Patents by Inventor Ken Miyano

Ken Miyano 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: 7153079
    Abstract: In an automated guided vehicle including a transfer equipment which transfers a wafer, a buffer cassette which temporarily stores the wafer, and a pressing member which is provided at an opening of the buffer cassette, when traveling the automated guided vehicle, if the pressing member is slid to a center position from an end position of the opening of the buffer cassette to contact and press against the edge of the wafer, the pressing member was easily damaged by being rubbed against a periphery of the wafer, and there was a problem in durability of the pressing member. The pressing member 55 can transfer between a “pressing” position which contacts against the edge of the wafer 10 to press the wafer 10, and a “receding” position which is located away from the edge of the wafer 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignees: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Ken Miyano, Takahiko Murayama, Takashi Nakao, Shuji Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20040052624
    Abstract: In an automated guided vehicle including a transfer equipment which transfers a wafer, a buffer cassette which temporarily stores the wafer, and a pressing member which is provided at an opening of the buffer cassette, when traveling the automated guided vehicle, if the pressing member is slid to a center position from an end position of the opening of the buffer cassette to contact and press against the edge of the wafer, the pressing member was easily damaged by being rubbed against a periphery of the wafer, and there was a problem in durability of the pressing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Ken Miyano, Takahiko Murayama, Takashi Nakao, Shuji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 6312549
    Abstract: An optical disk pasting apparatus 1 for pasting two disks by overlapping the second disk D2 on the first disk D1 on which an adhesive agent 4 is coated, is featured in that said second disk D2 is overlapped on the first disk D1 while adsorbing and holding said second disk D2 by warping so that the second disk is swelled in a direction (the direction of the arrow X) opposite to the first disk D1 side opposed the second disk D2, wherein closed space 5 formed between both disks D1 and D2 is vacuumed and attracted by bringing the outside areas of the first disk D1 and the second disk D2 in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Global Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Miyano, Noboru Murakami, Yuichi Fujita, Masaaki Sano