Patents by Inventor Katsumi Nishimura

Katsumi Nishimura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240113218
    Abstract: A first trench extending in a Y direction is formed in each of a semiconductor substrate located in a cell region and the semiconductor substrate located in an outer peripheral region. A second trench is formed in the semiconductor substrate in the outer peripheral region so as to surround the cell region in a plan view. A p-type body region is formed in the semiconductor substrate in each region. A plurality of p-type floating regions is formed in the semiconductor substrate in the outer peripheral region. A field plate electrode is formed at a lower portion of each of the first trench and the second trench. A gate electrode is formed at an upper portion of the first trench located in the cell region. A floating gate electrode is formed at an upper portion of each of the first trench located in the outer peripheral region and the second trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoya NISHIMURA, Atsushi SAKAI, Katsumi EIKYU
  • Patent number: 11764542
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to reduce variations in oscillation wavenumber of a semiconductor laser element due to the influence of circumferential temperatures. The invention includes a semiconductor laser semiconductor laser element, a temperature control part to control a temperature of the semiconductor laser element, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the temperature control part, and a temperature control device to control a supply signal to the temperature control part so that a detected temperature obtained from the temperature sensor reaches a predetermined target temperature. The temperature control device changes a target temperature for the temperature control part depending on a supply signal to the temperature control part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Awane, Katsumi Nishimura, Kyoji Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11592025
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a dry pump and an exhaust gas treatment method which can improve an effect of inhibiting a reaction product from adhering to the inside of a gas outlet port of the dry pump, a gas exhaust pipe, or the like and can also improve an energy saving effect. To attain the object, the present invention includes the gas exhaust pipe disposed to be connected to the gas outlet port of the dry pump and to a gas inlet port of a detoxification device, and a heat exchanger which heats a diluent gas introduced therein using a heat generated from the dry pump and introduces the heated diluent gas into the gas exhaust pipe to heat a used gas to a temperature of not less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Katsumi Nishimura, Katsunori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10935489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an analysis apparatus adapted to analyze a measurement target component contained in a sample by irradiating a measurement cell into which the sample is introduced with pulse-oscillated light, whereby suppressing reduction in wavelength resolution without shortening the pulse width. The analysis apparatus includes multiple light sources adapted to produce pulse oscillations, a light detector adapted to detect light emitted from the light source and transmitted through the measurement cell, and a signal separation part adapted to separate, from a light intensity signal obtained by the light detector, signals corresponding to a part of pulses from the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoji Shibuya, Kensuke Fukushiro, Toshio Ohta, Katsumi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200295535
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to reduce variations in oscillation wavenumber of a semiconductor laser element due to the influence of circumferential temperatures. The invention includes a semiconductor laser semiconductor laser element, a temperature control part to control a temperature of the semiconductor laser element, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the temperature control part, and a temperature control device to control a supply signal to the temperature control part so that a detected temperature obtained from the temperature sensor reaches a predetermined target temperature. The temperature control device changes a target temperature for the temperature control part depending on a supply signal to the temperature control part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke Awane, Katsumi Nishimura, Kyoji Shibuya
  • Patent number: 10605726
    Abstract: The present invention is adapted to include: a light source adapted to emit reference light that is light whose wavelength is modulated at a predetermined modulation frequency; a light detector adapted to detect the intensity of measurement target light that is light after the reference light has transmitted through the measurement target component, and the intensity of the reference light; a first calculation part adapted to calculate an intensity ratio logarithm that is the logarithm of the ratio between the intensity of the measurement target light and the intensity of the reference light; a frequency component extraction part adapted to lock-in detect the intensity ratio logarithm with a reference signal having a frequency n times the modulation frequency; and a second calculation part adapted to, on the basis of the result of the detection by the frequency component extraction part, calculate the concentration or absorbance of the measurement target component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoji Shibuya, Kensuke Fukushiro, Toshio Ohta, Katsumi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10345230
    Abstract: The present invention is a spectroscopic analyzer that when measuring the concentration of a predetermined component contained in sample gas in a reduced pressure state lower than atmospheric pressure, obtains the concentration of the predetermined component with accuracy. The spectroscopic analyzer is one that measures the absorbance of the predetermined component contained in the sample gas in a reduced pressure state lower than atmospheric pressure, and calculates the concentration of the predetermined component with use of a calibration curve indicating the relationship between the absorbance of the predetermined component and the concentration of the predetermined component and a relational expression between the pressure of the sample gas at the time of the measurement and the concentration of the predetermined component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10309401
    Abstract: A vacuum exhaust system which exhausts gas from chambers and which comprises a plurality of branch channels for the exhaustion of the gas from the chambers, a main pipeline in the form of a confluence of the plurality of branch channels, channel open-close valves fitted to correspond with each of the said plurality of branch channels, a channel-switching valve connecting the main channel and a plurality of selection channels and allowing flow between the main channel and any one of the plurality of selection channels, a first pump which functions as a gas exhaust means in the molecular flow region of the gas and is fitted to one of the plurality of branch channels, and second pumps which function as gas exhaust means in the viscous flow region of the gas and are fitted to the plurality of selection channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Nigel Paul Schofield, Andrew Seeley, Katsumi Nishimura, Katsunori Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190101491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an analysis apparatus adapted to analyze a measurement target component contained in a sample by irradiating a measurement cell into which the sample is introduced with pulse-oscillated light, whereby suppressing reduction in wavelength resolution without shortening the pulse width. The analysis apparatus includes multiple light sources adapted to produce pulse oscillations, a light detector adapted to detect light emitted from the light source and transmitted through the measurement cell, and a signal separation part adapted to separate, from a light intensity signal obtained by the light detector, signals corresponding to a part of pulses from the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoji SHIBUYA, Kensuke FUKUSHIRO, Toshio OHTA, Katsumi NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10241038
    Abstract: The present invention responds flexibly to and corrects concentration changes that are caused by changes between the temperature when a correction calibration curve is created and the temperature when a test sample is measured, without having to correct the calibration curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nishimura, Shigeru Nakatani, Jan Poppe
  • Publication number: 20190064064
    Abstract: The present invention responds flexibly to and corrects concentration changes that are caused by changes between the temperature when a correction calibration curve is created and the temperature when a test sample is measured, without having to correct the calibration curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi NISHIMURA, Shigeru NAKATANI, Jan POPPE
  • Patent number: 10066992
    Abstract: The present invention is adapted to make light beams emitted from a light source enter a photodetector both when interposing an optical element having known characteristics and when not interposing the optical element, and acquire a first output value and a second output value that are the output values of the photodetector with respect to each of light beams that respectively have predetermined multiple wavenumbers and are included in the incident light beams, and obtain an arithmetic expression for calculating intensity of incident light beams from an output value of the photodetector, using parameters that are a ratio between the first output value and the second output value at each of the predetermined wavenumbers and the wavenumber transmission or reflection characteristic of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitake Ando, Katsumi Nishimura, Yukio Sakai
  • Publication number: 20180172581
    Abstract: The present invention is adapted to include: a light source adapted to emit reference light that is light whose wavelength is modulated at a predetermined modulation frequency; a light detector adapted to detect the intensity of measurement target light that is light after the reference light has transmitted through the measurement target component, and the intensity of the reference light; a first calculation part adapted to calculate an intensity ratio logarithm that is the logarithm of the ratio between the intensity of the measurement target light and the intensity of the reference light; a frequency component extraction part adapted to lock-in detect the intensity ratio logarithm with a reference signal having a frequency n times the modulation frequency; and a second calculation part adapted to, on the basis of the result of the detection by the frequency component extraction part, calculate the concentration or absorbance of the measurement target component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoji SHIBUYA, Kensuke FUKUSHIRO, Toshio OHTA, Katsumi NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180003178
    Abstract: A vacuum exhaust system which exhausts gas from chambers and which comprises a plurality of branch channels for the exhaustion of the gas from the chambers, a main pipeline in the form of a confluence of the plurality of branch channels, channel open-close valves fitted to correspond with each of the said plurality of branch channels, a channel-switching valve connecting the main channel and a plurality of selection channels and allowing flow between the main channel and any one of the plurality of selection channels, a first pump which functions as a gas exhaust means in the molecular flow region of the gas and is fitted to one of the plurality of branch channels, and second pumps which function as gas exhaust means in the viscous flow region of the gas and are fitted to the plurality of selection channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Nigel Paul Schofield, Andrew Seeley, Katsumi Nishimura, Katsunori Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170299505
    Abstract: The present invention is a spectroscopic analyzer that when measuring the concentration of a predetermined component contained in sample gas in a reduced pressure state lower than atmospheric pressure, obtains the concentration of the predetermined component with accuracy. The spectroscopic analyzer is one that measures the absorbance of the predetermined component contained in the sample gas in a reduced pressure state lower than atmospheric pressure, and calculates the concentration of the predetermined component with use of a calibration curve indicating the relationship between the absorbance of the predetermined component and the concentration of the predetermined component and a relational expression between the pressure of the sample gas at the time of the measurement and the concentration of the predetermined component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsumi NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170204860
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a dry pump and an exhaust gas treatment method which can improve an effect of inhibiting a reaction product from adhering to the inside of a gas outlet port of the dry pump, a gas exhaust pipe, or the like and can also improve an energy saving effect. To attain the object, the present invention includes the gas exhaust pipe disposed to be connected to the gas outlet port of the dry pump and to a gas inlet port of a detoxification device, and a heat exchanger which heats a diluent gas introduced therein using a heat generated from the dry pump and introduces the heated diluent gas into the gas exhaust pipe to heat a used gas to a temperature of not less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Katsumi Nishimura, Katsunori Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170023408
    Abstract: The present invention is adapted to make light beams emitted from a light source enter a photodetector both when interposing an optical element having known characteristics and when not interposing the optical element, and acquire a first output value and a second output value that are the output values of the photodetector with respect to each of light beams that respectively have predetermined multiple wavenumbers and are included in the incident light beams, and obtain an arithmetic expression for calculating intensity of incident light beams from an output value of the photodetector, using parameters that are a ratio between the first output value and the second output value at each of the predetermined wavenumbers and the wavenumber transmission or reflection characteristic of the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshitake ANDO, Katsumi NISHIMURA, Yukio SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9485881
    Abstract: An inverter cover for covering an inverter provided in a front space which is formed in front of a vehicle room in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, by partitioning the vehicle room with a vehicle body panel, includes: a body part for covering an upper face of the inverter; and an extended part extended rearward from the body part so as to be positioned between a connecting part which is provided in a rear part of the inverter and to which a harness is connected, and an edge part which is protruded frontward from the vehicle body panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Nagamori, Masaru Ohkado, Katsumi Nishimura, Toshihiko Ando, Shoji Tanizawa
  • Publication number: 20150121767
    Abstract: An inverter cover for covering an inverter provided in a front space which is formed in front of a vehicle room in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, by partitioning the vehicle room with a vehicle body panel, includes: a body part for covering an upper face of the inverter; and an extended part extended rearward from the body part so as to be positioned between a connecting part which is provided in a rear part of the inverter and to which a harness is connected, and an edge part which is protruded frontward from the vehicle body panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Takeo Nagamori, Masaru Ohkado, Katsumi Nishimura, Toshihiko Ando, Shoji Tanizawa
  • Patent number: 8629397
    Abstract: A spectrophotometer is provided, including a light source for irradiating light into a sample gas, a photodetector for detecting light transmitted through the sample gas, an optical filter, and an operation device for calculating a concentration of an actual gas to be measured, contained in the sample gas based on a detection signal value obtained from the photodetector. The operation device calculates the concentration of the actual gas based on function ? for associating a concentration of a substitute gas with the actual gas obtained from a reference instrument, function ? for associating a relation between a light absorption of the actual gas and the substitute gas in the reference instrument, with a relation between a light absorption of the actual gas the substitute gas in a calibration instrument, and a function indicating a relation between the concentration of the substitute gas and the detection signal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Horiba STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Hayashi, Katsumi Nishimura