Patents by Inventor Yoshiki Okamoto
Yoshiki Okamoto 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: 10840079Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a first holding part configured to hold a substrate; a second holding part configured to hold the substrate; a sliding member configured to rotate about a vertical axis so that the sliding member slides on a back surface of the substrate; a revolution mechanism configured to revolve the sliding member under rotation about a vertical revolution axis; and a relative movement mechanism configured to horizontally move a relative position between the substrate and a revolution trajectory of the sliding member so that when the substrate is held by the first holding part, the sliding member slides on a central portion of the back surface of the substrate, and when the substrate is held by the second holding part, the sliding member slides on the peripheral portion of the back surface of the substrate under rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yasushi Takiguchi, Taro Yamamoto, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hayato Hosaka, Teruhiko Kodama, Akihiro Kubo, Ryuto Ozasa, Yuji Ariuchi, Shinsuke Kimura
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Patent number: 10688443Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane having achieved both strength and water-permeable properties. This composite semipermeable membrane is provided with a substrate, a porous support body disposed on the substrate, and a separation function layer provided on the porous support body. The substrate has a structure provided with a crimped portion and a non-crimped portion. The porous support body is impregnated inside a crimped portion and inside a non-crimped portion of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Shuji Furuno, Hiroho Hirozawa, Takao Sasaki, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 10610832Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane having achieved both strength and water-permeable properties. This composite semipermeable membrane is provided with a substrate, a porous support body disposed on the substrate, and a separation function layer provided on the porous support body. The substrate has a structure provided with a crimped portion and a non-crimped portion. The porous support body is impregnated inside a crimped portion and inside a non-crimped portion of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Shuji Furuno, Hiroho Hirozawa, Takao Sasaki, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 10578848Abstract: There is provided a measurement apparatus including a control unit configured to control an on/off state of illumination that does not contribute to acquisition of measurement data on the basis of an acquisition time period of the measurement data.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshiki Okamoto, Masaaki Hara, Terumasa Ito
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Publication number: 20190262775Abstract: According to the present invention, even when a high recovery ratio operation is performed, the influence of concentration of ingredients to be separated in the feed fluid can be reduced, the concentration polarization can be prevented by increasing the turbulence effect on the membrane surface, and the fluid permeation performance and the separation performance of the separation membrane element can be maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Akshay GARG, Kentarou TAKAGI, Hiroho HIROZAWA, Tamotsu KITADE
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Patent number: 10350549Abstract: A hollow-fiber membrane module of the invention includes: a cylindrical case having a first end and a second end in a height direction thereof; a hollow-fiber membrane bundle being housed in the cylindrical case and having a plurality of hollow-fiber membranes each closed at an end part on the first end side and opened at an end part on the second end side; a first binding part binding the end parts on the first end side of the hollow-fiber membranes; a first flow channel guiding fluid to pass through the first binding part from the first end side to the second end side of the first binding part; and a channel material directing, at a terminal on the second end side of the first flow channel, a flow of at least a part of the fluid flowing out from the terminal on the second end side of the first flow channel toward a direction intersecting the height direction of the cylindrical case.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Shun Shimura, Atsushi Kobayashi, Norihiro Takeuchi, Yoshiki Okamoto
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Publication number: 20190160435Abstract: The present invention relates to a separation membrane element for use in separation of ingredients contained in fluids such as liquid and gas. An object of the present invention is to provide a separation membrane element which, even when used in a high-recovery ratio operation, has high fresh-water production performance and high removal performance and is less apt to suffer scaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Hiroho HIROZAWA, Kentarou TAKAGI, Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Satoshi KATO, Takeshi KONDA, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Tamotsu KITADE, Akshay GARG
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Patent number: 10209177Abstract: [Solving Means] A signal processing apparatus is a signal processing apparatus for an optical tomographic measurement apparatus that generates measurement light and reference light and measures a tomographic structure of a measurement object on the basis of a signal intensity of interference light between the reference light and return light of the measurement light from the measurement object. An arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of simple reflection among the return light of the measurement light, the simple reflection being one time of reflection at a plurality of layers virtually set in a depth direction from a surface layer side of the measurement object. The arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of multiple reflection on the basis of the signal intensity of the simple reflection, the signal intensity of multiple reflection being a signal intensity of return light generated by being reflected at the plurality of layers three or more times.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Hara, Yoshiki Okamoto
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Publication number: 20190047118Abstract: A dressing apparatus 200 includes a bus member 203 which is equipped with a ceiling plate 201 and a circular or polygonal cylindrical skirt portion 202 provided at a bottom surface of the ceiling plate 201 and which is configured to accommodate a polishing pad 131 from thereabove. The bus member 203 includes a dual fluid nozzle 204 configured to jet a cleaning liquid and a gas onto a polishing surface of the polishing pad 131; a dress board 205 configured to come into contact with the polishing surface of the polishing pad 131; and a rinse nozzle 206 configured to supply a rinse liquid onto a contact surface between the polishing surface of the polishing pad 131 and the dress board 205. A cleaning liquid, a fragment of a grindstone or a sludge is suppressed from being scattered around by the skirt portion 202.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Yoshiki Okamoto, Yasushi Takiguchi, Akihiro Kubo, Hayato Hosaka, Ryuto Ozasa
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Publication number: 20190015788Abstract: The present invention relates to a flat-sheet separation membrane element having formed therein a separation membrane pair in which separation membranes are disposed such that permeation-side faces thereof face each other and in which a channel material is provided, wherein the area of a high-elasticity region satisfying a bending modulus of 100-1000 MPa and a maximum bending stress of 1-15 MPa at least in one direction is not less than 10% of the area of a filtration region of the pair of separation membranes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Satoshi KATO, Tamotsu KITADE
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Patent number: 10159942Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element capable of exhibiting a good water production performance even at a high temperature and also excellent handleability and quality. The separation membrane of the present invention includes a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member fixed onto the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, and the permeate-side channel member includes polypropylene as a main component and satisfies the following requirements (a) to (c): (a) a softening point temperature is 60° C. or higher; (b) a tensile elongation in a standard state is 10% or more; and (c) a yield point stress under a wet condition at 50° C. is 2 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Yoshie Marutani, Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiki Okamoto, Shunsuke Tabayashi, Hiroshi Umetani, Akira Katayama, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20180264413Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane having achieved both strength and water-permeable properties. This composite semipermeable membrane is provided with a substrate, a porous support body disposed on the substrate, and a separation function layer provided on the porous support body. The substrate has a structure provided with a crimped portion and a non-crimped portion. The porous support body is impregnated inside a crimped portion and inside a non-crimped portion of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Shuji FURUNO, Hiroho HIROZAWA, Takao SASAKI, Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20180151343Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a first holding part configured to hold a substrate; a second holding part configured to hold the substrate; a sliding member configured to rotate about a vertical axis so that the sliding member slides on a back surface of the substrate; a revolution mechanism configured to revolve the sliding member under rotation about a vertical revolution axis; and a relative movement mechanism configured to horizontally move a relative position between the substrate and a revolution trajectory of the sliding member so that when the substrate is held by the first holding part, the sliding member slides on a central portion of the back surface of the substrate, and when the substrate is held by the second holding part, the sliding member slides on the peripheral portion of the back surface of the substrate under rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Yasushi TAKIGUCHI, Taro YAMAMOTO, Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Hayato HOSAKA, Teruhiko KODAMA, Akihiro KUBO, Ryuto OZASA, Yuji ARIUCHI, Shinsuke KIMURA
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Patent number: 9964757Abstract: There is provided a laser scanning microscope apparatus including a first moving part equipped with an objective lens and configured to move the objective lens in a first direction, and a second moving part configured to be movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first moving part and equipped with the first moving part and a reflecting mirror that guides laser light radiated to an observation object and returning light of the observation object in a predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Masaaki Hara, Yoshiki Okamoto, Koichiro Kishima
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SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD
Publication number: 20180073978Abstract: [Solving Means] A signal processing apparatus is a signal processing apparatus for an optical tomographic measurement apparatus that generates measurement light and reference light and measures a tomographic structure of a measurement object on the basis of a signal intensity of interference light between the reference light and return light of the measurement light from the measurement object. An arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of simple reflection among the return light of the measurement light, the simple reflection being one time of reflection at a plurality of layers virtually set in a depth direction from a surface layer side of the measurement object. The arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of multiple reflection on the basis of the signal intensity of the simple reflection, the signal intensity of multiple reflection being a signal intensity of return light generated by being reflected at the plurality of layers three or more times.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: MASAAKI HARA, YOSHIKI OKAMOTO -
Publication number: 20180003936Abstract: There is provided a measurement apparatus including a control unit configured to control an on/off state of illumination that does not contribute to acquisition of measurement data on the basis of an acquisition time period of the measurement data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshiki Okamoto, Masaaki Hara, Terumasa Ito
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Patent number: 9808767Abstract: A separation membrane element of the present invention includes: a water collection tube; and a plurality of separation membrane leaves stacked on each other and wound around the water collection tube, each of the separation membrane leaves includes one or more separation membranes each having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face and is configured so that the feed-side faces face each other, and a sheet having a plurality of projections fixed thereto is provided between the permeate-side faces of the separation membrane leaves stacked on each other. Regarding a height of the projections, a ratio of the maximum height to the minimum height is from 1.10 to 1.50, and a variation coefficient of the height is from 0.02 to 0.15, and an impregnation ratio of the projections into the sheet is from 10% to 100%.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Shunsuke Tabayashi, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshie Marutani, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada, Shuji Furuno, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura
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Patent number: 9802160Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element which are capable of exhibiting good water production performance and excellent in handleability and process passage. A separation membrane of the present invention is a separation membrane including: a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member adhered to the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, in which the permeate-side channel member includes a composition containing at least a high-crystalline polypropylene (A) and satisfies the following requirements (a) and (b): (a) a content of the high-crystalline polypropylene (A) in the composition is from 40 to 95% by weight; and (b) the permeate-side channel member has a melting endothermic energy amount (?H) of from 20 to 70 J/g.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiki Okamoto, Yoshie Marutani, Shunsuke Tabayashi, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura, Yuji Tanaka
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Publication number: 20170291145Abstract: A hollow-fiber membrane module of the invention includes: a cylindrical case having a first end and a second end in a height direction thereof; a hollow-fiber membrane bundle being housed in the cylindrical case and having a plurality of hollow-fiber membranes each closed at an end part on the first end side and opened at an end part on the second end side; a first binding part binding the end parts on the first end side of the hollow-fiber membranes; a first flow channel guiding fluid to pass through the first binding part from the first end side to the second end side of the first binding part; and a channel material directing, at a terminal on the second end side of the first flow channel, a flow of at least a part of the fluid flowing out from the terminal on the second end side of the first flow channel toward a direction intersecting the height direction of the cylindrical case.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2015Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Shun Shimura, Atsushi Kobayashi, Norihiro Takeuchi, Yoshiki Okamoto
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Patent number: 9779539Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving spatial positions associated with a plurality of images. The method determines displacements of the images in opposing first and second horizontal directions, based on at least the spatial positions. The method then generates, using a processor, first and second composites of the images, based on the determined displacements.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata, Yoshiki Okamoto, Masaaki Hara