Patents by Inventor Yutaka Igarashi
Yutaka Igarashi 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: 11921241Abstract: An ultrasonic probe including: a plurality of transducers; a plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits individually corresponding to the plurality of transducers, the plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits having a variable resistor feedback unit making a resistance value variable by an electrical signal inputted to a control terminal; and a control circuit; wherein the control circuit has a dummy circuit generating a bias voltage of a feedback unit of the low-noise amplifier circuit, and an adding circuit outputting an added signal of a bias voltage by the dummy circuit and a control signal increasing or decreasing with a lapse of time; and the plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits input an output of the adding circuit to the control terminal of the variable resistor feedback unit to perform variable control on a gain of the low-noise amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Shinya Kajiyama, Kengo Imagawa
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Patent number: 11844653Abstract: To provide a probe including a TGC circuit therein. The probe includes a plurality of receive circuits. Each receive circuit includes: an ultrasound transducer; a transmit/receive switch; a variable attenuator; a first capacitor; and an amplifier. The ultrasound transducer converts the receive signal into a ground level electric signal and outputs the ground level electric signal as a first output signal. The transmit/receive switch is connected to a first signal line, and switches depending on whether to output the first output signal output from the ultrasound transducer to the first signal line. The variable attenuator includes a control terminal and two terminals, and changes a resistance value between the two terminals other than the control terminal based on a control signal input to the control terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare CorporationInventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Shinya Kajiyama, Kengo Imagawa, Yoshihiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 11814877Abstract: A conventional safe proper becomes useless when unable to be locked or unlocked, thereby causing a waste of resources. Locks capable of being locked/unlocked are provided to unfasten a common fastening member, so as to open a door or lid from the body, allow each lock to be freely mounted on and dismounted from a lock mounting portion, and dispose a false lock on each lock. An operating means of locking/unlocking any one of the locks is provided to enable persistent use of a common latch disposed at an identity opening of a safe proper.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SUNSMILET'S CORPORATIONInventor: Yutaka Igarashi
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Patent number: 11564665Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an ultrasonic probe, an ultrasonic diagnostic device, and a manufacturing method of the ultrasonic probe, which are capable of reducing a product defect rate. An ultrasonic probe according to one embodiment includes a plurality of channels. Each of the plurality of channels includes a vibrator that outputs an ultrasonic wave, and a transmission circuit unit that changes an output in response to an input transmission signal and causes the vibrator to output the ultrasonic wave by driving the vibrator with the output. Here, the transmission circuit unit includes a stop signal holding circuit that holds a stop signal when the stop signal is input in advance, and selects whether to change the output in response to the transmission signal based on whether the stop signal is held.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare CorporationInventors: Toru Yazaki, Yutaka Igarashi, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Tsuneo Kawamata
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Publication number: 20220386997Abstract: To provide a probe including a TGC circuit therein. The probe includes a plurality of receive circuits. Each receive circuit includes: an ultrasound transducer; a transmit/receive switch; a variable attenuator; a first capacitor; and an amplifier. The ultrasound transducer converts the receive signal into a ground level electric signal and outputs the ground level electric signal as a first output signal. The transmit/receive switch is connected to a first signal line, and switches depending on whether to output the first output signal output from the ultrasound transducer to the first signal line. The variable attenuator includes a control terminal and two terminals, and changes a resistance value between the two terminals other than the control terminal based on a control signal input to the control terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Shinya Kajiyama, Kengo Imagawa, Yoshihiro Hayashi
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INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM
Publication number: 20220342311Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor and a storage device. The processor is configured to acquire data for each parameter provided from each of a light source device which generates pulse light and an exposure apparatus which performs exposure on a wafer with the pulse light output from the light source device, and time data associated with the data; to perform classification, based on the acquired data and time data, for each record of the data associated with same time data for distinguishing whether being data during exposure in which the wafer is irradiated with the pulse light or being data during non-exposure; to associate attribute information indicating an attribute according to the classification with each of the records; to cause the storage device to store the data and the time data associated with the attribute information; and to generate a chart using data read from the storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Gigaphoton Inc.Inventors: Yutaka IGARASHI, Satoru KIKUCHI, Kunihiko ABE, Yuji MINEGISHI -
Patent number: 11357476Abstract: Provided is a probe which transmits an ultrasonic wave to a diagnostic site and receives a reception signal which is a reflected wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare CorporationInventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Shinya Kajiyama, Yohei Nakamura, Kengo Imagawa, Kazuhiro Amino, Takayuki Iwashita
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Patent number: 11353857Abstract: A data analyzer includes a data collector that acquires data on each analysis target parameter of each of a plurality of apparatuses from the apparatus, the plurality of apparatuses including a light source apparatus, an exposure apparatus that exposes a wafer to pulsed light outputted from the light source apparatus, and a wafer inspection apparatus that inspects the exposed wafer, an image generator that visualizes the data on each of the parameters collected by the data collector from the apparatuses that process the wafer for each predetermined area of the wafer to convert the data into an image and generates a plurality of mapped images for each of the parameters of the apparatuses, and a correlation computing section that performs pattern matching on arbitrary ones of the mapped images generated from the wafer to determine a correlation value between arbitrary ones of the parameters of the apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.Inventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Yuji Minegishi, Osamu Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11284859Abstract: Provided is a probe which transmits an ultrasonic wave to a diagnostic site and receives a reception signal which is a reflected wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare CorporationInventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Shinya Kajiyama, Yohei Nakamura, Kengo Imagawa, Kazuhiro Amino, Takayuki Iwashita
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Patent number: 11191527Abstract: Provided is a probe which transmits an ultrasonic wave to a diagnostic site and receives a reception signal which is a reflected wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Shinya Kajiyama, Yohei Nakamura, Kengo Imagawa, Kazuhiro Amino, Takayuki Iwashita
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Publication number: 20210362187Abstract: An ultrasonic probe including: a plurality of transducers; a plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits individually corresponding to the plurality of transducers, the plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits having a variable resistor feedback unit making a resistance value variable by an electrical signal inputted to a control terminal; and a control circuit; wherein the control circuit has a dummy circuit generating a bias voltage of a feedback unit of the low-noise amplifier circuit, and an adding circuit outputting an added signal of a bias voltage by the dummy circuit and a control signal increasing or decreasing with a lapse of time; and the plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits input an output of the adding circuit to the control terminal of the variable resistor feedback unit to perform variable control on a gain of the low-noise amplifier circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Yutaka IGARASHI, Shinya KAJIYAMA, Kengo IMAGAWA
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Patent number: 10970326Abstract: A retrieving device includes: a classifying unit that classifies document data made up of a plurality of items on the basis of a degree of matching of a first item in which a combination of one or more symbol strings is described in a database in which the document data is stored; and an extracting unit that extracts a group of keywords included in a second item from pieces of document data in a same group classified by the classifying unit as related words for retrieval. Moreover, when the retrieving device is implemented as a distributed system on a network, it is possible to create related words for a plurality of machines and to store the related word data and to enable a plurality of users to use the distributed system.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Matsuo, Masao Kamiguchi, Masato Yamamura, Shouichi Kawakami, Yutaka Igarashi
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Publication number: 20210003482Abstract: A diagnostic service system includes one or plurality of factory monitoring systems configured to perform monitoring of at least one machine; a service center management device that is connected with the one or plurality of factory monitoring systems via a network; one or plurality of service centers that are connected with the service center management device; and a plurality of service terminals connected with one service center or each of the plurality of service centers via a service control. The plurality of service terminals are used by each responder capable of fault diagnosis of the machine, and when fault of a machine occurs, one of the plurality of service terminals is selected via the service center management device and the one service center or plurality of service centers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Kenichi MATSUO, Masao KAMIGUCHI, Masato YAMAMURA, Shouichi KAWAKAMI, Yutaka IGARASHI, Takahiro KOUJI
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Patent number: 10876931Abstract: A diagnostic service system includes one or plurality of factory monitoring systems configured to perform monitoring of at least one machine; a service center management device that is connected with the one or plurality of factory monitoring systems via a network; one or plurality of service centers that are connected with the service center management device; and a plurality of service terminals connected with one service center or each of the plurality of service centers via a service control. The plurality of service terminals are used by each responder capable of fault diagnosis of the machine, and when fault of a machine occurs, one of the plurality of service terminals is selected via the service center management device and the one service center or plurality of service centers.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Matsuo, Masao Kamiguchi, Masato Yamamura, Shouichi Kawakami, Yutaka Igarashi, Takahiro Kouji
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Patent number: 10856845Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis device includes: an ultrasound probe which transmits an ultrasound wave toward a examinee and receives a reflected wave from the examinee; and a main device which controls the transmitting and receiving of the ultrasound waves from the ultrasound probe and is operated to receive a receiving signal obtained by receiving the reflected wave from the examinee by the ultrasound probe, to generate an ultrasound image of the examinee, and to display the ultrasound image on a display screen, wherein the ultrasound probe includes a plurality of subarrays having a plurality of element circuits transmitting and receiving ultrasound signals and a plurality of reference voltage sources, and the plurality of subarrays and the plurality of reference voltage sources have a one-to-one correspondence.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yusaku Katsube, Tatsuo Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Okuma, Yohei Nakamura, Takahide Terada, Shinya Kajiyama, Takuma Nishimoto, Yutaka Igarashi
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Patent number: 10809161Abstract: A diagnostic service system includes one or plurality of factory monitoring systems configured to perform monitoring of at least one machine; a service center management device that is connected with the one or plurality of factory monitoring systems via a network; one or plurality of service centers that are connected with the service center management device; and a plurality of service terminals connected with one service center or each of the plurality of service centers via a service control. The plurality of service terminals are used by each responder capable of fault diagnosis of the machine, and when fault of a machine occurs, one of the plurality of service terminals is selected via the service center management device and the one service center or plurality of service centers.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Matsuo, Masao Kamiguchi, Masato Yamamura, Shouichi Kawakami, Yutaka Igarashi, Takahiro Kouji
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Patent number: 10799213Abstract: Provided are an ultrasound probe, an element circuit thereof, and an ultrasound diagnostic device, whereby high image quality is possible and reduced size and lower cost are made possible. Provided is an ultrasound probe, comprising: a 2-D array transducer wherein a plurality of transducers are arrayed two-dimensionally; and a 2-D array IC in which are formed, upon an IC substrate, drive circuits which are disposed upon each of the transducers of the 2-D array transducer to drive each of the transducers at different timings with a prescribed delay quantity, and common current sources which supply drive current to the transducers of the 2-D array transducer. The number n of the common current sources which are formed upon the IC substrate is fewer than the number N of the drive circuits which are formed upon the IC substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takuma Nishimoto, Yutaka Igarashi, Toru Yazaki, Kengo Imagawa, Yusaku Katsube
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Publication number: 20200300817Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an ultrasonic probe, an ultrasonic diagnostic device, and a manufacturing method of the ultrasonic probe, which are capable of reducing a product defect rate. An ultrasonic probe according to one embodiment includes a plurality of channels. Each of the plurality of channels includes a vibrator that outputs an ultrasonic wave, and a transmission circuit unit that changes an output in response to an input transmission signal and causes the vibrator to output the ultrasonic wave by driving the vibrator with the output. Here, the transmission circuit unit includes a stop signal holding circuit that holds a stop signal when the stop signal is input in advance, and selects whether to change the output in response to the transmission signal based on whether the stop signal is held.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Toru Yazaki, Yutaka Igarashi, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Tsuneo Kawamata
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Publication number: 20200133249Abstract: A data analyzer includes a data collector that acquires data on each analysis target parameter of each of a plurality of apparatuses from the apparatus, the plurality of apparatuses including a light source apparatus, an exposure apparatus that exposes a wafer to pulsed light outputted from the light source apparatus, and a wafer inspection apparatus that inspects the exposed wafer, an image generator that visualizes the data on each of the parameters collected by the data collector from the apparatuses that process the wafer for each predetermined area of the wafer to convert the data into an image and generates a plurality of mapped images for each of the parameters of the apparatuses, and a correlation computing section that performs pattern matching on arbitrary ones of the mapped images generated from the wafer to determine a correlation value between arbitrary ones of the parameters of the apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Gigaphoton Inc.Inventors: Yutaka IGARASHI, Yuji MINEGISHI, Osamu WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200116595Abstract: A diagnostic service system includes one or plurality of factory monitoring systems configured to perform monitoring of at least one machine; a service center management device that is connected with the one or plurality of factory monitoring systems via a network; one or plurality of service centers that are connected with the service center management device; and a plurality of service terminals connected with one service center or each of the plurality of service centers via a service control. The plurality of service terminals are used by each responder capable of fault diagnosis of the machine, and when fault of a machine occurs, one of the plurality of service terminals is selected via the service center management device and the one service center or plurality of service centers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Kenichi MATSUO, Masao KAMIGUCHI, Masato YAMAMURA, Shouichi KAWAKAMI, Yutaka IGARASHI, Takahiro KOUJI