Patents by Inventor Yamato MAEDA

Yamato MAEDA 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: 20220260605
    Abstract: A cell picking device includes a stage, a sucker, a driver, a work content receiver, a registrar and a device controller. A sample container is placed on the stage. The driver is provided to execute sample scraping work and sample sucking work using a pipette tip attached to the sucker. In a case in which selection of work contents of the driver is received by the work content receiver, a work procedure including the received work contents of the driver is registered by the registrar. The work of the driver is controlled by the device controller in accordance with the registered work procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika OKADA, Akari TAKEDA, Yamato MAEDA, Yoshitake YAMAMOTO, Potsun CHiANG, Yoshitaka NODA, Takashi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220259542
    Abstract: A cell collecting device include a pipette tip that sucks substances in a cell culture container, a first valve connected to the pipette tip through a first flow path, a first pump connected to the first valve through a second flow path, and a second pump connected to the first valve through a third flow path. In a remove mode, the first valve is switched to connect the first flow path and the second flow path to each other and disconnect the third flow path, and the first pump is driven to discharge waste in the cell culture container, that has been sucked from the pipette tip, from a drain of the first pump through the first flow path and the second flow path, and in a picking mode, the first valve is switched to connect the first flow path and the third flow path to each other and disconnect the second flow path, and the second pump is driven to suck cells in the cell culture container using the pipette tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yamato MAEDA, Akari TAKEDA, Yoshitake YAMAMOTO, Yoshitaka NODA, Takashi INOUE