Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Hashimoto

Nobuhiro Hashimoto 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: 12148632
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a holder configured to hold a substrate; a driving unit configured to rotate the holder; an inner cup body provided in the holder to surround the substrate held by the holder; a mist guard, surrounding the holder and the inner cup body, configured to be moved up and down; a cleaning liquid supply configured to supply a cleaning liquid; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: supplying a processing liquid to the substrate from a processing liquid supply, in a state that the substrate is held by the holder and the mist guard is raised; and dispersing, after the supplying of the processing liquid, the cleaning liquid supplied from the cleaning liquid supply to an entire inner peripheral surface of the mist guard, in a state that the substrate is carried out from the holder and the mist guard is raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusuke Hashimoto, Daisuke Goto, Kanta Mori, Jiro Higashijima, Nobuhiro Ogata
  • Patent number: 12119608
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable laser includes a filter region having a wavelength selection function on light from a gain region, wherein the filter region is a Sagnac interferometer and includes two ring resonators. The ring resonator has two optical couplers, and first and second curved waveguides connecting the two optical couplers, each of the two optical couplers is configured to receive input of the light from the gain region through an input-output port, to couple light of a resonant peak to a bar port of the input-output port, and to couple light except light at a resonant peak wavelength to a cross port of the input-output port, and each of radiation waveguides connected to the cross ports of the input-output ports of the two optical couplers has a structure that radiates the light except the light at the resonant peak wavelength to a front surface or a back surface of a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Muranaka, Shinji Matsuo, Nobuhiro Nunoya, Toshikazu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12119607
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable laser includes a filter region having a wavelength selection function on light from a gain region, wherein the filter region is a Sagnac interferometer and includes two ring resonators. The ring resonator has two optical couplers, and first and second curved waveguides connecting the two optical couplers, each of the two optical couplers is configured to receive input of the light from the gain region through an input-output port, to couple light of a resonant peak to a bar port of the input-output port, and to couple light except light at a resonant peak wavelength to a cross port of the input-output port, and the first curved waveguide connects the bar ports of the input-output ports of the two optical couplers, and the second curved waveguide connects the cross ports of ports, of two optical couplers, that the first curved waveguide is connected to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Muranaka, Shinji Matsuo, Nobuhiro Nunoya, Toshikazu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12051605
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a fluid supply unit that supplies a fluid that includes a pressurized vapor or mist of a purified water, a processing liquid supply unit that supplies a processing liquid that includes at least sulfuric acid, and a nozzle that includes a first discharge port that discharges a fluid that is supplied from the fluid supply unit, a second discharge port that discharges a processing liquid that is supplied from the processing liquid supply unit, and a guiding route that is communicated with the first discharge port and the second discharge port and guides a mixed fluid of a fluid that is discharged from the first discharge port and a processing liquid that is discharged from the second discharge port, where a cross-sectional area of the guiding route is greater than a cross-sectional area of the first discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Ogata, Hiroki Sakurai, Daisuke Goto, Takahiro Koga, Kanta Mori, Yusuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12037779
    Abstract: A flush water tank apparatus has a reservoir tank, a discharge valve, a discharge valve hydraulic drive portion configured to drive the discharge valve, and a discharge/vacuum break valve device configured to supply the water supplied from the upstream side to the discharge valve hydraulic drive portion on a downstream side. The discharge valve hydraulic drive portion includes a cylinder, and a piston configured to be moved by a pressure of the water flowing into the cylinder to move the discharge valve. The discharge/vacuum break valve device includes a valve body that operates to discharge the water flowing backward from the discharge valve hydraulic drive portion while opening the upstream side to an atmosphere when the supply of the water from the upstream side is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shimuta, Hidekazu Kitaura, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Masahiro Kuroishi, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Koki Shinohara, Kenji Hatama, Takashi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 10739531
    Abstract: To provide a connector cleaning tool capable of precisely removing dust even on an end surface of a connector having irregularities. The connector cleaning tool includes a buffer body, and an adhesive body arranged with the buffer body, in which in a case where the connector cleaning tool is pressed toward a connection end surface of a connector on which a guide pin is protrudingly provided, the guide pin is inserted into the buffer body via the adhesive body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Takanashi, Nobuhiro Hashimoto, Yoshihiro Goto, Masayoshi Suzuki, Makoto Goto
  • Publication number: 20190025524
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cleaner which is excellent in dust removability, has a small amount of adhesive residue and is able to clean sufficiently over the details of unevenness even when cleaning an end face having unevenness, and the present invention provides a cleaner which is excellent in dust removability, has a small amount of adhesive residue and is able to clean sufficiently over the details of unevenness even when cleaning an end face having unevenness by setting a peeling force of an adhesive body to 0.1 to 10 N/20 mm and a hardness of the adhesive body to 12 to 52.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Goto, Masayoshi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Goto, Nobuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20180231717
    Abstract: To provide a connector cleaning tool capable of precisely removing dust even on an end surface of a connector having irregularities. The connector cleaning tool includes a buffer body, and an adhesive body arranged with the buffer body, in which in a case where the connector cleaning tool is pressed toward a connection end surface of a connector on which a guide pin is protrudingly provided, the guide pin is inserted into the buffer body via the adhesive body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi TAKANASHI, Nobuhiro HASHIMOTO, Yoshihiro GOTO, Masayoshi SUZUKI, Makoto GOTO
  • Patent number: 9995856
    Abstract: A lens array fabrication method for fabricating a lens array includes: receiving pins (16) of a film attaching instrument (jig) in second guide holes (10) of a film-containing base plate; bonding a placement area and an adhesion layer (F); removing the pins (16); causing a detachment between a first detachment film (C) and a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film (D); separating three layers (D) to (F) from two layers (B) and (C); receiving the pins (16) in first guide holes (7) of a lens array main unit; fitting a film holding protrusion (15) in a depression part (6); bonding the film (D) to a bonding region (i); removing the pins (16); and causing a detachment between the film (D) and a second detachment film (E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanazawa, Shimpei Morioka, Makoto Goto, Nobuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20180074267
    Abstract: The present invention provides an end-face cleaner for cleaning an end face having a pin projected thereon, comprising an adhesive layer configured to be pierced with a pin, and a support configured to support the adhesive layer and expose a partial surface of the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Tomoegawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Suzuki, Nobuhiro Hashimoto, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Akiyoshi Shima
  • Publication number: 20170131440
    Abstract: A lens array fabrication method for fabricating a lens array includes: receiving pins (16) of a film attaching instrument (jig) in second guide holes (10) of a film-containing base plate; bonding a placement area and an adhesion layer (F); removing the pins (16); causing a detachment between a first detachment film (C) and a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film (D); separating three layers (D) to (F) from two layers (B) and (C); receiving the pins (16) in first guide holes (7) of a lens array main unit; fitting a film holding protrusion (15) in a depression part (6); bonding the film (D) to a bonding region (i); removing the pins (16); and causing a detachment between the film (D) and a second detachment film (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro TANAZAWA, Shimpei MORIOKA, Makoto GOTO, Nobuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170131486
    Abstract: A film attaching jig (III) is used in a method for fabricating a lens array to attach a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film (D) onto an adhesion area (i) and has: (1) a main body having a first end face in a z?-direction being an end face to be directed to a film-containing base plate (II) and a lens array main unit (I); (2) a film holding projection that is provided on the first end face and protrudes in parallel to the z?-direction toward the film-containing base plate (II) and the lens array main unit (I), the film holding projection having a holding area (iii) at its front end face for temporarily holding the pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film (D); and (3) a pair of pins or holes disposed on the first end face in parallel to the z?-direction, and provided at opposite positions over the film holding projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro TANAZAWA, Shimpei MORIOKA, Makoto GOTO, Nobuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9575281
    Abstract: A lens array fabrication method for fabricating a lens array includes: receiving pins of a film attaching instrument (jig) in second guide holes of a film-containing base plate; bonding a placement area and an adhesion layer (F); removing the pins; causing a detachment between a first detachment film (C) and a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film (D); separating three layers (D) to (F) from two layers (B) and (C); receiving the pins in first guide holes of a lens array main unit; fitting a film holding protrusion in a depression part; bonding the film (D) to a bonding region (i); removing the pins; and causing a detachment between the film (D) and a second detachment film (E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: ENPLAS CORPORATION, TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanazawa, Shimpei Morioka, Makoto Goto, Nobuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9470845
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical connection component manufacturing apparatus that manufactures an optical connection component in which a refractive index matching body is attached to a front end face of an optical fiber. A movement mechanism, an X-axis motor, and a movement stage that move the optical fiber set a first interval at which a refractive index matching liquid held on a holding face is adsorbed, by a Coulomb force according to the charging, onto a front end face of the optical fiber charged by a static electricity generating device and then enlarge the interval. The static electricity generating device applies electric charge to the optical fiber in the state of the first interval and continuously applies electric charge to the optical fiber even after the interval starts to be enlarged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Suzuki, Nobuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9400350
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical connection component manufacturing apparatus that manufactures an optical connection component in which a refractive index matching body is attached to a front end face of an optical fiber. The optical connection component manufacturing apparatus includes: a holding unit that includes a holding face holding a refractive index matching liquid including the refractive index matching body; a dispenser that supplies the refractive index matching liquid to the holding face; and a static electricity generating device that charges the optical fiber so that the refractive index matching liquid held on the holding face is adsorbed onto the front end face of the optical fiber, wherein the holding face has an outer peripheral edge connected in a curved line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Suzuki, Nobuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9372303
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical connection component manufacturing apparatus that manufactures an optical connection component in which a refractive index matching body is attached to a front end face of an optical fiber. The optical connection component manufacturing apparatus includes: a holding unit that includes a holding face holding a refractive index matching liquid including the refractive index matching body; a dispenser that supplies the refractive index matching liquid to the holding face; and a static electricity generating device that charges the optical fiber so that the refractive index matching liquid held on the holding face is adsorbed onto the front end face of the optical fiber, wherein the holding face has an outer peripheral edge connected in a curved line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Suzuki, Nobuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150231662
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical connection component manufacturing apparatus that manufactures an optical connection component in which a refractive index matching body is attached to a front end face of an optical fiber. The optical connection component manufacturing apparatus includes: a holding unit that includes a holding face holding a refractive index matching liquid including the refractive index matching body; a dispenser that supplies the refractive index matching liquid to the holding face; and a static electricity generating device that charges the optical fiber so that the refractive index matching liquid held on the holding face is adsorbed onto the front end face of the optical fiber, wherein the holding face has an outer peripheral edge connected in a curved line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi SUZUKI, Nobuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150234123
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical connection component manufacturing apparatus that manufactures an optical connection component in which a refractive index matching body is attached to a front end face of an optical fiber. A movement mechanism, an X-axis motor, and a movement stage that move the optical fiber set a first interval at which a refractive index matching liquid held on a holding face is adsorbed, by a Coulomb force according to the charging, onto a front end face of the optical fiber charged by a static electricity generating device and then enlarge the interval. The static electricity generating device applies electric charge to the optical fiber in the state of the first interval and continuously applies electric charge to the optical fiber even after the interval starts to be enlarged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Masayoshi SUZUKI, Nobuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150020964
    Abstract: A lens array fabrication method for fabricating a lens array includes: receiving pins (16) of a film attaching instrument (jig) in second guide holes (10) of a film-containing base plate; bonding a placement area and an adhesion layer (F); removing the pins (16); causing a detachment between a first detachment film (C) and a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film (D); separating three layers (D) to (F) from two layers (B) and (C); receiving the pins (16) in first guide holes (7) of a lens array main unit; fitting a film holding protrusion (15) in a depression part (6); bonding the film (D) to a bonding region (i); removing the pins (16); and causing a detachment between the film (D) and a second detachment film (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicants: ENPLAS CORPORATION, TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanazawa, Shimpei Morioka, Makoto Goto, Nobuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D767839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: TOMOEGAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hashimoto, Masayoshi Suzuki