Patents by Inventor Kaoru Masuda

Kaoru Masuda 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: 7513265
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high pressure processing method for subjecting a processing object to a high pressure processing using a high pressure fluid. In this method, the high pressure fluid is brought into collision with the surface of the processing object placed in a high pressure processing chamber, and then distributed along the surface of the processing object in an outward direction beyond the processing object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Yoichi Inoue, Katsumi Watanabe, Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima, Tomomi Iwata, Yusuke Muraoka, Kimitsugu Saito, Ikuo Mizobata
  • Patent number: 7220714
    Abstract: A process for removing residues from the microstructure of an object is provided, which comprises steps of preparing a remover including carbon dioxide, an additive for removing the residues and a co-solvent dissolving the additive in said carbon dioxide at a pressurized fluid condition; and bringing the object into contact with the remover so as to remove the residues from the object. A composition for removing residues from the microstructure of an object is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Darry W. Peters
  • Publication number: 20050279381
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for cleaning a microstructure capable of efficiently removing pollutants such as resist residue without causing damage to a substance such as a low-k film which is necessary for a semiconductor wafer. The cleaning method includes fluidizing a cleaning agent composition essentially containing carbon dioxide and a cleaning component under high pressure, and bringing the cleaning agent composition into contact with a microstructure to remove a substance adhering to the microstructure, wherein hydrogen fluoride is used as the cleaning component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima
  • Patent number: 6962161
    Abstract: In a high pressure processing method for removing an unnecessary substrate on the surface of the surface of a workpiece by bringing it into contact with supercritical carbon dioxide and additives in a high-pressure chamber, removing the unnecessary substance on the workpiece, first rinsing and second rinsing are performed under a substantially same pressure with continuous flowing of supercritical carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Inoue, Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima
  • Publication number: 20050196539
    Abstract: A method impregnates a material with an agent, by forming an agent-containing phase having a low density and containing an agent and carbon dioxide in a supercritical or subcritical state, and increasing the density of the agent-containing phase. This method can effectively impregnate a material having fine voids or pores with an agent in a short time by using supercritical or subcritical carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima
  • Patent number: 6841246
    Abstract: A welding wire of the type consists of a plated or uncovered solid wire and a flux-cored wire for carbon steel or stainless steel, wherein one or more of hydrocarbon compounds selected from the group consisting of saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, which have from 5 to 12 carbon atoms and a linear or branched structure, and hydrocarbon compounds having a cyclic structure are deposited on a wire surface. A lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles are chemically combined with a wire surface through the one or more hydrocarbon compounds. The total amount of the hydrocarbon compounds, and a lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles deposited on the wire surface is in the range of 0.1 to 5 g per 10 kg of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Mika Nishida, Kaoru Masuda, Kazuhiko Ito, Kuniaki Miyazaki, Norio Masaie
  • Publication number: 20040198627
    Abstract: A process for removing residues from the microstructure of an object is provided, which comprises steps of preparing a remover including CO2, an additive for removing the residues and a co-solvent dissolving the additive in said CO2 at a pressurized fluid condition; and bringing the object into contact with the remover so as to remove the residues from the object. An apparatus for implementing the process is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima, Tetsuo Suzuki, Nobuyuki Kawakami, Masahiro Yamagata, Darryl W. Peters, Matthew I. Egbe
  • Publication number: 20040123484
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high pressure processing method for subjecting a processing object to a high pressure processing using a high pressure fluid. In this method, the high pressure fluid is brought into collision with the surface of the processing object placed in a high pressure processing chamber, and then distributed along the surface of the processing object in an outward direction beyond the processing object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO, DAINIPPON SCREEN MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Yoichi Inoue, Katsumi Watanabe, Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima, Tomomi Iwata, Yusuke Muraoka, Kimitsugu Saito, Ikuo Mizobata
  • Publication number: 20040103922
    Abstract: In a high pressure processing method for removing an unnecessary substrate on the surface of the surface of a workpiece by bringing it into contact with supercritical carbon dioxide and additives in a high-pressure chamber, removing the unnecessary substance on the workpiece, first rinsing and second rinsing are performed under a substantially same pressure with continuous flowing of supercritical carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Yoichi Inoue, Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima
  • Publication number: 20030217764
    Abstract: A process for removing residues from the microstructure of an object is provided, which comprises steps of preparing a remover including carbon dioxide, an additive for removing the residues and a co-solvent dissolving the additive in said carbon dioxide at a pressurized fluid condition; and bringing the object into contact with the remover so as to remove the residues from the object. A composition for removing residues from the microstructure of an object is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima, Tetsuya Yoshikawa, Darryl W. Peters
  • Publication number: 20030183251
    Abstract: Disclosed is a drying method constituted such that, in a case of including the cleaning step using the water-containing solvent, substituting a water on a microstructure by a fluorocarbon type solvent having the water substitution solvent proper value X of from 0.01 to 10 defined by the formula (1) and further substituting by a fluorocarbon type solvent which may be identical with or different from the fluorocarbon type solvent described above, enabling steps up to the drying with liquefied/critical carbon dioxide to be conducted rapidly and to prevent collapse or swell of a photoresist pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: Kabushiski Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kawakami, Kohei Suzuki, Katsuyuki Iijima, Takeharu Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Nagase, Kaoru Masuda, Masahiro Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20030106573
    Abstract: A process for removing residues from the microstructure of an object is provided, which comprises steps of preparing a remover including CO2, an additive for removing the residues and a co-solvent dissolving the additive in said CO2 at a pressurized fluid condition; and bringing the object into contact with the remover so as to remove the residues from the object. An apparatus for implementing the process is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki Iijima, Tetsuo Suzuki, Nobuyuki Kawakami, Masahiro Yamagata, Darryl W Peters, Matthew Legbe
  • Publication number: 20020184788
    Abstract: Disclosed is a drying method constituted such that a microstructure is brought into contact with liquefied carbon dioxide or supercritical carbon dioxide while the surface of the microstructure being covered with a fluorocarbon type solvent, and that when in a cleaning step using a water-containing solvent, water is substituted for a water draining liquid, and then this water draining liquid is substituted for the fluorocarbon type solvent, enabling steps up to the drying step to be smoothly conducted and to prevent collapse or swell of a photoresist pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kawakami, Kohei Suzuki, Katsuyuki Iljima, Takeharu Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Nagase, Kaoru Masuda
  • Publication number: 20020164873
    Abstract: A process for removing residues from the microstructure of an object is provided, which comprises steps of preparing a remover including CO2, an additive for removing the residues and a co-solvent dissolving the additive in said CO2 at a pressurized fluid condition; and bringing the object into contact with the remover so as to remove the residues from the object. An apparatus for implementing the process is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Katsuyuki IIjima, Tetsuo Suzuki, Nobuyuki Kawakami, Masahiro Yamagata, Darryl W. Peters, Matthew I. Egbe
  • Patent number: 6416599
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generating agent for an air bag including a fuel component of nitrogenous organic compound and an oxidizing agent as its major components, to which at least one metal nitride or metal carbide that is allowed to react with a metallic component contained in the fuel component or the oxidizing agent to form slag is added, thus providing the effects of: solving the slag collecting problem which stands in the way of commercially practicing the nitrogenous organic compound base fuels; promoting the size reduction of the gas generator through the full use of high rate of gasification of the nitrogenous organic compound base fuels; and providing a gas generating agent molded member which is strong and stable with age by improving heat resistant properties and formability of the nitrogenous organic compound base fuels which are poor compared with the metallic compound azide of an inorganic matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignees: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki-Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Eiichiro Yoshikawa, Ryo Minoguchi, Akihiko Kuroiwa, Takeshi Kanda, Kenjiro Ikeda, Makoto Iwasaki, Akihiko Tanaka, Eishi Sato, Dairi Kubo, Kaoru Masuda, Moriyoshi Kanamaru
  • Publication number: 20020037420
    Abstract: A welding wire of the type consists of a plated or uncovered solid wire and a flux-cored wire for carbon steel or stainless steel, wherein one or more of hydrocarbon compounds selected from the group consisting of saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, which have from 5 to 12 carbon atoms and a linear or branched structure, and hydrocarbon compounds having a cyclic structure are deposited on a wire surface. A lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles are chemically combined with a wire surface through the one or more hydrocarbon compounds. The total amount of the hydrocarbon compounds, and a lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles deposited on the wire surface is in the range of 0.1 to 5 g per 10 kg of the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Mika Nishida, Kaoru Masuda, Kazuhiko Ito, Kuniaki Miyazaki, Norio Masaie
  • Patent number: 6337144
    Abstract: A welding wire of the type consists of a plated or uncovered solid wire and a flux-cored wire for carbon steel or stainless steel, wherein one or more of hydrocarbon compounds selected from the group consisting of saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, which have from 5 to 12 carbon atoms and a linear or branched structure, and hydrocarbon compounds having a cyclic structure are deposited on a wire surface. A lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles are chemically combined with a wire surface through the one or more hydrocarbon compounds. The total amount of the hydrocarbon compounds, and a lubricating oil and/or lubricating particles deposited on the wire surface is in the range of 0.1 to 5 g per 10 kg of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Mika Nishida, Kaoru Masuda, Kazuhiko Ito, Kuniaki Miyazaki, Norio Masaie
  • Patent number: 5807443
    Abstract: A cold-worked titanium material subjected to isostatic material and a backing plate are brought into contact with each other and subsequently hot-pressing. By such working the titanium material and the backing plate are bonded with each other by mutual diffusion and simultaneously the titanium material is recrystallized. The isostatic pressing is performed under a pressure of 50 to 200 MPa at a temperature of 300.degree. to 450.degree. C. The surface of the titanium material is preferably subjected to a surface roughening treatment to provide with a roughness level of 6S to 12S prior to the isostatic pressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Shigeru Taniguchi, Akitoshi Hiraki
  • Patent number: 5710384
    Abstract: The invention provides a magneto-optical recording medium target and a manufacture method thereof which target can produce the leakage magnetic flux in sufficient density and has the high mechanical strength. The target is a sintered body containing 15 to 30 atomic % at least one rare earth metal and the balance at least one transition metal, in which alloy powder having such a composition is sintered so that the original morphology of the alloy powder essentially remains. Specifically, the target has a micro structure in which the alloy powder particles consisted of the rare earth metal and the transition metal are interconnected through grain boundary phases. The target is able to have the deflective strength not less than 50 MPa, the relative density not less than 99%, and the content of oxygen not more than 1000 ppm. Particulate micro structures preferably have a grain size d.ltoreq.250 .mu.m and a volume mean size d.sub.av of 50.ltoreq.d.sub.ad .ltoreq.120 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru Masuda
  • Patent number: 5607780
    Abstract: Disclosed are a target material for magneto-optical recording medium having a structure formed by sintering of an RE-TM phase (A) having a composition with an RE content higher than that of the composition of an intermetallic compound represented by the chemical formula TM.sub.2 RE, and a TM-RE phase (B) having a composition with an RE content equal to or lower than that of the composition of an intermetallic compound represented by the chemical formula TM.sub.2 E, wherein RE denotes at least one rare earth element selected from the group of elements consisting of Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho and Er, and TM denotes at least one element selected from the group of metals of the iron group which consists of Fe, Co and Ni; and a process for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Masuda, Takashi Meguro