Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Naka
Hiroyuki Naka 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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Patent number: 6623269Abstract: A thermal treatment apparatus has a plurality of thermal treatment chambers in which an object to be treated is thermally treated while being transported, and at least one pair of two adjacent thermal treatment chambers of which inside temperatures are different from each other. The thermal treatment chambers are connected through a thermal insulating structural member, whereby thermal conduction between the chambers, such as muffles, is prevented to reduce a heat loss caused in the thermal treatment apparatus. Therefore, input thermal energy which is necessary to carry out a predetermined thermal treatment is significantly reduced without affecting quality and yield of the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2002Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Naka
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Patent number: 6620945Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing optically active 3-hydroxy-4-methoxypyrrolidine, which is an intermediate for synthesizing a quinuclidine derivative useful as a squalene synthetase inhibitor, a salt thereof, or a hydrate thereof by subjecting a pyrrolidine derivative represented by the following formula (1-4): wherein R3a and R3b are different and each of R3a and R3b represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, to optical division purification by using an optically active dibenzoyltartaric acid derivative or the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignees: Eisai Co., Ltd., Yamakawa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyokazu Haga, Akio Kayano, Manabu Sasyou, Shigeto Negi, Hiroyuki Naka, Hirofumi Noda, Ken-ichi Sakai
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Publication number: 20030118966Abstract: In a thermal treatment apparatus comprising a plurality of thermal treatment chambers in which an object to be treated is thermally treated while being transported, at least one pair of two adjacent thermal treatment chambers of which inside temperatures are different from each other are connected through a thermal insulating structural member, whereby thermal conduction between the chambers such as muffles is prevented to reduce a heat loss caused in the thermal treatment apparatus, and therefore, input thermal energy which is necessary to carry out a predetermined thermal treatment is significantly reduced without affecting quality and yield of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2002Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: Yuji Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Naka
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Patent number: 6507000Abstract: A dust collector for a laser drilling machine is provided between a lens table and a workpiece to be processed and includes an upper inlet port and a lower inlet port arranged on one side of a space defined by four side walls, and an exhaust port arranged opposite the inlet ports. The total amount of air supplied from the two inlet ports is 30 to 70% of the exhaust rate. The lower inlet port has an air supply capacity 1.5 to 4.5 times that of the upper inlet port.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2001Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuhiro Otsubo, Hiroyuki Naka, Naoko Matsuda
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Publication number: 20030004208Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing optically active 3-hydroxy-4-methoxypyrrolidine, which is an intermediate for synthesizing a quinuclidine derivative useful as a squalene synthetase inhibitor, a salt thereof, or a hydrate thereof by subjecting a pyrrolidine derivative represented by the following formula (1-4): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Toyokazu Haga, Akio Kayano, Manabu Sasyou, Shigeto Negi, Hiroyuki Naka, Hirofumi Noda, Ken-ichi Sakai
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Publication number: 20020050061Abstract: A method for forming a pattern on a surface of a panel substrate, includes electrically charging pattern-forming material particles, jetting out the electrically charged pattern-forming material particles through a nozzle by applying electrostatic force to the pattern-forming material particles to form a pattern, and fixing the pattern onto the panel substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: Daido Komyoji, Naoko Matsuda, Akira Fukano, Katsutoshi Ogawa, Akira Kumon, Hiroyuki Naka
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Publication number: 20010040149Abstract: A dust collector for a laser drilling machine is provided between a lens table and a workpiece to be processed and includes an upper inlet port and a lower inlet port arranged on one side of a space defined by four side walls, and an exhaust port arranged opposite the inlet ports. The total amount of air supplied from the two inlet ports is 30 to 70% of the exhaust rate. The lower inlet port has an air supply capacity 1.5 to 4.5 times that of the upper inlet port.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2001Publication date: November 15, 2001Inventors: Tatsuhiro Otsubo, Hiroyuki Naka, Naoko Matsuda
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Patent number: 6214409Abstract: A liquid coating nozzle is provided with a first block which has an inner liquid reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction and an inner discharge section which includes a plurality of small holes formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the liquid reserving section. The nozzle is also provided with a second block which has an inner space defining a gas reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction outside the first block and an outer discharge section formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the inner space. The outer discharge section includes a plurality of small holes and produces a gas flow that externally surrounds a linear or curtain-shaped liquid flow that flows downward from the small holes. This results in the formation of a thin coating film in a short time and reduces the consumption of liquid and coating nonuniformities.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electronics CorporationInventors: Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kotani, Nobutaka Hokazono, Hiroyuki Naka, Akira Yamaguchi, Junji Ikeda, Nobuyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 6139634Abstract: The present invention aims to form a thin coating film of even thickness within a short processing time under a curtailed consumption of coating liquid; where, a gas is spouted from nozzle 4 disposed facing to protection glass 2 of cathode ray tube, and a liquid containing fluorescent material is made to spout accompanied by the spouting gas, to be applied on protection glass 2 by shifting the positioning of protection glass 2 relative to nozzle 4 while spouting the liquid containing fluorescent material.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1999Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Nobutaka Hokazono
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Patent number: 6091055Abstract: In the heat treating method and the heat treatment apparatus of the object, the object is heat treated while it is being floated by gas expelled toward the object from a position below the object in the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1998Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Makoto Morita, Yuji Tsutsui, Naomi Nishiki, Hiroaki Ishio
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Patent number: 6040016Abstract: A liquid coating nozzle is provided with a first block which has an inner liquid reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction and an inner discharge section which includes a plurality of small holes formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the liquid reserving section. The nozzle is also provided with a second block which has an inner space defining a gas reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction outside the first block and an outer discharge section formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the inner space. The outer discharge section includes a plurality of small holes and produces a gas flow that externally surrounds a linear or curtain-shaped liquid flow that flows downward from the small holes. This results in the formation of a thin coating film in a short time and reduces the consumption of liquid and coating nonuniformities.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1997Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electronics CorporationInventors: Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kotani, Nobutaka Hokazono, Hiroyuki Naka, Akira Yamaguchi, Junji Ikeda, Nobuyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 6025012Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus which is capable of discharging a process liquid to a rotating substrate at a very constant rate irrespective of variations in the state of the process liquid. A process liquid is discharged toward a rotating substrate by nozzles which are moved from inner to outer radius sides of the rotating substrate. The present invention further provides a method in which film thickness control conditions are determined based on a simulation of a behavior of a process liquid on a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1996Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoko Matsuda, Hiroyuki Naka, Motoaki Kamihara, Osamu Hirota, Keinosuke Kanashima, Hiroshi Ogura
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Patent number: 5995480Abstract: A rotary driving device for rotating an object to be rotated, is manufactured by a process of rotating a turntable, for loading the object to be rotated thereon, mounted to a driving part and thereby generating a surface vibration because of rotation of the turntable, and a process of forming a surface vibration absorber part on the turntable corresponding to an amount of the surface vibration.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1997Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Naoko Matsuda, Shigeru Ohki, Mikio Hirano
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Patent number: 5935331Abstract: An apparatus, for forming a film, includes an ink jet head having a plurality of nozzles for discharging a liquid, a rotating device for rotating about a rotary axis a coating-object substrate onto which liquid discharged from the ink jet head is deposited, a relatively moving device for moving the ink jet head and the coating-object substrate relatively to each other between a nearby region of the coating-object substrate near the rotary axis and a separate region of the coating-object substrate separate from the rotary axis, and a relative movement control device for controlling the relatively moving device so that an angular velocity of rotation by the rotating device is reduced responsively as a relative position of the ink jet head and the coating-object substrate therebetween makes relative movement from the nearby region toward the separate region, and an angular velocity of rotation by the rotating device is reduced responsively as the relative position of the ink jet head and the coating-object substType: GrantFiled: September 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Masayoshi Miura, Hiroshi Ogura, Naoko Matsuda
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Patent number: 5902648Abstract: The present invention aims to form a thin coating film of even thickness within a short processing time under a curtailed consumption of coating liquid; where, a gas is spouted from nozzle 4 disposed facing to protection glass 2 of cathode ray tube, and a liquid containing fluorescent material is made to spout accompanied by the spouting gas, to be applied on protection glass 2 by shifting the positioning of protection glass 2 relative to nozzle 4 while spouting the liquid containing fluorescent material.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1996Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Nobutaka Hokazono
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Patent number: 5379228Abstract: In a method of minimizing the temperature difference on a large area plate in a sintering step of manufacturing a solar cell and using a cover for making the heat equal, a cover with the hole pitch and the hole location being set in it is used in an analysis to quantitatively determine the cover shape for realizing the equal-heat heating, whereby the heat equalizing operation of the plate can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1992Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoko Matsuda, Hiroyuki Naka
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Patent number: 5145528Abstract: An apparatus for applying coating material in the form of stripes onto a film traveling in a predetermined direction is provided with a coating material nozzle which effuses coating material while supporting the film. The contact support surface of the nozzle in contact with the film is a flat surface, along which the film travels. The coating material nozzle has thereon applicator grooves for uniformly forming the cross-sectional shape of coating material applied in the form of stripes onto the film. Effusion ports or discharge ports for coating material are provided in the bottom surface of the applicator grooves. Coating material is fed to the coating material nozzle through a gear pump, which is adapted to control the coating material supply so that the coating material within the applicator grooves has a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1991Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keigo Watanabe, Hiroyuki Naka, Takashi Ichiyanagi
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Patent number: 5136972Abstract: A coating apparatus includes: a block-shaped die main body; upper and lower nozzle parts projecting from the die main body to form a nozzle, forward end portions of the upper and lower nozzle parts being substantially cylindrical and each of the portions having a constant curvature, the forward end portion of the upper nozzle part serving as a guide, a discharge opening having a slit-shaped sectional configuration being provided in the guide, a bottom surface of which is lower than a surface of the guide; a coating material reservoir, provided in the die main body, communicating with the discharge opening; a groove formed between the upper and lower nozzle parts, through which the discharge opening communicates with the reservoir; a partitioning plate mounted widthwise substantially entirely on one of the forward end portions of the upper and lower nozzle parts so that the partitioning plate is movable through the nozzle to open the groove; a rotary block pivotably supporting the die main body for rotation thType: GrantFiled: November 28, 1990Date of Patent: August 11, 1992Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Keigo Watanabe, Masato Mitani, Takashi Ichiyanagi
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Patent number: 5045358Abstract: A coating head assembly for applying a coating material to a web, comprises an applicator block; a paint reservoir defined in the applicator block for the storage of the coating material; and a generally elongated nozzle integral with the applicator block and extending in a direction substantially transverse to the direction of transportation of the web. A free edge of the nozzle opposite to the applicator block has a generally curved nozzle face. This nozzle face has a plurality of applicator grooves defined therein in communication with the paint reservoir. During the passage of the web in sliding contact with the nozzle face, the coating material is supplied outwardly from the applicator grooves for the transfer thereof onto the web, resulting in the formation of a striped pattern of the coated layer on the web.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1989Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keigo Watanabe, Hiroyuki Naka, Takashi Ichiyanagi
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Patent number: 5028450Abstract: A coater has a die member for discharging a coating material, and a pad member for supporting a web to be fed at a predetermined position and for controlling the gap sensitively to manufacture a coating film. The coater can flow a debris to downstream by moving the pad member away from the web.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1989Date of Patent: July 2, 1991Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Masato Mitani, Satosi Hirose