Patents by Inventor Toshio Hiranuma

Toshio Hiranuma 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: 7896213
    Abstract: A medical stapler is provided with a stapler body having a head portion at one end thereof, which drives out medical staples S, and a manipulating lever that can be opened and closed by being turned in a state in which a part provided at the side of the head portion is housed in an accommodating portion of the stapler body. A grip portion opposed to the head portion of the manipulating lever is usually urged in an opening direction in which the grip portion protrudes from the accommodating portion. When a staple S is driven out, the manipulating lever is turned in a closing direction in which the manipulating lever is housed in the accommodating portion. Thus, the staple S is driven out of the head portion. Then, the staple S is put into skin “a” while both sides of a wound are brought toward each other. Thus, the wound is sutured while both tip end parts of the staple are inwardly bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masahiko Hashimoto, Shigenori Yamaguchi, Yutaka Kato
  • Publication number: 20100229295
    Abstract: A water control tubular portion is fixed to the forward end of a discharge hose body. The water control tubular portion is a tubular body or an inverted funnel-like (trumpet-like) tubular body and has water control sections inside it. The water control sections are arranged zigzag so that the amount of discharge of an object (e.g. sewage) becomes as constant as possible and the speed of the discharge can be made slackened. Since the amount of discharge of the object from the forward end of the discharge hose body becomes substantially constant by the water control tubular section and the speed (flow speed) of the discharge is slackened, the forward end of the discharge hose is not fluttered by the pressure of a fluid object (sewage) sent under pressure from a simple toilet device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masahiko Hashimoto, Shigenori Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20100228268
    Abstract: A surgical staple remover includes a staple supporter which is inserted below side portions of a crown of a surgical staple, which is joined to a skin, to support the surgical staple, a pressing slider which presses the crown of the surgical staple, which is supported by the staple supporter, to deform the surgical staple and to remove the surgical staple out from the skin and moves the surgical staple into a storage portion along a staple receiver which is continuously formed from the staple supporter. The number of the surgical staples inside the storage portion can be reliably and easily counted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masahiko Hashimoto, Shigenori Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090289136
    Abstract: To provide a lid body for a disposer apparatus which can keep inside of the disposer apparatus clean with ease. A washing-agent-reception portion is provided on a side of a rear surface of the lid body and at an inside of the body portion. The washing-agent-reception portion receives a washing agent package. When changing over drive of the disposer apparatus to a crushing operation for crushing garbage, water supply into the inside of the hopper starts concurrently with the crushing of the garbage by the crushing unit. Water to be supplied is supplied to the inside of the hopper through the lid body as a pathway thereof. At this time, the water passing through the lid body is supplied to the inside of the hopper as washing liquid with it dissolving washing agent. When driving the crushing unit, washing of the inside of the hopper is executed by the washing liquid concurrently with the crushing operation, which keeps the inside of the hopper clean.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ishikawa, Toshio Hiranuma, Hisashi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20090277945
    Abstract: A medical stapler is provided with a stapler body 1 having a head portion 3 at one end thereof, which drives out medical staples S, and a manipulating lever that can be opened and closed by being turned in a state in which a part provided at the side of the head portion 3 is housed in an accommodating portion 8 of the stapler body 1. A grip portion 11 opposed to the head portion 3 of the manipulating lever 2 is usually urged in an opening direction in which the grip portion 11 protrudes from the accommodating portion 8. When a staple S is driven out, the manipulating lever 2 is turned in a closing direction in which the manipulating lever 2 is housed in the accommodating portion 8. Thus, the staple S is driven out of the head portion 3. Then, the staple S is put into skin “a” while both sides of a wound are brought toward each other. Thus, the wound is sutured while both tip end parts of the staple are inwardly bent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masahiko Hashimoto, Shigenori Yamaguchi, Yutaka Kato
  • Publication number: 20090126093
    Abstract: A breaking means is installed in a stagnant portion of the body of the toilet device. The breaking means has a breaking mechanism unit. The breaking mechanism unit is a cutter mechanism and has cutter members. Each of the cutter members has multiple cutter blades along its rotation axis direction. Cutter blades of adjacent cutter members mesh with each other with a small clearance kept. Because by the action of this cutter member, excrement and others including tissue paper, etc. can be cut out finely and broken, the excrement and others (solids) are made into liquid mixture in this breaking process. Because of liquid mixture, drain takes place easily so that clogging of a drain pipe can be prevented even if hardly soluble matters such as tissue paper are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: MAX CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masahiko Hashimoto, Shigenori Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090077731
    Abstract: This is a portable toilet device. Broken excrement may be certainly drained. Means (40) for breaking the excrement having crushing blades is installed in the stagnant portion (18) of the body (20) of the toilet device, means (200) for sending the broken excrement by compression, which sends compressed air into the stagnant portion (18), and a lid for open and closure that closes the stagnant portion (18) tightly are provided. When treating the excrement after bowel movement, the lid for open and closure is closed and then, by driving the means for breaking the excrement, the excrement is stirred and broken into fragments with the stagnant portion being tightly closed. After breaking the excrement into fragments, compressed air is jetted into the stagnant portion so that a liquid mixture formed by breaking the excrement into fragments can be sent by compression toward a side of drain hose (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Kazuhiro Sakakibara, Masahiko Hashimoto, Shigenori Yamaguchi, Toshiya Ishida, Keijiro Murayama, Toshio Shioya
  • Publication number: 20080135600
    Abstract: A medical stapler is provided with a sterilized cartridge removably attached to a stapler body 1 and accommodating a predetermined number of staples 9, a driving mechanism for driving a staple 9 supplied to a driving section at the tip of the cartridge, a manipulating lever 2 for actuating the driving mechanism and a counter device 20. The counter device 20 counts the number of staples 9 driven from the driving mechanism and indicates the counted result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masahiko Hashimoto, Shigenori Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6945339
    Abstract: A plurality of chip evacuating grooves (16, 26, 36, 46a, 46b) in a vertical direction in parallel with a rotational axis of a core main body (14) are formed at an outer peripheral face of the core main body (14) in a circumferential direction from a lower end portion to an upper end portion of the core main body (14) in a cylindrical shape provided with a drilling blade (15) at a lower end edge thereof. Further, a sectional area of the chip evacuating groove (16) is formed to gradually increase from a lower end to an upper end of the core main body (14). Further, a number of projections (52, 62, 70, 72) are formed at the outer peripheral face of the core main body (14) between the chip evacuating grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masakazu Ishizeki, Tomohiro Koshiba, Kouichi Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20050016775
    Abstract: A plurality of chip evacuating grooves (16, 26, 36, 46a, 46b) in a vertical direction in parallel with a rotational axis of a core main body (14) are formed at an outer peripheral face of the core main body (14) in a circumferential direction from a lower end portion to an upper end portion of the core main body (14) in a cylindrical shape provided with a drilling blade (15) at a lower end edge thereof. Further, a sectional area of the chip evacuating groove (16) is formed to gradually increase from a lower end to an upper end of the core main body (14). Further, a number of projections (52, 62, 70, 72) are formed at the outer peripheral face of the core main body (14) between the chip evacuating grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Masakazu Ishizeki, Tomohiro Koshiba, Konichi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 5582204
    Abstract: A plug for a quick disconnect coupling for connecting an hose and being received in a socket, the plug has a hose fitting portion and a socket fitting portion. The hose fitting portion is fitted with the hose. And the socket fitting portion being received in the socket includes holes for letting its internal space communicate with the outside arranged radially in the socket fitting portion. Furthermore, the socket fitting portion may includes a self-seal valve for sealing a head opening of the socket fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hiranuma, Shigeru Yasuda, Hiroshi Nakamura