Patents by Inventor Haruhiko Himura

Haruhiko Himura 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: 20230386801
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing vessel in which a substrate as a target of a plasma processing is disposed; a plasma forming device configured to form plasma within the processing vessel; a focusing device disposed within the processing vessel, and configured to focus multiple ions in the plasma to output an ion beam; and a sorting device configured to sort out, from the ion beam outputted from the focusing device, a specific ion to be supplied to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Moriya, Haruhiko Himura
  • Publication number: 20210305016
    Abstract: A specific type ion source 10 includes a chamber 11; a source gas supply 12 configured to supply an O2 gas into the chamber 11; a plasma forming device 13 configured to form plasma within the chamber 11 by applying a high frequency power to the O2 gas supplied into the chamber 11; an accelerator 14 configured to extract ions of an O element included in the plasma formed within the chamber 11 to an outside of the chamber 11, and configured to accelerate the extracted ions in a direction indicated by an arrow AR14; and a sorting device 15 configured to sort out a specific type ion O? from the ions accelerated by the accelerator 14 and configured to output the sorted specific type ion in a direction indicated by an arrow AR12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Haruhiko Himura