Patents by Inventor Naoki Watanabe

Naoki Watanabe 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: 12369349
    Abstract: In the present invention, in a FinFET having a channel forming region on a surface of a fin that is a semiconductor layer protruding on an upper surface of a substrate, a channel at a corner of the fin is prevented from becoming an ON state with a low voltage and a steep ON/OFF operation is made possible. As a means thereof, in a MOSFET that has a plurality of trenches, each of which have embedded therein a gate electrode, on an upper surface of an n-type epitaxial substrate provided with a drain region on a bottom surface and that has a channel region formed on a surface of a fin which is a protrusion part between the trenches adjacent to each other, a p-type body layer that constitutes a lateral surface of the fin, and a p+-type semiconductor region that constitutes a corner which is an end of the upper surface of the fin, are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeru Suto, Naoki Watanabe, Tomoka Suematsu, Hiroshi Miki
  • Patent number: 12327744
    Abstract: A substrate transfer device, includes: a first planar motor installed in a first chamber and having an array of coils; a second planar motor installed in a second chamber connected to the first chamber and having an array of coils; a pair of transfer units configured to move on at least one of the first planar motor and the second planar motor and configured to transfer a substrate; and a controller configured to control supply of electric current to the coils of the first planar motor and the second planar motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hatano, Tetsuya Miyashita, Naoki Watanabe, Naoyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12299249
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor board and a display device. The sensor board includes a light-emitting device array (106) in which light-emitting devices is two-dimensionally arranged and loop coils which, in operation, detects a position that has been indicated by an electronic pen, through electromagnetic induction generated with the electronic pen. Line conductors connected to the light-emitting devices of the light-emitting device array is partly used in common as coil conductors formed by the loop coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kotani, Yutaka Nomura, Kyohei Ono, Seiji Sakurai, Kei Nishino, Naoki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250084412
    Abstract: Provided is a drug that allows highly-efficient skipping of exon. The present invention provides an antisense oligomer wherein two or more unit oligomers targeting sequences that are neither consecutive nor overlap with each other in the same exon are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: NIPPON SHINYAKU CO., LTD., NATIONAL CENTER OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Yuuichirou Tone, Shin'ichi Takeda, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250042933
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition which causes skipping of the 53rd exon in the human dystrophin gene with a high efficiency. The present invention provides an oligomer which efficiently enables to cause skipping of the 53rd exon in the human dystrophin gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicants: NIPPON SHINYAKU CO., LTD., NATIONAL CENTER OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Youhei Satou, Shin'ichi Takeda, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 12211720
    Abstract: A vacuum transfer device configured to transfer a substrate in a vacuum includes: a flat motor including a body, a plurality of electromagnetic coils arrayed in the body, and a current controller that controls a current supplied to the electromagnetic coil; a transfer unit including a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate, and a base having a plurality of magnets arrayed therein and magnetically levitating from a surface of the body by a magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic coil, and move in a magnetically levitating state thereby moving the substrate holder; and a temperature controller configured to adjust temperature of at least a portion of the body. The temperature of the transfer unit is adjusted by stopping the magnetic levitation of the base by controlling the current supplied to the electromagnetic coil, and bringing the base into contact with a temperature-adjusted portion of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hatano, Naoki Watanabe, Tetsuya Miyashita
  • Patent number: 12183612
    Abstract: A substrate transfer apparatus for transferring a substrate is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a transfer unit including a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate, and a base having therein a magnet and configured to move the substrate holder; a planar motor including a main body, a plurality of electromagnetic coils disposed in the main body, and a linear driver configured to supply a current to the electromagnetic coils, and magnetically levitate and linearly drive the base; a substrate detection sensor configured to detect the substrate when the substrate held by the substrate holder passes by; and a transfer controller configured to calculate an actual position of the substrate held by the substrate holder based on detection data of the substrate detection sensor, calculate correction values for a logical position that has been set, and correct a transfer position of the substrate based on the correction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hatano, Naoki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12174044
    Abstract: Magnets are arranged at intervals along a stroke direction with an interposed space. Magnetic pole surfaces of adjacent ones of the magnets have opposite poles. A detector is arranged with a gap in a gap direction against a magnetic pole surface of each of the magnets and acquires a sine signal and a cosine signal as detection signals of phases corresponding to the positions of the magnets, based on a change in a magnetic field received from the magnets according to movement of the detector relative to the detection object in the stroke direction. A signal processor acquires the sine signal and the cosine signal from the detector, generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, an arctangent signal corresponding to a stroke amount of the detection object relative to the detector, and acquires the arctangent signal as a position signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumoto, Tsukasa Kono, Atsushi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Ohmi, Michihiro Makita, Naoki Watanabe, Sukhwa Jung
  • Patent number: 12172409
    Abstract: An inorganic substrate/polymer film laminate with an attached protective film that allows for easy individual removal even when stored in a stacked state for a long period of time is provided. A first laminate is characterized by including an inorganic substrate, a polymer film layer and a first protective film, in that order, wherein the surface roughness Ra of the surface of the inorganic substrate opposite of the polymer film layer is 0.02-1.2 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaya Tokuda, Satoshi Maeda, Tetsuo Okuyama, Naoki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240419266
    Abstract: A method may be executed by one or more active capacitive styluses and a sensor controller connected to sensor electrodes. The method includes: a discovery step, executed by the sensor controller, of repeatedly sending out a discovery packet for detecting any of the active capacitive styluses; a discovery response step, executed by a first active capacitive stylus among the one or more active capacitive styluses, by which the discovery packet is detected, of returning a response packet to the discovery packet; a configuration step, executed by the sensor controller, of transmitting a configuration packet including time slot designation information that designates a first time slot to the first active capacitive stylus; and a data transmission step, executed by the first active capacitive stylus, of transmitting operation state data indicative of an operation state of the first active capacitive stylus using the designated first time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventor: Naoki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12162397
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp fitting and the like capable of preventing (or suppressing) vibrations of a radar unit (and as a result, capable of preventing the detection area of the radar unit from being significantly changed) are provided. A vehicular lamp fitting includes: a lamp housing; an outer lens attached to the lamp housing, the outer lens including a recessed part and forming a first space between the outer lens and the lamp housing; a lamp unit disposed in the first space; a radar cover disposed while covering the recessed part, and forming a second space between the radar cover and the recessed part; a bracket disposed in the second space; a radar unit detachably fixed to the bracket; and a first fixing part fixing one end of the bracket to the outer lens; and a second fixing part fixing the other end of the bracket to the lamp housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LID., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Atsushi Imori, Yuichiro Nishimura, Minoru Yamaguchi, Miho Sasaki, Hideaki Aizawa, Masayuki Takayama, Hironori Tamakawa, Takato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12115755
    Abstract: The invention provides a laminate including a polyimide film and an inorganic substrate, which has a number density of blisters including carbide particles therein of 50/m2 or less, an average height of blisters of 2 ?m or less, a product of the number density of the blisters (blisters/m2) and the average height of the blisters (?m) of 20 or less. The inventive laminate can be obtained by laminating the polyimide film and the inorganic substrate after sufficiently purifying and cleaning to remove foreign bodies made of inorganic substance therefrom, followed by heat treating the laminate at a temperature of 350-600° C. and then rapidly cooling it to carbonize and reduce the organic foreign bodies, and also to rapidly cool the gas contained in the blisters, which leads to reduced height of blisters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamashita, Tetsuo Okuyama, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya, Naoki Watanabe, Kaya Tokuda, Shota Hara
  • Patent number: 12105898
    Abstract: A method may be executed by one or more active capacitive styluses and a sensor controller connected to sensor electrodes. The method includes: a discovery step, executed by the sensor controller, of repeatedly sending out a discovery packet for detecting any of the active capacitive styluses; a discovery response step, executed by a first active capacitive stylus among the one or more active capacitive styluses, by which the discovery packet is detected, of returning a response packet to the discovery packet; a configuration step, executed by the sensor controller, of transmitting a configuration packet including time slot designation information that designates a first time slot to the first active capacitive stylus; and a data transmission step, executed by the first active capacitive stylus, of transmitting operation state data indicative of an operation state of the first active capacitive stylus using the designated first time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12073033
    Abstract: An active pen includes an integrated circuit that transmits a downlink signal through a first electrode and receives an uplink signal through a second electrode different from the first electrode. The active pen includes a stop filter inserted between the second electrode and the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit, in operation, performs transmission of the downlink signal and the reception of the uplink signal at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Takeshi Koike, Naoki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12060556
    Abstract: Provided is a drug that allows highly-efficient skipping of exon. The present invention provides an antisense oligomer wherein two or more unit oligomers targeting sequences that are neither consecutive nor overlap with each other in the same exon are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON SHINYAKU CO., LTD., NATIONAL CENTER OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Yuuichirou Tone, Shin'ichi Takeda, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 12033878
    Abstract: A substrate transfer apparatus includes a planar motor provided in a transfer chamber and having coils arranged therein, a transfer unit movable on the planar motor, and a control unit configured to control an energization of the coils. The transfer unit includes two bases having magnets arranged thereon and configured to be movable on the planar motor, a substrate support member configured to support a substrate, and a link mechanism configured to connect the two bases and the substrate support member to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hatano, Tetsuya Miyashita, Naoki Watanabe, Naoyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11995252
    Abstract: Provided is an input system including an instruction device; a detection device that detects an instruction position of the instruction device; a display device that is provided separately from the detection device and that displays an image of a space; a position detector that detects, in the space, a line-of-sight position in a line-of-sight of the position detector; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set, in the space, an instruction target area including a reference position of the instruction device, based on the line-of-sight position detected by the position detector at the time of reception of a predetermined operation by the instruction device, and control the display device to display the instruction position of the instruction device in the instruction target area and on the image of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Tatsunori Kato
  • Publication number: 20240166918
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a bonded object or a method for manufacturing a bonded object, the bonded object having bases bonded therein while placing an adhesive layer in between, the adhesive layer being obtained from a fluororubber composition that contains at least one fluororubber selected from fluoroelastomer (FKM) and perfluoroelastomer (FFKM), and has a Mooney viscosity (ML 1+10) at 121° C., measured in accordance with ASTM D1646, of 80 to 115.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicants: VALQUA, LTD., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Yoshihiro Setoguchi, Takafumi Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11990357
    Abstract: A substrate transport apparatus which transports a substrate to a substrate transport position. The apparatus comprises: a transport unit including a substrate holder that holds the substrate, a base having magnets and configured to move the substrate holder, and a link member connecting the substrate holder to the base; and a planar motor having a main body, electromagnetic coils arranged in the main body, and a linear driver supplying power to the electromagnetic coils to magnetically levitate and linearly drive the base. The base includes a first member and a second member rotatably provided in the first member, and the magnets are provided inside the first member and the second member, the link member is rotatably connected to the second member, and the linear driver rotates the second member with respect to the first member and expands and contracts the substrate holder via the link member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hatano, Naoki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11978794
    Abstract: In a SiC power MISFET having a lateral surface of a trench formed in an upper surface of a SiC epitaxial substrate as a channel region, a silicon carbide semiconductor device having low resistance, high performance, and high reliability is realized. As a means therefor, a SiC power MISFET is formed as an island-shaped unit cell on an upper surface of an n-type SiC epitaxial substrate that is provided with a drain region on a bottom surface thereof, the SiC power MISFET including: an n-type current diffusion region that surrounds a p-type body layer contact region and an n-type source region in the indicated order in a plan view; a p-type body layer and an n-type JFET region; a trench that is formed on the body layer so as to span between the source region and the current diffusion region adjacent each other in a first direction and extends in the first direction; and a gate electrode embedded in the trench with a gate insulating film therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeru Suto, Naoki Tega, Naoki Watanabe, Yuki Mori, Digh Hisamoto