Patents by Inventor Kenichi Nishida

Kenichi Nishida 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: 20230392257
    Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: a first gas supply line configured to supply a first gas to a substrate in a process chamber; a first exhaust line connected to a first pump and exhausting the first gas supplied to the substrate; a first valve installed at the first exhaust line; a second gas supply line configured to supply a second gas to the substrate in the process chamber; a second exhaust line connected to a second pump and exhausting the second gas supplied to the substrate; a second valve installed at the second exhaust line; and a controller capable of controlling the first valve and the second valve, so as to perform a first line change processing of exhausting the first gas supplied to the substrate toward the second pump via the second exhaust line, when determining that the first exhaust line transitioned into a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Kokusai Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya NISHIDA, Tomohiko KADOSAKI, Fumie ANDO, Kenichi MAEDA, Yosuke KUWATA, Fumikazu TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 11827979
    Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes removing a substance adhering to the interior of the process container by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times under a first temperature, the cycle including: (a) supplying one gas of a nitrogen- and hydrogen-containing gas and a fluorine-containing gas into the process container after a substrate is processed; and (b) supplying the other gas different from the one gas of the nitrogen- and hydrogen-containing gas and the fluorine-containing gas into the process container where the one gas remains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Nishida, Kenichi Ishiguro, Takashi Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20230332633
    Abstract: An outer member, an inner member, and an inside fixing member overlap each other and fastened together by a fastening member. The outer member is made of fiber reinforced resin, and fibers contained in the fiber reinforced resin-made outer member are arranged in a direction crossing the above-described overlapping direction. A bolt of the fastening member comprises a conical (truncated cone-shaped) middle portion which is poisoned between a head portion and a shaft portion. In a case where the outer member and the bolt are offset from each other in a radial direction of a through hole of the outer member, the conical middle portion partially contacts an edge portion of the through hole and compress a contacted portion of the outer member in the overlapping direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji NISHIDA, Kenichi YAMAMOTO, Chikara KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230280448
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a LiDAR device including: a light source to output laser light; a demultiplexer/distributor to receive the laser light output from the light source and to output local oscillation light and signal light beams; amplifiers to amplify the respective signal light beams; light transmission/reception devices to emit, as transmission light, the signal light beams into space, and to receive, as reception light, scattered light from a measurement target present in space; a signal processing device to calculate a distance to the measurement target and a property of the measurement target on a basis of the reception light from the light transmission/reception devices and the local oscillation light from the demultiplexer/distributor; and transmission/reception separation devices to couple the transmission light from the amplifiers to the respective light transmission/reception devices and to couple the reception light received by the respective light transmission/reception devices to the correspondin
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mio NISHIDA, Kenichi HIROSAWA, Takayuki YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20230273323
    Abstract: In a laser radar device according to the present disclosed technique, a frequency of laser light to be emitted adopts discrete values based on intervals of a frequency difference F are adopted. Therefore, TOF corresponding to a distance to a target appears in units of the frequency difference F for each time T, and a Doppler frequency corresponding to a speed of the target appears as a finer change than the frequency difference F. As described above, the present disclosed technique provides a laser radar device including a mechanism for separating frequency information resulting from the distance to the target from frequency information resulting from a speed of the target by a simple method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi HIROSAWA, Mio NISHIDA, Kiyotomo HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230265403
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for recovering a target protein expressed in an apoplast, comprising a step of injecting a buffer into a plant body that expresses the target protein in an apoplast through a stoma, a water pore, or a cross-section of the plant body; and a step of extracting a buffer present inside the plant body through a stoma, a water pore, or a cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventor: Kenichi NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 11719714
    Abstract: The automatic analyzer includes: a liquid dispensing mechanism that performs suction of a liquid; a pressure sensor that measures a change of an internal pressure of a probe provided at the liquid dispensing mechanism; a determination section that determines whether the suction of the liquid by the probe is normal suction or air suction abnormality; an analysis section; a storage section that stores a cumulative number of times of air suction abnormality per liquid and an allowable cumulative number for the cumulative number of times of air suction abnormality; and a controller that exercises operation control over the liquid dispensing mechanism, the determination section, and the analysis section. The controller exercises control such that the cumulative number of times of air suction abnormality is updated and the updated cumulative number is stored in the storage section even if the air suction abnormality occurs non-consecutively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION, ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Sayaka Sarwar, Masaharu Nishida, Yoko Inoue, Masafumi Shimada, Kenichi Yagi, Naohiko Fukaya, Andrew McCaughey
  • Patent number: 11656238
    Abstract: The automatic analyzer includes a storage unit storing the reaction containers of cleaning target by day unit in such a manner that all the reaction containers mounted on a reaction disk are to be cleaning target within a plurality of days, and a control unit exerts a control in such a manner that during an operation state after the sample of analysis object is dispensed to the reaction containers, a sample of analysis object in each of the reaction containers is analyzed, and not the sample but a detergent is dispensed to the reaction containers of cleaning target of an appointed day, the reaction containers of cleaning target of the appointed day being stored in the storage unit, to soak and wash the reaction containers for a certain time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nakasawa, Tetsuji Kawahara, Masaharu Nishida, Yoko Inoue, Kenichi Yagi, Osamu Matsumoto, Sayaka Asada
  • Patent number: 11657790
    Abstract: An operation detection device for a key operation of a keyboard device includes a conductive unit configured to be disposed on each of keys, a substrate configured to be disposed facing each of the keys in a pressing direction of the keys. The substrate is provided with a sensor including at least first and second coils, the sensor being configured to be disposed spaced from one key so that at least one of the first or second coil outputs a signal corresponding to a distance between the one key and the respective sensor. The operation detection device includes a detection unit configured to detect a displacement of the one key in at least one of a yaw direction or a roll direction based on signals output from the first and second coils during a key pressing stroke of the one key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Nishida, Harumichi Hotta, Jun Ishii
  • Patent number: 11657791
    Abstract: A musical sound producing apparatus includes a plurality of keys, a sound production information generator that generates sound production information for producing a musical sound based on a first key operation on any key among the plurality of keys, a control information generator that generates control information for controlling, on the basis of a second key operation different from the first key operation, a mode of the musical sound produced on the basis of the first key operation, and a musical sound signal generator that generates a musical sound signal on the basis of the sound production information and the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Hasebe, Shinichi Ito, Kenichi Nishida, Masahiro Kakishita, Shinichi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20230114483
    Abstract: An information processing system transmits as output data, at least any of a processing target event log and display data generated based on the processing target event log to an information processing apparatus, the processing target event log including a first event log and a second area event log, the first event log being an event log based on an in-game event that has occurred based on an in-game activity by a first player in a shared area, the second area event log being an event log based on an in-game event that causes change of a state of arrangement in the shared area among second event logs, the information processing apparatus being brought in correspondence with the first player. The information processing apparatus outputs an output image based on the received output data to a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yurie HATTORI, Kenichi NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230046476
    Abstract: A key operation detector includes a conductive unit provided in a key of a keyboard device, a substrate provided to face the key in a pressing and releasing direction of the key, a signal output unit including a coil, provided on the substrate, and configured to output a signal corresponding to a position of the conductive unit relative to the signal output unit, and a detection unit configured to detect a position of the key in the pressing and releasing direction and a displacement of the key in a front-rear direction based on the signal output from the signal output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Kenichi NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220319481
    Abstract: A musical sound producing apparatus includes a plurality of keys, a sound production information generator that generates sound production information for producing a musical sound based on a first key operation on any key among the plurality of keys, a control information generator that generates control information for controlling, on the basis of a second key operation different from the first key operation, a mode of the musical sound produced on the basis of the first key operation, and a musical sound signal generator that generates a musical sound signal on the basis of the sound production information and the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: MASAHIKO HASEBE, SHINICHI ITO, KENICHI NISHIDA, MASAHIRO KAKISHITA, SHINICHI OHTA
  • Publication number: 20220277713
    Abstract: A sound production control apparatus has a position detector that detects, in accordance with a playing operation of a musical instrument, a position of a key displaceable within a movement range from a start position to an end position. The movement range includes a sounding range including a sounding position and a setting range that is closer to the start position than the sounding range. The apparatus causes a played sound associated with the key to be produced upon the detected position of the key reaching the sounding position, while controlling a characteristic of the played sound depending on a displacement characteristic of the key within the setting range before the key is positioned in the sounding range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Daisuke MIURA, Masahiro KAKISHITA, Kenichi NISHIDA, Shinichi ITO, Akihiro SUGISHIMA, Shinichi OHTA, Tsuyoshi SATO, Yasuhiko OBA, Jun ISHII
  • Publication number: 20220270579
    Abstract: An operation detection device for a key operation of a keyboard device includes a conductive unit configured to be disposed on each of keys, a substrate configured to be disposed facing each of the keys in a pressing direction of the keys. The substrate is provided with a sensor including at least first and second coils, the sensor being configured to be disposed spaced from one key so that at least one of the first or second coil outputs a signal corresponding to a distance between the one key and the respective sensor. The operation detection device includes a detection unit configured to detect a displacement of the one key in at least one of a yaw direction or a roll direction based on signals output from the first and second coils during a key pressing stroke of the one key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Kenichi NISHIDA, Harumichi HOTTA, Jun ISHII
  • Patent number: 11398210
    Abstract: A musical sound producing apparatus includes a plurality of keys; a sound production information generator configured to generate sound production information for producing a musical sound based on a first key operation on any key among the plurality of keys; a control information generator configured to generate control information for controlling, on the basis of a second key operation different from the first key operation, a mode of the musical sound produced on the basis of the first key operation; and a musical sound signal generator configured to generate a musical sound signal on the basis of the sound production information and the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Hasebe, Shinichi Ito, Kenichi Nishida, Masahiro Kakishita, Shinichi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20210151019
    Abstract: A musical sound producing apparatus includes a plurality of keys; a sound production information generator configured to generate sound production information for producing a musical sound based on a first key operation on any key among the plurality of keys; a control information generator configured to generate control information for controlling, on the basis of a second key operation different from the first key operation, a mode of the musical sound produced on the basis of the first key operation; and a musical sound signal generator configured to generate a musical sound signal on the basis of the sound production information and the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiko HASEBE, Shinichi ITO, Kenichi NISHIDA, Masahiro KAKISHITA, Shinichi OHTA
  • Patent number: 10937403
    Abstract: A signal supply device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a generator configured to generate a first sound signal and a second sound signal in accordance with an instruction signal including operation body information corresponding to an operation input to an operation body and linked member information corresponding to a movement of a linked member linked with the operation body and an adjuster configured to adjust a relationship between the first sound signal and the second sound signal on the basis of the operation body information and the linked member information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Nishida, Yasuhiko Oba, Akihiko Komatsu, Michiko Tanoue
  • Patent number: 10902830
    Abstract: A signal supply device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a generator configured to generate a first sound signal and a second sound signal in accordance with an instruction signal corresponding to an operation input to an operation body and an adjuster configured to calculate an acceleration of the operation body in accordance with the instruction signal and to adjust a relationship between the first sound signal and the second sound signal on the basis of the acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Nishida, Yasuhiko Oba, Akihiko Komatsu, Michiko Tanoue
  • Publication number: 20200005746
    Abstract: A signal supply device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a generator configured to generate a first sound signal and a second sound signal in accordance with an instruction signal corresponding to an operation input to an operation body and an adjuster configured to calculate an acceleration of the operation body in accordance with the instruction signal and to adjust a relationship between the first sound signal and the second sound signal on the basis of the acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi NISHIDA, Yasuhiko OBA, Akihiko KOMATSU, Michiko TANOUE