Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Kusano

Tomohiro Kusano 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: 11597896
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning liquid containing a component (A): a compound represented by the following formula (1), component (B): alkylamine, component (C): polycarboxylic acid, and component (D): ascorbic acid, in which a mass ratio of the component (A) to a total mass of the component (B) and the component (C) is 1 to 15, and in the formula (1), R1, R2, and R3 each have a definition same as the definition described in the description,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shibata, Yasuhiro Kawase, Ken Harada, Atsushi Ito, Tomohiro Kusano, Yutaro Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20220298456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning liquid on a silicon oxide film and/or a silicon nitride film, and the cleaning liquid contains (i) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the formula (1), a compound represented by formula (2), a compound represented by formula (3), and a compound represented by the formula (4); and (ii) a reducing agent; in the above formulas, R1 to R12 and n are the same as the definitions described in the description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Longjie AN, Tomohiro KUSANO, Yukako ONO, Kan TAKESHITA, Kenichi KIYONO
  • Publication number: 20210371776
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning solution for removing a cerium compound, a cleaning method, and a method for producing a semiconductor wafer. An object of the present invention is to provide a cleaning solution having excellent removability of a cerium compound. The cleaning solution for removing a cerium compound of the present invention contains an aminopolycarboxylic acid compound having a coordination number of 7 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro KUSANO
  • Patent number: 11066627
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a cleaning agent composition for a semiconductor device substrate including at least one of wiring and an electrode in which the wiring and the electrode contain cobalt or a cobalt alloy, the cleaning agent composition including a component (A): at least one compound selected from the group consisting of specific compounds; and a component (B): water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kusano, Ken Harada, Yasuhiro Kawase
  • Publication number: 20210171878
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning liquid containing a component (A): a compound represented by the following formula (1), component (B): alkylamine, component (C): polycarboxylic acid, and component (D): ascorbic acid, in which a mass ratio of the component (A) to a total mass of the component (B) and the component (C) is 1 to 15, and in the formula (1), R1, R2, and R3 each have a definition same as the definition described in the description,
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHIBATA, Yasuhiro KAWASE, Ken HARADA, Atsushi ITO, Tomohiro KUSANO, Yutaro TAKESHITA
  • Patent number: 10596472
    Abstract: A user apparatus is provided that is connected via a network to a server apparatus, the server apparatus being connected to at least one other user apparatus via the network. The user apparatus includes a receiver that receives new messages distributed from the server apparatus via the network, and a display device that sequentially displays the new messages received from the server apparatus on a display area of a display screen. A specific old message may be selectively retained in the display area of the user apparatus instead of being updated by display area update processing. Additionally, the display area update processing sequentially displays the new messages when there is no specific old message identified with high importance, and retains the specific old message in the display area when the specific old message is identified with high importance, even when a new message is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tanaka, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Publication number: 20200002652
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a cleaning agent composition for a semiconductor device substrate including at least one of wiring and an electrode in which the wiring and the electrode contain cobalt or a cobalt alloy, the cleaning agent composition including a component (A): at least one compound selected from the group consisting of specific compounds; and a component (B): water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro KUSANO, Ken HARADA, Yasuhiro KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20170144075
    Abstract: A user apparatus is provided that is connected via a network to a server apparatus, the server apparatus being connected to at least one other user apparatus via the network. The user apparatus includes a receiver that receives new messages distributed from the server apparatus via the network, and a display device that sequentially displays the new messages received from the server apparatus on a display area of a display screen. A specific old message may be selectively retained in the display area of the user apparatus instead of being updated by display area update processing. Additionally, the display area update processing sequentially displays the new messages when there is no specific old message identified with high importance, and retains the specific old message in the display area when the specific old message is identified with high importance, even when a new message is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Hiromichi TANAKA, Tomohiro KUSANO
  • Patent number: 9597601
    Abstract: Players input their messages in their video game apparatuses and the messages are once collected at a server apparatus, thereafter they are distributed to all video game apparatuses from the game server apparatus. In a display screen of each video game apparatus, a chat window is displayed in order to display messages exchanged between the players on a game screen including a field and characters of the game. The chat window is sequentially enlarged up to a preset maximum number of lines when a new message is received from the game server apparatus. The chat window is sequentially reduced to the preset minimum number of lines when a predetermined time passes without any reception of new message or when the player performs a specific operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tanaka, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Patent number: 9556351
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition suitable for use as a cap ply rubber composition. The rubber composition comprises: (a) at least one natural or synthetic rubbery polymer; (b) from 0.1 to 20 phr of at least one hydrazide compound; (c) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene donor; (d) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene acceptor resin; and (e) from 0.1 to 10 phr of zinc oxide is disclosed. A method of making the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Natalie Weingart, David R. Stewart, Jamie J. McNutt, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Publication number: 20160040024
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition suitable for use as a cap ply rubber composition. The rubber composition comprises: (a) at least one natural or synthetic rubbery polymer; (b) from 0.1 to 20 phr of at least one hydrazide compound; (c) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene donor; (d) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene acceptor resin; and (e) from 0.1 to 10 phr of zinc oxide is disclosed. A method of making the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Natalie Weingart, David R. Stewart, Jamie J. McNutt, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Patent number: 9163127
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition suitable for use as a cap ply rubber composition. The rubber composition comprises: (a) at least one natural or synthetic rubbery polymer; (b) from 0.1 to 20 phr of at least one hydrazide compound; (c) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene donor; (d) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene acceptor resin; and (e) from 0.1 to 10 phr of zinc oxide. A method of making the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Natalie Weingart, David R. Stewart, Jamie J. McNutt, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Patent number: 8962195
    Abstract: A lithium transition metal-based compound powder for a lithium secondary battery positive electrode material that can achieve both improvements of load characteristics such as rate and output characteristics and a higher density is a lithium transition metal-based compound powder containing, as a main component, a lithium transition metal-based compound that has a function of allowing elimination and insertion of lithium ions, and including a crystal structure belonging to a layer structure, wherein primary particles are aggregated to form secondary particles, the ratio A/B of a median diameter A of the secondary particles to an average diameter (average primary particle diameter B) is in the range of 8 to 100, and 0.01?FWHM(110)?0.5 where FWHM(110) is the half width of a (110) diffraction peak present near a diffraction angle 2? of 64.5° in a powder X-ray diffraction analysis using a CuK? line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Shizuka, Kaoru Terada, Kenji Okahara, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Publication number: 20140057718
    Abstract: Players input their messages in their video game apparatuses and the messages are once collected at a server apparatus, thereafter they are distributed to all video game apparatuses from the game server apparatus. In a display screen of each video game apparatus, a chat window is displayed in order to display messages exchanged between the players on a game screen including a field and characters of the game. The chat window is sequentially enlarged up to a preset maximum number of lines when a new message is received from the game server apparatus. The chat window is sequentially reduced to the preset minimum number of lines when a predetermined time passes without any reception of new message or when the player performs a specific operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Hiromichi TANAKA, Tomohiro KUSANO
  • Publication number: 20140005320
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition suitable for use as a cap ply rubber composition. The rubber composition comprises: (a) at least one natural or synthetic rubbery polymer; (b) from 0.1 to 20 phr of at least one hydrazide compound; (c) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene donor; (d) from 0.1 to 10 phr of at least one methylene acceptor resin; and (e) from 0.1 to 10 phr of zinc oxide. A method of making the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Natalie Weingart, David R. Stewart, Jamie J. McNutt, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Patent number: 8597123
    Abstract: Players input their messages in their video game apparatuses and the messages are once collected at a server apparatus, thereafter they are distributed to all video game apparatuses from the game server apparatus. In a display screen of each video game apparatus, a chat window is displayed in order to display messages exchanged between the players on a game screen including a field and characters of the game. The chat window is sequentially enlarged up to a preset maximum number of lines when a new message is received from the game server apparatus. The chat window is sequentially reduced to the preset minimum number of lines when a predetermined time passes without any reception of new message or when the player performs a specific operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tanaka, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Patent number: 8450409
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising: (a) mixing in a first mixing step ingredients comprising (i) first polymer, (ii) a low molecular weight polymer having a number average molecular weight of about 5,000 to about 100,000, and (iii) a filler, and (b) mixing in a second mixing step ingredients comprising (i) the mixture obtained in step (a), (ii) a second polymer that is different from said first polymer, and (iii) optionally a filler. In one embodiment, the method further comprises mixing sulfur and vulcanization accelerator(s) into the composition, forming the rubber composition into a sidewall for a tire, and vulcanizing the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong-Ren Chen, Joseph M. Lanzarotta, Yuichi Nagai, Tomohiro Kusano
  • Publication number: 20130130113
    Abstract: The invention relates to positive electrode for lithium secondary battery which comprises an active material and a conductive material, wherein the active material comprises a lithium-transition metal compound which has a function of being capable of insertion and desorption of lithium ion, the lithium-transition metal compound gives a surface-enhanced Raman spectrum which has a peak at 800-1,000 cm?1, and the conductive material comprises carbon black which has a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area (N2SA) of 70-300 m2/g and an average particle diameter of 10-35 nm, and a lithium secondary battery which employs the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Shoji TAKANO, Kenji Shizuka, Jungmin Kim, Tomohiro Kusano, Masato Kijima
  • Publication number: 20130011726
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lithium-transition metal compound powder for a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery which comprises secondary particles configured of primary particles having two or more compositions and a lithium-transition metal compound having a function of being capable of insertion and release of lithium ions, wherein the powder gives a pore distribution curve having a peak at a pore radium 80 nm or greater but less than 800 nm, and the secondary particles include primary particles of a compound represented by a structural formula including at least one element selected from As, Ge, P, Pb, Sb, Si and Sn, wherein the primary particles of the compound are present at least in an inner part of the secondary particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji TAKANO, Kenji Shizuka, Tomohiro Kusano, Jungmin Kim, Masato Kijima
  • Publication number: 20100209771
    Abstract: A lithium transition metal-based compound powder for a lithium secondary battery positive electrode material that can achieve both improvements of load characteristics such as rate and output characteristics and a higher density is a lithium transition metal-based compound powder containing, as a main component, a lithium transition metal-based compound that has a function of allowing elimination and insertion of lithium ions, and including a crystal structure belonging to a layer structure, wherein primary particles are aggregated to form secondary particles, the ratio A/B of a median diameter A of the secondary particles to an average diameter (average primary particle diameter B) is in the range of 8 to 100, and 0.01?FWHM(110)?0.5 where FWHM(110) is the half width of a (110) diffraction peak present near a diffraction angle 2? of 64.5° in a powder X-ray diffraction analysis using a CuK? line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Shizuka, Kaoru Terada, Kenji Okahara, Tomohiro Kusano