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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182481 | PFO closing device A PFO closing device includes a suction and hold portion at a distal portion of a catheter for sucking and holding biological tissue of a foramen ovale valve and an atrial septum secundum from one side, an electrode portion on the side contacting the biological tiss... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182468 | Connector and infusion tube set A connector includes a male connector section having a male-side cavity, a female connector section having a female-side cavity to which another male connector section the same as the male connector section can be connected, a seal member formed from an elastic mate... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8172839 | PFO closing device A PFO closing device for bringing the septum primum and the septum secundum into contact with each other and joining them together includes a clamping mechanism and energy supplying device. The clamping mechanism includes a needle part for puncturing the septum prim... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172774 | Guide wire A guide wire includes a wire body having a plate-shaped reshapeable section at a distal part thereof, wherein the reshapeable section is provided along the longitudinal direction thereof with a plurality of bent parts bent in opposite directions. At least one of the... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8162904 | Needle protector A protector is attached for use to a needle body having a main needle body and an enlarged-diameter section having an outer diameter greater than that of the main needle body. The protector includes a platelike protector body made of a metal material. The protector ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162883 | Puncture needle assembly and medicinal liquid injector A puncture needle assembly has a needle tube, a protector capable of moving between a first position at which the protector covers the tip of the needle tube and a second position at which the tip is exposed, a body for movably supporting the protector and having an... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157790 | Position confirming catheter A catheter includes an inner layer, an outer layer, a reinforcement layer located between the inner layer and the outer layer, and a marker composed of a contrast material for confirming the position of the distal end portion of the catheter from outside the living ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157749 | Blood component measurement device and tip for blood measurement A blood component measurement device (10) has a puncturing unit (18) provided inside a housing (12) and having a puncture needle (16); a button unit (20) for advancing and retreating the puncture needle (16); a contact mecha... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157741 | Rotational imaging probe safety mechanism for conditional rotational speed reduction An image diagnostic system controls a probe to perform rotational and axially-moving scanning within a body cavity and to acquire reflected signals through the probe. Based on the acquired reflected signals, the system forms and outputs tomographic image of the body... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157721 | Artificial heart pump system and its control apparatus An artificial heart pump system is provided independently with a controlling processor for controlling an operation status of a blood pump so as to perform in a preset condition and with an observing processor for controlling a display unit displaying an operation s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147418 | Blood pressure measuring cuffs and a blood pressure measuring device The present invention enables making uniform contact with the tragus using inner and outer cuffs, each of said inner and outer cuffs being comprised of a cuff member 40 connected to a duct 4 and a cuff bladder 22 having a body 27 which is... | 04/03/2012 |
| RE43283 | Blood collecting apparatus and blood collecting method using blood collecting apparatus A blood collecting apparatus comprises a blood collecting needle 152; the blood collecting bag, a first tube whose one end communicates with the blood collecting bag and other end communicates with the blood collecting needle, the branch portion provided on a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8133238 | Tissue closing device A tissue closing device includes an elongate arrangement device of which a distal end portion can penetrate an opening on a wall of living body cavity and which has a hand-operated portion on the proximal side, and a closure detachably retained at the distal end por... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8128580 | Guide wire A guide wire includes a wire body having an elongate reshapeable section at its distal part. The guide wire may include a surface of the reshapeable section being provided with a plurality of grooves extending in a direction different from the longitudinal direction... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126672 | Ear-type thermometer and a control method thereof An ear-type thermometer which measures body temperature using a temperature detection element 21 that detects ambient temperature and an infrared detection element 22 that detects infrared radiation from a measurement site within the aural cavity, the ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124905 | Guide wire A method of making a guide wire involves butting a connection end face at a proximal end of a first wire against a connection end face at a distal end of a second wire while applying voltage and a pressing force to weld together the first and second wires at a welde... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118804 | Catheter assembly A catheter assembly comprises an outer catheter including an outer catheter body and an outer catheter hub at a proximal portion of the outer catheter body; and an inner catheter including an inner catheter body insertable in the outer catheter body, a tip at the di... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109909 | Medical instrument An indwelling needle assembly has a hollow outer needle fixed to an outer needle hub, an inner needle in the outer needle and fixed to an inner needle hub, and a protector. A step section of the outer needle hub serves as a speed reducer that reduces the speed, in t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109887 | Guide wire A method of making a guide wire involves butting a connection end face at a proximal end of a first wire against a connection end face at a distal end of a second wire while applying voltage and a pressing force to weld together the first and second wires at a welde... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108032 | Optical coherent tomography diagnostic apparatus An optical coherent tomography diagnostic apparatus including: a light source; a splitter for splitting the light outputted from the light source into a measuring light and a reference light; a measuring light path; a reference light path; a probe inserted into a bo... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101374 | Oxidative chromogenic compound or salt thereof and production method thereof, and reagent composition and test instrument using the same It is an object of the present invention to provide a means for measuring a concentration of various components rapidly with high accuracy and high sensitivity. The present invention is to provide an oxidative chromogenic compound or salt thereof represented by the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100833 | Diagnostic imaging system and processing method for producing reduced frame rate images from data collected at a higher frame rates An image diagnostic system controls a probe to perform radial scanning within a body cavity and to acquire reflected signals through the probe. The system produces data based on the signals, constructs and outputs tomographic images of the body cavity and biotissue ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096977 | Protector and needle set A protector comprising an inner tube, a lid connected to an upper opening of the inner tube through a hinge, and an outer tube for holding the inner tube in an inner cavity part of the outer tube. A blood collecting needle to which a tube is connected is stored in t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096976 | Valve body and medical tool A valve body is formed from an elastic member in the form of an elliptic or circular film (disk shape) having an upper face and a lower face. The valve body has an opening and closing section which is opened and closed in response to insertion and pulling out of a d... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094319 | Image diagnostic apparatus and method An image diagnostic apparatus includes a probe capable of light transmission and reception, wherein a reflection light is obtained from the probe by scanning the probe rotatingly, and a tomographic image is formed and outputted based on the obtained reflection light... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083715 | Puncture device The present invention provides a puncture device and an administration device in which a puncture needle can be stuck certainly to a predetermined region of a skin. The puncture device and the administration device of the present invention are provided with a punctu... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079473 | Medical device holder, method of retrieving medical device, and a packaged medical device A medical device holder is comprised of a flexible elongated sheet member, and includes a holding portion configured to hold a three-dimensionally configured part connected of the device. The holding portion is configured to bend back on itself to cover the three-di... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8052620 | Guide wire and stent A guide wire includes a distal core member made of a ferrous alloy which has shape memory properties and superelasticity. The ferrous alloy preferably includes substantially two phases, and has a difference of 100° C. or less between an Af point and an Ms point in ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8043279 | Catheter and medical tube A catheter includes a proximal shaft having a relatively high rigidity, a distal shaft provided on a front portion of the proximal shaft so as to be in fluid communication with proximal shaft and having a rigidity lower than that of the proximal shaft, a hub mounted... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043074 | Blood pump device A blood pump device comprises a housing having a blood inflow port and a blood outflow port, an impeller having a magnetic body or bodies and rotated in a non-contact state in relation to the inside surface of the housing to feed blood, an impeller rotating torque g... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8038694 | Lancet instrument A lancet instrument detachably fitted to a lancing apparatus, comprising a lancet having a lancet body with a sharp lancet tip at its tip, a lancet hub fixed to the lancet body so that the lancet tip is exposed, and an elastic deformation part extended from the lanc... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038689 | Intracoelomic suturing and ligating method A manipulator includes a composite input unit that is manually operable by the fingers, a connector shaft extending from an operating unit, and a working unit mounted on the distal end of the connector shaft. The working unit comprises a rolling mechanism, a tilting... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038658 | Synthetic resin needles and synthetic resin composition for needles A medical needle is made of a synthetic resin which is reinforced, including the point part of the needle, to reduce deformation during puncture, even when the needle is produced by injection molding. The needle is made of a synthetic resin composition which include... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8034301 | Test paper and porous membrane A test paper includes a porous membrane capable of separating an object that should be filtered out of a sample by filtration, the porous membrane carrying a reagent capable of reacting with a specified component of the sample to result in coloring. The porous membr... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029446 | Ultrasonic imaging system and imaging method An ultrasonic imaging system includes an imaging catheter and an imaging apparatus. The imaging catheter has an insert for being inserted into a blood vessel, a transducer disposed in the insert, and at least one temperature sensor disposed in the insert. The temper... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028835 | Medical products and medical product ordering system A transaction management system is capable of simply and accurately gathering information about the use of medical products with minimized human errors and automatically executing issuance of invoices of suppliers and restocking of used products on the basis of the ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025438 | Electronic clinical thermometer, method of controlling the same, and control program An electronic clinical thermometer having a low frequency of errors can be implemented. The electronic clinical thermometer for predicting an equilibrium temperature based on a temporal change in the actual measurement value of a temperature at a measurement target ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8017075 | Oxygenator An oxygenator that inhibits or prevents bubbles in blood from exiting through a blood outlet includes an oxygenator part which performs gas exchange on blood and a heat exchanging part which performs heat exchange on the blood. The oxygenators part has a housing tha... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016791 | Valve body and medical tool A valve body formed from an elastic member in the form of an elliptical or circular film (disk shape) has upper and lower surfaces. A first concave portion is formed on the upper surface side of the valve body. The valve body further has an opening and closing secti... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8007447 | Guide wire A guide wire includes a first wire disposed on the distal side of the guide wire and a second wire disposed on the proximal side. The second wire has an elastic modulus larger than the first wire. The first wire is joined to the second wire at a welded portion by we... | 08/30/2011 |
