Patents by Inventor Akihiko Ohtsu

Akihiko Ohtsu 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: 11976673
    Abstract: A blower with a silencer has the blower including an axial fan including a casing, a motor attached to the casing, and a rotor having a shaft portion attached to the motor and rotated and a blade formed to protrude to an outer side of the shaft portion in a radial direction, and a silencer attached to the casing, in which the silencer includes a resonator that selectively silences a dominant sound generated by the axial fan, the silencer is disposed at a position in which at least a part of the silencer overlaps with the shaft portion, as viewed from a rotation axis direction of the rotor, and in a case in which, in a cross section perpendicular to a rotation axis of the rotor, a circle around the rotation axis, which has a radius of a line connecting the rotation axis and a point of a most distal end of the blade, is defined as a rotation region, an area of the silencer in the cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis is smaller than an area of the rotation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11869470
    Abstract: An acoustic system includes a duct that has a function of causing a fluid to flow therein and has a tubular shape, an internal sound source that is disposed inside the duct on an upstream side or at an outer peripheral portion of the duct, which communicates with an inside of the duct on the upstream side, or an external sound source that is on an outside from an end portion of the duct, and a membrane-shaped member that is formed as a part of a wall of the duct and vibrates in response to sound. A structure including the membrane-shaped member and a rear surface closed space thereof causes acoustic resonance to occur, transmits the acoustic resonance from the sound source into the duct, and suppresses sound radiated from the other end portion of the duct on a downstream side. The external sound source is at a distance within a wavelength at a frequency of the acoustic resonance on the outside from the end portion of the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hakuta, Yoshihiro Sugawara, Akihiko Ohtsu, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11841163
    Abstract: An object is to provide a silencing system that can achieve both high ventilation performance and high soundproof performance, can silence a plurality of pieces of resonant sound, and has high general-purpose properties since the silencing system does not need to be designed according to a tubular member. The silencing system includes one or more silencers that are disposed in a tubular member provided to penetrate a wall separating two spaces, and satisfies “0<Re[Bn]<1” and “Im[Bn]>0” in a case where a standardized effective modulus of elasticity in an interior space of the tubular member in which the silencers are disposed is denoted by Bn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu, Kazuhiro Oki
  • Publication number: 20230395366
    Abstract: Provided are a defect removal device and a defect removal method capable of removing defects of a semiconductor substrate with high accuracy, and a pattern forming method and a method of manufacturing an electronic device using the semiconductor substrate from which defects on a surface are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko OHTSU, Masahiro YOSHIDOME, Yukihisa KAWADA, Ryo SAITO
  • Patent number: 11835253
    Abstract: An object is to provide a silencing system that includes a silencer disposed in a ventilation sleeve, can suppress the generation of negative pressure in the interior, and can prevent a door or the like of an interior entrance from being difficult to open. The silencing system includes one or more silencers that are disposed in a ventilation sleeve provided to penetrate a wall separating two spaces, and “?A>10C?(0.1/P)×TL” is satisfied in a case where a gap equivalent area of the ventilation sleeve in which the silencer is installed is denoted by ?A and a normalized sound transmission loss in an octave band in which a first resonant frequency of the ventilation sleeve is present is denoted by TL. C denotes a constant determined by a measurement system in a case where there is no silencer and P denotes a transmission efficiency coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu, Kazuhiro Oki
  • Publication number: 20230369086
    Abstract: Provided are an analysis apparatus and an analysis method capable of analyzing a smaller defect on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. An analysis apparatus includes a surface defect measurement unit that measures presence or absence of a defect on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and obtains positional information on the surface of the semiconductor substrate for the defect on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and an analysis section that performs inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry by irradiating the defect on the surface of the semiconductor substrate with laser light based on the positional information of the defect on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and collecting an analysis sample obtained by the irradiation using a carrier gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko OHTSU, Masahiro YOSHIDOME, Yukihisa KAWADA, Ryo SAITO
  • Patent number: 11795974
    Abstract: A fan, and a silencer that silences a sound generated by the fan are provided, in which the silencer has a resonance characteristic, the silencer is disposed at a position connected to a sound field space of the sound generated by the fan, and a sum of an absorbance and a reflectivity of the silencer at a resonance frequency is 10% to 43% and a standardized half-width of the silencer is more than 0.05 and 0.25 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe, Yoshihiro Sugawara, Akihiko Ohtsu
  • Publication number: 20230243780
    Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which the purity of a chemical liquid containing an organic solvent is more easily managed, a method of washing a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a simpler method of measuring the cleanliness of a washing solution. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device has Step 1 of bringing an oscillator into contact with a chemical liquid containing an organic solvent as a main component to obtain the amount of change in the resonance frequency of the oscillator resulting from the contact with the chemical liquid, Step 2 of confirming whether or not the amount of change in the resonance frequency of the chemical liquid falls within a permissible range of the amount of change in the resonance frequency based on the preset purity of the chemical liquid, and Step 3 of using the chemical liquid confirmed in Step 2 in manufacturing a semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko OHTSU, Yukihisa Kawada, Naotsugu Muro, Masahiro Yoshidome, Tetsuya Kamimura, Ryo Saito
  • Patent number: 11682374
    Abstract: A soundproof structure body includes a first tube structure and a second tube structure connected to the first tube structure and having a cross-sectional area different from the first tube structure, in which a structure body having a cross-sectional area smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first tube structure is installed in the first tube structure, and a transmission loss in a case where the structure body is installed in the first tube structure with respect to a case where the structure body is not installed in the first tube structure is positive at two frequencies adjacent to each other and difficult to generate an air column resonance mode in the first tube structure. This soundproof structure body generates a soundproof effect even at frequencies other than air column resonance of a tube structure such as a duct or a muffler, has a small size, and can obtain a high transmission loss in a wide-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ohtsu, Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe, Yoshihiro Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11636839
    Abstract: Provided is a soundproof structure body including an opening member that forms an opening tube line having a cross-sectional area S, and at least two resonance structures for sound waves that are installed inside the opening tube line, and in a case where a cross-sectional area of the resonance structure is defined as Si, a width thereof is defined as di, an interval between the two resonance structures is defined as L, an impedance of the two resonance structures is defined as Zi, and a synthetic acoustic impedance is defined as Zc, a condition of Expression (1) is satisfied at a resonance frequency f0 at which a theoretical absorption value At is a maximum value. This soundproof structure body can realize high absorption using a plurality of resonance structures. At(f0, L, S, Si, di, Zi)>0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ohtsu, Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Publication number: 20230097195
    Abstract: Provided are a method for inspecting a chemical solution, the method being able to analyze minute foreign matter in the chemical solution, a method for producing a chemical solution, a method for controlling a chemical solution, a method for producing a semiconductor device, a method for inspecting a resist composition, the method being able to analyze minute foreign matter in the resist composition, a method for producing a resist composition, a method for controlling a resist composition, and a method for checking a contamination status of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, the method being able to control minute foreign matter in the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko OHTSU, Masahiro YOSHIDOME, Yukihisa KAWADA, Ryo SAITO
  • Patent number: 11580948
    Abstract: A soundproof system includes a tube structure having one or more opening ends and a soundproof structure having an opening portion or a radiation surface. The following Expression (1) is satisfied in a case in which a phase difference between sound incident on the soundproof structure and sound re-radiated from the soundproof structure is defined a phase difference as ?1; for one or more maximum values of the pressure of sound formed in the tube structure, a distance between the opening portion or the radiation surface and a position where the sound pressure has a maximum value in the tube structure is L; a wavelength of the incident sound is ?; and a phase difference ?2 is defined as 2?×2L/?: |?1??2|??/2??(1). The soundproof system with a small size can obtain high transmission loss in a wide band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ohtsu, Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11543152
    Abstract: A first ventilation duct line has a first portion having a first sectional area, a second portion having a second sectional area larger than the first sectional area, and a third portion having an inclined inner face connecting the first portion and the second portion to each other. Further, there is a second ventilation duct line having an opening portion positioned on an inner side of the first portion of the first ventilation duct line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Kumeta, Fuyuki Kokubu, Shinya Mitourida, Koh Umenai, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu
  • Patent number: 11536411
    Abstract: Provided is a silencing tubular structure body that has high strength and can be disposed in a narrow space. A tubular member including a tubular portion having a tubular shape, and a frame portion having at least a part formed integrally with an inner peripheral surface side of the tubular portion; and a lid member that is exchangeably disposed on an opening surface of the frame portion of the tubular member are included, in which the frame portion and the lid member form a resonant silencing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe, Akihiko Ohtsu, Yoshihiro Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20220389939
    Abstract: A fan, and a silencer that silences a sound generated by the fan are provided, in which the silencer has a resonance characteristic, the silencer is disposed at a position connected to a sound field space of the sound generated by the fan, and a sum of an absorbance and a reflectivity of the silencer at a resonance frequency is 10% to 43% and a standardized half-width of the silencer is more than 0.05 and 0.25 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Akihiko OHTSU
  • Publication number: 20220389938
    Abstract: An axial fan that includes a casing having an inner space that penetrates in one direction, and a rotor blade disposed in the inner space of the casing, and a silencer that is disposed at a position connected to the inner space of the axial fan are provided, in which the axial fan has a sound pressure distribution having a position at which a sound pressure is high and a position at which the sound pressure is low in a circumferential direction in the inner space during driving, and the silencer is disposed at the position of the axial fan in the circumferential direction at which the sound pressure is high and is not disposed at the position at which the sound pressure is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Akihiko OHTSU
  • Publication number: 20220357075
    Abstract: A silencing device and an air supply system according to an embodiment of the present invention include a resonance silencer provided at a position connected to a space in which the sound source is located within the air supply system in order to silence the noise generated from the sound source in the housing, in which in a case where a resonance wavelength of the resonance silencer alone is denoted by ?, a distance by which the resonance silencer is separated from the sound source is less than ?/2. A fundamental resonance frequency of the resonance silencer is equal to or less than an acoustic upper limit frequency determined according to a size of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Akihiko OHTSU
  • Patent number: 11493232
    Abstract: An object is to provide a silencing system that can achieve both high ventilation performance and high soundproof performance, can silence a plurality of pieces of resonant sound, and has high general-purpose properties since the silencing system does not need to be designed according to a tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu
  • Patent number: 11332926
    Abstract: There is provided a soundproof structure capable of obtaining a sufficient soundproofing effect by suppressing the leaking of sound due to a diffraction phenomenon in a partition member used for soundproofing. A soundproof unit, which has a frame body having an opening portion and a film that is disposed so as to cover the opening portion and vibrates according to a sound incident on the film, and a partition member, to which one or more soundproof units are attached, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ohtsu, Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11257473
    Abstract: There are provided a soundproof structure and an opening structure capable of suppressing degradation of sound absorbing characteristics due to resonance vibration. A micro perforated plate having a plurality of through-holes passing therethrough in the thickness direction and a first frame body, which is disposed in contact with one surface of the micro perforated plate and has a plurality of hole portions, are provided. The opening diameter of the hole portion of the first frame body is larger than the opening diameter of the through-hole of the micro perforated plate. The opening ratio of the hole portion of the first frame body is larger than the opening ratio of the through-hole of the micro perforated plate. The resonance frequency of the micro perforated plate in contact with the first frame body is higher than the audible range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu