Patents by Inventor Hisashi Inoue
Hisashi Inoue 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: 20240121530Abstract: A light detector is configured such that a light receiving portion having APDs and a peripheral portion are provided on a first principal surface of a p-type semiconductor substrate, and further includes a back electrode provided on a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and a p-type first separation portion provided between the light receiving portion and the peripheral portion. The APD has, on a first principal surface side, an n-type region and a p-epitaxial layer contacting the n-type region in a Z-direction. The peripheral portion has an n-type MISFET provided at a p-well and an n-well provided to surround entire side and bottom portions of the p-well.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Tatsuya KABE, Hideyuki ARAI, Hisashi AIKAWA, Yuki SUGIURA, Akito INOUE, Mitsuyoshi MORI, Kentaro NAKANISHI, Yusuke SAKATA
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Thermocouple structure, heat treatment apparatus, and method of manufacturing thermocouple structure
Patent number: 11815407Abstract: A thermocouple structure according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first element wire, second element wires formed of a material different from the first element wire, an insulating covering member covering at least one of the first element wire and the second element wires, and a protective tube accommodating the first element wire and the second element wire. Each of the second element wires is bonded to a different position on the first element wire.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Furüya Metal Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Inoue, Masahiro Kobayashi, Yasuaki Kikuchi, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Koji Yoshii, Kensuke Morita, Jun Itabashi -
Patent number: 11114318Abstract: Provided is an assembling apparatus for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The assembling apparatus includes: a body; lift attached to the body and configured to move a reaction tube having an opening at a lower end portion thereof vertically, thereby allowing a gas supply pipe to be installed inside the reaction tube through the opening while the reaction tube is held by the lift; gas supply source configured to supply a gas into the reaction tube through the gas supply pipe while the reaction tube is held by the lift; and an exhaust mechanism including a pump configured to exhaust an inside of the reaction tube through the opening, thereby performing a leakage test of the reaction tube while the reaction tube is held by the lift.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hisashi Inoue, Masahiro Kobayashi, Michihiro Takahashi, Tamotsu Hatakeyama, Harunari Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshihisa Kumagai
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THERMOCOUPLE STRUCTURE, HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THERMOCOUPLE STRUCTURE
Publication number: 20210063247Abstract: A thermocouple structure according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first element wire, second element wires formed of a material different from the first element wire, an insulating covering member covering at least one of the first element wire and the second element wires, and a protective tube accommodating the first element wire and the second element wire. Each of the second element wires is bonded to a different position on the first element wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Hisashi INOUE, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Yasuaki KIKUCHI, Tatsuya YAMAGUCHI, Koji YOSHII, Kensuke MORITA, Jun ITABASHI -
Publication number: 20200302494Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory device that stores instructions for a computer, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to extract keywords corresponding to a merchandise category from information managed per merchandise category in an electronic commerce site; select a keyword to present in an evaluation posting page for posting an evaluation for a merchandise belonging to the merchandise category from the keywords as an evaluation word; and present the evaluation word in the evaluation posting page. The evaluation word is presented as an individual evaluation item name of an individual evaluation column for a user evaluating the merchandise to input an evaluation value per an individual evaluation item set per merchandise or per merchandise category.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.Inventors: Anirudh BANARJI, Teoh Chi YEONG, Fumikazu FUJIWARA, Hisashi INOUE
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Publication number: 20190333789Abstract: Provided is an assembling apparatus for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The assembling apparatus includes: a body; lift attached to the body and configured to move a reaction tube having an opening at a lower end portion thereof vertically, thereby allowing a gas supply pipe to be installed inside the reaction tube through the opening while the reaction tube is held by the lift; gas supply source configured to supply a gas into the reaction tube through the gas supply pipe while the reaction tube is held by the lift; and an exhaust mechanism including a pump configured to exhaust an inside of the reaction tube through the opening, thereby performing a leakage test of the reaction tube while the reaction tube is held by the lift.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Hisashi Inoue, Masahiro Kobayashi, Michihiro Takahashi, Tamotsu Hatakeyama, Harunari Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshihisa Kumagai
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Clamp apparatus, substrate carry-in/out apparatus using the same, and substrate processing apparatus
Patent number: 9857124Abstract: The clamp apparatus of the present disclosure includes a clamp member configured to contact a substrate accommodating container from an upper side and fix the substrate accommodating container to a predetermined position when a cover provided on a front surface of the substrate accommodating container is opened/closed, a driving mechanism configured to drive the clamp member; a casing configured to cover the driving mechanism, a suction port configured to communicate with the casing, an exhaust chamber provided near the casing, and a fan provided inside the exhaust chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Mitsuru Obara, Hisashi Inoue, Keishi Shionaga, Masahiro Kobayashi, Norio Baba, Hiroshi Kikuchi -
CLAMP APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE CARRY-IN/OUT APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS
Publication number: 20160273836Abstract: The clamp apparatus of the present disclosure includes a clamp member configured to contact a substrate accommodating container from an upper side and fix the substrate accommodating container to a predetermined position when a cover provided on a front surface of the substrate accommodating container is opened/closed, a driving mechanism configured to drive the clamp member; a casing configured to cover the driving mechanism, a suction port configured to communicate with the casing, an exhaust chamber provided near the casing, and a fan provided inside the exhaust chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Mitsuru Obara, Hisashi Inoue, Keishi Shionaga, Masahiro Kobayashi, Norio Baba, Hiroshi Kikuchi -
Patent number: 9064916Abstract: A substrate holder has two holder constituting bodies, each having a plurality of columns arranged on an imaginary circle, and substrate holding sections that hold circumferential portions of respective substrates. The holder constituting bodies hold the substrates so that either their front surfaces or their back surfaces face upward with a substrate having an upward facing front and a substrate having an upward facing rear being alternately arranged in a vertical direction. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves in the vertical direction to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between a first pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective front surfaces facing each other is set to ensure treatment uniformity, and to be larger than a distance between a second pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hisashi Inoue, Shunichi Matsumoto, Yasushi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8873456Abstract: A satellite control system comprising a communications system and an information management system. The communications system is configured to receive commands from a plurality of operators. The communications system is further configured to send the commands to a satellite using a number of communications links. The information management system may be configured to avoid conflicts between the commands sent by the communications system to the satellite from different operators in the plurality of operators that cause an undesired operation of the satellite. The information management system may be configured to provide a desired level of security for information sent between the plurality of operators and the satellite.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Haig Francis Krikorian, Angelia M. Corbett, Hisashi Inoue, Kim Ciarlariello Griffin, Yi-Feng James Chen
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Publication number: 20140220503Abstract: A substrate holder has two holder constituting bodies, each having a plurality of columns arranged on an imaginary circle, and substrate holding sections that hold circumferential portions of respective substrates. The holder constituting bodies hold the substrates so that either their front surfaces or their back surfaces face upward with a substrate having an upward facing front and a substrate having an upward facing rear being alternately arranged in a vertical direction. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves in the vertical direction to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between a first pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective front surfaces facing each other is set to ensure treatment uniformity, and to be larger than a distance between a second pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hisashi INOUE, Shunichi MATSUMOTO, Yasushi TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 8774356Abstract: In the wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer of the present invention, a counting loss correcting unit (11), when correcting a counting rate of pulses determined by a counting unit (10) on the basis of a dead time of a detector (7), stores beforehand a correlation between a predetermined pulse height range, within which pulses are selected by a pulse height analyzer (9), and the dead time and determines the dead time so as to correspond to the predetermined pulse height range during a measurement on the basis of the stored correlation.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Rigaku CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Hisashi Inoue, Kosuke Kawakyu
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Patent number: 8741064Abstract: A substrate holder has two holder constituting bodies, each having a plurality of columns arranged on an imaginary circle, and substrate holding sections that hold circumferential portions of respective substrates. The holder constituting bodies hold the substrates so that either their front surfaces or their back surfaces face upward with a substrate having an upward facing front and a substrate having an upward facing rear being alternately arranged in a vertical direction. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves in the vertical direction to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between a first pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective front surfaces facing each other is set to ensure treatment uniformity, and to be larger than a distance between a second pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Hisashi Inoue, Shunichi Matsumoto, Yasushi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8643745Abstract: A content shooting apparatus is provided which is suitable for generating a digest meeting the user's desire. A scene information generation portion detects a characteristic scene with reference to a parameter contained in either video/audio in content recorded during shooting operation information for the shooting apparatus, and generates scene information, an auxiliary information assignment portion assigns the scene information its type, priority, start time, end time, or representative time as auxiliary information in accordance with a prescribed rule, a listing portion makes a list of the scene information and the auxiliary information thereof, and a scene sorting-out portion sorts out scenes from the content with reference to the priority, such that the number of scenes is within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Morioka, Kenji Matsuura, Hisashi Inoue, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20130294577Abstract: In the wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer of the present invention, a counting loss correcting unit (11), when correcting a counting rate of pulses determined by a counting unit (10) on the basis of a dead time of a detector (7), stores beforehand a correlation between a predetermined pulse height range, within which pulses are selected by a pulse height analyzer (9), and the dead time and determines the dead time so as to correspond to the predetermined pulse height range during a measurement on the basis of the stored correlation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: RIGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Hisashi Inoue, Kosuke Kawakyu
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Publication number: 20130077561Abstract: A satellite control system comprising a communications system and an information management system. The communications system is configured to receive commands from a plurality of operators. The communications system is further configured to send the commands to a satellite using a number of communications links. The information management system may be configured to avoid conflicts between the commands sent by the communications system to the satellite from different operators in the plurality of operators that cause an undesired operation of the satellite. The information management system may be configured to provide a desired level of security for information sent between the plurality of operators and the satellite.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Haig Francis Krikorian, Angelia M. Corbett, Hisashi Inoue, Kim Ciarlariello Griffin
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Publication number: 20120329291Abstract: A substrate holder has two holder constituting bodies, each having a plurality of columns arranged on an imaginary circle, and substrate holding sections that hold circumferential portions of respective substrates. The holder constituting bodies hold the substrates so that either their front surfaces or their back surfaces face upward with a substrate having an upward facing front and a substrate having an upward facing rear being alternately arranged in a vertical direction. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves in the vertical direction to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between a first pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective front surfaces facing each other is set to ensure treatment uniformity, and to be larger than a distance between a second pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hisashi INOUE, Shunichi MATSUMOTO, Yasushi TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 8230806Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus has a substrate holder with two holder constituting bodies that each have a plurality of columns and substrate holding sections. One of the holder constituting bodies holds substrates so that their front surfaces face upward, while the other holds the substrates so that their back surfaces face upward. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves vertically to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between one of a first pair of vertically-adjacent substrates with respective front surfaces facing each other and the other of the first pair of substrates is set to ensure treatment uniformity and to be larger than a distance between one of a second pair of vertically-adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other and the other of the second pair of substrates.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Hisashi Inoue, Shunichi Matsumoto, Yasushi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8224151Abstract: An imaging apparatus and method includes an input device to which image data is inputted, a recorder which records the inputted image data into a recording medium, an eraser which erases the recorded image data in the recording medium, a protector which protects from an erasure setting so as to protect from erasure by the eraser of the recorded image data, and a display which displays a list of reduced images of a plurality of image data recorded in the recording medium. While the recorder is controlled utilizing a filing system and the list of reduced images of the plurality of image data recorded in the recording medium is displayed, the display is controlled so as to display a mark indicating that protection from erasure is set with respect to the recorded image data for which protection from erasure is set by the protector.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2006Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Inoue, Keiji Nagayama, Tomishige Yatsugi
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Patent number: 8216378Abstract: A reaction tube for a semiconductor process for performing a heat process on a plurality of target objects stacked at intervals under a vacuum state is integrally made of an electrically insulating and heat-resistant material. The reaction tube includes a cylindrical sidewall that has a load port at a lower end for loading and unloading the target objects to and from the reaction tube, and a circular ceiling wall that closes an upper end of the sidewall and has a flat inner surface extending in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the sidewall. The ceiling wall has an annular groove formed in a peripheral region of an outer surface along the sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Hirofumi Kaneko, Hisashi Inoue, Keishi Shionaga, Shingo Hishiya, Atsushi Endoh