Patents by Inventor Yoichiro Iwase

Yoichiro Iwase 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: 10413681
    Abstract: A syringe for injecting a drug solution into an upper layer of skin includes an injection needle having a needle hole communicating from a needle tip to a needle proximal end, the injection needle having a blade face at the needle tip; and a needle hub having a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, the needle hub holding the injection needle at the distal end portion. The needle hub has a needle tip side end face, and the needle tip protrudes from the needle tip side end face. A protruding needle length of the needle tip from the needle tip side end face is 1.15 mm±0.1 mm, and a blade face length of the blade face along an axis of the injection needle is 0.60 mm±0.15 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwase, Kazunori Koiwai
  • Patent number: 10406289
    Abstract: A drug injection syringe includes an injection needle assembly and a syringe body. The injection needle assembly includes an injection needle, a needle hub, an elastic body, and a fitting sleeve. The fitting sleeve accommodates the needle hub and the elastic body and has a fitting hole formed in a female taper shape. The syringe body includes an outer tube and a drug discharge tube formed in a male taper shape. The syringe body is attached to the injection needle assembly by pushing the drug discharge tube into the fitting hole by a press fitting. The elastic body couples the drug discharge tube and the injection needle in a liquid-tight manner by compressively deforming, due to the press fitting, at a protruding portion disposed on a periphery of the pocket and stretching against an inner wall of the fitting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichiro Iwase
  • Patent number: 10398851
    Abstract: A method of using a medicine injection device including a syringe filled with a medicine; a needle tube having a needle tip for puncturing the skin; a flange-like skin contact portion that is disposed in a manner so as to cover an area surrounding the needle tube and makes contact with and/or faces the skin when the living body is punctured with the needle tube; and an absorption part that is disposed in the skin contact portion of the needle hub. The method includes removing air from the medicine injection device prior to injection of the medicine, whereby medicine spilled from the needle tip is caught in the skin contact portion; the absorption part absorbing the spilled medicine staying in the skin contact portion; positioning the skin contact portion adjacent the skin; puncturing the skin with the needle tip; and injecting medicine from the needle tip into the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwase, Junichi Ogawa, Kouichi Tachikawa
  • Patent number: 10335551
    Abstract: A needle assembly includes: a retaining portion; and an elastic member that includes a close contact portion that closely contacts and retains the needle tube such that the needle tube protrudes toward a fitting opening, and a deformation portion that extends from the close contact portion toward the fitting opening and is configured to deform when the drug ejection portion comes into contact with the elastic member, and which is provided in a fitting portion. Further, the length of the deformation portion is in a range of 35% or more and 50% or less with respect to the length of the elastic member, and the length of a portion of the needle tube which protrudes from the close contact portion toward the fitting portion is in a range of 45% or more and 245% or less with respect to the deformation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwase, Kazunori Koiwai
  • Patent number: 10034981
    Abstract: This syringe has an outer tube, a gasket, and a pusher. The pusher is provided with: a tubular holding part which covers at least a part of an outer surface of the outer tube and is movable relative to the outer tube in the longitudinal direction thereof; and a pressure part which is connected with the holding part, is inserted into the outer tube, and moves the gasket to the distal side of the outer tube by distally a movement of the holding part relative to the outer tube. In addition, between the holding part and the outer tube, a guide part is provided which guides the movement of the holding part relative to the outer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouichi Tachikawa, Yoichiro Iwase, Hirotaka Ohashi, Junichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9913948
    Abstract: An injection needle assembly includes an injection needle, a fitting portion, and a hub. The fitting portion is formed into a cylindrical shape and has one end serving as a fitting opening. The fitting portion includes a female taper shape in which an inner diameter of a cylindrical hole of the fitting portion becomes smaller toward an inner side. The hub includes the fitting portion for holding the injection needle. The injection needle assembly is used such that the female taper shape of the fitting portion is fitted to a drug discharge tube, which has a male taper shape in which an outer diameter of a cylinder becomes smaller toward a tip. When the male taper shape of the drug discharge tube has a taper ratio of N/100, the female taper shape of the fitting portion 12 is formed to have a taper ratio of M/100, where M>N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwase, Takayuki Yokota, Hisao Yabe
  • Publication number: 20180056010
    Abstract: A needle tube having a needle tip for puncturing skin; a needle hub; and a fluid-draining portion for enabling draining of a medicine. The needle hub includes: a retention part (first member) for retaining the needle tube; an insertion part into which the output portion of a syringe is inserted; and a flange-like skin contact portion that is disposed in a manner so as to cover an area surrounding the needle tube and makes contact with and/or faces the skin when a living body is punctured with the needle tube. The fluid-draining portion is disposed in the skin contact portion of the needle hub and enables a user to drain the medicine that has spilled when removing air and is held in the skin contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro IWASE, Junichi OGAWA, Kouichi TACHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180043109
    Abstract: A method of using a medicine injection device including a syringe filled with a medicine; a needle tube having a needle tip for puncturing the skin; a flange-like skin contact portion that is disposed in a manner so as to cover an area surrounding the needle tube and makes contact with and/or faces the skin when the living body is punctured with the needle tube; and an absorption part that is disposed in the skin contact portion of the needle hub. The method includes removing air from the medicine injection device prior to injection of the medicine, whereby medicine spilled from the needle tip is caught in the skin contact portion; the absorption part absorbing the spilled medicine staying in the skin contact portion; positioning the skin contact portion adjacent the skin; puncturing the skin with the needle tip; and injecting medicine from the needle tip into the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro IWASE, Junichi OGAWA, Kouichi TACHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180015229
    Abstract: An injection needle assembly includes: a needle tube, a needle hub which holds the needle tube, a protector, a biasing member, a retaining member, and a restriction mechanism. The protector is movable between a first position at which the needle tip of the needle tube is covered and a second position at which the needle tip of the needle tube is exposed, the protector comprising an abutment piece. The restriction mechanism is configured such that, after the protector has moved from the first position to the second position and has further returned from the second position to the first position, the restriction member restricts the protector from moving from the first position to the second position again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichiro IWASE
  • Publication number: 20180015234
    Abstract: An injection needle assembly includes a needle tube, a needle hub holding the needle tube, a protector, a biasing member, a sliding groove, and a sliding protrusion. The protector is movable between a first position at which the needle tip of the needle tube is covered and a second position at which the needle tip of the needle tube is exposed. The sliding groove is located at one of the needle hub or the protector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichiro IWASE
  • Publication number: 20180015232
    Abstract: An injection needle assembly includes a needle tube, a needle hub configured to hold the needle tube, a protector, a biasing member, and a restriction mechanism. The restriction mechanism is configured such that, after the protector has moved from the first position to the second position and has further returned from the second position to the first position, the restriction member restricts the protector from moving from the first position to the second position again. At least a portion of the biasing member is disposed on a needle tip side of the restriction mechanism in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichiro IWASE
  • Publication number: 20180008776
    Abstract: A syringe holder includes: a barrel body that holds a syringe; a holder opening; deformation promoting portions; and radial movement-restricting portions. The radial movement-restricting portions are provided close to the deformation promoting portions. Being brought into contact with first portions, the radial movement-restricting portions restrict the syringe from moving in a radial direction with respect to the barrel body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi OGAWA, Yoichiro IWASE, Kazunori KOIWAI
  • Publication number: 20170312453
    Abstract: A needle assembly includes: a needle comprising a hollow needle tube, a needle tip at a distal end of the hollow needle tube, and a cutting face disposed adjacent to the needle tip; and a needle hub that includes a tip and a base end, and holds the needle at the needle tip. The needle hub includes a needle tip side end face from which the needle tip projects. An outer diameter of the needle is within a range of 0.15 mm to 0.20 mm, inclusive. A projection needle length extending from the needle tip side end face to the needle tip is within a range of 0.50 mm to 1.25 mm, inclusive. A needle body length extending from the needle tip side end face to a proximal end of the cutting face in within a range of 0.10 mm to 0.70 mm, inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sakiko SHIMIZU, Sayaka OMORI, Kazunori KOIWAI, Yoichiro IWASE
  • Patent number: 9757526
    Abstract: A drug administration instrument including a syringe including: a tubular surrounding periphery portion forming a drug chamber configured to store a drug; a discharge part disposed at a first axial end of the surrounding periphery portion; and a flange portion disposed at a second axial end of the surrounding periphery portion; and a sheath member having a tubular shape, surrounding an outer circumference of the surrounding periphery portion of the syringe, and holding the syringe. The sheath member includes a fitting part configured to support at least one of the surrounding periphery portion and the discharge part of the syringe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwase, Junichi Ogawa, Kouichi Tachikawa
  • Publication number: 20170197035
    Abstract: A needle assembly includes: a retaining portion; and an elastic member that includes a close contact portion that closely contacts and retains the needle tube such that the needle tube protrudes toward a fitting opening, and a deformation portion that extends from the close contact portion toward the fitting opening and is configured to deform when the drug ejection portion comes into contact with the elastic member, and which is provided in a fitting portion. Further, the length of the deformation portion is in a range of 35% or more and 50% or less with respect to the length of the elastic member, and the length of a portion of the needle tube which protrudes from the close contact portion toward the fitting portion is in a range of 45% or more and 245% or less with respect to the deformation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro IWASE, Kazunori KOIWAI
  • Publication number: 20170143913
    Abstract: An injection needle assembly includes a hollow needle having a needle tip for puncturing skin; a holding portion that holds the hollow needle; a fitting portion having a tapered inner surface configured such that a drug discharge portion of a drug container is insertable into the fitting portion, the fitting portion including a screw portion on its outer peripheral face; and a restriction portion configured to restrict a distance by which the drug discharge portion is pushed into the fitting portion by contacting a locking mechanism of the drug container when the drug discharge portion is inserted into the fitting portion and a screw portion of the locking mechanism is threaded into the screw portion of the fitting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichiro IWASE
  • Patent number: 9566393
    Abstract: To securely position a needle tip and a blade face of a needle tube inserted into the skin in a predetermined site of a living body, such as the upper layer of skin, an injection needle assembly includes a needle tube having a needle tip capable of puncturing a living body, a hub holding the needle tube, a stabilizer, and a guide portion. The stabilizer is formed in a tubular shape surrounding the circumference of the needle tube, and an end face is pressed against the skin, and thereby a raised portion of the skin is formed in a tube hole. The guide portion is arranged on the stabilizer, and is adapted to recognize a press-in distance y of the stabilizer to the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwase, Kazunori Koiwai, Tetsuo Tanaka, Sayaka Oomori
  • Publication number: 20160317761
    Abstract: A syringe for injecting a drug solution into an upper layer of skin includes an injection needle having a needle hole communicating from a needle tip to a needle proximal end, the injection needle having a blade face at the needle tip; and a needle hub having a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, the needle hub holding the injection needle at the distal end portion. The needle hub has a needle tip side end face, and the needle tip protrudes from the needle tip side end face. A protruding needle length of the needle tip from the needle tip side end face is 1.15 mm±0.1 mm, and a blade face length of the blade face along an axis of the injection needle is 0.60 mm±0.15 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro IWASE, Kazunori KOIWAI
  • Patent number: 9468711
    Abstract: A syringe container includes a cylindrical syringe including a distal end portion having a discharge opening for discharging a liquid, a proximal end portion, and a side peripheral section connected to the distal end portion and the proximal end portion; an attachment member configured to be attached to the distal end portion and having an outer radius larger than an outer radius of the side peripheral section; a container body including a bottom portion and a peripheral wall portion extending upward from a periphery of the bottom portion; and a syringe holding section configured to be placed within the peripheral wall portion so as to face the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwase, Junichi Ogawa, Kouichi Tachikawa
  • Patent number: D787667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichiro Iwase