Patents by Inventor Osamu Arai
Osamu Arai 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).
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Publication number: 20150008946Abstract: An apparatus includes a wiring base plate arranged on an upper side of a chuck top and having a wiring path connected to a tester, a probe card having a probe board spaced from the wiring base plate with a first surface thereof opposed to the wiring base plate and having a wiring path corresponding to the wiring path and probes provided on a second surface of the probe board to be connected to the wiring path and enabling to respectively contact connection pads of a semiconductor wafer on the chuck top, and an electric connector connecting the wiring base plate to the probe board by low heat conduction supporting members and decreasing heat conduction therebetween and electrically connecting the wiring paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Tatsuo INOUE, Hidehiro KIYOFUJI, Osamu ARAI
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Publication number: 20150008945Abstract: An apparatus includes a probe card having a probe board with a conductive path electrically connected to a tester and probes enabling to respectively contact connection pads of a semiconductor wafer on a chuck top and moving relatively to the chuck top, and an elastic heat conducting member arranged between a working surface of the chuck top or the semiconductor wafer on the working surface and the probe board. The elastic heat conducting member can abut on the working surface of the chuck top or the semiconductor wafer on the working surface and the probe board when the probes do not abut on the respective corresponding connection pads and is elastically deformable not to prevent abutment between the probes and the respective corresponding connection pads.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Hidehiro KIYOFUJI, Tatsuo INOUE, Osamu ARAI, Kenji SASAKI
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Publication number: 20140368229Abstract: A probe card for an electric test of a device under test on a working table incorporating a heat source includes a circuit base plate including conductive paths connected to a tester, a probe base plate including conductive paths corresponding to the conductive paths and provided with probes connected to the conductive paths, and a heat expansion adjusting member bonded to the probe base plate, having a different linear expansion coefficient from that of the probe base plate to restrain heat expansion of the probe base plate, and constituting a composite body with the probe base plate. In a case where, when the device under test is at two measuring temperatures, the composite body is at corresponding achieving temperatures, expansion changing amounts of the device under test and the composite body under temperature differences between the respective measuring temperatures and the corresponding achieving temperatures are set to be approximately equal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICSInventors: Osamu ARAI, Yuki SAITO, Tatsuo INOUE, Hidehiro KIYOFUJI
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Publication number: 20140322726Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a monoclonal antibody, which is suitable for the quantitative analysis of asparagine synthetase in a cell. The present invention provides a monoclonal antibody which specifically recognizes asparagine synthetase that is present in a cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Takao Hamakubo, Yasuhiro Mochizuki, Hiroko Iwanari, Osamu Arai, Toshiyuki Kitoh, Masahito Tsurusawa
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Patent number: 8747319Abstract: The image display method comprises a three-dimensional image creating step that creates a three-dimensional image based on volume data; a cutting plane setting step that sets a cutting plane that cuts the three-dimensional image at an arbitrary position; and a positional relationship display image creating step that creates a positional relationship display image representing the mutual positional relationship between the three-dimensional image and the cutting plane, in which the opacity of the cutting plane in the positional relationship display image is adjusted so that a portion of the three-dimensional image that is hidden by the cutting plane is visually recognizable through the cutting plane in the positional relationship display image.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Medical CorporationInventors: Osamu Arai, Hiroko Satake, Akiko Sawaki
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Patent number: 8299812Abstract: An embodiment of a probe card comprising: a probe base plate including a ceramic base plate and a plurality of conductive paths; and a plurality of contacts disposed on one face of the probe base plate and electrically connected to the conductive paths. The ceramic base plate may be provided with: a plurality of first layers having a heating element which generates heat by electric power and disposed at intervals in the thickness direction of the ceramic base plate; second layers each interposed between adjoining first layers; and a power supply path for supplying electric power for heating to the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon MicronicsInventors: Mitsuru Nitta, Osamu Arai, Motoharu Kimura
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Patent number: 8226560Abstract: An ultrasonic image 105, 106 is captured by an ultrasonic probe 104. A reference image 111 is obtained by extracting a tomographic image corresponding to the scan plane of the ultrasonic image from volume image data that is pre-obtained by a diagnostic imaging apparatus 102 and that is stored in a volume-data storing unit 107. The ultrasonic image and the reference image 111 are displayed on the same screen 114. In this case, of the reference image, a portion corresponding to the view area of the ultrasonic image is extracted and the resulting reference image having the same region as the ultrasonic image is displayed as a fan-shaped image.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2004Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Medical CorporationInventors: Osamu Arai, Takao Iwasaki, Tsuyoshi Mitake, Koichi Oshio, Kiyoshi Okuma, Hiroshi Shinmoto
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Publication number: 20120184852Abstract: An ultrasonic image is captured by an ultrasonic probe. A reference image is obtained by extracting a tomographic image corresponding to the scan plane of the ultrasonic image from volume image data that is pre-obtained by a diagnostic imaging apparatus and that is stored in a volume-data storing unit. The ultrasonic image and the reference image are displayed on the same screen. In this case, of the reference image, a portion corresponding to the view area of the ultrasonic image is extracted and the resulting reference image having the same region as the ultrasonic image is displayed as a fan-shaped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Osamu ARAI, Takao Iwasaki, Tsuyoshi Mitake, Koichi Oshio, Kiyoshi Okuma, Hiroshi Shinmoto
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Publication number: 20120184851Abstract: An ultrasonic image is captured by an ultrasonic probe. A reference image is obtained by extracting a tomographic image corresponding to the scan plane of the ultrasonic image from volume image data that is pre-obtained by a diagnostic imaging apparatus and that is stored in a volume-data storing unit. The ultrasonic image and the reference image are displayed on the same screen. In this case, of the reference image, a portion corresponding to the view area of the ultrasonic image is extracted and the resulting reference image having the same region as the ultrasonic image is displayed as a fan-shaped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Osamu ARAI, Takao IWASAKI, Tsuyoshi MITAKE, Koichi OSHIO, Kiyoshi OKUMA, Hiroshi SHINMOTO
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Publication number: 20120179040Abstract: An ultrasonic image is captured by an ultrasonic probe. A reference image is obtained by extracting a tomographic image corresponding to the scan plane of the ultrasonic image from volume image data that is pre-obtained by a diagnostic imaging apparatus and that is stored in a volume-data storing unit. The ultrasonic image and the reference image are displayed on the same screen. In this case, of the reference image, a portion corresponding to the view area of the ultrasonic image is extracted and the resulting reference image having the same region as the ultrasonic image is displayed as a fan-shaped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventors: Osamu ARAI, Takao IWASAKI, Tsuyoshi MITAKE, Koichi OSHIO, Kiyoshi OKUMA, Hiroshi SHINMOTO
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Patent number: 8160315Abstract: A three-dimensional ultrasonic image with which the positional relationship between tissues can be surely grasped is generated. Accordingly, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a projection image generating method according to the present invention acquire first three-dimensional image data and second three-dimensional image data, generate a first projection image on the basis of at least a part of the first three-dimensional image data and the second three-dimensional image data, and generate a second projection image on the basis of at least a part of the second three-dimensional image data and the first three-dimensional imaged data.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Medical CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Hayashi, Osamu Arai
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Publication number: 20120024566Abstract: A high-speed differential cable (1) comprises two-core signal lines in each of which a first dielectric layer (12) is provided around the perimeter of an internal conductor (11), which are arranged so that the cores thereof are in parallel, a second dielectric layer (13) provided around the perimeter of the two-core signal lines, drain lines (14) which are disposed outside the second dielectric layer and at both sides of the two-core signal lines, respectively, and arranged in parallel to the signal lines, an external conductor (15) which is provided longitudinally around the perimeter of the second dielectric layer and the drain lines, with the insulative side thereof arranged outside and the conductive side thereof arranged inside, a casing (16) provided around the perimeter of the external conductor, and drain line trenches (17) provided at the perimeter of the second dielectric layer, where the drain lines are disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Katsuo Shimosawa, Ken Oda, Osamu Arai, Takashi Wada, Masato Kubo
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Patent number: 7972269Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: a tomogram forming means forming a tomogram of a diagnosis portion of an examinee by transmitting/receiving an ultrasound wave to/from the examinee via an ultrasound probe; color Doppler image forming means forming a color Doppler image based on a Doppler signal obtained from the diagnosis portion; image processing means performing image processing on the tomogram and the color Doppler image; and display means displaying images obtained by the image processing means, the tomogram and the color Doppler image being color displayed on the display means, wherein the image processing means causes the color Doppler image to be displayed transparently.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2004Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Medical CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Hayashi, Hiroshi Kanda, Osamu Arai
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Patent number: 7960988Abstract: An electrical test contactor comprises a contactor main body including a plate-shaped attachment portion extending in the up-down direction, a plate-shaped arm portion extending from the lower end portion of the attachment portion at least to one side in the right-left direction, and a plate-shaped pedestal portion projecting downward from the tip end portion of the arm portion, a contact portion projecting downward from the lower end of the pedestal portion and having the lower end of the contact portion acting as a probe tip, and a resistor having a higher resistance value than the contactor main body and the contact portion and arranged at the contactor main body so as to heighten the resistance value of the contactor.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon MicronicsInventors: Yoshiyuki Fukami, Kazuya Numajiri, Osamu Arai, Hideki Hirakawa
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Publication number: 20100274803Abstract: A document preparation support apparatus outputs a knowhow and a response example for each critical passage of a document. The document preparation support apparatus includes a storage unit. The storage unit includes: first corresponding information that stores a knowhow in association with a search key for extracting a critical passage; and second corresponding information that stores a response example in association with a search key for extracting a critical passage. The document preparation support apparatus also includes a control unit. The control unit receives a document; extracts a critical passage from the received document using a prescribed search key from among the search keys; searches the first corresponding information and the second corresponding information using the search key used for the extraction to obtain a knowhow and a response example; and outputs the obtained knowhow and response example in association with the critical passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kimiyoshi MACHII, Takeshi Yokota, Jinichiro Goto, Mitsuru Obana, Osamu Arai
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Publication number: 20100156449Abstract: An embodiment of a probe card comprising: a probe base plate including a ceramic base plate and a plurality of conductive paths; and a plurality of contacts disposed on one face of the probe base plate and electrically connected to the conductive paths. The ceramic base plate may be provided with: a plurality of first layers having a heating element which generates heat by electric power and disposed at intervals in the thickness direction of the ceramic base plate; second layers each interposed between adjoining first layers; and a power supply path for supplying electric power for heating to the heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon MicronicsInventors: Mitsuru NITTA, Osamu ARAI, Motoharu KIMURA
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Patent number: 7735221Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multilayer wiring board is provided. A flat surface is formed on a surface of a multilayer wiring layer, and resistive material is deposited on the flat surface. The multilayer wiring board comprises a multilayer wiring layer on whose surface convexo-concave is formed, a dummy layer burying the convexo-concave, a resistance material layer made of an electrical resistance material deposited on the dummy layer and at an area going beyond the dummy layer, and a wire made of a conductive material deposited on the resistance material layer and ranging from the area going beyond the dummy layer to a part of the flat surface area of the dummy layer, wherein a resistive element is formed at an area of the resistance material layer that the wire does not reach.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon MicronicsInventors: Tatsuo Inoue, Osamu Arai, Katsushi Mikuni, Norihiro Imai
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Publication number: 20100130858Abstract: [Problems] To provide a puncture treatment supporting apparatus enabling puncture treatment by previously performing puncture simulation and enabling its treatment evaluation. [Means for Solving Problems] A puncture treatment supporting apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic image construction means for constructing an ultrasonic image, volume data storing means for storing volume data on a medical image diagnostic apparatus, probe position/direction detecting means for detecting the position and direction of the ultrasonic probe, tomographic image construction means for constructing tomographic image having the same cross section as the ultrasonic image by using the information on the position and direction of the ultrasonic probe, display means for displaying these images, and puncture means for inserting a puncture needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2006Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Osamu Arai, Takao Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20100016724Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is characterized by including a displacement/strain calculation unit 12 which obtains a strain distribution of a body site on a scan plane when pressed by an ultrasonic probe 1 and a non-pressed image creation unit 5 which corrects an ultrasonic image on the basis of the strain distribution calculated by the displacement/strain calculation unit and generates a corrected ultrasonic image in a non-pressed state or a pressed image creation unit 40 which generates a corrected reference image obtained by adding, to the reference image, a strain equivalent to one in the ultrasonic image on the basis of the strain distribution obtained by the displacement/strain calculation unit 12, in order to accurately perform comparative observation of an ultrasonic image and a reference image captured by a medical diagnostic apparatus other than the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Osamu Arai, Takeshi Matsumura
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Publication number: 20090306504Abstract: The image display method comprises a three-dimensional image creating step that creates a three-dimensional image based on volume data; a cutting plane setting step that sets a cutting plane that cuts the three-dimensional image at an arbitrary position; and a positional relationship display image creating step that creates a positional relationship display image representing the mutual positional relationship between the three-dimensional image and the cutting plane, in which the opacity of the cutting plane in the positional relationship display image is adjusted so that a portion of the three-dimensional image that is hidden by the cutting plane is visually recognizable through the cutting plane in the positional relationship display image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicants: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Osamu Arai, Hiroko Satake, Akiko Sawaki