Patents by Inventor Yu Hirono
Yu Hirono 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).
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Publication number: 20220098027Abstract: Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path. A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort processing; and a second extraction unit for subjecting the extraction sample to abort processing and extracting only the target particle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Shimizu, Kazuya Takahashi, Yu Hirono
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Patent number: 11254557Abstract: Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path. A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort processing; and a second extraction unit for subjecting the extraction sample to abort processing and extracting only the target particle.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Shimizu, Kazuya Takahashi, Yu Hirono
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Patent number: 10328740Abstract: [Object] To provide a slide tray having excellent practicality, convenience, and the like. [Solving Means] A slide tray includes a slide tray body having a first surface on which one or more slides can be mounted, and one or more first convex portions that protrude from the first surface of the slide tray body and set an area in which paper sheets can be mounted on the first surface while being held from one side in a first axis direction of two axis directions orthogonal to each other on the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuuichi Machida, Yu Hirono, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Takamichi Yamakoshi
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Publication number: 20190144262Abstract: Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path. A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort processing; and a second extraction unit for subjecting the extraction sample to abort processing and extracting only the target particle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Shimizu, Kazuya Takahashi, Yu Hirono
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Patent number: 9488822Abstract: To provide a slide tray having excellent practicality, convenience, operability, and the like, and a conveyor apparatus that conveys slides accommodated in the slide tray. A slide tray according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a slide accommodation portion capable of accommodating one or more slides mounted thereon, and a switch portion that makes a switch between a first state in which an entire surface of the one or more slides is mounted on the slide accommodation portion and a second state in which one end portion of the one or more slides is released from the slide accommodation portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuichi Machida, Yu Hirono
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Publication number: 20160299170Abstract: Provided is a laser scanning observation device including: a window unit provided in a partial area of a casing and configured to be in contact with or close to an observation target; an objective lens configured to collect laser light on the observation target through the window unit; an optical path changing element configured to change a direction of travel of the laser light guided within the casing toward the window unit; an astigmatism correction element provided in a front stage of the window unit and configured to correct astigmatism occurring upon the collection of the laser light on the observation target; and a rotation mechanism configured to allow at least the optical path changing element to rotate about a rotation axis perpendicular to a direction of incidence of the laser light on the window unit to scan the observation target with the laser light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Terumasa Ito, Atsushi Fukumoto, Fumisada Maeda, Hideya Chubachi, Yu Hirono
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Publication number: 20150330776Abstract: To provide an image obtaining apparatus and a method of measuring an inclination of a slide, capable of measuring an inclination of a slide glass in a short time. An image obtaining apparatus includes: a stage on which a slide is to be mounted; a stage moving unit configured to move the stage; a detection unit configured to detect a position of the sample on the slide; an optical angle measuring apparatus configured to irradiate the slide glass mounted on the stage with laser light from the side opposite to the side on which the sample is mounted; and a controller configured to control the stage moving unit such that the position of the sample on the slide is irradiated with the laser light, and to cause the optical angle measuring apparatus to detect the inclination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Kunihiko HAYASHI, Ryu NARUSAWA, Yu HIRONO
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Publication number: 20150226662Abstract: A microscope system including: a storage unit storing two or more sheets of slide glasses to be subjected to a predetermined treatment; a stage holding only one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment; a supply arm by which one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment is picked up from the storage unit and supplied onto the stage; a discharge arm by which the slide glass mounted on the stage is picked up and discharged in the storage unit; a moving unit operable to move the supply arm and the discharge arm in an integral manner so as to bring the supply arm or the discharge arm into proximity to each of the storage unit and the stage; and a control unit operable to control the supply arm, the discharge arm and the moving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Yu HIRONO, Fumiyasu SUZUKI, Yuichi MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20150205089Abstract: To provide a slide tray having excellent practicality, convenience, operability, and the like, and a conveyor apparatus that conveys slides accommodated in the slide tray. A slide tray according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a slide accommodation portion capable of accommodating one or more slides mounted thereon, and a switch portion that makes a switch between a first state in which an entire surface of the one or more slides is mounted on the slide accommodation portion and a second state in which one end portion of the one or more slides is released from the slide accommodation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Yuuichi Machida, Yu Hirono
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Publication number: 20150202910Abstract: [Object] To provide a slide tray having excellent practicality, convenience, and the like. [Solving Means] A slide tray includes a slide tray body having a first surface on which one or more slides can be mounted, and one or more first convex portions that protrude from the first surface of the slide tray body and set an area in which paper sheets can be mounted on the first surface while being held from one side in a first axis direction of two axis directions orthogonal to each other on the first surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Yuuichi Machida, Yu Hirono, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Takamichi Yamakoshi
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Patent number: 9013569Abstract: A conveying device including: a storage unit storing two or more sheets of slide glasses to be subjected to a predetermined treatment; a stage holding only one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment; a supply arm by which one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment is picked up from the storage unit and supplied onto the stage; a discharge arm by which the slide glass mounted on the stage is picked up and discharged in the storage unit; a moving unit operable to move the supply arm and the discharge arm in an integral manner so as to bring the supply arm or the discharge arm into proximity to each of the storage unit and the stage; and a control unit operable to control the supply arm, the discharge arm and the moving unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yu Hirono, Fumiyasu Suzuki, Yuichi Machida
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Patent number: 8902501Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stage system, including: a stage on which to mount a slide glass; a projection block projected more than the thickness of the slide glass to the side of that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass; and a pressing block which is provided on that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass, is thicker than the slide glass, and presses toward the projection block the slide glass disposed between itself and the projection block.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fumiyasu Suzuki, Yu Hirono, Yuichi Machida
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Patent number: 8830313Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a connection connecting to a microscope including a stage having a disposition surface on which a target object can be placed, and an image picking-up section including an objective lens for picking up an image of the object, the microscope being movable in first and second axis directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the objective lens and orthogonal to each other and in a third axis direction along the optical axis; a calculator calculating, as an undulation-correcting value, a value for correcting a misalignment of a position in the third axis direction for each predetermined image-capturing range smaller than the disposition surface; a correcting-value storage storing the calculated value; and a corrector correcting a relative distance between the stage and the objective lens on the basis of the stored value for each image-capturing range.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryu Narusawa, Yu Hirono, Junichi Sakagami
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Patent number: 8813942Abstract: A slide glass storage device including: a supply tray which has a supply holding space determined by a longer edge upper limit allowed for a longer edge of a slide glass and a shorter edge upper limit allowed for a shorter edge of the slide glass and on which a slide glass to be supplied to a treatment unit operable to perform a predetermined treatment is mounted; a discharge tray which has a discharge holding space determined by a longer edge longer than the longer edge upper limit and a shorter edge longer than the shorter edge upper limit and on which a slide glass having been subjected to the treatment in the treatment unit and being to be discharged is mounted; and a support unit supporting the supply tray and the discharge tray.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichi Machida, Fumiyasu Suzuki, Yu Hirono
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Patent number: 8710412Abstract: It is possible to generate image data of a biological tissue in a short time. A focus information generating device (2) receives a first reflected light beam (Lr1) split from a reflected light beam (Lr) and a second reflected light beam (Lr2) passing through a pin-hole plate (36). A signal processing unit (13) calculates a uniform reflectance (RE) representing a light amount ratio of the second reflected light beam (Lr2) to the first reflected light beam (Lr1) along with a sum signal (SS) and a difference signal (SD). An integrated control unit (11) detects a position (Z1) corresponding to a top surface (104A) of a cover glass (104) on the basis of the sum signal (SS) and the difference signal (SD) and detects a position (Z3) representing a biological tissue (102) on the basis of the sum signal (SS) and the uniform reflectance (RE).Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koichiro Kishima, Yu Hirono, Takamichi Yamakoshi
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Patent number: 8598541Abstract: A fluorescent image obtaining device includes a light source that irradiates light such that a fluorescent material marked on a target in a biological sample lies in a non-excited state and a fluorescent material marked on a control with the target lies in an excited state, and an imaging unit that takes an image including the entire biological sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koichiro Kishima, Yu Hirono, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Takamichi Yamakoshi, Nobuhiro Kihara, Takashi Yamamoto, Fumiyasu Suzuki, Ryu Narusawa
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Patent number: 8593730Abstract: A stage control device including a position detection portion which detects a position deviation of a support plate relative to a reference position regulated by a convex portion provided in a stage, from an image of a scope including the support plate on which a sample is disposed and which is mounted on the stage; and a stage control portion that presses the stage, which is moved and controlled in a surface direction of the support plate so that the sample is in an imaging scope of an imaging element, from a position of a detection point in time in a direction corresponding to a position deviation at a pressing speed, and returns the stage up to a position of the detection point in time at a return speed slower than the pressing speed, when the position deviation of the support plate relative to the reference position is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Yu Hirono, Fumiyasu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20120002275Abstract: An optical element switching apparatus is provided that includes: a connecting portion connecting a transmitting portion with a traveling body portion via a predetermined elastic body and displacing the traveling body portion in each of first and second directions in a range of an elastic displacement width greater than a unit travel distance; a holding portion applying a force greater than an elastic force occurring in the connecting portion to the traveling body portion shifted to the travel limit position, in a direction opposite to the direction where the elastic force acts, so as to hold the traveling body portion at a travel limit position; and a control portion adapted to control a drive force generating portion to supply a drive force capable of shifting the traveling body portion farther than the travel limit position when the traveling body portion is to be shifted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Yu Hirono
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Publication number: 20120002032Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a connection connecting to a microscope including a stage having a disposition surface on which a target object can be placed, and an image picking-up section including an objective lens for picking up an image of the object, the microscope being movable in first and second axis directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the objective lens and orthogonal to each other and in a third axis direction along the optical axis; a calculator calculating, as an undulation-correcting value, a value for correcting a misalignment of a position in the third axis direction for each predetermined image-capturing range smaller than the disposition surface; a correcting-value storage storing the calculated value; and a corrector correcting a relative distance between the stage and the objective lens on the basis of the stored value for each image-capturing range.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryu Narusawa, Yu Hirono, Junichi Sakagami
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Publication number: 20120003065Abstract: A conveying device including: a storage unit storing two or more sheets of slide glasses to be subjected to a predetermined treatment; a stage holding only one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment; a supply arm by which one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment is picked up from the storage unit and supplied onto the stage; a discharge arm by which the slide glass mounted on the stage is picked up and discharged in the storage unit; a moving unit operable to move the supply arm and the discharge arm in an integral manner so as to bring the supply arm or the discharge arm into proximity to each of the storage unit and the stage; and a control unit operable to control the supply arm, the discharge arm and the moving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Hirono, Fumiyasu Suzuki, Yuichi Machida