Patents by Inventor Harumitsu Saito

Harumitsu Saito 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: 7198552
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a surface of a workpiece includes a housing unit, a partition wall partitioning an interior of the housing unit into a first chamber and a second chamber, a polishing section disposed in the first chamber and having a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof and a top ring positioned above the turntable for supporting the workpiece to be polished and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth, and a cleaning section disposed in the second chamber and cleaning the workpiece which has been polished. The polishing apparatus further includes a transferring device for transferring the workpiece which has been polished from the polishing section to the cleaning section through an opening and an exhaust system for exhausting ambient air from each of the polishing section and cleaning section separately and independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignees: Ebara Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toyomi Nishi, Tetsuji Togawa, Harumitsu Saito, Manabu Tsujimura, Hiromi Yajima, Kazuaki Himukai, Shoichi Kodama, Yukio Imoto, Riichiro Aoki, Masako Watase, Atsushi Shigeta, Shiro Mishima, Gisuke Kouno
  • Publication number: 20060084369
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a surface of a workpiece includes a housing unit, a partition wall partitioning an interior of the housing unit into a first chamber and a second chamber, a polishing section disposed in the first chamber and having a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof and a top ring positioned above the turntable for supporting the workpiece to be polished and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth, and a cleaning section disposed in the second chamber and cleaning the workpiece which has been polished. The polishing apparatus further includes a transferring device for transferring the workpiece which has been polished from the polishing section to the cleaning section through an opening and an exhaust system for exhausting ambient air from each of the polishing section and cleaning section separately and independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventors: Toyomi Nishi, Tetsuji Togawa, Harumitsu Saito, Manabu Tsujimura, Hiromi Yajima, Kazuaki Himukai, Shoichi Kodama, Yukio Imoto, Riichiro Aoki, Masako Watase, Atsushi Shigeta, Shiro Mishima, Gisuke Kouno
  • Patent number: 6997782
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a surface of a workpiece includes a housing unit, a partition wall partitioning an interior of the housing unit into a first chamber and a second chamber, a polishing section disposed in the first chamber and having a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof and a top ring positioned above the turntable for supporting the workpiece to be polished and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth, and a cleaning section disposed in the second chamber and cleaning the workpiece which has been polished. The polishing apparatus further includes a transferring device for transferring the workpiece which has been polished from the polishing section to the cleaning section through an opening and an exhaust system for exhausting ambient air from each of the polishing section and cleaning section separately and independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignees: Ebara Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toyomi Nishi, Tetsuji Togawa, Harumitsu Saito, Manabu Tsujimura, Hiromi Yajima, Kazuaki Himukai, Shoichi Kodama, Yukio Imoto, Riichiro Aoki, Masako Watase, Atsushi Shigeta, Shiro Mishima, Gisuke Kouno
  • Publication number: 20030040261
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a surface of a workpiece includes a housing unit, a partition wall partitioning an interior of the housing unit into a first chamber and a second chamber, a polishing section disposed in the first chamber and having a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof and a top ring positioned above the turntable for supporting the workpiece to be polished and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth, and a cleaning section disposed in the second chamber and cleaning the workpiece which has been polished. The polishing apparatus further includes a transferring device for transferring the workpiece which has been polished from the polishing section to the cleaning section through an opening and an exhaust system for exhausting ambient air from each of the polishing section and cleaning section separately and independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Toyomi Nishi, Tetsuji Togawa, Harumitsu Saito, Manabu Tsujimura, Hiromi Yajima, Kazuaki Himukai, Shoichi Kodama, Yukio Imoto, Riichiro Aoki, Masako Watase, Atsushi Shigeta, Shiro Mishima, Gisuke Kouno
  • Patent number: 6500051
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a surface of a workpiece includes a housing unit, a partition wall partitioning an interior of the housing unit into a first chamber and a second chamber, a polishing section disposed in the first chamber and having a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof and a top ring positioned above the turntable for supporting the workpiece to be polished and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth, and a cleaning section disposed in the second chamber and cleaning the workpiece which has been polished. The polishing apparatus further includes a transferring device for transferring the workpiece which has been polished from the polishing section to the cleaning section through an opening and an exhaust system for exhausting ambient air from each of the polishing section and cleaning section separately and independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignees: Ebara Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toyomi Nishi, Tetsuji Togawa, Harumitsu Saito, Manabu Tsujimura, Hiromi Yajima, Kazuaki Himukai, Shoichi Kodama, Yukio Imoto, Riichiro Aoki, Masako Watase, Atsushi Shigeta, Shiro Mishima, Gisuke Kouno
  • Patent number: 5679059
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a surface of a workpiece includes a housing unit, a partition wall partitioning an interior of the housing unit into a first chamber and a second chamber, a polishing section disposed in the first chamber and having a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof and a top ring positioned above the turntable for supporting the workpiece to be polished and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth, and a cleaning section disposed in the second chamber and cleaning the workpiece which has been polished. The polishing apparatus further includes a transferring device for transferring the workpiece which has been polished from the polishing section to the cleaning section through an opening and an exhaust system for exhausting ambient air from each of the polishing section and cleaning section separately and independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignees: Ebara Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toyomi Nishi, Tetsuji Togawa, Harumitsu Saito, Manabu Tsujimura, Hiromi Yajima, Kazuaki Himukai, Shoichi Kodama, Yukio Imoto, Riichiro Aoki, Masako Watase, Atsushi Shigeta, Shiro Mishima, Gisuke Kouno
  • Patent number: 5173041
    Abstract: A multistage vacuum pump including a plural set of two lobe type vacuum pumps arranged on a common shaft for rotors and in a common casing. The adjacent pumps are connected in series with each other through a communicating passage formed in a pump casing. A solid material collector having a cooling device is provided in the communicating passage so that it is dismountable from the pump casing. A solid component in a compressed gas is forcibly produced by and adhered to the solid material collector. Thus, it is not necessary to disassemble the pump casing for cleaning the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Niimura, Harumitsu Saito
  • Patent number: 4452155
    Abstract: A method for incinerating material is disclosed wherein a vertical thermal reactor of the fluidized bed type is employed, the reactor being generally a rectangular shape in a horizontal section and having opposed side walls. Fluidizing medium is subjected to different mass flow at the center portion and the side portions so that relatively strong side fluidized beds are formed adjacent the side walls and a relatively weak fluidized bed is formed at the center sandwiched by the side fluidized beds free of any obstructions therebetween. The center fluidized bed tends to descend relative to the side fluidized beds which are deflected at the upper portions thereof, respectively toward the center so that the fluidized medium circulates from the lower part of the center fluidized bed to the lower parts of the side fluidized beds and from the upper parts of the side fluidized beds towards the upper part of the center fluidized bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Ishihara, Takahiro Ohshita, Harumitsu Saito
  • Patent number: 4419330
    Abstract: A fluidized bed type thermal reactor having a furnace housing wherein there is substantially no partition wall and adapted to generate a downwardly descending moving bed portion and whirling fluidized bed portions at opposite lateral sides of the moving bed, respectively, whereby pre-shredding or crushing of material to be charged into the furnace is made substantially unnecessary. The reactor is provided with a unique feeder for charging the material so that the incombustible items the size of which is not suitable to be charged into the furnace are rejected by reversing the feeding direction of the feeder when the presence of such items is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Ishihara, Takahiro Ohshita, Harumitsu Saito