Patents by Inventor Nozomu YOSHIOKA

Nozomu YOSHIOKA 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: 11961719
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum processing method capable of preventing particles from adhering to a wafer due to a titanium (Ti)-based reaction product. The vacuum processing method is applicable to a plasma processing apparatus including: a sample stage disposed in a processing chamber inside a vacuum container, on which a wafer having a titanium (Ti)-containing film is placed; a coil supplied with a radio frequency power for forming plasma in the processing chamber; and a heating device that emits an electromagnetic wave for heating the wafer placed on an upper surface of the sample stage. The vacuum processing method includes a step of etching the titanium (Ti)-containing film, and a step of cleaning an inside of the processing chamber by using a mixed gas of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) gas, argon gas, and a chlorine gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomu Yoshioka, Kazumasa Okuma, Takao Arase
  • Patent number: 11727390
    Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor with hardware. The processor is configured to acquire user information of user terminals carried by users who use a store, and configured to perform payment processing, and to generate group information when payment processing is performed by using a first user terminal. The group information is user information of the first user terminal and a second user terminal. The processor is configured to generate, from information on the payment processing and the group information, consumption information associated with each of the user terminals in a group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Hideo Hasegawa, Nozomu Yoshioka, Tsuyoshi Takeshita, Shoichiro Suzuki, Kohei Ichihara, Shota Yamamoto, Junya Chikanishi
  • Patent number: 11669852
    Abstract: In a wallet server including a processor having hardware, the processor acquires image information that includes a captured image of food provided to a user transmitted from a store terminal of a store providing the food, and user information related to the user provided with the food, and associates the acquired image information with the user information and transmits a display instruction to instruct display of the image information and a screen for accepting input of evaluation for the food to a user terminal of the user determined based on the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Hideo Hasegawa, Nozomu Yoshioka, Tsuyoshi Takeshita, Shoichiro Suzuki, Kohei Ichihara, Shota Yamamoto, Junya Chikanishi
  • Publication number: 20230122903
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum processing method capable of preventing particles from adhering to a wafer due to a titanium (Ti)-based reaction product. The vacuum processing method is applicable to a plasma processing apparatus including: a sample stage disposed in a processing chamber inside a vacuum container, on which a wafer having a titanium (Ti)-containing film is placed; a coil supplied with a radio frequency power for forming plasma in the processing chamber; and a heating device that emits an electromagnetic wave for heating the wafer placed on an upper surface of the sample stage. The vacuum processing method includes a step of etching the titanium (Ti)-containing film, and a step of cleaning an inside of the processing chamber by using a mixed gas of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) gas, argon gas, and a chlorine gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Nozomu Yoshioka, Kazumasa Okuma, Takao Arase
  • Patent number: 11403617
    Abstract: A wallet system includes a terminal having a first processor and the first server having a second processor. The first processor is configured to transmit a reloading method registration request to a first server, transmit a reloading request to the first server, and transmit a settlement request to the first server via a terminal of a settlement recipient. The second processor is configured to register a payment method as the reloading method, increase a balance of electronic money in the wallet based on reloading amount information included in the reloading request, and reduce the balance of electronic money in the wallet based on settlement amount information included in the settlement request. The payment method is included in the reloading method registration request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nozomu Yoshioka, Noriaki Mochida, Yuzo Yamada, Tsukasa Karasawa, Yusuke Tomimoto
  • Publication number: 20210383362
    Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor with hardware. The processor is configured to acquire user information of user terminals carried by users who use a store, and configured to perform payment processing, and to generate group information when payment processing is performed by using a first user terminal. The group information is user information of the first user terminal and a second user terminal. The processor is configured to generate, from information on the payment processing and the group information, consumption information associated with each of the user terminals in a group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Nozomu YOSHIOKA, Tsuyoshi TAKESHITA, Shoichiro SUZUKI, Kohei ICHIHARA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Junya CHIKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20210383420
    Abstract: In a wallet server including a processor having hardware, the processor acquires image information that includes a captured image of food provided to a user transmitted from a store terminal of a store providing the food, and user information related to the user provided with the food, and associates the acquired image information with the user information and transmits a display instruction to instruct display of the image information and a screen for accepting input of evaluation for the food to a user terminal of the user determined based on the user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Nozomu YOSHIOKA, Tsuyoshi TAKESHITA, Shoichiro SUZUKI, Kohei ICHIHARA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Junya CHIKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20210383412
    Abstract: A processor provided with hardware and a memory storing group consumption information containing group information containing a plurality of pieces of user information of a plurality of user terminals and consumption information associated with the group information are provided. The processor acquires notification information for performing notification about a store externally, retrieves the group consumption information based on the user information of the user terminals constituting a group, selects the notification information from the acquired notification information based on the retrieved group consumption information, and outputs the selected notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Nozomu YOSHIOKA, Tsuyoshi TAKESHITA, Shoichiro SUZUKI, Kohei ICHIHARA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Junya CHIKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20210383367
    Abstract: A processor provided with hardware is provided. The processor acquires user information of a plurality of the user terminals output from a store terminal that is provided in a store and executes payment settlement processing, generates, when a predetermined user terminal among the user terminals executes the payment settlement processing, group consumption information based on group information containing the user information of the predetermined user terminal and the user information of the other user terminals and consumption information associated with each of the user terminals contained in the group information, and generates payment information containing an allotted amount of the predetermined user terminal with respect to a target user terminal based on the group consumption information. The payment information contains information on a user ID of the predetermined user terminal, user IDs of the other user terminals, and the allotted amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Nozomu YOSHIOKA, Tsuyoshi TAKESHITA, Shoichiro SUZUKI, Kohei ICHIHARA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Junya CHIKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20210357913
    Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor provided with hardware. The processor acquires traffic information including a content related to a traffic condition in association with movement of a moving body that a user is on board from a traffic information server that provides the traffic information, weather information including a content related to weather in association with the movement of the moving body from a weather information server that provides the weather information, and payment settlement information including a content related to payment settlement of the user from a facility terminal installed in a facility, and calculates a reward for the user based on at least one of the payment settlement information, the traffic information, and the weather information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Nozomu YOSHIOKA, Tsuyoshi TAKESHITA, Shoichiro SUZUKI, Kohei ICHIHARA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Junya CHIKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20210312430
    Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor having hardware. The processor is configured to acquire additional information including content to be provided to a user from a plurality of settlement service provider servers configured to provide a plurality of different settlement methods, acquire user information regarding the user from a user terminal carried by the user, select at least one settlement method among the plurality of different settlement methods based on at least one kind of information of the additional information and the user information, and transmit the at least one selected settlement method to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Nozomu YOSHIOKA, Tsuyoshi TAKESHITA, Shoichiro SUZUKI, Kohei ICHIHARA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Junya CHIKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20210142310
    Abstract: A wallet system includes a terminal having a first processor and the first server having a second processor. The first processor is configured to transmit a reloading method registration request to a first server, transmit a reloading request to the first server, and transmit a settlement request to the first server via a terminal of a settlement recipient. The second processor is configured to register a payment method as the reloading method, increase a balance of electronic money in the wallet based on reloading amount information included in the reloading request, and reduce the balance of electronic money in the wallet based on settlement amount information included in the settlement request. The payment method is included in the reloading method registration request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nozomu YOSHIOKA, Noriaki MOCHIDA, Yuzo YAMADA, Tsukasa KARASAWA, Yusuke TOMIMOTO