Patents by Inventor Eiichi Kobayashi
Eiichi Kobayashi 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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Publication number: 20070161861Abstract: A curving control device to which an electrically-controlled endoscope is connected has a main CPU for primarily performing curving driving control, and a monitoring CPU for monitoring whether the operating state relating to curving actions is normal or abnormal. In the event of detecting an abnormality from the monitoring CPU, the curving control device also performs processing for handling the occurrence of the abnormality, such as outputting an emergency stop through an interlock via the main CPU, turning the main power and the like of a servo driver OFF, and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2007Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Toshimasa Kawai, Eiichi Kobayashi, Takemitsu Honda, Seiichiro Kimoto
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Publication number: 20070150155Abstract: At startup, a main CPU renders and copies various types of unique parameters stored in an SRAM card corresponding to an ID unique to endoscopes to DPRAM and SDRAM and enables the endoscopes to be used with these parameters. Also in the event of desiring to change the set parameters, the user requests a change via an HM, whereby the changed parameters are copied to the SDRAM via the DPRAM, and electrically-operated curving actions of the endoscope can be performed with the changed parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2007Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Toshimasa Kawai, Eiichi Kobayashi, Takemitsu Honda, Seiichiro Kimoto
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Publication number: 20070142705Abstract: In an endoscope device 1 in accordance with the present invention, a navigation screen 51 is displayed. The navigation screen 51 includes: an endoscopic live image display area 52 in which a live image produced by a bronchoscope 2 is displayed; a VBS image display area 53 in which a VBS image is displayed; and a thumbnail VBS image area 54 in which images constructed by reducing VBS images that represent all branch points on a route are displayed as thumbnail VBS images representing branch points. Consequently, an endoscope can be reliably navigated to reach a target region using guide images that represent actual branch positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Ohnishi, Shunya Akimoto, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20060234154Abstract: A radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising an acid-labile group-containing resin obtained by living radical polymerization having a specific structure which is insoluble or scarcely soluble in alkali, but becomes alkali soluble by the action of an acid, and a photoacid generator, wherein the ratio of weight average molecular weight to number average molecular weight (weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight) of the acid-labile group-containing resin is smaller than 1.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2003Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Isao Nishimura, Kouichi Fujiwara, Eiichi Kobayashi, Tsutomu Shimokawa, Atsushi Nakamura, Eiji Yoneda, Yong Wang
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Publication number: 20060234153Abstract: A radiation-sensitive resin composition suitable as a chemically-amplified resist useful for microfabrication utilizing various types of radiation such as deep ultraviolet rays represented by a KrF excimer laser or ArF excimer laser. The radiation-sensitive resin composition of the present invention comprises: (A) a resin comprising a recurring unit (1-1) shown by the following formula (I-1) and (B) a radiation-sensitive acid generator such as 1-(4-n-butoxynaphthyl)tetrahydrothiophenium nonafluoro-n-butanesulfonate. The radiation-sensitive resin composition may further comprise (C) an acid diffusion controller such as phenylbenzimidazole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2003Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Yukio Nishimura, Hiroyuki Ishii, Isao Nishimura, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7087356Abstract: Acid-catalyzed positive resist compositions which are imageable with 193 nm radiation and/or possibly other radiation and are developable to form resist structures of improved development characteristics and improved etch resistance are enabled by the use of resist compositions containing imaging polymer component comprising an acid-sensitive polymer having a monomeric unit with a pendant group containing a remote acid labile moiety.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, JSR CorporationInventors: Mahmoud H. Khojasteh, Kuang-Jung Chen, Pushkara Rao Varanasi, Yukio Nishimura, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20060161042Abstract: A CPU includes: an original image recording function for recording a still image or a recorded image as an original image; a contrast correction function for performing contrast correction on a still image or a recorded image; a coordinate calculation function for calculating pixel coordinates on an original image which correspond to pixel coordinates designated on a contrast corrected image; a stereo measurement function for performing stereo measurement using pixel coordinates of an original image calculated by the coordinate calculation function; a measurement result reflection function for reflecting on a contrast corrected image a measurement result of stereo measurement performed by the stereo measurement function; and a dynamic range expansion function for enhancing brightness of an image area which is darker than a predetermined threshold. These functions enable stereo measurement to be performed precisely using an image on which image processing has been performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Kobayashi, Hideyoshi Yamauchi
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Patent number: 7060414Abstract: A radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising (A) a photoacid generator such as 2,4,6-trimethylphenyldiphenylsulfonium 2,4-difluorobenzenesulfonate or 2,4,6-trimethylphenyldiphenylsulfonium 4-trifluoromethylbenzenesulfonate and (B) a resin having an acetal structure typified by a poly(p-hydroxystyrene) resin in which a part of hydrogen atoms of phenolic hydroxyl groups have been replaced by 1-ethoxyethyl groups, 1-ethoxyethyl groups and t-butoxycarbonyl groups, or 1-ethoxyethyl groups and t-butyl groups. The resin composition is sensitive to deep ultraviolet rays and charged particles such as electron beams, exhibits excellent resolution performance and pattern shape-forming capability, and suppresses a nano-edge roughness phenomenon to a minimal extent.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: JSR CorporationInventors: Aki Suzuki, Makoto Murata, Hiromichi Hara, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7043951Abstract: To provide a wire rod forming machine for which it is possible to increase the production speed above that of the prior art. In the ring-forming machine 10 of the present configuration, between the respective edges 42 and 51 of the moving die 40 and the fixed punch 50, a prescribed location of the belt-shaped wire rod 90 is sheared and the ring 91 is cut off from the belt-shaped wire rod 90. Then, by pushing the ring 91 that was cut off with the moving die 40, the ring is forcibly removed from the forming tools 31, 32 and 33. Therefore, the speed of removal of the ring 91 can be coupled to the acceleration of the manufacturing speed and increased, allowing the production speed to be improved compared to that of the prior art. In addition, since the ring 91 that is cut off from the belt-shaped wire rod 90, pushed by the moving die 40, moves to the end side of the shaft shaped chute 34 to be collected, transport to the next process becomes easy.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignees: Minebea Co. Ltd, Asahi - Seiki Manf. Co.Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Shigeo Nishimura, Eiichi Kobayashi, Kazunori Sawayama
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Patent number: 7005951Abstract: A screw-fixing implement which is low in cost and has a high reliability, a resonator device having the screw-fixing implement and having a characteristic adjusting function, a filter, an oscillator, and a communication device each containing the resonator device, and a method of adjusting a characteristic of the resonator device are provided. A nut 2 for fixing a characteristic-adjusting screw 1 is provided with a concave portion d in the vicinity to the axis of the fixing nut 2 and concaved in the thickness direction. A spring-washer 3 is provided with a convex portion p which is engaged with the concave portion d of the screw-fixing nut 2. The spring-washer 3 is sandwiched between a panel 4 and the screw-fixing nut 2. Then, the characteristic adjusting screw 1 is turned under an appropriate load. After the characteristic is adjusted, the screw-fixing nut 2 is tightened till the spring washer 3 is completely broken. Thus, these members are locked.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Motooka, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Medical treatment system, endoscope system, endoscope insert operation program, and endoscope device
Publication number: 20050272971Abstract: An analyzing unit 9 is connected to an inserting-operation information collecting unit 5, an endoscope video output unit 6, and a processing device 2, and receives live inserting-operation information and endoscope image, standard inserting-operation information as stored information, and an endoscope image correlated therewith (endoscope image which is obtained by picking up an image of a sample at the position of a distal-end portion of an inserting portion detected based on the inserting-operation information). The analyzing unit 9 collects in real time the inserting-operation information and the endoscope image from the inserting-operation information collecting unit 5 and the endoscope video output unit 6 under the bronchoscope operation of an operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2003Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Ohnishi, Shunya Akimoto, Kunihide Kaji, Eiichi Kobayashi, Akito Saito, Takao Shibasaki, Taiji Mine -
Publication number: 20050158657Abstract: A radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising (A) a photoacid generator such as 2,4,6-trimethylphenyldiphenylsulfonium 2,4-difluorobenzenesulfonate or 2,4,6-trimethylphenyldiphenylsulfonium 4-trifluoromethylbenzenesulfonate and (B) a resin having an acetal structure typified by a poly(p-hydroxystyrene) resin in which a part of hydrogen atoms of phenolic hydroxyl groups have been replaced by 1-ethoxyethyl groups, 1-ethoxyethyl groups and t-butoxycarbonyl groups, or 1-ethoxyethyl groups and t-butyl groups. The resin composition is sensitive to deep ultraviolet rays and charged particles such as electron beams, exhibits excellent resolution performance and pattern shape-forming capability, and suppresses a nano-edge roughness phenomenon to a minimal extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Inventors: Aki Suzuki, Makoto Murata, Hiromichi Hara, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6914497Abstract: In a parallel multistage band-pass filter, a transmission line having an electrical length substantially equal to half (?/2) of the wavelength of the transmission signal is incorporated between the port on the input terminal side of the odd number (2n?1)th resonator numbered from the input terminal side and the port on the input terminal side of the even number (2n)th resonator numbered from the input terminal side; and a transmission line having an electrical length substantially equal to ?/2 is incorporated between the port on the output terminal side of the even number (2n)th resonator numbered from the input terminal side and the port on the output terminal side of the odd number (2n+1)th resonator numbered from the input terminal side. Moreover, a transmission line for adjustment of a transmission phase between the input terminal and the output terminal is incorporated between the first resonator numbered from the output terminal side and the output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Sano, Eiichi Kobayashi, Shingo Okajima, Jun Hattori
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Patent number: 6899989Abstract: A radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising (A) a photoacid generator such as 2,4,6-trimethylphenyldiphenylsulfonium 2,4-difluorobenzenesulfonate or 2,4,6-trimethylphenyldiphenylsulfonium 4-trifluoromethylbenzenesulfonate and (B) a resin having an acetal structure typified by a poly(p-hydroxystyrene) resin in which a part of hydrogen atoms of phenolic hydroxyl groups have been replaced by 1-ethoxyethyl groups, 1-ethoxyethyl groups and t-butoxycarbonyl groups, or 1-ethoxyethyl groups and t-butyl groups. The resin composition is sensitive to deep ultraviolet rays and charged particles such as electron beams, exhibits excellent resolution performance and pattern shape-forming capability, and suppresses a nano-edge roughness phenomenon to a minimal extent.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: JSR CorporationInventors: Aki Suzuki, Makoto Murata, Hiromichi Hara, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20050020878Abstract: In an endoscope device 1 in accordance with the present invention, a navigation screen 51 is displayed. The navigation screen 51 includes: an endoscopic live image display area 52 in which a live image produced by a bronchoscope 2 is displayed; a VBS image display area 53 in which a VBS image is displayed; and a thumbnail VBS image area 54 in which images constructed by reducing VBS images that represent all branch points on a route are displayed as thumbnail VBS images representing branch points. Consequently, an endoscope can be reliably navigated to reach a target region using guide images that represent actual branch positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Junichi Ohnishi, Shunya Akimoto, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6846607Abstract: A carbazole derivative of the following formula (1), wherein R1 and R2 individually represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, or R1 and R2 form, together with the carbon atom to which R1 and R2 bond, a divalent organic group having a 3-8 member carbocyclic structure or a 3-8 member heterocyclic structure, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group. The carbazole derivative is suitable as an additive for increasing sensitivity of a chemically amplified resist. A chemically amplified radiation-sensitive resin composition, useful as a chemically amplified resist, comprising the carbazole derivative is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: JSR CorporationInventors: Tomoki Nagai, Jun Numata, Shirou Kusumoto, Eiichi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20040262365Abstract: The invention provides a technique for evaluation of a spot welded portion by which the strength of a panel. In the evaluation method, a stress value at a welded portion of the panel is calculated by a stress analysis according to a FEM using the elements, and then the strength of the welded portion is evaluated based on the stress value at the welded portion. Particularly, a portion in the proximity of the spot welded portion is divided, with a central portion of the spot welded portion registered with a nodal point of the elements, into a central element and a plurality of concentric ring-like elements including first and second ring-like elements from the center side provided by the central portion of the spot welded portion. Thereafter, the plural concentric ring-like elements are individually divided in a circumferential direction each into a plurality of portions to form the elements. Then, the strength is evaluated based on the stress value of the second ring-like element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Eiichi Kobayashi, Yusuke Kondo, Hisayuki Ishizu, Nobutaka Oda, Kazuo Ao
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Patent number: 6821705Abstract: A radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising (A) a compound of the following formula (1), (R1, R2, and R3 is hydrogen, hydroxyl group, or monovalent organic group and R4 is monovalent acid-dissociable group), (B) an alkali insoluble or scarcely soluble resin comprising a recurring unit of the following formula (2), (R5 is hydrogen or monovalent organic group, R′ hydrogen or methyl, n 1-3, m 0-3) and a recurring unit containing acid-dissociable group, and (C) a photoacid generator. The resin composition is useful as a chemically amplified resist, exhibits high sensitivity, resolution, radiation transmittance, and surface smoothness, and is free from the problem of partial insolublization during overexposure.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: JSR CorporationInventors: Tomoki Nagai, Jun Numata, Eiichi Kobayashi, Tsutomu Shimokawa
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Publication number: 20040148993Abstract: To provide a wire rod forming machine for which it is possible to increase the production speed above that of the prior art. In the ring-forming machine 10 of the present configuration, between the respective edges 42 and 51 of the moving die 40 and the fixed punch 50, a prescribed location of the belt-shaped wire rod 90 is sheared and the ring 91 is cut off from the belt-shaped wire rod 90. Then, by pushing the ring 91 that was cut off with the moving die 40, the ring is forcibly removed from the forming tools 31, 32 and 33. Therefore, the speed of removal of the ring 91 can be coupled to the acceleration of the manufacturing speed and increased, allowing the production speed to be improved compared to that of the prior art. In addition, since the ring 91 that is cut off from the belt-shaped wire rod 90, pushed by the moving die 40, moves to the end side of the shaft shaped chute 34 to be collected, transport to the next process becomes easy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Shigeo Nishimura, Eiichi Kobayashi, Kazunori Sawayama
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Publication number: 20040113723Abstract: A screw-fixing implement which is low in cost and has a high reliability, a resonator device having the screw-fixing implement and having a characteristic adjusting function, a filter, an oscillator, and a communication device each containing the resonator device, and a method of adjusting a characteristic of the resonator device are provided. A nut 2 for fixing a characteristic-adjusting screw 1 is provided with a concave portion d in the vicinity to the axis of the fixing nut 2 and concaved in the thickness direction. A spring-washer 3 is provided with a convex portion p which is engaged with the concave portion d of the screw-fixing nut 2. The spring-washer 3 is sandwiched between a panel 4 and the screw-fixing nut 2. Then, the characteristic adjusting screw 1 is turned under an appropriate load. After the characteristic is adjusted, the screw-fixing nut 2 is tightened till the spring washer 3 is completely broken. Thus, these members are locked.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Yutaka Motooka, Eiichi Kobayashi