Patents by Inventor Masayuki Ishikawa
Masayuki Ishikawa 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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Publication number: 20220399474Abstract: Exemplary processing methods of forming an LED structure may include depositing an aluminum nitride layer on a substrate via a physical vapor deposition process. The methods may include heating the aluminum nitride layer to a temperature greater than or about 1500° C. The methods may include forming an ultraviolet light emitting diode structure overlying the aluminum nitride layer utilizing a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition or molecular beam epitaxy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Zihao Yang, Mengnan Zou, Mingwei Zhu, David Masayuki Ishikawa, Nag Patibandla
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Patent number: 11515063Abstract: A composite cable that enables to easily restrain falling-off of separator dust at the time of peeling off a sheath, in comparison with composite cables in the conventional art. The composite cable includes a plurality of wires, a separator that covers the outer circumference of the plurality of wires all together, a sheath that covers the outer circumference of the separator, and an inclusion that is interposed between the separator and the sheath. The separator has a base layer composed of a polymer and an adhesive layer formed on the surface of the base layer on the inclusion side. In the composite cable, the adhesive layer is adhered to the inclusion.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenta Kobayashi, Akira Kitabata, Takaya Kohori, Masayuki Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20220372620Abstract: Exemplary methods of forming a coating of material on a substrate may include forming a plasma of a first precursor and an oxygen-containing precursor. The first precursor and the oxygen-containing precursor may be provided in a first flow rate ratio. The methods may include depositing a first layer of material on the substrate. While maintaining the plasma, the methods may include adjusting the first flow rate ratio to a second flow rate ratio. The methods may include depositing a second layer of material on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Lance A. Scudder, Sukti Chatterjee, David Masayuki Ishikawa, Yuriy V. Melnik, Vibhas Singh
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Publication number: 20220375723Abstract: Exemplary methods of forming a coating of material on a substrate may include forming a plasma of a first precursor and an oxygen-containing precursor. The first precursor and the oxygen-containing precursor may be provided in a first flow rate ratio. The methods may include depositing a first layer of material on the substrate. While maintaining the plasma, the methods may include adjusting the first flow rate ratio to a second flow rate ratio. The methods may include depositing a second layer of material on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Lance A. Scudder, Sukti Chatterjee, David Masayuki Ishikawa, Yuriy V. Melnik, Vibhas Singh
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Patent number: 11473842Abstract: A melting work device and a melting work method by which work can be easily performed on a melting furnace without a worker approaching the melting furnace. A melting work device performs work on a melt obtained by melting a material in a melting furnace. The melting work device has a drive mechanism; and a plurality of work tools that are operated by the drive mechanism; wherein the drive mechanism is able to move the work tools in an arbitrary direction at an arbitrary location above the melting furnace.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Tamaki, Takahiro Yano, Masayuki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11456090Abstract: Provided is an insulated electrical cable including: a core wire made up of at least one insulated wire including a conductor and an insulating layer covering the conductor; an inner sheath layer covering the core wire; and an outer sheath layer covering the inner sheath layer. The inner sheath layer has an elastic modulus A at ?30° C. in a range from 10 MPa to 1000 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Matsumura, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Taro Fujita, Takaya Kohori, Masayuki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11443870Abstract: A composite cable includes an electric wire bundle, and an outer layer sheath covering the electric wire bundle. The electric wire bundle includes a one-core first electric wire, a one-core second electric wire, a two-core twisted pair electric wire, a one-core third electric wire, and one wire-like interposed material formed in the shape of a wire using a polymer. In the electric wire bundle, in a cross sectional view the twisted pair electric wire is disposed on one side of a centerline joining the center of the first electric wire and the center of the second electric wire, and the third electric wire and the wire-like interposed material are disposed on the other side of the centerline.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenta Kobayashi, Jo Yagisawa, Masayuki Ishikawa, Takumi Ooshima
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Publication number: 20220285140Abstract: Apparatus and systems for temperature probe integration on pedestal heaters of a processing chamber including a cooling assembly for cooling temperature probes disposed within. Cooling assemblies can be actively water-cooled, passively cooled by fin stacks. Further cooling assemblies include a mechanical arm assembly for lowering or raising the temperature probes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Marcus Blake Freitas, David Masayuki Ishikawa, Vijay D. Parkhe, Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan
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Patent number: 11428331Abstract: A first flow path area at a position where one of multiple openings of a sleeve and one of multiple grooves of a spool overlap with each other is different in size from a second flow path area at a position where another one of the openings of the sleeve and another one of the grooves of the spool overlap with each other. The one opening and the one groove form a flow path for connecting one of one pressure chamber and the other pressure chamber to a fluid supply source, due to displacement of the spool. The other opening and the other groove form a flow path for connecting another one of the other pressure chamber and the one pressure chamber to a fluid discharge port, due to the displacement of the spool.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Yajima, Masayuki Ishikawa, Satoru Ito, Gen Tsuchiya, Takehiko Kanazawa
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Publication number: 20220266351Abstract: A control method of controlling a chuck device in a drive system for driving the chuck device, comprising opening or closing fingers by opening a switching valve at a first degree of valve opening to supply the fluid to a first cylinder chamber of the chuck device and to discharge the fluid from a second cylinder chamber of the chuck device so that a piston moves in one direction, and stopping the fingers in an intermediate position between a fully open position and a fully closed position by opening the switching valve at a second degree of valve opening to stop supplying the fluid to the first cylinder chamber and to stop discharging the fluid from the second cylinder chamber when the axial position of the piston reaches a target position set in advance while the fingers are being opened or closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi YAJIMA, Gen TSUCHIYA, Masayuki ISHIKAWA, Takehiko KANAZAWA
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Patent number: 11410789Abstract: A core wire for multi-core cables includes a conductor obtained by twisting a plurality of elemental wires, and an insulating layer coated on an outer peripheral surface of the conductor. The insulating layer contains polyethylene-based resin as a main component, and the product of a linear expansion coefficient C1 of the insulating layer in the range of 25° C. to ?35° C. and an elastic modulus E1 at ?35° C., namely (C1×E1), is 0.01 MPaK?1 or more and 0.90 MPaK?1 or less. The melting point of the polyethylene-based resin is 80° C. or higher and 130° C. or lower.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Matsumura, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Taro Fujita, Takaya Kohori, Masayuki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11410792Abstract: A multicore cable includes: a plurality of coated electric wires; and an outer coating that covers an outer periphery of the plurality of coated electric wires, wherein the coated electric wires each includes a conductor and an insulating layer that covers the conductor, and wherein, in a range of 0.1 mm from an outer surface of the outer coating, a storage modules of the outer coating at ?30° C. is greater than or equal to 300 MPa and less than or equal to 500 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Ooshima, Masayuki Ishikawa, Jo Yagisawa
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Patent number: 11396164Abstract: An electronic component includes a ceramic element, glass-containing Au layers formed on both surfaces of the ceramic element, and an Au—Sn alloy layer formed on at least one of the glass-containing Au layers; the electronic component further includes a pure-Au layer between the glass-containing Au layer and the Au—Sn alloy layer; furthermore, the Au—Sn alloy layer has an Au—Sn eutectic structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Ishikawa, Satoru Daido, Kaoru Nishizawa, Akihiro Yoshida, Hiroki Sato
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Publication number: 20220219247Abstract: A drive system for driving a chuck device including a piston and a pair of fingers to be opened and closed according to the displacement of the piston, includes a controller, a detection sensor to detect an axial position of the piston, and three-port servo valves to switch a state of supply of the fluid to the chuck device. A degree of valve opening is controllable based on a control signal input from the controller, and an amount of displacement of the piston and an amount of opening and closing of the fingers are controlled by changing the degree of valve opening. One of the 3-port servo valves is connected to a first cylinder chamber of the chuck device, and another of the 3-port servo valves is connected to a second cylinder chamber of the chuck device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi YAJIMA, Gen TSUCHIYA, Masayuki ISHIKAWA, Takehiko KANAZAWA
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Patent number: 11370035Abstract: A drive system for driving a chuck device includes a controller and a switching valve, which is a 5-port servo valve, switching the state of supply of compressed air to the chuck device based on a valve command signal from the controller. During switching of first and second fingers from a closed position to an open position, when the axial position of a piston reaches a switch point, which is a predetermined distance short of a target position corresponding to a freely selected intermediate position of the first and second fingers, the switching valve is opened at a third opening for a predetermined period and then switched to be opened at a fourth opening so that supply and discharge of compressed air are stopped. As a result, the first and second fingers stop in the intermediate position.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Yajima, Gen Tsuchiya, Masayuki Ishikawa, Takehiko Kanazawa
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Publication number: 20220190306Abstract: Metrology systems and processing methods for continuous lithium ion battery (LIB) anode pre-lithiation and solid metal anode protection are provided. In some embodiments, the metrology system integrates at least one complementary non-contact sensor to measure at least one of surface composition, coating thickness, and nanoscale roughness. The metrology system and processing methods can be used to address anode edge quality. The metrology system and methods can facilitate high quality and high yield closed loop anode pre-lithiation and anode protection layer deposition, alloy-type anode pre-lithiation stage control improves LIB coulombic efficiency, and anode coating with pinhole free and electrochemically active protection layers resist dendrite formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: David Masayuki ISHIKAWA, Girish Kumar GOPALAKRISHNAN NAIR, Ezhiylmurugan RANGASAMY, David ALVAREZ, Kent Qiujing ZHAO
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Publication number: 20220181045Abstract: An insulated electric cable including: two first core wires, each of the two first core wires including: a first conductor; and a first insulating layer covering the first conductor; and two second core wires, each of the two second core wires including: a second conductor having a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the first conductor; and a second insulating layer covering the second conductor; wherein the two second core wires are mutually stranded to form a subunit, and wherein one of the two first core wires, another of the two first core wires, and the subunit are mutually stranded and are in contact with each other to form a core member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Yuji OCHI, Masayuki ISHIKAWA, Takami SAGISAKA, Takaya KOHORI
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Publication number: 20220181601Abstract: A method and system for forming lithium anode devices are provided. In one embodiment, the methods and systems form pre-lithiated Group-IV alloy-type nanoparticles (NP's), for example, Li—Z where Z is Ge, Si, or Sn. In another embodiment, the methods and systems synthesize Group-IV nanoparticles and alloy the Group-IV nanoparticles with lithium. The Group-IV nanoparticles can be made on demand and premixed with anode materials or coated on anode materials. In yet another embodiment, the methods and systems form lithium metal-free silver carbon (“Ag—C”) nanocomposites (NC's). In yet another embodiment, a method utilizing silver (PVD) and carbon (PECVD) co-deposition to make anode coatings that can regulate lithium nucleation energy to minimize dendrite formation is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Alejandro SEVILLA, Ezhiylmurugan RANGASAMY, Subramanya P. HERLE, David Masayuki ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220181599Abstract: Exemplary processing methods may include translating a lithium film beneath a first showerhead. The methods may include introducing an oxidizer gas through the first showerhead onto the lithium film. The methods may include forming an oxide monolayer on the lithium film. The oxide monolayer may be or include the oxidizer gas adsorbed on the lithium film. The methods may include translating the lithium film beneath a second showerhead after forming the oxide monolayer. The methods may include introducing a carbon source gas through the first showerhead onto the lithium film. The methods may also include converting the oxide monolayer into a carbonate passivation layer through reaction of the oxide monolayer with the carbon source gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Alejandro Sevilla, Wei-Sheng Lei, Girishkumar Gopalakrishnannair, Ezhiylmurugan Rangasamy, David Masayuki Ishikawa, Subramanya P. Herle
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Patent number: 11338746Abstract: An automobile architecture includes a composite cable, a main electronic control unit, a subsidiary electronic control unit, a motor sensor, and a wheel velocity sensor. In the architecture, the composite cable connects the main electronic control unit and the subsidiary electronic control unit, and the motor sensor and the wheel velocity sensor are connected to the subsidiary electronic control unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenta Kobayashi, Akira Kitabata, Takaya Kohori, Masayuki Ishikawa, Taiko Sato, Hiroyuki Ishikawa