Patents by Inventor Koji Ando

Koji Ando 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).

  • Patent number: 12628602
    Abstract: This invention relates to a substrate processing technique for performing a pressure increasing step, a pressure keeping step and a pressure reducing step in this order in a processing container. A flow rate of a processing fluid in a processing space is suppressed to a second flow rate lower than a first flow rate while maintaining the processing space at a first pressure between the pressure increasing step and the pressure keeping step or in an initial stage of the pressure keeping step. In this way, the mutual diffusion between the processing fluid and a liquid in the processing space is promoted. After this diffusion proceeds, the substrate is dried by the discharge of the processing fluid from the processing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhida Wang, Koji Ando, Noritake Sumi, Chiaki Moriya, Daiki Uehara
  • Patent number: 12615986
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus with a support part that has a substrate-facing surface and supports the substrate in a state of being spaced from the substrate-facing surface. The support part is accommodated into a processing space of a processing chamber. A processing fluid flows in a certain direction in the processing space. In a path for a laminar flow of the processing fluid between the substrate and the support part, a downstream path positioned on a downstream side in the certain direction is wider than an upstream path positioned on an upstream side in the certain direction to reduce the pressure loss of the processing fluid flowing from the upstream path to the downstream path to prevent re-adhesion of the liquid to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noritake Sumi, Hajime Shirakawa, Masaki Inaba, Koji Ando, Tomohiro Motono
  • Patent number: 12597125
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a medical image processing apparatus and method for estimating a contour of a desired structure, such as a cardiac muscle, based on a medical image, such as an ultrasound image, and cross section information of the desired structure, receiving a desired correction mode from among multiple correction modes for correcting the estimated contour, each of the multiple correction modes having a correction amount set corresponding to the information on the cross section, and correcting the estimated contour according to the desired correction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai Hirayama, Yasuhiko Abe, Koji Ando
  • Patent number: 12529449
    Abstract: A pressure tank unit may include: a tank including a container space which contains compressed gas; and a plurality of protectors bonded to a surface of the tank, wherein the tank may include: a body part having a cylindrical shape; and a dome part provided at an end of the body part and having a hemispherical shape, the plurality of protectors may be arranged along a boundary between the body part and the dome part in a circumferential direction of the tank, each of the plurality of protectors may have a first portion covering the dome part and a second portion covering the body part, and an inner surface of the second portion facing the body part may include at least one bonding area bonded to the body part via a bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOJIMA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Fujie, Naoki Ueda, Ryosuke Niwa, Yusuke Fujii, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20250308029
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a thumbnail of each of multiple pieces of cross-section image data related to first cross-section image data selected by a user and showing a cross-section of an organ, specifies, using the multiple thumbnails obtained, a cross-section of an organ included in each of the multiple thumbnails, and selects a cross-section for use as a target of analysis other than a cross-section selected by the user from the specified cross-sections based on a degree of association between the first cross-section image data and each of the multiple pieces of cross-section image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Koji ANDO
  • Patent number: 12407282
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a field winding interlayer short-circuit monitoring device comprises: an input unit configured to obtain field winding current values and field winding voltage values at a predetermined sampling cycle; a memory configured to store field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at an abnormal state and a normal state; and a field winding resistance calculator configured to calculate a field winding resistance value by dividing the field winding voltage value by the field winding current; an average value calculator configured to calculate an average resistance value and an average current value by averaging those obtained during a predetermined time interval; and an image data generator configured to generate image data to display a predetermined number of average value data along with the field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at the normal state and the abnormal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Yasuo Kabata, Toshio Hirano, Yuichiro Gunji, Masashi Kobayashi, Hirotada Endo, Koji Ando
  • Patent number: 12374541
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a support tray that is configured in such a manner that a residual liquid getting in between a lower surface of a substrate and a substrate facing surface of the support tray is trapped in a groove. The support tray further includes a discharge part through which the residual liquid trapped in the groove is discharged from the groove through a discharge part. As a result, backflow of the residual liquid is prevented effectively, thereby preventing re-adhesion of the residual liquid to the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Suzuki, Tomohiro Motono, Noritake Sumi, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20250091995
    Abstract: The present invention provides a crystal of 6-(3-chloro-2-fluorobenzyl)-1-[(S)-1-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpropyl]-7-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid, which shows a particular powder X-ray diffraction pattern of a characteristic diffraction peaks at diffraction angles 2?(°) as measured by powder X-ray diffractometry. The crystal of the present invention is superior in physical and chemical stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Motohide SATOH, Takahisa MOTOMURA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kentaro KONDO, Koji ANDO, Koji MATSUDA, Shuji MIYAKE, Hideto UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20250062116
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus with a support part that has a substrate-facing surface and supports the substrate in a state of being spaced from the substrate-facing surface. The support part is accommodated into a processing space of a processing chamber. A processing fluid flows in a certain direction in the processing space. In a path for a laminar flow of the processing fluid between the substrate and the support part, a downstream path positioned on a downstream side in the certain direction is wider than an upstream path positioned on an upstream side in the certain direction to reduce the pressure loss of the processing fluid flowing from the upstream path to the downstream path to prevent re-adhesion of the liquid to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Noritake SUMI, Hajime SHIRAKAWA, Masaki INABA, Koji ANDO, Tomohiro MOTONO
  • Publication number: 20250020277
    Abstract: A pressure tank unit may include: a tank including a container space which contains compressed gas; and a plurality of protectors bonded to a surface of the tank, wherein the tank may include: a body part having a cylindrical shape; and a dome part provided at an end of the body part and having a hemispherical shape, the plurality of protectors may be arranged along a boundary between the body part and the dome part in a circumferential direction of the tank, each of the plurality of protectors may have a first portion covering the dome part and a second portion covering the body part, and an inner surface of the second portion facing the body part may include at least one bonding area bonded to the body part via a bonding material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOJIMA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki FUJIE, Naoki UEDA, Ryosuke NIWA, Yusuke FUJII, Koji ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240404136
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine managing system of an embodiment has an image data generating unit configured in such a way as to generate image data which indicates past breakdown voltage-related information related to a breakdown voltage of the past, present breakdown voltage-related information related to a breakdown voltage of the present, and future breakdown voltage-related information related to a breakdown voltage of the future as breakdown voltage-related information. The past breakdown voltage-related information is information found based on a partial discharge signal obtained from a rotary electric machine at a time of operation in the rotary electric machine of the past. The present breakdown voltage-related information is information found based on a partial discharge signal obtained from the rotary electric machine at a time of operation in the rotary electric machine of the present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki TAKAHASHI, Takashi HARAKAWA, Makoto TAKANEZAWA, Akira FUJIMOTO, Hiroyuki YODA, Koji ANDO
  • Patent number: 12103120
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of counting the spatters by a simple method while suppressing costs, and the present invention provides a spatter counting method performed by a portable terminal device provided with an image capturing device comprising: an image capturing step of capturing a moving image of an area including spatters generated during welding: and a counting step of counting a number of the spatters captured in each still image constituting the moving image captured in the capturing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Tomoaki Sasaki, Katsunori Wada, Yusaku Nanao
  • Publication number: 20240322719
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a field winding interlayer short-circuit monitoring device comprises: an input unit configured to obtain field winding current values and field winding voltage values at a predetermined sampling cycle; a memory configured to store field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at an abnormal state and a normal state; and a field winding resistance calculator configured to calculate a field winding resistance value by dividing the field winding voltage value by the field winding current; an average value calculator configured to calculate an average resistance value and an average current value by averaging those obtained during a predetermined time interval; and an image data generator configured to generate image data to display a predetermined number of average value data along with the field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at the normal state and the abnormal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi FUJITA, Yasuo KABATA, Toshio HIRANO, Yuichiro GUNJI, Masashi KOBAYASHI, Hirotada ENDO, Koji ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240322652
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a power generator cooler performance monitoring device comprises: a cooler characteristic calculator configured to calculate a fouling degree ? of a cooling pipe of the power generator cooler as a past fouling degree-related information based on information measured regarding a power generator; a prediction calculator configured to calculate the fouling degree ? in a future as a future fouling degree-related information based on the past fouling degree-related information; and an image data generator configured to generate display information based on the past fouling degree-related information and the future fouling degree-related information for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo KABATA, Masafumi FUJITA, Yuichiro GUNJI, Hirotada ENDO, Koji ANDO
  • Patent number: 12057743
    Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, there is provided an abnormality detection system of a rotary electrical machine. The system includes a plurality of magnetic flux sensors disposed at intervals on a back of a stator core in a circumferential direction or an axial direction, and configured to detect a magnetic flux, and an abnormality detection apparatus configured to detect an abnormality of the stator core from a predetermined event that appears in a composite signal or a differential signal obtained from signals respectively output from at least two magnetic flux sensors of the plurality of magnetic flux sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Masafumi Fujita, Takahiro Sato, Takashi Ueda, Ken Nagakura, Masashi Kobayashi, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20240253093
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus and a substrate processing system according to the invention includes a processing chamber having a processing space capable of accommodating a substrate inside, being provided with an aperture on a side surface thereof, which communicates with the processing space to cause the substrate to pass therethrough, and being disposed under a downflow environment, a lid part which closes and opens the aperture, a fluid supplier which supplies a heated processing fluid to be used for processing the substrate to the processing space closed by the lid part, and a regulator which guides at least part of an air flowing as the downflow to around the processing chamber and generates an airflow having a uniform flow velocity along an outer surface of the processing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Koji ANDO, Tomohiro MOTONO, Noritake SUMI
  • Publication number: 20240183737
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a rotary machine diagnostic device comprises: an input unit that receives calculation condition data and a measured state value of the rotating part, the calculation condition data including reference data and an influence coefficient matrix, and the measured state value including vibration data, a rotation speed, and phase calculation data serving as a basis for phase calculation; a calculation unit that performs an calculation operation of identifying a vibration mode serving as a basis for the specification of the failure occurrence place and the inference of the failure cause, based on the calculation condition data and the measured state value which are received by the input unit; a storage unit in which the calculation condition data, the measured state value, and the vibration mode which is obtained by the calculation unit are loaded; and an output unit that outputs and displays the contents loaded in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki MIMURA, Toshio HIRANO, Yuichiro GUNJI, Koji ANDO, Yasuo KABATA, Masafumi FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20240173754
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a support tray that is configured in such a manner that a residual liquid getting in between a lower surface of a substrate and a substrate facing surface of the support tray is trapped in a groove. The support tray further includes a discharge part through which the residual liquid trapped in the groove is discharged from the groove through a discharge part. As a result, backflow of the residual liquid is prevented effectively, thereby preventing re-adhesion of the residual liquid to the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Kei SUZUKI, Tomohiro MOTONO, Noritake SUMI, Koji ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240157390
    Abstract: In the substrate processing apparatus, a support tray supporting a substrate is housed in an internal space of a chamber. A processing fluid is supplied into the internal space from one end side of the internal space. The support tray includes a tray member and a plurality of support members attached to the tray member in such a manner as to surround a substrate facing surface. The tray member has a downstream-side standing portion that has a downstream-side standing portion that stands upward further than the substrate facing surface while located in proximity to a peripheral surface of the substrate on a downstream side supported by the plurality of support members. An upper surface of the downstream-side standing portion is below the upper surface of the substrate in a vertical direction supported by the plurality of support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro MOTONO, Koji ANDO, Noritake SUMI, Kei SUZUKI
  • Patent number: RE50229
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry adds incidental information including information regarding a kind concerning each of a plurality of regions in a heart to an analysis result of each of the regions. The analysis result is obtained by analyzing medical data. The processing circuitry determines a display position of the analysis result of each of the regions based on the incidental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Fukuda, Yasuhiko Abe, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Koji Ando, Mitsuo Akiyama