Yoshinao Oaki
24Patents
23h-index
123Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 7, 1989 → Jul 17, 2002
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5389098A | Surgical device for stapling and/or fastening body tissues | Human Necessities | 3,171 | Expired |
| US6099537A | Medical treatment instrument | Human Necessities | 2,339 | Expired |
| US5471988A | Ultrasonic diagnosis and therapy system in which focusing point of therapeutic ultrasonic wave is locked at predetermined position within observation ultrasonic scanning range | Human Necessities | 734 | Expired |
| US5749830A | Fluorescent endoscope apparatus | Electricity | 423 | Expired |
| US5273025A | Apparatus for detecting insertion condition of endoscope | Human Necessities | 380 | Expired |
| US6069698A | Optical imaging apparatus which radiates a low coherence light beam onto a test object, receives optical information from light scattered by the object, and constructs therefrom a cross-sectional image of the object | Physics | 379 | Expired |
| US5253647A | Insertion position and orientation state pickup for endoscope | Human Necessities | 322 | Expired |
| US5630795A | Cleaning tube apparatus for endoscope | Human Necessities | 246 | Expired |
| US5697939A | Apparatus for holding a medical instrument in place | Human Necessities | 189 | Expired |
| US5159446A | Electronic endoscope system provided with a separate camera controlling unit and motor controlling unit | Electricity | 175 | Expired |
| US5873828A | Ultrasonic diagnosis and treatment system | Human Necessities | 157 | Expired |
| US5060632A | Endoscope apparatus | Human Necessities | 111 | Expired |
| US6327493A | Light scanning devices of a water-tight structure to be inserted into a body cavity to obtain optical information on inside of a biological tissue | Human Necessities | 91 | Expired |
| US6432041B1 | Endoscope shape detecting apparatus wherein form detecting processing is controlled according to connection state of magnetic field generating means | Human Necessities | 89 | Expired |
| US4982725A | Endoscope apparatus | Human Necessities | 85 | Expired |
| US6511417B1 | System for detecting the shape of an endoscope using source coils and sense coils | Human Necessities | 67 | Expired |
| US5251356A | Device for cleaning pipe passages of medical devices | Human Necessities | 65 | Expired |
| US6589163B2 | Endoscope shape detecting apparatus wherein form detecting processing is controlled according to connection state of magnetic field generating means | Human Necessities | 55 | Expired |
| US5071229A | Imaging apparatus having electrooptic devices which comprise a variable focal length lens | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US5301656A | Endoscope | Human Necessities | 40 | Expired |
| US5097352A | Optical system including liquid crystal devices | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US5579772A | Surgical microscope system | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US4983019A | Endoscope light source apparatus | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6773394B2 | System for detecting the shape of an endoscope using source coils and sense coils | Human Necessities | 20 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.