Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Tsuchikura
Hiroshi Tsuchikura 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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Substrate Processing Apparatus, Electrode Structure and Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Device
Publication number: 20230307212Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a technique capable of performing a substrate processing more uniformly. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided an electrode structure capable of generating a plasma, including: a first electrode group constituted by: at least one first electrode to which an electric potential is applied; at least one second electrode whose length is different from that of the first electrode and to which an electric potential is applied; and at least one third electrode to which a reference potential is applied; and a second electrode group constituted by: at least one fourth electrode to which an electric potential is applied; at least one fifth electrode whose length is different from that of the fourth electrode and to which an electric potential is applied; and at least one sixth electrode to which the reference potential is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Tsuyoshi TAKEDA, Daisuke HARA, Hiroshi NAKAJO, Iichiro TSUCHIKURA -
Patent number: 11618240Abstract: A nonwoven fabric sheet exhibiting high flame shielding performance, heat insulating property, and wear resistance is described, where the nonwoven fabric sheet is fabricated and includes at least one fire barrier layer formed of a web containing a non-melting fiber A having a high-temperature shrinkage rate of 3% or less and a thermal conductivity conforming to ISO22007-3 (2008) of 0.060 W/m·K or less and in which the fire barrier layer is coupled with a scrim layer containing a carbide-forming heat resistant fiber B having a LOI value conforming to JIS K 7201-2 (2007) of 25 or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Masaru Harada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Patent number: 11578435Abstract: It is an object to provide a woven fabric which can stably form a folding shape superior in shape retention and followability and which can be sewn while maintaining the folding structure, and also to provide a method for manufacturing the same. There is provided a woven fabric having pleats, wherein the height of the pleats is 2 to 10 times the average diameter of yarns arranged in the same direction as the pleats.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Patent number: 11486064Abstract: A woven/knit fabric, comprising two or more types of yarn different in elongation rate, wherein the two or more types of yarn different in elongation rate are separately arranged as independent threads in the same direction in at least one of warp and weft; and wherein a stress-strain curve obtained by applying load in a direction parallel to the direction of the arrangement of the threads has an inflection point; and includes a point satisfying an equation: 2.5?B/A where, with a reference where the woven/knit fabric is subjected to load and has an elongation of P (%), A is an elastic modulus of the woven/knit fabric when the woven/knit fabric is subjected to load and has an elongation of (P×0.8) (%) and B is an elastic modulus of the woven/knit fabric when the woven/knit fabric is subjected to load and has an elongation of (P×1.2) (%).Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Aram Keum, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Patent number: 11371172Abstract: A tubular woven fabric is useful as a transport hose for a fluid or a powder, as a protective hose for linear bodies such as wires, cables and conduits, as a tubular filter, or as a base material of a vascular prosthesis. The tubular woven fabric includes warp yarns and weft yarns interwoven with each other, the tubular woven fabric having an outer diameter with a variation of within 10% along the warp direction and satisfying the formula: (L2?L1)/L1?0.1.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Satoshi Yamada, Yuichi Koyamatsu, Taisuke Kogawa, Yuka Sakaguchi, Kazuhiro Tanahashi
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Patent number: 11255027Abstract: Glossy fibers can be processed into woven or knitted fabric suitable for clothing applications while exhibiting a sense of deep, lustrous glossiness. The glossy fibers are characterized by having an average reflectance for the visible light region of 20% or greater, an average transmittance of 40% of less, and a contrastive glossiness of 3.0 or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tomohiko Matsuura, Masato Masuda, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Shinya Nakamichi
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Patent number: 11248319Abstract: A flame resistant woven fabric has a thickness of 0.08 mm or more in accordance with the method of JIS L 1096-A (2010) and including warps and wefts, the warp and the weft each comprising: a non-melting fiber A having a high-temperature shrinkage rate of 3% or less; and a thermoplastic fiber B having an LOI value of 25 or more in accordance with JIS K 7201-2 (2007) and having a melting point lower than the ignition temperature of the non-melting fiber A; wherein the warp and the weft each have a fracture elongation of 5% or more; and wherein, in the projection area of the weave repeat of the flame resistant woven fabric, the area ratio of the non-melting fiber A is 10% or more and the area ratio of the thermoplastic fiber B is 5% or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Harada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20210372015Abstract: A woven/knit fabric, comprising two or more types of yarn different in elongation rate, wherein the two or more types of yarn different in elongation rate are separately arranged as independent threads in the same direction in at least one of warp and weft; and wherein a stress-strain curve obtained by applying load in a direction parallel to the direction of the arrangement of the threads has an inflection point; and includes a point satisfying an equation: 2.5?B/A where, with a reference where the woven/knit fabric is subjected to load and has an elongation of P (%), A is an elastic modulus of the woven/knit fabric when the woven/knit fabric is subjected to load and has an elongation of (P×0.8) (%) and B is an elastic modulus of the woven/knit fabric when the woven/knit fabric is subjected to load and has an elongation of (P×1.2) (%).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Aram Keum, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Patent number: 11160327Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a shoe having excellent comfort. The present invention provides a shoe including an upper material that is partially or fully formed of a fiber sheet, wherein the fiber sheet exhibits specific tensile characteristics at least in one direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventors: Norihiko Taniguchi, Kenta Moriyasu, Emi Katayama, Yuto Shimizu, Satoshi Naruko, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20210322650Abstract: A cylindrical body for an implant is capable of maintaining a high patency rate by achieving a good antithrombogenicity, a low swelling property and a low Young's modulus. A cylindrical body for an implant includes: a cylindrical substrate having an elongation rate in the longitudinal direction, as measured under a tensile load of 20 N, of from 5 to 100%; and a block copolymer composed of a polyalkylene glycol block(s) and a polyhydroxyalkanoic acid block(s); wherein the ratio of the mass of the polyalkylene glycol with respect to the total mass of the block copolymer is 5 to 25%; and a film composed of the block copolymer has a Young's modulus of 200 MPa or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Taisuke Kogawa, Masaki Fujita, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Satoshi Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Patent number: 11118289Abstract: A flame-blocking nonwoven fabric has excellent processability and high flame-blocking properties. The flame-blocking nonwoven fabric has a density of 200 kg/m3 or more and includes non-melting fibers A whose high-temperature shrinkage rate is 3% or less and whose Young's modulus multiplied by the cross-sectional area of the fibers is 2.0 N or less, and thermoplastic fibers B whose LOI value is 25 or more as determined according to JIS K 7201-2 (2007).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Keiichi Tonomori
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Publication number: 20210038364Abstract: There is provided a plain-weave fabric excellent in low air permeability and waterproofness. Further, there is provided a stent graft excellent in low water permeability mechanical properties and catheter storage capacity, including the plain-weave fabric as a graft substrate. A plain-weave fabric woven by interlacing weaving yarns in warp and weft, in which weaving yarns YA and YB arranged in the same direction have different crimp ratios A and B, respectively, a relationship thereof satisfies Formula 1, and the crimp ratio B is 4% or more, and the plain-weave fabric is preferably used for a stent graft; A?B×1.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, So Kakiyama, Kazuhiro Tanahashi
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Publication number: 20210010175Abstract: A nonwoven fabric that is fabricated is described, which includes a non-melting fiber A having a high-temperature shrinkage rate of 3% or less and a thermal conductivity conforming to ISO22007-3 (2008) of 0.060 W/m·K or less and a thermoplastic fiber B having a LOI value conforming to JIS K 7201-2 (2007) of 25 or more and having a density of more than 50 kg/m3 and less than 200 kg/m3, where the nonwoven fabric exhibits high flame-shielding performance and has a heat insulating property.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Harada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20210007838Abstract: A tubular woven fabric is useful as a transport hose for a fluid or a powder, as a protective hose for linear bodies such as wires, cables and conduits, as a tubular filter, or as a base material of a vascular prosthesis. The tubular woven fabric includes warp yarns and weft yarns interwoven with each other, the tubular woven fabric having an outer diameter with a variation of within 10% along the warp direction and satisfying the formula: (L2?L1)/L1?0.1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Satoshi Yamada, Yuichi Koyamatsu, Taisuke Kogawa, Yuka Sakaguchi, Kazuhiro Tanahashi
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Publication number: 20210001596Abstract: A nonwoven fabric sheet exhibiting high flame shielding performance, heat insulating property, and wear resistance is described, where the nonwoven fabric sheet is fabricated and includes at least one fire barrier layer formed of a web containing a non-melting fiber A having a high-temperature shrinkage rate of 3% or less and a thermal conductivity conforming to ISO22007-3 (2008) of 0.060 W/m·K or less and in which the fire barrier layer is coupled with a scrim layer containing a carbide-forming heat resistant fiber B having a LOI value conforming to JIS K 7201-2 (2007) of 25 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Harada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20200392657Abstract: In order to provide a non-woven fabric with excellent flame retardancy and flame shielding performance, and even also with carding process-passing and durability, there is provided a non-woven fabric including: a non-melting fiber A that has a high-temperature shrinkage ratio of 3% or less; a thermoplastic fiber B that has an LOI value of 25 or more in accordance with JIS K 7201-2 (2007); and a thermoplastic fiber C that has an LOI value of less than 25 in accordance with JIS K 7201-2 (2007) and a crimp number of 8 (crimps/25 mm) or more in accordance with JIS L 1015 (2000).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yao Chen, Masaru Harada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20200318261Abstract: It is an object to provide a woven fabric which can stably form a folding shape superior in shape retention and followability and which can be sewn while maintaining the folding structure, and also to provide a method for manufacturing the same. There is provided a woven fabric having pleats, wherein the height of the pleats is 2 to 10 times the average diameter of yarns arranged in the same direction as the pleats.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20200224341Abstract: A flame resistant woven fabric has a thickness of 0.08 mm or more in accordance with the method of JIS L 1096-A (2010) and including warps and wefts, the warp and the weft each comprising: a non-melting fiber A having a high-temperature shrinkage rate of 3% or less; and a thermoplastic fiber B having an LOI value of 25 or more in accordance with JIS K 7201-2 (2007) and having a melting point lower than the ignition temperature of the non-melting fiber A; wherein the warp and the weft each have a fracture elongation of 5% or more; and wherein, in the projection area of the weave repeat of the flame resistant woven fabric, the area ratio of the non-melting fiber A is 10% or more and the area ratio of the thermoplastic fiber B is 5% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Masaru Harada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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WET NONWOVEN FABRIC CONTAINING META-ARAMID AND POLYPHENYLENE SULFIDE AND LAMINATED SHEET OF THE SAME
Publication number: 20200208351Abstract: In order to provide electrical insulating paper and an electrical insulating sheet including the same which exhibit excellent dielectric breakdown strength, excellent hygroscopic dimensional stability and thermal dimensional stability, and excellent tear strength and wear durability, a nonwoven fabric is fabricated wherein the fabric is a wet nonwoven fabric containing a meta-aramid fiber and a polyphenylene sulfide short fiber and a proportion of the polyphenylene sulfide short fiber at least partially fused in the wet nonwoven fabric is 40% or less, and the wet nonwoven fabric has a dielectric breakdown strength of 17 kV/mm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Harada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura -
Patent number: 10640886Abstract: A fiber-containing crystal includes a crystal body which is a crystal of a biological substance and a plurality of fibers at least partially incorporated in the crystal body; and a fiber-containing crystal includes a crystal body which is an easy-disintegrating crystal and a plurality of fibers at least partially incorporated in the crystal body.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Iori Nakabayashi, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Atsushi Kuwabara, Hiroaki Adachi