Patents by Inventor Hiroki Murakami

Hiroki Murakami 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: 11964607
    Abstract: A vehicle loads at least one of a plurality of upper units having space to store a person or an object on an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels in the vehicle. The vehicle includes an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels and the at least one of the plurality of upper units loaded on the under unit. The under unit includes a loading unit, on which the at least one of the plurality of upper units as described above can be loaded. Each of the plurality of upper units includes a joint that joins to a different upper unit that is adjacently loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Publication number: 20240103481
    Abstract: A numerical controller includes a reading analysis unit that reads a CNC program and additional information, a path generation unit that determines a movement path of a tool, and a velocity control unit that determines a velocity for moving the tool according to the movement path of the tool, and machining errors, deterioration of a machined surface quality, or an increase in a cycle time are reduced without increasing a CNC program size and a calculation time associated with control more than necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Murakami, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Jirou Fujiyama, Naoya Koide
  • Patent number: 11938732
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head supported by a support body includes: a first head chip; a holder having a holding portion holding the first head chip and a flange portion; and a heater heating the holding portion, in which the holding portion has a heat receiving portion receiving heat from the heater, and a shortest path of heat transferred through the holder from the heat receiving portion to the flange portion is bent or curved at two or more points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Okubo, Takahiro Kanegae, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
  • Patent number: 11938728
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: head chips including a first-head-chip and a second-head-chip; a holder holding the head chips; and a heater along a direction parallel to a nozzle surface. The first-head-chip and the second-head-chip are disposed to be offset from each other in both a first-direction and a second-direction parallel to the nozzle surface and intersecting with each other. When a first-side is one of the four sides of a virtual rectangle circumscribing the aggregate of the head chips and a second-side and a third-side are coupled to both ends of the first-side, the first-head-chip is in contact with the first-side and the third-side and the second-head chip is in contact with the second-side. The heater overlaps the head chips. A first-region surrounded by the first-side, the second-side, the first-head-chip, and the second-head-chip includes a first-outside-part positioned outside the outer edge of the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kanegae, Katsuhiro Okubo, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
  • Publication number: 20240096595
    Abstract: In a mask pattern forming method, a resist film is formed over a thin film, the resist film is processed into resist patterns having a predetermined pitch by photolithography, slimming of the resist patterns is performed, and an oxide film is formed on the thin film and the resist patterns after an end of the slimming step in a film deposition apparatus by supplying a source gas and an oxygen radical or an oxygen-containing gas. In the mask pattern forming method, the slimming and the oxide film forming are continuously performed in the film deposition apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhide HASEBE, Shigeru NAKAJIMA, Jun OGAWA, Hiroki MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11915914
    Abstract: A film forming method includes: preparing a substrate having a surface on which a first film containing boron and a second film made of a material different from that of the first film are formed; supplying a raw material gas, which contains halogen and an element X other than halogen, to the surface of the substrate; and supplying a plasmarized reaction gas, which contains oxygen, to the surface of the substrate, wherein a third film as an oxide film of the element X is selectively formed on the second film with respect to the first film by alternately supplying the raw material gas and the plasmarized reaction gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Sena Fujita, Hiroki Murakami
  • Patent number: 11881379
    Abstract: In a mask pattern forming method, a resist film is formed over a thin film, the resist film is processed into resist patterns having a predetermined pitch by photolithography, slimming of the resist patterns is performed, and an oxide film is formed on the thin film and the resist patterns after an end of the slimming step in a film deposition apparatus by supplying a source gas and an oxygen radical or an oxygen-containing gas. In the mask pattern forming method, the slimming and the oxide film forming are continuously performed in the film deposition apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Kazuhide Hasebe, Shigeru Nakajima, Jun Ogawa, Hiroki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20230411146
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes: a catalyst component supplying process of supplying a catalyst component, which is to be adsorbed on a substrate, to the substrate; a film-forming component supplying process of supplying a film-forming component, which forms an insulating film on the substrate in the presence of the catalyst component, to the substrate; and an inhibition component supplying process of supplying an inhibition component, which is to be adsorbed on the substrate and inhibits adsorption of the catalyst component on the substrate, to a front surface or a back surface of the substrate, wherein the inhibition component supplying process is performed before the catalyst component supplying process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki MURAKAMI, Masanobu IGETA
  • Patent number: 11839971
    Abstract: A teaching control method includes displaying three or more plurality of teaching points on a display section, acquiring a result of classification processing for classifying the plurality of teaching points into one or more teaching point groups, receiving an operation parameter for each teaching point group, and setting an operation value for each teaching point group using the operation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki Murakami, Takahiko Noda
  • Patent number: 11830741
    Abstract: A method of selectively forming a film on a substrate includes: a preparation process of preparing a substrate having a surface to which a metal film and an insulating film are exposed; a first removal process of removing a natural oxide film on the metal film; a first film forming process of forming a self-assembled monolayer, which suppresses formation of a titanium nitride film, on the insulating film by providing the substrate with a compound for forming the self-assembled monolayer, the compound having a functional group containing fluorine and carbon; a second film forming process of forming a titanium nitride film on the metal film; an oxidation process of oxidizing the surface of the substrate; and a second removal process of removing a titanium oxide film, which is formed on the metal film and the self-assembled monolayer, by providing the surface of the substrate with the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Ike, Shuji Azumo, Yumiko Kawano, Hiroki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20230377953
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes: preparing a substrate having a recess and a first film embedded in the recess; and removing the first film by etching while forming a second film so as to cover the recess from which the first film was removed by supplying a processing gas to the substrate, the processing gas including a gas contributing to film formation and a gas contributing to the etching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230146375
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of etching a SiN film formed on the substrate includes supplying a HF gas at a processing temperature of 450 degrees C. or higher to etch the SiN film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki MURAKAMI, Masanobu MATSUNAGA, Yamato TONEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230135342
    Abstract: A film forming method includes: preparing a substrate having a surface on which a first film containing boron and a second film made of a material different from that of the first film are formed; supplying a raw material gas, which contains halogen and an element X other than halogen, to the surface of the substrate; and supplying a plasmarized reaction gas, which contains oxygen, to the surface of the substrate, wherein a third film as an oxide film of the element X is selectively formed on the second film with respect to the first film by alternately supplying the raw material gas and the plasmarized reaction gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Sena FUJITA, Hiroki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230128868
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of etching an etching target film formed on a substrate includes: preparing the substrate having the etching target film; and etching the etching target film, wherein the etching the etching target film includes repeating, a plurality of times, supplying an etchant gas, and plasma-exciting a reaction gas to expose the substrate to plasma of the reaction gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki MURAKAMI, Shuichiro SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230097923
    Abstract: Provided is a numerical control device for improving cycle time and machined surface quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230087732
    Abstract: Disclosed is a voltage generating circuit including a reference voltage generating part, a leakage current monitoring part, a control part, and an internal voltage generating part. The reference voltage generating part generates a reference voltage. The leakage current monitoring part generates a monitoring leakage current corresponding to a leakage current of an internal circuit of a semiconductor device. The control part controls the reference voltage according to the monitoring leakage current. The internal voltage generating part receives the reference voltage being controlled by the control part, and supplies an internal voltage to the internal circuit according to the controlled reference voltage. A semiconductor device including the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventor: Hiroki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20230085298
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for promoting sleep, that enables an increase of the sleep amounts in the overall night and in the initial stage of the night, a decrease of the sleep onset latent time, and an increase of the length of a sleep episode, and that is excellent in the stability and the safety. Another object of the present invention is to provide a food, a drug, and a feed that each include the composition for promoting sleep. The composition for promoting sleep is characterized in that the composition for promoting sleep includes a microorganism belonging to either Bifidobacterium adolescentis or Lactobacillus plantarum, or a culture thereof as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki MURAKAMI, Taro KO, Hiroshi ISHIMOTO, Azusa KAMIKOUCHI, Ikue MORI
  • Patent number: 11489385
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a plurality of permanent magnets divided at regular intervals in a circumferential direction around a shaft, and provided in an axial direction; a first protection ring for positioning and holding ends in the axial direction of the permanent magnets; a second protection ring for positioning and holding other ends in the axial direction of the permanent magnets; and a protection cover covering outer circumferential surfaces of the permanent magnets, the first protection ring, and the second protection ring, and having a uniform thickness in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Murakami, Yoshiki Okada, Yoshiharu Takashima
  • Patent number: 11474493
    Abstract: To smoothen a machining route more appropriately. A numerical controller of the present invention comprises: a machining program look-ahead unit that acquires a program for machining; a command route mathematization unit that expresses a machining route as a parametric line segment or curve on the basis of the program for the machining; and a smoothing processing unit that sets a range of smoothing for a target point of the smoothing along the parametric line segment or curve in an optional range from the target point, and performs the smoothing on the target point on the basis of the set range of the smoothing. The range of the smoothing set by the smoothing processing unit is a range in which a deviation between before the smoothing and after the smoothing on the target point is a set threshold or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20220328301
    Abstract: In a mask pattern forming method, a resist film is formed over a thin film, the resist film is processed into resist patterns having a predetermined pitch by photolithography, slimming of the resist patterns is performed, and an oxide film is formed on the thin film and the resist patterns after an end of the slimming step in a film deposition apparatus by supplying a source gas and an oxygen radical or an oxygen-containing gas. In the mask pattern forming method, the slimming and the oxide film forming are continuously performed in the film deposition apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhide HASEBE, Shigeru NAKAJIMA, Jun OGAWA, Hiroki MURAKAMI