Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Suzuki

Kiyoshi Suzuki 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: 20240149581
    Abstract: Provided is a method for removing a coating film from a coated film including a coating film containing a water-soluble resin on at least one side of a base film. The method includes: supplying a cleaning liquid in a form of droplets to a surface of the coating film, and retaining the cleaning liquid in the form of droplets on the surface of the coating film; and subsequently removing the coating film containing the cleaning liquid from the coated film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanino, Yoshihisa Higashida, Kazutaka Watanabe, Tadamasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240146079
    Abstract: An electric power tool includes a main body supporting a tool. An electric motor is housed in the main body and configured to drive the tool. A plurality of battery interfaces is integrally formed on the main body, each battery interface having a positive battery terminal and a negative battery terminal. Each battery interface is configured to removably receive a positive battery terminal and a negative battery terminal of a corresponding one of a plurality of battery packs and to electrically connect the plurality of attached battery packs in series with the electric motor. Each of the plurality of battery packs comprises a movable latch configured to engage a corresponding engagement structure defined on or near the corresponding battery interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ota, Kiyoshi Nishibe, Hitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11952508
    Abstract: Provided are ITO particles having a non-rectangular parallelepiped shape and an aligned crystal orientation inside particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Muramatsu, Kiyoshi Kanie, Ryoko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11949829
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a medium processing mechanism that processes a medium, a first board configured to communicate with an external apparatus by a first communication method and control the medium processing mechanism, a second board configured to communicate with the first board by the first communication method, a third board configured to communicate with the second board by the first communication method and communicate with the external apparatus by a second communication method different from the first communication method, a switcher that switches a communication destination of the first board to the second board or the external apparatus, and a notification section that makes, when the communication destination of the first board is switched to the second board by the switcher, a notification of communication information based on the second communication method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Todaka, Kiyoshi Nagaharu, Yu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240094802
    Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one processor configured to: acquire a captured image including an image of a thumb of a user; and switch an operation mode for a virtual object disposed within a virtual space to a specific mode for positionally changing the virtual object if the captured image includes an image of a nail of the thumb or an image that enables estimation of presence of the nail of the thumb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Morikawa, Kiyoshi Iida, Toshihiko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240097013
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of reducing switching loss at turn-off while suppressing conduction loss. An emitter p? layer 11, a collector p layer 23, a drift layer 10, an emitter electrode 18, a collector electrode 28, an emitter-side gate electrode 17, an emitter n layer 12, a collector p? layer 23a, a collector-side gate electrode 27, and a collector n layer 22 configure a semiconductor device 1, and a total length of a first facing region of the emitter-side gate electrode 17 in a gate width direction facing an emitter layer p? 11 via a gate insulating film 15 is longer than the total length in the gate width direction of a second facing region of a collector-side gate electrode 27 facing an impurity layer 23a via a collector-side gate insulating film 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiro Hiramoto, Takuya Saraya, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Kazuo Itou, Toshihiko Takakura, Munetoshi Fukui, Shinichi Suzuki, Katsumi Satoh, Tomoko Matsudai
  • Publication number: 20230230862
    Abstract: A substrate transport method is employed in a substrate processing system including a plurality of processing chambers, a load lock chamber, a vacuum transport device provided in a vacuum transport chamber connecting the load lock chamber and the plurality of processing chambers and configured to simultaneously transport a plurality of substrates, and an atmospheric transport device provided in an atmospheric transport chamber and configured to transport a substrate from a carrier to the load lock chamber. The substrate transport method includes acquiring in advance a relative positional error for a case where the plurality of substrates are transported from the load lock chamber to the plurality of processing chambers and placed on a stage in the plurality of processing chambers, and placing the plurality of substrates on a stage in the load lock chamber, based on a transport path of the plurality of substrates and the relative positional error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kiyoshi SUZUKI, Hiroshi HIROSE, Ryota GOTO, Koichi MIYASHITA
  • Patent number: 11686647
    Abstract: A leak check method includes: performing a first inspection of measuring a pressure in an internal space formed by a seal of the substrate holder, while evacuating the internal space, and detecting that the pressure reaches a first pressure threshold value within a predetermined first inspection time; performing a second inspection of closing the internal space that has been evacuated, measuring the pressure in the closed internal space, and detecting that the pressure in the closed internal space does not exceed a second pressure threshold value within a predetermined second inspection time; and performing a third inspection of measuring a pressure difference between the pressure in the closed internal space and a vacuum pressure in a master container, and detecting that an amount of increase in the pressure difference within a predetermined third inspection time is kept equal to or below a pressure difference threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suzuki, Jumpei Fujikata
  • Publication number: 20230136938
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to find a useful means for removing an intraocular membrane. The present invention relates to an agent for use in intraocular membrane peeling surgery, which contains a solution containing a hydrogel-forming material and satisfies the following formula 1 with respect to the dynamic viscoelasticity measured at a temperature of 25 to 40° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz. 0<Vmax?3??(Formula 1) Provided that in the formula 1, Vmax (Pa/sec) is the maximum change rate of the storage elastic modulus after the initiation of gelation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, SEIKAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio HISATOMI, Kiyoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11612915
    Abstract: There is provided a cleaning method and a cleaning apparatus capable of removing dirt on electrical contacts, the dirt being unable to be removed with deionized water, without adversely affecting a plating solution and a substrate holder which is a member for holding a substrate. A cleaning method according to the present disclosure is a cleaning method for a substrate holder having electrical contacts for supplying electric power to a substrate by contacting the substrate to plate the substrate, the method including a cleaning step of cleaning the electrical contacts attached to the substrate holder with a citric acid aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11582984
    Abstract: A confectionery having a grape-like mouthfeel, includes: a solidified gel composition; and a collagen casing coating the solidified gel composition, in which the solidified gel composition has a dynamic viscoelastic pattern similar to that of a flesh of a raw grape. Thus, the confectionery has a grape-like mouthfeel, i.e., a disintegration mouthfeel similar to that of a raw grape with skin. Examples of the dynamic viscoelastic pattern include a dynamic viscoelastic pattern in which a loss tangent value at an angular frequency of 63.1 rad/S decreases by 34 to 83% relative to a loss tangent value at an angular frequency of 3.98 rad/S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: UHA MIKAKUTO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Yamabe, Koichi Masumoto, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Takishima, Kenji Osada, Yasumasa Yamada
  • Patent number: 11535949
    Abstract: There is provided the substrate holder for holding a substrate comprising a first holding member, a second holding member, a sealing member, a pin, a ring, and a moving mechanism. The sealing member forms a sealed space inside the substrate holder. The pin is fixed to one of the first holding member and the second holding member. The ring is disposed on another of the first holding member and the second holding member. The ring engages with the pin. The moving mechanism circumferentially moves the ring. The pin and the ring are engaged with one another to fix the first holding member and the second holding member to one another. The pin and the ring are disposed inside the sealed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Seki, Hideki Takayanagi, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Satake, Jumpei Fujikata
  • Publication number: 20220372647
    Abstract: Provided is a substrate holder for plating on a surface of a substrate, provided with an electrical contact that is easy to replace. A substrate holder 1 includes: a first holding member 2; a second holding member 3 that has an opening portion 3a for exposing the surface of a substrate W and holds the substrate W in a sandwiched manner with the first holding member 2; a plurality of engaging shaft portions 36 each having a head portion 36b in an expanded head shape at a tip end portion, provided in a circumferential direction of the second holding member 3; and an electrical contact 32 having a contact portion 32a to be in contact with an edge portion of the substrate W, and having an engagement reception portion 32b in a notch shape to be engaged with the adjacent engaging shaft portion 36 for arrangement along a circumference of the opening portion 3a of the second holding member 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Masaya SEKI, Kiyoshi SUZUKI, Masayuki SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20220325430
    Abstract: Provided is a substrate holder and a substrate treatment apparatus capable of positioning a substrate even in a case in which the substrate receives a frictional force and the like from a support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masaya SEKI, Kiyoshi SUZUKI, Masayuki SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20220307938
    Abstract: A leak check method includes: performing a first inspection of measuring a pressure in an internal space formed by a seal of the substrate holder, while evacuating the internal space, and detecting that the pressure reaches a first pressure threshold value within a predetermined first inspection time; performing a second inspection of closing the internal space that has been evacuated, measuring the pressure in the closed internal space, and detecting that the pressure in the closed internal space does not exceed a second pressure threshold value within a predetermined second inspection time; and performing a third inspection of measuring a pressure difference between the pressure in the closed internal space and a vacuum pressure in a master container, and detecting that an amount of increase in the pressure difference within a predetermined third inspection time is kept equal to or below a pressure difference threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suzuki, Jumpei Fujikata
  • Patent number: 11385125
    Abstract: A leak check method includes: performing a first inspection of measuring a pressure in an internal space formed by a seal of the substrate holder, while evacuating the internal space, and detecting that the pressure reaches a first pressure threshold value within a predetermined first inspection time; performing a second inspection of closing the internal space that has been evacuated, measuring the pressure in the closed internal space, and detecting that the pressure in the closed internal space does not exceed a second pressure threshold value within a predetermined second inspection time; and performing a third inspection of measuring a pressure difference between the pressure in the closed internal space and a vacuum pressure in a master container, and detecting that an amount of increase in the pressure difference within a predetermined third inspection time is kept equal to or below a pressure difference threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suzuki, Jumpei Fujikata
  • Publication number: 20220194502
    Abstract: A vehicle inspection method in a production line of a vehicle includes: performing a part inspection in steps of manufacturing parts of the vehicle, the part inspection in which each of the parts after being manufactured is inspected with an inspection device and which includes one or more inspection items; storing a result of the part inspection in a storage device such that the result is associated with the part; and displaying the result of the part inspection, on a display device used in a completed vehicle inspection for inspecting a completed vehicle serving as the vehicle that is completed, information indicating at least the part of the parts corresponding to a failed item serving as the inspection item which is determined not to be passed in the result of the part inspection stored in the storage device and information indicating the failed item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro TAKAHASHI, Hiromitsu KAMATA, Satoru KOSHI, Kazuki INOUE, Tetsuya TAMOTO, Tooru NISHIMURA, Kiyoshi SUZUKI, Shinya IMAI, Seiya SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20220161562
    Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge head including nozzles configured to discharge a liquid, a carriage mounting the liquid discharge head and movable, a wiper configured to wipe a nozzle surface of the liquid discharge head, and a wiper mover configured to hold and move the wiper between a facing position at which the wiper faces the nozzle surface and a standby position at which the wiper does not face the nozzle surface. The carriage movably holds the liquid discharge head and the wiper mover as a single unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Shuusei MURAI, Kiyoshi SUZUKI, Tomomi KATOH
  • Patent number: 11230789
    Abstract: A method capable of removing a liquid from a seal of a substrate holder so as to prevent contact between the liquid and an electrical contact of the substrate holder is provided. The method includes: immersing the substrate in a plating solution, with a seal and an electrical contact of the substrate holder in contact with the substrate; applying a voltage between the substrate and an anode in the presence of the plating solution to plate the substrate; pulling up the plated substrate from the plating solution; separating the seal from the plated substrate; and forming a flow of gas passing through a gap between the plated substrate and the seal, the flow of gas being directed from an inside to an outside of the substrate holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Seki, Hideki Takayanagi, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Satake, Jumpei Fujikata
  • Publication number: 20210260630
    Abstract: There is provided a cleaning method and a cleaning apparatus capable of removing dirt on electrical contacts, the dirt being unable to be removed with deionized water, without adversely affecting a plating solution and a substrate holder which is a member for holding a substrate. A cleaning method according to the present disclosure is a cleaning method for a substrate holder having electrical contacts for supplying electric power to a substrate by contacting the substrate to plate the substrate, the method including a cleaning step of cleaning the electrical contacts attached to the substrate holder with a citric acid aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Suzuki