Patents by Inventor Miya (Yi-Cheng) Hsieh

Miya (Yi-Cheng) Hsieh 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: 20150255315
    Abstract: A rinsing liquid adheres to a substrate subjected to a cleaning process. The rinsing liquid on the substrate is first replaced with IPA liquid. While the substrate covered with the IPA liquid is held in a dryer chamber, liquid carbon dioxide is supplied to the surface of the substrate. Liquid nitrogen is supplied to cool down the interior of the dryer chamber. This solidifies the liquid carbon dioxide on the substrate into solid carbon dioxide. Thereafter, the pressure in the dryer chamber is returned to atmospheric pressure, and gaseous nitrogen is supplied into the dryer chamber. Thus, the temperature in the dryer chamber increases. The solid carbon dioxide on the surface of the substrate is sublimated, and is hence removed from the substrate. All of the steps are performed while carbon dioxide is not in a supercritical state but in a non-supercritical state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: DAINIPPON SCREEN MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko MIYA, Hiroaki KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150237894
    Abstract: Provided are frozen noodles which can retain a favorable quality even after microwave thawing. Packaged frozen noodles for microwave cooking comprising a package having a ventilation hole or ventilation holes, wherein a total area of an opening of the ventilation hole or openings of the ventilation holes is 0.02 to 5 cm2 per 100 cm2 of a surface area of the package, and the package contains inside thereof cooked noodles and 1 to 10 parts by mass of water relative to 100 parts by mass of the cooked noodles, and the cooked noodles and the water are frozen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: NISSHIN FOODS INC.
    Inventors: Kentarou Irie, Youhei Suga, Norio Koizumi, Takenori Watanabe, Youichirou Miya, Tsuguhiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9108808
    Abstract: The present invention relates to A lock hopper (11) provided with air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) arranged side by side with entrance valves (A1, B1) arranged above the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) and exit valves (A4, B4) arranged below the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3). The lock hopper (11) performs control which alternately repeats the following states: a state in which granular substances in an upper system are placed in one of the hoppers and gas is supplied into the other hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of the other hopper to a lower system and a state in which the granular substances in the upper system are placed in the other hopper and gas is supplied to said hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of said hopper to the lower system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: J-POWER EnTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuninori Furuyama, Masahiro Miya, Ryo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9113095
    Abstract: An imaging device performs optimum focus correction at low cost with an autofocus device that moves a lens for focusing an image. The imaging device includes a camera signal processing part having a contrast signal generation part that extracts a high frequency component from a video signal and generates a contrast signal of the video signal based on the extracted high frequency component. The imaging device also has a controller that performs focus control based on the contrast signal. The controller performs an ON/OFF control of an infrared rays cut filter and includes a recording part to hold a set value of an ON/OFF state of the infrared rays cut filter. The camera signal processing part includes a signal conversion processing part to change a ratio of RGB of the video signal to be sent to the contrast signal generation part based on the set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Miya Morimoto, Tomoaki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 9111966
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus comprising: a substrate holder which holds a substrate having a pattern formed in a surface of the substrate in a predetermined positional relationship with a reference indicator of the substrate; and a cleaner which abuts an adhesive member on the surface of the substrate which is held by the substrate holder and peels off the adhesive member along the surface of the substrate in a peeling direction which is not at right angle to a direction of the pattern, thereby cleaning the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kitagawa, Katsuhiko Miya
  • Publication number: 20150153052
    Abstract: A humidifier obtains, based on detection values of a first and second temperature and humidity sensors, the amount of humidification, the amount of water evaporated by a humidifying material per preset time, controls the amount of water supplied by a water supply unit per the preset time to be smaller than a specific value when the amount of humidification obtained at the present time is increased compared to the amount of humidification obtained at the previous time, and controls the amount of water supplied by the water supply unit per the preset time to be equal to or greater than the specific value when the amount of humidification obtained at the present time is decreased compared to the amount of humidification obtained at the previous time or when the amount of humidification obtained at the present time is equal to the amount of humidification obtained at the previous time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Saito, Seiji Noda, Kazuhiro Miya, Seiji Furukawa, Takafumi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20150140192
    Abstract: Provided is frozen noodles in which freezer burn is unlikely to occur. A method for producing frozen noodles comprises: a step of attaching a composition to cooked noodles, the composition comprising at least water, oil or fat and a polysaccharide thickener, and having a viscosity of from 30 to 2000 mPa·s at 60° C.; and a step of freezing the noodles to which the composition has attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: NISSHIN FOODS, INC.
    Inventors: Kentarou Irie, Youhei Suga, Norio Koizumi, Takenori Watanabe, Youichirou Miya, Tsuguhiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9027912
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including: an inner shaft member; a main rubber elastic body fixed to an outer circumference surface of the inner shaft member; and an outer bracket attached to an outer circumference surface of the main rubber elastic body. At least one locking projection formed to an inner circumference surface on a bracket main unit provided to the outer bracket is inserted and locked in a circumference direction in at least one locking groove formed on the outer circumference surface of the main rubber elastic body. The main rubber elastic body is held between axially opposed surfaces of an abutting protruding part formed on one axial end of the bracket main unit and a retaining protruding part formed on a press fit metal fitting press fit and fixed to another axial end of the bracket main unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Hibi, Akio Saiki, Takayoshi Yasuda, Masahiro Ohnishi, Kentaro Mori, Nobuya Yoshida, Hiroshi Miya
  • Publication number: 20150125582
    Abstract: Provided is a cooked noodle capable of maintaining a good texture and good taste and flavor even after refrigerated or frozen-stored. A method for producing a cooked noodle, comprising allowing a liquid comprising 1.0 to 15.0% by mass of a sugar and 0.5 to 8.0% by mass of a starch to attach to a heat-cooked noodle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: NISSHIN FOODS INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Fusaki Kajio, Youichirou Miya
  • Patent number: 9021993
    Abstract: A water heater in which by applying pulsation of a liquid to be heated which circulates between a tank and a heat exchanger, scale that has been deposited on the inner wall (heat-transfer surface) of a to-be-heated liquid flow channel in a heat exchanger is detached, and the number of times of circulation of the liquid to be heated which circulates between the tank and the heat exchanger is controlled to be three times or less. The number of times of circulation is determined, based on the entire volume of the to-be-heated liquid stored in the tank, a boiling time to be taken for the entire volume of the to-be-heated liquid in the tank to reach a predetermined temperature, and the flow rate of the to-be-heated liquid which passes through the to-be-heated liquid flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Furukawa, Kazuhiro Miya, Toshiyuki Kamiya, Tadashi Saito
  • Publication number: 20150118364
    Abstract: Provided is a frozen pasta retaining an original flavor of the pasta. A frozen pasta attached with a ground pasta product and/or durum wheat flour. A process for producing a frozen pasta, comprising cooling a boiled pasta and attaching, to the surface of the pasta, a ground product of a pasta, followed by freezing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: NISSHIN FOODS INC.
    Inventors: Youichirou Miya, Hitomi Yamaguchi, Fusaki Kajio
  • Publication number: 20150110942
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing frozen noodles comprising: a step of attaching a composition comprising xanthan gum and having a viscosity of from 30 to 2000 mPa·s at 60° C. to cooked noodles obtained by cooking fresh noodles produced by a rolling noodle-manufacturing method; and a step of freezing the noodles to which the composition has attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: NISSHIN FOODS INC.
    Inventors: Kentarou Irie, Youhei Suga, Norio Koizumi, Takenori Watanabe, Youichirou Miya, Tsuguhiko Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150083630
    Abstract: A technical problem of this invention is to create in-mold labels that can be adhered to wide areas, including 3D curved areas, of the peripheral wall of a synthetic resin container in a high-grade state without air entrapment and/or wrinkling. A principal means of this invention to solve the technical problem described above is in-mold labels used as an inserted material and adhered to the outer peripheral wall of a container main-body concurrently when the main body is being molded, said labels including an adhesive layer to be adhered to the outer peripheral wall of the container main-body, wherein this adhesive layer has depressed portions on a back surface thereof, the depressed portions being formed by embossing and being disposed in a regular pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Miya, Masafumi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20150044650
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods to utilize factual information based on stored analyte or physiological data to allow for positive reinforcement of behaviors that are conducive to managing a chronic disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Virendra Parlikar, Victoria Swenson, Gregory C. Silvesti, Miya Osaki, Frances Wilson Howell, Todd Krombholz, Laurence B. Katz
  • Publication number: 20150031213
    Abstract: A plasma processing method is provided for a plasma processing apparatus which includes a plurality of upstream-side expansion valves and a plurality of downstream-side expansion valves connected to respective refrigerant inlets and respective refrigerant outlets to adjust a flow rate or a pressure of a refrigerant flowing into the respective refrigerant inlets and a flow rate or a pressure of a refrigerant flowing out from the respective refrigerant outlets. The method includes adjusting openings of the upstream-side expansion valves and openings of the downstream-side expansion valves so that no change in flow rate of the refrigerant occurs in a plurality of refrigerant channels between the plurality of upstream-side expansion valves and the plurality of downstream-side expansion valves via the plurality of refrigerant channels in a refrigeration cycle allowing the refrigerant to flow therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Go MIYA, Masaru IZAWA, Takumi TANDOU
  • Publication number: 20150020852
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus comprises: an air flow generator which generates a down flow by gas flowing from top to bottom around a substrate W held horizontally; a liquid film former which forms a liquid film by supplying a liquid on an upper surface of the substrate; a cooling gas discharge nozzle which discharges cooling gas of a temperature lower than a freezing point of the liquid to the liquid film and thereby freezes the liquid film; and a remover which removes a frozen film formed by freezing the liquid film from the substrate. The air flow generator reduces a flow velocity of the down flow when the cooling gas is discharged to the liquid film from the cooling gas discharge nozzle than when the liquid is supplied to the substrate from the liquid film former.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiko KATO, Katsuhiko MIYA, Hiroyuki YASHIKI, Yoshiki IMURO
  • Publication number: 20150020850
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus comprises: a liquid film former which forms a liquid film by supplying a liquid on an upper surface of the substrate W held horizontally; a cooling gas discharge nozzle which discharges cooling gas of a temperature lower than a freezing point of the liquid forming the liquid film to the liquid film; a thawing liquid discharge nozzle which discharges a thawing liquid to a frozen film formed by freezing the liquid film; a thawing liquid supplier which supplies the heated thawing liquid to the thawing liquid discharge nozzle via a pipe; and a receiver which receives the cooling gas and the thawing liquid respectively discharged from the cooling gas discharge nozzle and the thawing liquid discharge nozzle at the respective retracted position and guides the cooling gas and the thawing liquid to a common flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiko KATO, Katsuhiko MIYA, Hiroyuki YASHIKI
  • Patent number: 8921781
    Abstract: In the case of inspecting samples having different sizes by means of a semiconductor inspecting apparatus, a primary electron beam bends since distribution is disturbed on an equipotential surface at the vicinity of the sample at the time of inspecting vicinities of the sample, and what is called a positional shift is generated. A potential correcting electrode is arranged outside the sample and at a position lower than the sample lower surface, and a potential lower than that of the sample is applied. Furthermore, a voltage to be applied to the potential correcting electrode is controlled corresponding to a distance between the inspecting position and a sample outer end, sample thickness and irradiation conditions of the primary electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Go Miya, Seiichiro Kanno, Hiroyuki Kitsunai, Masaru Matsushima, Toru Shuto
  • Publication number: 20140367546
    Abstract: A vibration damping device including: an inner shaft member; a main rubber elastic body fixed to an outer circumference surface of the inner shaft member; and an outer bracket attached to an outer circumference surface of the main rubber elastic body. At least one locking projection formed to an inner circumference surface on a bracket main unit provided to the outer bracket is inserted and locked in a circumference direction in at least one locking groove formed on the outer circumference surface of the main rubber elastic body. The main rubber elastic body is held between axially opposed surfaces of an abutting protruding part formed on one axial end of the bracket main unit and a retaining protruding part formed on a press fit metal fitting press fit and fixed to another axial end of the bracket main unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicants: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru HIBI, Akio SAIKI, Takayoshi YASUDA, Masahiro OHNISHI, Kentaro MORI, Nobuya YOSHIDA, Hiroshi MIYA
  • Publication number: 20140367547
    Abstract: An engine mount for use in a power unit vibration damping support structure configured to be mounted on a transmission side in a state without a distributed support load of a weight of the power unit being applied, the engine mount including: an inner shaft member; an outer tube member arranged separated to an outer circumference side of the inner shaft member; and a main rubber elastic body fixed to the inner shaft member while being attached to the outer tube member non-adhesively such that the inner shaft member and the outer tube member are elastically connected by the main rubber elastic body, wherein the outer tube member is configured to be attached to the power unit, and the inner shaft member is configured to be attached to a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicants: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro OHNISHI, Akio SAIKI, Takayoshi YASUDA, Hiroyuki ICHIKAWA, Nobuya YOSHIDA, Hiroshi MIYA