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: 10821910
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator has a first stereo camera and a second stereo camera. The first stereo camera has an imaging unit and an imaging unit. The second stereo camera has an imaging unit and an imaging unit. A case accommodates imaging unit and imaging unit inside. Case accommodates imaging unit and imaging unit inside. Case and case are attached to the outside of cab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Yoshiaki Honma, Takeshi Ikeda, Kazuhiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20200308418
    Abstract: There is provided a surface reflection preventing coating material having high reflection preventing performance and excellent pitch blackness even in a thin film. A surface reflection preventing coating material contains a binder resin, carbon black, hydrophobized dry silica, a roughening particle, and a solvent, wherein the roughening particle is a polyamide-based resin particle having an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, an addition amount of the polyamide-based resin particle is 24 parts by mass or more and 44 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and an addition amount of the dry silica is 14 parts by mass or more with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Shota Inoguchi
  • Publication number: 20200294843
    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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi OTA, Manabu OKUTANI, Hiroshi ABE
  • Patent number: 10760852
    Abstract: A substrate drying method for drying a front surface of a substrate having a pattern includes a sublimation-agent-liquid-film placing step of placing a liquid film of a liquid sublimation-agent on the front surface of the substrate, a high vapor-pressure liquid placing step of placing a liquid film of a high vapor-pressure liquid that has vapor pressure higher than the sublimation agent and that does not include water on the liquid film of the sublimation-agent placed on the front surface of the substrate, a vaporizing/cooling step of losing vaporization heat in response to vaporization of the high vapor-pressure liquid, and, cooling the sublimation-agent, and, as a result, solidifying the liquid film of the sublimation-agent, and, forming a sublimation-agent film on the front surface of the substrate, and a sublimating step of sublimating the sublimation-agent film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Okutani, Noriyuki Kikumoto, Naohiko Yoshihara, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10755916
    Abstract: A substrate processing method for processing a surface of a substrate includes: a first solvent supply step (a) of supplying IPA to a surface of a substrate while rotating the substrate to treat the surface; a modification treatment liquid supply step (b) of supplying a silylating solution after the first solvent supply step to form a liquid film; and a step (c) of heating the substrate in the first solvent supply step and the modification treatment liquid supply step. The step (c) is configured such that an amount of heat per unit time to be applied to the substrate in the modification treatment liquid supply step is larger than an amount of heat per unit time applied to the substrate in the first solvent supply step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Manabu Okutani, Takashi Ota
  • Publication number: 20200248283
    Abstract: A method for dissolving a lithium compound according to the present invention includes bringing a lithium compound into contact with water or an acidic solution, and feeding, separately from the lithium compound, a carbonate ion to the water or the acidic solution to produce carbonic acid, and allowing the carbonic acid to react with the lithium compound to produce lithium hydrogen carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka ARIYOSHI, Isao TOMITA, Hiroshi ABE
  • Patent number: 10734271
    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: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ota, Manabu Okutani, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20200243350
    Abstract: In substrate processing, by supplying a first processing liquid onto an upper surface 91 of a substrate 9 held in a horizontal state, a liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid which entirely covers the upper surface 91 is formed. Further, by heating the substrate 9, a vapor layer 82 of the first processing liquid is formed between the upper surface 91 and the liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid on the upper surface 91. Then, by supplying a second processing liquid onto the upper surface 91 of the substrate 9, the liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid is removed from the upper surface 91. It is thereby possible to appropriately remove extraneous matters 89 from the upper surface 91 of the substrate 9, which are taken in the liquid film 81 of the first processing liquid as the vapor layer 82 is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Manabu OKUTANI, Tsutomu OSUKA, Katsuei HIGASHI, Hiroshi ABE, Naohiko YOSHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200239981
    Abstract: A sodium removal method according to the present invention is a method for removing sodium from a sodium-containing solution by precipitating a sodium ion in the sodium-containing solution as a sodium salt, the method including: a sodium precipitating step of precipitating the sodium salt by decreasing a temperature of the sodium-containing solution so that a sodium concentration of the sodium-containing solution exceeds solubility of the sodium salt at said temperature; and a solid-liquid separation step of removing the precipitated sodium salt by solid-liquid separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka ARIYOSHI, Isao TOMITA, Hiroshi ABE
  • Patent number: 10722763
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a golf club head being lightweight and having a high strength. A head 2 includes a face 4, a sole 8, and a crown 6. The face 4 includes a face surface fs and a face back surface fr. A plurality of projections (A) are provided on the face back surface fr. The projections (A) are point-like in a planar view. An optional first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction are defined in the planar view. Preferably, arrangement regularity of the projections (A) in the second direction is higher than arrangement regularity of the projections (A) in the first direction. Preferably, the first direction is a longitudinal direction; and the second direction is a lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Tatsuhiko Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20200222029
    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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Baba, Kenichi Nagae, Yukio Furukawa, Kouichi Kato, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20200205749
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image display method with which a structure of an imaging object can be 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, generating 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 displaying the first photoacoustic image and the second photoacoustic image in a superimposing manner on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru Fukushima, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10695792
    Abstract: A processing liquid is supplied to an upper surface of a horizontally-held substrate to form a liquid film of the processing liquid that covers an entirety of the substrate upper surface. The substrate is heated to evaporate the processing liquid in contact with the upper surface of the substrate to form a gas phase layer between the upper surface of the substrate and the liquid film of the processing liquid. After the gas phase layer has been formed, a gas is blown onto the liquid film above the substrate to open a hole in the liquid film. The gas is blown onto a region inside the hole in the liquid film to move the liquid film on the gas phase layer. A direction of a gas stream at a substrate outer peripheral portion is changed to remove the liquid film at the substrate outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Okutani, Takashi Ota, Hiroshi Abe, Naohiko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20200158833
    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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Toshihiko BABA, Keisuke KONDO, Hiroshi ABE
  • Patent number: 10639525
    Abstract: A golf club set includes a plurality of golf clubs 1 having different loft angles. The golf clubs 1 include at least one 1st golf club 1A having a loft angle of less than 34 degrees, and at least one 2nd golf club 1B having a loft angle of not less than 34 degrees. Each of the at least one 1st golf club 1A and the at least one 2nd golf club 1B comprises a clubface 3 provided with a plurality of face grooves 8 having a depth. The depth of the face grooves 8 of the at least one 2nd golf club 1B is larger than the depth of the face grooves 8 of the at least one 1st golf club 1A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Ueda, Masahiko Ueda, Shimpei Oyama, Yuki Nagano, Satoru Hanamitsu, Tomoya Hirano, Kenji Kii, Hiroshi Abe, Yasushi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10644561
    Abstract: A stator structure according to an embodiment includes a stator core having a plurality of teeth; insulators configured to cover the teeth; a coil wound around each of the teeth with the insulators interposed therebetween; and first and second coil covers configured to cover the coil, each of the first and second coil covers being formed in an annular shape. The insulators have respective flange parts configured to cover respective distal end portions of the teeth. Each of the first and second coil covers has a first peripheral wall. The first peripheral wall of the first coil cover and the flange part located on one side of the insulator are arranged to face each other with a space therebetween. The first peripheral wall of the second coil cover and the flange part located on the other side of the insulator are arranged to face each other with a space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Naohiro Yamada, Mutsumi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20200129820
    Abstract: A head includes a hitting face. The hitting face has a face center and a sweet spot. The hitting face has a face height that is denoted by Hf (mm), the face height being measured at a toe-heel direction position of the face center. The sweet spot has a vertical height that is denoted by Hs (mm). The face center has a vertical height that is denoted by Hc (mm). The vertical height Hc is greater than or equal to 20 mm and less than or equal to 26 mm. The face height Hf is greater than or equal to 40 mm and less than or equal to 52 mm. The head satisfies an expression 1 as follows: Hs<0.06*Hf+16 (expression 1). The head is an iron type golf club head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi ABE
  • Publication number: 20200128187
    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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Ayumi Kabata, Masae Torii
  • Patent number: 10594198
    Abstract: A stator structure includes a stator core, insulators, a coil, and shield plates. The stator core includes a plurality of teeth extending from a body part of the stator core in a radial direction thereof. The body part is formed in an annular shape. The insulators cover the teeth from both sides in an axial direction of the stator core. The coil is wound around each of the teeth with the insulators interposed therebetween. The coil covers cover the coil from both sides in the axial direction. Each of the coil covers is formed in an annular shape. The shield plates are attached to the stator core from both sides in the axial direction of the stator core with the respective coil covers interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Nakano, Mutsumi Matsuura, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10593587
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a spin base on which a chuck member that holds a peripheral edge of a substrate is disposed, a motor which rotates the spin base, a heater unit which is positioned between the substrate held by the chuck member and an upper surface of the spin base, a processing liquid supply unit which supplies a processing liquid toward a surface of the substrate held by the chuck member, and a microwave generating unit which generates microwaves to a lower surface of the substrate from the heater unit. The microwave generating unit may include a microwave generating member which includes a waveguide disposed in the heater unit, microwave oscillator which is disposed outside the heater unit and a coaxial cable which connects the waveguide to the microwave oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Toyohide Hayashi, Kenji Kobayashi