Patents by Inventor Toyoji Shinohara

Toyoji Shinohara 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: 10632419
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazawa, Tetsuro Sugiura, Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Takashi Kyotani, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Hideo Arai
  • Patent number: 10352633
    Abstract: A flow passage connecting apparatus for a heat exchanger includes a boss formed of a resin material in a columnar shape and having a plurality of through-holes for each receiving from one side one end of a heat exchanger tube made of a resin material, and a coupler made of a resin material and having a body portion formed in a circular cylindrical shape. The body portion is configured to receive therein a part of the boss on the other side opposite to the one side and to be connected to the boss by at least one of threaded engagement and full-circle welding. The connecting apparatus further includes first and second seal structures sealing between the boss and the body portion. The body portion has a communication hole formed at a position between the first and second seal structures to communicate between an inside and outside of the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Hosotani, Toyoji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10227926
    Abstract: An exhaust gas abatement system includes an exhaust gas abatement section configured to abate exhaust gases by utilizing thermal energy and to cool the abated gases by using a liquid, a circulating section configured to circulate the liquid within a circulation path as a circulating liquid, a heat exchange tube configured to cool the circulating liquid and to executes a heat exchange between a cooling liquid which flows in an interior of the heat exchange tube and the circulating liquid which flows outside the heat exchange tube, and a circulating liquid storage portion configured to store the circulating liquid. The heat exchange tube is disposed in a heat exchange tube installation space which is in at least part of an interior of the circulating liquid storage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Hosotani, Makoto Kashiwagi, Toyoji Shinohara, Kohtaro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10215407
    Abstract: A hybrid stepping motor has a connector housing formed integrally with an insulator having an upper insulator and a lower insulator. The hybrid stepping motor includes a stator core and output terminals concentrically disposed outside the stator core. A wiring pattern serving as the output terminals has connector pins and land portions disposed eccentrically with respect to one another. The land portions are formed on an outer edge side of the wiring pattern. A surface, which is an uppermost surface of the wiring pattern, is located below a lowermost surface, in which jumper wires and lead wires pass, of the lower insulator. The lead wires are pulled out from a lower side, and are pulled out to guiding grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutomo Miyazaki, Tetsuo Komai, Toyoji Shinohara, Seiji Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 10143964
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Tetsuro Sugiura, Hideo Arai, Takashi Kyotani, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180207580
    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: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiharu NAKAZAWA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Kohtaro KAWAMURA, Toyoji SHINOHARA, Takashi KYOTANI, Keiichi ISHIKAWA, Seiji KASHIWAGI, Yasuhiko SUZUKI, Hideo ARAI
  • Patent number: 9956524
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazawa, Tetsuro Sugiura, Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Takashi Kyotani, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Hideo Arai
  • Publication number: 20180051878
    Abstract: A hybrid stepping motor has a connector housing formed integrally with an insulator having an upper insulator and a lower insulator. The hybrid stepping motor includes a stator core and output terminals concentrically disposed outside the stator core. A wiring pattern serving as the output terminals has connector pins and land portions disposed eccentrically with respect to one another. The land portions are formed on an outer edge side of the wiring pattern. A surface, which is an uppermost surface of the wiring pattern, is located below a lowermost surface, in which jumper wires and lead wires pass, of the lower insulator. The lead wires are pulled out from a lower side, and are pulled out to guiding grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Kazutomo MIYAZAKI, Tetsuo KOMAI, Toyoji SHINOHARA, Seiji KASHIWAGI
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9625168
    Abstract: An exhaust system (2) is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus (1) for manufacturing semiconductor devices, liquid crystal panels, LEDs, or solar cells. The exhaust system (2) includes a vacuum pump apparatus (3) for evacuating the chamber, an exhaust gas treatment apparatus (5) for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the chamber, and a controller (6) for controlling the vacuum pump apparatus (3) and/or the exhaust gas treatment apparatus (5). Information of operation process of the manufacturing apparatus (1), and the kind of gas and the flow rate of the gas supplied to the manufacturing apparatus (1) is inputted into the controller (6) to control the vacuum pump apparatus (3) and/or the exhaust gas treatment apparatus (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoji Shinohara, Kohtaro Kawamura, Toshiharu Nakazawa
  • 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: 20150367284
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment apparatus which can reduce NOx (nitrogen oxide) produced as a by-product at the time of treating an exhaust gas by applying a three-way catalytic process is disclosed. The exhaust gas treatment apparatus has an oxidative decomposition unit configured to oxidatively decompose an exhaust gas and an exhaust gas cleaning unit configured to clean the exhaust gas after oxidative decomposition. The exhaust gas treatment apparatus includes a nitrogen oxide removing unit disposed at a stage subsequent to the oxidative decomposition unit and configured to remove a nitrogen oxide contained in the exhaust gas. The nitrogen oxide removing unit is configured to supply at least one of hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide into the exhaust gas discharged from the oxidative decomposition unit to cause the at least one of hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide to react with oxygen remaining in the exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Toyoji SHINOHARA, Takashi KYOTANI, Seiji KASHIWAGI, Kazumasa HOSOTANI
  • Publication number: 20150115600
    Abstract: A flow passage connecting apparatus for a heat exchanger includes a boss formed of a resin material in a columnar shape and having a plurality of through-holes for each receiving from one side one end of a heat exchanger tube made of a resin material, and a coupler made of a resin material and having a body portion formed in a circular cylindrical shape. The body portion is configured to receive therein a part of the boss on the other side opposite to the one side and to be connected to the boss by at least one of threaded engagement and full-circle welding. The connecting apparatus further includes first and second seal structures sealing between the boss and the body portion. The body portion has a communication hole formed at a position between the first and second seal structures to communicate between an inside and outside of the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Kazumasa HOSOTANI, Toyoji SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20150000870
    Abstract: An exhaust gas abatement system includes an exhaust gas abatement section configured to abate exhaust gases by utilizing thermal energy and to cool the abated gases by using a liquid, a circulating section configured to circulate the liquid within a circulation path as a circulating liquid, a heat exchange tube configured to cool the circulating liquid and to executes a heat exchange between a cooling liquid which flows in an interior of the heat exchange tube and the circulating liquid which flows outside the heat exchange tube, and a circulating liquid storage portion configured to store the circulating liquid. The heat exchange tube is disposed in a heat exchange tube installation space which is in at least part of an interior of the circulating liquid storage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kazumasa Hosotani, Makoto Kashiwagi, Toyoji Shinohara, Kohtaro Kawamura
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20130171919
    Abstract: An exhaust system (2) is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus (1) for manufacturing semiconductor devices, liquid crystal panels, LEDs, or solar cells. The exhaust system (2) includes a vacuum pump apparatus (3) for evacuating the chamber, an exhaust gas treatment apparatus (5) for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the chamber, and a controller (6) for controlling the vacuum pump apparatus (3) and/or the exhaust gas treatment apparatus (5). Information of operation process of the manufacturing apparatus (1), and the kind of gas and the flow rate of the gas supplied to the manufacturing apparatus (1) is inputted into the controller (6) to control the vacuum pump apparatus (3) and/or the exhaust gas treatment apparatus (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyoji Shinohara, Kohtaro Kawamura, Toshiharu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 7972582
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating an exhaust gas that includes a pre-treatment section that removes a powdery component, a water-soluble component or a hydrolytic component from the exhaust gas. The exhaust gas contains a fluorine compound and CO. A heating oxidative decomposing section performs heating oxidative decomposition of at least one of the fluorine compound and CO to detoxify the exhaust gas. The apparatus also has a post-treatment section for post-treating an acid gas such as HF which has been produced by the heating oxidative decomposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoji Shinohara, Yoichi Mori, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Hiroshi Aono, Yuji Shirao