circumferential groove (10) extending along an outer surface of the body portion (3). The circumferential groove (10) is defined by a groove bottom wall (11) and groove side walls (12a, 12b) extending from the groove bottom (11) to the outer surface of the body portion (3). At least one of the groove side walls (12a, 12b) extends substantially linearly, as seen in a longitudinal-sectional plane including a center axis (A) of the body portion (3), and forms an angle (?, ?) of not more than 20° relative to a reference line (L) perpendicular to the center axis (A) of the body portion (3) in the longitudinal-sectional plane of the container (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka, Shoji Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7114626
    Abstract: In a bottle-shaped synthetic resin container having a body part of substantially rectangular tubular shape, groove ribs, having a comparatively wide vertical groove form, are depressingly provided at the centers in the width direction of flat wall portions of shoulder lower end parts, which are portions of a shoulder part that connect with the body part, to make these portions higher in rigidity and difficult to deform and, even when a deformation occurs, prevent the deformation from becoming a permanent deformation. Safe handling of the container is thus promoted, especially for the stacked storage of containers in a sideways-laid orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Tanaka, Shigeru Tomiyama, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka, Naoki Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 7097056
    Abstract: The gas-venting groove or grooves are formed, while leaving a part of the thread ridge up to a certain height, as the vertical degassing paths in the thread ridge carved on the outer surface of the round neck wall and the entire neck is whitened by the thermal crystallization. This thermal crystallization is conducted under the condition that the neck is prevented from undesired deformation caused by uneven resin flow state. Thus, the object of this invention is to provide a highly safe neck that can be used widely in the field of heat-resistant containers, pressure-tight containers, and heat-resistant and pressure-tight containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Toshimasa Tanaka, Takao Iizuka, Makoto Takada
  • Patent number: 7051890
    Abstract: The technical problem of this invention is to eliminate the need to use deformable panel walls and to find the body of a shape that no false deformation, such as dented deformation, takes place in a portion of the body due to the hot filling of the contents or the reduced pressure created by the treatment of retort-packed foods. The object of this invention is to obtain a bottle that can inhibit the deformation caused by reduced pressure, has a high buckling strength, and is good in outer appearance. As the solution, there is provided a biaxially drawn, blow-molded bottle made of a synthetic resin, in which the surface rigidity of the wall of body is set in such a manner that a part of the body wall cannot become dented inward under a reduced inner pressure of at least 350 mmHg (46.7 kPa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuko Onoda, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka, Shigeru Tomiyama, Tadayori Nakayama, Fuminori Tanaka, Tsutomu Asari
  • Publication number: 20050150856
    Abstract: The gas-venting groove or grooves are formed, while leaving a part of the thread ridge (3) up to a certain height, as the vertical degassing paths in the thread ridge carved on the outer surface of the round neck wall and the entire neck is whitened by the thermal crystallization. This thermal crystallization is conducted under the condition that the neck is prevented from undesired deformation caused by uneven resin flow state. Thus, the object of this invention is to provide a highly safe neck that can be used widely in the field of heat-resistant containers, pressure-tight containers, and heat-resistant and pressure-tight containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Toshimasa Tanaka, Takao Iizuka, Makoto Takada
  • Publication number: 20050029220
    Abstract: The technical problem of this invention is to eliminate the need to use deformable panel walls and to find the body of a shape that no false deformation, such as dented deformation, takes place in a portion of the body due to the hot filling of the contents or the reduced pressure created by the treatment of retort-packed foods. The object of this invention is to obtain a bottle that can inhibit the deformation caused by reduced pressure, has a high buckling strength, and is good in outer appearance. As the solution, there is provided a biaxially drawn, blow-molded bottle made of a synthetic resin, in which the surface rigidity of the wall of body is set in such a manner that a part of the body wall cannot become dented inward under a reduced inner pressure of at least 350 mmHg (46.7 kPa).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Applicant: Yoshino Kogyosho Co. LTD
    Inventors: Yuko Onoda, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka, Shigeru Tomiyama, Tadayori Nakayama, Fuminori Tanaka, Tsutomu Asari
  • Publication number: 20040256399
    Abstract: In a bottle-shaped synthetic resin container having a body part of substantially rectangular tubular shape, groove ribs, having a comparatively wide vertical groove form, are depressingly provided at the centers in the width direction of flat wall portions of shoulder lower end parts, which are portions of a shoulder part that connect with the body part, to make these portions higher in rigidity and difficult to deform and, even when a deformation occurs, prevent the deformation from becoming a permanent deformation. Safe handling of the container is thus promoted, especially for the stacked storage of containers in a sideways-laid orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Toshimasa Tanaka, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Takao Iizuka, Naoki Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20040022976
    Abstract: A bottle-shaped container shows a large critical strength against buckling and is made of a reduced amount of synthetic resin material. A manufacturing method can manufacture such a bottle-shaped container. A lightweight bottle-shaped container made of synthetic resin and formed by biaxially-oriented blow-molding, characterized in that a wall thickness is increased to 109% or more of an average wall thickness of blow-molded pad of the wall at an infection point between a portion having a transversal cross sectional area and a portion having a different transversal cross sectional area in a cylindrical wall. The wall is thicker between the heel and the bottom, or at the waist, at the recessed rib, or at the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Toyoji Kato, Daisuke Uesugi, Naoki Tsutsui, Naoto Hara, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Tomohiko Ishizuka, Hiromi Yaguchi