Patents by Inventor Kei ANDO

Kei ANDO 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: 20240173754
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a support tray that is configured in such a manner that a residual liquid getting in between a lower surface of a substrate and a substrate facing surface of the support tray is trapped in a groove. The support tray further includes a discharge part through which the residual liquid trapped in the groove is discharged from the groove through a discharge part. As a result, backflow of the residual liquid is prevented effectively, thereby preventing re-adhesion of the residual liquid to the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Kei SUZUKI, Tomohiro MOTONO, Noritake SUMI, Koji ANDO
  • Patent number: 11993320
    Abstract: A spoiler structure includes a base portion that is attached to a vehicle body and a movable flow adjustment portion that is moved relative to the base portion from a front position on a vehicle front side to a rear position on a vehicle rear side via an intermediate position. A rear end of the movable flow adjustment portion is moved upward with movement of the movable flow adjustment portion from the front position to the intermediate position. The rear end of the movable flow adjustment portion is moved downward with movement of the movable flow adjustment portion from the intermediate position to the rear position. A height position of the rear end of the movable flow adjustment portion at the rear position is lower than a height position of the rear end of the movable flow adjustment portion at the front position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakamura, Kei Ambo, Kenichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20240157390
    Abstract: In the substrate processing apparatus, a support tray supporting a substrate is housed in an internal space of a chamber. A processing fluid is supplied into the internal space from one end side of the internal space. The support tray includes a tray member and a plurality of support members attached to the tray member in such a manner as to surround a substrate facing surface. The tray member has a downstream-side standing portion that has a downstream-side standing portion that stands upward further than the substrate facing surface while located in proximity to a peripheral surface of the substrate on a downstream side supported by the plurality of support members. An upper surface of the downstream-side standing portion is below the upper surface of the substrate in a vertical direction supported by the plurality of support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro MOTONO, Koji ANDO, Noritake SUMI, Kei SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11975778
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller configured to execute the processing of accepting a request for retrieving a target vehicle body unit that is laid at a specific place, selecting a chassis unit for retrieval from among chassis units in the state separated from any vehicle body unit, the chassis unit for retrieval being a chassis unit to be used to retrieve the target vehicle body unit, and sending a retrieval command to the chassis unit for retrieval, the retrieval command being a command to retrieve the target vehicle body unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, Yasushi Fujiwara, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama
  • Patent number: 11964618
    Abstract: In an undercover structure according to the present invention, a first cover part that is a lowermost part of an undercover has a first rear end positioned ahead of a front wheel axle. Further, a curved part with a predetermined curvature is formed at the first rear end of the first cover part in a side view. This generates a strong negative pressure in a region ahead of the front wheel axle 21. Accordingly, the flow rate of air flowing to each wheelhouse 23 decreases (the flow rate of the airflow between a road and a vehicle generated along the bottom surface of the first cover part 15a of the undercover 15 increases). This causes an attraction force that attracts the vehicle to a road surface to act on a vehicle body of the vehicle, thereby making traveling stability more excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Ambo, Kenichi Ando, Yoshiteru Hoshida, Yuki Nakamura, Yoji Suwa, Takumi Sobue
  • Patent number: 10821136
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bone formation promoter having high biological safety and capable of promoting bone formation. The bone formation promoter of the present invention includes a self-assembling peptide capable of forming a ?-sheet structure in an aqueous solution having a neutral pH; and a bone chip. A sum of charges of amino acid residues constituting the self-assembling peptide at pH 7.0 is unequal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM, MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Ando, Naoki Ishiguro, Shiro Imagama, Zenya Ito, Yasuhiro Yokoyama, Hidenori Yokoi, Yusuke Nagai
  • Publication number: 20170119825
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bone formation promoter having high biological safety and capable of promoting bone formation. The bone formation promoter of the present invention includes a self-assembling peptide capable of forming a ?-sheet structure in an aqueous solution having a neutral pH; and a bone chip. A sum of charges of amino acid residues constituting the self-assembling peptide at pH 7.0 is unequal to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei ANDO, Naoki ISHIGURO, Shiro IMAGAMA, Zenya ITO, Yasuhiro YOKOYAMA, Hidenori YOKOI, Yusuke NAGAI