Patents by Inventor Koji Nishiyama

Koji Nishiyama 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: 11253295
    Abstract: Provided is a vertebral spacer including a columnar main-body portion attached to individual cut end portions of the cut vertebral arch by screws, wherein the main-body portion is provided with two accommodating holes formed inside the main-body portion at positions spaced in a longitudinal direction of the main-body portion, and individually accommodating head portions of the screws, the individual accommodating holes are provided with openings through which the head portions are inserted into the accommodating holes from outside the main-body portion, and the openings have diameters greater than diameters of shaft portions of the screws, smaller than diameters of the head portions, and increased to a size that is greater than the diameters of the head portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Fukuhara, Koji Nishiyama, Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Katsuyoshi Sobue, Ryunosuke Seki
  • Patent number: 11203094
    Abstract: In a substrate cleaning device, with a polishing head in contact with one surface of a substrate rotated by a spin chuck, the polishing head is moved at least between a center and an outer periphery of the substrate. Thus, the one surface of the substrate is polished by the polishing head, and contaminants present on the one surface of the substrate are removed. At this time, capacity for removing contaminants by the polishing head is changed according to a position in a radial direction of the substrate. The capacity for removing contaminants refers to capacity for scraping contaminants adhering to the one surface of the substrate, and suction marks, contact marks and the like remaining on the one surface of the substrate by polishing. It is possible to change the capacity for removing contaminants by adjusting a pushing force exerted on the one surface of the substrate from the polishing head, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hiromi Murachi, Ryuichi Yoshida, Koji Nishiyama, Toru Momma, Chikara Sagae
  • Patent number: 11114316
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus that treats a substrate with processing liquids. The apparatus includes a substrate holder, an exterior cup, and an interior cup. The interior cup includes an interior cup body, and an interior cup outlet. The exterior cup includes an exterior cup body, an exterior bottom cup, a first drain outlet, a first exhaust port, a second drain outlet, a second exhaust port, and a separation partition. The apparatus further includes an annular member movable upwardly/downwardly, and a drive unit that causes the annular member to move to shift the interior cup body between a collecting position and a retracting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventors: Kota Kabune, Masahito Kashiyama, Yasuo Takahashi, Koji Nishiyama, Chiho Harayama
  • Publication number: 20210210338
    Abstract: An outer peripheral end of a substrate is held with a plurality of chuck pins provided at a spin plate abutting against a plurality of portions of the outer peripheral end of the substrate, and the spin plate is rotated about a rotation axis. A cleaning head is moved by a head moving mechanism while being pressed against a back surface of the substrate held by the plurality of chuck pins by the head moving mechanism, and foreign matter on the back surface of the substrate is removed by polishing with the cleaning head. A reaction force against a load applied to the back surface of the substrate by the cleaning head is generated in the substrate by auxiliary pins. Alternatively, the back surface of the substrate, which has been cleaned or is being cleaned by the cleaning head, is further cleaned by a cleaning brush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210185238
    Abstract: An image generation device includes an image capturing unit installed on a water moving object, a target information acquisition unit which acquires target information about a target, an augmented image generation unit which generates an augmented image in which the target information acquired by the target information acquisition unit is displayed in a captured image captured by the image capturing unit, a marker display unit which displays a marker for selecting the target by a user such that the marker moves according to a display place of the target in the augmented image, and a marker moving unit moves the display place of at least one of a plurality of the markers so that determination regions which determining that each marker has been selected do not overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuyuki SEIKE, Takanori HISAJIMA, Noriyuki TOMONO, Ken HASEGAWA, Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11004706
    Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus includes a treating section for treating substrates, and an interface section disposed adjacent the treating section and adjacent an exposing machine provided separately from the apparatus. The interface section has a first treating-section-side transport mechanism, a second treating-section-side transport mechanism, and an exposing-machine-side transport mechanism. Each of the first and second treating-section-side transport mechanisms is arranged to receive the substrates from the treating section, pass the substrates to the exposing-machine-side transport mechanism, receive the substrates from the exposing-machine-side transport mechanism and pass the substrates to the treating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10985008
    Abstract: An outer peripheral end of a substrate is held with a plurality of chuck pins provided at a spin plate abutting against a plurality of portions of the outer peripheral end of the substrate, and the spin plate is rotated about a rotation axis. A cleaning head is moved by a head moving mechanism while being pressed against a back surface of the substrate held by the plurality of chuck pins by the head moving mechanism, and foreign matter on the back surface of the substrate is removed by polishing with the cleaning head. A reaction force against a load applied to the back surface of the substrate by the cleaning head is generated in the substrate by auxiliary pins. Alternatively, the back surface of the substrate, which has been cleaned or is being cleaned by the cleaning head, is further cleaned by a cleaning brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20210009240
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide an image generating device which generates a synthesized image from which one is able to intuitively grasp a relation between an image and a traveling position of a water-surface movable body. The image generating device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires attitude information indicative of an attitude of a camera or a ship where the camera is installed. The processing circuitry acquires a traveling route of the ship based on a detection result of at least one of a position and a direction of the ship. The processing circuitry generates traveling route display data based on the attitude information and the traveling route. The processing circuitry generates a synthesized image in which the traveling route display data is synthesized with an image outputted from the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10857570
    Abstract: An upper spin chuck and a lower spin chuck are arranged in a vertical direction. In the lower spin chuck, a substrate holder sucks a center portion of a lower surface of a substrate, so that the substrate is held. In this state, a peripheral portion of the lower surface of the substrate rotated by a spin motor is cleaned by a brush of a first back surface cleaning mechanism. In the upper spin chuck, a plurality of chuck pins abut against an outer peripheral end of the substrate, so that the substrate is held. In this state, a region inward of the peripheral portion of the lower surface of the substrate rotated by the spin motor is cleaned by a brush of a second back surface cleaning mechanism. Receiving and transferring of the substrate are performed by a receiving transferring mechanism between the upper and the lower spin chucks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holding Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10827769
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique of suppressing precipitation of an anthocyanin pigment in a range other than the highly acidic range. The present invention provides an anthocyanin pigment preparation, comprising: an anthocyanin pigment; and an emulsifier, wherein the pH when the anthocyanin pigment preparation is diluted with water or dissolved in water so that a color value becomes 10 is more than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SAN-EI GEN F.F.I., INC.
    Inventors: Mayu Suzuki, Minoru Iniwa, Masashi Imai, Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10818520
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus including a substrate holder, a rotating drive unit, a treatment liquid supplying unit, an exterior cup, and an interior cup. The interior cup is movable between a collection position where the interior cup collects the treatment liquid and a retracting position where the exterior cup collects the treatment liquid, and includes an interior cup main body with an annular contour, a liquid outlet in the interior cup main body for draining the treatment liquid in the interior cup main body, and an exhaust port in the interior cup main body for exhausting gas in the interior cup main body. The exterior cup includes an exterior cup main body with an annular contour, a liquid outlet in the exterior cup main body for draining the treatment liquid in the exterior cup main body, and an exhaust port in the exterior cup main body for exhausting gas in the exterior cup main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahito Kashiyama, Koji Nishiyama, Kota Kabune
  • Publication number: 20200230778
    Abstract: In a substrate cleaning device, with a polishing head in contact with one surface of a substrate rotated by a spin chuck, the polishing head is moved at least between a center and an outer periphery of the substrate. Thus, the one surface of the substrate is polished by the polishing head, and contaminants present on the one surface of the substrate are removed. At this time, capacity for removing contaminants by the polishing head is changed according to a position in a radial direction of the substrate. The capacity for removing contaminants refers to capacity for scraping contaminants adhering to the one surface of the substrate, and suction marks, contact marks and the like remaining on the one surface of the substrate by polishing. It is possible to change the capacity for removing contaminants by adjusting a pushing force exerted on the one surface of the substrate from the polishing head, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hiromi MURACHI, Ryuichi YOSHIDA, Koji NISHIYAMA, Toru MOMMA, Chikara SAGAE
  • Patent number: 10668591
    Abstract: A rotating substrate is cleaned by a polishing head and a cleaning brush. A first trajectory is formed by movement of the polishing head along a first path. A second trajectory is formed by movement of the cleaning brush along a second path. A region in which the first and second paths overlap with each other is defined as an interference region. The polishing head moves from a center towards an outer peripheral end of the substrate, and it is determined whether the polishing head has moved out of the interference region. At a time point at which it is determined that the polishing head has moved out of the interference region, the cleaning brush starts moving from the outer peripheral end towards the center of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Murachi, Ryuichi Yoshida, Koji Nishiyama, Toru Momma, Chikara Sagae
  • Patent number: 10656524
    Abstract: A substrate on which exposure processing has not been performed is carried into a placement cooling unit and cooled. The cooled substrate is held and carried out from the placement cooling unit by a transport device. In the case where an exposure device is able to receive the substrate, the substrate that has been carried out from the placement cooling unit is transported to the exposure device by the transport device. In the case where the exposure device is unable to receive the substrate, the substrate that has been carried out from the platform cooling unit is carried into a cooling buffer unit by the transport device. In the cooling buffer unit, a temperature of the substrate is maintained. After the exposure device becomes able to receive the substrate, the substrate is carried out from the cooling buffer unit and transported to the exposure device by the transport device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Nishiyama, Kazuhiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20200089234
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device to be installed in a water-surface movable body, place a virtual camera based on positional information and posture information, place additional display information as a 3D virtual reality object, place a virtual projection screen subdivided by a mesh distorted in the opposite direction of lens distortion in the captured image, convert vertexes of the virtual reality object and of the mesh faces by a vertex shader based on a position and a direction of the virtual camera into positions in a 2D virtual screen, place image pieces of the captured image to the corresponding mesh by a pixel shader based on the positions of the vertexes in the virtual screen, and generate a synthesized image where a graphic rendering the virtual reality object is synthesized with the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20200089957
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device to be installed in a water-surface movable body, generate a synthesized image where a graphic rendering a three-dimensional virtual reality object indicative of additional display information is synthesized with the captured image based on positional information, posture information, and the additional display information, estimate a position of the target object at a timing later than a timing at which the additional display information is acquired the latest, based on a speed of the target object included in the additional display information, or a speed of the target object estimated from the additional display information, and update the rendering of the virtual reality object of the target object in the synthesized image based on a result of the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20200090367
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device that includes processing circuitry configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device to be installed in a water-surface movable body, acquire positional information indicative of a position of the water-surface movable body, acquire posture information indicative of a posture of the water-surface movable body, acquire additional display information including information indicative of positions of one or more locations, generate a synthesized image where a graphic rendering a three-dimensional virtual reality object indicative of the additional display information is synthesized on the captured image based on the positional information, the posture information, and the additional display information, and place the graphic across a boundary of the captured image when the captured image is placed only in a certain portion of the synthesized image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20200090414
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device that includes processing circuitry configured to acquire positional information indicative of a position of a water-surface movable body where an imaging device is to be installed, acquire posture information indicative of a posture of the water-surface movable body, acquire additional display information including information indicative of positions of a plurality of locations, generate three-dimensional display data for displaying a graphic indicative of the additional display information by superimposedly placing the graphic on a water surface portion of an image outputted from the imaging device based on the positional information, the posture information, and the positions of the plurality of locations included in the additional display information, and output the graphic rendering the three-dimensional display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20200000499
    Abstract: Provided is a vertebral spacer including a columnar main-body portion attached to individual cut end portions of the cut vertebral arch by screws, wherein the main-body portion is provided with two accommodating holes formed inside the main-body portion at positions spaced in a longitudinal direction of the main-body portion, and individually accommodating head portions of the screws, the individual accommodating holes are provided with openings through which the head portions are inserted into the accommodating holes from outside the main-body portion, and the openings have diameters greater than diameters of shaft portions of the screws, smaller than diameters of the head portions, and increased to a size that is greater than the diameters of the head portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.
    Inventors: Tomohiko FUKUHARA, Koji NISHIYAMA, Koichi KURODA, Mitsuya URATA, Katsuyoshi SOBUE, Ryunosuke SEKI
  • Publication number: 20190241983
    Abstract: The present invention provides a colored sweet potato that has a high anthocyanin content, and that is useful as a pigment material. Further, the present invention also provides a processed product of the colored sweet potato useful as a purple pigment, more specifically, an extract composition, as well as the purified matter thereof (including roughly purified matter). A colored sweet potato having the following characteristics is used. (A) the color value (530 nm) per gram of wet weight of colored sweet potato (color value (530 nm)/g) is not less than 15; (B) the absorbance ratio (320 nm/530 nm) per gram of wet weight of colored sweet potato (absorbance ratio (320 nm/530 nm)/g) is not less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: SAN-EI GEN F.F.I., INC.
    Inventors: Tetsufumi SAKAI, Masaru YOSHINAGA, Yasuhiro TAKAHATA, Yumi KAI, Akira KOBAYASHI, Kenji KATAYAMA, Toshiro FUJITA, Hironori ONISHI, Kazuya MORIYUKI, Koji NISHIYAMA