Patents by Inventor Atsushi Kimura
Atsushi Kimura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240145485Abstract: A semiconductor device including a circuit which does not easily deteriorate is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first switch, a second switch, and a third switch. A first terminal of the first transistor is connected to a first wiring. A second terminal of the first transistor is connected to a second wiring. A gate and a first terminal of the second transistor are connected to the first wiring. A second terminal of the second transistor is connected to a gate of the first transistor. The first switch is connected between the second wiring and a third wiring. The second switch is connected between the second wiring and the third wiring. The third switch is connected between the gate of the first transistor and the third wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hajime KIMURA, Atsushi UMEZAKI
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Patent number: 11969871Abstract: A portable power tool includes a tool accessory, drive mechanism, housing and grip having a rotating axis. The grip includes grip portion having a first face and a second face. The grip portion is formed in a rotation asymmetric shape to the rotating axis. The grip is attachable to the housing with respect to a rotating angle around the rotating axis at a first angle and a second angle. When the grip is viewed in the rotating axis extending direction, the position of the first surface and the position of the second surface in the circumferential direction around the rotating axis in a case that the rotating angle is at the first angle are different from the position of the first surface and the position of the second surface in the circumferential direction around the rotating axis in a case that the rotating angle is at the second angle.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Takata, Takuji Kimura, Atsushi Kanou
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Patent number: 11961843Abstract: An object is to improve the drive capability of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring. A second terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a second wiring. A gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to a third wiring. A first terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to the third wiring. A second terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor. A channel region is formed using an oxide semiconductor layer in each of the first transistor and the second transistor. The off-state current of each of the first transistor and the second transistor per channel width of 1 ?m is 1 aA or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Atsushi Umezaki, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11954812Abstract: A preprocessing device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire coordinate information of respective vertexes of a polygon for inside/outside determination and the coordinate information of the respective vertexes of the polygon for inside/outside determination and rotate a coordinate to be determined and the polygon for inside/outside determination as preprocessing of determination processing of determining whether the coordinate to be determined exists inside or outside the polygon for inside/outside determination, and output coordinate information of respective vertexes of the rotated polygon for inside/outside determination and the rotated coordinate to be determined as rotated coordinate information.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Miyahara, Tatsuro Kimura, Ichibe Naito, Atsushi Isomura, Tomoya Ikeda
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Publication number: 20240100594Abstract: There is provided a titanium alloy sintered part in which the oxygen content is reduced and the fatigue strength is enhanced, and a method for producing the titanium alloy sintered part. The method for producing a titanium alloy sintered part by a metal injection molding method includes a mixing process of producing a compound of a metal powder and a binder, an injection process of subjecting the compound to injection molding to produce a green part, a degreasing process of degreasing the green part to remove the binder, and a sintering process of sintering the green part from which the binder was removed to obtain a sintered body, and the sintering process is performed at a sintering temperature of 800 to 995° C. for a sintering time of 6 to 200 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro KIMURA, Atsushi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240090183Abstract: This power supply device is provided with: a first heat-generating component; a case; a resin material; a circuit board; a second heat-generating component; and a heat dissipation casing. This power supply device is additionally provided with a heat transfer member which has a first portion that is arranged to be in contact with a first outer surface of the case and a second portion that is arranged to be in contact with a second outer surface of the case, and which has a higher thermal conductivity than the case. The second heat-generating component is arranged in contact with the heat transfer member; and the heat transfer member dissipates the heat of the first heat-generating component and the second heat-generating component by being arranged in contact with a wall surface that constitutes the heat dissipation casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Atsushi YAMASHIMA, Shinya KIMURA
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Patent number: 11916442Abstract: A rotor may be provided with a rotor core that is fixed to a shaft and includes a plurality of through holes along an axial direction of the shaft. The rotor may be provided with a permanent magnet disposed in each of the plurality of through holes. The rotor may be provided with a functional fluid having a magneto rheological effect of fixing the permanent magnet in each of the plurality of through holes.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhito Takei, Hiroshi Kimura, Atsushi Kubota
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Publication number: 20240001449Abstract: A powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (PBF-AM) apparatus includes an electron gun chamber, a build chamber, a first vacuum pump, a second vacuum pump, and a beam path. In addition, the three-dimensional PBF-AM apparatus includes a differential evacuation aperture, a focusing lens, and an axis adjustment mechanism. The differential evacuation aperture divides an internal space of the beam path into two, and has a restriction hole through which an electron beam can pass. The focusing lens is configured to focus the electron beam by a restriction hole of the differential evacuation aperture. The axis adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust a trajectory of the electron beam or positions of the focusing lens and the differential evacuation aperture so that an optical axis of the electron beam passes through both the center of the restriction hole and the center of the focusing lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Takashi Sato, Atsushi Kimura, Nobuhisa Yamagami
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Publication number: 20230381976Abstract: A hand includes a hand part for removing a workpiece; a workpiece holding part that presses the removed workpiece at a prescribed location so as to hold the same; and a base part that supports the hand part and the workpiece holding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 11822236Abstract: The present invention provides a mold including a pattern to be transferred to an imprint material on a substrate using an imprint apparatus, the mold including: a pattern region in which the pattern is arranged; and a peripheral region surrounding the pattern region and configured to shield light, wherein the pattern region includes a first portion, which is arranged with a mark used to measure a relative position with respect to a substrate mark provided on the substrate and through which an image of the substrate mark passes, and a second portion through which an image of a stage mark provided on a stage holding the substrate passes.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomomi Funayoshi, Atsushi Kimura, Hiroshi Sato
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Patent number: 11720308Abstract: An image forming system includes a print system and a management server. The print system includes one or plural image forming apparatuses. The management server receives a print order from a user, and upon receiving the print order, performs a print job using the print system under a print condition specified by the print order. Further, the management server generates a suggestion of a print condition in consideration of operation status of the print system and an amount of a consumable good required for the print job, differently from the print condition specified by the print order, and notifies the user of the suggestion.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Inventor: Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 11711618Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a display image generation section configured to generate display image data by performing a display projection process in a case where panorama image data to be a display target is judged to be a full circumference panorama image.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Inventor: Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 11637509Abstract: A vibratory actuator includes a vibration member, a contact member, and a pressure member. The vibration member includes an elastic member, having protrusions. The contact member is in contact with the elastic member and moves in a direction relative to the vibration member. The pressure member pressurizes the vibration member and the contact member. Each of the protrusions includes a first contact surface in contact with the contact member. The contact member has a second contact surface made of metal sintered material and in contact with the vibration member. A ratio of a maximum amount of depression on the second contact surface in the direction of pressurization by the pressure member to a width of the first contact surface in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the contact member relative to the vibration member and the direction of pressurization by the pressure member is 0.05% or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Atsushi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230112689Abstract: An imprint apparatus that performs an imprint process of forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, the apparatus including a control unit configured to control a mold driving unit and a substrate driving unit, and the imprint process including curing the imprint material, and releasing the mold from the cured imprint material, wherein the control unit includes a compensator configured to feedback-control driving of at least one of the mold driving unit and the substrate driving unit such that a positional relationship between the mold and the substrate in the releasing is maintained at a positional relationship between the mold and the substrate in the curing, and makes a gain of the compensator in the releasing smaller than a gain of the compensator in a step of the imprint process other than the releasing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Masahiro Tamura, Tosiya Asano, Atsushi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230094486Abstract: Provided is a support device that supports an object to be supported, in a manner that allows the object to rotate, without rotation of the support device itself. The support device is provided with: a base part; pair of support members that are slidably provided with respect to the base part, and have arc-shaped cut-out portions which sandwich and hold a circumferential surface of an object to be supported, from both sides of the object; a plurality of first biasing members that bias the pair of support members in a direction toward each other; a plurality of bearing parts that are provided along the cut-out portions, and are for sandwiching and holding the object to be supported, in a manner that allows the object to rotate; and a plurality of second biasing members that bias the plurality of bearing parts in a direction toward the object to be supported. The plurality of first biasing members bias the pair of support members.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventor: Atsushi KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220382146Abstract: The present invention provides a mold including a pattern to be transferred to an imprint material on a substrate using an imprint apparatus, the mold including: a pattern region in which the pattern is arranged; and a peripheral region surrounding the pattern region and configured to shield light, wherein the pattern region includes a first portion, which is arranged with a mark used to measure a relative position with respect to a substrate mark provided on the substrate and through which an image of the substrate mark passes, and a second portion through which an image of a stage mark provided on a stage holding the substrate passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Tomomi Funayoshi, Atsushi Kimura, Hiroshi Sato
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Publication number: 20220357906Abstract: An image forming system includes a print system and a management server. The print system includes one or plural image forming apparatuses. The management server receives a print order from a user, and upon receiving the print order, performs a print job using the print system under a print condition specified by the print order. Further, the management server generates a suggestion of a print condition in consideration of operation status of the print system and an amount of a consumable good required for the print job, differently from the print condition specified by the print order, and notifies the user of the suggestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventor: Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 11446208Abstract: A device holder (20) that holds a transfer device (800) is provided on a stage (10). The device (800) includes a first connector (810) to which a first container (910) is connectable, a second connector (820) to which a second container (950) is connectable, and a connection port (850) to which a syringe (980) is connectable. The stage (10) can be turned to a first turning position where the first connector (810) is located higher than the second connector (820) and a second turning position where the second connector (820) is located higher than the first connector (810). A second container holder (50) that holds the second container (950) coaxially with the second connector (820) turns together with the stage (10) and can be linearly moved along a direction of an axis of the second connector (820).Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Kato, Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 11413793Abstract: An imprint method for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate includes irradiating the imprint material with light to increase a viscosity of the imprint material on the substrate with a mold and the imprint material being in contact with each other, aligning the substrate and the mold with each other while changing and increasing a control gain to be used in a controller, which is configured to control relative positions of the mold and the substrate so as to reduce a displacement based on a result of detection of the displacement between the substrate and the mold, in such a manner that the control gain increases with the mold and the imprint material being in contact with each other, and curing the imprint material by irradiating the imprint material with light.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 11398364Abstract: An electron gun includes a cathode that is heated to emit thermions; a cathode heating power supply that supplies a cathode heating current for heating the cathode; a grid that has a first aperture formed therein and that has a grid voltage applied thereto, the grid voltage having a potential lower than that of the cathode, wherein the grid converges the thermions passing through the first aperture by the grid voltage; an anode that has a second aperture formed therein and that has an anode voltage applied thereto, wherein the anode causes the thermions extracted from the cathode to pass through the second aperture as an electron beam by the anode voltage; an anode-voltage power supply that applies the anode voltage to the anode; and a controller that causes the anode voltage having a positive potential to be applied from the anode-voltage power supply to the anode.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: JEOL Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Kitamura, Takuma Iwasaki, Takashi Sato, Atsushi Kimura