Patents by Inventor Koji Nishi
Koji Nishi 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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Patent number: 10214814Abstract: Substrate treating apparatus including a cover that covers a substrate on a plate. The cover undersurface is substantially horizontal and adjacent to a surface of the substrate. Through a gas flow path, a treatment gas is supplied to the substrate. The gas flow path includes a swirl chamber, a diameter contraction chamber, and a diameter expansion chamber. In the swirl chamber, the treatment gas flows around the central axis. The diameter contraction chamber is disposed below and in communication with the swirl chamber, and has an inner diameter that decreases from its upper end toward its lower end. The diameter expansion chamber is disposed below and in communication with the diameter contraction chamber, and has an inner diameter that increases from its upper end toward its lower end. The lower end of the diameter expansion chamber includes an opening on the undersurface of the cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukumoto, Koji Nishi, Toru Momma, Shigehiro Goto, Atsushi Tanaka, Kenichiro Jo
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Patent number: 9972516Abstract: A local transport hand is configured to be movable in a front-and-rear direction between a rear position rearward of a light emitter and a front position forward of the light emitter. A substrate on which a DSA film is formed is placed on an upper surface of the local transport hand. Vacuum ultraviolet rays having strip-shape cross sections are emitted from the light emitter to cross a moving path of the local transport hand. The local transport hand is moved from the front position to the rear position such that the DSA film on the substrate is irradiated with the vacuum ultraviolet rays emitted by the light emitter. At this time, a moving speed of the substrate is controlled, so that an exposure value for the DSA film formed on the substrate is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Miyagi, Koji Nishi, Toru Momma
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Patent number: 9928970Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion capacitor that can retain a capacity under a high temperature environment and has small increase in internal resistance while using an aqueous binder for a positive electrode. A lithium ion capacitor includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolytic solution contacting the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The electrolytic solution includes an organic solvent and a lithium salt electrolyte having an imide structure; the positive electrode includes a collector foil and a positive electrode active material; and the positive electrode active material is held onto the collector foil through a binder including a polymer having a RED value to the electrolytic solution of more than 1, the RED value representing a relative energy difference with respect to the electrolytic solution based on Hansen solubility parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Matsuura, Koji Nishi, Naoki Ohmi, Yukihiro Komatsubara, Sachiko Kubota, Takashi Tamura, Takumi Mio
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Publication number: 20180033660Abstract: An upper plate on which a substrate is placed is cooled or heated by a thermal processor. The temperature of the thermal processor is adjusted by a temperature adjuster. The temperature of the upper plate is detected. A control value that is to be applied to the temperature adjuster in order to maintain the temperature of the upper plate at a set value is calculated as a control arithmetic value on the basis of the detected temperature. When the control arithmetic value decreases to a value less than a second threshold value, a first control that applies the control arithmetic value to the temperature adjuster is performed. When the control arithmetic value increases to a value not less than a first threshold value, a second control that applies a control set value higher than the control arithmetic value to the temperature adjuster is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Toru MOMMA, Yasuhiro FUKUMOTO, Koji NISHI, Shigehiro GOTO, Kenichiro JO, Atsushi TANAKA
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Patent number: 9874289Abstract: A valve main unit, in which a high pressure valve is to be provided, includes a channel for hydrogen gas. An internal surface of the channel is constituted by an oxidation layer formed by performing anodizing on an aluminum-based alloy. The oxidation layer of the channel is formed by performing the anodizing under a condition in which the oxidation layer with a thickness of 8 ?m or less is formed at an external surface of the valve main unit, the external surface having an opening communicating with the channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSIIIKI KAISIIAInventors: Kazuhisa Sugiyama, Koji Nishi, Yutaka Inada, Eiji Okawachi, Akira Yamashita
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Patent number: 9827782Abstract: A thermal print head includes a base member, an electrode layer formed on the base member, and a resistor layer formed on the base member. The electrode layer includes a common electrode and individual electrodes. The resistor layer includes heating units aligned in a main scanning direction. The heating units each include a first heating element and a second heating element spaced apart from each other. The first heating element and the second heating element are electrically connected to the common electrode and one of the individual electrodes to which the first heating element is electrically connected.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Nishi
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Patent number: 9822884Abstract: A valve device includes: a poppet that is formed in a hollow shaft shape except for a leading end, has a tapered closure part at the leading end and a side hole passing through a wall of the hollow shaft-shaped part, and rotates around a shaft center thereof during opening and closing actions; and a valve seat having a sloped seat surface with which the closure part of the poppet comes into contact when closing the valve device. The closure part of the poppet or the seat surface of the valve seat, whichever has a higher hardness, has a cut mark of the opposite direction from a direction of rotation of the poppet around the shaft center that occurs during the valve closing action.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Miyake, Koji Nishi, Kazuhisa Sugiyama, Takumi Mio, Sachiko Kubota, Eiji Okawachi, Akira Yamashita, Naohiro Takeshita
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Patent number: 9744774Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal print head and a thermal printer that can deliver improved printing quality. The thermal print head includes a main substrate with a main surface, heating elements arranged along a main scanning direction, and a protection layer that covers the heating elements. A belt-shaped heating glaze layer is between the main surface and the heating elements, extends along the main scanning direction, and bulges towards the direction where the main surface faces. The surface shape of the protection layer has an equivalent radius of curvature Re between 6200 ?m and 15000 ?m. The equivalent radius of curvature Re is calculated by Hq and Wq. Hq is ¼ of the maximum height Hm of the bulging portion of the protection layer including the heating glaze layer. Wq is the width of the bulging portion along a sub-scanning direction, measured at a height equal to Hm minus Hq.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Nishi, Tadashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170221731Abstract: A treating liquid vaporizing apparatus includes a buffer tank for storing a treating liquid, a vaporizing container connected to the buffer tank for vaporizing the treating liquid, a further vaporizing container connected to the buffer tank in parallel with the vaporizing container for vaporizing the treating liquid, a switch valve for opening and closing a flow path of the treating liquid between the buffer tank and the vaporizing container, and a switch valve for opening and closing a flow path of the treating liquid between the buffer tank and the further vaporizing container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Yukihiko INAGAKI, Koji NISHI, Shigehiro GOTO, Toru MOMMA
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Publication number: 20170182793Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal print head and a thermal printer that can deliver improved printing quality. The thermal print head includes a main substrate with a main surface, heating elements arranged along a main scanning direction, and a protection layer that covers the heating elements. A belt-shaped heating glaze layer is between the main surface and the heating elements, extends along the main scanning direction, and bulges towards the direction where the main surface faces. The surface shape of the protection layer has an equivalent radius of curvature Re between 6200 ?m and 15000 ?m. The equivalent radius of curvature Re is calculated by Hq and Wq. Hq is ¼ of the maximum height Hm of the bulging portion of the protection layer including the heating glaze layer. Wq is the width of the bulging portion along a sub-scanning direction, measured at a height equal to Hm minus Hq.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Koji NISHI, Tadashi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170120622Abstract: A thermal print head includes a base member, an electrode layer formed on the base member, and a resistor layer formed on the base member. The electrode layer includes a common electrode and individual electrodes. The resistor layer includes heating units aligned in a main scanning direction. The heating units each include a first heating element and a second heating element spaced apart from each other. The first heating element and the second heating element are electrically connected to the common electrode and one of the individual electrodes to which the first heating element is electrically connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventor: Koji Nishi
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Publication number: 20170117101Abstract: An electric storage device has an electrode body and a housing body. The electrode body has a plurality of positive plates and a plurality of negative plates. The positive plates and the negative plates are alternately stacked on each other via separators. The housing body houses the electrode body together with an ion conductor. The electric storage device is provided with a magnetic field generating unit that generates magnetic force lines in a certain direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi MATSUURA, Koji NISHI, Takumi MIO, Yukihiro KOMATSUBARA
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Publication number: 20170020177Abstract: Disclosed is an acidic oil-in-water type emulsified condiment comprising one or more chelating agents selected from citric acid, malic acid, phosphoric acid, lactic acid, succinic acid, fumaric acid, gluconic acid, and EDTA, acetic acid, a sugar, a yolk, an edible oil, a thickener, and water, wherein the content of the edible oil is 1 to 40% by mass, and the acidic oil-in-water type emulsified condiment has a water activity of 0.90 to 0.96, a pH of 3.0 to 4.0, a viscosity (20° C.) of 50 to 600 Pa·s, and a b* value of 10 to 20 in an L*a*b* color system when preserved at 40° C. for 4 months.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2014Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: KEWPIE CORPORATIONInventors: Kaori OGUCHI, Koji NISHI
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Publication number: 20170014863Abstract: A web coating apparatus applies a coating material to surfaces of a web being transferred. The web coating apparatus includes: a cutting apparatus that makes cuts in the web being transferred so that the cuts extend through the web; an extending apparatus that extends the web in the lateral direction of the web and widens the cuts in the lateral direction of the web; and coating material discharging apparatuses that apply the coating material to the surfaces of the web extended in the lateral direction of the web.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi MIO, Koji NISHI, Yoshiki MARUYAMA
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Publication number: 20170011828Abstract: A manufacturing method for a magnet includes performing pressure molding in which mixed powder of magnetic powder and a lubricant is molded under pressure so as to promote cracking of the magnetic powder and rearrangement of particles to obtain a molding of the magnetic powder. The pressure molding includes high-temperature pressure molding in which the mixed powder is pressurized and decompressed at a high elevated temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of the lubricant and equal to or lower than a decomposition temperature of the magnetic powder, and low-temperature pressure molding in which the mixed powder is pressurized and decompressed at a relatively low temperature lower than the melting point of the lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi MIO, Koji NISHI, Yusuke KIMOTO, Takashi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20170011847Abstract: A manufacturing method for a magnet is provided which includes molding, under pressure, magnetic powder in a form of secondary particles resulting from aggregation of primary particles, to obtain a molding. A ratio of an average particle size of the primary particles to a maximum particle size of the secondary particles is 1:150 to 1:200. The magnet in the invention is manufactured by the manufacturing method for a magnet in the invention. The invention allows manufacture of the molding and the magnet in both of which the magnetic powder is densely compressed. The magnet has a high residual magnetic flux density.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi MIO, Koji NISHI, Yusuke KIMOTO, Takashi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20170005553Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a rotor, each magnetic steel sheet has protrusions on its one surface and has recesses on the other surface at positions corresponding to the protrusions. The plurality of magnetic steel sheets are joined together as the protrusions of each magnetic steel sheet are fitted in the recesses of its adjoining magnetic steel sheet. A shaft member is inserted into a rotor core in the same direction as that in which the protrusions protrude.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi MIO, Koji NISHI, Takashi TAMURA, Yusuke KIMOTO
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Publication number: 20170005554Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core having magnet holes that open to both sides in an axial direction, and magnets placed in the magnet holes. A method for manufacturing the rotor includes: the placing step of placing a material of the magnets containing at least magnetic particles in the magnet holes; and the forming step of forming compacts by compressing the material of the magnets in the magnet holes in the axial direction of the rotor with punch members by using the rotor core as a part of a forming die.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi MIO, Koji NISHI, Takashi TAMURA, Yusuke KIMOTO
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Publication number: 20170000177Abstract: Disclosed is an acidic oil-in-water type emulsified condiment comprising 1 to 40% by mass of an edible oil, 30 to 60% by mass of water, a thickener, a yolk, a volatile acid, and a nonvolatile acid, wherein the mass ratio between the content of the volatile acid and the content of the nonvolatile acid is 1:50 to 20:1, and the acidic oil-in-water type emulsified condiment has a dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.1 to 10% O2, a pH of 3.0 to 4.0, a water activity of 0.90 to 0.96, and a viscosity (20° C.) of 50 Pa·s or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: KEWPIE CORPORATIONInventors: Kaori OGUCHI, Koji NISHI
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Publication number: 20160375488Abstract: A manufacturing method for a magnet has step of molding magnetic powder under pressure to obtain a molding. The magnetic powder is pressurized using a mold to which a release agent is applied. The release agent is chemical synthesis oil to which an extreme pressure additive is added.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi MIO, Koji NISHI, Yusuke KIMOTO, Takashi TAMURA