Patents by Inventor Masataka Kato
Masataka Kato 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).
-
Publication number: 20240145309Abstract: A stacked wafer to be subjected to singulation by stealth dicing, including a first layer in which a modified region is formable, a concave portion forming a space facing the first layer, a second layer that faces the concave portion and in which the modified region is not formed, and a third layer that faces the second layer and in which the modified region is formable, and a part of the second layer facing the concave portion is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: TETSURO YASUKAWA, TAKESHI SHIBATA, MASATAKA KATO
-
Publication number: 20240017549Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head that ejects a liquid from an ejection port; and a cap movable to a closed position at which the cap covers the ejection port and an open position which is separated from the closed position and at which the ejection port is open. The liquid ejection apparatus further includes: a recovery unit configured to perform a recovery process of recovering liquid ejection performance of the liquid ejection head; and a determination unit configured to determine whether abnormal termination occurred with the cap at the open position when the liquid ejection apparatus resumes operating. In a case where the determination unit determines that the abnormal termination occurred, the recovery process is controlled based on a temperature obtained by a temperature obtaining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: MASATAKA KATO, KAZUO SUZUKI, MASAKI NITTA, TAKESHI MURASE, HIROSHI TAIRA, HIROSHI KAWAFUJI, SAE MOGI
-
Publication number: 20230415474Abstract: A threshold value is set based on a temperature of a recording apparatus, and a recording condition corresponding to the acquired temperature is set by comparing the set threshold value with a counted value of the number of driving times of a recording element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: TAKESHI MURASE, KAZUO SUZUKI, MASATAKA KATO, MASAKI NITTA, HIROSHI TAIRA, HIROSHI KAWAFUJI, SAE MOGI
-
Patent number: 11845281Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an ejection orifice for ejecting a liquid; a substrate on which an energy-generating element and an insulating layer are formed on a first surface; a liquid inflow path which penetrates the substrate and makes a liquid flow in a flow path disposed between the ejection orifice and the element; and a liquid outflow path which penetrates the substrate and makes the liquid flow out of the flow path. The liquid inflow path and the liquid outflow path have a first opening and a second opening penetrating the insulating layer on the first surface of the substrate, the ejection orifice is disposed between the liquid inflow path and the liquid outflow path, and an ejection orifice side end of the second opening is formed closer to the ejection orifice than an ejection orifice side end of the first opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka Kato
-
Publication number: 20230380055Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a core substrate, a build-up part formed on a surface of the substrate and including insulating layers and conductor layers, and a covering insulating layer formed on the build-up part such that the covering layer is covering the outermost surface of the build-up part. The build-up part is formed such that the insulating layers include a first insulating layer forming the outermost one of the insulating layers, that the conductor layers include a first conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer and including a first conductor pad, and that a tensile strength of the first insulating layer is higher than a tensile strength of each insulating layer other than the first insulating layer in the first build-up part, and the covering layer is formed such that the covering layer has opening entirely exposing an upper surface and a side surface of the first conductor pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Masataka KATO, Shunsuke SAKAI, Masahide TAWATARI, Kosuke IKEDA
-
Publication number: 20230380076Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a core substrate, a build-up part formed on a surface of the substrate and including insulating layers and conductor layers, and a covering insulating layer formed on the build-up part such that the covering layer is covering the outermost surface of the build-up part. The build-up part is formed such that the insulating layers include a first insulating layer forming the outermost one of the insulating layers, that the conductor layers include a first conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer and including a first conductor pad, and that an elongation rate of the first insulating layer is greater than an elongation rate of each insulating layer other than the first insulating layer in the build-up part, and the covering layer is formed such that the covering layer has an opening entirely exposing an upper surface and a side surface of the first conductor pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Masataka KATO, Shunsuke SAKAI, Masahide TAWATARI, Kosuke IKEDA
-
Patent number: 11794495Abstract: An object is to provide a full-line inkjet printing apparatus and a printing method that can suppress occurrence of image degradation in the case where a conveyance roller conveys a print medium and multipass printing is performed. The maximum conveyance amount in a return route is set to be smaller than a distance between the conveyance roller and a print head.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masataka Kato, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki, Yoshinori Nakajima, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Shin Genta, Satoshi Azuma, Shingo Nishioka, Sae Mogi, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroto Kango, Hiroshi Kawafuji
-
Publication number: 20230311503Abstract: A substrate for use in a liquid ejection head has an ejection hole for ejecting a liquid from the inside to the outside of the substrate. A plurality of scallops periodically changing the diameter of an inner circumferential surface of the ejection hole in the penetration direction are formed on the inner circumferential surface. The substrate for a liquid ejection head is characterized in that a width in the penetration direction of a first scallop present on the outermost side among the plurality of scallops is narrower than a width in the penetration direction of a second scallop adjacent to the first scallop on the inward side, and a depth in a radial direction of the ejection hole of the first scallop is shallower than a depth in the radial direction of the ejection hole of the second scallop.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventor: MASATAKA KATO
-
Patent number: 11772380Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to optimize the time necessary for filling and the ink consumption. One embodiment of the present disclosure is a printing apparatus having: a storage unit; a print head having an ejection port from which ink supplied from the storage unit is ejected; an ink supply path that connects the storage unit and the print head; a suction unit configured to perform suction at the ejection port; and a supply control unit configured to supply ink stored in the storage unit to the ink supply path and the print head by performing suction at the ejection port by the suction unit, and the printing apparatus has an acquisition unit configured to acquire information relating to ink discharge from the ink supply path and the supply control unit determines the number of times of suction by the suction unit based on the information.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuki Narumi, Masataka Kato, Toshimitsu Danzuka, Yasunori Fujimoto, Shin Genta, Tomoki Yamamuro, Hiroto Kango, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki
-
Patent number: 11768650Abstract: An input unit receives a signal relating to an object. A generation unit generates first information and second information relating to the object based on the signal received by the input unit. A control unit displays the first information that has been generated on a first display device and displays the second information that has been generated on a second display device. The control unit changes the display mode of the first information with the passage of time according to the first regularity and the display mode of the second information with the passage of time according to the second regularity corresponding to the first regularity.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masataka Kato, Koichi Emura
-
Publication number: 20230191798Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus including: a print head including a printing element array provided with printing elements each configured to generate thermal energy required to eject an ink, a supply flow channel provided along the printing element array and configured to supply the ink to the respective printing elements, an opening provided to the supply flow channel and configured to cause the ink to flow in, and heating units provided along the supply flow channel and configured to heat the ink inside the supply flow channel; and a heating control unit configured to carry out heating control of the heating units based on a heating pattern determined based on heating intensity distribution, the heating intensity distribution representing heating intensities corresponding to the respective heating units and representing the heating intensities corresponding to positions in a direction of the printing element array.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Masaki Nitta, Kazuo Suzuki, Masataka Kato, Takeshi Murase, Hiroshi Kawafuji, Hiroshi Taira, Sae Mogi
-
Publication number: 20230134991Abstract: A recording apparatus includes recording elements to eject ink, heating elements to heat the ink, and a common wiring through which the recording elements and the heating elements are applied with a voltage. The recording apparatus determines a drive pulse applied to the recording elements based on the number of recording elements to be simultaneously driven and the number of heating elements to be simultaneously driven.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Sae Mogi, Kazuo Suzuki, Masataka Kato, Masaki Nitta, Takeshi Murase, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroshi Kawafuji
-
Publication number: 20230136284Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a scanning unit configured to perform relative scanning by moving the recording unit and a recording medium relative to each other at least once with respect to a unit region on the recording medium, a recovery unit configured to perform a recovery operation for maintaining or recovering a recording performance of the recording unit for application of a recording material, and a control unit configured to control the recovery unit, wherein the control unit acquires recording mode information about recording of an image to be performed on a recording medium for (n+1)-th page (n being a natural number) and determines, based on the acquired recording mode information, whether to perform an inter-page recovery operation at timing after recording of an image on a recording medium for n-th page ends and before recording of an image on a recording medium for (n+1)-th page starts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Toshimitsu Danzuka, Masataka Kato, Hiroto Kango, Rie Takekoshi, Akihiro Tomida, Tomoki Yamamuro, Keita Ishimi, Kazuki Narumi, Taku Yokozawa, Kazuo Suzuki, Kazuhiko Sato
-
Publication number: 20230086168Abstract: A channel member includes a first substrate in which a channel is formed from a first surface, and a second substrate having a second surface facing the first surface, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded to each other with an adhesive between the first surface and the second surface, wherein the channel has a polygonal shape when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the first surface, wherein the channel includes a first portion on the first surface side and a second portion that communicates with the first portion, wherein an aperture area of the second portion is larger than an aperture area of the first portion when viewed from the direction orthogonal to the first surface, and wherein the adhesive is present on a step surface between the first portion and the second portion and at vertices of the polygonal shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventor: Masataka Kato
-
Patent number: 11560003Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a scanning unit configured to perform relative scanning by moving the recording unit and a recording medium relative to each other at least once with respect to a unit region on the recording medium, a recovery unit configured to perform a recovery operation for maintaining or recovering a recording performance of the recording unit for application of a recording material, and a control unit configured to control the recovery unit, wherein the control unit acquires recording mode information about recording of an image to be performed on a recording medium for (n+1)-th page (n being a natural number) and determines, based on the acquired recording mode information, whether to perform an inter-page recovery operation at timing after recording of an image on a recording medium for n-th page ends and before recording of an image on a recording medium for (n+1)-th page starts.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshimitsu Danzuka, Masataka Kato, Hiroto Kango, Rie Takekoshi, Akihiro Tomida, Tomoki Yamamuro, Keita Ishimi, Kazuki Narumi, Taku Yokozawa, Kazuo Suzuki, Kazuhiko Sato
-
Publication number: 20220388321Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a carriage including a print head that discharges ink, the carriage reciprocally moving relative to a print medium, a wiping unit configured to wipe a discharge port surface, and a control unit configured to control a movement operation of the carriage and a wiping operation of the wiping unit such that when a deceleration when stopping the carriage is a first deceleration, a time from when the carriage stops to when the wiping unit starts wiping is set to a first time, and when the deceleration when stopping the carriage is a second deceleration lower than the first deceleration, the time from when the carriage stops to when the wiping unit starts wiping is set to a second time shorter than the first time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Rie Takekoshi, Hiroto Kango, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki, Toshimitsu Danzuka, Masataka Kato, Shin Genta, Kazuki Narumi, Tomoki Yamamuro, Takaaki Shima, Keita Ishimi
-
Publication number: 20220324328Abstract: An input unit receives a first image that captures a scene in front of a vehicle or a scene in front of a user on board a vehicle at a first point of time. A generator generates a third image showing a result of prediction of the scene in front at the first point of time, based on a second image that captures the scene in front at a second point of time preceding the first point of time. A display controller controls display of information presentation based on a result of comparison between the first image received by the input unit and the third image generated by the generator using a predetermined criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masataka KATO, Koichi EMURA
-
Patent number: 11390096Abstract: An ejection apparatus includes a platen for supporting a recording medium, an absorber provided in the platen for absorbing liquid, an ejection unit for ejecting a plurality of types of ink including a first liquid containing a component to be deposited when the first liquid is ejected onto the absorber, and a second liquid different from the first liquid for suppressing deposition of the first liquid, a detection unit for detecting a state of a predetermined region of the absorber, and a control unit for controlling the detection unit to detect the state, and controlling the ejection unit to eject the second liquid to the predetermined region based on a result of the detection. When the first liquid is ejected to the predetermined region, the second liquid is ejected to the predetermined region after the ejection of the first liquid is finished, without using the result of the detection.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoki Yamamuro, Kazuo Suzuki, Toshimitsu Danzuka, Yasunori Fujimoto, Masataka Kato, Kazuki Narumi, Hiroto Kango, Kazuhiko Sato
-
Patent number: 11383536Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus that can reduce smears on a back surface of a print result medium by reducing accumulation of ink in a platen while reducing generation of mist. To achieve this, an ink receiving portion of a platen is provided away from a support surface by a predetermined distance, is formed in a mesh shape by laying multiple linear members, and is formed as a guide member that guides the ink received in the ink receiving portion to an ink guide holes.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shin Genta, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki, Yoshinori Nakajima, Masataka Kato, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Satoshi Azuma, Shingo Nishioka, Sae Mogi
-
Patent number: 11345147Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate including an ejection port member including a liquid ejection port, an electrical wiring layer including a pressure generating element that pressurizes the liquid to eject the liquid and an electrically connecting part connected to the pressure generating element to supply power for driving the pressure generating element to the pressure generating element, and a silicon substrate having the ejection port member and the electrical wiring layer. The silicon substrate includes a through-hole passing through the silicon substrate to expose the electrically connecting part. An outer shape of an opening of the through-hole on the back side of the silicon substrate has no side parallel to direction [110] of the silicon substrate or has a side parallel to the direction [110]. The side has a length equal to or less than half an entire length of the through-hole in the direction [110].Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka Kato