Patents by Inventor Hisashi Hatano

Hisashi Hatano 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: 11971112
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve manifold includes an electromagnetic valve including a discharge port, a manifold base including a discharge passage that is connected to the discharge port, and a check valve. The check valve includes a valve member, a valve housing including a valve seat, and an urging member. The valve housing includes a valve chamber that accommodates the valve member, a peripheral wall that defines the valve chamber, a valve hole that connects the valve chamber to the discharge port, and a discharge opening that connects the valve chamber to the discharge passage. The check valve is disposed in the discharge passage. The discharge opening is formed in the peripheral wall, at least a part of the discharge opening overlapping with the valve seat in a direction orthogonal to a moving direction of the valve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuo Hayashi, Hisashi Hatano, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Shinji Itoh
  • Patent number: 11808393
    Abstract: Parts of a first coupling and a second coupling that protrude from manifold blocks each have the shape of an elongated tube. When the first coupling and the second coupling are viewed in the axial direction, the traverse direction of the first coupling and the second coupling agree with the arrangement direction of manifold blocks. A part of the tube insertion hole is a small diameter hole, which is a stadium-shaped hole. When the first coupling and the second coupling are viewed in the axial direction, the traverse direction of the small diameter hole agrees with the traverse direction of the first coupling and the second coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Hatano, Mitsuhiro Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20210262599
    Abstract: Parts of a first coupling and a second coupling that protrude from manifold blocks each have the shape of an elongated tube. When the first coupling and the second coupling are viewed in the axial direction, the traverse direction of the first coupling and the second coupling agree with the arrangement direction of manifold blocks. A part of the tube insertion hole is a small diameter hole, which is a stadium-shaped hole. When the first coupling and the second coupling are viewed in the axial direction, the traverse direction of the small diameter hole agrees with the traverse direction of the first coupling and the second coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Hisashi Hatano, Mitsuhiro Kosugi
  • Patent number: 10861145
    Abstract: A defect class that can identify true information or false information regarding a defect of an inspection target is received, it is determined whether or not the number of true information and the number of false information are insufficient to set a defect extraction parameter of a predetermined region, a feature amount of the defect is extracted in a region other than the predetermined region when it is determined that the number of true information and the number of false information are insufficient, the feature amounts are totalized by adding the feature amount of the defect extracted in a region other than the predetermined region to the feature amount of the defect extracted in the predetermined region, and the totalized feature amount of the defect is displayed for adjustment of the defect extraction parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi Honda, Takahiro Urano, Hisashi Hatano, Hironori Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10816484
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a defect inspection technique capable of setting parameters used for detecting a defect with a less burden to a user. A defect inspection device according to the present invention receives multiple reference values input by the user and calculates a defect extraction condition so as to optimize an evaluation value calculated with the use of the reference values, the number of actual reports, and the number of false reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi Honda, Takahiro Urano, Mamoru Kobayashi, Hisashi Hatano, Hironori Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20200057003
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a defect inspection technique capable of setting parameters used for detecting a defect with a less burden to a user. A defect inspection device according to the present invention receives multiple reference values input by the user and calculates a defect extraction condition so as to optimize an evaluation value calculated with the use of the reference values, the number of actual reports, and the number of false reports (refer to FIG. 8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Toshifumi Honda, Takahiro Urano, Mamoru Kobayashi, Hisashi Hatano, Hironori Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10466181
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a defect inspection technique capable of setting parameters used for detecting a defect with a less burden to a user. A defect inspection device according to the present invention receives multiple reference values input by the user and calculates a defect extraction condition so as to optimize an evaluation value calculated with the use of the reference values, the number of actual reports, and the number of false reports (refer to FIG. 8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi Honda, Takahiro Urano, Mamoru Kobayashi, Hisashi Hatano, Hironori Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20190206047
    Abstract: A defect class that can identify true information or false information regarding a defect of an inspection target is received, it is determined whether or not the number of true information and the number of false information are insufficient to set a defect extraction parameter of a predetermined region, a feature amount of the defect is extracted in a region other than the predetermined region when it is determined that the number of true information and the number of false information are insufficient, the feature amounts are totalized by adding the feature amount of the defect extracted in a region other than the predetermined region to the feature amount of the defect extracted in the predetermined region, and the totalized feature amount of the defect is displayed for adjustment of the defect extraction parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi HONDA, Takahiro URANO, Hisashi HATANO, Hironori SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20190094155
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a defect inspection technique capable of setting parameters used for detecting a defect with a less burden to a user. A defect inspection device according to the present invention receives multiple reference values input by the user and calculates a defect extraction condition so as to optimize an evaluation value calculated with the use of the reference values, the number of actual reports, and the number of false reports (refer to FIG. 8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Toshifumi HONDA, Takahiro URANO, Mamoru KOBAYASHI, Hisashi HATANO, Hironori SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 9964500
    Abstract: A defect inspection device is provided with an illumination optical system that irradiates light or an electron beam onto a sample, a detector that detects a signal obtained from the sample through the irradiation of the light or electron beam, a defect detection unit that detects a defect candidate on the sample through the comparison of a signal output by the detector and a prescribed threshold, and a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting the threshold. The setting screen is a two-dimensional distribution map that represents the distribution of the defect candidates in a three dimensional feature space having three features as the axes thereof and includes the axes of the three features and the threshold, which is represented in one dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Hatano, Koichi Nagoya, Mamoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9933370
    Abstract: When a size of a block on a wafer is equal to or smaller than an optical resolution of imaging optics, room for improvement in a signal-to-noise ratio has not been sufficiently considered in a conventional technique. One feature of the defect determination of the present invention is to include a filter processing for setting a predetermined partial area serving as a predetermined matrix for a first difference image, scanning the first difference image in the partial area, and outputting a second difference image, and a first threshold processing using a first threshold value for the second difference image. As a result, highly sensitive defect detection can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Ito, Hisashi Hatano
  • Publication number: 20170328846
    Abstract: A defect inspection device is provided with an illumination optical system that irradiates light or an electron beam onto a sample, a detector that detects a signal obtained from the sample through the irradiation of the light or electron beam, a defect detection unit that detects a defect candidate on the sample through the comparison of a signal output by the detector and a prescribed threshold, and a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting the threshold. The setting screen is a two-dimensional distribution map that represents the distribution of the defect candidates in a three dimensional feature space having three features as the axes thereof and includes the axes of the three features and the threshold, which is represented in one dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Hisashi HATANO, Koichi NAGOYA, Mamoru KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9488596
    Abstract: In defect scanning carried out in a process of manufacturing a semiconductor or the like, a light detection optical system comprising a plurality of photosensors is used for detecting scattered light reflected from a sample. The photosensors used for detecting the quantity of weak background scattered light include a photon counting type photosensor having few pixels whereas the photosensors used for detecting the quantity of strong background scattered light include a photon counting type photosensor having many pixels or an analog photosensor. In addition, nonlinearity caused by the use of the photon counting type photosensor as nonlinearity of detection strength of defect scattered light is corrected in order to correct a detection signal of the defect scattered light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Honda, Yuta Urano, Hisashi Hatano
  • Publication number: 20160178360
    Abstract: In related art, consideration is not given to that a spatial distribution of scattered light changes in various direction such as forward/backward/sideways according to a difference in micro roughness. Particularly, although a step-terrace structure appearing on an epitaxial growth wafer produces anisotropy in the scattered light distribution, consideration is not given to this point in the related art. The invention includes a process in which light is illuminated to a sample surface, plural detection optical systems mutually different in directions of optical axes detect a spatial distribution of scattered light, and a spatial frequency spectrum of the sample surface is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Masaaki ITO, Takahiro JINGU, Hisashi HATANO
  • Patent number: D867990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Okajima, Hiroaki Banno, Sho Honda, Atsushi Fukuta, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Hisashi Hatano
  • Patent number: D883214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Okajima, Hiroaki Banno, Sho Honda, Atsushi Fukuta, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Hisashi Hatano
  • Patent number: D883978
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Okajima, Hiroaki Banno, Sho Honda, Atsushi Fukuta, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Hisashi Hatano
  • Patent number: D884637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Okajima, Hiroaki Banno, Sho Honda, Atsushi Fukuta, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Hisashi Hatano
  • Patent number: D886102
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Okajima, Hiroaki Banno, Sho Honda, Atsushi Fukuta, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Hisashi Hatano
  • Patent number: D886741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Okajima, Hiroaki Banno, Sho Honda, Atsushi Fukuta, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Hisashi Hatano