Patents by Inventor Motohiro Tanaka

Motohiro Tanaka 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: 11931974
    Abstract: A filament winding apparatus includes a rail extending in a first direction, a core material support device that supports a core material, and a winding device that winds a fiber bundle onto an outer peripheral surface of the core material, the winding device including: a guide unit having an opening through which the core material passes, and guiding the fiber bundle; and a main frame on which the guide unit is mounted; wherein the main frame is movable relative to the core material in the first direction, the main frame is movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the main frame is rotatable around a first rotational axis extending in a third direction orthogonal to each of the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11931949
    Abstract: A filament winding device includes a fiber bundle retainer that temporarily retains fiber bundles. The fiber bundle retainer includes: a reel member including an outer peripheral portion having pins movable in the axial direction relative to the fiber bundles supplied through fiber bundle guides and rotatable about the axis of the liner, the reel member capable of winding the fiber bundles onto the outer peripheral portion; a first cutting unit configured to cut a part of each of the fiber bundles in the circumferential direction, the part being between a part of the fiber bundle wound on the outer peripheral portion and a part of the fiber bundle wound on the liner; and a second cutting unit different from the first cutting unit and configured to cut a part of each of the fiber bundles in the axial direction, the part being wound on the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20240014010
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber in which a sample is subjected to plasma processing, including, at an upper side therein, a dielectric plate, through which microwaves are transmitted; a radio frequency power supply which supplies radio frequency power for the microwaves; a cavity resonator which resonates microwaves transmitted from the radio frequency power supply through a waveguide and is placed above the dielectric plate; and a magnetic field forming mechanism which forms a magnetic field in the processing chamber. The plasma processing apparatus further includes: a ring-shaped conductor placed inside the cavity resonator; and a circular conductor which is placed inside the cavity resonator and placed in an opening at the center of the ring-shaped conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuo KAWANABE, Makoto SATAKE, Motohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11772498
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a power source, a requested driving force calculator, and an actual driving force calculator, and a driving controller. The requested driving force calculator calculates a requested driving force on the basis of a driving operation. The actual driving force calculator calculates an actual driving force following the requested driving force, while limiting a rate of change in the actual driving force. The driving controller controls the power source to output the actual driving force calculated. The actual driving force calculator changes the rate of change in the actual driving force, on the basis of a difference between the requested driving force and the actual driving force, and a lapsed time of limiting the rate of change in the actual driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro Oguro, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220415618
    Abstract: In a plasma processing apparatus including a processing chamber disposed in a vacuum chamber, a sample stage disposed in the processing chamber and on which a sample is placed, in the vacuum chamber, a second shower plate disposed above the sample stage, a first shower plate disposed above the second shower plate, and a dielectric window disposed above the first shower plate, first gas is supplied from a first gas supply unit to a space between the dielectric window and the first shower plate, and second gas is supplied from a second gas supply unit to a space between the first shower plate and the second shower plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kawanabe, Motohiro Tanaka, Takahiro Sakuragi, Kohei Sato
  • Publication number: 20220319809
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a plasma processing apparatus capable of both isotropic etching in which a flux of ions to a sample is reduced and anisotropic etching in which ions are incident on a sample in the same chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Taku Iwase, Naoyuki Kofuji, Yasushi Sonoda, Yusuke Nakatani, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11313362
    Abstract: A tubephragm pump includes a tubephragm that has a pump head portion that forms a pump chamber, a driving head that holds the tubephragm and expands and contracts the pump chamber by directly pressing and pulling the pump head portion in a direction intersecting with a transfer direction of a transfer fluid, a driving unit that drives the driving head back and forth in a driving direction to expand and contract the pump chamber, and a control unit that controls the driving unit. The tubephragm is in a flat shape with a cross-sectional shape intersecting with the transfer direction of the transfer fluid of the pump chamber having a length in a direction intersecting with the driving direction longer than a length in the driving direction. A pair of liquid contacting surfaces opposing in the driving direction of the pump chamber move while maintaining a parallel state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: IWAKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Matsuo, Hiroyuki Tanabe, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210221235
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a power source, a requested driving force calculator, and an actual driving force calculator, and a driving controller. The requested driving force calculator calculates a requested driving force on the basis of a driving operation. The actual driving force calculator calculates an actual driving force following the requested driving force, while limiting a rate of change in the actual driving force. The driving controller controls the power source to output the actual driving force calculated. The actual driving force calculator changes the rate of change in the actual driving force, on the basis of a difference between the requested driving force and the actual driving force, and a lapsed time of limiting the rate of change in the actual driving force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Chihiro OGURO, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200277947
    Abstract: A tubephragm pump includes a tubephragm that has a pump head portion that forms a pump chamber, a driving head that holds the tubephragm and expands and contracts the pump chamber by directly pressing and pulling the pump head portion in a direction intersecting with a transfer direction of a transfer fluid, a driving unit that drives the driving head back and forth in a driving direction to expand and contract the pump chamber, and a control unit that controls the driving unit. The tubephragm is in a flat shape with a cross-sectional shape intersecting with the transfer direction of the transfer fluid of the pump chamber having a length in a direction intersecting with the driving direction longer than a length in the driving direction. A pair of liquid contacting surfaces opposing in the driving direction of the pump chamber move while maintaining a parallel state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: IWAKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi MATSUO, Hiroyuki TANABE, Motohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10699909
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber configured to perform a plasma processing on a sample, a first radio frequency power supply configured to generate a plasma, a sample stage configured to place the sample thereon, a second radio frequency power supply configured to supply a radio frequency power to the sample stage, a mass flow controller configured to supply a gas into the processing chamber, and a control device configured to change the radio frequency power supplied from the first radio frequency power supply or the second radio frequency power supply based on a change of plasma impedance after a first gas is switched to a second gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HITACH HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Sonoda, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200102948
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump includes: a pump head having an inner space; a diaphragm configured to partition the inner space of the pump head into a pump chamber into which a transfer fluid is to be introduced and a working chamber into which working air is to be introduced; a driving device including a reciprocating member coupled to the diaphragm, the driving device being capable of driving the reciprocating member with the working air at least in a direction that the diaphragm is retracted; and a working air switching device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: IWAKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi MATSUO, Hiroyuki TANABE, Motohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190088453
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber, a radio frequency power source, and a magnetic-field generation unit. In the processing chamber, a sample is subjected to plasma processing. The radio frequency power source supplies radio frequency power for a microwave. The magnetic-field generation unit forms a magnetic field for generating plasma by an interaction with the microwave. The magnetic-field generation unit includes a first power source and a second power source. The first power source causes a current to flow in a first magnetic-field forming coil configured to forma magnetic field in the processing chamber. The second power source causes a current to flow in a second magnetic-field forming coil configured to form a magnetic field in the processing chamber. Sensitivity for magnetic-field changing by the first magnetic-field forming coil is higher than sensitivity for magnetic-field changing by the second magnetic-field forming coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yasushi SONODA, Naoki YASUI, Motohiro TANAKA, Koichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180277402
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma processing apparatus or method in which a procedure containing processing steps of supplying a predetermined amount of processing gas into a processing chamber disposed in a vacuum vessel through a gas supply unit, and processing a wafer placed on a sample table disposed in the processing chamber by generating plasma in the processing chamber using the processing gas supplied on each different condition. The procedure includes a first transition step of adjusting and supplying the rare gas to make a pressure of the rare gas equal to a condition of the processing gas used in the former processing step, and a second transition step of adjusting and supplying the rare gas after the first transition step such that a pressure and a flow rate of the rare gas come to be equal to a condition of the processing gas used in the later processing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Masatoshi KAWAKAMI, Motohiro TANAKA, Yasushi SONODA, Kohei SATO, Naoki YASUI
  • Publication number: 20180180839
    Abstract: One object is to reduce an allowable torque of a driving device. A driving device for driving a panel of a heliostat includes a second axis driving portion for rotating the panel around a second axis non-parallel to a first axis around which the panel is turned with respect to a horizontal plane. The second axis of the second axis driving portion is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a panel surface of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Motohiro TANAKA, Shinji INOUE
  • Patent number: 9960031
    Abstract: In a plasma processing apparatus comprising a processing chamber arranged in a vacuum chamber, a sample stage arranged under the processing chamber and having its top surface on which a wafer to be processed is mounted, a vacuum decompression unit for evacuating the interior of the processing chamber to reduce the pressure therein, and introduction holes arranged above said sample stage to admit process gas into the processing chamber, the wafer having its top surface mounted with a film structure and the film structure being etched by using plasma formed by using the process gas, the film structure is constituted by having a resist film or a mask film, a poly-silicon film and an insulation film laminated in this order from top to bottom on a substrate and before the wafer is mounted on the sample stage and the poly-silicon film underlying the mask film is etched, plasma is formed inside the processing chamber to cover the surface of members inside the processing chamber with a coating film containing a compo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Sumiya, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180023668
    Abstract: A panel driving device rotates a panel structure to vary a tilt thereof or turns the panel structure about a vertical axis, the panel structure including a panel for receiving sunlight, the panel driving device including: a drive source including a rotational portion capable of rotating; and a transmission mechanism including a connection portion connected to the panel structure, and configured to convert a rotational movement of the rotational portion into rotation or turning of the panel structure without converting the rotational movement of the rotational portion into a linear movement, wherein the connection portion is offset from a rotation axis of the rotational portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Shingo MIWA, Toshiharu HIBINO, Shinji INOUE, Motohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170032955
    Abstract: In a plasma processing apparatus comprising a processing chamber arranged in a vacuum chamber, a sample stage arranged under the processing chamber and having its top surface on which a wafer to be processed is mounted, a vacuum decompression unit for evacuating the interior of the processing chamber to reduce the pressure therein, and introduction holes arranged above said sample stage to admit process gas into the processing chamber, the wafer having its top surface mounted with a film structure and the film structure being etched by using plasma formed by using the process gas, the film structure is constituted by having a resist film or a mask film, a poly-silicon film and an insulation film laminated in this order from top to bottom on a substrate and before the wafer is mounted on the sample stage and the poly-silicon film underlying the mask film is etched, plasma is formed inside the processing chamber to cover the surface of members inside the processing chamber with a coating film containing a compo
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Sumiya, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9496147
    Abstract: In a plasma processing apparatus comprising a processing chamber arranged in a vacuum chamber, a sample stage arranged under the processing chamber and having its top surface on which a wafer to be processed is mounted, a vacuum decompression unit for evacuating the interior of the processing chamber to reduce the pressure therein, and introduction holes arranged above said sample stage to admit process gas into the processing chamber, the wafer having its top surface mounted with a film structure and the film structure being etched by using plasma formed by using the process gas, the film structure is constituted by having a resist film or a mask film, a poly-silicon film and an insulation film laminated in this order from top to bottom on a substrate and before the wafer is mounted on the sample stage and the poly-silicon film underlying the mask film is etched, plasma is formed inside the processing chamber to cover the surface of members inside the processing chamber with a coating film containing a compo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Sumiya, Motohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160133530
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber configured to perform a plasma processing on a sample, a first radio frequency power supply configured to generate a plasma, a sample stage configured to place the sample thereon, a second radio frequency power supply configured to supply a radio frequency power to the sample stage, a mass flow controller configured to supply a gas into the processing chamber, and a control device configured to change the radio frequency power supplied from the first radio frequency power supply or the second radio frequency power supply based on a change of plasma impedance after a first gas is switched to a second gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Yasushi SONODA, Motohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: D871608
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Okuda, Motohiro Tanaka