Patents by Inventor Koji Noda
Koji Noda 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: 11967659Abstract: Provided is a stable CdZnTe monocrystalline substrate having a small leakage current even when a high voltage is applied and having a lower variation in resistivity with respect to variations in applied voltage values. A semiconductor wafer comprising a cadmium zinc telluride monocrystal having a zinc concentration of 4.0 at % or more and 6.5 at % or less and a chlorine concentration of 0.1 ppm by mass or more and 5.0 ppm by mass or less, wherein the semiconductor wafer has a resistivity of 1.0×107 ?cm or more and 1.0×108 ?cm or less when a voltage of 900 V is applied, and wherein a ratio (variation ratio) of the resistivity at application of 0 V to the resistivity at application of a voltage of 900 V is 20% or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: JX METALS CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Murakami, Akira Noda, Ryuichi Hirano
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Patent number: 11952747Abstract: A remote operation device includes: a vibration detector to detect a plurality of vibration components in a plurality of directions different from each other, the vibration components being included in a vibration caused on an attachment; a transmission device; and a transmission control section that controls an operation of the transmission device. A vibration determination condition is set in advance, the vibration determination condition including a condition that an amplitude of a maximum vibration component largest in amplitude among the plurality of vibration components detected by the vibration detector is equal to or larger than a preset amplitude threshold. The transmission control section controls the operation of the transmission device to allow the vibration information to be transmitted to an operator only when the vibration determination condition is met.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Noda, Koji Yamashita, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20230157655Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an arm, a first holder, a second holder, a driver, and a third holder. The arm has the shape of a circular arc; supports an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector. The first holder grasps the arm in a movable manner in the circular arc direction. The second holder supports the first holder in a movable manner in the circular arc direction. The driver is disposed in the second holder; moves the first holder; and, at the same time, relatively moves the arm with respect to the first holder. The third holder is orthogonal to the rotation axis involved in the movement of the arm in the circular arc direction and holds the second holder in a rotatable manner with the axis substantially orthogonal to the vertical direction serving as the rotation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Koji NODA
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Publication number: 20230042598Abstract: A doping system is configured to dope an active material included in an electrode with an alkali metal. The doping system includes a doping bath, a conveyor unit, a connection unit, and a drying unit. The doping bath is configured to store a solution containing alkali metal ion and a counter electrode unit. The conveyor unit is configured to convey the electrode along a path that passes through the doping bath. The connection unit includes an electrically conductive electric power supply roller that contacts the electrode, and is configured to couple the electrode to the counter electrode unit. The drying unit is configured to spray a gas onto the electrode that passes through the doping bath and is being conveyed to the electric power supply roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Musashi Energy Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaya NAOI, Tomoya IWAZAKI, Koji NODA
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Publication number: 20210299462Abstract: Provided is a particle beam therapeutic device, a particle beam therapeutic system, an irradiation planning device, and a particle beam irradiation method. In a particle beam therapeutic system 1, while a magnetic field generation device 9 generates a magnetic field that affects a particle beam in the vicinity of a target of a subject, a particle beam extracted from an ion source 2 is accelerated by an accelerator 4, transported by a beam transport system 5, and applied from an irradiation device 6. In the irradiation of the particle beam, an irradiation planning device 20 creates an irradiation plan of the particle beam in consideration of the influence of the magnetic field, and applies the particle beam based on this irradiation plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Taku INANIWA, Koji NODA, Yoshiyuki IWATA
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Patent number: 11123038Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes an imager, a mechanism, and processing circuitry. The imager is configured to image a subject. The mechanism is comprising a movable part. The processing circuitry is configured to generate an image of the subject based on an output of the imager, and perform processing for incident data based on at least one of a result of analyzing the image of the subject, or information for motion of the mechanism, wherein the incident data comprises at least one of operating sound data or shaking data of the mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Koji Noda, Arata Komuro, Tsuyoshi Kojima, Tomoko Ishizaki, Takeshi Ishii, Yuki Kato, Tomomi Nagae
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Publication number: 20200365410Abstract: An etching device may include a reservoir storing an etchant, a support member configured to support the semiconductor wafer in a state where a first surface of the semiconductor wafer is immersed in the etchant, a light source configured to irradiate the first surface of the semiconductor wafer supported by the support member with light emitted from the light source, an electrode disposed in the reservoir, and a power source configured to apply a current between the electrode and the semiconductor wafer supported by the support member, the current changing between a first current value and a second current value larger than the first current value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke SUGIZAKI, Kunio AKEDO, Koji NODA, Eiko ISHII, Kenji NAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 10792516Abstract: A beam irradiation target verification apparatus includes an X-ray switching emission process unit that causes a vertical X-ray emitting unit to emit at least two types of X-rays using an energy-level switching unit, a vertical X-ray detection unit that detects an X-ray emitted from the vertical X-ray emitting unit, a pre-therapy verification image generation process unit, a reference image acquisition unit that acquires a reference image obtained at a therapy planning stage, a comparison process unit. The pre-therapy verification image generation process unit to generate pre-therapy verification images based on detection information of at least two types of X-rays obtained by the vertical X-ray detection unit. The comparison process unit makes comparisons between the pre-therapy verification images and the reference image, and the result output unit outputs a comparison result obtained by the comparison process unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM AND RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Koji Noda
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Publication number: 20200279760Abstract: An etching device may include a reservoir storing an etchant, a support member configured to rotatably support the semiconductor wafer in a state where a first surface of the semiconductor wafer is immersed in the etchant, a light source configured to emit light to the first surface of the semiconductor wafer, a counter electrode disposed in the reservoir and disposed between the support member and the light source, and a power source configured to apply a voltage between the semiconductor wafer and the counter electrode. When the light source emits light, a lighted area by the light and a shadow of the counter electrode may be projected onto the first surface of the semiconductor wafer, and when the semiconductor wafer is rotated by the support member, at least a part of the first surface may pass both the lighted area and the shadow.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke SUGIZAKI, Eiko Ishii, Kenji Nakashima, Kunio Akedo, Koji Noda
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Patent number: 10562984Abstract: To provide an additive for crude oil recovery, used in secondary/tertiary recovery of crude oil, which has high heat resistance and high mechanical shear resistance, of which the viscous property does not degrade even under high-temperature and high-shear conditions; has high pseudoplastic flowability and therefore has a light transfer workload; and is a naturally-derived one and is therefore highly biodegradable and has least adverse impact on environment. An additive for crude oil recovery, which contains cellulose fibers having a number-average fiber diameter of from 2 to 500 nm and a fiber aspect ratio of 50 or more and having a cellulose I-type crystal structure, and, in the cellulose fibers, a hydroxyl group on a surface of the cellulose fibers is preferably chemically modified.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: DAI-ICHI KOGYO SEIYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yousuke Goi, Mineo Sabi, Kazuhito Jinno, Koji Noda
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Patent number: 10413270Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a holding device, a driving unit, a first encoder, a second encoder, and processing circuitry. The holding device holds an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector such that the X-ray generator and the X-ray detector are rotatable. The driving unit transmits a rotating force of a driving motor to a rotation axis through a power transmission mechanism. The first encoder detects a rotation of the driving motor. The second encoder detects a rotation of the rotation axis. The processing circuitry detects an abnormal state of the power transmission mechanism, based on a time difference between a first pulse output from the first encoder and a corresponding second pulse output from the second encoder.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Koji Noda, Tsuyoshi Kojima, Toshio Muroi, Shinji Nishizawa, Yoshihito Abe, Junko Shibata
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Publication number: 20180333132Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes an imager, a mechanism, and processing circuitry. The imager is configured to image a subject. The mechanism is comprising a movable part. The processing circuitry is configured to generate an image of the subject based on an output of the imager, and perform processing for incident data based on at least one of a result of analyzing the image of the subject, or information for motion of the mechanism, wherein the incident data comprises at least one of operating sound data or shaking data of the mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Koji Noda, Arata Komuro, Tsuyoshi Kojima, Tomoko Ishizaki, Takeshi Ishii, Yuki Kato, Tomomi Nagae
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Patent number: 10035974Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a cleaning agent composition which can be used in the open air without any problems since the cleaning agent is environmentally friendly and which is effective for removing a low-molecular-weight and poorly-water-soluble cyclic silicone compound that causes a stain of a silicone sealing. The cleaning agent for washing out a silicone stain according to the present invention is characterized in comprising a cyclic lipopeptide biosurfactant, wherein the specific silicone stain compound such as D4 compound is the objective compound to be removed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignees: KANEKA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Koji Noda, Masashi Izumida, Satohiro Yanagisawa, Tohru Nakashima, Takuto Nagano, Toshiaki Taira, Tomohiro Imura, Dai Kitamoto
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Publication number: 20180132814Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a holding device, a driving unit, a first encoder, a second encoder, and processing circuitry. The holding device holds an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector such that the X-ray generator and the X-ray detector are rotatable. The driving unit transmits a rotating force of a driving motor to a rotation axis through a power transmission mechanism. The first encoder detects a rotation of the driving motor. The second encoder detects a rotation of the rotation axis. The processing circuitry detects an abnormal state of the power transmission mechanism, based on a time difference between a first pulse output from the first encoder and a corresponding second pulse output from the second encoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Koji NODA, Tsuyoshi KOJIMA, Toshio MUROI, Shinji NISHIZAWA, Yoshihito ABE, Junko SHIBATA
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Patent number: 9803128Abstract: To provide an additive for drilling mud, used in drilling for petroleum, natural gas, civil engineering, mines, etc., which has high heat resistance and high mechanical shear resistance, of which the viscous property does not degrade even under high-temperature and high-shear conditions; has high pseudoplastic flowability and therefore secures high flowability during discharging; and is a naturally-derived one and is therefore highly biodegradable and has least adverse impact on environment. An additive for drilling mud, which contains cellulose fibers having a number-average fiber diameter of from 2 to 500 nm and a fiber aspect ratio of 50 or more and having a cellulose I-type crystal structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: DAI-ICHI KOGYO SEIYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yousuke Goi, Mineo Sabi, Kazuhito Jinno, Koji Noda
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Patent number: 9795807Abstract: A planning apparatus (70) determines irradiation parameter data (67) for a charged particle irradiation system (1), which radiates charged particles generated by an ion source (2) to a target (80) by accelerating the charged particles by means of a linear accelerator (4) and a synchrotron (5). The planning apparatus is provided with: a planning program (73), which determines the irradiation parameter data (67) with respect to one target (80) by combining charged particles of a plurality of kinds of ion species; and a CPU (71) for executing the planning program. Consequently, the irradiation planning apparatus capable of performing irradiation with desirable dose distribution with respect to the target, the irradiation planning program, an irradiation plan determining method, and the charged particle irradiation system are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM AND RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Taku Inaniwa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Takuji Furukawa, Toshiyuki Shirai, Koji Noda
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Publication number: 20170113065Abstract: A beam irradiation target verification apparatus (1) includes an X-ray switching emission process unit (6a) that causes a vertical X-ray emitting unit (13) to emit at least two types of X-rays using an energy-level switching unit (11), a vertical X-ray detection unit (14) that detects an X-ray emitted from the vertical X-ray emitting unit (13), a pre-therapy verification image generation process unit (7) that generates pre-therapy verification images (20B) and (20C) based on detection information on at least two types of X-rays obtained by the vertical X-ray detection unit (14), a reference image acquisition unit (3) that acquires a reference image (20A) obtained at a therapy planning stage, a comparison process unit (8a) that makes comparisons between the pre-therapy verification images (20B) and (20C) and the reference image (20A), and a result output unit (4) that outputs a comparison result obtained by the comparison process unit (8a).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Taku INANIWA, Takuji FURUKAWA, Koji NODA
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Publication number: 20170073570Abstract: A cellulose fiber nano-dispersion pressing-in device for pressing a liquid, in which a cellulose fiber of a conifer-derived pulp is nano-dispersed, into a stratum, includes a grinding means for grinding the conifer-derived pulp in water, a dilution means for diluting a cellulose fiber-containing liquid obtained in the grinding means and a pressing-in means for pressing a nano-dispersion of the cellulose fiber obtained in the dilution means into a well. Therefore, it is applicable to water-stopping operation in a civil engineering process or to a process of industrial production of hydrocarbons such as crude oil, gas and the like for improving the recovery rate thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: DAI-ICHI KOGYO SEIYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke GOI, Mineo SABI, Kazuhito JINNO, Koji NODA, Yoshitake KATO, Norihiko TOGASHI, Yosuke KUNISHI
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Publication number: 20160200958Abstract: To provide an additive for drilling mud, used in drilling for petroleum, natural gas, civil engineering, mines, etc., which has high heat resistance and high mechanical shear resistance, of which the viscous property does not degrade even under high-temperature and high-shear conditions; has high pseudoplastic flowability and therefore secures high flowability during discharging; and is a naturally-derived one and is therefore highly biodegradable and has least adverse impact on environment. An additive for drilling mud, which contains cellulose fibers having a number-average fiber diameter of from 2 to 500 nm and a fiber aspect ratio of 50 or more and having a cellulose I-type crystal structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: DAI-ICHI KOGYO SEIYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yousuke GOI, Mineo SABI, Kazuhito JINNO, Koji NODA
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Publication number: 20160200964Abstract: To provide an additive for crude oil recovery, used in secondary/tertiary recovery of crude oil, which has high heat resistance and high mechanical shear resistance, of which the viscous property does not degrade even under high-temperature and high-shear conditions; has high pseudoplastic flowability and therefore has a light transfer workload; and is a naturally-derived one and is therefore highly biodegradable and has least adverse impact on environment. An additive for crude oil recovery, which contains cellulose fibers having a number-average fiber diameter of from 2 to 500 nm and a fiber aspect ratio of 50 or more and having a cellulose I-type crystal structure, and, in the cellulose fibers, a hydroxyl group on a surface of the cellulose fibers is preferably chemically modified.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: DAI-ICHI KOGYO SEIYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yousuke GOI, Mineo SABI, Kazuhito JINNO, Koji NODA