Patents by Inventor Kenichi Ueda

Kenichi Ueda 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: 20250252520
    Abstract: In the education support apparatus of the present disclosure, an acquisition unit acquires information of the user and information of a target of the user, an attribute analysis unit analyzes an attribute of the user and a request attribute of the target of the user by using a language model, from the information of the user and the information of the target of the user, an attribute gap analysis unit analyzes a difference in an attribute between the attribute of the user and the request attribute of the target of the user, and an educational content proposal unit generates at least one educational content for the first target for causing the user to add an attribute, based on the difference in the attribute, and proposes the generated educational content to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Nishimoto, Kenichi Ueda, Yoshikazu Arai, Yuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250201369
    Abstract: An acquisition unit of a life plan proposal device acquires attribute information indicating a user and living condition information relevant to a living condition of the user. An expansion unit adds additional attribute information of the user by an information generation method using the acquired attribute information. An estimation unit estimates a life event that is likely to happen in the user's life and a time of the life event by using the attribute information including the added attribute information, and the living condition information of the user. An output unit outputs a life plan generated by using information of the estimated life event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke NISHIMOTO, Kenichi UEDA, Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA, Yuki KOBAYASHI, Genki KUSANO
  • Publication number: 20250200673
    Abstract: A dialog ability enhancement assistance device 30 includes a reception unit 31 that receives information for selecting a scene 312 in which participants including a user and one or more machine learning models 311 have a dialog with each other, and the machine learning models 311 included in the participants, a construction unit 32 that constructs an environment 321 in which the participants have a dialog with each other in the selected scene 312, an acquisition unit 33 that acquires dialog content 331 between the user and the machine learning models 311 in the environment 321, and an evaluation unit 34 that evaluates, based on an evaluation criterion 341 for evaluating a dialog ability according to the dialog content 331, the dialog ability of the user from the acquired dialog content 331.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke NISHIMOTO, Kenichi UEDA, Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA, Yuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20250173630
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a request acquiring means, an answer acquiring means, and an answer providing means. The request acquiring means acquires a request related to a specific theme from a user, which is a first request to at least two or more learning models. The answer acquiring means acquires answers from each of the at least two or more learning models by using at least a scene showing a situation related to the specific theme and the first request. The answer providing means provides the answers acquired from each of the at least two or more learning models to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke NISHIMOTO, Kenichi UEDA, Yuki KOBAYASHI, Yoshikazu ARAI
  • Publication number: 20250124731
    Abstract: The acquisition means acquires reader information and content information. The prompt generation means generates a prompt based on the reader information and the content information. The content editing means inputs the prompt into a large language model and acquire an output from the large language model as edited content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki KOBAYASHI, Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA, Yoshikazu ARAI, Kenichi UEDA, Shinnosuke NiSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240038533
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate processing method and a substrate processing apparatus which are effective in preventing pattern collapse of an uneven pattern. The substrate processing method according to an exemplary embodiment includes replacing a liquid in a recess of a substrate having an uneven pattern of a negative type resist including a metal formed on a surface of the substrate with a solid-state stiffener, and subjecting the substrate to a molecular weight reduction processing that reduces the number of intermolecular bonds contained in the solid-state stiffener while maintaining the solid-state stiffener in a solid state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki TADATOMO, Makoto MURAMATSU, Kenichi UEDA, Arnaud Alain Jean DAUENDORFFER, Tomoya ONITSUKA, Keisuke YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230169257
    Abstract: A combined sentence generating device 20 that generates combined sentences of images and characters includes: a sentence reading module 21 that reads natural language sentences; a conversion object specifying module 22 that specifies a conversion object portion out of the natural language sentences; and an object to image converting module 23. The object to image converting module 23 specifies a converted image corresponding to the conversion object portion in reference to an image database 30 storing images in association with words expressing contents of the respective images, converts the conversion object portion of the natural language sentences to the converted image to generate the combined sentences, and makes the combined sentences displayed. A part of the natural language sentences are thus converted to the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: ADEU.NEK Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi UEDA
  • Patent number: 10862261
    Abstract: A laser medium unit includes: a plate-shaped laser gain medium which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and generates emission light by the irradiation of excitation light from the first surface; a reflection member that is provided on the second surface so as to reflect the excitation light and the emission light; and a cooling member that cools the laser gain medium. The laser gain medium includes an irradiation area which is irradiated with the excitation light and an outer area which is located outside the irradiation area when viewed from a thickness direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface. The cooling member is thermally connected to the second surface through the reflection member so that a cooling area of the laser gain medium is formed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Koichi Iyama, Yoshinori Kato, Takashi Sekine, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10826263
    Abstract: A laser medium unit includes: a plate-shaped laser gain medium which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and generates emission light by the irradiation of excitation light from the first surface; a reflection member that is provided on the second surface so as to reflect the excitation light and the emission light; and a cooling member that cools the laser gain medium. The laser gain medium includes an irradiation area which is irradiated with the excitation light and an outer area which is located outside the irradiation area when viewed from a thickness direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface. The cooling member is thermally connected to the second surface through the reflection member so that a cooling area of the laser gain medium is formed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Koichi Iyama, Yoshinori Kato, Takashi Sekine, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20190356105
    Abstract: A laser medium unit includes: a plate-shaped laser gain medium which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and generates emission light by the irradiation of excitation light from the first surface; a reflection member that is provided on the second surface so as to reflect the excitation light and the emission light; and a cooling member that cools the laser gain medium. The laser gain medium includes an irradiation area which is irradiated with the excitation light and an outer area which is located outside the irradiation area when viewed from a thickness direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface. The cooling member is thermally connected to the second surface through the reflection member so that a cooling area of the laser gain medium is formed on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kenichi UEDA, Koichi IYAMA, Yoshinori KATO, Takashi SEKINE, Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9695513
    Abstract: A hydrophobization treatment apparatus includes a cooling device which cools a substrate, a light irradiation device which irradiates thermal radiation light from light sources onto front surface of the substrate, a gas supply device which supplies hydrophobization-treatment gas to the substrate, an exhaust device which exhausts the gas, a lifting device which moves the substrate such that the lifting device raises and lowers the substrate between the cooling device and light sources, and a control device which has circuitry to control the light irradiation device, the gas supply device, the exhaust device and the lifting device. The circuitry of the control device executes first gas supply control to discharge and exhaust the gas into and from the space between the gas container and substrate, and after the first control, second gas supply control to discharge and exhaust the gas into and from the space between the gas container and substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 9558960
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a coating step that applies a coating liquid to a substrate having a front surface on which a pattern is formed, thereby forming a coating film on the substrate, a film removing step that heats the substrate to gasify components of the coating film thereby to reduce a thickness of the film, and a film curing step that is performed after or simultaneously with the film removing step and that heats the substrate to cure the coating film through crosslinking reaction. The film removing step is performed under conditions ensuring that an average thickness of the cured coating film is not greater than 80% of an average thickness of the coating film before being subjected to the film removing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Shiozawa, Kenichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 9552987
    Abstract: A substrate processing method is performed to improve surface roughness of a pattern mask formed on a substrate by being exposed and developed. The method includes supplying a first solvent in a gaseous state to a surface of the substrate to dissolve the pattern mask, and supplying a second solvent to the surface of the substrate, which is supplied with the first solvent, to dissolve the pattern mask, wherein a permeability of the second solvent is lower than a permeability of the first solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichiro Miyata, Keiichi Tanaka, Kenichi Ueda, Takahiro Shiozawa
  • Patent number: 9434094
    Abstract: A molding die includes a die having a mold plane; and gloss control granules composed of 50 to 80 pbw of a shape retention fixation base material such as a thermosetting resin; 30 to 80 pbw of a diffuse reflecting surface formation core material such as a ceramic powder; and 5 to 10 pbw of a roughness enhancement material such as an inorganic fiber, adhered to the mold plane in a spaced-apart manner. The gloss control granules are each independently adhered in the spaced-apart manner to form gloss control projections on the mold plane of the die so that a surface of a molded product molded on the die forms a surface having a small specular reflection or a diffuse reflection, and the gloss control projections having fine, uneven surfaces with recesses and projections are formed on the mold plane at a coating rate of 40 to 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: TANAZAWA HAKKOSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Mitsushi Sogabe
  • Publication number: 20160189974
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a coating step that applies a coating liquid to a substrate having a front surface on which a pattern is formed, thereby forming a coating film on the substrate, a film removing step that heats the substrate to gasify components of the coating film thereby to reduce a thickness of the film, and a film curing step that is performed after or simultaneously with the film removing step and that heats the substrate to cure the coating film through crosslinking reaction. The film removing step is performed under conditions ensuring that an average thickness of the cured coating film is not greater than 80% of an average thickness of the coating film before being subjected to the film removing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro Shiozawa, Kenichi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150361559
    Abstract: A hydrophobization treatment apparatus includes a cooling device which cools a substrate, a light irradiation device which irradiates thermal radiation light from light sources onto front surface of the substrate, a gas supply device which supplies hydrophobization-treatment gas to the substrate, an exhaust device which exhausts the gas, a lifting device which moves the substrate such that the lifting device raises and lowers the substrate between the cooling device and light sources, and a control device which has circuitry to control the light irradiation device, the gas supply device, the exhaust device and the lifting device. The circuitry of the control device executes first gas supply control to discharge and exhaust the gas into and from the space between the gas container and substrate, and after the first control, second gas supply control to discharge and exhaust the gas into and from the space between the gas container and substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenichi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150212960
    Abstract: The power consumption of a USB 3.0 hub is reduced, and the interconnection between the USB 3.0 hub and USB 3.0 devices is improved. On receiving a data transfer request packet, which is transferred by a DS port in a low power consumption state, from a host, an SS controller of an SS hub makes the DS port transmit an LFPS for returning a destination device of the data transfer request packet to U0 state, and transmits a transfer enable packet, which is generated by the SS controller itself and shows that the destination device has become ready to correspond to the data transfer, to the host after transmitting a transfer deferment packet to the host. The SS controller does not execute a process that is specified in USB 3.0, and in which a transfer deferment packet is transmitted to the destination device after the DS port return to U0 state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Tadahiro Watanabe, Chie Hinoma
  • Publication number: 20140363976
    Abstract: A substrate processing method is performed to improve surface roughness of a pattern mask formed on a substrate by being exposed and developed. The method includes supplying a first solvent in a gaseous state to a surface of the substrate to dissolve the pattern mask, and supplying a second solvent to the surface of the substrate, which is supplied with the first solvent, to dissolve the pattern mask, wherein a permeability of the second solvent is lower than a permeability of the first solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Yuichiro MIYATA, Keiichi TANAKA, Kenichi UEDA, Takahiro SHIOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20130141792
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] Provided are a molding die by which a molded article with a reduced gloss can be molded; and a manufacturing method therefor, and provided are a method for matching the gloss levels of molded articles, by which the glosses of the surfaces of the molded articles molded with materials such as different synthetic resins can be matched; a molding die; and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: TANAZAWA HAKKOSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Mitsushi Sogabe
  • Patent number: 7972680
    Abstract: To realize a resin composition which enables formation of a film having excellent film formability and bending resistance and having a small retardation. A resin composition of the present invention comprises: an acrylic resin as a main component; and organic fine particles whose average particle diameter ranges from 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m, wherein a glass transition temperature of the acrylic resin ranges from 110° C. to 200° C., and each of the organic fine particles has a structural unit of a vinyl cyanide monomer and a structural unit of an aromatic vinyl monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Shigeo Otome, Akio Naka