Patents by Inventor Masanori IMAMURA

Masanori IMAMURA 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: 11940630
    Abstract: To provide a display apparatus that makes it possible to further improve a performance in controlling video presentation according to characteristics of an eyeball of a user. A display apparatus is provided that includes a light source; a processor that performs processing on a distribution of characteristics of an eyeball; a monitoring section that monitors a state of the eyeball; a matching section that performs matching on the distribution of the characteristics of the eyeball and the state of the eyeball; and an irradiator that irradiates a specified position on a retina with video display light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Imamura, Ryo Ogawa, Masanori Iwasaki, Takanobu Omata, Katsuyuki Akutsu, Itaru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10698315
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating method including a solvent supplying step of supplying a solvent to a center part of a substrate while increasing a rotation speed of the substrate. In the solvent supplying step, the solvent is successively supplied to the substrate until the solvent reaches a periphery edge of the substrate. With such a substrate treating method, the solvent is able to cover a substrate surface entirely with effective suppression of particles. In other words, a process of supplying the solvent to the substrate is performable with effectively improved quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikara Sagae, Masanori Imamura
  • Patent number: 10600647
    Abstract: A coating apparatus includes an open/close valve having a motor that allows control of opening operation and closing operation in accordance with electric signals applied from a controller. The coating apparatus further includes a suck back valve having a motor that allows control of a volume variation in a flow path for suck back that is in communication with an upstream side and a downstream side of a pipe in accordance with electric signals from the controller. The controller allows control of start of the closing operation of the open/close valve and start of suction operation of the suck back valve through application of the electric signals to the respective motors. This achieves simple adjustment of liquid cut-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Imamura, Kazuo Morioka
  • Patent number: 10423070
    Abstract: A substrate treating method includes a determining step for determining a treating condition for hydrophobizing a surface of a substrate, based on a target regarding a dissolved area size in a resist pattern, and a treating step for hydrophobizing the surface of the substrate with the treating condition determined in the determining step before forming resist film on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Kanaoka, Masanori Imamura, Taiji Matsu, Hidetoshi Sagawa, Atsushi Tanaka, Kazuhiro Tadokoro, Kazuya Ono, Shinichi Takada, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi
  • Publication number: 20190019666
    Abstract: A coating apparatus includes an open/close valve having a motor that allows control of opening operation and closing operation in accordance with electric signals applied from a controller. The coating apparatus further includes a suck back valve having a motor that allows control of a volume variation in a flow path for suck back that is in communication with an upstream side and a downstream side of a pipe in accordance with electric signals from the controller. The controller allows control of start of the closing operation of the open/close valve and start of suction operation of the suck back valve through application of the electric signals to the respective motors. This achieves simple adjustment of liquid cut-off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Masanori IMAMURA, Kazuo MORIOKA
  • Patent number: 10144033
    Abstract: A substrate is held and rotated in a horizontal attitude by a rotation holder. A coating liquid is supplied by a coating liquid supplier to a surface to be processed of the substrate rotated by the rotation holder. A first removal liquid is supplied by a first removal liquid supplier to a first annular region at a peripheral portion of the substrate rotated by the rotation holder before the coating liquid supplied by the coating liquid supplier loses fluidity. In this state, a supply position of the first removal liquid by the first removal liquid supplier is moved from an inner edge to an outer edge of the first annular region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Imamura, Masashi Kanaoka, Hidetoshi Sagawa, Yoshinori Tawaratani, Masaaki Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20180052394
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating method including a solvent supplying step of supplying a solvent to a center part of a substrate while increasing a rotation speed of the substrate. In the solvent supplying step, the solvent is successively supplied to the substrate until the solvent reaches a periphery edge of the substrate. With such a substrate treating method, the solvent is able to cover a substrate surface entirely with effective suppression of particles. In other words, a process of supplying the solvent to the substrate is performable with effectively improved quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Chikara SAGAE, Masanori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170277038
    Abstract: A substrate treating method includes a determining step for determining a treating condition for hydrophobizing a surface of a substrate, based on a target regarding a dissolved area size in a resist pattern, and a treating step for hydrophobizing the surface of the substrate with the treating condition determined in the determining step before forming resist film on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi KANAOKA, Masanori IMAMURA, Taiji MATSU, Hidetoshi SAGAWA, Atsushi TANAKA, Kazuhiro TADOKORO, Kazuya ONO, Shinichi TAKADA, Tsuyoshi MITSUHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170278696
    Abstract: A coating apparatus includes an open/close valve having a motor that allows control of opening operation and closing operation in accordance with electric signals applied from a controller. The coating apparatus further includes a suck back valve having a motor that allows control of a volume variation in a flow path for suck back that is in communication with an upstream side and a downstream side of a pipe in accordance with electric signals. The controller allows control of start of the closing operation of the open/close valve and start of suction operation of the suck back valve through application of the electric signals to the motors, respectively. This achieves simple adjustment of liquid cut-off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori IMAMURA, Kazuo MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20170056917
    Abstract: A substrate is held and rotated in a horizontal attitude by a rotation holder. A coating liquid is supplied by a coating liquid supplier to a surface to be processed of the substrate rotated by the rotation holder. A first removal liquid is supplied by a first removal liquid supplier to a first annular region at a peripheral portion of the substrate rotated by the rotation holder before the coating liquid supplied by the coating liquid supplier loses fluidity. In this state, a supply position of the first removal liquid by the first removal liquid supplier is moved from an inner edge to an outer edge of the first annular region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori IMAMURA, Masashi KANAOKA, Hidetoshi SAGAWA, Yoshinori TAWARATANI, Masaaki FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 9436087
    Abstract: Each chemical processing section includes a chemical liquid bottle, a buffer tank, a pump, a filter, a discharge valve and a discharge nozzle. A chemical liquid stored in the chemical liquid bottle is led to the discharge nozzle and is discharged from the discharge nozzle to a substrate. A cleaning processing section includes a solvent bottle, a cleaning liquid bottle, the buffer tank and the pump. A solvent stored in the solvent bottle, a cleaning liquid stored in the cleaning liquid bottle and a gas supplied from a gas supply source are selectively led to the discharge nozzle in each chemical liquid processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd., SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Morioka, Masanori Imamura, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hideki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20150013603
    Abstract: Each chemical processing section includes a chemical liquid bottle, a buffer tank, a pump, a filter, a discharge valve and a discharge nozzle. A chemical liquid stored in the chemical liquid bottle is led to the discharge nozzle and is discharged from the discharge nozzle to a substrate. A cleaning processing section includes a solvent bottle, a cleaning liquid bottle, the buffer tank and the pump. A solvent stored in the solvent bottle, a cleaning liquid stored in the cleaning liquid bottle and a gas supplied from a gas supply source are selectively led to the discharge nozzle in each chemical liquid processing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuo MORIOKA, Masanori IMAMURA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hideki SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 8580340
    Abstract: After a solvent is discharged onto a substrate in a period from a time point t0 to a time point t1, rotation of the substrate is started at a time point t2. A resist liquid is discharged onto a center portion of a target surface of the substrate at a time point t3. A rotation speed of the substrate starts to decrease at a time point t4, and attains a first speed after a certain period of time. The discharge of the resist liquid is stopped at a time point t5. The rotation of the substrate is accelerated in a period from a time point t6 to a time point t7, and the rotation speed of the substrate attains a second speed at the time point t7. The rotation of the substrate is decelerated in a period from the time point t7 to a time point t8, and the rotation speed of the substrate attains a third speed at the time point t8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sokudo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Imamura, Akihiro Hisai, Hidetoshi Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20110135820
    Abstract: After a solvent is discharged onto a substrate in a period from a time point t0 to a time point t1, rotation of the substrate is started at a time point t2. A resist liquid is discharged onto a center portion of a target surface of the substrate at a time point t3. A rotation speed of the substrate starts to decrease at a time point t4, and attains a first speed after a certain period of time. The discharge of the resist liquid is stopped at a time point t5. The rotation of the substrate is accelerated in a period from a time point t6 to a time point t7, and the rotation speed of the substrate attains a second speed at the time point t7. The rotation of the substrate is decelerated in a period from the time point t7 to a time point t8, and the rotation speed of the substrate attains a third speed at the time point t8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Masanori IMAMURA, Akihiro HISAI, Hidetoshi SAGAWA