Patents by Inventor Yuji Tanabe

Yuji Tanabe 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: 9630015
    Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
  • Patent number: 9610457
    Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
  • Publication number: 20170065828
    Abstract: A power transmitter is provided that can include a microwave cavity resonant at a desired operating frequency, a hexagonal mesh top to leak evanescent fields out of the cavity, and a plurality of orthogonal monopole feeds with 90 degrees phase differences creating circularly polarized waves. The power transmitter can be configured to transmit energy to a wireless device implanted in an animal passing through the evanescent fields. Implantable devices are also described which can receive wireless energy from the power transmitter and stimulate the animals (e.g., optogenetic or electrical stimulation).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan POON, John S. Y. HO, Yuji TANABE, Alexander J. YEH, Kate L. MONTGOMERY, Logan GROSENICK, Emily A. FERENCZI, Vivien TSAO, Shrivats Mohan IYER, Scott Lee DELP, Karl DEISSEROTH
  • Publication number: 20170016837
    Abstract: A defect of a film is accurately inspected. A film inspection device includes: a light-receiving device generating a signal by receiving light which returns via a film after having been applied to the film, the signal being for detecting a defect included in the film; and a reflecting roller carrying the film while supporting the film from a side opposite to the light-receiving device in a field of view of the light-receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Genjiro NISHIKATA, Yuji TANABE, Tatsuya KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20160339256
    Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
  • Publication number: 20160303385
    Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
  • Publication number: 20160303386
    Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Ads Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
  • Publication number: 20160220828
    Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
  • Publication number: 20150335285
    Abstract: An implantable device is provided that can include any number of features. In some embodiments, the device induces a coil antenna configured to receive wireless power from a power source external to the patient. The device can include at least one sensor configured to sense a bodily parameter of the patient. The device can also include electronics configured to communicate the sensed bodily parameter of to a device located external to the patient. Methods of use are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan POON, Bob S. HU, Jihoon JANG, Anatoly YAKOVLEV, Yuji TANABE, Alex YEH, Stephanie HSU, Andrew MA
  • Publication number: 20140312834
    Abstract: Described herein is a wearable device for impact measurement with wireless power and communication capability. The wearable device includes a base member configured for placement on a human body, an electronic board affixed to the base member, and a rechargeable battery affixed to the base member. The device also includes a dual-band antenna printed on the electronic board for wireless power and data communication. Also provided are methods for charging the wearable device with different power sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Yuji Tanabe, Ada Poon, David B. Camarillo, Lyndia Chun Wu, Alex Yeh
  • Publication number: 20110071537
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intra-medullary rod, including: a cylindrical body made of an X-ray transmitting material; a plurality of wires, which are made of a material that does not transmit X-ray and are deposited at regular intervals along a surface of the cylindrical body in the circumferential direction, being extended in an axial direction in a spiral shape, wherein each of the wires is made in a way that a starting end and a terminating end of the cylindrical body are connected by the shortest distance along the outer surface thereof. In a fluoroscopic image of the cylindrical body, a distance from a reference position to an intersection location of a pair of the wires corresponds to an amount of rotational angle of the intra-medullary rod. By digitizing the intersection location, the rotational angle of the intra-medullary rod is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshio Koga, Makoto Sakamoto, Toshikazu Matsumoto, Yuji Tanabe
  • Patent number: D323966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Takagi Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Tanabe