Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090211649 | Fuel cutoff valve - The fuel cutoff valve includes a casing and a float mechanism. The float mechanism is composed of an outside float and an inside float. The outside float includes an outside float body of round tubular shape having a float chamber that connects with a valve chamber via a through-hole formed in its upper part; and an outside valve portion disposed on the upper part of the outside float body and adapted to open and close an outside connecting passage. The inside float has an inside float body accommodated and adapted to rise and fall within the float chamber, and an inside valve portion disposed on the upper part of the inside float body and adapted to open and close the inside connecting passage through the through-hole. | 08-27-2009 |
20090230133 | Fuel tank for motor vehicle - A fuel tank capable of attaching functional parts and tubes in an interior thereof. In a fuel tank for a motor vehicle, which is formed by blow molding for attachment of a built-in part in an interior thereof, and of which an outer wall composed of a synthetic resin has an opening, a functional part adapted to discharge fluid from the interior of the fuel tank or feed fluid therein is attached to the built-in part, a tube adapted to discharge fluid from the interior of the fuel tank or feed fluid therein is connected to the functional part, and a tube connector is attached to an end of the tube. A temporal holding connector is formed integrally with the built-in part, the tube connector is attached to the temporal holding connector, and after blow molding, the tube connector is detached from the temporal holding connector and is attached to a tank cap adapted to close the opening of the fuel tank. | 09-17-2009 |
20100051114 | Tank valve unit - The tank valve unit includes a support body, and a fuel cutoff valve installed on the support body. The support body includes a mounting plate having a support engaged portion. The fuel cutoff valve has a casing in which a valve chamber is defined by a tubular casing body and a bottom cover installed in the bottom part of the casing body; and a float mechanism housed inside the valve chamber. The bottom cover has a first engaging portion adapted to attach to the casing body by engaging the casing body, and a second engaging portion adapted to secure to the mounting plate by engaging the support engaged portion. | 03-04-2010 |
20100071785 | Fuel cutoff valve - The fuel cutoff valve has a casing that defines a casing body having a valve chamber and a communicating chamber that connects the valve chamber to the outside; and a float mechanism that is housed within the valve chamber and adapted to open and close a connecting passage through rise and fall in accordance with the fuel level inside the fuel tank. The casing has projecting out respectively from its side part a first pipe that connects to the communicating chamber as well as connecting to the outside via a tube, and a second pipe that connects the communicating chamber to another valve via a tube. The first pipe and the second pipe are situated in a mutually parallel arrangement in the vertical direction. | 03-25-2010 |
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20100063392 | ULTRASOUND-GUIDED ABLATION METHOD AND ULTRASOUND-GUIDED ABLATION SYSTEM - An ultrasound-guided ablation method captures an objective area to be ablated in an ultrasound scan area of an ultrasound transducer and delineates the objective area on an ultrasound image; specifies an ablation target area to display the ablation target area with a margin necessary for ablating the objective area on the ultrasound image processed by an ultrasound observation device and displayed on a display device; ablates, by an ablation device, the ablation target area displayed on the ultrasound image; and checks, on the ultrasound image, that an ablated area ablated by the ablation device has reached the ablation target area displayed on the ultrasound image. | 03-11-2010 |
20120078094 | Ultrasound-Guided Ablation Method and Ultrasound-Guided Ablation System - An ultrasound-guided ablation method captures an objective area to be ablated in an ultrasound scan area of an ultrasound transducer and delineates the objective area on an ultrasound image; specifies an ablation target area to display the ablation target area with a margin necessary for ablating the objective area on the ultrasound image processed by an ultrasound observation device and displayed on a display device; ablates, by an ablation device, the ablation target area displayed on the ultrasound image; and checks, on the ultrasound image, that an ablated area ablated by the ablation device has reached the ablation target area displayed on the ultrasound image. | 03-29-2012 |
20120116222 | ULTRASOUND TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACTUATING THE ULTRASOUND TREATMENT SYSTEM - An ultrasound treatment system applies an ultrasound driving signal generated by an ultrasound driving signal generating section on an ultrasound treatment section, treats a treatment target living tissue with ultrasound vibration under observation by an observing section, and acquires, with an image acquiring section, an observed image of the living tissue being treated. A control section controls, for example, output of the ultrasound driving signal on the basis of a comparison result of the observed image and a reference image of the living tissue in a state in which mist does not occur. | 05-10-2012 |
20120136279 | ULTRASOUND SURGICAL APPARATUS - An ultrasound surgical apparatus includes: an ultrasound transducer that generates ultrasound vibrations; a driving portion that supplies a driving signal to the ultrasound transducer; a distal end portion that is mechanically coupled with the ultrasound transducer and treats a living tissue through a liquid; a detecting portion that detects a cavitation level signal corresponding to a state of cavitation generated in the liquid by ultrasound vibrations of the distal end portion; and an information acquiring portion that acquires information of the living tissue on the basis of the cavitation level signal. | 05-31-2012 |
20120172766 | TREATMENT APPARATUS AND OPERATION SYSTEM - A treatment apparatus of the present invention includes a cavitation generation section that generates cavitations at a treatment target region of a treatment subject; a detection section that detects cavitations that are generated at the treatment target region; and a control section that controls a generation state of cavitations at the treatment target region by controlling a physico-chemical parameter of the treatment target region based on a detection result at the detection section. | 07-05-2012 |
20120221030 | ULTRASONIC OPERATING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic treatment instrument includes a piezoelectric element assembly, a probe, a backing plate, an electrode assembly, a cylinder and a cylindrical inner cover. The piezoelectric element assembly includes piezoelectric elements and generates ultrasonic vibration. The probe is connected to the piezoelectric element assembly and transmits the ultrasonic vibration. The backing plate is connected to the piezoelectric element assembly. The electrode assembly includes electrodes respectively clamped between the piezoelectric elements, electrifies the piezoelectric elements and generates the ultrasonic vibration. The cylinder is connected to the probe and locates the piezoelectric element assembly, the backing plate and the electrode assembly therein. The cylindrical inner cover includes an inner diameter larger than the backing plate and an outer diameter smaller than the cylinder. The inner cover is disposed between the backing plate and the electrode assembly, and the electrode assembly is disposed between the cylinder and the inner cover. | 08-30-2012 |
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20090192388 | ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION MEMBER - An ultrasonic transmission member including one end part and the other end part and transmitting an ultrasonic wave input into the one end part to the other end part is formed by preparing a main mold having a casting cavity corresponding to a whole outer shape of the ultrasonic transmission member, melting an alloy which is a material of a metallic glass, and pouring the melted alloy into the casting cavity of the main mold to solidify the melted alloy in a liquid phase state thereof. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193898 | ULTRASONIC WAVE VIBRATING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic wave vibrating apparatus includes a passive element converting electric energy to ultrasonic vibration, electrodes, a horn body arranged in a forward side of the element and amplifying the vibration, a backing arranged in the base side of the element and backing the element, and a horn connecting portion having one end connected to the body and the other end connected to the backing to connect the body and the backing to each other with the element sandwiched between the body and the backing. At least one of the body, the connecting portion and the backing is formed of metallic glass. The body and the connecting portion can be formed of the metallic glass integrally with each other. A cover covering the element may be included, and the cover, the body and the connecting portion can be formed of the metallic glass integrally with each other. | 08-06-2009 |
20090216157 | ULTRASONIC OPERATING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic treatment instrument is provided with an ultrasonic transducer, a probe portion to which ultrasonic wave outputted from the ultrasonic transducer is transmitted, a sheath portion into which the probe portion is inserted detachably, the sheath portion including at a distal end portion thereof, a grasping member rotatably supported so as to face the probe portion, and a handle portion coupled to a proximal end portion of the sheath portion detachably and operating the grasping member such that the grasping member is opened and closed to the probe portion, where the distal end portion of the probe portion includes a cavitation production portion where the distal end portion of the probe portion has, on a face thereof facing the grasping member, a flat face extending so as to intersect a vibration direction of the ultrasonic vibration, and cavitation is produced by the flat face in a state that a body tissue has been grasped between the grasping member and the distal end portion of the probe portion. | 08-27-2009 |
20100057117 | ULTRASONIC OPERATING APPARATUS - In an ultrasonic operating apparatus which is provided with an insertion portion including a sheath having a distal end and a proximal end and formed of a cylindrical body having at least partially flexibility and a procedure portion disposed at the distal end of the sheath and performing a procedure for resection of a body tissue, and an operation portion disposed at the proximal end of the sheath and operating the procedure portion, the procedure portion is provided with an ultrasonic transducer unit including an ultrasonic transducer generating ultrasonic vibration, a probe portion integrally coupled with the ultrasonic transducer and transmitted with ultrasonic waves output from the ultrasonic transducer, and a casing accommodating the ultrasonic transducer, a jaw caused to face the probe portion which configures a distal end of the ultrasonic transducer and including a supporting point held in a state that the supporting point is not moved to the probe portion axially relative to the probe portion and an operating point movable axially relative to the probe portion, the jaw being driven to be opened and closed to the probe portion, a cover member coupled to the distal end of the sheath and rotatably supporting the operating point of the jaw, and a supporting portion disposed at a distal end of the casing and supporting the supporting point of the jaw, the operation portion is provided with a movable handle moving the operating point of the jaw axially relative to the probe member via the sheath and the cover member and rotating the jaw about the supporting point to drive the jaw to be opened and closed to the probe portion, and the jaw is set in a state that the operating point and the supporting point are positioned on a line orthogonal to a center line of the probe portion in a state that the jaw has been closed to the probe portion. | 03-04-2010 |
20120330195 | PROBE ADAPTED TO TREAT LIVING TISSUE AND ACTUATION METHOD OF DEVICE - A probe which is configured for a treatment device which is configured to treat a body tissue using ultrasonic vibration, includes a base member which includes a base surface defined by a longitudinal direction and a width direction shorter than the longitudinal direction and which is a vibration-retardation member configured to hardly transmit the ultrasonic vibration, a waveguide main body which has a width smaller than a width of the base surface in a width direction, protrudes with respect to the base surface, and is extended along the longitudinal direction of the base surface, and an end effecter which is provided at a tip end portion of the waveguide main body and which is configured to treat the body tissue by the ultrasonic vibration transmitted through the waveguide main body. | 12-27-2012 |
20130060169 | MEDICAL APPARATUS - A treatment apparatus includes an ultrasonic vibration source, an ultrasonic treatment portion which is configured to treat living tissue by ultrasonic vibration transmitted from the ultrasonic vibration source, and a micrograin feeder which is configured to supply liquid containing micrograins to between the ultrasonic treatment portion and the living tissue. Whole micrograins within the micrograin-containing solution has a grain size equal to or smaller than an amplitude of the ultrasonic vibration. | 03-07-2013 |
20140350540 | HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROSURGICAL TREATMENT INSTRUMENT FOR OPERATIONS AND HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM FOR OPERATIONS - A high-frequency electrosurgical treatment instrument for operations, includes a pair of forceps pieces, an insulating member, a transmission member, a manipulation rod member, a distal end cover member, a shaft member and a manipulation portion. The instrument, includes a flow channel portion formed between the manipulation rod member and the shaft member, the flow channel portion being disposed along a longitudinal direction of the manipulation rod member to allow liquid to flow; a groove portion that communicates with the flow channel portion to allow the liquid to flow from the flow channel portion; and an opening portion that communicates with the groove portion to supply the liquid near the proximal end portions of the pair of forceps pieces. | 11-27-2014 |
20140378971 | TREATMENT DEVICE - A treatment device includes a first grip member having an elongated shape, and a second grip member which is displaced with respect to the first grip member to grip the biological tissue between the first grip member and the second grip member. The second grip member includes a grip section that comes into contact with a biological tissue as a gripping target. I/A | 12-25-2014 |