Patents by Inventor Kenji Nakanishi

Kenji Nakanishi 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: 20240343989
    Abstract: A pressure medium containing at least one Group-14 element-containing organic compound (A) selected from the group consisting of a compound (A1) represented by the general formula (a1) and a compound (A2) represented by the general formula (a2): where each of Ra11, Ra12, Ra13, and Ra14 independently represents an alkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and Za1 represents a carbon atom or a silicon atom: where each of Ra21, Ra22, Ra23, and Ra24 independently represents an alkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and Za2 represents a silicon atom, a germanium atom, a tin atom, or a lead atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji GOTO, Yusuke NAKANISHI, Keizo MURATA
  • Publication number: 20240316600
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate cleaning apparatus and a substrate cleaning method for cleaning a substrate, such as a semiconductor wafer, and more particularly to a substrate cleaning apparatus and a substrate cleaning method for cleaning a periphery of a substrate. A substrate cleaning apparatus (1) includes: a substrate holder (10) configured to hold and rotate a substrate (W); a pressing structure (22) having an internal space (R) and configured to press a cleaning tape (19) against a periphery of the substrate (W); a pressing-structure moving mechanism (30) configured to regulate a position of the pressing structure (22) in a radial direction of the substrate (W); and a pressure regulator (44) configured to regulate pressure in the internal space (R). The pressing structure (22) includes: a hollow support member (24) having an opening (25); and an elastic element (27) configured to support the cleaning tape (19). The elastic element (27) is arranged to close the opening (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji KODERA, Masayuki NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 11742211
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes: supplying a processing solution onto the upper surface of the substrate; executing, under atmospheric pressure, plasma processing on a liquid film of the processing solution that is formed at least in part of the upper surface of the substrate, with a thickness of the liquid film being a first thickness; and executing, under atmospheric pressure, plasma processing on the liquid film of the processing solution that is formed at least in part of the upper surface of the substrate, with the thickness of the liquid film being a second thickness, in which the first thickness is smaller than the second thickness. Thus, resists on the upper surface of the substrate can be efficiently removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Horikoshi, Miyoshi Ueno, Yayoi Takeichi, Takaaki Yanagida, Kenji Nakanishi, Shigeru Takatsuji, Takahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11739837
    Abstract: In a shift device, as a result of lower sliding projections of a lever moving slidingly against lower sliding plates of soft materials, the slidability of the lever is improved. Moreover, as a result of restricting projections of the lever being abutted against stoppers of the soft materials, noise generated when a sliding motion of the lever is restricted is reduced. Additionally, because the lower sliding plates and the stoppers are formed integrally with each other, the structure can be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Keisuke Kameyama, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11708893
    Abstract: A shift device for a vehicle includes: a shift body that is moved in a predetermined range in a first direction and in a second direction that is a direction opposite from the first direction, and whose shift position is changed; and a moving mechanism that has a moving member at which a first moving portion and a second moving portion are provided, the first moving portion moving the shift body in the first direction, and the second moving portion moving the shift body in the second direction, due to movement of the moving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Naomi Asahina, Yutaka Inamura, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20220102161
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes: supplying a processing solution onto the upper surface of the substrate; executing, under atmospheric pressure, plasma processing on a liquid film of the processing solution that is formed at least in part of the upper surface of the substrate, with a thickness of the liquid film being a first thickness; and executing, under atmospheric pressure, plasma processing on the liquid film of the processing solution that is formed at least in part of the upper surface of the substrate, with the thickness of the liquid film being a second thickness, in which the first thickness is smaller than the second thickness. Thus, resists on the upper surface of the substrate can be efficiently removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Akira Horikoshi, Miyoshi UENO, Yayoi TAKEICHI, Takaaki YANAGIDA, Kenji NAKANISHI, Shigeru TAKATSUJI, Takahiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11226036
    Abstract: A shift lever device is provided with retention frames at a front side and rear side of a lever, and a plate is provided with blocks at the front side and rear side of the lever. Even if the plate and the lever are installed to a vehicle with the front side and rear side of the plate and the lever reversed, changing the retention frame that retains a detent rod enables the block on the side of the detent rod to restrict swinging of the detent rod, enabling swinging of the lever to be restricted. This thereby enables the plate and the lever to be commonly employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakanishi, Naoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11162578
    Abstract: A shift device for a vehicle includes: a shift body that is moved and whose shift position is changed to a plurality of shift positions; a moving unit that moves the shift body; and a restricting body that restricts movement of the shift body by the moving unit at a predetermined shift position among the plurality of shift positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Naomi Asahina, Yutaka Inamura, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11122174
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a housing with a document platen provided on an upper surface of the housing, a scanning body provided to be reciprocally movable in the housing, and a flat cable having one end connected with an image reader of the scanning body. The flat cable includes a follow-up deformed section deformable following a movement of the scanning body, and a bent section bent so that the flat cable is aligned in a main scanning direction. The bent section is arranged on a lower surface of a base of the scanning body, and a holder that holds the bent section is formed on the lower surface of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Kenji Nakanishi, Shohichi Fukutome
  • Patent number: 11080512
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a categorizing section configured to extract a material component image identified as a material component from plural images obtained by imaging a sample fluid containing a plurality of types of material components and flowing through a flow cell, and to categorize the extracted material component image by predetermined category, a count derivation section configured to derive a count of the material component per standard visual field, or derive a count per unit liquid volume of the material component contained in the sample fluid, for each of the categories based on the number of material component images categorized by the categorizing section, and a generation section configured to generate an all-component image in which the material component images are arranged according to the counts that have been derived by the count derivation section for each of the categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Fujimoto, Shinya Nakajima, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11009120
    Abstract: In a shift device, a lever is able to slide in a front-rear direction relative to a housing, and an FFC electrically connects a sensor substrate of the housing to an operating substrate of the lever. Here, the lever is moved slidingly in the front-rear direction, which is on a perpendicular direction side relative to a width direction of the FFC. Because of this, a reduction in the durability of the FFC can be inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Keisuke Kameyama, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20210079998
    Abstract: A shift device for a vehicle having an automated parking mode is provided that includes a shift body and a display section. The shift body is movable into a variety of shift positions, i.e. D, N, R, and P. The display section displays not only the range of shift positions but can also display an automatic parking mode state (AP) when the shift body is in the park (P) state. The display section does not remain in the park P when the vehicle is driven into a parking place by the automatic parking mode, but instead displays the particular shift position (D, R, or N) the vehicle is in as it is being automatically parked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji NAKANISHI, Yutaka INAMURA
  • Patent number: 10935126
    Abstract: At a shift lever device, at a time when a lever is rotated in a left-right direction, a joint of the lever moves a joint tube of a link in an up-down direction. Moreover, at a time when the lever is rotated in a front-rear direction, a link operating portion of the lever rotates an operation tube of the link in the front-rear direction around the joint side. Here, at the time when the lever is rotated in the left-right direction, the joint is moved in the left-right direction with respect to the joint tube. Therefore, the need to provide parts between the lever and the joint can be eliminated, and a number of parts can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Naomi Asahina, Yutaka Inamura, Kenji Nakanishi, Keisuke Kameyama, Mizuho Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20200382667
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a housing with a document platen provided on an upper surface of the housing, a scanning body provided to be reciprocally movable in the housing, and a flat cable having one end connected with an image reader of the scanning body. The flat cable includes a follow-up deformed section deformable following a movement of the scanning body, and a bent section bent so that the flat cable is aligned in a main scanning direction. The bent section is arranged on a lower surface of a base of the scanning body, and a holder that holds the bent section is formed on the lower surface of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: YASUHIRO SUTO, KENJI NAKANISHI, SHOHICHI FUKUTOME
  • Patent number: 10805490
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image scanning unit that is provided with a holding portion holding a flexible flat cable. The holding portion is protruded toward an upstream side in a sub scanning direction, and provided with a second wall part. The flexible flat cable that is extended from a connector is brought into contact with the second wall part. As for the flexible flat cable, a downward movement is regulated by a lower holding portion and an upward movement is regulated by an upper holding portion. Accordingly, the flexible flat cable does not rise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Imoto, Yasuhiro Suto, Hisashi Yamanaka, Kenji Nakanishi, Shohichi Fukutome, Kazuhiro Iguchi
  • Patent number: 10798287
    Abstract: An analysis apparatus comprises a flow cell which has a flow passage for a liquid containing a tangible component; an image pickupper which picks up images of the liquid flowing through the flow passage; an adjuster which adjusts a relative position of the flow cell with respect to the image pickupper in relation to an optical axis direction of the image pickupper and a direction in which the liquid flows through the flow passage; and a controller which determines an image pickup position of the flow cell in at least one of the optical axis direction and the direction in which the liquid flows, on the basis of a number of pieces of the tangible component in focusing states existing in the images of the liquid picked up by the image pickupper at a plurality of positions at which the relative position differs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeki Masuda, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20200240513
    Abstract: In a shift device, a link is rotated as a result of a knob being slidingly operated. Here, the knob is coincidingly disposed on an axial direction of rotation side of the link. For this reason, the dimension of the shift device in the radial direction of rotation of the link can be reduced, and so the shift device can be downsized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Keisuke KAMEYAMA, Kenji NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20200240514
    Abstract: A shift device for a vehicle includes: a shift body that is moved in a predetermined range in a first direction and in a second direction that is a direction opposite from the first direction, and whose shift position is changed; and a moving mechanism that has a moving member at which a first moving portion and a second moving portion are provided, the first moving portion moving the shift body in the first direction, and the second moving portion moving the shift body in the second direction, due to movement of the moving member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Naomi ASAHINA, Yutaka INAMURA, Kenji NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 10728413
    Abstract: An illuminating device capable of stably illuminating an irradiated object such as a document while suppressing light loss with a simply structure is provided. An LED array and a reflective plate are disposed sandwiching a slit (St) through which light reflected by a document MS passes and a light-guiding member is disposed on the side of the LED array. The light-guiding member includes a direct emission unit disposed between an illumination range y centered on a document reading position and the LED array and an indirect emission unit disposed between the reflective plate and the LED array, a light incidence face of the direct emission unit and a light incidence face of the indirect emission unit are disposed at mutually different position around the LED array, and the LED array is disposed on a side of an interior angle formed by the light incidence faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Tomohiko Okada, Hisashi Yamanaka, Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20200182349
    Abstract: A shift device for a vehicle includes: a shift body that is moved and whose shift position is changed to a plurality of shift positions; a moving unit that moves the shift body; and a restricting body that restricts movement of the shift body by the moving unit at a predetermined shift position among the plurality of shift positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Naomi ASAHINA, Yutaka INAMURA, Kenji NAKANISHI