Patents by Inventor Atsushi Sekiguchi
Atsushi Sekiguchi 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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Patent number: 11965469Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Tamachi, Yoshito Sekiguchi, Masato Nakano, Koichi Okuda, Tatsuya Imamura, Atsushi Tabata
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Publication number: 20240087106Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: determine a relationship between plural pieces of product manufacturing information included in two-dimensional drawing data and generate, on a basis of the determined relationship, first information indicating the relationship between the plural pieces of product manufacturing information; determine a relationship between a plural pieces of product manufacturing information included in three-dimensional drawing data and generate, on a basis of the determined relationship, second information indicating the relationship between the plural pieces of product manufacturing information; and detect a difference between the first information and the second information by identifying correspondence between the first information and the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yumi SEKIGUCHI, Atsushi OGIHARA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA
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Publication number: 20240067158Abstract: A vehicle including an internal combustion engine and an automatic transmission capable of transmitting and receiving torque to and from an output shaft of the internal combustion engine is controlled. During operation of the internal combustion engine, a process that calculates a diluted water amount based on an operation state of the internal combustion engine is executed. The diluted water amount is the amount of water contained in lubricating oil in the internal combustion engine. Further, a process that controls the automatic transmission such that torque per unit period in the internal combustion engine becomes smaller when the diluted water amount is relatively large compared to when the diluted water amount is relatively small, while continuing the operation of the internal combustion engine, is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi TABATA, Koichi OKUDA, Masato NAKANO, Nobuhiko SATAKE, Yoshito SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240068420Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiaki TAMACHI, Yoshito SEKIGUCHI, Masato NAKANO, Koichi OKUDA, Tatsuya IMAMURA, Atsushi TABATA
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Patent number: 11875978Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus 1 that performs, on a wafer 16 in which a multilayer film in which an insulating film and a film to be processed containing a metal are alternately laminated is formed on a substrate, plasma etching of the film to be processed, includes: a processing chamber 10 which is disposed inside a vacuum container; a sample stage 14 which is disposed inside the processing chamber and on which the wafer is placed; a detection unit 28 which detects reflected light obtained by the wafer reflecting light emitted to the wafer; a control unit 40 which controls plasma processing on the wafer; and an end point determination unit 30 which determines an etching end point of the film to be processed based on a change in an amplitude of vibration in a wavelength direction of a light spectrum of the reflected light, and the control unit receives determination of the end point made by the end point determination unit and stops the plasma processing on the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Tsubasa Okamoto, Tatehito Usui, Miyako Matsui, Shigeru Nakamoto, Naohiro Kawamoto, Atsushi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 11798552Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Eisuke Soma, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
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Publication number: 20230118576Abstract: This invention provides a wafer processing method comprising a process of irradiating a wafer to be processed placed on the upper surface of a sample table arranged in a processing chamber with light or electromagnetic waves to heat and remove a compound layer of a film layer that is preliminarily formed on the upper surface of the film layer of the upper surface of the wafer, wherein in the process, by receiving the light or electromagnetic waves reflected by the upper surface of the wafer, a signal indicating a temporal change in intensity using the wavelength of the light or electromagnetic waves as a parameter is corrected using information of the intensity of the light or electromagnetic waves detected by receiving the light or electromagnetic waves at a position on the circumferential side of the upper surface of the sample table.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Tatehito Usui, Soichiro Eto, Shigeru Nakamoto, Kazunori Shinoda, Nobuya Miyoshi
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Publication number: 20230096723Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus 1 that performs, on a wafer 16 in which a multilayer film in which an insulating film and a film to be processed containing a metal are alternately laminated is formed on a substrate, plasma etching of the film to be processed, includes: a processing chamber 10 which is disposed inside a vacuum container; a sample stage 14 which is disposed inside the processing chamber and on which the wafer is placed; a detection unit 28 which detects reflected light obtained by the wafer reflecting light emitted to the wafer; a control unit 40 which controls plasma processing on the wafer; and an end point determination unit 30 which determines an etching end point of the film to be processed based on a change in an amplitude of vibration in a wavelength direction of a light spectrum of the reflected light, and the control unit receives determination of the end point made by the end point determination unit and stops the plasma processing on the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Tsubasa Okamoto, Tatehito Usui, Miyako Matsui, Shigeru Nakamoto, Naohiro Kawamoto, Atsushi Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20220381081Abstract: A mobile body control system includes: a window open or close instruction recognition unit that recognizes an open or close instruction of a window provided to a mobile body in accordance with a voice operation or an operation of a mobile terminal performed by a passenger on the mobile body; a window control unit that executes a window open or close control for opening or closing the window, when the open or close instruction of the window is recognized; and a window operation restriction unit that executes at least one of window operation inhibition processing for inhibiting execution of the window open or close control by the window control unit in accordance with an operation of a switch provided to the mobile body, and window operation stop processing for stopping the window being operated by the window open or close control in accordance with an operation of the switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Mizuki Katsu, Naoki Shibata, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Shigeki Takahashi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Takamune Tsukahara, Kenichiro Kagawa, Futoshi Kobayashi, Masayuki Watarai, Makoto Ono, Katsuyasu Yamane, Koji Hashimoto, Hironori Takano
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Publication number: 20220005470Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Eisuke Soma, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
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Patent number: 11195700Abstract: An etching apparatus includes a chamber capable of being evacuated, a first electrode provided in the chamber and including a tray support portion configured to support a tray which can hold a plurality of substrates and load/unload the substrates into/from the chamber, and a voltage applying unit configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode. A dielectric plate is attached to a portion, of an obverse surface of the first electrode, which faces an outer edge portion of a non-target surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu Suzuki, Masami Shibagaki, Atsushi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 11176948Abstract: An agent device includes a display unit, a microphone configured to collect a voice in an occupant compartment, a plurality of speakers configured to enable localization of a sound image through a combination of outputs, and an agent controller configured to cause the display unit to display an agent image and cause the speakers to output sounds, wherein the agent controller is configured to identify a speaking person who has spoken the voice collected by the microphone among occupants in a vehicle and to cause the agent image to be displayed in a mode of talking to the occupant in a partial area of the display unit near the speaking person while causing a sound image to be localized at a display position of the agent image.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryosuke Tanaka, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Wataru Endo, Eisuke Soma
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Patent number: 11014508Abstract: Provided is a communication support system including: a microphone that is mounted in an interior of a vehicle; a sound output device that is mounted in the interior of vehicle; a recognizer configured to recognize spoken content included in sound data collected by the microphone; and a controller configured to generate a delivery message to be delivered from a passenger who has output the collected sound to another passenger on the basis of a result of the recognition performed by the recognizer, generates sound based on the generated delivery message, and causes the sound output device to output the generated sound toward the other passenger.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru Endo, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sugihara
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Patent number: 10994612Abstract: An agent system includes a microphone configured to collect a sound of a vehicle interior, a speaker configured to output a sound to the vehicle interior, a recognizer configured to recognize a meaning of the sound collected, an agent controller configured to generate an agent sound for speaking to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of the meaning recognized and cause the agent sound to be output to the speaker so that a sound image of the generated agent sound is localized at a prescribed position, and a travel environment acquirer configured to acquire a travel environment of the vehicle, wherein the agent controller causes an aspect in which the sound image of the agent sound is localized to be changed when the travel environment of the vehicle acquired by the travel environment acquirer is changed or is predicted to be changed in the future.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sugihara
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Patent number: 10685815Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma processing apparatus which reduces damage from plasma generated in a discharge vessel and lengthens the replacement cycle of the discharge vessel. A plasma processing apparatus 1 is provided with a processing chamber 2 partitioning a processing space, a discharge vessel 3 whose one end opens facing inside the processing chamber 2 and the other end is closed, an antenna 4 which is disposed around the discharge vessel 3 and generates an induced electric field to generate plasma in the discharge vessel 3 under reduced pressure, and an electromagnet 9 which is arranged around the discharge vessel 3 and forms a divergent magnetic field in the discharge vessel 3. The discharge vessel 3 has at its closed end portion a protrusion 15 projecting toward the processing chamber 2.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Matsuhashi, Hiroshi Akasaka, Yoshimitsu Kodaira, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Naoko Matsui
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Publication number: 20200152203Abstract: An agent device includes a display unit, a microphone configured to collect a voice in an occupant compartment, a plurality of speakers configured to enable localization of a sound image through a combination of outputs, and an agent controller configured to cause the display unit to display an agent image and cause the speakers to output sounds, wherein the agent controller is configured to identify a speaking person who has spoken the voice collected by the microphone among occupants in a vehicle and to cause the agent image to be displayed in a mode of talking to the occupant in a partial area of the display unit near the speaking person while causing a sound image to be localized at a display position of the agent image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryosuke Tanaka, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Wataru Endo, Eisuke Soma
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Publication number: 20200133630Abstract: It is difficult to realize smooth communication between a user and an agent due to the communication environment of the user. Provided is a control apparatus that controls an agent apparatus functioning as a user interface of a first request processing apparatus that acquires a request indicated by at least one of a voice and a gesture of a user, via a communication network, and performs a process corresponding to the request, the control apparatus including a communication information acquiring section that acquires communication information indicating a communication state between the first request processing apparatus and the agent apparatus, and a mode determining section that determines a mode of an agent used to provide information by the agent apparatus, based on the communication state indicated by the communication information acquired by the communication information acquiring section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Toshikatsu KURAMOCHI, Atsushi SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200114834Abstract: Provided is a communication support system including: a microphone that is mounted in an interior of a vehicle; a sound output device that is mounted in the interior of vehicle; a recognizer configured to recognize spoken content included in sound data collected by the microphone; and a controller configured to generate a delivery message to be delivered from a passenger who has output the collected sound to another passenger on the basis of a result of the recognition performed by the recognizer, generates sound based on the generated delivery message, and causes the sound output device to output the generated sound toward the other passenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Wataru Endo, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sugihara
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Publication number: 20200108720Abstract: An agent system includes a microphone configured to collect a sound of a vehicle interior, a speaker configured to output a sound to the vehicle interior, a recognizer configured to recognize a meaning of the sound collected, an agent controller configured to generate an agent sound for speaking to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of the meaning recognized and cause the agent sound to be output to the speaker so that a sound image of the generated agent sound is localized at a prescribed position, and a travel environment acquirer configured to acquire a travel environment of the vehicle, wherein the agent controller causes an aspect in which the sound image of the agent sound is localized to be changed when the travel environment of the vehicle acquired by the travel environment acquirer is changed or is predicted to be changed in the future.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Atsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sugihara
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Publication number: 20140338836Abstract: An etching apparatus includes a chamber capable of being evacuated, a first electrode provided in the chamber and including a tray support portion configured to support a tray which can hold a plurality of substrates and load/unload the substrates into/from the chamber, and a voltage applying unit configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode. A dielectric plate is attached to a portion, of an obverse surface of the first electrode, which faces an outer edge portion of a non-target surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu SUZUKI, Masami SHIBAGAKI, Atsushi SEKIGUCHI