Patents by Inventor Kenichi Mizuishi

Kenichi Mizuishi 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: 8351664
    Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes an accommodation unit and a detection unit in which the accommodation unit accommodates a card-type recording medium providing alternative information alternative to feature information such that the card-type recording medium is faced to the detection unit, with a biologic object absent, and the detection unit detects the alternative information from the card-type recording medium, thereby collating the feature information extracted from an image of the biologic object with the feature information recorded in a memory in the case of placing the finger into the accommodation unit, and collating the alternative information from the card-type recording medium with the alternative information recorded in the memory in the case of placing the card-type recording medium into the accommodation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadayuki Abe, Masayuki Abe, Hiromi Sugo, Kenichi Mizuishi
  • Publication number: 20100271173
    Abstract: Provided is a management technology capable of ensuring adequate security management even when using finger vein authentication for restricting entry by specific workers to a controlled area and for limiting the use of apparatuses inside the controlled area. This invention is a system for managing authority of a worker to work in a controlled area that requires wearing of protective clothing. The system performs: personal authentication outside the controlled area, using biometric information of the worker when not wearing the protective clothing; and determination processing to determine, in the controlled area, whether or not the worker who has been authenticated has authority to work in the controlled area, using security information other than the biometric information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Shinichiro AIKAWA, Masayuki Abe, Kenichi Mizuishi
  • Publication number: 20100131093
    Abstract: A fabricating method for a system that includes a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter and a computer storing managing information of processing and transporting of semiconductor wafers. The processing apparatuses have an interface for loading and unloading a plurality of the semiconductor wafers that are contained in a carrier. The semiconductor waters are processed in processing chambers of the processing apparatuses and the result of processing is monitored. In the processing, a first carrier containing the plurality of the semiconductor wafers having been processed in the first processing apparatus is transported toward the second processing apparatus by the inter-apparatus transporter prior to unloading of a second carrier containing semiconductor wafers processed in the second processing apparatus, according to the managing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Natsuki YOKOYAMA, Yoshifumi KAWAMOTO, Eiichi MURAKAMI, Fumihiko UCHIDA, Kenichi MIZUISHI, Yoshio KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20100008544
    Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes an accommodation unit and a detection unit in which the accommodation unit accommodates a card-type recording medium providing alternative information alternative to feature information such that the card-type recording medium is faced to the detection unit, with a biologic object absent, and the detection unit detects the alternative information from the card-type recording medium, thereby collating the feature information extracted from an image of the biologic object with the feature information recorded in a memory in the case of placing the finger into the accommodation unit, and collating the alternative information from the card-type recording medium with the alternative information recorded in the memory in the case of placing the card-type recording medium into the accommodation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Tadayuki ABE, Masayuki Abe, Hiromi Sugo, Kenichi Mizuishi
  • Patent number: 7603194
    Abstract: A fabricating method for a system that includes a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter and a computer storing managing information of processing and transporting of semiconductor wafers. The processing apparatuses have an interface for loading and unloading a plurality of the semiconductor wafers that are contained in a carrier. The semiconductor waters are processed in processing chambers of the processing apparatuses and the result of processing is monitored. In the processing, a first carrier containing the plurality of the semiconductor wafers having been processed in the first processing apparatus is transported toward the second processing apparatus by the inter-apparatus transporter prior to unloading of a second carrier containing semiconductor wafers processed in the second processing apparatus, according to the managing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20080243293
    Abstract: A fabricating method for a system that includes a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter and a computer storing managing information of processing and transporting of semiconductor wafers. The processing apparatuses have an interface for loading and unloading a plurality of the semiconductor wafers that are contained in a carrier. The semiconductor waters are processed in processing chambers of the processing apparatuses and the result of processing is monitored. In the processing, a first carrier containing the plurality of the semiconductor wafers having been processed in the first processing apparatus is transported toward the second processing apparatus by the inter-apparatus transporter prior to unloading of a second carrier containing semiconductor wafers processed in the second processing apparatus, according to the managing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 7392106
    Abstract: A fabricating method for a system that includes a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter and a computer storing managing information of processing and transporting of semiconductor wafers. The processing apparatuses have an interface for loading and unloading a plurality of the semiconductor wafers that are contained in a carrier. The semiconductor waters are processed in processing chambers of the processing apparatuses and the result of processing is monitored. In the processing, a first carrier containing the plurality of the semiconductor wafers having been processed in the first processing apparatus is transported toward the second processing apparatus by the inter-apparatus transporter prior to unloading of a second carrier containing semiconductor wafers processed in the second processing apparatus, according to the managing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 7310563
    Abstract: A fabricating method for a system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter. The semiconductor waters are processed in the processing apparatuses and are transported to specified processing apparatuses in different time interval that are set to N times a unit time interval. Since the fabricating system includes processing apparatuses and an inter-apparatus transporter that are periodically controlled at time intervals related to a unit time, intervals related to a unit time, the scheduling of a plurality of works can be made efficiently to enhance the level of optimization, thus improving the productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 7062344
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fabricating system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by means of an inter-apparatus transporter, wherein one group of semiconductor wafers are processed in processing apparatuses and other group of wafers are transported to specified processing apparatuses for a time interval from (To+T) to a time To; and another group of wafers are processed and the remaining group of wafers are transported for a time interval from (To+T) to (To+2T). Since processing apparatuses can receive at least one of works from the inter-apparatus transporter for a time interval T min, the distribution of works from the transporter to processing apparatuses is completed for the time interval T min. The transporter is emptied for each time interval T min, and works are unloaded to the emptied transporter, which makes easy the scheduling, control and management of the transporting of a plurality of works in the fabricating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20060111805
    Abstract: A fabricating method for a system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter. The semiconductor waters are processed in the processing apparatuses and are transported to specified processing apparatuses in different time interval that are set to N times a unit time interval. Since the fabricating system includes processing apparatuses and an inter-apparatus transporter that are periodically controlled at time intervals related to a unit time, intervals related to a unit time, the scheduling of a plurality of works can be made efficiently to enhance the level of optimization, thus improving the productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20060111802
    Abstract: A fabricating method for a system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter. The semiconductor waters are processed in the processing apparatuses and are transported to specified processing apparatuses in different time interval that are set to N times a unit time interval. Since the fabricating system includes processing apparatuses and an inter-apparatus transporter that are periodically controlled at time intervals related to a unit time, intervals related to a unit time, the scheduling of a plurality of works can be made efficiently to enhance the level of optimization, thus improving the productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 6819301
    Abstract: Disclosed here is an information providing system for mobile objects. The system obtains information of a moving purpose of the user of each mobile object to provide the user with information matching with the moving purpose. The information providing system comprises route type determining apparatus for determining the type of the current route on which the user is moving, provided information selecting unit for selecting information to be provided to the user according to the route type determined by the route type determining apparatus, and provided information presenting means for presenting the information selected by the provided information selecting unit to the user. Therefore, the user can receive more proper information according to the user's moving purpose at that time, thereby the convenience of the user is improved while the information provider can improve the advertisement effect by transmitting information to more proper users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagamatsu, Kenichi Mizuishi
  • Publication number: 20040107020
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fabricating system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by means of an inter-apparatus transporter, wherein one group of semiconductor wafers are processed in processing apparatuses and other group of wafers are transported to specified processing apparatuses for a time interval from (To+T) to a time To; and another group of wafers are processed and the remaining group of wafers are transported for a time interval from (To+T) to (To+2T). Since processing apparatuses can receive at least one of works from the inter-apparatus transporter for a time interval T min, the distribution of works from the transporter to processing apparatuses is completed for the time interval T min. The transporter is emptied for each time interval T min, and works are unloaded to the emptied transporter, which makes easy the scheduling, control and management of the transporting of a plurality of works in the fabricating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Natsuki Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Kawamoto, Eiichi Murakami, Fumihiko Uchida, Kenichi Mizuishi, Yoshio Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20040093392
    Abstract: Disclosed here is an information providing system for mobile objects. The system obtains information of a moving purpose of the user of each mobile object to provide the user with information matching with the moving purpose. The information providing system comprises route type determining apparatus for determining the type of the current route on which the user is moving, provided information selecting unit for selecting information to be provided to the user according to the route type determined by the route type determining apparatus, and provided information presenting means for presenting the information selected by the provided information selecting unit to the user. Therefore, the user can receive more proper information according to the user's moving purpose at that time, thereby the convenience of the user is improved while the information provider can improve the advertisement effect by transmitting information to more proper users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagamatsu, Kenichi Mizuishi
  • Publication number: 20030222809
    Abstract: The invention provides a millimeter wave radar monitoring system, which can reduce the installation cost and can improve reliability with less probability of false alarms. A millimeter wave radar unit includes a millimeter wave radar having a transmitting antenna for radiating a radio wave and a receiving antenna for receiving a wave reflected by a target having received the radio wave radiated from the transmitting antenna, and includes a signal processing unit for the received radio wave. A target tracking and monitoring circuit section in a monitoring unit collates position information of the target detected by the millimeter wave radar unit with monitoring area layout information held in a monitoring area layout signal section, thereby tracking a motion of the target. The target is displayed on a display along with the monitoring area layout information. When it is determined that the target is a suspicious invader, a warning device issues an alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Terumi Nakazawa, Kenichi Mizuishi, Sanshirou Oabara, Chieko Onuma, Yoshiki Kobayashi, Jie Bai
  • Publication number: 20030167123
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided in which the use of a camera has enhanced the safety. A distance detecting sensor detects the distance between a vehicle, which is positioned ahead of a self-vehicle, and the self-vehicle. Also, the camera detects the vehicle positioned ahead of the self-vehicle. If the distance detecting sensor detects the ahead-positioned vehicle, a control unit utilizes the camera, thereby judging the state of rear lamps of the ahead-positioned vehicle. Then, if the control unit has detected a malfunction of the rear lamps of the ahead-positioned vehicle, the control unit, by a communications unit, communicates the malfunction to the driver of the ahead-positioned vehicle and/or to a public agency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventors: Terumi Nakazawa, Kenichi Mizuishi, Shirou Oouchi
  • Publication number: 20030163248
    Abstract: An information management center 20 transmits second probe information managed by the information management center 20 to an on-vehicle system 10 on the condition that the information management center 20 is provided with first probe information collected by the on-vehicle system 10. The on-vehicle system 10 transmits user ID information to the information management center 20 together with the first probe information only when it is judged that a user has an intention of transmitting the user ID information. The information management center 10 gives a discount point for a use fee of the second probe information only when the information management center 10 receives the user ID information together with the first probe information. Thus, information can be collected from a greater number of mobile terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Mizuishi
  • Publication number: 20030112142
    Abstract: There is provided a device in which surroundings of a building can be monitored using a sensor; when detecting an intruder, an object can be detected even in the case of bad weather; and a predetermined area can be monitored using as few sensors as possible. The device includes a security system which emits a radio wave from a building to a predetermined area outside the building to detect an object, and on the basis of output of the object detecting unit, a judgment is made as to whether or not the object will intrude into the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiho Izumi, Hiroshi Kuroda, Satoru Kuragaki, Kazuhiko Sato, Terumi Nakazawa, Kenichi Mizuishi, Kazuaki Takano, Mitsuhide Sasaki, Hiroshi Kondoh, Mikito Tsubota
  • Patent number: 6332425
    Abstract: A pulse voltage of duty ratio 5% or below and repetition frequency 400 KHz or above is supplied in order to suppress the notch, charge build-up damage, subtrench and bowing due to the electron shading phenomenon. Thus, a cycle for accelerating electrons occurs in the substrate bias, so that the electron shading phenomenon does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Inventors: Naoyuki Kofuji, Shin Arai, Kazunori Tsujimoto, Tatsumi Mizutani, Keizo Suzuki, Kenichi Mizuishi
  • Patent number: 6231777
    Abstract: A pulse voltage of duty ratio 5% or below and repetition frequency 400 KHz or above is supplied in order to suppress the notch, charge build-up damage, subtrench and bowing due to the electron shading phenomenon. Thus, a cycle for accelerating electrons occurs in the substrate bias, so that the electron shading phenomenon does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Kofuji, Shin Arai, Kazunori Tsujimoto, Tatsumi Mizutani, Keizo Suzuki, Kenichi Mizuishi