Patents by Inventor Isamu Shimoda
Isamu Shimoda 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: 11962038Abstract: A power storage component module includes power storage components and a bus bar connecting the power storage components to one another. At least one positioning boss is provided on an electrode included in the power storage components. The at least one positioning boss protrudes upward. The at least one positioning boss includes a base end and a distal end having a diameter less than a diameter of the base end. At least one through hole opens in the bus bar. The bus bar is placed on the at least one positioning boss and a hole edge of the at least one through hole is disposed around the at least one positioning boss between the base end of the at least one positioning boss and the distal end of the at least one positioning boss in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Matsumura, Shinichi Takase, Hiroki Shimoda, Yusuke Suzuki, Isamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 6515640Abstract: An electron emission device comprises an electron emission electrode with a pointed end and a counter electrode positioned opposite to the pointed end, both formed by fine working of a conductive layer laminated on an insulating substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1998Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Mamoru Miyawaki, Tetsuya Kaneko, Akira Suzuki, Isamu Shimoda, Toshihiko Takeda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Publication number: 20020097204Abstract: An electron emission device comprises an electron emission electrode with a pointed end and a counter electrode positioned opposite to the pointed end, both formed by fine working of a conductive layer laminated on an insulating substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 1998Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: TAKEO TSUKAMOTO, MAMORU MIYAWAKI, TETSUYA KANEKO, AKIRA SUZUKI, ISAMU SHIMODA, TOSHIHIKO TAKEDA, MASAHIKO OKUNUKI
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Patent number: 5838019Abstract: An electron emitting device is provided with an N type semiconductor disposed in contact with a first electrode. A P type semiconductor contacts the N type semiconductor to define a PN junction. A low work function metal electrode contacts the P type semiconductor thus defining a Schottky barrier. First and second means are provided to forward bias the PN junction and to reversed bias the Schottky barrier, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1995Date of Patent: November 17, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Akira Shimizu, Akira Suzuki, Masao Sugata, Isamu Shimoda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Patent number: 5786658Abstract: An electron emission device comprises an electron emission electrode with a pointed end and a counter electrode positioned opposite to the pointed end, both formed by fine working of a conductive layer laminated on an insulating substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1994Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Mamoru Miyawaki, Tetsuya Kaneko, Akira Suzuki, Isamu Shimoda, Toshihiko Takeda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Patent number: 5680158Abstract: A communication apparatus for a handicapped person, includes a plurality of first key switches for inputting character input data in a general input mode, a single second key switch for inputting character input data in a second key input mode, a character input device for inputting the character input data in the general input mode inputted by operating the plurality of first key switches or in the single key input mode inputted by operating the single second key switch, a character output device for outputting at least character output data which corresponds to the character input data inputted by the character input device, a mode selector for selecting the character input data input in the general input mode by the character input device or the character input data input in the single key input mode by the character input device, and a controller for controlling the operation of the character input device, the character output device, and the input mode selector.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1992Date of Patent: October 21, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaaki Yoshida, Isamu Shimoda, Mikiharu Matsuoka, Yasuko Miyazaki, Masaaki Kanashiki
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Patent number: 5633727Abstract: The invention relates to a document image processing apparatus in which a document image is lighted by a lighting device and is photographed and the photographed document image is displayed on a display, wherein the apparatus has a memory comprising a volatile memory device or/and a non-volatile memory device and a controller having control means which includes an operational device therein and can intermittently light on/off the lighting device, thereby enabling the document image to be stored and reproduced. The display is constructed by a non-thermion device such as liquid crystal or the like and the controller has means to intermittently light on/off a light source of the lighting device, so that an electric power consumption can be reduced and a portability is improved.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1995Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Isamu Shimoda
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Patent number: 5627111Abstract: An electron emitting device causes electron emission by a current supply in a coarse resistor film. The coarse thin resistor film is composed at least of a coarse thin silicon film.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Akira Shimizu, Akira Suzuki, Masao Sugata, Isamu Shimoda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Patent number: 5627670Abstract: A scanning optical apparatus comprises a light source unit, scanning means for deflecting a beam from said light source unit and scanning a scanning surface with the beam, means for detecting the beam scanned on said scanning surface and control means for controlling the beam scanned on said scanning surface in a direction perpendicular to said scanning surface on the basis of a magnitude and a change as a function of time of a signal output from said detecting means.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuo Minoura, Isamu Shimoda, Masayuki Suzuki, Yoshinobu Shiraiwa, Osamu Hoshino
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Patent number: 5610965Abstract: A method of exposing a wafer to exposure energy such as ultraviolet rays or X-rays through a mask to transfer a pattern of the mask onto the wafer, for example. The temperature of the mask and/or the wafer increases during the exposure operation by absorption of the exposure energy. While the wafer is being exposed, the temperature of the mask and/or the wafer is detected. If the temperature is going to exceed an exposable temperature range determined on the basis of the line width of the pattern to be transferred, the exposure operation is interrupted. Then, the heat accumulated in the mask and/or the wafer is removed. Thereafter, the exposure operation is resumed. This is repeated until the predetermined or required amount of exposure is reached, for one shot. By this, thermal expansion of the mask and the wafer during the exposure operation is prevented to assure the precision of the pattern transfer.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1994Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makiko Mori, Kunitaka Ozawa, Koji Uda, Isamu Shimoda, Shunichi Uzawa, Eiji Sakamoto
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Patent number: 5588839Abstract: An information processing apparatus for physically-handicapped users includes a keyboard for inputting visual display information adapted be the visually perceived, a first display for displaying the visual information in a form so as to be visually perceived, a converter for converting the visual display information into sounds which can be understood by a visually-impaired user or into tactile display information adapted to be perceived by a hearing impaired user, and a second display for outputting the information converted by the converter as a sound or a vibration.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1996Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Isamu Shimoda
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Patent number: 5576699Abstract: In a method for transferring information in a form of electron beam, an electron beam detector detects the electron beam, and emission of the electron beam from a predetermined electron beam source is controlled in accordance with a signal from the detector upon detection of the electron beam. A deflection electrode is also used to deflect the electron beams according to an electric or magnetic field to perform charge shifting, logical additions, logical multiplications, image formation, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1995Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitaka Kan, Kenji Nakamura, Masanori Takenouchi, Naoji Hayakawa, Isamu Shimoda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Patent number: 5574438Abstract: In a method for transferring information in a form of electron beam, an electron beam detector detects the electron beam, and emission of the electron beam from a predetermined electron beam source is controlled in accordance with a signal from the detector upon detection of the electron beam. A deflection electrode is also used to deflect the electron beams according to an electric or magnetic field to perform charge shifting, logical additions, logical multiplications, image formation, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1994Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitaka Kan, Kenji Nakamura, Masanori Takenouchi, Naoji Hayakawa, Isamu Shimoda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Patent number: 5559342Abstract: An electron emitting device causes electron emission by a current supply in a coarse resistor film. The coarse thin resistor film is composed at least of a coarse thin silicon film.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1995Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Akira Shimizu, Akira Suzuki, Masao Sugata, Isamu Shimoda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Patent number: 5498501Abstract: A method of manufacturing of semiconductor devices, includes exposing different portions of a semiconductor substrate with a first exposure apparatus having a first exposure range; placing and aligning the semiconductor substrate with respect to a second exposure range of a second exposure apparatus, which range is larger than the first exposure range of the first exposure apparatus; detecting an alignment error of each of the portions of the semiconductor substrate as covered by the second exposure range of the second exposure apparatus; calculating an overall alignment error of those portions of the semiconductor substrate with respect to the entire second exposure range of the second exposure apparatus, on the basis of the detected alignment errors; and controlling the exposure operation of the second exposure apparatus on the basis of the calculated overall alignment error.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1995Date of Patent: March 12, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isamu Shimoda, Takao Kariya, Nobutoshi Mizusawa, Kunitaka Ozawa, Shunichi Uzawa
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Patent number: 5459573Abstract: A position detecting apparatus usable for aligning mask and a semiconductor wafer, wherein a laser beam produced by a semiconductor laser is projected through a predetermined optical system to alignment marks formed on the mask and the wafer, and the light reflected by the marks are detected by an accumulation type sensor to produce an electrical signal, from which the relative positional relation between the mask and the wafer are detected on the basis of the electrical signal. To obtain proper mark signals, the quantity of light incident on the accumulation sensor is controlled. In this apparatus, the beam emitting strength of the semiconductor laser is made constant, and the control of thee amount of light incident on the accumulation sensor is effected by controlling the operation period of the semiconductor laser.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1994Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoto Abe, Koji Uda, Isamu Shimoda, Shunichi Uzawa, Noriyuki Nose
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Patent number: 5390227Abstract: An exposure apparatus for exposing a semiconductor wafer to a semiconductor device pattern formed in a mask. The exposure energy is, for example, X-rays contains in synchrotron orbit radiation. A blade for limiting the area irradiated with the exposure energy on a mask or wafer is integrally movable in an alignment detecting unit for detecting the alignment mark. Four of such blades are provided to provide a square exposure area. The blades are movable independently by the associated alignment detecting units. Each of the blades is finely movable relative to the associated alignment detecting unit. The shape or size or the like of the blade is determined in consideration of the position of the blade in the direction of the exposure energy irradiation, and the maximum and minimum exposure view angle. The blade is cooled. The exposure area can be changed highly accurately and efficiently with a simple structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1993Date of Patent: February 14, 1995Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobutoshi Mizusawa, Ryuichi Ebinuma, Takao Kariya, Isamu Shimoda, Shunichi Uzawa
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Patent number: 5361015Abstract: A multi type electron emission element comprises a plurality of electrodes formed on a deposition surface of an insulating material and each having a conical portion of a single crystal, an insulating layer formed on the deposition surface and having openings respectively centered on the conical portions, and a deriving electrodes, part of which is formed near at least the conical portions, the deriving electrode being formed on the insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1993Date of Patent: November 1, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiko Okunuki, Akira Suzuki, Isamu Shimoda, Tetsuya Kaneko, Takeo Tsukamoto, Toshihiko Takeda, Takao Yonehara, Takeshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 5355127Abstract: In a method and apparatus for transferring information in a form of electron beam, an electron beam detector detects the electron beam, and emission of the electron beam from a predetermined electron beam source is controlled in accordance with a signal from the detector upon detection of the electron beam. In the method and apparatus, a deflection electrode is also used to deflect the electron beams according to an electric or magnetic field to perform charge shifting, logical additions, Logical multiplications, image formation, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1992Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumitaka Kan, Kenji Nakamura, Masanori Takenouchi, Naoji Hayakawa, Isamu Shimoda, Masahiko Okunuki
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Patent number: 5327050Abstract: An electron emitting device causes electron emission by a current supply in a coarse resistor film. The coarse thin resistor film is composed at least of a coarse thin silicon film.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1992Date of Patent: July 5, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Akira Shimizu, Akira Suzuki, Masao Sugata, Isamu Shimoda, Masahiko Okunuki