Patents by Inventor Noriko Hirano

Noriko Hirano 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: 8796033
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a minute quantity of a material included in a different material is performed in short extraction treatment without taking a long time and the minute content is rapidly analyzed. The method of analyzing a minute content includes mounting on a sample table a sample piece of a material having a minute content of a different material to be analyzed; dropping onto the sample table a solvent for extracting the minute content from the sample piece, so that the solvent is disposed between the sample table and the sample piece; maintaining at room temperature the solvent between the sample table and the sample piece, and, with the solvent maintained between the sample table and the sample piece, extracting the material of the minute content from the sample piece; and analyzing the content extracted from the sample piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiro Naka, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Junji Kobayashi, Satoru Toyama, Noriko Hirano, Eiji Hara
  • Publication number: 20100108875
    Abstract: A sample preparation for analyzing a minute quantity of a content included in a material is performed by short-time extraction treatment without long-time extraction treatment, and the minute quantity of the content in the material is rapidly analyzed. The method of analyzing a minute quantity of a content includes mounting on a sample table a sample piece of a material to be analyzed; dropping onto the sample table the solvent for extracting the content from the sample piece, and injecting the solvent into a gap between the sample table and the sample piece; maintaining at room temperature the solvent injected into the gap between the sample table and the sample piece, and, with the solvent maintained in the gap between the sample table and the sample piece, extracting the content from the sample piece; and analyzing the content extracted from the sample piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jiro Naka, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Junji Kobayashi, Satoru Toyama, Noriko Hirano, Eiji Hara
  • Patent number: 6182675
    Abstract: A method for recovering impurities on a surface of a silicon wafer includes a first step of using a pretreatment solution to decompose an oxide film, a nitride film on an oxynitridation film formed at a peripheral portion on a surface of a silicon wafer and to remove impurities on the peripheral portion and a second step of recovering impurities on the surface of the wafer expect for the peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiro Naka, Naohiko Fujino, Noriko Hirano, Junji Kobayashi, Kazuo Kuramoto