Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Araki
Hiroyuki Araki 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: 20060048622Abstract: The invention provides an improved electric tape cutter in which a pinion gear with an attached magnet that is connected to a drive source is embedded with a member having a weight equal to that of the magnet at a location that is symmetrical to the location at which the magnet is mounted, with respect to a center axis of rotation, imparting balanced rotation that enables eccentric rotation of the pinion gear to be prevented, preventing noise and apparatus malfunction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2004Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicant: KTF CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Araki
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Publication number: 20060021639Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a photosensor for detecting the presence/absence of a substrate in each place within a carrier cassette, a pair of processing tanks for performing the same process at the same time, and a supply mechanism for supplying a processing solution to the processing tanks independently. The number of substrates is detected in accordance with the result of the detection of the photosensor. If the number of substrates detected is not greater than an allowable number for one of the processing tanks, the processing solution is supplied to only the one processing tank to perform the process. This reduces the consumption of the processing solution in a batch process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Inventors: Hiroshi Masuda, Hiroyuki Araki
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Publication number: 20050197861Abstract: An examination management system of the present invention comprises implemented information inputting means for inputting implemented information related to a content of implementation of medical conduct in which the conduct is implemented regarding the examination, implemented information storing means for storing therein the implemented information input by the implemented information inputting means, implemented information obtaining means for obtaining, from the implemented information storing means, implemented information corresponding to a content of implementation which is scheduled to be implemented using as a key a content of implementation of medical conduct which is scheduled to be currently implemented, and implemented information displaying means for displaying the implemented information obtained by the implemented information obtaining means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2004Publication date: September 8, 2005Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Omori, Ryoichi Hosoya, Hiroyuki Araki, Hideki Yasuda, Nobuaki Matsubara, Masafumi Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Inokihara
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Publication number: 20050177394Abstract: An examination management system according to the present invention comprises implemented information input means for inputting implemented information including information related to a content of implementation of medical service, implemented regarding an examination and information related to a report about the medical service, implemented information storing means for storing the implemented information input by the implemented information input means, implemented information acquisition means for obtaining the implemented information related to the report from the implemented information storage means by using information indicating the same examination of the same patient matching a key, report comparison means for the comparison of a plurality of reports obtained by the implemented information acquisition means, and report comparison result display means for the display of the result of the comparison by the report comparison means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2004Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hosoya, Nobuaki Matsubara, Hiroyuki Araki, Hideki Yasuda, Shinichi Omori, Masafumi Kobayashi, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Kazuyuki Inokihara
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Publication number: 20050171814Abstract: An examination management system according to the present invention compares an examining information relating to a predetermined examination with an examining target information corresponding to the examination, when the examination is conducted. If a predetermined condition is met, an input of the matter as the result of the comparison is permitted. When the matter is input, the matter is recorded.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2004Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Kobayashi, Shinichi Omori, Ryoichi Hosoya, Hiroyuki Araki, Nobuaki Matsubara, Hideki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20050115671Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus includes at least two types of treatment units, and a substrate carrying mechanism for carrying a substrate into/out of at least the two types of treatment units. At least the two types of treatment units are selected out of a chemical liquid treatment unit for supplying a chemical liquid to the substrate, a scrubbing unit for scrubbing a surface of the substrate, a polymer removal unit for supplying a polymer removal liquid to the substrate, a peripheral end surface treatment unit for supplying a treatment liquid to an area including the whole of one surface and a peripheral end surface of the substrate, and a gas phase treatment unit for supplying a vapor to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Inventor: Hiroyuki Araki
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Publication number: 20040261817Abstract: A foreign matter removing apparatus for removing foreign matter from a surface of a substrate. The apparatus is provided with: a substrate rotating mechanism which holds and rotates the substrate; and a fluid mixture supplying mechanism which generates a fluid mixture by mixing a treatment liquid and a gas, and supplies the fluid mixture onto the surface of the substrate held by the substrate rotating mechanism. The treatment liquid may be deionized water or a resist removing liquid. Examples of the foreign matter to be removed include a resist film formed on the substrate and a residue remaining on the surface of the substrate after ashing of the resist film.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Kazuo Nakajima, Kaoru Shimbara
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Publication number: 20040265959Abstract: The invention relates to mutant &agr;-amylases that may be produced at high yield from recombinant microorganisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Keiji Endo, Hiroshi Hagihara, Kazuaki Igarashi, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Katsuya Ozaki
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Publication number: 20040203129Abstract: The present invention relates to alkaline proteases having high specific activity and strong oxidant resistance. The present invention also relates to alkaline proteases having excellent detergency that is to be added to a detergent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Hatada, Akinori Ogawa, Yasushi Kageyama, Tsuyoshi Sato, Hiroyuki Araki, Nobuyuki Sumitomo, Mitsuyoshi Okuda, Katsuhisa Saeki
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Patent number: 6803222Abstract: The present invention relates to alkaline proteases having high specific activity and strong oxidant resistance. The present invention also relates to alkaline proteases having excellent detergency that is to be added to a detergent.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2001Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Akinori Ogawa, Yasushi Kageyama, Tsuyoshi Sato, Hiroyuki Araki, Nobuyuki Sumitomo, Mitsuyoshi Okuda, Katsuhisa Saeki
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Publication number: 20040112410Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus and substrate treating method for performing at least cleaning treatment of substrates. The substrate are cleaned in a treating tank while a cleaning liquid (deionized water) is introduced into the treating tank through a bottom thereof and an excess amount of the cleaning liquid is allowed to overflow the tank. During the treatment, a feeding flow rate of the cleaning liquid is varied with time, to prevent a stagnation of flows in the tank and promote the effect of removing particles. The cleaning liquid in the tank is not drawn off quickly, to avoid unnecessary vibration being applied to the substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Ryotaro Ogushi, Shuzo Nagami
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Publication number: 20040107113Abstract: A history information obtaining unit obtains information about a use history of an endoscope. An estimating unit makes an estimation of a secular change in the endoscope from its use start until the present time based on this information. A displaying unit displays a ratio of a result of the estimation made by the estimating unit to the degree of the secular change, which is preset for the endoscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Araki
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Patent number: 6743616Abstract: The invention relates to mutant &agr;-amylases that may be produced at high yield from recombinant microorganisms.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Keiji Endo, Hiroshi Hagihara, Kazuaki Igarashi, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Katsuya Ozaki
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Patent number: 6738125Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a liquid crystal display apparatus in which the cell gap is uniform and the display quality is high, and also a method for manufacturing the same. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, a color filter side substrate in which a protrusion is formed by a black mask, and a TFT side substrate in which a recess is formed by a resin film such as an orientation film are bonded together via dispersed spacers therebetween, and a liquid crystal is filled between the substrates. In the resin film such as an orientation film, patterning is performed except a portion which is opposed to the protrusion, thereby forming the recess in the TFT side substrate. The formation of the recess prevents the cell gap from being pushed up even when the dispersed spacers are placed on the protrusion. Even in the case where the substrates are not flat, therefore, the cell gap can be maintained uniform.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2000Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoshi Yamada, Nobuhiro Waka, Ichiro Nakamura, Eiichiro Nishimura, Kazushi Tsuji, Kohichi Toriumi, Chikanori Tsukamura, Okifumi Nakagawa, Takaharu Yamada, Hiroyuki Araki
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Publication number: 20040084144Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus that removes an unwanted material on a surface of a peripheral portion of a substrate through etching by supplying etching liquid to the surface of the peripheral portion. The apparatus includes an etching liquid supplying mechanism that supplies the etching liquid to the peripheral portion of the substrate, and an annular member that has an inner periphery on or inside an outer periphery of the substrate and thereby defines a processing width to be processed by the etching liquid on the surface of the peripheral portion of the substrate. The annular member may be placed in close proximity to the surface of the peripheral portion of the substrate while securing a certain gap such that allows the annular member to come in contact with a liquid film of the etching liquid formed on the surface of the peripheral portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Applicant: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Yokouchi, Takashi Hara, Hiroyuki Araki, Nobuyasu Hiraoka, Tsuyoshi Okumura
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Publication number: 20030022351Abstract: The present invention relates to alkaline proteases having high specific activity oxidant resistance, as well as an enzyme having excellent detergency that is to be added to a detergent.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Akinori Ogawa, Yasushi Kageyama, Tsuyoshi Sato, Hiroyuki Araki, Nobuyuki Sumitomo, Mitsuyoshi Okuda, Katsuhisa Saeki
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Patent number: 6486113Abstract: The invention relates to a mutant &agr;-amylase having an amino acid sequence obtained by making deletion or replacement by another arbitrary amino acid residue of at least a methionine residue at the 202-position or a position homologous thereto among amino acid residues set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, which constitute a liquefying alkaline &agr;-amylase, a gene thereof, and a detergent composition comprising the mutant &agr;-amylase. The mutant &agr;-amylase has the optimum pH in an alkaline range, an excellent &agr;-amylase activity, and high and lasting resistance to oxidizing agents, and is hence particularly useful as a component of detergent compositions containing a bleaching agent and an oxidizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1999Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Kaori Ikawa, Susumu Ito, Kazuaki Igarashi, Hiroshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Araki, Katsuya Ozaki
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Publication number: 20020123124Abstract: Provided are highly productive mutant &agr;-amylases which are derived from an &agr;-amylase having an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID No. 1 or 2 or showing at least 60% homology thereto and are constructed so that a specific amino acid residue taking part in productivity is deleted or substituted with another amino acid residue, a gene encoding the mutant &agr;-amylase, vector, transformant cell, a method for producing the mutant &agr;-amylase, which comprises cultivating the transformant cell, and a detergent composition containing the mutant &agr;-amylase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2001Publication date: September 5, 2002Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Keiji Endo, Hiroshi Hagihara, Kazuaki Igarashi, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Katsuya Ozaki
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Patent number: 6354311Abstract: A deionized water temperature control part cools deionized water which is supplied from a deionized water supply source into a processing bath through a pipe after completely cleaning a substrate in the processing bath for maintaining the deionized water at a constant temperature which is lower than the ordinary temperature. A supply port of an IPA.N2 supply part provided in a casing of a multi-functional processing part is directed upward, thereby supplying IPA vapor upward with carrier gas of N2 for forming an atmosphere containing IPA vapor in high concentration above the processing bath. Thus, the substrate cooled to a low temperature is dried in the atmosphere containing the IPA vapor of the ordinary temperature in the upper portion of the processing bath when pulled up from the processing bath. Thus, the amount of the IPA vapor dissolved in the deionized water stored in the processing bath may be small, whereby consumption of the IPA vapor as well as generation of particles can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Kimura, Hiroyuki Araki
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Patent number: 6352083Abstract: A control unit controls a lifter to raise at least part of each of a group of substrates above the liquid level of a treating liquid in a treating bath. Thereafter, a valve is opened to drain the treating liquid from the treating bath at a high speed. As a result, a physical force to tilt and adhere an upper portion of the adjacent substrates accompanied by lowering of the liquid level of the treating liquid due to the high speed drainage acts upon a lower portion of the substrates near the lowered liquid level of the treating liquid, thereby reducing the physical force exerted on the substrates. This arrangement, even if a holding interval between the substrates is narrowed at a half of a normal pitch, eliminates a contact of the adjacent substrates and prevents damage of the substrates due to the contact without providing an additional member such as a substrate support guide in the treating bath.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1998Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Kenichiro Arai, Masaaki Yabuta