Patents by Inventor Satoru Yamaguchi

Satoru Yamaguchi 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: 10874019
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a plate member disposed on a back-surface side of a display unit; a printed circuit board disposed on a back-surface side of the plate member; a flexible printed circuit board that is inserted in a through-hole passing through the plate member and electrically couples the display unit to the printed circuit board; a first tape that is attached to an inside of the through-hole and to a portion of the plate member at a periphery of the through-hole and is disposed between the plate member and the flexible printed circuit board; and a second tape that is attached to the back-surface side of the plate member and to the flexible printed circuit board to close the through-hole. The second tape has a hole through which part of the first tape is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Satoru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200303159
    Abstract: To acquire a correction image by performing a sub-pixel shift process for shifting an image using a pixel interpolation filter by a pixel shift amount between pixels and a frequency correction process for correcting a frequency characteristic of the image after shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi HAMADA, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200201019
    Abstract: An image forming device is provided that is capable of forming a proper integrated signal even when an image or a signal waveform is acquired from a pattern having the possibility of preventing proper matching, such as a repetition pattern, a shrinking pattern, and the like. In particular, the image forming device forms an integrated image by integrating a plurality of image signals and is provided with: a matching processing section that performs a matching process between the plurality of image signals; an image integration section that integrates the plurality of image signals for which positioning has been performed by the matching processing section; and a periodicity determination section that determines a periodicity of a pattern contained in the image signals. The matching processing section varies a size of an image signal area for the matching in accordance with a determination by the periodicity determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Yasunori TAKASUGI, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyuki HIRAO
  • Patent number: 10665420
    Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus, aiming at obtaining an image and the like focused on the sample surface and the bottom while preventing the visual field deviation occurred when focusing on the sample surface and the bottom respectively. The charged particle beam apparatus forms a first image (301), which is based on detection of the first energy charged particles, based on an irradiation with a beam whose focus is adjusted on a sample surface side, forms a second image (304) which is based on detection of second energy charged particles having a relatively higher energy than the first energy and a third image (303) which is based on the detection of the first energy charged particles, based on the irradiation with a beam whose focus is adjusted on a bottom side of a pattern included in the sample, acquires a deviation between the first image and the third image, and composes the first image and the second image so as to correct the deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Takasugi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kei Sakai, Hideki Itai, Yoshinori Momonoi, Toshimasa Kameda, Yoshihiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10620421
    Abstract: An image forming device is provided that is capable of forming a proper integrated signal even when an image or a signal waveform is acquired from a pattern having the possibility of preventing proper matching, such as a repetition pattern, a shrinking pattern, and the like. In particular, the image forming device forms an integrated image by integrating a plurality of image signals and is provided with: a matching processing section that performs a matching process between the plurality of image signals; an image integration section that integrates the plurality of image signals for which positioning has been performed by the matching processing section; and a periodicity determination section that determines a periodicity of a pattern contained in the image signals. The matching processing section varies a size of an image signal area for the matching in accordance with a determination by the periodicity determination section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Takasugi, Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Hirao
  • Publication number: 20200100362
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a plate member disposed on a back-surface side of a display unit; a printed circuit board disposed on a back-surface side of the plate member; a flexible printed circuit board that is inserted in a through-hole passing through the plate member and electrically couples the display unit to the printed circuit board; a first tape that is attached to an inside of the through-hole and to a portion of the plate member at a periphery of the through-hole and is disposed between the plate member and the flexible printed circuit board; and a second tape that is attached to the back-surface side of the plate member and to the flexible printed circuit board to close the through-hole. The second tape has a hole through which part of the first tape is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Satoru YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10545017
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an overlay error measuring device which measures an overlay error with high accuracy even when a lower layer pattern is disposed under a thin film and a sufficient signal amount cannot be ensured. The present invention proposes an overlay error measuring device provided with an arithmetic processing unit for measuring a pattern formed on a sample on the basis of a signal waveform obtained by a charged particle beam device. The arithmetic processing unit finds a correlation with the signal waveform using a partial waveform obtained on the basis of partial extraction of the signal waveform, forms a correlation profile indicating the correlation, and measures an overlay error using the correlation profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Kei Sakai, Osamu Inoue, Kazuyuki Hirao, Osamu Komuro
  • Patent number: 10545018
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pattern measurement device which adequately evaluates a pattern formed by means of a patterning method for forming a pattern that is not in a photomask. In order to fulfil the purpose, the present invention suggests a pattern measurement device provided with a computation device for measuring the dimensions between patterns formed on a sample, wherein: the centroid of the pattern formed on the sample is extracted from data to be measured obtained by irradiating beams; a position alignment process is executed between the extracted centroid and measurement reference data in which a reference functioning as the measurement start point or measurement end point is set; and the dimensions between the measurement start point or the measurement end point of the measurement reference data, which was subjected to position alignment, and the edge or the centroid of the pattern contained in the data to be measured is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Norio Hasegawa, Akiyuki Sugiyama, Miki Isawa, Akihiro Onizawa, Ryuji Mitsuhashi
  • Publication number: 20190295815
    Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus, aiming at obtaining an image and the like focused on the sample surface and the bottom while preventing the visual field deviation occurred when focusing on the sample surface and the bottom respectively. The charged particle beam apparatus forms a first image (301), which is based on detection of the first energy charged particles, based on an irradiation with a beam whose focus is adjusted on a sample surface side, forms a second image (304) which is based on detection of second energy charged particles having a relatively higher energy than the first energy and a third image (303) which is based on the detection of the first energy charged particles, based on the irradiation with a beam whose focus is adjusted on a bottom side of a pattern included in the sample, acquires a deviation between the first image and the third image, and composes the first image and the second image so as to correct the deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Yasunori TAKASUGI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kei SAKAI, Hideki ITAI, Yoshinori MOMONOI, Toshimasa KAMEDA, Yoshihiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10417756
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pattern measurement apparatus that appropriately assesses patterns formed by patterning methods for forming patterns that do not exist on photomasks. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention provides a pattern measurement apparatus comprising a processor that measures the dimensions of patterns formed on a sample by using data acquired by irradiating the sample with a beam, wherein the processor extracts pattern coordinate information on the basis of the data acquired by irradiating the sample with a beam, and uses the coordinate information to generate measurement reference data used when performing dimension measurements of the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Hirao, Yasunori Takasugi
  • Publication number: 20190121113
    Abstract: An image forming device is provided that is capable of forming a proper integrated signal even when an image or a signal waveform is acquired from a pattern having the possibility of preventing proper matching, such as a repetition pattern, a shrinking pattern, and the like. In particular, the image forming device forms an integrated image by integrating a plurality of image signals and is provided with: a matching processing section that performs a matching process between the plurality of image signals; an image integration section that integrates the plurality of image signals for which positioning has been performed by the matching processing section; and a periodicity determination section that determines a periodicity of a pattern contained in the image signals. The matching processing section varies a size of an image signal area for the matching in accordance with a determination by the periodicity determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yasunori TAKASUGI, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyuki HIRAO
  • Patent number: 10197783
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an image forming device and the like that is capable of forming a proper integrated signal even when an image or a signal waveform is acquired from a pattern having the possibility of preventing proper matching, such as a repetition pattern, a shrinking pattern, and the like. In order to achieve the purpose, there is proposed an image forming device that forms an integrated image by integrating a plurality of image signals and that is provided with: a matching processing section that performs a matching process between the plurality of image signals; an image integration section that integrates the plurality of image signals for which positioning has been performed by the matching processing section; and a periodicity determination section that determines a periodicity of a pattern contained in the image signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Takasugi, Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Hirao
  • Publication number: 20190035600
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a charged particle beam device for setting, from an image of a trench-like groove or a pit, device conditions for finding a hole or the like provided in the trench or the pit, or measuring a hole or the like provided inside the trench or the like with high accuracy. In the present invention, a charged particle beam device comprises: a deflector for causing a charged particle beam emitted from a charged particle source to perform a scan; a detector for detecting a charged particle obtained on the basis of the scanning of the charged particle beam; and a computation processing device for generating an image on the basis of the output of the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Hideki ITAI, Yasunori TAKASUGI, Kumiko SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20180012349
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pattern measurement apparatus that appropriately assesses patterns formed by patterning methods for forming patterns that do not exist on photomasks. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention provides a pattern measurement apparatus comprising a processor that measures the dimensions of patterns formed on a sample by using data acquired by irradiating the sample with a beam, wherein the processor extracts pattern coordinate information on the basis of the data acquired by irradiating the sample with a beam, and uses the coordinate information to generate measurement reference data used when performing dimension measurements of the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyuki HIRAO, Yasunori TAKASUGI
  • Patent number: 9831062
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for pattern measurement and a charged particle radiation device in which a pattern formed by using a DSA technique can be very precisely measured and inspected. According to an aspect for achieving the object, a method for pattern measurement or a charged particle radiation device for realizing the measurement is proposed as follows. A charged particle is radiated to a polymer compound used for a self-organization lithography technique, and a specific polymer is considerably contracted as compared to the other polymer among multiple polymers forming the polymer compound. Thereafter, dimensions between multiple edges of the other polymer are measured, based on a signal obtained by scanning a region including the other polymer with the charged particle beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kei Sakai, Miki Isawa, Satoshi Takada, Kazuhisa Hasumi, Masami Ikota
  • Patent number: 9804107
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pattern measurement device for quantitatively evaluating a pattern formed using a directed self-assembly (DSA) method with high accuracy. The present invention is a pattern measurement device for measuring distances between patterns formed in a sample, wherein the centroids of a plurality of patterns included in an image are determined; the inter-centroid distances, and the like, of the plurality of centroids are determined; and on the basis of the inter-centroid distances, and the like, of the plurality of centroids, a pattern meeting a specific condition is distinguished from patterns different from the pattern meeting the specific condition or information is calculated about the number of the patterns meeting the specific condition, the size of an area including the patterns meeting the specific condition, and the number of imaginary lines between the patterns meeting the specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyuki Sugiyama, Miki Isawa, Satoru Yamaguchi, Motonobu Hommi
  • Patent number: 9581845
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a liquid crystal panel; a backlight that illuminates the liquid crystal panel; a display cover that covers a display surface of the liquid crystal panel; a housing case that houses the backlight; a display cover support case to whose inside the housing case is fixed and whose outer circumferential surface serves as a pasting surface pasted to the display cover; pressure-sensitive adhesive members that are arranged between the pasting surface of the display cover support case and the display cover, and join together the display cover and the display cover support case with a pressure-sensitive adhesive force; and an adhesive that is arranged in an area located on the pasting surface and interposed between the pressure-sensitive adhesive members in the longitudinal direction of the pasting surface, and that bonds together the display cover and the display cover support case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Tsubaki, Satoru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9540085
    Abstract: An ocean exploration apparatus including: a probe body; a buoyancy adjusting section that adjusts buoyancy generated in the probe body; a posture adjusting section that adjusts a posture of the probe body; a position information acquiring section that acquires position information of the probe body; a wing section that moves the probe body using a lifting force applied from seawater; a sensor section that is provided in the probe body and measures an electromagnetic field; and a control section that controls operations of the buoyancy adjusting section, the posture adjusting section, the position information acquiring section, and the sensor section according to predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: YBM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Mizunaga, Satoru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160320182
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pattern measurement device which adequately evaluates a pattern formed by means of a patterning method for forming a pattern that is not in a photomask. In order to fulfil the purpose, the present invention suggests a pattern measurement device provided with a computation device for measuring the dimensions between patterns formed on a sample, wherein: the centroid of the pattern formed on the sample is extracted from data to be measured obtained by irradiating beams; a position alignment process is executed between the extracted centroid and measurement reference data in which a reference functioning as the measurement start point or measurement end point is set; and the dimensions between the measurement start point or the measurement end point of the measurement reference data, which was subjected to position alignment, and the edge or the centroid of the pattern contained in the data to be measured is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Norio HASEGAWA, Akiyuki SUGIYAMA, Miki ISAWA, Akihiro ONIZAWA, Ryuji MITSUHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160313266
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pattern measurement device for quantitatively evaluating a pattern formed using a directed self-assembly (DSA) method with high accuracy. The present invention is a pattern measurement device for measuring distances between patterns formed in a sample, wherein the centroids of a plurality of patterns included in an image are determined; the inter-centroid distances, and the like, of the plurality of centroids are determined; and on the basis of the inter-centroid distances, and the like, of the plurality of centroids, a pattern meeting a specific condition is distinguished from patterns different from the pattern meeting the specific condition or information is calculated about the number of the patterns meeting the specific condition, the size of an area including the patterns meeting the specific condition, and the number of imaginary lines between the patterns meeting the specific condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Akiyuki SUGIYAMA, Miki ISAWA, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Motonobu HOMMI