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).
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Patent number: 10874019Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Satoru Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20200303159Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi HAMADA, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200201019Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Yasunori TAKASUGI, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyuki HIRAO
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Patent number: 10665420Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Yasunori Takasugi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kei Sakai, Hideki Itai, Yoshinori Momonoi, Toshimasa Kameda, Yoshihiro Kimura
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Patent number: 10620421Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Yasunori Takasugi, Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Hirao
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Publication number: 20200100362Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventor: Satoru YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10545017Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Kei Sakai, Osamu Inoue, Kazuyuki Hirao, Osamu Komuro
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Patent number: 10545018Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Norio Hasegawa, Akiyuki Sugiyama, Miki Isawa, Akihiro Onizawa, Ryuji Mitsuhashi
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Publication number: 20190295815Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Yasunori TAKASUGI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kei SAKAI, Hideki ITAI, Yoshinori MOMONOI, Toshimasa KAMEDA, Yoshihiro KIMURA
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Patent number: 10417756Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Hirao, Yasunori Takasugi
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Publication number: 20190121113Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Yasunori TAKASUGI, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyuki HIRAO
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Patent number: 10197783Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Yasunori Takasugi, Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Hirao
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Publication number: 20190035600Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Hideki ITAI, Yasunori TAKASUGI, Kumiko SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20180012349Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyuki HIRAO, Yasunori TAKASUGI
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Patent number: 9831062Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Makoto Suzuki, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kei Sakai, Miki Isawa, Satoshi Takada, Kazuhisa Hasumi, Masami Ikota
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Patent number: 9804107Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Akiyuki Sugiyama, Miki Isawa, Satoru Yamaguchi, Motonobu Hommi
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Patent number: 9581845Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Tsubaki, Satoru Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9540085Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: YBM CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Mizunaga, Satoru Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20160320182Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Norio HASEGAWA, Akiyuki SUGIYAMA, Miki ISAWA, Akihiro ONIZAWA, Ryuji MITSUHASHI
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Publication number: 20160313266Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Akiyuki SUGIYAMA, Miki ISAWA, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Motonobu HOMMI