Patents by Inventor Satoshi Itoh

Satoshi Itoh 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: 12581241
    Abstract: A loudspeaker includes: a diaphragm; a magnetic circuit; a frame that holds the magnetic circuit; an edge that is annular and connects the diaphragm and the frame; and a voice coil body that is disposed in a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit. The diaphragm includes: a central portion; and an outer-circumferential portion that is provided as a single piece together with the central portion in an outer periphery of the central portion, and is bonded to the edge at a location in a vicinity of the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 12567563
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus for generating plasma from a processing gas using microwaves and performing plasma processing on a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a processing chamber having a substrate support on which the substrate is placed; a plurality of microwave radiation units arranged at a central portion and an outer peripheral portion of a ceiling wall of the processing chamber and configured to radiate microwaves; and a controller configured to complete microwave radiation from the microwave radiation unit in the central portion upon completion of plasma processing of the substrate and then complete microwave radiation from the microwave radiation units in the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoh, Hiroyuki Ikuta, Yoshiyuki Kondo, Hideki Yuasa, Soudai Emori
  • Patent number: 12532126
    Abstract: An electroacoustic conversion device including a diaphragm, an inner voice coil attached to the diaphragm, an outer bobbin disposed in a periphery of the inner voice coil to surround the inner voice coil, an outer voice coil attached to the outer bobbin; a magnetic circuit, and a frame that holds the diaphragm and the magnetic circuit. The outer bobbin includes a plurality of wiring portions in which a pair of inner signal lines are arranged penetrating through, the plurality of wiring portions being hole shaped or notch shaped, the pair of inner signal lines being signal lines of the inner voice coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoh, Takayuki Dan, Shinya Kagawa
  • Patent number: 12442635
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: an imaging portion configured to acquire a surface image of a film formed on a surface of a substrate; an optical property estimation portion configured to estimate an optical property of the film based on process information acquired during formation of the film; and a film thickness estimation portion configured to estimate a film thickness of the film based on the surface image and an estimation result of the optical property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kyokane, Hidefumi Matsui, Toshiyuki Fukumoto, Satoshi Itoh, Masashi Imanaka, Toyohisa Tsuruda, Masashi Enomoto, Masahiro Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 12337656
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes: a compressor; a heat radiating unit that causes refrigerant to heat air supplied to a space inside a vehicle cabin; a decompression unit that decompresses the refrigerant; an outside air heat absorbing unit that causes the refrigerant to absorb heat from outside air; a waste heat absorbing unit that causes the refrigerant to absorb waste heat of a waste heat device; a shutter that opens and closes a passage for the outside air introduced into the outside air heat absorbing unit; and a control unit that closes the shutter when it is determined that an amount of waste heat of the waste heat device is larger than an amount of heat absorbed by the refrigerant in the outside air heat absorbing unit and the waste heat absorbing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Satoshi Itoh, Takuya Mitsuhashi, Atsushi Yamada
  • Patent number: 12315700
    Abstract: There is provided a plasma processing apparatus that converts a gas supplied into a processing container into a plasma to process a substrate, the plasma processing apparatus including: a microwave introduction window disposed in each of a plurality of openings formed in a ceiling wall of the processing container, the microwave introduction window being configured to supply power of microwaves into the processing container; and a plurality of grooves formed on the ceiling wall to surround the openings respectively, wherein widths between the grooves and the openings are not uniform with respect to circumferential directions of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoh, Masashi Imanaka, Eiki Kamata, Taro Ikeda, Shigenori Ozaki, Soudai Emori
  • Patent number: 12257880
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a refrigeration cycle, an outdoor heat exchanger, a cooling necessity determination unit, a determination reference setting unit, and a cooling control unit. The cooling necessity determination unit determines whether or not to cool a battery depending on whether or not a physical quantity that correlates with a temperature of the battery is equal to or more than a predetermined reference physical quantity. The determination reference setting unit sets the reference physical quantity for the cooling necessity determination unit according to the outdoor heat exchanger functioning as a heat absorber or radiator. When the outdoor heat exchanger functions as heat absorber, the determination reference setting unit sets a second reference physical quantity smaller than a first reference physical quantity set when the outdoor heat exchanger functions as radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Satoshi Itoh, Kengo Sugimura
  • Patent number: 12177626
    Abstract: An electroacoustic conversion device includes a vibration plate, an inner voice coil attached to the vibration plate, an outer voice coil attached to the vibration plate outside the inner voice coil to surround the inner voice coil, a magnet, a yoke, and the frame which holds the vibration plate and the yoke. The magnet includes a wiring portion which is in a form of a through hole or a notch in which inner signal lines for the inner voice coil are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoh, Mitsukazu Kuze, Shinya Kagawa, Kiyohisa Hattori
  • Publication number: 20240348984
    Abstract: An electroacoustic conversion device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a diaphragm; an inner voice coil attached to the diaphragm; an outer bobbin disposed in a periphery of the inner voice coil to surround the inner voice coil; an outer voice coil attached to the outer bobbin; a magnetic circuit; and a frame that holds the diaphragm and the magnetic circuit. The outer bobbin includes a plurality of wiring portions in which a pair of inner signal lines are arranged penetrating through, the plurality of wiring portions being hole shaped or notch shaped, the pair of inner signal lines being signal lines of the inner voice coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi ITOH, Takayuki DAN, Shinya KAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240323611
    Abstract: A loudspeaker includes: a diaphragm; a magnetic circuit; a frame that holds the magnetic circuit; an edge that is annular and connects the diaphragm and the frame; and a voice coil body that is disposed in a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit. The diaphragm includes: a central portion; and an outer-circumferential portion that is provided as a single piece together with the central portion in an outer periphery of the central portion, and is bonded to the edge at a location in a vicinity of the central portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20240177064
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a learning trainer configured to train a machine learning model to train a relationship between a process condition and a processing result of a substrate processing apparatus that has executed a processing based on the process condition; an inferrer configured to infer a plurality of processing results depending on a plurality of process conditions using the trained machine learning model; a graph creator configured to plot the plurality of processing results inferred with the machine learning model on a graph with an achievement level for a plurality of target values of the plurality of processing results as a plurality of axes; and an information display configured to display, on the graph, information used by an operator to select an optimal solution for the process condition, based on the plot of the plurality of inferred processing results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi ITOH, Hitoshi YONEMICHI
  • Publication number: 20230421948
    Abstract: A loudspeaker includes: a first loudspeaker unit that includes a first magnetic circuit and a first cone; and a second loudspeaker unit that is disposed on a sound-emitting side of the first loudspeaker unit, and includes a second magnetic circuit and a second cone. The second loudspeaker unit includes a support component that: is fixed to the first magnetic circuit; supports therein the second magnetic circuit; is approximately cylindrical; and includes an end surface to which an entirety of an outer-circumferential portion of the second cone is connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taishi NAKAMURA, Satoshi ITOH, Ryo WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230343561
    Abstract: There is provided a plasma processing apparatus that converts a gas supplied into a processing container into a plasma to process a substrate, the plasma processing apparatus including: a microwave introduction window disposed in each of a plurality of openings formed in a ceiling wall of the processing container, the microwave introduction window being configured to supply power of microwaves into the processing container; and a plurality of grooves formed on the ceiling wall to surround the openings respectively, wherein widths between the grooves and the openings are not uniform with respect to circumferential directions of the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi ITOH, Masashi IMANAKA, Eiki KAMATA, Taro IKEDA, Shigenori OZAKI, Soudai EMORI
  • Publication number: 20230129491
    Abstract: An electroacoustic conversion device includes a vibration plate, an inner voice coil attached to the vibration plate, an outer voice coil attached to the vibration plate outside the inner voice coil to surround the inner voice coil, a magnet, a yoke, and the frame which holds the vibration plate and the yoke. The magnet includes a wiring portion which is in a form of a through hole or a notch in which inner signal lines for the inner voice coil are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi ITOH, Mitsukazu KUZE, Shinya KAGAWA, Kiyohisa HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20230091458
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes: a compressor; a heat radiating unit that causes refrigerant to heat air supplied to a space inside a vehicle cabin; a decompression unit that decompresses the refrigerant; an outside air heat absorbing unit that causes the refrigerant to absorb heat from outside air; a waste heat absorbing unit that causes the refrigerant to absorb waste heat of a waste heat device; a shutter that opens and closes a passage for the outside air introduced into the outside air heat absorbing unit; and a control unit that closes the shutter when it is determined that an amount of waste heat of the waste heat device is larger than an amount of heat absorbed by the refrigerant in the outside air heat absorbing unit and the waste heat absorbing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Satoshi ITOH, Takuya MITSUHASHI, Atsushi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230085325
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: an imaging portion configured to acquire a surface image of a film formed on a surface of a substrate; an optical property estimation portion configured to estimate an optical property of the film based on process information acquired during formation of the film; and a film thickness estimation portion configured to estimate a film thickness of the film based on the surface image and an estimation result of the optical property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hirokazu KYOKANE, Hidefumi MATSUI, Toshiyuki FUKUMOTO, Satoshi ITOH, Masashi IMANAKA, Toyohisa TSURUDA, Masashi ENOMOTO, Masahiro YANAGISAWA
  • Patent number: 11574808
    Abstract: A plasma processing method that is executed by a plasma processing apparatus including a processing container containing a target substrate, a plurality of plasma sources, and a gas supply apparatus for supplying gas includes: supplying the gas from the gas supply apparatus into the processing container; individually controlling intensity of power introduced from each of the plurality of plasma sources into the processing container; and generating plasma of the gas by the intensity of the power introduced from each of the plurality of plasma sources and depositing a desired film on a second surface of the target substrate that is an opposite surface of a first surface of the target substrate so as to apply desired film stress to a film on the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoh, Norifumi Kohama, Soudai Emori, Nathan Ip
  • Patent number: 11488813
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a microwave plasma processing apparatus which has a processing container and a microwave radiation part, and which has a window part provided at a position where the microwave radiation part is disposed in the processing container, includes a cleaning step of adjusting a pressure to a pressure corresponding to a size of a cleaning target part, among parts within the processing container including a wall surface of the processing container, the microwave radiation part, and the window part, while supplying a cleaning gas, and performing a cleaning process using plasma of the cleaning gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoh, Takafumi Nogami, Eita Yokokura, Reisa Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20220262631
    Abstract: A plasma processing method that is executed by a plasma processing apparatus including a processing container containing a target substrate, a plurality of plasma sources, and a gas supply apparatus for supplying gas includes: supplying the gas from the gas supply apparatus into the processing container; individually controlling intensity of power introduced from each of the plurality of plasma sources into the processing container; and generating plasma of the gas by the intensity of the power introduced from each of the plurality of plasma sources and depositing a desired film on a second surface of the target substrate that is an opposite surface of a first surface of the target substrate so as to apply desired film stress to a film on the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi ITOH, Norifumi KOHAMA, Soudai EMORI, Nathan IP
  • Publication number: 20220234416
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a refrigeration cycle, an outdoor heat exchanger, a cooling necessity determination unit, a determination reference setting unit, and a cooling control unit. The cooling necessity determination unit determines whether or not to cool a battery depending on whether or not a physical quantity that correlates with a temperature of the battery is equal to or more than a predetermined reference physical quantity. The determination reference setting unit sets the reference physical quantity for the cooling necessity determination unit according to the outdoor heat exchanger functioning as a heat absorber or radiator. When the outdoor heat exchanger functions as heat absorber, the determination reference setting unit sets a second reference physical quantity smaller than a first reference physical quantity set when the outdoor heat exchanger functions as radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Satoshi ITOH, Kengo SUGIMURA