Patents by Inventor Akira Noda

Akira Noda 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: 11967659
    Abstract: Provided is a stable CdZnTe monocrystalline substrate having a small leakage current even when a high voltage is applied and having a lower variation in resistivity with respect to variations in applied voltage values. A semiconductor wafer comprising a cadmium zinc telluride monocrystal having a zinc concentration of 4.0 at % or more and 6.5 at % or less and a chlorine concentration of 0.1 ppm by mass or more and 5.0 ppm by mass or less, wherein the semiconductor wafer has a resistivity of 1.0×107 ?cm or more and 1.0×108 ?cm or less when a voltage of 900 V is applied, and wherein a ratio (variation ratio) of the resistivity at application of 0 V to the resistivity at application of a voltage of 900 V is 20% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JX METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Murakami, Akira Noda, Ryuichi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20240123744
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Koshiro YAMAGUCHI, Tsutomu KATO, Masato KATO, Yasuhiro IRIYAMA, Yasuhiro SHIBATA, Teruo IMAMAKI, Akira SAGO, Tsuyoshi NAGAE, Takashi HORIUCHI, Tomohiko SUGINO, Kengo NODA
  • Patent number: 11945217
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Kato, Masato Kato, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata, Teruo Imamaki, Akira Sago, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Takashi Horiuchi, Tomohiko Sugino, Kengo Noda
  • Publication number: 20240102517
    Abstract: A housing is placed at an inside space of a case to be installed on a vehicle. The housing includes: a housing plate portion configured to contact a case plate portion of the case; and a receiving space located on one side of the housing plate portion which is opposite to the case plate portion. An electric motor is placed at the receiving space and is configured to output a torque. The housing includes: a housing ventilation hole that extends through the housing plate portion and communicates between an outside space of the housing and the receiving space; and a breathable filter that is placed on a side of the housing ventilation hole, at which the case plate portion is placed, to cover the housing ventilation hole, while the breathable filter is configured to perm it a gas to pass through the breathable filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirohisa NODA, Ryo ISHIBASHI, Akira TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 11933743
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus obtains a plurality of images at different radiation energies, the images having been obtained as a result of irradiating a subject with radiation whose energy changes during one shot, and detecting, a plurality of times, the radiation that has passed through the subject during the one shot; generates an energy subtraction image by performing energy subtraction processing using a plurality of images; and generates a difference image using a plurality of generated energy subtraction images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Akira Tsukuda, Kosuke Terui, Sota Torii, Takeshi Noda
  • Patent number: 11926924
    Abstract: Provided is an indium phosphide substrate, a semiconductor epitaxial wafer, a method for producing an indium phosphide single-crystal ingot and a method for producing indium phosphide substrate capable of suppressing concave defects. An indium phosphide substrate has a diameter of 100 mm or less, and at least one of surfaces has zero concave defects detected in the topography channel, by irradiating a laser beam of 405 nm wavelength with S-polarized light on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JX METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Oka, Keita Kawahira, Akira Noda
  • Publication number: 20240067118
    Abstract: An occupant protection device of a configuration that protects an occupant seated on a seat, in which an airbag is held in a holding body disposed in a periphery of a hip portion of the occupant. The airbag has a bag main body, and a conduit portion that causes an inflating gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the bag main body. The bag main body is held in the holding body in a state of a completely folded body folded using a front-rear reduction folding such that a width dimension in front-rear direction is reduced from a state of a preliminary folded bag. The completely folded body is formed by a lower side rolled region which is formed by a lower side region of the preliminary folded bag being wound from a lower edge side, being stacked on an upper side rolled region which is formed by an upper side region of the preliminary folded bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Motoyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240011950
    Abstract: A chromatography quality control device includes a measurement data acquirer that acquires measurement data obtained as a result of measurement in a chromatograph and stores the measurement data in a storage device, a chromatogram factorizer that retrieves the measurement data from the storage device, dimensionally compresses a chromatogram obtained from the measurement data by factorization and stores component data, the component data obtained by the factorization, in the storage device, and a component data outputter that retrieves the component data from the storage device and outputs the component data to a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: Akira NODA
  • Publication number: 20230374700
    Abstract: Provided is an indium phosphide substrate, a semiconductor epitaxial wafer, a method for producing an indium phosphide single-crystal ingot and a method for producing indium phosphide substrate capable of suppressing concave defects. An indium phosphide substrate has a diameter of 100 mm or less, and at least one of surfaces has zero concave defects detected in the topography channel, by irradiating a laser beam of 405 nm wavelength with S-polarized light on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke OKA, Keita KAWAHIRA, Akira NODA
  • Publication number: 20230204548
    Abstract: A peak tracking device includes a chromatogram acquirer that acquires chromatograms based on measurement data pieces obtained from measurements by an analyzer in accordance with analysis condition data pieces, a score calculator that calculates score data based on a belonging probability, the probability being calculated for each peak appeared in each chromatogram to belong to one of substances included in a sample, and a score displayer that displays on a display the score data calculated by the score calculator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NODA
  • Patent number: 11681778
    Abstract: An analysis data processing method for processing analysis data collected with an analyzing device for each of a plurality of samples, by applying an analytical technique using statistical machine learning to multidimensional analysis data formed by output values obtained from a plurality of channels of a multichannel detector provided in the analyzing device, the method including: acquiring a non-linear regression or non-linear discrimination function expressing analysis data obtained for known samples; calculating a contribution value of each of the output values obtained from the plurality of channels forming the analysis data of the known samples, to the acquired non-linear regression or non-linear discrimination function, based on a differential value of the non-linear regression function or non-linear discrimination function; and identifying one or more of the plurality of channels of the detector, which are to be used for processing analysis data obtained for an unknown sample, based on the contributio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Noda
  • Publication number: 20230160862
    Abstract: A waveform information inference device according to one mode of the present invention includes: a waveform extraction unit (31) configured to extract a partial waveform to be modeled from a signal waveform acquired based on actual measurement using a predetermined analysis device; and an adversarial learning unit (32) configured to acquire a model function corresponding to the partial waveform, or the model function and shape distribution information in the function by performing adversarial learning using two mutually adversarial models which are a generation model and a discriminative model using the partial waveform obtained by the waveform extraction unit as an input. The present invention can acquire a precision peak model function and its shape parameter distribution information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NODA
  • Publication number: 20230126478
    Abstract: A peak area display device includes an acquirer, a peak area calculator and a display device. The acquirer acquires measurement data measured by a chromatograph. A peak area calculator fits a model function to a chromatogram by performing optimization calculation to maximize or minimize a peak area while keeping a value to be taken by a loss function representing a residual between the chromatogram obtained from the measurement data MD and the model function in a predetermined range. The peak area calculator obtains a maximum value or a minimum value of the peak area. A display device (display) displays the maximum value or the minimum value of the peak area obtained by the peak area calculator, or information obtained by a process of the maximum value or the minimum value of the peak area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NODA
  • Publication number: 20230131114
    Abstract: A peak tracking device includes a chromatogram acquirer that acquires chromatograms based on measurement data obtained by providing an analysis device with analysis condition data, and a peak associator that associates each peak included in each chromatogram with one another. The peak associator includes a peak spectrum extractor that extracts peak spectral data being a spectrum derived from a peak from measurement spectral data acquired from each measurement data, an orthogonal spectrum extractors that extracts, from the measurement spectral data, spectral data orthogonal to a dominant component among components of the peak spectral data, and a similarity determiner that associates each peak with one another based on similarity of the spectral data extracted from the orthogonal spectrum extractor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NODA
  • Publication number: 20220382834
    Abstract: An analysis method for analyzing a sample includes a first step of acquiring measurement data including a first signal based on the sample and a second signal based on noise added to the first signal as a result of analysis of the sample, a second step of assuming a shape representing the first signal and a shape representing the second signal and modeling the measurement data using Bayesian inference, and a third step of estimating a probability distribution of characteristics of the sample based on the modeled measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUJITA, Akira NODA, Yusuke TAMAI, Yoshihiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220253508
    Abstract: A computer calculates interference fringe phase estimated value data (30) of a phase-restored object image by performing iterative approximation calculation using interference fringe intensity data (10) measured by a digital holography apparatus and interference fringe phase initial value data (20), which is an estimated initial phase value of the image of the object. The interference fringe phase initial value data (20) is calculated by an initial phase estimator (300). The initial phase estimator (300) is constructed by implementing machine learning using interference fringe intensity data and the like for learning. The computer acquires reconfigured intensity data (40) and reconfigured phase data (50) by performing optical wave propagation calculation using the interference fringe phase estimation value data (30) of the image of the object acquired through phase restoration, and the interference fringe intensity data (10) used as input data for the initial phase estimator (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke TAGAWA, Akira NODA, Wataru TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11391852
    Abstract: Provided is a radiation detection element, including: a plurality of electrode portions on a surface of a substrate; and an insulating portion between the electrode portions, the substrate being made of a compound semiconductor crystal containing cadmium telluride or cadmium zinc telluride, wherein an intermediate layer containing tellurium oxide is present between each of the electrode portions and the substrate, and wherein the tellurium oxide layer has a thickness of 100 nm or less on a 500 nm inner side from an end portion of the insulating portion between the electrode portions. The radiation detection element has higher adhesion of the electrodes, and does not result in an element performance defect caused by insufficient insulation between the electrodes, even if the radiation detection element has a narrower distance between the electrode portions in order to obtain a high-definition radiographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Yamada, Koji Murakami, Akira Noda
  • Patent number: 11371164
    Abstract: Provided is a large diameter InP single crystal substrate having a diameter of 75 mm or more, which can achieve a high electrical activation rate of Zn over a main surface of the substrate even in a highly doped region having a Zn concentration of 5×1018 cm?3 or more; and a method for producing the same. An InP single crystal ingot is cooled such that a temperature difference of 200° C. is decreased for 2 to 7.5 minutes, while rotating the InP single crystal ingot at a rotation speed of 10 rpm or less, and the cooled InP single crystal ingot is cut into a thin plate, thereby allowing production of the InP single crystal substrate having an electrical activation rate of Zn of more than 85% over the main surface of the substrate even in a highly doped region having a Zn concentration of 5×1018 cm?3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Noda, Keita Kawahira, Ryuichi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220199841
    Abstract: Provided is a stable CdZnTe monocrystalline substrate having a small leakage current even when a high voltage is applied and having a lower variation in resistivity with respect to variations in applied voltage values. A semiconductor wafer comprising a cadmium zinc telluride monocrystal having a zinc concentration of 4.0 at % or more and 6.5 at % or less and a chlorine concentration of 0.1 ppm by mass or more and 5.0 ppm by mass or less, wherein the semiconductor wafer has a resistivity of 1.0×107 ?cm or more and 1.0×108 ?cm or less when a voltage of 900 V is applied, and wherein a ratio (variation ratio) of the resistivity at application of 0 V to the resistivity at application of a voltage of 900 V is 20% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji MURAKAMI, Akira NODA, Ryuichi HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11349037
    Abstract: In this photoelectric conversion element wherein group III-IV compound semiconductor single crystals containing zinc as an impurity are used as a substrate, the substrate is increased in size without lowering conversion efficiency. A heat-resistant crucible is filled with raw material and a sealant, and the raw material and sealant are heated, thereby melting the raw material into a melt, softening the encapsulant, and covering the melt from the top with the encapsulant. The temperature inside the crucible is controlled such that the temperature of the top of the encapsulant relative to the bottom of the encapsulant becomes higher in a range that not equal or exceed the temperature of bottom of the encapsulant, and seed crystal is dipped in the melt and pulled upward with respect to the melt, thereby growing single crystals from the seed crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Noda, Masaru Ota, Ryuichi Hirano