Patents by Inventor Keiichi Hirota

Keiichi Hirota 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: 9662744
    Abstract: A laser irradiation device in which laser light is adjusted to create a laser beam, including a protective glass window arranged in an emission region that emits the laser beam; a reflection mechanism that passes the laser beam and reflects visible light; a wavelength-dependent optical screening mechanism that cuts off light of a wavelength region other than visible light from the light that is reflected by the reflection mechanism; image pickup camera configured to capture the visible light reflected with the reflection optical element; and an image adjustment lens unit that adjusts an image in the visible light that is input from the wavelength-dependent optical screening mechanism. The wavelength-dependent optical screening mechanism is provided between the reflection optical element and the image camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Itaru Chida, Katsunori Shiihara, Yasuaki Tokunaga, Takeshi Maehara, Keiichi Hirota, Hiroya Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20170087667
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a laser processing apparatus has: a laser light source; a light collector; a water nozzle; a sound sensor; a timer; and a distance calculator. The light collector collects the laser light on a workpiece. The water nozzle supplies a water stream to a surface to be treated of the workpiece. The sound sensor is provided at a predetermined position relative to at least one of the water nozzle and the light collector, and receives a sound coming from the surface to be treated. The timer detects a detected time width from a reference time point to a time point when the sound sensor receives the sound. The distance calculator calculates a distance from one of the water nozzle and the light collector to the surface to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Setsu YAMAMOTO, Akira ITO, Kota NOMURA, Jun SEMBOSHI, ltaru CHIDA, Katsunori SHIIHARA, Hiroya ICHIKAWA, Keiichi HIROTA, Masahiro YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9186751
    Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus of the embodiment includes: a laser light transmission mechanism to guide laser light from a laser light source and emit the laser light from a laser light emission part; a condensing mechanism to condense the laser light; a pipe state casing to house and hold the condensing mechanism inside thereof and have an opening part to irradiate the laser light; a fluid supply mechanism to supply a fluid into the casing to emit the fluid from the opening part; a positioning mechanism provided at the casing to keep a distance from the condensing mechanism to the processing object constant by being brought into contact with the processing object; and a fluid guide mechanism to guide the fluid emitted from the opening part to flow between the casing and the processing object along an axial direction of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Itaru Chida, Keiichi Hirota, Hidekazu Sasaki, Takuya Uehara, Tomoki Suetake, Hiroshi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20140224780
    Abstract: A laser irradiation device comprises a laser oscillator, a laser irradiation head that performs laser processing by directing the laser beam onto the region to be processed; and a transmission mechanism that gets the laser beam through emitted from the laser oscillator to the laser irradiation head. The laser irradiation head comprises: a laser beam adjustment unit that adjusts the laser light to create a laser beam; a protective glass window arranged in an emission region that emits the laser beam; a reflection mechanism that gets the laser beam through and reflects visible light; a wavelength-dependent optical screening mechanism that cuts off light of a wavelength region other than visible light from the light that is reflected by the reflection mechanism; an image adjustment lens unit that adjusts an image comprising visible light that is input from the wavelength-dependent optical screening mechanism; an image pickup camera that inputs an image; and an image processing mechanism that processes the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Itaru CHIDA, Katsunori SHIIHARA, Yasuaki TOKUNAGA, Takeshi MAEHARA, Keiichi HIROTA, Hiroya ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120325790
    Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus of the embodiment includes: a laser light transmission mechanism to guide laser light from a laser light source and emit the laser light from a laser light emission part; a condensing mechanism to condense the laser light; a pipe state casing to house and hold the condensing mechanism inside thereof and have an opening part to irradiate the laser light; a fluid supply mechanism to supply a fluid into the casing to emit the fluid from the opening part; a positioning mechanism provided at the casing to keep a distance from the condensing mechanism to the processing object constant by being brought into contact with the processing object; and a fluid guide mechanism to guide the fluid emitted from the opening part to flow between the casing and the processing object along an axial direction of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Itaru CHIDA, Keiichi Hirota, Hidekazu Sasaki, Takuya Uehara, Tomoki Suetake, Hiroshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 7352316
    Abstract: In a time-interleaved AD converter which combines together low-speed high-resolution AD converters for effective high speed operation, various deterioration factors possessed by each of the converters, including DC offset, conversion gain error, sampling timing error, and a frequency characteristic, need to be compensated. The compensation is performed through nonlinear filter operation in which a constant term is added to linear filter operation. A high-speed low-resolution AD converter is separately used, and through adaptive signal processing in which an output signal thereof is defined as an instruction signal, a compensation coefficient is calculated. In this condition, the compensation can be performed without the influence of quantization noise attributable to the high-speed low-resolution AD converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Hori, Yuji Ishida, Toshiaki Kurokawa, Keiichi Hirota, Shouhei Murakami
  • Publication number: 20070120724
    Abstract: In a time-interleaved AD converter which combines together low-speed high-resolution AD converters for effective high speed operation, various deterioration factors possessed by each of the converters, including DC offset, conversion gain error, sampling timing error, and a frequency characteristic, need to be compensated. The compensation is performed through nonlinear filter operation in which a constant term is added to linear filter operation. A high-speed low-resolution AD converter is separately used, and through adaptive signal processing in which an output signal thereof is defined as an instruction signal, a compensation coefficient is calculated. In this condition, the compensation can be performed without the influence of quantization noise attributable to the high-speed low-resolution AD converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Hori, Yuji Ishida, Toshiaki Kurokawa, Keiichi Hirota, Shouhei Murakami