Patents by Inventor Akio Funagoshi

Akio Funagoshi 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: 4936940
    Abstract: An equipment for surface treatment according to the present invention comprises a chamber capable of exhausting gas, a revolving stage disposed in said chamber for placing a material to be treated thereon, a quartz plate serving as a gap controlling means spaced from the material to be treated such that a gap between said revolving stage and said material to be treated is provided not to exceed 0.5 mm for forming a space of treatment, the quartz plate being provided with a gas supplying means for supplying a reactive gas containing oxygen into the space of treatment, and a gas exciting means provided on the a side of said quartz plate opposite that on which the material to be treated is located for exciting the oxygen contained in said reactive gas into metastable oxygen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken-ichi Kawasumi, Akio Funagoshi