Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Sugiura

Tetsuro Sugiura 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: 9822974
    Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which an abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The vacuum pump includes a cylindrical member having an exhaust gas introduction port for introducing the exhaust gas to be treated and a gas outlet port for discharging gases which have been treated, a plurality of fuel nozzles provided at a circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting a fuel, and a plurality of air nozzles provided at the circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting air so as to form a swirling flow of air along an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall. The air nozzles are disposed at a plurality of stages spaced in an axial direction of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Tetsuro Sugiura, Hideo Arai, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Takashi Kyotani
  • Publication number: 20170200622
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum evacuation system used to evacuate a processing gas from one or more process chambers for use in, for example, a semiconductor-device manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum evacuation system is a vacuum apparatus for evacuating a gas from a plurality of process chambers (1). The vacuum evacuation system includes a plurality of first vacuum pumps (5) coupled to the plurality of process chambers (1) respectively, a collecting pipe (7) coupled to the plurality of first vacuum pumps (5), and a second vacuum pump (8) coupled to the collecting pipe (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIOKAWA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Shinichi SEKIGUCHI, Takashi KYOTANI, Tetsuo KOMAI, Norio KIMURA, Keiichi ISHIKAWA, Toru OSUGA
  • Publication number: 20170007961
    Abstract: The fan scrubber is provided with a casing having a gas draw-in port and a gas ejection port, a fan disposed in the casing, a nozzle from which a liquid is jetted into the casing, and a canned motor connected to the fan. The canned motor has a main shaft connected to the fan, a rotor which rotates integrally with the main shaft, a stator disposed on the periphery of the rotor, a motor casing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a can which partitions the interior of the motor casing into a rotor chamber in which the rotor is disposed and a stator chamber in which the stator is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki FURUTA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Tetsuo KOMAI, Atsushi OYAMA, Takashi KYOTANI, Shinichi SEKIGUCHI, Takanori INADA
  • Patent number: 9364786
    Abstract: A vacuum pump has a discharge port coupled to an abatement chamber for treating an exhaust gas discharged from a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus to make the exhaust gas harmless. The vacuum pump is coupled to a heat exchanger configured to heat an inert gas by using heat generated when the exhaust gas is treated to be made harmless in the abatement part. The inert gas heated by the heat exchanger is introduced into the vacuum pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Tetsuro Sugiura, Hideo Arai, Takashi Kyotani, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140352820
    Abstract: A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which one or more abatement parts for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless are attached. The one or more abatement parts are selected, depending on the amount and kind of the exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump, from plural kinds of abatement parts which have different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu NAKAZAWA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Kohtaro KAWAMURA, Toyoji SHINOHARA, Takashi KYOTANI, Keiichi ISHIKAWA, Seiji KASHIWAGI, Yasuhiko SUZUKI, Hideo ARAI
  • Publication number: 20140348717
    Abstract: A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which at least one abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The abatement part is selected from a plurality of abatement parts having different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas and/or different treatment performances of exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohtaro KAWAMURA, Toyoji SHINOHARA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Hideo ARAI, Takashi KYOTANI, Toshiharu NAKAZAWA, Keiichi ISHIKAWA, Seiji KASHIWAGI, Yasuhiko SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20140295362
    Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which an abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The vacuum pump includes a cylindrical member having an exhaust gas introduction port for introducing the exhaust gas to be treated and a gas outlet port for discharging gases which have been treated, a plurality of fuel nozzles provided at a circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting a fuel, and a plurality of air nozzles provided at the circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting air so as to form a swirling flow of air along an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall. The air nozzles are disposed at a plurality of stages spaced in an axial direction of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kohtaro KAWAMURA, Toyoji SHINOHARA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Hideo ARAI, Toshiharu NAKAZAWA, Keiichi ISHIKAWA, Seiji KASHIWAGI, Yasuhiko SUZUKI, Takashi KYOTANI
  • Publication number: 20140290919
    Abstract: A vacuum pump has an abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus to make the exhaust gas harmless. The vacuum pump includes a heat exchanger configured to heat an inert gas by using heat generated when the exhaust gas is treated to be made harmless in the abatement part. The inert gas heated by the heat exchanger is introduced into the vacuum pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kohtaro KAWAMURA, Toyoji SHINOHARA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Hideo ARAI, Takashi KYOTANI, Toshiharu NAKAZAWA, Keiichi ISHIKAWA, Seiji KASHIWAGI, Yasuhiko SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8721295
    Abstract: There are provided a vacuum pump self-diagnosis method, a vacuum pump self-diagnosis system, a vacuum pump central monitoring system capable of making self-diagnosis of a dry vacuum pump. A vacuum pump self-diagnosis method decides the occurrence of failure and generates an alarm when a predetermined alarm set value is exceeded by an integrated value or an average value of a current of a motor for rotating a rotor of said vacuum pump. In a vacuum pump self-diagnosis system for making self-diagnosis of a vacuum pump which comprises a casing and a rotor rotatably arranged in the casing for sucking and discharging a gas through rotations of the rotor, the rotor comprises a plurality of stages and a pressure sensor is provided between the rotor stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Sugiura, Keiji Tanaka, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Koichi Kido, Tomoyuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8439569
    Abstract: A highly reliable combined bearing capable of achieving equal and sufficient lubrication of a plurality of roller bearings with a simple and compact structure is provided. The combined bearing includes a first roller bearing and a second roller bearing which are in contact with each other and arranged on the same axis. A lubricating oil inlet introduces a lubricating oil into an inner space formed between the first roller bearing and the second roller bearing, the lubricating-oil inlet being provided on at least one of an outer ring of the first rolling bearing and an outer ring of the second rolling bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Ito, Kazuyuki Tatsuta, Tetsuro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8349256
    Abstract: A blood cell analyzer comprising: a detector for detecting predetermined component of leukocytes contained in a specimen; and a controller, including a memory under the control of a processor, the memory storing: correlation information relating to the correlation between leukocyte distribution data and either stab neutrophil or segmented leukocyte classification data; and instructions enabling the processor to carry out operations, comprising: (a) obtaining leukocyte distribution data of a subject based on the detection results of the detector; (b) obtaining the stab neutrophil or segmented leukocyte classification data based on the correlation information and the leukocyte distribution data of the subject; and (c) outputting the obtained stab neutrophil or segmented leukocyte classification data. A blood cell analyzing method and a computer program product is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sysmex Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Kataoka, Shoichiro Asada, Tetsuro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8172544
    Abstract: To provide an operation control device for a vacuum pump and a method for stopping the operation of the vacuum pump that make it possible to effectively remove products, resulting from solidification and liquefaction of gas in a casing and possibly hindering the rotation of a pump rotor, so that the vacuum pump may be started normally. An operation control device 10 for a vacuum pump having a pump rotor 1 disposed in a casing 2 for free rotation includes a pump rotor control section 15 for controlling the rotation of the pump rotor 1. The pump rotor control section 15 has a function to, after a pump stop action has been taken, rotate the pump rotor 1 in forward and/or reverse directions according to a predetermined timing pattern and then stop the pump rotor 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Kido, Tetsuro Sugiura, Hiroki Furuta
  • Publication number: 20110103986
    Abstract: A highly reliable combined bearing capable of achieving equal and sufficient lubrication of a plurality of rolling bearings with a simple and compact structure is provided. The combined bearing includes a first rolling bearing and a second rolling bearing which are in contact with each other and arranged on the same axis; and a lubricating-oil inlet for introducing a lubricating oil into an inner space formed between the first rolling bearing and the second rolling bearing, the lubricating-oil inlet being provided on at least one of an outer ring of the first rolling bearing and an outer ring of the second rolling bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuma ITO, Kazuyuki Tatsuta, Tetsuro Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20100129855
    Abstract: A blood cell analyzer comprising: a detector for detecting predetermined component of leukocytes contained in a specimen; and a controller, including a memory under the control of a processor, the memory storing: correlation information relating to the correlation between leukocyte distribution data and either stab neutrophil or segmented leukocyte classification data; and instructions enabling the processor to carry out operations, comprising: (a) obtaining leukocyte distribution data of a subject based on the detection results of the detector; (b) obtaining the stab neutrophil or segmented leukocyte classification data based on the correlation information and the leukocyte distribution data of the subject; and (c) outputting the obtained stab neutrophil or segmented leukocyte classification data. A blood cell analyzing method and a computer program product is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Hiromi KATAOKA, Shoichiro Asada, Tetsuro Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20090097984
    Abstract: To provide an operation control device for a vacuum pump and a method for stopping the operation of the vacuum pump that make it possible to effectively remove products, resulting from solidification and liquefaction of gas in a casing and possibly hindering the rotation of a pump rotor, so that the vacuum pump may be started normally. An operation control device 10 for a vacuum pump having a pump rotor 1 disposed in a casing 2 for free rotation includes a pump rotor control section 15 for controlling the rotation of the pump rotor 1. The pump rotor control section 15 has a function to, after a pump stop action has been taken, rotate the pump rotor 1 in forward and/or reverse directions according to a predetermined timing pattern and then stop the pump rotor 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi KIDO, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Hiroki FURUTA
  • Publication number: 20090035151
    Abstract: There are provided a vacuum pump self-diagnosis method, a vacuum pump self-diagnosis system, a vacuum pump central monitoring system capable of making self-diagnosis of a dry vacuum pump. A vacuum pump self-diagnosis method decides the occurrence of failure and generates an alarm when a predetermined alarm set value is exceeded by an integrated value or an average value of a current of a motor for rotating a rotor of said vacuum pump. In a vacuum pump self-diagnosis system for making self-diagnosis of a vacuum pump which comprises a casing and a rotor rotatably arranged in the casing for sucking and discharging a gas through rotations of the rotor, the rotor comprises a plurality of stages and a pressure sensor is provided between the rotor stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Sugiura, Keiji Tanaka, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Koichi Kido, Tomoyuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6332925
    Abstract: An evacuation system having a long service life, a compact configuration and high reliability is disclosed. The system enables the process gases to be reused, so that the overall costs of capital investment and operation are reduced. The system comprises a processing chamber, and a vacuum pump communicating with the processing chamber by way of an evacuation conduit for evacuating the processing chamber. The evacuation conduit are provided with not less than two trapping devices arranged in series and operating at different temperatures for capturing different components contained in an exhaust gas discharged from the processing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu Noji, Yasuhiro Niimura, Hiroaki Ogamino, Hiroshi Hattori, Norihiko Nomura, Tetsuro Sugiura, Yuji Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 6158226
    Abstract: A trapping device is presented to improve production efficiency of vacuum processing devices. The trapping device comprises an exhaust path for evacuating process gas from a hermetic chamber through a vacuum pump; a regeneration path disposed adjacent to the exhaust path and comprising a regeneration means; not less than two trap sections communicable either with the exhaust path or with the regeneration path; and switching means for transposing the trap sections either to the exhaust path or to the regeneration path. A trapping operation and a regeneration operation can be performed concurrently respectively in the exhaust path and the regeneration path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignees: Ebara Corporation, CKD Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu Noji, Norihiko Nomura, Tetsuro Sugiura, Yuji Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 6051053
    Abstract: A trapping device that performs a regeneration operation efficiently so as to raise the overall operational reliability by improving the service life as well as to lower the capital and operation cost of the processing system. The trapping device includes an exhaust path for evacuating a spent gas from a hermetic chamber through a vacuum pump; a trap section for trapping component substances from the spent gas flowing through the exhaust path; a cleaning path disposed adjacent to the exhaust path for flowing a cleaning solution for cleaning the trap section; and driving device for transposing the trap section to communicate either with the exhaust path or with the cleaning path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuharu Noji, Norihiko Nomura, Tetsuro Sugiura
  • Patent number: D660890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: Ebara Corporation, Ebara Field Tech. Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Ito, Kazuyuki Tatsuta, Tetsuro Sugiura