Patents by Inventor Atsushi Kubo

Atsushi Kubo 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).

  • Publication number: 20240106672
    Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of easily confirming content data, the information of which is registered in a blockchain, is provided. An image pickup apparatus generates an image file and then immediately calculates a hash value of the image file, and transmits image file information including the hash value to a management system. In response to receipt of a registration completion notification indicating that a process of registering the image file information in a blockchain is completed, the image pickup apparatus stores registration-completed information indicating that the image file information is registered in the blockchain, relating to the image file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: DAIYU UENO, KEIICHIRO KUBO, NAOHIKO TSUCHIDA, MINORU SAKAIDA, ATSUSHI FUJITA, KEISUKE TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240070250
    Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of guaranteeing that a provider of a content is a generator of the content is provided. The content generation apparatus that generates a content according to an instruction received from a user includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biometric information of the user, a biometric authentication unit configured to perform biometric authentication of the user based on the biometric information of the user, a hash value generation unit configured to generate a hash value of the content in a case that the biometric authentication of the user has succeeded, and a communication unit configured to transmit the content and information of the content to a management server that registers the hash value and the information of the content in a blockchain. The information of the content includes result information indicating a result of the biometric authentication of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: NAOHIKO TSUCHIDA, DAIYU UENO, MINORU SAKAIDA, ATSUSHI FUJITA, KEIICHIRO KUBO, KEISUKE TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11823942
    Abstract: A thermocompression bonding method for thermocompression bonding a sheet to a workpiece, where the method includes a stacking step of placing the sheet between a flat plate and the workpiece to form a stack in which the sheet is held between the workpiece and an entire surface of the flat plate and a thermocompression bonding step of thermocompression bonding the sheet to the workpiece while planarizing the sheet with the flat plate by heating the sheet and applying an external force to the stack, after performing the stacking step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoko Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Yodo, Atsushi Kubo
  • Patent number: 11804610
    Abstract: A fuel cell system having a direct liquid fuel cell that uses a liquid containing a formic acid or an alcohol as a fuel includes: a fuel tank that stores the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell; a fuel supply device that supplies the fuel in the fuel tank to the fuel cell; and a bubbling device that blows an inert gas into the fuel stored in the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takuya Tsujiguchi, Yasuhide Takeda, Atsushi Kubo, Akihiro Takazato, Toshiyuki Saito, Motoo Nakai, Yusuke Ueda
  • Publication number: 20230327145
    Abstract: A fuel flow groove formed in a fuel electrode current collector of a fuel electrode of a fuel cell includes a plurality of flow groove portions disposed in parallel, and a plurality of return groove portions connecting an end portion of one side edge portion or an end portion of the other side edge portion of the flow groove portions of two adjacent groups. Each of the return groove portions has an inner wall surface portion facing the end portion of the flow groove portions in the return groove portions. The inner wall surface portion has a curved surface shape in which a distance facing each other from the inner wall surface portion to the end portion of the flow groove portions, gradually decreases toward both end portions of the inner side wall surface portion in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the flow groove portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takuya TSUJIGUCHI, Noriyasu HAYASHI, Toshiyuki SAITO, Motoo NAKAI, Atsushi KUBO, Akihiro TAKAZATO
  • Publication number: 20230302580
    Abstract: A processing method for a workpiece includes forming a first processing groove by a first processing unit, imaging the first processing groove by a first imaging unit and imaging, by a second imaging unit provided on an opposite side of the first imaging unit with respect to the holding table, a predetermined line that is formed in a position corresponding to that of the first processing groove in a thickness direction of the workpiece, detecting whether or not a position of a first center line of the first processing groove and a position of a second center line of the predetermined line are aligned in a predetermined plane, and correcting the processing position in such a manner as to make the positions of the two center lines aligned when the detected positions of the first center line and the second center line are not being aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KOJIMA, Atsushi KUBO, Satoshi HANAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230275243
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes a discharge structure that discharges water generated in a cathode electrode in association with an electrode reaction in the MEA to the outside. The discharge structure includes a discharge path through which air that is an oxidant flows, a passage that communicably connects an oxidant supply flow path and the discharge path and that moves water generated in the cathode electrode to the discharge path, and a discharge portion that discharges the generated water moved to the discharge path to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takuya TSUJIGUCHI, Yasuhide TAKEDA, Motoo NAKAI, Toshiyuki SAITO, Atsushi KUBO, Mototake FURUHASHI, Ayumi NAKASONE, Atsushi NAKANE, Fumitaka ACHIWA
  • Patent number: 11626307
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a chuck table including a plate-shaped holding component having a predetermined region transparent from one surface to the other surface, a processing unit that processes a workpiece, a first imaging unit disposed over the chuck table to acquire a normal image of the back surface side, and a second imaging unit disposed under the chuck table to acquire a normal image of the front surface side, a display device, and a control part that executes image processing of the normal image of either the back or front surface side to cause the normal image subjected to the image processing to be displayed on the display device in the state of being inverted in a predetermined direction in order to allow the orientation of the normal image of the back surface side to correspond with the orientation of the normal image of the front surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kojima, Atsushi Kubo
  • Publication number: 20230062662
    Abstract: A measurement system including an imaging device and a plasma processing device having a plasma generator configured to generate plasma from a gas supplied into a processing chamber and a controller. The imaging device is configured to generate optical information of the plasma from image data of imaged plasma in the processing chamber, and the controller is configured to convert the generated optical information of the plasma into a plasma parameter that determines physical characteristics of the plasma with reference to a storage that stores correlation information between the optical information of the plasma and measurement results of the plasma parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ayuta SUZUKI, Hidefumi MATSUI, Atsushi KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220393200
    Abstract: A fuel cell system having a direct liquid fuel cell that uses a liquid containing a formic acid or an alcohol as a fuel includes: a fuel tank that stores the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell; a fuel supply device that supplies the fuel in the fuel tank to the fuel cell; and a bubbling device that blows an inert gas into the fuel stored in the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takuya TSUJIGUCHI, Yasuhide TAKEDA, Atsushi KUBO, Akihiro TAKAZATO, Toshiyuki SAITO, Motoo NAKAI, Yusuke UEDA
  • Publication number: 20220373349
    Abstract: To enable guidance to be given more understandably, depending on the guidance location. Provision of an image recognizing unit for analyzing the state of a guidance object that serves as a landmark for a guidance location, through image recognition using an image captured for the direction forward of a vehicle; a guidance information generating unit for generating guidance information that includes a supplementary explanation regarding the state of the guidance object, depending on the result of the analysis; and an output processing unit for outputting the guidance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu SATO, Atsushi KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220258369
    Abstract: A method of processing a workpiece includes holding a face side of the workpiece on a holding table having a region made of a transparent material and forming a processed groove in the workpiece with a cutting blade. The forming a processed groove includes capturing an image of the processed groove on a reverse side and the face side of the workpiece, and detecting whether a position of a first central line of the processed groove on the reverse side and a position of a second central line of the processed groove on the face side are in conformity in a predetermined plane. If the positions of the first and second central lines are not in conformity, then the forming a processed groove further has correcting a position of the center of the cutting blade in order to bring the positions of the first and second central lines into conformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KOJIMA, Atsushi KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220238311
    Abstract: A substrate processing method for performing a predetermined process on a substrate includes performing, a plurality of times, a cycle including (a) supplying a first processing gas into a processing container to which an exhaust pipe is connected and which accommodates the substrate and (b) supplying a second processing gas into the processing container, wherein at least one of (a) and (b) includes (c) introducing a ballast gas into the exhaust pipe and forming plasma of the processing gas supplied into the processing container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi KUBO, Tsuyoshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220230904
    Abstract: A substrate processing system, which includes a transfer device configured to simultaneously transfer a plurality of substrates and suitably corrects positions of the substrate, and a method of controlling the substrate processing system are provided. The substrate processing system includes: a process chamber in which a plurality of substrates is processed; a vacuum transfer chamber connected to the process chamber; a transfer device provided in the vacuum transfer chamber and configured to simultaneously transfer a plurality of substrates; a module connected to the vacuum transfer chamber and having a plurality of stages on which substrates are placed; and a controller. The controller is configured to measure an amount of change of an arm of the transfer device that has transferred processed substrates, and to correct positions of the stages based on the amount of change of the arm of the transfer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventor: Atsushi KUBO
  • Patent number: 11370418
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes a server device and a parking assist device provided in a host vehicle to communicate with the server device. The server device comprises a server storage portion that is configured to store parking lot information acquired when a second vehicle different from the host vehicle is parked in a parking section of a parking lot. The parking assist device includes a parking lot information receiver configured to receive the parking lot information from the server device, and a parking assist controller configured to control the host vehicle based on the obtained parking lot information to park the host vehicle in the parking section of the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220148980
    Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes: a processing container; a stage arranged inside the processing container and configured to place a substrate thereon, the stage including a plurality of film forming portions configured to form a film on a back surface of the substrate opposite to a surface of the substrate on which an element is formed, with a material gas supplied to the back surface via a supply port having a shape forming at least a portion of a film forming pattern for reducing stress applied to the substrate; and a control device configured to independently control film formations on the back surface by the plurality of film forming portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi KUBO, Takayuki YAMAGISHI, Takayuki KAMAISHI, Tetsuya SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220107200
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides alternative voice guidance in conformity with a current situation at a guidance point. A navigation device includes an image analysis unit configured to analyze an image in which a front of a vehicle is captured, a storage unit configured to store map information, a route search unit configured to search for a route to a target place set by a user, based on the map information to generate a recommended route, a voice guidance unit configured to provide, by voice or sound, guidance to a guidance point on the generated recommended route, and an input reception unit configured to receive a request for alternative voice guidance from the user, wherein when the input reception unit receives the request for alternative voice guidance, the voice guidance unit generates voice guidance for notifying the user of the guidance point, based on an analysis result of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu SATO, Atsushi KUBO
  • Patent number: 11281652
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: a storage unit storing map information divided into zones and used at least for screen display; a map drawing unit generating screen information using the map information; a difference detecting unit calculating, as a difference evaluation value, a magnitude of a difference in zone between the map information before update and the map information after update; and a map updating unit determining an order of updating the zones on a basis of a magnitude of the difference evaluation value to update, for each of the zones, the map information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Atsushi Kubo, Jun Ootsuka
  • Publication number: 20220059392
    Abstract: A thermocompression bonding method for thermocompression bonding a sheet to a workpiece, where the method includes a stacking step of placing the sheet between a flat plate and the workpiece to form a stack in which the sheet is held between the workpiece and an entire surface of the flat plate and a thermocompression bonding step of thermocompression bonding the sheet to the workpiece while planarizing the sheet with the flat plate by heating the sheet and applying an external force to the stack, after performing the stacking step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Naoko YAMAMOTO, Yoshiaki YODO, Atsushi KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220031666
    Abstract: The present invention provides a PPAR? activator containing a novel PPAR? agonist (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ?) as an active ingredient, and an exercise tolerance-improving agent containing the same as an active ingredient. The present invention is a PPAR? activator containing a guanidine derivative or a biguanidine derivative as an active ingredient, wherein the PPAR? activator activates transcriptional activity of PPAR?, and the guanidine derivative and the biguanidine derivative are capable of fitting within a PPAR? ligand binding pocket in a state where a guanidino group or a biguanidino group forms a hydrogen bond with amino acid residues corresponding to each of the 413th histidine, 287th histidine, 253rd threonine and the 437th tyrosine of human PPAR?, among amino acid residues constituting an interior surface of the ligand binding pocket; and is an exercise tolerance-improving agent containing the PPAR? activator as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiko OGURA, Toshio HAKOSHIMA, Kota MIYASAKA, Atsushi KUBO