Patents by Inventor Hideo Kato

Hideo Kato 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).

  • Patent number: 10939007
    Abstract: An information control apparatus controls a printer apparatus. The printer apparatus includes a loader which stacks and loads sheets fed from a sheet feeder and then printed. The information control apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which printing performed by the printer apparatus is stopped and is then restarted, the controller performs control so that a sheet which will protrude from other sheets when being loaded in the loader will be fed from the sheet feeder and be loaded in the loader as a sheet to be inserted to indicate a restart position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Ichijima, Hideo Kato, Hisao Komazawa
  • Publication number: 20210018960
    Abstract: An opening and closing mechanism includes: a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft that are disposed in parallel, a first telescopic part disposed on the first rotating shaft and a second telescopic part disposed on the second rotating shaft, and the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft are rotationally connected. The first telescopic part includes a first connection part connected to the first rotating shaft and a first body fastening part slidable along the first connection part, and the first body fastening part is configured to fasten a first body of the electronic device. The second telescopic part includes a second connection part connected to the second rotating shaft and a second body fastening part slidable along the second connection part, and the second body fastening part is configured to fasten a second body of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hideo KATO, Yaming JIANG, Lei BAI, Mengying PAN
  • Publication number: 20200377419
    Abstract: A method for producing SiC/SiC composite material according to the present invention includes impregnating a substrate with a slurry containing particles of a flaky lubricant to obtain an impregnated body, drying out a solvent of the slurry from the impregnated body, forming an interface layer on surfaces of the SiC fibers by bending the impregnated body, and transferring the particles of the flaky lubricant to the surfaces of the SiC fibers while stretching the particles, and forming a SiC matrix inside the substrate on which the interface layer is formed. Since a thin interface layer of the flaky lubricant can be formed on the surfaces of the SiC fibers by transferring the flaky lubricant to the surfaces of the SiC fibers, the interface layer reaching inside of the substrate can be easily formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Syuichi KUBO, Takashi TAKAGI, Akihide KAWAGUCHI, Hideo KATO, Yuki HOKAZONO
  • Publication number: 20200319263
    Abstract: An impedance matching device includes: a variable capacitor connected between a radio-frequency power supply and a load; a first detector that detects an index value that determines impedance matching between the radio-frequency power supply and the load, and a first state value that indicates a state of a radio-frequency power; a second detector that detects a second state value that indicates a state of radio-frequency power output to the load; an adjustment unit that adjusts a capacitance value of the variable capacitor such that the index value detected by the first detector falls within a target range; and a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose an abnormality of the variable capacitor, the first detector, or the second detector based on the capacitance value adjusted by the adjustment unit, the first state value detected by the first detector, and the second state value detected by the second detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Publication number: 20200294766
    Abstract: A plasma generation unit according to an exemplary embodiment includes a dielectric window, a slot plate, and a probe group. The slot plate is provided on the dielectric window. The probe group includes a plurality of probes that are electric conductors, is provided in the dielectric window, and is used for detection of a physical quantity around the dielectric window. The dielectric window extends along the slot plate. Each of the plurality of probes is disposed on a circumference of a first circle centered on a reference position of the dielectric window, when viewed from above the dielectric window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Ryou SON, Yuichi KUWAHARA, Syuntaro TAWARAYA, Hideo KATO
  • Patent number: 10510513
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma processing device which processes an object to be processed using plasma. The plasma processing device includes: a processing container configured to perform a processing by the plasma therein; and a plasma generation mechanism including a high-frequency generator disposed outside the processing container to generate high-frequency waves. The plasma generation mechanism is configured to generate the plasma in the processing container using the high-frequency waves generated by the high-frequency generator. The high-frequency generator includes a high-frequency oscillator configured to oscillate the high-frequency waves and an injection unit configured to inject a signal into the high-frequency oscillator. The signal has a frequency which is the same as a fundamental frequency oscillated by the high-frequency oscillator and has reduced different frequency components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazushi Kaneko, Kazunori Funazaki, Hideo Kato
  • Publication number: 20190163410
    Abstract: An information control apparatus controls a printer device. The printer device outputs a sheet which is fed from a sheet feeder and which is printed and loads the printed sheet in a loader in accordance with a print instruction. The information control apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which the printer device outputs a check sheet while the print instruction is being executed, the controller performs control so that the sheet feeder will feed, as a sheet to be used as the check sheet, a sheet which will protrude from other sheets when being loaded in the loader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisao KOMAZAWA, Hideo KATO, Shingo ICHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190164027
    Abstract: An information control apparatus includes a controller. The controller controls a printer including a postprocessing unit that performs postprocessing on sheets of paper printed in units of copies and an accumulation unit that accumulates the sheets of paper that have been subjected to the postprocessing such that the sheets of paper are stacked in units of copies. The controller controls the printer such that in a case where printing is stopped and then resumed in a process of the printing by the printer, an indicator indicating a copy that is being ejected at a time when the printing is stopped is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo ICHIJIMA, Hideo KATO, Hisao KOMAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190166270
    Abstract: An information control apparatus controls a printer apparatus. The printer apparatus includes a loader which stacks and loads sheets fed from a sheet feeder and then printed. The information control apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which printing performed by the printer apparatus is stopped and is then restarted, the controller performs control so that a sheet which will protrude from other sheets when being loaded in the loader will be fed from the sheet feeder and be loaded in the loader as a sheet to be inserted to indicate a restart position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo ICHIJIMA, Hideo KATO, Hisao KOMAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190166273
    Abstract: An information control apparatus controls a printer device. The printer device performs printing on a sheet fed from a sheet feeder in accordance with a print instruction. The information control apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which the printer device outputs a check sheet while the print instruction is being executed, if a sheet to be used as the check sheet is a prohibited type of sheet to be prohibited from being used as the check sheet, the controller performs control so that the prohibited type of sheet will be switched to a sheet which is preset as a substitute type of sheet and the sheet feeder will feed the sheet preset as the substitute type of sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisao KOMAZAWA, Hideo KATO, Shingo ICHIJIMA
  • Patent number: 10109463
    Abstract: A microwave automatic matcher includes a movable body, a driving unit, a matching control unit, a reflection coefficient measuring unit, and a setting unit. The matching control unit consecutively moves the movable body from a start position in one direction by a distance of a difference between the start position and the target position in a matching operation carried out for the plasma process and then variably controls the position of the movable body until the measurement of the reflection coefficient obtained by the reflection coefficient measuring unit falls within the first neighboring range by monitoring the measurement of the reflection coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazushi Kaneko, Hideo Kato, Kazunori Funazaki, Yuji Otsuka, Shinji Kawada
  • Patent number: 10074524
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus (11) is provided with: a processing container (12), in which processing is performed using plasma; a plasma generating mechanism (19), which has a high frequency oscillator that oscillates high frequency, includes a high frequency generator that generates high frequency by being disposed outside of the processing container (12), and which generates plasma in the processing container (12) using the high frequency generated by means of the high frequency generator; a determining mechanism, which determines the state of the high frequency oscillator; and a notifying mechanism, which performs notification of determination results obtained from the determining mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazushi Kaneko, Kazunori Funazaki, Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 10037058
    Abstract: In order to provide a multiaxial hinge suitably used in an electronic device, such as a notebook PC having a flexible display sheet, and an electronic device using such a multiaxial hinge, the multiaxial hinge is a multiaxial hinge used as attached below a flexible and touch-operable display sheet for opening and closing the first casing and the second casing, the display sheet being attached so as to cover both inner surfaces of the both casings, several hinge shafts are provided, wherein a first bracket attached to the first casing and a second bracket attached to the second casing are coupled together via several coupling parts, and a synchronous rotation unit, a stopper and a friction unit either all in cooperation or one independently from other are provided on each of the hinge shafts, the multiaxial hinge is designed such that a bent portion is formed on the inner surfaces in a closed state of the first casing and the second casing, and that the first casing and the second casing are flush in a fully o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: KEM HONGKONG LIMITED
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 9977070
    Abstract: A magnetron can be inspected with high accuracy. A life of the magnetron is determined on the basis of a comparison between a current parameter, which indicates a current status of the magnetron and is obtained from the one or more measurement values for specifying a current status of the magnetron at a time point when a time period having a predetermined duration or more has elapsed after generation of a high frequency power by the magnetron is started, and a difference between a power of a progressive wave and a set power is equal to or lower than a first predetermined value and a power of a reflection wave is equal to or lower than a second predetermined value, and an initial parameter, which indicates an initial status of the magnetron and corresponds to the current parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazushi Kaneko, Hideo Kato, Kazunori Funazaki, Eiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9915086
    Abstract: The triaxial hinge includes a first hinge shaft attached to a first casing via a first bracket, a second hinge shaft attached to a second casing via a second bracket and a third hinge shaft coupled to one end portion of a first coupling part and one end portion of a second coupling part. Respective other end portions of both coupling parts are attached to the first hinge shaft. There is a gear type synchronous rotation unit for transmitting a rotation of one of the first hinge shaft and the second hinge shaft accompanied by an opening and closing operation of the both casings to the other hinge shaft via the third hinge shaft, which is made to move in a forward and backward direction as accompanied by an opening and closing operation of the both casings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: KEM HONGKONG LIMITED
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Publication number: 20180063296
    Abstract: A data-division control method executed by a communication system includes generating, by a first processor included in a first communication apparatus, a plurality of divided data by dividing transmission data to be transmitted; generating a plurality of frames including the plurality of divided data by adjusting a length of a payload in which each of the plurality of divided data is stored, in accordance with condition information in which payload lengths and an order of divided data are associated with each other; transmitting the plurality of frames to a second communication apparatus by using a first path and a second path; extracting, by a second processor included in the second communication apparatus, information about a payload length from a header of each of the frames; and identifying an order of the plurality of divided data included in the plurality of frames, by using the extracted information and the condition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hideo KATO
  • Publication number: 20180059740
    Abstract: In order to provide a multiaxial hinge suitably used in an electronic device, such as a notebook PC having a flexible display sheet, and an electronic device using such a multiaxial hinge, the multiaxial hinge is a multiaxial hinge used as attached below a flexible and touch-operable display sheet for opening and closing the first casing and the second casing, the display sheet being attached so as to cover both inner surfaces of the both casings, several hinge shafts are provided, wherein a first bracket attached to the first casing and a second bracket attached to the second casing are coupled together via several coupling parts, and a synchronous rotation unit, a stopper and a friction unit either all in cooperation or one independently from other are provided on each of the hinge shafts, the multiaxial hinge is designed such that a bent portion is formed on the inner surfaces in a closed state of the first casing and the second casing, and that the first casing and the second casing are flush in a fully o
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 9860393
    Abstract: A virtual computer system includes a potential failure-causing event detection controller, a saving unit, and a snapshot creation unit. The potential failure-causing event detection controller detects a potential failure-causing event relating to a printer provided external to a virtual computer having installed thereon a guest operating system on which an application program is installed or relating to control of the printer. The saving unit performs a saving process of saving information indicating the potential failure-causing event and information about a page for which printing is not completed by the printer. The snapshot creation unit creates a snapshot of the guest operating system including the application program after the saving unit has performed the saving process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Publication number: 20170328102
    Abstract: The triaxial hinge includes a first hinge shaft attached to a first casing via a first bracket, a second hinge shaft attached to a second casing via a second bracket and a third hinge shaft coupled to one end portion of a first coupling part and one end portion of a second coupling part. Respective other end portions of both coupling parts are attached to the first hinge shaft. There is a gear type synchronous rotation unit for transmitting a rotation of one of the first hinge shaft and the second hinge shaft accompanied by an opening and closing operation of the both casings to the other hinge shaft via the third hinge shaft, which is made to move in a forward and backward direction as accompanied by an opening and closing operation of the both casings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: KEM HONGKONG LIMITED
    Inventor: Hideo KATO
  • Patent number: 9761418
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus for exciting a processing gas by a microwave, includes a focus ring extending in an annular shape, a first tubular member being wrapped around a central axis to extend along an outer periphery of the lower electrode below the focus ring, an annular member made of a dielectric material provided between the focus ring and the first tubular member a second tubular member extending along an outer periphery of the first tubular member and a choke portion suppressing a microwave propagating through the first tubular member via the focus ring and the annular member. And the choke portion protrudes outward in a diametrical direction of the first tubular from the outer periphery of the first tubular member and extends in an annular shape along the periphery of the first tubular member, the choke portion is covered by the second tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Masayuki Shintaku, Takashi Suzuki, Masahiko Konno, Michitaka Aita, Taizo Okada, Hideo Kato, Naoki Matsumoto