Patents by Inventor Kaoru Aoki
Kaoru Aoki 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: 11864507Abstract: A cultivation method for cultivating leaf vegetables includes preparing correspondence information associating light characteristic information indicative of a characteristic of light with which leaf vegetables are irradiated, with quantified quality information having a quantified quality of leaf vegetables; setting the light characteristic information; and irradiating the leaf vegetables with light.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Aoki, Nahoko Sato
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Publication number: 20220176016Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing, by a method in which an expensive manufacturing apparatus is not required, an implant material having osteoconductivity superior to that of an implant material containing an aromatic polyether ketone. The present invention pertains to: said method including immersing an aromatic polyether ketone in a strong base solution in the absence of a calcium ion, and immersing an aromatic polyether ketone, which is obtained by the immersing, in a liquid containing a phosphorus-containing compound; and an implant material obtained by said method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY, SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, FUKUOKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Takumi Okihara, Yoshiki Takada, Naoto Saito, Kaoru Aoki, Naoyuki Nishimura, Hisao Haniu, Shigeaki Moriyama, Katsuya Ueda
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Publication number: 20220000039Abstract: A cultivation method for cultivating leaf vegetables includes preparing correspondence information associating light characteristic information indicative of a characteristic of light with which leaf vegetables are irradiated, with quantified quality information having a quantified quality of leaf vegetables; setting the light characteristic information; and irradiating the leaf vegetables with light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Kaoru AOKI, Nahoko SATO
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Patent number: 10568272Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus of a cultivation system includes a first light source array and a second light source array adjacent to the first light source array. The first light source array includes first light sources and second light sources. The first and second light sources are arranged in a specific pattern in a predetermined direction. The second light source array includes first light sources and second light sources. The first and second light sources of the second light source array are arranged in the specific pattern in the predetermined direction such that an arrangement of colors of the first and second light sources in the second light source array is shifted from an arrangement of colors of the first and second light sources in the first light source array.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kaoru Aoki
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Publication number: 20200037510Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus of a cultivation system includes a first light source array and a second light source array adjacent to the first light source array. The first light source array includes first light sources and second light sources. The first and second light sources are arranged in a specific pattern in a predetermined direction. The second light source array includes first light sources and second light sources. The first and second light sources of the second light source array are arranged in the specific pattern in the predetermined direction such that an arrangement of colors of the first and second light sources in the second light source array is shifted from an arrangement of colors of the first and second light sources in the first light source array.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventor: Kaoru AOKI
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Patent number: 9004285Abstract: A classifying apparatus including: a rotor with a plurality of annularly disposed blades, which rotates; and a louver with a plurality of blades which are disposed at an outer circumferential portion of the rotor so as to supply from the outer circumferential portion a fluid for dispersing and classifying a powder material, wherein the powder material is supplied to a gap between the rotor and the louver and centrifugally classified into fine powder and coarse powder, and wherein at least one of the following relationships is satisfied: Relationship (1): ??50° Relationship (2): D2/D1?1.17 where ? denotes an angle formed between imaginary lines connecting the center of the rotor with both ends of each blade of the louver, D1 denotes a diameter of the rotor, and D2 denotes an inner diameter of the louver.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Tanaka, Hiroki Morioka, Kaoru Aoki, Makoto Hirai, Shinya Hanatani
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Patent number: 8191808Abstract: A fluid spray nozzle for spraying fluid, satisfying a formula (r?r0)?L tan 35°, wherein r0 is a radius of a section having a minimum area of the nozzle when cut perpendicular to a spray direction of the fluid; and r is a radius of cross-sections of an upstream side and a downstream side of the spray direction from the section having a minimum area with a distance of L.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Tanaka, Masahiro Kawamoto, Akio Matsui, Hiroki Morioka, Kaoru Aoki
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Publication number: 20110315607Abstract: A classifying apparatus including: a rotor with a plurality of annularly disposed blades, which rotates; and a louver with a plurality of blades which are disposed at an outer circumferential portion of the rotor so as to supply from the outer circumferential portion a fluid for dispersing and classifying a powder material, wherein the powder material is supplied to a gap between the rotor and the louver and centrifugally classified into fine powder and coarse powder, and wherein at least one of the following relationships is satisfied: Relationship (1): ??50° Relationship (2): D2/D1?1.17 where a denotes an angle formed between imaginary lines connecting the center of the rotor with both ends of each blade of the louver, D1 denotes a diameter of the rotor, and D2 denotes an inner diameter of the louver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Tetsuya Tanaka, Hiroki Morioka, Kaoru Aoki, Makoto Hirai, Shinya Hanatani
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Publication number: 20100072311Abstract: A fluid spray nozzle for spraying fluid, satisfying a formula (r?r0)?L tan 35°, wherein r0 is a radius of a section having a minimum area of the nozzle when cut perpendicular to a spray direction of the fluid; and r is a radius of cross-sections of an upstream side and a downstream side of the spray direction from the section having a minimum area with a distance of L.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya TANAKA, Masahiro KAWAMOTO, Akio MATSUI, Hiroki MORIOKA, Kaoru AOKI
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Patent number: 7105074Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus is provided for eliminating wasteful consumption of a treating solution in a treating mode in which the treating solution is delivered in a strip form to a substrate from a treating solution delivery nozzle sweeping over the substrate. In a first aspect of the invention, collecting vessels are arranged around a developing cup surrounding a wafer supported by a wafer holder. The collecting vessels collect part of a developer delivered from a discharge opening of a developer delivery nozzle outwardly of a surface of the wafer. In a second aspect of the invention, collecting vessels are arranged below a developer delivery nozzle, with collecting openings of the collecting vessels opposed to a discharge opening or openings of the delivery nozzle. The collecting vessels are moved longitudinally of the discharge openings according to a position of the developer delivery nozzle relative to the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Tamada, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Minobu Matsunaga, Katsushi Yoshioka, Kenji Sugimoto, Kaoru Aoki, Moritaka Yano, Satoshi Yamamoto, Masakazu Sanada, Takashi Nagao, Mitsumasa Kodama
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Patent number: 6950278Abstract: A magnetic head having a sliding surface (120) on which a magnetic recording medium is slid, a magnetic gap g formed in the sliding surface for exchanging information signals with the magnetic recording medium, a track width controlling portion for prescribing a track width Tw of the magnetic gap g, with the track width controlling portion being formed by abutting a pair of magnetic core halves (110a, 110b) together, there being track width controlling grooves (111a to 111d) formed in each of the magnetic core halves, metal magnetic films (112a to 112f) provided in association with the magnetic gap g and with the track width controlling portion, and a groove (130) formed in at least one end of the magnetic gap g for extending substantially parallel to the sliding direction of the magnetic recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Onodera, Heikichi Sato, Katsumi Sakata, Kaoru Aoki
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Publication number: 20050162777Abstract: A magnetic head having a sliding surface (120) on which a magnetic recording medium is slid, a magnetic gap g formed in the sliding surface for exchanging information signals with the magnetic recording medium, a track width controlling portion for prescribing a track width Tw of the magnetic gap g, with the track width controlling portion being formed by abutting a pair of magnetic core halves (110a, 110b) together, there being track width controlling grooves (111a to 111d) formed in each of the magnetic core halves, metal magnetic films (112a to 112f) provided in association with the magnetic gap g and with the track width controlling portion, and a groove (130) formed in at least one end of the magnetic gap g for extending substantially parallel to the sliding direction of the magnetic recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2005Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventors: Osamu Onodera, Heikichi Sato, Katsumi Sakata, Kaoru Aoki
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Patent number: 6894868Abstract: A magnetic head having a sliding surface (120) on which a magnetic recording medium is slid, a magnetic gap g formed in the sliding surface for exchanging information signals with the magnetic recording medium, a track width controlling portion for prescribing a track width Tw of the magnetic gap g, with the track width controlling portion being formed by abutting a pair of magnetic core halves (110a, 110b) together, there being track width controlling grooves (111a to 111d) formed in each of the magnetic core halves, metal magnetic films (112a to 112f) provided in association with the magnetic gap g and with the track width controlling portion, and a groove (130) formed in at least one end of the magnetic gap g for extending substantially parallel to the sliding direction of the magnetic recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Onodera, Heikichi Sato, Katsumi Sakata, Kaoru Aoki
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Patent number: 6832863Abstract: A series of substrate transport paths for transporting substrates is arranged on upper and lower stories. Substrates are transferable between the substrate transport path on the first story and the substrate transport path on the second story. The paths include a going-only path for transporting the substrates forward, and a return-only path for transporting the substrates in the opposite direction, these paths being arranged on the upper and lower stories. An indexer connects one end of the substrate transport path on one story to one end of the substrate transport path on the other story. An interface connects the other end of the substrate transport path on one story to the other end of the substrate transport path on the other story. This construction efficiently reduces a waiting time due to interference between the substrates transported along the going-only path and the substrates transported along the return-only path.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2003Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Sugimoto, Minobu Matsunaga, Masakazu Sanada, Katsushi Yoshioka, Kaoru Aoki, Moritaka Yano, Satoshi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Takashi Nagao, Mitsumasa Kodama
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Publication number: 20040100726Abstract: A magnetic head having a sliding surface (120) on which a magnetic recording medium is slid, a magnetic gap g formed in the sliding surface for exchanging information signals with the magnetic recording medium, a track width controlling portion for prescribing a track width Tw of the magnetic gap g, with the track width controlling portion being formed by abutting a pair of magnetic core halves (110a, 110b) together, there being track width controlling grooves (111a to 111d) formed in each of the magnetic core halves, metal magnetic films (112a to 112f) provided in association with the magnetic gap g and with the track width controlling portion, and a groove (130) formed in at least one end of the magnetic gap g for extending substantially parallel to the sliding direction of the magnetic recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: May 27, 2004Inventors: Osamu Onodera, Heikichi Sato, Katsumi Sakata, Kaoru Aoki
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Publication number: 20040005149Abstract: A series of substrate transport paths for transporting substrates is arranged on upper and lower stories. The substrates are transferable between the substrate transport path on the first story and the substrate transport path on the second story. The substrate transport paths define a going-only path for transporting the substrates forward, and a return-only path for transporting the substrates in the opposite direction, the going-only path and return-only path being arranged on the upper and lower stories. An indexer connects one end of the substrate transport path on one story to one end of the substrate transport path on the other story. An interface connects the other end of the substrate transport path on one story to the other end of the substrate transport path on the other story.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Applicant: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co.,Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Sugimoto, Minobu Matsunaga, Masakazu Sanada, Katsushi Yoshioka, Kaoru Aoki, Moritaka Yano, Satoshi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Takashi Nagao, Mitsumasa Kodama
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Patent number: 6622686Abstract: In a cylinder head 1 of an internal combustion engine, communicating passageways 17, 18, 17′, 18′ for coolant are provided between combustion chambers 3 and pass-through holes 21 to 28 at positions which overlap straight lines L1, L2 connecting centers C2, C3 of the exhaust port openings 6a, 7a with centers C5 to C8 of the pass-through holes 25 to 28 and straight lines L3, L4 connecting centers C9, C10 of the intake port openings 4a, 5a with centers C11 to c14 of the pass-through holes 21 to 24 when a mating surface 2 of the cylinder head 1 with the cylinder block is viewed from the bottom. When peripheries of the exhaust port openings 6a, 7a and intake port openings 4a, 5a thermally expand, the suppression of thermal expansion by the bolts at fastening portions is alleviated by the communicating passageways 17, 18, 17′, 18′.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Komatsuda, Kaoru Aoki, Shinichi Takahashi, Takuya Takagi, Hiromu Nakamura, Tsutomu Yamasaki
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Patent number: 6558053Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a coating section, a developing section, a heat-treating section and a transport mechanism. The coating section has first processing units each for performing a coverage process to supply a photoresist solution to a substrate and cover a surface of the substrate with the photoresist solution, a second processing unit for spinning the substrate, after the coverage process, at high speed to make the photoresist solution into a film, dry the photoresist film, and clean the substrate. All substrates are processed with the same coating conditions to suppress differences in quality among the substrates. The first and second processing units perform the respective processes concurrently to improve the throughput of substrate processing.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2002Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhito Shigemori, Masakazu Sanada, Minobu Matsunaga, Katsushi Yoshioka, Kenji Sugimoto, Kaoru Aoki, Moritaka Yano, Satoshi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Takashi Nagao, Mitsumasa Kodama, Yukihiko Inagaki, Yoshihisa Yamada
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Publication number: 20030017665Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus is provided for eliminating wasteful consumption of a treating solution in a treating mode in which the treating solution is delivered in a strip form to a substrate from a treating solution delivery nozzle sweeping over the substrate. In a first aspect of the invention, collecting vessels are arranged around a developing cup surrounding a wafer supported by a wafer holder. The collecting vessels collect part of a developer delivered from a discharge opening of a developer delivery nozzle outwardly of a surface of the wafer. In a second aspect of the invention, collecting vessels are arranged below a developer delivery nozzle, with collecting openings of the collecting vessels opposed to a discharge opening or openings of the delivery nozzle. The collecting vessels are moved longitudinally of the discharge openings according to a position of the developer delivery nozzle relative to the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2002Publication date: January 23, 2003Applicant: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Tamada, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Minobu Matsunaga, Katsushi Yoshioka, Kenji Sugimoto, Kaoru Aoki, Moritaka Yano, Satoshi Yamamoto, Masakazu Sanada, Takashi Nagao, Mitsumasa Kodama
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Publication number: 20020152958Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a coating section, a developing section, a heat-treating section and a transport mechanism. The coating section has first processing units each for performing a coverage process to supply a photoresist solution to a substrate and cover a surface of the substrate with the photoresist solution, a second processing unit for spinning the substrate, after the coverage process, at high speed to make the photoresist solution into a film, dry the photoresist film, and clean the substrate. All substrates are processed with the same coating conditions to suppress differences in quality among the substrates. The first and second processing units perform the respective processes concurrently to improve the throughput of substrate processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2002Publication date: October 24, 2002Applicant: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhito Shigemori, Masakazu Sanada, Minobu Matsunaga, Katsushi Yoshioka, Kenji Sugimoto, Kaoru Aoki, Moritaka Yano, Satoshi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Takashi Nagao, Mitsumasa Kodama, Yukihiko Inagaki, Yoshihisa Yamada