Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Yamamoto

Kazuyoshi Yamamoto 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: 10508078
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a novel compound which can generate a base and radical upon the irradiation with an active energy ray; a photopolymerization initiator which comprises the novel compound; and a photosensitive resin composition which contains the photopolymerization initiator, has high sensitivity and excellent storage stability, and can be formed into a cured article that does not have a metal-corrosive property. The novel compound is represented by formula (1): (wherein R1 to R6 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an organic group other than the aforementioned substituents, or the like; X represents a residue having a structure such that n hydrogen atoms are removed from a saturated hydrocarbon containing a ring structure; and n represents an integer of 1 to 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION, NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiwamu Terada, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Koji Arimitsu
  • Patent number: 10496078
    Abstract: There is provided a configuration that includes a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses and a management device for managing the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses. Upon receiving information specifying a substrate processing apparatus as a reference and file information designating a predetermined device file, the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses transmits request data including first device information and first data information to the management device. Upon receiving the request data, the management device transmits the received request data to the reference substrate processing apparatus. The reference substrate processing apparatus creates response data including second data information responding to the first data information and transmits the created response data to the management device. Upon receiving the response data, the management device transmits the received response data to the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Osamu Ueda, Kazuhide Asai
  • Publication number: 20190195219
    Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: a main controller configured to execute a process recipe including a plurality of steps to perform a predetermined process on a substrate so as to acquire device data when executing the process recipe; and a storage part configured to store the acquired device data, wherein the main controller is configured to: acquire the device data in a predetermined specific step among the steps constituting the process recipe; calculate a value of the acquired device data in the specific step; compare the calculated value with a value of the device data in the specific step calculated at a time of previous execution of the process recipe; and generate an alarm when the calculated value shows a predefined tendency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori OKUNO, Hideki HORITA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Kazuhide ASAI, Toshihiko YONEJIMA
  • Patent number: 10289781
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes: a manipulation & display unit including a user interface for selecting a reference device information, and configured to display: a difference between the device information obtained from the substrate processing device and the reference device information selected via the user interface; a content of the reference device information; and a content of the device information, and further configured to receive a command for modifying the device information; and a control unit configured to modify the device information based on the command received from the manipulation & display unit and configured to transmit a modified device information to the substrate processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Koshimaki, Kazuhide Asai, Hideto Shimizu, Kayoko Yashiki, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Nobuhisa Makino
  • Publication number: 20190035657
    Abstract: There is provided a configuration that includes a device-status-monitoring controller that stores, in a storage section, device data generated by the apparatus; an analysis-support controller that acquires the device data related to abnormality analysis information from the storage section based on basic information that includes: information that defines an abnormal event, at least one of the device data corresponding to the abnormal event, and step information indicating a step where the at least one of the device data is generated; and recipe-specific information that includes at least a recipe name; and a display device that displays the device data related to the abnormality analysis information in a manner that goes back to a past time from a time when a latest recipe specified by the recipe name is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhide ASAI, Hidemoto HAYASHIHARA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Takayuki KAWAGISHI, Kayoko YASHIKI, Hiroyuki IWAKURA
  • Publication number: 20180370908
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a novel compound which can generate a base and radical upon the irradiation with an active energy ray; a photopolymerization initiator which comprises the novel compound; and a photosensitive resin composition which contains the photopolymerization initiator, has high sensitivity and excellent storage stability, and can be formed into a cured article that does not have a metal-corrosive property. The novel compound is represented by formula (1): (wherein R1 to R6 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an organic group other than the aforementioned substituents, or the like; X represents a residue having a structure such that n hydrogen atoms are removed from a saturated hydrocarbon containing a ring structure; and n represents an integer of 1 to 6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicants: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION, NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiwamu TERADA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Koji ARIMITSU
  • Publication number: 20180210423
    Abstract: There is provided a configuration that includes a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses and a management device for managing the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses. Upon receiving information specifying a substrate processing apparatus as a reference and file information designating a predetermined device file, the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses transmits request data including first device information and first data information to the management device. Upon receiving the request data, the management device transmits the received request data to the reference substrate processing apparatus. The reference substrate processing apparatus creates response data including second data information responding to the first data information and transmits the created response data to the management device. Upon receiving the response data, the management device transmits the received response data to the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Osamu UEDA, Kazuhide ASAI
  • Publication number: 20180120822
    Abstract: There is provided a technique for detecting a fault of a device from an error in device data. According to the technique described herein, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a pipe heater configured to heat a gas pipe; a temperature detecting unit provided at the pipe heater and configured to detect a temperature of the gas pipe; a control unit configured to control the pipe heater based on device data representing the temperature of the gas pipe measured by the temperature detecting unit by executing a process control program to adjust an electrical power applied to the pipe heater; a memory unit configured to store a monitored item table; and a device status monitoring unit configured to execute a device status monitoring program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhide ASAI, Hiroyuki IWAKURA, Hidemoto HAYASHIHARA, Mitsuru FUKUDA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Kayoko YASHIKI, Takayuki KAWAGISHI
  • Patent number: 9823652
    Abstract: A substrate processing system includes a substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate, and a management device configured to display specified information transmitted from the substrate processing apparatus on a display unit. The substrate processing apparatus includes a processing environment measuring unit configured to measure information on a substrate processing environment according to time and a trouble information notifying unit configured to notify information on a trouble of the substrate processing apparatus. The management device includes a storage unit configured to store measurement information measured by the processing environment measuring unit and notification information notified by the trouble information notifying unit. The display unit is configured to display the measurement information and the notification information which are stored in the storage unit and correlated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170300044
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes an operating unit for transmitting apparatus data to a memory, the apparatus data being required while a recipe for processing a substrate is executed; and a data matching unit for comparing the apparatus data stored in the memory. When an error occurs in the substrate processing apparatus, the operating unit transmits data representing the error to the data matching unit. The data matching unit includes: a selection unit for selecting first apparatus data which was acquired when the recipe was executed without an occurrence of the error, and stored in the memory; an acquisition unit for acquiring first and second apparatus data from the memory, the first apparatus data being acquired when an error did not occur and the second apparatus data being acquired when an error occurred; and a calculation unit for comparing the first and second apparatus data and calculating a difference therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhide ASAI, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Takayuki KAWAGISHI, Hidemoto HAYASHIHARA, Kayoko YASHIKI, Hiroyuki IWAKURA
  • Publication number: 20170285613
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a device management controller including a parts management control part configured to monitor the state of parts constituting the apparatus, a device state monitoring control part configured to monitor integrity of device data obtained from an operation state of the parts constituting the apparatus, and a data matching control part configured to monitor facility data provided from a factory facility to the apparatus. The device management controller is configured to derive information evaluating the operation state of the apparatus based on a plurality of monitoring result data selected from a group consisting of maintenance timing monitoring result data acquired by the parts management control part, device state monitoring result data acquired by the device state monitoring control part, and utility monitoring result data acquired by the data matching control part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhide ASAI, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Hidemoto HAYASHIHARA, Takayuki KAWAGISHI, Kayoko YASHIKI, Yukio MIYATA, Hiroyuki IWAKURA, Masanori OKUNO, Kenichi FUJIMOTO, Ryuichi KAJI
  • Publication number: 20160078163
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes: a manipulation & display unit including a user interface for selecting a reference device information, and configured to display: a difference between the device information obtained from the substrate processing device and the reference device information selected via the user interface; a content of the reference device information; and a content of the device information, and further configured to receive a command for modifying the device information; and a control unit configured to modify the device information based on the command received from the manipulation & display unit and configured to transmit a modified device information to the substrate processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Toshiro KOSHIMAKI, Kazuhide ASAI, Hideto SHIMIZU, Kayoko YASHIKI, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Nobuhisa MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20150039116
    Abstract: A substrate processing system includes a substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate, and a management device configured to display specified information transmitted from the substrate processing apparatus on a display unit. The substrate processing apparatus includes a processing environment measuring unit configured to measure information on a substrate processing environment according to time and a trouble information notifying unit configured to notify information on a trouble of the substrate processing apparatus. The management device includes a storage unit configured to store measurement information measured by the processing environment measuring unit and notification information notified by the trouble information notifying unit. The display unit is configured to display the measurement information and the notification information which are stored in the storage unit and correlated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8795433
    Abstract: There is provided a substrate processing apparatus that can easily grasp the relationship of a defect substrate between plural batches. A substrate processing apparatus 10 includes: a display unit 16; a storage unit that accumulates and stores production information of the substrate for each batch, the production information being produced when the substrate is processed; a selection receiving unit that receives the selection of plural batches stored in the storage unit; and a display control unit that controls such that substrate information is displayed on the display part, the substrate information being information relating to a state in which the substrates are held the substrate holding part in the plural batches received by the selection receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Tokunobu Akao, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8599159
    Abstract: Touch panel operation devices, methods, and programs set a touch-off determination time, and determine that the touch-off has occurred if the state at which the touch panel detects the user not touching the touch panel has continued for the set touch-off determination time or more after the touch-off was detected. When the user is touching the touch panel, the devices, methods, and programs acquire a touch coordinate, select an object corresponding to the acquired touch coordinate, and scroll-display the selected object based on a displacement of the acquired touch coordinate. The devices, methods, and programs determine whether the touch coordinate was acquired and displaced just before the touch-off was detected, and if the touch coordinate was acquired and displaced just before the touch-off was detected, set the touch-off determination time to be longer than if the touch coordinate was acquired and not displaced just before the touch-off was detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiko Sugeda, Koichi Ushida, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8538571
    Abstract: A maintenance engineer can analyze an abnormal state with less difficulty in a rapid and correct manner independent of his/her skill. A substrate processing system comprises: a substrate processing apparatus configured to operate according to a recipe defining a process sequence and process conditions, and a group managing apparatus connected to the substrate processing apparatus. The group managing apparatus comprises an analysis support unit. The analysis support unit is configured to extract check item information relating to both abnormal state information for indentifying an abnormal state occurring when the recipe is executed and apparatus type information for identifying the type of the substrate processing apparatus at which the abnormal state occurs, and to prepare a check item table comprising the extracted check item information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Asai, Hiroyuki Iwakura, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8441479
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data processing device includes a bounding volume generating unit for generating a bounding volume of a solid body using stereographic data of the solid body, a view volume setting unit for setting a view volume based on a set viewpoint, and a culling processing unit for determining whether or not to draw the solid body within the view volume using the generated bounding volume. The bounding volume generating unit obtains bottom plane data of the solid body from the stereographic data, obtains an outer quadrangular frame that encloses a bottom plane of the solid body defined by the bottom plane data, obtains an inner quadrangular frame inscribed on the outer quadrangular frame, determines bounding volume geometry data using the inner quadrangular frame as a reference plane, and generates the bounding volume of the solid body from the bounding volume geometry data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Ushida, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120068945
    Abstract: Touch panel operation devices, methods, and programs set a touch-off determination time, and determine that the touch-off has occurred if the state at which the touch panel detects the user not touching the touch panel has continued for the set touch-off determination time or more after the touch-off was detected. When the user is touching the touch panel, the devices, methods, and programs acquire a touch coordinate, select an object corresponding to the acquired touch coordinate, and scroll-display the selected object based on a displacement of the acquired touch coordinate. The devices, methods, and programs determine whether the touch coordinate was acquired and displaced just before the touch-off was detected, and if the touch coordinate was acquired and displaced just before the touch-off was detected, set the touch-off determination time to be longer than if the touch coordinate was acquired and not displaced just before the touch-off was detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigehiko SUGEDA, Koichi USHIDA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8097231
    Abstract: An activated carbon producing system includes a carbonizer for carbonizing cellulose triacetate as cellulose acylate to create carbonized material. A pulverizer pulverizes the carbonized material to obtain granules. An activation device activates the granules to create activated carbon. The activated carbon producing system includes a dispenser for supplying the cellulose triacetate at a plural number of times. A heating furnace is operated at each time after the dispenser operates, for thermally decomposing the cellulose triacetate from the dispenser, to obtain the carbonized material by carbonization. The pulverizer pulverizes the carbonized material in a size equal to or more than 2 mm and equal to or less than 20 mm. Temperature of the heating furnace is equal to or higher than 300 deg. C. and equal to or lower than 600 deg. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nagata, Ryou Takeda, Noboru Ishibashi, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Yoshio Hara
  • Publication number: 20110285649
    Abstract: Information display devices, methods, and programs display an image on a display screen. The devices, methods, and programs determine the number of fingers pressing the display screen, detect a pressed coordinate position pressed by at least one of the fingers pressing the display screen, and detect a movement direction and a movement speed of the detected pressed coordinate position just before the at least one finger terminates the pressing of the display screen. The devices, methods, and programs set a scroll speed of the displayed image based on the detected movement direction, the detected movement speed, and the determined number of fingers, and scroll the displayed image based on the set scroll speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi OGAWA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Takamitsu SAKAI