Patents by Inventor Yasuaki HIYAMA

Yasuaki HIYAMA 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: 20210272478
    Abstract: A medical simulator includes: a luminal organ model having flexibility and having a shape that simulates at least one luminal organ, the luminal organ model including a constricted wall portion having a lumen cross-sectional area smaller than the lumen cross-sectional area of a periphery of the constricted wall portion, the constricted wall portion being provided in a first specific region including a portion corresponding to one end portion of one luminal organ or corresponding to a joining portion of two luminal organs; a first space formation portion that circumferentially covers at least an outer periphery of the first specific region of the luminal organ model to form a first sealed space at the outer periphery of the first specific region; and a fluid controller that controls a fluid pressure of a to-be-controlled fluid within the first sealed space to expand or contract the lumen cross-sectional area of the constricted wall portion of the luminal organ model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro SHIMODA, Masaaki MATSUOKA, Yasuaki HIYAMA, Masahiko YOSHIDA, Ren OTA, Masaru UEKI, Kazutake UEHARA, Masashi FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200211419
    Abstract: A medical simulator allows a training of a medical procedure performed at least from a nose or a mouth, and includes a skeleton base portion that serves as a base of a shape of a human body at least from a head to a neck portion and an in-body forming portion that is attachable to and detachable from the skeleton base portion and has a shape that simulates a hollow in-body organ including a nasal cavity, an oral cavity, a pharynx, and a larynx, the in-body forming portion being integrally formed using a flexible material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuaki HIYAMA, Masaaki MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20190333414
    Abstract: A medical simulator has a human body model that simulates a human-body external shape at least from a head to a neck, an oral cavity portion, a nasal cavity portion, a pharynx portion, a larynx portion, a trachea portion, and an esophagus portion, thereby enabling at least training of an intubation procedure to be done. The medical simulator includes: a neck supporting portion that serves as a framework of the neck of the human body model and is provided so as to extend to the head; and a simulated thyroid cartilage portion that is connected by a first spring member to the neck supporting portion and is disposed in the larynx portion of the human body model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiya NAKANO, Masaki SHIMIZU, Yasuaki HIYAMA, Masaaki MATSUOKA, Hiroshige NAKAMURA, Hiromi TAKEUCHI, Yoshimi INAGAKI