Patents by Inventor Kentaro Kimura
Kentaro Kimura 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).
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Publication number: 20260181746Abstract: There is provided a ceramic heater including: a ceramic plate including a first surface, and a second surface; a first RF/ESC electrode embedded in the ceramic plate; a second RF/ESC electrode electrically connected to the first RF/ESC electrode, and embedded at a depth position farther from the first surface than the first RF/ESC electrode; an RF/ESC rod including one end electrically connected to the second RF/ESC electrode; an RF/ESC terminal hole being a bottomed hole into which a front end part of the RF/ESC rod is inserted; and a heater circuit embedded at a depth position closer to the second surface than the second RF/ESC electrode. A distance between a center line of the first RF/ESC electrode and that of the second RF/ESC electrode is 2 to 7 mm. A distance from the first surface to a hole bottom of the RF/ESC terminal hole is 4 to 9 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2026Publication date: June 25, 2026Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka UNNO, Kentaro KIMURA, Yoshinobu GOTO
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Patent number: 12659686Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of appropriately reproducing a sense of distance from a user to a virtual sound source and an apparent size of the virtual sound source in spatial sound representation. The present technology includes a sound source setting unit that sets a first sound source, and a plurality of second sound sources at positions corresponding to a size of a sound image of a first sound that is a sound of the first sound source; and an output control unit that outputs first sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to a position of the first sound source and a plurality of pieces of second sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to the positions of the second sound sources. The second sound sources are set to be positioned around the first sound source.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Junya Suzuki, Kentaro Kimura
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Publication number: 20260068600Abstract: A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic base material and a conductor. The conductor is arranged in the ceramic base material. The ceramic base material contains a ceramic material having a thermal expansion coefficient of from 2.0×10?6/° C. to 10.0×10?6/° C. and spinel. The conductor includes a surface layer containing spinel and a skeleton positioned inside the surface layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2025Publication date: March 5, 2026Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Tomohisa MIZOGUCHI, Keita YAMANA, Kazuhiro NOBORI, Kentaro KIMURA, Yoshinobu GOTO
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Publication number: 20260038474Abstract: In order to achieve the object described above, an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a controller. The controller controls ambient external sound around a user on the basis of metadata related to the external sound, the metadata being added to content played back according to user information regarding the user. This makes it possible to provide high-quality listening experience. Further, when content, such as narration or notice sound, that is desired to be heard by a user is played back, audio ducking is performed with respect to external sound, and this enables the content to be played back without being affected by the external sound. Further, experience intendedly utilizing external sound can also be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: February 5, 2026Inventors: OSAMU SHIGETA, KAREN MURATA, TSUTOMU FUZAWA, YASUYUKI KOGA, YURI NAKANO, KENTARO YAMAZAKI, KENTARO KIMURA
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Patent number: 12506028Abstract: A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic base material and a conductor. The conductor is arranged in the ceramic base material. The ceramic base material contains a ceramic material having a thermal expansion coefficient of from 2.0×10?6/° C. to 10.0×10?6/° C. and spinel. The conductor includes a surface layer containing spinel and a skeleton positioned inside the surface layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2025Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Tomohisa Mizoguchi, Keita Yamana, Kazuhiro Nobori, Kentaro Kimura, Yoshinobu Goto
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Publication number: 20250364307Abstract: A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic base material and a conductor. The conductor is arranged in the ceramic base material. The ceramic base material contains a ceramic material having a thermal expansion coefficient of from 2.0×10?6/° C. to 10.0×10?6/° C. and spinel. The conductor includes a surface layer containing spinel and a skeleton positioned inside the surface layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2025Publication date: November 27, 2025Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Tomohisa MIZOGUCHI, Keita YAMANA, Kazuhiro NOBORI, Kentaro KIMURA, Yoshinobu GOTO
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Publication number: 20250285844Abstract: There is provided a susceptor including: a ceramic plate including a first surface and a second surface; an internal electrode embedded in the ceramic plate; a metal layer provided as an RF electrode on an entirety or a part of the second surface of the ceramic plate; a cooling plate provided at a predetermined distance from the second surface; a heat transfer space present between the metal layer and the cooling plate, and configured to enable heat transfer through gas; a seal member provided along outer peripheries of the ceramic plate and the cooling plate between the ceramic plate and the cooling plate, to impart airtightness to the heat transfer space; and an RF conduction member provided at a position on an inner peripheral side of the seal member between the ceramic plate and the cooling plate to secure electric connection between the metal layer and the cooling plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2024Publication date: September 11, 2025Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventor: Kentaro KIMURA
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Patent number: 12330849Abstract: A liquid-repellent layer forming resin composition comprises a polypropylene resin (A) and a silylated polyolefin (B), wherein the polypropylene resin (A) comprises a random polypropylene resin (A1) and a block polypropylene resin (A2) with a mass ratio (Mass of random polypropylene resin (A1)/Mass of block polypropylene resin (A2)) in the range of 20/80 to 80/20.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Aki Nagai, Ryo Tanaka, Kentaro Kimura, Kosuke Kinoshita, Hitomi Fukutake
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Publication number: 20250159425Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium that enable sharing of attention of users existing in a wide area. The information processing device includes a control unit that performs control of spatial localization of an audio of another user except a target user on the basis of information regarding at least one of a view direction of a first user corresponding to a captured image captured by an imaging device provided for the first user or a view direction of a second user who views a surrounding captured image in which surroundings of a position where the first user exists are captured as the captured image. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, devices constituting a system that shares view information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kentaro KIMURA, Osamu SHIGETA, Yu NISHIMURA, Tsutomu FUZAWA, Yuichi HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 12260290Abstract: A two-dimensional code 100 includes a plurality of lines L arranged in a second direction (X direction) at an interval S, and each line L includes a plurality of cells that indicate a plurality of bits and are arranged in series in a first direction (Y direction) orthogonal to the second direction. Each of the plurality of cells is either a first data cell 101 indicating a first value out of two values that the bits indicate, or a second data cell 102 indicating a second value out of the two values that the bits indicate. The first data cell includes a first density region 103 indicating the first value at a first position in the second direction. The second data cell includes a second density region 104 indicating the second value at the first position, and a third density region 105 adjacent to the second density region in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: The Ritsumeikan Trust, Nozaki Insatsu Shigyo Co., LTD.Inventors: Takakuni Douseki, Yohei Fukumizu, Junichi Misawa, Kentaro Kimura
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Publication number: 20240340605Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method, and a program that allow the voice of a speaker to be easily recognized. The information processing device includes an information processing unit configured to generate, on the basis of orientation information indicating an orientation of a listener, virtual location information indicating a location of the listener in a virtual space, the location being set by the listener, and virtual location information of a speaker, a voice of the speaker localized at a location corresponding to the orientation and location of the listener and the location of the speaker. The present technology can be applied to a tele-communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventors: KENTARO KIMURA, JUNYA SUZUKI
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Patent number: 12065557Abstract: A liquid-repellent layer forming resin composition comprises a polyolefin resin (A), a silylated polyolefin (B), and a compatibilizer (C) having a site compatible with the polyolefin resin (A) and a site compatible with the silylated polyolefin (B), wherein a polyolefin site of the silylated polyolefin (B) is incompatible with the polyolefin resin (A).Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Aki Nagai, Ryo Tanaka, Kentaro Kimura, Kosuke Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20240236603Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of appropriately reproducing a sense of distance from a user to a virtual sound source and an apparent size of the virtual sound source in spatial sound representation. The present technology includes a sound source setting unit that sets a first sound source, and a plurality of second sound sources at positions corresponding to a size of a sound image of a first sound that is a sound of the first sound source; and an output control unit that outputs first sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to a position of the first sound source and a plurality of pieces of second sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to the positions of the second sound sources. The second sound sources are set to be positioned around the first sound source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Junya Suzuki, Kentaro Kimura
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Publication number: 20240185012Abstract: A two-dimensional code 100 includes a plurality of lines L arranged in a second direction (X direction) at an interval S, and each line L includes a plurality of cells that indicate a plurality of bits and are arranged in series in a first direction (Y direction) orthogonal to the second direction. Each of the plurality of cells is either a first data cell 101 indicating a first value out of two values that the bits indicate, or a second data cell 102 indicating a second value out of the two values that the bits indicate. The first data cell includes a first density region 103 indicating the first value at a first position in the second direction. The second data cell includes a second density region 104 indicating the second value at the first position, and a third density region 105 adjacent to the second density region in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicants: The Ritsumeikan Trust, Nozaki Insatsu Shigyo Co., LTD.Inventors: Takakuni DOUSEKI, Yohei FUKUMIZU, Junichi MISAWA, Kentaro KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240137724Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of appropriately reproducing a sense of distance from a user to a virtual sound source and an apparent size of the virtual sound source in spatial sound representation. The present technology includes a sound source setting unit that sets a first sound source, and a plurality of second sound sources at positions corresponding to a size of a sound image of a first sound that is a sound of the first sound source; and an output control unit that outputs first sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to a position of the first sound source and a plurality of pieces of second sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to the positions of the second sound sources. The second sound sources are set to be positioned around the first sound source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Junya Suzuki, Kentaro Kimura
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Publication number: 20230419985Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it easy to distinguish between the voice of a real participant and the voice of a remote participant. An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technique includes a sound image localization processing unit that localizes a sound image of a voice of a remote participant, who is participating remotely in a conversation conducted in a predetermined space, to a position different from a position of a real participant who is a participant present in the predetermined space. The present technique can be applied in computers which perform remote conferencing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kentaro Kimura, Yasuyuki Koga
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Publication number: 20230417574Abstract: An information processing apparatus (1) according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit (2), a position acquisition unit (32), a state acquisition unit (33), a prediction unit (34), and a distribution unit (35). The storage unit (2) stores destination information (21) in which position information of a destination is associated with content provided from a terminal device (10) of a user to the user at the destination. The position acquisition unit (32) acquires position information of the user from the terminal device (10). The state acquisition unit (33) acquires state information of the user from the terminal device (10). The prediction unit (34) distributes the content to be provided to the user at the destination predicted and causes the terminal device (10) to pre-download the content before the user arrives at the destination predicted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kentaro Kimura, Yasuyuki Koga
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Patent number: 11754920Abstract: A thermal acid generator having a high acid generation temperature, and a resist composition using the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Junya Miyake, Yoshitomo Takeuchi, Naomi Sato, Kentaro Kimura
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Publication number: 20220197136Abstract: A thermal acid generator having a high acid generation temperature, and a resist composition using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Junya MIYAKE, Yoshitomo TAKEUCHI, Naomi SATO, Kentaro KIMURA
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Patent number: 11307495Abstract: Provided are: a thermal acid generator having a high acid generation temperature; and a resist composition using the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Junya Miyake, Yoshitomo Takeuchi, Naomi Sato, Kentaro Kimura