Patents by Inventor Kou Onodera

Kou Onodera 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).

  • Plating apparatus and plating method
    Patent number: 7811440
    Abstract: A plating apparatus performs a plating process while placing a work in a pod disposed in a plating bath storing a plating solution. The pod has a pair of meshes that allow the plating solution to pass but substantially inhibit the work from passing. The plating apparatus is provided with a solution flowing mechanism for flowing the plating solution out of the pod through one of the pair of meshes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kou Onodera, Hiroshi Shindo, Takashi Sakurai
  • Plating apparatus and plating method
    Publication number: 20090045069
    Abstract: A plating apparatus performs a plating process while placing a work in a pod disposed in a plating bath storing a plating solution. The pod has a pair of meshes that allow the plating solution to pass but substantially inhibit the work from passing. The plating apparatus is provided with a solution flowing mechanism for flowing the plating solution out of the pod through one of the pair of meshes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kou Onodera, Hiroshi Shindo, Takashi Sakurai
  • Pulling-down apparatus and container therefor
    Patent number: 7323053
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a pulling-down apparatus that can breed a crystal having good characteristics of scintillation. The apparatus retains in a container that can control an atmosphere a melting pot having a narrow hole at the bottom side thereof, an induction heating device, and a seed-holding device that holds a seed and is pulled down so that a crystal formed successively to the seed is pulled down. Concurrently, imaging devices are arranged that can pick up images of a solid-liquid interface between the crystal and a melt material, from different directions, and the seed-holding device can be travel along directions perpendicular to respective image pickup directions in a horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Tohta, Kou Onodera, Takeshi Ito, Tsuguo Fukuda, Akira Yoshikawa
  • Pulling-down apparatus and container therefor
    Publication number: 20060185580
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a pulling-down apparatus that can breed a crystal having good characteristics of scintillation. The apparatus retains in a container that can control an atmosphere a melting pot having a narrow hole at the bottom side thereof, an induction heating device, and a seed-holding device that holds a seed and is pulled down so that a crystal formed successively to the seed is pulled down. Concurrently, imaging devices are arranged that can pick up images of a solid-liquid interface between the crystal and a melt material, from different directions, and the seed-holding device can be travel along directions perpendicular to respective image pickup directions in a horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Tohta, Kou Onodera, Takeshi Ito, Tsuguo Fukuda, Akira Yoshikawa