Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kimura

Masahiro Kimura 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: 10197911
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus which transfers a pattern of a mold onto a substrate is provided. The imprint apparatus includes a plurality of gas supply units each supplying a gas for substituting for air in the space between an original and the substrate. A control unit of the imprint apparatus controls the gas flow rate from each gas supply unit in accordance with the area of a portion where the original and the substrate overlap in a plan view after relatively moving the original and the substrate such that a target shot region on the substrate is positioned immediately under the pattern surface of the original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190015786
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hollow fiber membrane module that can effectively resolve the accumulation of suspended solids within the membrane module, lower running costs, and also operate stably. The present invention relates to a hollow fiber membrane molecule provided with: a cylindrical case having a first end and a second end in the direction of height; a plurality of hollow fiber membranes accommodated within the cylindrical case; and a first potting part accommodated within the cylindrical case and attaching the plurality of hollow fiber membranes together such that the end parts of the plurality of hollow membrane fibers at a first end side of the cylindrical case are open. The hollow fiber membranes are porous hollow fiber membranes having a breaking strength of 23 MPa, and the hollow membrane module has a membrane area per unit volume of 800-3700 m2/m3. The filling fraction for the hollow fiber membranes in a cross-section orthogonal to the direction of height of the cylindrical case is 25-38%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shun SHIMURA, Kenta IWAI, Masayuki HANAKAWA, Tamotsu KITADE, Masahiro KIMURA, Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Aya NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20180369757
    Abstract: The present invention provides a porous hollow fiber membrane that has both high strength and high pure water permeability, and that exhibits excellent thermal deformation resistance. The present invention is related to a porous hollow fiber membrane containing a fluororesin-based polymer, and a manufacturing method of the membrane comprises a drawing step and a relaxing step. The porous hollow fiber membrane is characterized in that: the molecular chain of the polymer is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the hollow fiber membrane; and at the same time internal distortion of oriented non-crystalline chains, which is disadvantageous in terms of entropy, is alleviated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takaaki YASUDA, Masayuki HANAKAWA, Kenta IWAI, Toshiyuki ISHIZAKI, Tamotsu KITADE, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180369758
    Abstract: This composite semipermeable membrane is provided with: a porous supporting membrane that comprises a base and a porous supporting layer; and a separating function layer that is provided on the porous supporting layer. With respect to this composite semipermeable membrane, the standard deviation of pore radius of the separating function layer as determined by positron annihilation lifetime measurement is 0.025 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki TANAKA, Hiroki MINEHARA, Koji NAKATSUJI, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10159942
    Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element capable of exhibiting a good water production performance even at a high temperature and also excellent handleability and quality. The separation membrane of the present invention includes a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member fixed onto the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, and the permeate-side channel member includes polypropylene as a main component and satisfies the following requirements (a) to (c): (a) a softening point temperature is 60° C. or higher; (b) a tensile elongation in a standard state is 10% or more; and (c) a yield point stress under a wet condition at 50° C. is 2 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshie Marutani, Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiki Okamoto, Shunsuke Tabayashi, Hiroshi Umetani, Akira Katayama, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10164839
    Abstract: A log analysis system includes a first processor unit, a second processor unit, a third processor unit, and a fourth processor unit. The first processor unit normalizes the detection log acquired by an acquirer, allocating the detection log into predefined monitoring target units, and outputs the monitoring target units. The second processor unit appends common information based on a predefined rule to each of the monitoring target units of the detection log output from the first processor unit, arranges the monitoring target units into information granularities based on the content of the detection log and common information, and outputs the monitoring target units as analysis unit information. The third processor unit gathers the analysis unit information output from the second processor unit and setting detection target event candidates based on a predefined rule, and outputs the detection target event candidates and the determination results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: LAC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tsuchiya, Masamichi Abe, Tetsuya Kageyama, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Washio, Atsushi Umaki, Ippei Shiode, Masahiro Kimura, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Takechi
  • Patent number: 10121648
    Abstract: A maximum height, that corresponds to a width of a pattern formed on a front surface of a substrate to be processed, is searched among a plurality of maximum heights each being a maximum value of a height of a pattern having a particular width when pattern collapse does not occur. Thereafter, it is determined that whether or not a height of the pattern is greater than the maximum height. In a case where the height of the pattern is greater than the maximum height, a hydrophobizing agent is supplied to the substrate such that a hydrophobized region is formed on a whole tip-side region in a lateral surface of the pattern, and a non-hydrophobized region remains on at least a portion of a root-side region in the lateral surface of the pattern. Thereafter the substrate is dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180301307
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuse unit, which reduces the number of components of a bus bar and eliminates alignment of tuning fork terminals, and a method of manufacturing the fuse unit. Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a fuse unit, which includes a bus bar including a battery terminal, a fuse connection terminal, and an external connection terminal and is manufactured by integrating the bus bar and a resin covering body by insert molding. In this manufacturing method, the fuse connection terminal is constituted of an input side tuning fork terminal connected to the battery terminal and an output side tuning fork terminal connected to the external connection terminal, the input side tuning fork terminal and the output side tuning fork terminal are connected by a joining portion so as to face each other, the bus bar including the fuse connection terminal is integrated with the resin covering body by insert molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro Kimura, Toshihisa Iwakura
  • Patent number: 10099183
    Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane that is usable at a high temperature and a high pressure. The solvent-resistant separation membrane of the present invention has an average pore diameter of the separation membrane surface of 0.005 to 1 ?m and includes a portion where a degree of cyclization (I1600/I2240) as measured by the total reflection infrared absorption spectroscopy is 0.5 to 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Okabe, Masahiro Kimura, Koji Nakatsuji, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Ryoma Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10096984
    Abstract: The present invention provides a housing, fuse, and fuse box, with which it is possible to differentiate a multi-pole fusible link and prevent misassembly, while holding down costs. This housing is attached to a multi-pole fusible link contained within a containing part of a fuse box, and is provided with misassembly-preventing protrusions which are removable according to the type of multi-pole fusible link, the locations of the misassembly-preventing protrusions corresponding to the locations of recesses which are provided to the containing part that is to contain the multi-pole fusible link, and in which the misassembly-preventing protrusions can be contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: PACIFIC ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kimura, Fumiyuki Kawase
  • Publication number: 20180280893
    Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a separation film mainly comprising a cellulose-based resin having high permeability. The present invention pertains to a separation film containing a cellulose ester, wherein the separation film is provided with a bicontinuous structure comprising voids and phases containing the cellulose ester, and the width of the voids is 1 to 200 nm inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Koichi TAKADA, Gohei YAMAMURA, Ryuichiro HIRANABE, Masayuki HANAKAWA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Takaaki MIHARA, Masahiro KIMURA, Hiroki TOMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20180122607
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuse unit which facilitates a work such as inspection and a method of manufacturing the fuse unit. Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a fuse unit, which has a metal part including an input terminal and an external connection terminal and a connector part for attaching an external terminal C3 to the external connection terminal and is manufactured by integrating the metal part and a resin covering body by insert molding. In this manufacturing method, the metal part and the resin covering body are integrated by insert molding such that a distal end of the external connection terminal of the metal part protrudes from the resin covering body, and then, the connector part separate from the resin covering body is attached to the resin covering body so that the external connection terminal protruding from the resin covering body can be connected to the external terminal C3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Pacific Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kimura, Toshihisa Iwakura
  • Publication number: 20180090343
    Abstract: A substrate treating method dries a substrate on a surface of which a predetermined pattern is formed. The substrate treating method includes: a washing step of washing the substrate by immersing the substrate into a washing liquid after the washing liquid is stored into the treating tank in a sealed chamber; a decompression step of decompressing an inside of the chamber; a lifting step of lifting the substrate from the washing liquid stored in the treating tank; a liquid discharge step of discharging the washing liquid from the treating tank; and a hydrophobing step of replacing an atmosphere in the chamber with a hydrophobic agent and performing a hydrophobing treatment on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9901883
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a porous hollow-fiber membrane having high strength while maintaining high pure-water permeation performance. A porous hollow-fiber membrane of the present invention is a porous hollow-fiber membrane including a fluororesin-based polymer, in which the porous hollow-fiber membrane has a columnar texture oriented in a longitudinal direction of the porous hollow-fiber membrane, and a molecular chain of the fluororesin-based polymer is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the porous hollow-fiber membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hanakawa, Kenta Iwai, Toshiyuki Ishizaki, Tamotsu Kitade, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170348649
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a porous hollow-fiber membrane having high strength while maintaining high pure-water permeation performance. A porous hollow-fiber membrane of the present invention is a porous hollow-fiber membrane including a fluororesin-based polymer, in which the porous hollow-fiber membrane has a columnar texture oriented in a longitudinal direction of the porous hollow-fiber membrane, and a molecular chain of the fluororesin-based polymer is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the porous hollow-fiber membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki HANAKAWA, Kenta IWAI, Toshiyuki ISHIZAKI, Tamotsu KITADE, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9827536
    Abstract: Provided is a composite semipermeable membrane having a high salt removal rate and a high water permeability. The composite semipermeable membrane comprises a substrate, a porous support layer formed on the substrate, and a separation functional layer formed on the porous support layer, the hydrophilic macromolecule concentration on the substrate-side surface of the porous support layer being higher than that on the separation functional layer-side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoneda, Jun Okabe, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura, Masahiro Henmi
  • Patent number: 9822740
    Abstract: An air intake duct 8 is fixed to a rear of a cab 3 of a transport vehicle to extend vertically, air intakes 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e and 6f being opened on an upper portion of the air intake duct for suction of fresh air through the intakes as engine intake air. The air intake duct 8 is constituted by a blow-molded duct body 9 and an internal partition component 10 enclosed in the duct body in blow molding of the duct body 9 to partition an interior of the duct body 9 into a plurality of channels A, B, C, D, E and F reaching the air intakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: HINO MOTORS, LTD., EXCELL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kimura, Kuniharu Tobe, Katsunobu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20170324233
    Abstract: The present invention provides a housing, fuse, and fuse box, with which it is possible to differentiate a multi-pole fusible link and prevent misassembly, while holding down costs. This housing is attached to a multi-pole fusible link contained within a containing part of a fuse box, and is provided with misassembly-preventing protrusions which are removable according to the type of multi-pole fusible link, the locations of the misassembly-preventing protrusions protrusions corresponding to the locations of recesses recesses which are provided to the containing part that is to contain the multi-pole fusible link, and in which the misassembly-preventing protrusions can be contained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Pacific Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kimura, Fumiyuki Kawase
  • Patent number: 9808767
    Abstract: A separation membrane element of the present invention includes: a water collection tube; and a plurality of separation membrane leaves stacked on each other and wound around the water collection tube, each of the separation membrane leaves includes one or more separation membranes each having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face and is configured so that the feed-side faces face each other, and a sheet having a plurality of projections fixed thereto is provided between the permeate-side faces of the separation membrane leaves stacked on each other. Regarding a height of the projections, a ratio of the maximum height to the minimum height is from 1.10 to 1.50, and a variation coefficient of the height is from 0.02 to 0.15, and an impregnation ratio of the projections into the sheet is from 10% to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tabayashi, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshie Marutani, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada, Shuji Furuno, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 9802160
    Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element which are capable of exhibiting good water production performance and excellent in handleability and process passage. A separation membrane of the present invention is a separation membrane including: a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member adhered to the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, in which the permeate-side channel member includes a composition containing at least a high-crystalline polypropylene (A) and satisfies the following requirements (a) and (b): (a) a content of the high-crystalline polypropylene (A) in the composition is from 40 to 95% by weight; and (b) the permeate-side channel member has a melting endothermic energy amount (?H) of from 20 to 70 J/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiki Okamoto, Yoshie Marutani, Shunsuke Tabayashi, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura, Yuji Tanaka