Nipro Corporation Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160022917 | SYRINGE AND SYRINGE GASKET - A gasket includes a flexible packing portion having a recess attached to a coupler of a plunger rod, and a core member harder than the packing portion. The recess has an internal circumferential surface with an internally threaded portion capable of being screwed on and thus engaging with an externally threaded portion provided on an external circumferential surface of the coupler. The core member has a helical shape defining the internal circumferential surface of the recess and the internally threaded portion provided on the internal circumferential surface. The packing portion defines a sliding surface brought into contact with an inner circumferential surface of a barrel, and the packing portion also covers an outer circumferential surface of the core member. | 01-28-2016 |
20150320921 | METHOD FOR STERILIZING BLOOD PURIFIER AND BLOOD PURIFIER PACKAGE - The invention provides a method for sterilizing a blood purifier, as well as a blood purifier package. The method is effective to decrease the amounts of extracts from the blood purifier attributed to the deterioration of the selectively permeable separation membranes with time during and after exposure to a radioactive ray or an electron ray, and is highly reliable in safety when employed for hemocatharsis therapy. The method for sterilizing a blood purifier which comprises substantially dried selectively permeable separation membranes as a main component, by way of the exposure of the same blood purifier to a radioactive ray and/or an electron ray, is characterized in that the blood purifier is sealed in a packaging bag, together with an oxygen scavenger and a humectant or together with an oxygen scavenger capable of releasing a moisture, and is then sterilized in such a sealed state by the above exposure. | 11-12-2015 |
20150313797 | CONNECTION DEVICE - In a connection device, when a cannula holding member is in a use state, a position of an end portion of an outer cylindrical portion on a retracted position side does not protrude to the retracted position side, with respect to a position of an end portion of an inner cylindrical portion on the retracted position side. Thereby, a connection device including a structure capable of holding a vial by holding means irrespective of the size of the vial can be provided. | 11-05-2015 |
20150306260 | METHOD FOR STERILIZING MEDICAL DEVICE MADE OF ESTER RESIN - A medical device made of an ester resin, such as a hollow-fiber-type blood treatment device, is put into a packaging material made of a gas-impermeable material, and, with at least a reducing gas, such as hydrogen gas, being further enclosed therein, the packaging material is hermetically sealed to provide a medical device package. The medical device package is exposed to radiation to sterilize the inside thereof. In the medical device package, an oxygen scavenger may be further enclosed. The reducing gas may be mixed with an inert gas and enclosed as a mixed gas. As a result, it becomes possible to effectively suppress the generation of by-products, such as acetic acid, from the ester resin. | 10-29-2015 |
20150258265 | BLOOD PURIFIER PACKAGE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Objects of the invention are to provide a blood purifier package which shows a less increase in the amounts of extracts from the materials of its blood purifier, particularly of its selective permeable separation membranes, attributed to the deterioration of the same materials with time after exposure to a radioactive ray or an electron ray, and which is therefore highly reliable in safety in use for hemocatharsis, and to provide a process for manufacturing the same. The present invention relates to a blood purifier package obtained by packing a blood purifier which comprises selectively permeable separation membranes as a main component, and this blood purifier package is characterized in that the blood purifier is packed and sealed together with an oxygen scavenger in a packaging material capable of shutting out an external air and a water vapor, under a condition of a relative humidity of above 40% RH at 25° C. | 09-17-2015 |
20150258264 | BLOOD PURIFIER AND BLOOD PURIFIER PACKAGE - The invention provides a blood purifier which shows a decreased amount of hydrogen peroxide extracted from its selectively permeable separation membranes, and thus is highly reliable in its safety in use for hemecatharysis. The blood purifier comprises selectively permeable separation membranes as a main component and is characterized in that the amount of hydrogen peroxide which is extracted from the selectively permeable separation membrane removed from the blood purifier after 3 months or longer has passed since the sterilization of the blood purifier by exposure to a radioactive ray and/or an electron ray is not larger than 10 ppm. | 09-17-2015 |
20150234047 | FOREIGN-MATTER DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FOREIGN-MATTER IN POWDER USING TERAHERTZ PULSE WAVE - A foreign matter detecting apparatus includes an oscillating unit, an optical system, a receiving unit, a scanning mechanism, and an operator. The oscillating unit generates a terahertz pulse wave and emits the terahertz pulse wave as irradiation light. The optical system guides the irradiation light to the first part of the container and condenses reflected light from the container. The receiving unit outputs a signal corresponding to the condensed reflected light and also measures an echo. The scanning mechanism scans a position of the irradiation light guided on the first part in a two-dimensional manner. The operator detects foreign matter in powder in a container based on at least one of a time waveform signal, a reflection image, a power spectrum, a tomographic image, and a frequency image. The time waveform signal is output from the receiving unit in chronological order. | 08-20-2015 |
20150112176 | ELECTRODE PAD FOR USE ON LIVING ORGANISM - An electrode pad for use on a living organism can measure an electrocardiographic signal without being hindered by body-motion noise. The electrode pad is attached to the skin of the living organism, detects an electrical signal, and supplies the electrical signal to an electrocardiograph. The electrode pad for use on a living organism is characterized by the provision of a mesh-like electrode that extends along the skin, a conductive gel sheet that is layered on top of the electrode and extends along the surface of the skin, and a soft protective sheet that covers the layered electrode and conductive gel sheet. | 04-23-2015 |
20140358218 | STENT - Provided is a stent of a novel structure with which deflection of a line-shaped body during expansion is prevented and a substantially uniform expansion is achieved over an entire length thereof, and with which, after implantation, stent fracture and damage of body tissue can be prevented by the stent exhibiting a superior pliability and conformability to a shape of a somatic lumen. A stent having a cylindrical peripheral wall formed with a line-shaped body that extends in a helical form in a circumferential direction while reciprocating in an axial direction at a given amplitude. In the stent, connecting parts are formed to link portions of the line-shaped body that are adjacent in the axial direction, and a friable part is provided to rupture itself by being implanted in the somatic lumen and release a link made by the connecting parts. | 12-04-2014 |
20140316350 | NEEDLELESS CONNECTOR - A bottomed, tubular hollow elastic body that opens toward an outlet side of a drug solution flow path is accommodated and arranged in an accommodation part formed in a housing, and a middle protrusion is provided protruding toward an inlet side of the drug solution flow path from a center part of a bottom wall of the hollow elastic body. Insertion of a male luer causes the bottom wall of the hollow elastic body to be elastically deformed so as to enter inside a peripheral wall, increasing the volume of the drug solution flow path, which is formed between an outer surface of the hollow elastic body and an inner surface of the accommodation part. Removing the male luer and canceling the elastic deformation of the hollow elastic body causes the volume of the drug solution flow path to be reduced. | 10-23-2014 |
20140303565 | NASAL CAVITY ADMINISTRATION CONTAINER - A nasal cavity administration container includes a body section including a medical fluid storage section having an opening and a plunger having a pressing part, and a plunger moving amount regulation member having a stopper and being engaged with the body section, an engagement with the body section being relieved only in a state where the pressing part abuts on the stopper. When the plunger is pushed into the medical fluid storage section, the plunger moves forward until the pressing part abuts on the stopper. The plunger is further pushed into the medical fluid storage section with the plunger moving amount regulation member detached from the body section. The nasal cavity administration container can administer a medical fluid easily and appropriately. | 10-09-2014 |
20140288407 | ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH AND BIOELECTRODE PAD - An electrocardiograph measures an electrocardiac signal by processing electric signals detected by bioelectrode pads. The bioelectrode pads each includes a plurality of sheets of electrodes disposed by being stacked on each other; conductive gel sheets disposed alternately with the sheets of electrodes and interposed between the electrodes; and a dynamic pressure stabilizing plate. The electrocardiograph includes a first differential circuit for obtaining an electrocardiac source signal by taking the difference between signals each obtained from any one of the electrodes of each of two bioelectrode pads; a second differential circuit for obtaining a body motion noise signal by taking the difference between signals obtained from any two of the electrodes of each of said two bioelectrode pads; and a body motion noise removing circuit for removing the low frequency components of the body motion noise signal of each of said two bioelectrode pads from the electrocardiac source signal. | 09-25-2014 |
20140187744 | Bilirubin Excretion Enhancer - The purpose of the present invention is to establish a novel therapy method for hyperbilirubinemia and therefore, to provide a bilirubin excretion enhancer. The present invention provides a bilirubin excretion enhancer comprising, as an active ingredient, a serum albumin domain II-like protein comprising a serum albumin subdomain IIA. In one embodiment, the serum albumin subdomain IIA has an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. In one embodiment, the serum albumin domain II-like protein is a serum albumin domain II. In one embodiment, the serum albumin domain II comprises the amino add sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4. | 07-03-2014 |
20140155837 | MEDICAL CONNECTOR - A medical connector having a substantially cylindrical shape, a first upper end for receiving a male luer, and a second lower end, and including:
| 06-05-2014 |
20140093567 | Method for Producing Orodispersible Tablets - A method for easily producing orodispersible tablets that secure an eluting behavior of a principal agent in the digestive tract and mask unpleasant taste in the oral cavity is provided. Provided is a method for producing orodispersible tablets which includes mixing an additive to a principal agent to form principal agent particles as a granulation process, coating the principal agent particles with a coating agent to form coated particles as a coating process, and tableting the coated particles to form tablets as a tableting process, wherein the additive used in the granulation process contains a pH regulator, and the coating agent used in the coating process contains a pH-dependent polymer dissolving at pH 5 or more. | 04-03-2014 |
20140087465 | CELL CULTURE METHOD AND CELL CULTURE KIT - Provided is a means suitable for mass culture of adherent cells and which allows easy and safe collection of the cultured adherent cells. A cell culture kit has a culture bag having flexibility, such a level of hydrophilicity that the culture of adherent cells can be achieved, and permeability into a bag shape and which is filled with a culture medium; a dissociation solution bag filled with a dissociation solution containing a metal chelating agent or ornithine or a derivative thereof, and a solution sending circuit or a derivative thereof, and a solution sending circuit which connects the culture bag and the dissociation solution bag to each other and can send the dissociation solution from the dissociation solution bag to the culture bag. | 03-27-2014 |
20140034081 | WIPE SET AND WIPING METHOD USING THE SAME - A novel wipe set and a novel wiping method in which the wipe set is used are provided. With the wipe set comprising a first wipe impregnated with 50 to 200 mg of a sodium hypochlorite aqueous solution per gram of the wipe, a second wipe impregnated with 30 to 110 mg of a sodium thiosulfate aqueous solution per gram of the wipe, and a third wipe impregnated with 4 to 110 mg of a sodium hydroxide aqueous solution per gram of the wipe as well as by the wiping method in which the wipe set of the present invention is used, an anticancer agent spilled on a working table, for example, can be removed effectively. | 02-06-2014 |
20130334079 | DOUBLE-CHAMBER CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - There is provided a method for manufacturing a double-chamber container including an agent storage chamber and a solution storage chamber separated from each other by a weak seal portion, the method including the steps of: preparing a first sheet-like member including a first agent storage chamber forming portion and a first solution storage chamber forming portion whose one sides are joined to each other, as well as a second sheet-like member including a second agent storage chamber forming portion and a second solution storage chamber forming portion whose one sides are joined to each other; and forming the agent storage chamber and the solution storage chamber by joining the first and the second sheet-like members. The weak seal portion is formed by joining the one side of the first medical solution storage chamber forming portion and the one side of the second medical solution storage chamber forming portion. | 12-19-2013 |
20130310768 | MEDICAL TUBE CLAMP - A medical tube clamp wherein first and second plate parts including, on opposing surfaces, compressive protrusions for closing a medical tube are provided with a pair of side walls on both sides projecting from one toward an other of the plate parts, and are also provided with a central guide protrusion projecting from the other toward the one of the plate parts. Both sides of a tip portion of the central guide protrusion make sloping guide surfaces projecting toward a center. When the plate parts are displaced relative to each other so as to become closer, lateral displacement of them is corrected by a slide of the pair of side walls and the sloping guide surfaces, and the central guide protrusion is inserted between the pair of side walls. | 11-21-2013 |
20130283860 | VIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing a vial with low alkali elution by removing a deteriorated region caused by processing on an internal surface of a vial is disclosed. The method is for forming vials from borosilicate glass tubes with a bottom wherein an internal surface of the tube is fire-blasted with a flame. | 10-31-2013 |
20130270271 | VIAL RUBBER STOPPER - Provided is a vial rubber stopper using multiple types of rubber to prevent the vial rubber stopper from being scraped and from sticking to a presser plate. The vial rubber stopper includes: a cap portion having a flange; a piercing area formed to have a recess at a top surface of the cap portion and configured to traverse longitudinally the cap portion in an axial direction from the recess to a bottom surface of the cap portion; and a leg portion formed on the bottom surface of said cap portion in a way of extending downward and located outside the piercing area with respect to an axial center of said cap portion. The piercing area is formed of rubber having rubber hardness from 20 to 35, and the top surface other than the recess of the cap portion is formed of rubber having rubber hardness from 58 to 90. | 10-17-2013 |
20130267985 | BALLOON CATHETER - A balloon catheter of novel configuration, which is capable of both efficiently heating a heating element by using a laser light and of ensuring durability by avoiding the laser light directly heating members other than the heating element. Provided is a balloon catheter with a balloon disposed in a distal end section of a shaft and wherein: a tightly wound coil shaped heating element is housed and arranged in the balloon; an optical fiber that irradiates a laser light inside the heating element is disposed; and a supply path that supplies a fluid to inside the balloon through an inside of the heating element and a discharge path that discharges the fluid from inside the balloon through a discharge port positioned on an outside of the heating element are disposed. | 10-10-2013 |
20130238007 | DISPOSABLE LANCING DEVICE - A disposable lancing device including: a lancet housed in a housing and urged by a spring member such that a puncture member provided at a distal end of the lancet is adapted to extend out from the housing so as to carry out a puncturing operation; a locking ring disposed within the housing such that the lancet is allowed to displace in an extension direction through the locking ring; a locking protrusion provided to the lancet and adapted to be engaged by the locking ring so as to hold the lancet in a puncture-ready position located deep in the housing with the spring member being compressed; and an operating member adapted to carry out the puncturing operation by rotating the locking ring so as to disengage the locking protrusion from the locking ring and displace the lancet in the extension direction by means of the spring member. | 09-12-2013 |
20130233022 | VIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing a vial with low alkali elution by removing a deteriorated region caused by processing on an internal surface of a vial is disclosed. The method is for forming vials from borosilicate glass tubes, which includes a first step of forming a mouth of the vial; a second step of forming the borosilicate glass tube into a cup-shaped body to form a bottom of a vial; and a third step of fire-blasting an internal surface of the cup-shaped body with a flame. | 09-12-2013 |
20130233021 | VIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing a vial with low alkali elution by removing a deteriorated region caused by processing on an internal surface of a vial is disclosed. The method involves forming vials from borosilicate glass tubes including a first step of forming a borosilicate glass tube into a cup-shaped body by formation of a bottom of a vial, and a second step of forming the cup-shaped body into the vial by formation of a mouth of the cup-shaped body. | 09-12-2013 |
20130218102 | MEDICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A medical hollow needle structured in accordance with the present invention, wherein the puncture resistance of a blade surface over the entire length in the puncture direction can be made substantially equal, and the patient's pain during needle puncture can be relieved due to a reduction in the peak level of puncture pain with the duration of sensory awareness of the puncture pain shortened by the use of the blade surface in a novel shape employing, in combination with each other, first to fourth inclined surfaces having specific inclination directions. Accordingly, the present invention provides a medical hollow needle with a blade surface in a novel shape whereby the puncture pain can be further reduced compared to needles with a conventional structure, and to provide a preferred method of producing such a medical hollow needle. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218072 | POWDER SPRAYING DEVICE - The invention is configured so that pressurized gas from a pressurized gas supply source passes through a pressurized gas channel provided in a main body of a powder spraying device and is sprayed out. A powder container containing powder such as medical agents is provided on the main body. The powder within the powder container is supplied to the pressurized gas channel and is sprayed together with the pressurized gas. An eccentric rotor with a center of gravity deviated from a center of rotation is provided in the main body. When spraying the powder together with the pressurized gas, vibrations are applied to the main body and the powder container by a rotation of the eccentric rotor. The powder can be thereby mixed more evenly with the pressurized gas. | 08-22-2013 |
20130096493 | SPRAYING DEVICE - An administration device can discharge a prescribed, equal amount of medicine a number of times by spraying. A spraying device includes a barrel; a gasket provided slidably movable in liquid-tight manner in the barrel; a rod coupled to a base end of the gasket; and a regulating member provided on the barrel, having a projection that can slidably fit with the guide groove. The guide groove includes at least first and second continuous administering grooves. The second administering groove is configured to include a transitional portion extending in the circumferential direction with a groove wall on the base end side aligned with the base end of the first administering portion, and a second administering portion extending from the transitional portion to a base end along the longitudinal direction. An energizing protrusion engageable with the projection is provided at a boundary between the transitional portion and the second administering portion. | 04-18-2013 |
20130090596 | PRE-FILLED SYRINGE - In a pre-filled syringe having an intermediate gasket, a liquid drug is enclosed in the second chamber located on the base end side with respect to the intermediate gasket while a powdered drug is enclosed in the first chamber located on the front end side with respect to the intermediate gasket. The intermediate gasket has at least two layers including a front end layer corresponding to a wall of the first chamber and a base end layer corresponding to a wall of the second chamber, and also has a low water-absorptive layer in the layer on the base end side with respect to the front end layer. The base end layer is formed of a material having low water-absorptivity and not lowering a pH of the liquid drug. | 04-11-2013 |
20120294947 | Oral Preparation Having Improved Quality - Provided is an oral preparation that contains a medicinal component having an unpleasant taste and that has better qualities, for example, generation of an analogue can be reduced, better than oral preparations that are produced by conventional techniques and that contain a medicinal component having an unpleasant taste. This objective is achieved by adding a coating agent on the medicinal component and a disintegrator that has a carboxymethyl group. | 11-22-2012 |
20120286762 | Cellular Potential Measurement Container and Production Method Therefor - A container for measuring cellular electric potential after being mounted on an electric potential measuring device is provided comprising a container and an electrode substrate, the electrode substrate being attached to a lower end of the container so as to form a plurality of wells, wherein the container comprises a plurality of cylindrical portions whose upper and lower ends are open, the electrode substrate comprises a substrate and a plurality of measurement electrodes and a plurality of reference electrodes disposed on one surface of the substrate, the measurement electrodes and the reference electrodes at least comprise metal-plated copper wiring, a pair of a measurement electrode and a reference electrode are disposed on a bottom of each well, and the measurement electrodes and the reference electrodes are formed by a pre-plating method. | 11-15-2012 |
20120191122 | DISPOSABLE BLOOD COLLECTING INSTRUMENT - Disclosed is a disposable blood collecting instrument that stably secures a sufficient volume of blood with a single puncture. A tip portion of a piercing body of a lancet contained within a housing projects by means of a biasing force of a spring assembly, and a surrounding area of an opening of the housing is made a transparent visible portion with a visible interior. Additionally, the disposable blood collecting instrument has been formed such that the spring assembly is contained within housing farther behind the piercing body than a position of the tip portion of the piercing body that has entered within the housing after piercing. | 07-26-2012 |
20120119762 | Container for Measuring Cell Potential and Method for Producing Same - A cellular electric potential measuring container includes a container body and an electrode substrate, the electrode substrate being attached to a lower end of the container body so as to form a plurality of wells, the cellular electric potential measuring container being for measuring cellular electric potential after being mounted on an electric potential measuring device, wherein the container body comprises: a plurality of tubular portions whose upper and lower ends are open. The electrode substrate includes a substrate body, with a plurality of measurement electrodes and a plurality of reference electrodes being disposed on one surface of the substrate body, and the container body is attached to the surface of the substrate body on which the measurement electrodes and the reference electrodes are disposed, and a method for producing a cellular electric potential measuring container. | 05-17-2012 |
20120119750 | Container for Measuring Cell Potential - A cellular electric potential measuring container includes a container body and an electrode substrate, the electrode substrate being attached to a lower end of the container body so as to form a plurality of wells. The container body is made from resin and comprises a plurality of tubular portions whose upper and lower ends are open, each of the tubular portions comprises in an inner cavity a measurement portion tapered toward the lower end and having a measurement hole at the lower end, and further on an inner wall at least two retaining means retaining the measurement portion. The electrode substrate comprises a substrate body, with a plurality of measurement electrodes and a plurality of reference electrodes being disposed on one surface of the substrate body. The container body is attached to the surface of the substrate body on which the measurement electrodes and the reference electrodes are disposed, such that the measurement electrodes are exposed through the measurement holes. | 05-17-2012 |
20120004321 | Orally Disintegrating Tablet - It is an object to provide an orally disintegrating tablet produced by dry granulation and compression, having a hardness of 40 N or more, a disintegration time of 30 seconds or shorter, a friability of 0.1% or less, and an excellent feeling upon ingestion, that is capable of disintegrating with a small amount of water, having a rapid disintegration time, and being maintained stably in a tablet form, which could not been achieved by conventional procedures. Disclosed is an orally disintegrating tablet produced by dry granulation which contains a medicinal ingredient with silica, and sugar alcohol or/and sugar. | 01-05-2012 |
20110313439 | DISPOSABLE LANCING DEVICE - A disposable lancing device including: a lancet housed in a housing and urged by a spring member such that a puncture member provided at a distal end of the lancet is adapted to extend out from the housing so as to carry out a puncturing operation; a locking ring disposed within the housing such that the lancet is allowed to displace in an extension direction through the locking ring; a locking protrusion provided to the lancet and adapted to be engaged by the locking ring so as to hold the lancet in a puncture-ready position located deep in the housing with the spring member being compressed; and an operating member adapted to carry out the puncturing operation by rotating the locking ring so as to disengage the locking protrusion from the locking ring and displace the lancet in the extension direction by means of the spring member. | 12-22-2011 |
20110252748 | PACKAGE OF FREEZE STORAGE CONTAINER AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A package for a cryopreservation container including at least an adhesive fluoropolymer film. The package for a cryopreservation container makes it possible to store blood, rare cells and vital tissues in a very low temperature environment without any damage to the container. Further, the sealing strength resulting from heat sealing after placing a cryopreservation container in the packages is very good. Therefore, liquid nitrogen can be inhibited from entering the inside and thus contamination with bacteria, viruses or the like contained in liquid nitrogen can be avoided and the package can be prevented from being broken by expansion of intruder liquid nitrogen on the occasion of thawing. Also disclosed is a method for packaging a cryopreservation container and a method of producing a package for a cryopreservation container. | 10-20-2011 |
20110247502 | BLOOD RESERVOIR - Provided is a blood storage tank equipped with a filter having a treatment capacity desired by a health worker. A health worker managing a blood storage tank can comprehend the amount of stored blood more accurately. Furthermore, bubbles are prevented from being mixed into blood after bubbles are removed therefrom. A filter member ( | 10-13-2011 |
20110233435 | MEDICAL CONNECTOR - A medical connector of improved configuration. Annular grooves are formed in both inner and outer surfaces of an outer peripheral portion of an elastic valve element to form an annular constricted section. An outer peripheral side from the constricted section is made to serve as an annular fixation section. A valve receiving seat is formed at an inner peripheral edge of an aperture portion in a housing, and an annular ring is fixed to the aperture portion to sandwich and support the annular fixation section between the valve receiving seat and the annular ring. Engaging projections formed on mutually facing surfaces of the valve receiving seat and the annular ring are engaged with the annular grooves, and either the engaging projection and/or the engaging projection is divided in a circumferential direction to have a plurality of projection-divisions. | 09-29-2011 |
20110213307 | NEEDLE TIP PROTECTOR AND INDWELLING NEEDLE ASSEMBLY - A needle tip protector is configured in such a manner that a flexible plate is provided to a protector main body over which an action ring is mounted and that the flexible plate undergoes flexural deformation when the action ring is moved to a predetermined position relative to the protector main body. When the flexible plate undergoes flexural deformation, a needle tip of an inner needle to which the protector main body is mounted is protected by a protection part placed at a distal end of the flexible plate. The needle tip protector is also provided with a slip-stop mechanism for preventing the action ring from slipping out of the protector main body in an axial direction of the needle. | 09-01-2011 |
20100286565 | Guidewires twist releasing device - To provide a means capable easily releasing twist of two or more guidewires passed through a guiding catheter without pulling out the guidewires. A twist releasing apparatus has a shaft, a first tube formed at the tip of the shaft and has a first lumen through which two or more guidewires can be passed, a second tube disposed through a gap at the tip side in the axis direction relative to the first tube and has a second lumen through the two or more guidewires can be passed, and a connection portion for connecting the first tube and the second tube so that the two or more guidewires can be passed through the first lumen and the second lumen. The second tube has a slit that is formed in an axis direction and can be elastically deformed. The connection portion can be elastically deformed into a curved shape in the axis direction. | 11-11-2010 |
20100249819 | Disposable lancing device - A disposable lancing device including: a housing; a spring member; a lancet having a skin puncture needle, the spring member and the lancet being housed within the housing such that a needle tip of the skin puncture needle is adapted to be projected out from the housing under urging of the lancet by the spring member to perform skin puncture procedure; and a protective cap having a needle passage hole and covering the needle tip of the skin puncture needle, the protective cap being adapted to separate from the skin puncture needle and rotate so that the needle passage hole of the protective cap is positioned on a path of projection of the skin puncture needle, and the skin puncture procedure is performed with the protective cap supported on the housing. | 09-30-2010 |
20100249718 | Self-administration device for liquid medicine - A liquid medicine self-administration device including a flexible reservoir, an operating member, a pushing member to move with respect to the operating member and to induce pressure deformation of the reservoir, and engaging means engages the operating member. With the operating member engaged by the engaging means, the pushing member is relatively moved to the operating member based on restoring force of a spring member to push the reservoir by the pushing member. By disengaging means moving in unison with the pushing member, the engaging means is released from an engaged state with respect to the operating member, when the pushing member has moved to a predetermined location while pushing the reservoir. | 09-30-2010 |
20100219094 | CONTAINER - A drug container with no need to peel a gas-barrier film or with no need to contain a desiccant, an oxygen absorbent or the like, in which the contents therein can be seen by the naked eyes. The container ( | 09-02-2010 |
20100206748 | Stress Measurement Kit and Stress Measurement Method - Provided is a stress measurement kit that is economical and that has good sensitivity. The stress measurement kit for measuring a stress level of a test subject includes: (A) a sensor chip including an electrically insulating substrate, and an electrode system that is placed on the electrically insulating substrate and that includes at least a working electrode and a counter electrode, wherein glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) and an electron mediator are immobilized on the working electrode; (B) a polysaccharide; and (C) a sensor body including an insertion hole into which the sensor chip is inserted, an electrical measurement means that is electrically connected to the electrode system of the sensor chip in a state where the sensor chip is inserted into the insertion hole, and a conversion means by which a current value or an electric quantity measured by the electrical measurement means is converted into an amylase activity value. | 08-19-2010 |
20100069789 | Metal Needle Usable in Echo Imaging - A metal needle is obtained by being dipped in a liquid selected from the group consisting of a strong acid solution of a metal, acetic acid, and butyl acetate, and then dried. Preferably, the strong acid solution of a metal to be used in the dipping treatment may be a nitric acid solution of a metal selected from the group consisting of a transition element, a lanthanoid, and an actinoid, for example, a nitric acid solution of a metal selected from the group consisting of palladium, gadolinium, germanium, beryllium, strontium, scandium, and samarium. The metal needle is a metal needle for insertion into the body that can be reliably imaged even when a general-purpose ultrasound imaging system is used, and thus is useful in confirming insertion of the needle into a blood vessel and arrival of the needle at an organ, and confirming the position of the needle when it is broken. | 03-18-2010 |
20100055773 | TISSUE PIECE PINCHING DEVICE AND CULTURE KIT - Under a state where the zipper | 03-04-2010 |
20100025342 | Platelet-rich plasma separator and platelet-rich plasma separation method - Provided is a platelet-rich plasma separator which can carry out the separation of a platelet-rich plasma with a small number of gamma radiation sterilized instruments and a platelet-rich plasma separation method. The platelet-rich plasma separator comprises a first syringe and a second syringe. The first syringe comprises a first syringe cylinder provided with a first port on which a blood collection needle can be mounted, a first cap detachable from the first port, a first gasket for sealing the first syringe cylinder fluid-tightly, which first gasket is reciprocated within the first syringe cylinder, and a first plunger provided detachably on the first gasket. The second syringe comprises a first hollow needle, which can be passed through the first gasket, a second syringe cylinder having a second port on which the first hollow needle can be mounted, a second cap detachable from the second port, a second gasket for sealing the second syringe cylinder liquid-tightly, which second gasket is reciprocated within the second syringe cylinder, and a second plunger provided detachable on the second gasket. | 02-04-2010 |
20100000341 | FECES COLLECTION CONTAINER - The inventors perfected the present invention upon finding that a conventional fecal sampling stick is given a hollow structure that has openings a certain distant apart, permitting in aspiration through the capillary tube phenomenon. That is, the present invention is a feces collection container for collecting faeces as an analyte, which comprises a fecal sampling stick which has a holding part ( | 01-07-2010 |
20090326506 | DRUG SOLUTION PREPARING KIT - To provide a drug solution preparing kit which can be handled with ease in a substantially aseptic manner, and has no risk that a leakage of a drug solution such as a splash and a dispersion of an aerosol to an ambient environment occurs upon preparation of the drug solution There is provided a drug solution preparing kit including a pre-filled syringe and a transfusing tool, wherein the pre-filled syringe includes a sealing member which seals the tip end and can not be removed from the tip end, and that the transfusing tool includes a one-way valve which can discharge only gas from the system in an irreversible manner, and a filter which is provided so as to adjoin to the second communication channel with respect to the one-way valve. | 12-31-2009 |
20090281504 | Prefilled Syringe - The prefilled syringe filled with a drug in advance, leaking of liquid from the cap is prevented, gas barrier properties are given to the whole of the barrel filled with the drug and the shoulder section so that degradation of the drug is prevented, permeation of microbial contaminants is prevented to a high extent, and efficiency of packing as a compact container can be increased. The prefilled syringe includes a guard-shaped extension projecting from the outer periphery of a shoulder section of the syringe barrel on the nozzle side, and a range from a part where a gasket of the plunger is positioned on the outer surface of the syringe barrel filled with the drug to the guard-shaped extension is covered with barrier packaging. | 11-12-2009 |
20090275814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING CONSTITUENT CONCENTRATION - A system and method for measuring concentration of a constituent of a specimen are provided. The system includes an oscillator for outputting, towards the specimen, electromagnetic waves having respective different frequencies between 5 GHz and 300 GHz; a detector for detecting the electromagnetic waves that are reflected from the specimen; and a processor measuring at least one of reflection coefficient and complex permittivity of the electromagnetic waves detected and calculating the concentration of the constituent of the specimen based upon at least one of the reflection coefficient measured and the complex permittivity measured. | 11-05-2009 |
20090241970 | Drape for Clean Operation - A drape for clean operation is a flexible bag-shaped structure for maintaining a substantially closed operating space around an operation site. The bag-shaped structure comprises a bottom wall | 10-01-2009 |
20090240213 | SHAFT FOR OPERATING A BLOOD THROMBUS CAPTURING MEMBER, AND BLOOD THROMBUS CAPTURING CATHETER - A shaft for operating a blood thrombus capturing member ( | 09-24-2009 |
20090192452 | BLOOD FLOW BLOCKING CATHETER - A blood flow blocking catheter, comprises: a puncture needle component having a puncture needle capable of puncturing a vein; and a sheath that covers said puncture needle component, and a balloon catheter that can be inserted into and removed from a lumen of the puncture needle component and has at its distal end a balloon that can block off blood flow. With the present invention, a balloon catheter can be easily inserted into a vein, and the balloon inflated, without making a large incision in the vein. Therefore, the temporary obstruction of blood flow with a balloon catheter can be carried out more easily, and this simplifies the surgery and makes it less invasive. Thus, it is possible to obtain a blood flow blocking catheter with which vascular anastomosis can be performed more safely and in less time. | 07-30-2009 |
20090105601 | HEART-RATE VARIABILITY ANALYSIS METHOD AND ANALYSIS DEVICE - The present invention provides a heart-rate variability analysis method and analysis device that have a 24 hour monitoring function, that have a function for the high-precision measuring of the R-R interval heart-rate, and that can exclude the effect of respiratory movement on heart-rate variability. The present invention also provides a heart-rate variability analysis device capable of performing a detailed analysis of the heart rate. | 04-23-2009 |
20090099337 | S-NITROSO GROUP-CONTAINING ALBUMIN, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION, AND ANTICANCER AGENT - The present invention provides an S-nitroso group-containing albumin, comprising an S-nitroso group introduced to at least one lysine in the amino acid sequence for albumin. The S-nitro group has been introduced into a lysine in the S-nitroso group-containing albumin of the invention to allow more S-nitroso groups to be included in the albumin, thus ensuring more potent inhibition of cancer cells in NO groups. | 04-16-2009 |
20090099071 | SUGAR CHAIN-CONTAINING ALBUMIN, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND USE THEREOF - Glycosylated albumin as a drug carrier for a DDS targeting the liver (particularly kupffer's cell) can be provided by mutating a DNA encoding albumin to encode a mutant albumin containing a partial amino acid sequence permitting glycosylation modification by eukaryotic cell, preferably a consensus sequence of N-linked sugar chain, introducing an expression vector containing the mutant DNA into a host eukaryotic cell, preferably a host cell permitting addition of a high-mannose type sugar chain, culturing the obtained transformant, and recovering a glycosylated albumin protein from the obtained culture. | 04-16-2009 |
20090098630 | FUSION PROTEIN, GENE RELATED TO FUSION PROTEIN, VECTOR, TRANSFORMANTS, AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY MEDICINAL COMPOSITION - Fusion protein comprises a thioredoxin and human serum albumin. The thioredoxin comprises a protein comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ. ID. No. 1, or the like, the human serum albumin comprises a protein comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ. ID. No. 2, or the like. The fusion protein of the invention allows the activity of thioredoxin to be maintained over a long period of time. It is thus possible to provide a protein preparation that is stable over long periods of time. | 04-16-2009 |
20090098607 | PRODUCTION OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN HEMOGLOBIN USING PICHIA YEAST - The present invention provides a production method of a functional recombinant human hemoglobin, which comprises transforming a yeast of the genus | 04-16-2009 |
20090018509 | Cartridge liquid injector - A cartridge liquid injector includes a drive motor rotatable in forward and reverse directions, for applying driving force, a reduction portion reducing a speed of rotational output of the drive motor, a linear motion portion converting rotational output of the reduction portion to linear motion, a plunger pushed forward or pulled back by the linear motion portion to move forward an injection plug of a cartridge, and a reduction ratio switching portion switching a reduction ratio of the reduction portion such that the reduction ratio in pulling back the plunger is lower than the reduction ratio in pushing forward the plunger. | 01-15-2009 |
20080311195 | BASIS PARTICLES, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ORALLY-DISINTEGRATING TABLET - A basis particle comprises a basic or acidic basis particle coated by a water-insoluble coating film, wherein the water-insoluble coating film contains a substance that is acidic with respect to the basic basis or basic with respect to the acidic basis. According to the basis particles (i.e., a main ingredient or an active drug)of the present invention, it is possible to temporarily adjust pH occurring in the immediate proximity of the basis particles by using a coating film, elution of the basis particles is suppressed and superior elution is exhibited without dependence on bodily pH. It is also possible to mask tastes such as the bitterness of the basis and it is possible to ingest drugs without sensing any bitterness. | 12-18-2008 |
20080254120 | ORALLY-DISINTEGRATING TABLET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An orally-disintegrating tablet comprises a principal agent, a sugar alcohol powder and a sugar alcohol granule, wherein the orally-disintegrating tablet has a hardness of 30 N or greater. According to the present invention, a smooth swallowing orally-disintegrating tablet, for which both the mechanical strength and the disintegration properties in the buccal cavity are favorable with using a normal tableting machine and without using special devices and the feeling on the tongue and taste are favorable, is provided. | 10-16-2008 |
20080241203 | Antiadhesive Kit, Process for Producing the Same and Method of Adhesion Prevention - An adhesion preventive kit and a method of preventing adhesion are provided which have a preventive effect on adhesion in a surrounding part of an edge of an injured or deficient tissue in guided regeneration therapy for an injured tissue. Specifically, the adhesion preventive kit includes: (A) a first membrane of at least two layers having a biodegradable base layer and an adhesion preventive layer provided respectively at outermost surfaces thereof and a second membrane of at least one layer having an adhesion preventive layer provided at an outermost surface thereof, or (B) an adhesion preventive membrane including a biodegradable base layer and an adhesion preventive layer, which membrane has an outermost surface constituted of the adhesion preventive layer and has a tissue sandwiching part. | 10-02-2008 |