Patents by Inventor Kazuki Ueno

Kazuki Ueno 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: 20250050450
    Abstract: A processing apparatus is a processing apparatus that performs a process for irradiating an object with an energy beam, the processing apparatus is provided with: an energy beam irradiation apparatus that irradiates at least a part of a surface of the object with the energy beam; and a position change apparatus that changes an irradiation position of the energy beam at the surface of the object, the processing apparatus controls the irradiation position of the energy beam by using a shape information relating to a shape of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki UENO, Kei SEKIGUCHI, Masayuki SHIRAISHI, Shigeki EGAMI
  • Publication number: 20240416456
    Abstract: A processing apparatus and a build apparatus including an energy beam irradiation part that irradiates a surface of an object with an energy beam to form a melt pool on the surface and a material supply part that supplies build materials to the melt pool; and a change apparatus that changes a positional relationship between the object and the melt pool, wherein the processing apparatus changes a size of a build object, which is built along a first direction by supplying the build materials to the melt pool while changing a positional relationship in the first direction between the object and the melt pool, in a second direction, which intersects with the first direction, on the basis of a position of the build object in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei SEKIGUCHI, Koichi YASUBA, Kazuki UENO, Masayuki SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20240375219
    Abstract: A build system irradiates a second position different from a first position with a second energy beam at a first time at which the first position is irradiated with a first energy beam, irradiates a third position different from the first and second positions with the first energy beam at a second time different from the first time, and irradiates the third position with the second energy beam at a third time different from the second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki FUNATSU, Koji TANAKA, Kazuki UENO
  • Publication number: 20240359405
    Abstract: A processing system is configured to form a build object. The processing system includes: a first optical system that condenses an energy beam on a first irradiation position; and a material supply apparatus that is configured to supply build materials to the first irradiation position. The processing system is capable of forming the build object by irradiating the build materials supplied by the material supply apparatus, with the energy beam from the first optical system, and the processing system processes the build object by a second optical system irradiating a surface of the build object with the energy beam from the first optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshimitsu KURAMI, Kazuki UENO
  • Publication number: 20240173773
    Abstract: A build apparatus builds a first structural layer by irradiating a first beam position, builds a first build object and irradiating the first build object, a second irradiation beam position builds a second build object. The build apparatus further builds a second structural layer by irradiating the first structural layer, a third irradiation beam position builds a third build object and by irradiating the third build object, a fourth irradiation beam position builds a fourth build object. At least one of a distance between first and second position and a distance between third and fourth position is shorter than a distance between second and third position. Thus, the build apparatus builds a structural object including the first and second structural objects and is inclined with respect to an optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei SEKIGUCHI, Kazuki UENO, Fumika SHIKI, Ryo NAKAYAMA, Hiroki SASAKI, Tatsuya SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240123508
    Abstract: A processing system includes: a processing apparatus configured to perform an additive processing on a plurality of objects; and a control apparatus configured to control the processing apparatus, the control apparatus generates, based on a result of a first measurement operation for measuring a shape of a first object of the plurality of objects, first processing control information for controlling the processing apparatus to perform the additive processing on the first object, the processing apparatus performs, based on the first processing control information, the additive processing on the first object and the additive processing on a second object of the plurality of objects that is different from the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki UENO
  • Publication number: 20240075557
    Abstract: A build system includes: a build apparatus including an energy beam irradiation unit, a material supply unit, and a control apparatus. The build system builds a second object above a first object including a first space. The second object includes: a first inclination part connected to the first object; a second inclination part connected to the first object; and a connection part that connects a tip of the first inclination part and a tip of the second inclination part. The build system builds the first inclination part and the second inclination part by alternately performing a building of a part of the first inclination part and a building of a part of the second inclination part. A second space below the first inclination part and the second inclination part is connected to the first space, and an upper part of the second space is closed by the connection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki UENO, Motofusa ISHIKAWA, Koichi YASUBA, Kei SEKIGUCHI, Atsuko MASUDA, Fumika SHIKI
  • Publication number: 20230158607
    Abstract: A processing system is a processing system that is configured to process an object by using an energy beam, and includes: an irradiation optical system that includes a condensing optical system and that is configured to condense the energy beam entering a pupil plane of the condensing optical system to irradiate the object with it; and a detection apparatus that is configured to detect, through the condensing optical system, an object light including a light from the object, at least a part of a path of the object light in the condensing optical system is different from at least a part of a path of the energy beam in the condensing optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki UENO
  • Publication number: 20230122763
    Abstract: A build system is provided with: a build apparatus that performs a build process for forming a build object by supplying build materials to an irradiation area of an energy beam from a supply system while irradiating a target object with the energy beam from an irradiation system; and a change apparatus that is configured to change a relative position between the energy beam and the target object, wherein the build system differentiates a condition of the build process that is performed at a first area of the target object and a condition of the build process that is performed at a second area of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki UENO
  • Patent number: 11577466
    Abstract: A build system is provided with: a build apparatus that performs a build process for forming a build object by supplying build materials to an irradiation area of an energy beam from a supply system while irradiating a target object with the energy beam from an irradiation system; and a change apparatus that is configured to change a relative position between the energy beam and the target object, wherein the build system differentiates a condition of the build process that is performed at a first area of the target object and a condition of the build process that is performed at a second area of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20220176459
    Abstract: A processing system is provided with: a processing apparatus that has a supply part which supplies materials from a storing part for storing the materials and that performs, on the basis of a build data, a processing process for forming the build object by using the materials supplied from the supply part; and an output apparatus that outputs information relating to an amount of the materials that is obtained on the basis of the build data and a stored amount of the materials stored by the storing part
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki UENO, Shinichi MORI, Tomoaki TAKEMI
  • Publication number: 20210220948
    Abstract: A processing apparatus and a build apparatus including an energy beam irradiation part that irradiates a surface of an object with an energy beam to form a melt pool on the surface and a material supply part that supplies build materials to the melt pool; and a change apparatus that changes a positional relationship between the object and the melt pool, wherein the processing apparatus changes a size of a build object, which is built along a first direction by supplying the build materials to the melt pool while changing a positional relationship in the first direction between the object and the melt pool, in a second direction, which intersects with the first direction, on the basis of a position of the build object in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei SEKIGUCHI, Koichi YASUBA, Kazuki UENO, Masayuki SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210178521
    Abstract: A processing apparatus is a processing apparatus that performs a process for irradiating an object with an energy beam, the processing apparatus is provided with: an energy beam irradiation apparatus that irradiates at least a part of a surface of the object with the energy beam; and a position change apparatus that changes an irradiation position of the energy beam at the surface of the object, the processing apparatus controls the irradiation position of the energy beam by using a shape information relating to a shape of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki UENO, Kei SEKIGUCHI, Masayuki SHIRAISHI, Shigeki EGAMI
  • Publication number: 20210170692
    Abstract: A build system is provided with: a build apparatus that performs a build process for forming a build object by supplying build materials to an irradiation area of an energy beam from a supply system while irradiating a target object with the energy beam from an irradiation system; and a change apparatus that is configured to change a relative position between the energy beam and the target object, wherein the build system differentiates a condition of the build process that is performed at a first area of the target object and a condition of the build process that is performed at a second area of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki UENO
  • Patent number: 10975796
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for injecting fuel to an engine having cylinders, includes: injectors corresponding to the cylinders; a regulator for fuel pressure supplied to the injectors; and a processor. The processor performs: deciding to start a deposit removal for removing deposits adhering to injector-nozzles; and controlling each injector to inject fuel in a single injection mode for injecting one time or a divided injection mode for injecting multiple times in one combustion cycle and control the regulator based on engine operation condition. The controlling includes, when controlling each injector to inject fuel in the divided injection mode based on the engine operation condition, sequentially controlling each injector to reduce injection number in one combustion cycle when the deposit removal is decided to be started, and then controlling the regulator to increase fuel pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20200240349
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for injecting fuel to an engine having cylinders, includes: injectors corresponding to the cylinders; a regulator for fuel pressure supplied to the injectors; and a processor. The processor performs: deciding to start a deposit removal for removing deposits adhering to injector-nozzles; and controlling each injector to inject fuel in a single injection mode for injecting one time or a divided injection mode for injecting multiple times in one combustion cycle and control the regulator based on engine operation condition. The controlling includes, when controlling each injector to inject fuel in the divided injection mode based on the engine operation condition, sequentially controlling each injector to reduce injection number in one combustion cycle when the deposit removal is decided to be started, and then controlling the regulator to increase fuel pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuki Ueno