Patents by Inventor Minoru Kubota

Minoru Kubota 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).

  • Publication number: 20160167079
    Abstract: There is provided a coating method which can apply a coating solution uniformly onto a substrate surface while reducing the amount of the coating solution supplied. The coating method for applying a coating solution onto a wafer includes the steps of: supplying a solvent for the coating solution onto the wafer to form an annular liquid film of the solvent in a peripheral area of the wafer; supplying the coating solution to the center of the wafer while rotating the wafer at a first rotational speed (time t1-t2); and allowing the coating solution to spread on the wafer by rotating the wafer at a second rotational speed which is higher than the first rotational speed (time t4-t5). The supply of the solvent is continued until just before the coating solution comes into contact with the liquid film of the solvent (time t0-t3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Takafumi HASIMOTO, Shinichi HATAKEYAMA, Naoki SHIBATA, Kousuke YOSHIHARA, Minoru KUBOTA, Hiroyuki IDE
  • Publication number: 20160165603
    Abstract: A communication device comprising at least a receiver and a demodulator. The receiver receives first receiving signals and second receiving signals, wherein the first receiving signals are allocated to a first set of subcarriers composed of two or more continuous subcarriers, the second receiving signals are allocated to a second set of subcarriers composed of two or more continuous subcarriers, and at least a portion of the second set of subcarriers overlaps a portion of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame. The demodulator configured to detect the second receiving signals transmitted using one or more subcarriers from receiving signals including the first receiving signals and the second receiving signals, wherein the one or more subcarriers are subcarriers such that the first set of subcarriers overlap the second set of subcarriers, and the demodulator being demodulates the first receiving signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Shimpei TO, Minoru KUBOTA, Hideo NAMBA, Seiichi SAMPEI, Shinichi MIYAMOTO, Shinsuke IBI
  • Publication number: 20160154311
    Abstract: A developing method includes: forming a liquid pool of a diluted developing solution diluted with pure water in a central portion of a substrate; forming a liquid film of the diluted developing solution on a surface of the substrate by accelerating rotation of the substrate to diffuse the liquid pool of the diluted developing solution on the entire surface of the substrate; and then supplying a developing solution onto the substrate. Supplying a developing solution includes: supplying the developing solution from a developing solution supply nozzle having a liquid contact surface while securing a gap having a predetermined size between the developing solution supply nozzle and the substrate; and moving the developing solution supply nozzle in a radial direction passing through a center of the substrate while forming a liquid pool of the developing solution between the substrate and the liquid contact surface of the developing solution supply nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Koshi MUTA, Hideharu KYODA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20160127154
    Abstract: A transmitting device in a wireless communication includes a control module configured to indicate a method out of a plurality of interpolation methods, each of which interpolates channel values in missing subcarriers based on positions of representative subcarriers, which are selected out of the subcarriers defining a frequency band used in the wireless communication, and values in the representative subcarriers, and a transmitting module configured to transmit information about a selected interpolation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Alvaro RUIZ DELGADO, Minoru KUBOTA, Hiromichi TOMEBA, Takashi ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20160124324
    Abstract: A peripheral exposure method for performing an exposure treatment by illuminating light to a periphery of a resist film formed on a substrate to be processed is discussed. The method includes rotating the substrate to be processed on a horizontal plane, bringing a coolant gas into contact with the periphery of the resist film of the substrate to be processed which is being rotated, and cooling the substrate to be processed. Further, the method also includes measuring a temperature of the substrate to be processed, wherein when the temperature of the substrate to be processed is equal to or less than a predetermined temperature, the exposure treatment is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichi MIYAMOTO, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9301298
    Abstract: A communication device comprising a transmission unit and a reception unit. The transmission unit is configured to transmit, to a first communication device, first information indicating a first set of subcarriers comprising of a plurality of subcarriers, and to a second communication device, second information indicating a second set of subcarriers comprising of a plurality of subcarriers. The reception unit is configured to receive a first Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) signal from the first communication device using the first information and a second Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) signal from the second communication device using the second information. Also, in the communication device, a portion of the second set of subcarriers can overlap with at least a portion of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame of a plurality of time frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Shimpei To, Minoru Kubota, Hideo Namba, Seiichi Sampei, Shinichi Miyamoto, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Patent number: 9281880
    Abstract: A wireless reception device is notified of whether a multi-user MIMO signal transmitted from a wireless transmission device has undergone linear precoding or non-linear precoding without increasing the amount of control information. A wireless transmission device having a plurality of transmit antennas 303, for transmitting spatially multiplexed signals to a plurality of wireless reception devices includes a group construction unit 307 configured to classify the wireless reception devices into a plurality of groups and to determine a precoding scheme for each of the groups, a selection unit 315 configured to select one group from among the groups, and a precoding unit 323 configured to precode transmit data addressed to each of wireless reception devices belonging to the selected group, using a precoding scheme determined for the selected group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Hiroshi Nakano, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 9268230
    Abstract: A peripheral exposure method for performing an exposure treatment by illuminating light to a periphery of a resist film formed on a substrate to be processed is discussed. The method includes rotating the substrate to be processed on a horizontal plane, bringing a coolant gas into contact with the periphery of the resist film of the substrate to be processed which is being rotated, and cooling the substrate to be processed. Further, the method also includes measuring a temperature of the substrate to be processed, wherein when the temperature of the substrate to be processed is equal to or less than a predetermined temperature, the exposure treatment is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyamoto, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20160049997
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus can be notified whether an MU-MIMO signal transmitted from a base station apparatus is linear-precoded or nonlinear-precoded by using effective signaling. According to the present invention, the base station apparatus decides whether the nonlinear precoding is used in an own cell, includes the decided nonlinear precoding setting information in system information or a layer 3 message, and notifies the terminal apparatus of the decided nonlinear precoding setting information by using a physical broadcast channel, a physical downlink share channel, or the like. The terminal apparatus performs a demodulation process for user data destined for the own terminal apparatus based on the nonlinear precoding setting information acquired from the notified system information or layer 3 message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi ONODERA, Hiromichi TOMEBA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20160029377
    Abstract: Demodulation is effectivley performed that uses an MMSE adaptive array which uses a guard section of a signal that uses a cyclic prefix. According the present invention, there is provided a wireless terminal station that is applied to a wireless communication system which is made up of multiple wireless terminal stations and a base station, the wireless terminal station including: a delay time setting module 123 that sets a delay time based on a transmission timing identification number; and a transmission module 108 that, in a case where any other wireless terminal station starts transmission within a predetermined time after all communication within the wireless communication system is ended, starts transmission after the delay time has elapsed from a point in time at which the transmission has started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoko MASUDA, Hideo NAMBA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9217922
    Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus includes a substrate holding unit arranged within a processing cup and configured to horizontally hold a substrate, a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the substrate holding unit about a vertical axis, a processing liquid supply unit configured to supply a processing liquid onto a surface of the substrate, and an exhaust mechanism configured to discharge an atmospheric gas around the substrate. The exhaust mechanism includes an exhaust flow path connected to an exhaust port formed at the processing cup, a circulation flow path branched from the exhaust flow path and configured to communicate with the processing cup, a gas liquid separator, a first regulator valve installed at one end of the exhaust flow path, and a second regulator valve installed at the other end of the exhaust flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Minoru Kubota, Kousuke Yoshihara, Kouzou Tachibana
  • Patent number: 9220108
    Abstract: A communication terminal performing Fourier transform to convert a first time-domain signal into frequency-domain signals, allocating the frequency-domain signals to one or more first block is composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a first allocation unit, performing inverse Fourier transform to convert the allocated frequency-domain signals into a second time-domain signal, and transmitting, to a BS, the second time-domain signal simultaneously with another communication terminal, in case that the other communication apparatus performs communication with the BS using one or more second block composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a second allocation unit wherein the second block, wherein the number of subcarriers of the second block is equal to a value of x multiplied by the number of subcarriers of the first block, and x is equal to a value of 2 or a value greater than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 9209874
    Abstract: The present invention switches an interference suppression system between a linear precoding and a nonlinear precoding in accordance with a communication environment. A wireless transmission apparatus is provided with a plurality of transmission antenna units (303), and multiplexes spatially and transmits a plurality of series of data with respect to at least one wireless reception apparatus, and includes a selection unit (307) configured to select any one precoding system from a plurality of types of precoding systems and a precoding unit (315) configured to carry out precoding with respect to the plurality of series of data using the selected precoding system. In addition, the selection unit selects either of a first precoding system carrying out linear processing with respect to the plurality of series of data or a second precoding system carrying out nonlinear processing with respect to the plurality of series of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Shimpei To, Hiroshi Nakano, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150349932
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a transmission device, a reception device and a communication system capable of improving transmission characteristics by performing packet combining by HARQ in MU-MIMO transmission using non-linear precoding. In a case of receiving NAK from any of terminal devices (400), a base station device (100) retransmits a packet, in which an error occurs, addressed to this terminal device. The base station device (100) transmits the data to be retransmitted together with other transmission data addressed to a different terminal device or addressed to the own terminal device by spatial multiplexing transmission with MU-MIMO. At this time, for the retransmission data, precoding is performed such that a perturbation term same as a perturbation term which has been added to this data by non-linear precoding at the time of initial transmission is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi ONODERA, Hiromichi TOMEBA, Minoru KUBOTA, Fumiaki MAEHARA, Fumio TAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20150333808
    Abstract: A base station device according to the present invention receives wireless frames transmitted by terminal devices in nearby cells, estimates the state of the propagation channels between the terminal devices in the nearby cells and itself, based on the received signals thereof, and performs precoding on transmission data addressed to terminal devices in its own cell, based on the estimation results of the propagation channel state, and transmits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi ONODERA, Hiromichi TOMEBA, Alvaro RUIZ DELGADO, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9185577
    Abstract: To realize transmission performances equivalent to those of an MU-MIMO BLAST ZF-THP system without increasing a signal processing amount in a base station apparatus in a downlink MU-MIMO transmission system. A transmission apparatus is provided with a plurality of transmission antennas, generates a transmission signal addressed to each reception apparatus based on information indicating spatial correlation of channels to and from a plurality of reception apparatuses, space-multiplexes the generated each transmission signal in the same wireless resource, and transmits it to each reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Takashi Onodera, Shimpei To, Kozue Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20150304001
    Abstract: A base station apparatus according to the present invention is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromichi TOMEBA, Takashi ONODERA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9166658
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which a base station apparatus having a plurality of transmission antennas and one or more terminal apparatuses communicate with each other is provided with at least two methods of a first feedback method and a second feedback method regarding propagation path information at the time of reception. In accordance with a communication condition between the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus, or the function of the terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus performs feedback by one of the two methods of the first feedback method and the second feedback method. The base station apparatus performs spatial multiplexing transmission on the basis of the propagation path information that has been fed back. Thus, in a system in which CSI is fed back for MIMO transmission, desired transmission characteristics can be efficiently obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Kozue Hirata, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Publication number: 20150295631
    Abstract: It is possible to effectively perform feedback in a communication system in which base station devices cooperatively communicate. A feedback information generation unit 208 has a function of adjusting the amount of information used for representing a channel estimated value which is output from a channel estimation unit 206, depending on each base station device. In other words, among a feedback information amount used for representing a channel estimated value between the mobile station device and the base station device connected to the mobile station device, and a feedback information amount used for representing a channel estimated value between the mobile station device and a base station device other than the base station device connected to the mobile station device, the feedback information amount used for representing one type of channel estimated value is adjusted so as to be less than the feedback information amount used for representing the other type of channel estimated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshimoto, Kozue Yokomakura, Ryota Yamada, Katsuya Kato, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150289245
    Abstract: There is provided a first wireless communication apparatus that is used in a wireless communication system in which plural wireless communication apparatuses simultaneously transmit data to a wireless base station apparatus, the first wireless communication apparatus including a transmission timing control unit that performs control such that a channel estimation signal is not transmitted in a case where a second wireless communication apparatus transmits the channel estimation signal. This enables reduction in errors in channel state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Namba, Minoru Kubota