Patents by Inventor Yukifumi OCHIAI

Yukifumi OCHIAI 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: 20220339331
    Abstract: A breast pump includes a body including a hood attachment portion, a bottle attachment portion, and an inner passage extending between the hood attachment portion and the bottle attachment portion; a diaphragm configured to generate negative pressure in the inner passage; a handle manually operated to move back and forth; and a link mechanism configured to support the handle in a manner movable back and forth relative to the body. The handle is configured to change pressure of the inner passage from a normal state to a negative state by displacing the diaphragm in a lifting direction. The link mechanism is configured to apply an operation force to the handle that becomes maximal during handle movement when the handle is moved in an operation direction that changes the pressure from the normal state to the negative state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yukifumi Ochiai, Yoshihiro Shimomura, Yuina Ando, Hyunjin Im, Hayato Ueno, Tsukasa Hattori
  • Publication number: 20220339330
    Abstract: A breast pump includes a main body and a handle. The main body includes an internal passage, a negative pressure generation mechanism configured to generate negative pressure in the internal passage for pumping milk, a hood attaching portion to which a hood fitted to a breast is attached, the hood attaching portion being disposed at a front part of the main body, and a bottle attaching portion to which a bottle for collecting milk is attached, the bottle attaching portion being disposed at a lower part of the main body. The handle is pivotal to the main body and includes a basal end, at a side located closer to a pivot point on the main body, connected to the negative pressure generation mechanism. The handle includes a finger rest at a distal side and extends forward from the pivot point beside the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yukifumi Ochiai, Yoshihiro Shimomura, Yuina Ando, Hyunjin Im, Hayato Ueno, Tsukasa Hattori
  • Publication number: 20220339332
    Abstract: A breast pump includes a main body, a diaphragm, a handle, a connecting portion, and a volume reduction portion. The main body includes a hood attaching portion attached to the hood, a bottle attaching portion attached to a bottle for collecting milk, and an internal passage extending between the hood attaching portion and the bottle attaching portion. The diaphragm is attached to the internal passage and is configured to generate negative pressure in the internal passage. The connecting portion connects the diaphragm and the handle and is configured to displace the diaphragm in a lifting direction in accordance with movement of the handle. The volume reduction portion is inserted into the internal passage and is configured to reduce a volume of the internal passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Yukifumi Ochiai
  • Patent number: 11168800
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a check-valve in which the occurrence of damage such as tearing, deformation, etc., can be suppressed. [Solution] A check-valve opens and closes an opening provided in a main body and prevents a backflow of a fluid passing through the opening; and the check-valve includes a base part 71 which is flexible, and a valve part 72 which opens and closes the opening, has a thickness thinner than a thickness of the base part 71, and is connected to the base part 71 in a state in which a periphery of the valve part 72 is surrounded with the base part 71. The valve part 72 seals the opening in a normal state of the valve part 72 being pre-urged toward the main body by an elasticity of the base part 71, and opens the opening when the fluid passes through the opening in one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: PIGEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukifumi Ochiai, Yuichiro Tanaka, Yoshihito Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11123462
    Abstract: A manual breast pump includes: a body having a communicating part that communicates with space surrounded by a hood placed on a breast; a diaphragm that deforms to generate a negative pressure in the communicating part; and a handle for operation that approaches and separates from the body, wherein a colliding part, against which at least the handle and the body collide before directly contacting each other, is provided in at least a region of any of the handle, the body, and the diaphragm, the colliding part is integrally made of a same material as a material of a region in which the colliding part is arranged, and has a damper structure that absorbs an impulsive force or reduces propagation of the impulsive force and/or a cover structure in which the colliding part is covered via a gap so as not to be exposed to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: PIGEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukifumi Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20210220535
    Abstract: Breast pump 2 includes breast pump main body 3 generating a negative pressure for pumping, hood 4 connected to the main body 3 and placed onto a breast, and buffer portion 7 mounted detachably to hood 4, and made of a material softer than a material of hood 4. Hood 4 includes flow path portion 41 connected to the main body 3 and through which breast milk extracted from the breast passes, and diameter expansion portion 42 having a diameter expanding from flow path portion 41 toward edge portion 43 on a side opposite to flow path portion 41. Buffer portion 7 includes bonding portion 71 fitted to edge portion 43, and sealing portion 72 provided on the side opposite to bonding portion 71 and comes into close contact with inner surface 421 of diameter expansion portion 42 between flow path portion 41 and edge portion 43.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Yukifumi OCHIAI, Sumiko KUROISHI
  • Publication number: 20210213184
    Abstract: To provide a manual breast pump capable of stabilizing movement of a handle while reducing burden on muscle resulting from a repetitive operation of the handle. A manual breast pump 2 has a main body 3 having a passage 312 through which extracted breast milk passes, a hood 4 connected to the main body 3 and placed onto a breast, a diaphragm 34 generating a negative pressure in the passage 312, a holding member 200 attached to the main body 3 and provided to be rotatable with respect to the main body 3, and a handle 5 for being operated thereby deforming the diaphragm 34, the handle being held by the holding member 200. When the holding member 200 rotates with respect to the main body 3, the handle 5 rotates with respect to the main body 3 together with the holding member 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Yukifumi OCHIAI, Katsutoshi TAKAHASHI, Tatsuyuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200171223
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a manual breast pump in which a muscle load due to a repeated operation of a handle can be reduced, and in which a section contacting breast milk can be cleaned easily. [Solution] A manual breast pump includes a main body casing 31, a hood 4, a base part 32 which is held by the main body casing 31 and has a communicating part S4 connected spatially to an inner space S3, a diaphragm generating a negative pressure in the communicating part S4, a holding member 33 which is provided at the base part 32 and includes a wall part sandwiched between the main body casing 31 and the base part 32, and a handle 5 which is provided to be rotatable with respect to the main body casing 31 with an axis 325 of the base part 32 as the center, and is for an operation of deforming the diaphragm 34.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Yukifumi OCHIAI, Sumiko KUROISHI, Katsutoshi TAKAHASHI, Yoshihito SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200139027
    Abstract: The present invention provides a negative pressure generator such as a suction cup and so on, with which the shape of the negative pressure transmitter remains constant when the negative pressure transmitter deforms so that no part thereof comes into contact with another member. The negative pressure transmitter 80 includes an opening 81, a closed bottom portion 83, and an intermediate portion 82 connecting the opening to the bottom portion, wherein the intermediate portion includes at least a plurality of rigid portions 84a that are formed at predetermined intervals so as to inhibit deformation, and flexible portions 86a that are formed between the plurality of rigid portions from a flexible material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Yukifumi OCHIAI
  • Publication number: 20200141504
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a check-valve in which the occurrence of damage such as tearing, deformation, etc., can be suppressed. [Solution] A check-valve opens and closes an opening provided in a main body and prevents a backflow of a fluid passing through the opening; and the check-valve includes a base part 71 which is flexible, and a valve part 72 which opens and closes the opening, has a thickness thinner than a thickness of the base part 71, and is connected to the base part 71 in a state in which a periphery of the valve part 72 is surrounded with the base part 71. The valve part 72 seals the opening in a normal state of the valve part 72 being pre-urged toward the main body by an elasticity of the base part 71, and opens the opening when the fluid passes through the opening in one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Yukifumi OCHIAI, Yuichiro TANAKA, Yoshihito SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190143014
    Abstract: A manual breast pump includes: a body having a communicating part that communicates with space surrounded by a hood placed on a breast; a diaphragm that deforms to generate a negative pressure in the communicating part; and a handle for operation that approaches and separates from the body, wherein a colliding part, against which at least the handle and the body collide before directly contacting each other, is provided in at least a region of any of the handle, the body, and the diaphragm, the colliding part is integrally made of a same material as a material of a region in which the colliding part is arranged, and has a damper structure that absorbs an impulsive force or reduces propagation of the impulsive force and/or a cover structure in which the colliding part is covered via a gap so as not to be exposed to an outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Yukifumi OCHIAI