Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Fujita

Kazuhiro Fujita 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: 10737391
    Abstract: A system includes: an illumination device; and an imaging device configured to capture an image of a target which is irradiated with light by the illumination device. The illumination device includes: a light emitting unit configured to emit first polarized light; a condensing unit configured to focus light emitted from the light emitting unit; a diffusion unit configured to diffuse the light focused by the condensing unit; and a uniformization optical system configured to receive the light diffused by the diffusion unit, uniformize an illuminance distribution of the light, and emit the light. The system further including a selective transmission unit provided on an optical path from the target to an imaging element of the imaging device and configured to block the first polarized light at a predetermined blocking ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Takahashi, Kazuhiro Fujita, Go Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20200227285
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a suctioning unit for suctioning a processing liquid existing inside a processing liquid pipe that communicates with a discharge port, and a controller. In the suctioning step, the controller executes a suctioning step of suctioning the processing liquid existing inside the processing liquid pipe by the suctioning unit. The controller selectively executes a first suctioning step of retracting a leading end surface of the processing liquid and disposing the leading end surface of the processing liquid after suctioning in a preliminarily set standby position inside the processing liquid pipe, and a second suctioning step of retracting the leading end surface of the processing liquid further back than the standby position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Michinori IWAO, Shuichi YASUDA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Noriyuki KIKUMOTO, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200201158
    Abstract: A light source device comprising: a light source section which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section; a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and a light path-switching section which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Ikuo Maeda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Tatsuya Takahashi, Takehiro Nishimori
  • Publication number: 20200183157
    Abstract: An HUD apparatus is configured to irradiate light for forming an image on a transmissive reflector provided in a movable body, and to display a virtual image in a display area to overlap the virtual image with scenery outside the movable body. A given distance range in the scenery from a reference point that is set in the movable body is included in the display area, and a difference between a first convergence angle to a target object (e.g., road surface) that is present in the given distance range and a second convergence angle to the virtual image displayed in the display area is at most one degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Yuuki SUZUKI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Masato KUSANAGI, Takuro YASUDA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Keita KATAGIRI, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10658203
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a guard that catches liquid scattered outward from a spin chuck, a cup defining a liquid receiving groove to catch liquid that is guided downward by the guard, a guard elevating/lowering unit that moves the guard in an up/down direction, a cleaning liquid supplying unit that supplies cleaning liquid, discharged from a cleaning liquid nozzle, to the liquid receiving groove via the spin chuck and the guard, a cleaning liquid draining unit that drains the cleaning liquid in the liquid receiving groove, and a controller that controls the cleaning liquid supplying unit and the cleaning liquid draining unit to accumulate cleaning liquid in the liquid receiving groove and controls the guard elevating/lowering unit to cause a lower end portion of the cylindrical portion to be immersed in the cleaning liquid in the liquid receiving groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tsujikawa, Masahide Ikeda, Atsuyasu Miura, Kazuhiro Fujita, Yuya Tsuchihashi
  • Publication number: 20200150433
    Abstract: A display device, a display system, and a mobile object. The display device includes an image forming unit through which image light exits, an imaging optical system having a reflection plane and configured to form an image by reflecting the image light on the reflection plane, and a housing accommodating the image forming unit and the imaging optical system. The housing has a transmissive area through which the image light reflected by the imaging optical system passes through, and an inclination of the reflection plane is changed to reduce a project area of the reflection plane. The project area is projected to outside of the housing through the transmissive area. The display system includes the display device, and a reflector configured to reflect the image light reflected by the imaging optical system. The mobile object includes the display system, and the reflector is a front windshield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Yuuki SATOH, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Maiko YASUI
  • Publication number: 20200144081
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a liquid discharging step of discharging liquid through a nozzle toward a predetermined supply region on the main surface of a substrate held on a substrate holding unit within a chamber, a humidified gas supplying step of supplying humidified gas with a humidity higher than the humidity within the chamber onto the main surface of the substrate to remove electrical charges carried on the substrate, and a spin-drying step of rotating the substrate about a predetermined rotational axis after the liquid discharging step to spin off the liquid component from the main surface of the substrate. The humidified gas supplying step is started before the start of the liquid discharging step and ended at a predetermined termination timing after the start of the liquid discharging step and before the spin-drying step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki TSUJIKAWA, Masato TANAKA, Tsuyoshi OKUMURA, Atsuyasu MIURA, Makoto TAKAOKA, Nobuyuki MIYAJI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Naoki SAWAZAKI, Takashi AKIYAMA, Yuya TSUCHIHASHI
  • Patent number: 10639683
    Abstract: A recover piping cleaning method is a method of cleaning a recovery piping into which a chemical liquid used for processing of a substrate is led via a processing cup, the recovery piping being arranged to lead the led chemical liquid into a predetermined chemical liquid recovery piping, the method including a piping cleaning step of cleaning the interior of the recovery piping by using a cleaning liquid by, while supplying the cleaning liquid to the recovery piping, leading the liquid led into the recovery piping into a drain piping which is different from the chemical liquid recovery piping, and a cleaning chemical liquid supplying step of, supplying the cleaning chemical liquid from a cleaning chemical liquid supply piping connected to the recovery piping to the recovery piping while leading the liquid led into the recovery piping into the drain piping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Tsuchihashi, Atsuyasu Miura, Hiroki Tsujikawa, Kazuhiro Fujita, Masahide Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10636682
    Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus, the inner peripheral edge of a second-cup canopy part radially opposes an outer peripheral surface of an opposing-member side wall part. This suppresses dispersion of processing liquids to above a cup part. A second-cup gap distance that is a radial distance between the outer peripheral surface of the opposing-member side wall part and the inner peripheral edge of the second-cup canopy part is greater than a holder gap distance that is a radial distance between the inner peripheral surface of the opposing-member side wall part and the outer peripheral surface of the substrate holder. This prevents or suppresses the possibility that, when a second processing liquid dispersed from a substrate is received by a second cup, the second processing liquid may be pushed downward by a downward airflow. Accordingly, a plurality of types of processing liquids will be separately received by a plurality of cups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kikumoto, Masahiro Kimura, Shuichi Yasuda, Kazuhiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10627711
    Abstract: A light source device comprising: a light source section which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section; a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and a light path-switching section which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Maeda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Tatsuya Takahashi, Takehiro Nishimori
  • Patent number: 10622225
    Abstract: The controller of a substrate processing apparatus carries out a liquid column forming step in which cleaning liquid is discharged through a lower surface nozzle when a spin chuck is not holding a substrate, to form a liquid column extending upward from the lower surface nozzle, and, in parallel with the liquid column forming step, a first dropping portion cleaning step in which an upper surface nozzle is reciprocated horizontally between a first position where a dropping portion of the upper surface nozzle does not contact the liquid column and a second position where the dropping portion of the upper surface nozzle does not contact the liquid column, so as to cause the upper surface nozzle to pass through a first middle position where the upper discharge port of the upper surface nozzle overlaps with the liquid column in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuyasu Miura, Masahide Ikeda, Hiroki Tsujikawa, Kazuhiro Fujita, Yuya Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 10553422
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes a substrate retainer that horizontally retains the substrate. A blocking portion has a lower surface facing an upper surface of said substrate and a tapered surface extending diagonally upward from an inner periphery of the lower surface toward a center of the lower surface. A rotary portion rotates the substrate and the blocking portion about a vertical rotary axis. A first supply unit supplies treatment liquid and a second supply unit supplies rinse liquid toward a tapered surface from the center of the rotated blocking portion through said opening of said blocking portion. The first supply unit supplies the treatment liquid during a first period and the second supply unit supplies the rinse liquid during a second overlapping period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kikumoto, Shuichi Yasuda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Michinori Iwao
  • Patent number: 10549638
    Abstract: An information display apparatus emits an image forming light beam to a transmissive reflection member and makes a virtual image visible through the reflection member. The information display apparatus is configured to display the virtual image so that a difference between a convergence angle when viewing the virtual image through the reflection member and a convergence angle when viewing a real object through the reflection member is less than or equal to 1 degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Suzuki, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Takuro Yasuda, Kazuhiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20190304402
    Abstract: A display device, a display system, a mobile object, a display-brightness control method, and a recording medium storing program code. The display device and the display-brightness control method include obtaining brightness data indicating brightness in a peripheral area at prescribed time intervals, the peripheral area including at least some of a display area that serves as a background of display data, detecting a change in brightness in the peripheral area based on the brightness data obtained in the obtaining, determining display-brightness data that indicates display brightness when the change in brightness is detected, such that length of delay time before display brightness of the display data is made to correspond to the brightness of the peripheral area is equal to or shorter than a permissible delay time, and displaying the display data using the display-brightness data determined in the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Ryohhei SUZUKI, Masato KUSANAGI, Yuuki SUZUKI, Kazuhiro FUJITA
  • Patent number: 10423055
    Abstract: This invention is concerning an illumination device that can obtain illumination light efficiently. An illumination device 1 used in, for example, a projection display apparatus includes a light source and a light tunnel 14. The light tunnel 14 includes a light incident port 15, a light emission port 16, a light guide path 17, a reflection surface 20 surrounding the light guide path 17, a phosphor layer 19 that generates fluorescent light LF having a different wavelength range from that of excitation light LE when being excited by the excitation light LE, a condensing optical system 13 that diverges the excitation light LE in the vicinity of the light incident port 15 and guides the diverged light into the light tunnel 14 to irradiate the phosphor layer 19, and a wavelength selection element that reflects the fluorescent light LF toward the light emission port 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Fujita, Takahiro Kado
  • Publication number: 20190285884
    Abstract: A display device includes an image forming unit to form an image and project the image on a transmissive reflector to display a virtual image, an optical element to direct light of the image to the transmissive reflector, a wavelength selective mirror disposed between the image forming unit and the optical element and to separate infrared light from a light beam, and a shielding part to shield or attenuate infrared light. The optical element condenses external light travelling along an optical path opposite to an optical path of the light diffused. The wavelength selective mirror separates infrared light included in the external light condensed by the optical element, and the shielding part is disposed between the wavelength selective mirror and a focal point of the infrared light separated by the wavelength selective mirror. An apparatus includes the display device and the transmissive reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro FUJITA, Yuuki SATOH, Maiko YASUI, Takehide OHNO
  • Publication number: 20190285885
    Abstract: A display device and an apparatus. The display device includes light emitter to emit light, an image generator to generate image light using the light emitted from the light emitter, a diffusion plate configured to diffuse the image light, and a light condensing element to receive and condense the image light diffused by the diffusion plate. A component in an optical path between the light emitter and the diffusion plate is disposed at a position different from a position of a light condensing portion of external light having transmitted through the diffusion plate via the light condensing element. The apparatus includes a light emitter to emit light, an image generator to generate image light using the light emitted from the light emitter, a diffusion plate to diffuse the image light, and a concave mirror to reflect the image light diffused by the diffusion plate to a transmission reflection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki SATOH, Kazuhiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20190262851
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding unit which holds a substrate, a processing liquid piping which is communicatively connected with a discharge port for discharging a processing liquid to a major surface of the substrate, a processing liquid supplying unit for supplying the processing liquid to the processing liquid piping, a suction unit for suctioning the processing liquid present inside the processing liquid piping, and a controller which controls the processing liquid supplying unit and the suction unit, wherein the controller executes a processing liquid supplying step which supplies the processing liquid to the processing liquid piping in order to discharge it from the discharge port by the processing liquid supplying unit and a suctioning step which suctions the processing liquid inside the processing liquid piping by the suction unit, and the controller selectively executes a first suctioning step in which, in the suctioning step, the processing liquid is suctioned and a lea
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Michinori IWAO, Noriyuki KIKUMOTO, Shuichi YASUDA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Mizuki OSAWA, Hiroshi EBISUI
  • Publication number: 20190219969
    Abstract: A timepiece movement includes a motor that has a rotor for rotating an indicating hand, a control unit that rotates the rotor by using a main drive pulse and an auxiliary drive pulse, and that determines a reference position of the indicating hand by detecting a rotation state of the rotor when the indicating hand is rotated using a detection drive pulse based on the main drive pulse, a train wheel that transmits a drive force of the motor to the indicating hand, and that has an indicating hand gear and a second intermediate pinion which mesh with each other, and an elastic portion that is disposed in the indicating hand gear, and that is elastically deformed by coming into contact with the second intermediate pinion when the indicating hand is located at the reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWATA, Toshiyuki Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20190129288
    Abstract: A light source device comprising: a light source section which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section; a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and a light path-switching section which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Ikuo Maeda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Tatsuya Takahashi, Takehiro Nishimori