Patents by Inventor Katsuyuki Hashimoto
Katsuyuki Hashimoto 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: 10845584Abstract: A scanning laser microscope includes: an objective lens; an XY scanner; a Z scanner; a detector that detects fluorescence from a sample and that outputs luminance information; an image processor that generates an image based on the luminance information and scanning-position information; and a controller that controls these components, wherein while the controller shifts the scanning line by the XY scanner each time the controller scans one line by the XY scanner, the controller changes the scanning position in forward and return paths of the direction along the optical axis of the objective lens by the Z scanner, reverses, between the forward and return path, an orientation in which the scanning line is shifted by the XY scanner, and reverses, about an axial line along the main scanning direction, either the image of the plane in the forward path or the image of the plane in the return path.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20190187448Abstract: A scanning laser microscope includes: an objective lens; an XY scanner; a Z scanner; a detector that detects fluorescence from a sample and that outputs luminance information; an image processor that generates an image based on the luminance information and scanning-position information; and a controller that controls these components, wherein while the controller shifts the scanning line by the XY scanner each time the controller scans one line by the XY scanner, the controller changes the scanning position in forward and return paths of the direction along the optical axis of the objective lens by the Z scanner, reverses, between the forward and return path, an orientation in which the scanning line is shifted by the XY scanner, and reverses, about an axial line along the main scanning direction, either the image of the plane in the forward path or the image of the plane in the return path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuyuki HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 10048479Abstract: Provided is a laser scanning microscope including a scanning unit that scans laser light emitted from a light source two-dimensionally across a specimen, a light-detecting unit that detects light coming from the specimen, an information-acquiring unit that acquires information about an observation mode, and a control unit that controls the scanning unit based on the information acquired by the information-acquiring unit. The scanning unit includes a galvanometer scanner and a resonant scanner that are alternately operable. The control unit controls the scanning unit to deactivate the resonant scanner if the information acquired by the information-acquiring unit indicates an observation mode in which the galvanometer scanner is used alone and to maintain the resonant scanner in an active state if the information acquired by the information-acquiring unit indicates an observation mode in which the galvanometer scanner and the resonant scanner are alternately used.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9625696Abstract: A laser scanning microscope includes a light irradiating portion that irradiates a sample; a PMT that detects fluorescence from the sample and outputs an intensity signal; a data processing portion that converts the intensity signal to brightness information at each pixel; a full-scale setting portion that can set a normal full scale that is smaller than the intensity signal when a light stimulus is given and an expanded full scale that is larger than the normal full scale, as a maximum range of the intensity signal that can be converted to brightness information; and a control portion that determines whether to switch between a normal observation mode and a stimulation observation mode; wherein the full-scale switching portion sets the normal full scale in the normal observation mode and sets the expanded full scale in the stimulation observation mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Kunihiko Sasaki, Yasunari Matsukawa, Akinori Araya
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Publication number: 20170102531Abstract: Provided is a laser scanning microscope including a scanning unit that scans laser light emitted from a light source two-dimensionally across a specimen, a light-detecting unit that detects light coming from the specimen, an information-acquiring unit that acquires information about an observation mode, and a control unit that controls the scanning unit based on the information acquired by the information-acquiring unit. The scanning unit includes a galvanometer scanner and a resonant scanner that are alternately operable. The control unit controls the scanning unit to deactivate the resonant scanner if the information acquired by the information-acquiring unit indicates an observation mode in which the galvanometer scanner is used alone and to maintain the resonant scanner in an active state if the information acquired by the information-acquiring unit indicates an observation mode in which the galvanometer scanner and the resonant scanner are alternately used.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuyuki HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 9522983Abstract: A biaxially oriented composite film includes a polyester substrate supporting one or more coatings on one or both surfaces of said substrate, wherein the polyester substrate is a biaxially oriented film; wherein the one or more coatings is/are derived from a predominantly inorganic hardcoat coating composition including inorganic particles contained in a polymerisable predominantly inorganic matrix; and wherein the biaxially oriented composite film has been annealed at a temperature Ta (° C.) above Tg where Tg<Ta?Tg+100 (° C.) for a time t after thermal equilibrium where 1 hour ?t?72 hours. A method of making the film is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: DUPONT TEIJIN FILMS U.S. LIMITED PARTNERSHIPInventors: Robert William Eveson, Andrew Nathan Hodgson, Duncan Henry MacKerron, Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20160109694Abstract: With the object of expanding the dynamic range of an intensity signal and suppressing degradation of a light detecting portion, a laser scanning microscope of the present invention includes a light irradiating portion that irradiates a sample with laser light; a PMT that detects fluorescence from the sample and that outputs an intensity signal; a data processing portion that converts the intensity signal to brightness information at each pixel; a full-scale setting portion that can optionally set a normal full scale that is smaller than the intensity signal of the fluorescence from the sample when a light stimulus is given thereto and an expanded full scale that is larger than the normal full scale, as a maximum range of the intensity signal that can be converted to brightness information; and a control portion that determines whether to switch between a normal observation mode in which the brightness information of the sample when the light stimulus is not given thereto is obtained and a stimulation observatType: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuyuki HASHIMOTO, Kunihiko SASAKI, Yasunari MATSUKAWA, Akinori ARAYA
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Publication number: 20140295174Abstract: A biaxially oriented composite film includes a polyester substrate supporting one or more coatings on one or both surfaces of said substrate, wherein the polyester substrate is a biaxially oriented film; wherein the one or more coatings is/are derived from a predominantly inorganic hardcoat coating composition including inorganic particles contained in a polymerisable predominantly inorganic matrix; and wherein the biaxially oriented composite film has been annealed at a temperature Ta (° C.) above Tg where Tg<Ta?Tg+100 (° C.) for a time t after thermal equilibrium where 1 hour ?t?72 hours. A method of making the film is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: DuPont Teijin Films U.S. Limited PartnershipInventors: Robert William Eveson, Andrew Nathan Hodgson, Duncan Henry MacKerron, Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8802226Abstract: A method of preventing or minimizing the formation of haze in a biaxially oriented polyester film during the annealing of said film above its glass transition temperature, said method comprising: (a) selecting a biaxially oriented polyester film having glass transition temperature (Tg (° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Dupont Teijin Films U.S. Limited PartnershipInventors: Robert William Eveson, Andrew Nathan Hodgson, Duncan Henry MacKerron, Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8591998Abstract: A process in which a wound roll of biaxially oriented polyester film having a glass transition temperature (Tg (° C.)) is annealed at a temperature Ta (° C.) above Tg where Tg<Ta?Tg+100 (° C.) for a time t after thermal equilibrium where 1 hour?t?72 hours and cooled, for the purpose of improving the shrinkage of said polyester film.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: DuPont Teijin Films U.S. Limited PartnershipInventors: Duncan Henry MacKerron, Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8367199Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thin biaxially oriented film excellent in dimensional stability against humidity change, as well as a magnetic recording medium and a film capacitor using the same. The present invention provides a single layered or laminated biaxially oriented film comprising an aromatic polyester (a) and a polyolefin (b) having a melting point of from 230 to 280° C., wherein the ratio of the polyolefin (b) is from 5 to 30% based on the entire weight of the film, and the film thickness is from 1 to 10 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Teijin Dupont Films Japan LimitedInventors: Tetsuo Yoshida, Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Ieyasu Kobayashi, Shinji Muro, Takeshi Ishida
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Publication number: 20120040208Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thin biaxially oriented film excellent in dimensional stability against humidity change, as well as a magnetic recording medium and a film capacitor using the same. The present invention provides a single layered or laminated biaxially oriented film comprising an aromatic polyester (a) and a polyolefin (b) having a melting point of from 230 to 280° C., wherein the ratio of the polyolefin (b) is from 2 to 60% based on the entire weight of the film, and the film thickness is from 1 to 10 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: TEIJIN DUPONT FILMS JAPAN LIMITEDInventors: Tetsuo Yoshida, Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Ieyasu Kobayashi, Shinji Muro, Takeshi Ishida
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Patent number: 8067105Abstract: A thin biaxially oriented film excellent in dimensional stability against humidity change, as well as a magnetic recording medium and a film capacitor using the same. The present invention provides a laminated biaxially oriented film comprising: at least one layer comprising an aromatic polyester (a); and at least one layer of a polyolefin (b) having a melting point of from 230 to 280° C.; wherein the ratio of the polyolefin (b) is from 2 to 60% based on the entire weight of the film, and the film thickness is from 1 to 10 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2005Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Teijin Dupont Films Japan LimitedInventors: Tetsuo Yoshida, Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Ieyasu Kobayashi, Shinji Muro, Takeshi Ishida
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Patent number: 7871691Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide such an oriented polyester film that has a constant thickness, and is excellent in dimensional stability at a high temperature and dimensional stability to temperature change in a working temperature range. The invention relates to an oriented polyester film containing as a major component of a substrate layer polyethylene -2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate, being stretched at least in one direction, and having a film thickness of from 12 to 250 ?m, wherein (1) a coefficient of linear thermal expansion ?t at a temperature of from 30 to 100° C. is from 0 to 15 ppm/° C. in both longitudinal and width directions of the film, and (2) a thermal shrinkage rate at 100° C. for 10 minutes is 0.5% or less in both longitudinal and width directions of the film.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Teijin Dupont Films Japan LimitedInventors: Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Tetsuo Yoshida, Makoto Tsuji, Shinya Togano
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Publication number: 20100189998Abstract: A process in which a wound roll of biaxially oriented polyester film having a glass transition temperature (Tg (° C.)) is annealed at a temperature Ta (° C.) above Tg where Tg<Ta?Tg+100 (° C.) for a time t after thermal equilibrium where 1 hour?t?72 hours and cooled, for the purpose of improving the shrinkage of said polyester film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2007Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: DuPont Teijin Films U.S. Limited PartnershipInventors: Duncan Henry MacKerron, Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7747343Abstract: A substrate housing method for a substrate processing apparatus, including: a first step of transporting the substrate taken out from a housing case to the substrate processing apparatus by a transport means; a third step of processing the substrate at the substrate processing apparatus; a fourth step of returning the substrate after the third step to the housing case by the transport means; a second step of calculating a difference in amount in relation to a normal position of the substrate at the transport means from the first step and before the fourth step; and a fifth step of adjusting a returning position of the substrate in the housing case after the third step and until the fourth step.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20090097737Abstract: In a visual inspection apparatus according to the present invention, a carrier base 2 supports a substrate 1 and tilts the substrate 1. The light source 3 illuminates light onto the surface of the substrate 1. The image-pickup apparatus 4 upon capturing an image of the substrate 1 produces image data and puts them out to a control apparatus 6. The image-pickup apparatus 4 is disposed in the vicinity of an eye view position P of the inspector. The control apparatus 6 stores the image data put out from the image-capturing apparatus 4 into an internally-disposed storage section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki TOKITA, Hiroshi NAIKI
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Publication number: 20090011228Abstract: A method of preventing or minimising the formation of haze in a biaxially oriented polyester film during the annealing of said film above its glass transition temperature, said method comprising: (a) selecting a biaxially oriented polyester film having glass transition temperature (Tg (° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2007Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: DuPont Teijim Films U.S. Limited PartnershipInventors: Robert William Eveson, Andrew Nathan Hodgson, Duncan Henry MacKerron, Katsuyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7369237Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate processing apparatus, comprising a housing body mounting unit that is capable of mounting a plurality of housing bodies which can house a plurality of substrates, a processing apparatus main body for processing a substrate extracted from the housing body, a transportation unit for transporting the substrate between the housing body and the processing apparatus main body, a processing control unit for controlling the transportation unit and making it transport the substrate between the housing body and the processing apparatus main body, and a transportation control unit for controlling the transportation unit and making it transport the substrate from one housing body to another housing body without passing through the processing apparatus main body.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2005Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ikeno, Shunsuke Kurata, Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Masahiko Yazawa
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Publication number: 20080032144Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide such an oriented polyester film that has a constant thickness, and is excellent in dimensional stability at a high temperature and dimensional stability to temperature change in a working temperature range. The invention relates to an oriented polyester film containing as a major component of a substrate layer polyethylene-2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate, being stretched at least in one direction, and having a film thickness of from 12 to 250 ?m, wherein (1) a coefficient of linear thermal expansion ?t at a temperature of from 30 to 100° C. is from 0 to 15 ppm/° C. in both longitudinal and width directions of the film, and (2) a thermal shrinkage rate at 100° C. for 10 minutes is 0.5% or less in both longitudinal and width directions of the film.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2005Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: TEIJIN DUPONT FILMS JAPAN LIMITEDInventors: Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Tetsuo Yoshida, Makoto Tsuji, Shinya Togano