Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Abe

Hiroshi Abe 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: 11510630
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image display method with which a structure of an imaging object can be easily understood on the basis of volume data. An image display method according to an aspect of the present invention includes obtaining photoacoustic image data, generating a first photoacoustic image corresponding to a first spatial region on the basis of photoacoustic image data and a second photoacoustic image corresponding to a second spatial region having a different thickness in a viewing direction of rendering from a thickness of the first spatial region and having a spatial region overlapped with the first spatial region on the basis of the photoacoustic image data, and generating and displaying a parallel image in which the first photoacoustic image and the second photoacoustic image are arranged side by side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Fukushima, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 11486979
    Abstract: A light receiver array according to the present invention is constituted by array-aligning plural receivers having slow light waveguides of photonic crystals, and a LiDAR device according to the present invention is constituted by linearly arranging a light receiver array and a transmitter. An arranging relationship of plural receivers of the light receiver array is an array-like element formed by array-aligning plural receivers having the slow light waveguides of photonic crystals, and the array alignment is defined by alignment for defining a position relationship between the plural receivers constituting the light receiver array, and orientation for defining a direction of each receiver. A relationship p=?/sin ??r is satisfied between the alignment pitch p, wavelength ? of the reception light, and an arrival angle ??r when a phase difference between reception lights received by waveguide ends of adjacent receivers is one wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Toshihiko Baba, Keisuke Kondo, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20220331845
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a first processing liquid supplying step of supplying a first processing liquid to an upper surface of a substrate, a holding-layer forming step of solidifying or curing the first processing liquid to form a particle holding layer on the upper surface of the substrate, a holding-layer removing step of peeling and removing the particle holding layer from the upper surface of the substrate, a liquid film forming step of forming, after removal of the particle holding layer from the substrate, a liquid film of a second processing liquid, a gas phase layer forming step of forming a gas phase layer for holding the liquid film between the upper surface of the substrate and the liquid film, and a liquid film removing step of removing the second processing liquid from the upper surface of the substrate by moving the liquid film on the gas phase layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Yukifumi YOSHIDA, Manabu OKUTANI, Hiroshi ABE, Shuichi YASUDA, Yasunori KANEMATSU, Hitoshi NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220336851
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery control system includes an all-solid-state battery, a housing, a fluid, a pressurizer, and a processor. The all-solid-state battery includes a solid electrolyte. The housing has a space containing the all-solid-state battery. The fluid is configured to fill the space of the housing. The pressurizer is configured to apply pressure to the all-solid-state battery via the fluid. The processor is configured to control a magnitude of the pressure to be applied to the all-solid-state battery by the pressurizer, on the basis of a temperature of the all-solid-state battery and a state of charge of the all-solid-state battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei NANBU, Norio SUZUKI, Hiroshi ABE, Tomoya IIOKA
  • Patent number: 11465167
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes: a substrate holding unit; a rotator for rotating the substrate holding unit; a first liquid nozzle for supplying a rinsing liquid; a second liquid nozzle for supplying a low surface tension liquid; a heater; a lifting mechanism for relatively moving up and down the heater between a contact position allowing the heater to be brought into contact with the lower surface of the substrate and a separation position allowing the heater to be separated from the substrate; a gas nozzle provided in an upper surface of the heater to suck the substrate; a suction pump for sucking an atmosphere above the heater through the gas nozzle; a gas supply source for supplying an inert gas toward above the heater through the gas nozzle; and a controller for selectively performing suction of the atmosphere or supply of the inert gas, through the gas nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Manabu Okutani, Takashi Ota, Naohiko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20220308119
    Abstract: A power source control system for a vehicle is provided, which includes a traction motor, the system including a first battery that is a bipolar battery and is to be used as a power source for the traction motor; a second battery that is a bipolar battery different from the first battery; a mirror current generator circuit configured to generate a mirror current based on a current flowing through the first battery; a mirror current supply source circuit configured to cause the mirror current to flow through the second battery; and a diagnostic circuit configured to perform degradation diagnosis on the second battery on a basis of at least one of a voltage or a temperature of the second battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki ICHIKI, Hiroshi ABE, Hiroshi KUSANO
  • Publication number: 20220290232
    Abstract: A primer for amplifying a nucleic acid having a structure represented by formula (1): where A1 represents —S—, —S—S—, or —Se—, B represents a base, and R1 represents a decomposable protecting group, and the symbol * represents a bond to a sugar of an adjacent nucleotide. A device for producing double-stranded DNA includes: a forward primer and a reverse primer, having a structure represented by formula (1); a PCR device for forming double-stranded DNA with 3?-recessed ends by performing multiple cycles of PCR by using a template DNA as a template; Klenow fragment for making the 3? ends blunt; and a photoirradiation unit for deprotecting R1 and forming a sticky end with a 3?-protruding end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Naoko Abe, Kosuke Nakamoto, Hiroki Murase, Yasuaki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220282294
    Abstract: A primer for amplifying a nucleic acid having a structure represented by the formula (1): where B represents a base, R1 represents a decomposable protecting group, and R2 represents hydrogen or a hydroxyl group, and the symbol * represents a bond to a sugar of an adjacent nucleotide. A device for producing double-stranded DNA, includes: a forward primer and a reverse primer, having a structure represented by formula (1); a PCR device for forming double-stranded DNA with 3?-recessed ends by performing multiple cycles of PCR by using a template DNA as a template; and a photoirradiation unit for deprotecting R1 and forming a sticky end with a 3?-protruding end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Naoko Abe, Kosuke Nakamoto, Hiroki Murase, Yasuaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11432806
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit and a template data acquisition unit. The image data acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of image data generated by performing a plurality of ultrasonic wave transmission and reception operations on a subject while changing an ultrasonic wave transmission and reception mode. The template data acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of template data corresponding to the plurality of ultrasonic wave transmission and reception operations, respectively. The similarity information acquisition unit acquires information indicating a similarity between an image value sequence of the plurality of pieces of image data at a target position and a template data sequence of the plurality of pieces of template data at the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Baba, Kenichi Nagae, Yukio Furukawa, Kouichi Kato, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 11404292
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a first processing liquid supplying step of supplying a first processing liquid to an upper surface of a substrate, a holding-layer forming step of solidifying or curing the first processing liquid to form a particle holding layer on the upper surface of the substrate, a holding-layer removing step of peeling and removing the particle holding layer from the upper surface of the substrate, a liquid film forming step of forming, after removal of the particle holding layer from the substrate, a liquid film of a second processing liquid, a gas phase layer forming step of forming a gas phase layer for holding the liquid film between the upper surface of the substrate and the liquid film, and a liquid film removing step of removing the second processing liquid from the upper surface of the substrate by moving the liquid film on the gas phase layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yukifumi Yoshida, Manabu Okutani, Hiroshi Abe, Shuichi Yasuda, Yasunori Kanematsu, Hitoshi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20220189762
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a processing liquid film forming step of supplying a processing liquid, containing a sublimable substance, to a pattern forming surface of a substrate, to form a processing liquid film on the pattern forming surface, a temperature maintaining step of maintaining a temperature of the processing liquid film, formed on the pattern forming surface, in a temperature range not lower than a melting point of the sublimable substance and lower than a boiling point of the sublimable substance, a film thinning step of thinning the processing liquid film while the temperature of the processing liquid film is in the temperature range, a freezing step of making the processing liquid film, thinned by the film thinning step, freeze on the pattern forming surface after the temperature maintaining step to form a frozen body of the sublimable substance, and a sublimating step of sublimating the frozen body to remove the frozen body from the pattern forming surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu OKUTANI, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Masayuki OTSUJI, Hiroshi ABE, Chikara MAEDA, Hitoshi NAKAI, Yuta SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220171101
    Abstract: A prism lens includes a prism lens body and at least one cylindrical lens. The prism lens body has a set of facing planes a mutual distance of which decreases or increases from one end to another end. The cylindrical lens is integral to at least one plane of the set of planes. The cylindrical lens is formed such that a cross section shape thereof at a plane perpendicular to a direction of a slope of a plane of the prism lens body having the cylindrical lens thereon with respect to the other plane of the set of planes has a certain curved shape to be convex against the plane having the cylindrical lens thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiko BABA, Hiroshi ABE, Daichi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11335587
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding unit which holds and rotates a substrate in a horizontal orientation, a substrate heating unit which has a heating surface which faces the substrate, held by the substrate holding unit, from below and overlaps with an outermost periphery of the substrate in top view, and heats the substrate in a state of contacting a lower surface of the substrate, a transferring unit which transfers the substrate between the substrate holding unit and the substrate heating unit, and a processing fluid supplying unit which supplies a processing fluid toward the substrate held by the substrate holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Ota, Manabu Okutani, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 11323625
    Abstract: An apparatus in related art has a problem in a presentation method of data to a user or a usability. A subject information obtaining apparatus includes a plurality of transducer elements that receive acoustic waves generated in a subject irradiated with light from a light source and transduce the acoustic waves into a plurality of reception signals, a processing unit configured to obtain a characteristic distribution indicating a distribution of characteristic information respectively corresponding to a plurality of positions in the subject by using the plurality of reception signals, in which the processing unit outputs image information for displaying a distribution image created by using the characteristic distribution and data indicating a time fluctuation of the characteristic information in a predetermined region of the distribution image within a same screen of a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Ayumi Kabata, Masae Torii
  • Publication number: 20220111264
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises a head main body and a face member. The head main body is provided with a face support portion to which the face member is fixed. The face member comprises a front plate portion, a backwardly directed portion extending backwardly of the head from the front plate portion, and a centrally directed portion extending toward of a center of the face from the backwardly directed portion. The rear surface of the centrally directed portion is fixed to the face support portion of the head main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi ABE, Kiyofumi MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 11302525
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a processing liquid film forming step of supplying a processing liquid, containing a sublimable substance, to a pattern forming surface of a substrate, to form a processing liquid film on the pattern forming surface, a temperature maintaining step of maintaining a temperature of the processing liquid film, formed on the pattern forming surface, in a temperature range not lower than a melting point of the sublimable substance and lower than a boiling point of the sublimable substance, a film thinning step of thinning the processing liquid film while the temperature of the processing liquid film is in the temperature range, a freezing step of making the processing liquid film, thinned by the film thinning step, freeze on the pattern forming surface after the temperature maintaining step to form a frozen body of the sublimable substance, and a sublimating step of sublimating the frozen body to remove the frozen body from the pattern forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Okutani, Hiroaki Takahashi, Masayuki Otsuji, Hiroshi Abe, Chikara Maeda, Hitoshi Nakai, Yuta Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11236334
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a technique for more conveniently delivering a polynucleotide in a less cytotoxic form into a cell. This problem is solved by a polynucleotide modified by a molecule that contains a structure that contains a disulfide bond and/or a thiol group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Zhaoma Shu
  • Patent number: 11177124
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film of the processing liquid on the upper surface of the substrate; a liquid filling heating step of supplying a heating medium to a space between a heater unit and the substrate to thereby fill the space with the heating medium, and heating the heating medium by the heater unit, an opening defining step of defining an opening in the central region of the liquid film in a state where the substrate is heated in the liquid filling heating step such that the temperature of the substrate is the boiling point of the processing liquid or higher, and an opening enlarging step of enlarging the opening while rotating the base to thereby rotate the substrate. The liquid filling heating step is executed in parallel with the opening enlarging step at least during part of a period of the opening enlarging step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Manabu Okutani, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20210331192
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a first processing liquid supplying step of supplying a first processing liquid to an upper surface of the substrate, a holding layer forming step of solidifying or curing the first processing liquid to form a particle holding layer on the upper surface of the substrate, a holding layer removing step of peeling and removing the particle holding layer from the upper surface of the substrate, a liquid film forming step of forming, after removing the particle holding layer from the substrate, a liquid film of the second processing liquid, a solidifying step of cooling the liquid film to a temperature not more than a melting point of the sublimable substance to make the liquid film solidify on the substrate and form a solid film, and a sublimating step of sublimating and thereby removing the solid film from the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Yukifumi YOSHIDA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Masayuki OTSUJI, Manabu OKUTANI, Chikara MAEDA, Hiroshi ABE, Shuichi YASUDA, Yasunori KANEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210316998
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing lithium carbonate from lithium ion battery waste, the lithium ion battery waste including battery positive material components containing Li and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni and Mn, wherein, after subjecting the lithium ion battery waste to a wet process, thereby separating the at least one metal of the battery positive material components from the lithium ion battery waste to obtain crude lithium carbonate, the method includes: a dissolution step of dissolving the crude lithium carbonate in a liquid while feeding a carbon dioxide gas; and a decarbonization step of heating a lithium dissolved solution obtained in the dissolution step to release carbonic acid, and wherein when dissolving the crude lithium carbonate in the liquid in the dissolution step, the liquid is stirred in a reaction vessel using a stirrer, and a ratio of a diameter (d) of a stirring blade of the stirrer to an inner diameter (D) of the reaction vessel (d/D) is from 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka ARIYOSHI, Isao TOMITA, Hiroshi ABE