skinos

skinos is a brand of ventilated capsule type sweat rate meters. The name SKINOS is derived from SKIN plus the initials of the developers, Professor Toshio Ohashi of Shinshu University School of Medicine (O) and Professor Masao Sakaguchi of Nagano National College of Technology (S). The company was established in 2017 as Skinos NAGANO Co., Ltd. and later renamed to Skinos Co., Ltd. in 2018. It is recognized as a Shinshu University venture.

The development of sweat rate meters began in 1981, centered on Shinshu University School of Medicine and Nagano National College of Technology. In 1998, a venture company was established by Professor Toshio Ohashi and Professor Masao Sakaguchi to manufacture and sell ventilated capsule type differential sweat rate meters (SKA-2000, SKD-2000). In 2003, the device received medical device approval. In 2007, the venture company was liquidated and the business was transferred to Nishizawa Electric Meter Manufacturing Co., Ltd. In 2017, Skinos NAGANO Co., Ltd. was established to expand the business, with development and sales by Skinos NAGANO and manufacturing by Nishizawa. In 2018, the company name was changed to Skinos Co., Ltd. and it received the title of Shinshu University venture.

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