Patents by Inventor Yoshimasa Matsuura

Yoshimasa Matsuura 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: 10471191
    Abstract: A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises a sheet-shaped filter element, and a container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space. The filter element includes a pair of filtering surfaces disposed on the inlet space side and the outlet space side, and an end surface along a periphery of the pair of the filtering surfaces, and the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper that clamps and compresses outer edge portions of the pair of filtering surfaces, and adheres to the end surface with melt resin, and a part of the container is provided with a steam-permeable portion having steam permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10213534
    Abstract: A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises: a sheet-shaped filter element; and a container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space, wherein the filter element includes a filtering surface on a side of the inlet space, a filtering surface on a side of the outlet space, and an end surface along peripheries of the pair of filtering surfaces, and the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper, and the gripper clamps and compresses an outer edge portion of the pair of filtering surfaces, and is caused to adhere to the end surface with melt resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10064989
    Abstract: A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises: a sheet-shaped filter element; and a hard container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space, wherein the filter element includes a filtering surface on a side of the inlet space, a filtering surface on a side of the outlet space, and an end surface along peripheries of the pair of filtering surfaces, the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper that clamps and compresses an outer edge portion of the pair of filtering surfaces, and a thickness of the filter element is compressed at the gripper to be 0.05 to 0.5 times the thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20170119941
    Abstract: A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises a sheet-shaped filter element, and a container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space. The filter element includes a pair of filtering surfaces disposed on the inlet space side and the outlet space side, and an end surface along a periphery of the pair of the filtering surfaces, and the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper that clamps and compresses outer edge portions of the pair of filtering surfaces, and adheres to the end surface with melt resin, and a part of the container is provided with a steam-permeable portion having steam permeability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20170112982
    Abstract: A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises a sheet-shaped filter element and a hard container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space, wherein the filter element includes a pair of filtering surfaces disposed on the inlet space side and the outlet space side, the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper that clamps and compresses outer edge portions of the pair of filtering surfaces, the filter element is compressed to have a thickness of a portion clamped by the gripper being 0.05 times or more and 0.5 times or less larger, and the hard container is provided with a steam-permeable portion having steam permeability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20160243293
    Abstract: A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises: a sheet-shaped filter element; and a container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space, wherein the filter element includes a filtering surface on a side of the inlet space, a filtering surface on a side of the outlet space, and an end surface along peripheries of the pair of filtering surfaces, and the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper, and the gripper clamps and compresses an outer edge portion of the pair of filtering surfaces, and is caused to adhere to the end surface with melt resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20160235905
    Abstract: A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises: a sheet-shaped filter element; and a hard container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space, wherein the filter element includes a filtering surface on a side of the inlet space, a filtering surface on a side of the outlet space, and an end surface along peripheries of the pair of filtering surfaces, the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper that clamps and compresses an outer edge portion of the pair of filtering surfaces, and a thickness of the filter element is compressed at the gripper to be 0.05 to 0.5 times the thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa MATSUURA
  • Patent number: 8932470
    Abstract: An aggregate-removing filter material efficiently removes aggregates that are contained in a blood product for transfusion and may cause transfusion reactions without clogging, and exhibits excellent quality stability, and a blood product filtration method uses a filter apparatus that includes the aggregate-removing filter material and a leukocyte-removing filter material. The aggregate-removing filter material includes short fibers having a fineness of 0.7 to 4.0 dtex and a fiber length of 1 to 80 mm, and a ground fabric that includes long fibers, a fiber axis of the long fibers being oriented in a planar direction of the ground fabric, the short fibers being entangled with the ground fabric so that the aggregate-removing filter material has a total weight per unit area of 10 to 80 g/m2, and a layer of the short fibers forming a three-dimensional structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Medical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukuda, Yoshimasa Matsuura
  • Patent number: 8524090
    Abstract: A flexible blood filter allowing smooth flow of a liquid and being excellent in separation resistance, pressure resistance and centrifugation resistance. The blood processing filter, comprising a first filter element for removing aggregates from blood, a second filter element for removing leukocytes provided in the downstream of the first filter element, and the third filter element having gas permeability of 3 to 40 cc/cm2/sec per thickness of 1 cm provided between the second filter element and the outlet port side container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Medical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichiroh Oka, Yoshimasa Matsuura, Tomohisa Yokomizo
  • Publication number: 20110031191
    Abstract: An aggregate-removing filter material efficiently removes aggregates that are contained in a blood product for transfusion and may cause transfusion reactions without clogging, and exhibits excellent quality stability, and a blood product filtration method uses a filter apparatus that includes the aggregate-removing filter material and a leukocyte-removing filter material. The aggregate-removing filter material includes short fibers having a fineness of 0.7 to 4.0 dtex and a fiber length of 1 to 80 mm, and a ground fabric that includes long fibers, a fiber axis of the long fibers being oriented in a planar direction of the ground fabric, the short fibers being entangled with the ground fabric so that the aggregate-removing filter material has a total weight per unit area of 10 to 80 g/m2, and a layer of the short fibers forming a three-dimensional structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukuda, Yoshimasa Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20100051533
    Abstract: A flexible blood filter allowing smooth flow of a liquid and being excellent in separation resistance, pressure resistance and centrifugation resistance. The blood processing filter, comprising a first filter element for removing aggregates from blood, a second filter element for removing leukocytes provided in the downstream of the first filter element, and the third filter element having gas permeability of 3 to 40 cc/cm2/sec per thickness of 1 cm provided between the second filter element and the outlet port side container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: ASAHI MEDICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shin-ichiroh OKA, Yoshimasa MATSUURA, Tomohisa YOKOMIZO
  • Patent number: 7641794
    Abstract: A flexible blood filter allowing smooth flow of a liquid and being excellent in separation resistance, pressure resistance and centrifugation resistance. The blood processing filter, includes a first filter element for removing aggregates from blood, a second filter element for removing leukocytes provided in the downstream of the first filter element, and a third filter element having gas permeability of 3 to 40 cc/cm2/sec per thickness of 1 cm provided between the second filter element and the outlet port. The filter contains a seal zone at a peripheral section which contains five layers including a layer of molten material and layers of molten material mixed with filter element material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Medical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichiroh Oka, Yoshimasa Matsuura, Tomohisa Yokomizo
  • Publication number: 20050090172
    Abstract: A fusion-bonded product prepared by fusion-bonding a part of a laminate containing a non-porous material and a porous material, characterized in that the cross section of the fusion-bonded portion comprises at least three layers comprising a layer (A) consisting of the non-porous article alone, a composite material layer (B) containing the non-porous material and the porous material being present mixedly, and a layer (c) consisting of the porous material alone, wherein the boundary between the composite material layer (B) and the porous material layer (c) has a length (LBC) in the range of 1.2 mm to 2.5 mm. The fusion-bonded product exhibits excellent resistance to release.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: Asahi Medical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Matsuura, Seiichirou Tomoura
  • Publication number: 20040251195
    Abstract: A flexible blood filter allowing smooth flow of a liquid and being excellent in separation resistance, pressure resistance and centrifugation resistance. The blood processing filter, includes a first filter element for removing aggregates from blood, a second filter element for removing leukocytes provided in the downstream of the first filter element, and a third filter element having gas permeability of 3 to 40 cc/cm2/sec per thickness of 1 cm provided between the second filter element and the outlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Shin-ichiroh Oka, Yoshimasa Matsuura, Tomohisa Yokomizo
  • Patent number: 6337039
    Abstract: A method for molding a thermoplastic resin by filling a molten thermoplastic resin into a mold which comprises carrying out the molding of the resin while reducing the solidification temperature of the resin surface which contacts with the mold during the step of filling the resin. According to this molding method, the state of the mold surface can be faithfully transferred to molded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaki, Yoshimasa Matsuura, Hiroshi Kataoka
  • Patent number: 6322735
    Abstract: A method for molding a thermoplastic resin by filling a molten thermoplastic resin into a mold which comprises carrying out the molding of the resin while reducing the solidification temperature of the resin surface which contacts with the mold during the step of filling the resin. According to this molding method, the state of the mold surface can be faithfully transferred to molded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaki, Yoshimasa Matsuura, Hiroshi Kataoka
  • Patent number: 6146577
    Abstract: An economical method for facilitating injection molding of a thermoplastic resin by reducing the viscosity of a molten resin without impairing the physical properties of the resin, the surface appearance of the molded article and productivity. In the method for injection molding of a thermoplastic resin, a thermoplastic resin in which not less than 0.2% by weight of carbon dioxide is dissolved is injected into a mold cavity pressurized with a gas beforehand to at least a pressure where foaming does not take place in the flow front of the molten resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaki, Yoshimasa Matsuura, Hiroshi Kataoka
  • Patent number: 5993723
    Abstract: An injection compression molding method is characterized in that a resin is injected from a resin gate provided near a recess portion of a mold corresponding to a thick rib portion, gas is injected from the thick rib portion before the mold is closed and compressed, and thereafter the resin is made to flow back from the resin gate to an injection nozzle while the mold is closed and compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Masahito Kuramitsu, Nobuyoshi Umeniwa, Yoshimasa Matsuura
  • Patent number: 5615007
    Abstract: A light is illuminated, for example, from the side of a flange of a syringe. An imaging processing is carried out with an image signal issued by imaging a reflected light from the edge of flange by means of a TV camera or CCD camera located, for example, in an upward slant direction. Detecting an irregular state of the image signal caused by the reflected light, a crack or chip at the flange are recognized. The irregular state of the image signal, which is obtained by detecting parts where the light is not reflected, brings the method of being easy to detect the crack or chip at the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Matsuura, Mikio Tagaya, Ryosaku Tagaya