Patents by Inventor Shigeru Akiyama

Shigeru Akiyama 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: 11940485
    Abstract: In an inspection apparatus for inspecting an inspection target device formed on an inspection object, the inspection target device is a back-illuminated imaging device into which light is incident from a rear surface opposite to a side of a wiring layer. The inspection apparatus includes a stage having the inspection object placed such that the inspection object faces the rear surface. The stage includes a light transmitter made of a light-transmissive material. The inspection object is placed on the light transmitter below which a light illuminator is disposed. The light illuminator includes a flat light guide plate having a facing surface facing the inspection object. A light source is provided laterally outside the light guide plate configured to diffuse light emitted from the light source incident from a side end surface of the light guide plate, and to emit the light as planar light from the facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoki Akiyama, Susumu Saito, Hiroyuki Nakayama, Shigeru Kasai
  • Patent number: 11759182
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes at least one circuitry, and control circuitry. The at least one circuitry is used for an ultrasound scan. The control circuitry is configured to reset the at least one circuitry upon receipt of a stop instruction to stop the ultrasound scan and to stop supply of a clock to the at least one circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakauchi, Yoshitaka Watanabe, Shigeru Akiyama, Taketoshi Nagai, Jaeho Choi, Yasuhiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230058589
    Abstract: For device groups (3) each including devices (31) included in a processing plant (1) processing fluid and each having an occupied area (30) set therefor, connection information representing two specific device groups (3) are connected and paired via a pipe (4) and pipe information required for calculating use amount of a pipe material are set. Then, a first step, including arranging the device groups (3) in an installation area (10) of the processing plant (1) so that an outer edge of the occupied area (30) and a long side of a pipe-rack arrangement area (20) contact with each other, and a second step, including calculating a total use amount of the pipe material of the pipe (4) supported by a pipe rack (21, 22, 23), are repeated. From results obtained by changing the arrangement of the device groups (3), arrangements having small total use amounts of pipe materials are selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: JGC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshikazu MIYASHITA, Hiromichi SAKIYAMA, Shigeru AKIYAMA, Akihiro KATO, Satoru KANAZAWA, Kenji MOURI, Yoshinori YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11462870
    Abstract: A wiring board includes a wiring board body and a coaxial connector. The coaxial connector includes coaxial terminals and a housing. The coaxial terminals are arranged in row. Each of the coaxial terminals includes a signal terminal and a ground terminal. The ground terminal includes a tubular main body and first and second contact pieces that respectively extend from the main body and respectively include first and second contact portions in contact with the wiring board body, in a transparent plan view seen through the wiring board along a normal direction of the wiring board body. A part of the first contact piece of a first coaxial terminal overlaps with a part of the second contact piece of a second coaxial terminal adjacent to the first coaxial terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11462859
    Abstract: A coaxial terminal includes a signal terminal, a tubular ground terminal that covers the signal terminal, and an insulating member interposed between the signal terminal and the ground terminal. The signal terminal includes a main body that is covered by the insulating member, an upper contact piece that extends from the main body to +Z direction side, and a lower contact piece that extends from the main body to ?Z direction side. The insulating member has an opening through which a part of the main body is exposed. A following formula (1) is satisfied: L2?½×L1??(1) where L1 is a length of the insulating member along an axial direction of the coaxial terminal, L2 is a length of the opening along the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11342693
    Abstract: A terminal retention hole of a receptacle housing has guide grooves for permitting sliding of protruding guide parts of a receptacle terminal in the engaging longitudinal direction of the protruding guide parts. Each of the plug terminals has a base part and a contact part extending from the base part. A thickness of the plug terminal contact part in the horizontal direction is smaller than the thickness of the plug terminal base part in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Masayuki Arai, Shigeru Akiyama, Qiucen He
  • Publication number: 20210376529
    Abstract: A coaxial terminal includes a signal terminal, a tubular ground terminal that covers the signal terminal, and an insulating member interposed between the signal terminal and the ground terminal. The signal terminal includes a main body that is covered by the insulating member, an upper contact piece that extends from the main body to +Z direction side, and a lower contact piece that extends from the main body to ?Z direction side. The insulating member has an opening through which a part of the main body is exposed. A following formula (1) is satisfied: L2?½×L1??(1) where L1 is a length of the insulating member along an axial direction of the coaxial terminal, L2 is a length of the opening along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicants: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20210376544
    Abstract: A wiring board includes a wiring board body and a coaxial connector. The coaxial connector includes coaxial terminals and a housing. The coaxial terminals are arranged in row. Each of the coaxial terminals includes a signal terminal and a ground terminal. The ground terminal includes a tubular main body and first and second contact pieces that respectively extend from the main body and respectively include first and second contact portions in contact with the wiring board body, in a transparent plan view seen through the wiring board along a normal direction of the wiring board body. A part of the first contact piece of a first coaxial terminal overlaps with a part of the second contact piece of a second coaxial terminal adjacent to the first coaxial terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicants: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10938143
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal, and a housing holding the terminal, the connector being mounted on a substrate with a liquid potting agent applied thereto, wherein: the housing includes a mating recess mating with a counterpart connector, along with a bottom plate part in which a terminal press-in hole with the terminal pressed therein is formed, the terminal includes a contact part contacting a counterpart terminal of the counterpart connector in the mating recess, a substrate connection part which is exposed below the bottom plate part so as to be connected to the substrate, and a holding part housed and held in the terminal press-in hole, and this holding part includes a terminal side first seal part and a terminal side second seal part which respectively configure a first seal part and a second seal part by adhering to the side faces of the terminal press-in hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Naotoshi Ito, Shigeru Akiyama, Tomonari Kaneko, Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210021064
    Abstract: A terminal retention hole of a receptacle housing has guide grooves for permitting sliding of protruding guide parts of a receptacle terminal in the engaging longitudinal direction of the protruding guide parts. Each of the plug terminals has a base part and a contact part extending from the base part. A thickness of the plug terminal contact part in the horizontal direction is smaller than the thickness of the plug terminal base part in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Masayuki ARAI, Shigeru AKIYAMA, Qiucen HE
  • Patent number: 10840618
    Abstract: A terminal retention hole of a receptacle housing has guide grooves for permitting sliding of protruding guide parts of a receptacle terminal in the engaging longitudinal direction of the protruding guide parts. Each of the plug terminals has a base part and a contact part extending from the base part. A thickness of the plug terminal contact part in the horizontal direction is smaller than the thickness of the plug terminal base part in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Masayuki Arai, Shigeru Akiyama, Qiucen He
  • Publication number: 20200136303
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal, and a housing holding the terminal, the connector being mounted on a substrate with a liquid potting agent applied thereto, wherein: the housing includes a mating recess mating with a counterpart connector, along with a bottom plate part in which a terminal press-in hole with the terminal pressed therein is formed, the terminal includes a contact part contacting a counterpart terminal of the counterpart connector in the mating recess, a substrate connection part which is exposed below the bottom plate part so as to be connected to the substrate, and a holding part housed and held in the terminal press-in hole, and this holding part includes a terminal side first seal part and a terminal side second seal part which respectively configure a first seal part and a second seal part by adhering to the side faces of the terminal press-in hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Naotoshi ITO, Shigeru AKIYAMA, Tomonari KANEKO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200112110
    Abstract: A terminal retention hole of a receptacle housing has guide grooves for permitting sliding of protruding guide parts of a receptacle terminal in the engaging longitudinal direction of the protruding guide parts. Each of the plug terminals has a base part and a contact part extending from the base part. A thickness of the plug terminal contact part in the horizontal direction is smaller than the thickness of the plug terminal base part in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Masayuki ARAI, Shigeru AKIYAMA, Qiucen HE
  • Patent number: 10544987
    Abstract: In a gas liquefaction plant that produces a liquefied gas by liquefying a raw gas, a pipe rack portion in which an air-cooling heat exchanging system is disposed has a rectangular shape when viewed from above. A first compressor, a precooling heat exchanging portion, an auxiliary heat exchanging portion, and a fourth compressor are arranged in this order along one long side of the pipe rack portion. A second compressor, a primary heat exchanging portion, and a third compressor are arranged in this order along the other long side of the pipe rack portion. A pipe that carries the raw gas cooled at the precooling heat exchanging portion is connected to the primary heat exchanging portion across the pipe rack portion. A pipe that carries a primary refrigerant compressed at the second and third compressors is connected to the auxiliary heat exchanging portion across the pipe rack portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: JGC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Takezawa, Shigeru Akiyama, Yoshihisa Wakamatsu
  • Patent number: 10528468
    Abstract: A storage controlling apparatus includes a processor, wherein the processor: controls a first counter configured to count, among data stored in a cache memory and relating to an access request, a number of data which are not written in storage volumes of a target of the access request, for each storage volume; determines, in response to reception of a first access request, whether or not a first ratio of a counter value of the first counter to a number of data allocated already to the cache memory into a first storage volume exceeds a first threshold value, the counter value of the first counter corresponding to the first storage volume which is a target of the first access request; and performs a write back process of data from the cache memory into the first storage volume where the first ratio exceeds the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeru Akiyama, Yasuhiro Ogasawara, Tsukasa Matsuda, Hidetoshi Nishi, Hitoshi Kosokabe
  • Patent number: 10476181
    Abstract: A quick connect terminal connector is provided which includes first and second terminals and a casing. The first terminal and the second terminal are mutually and electrically separated. The casing covers at least part of the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal and the second terminal respectively include an attachment part, a resilient connection part and a contact part. The attachment part is attached to the casing. The resilient connection part extends in the insertion direction of the wire from the attachment part. The contact part is located at the tip of the resilient connection part capable of contacting a conductive wire of a wire inserted between the first terminal and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Tomonari Kaneko, Shigeru Akiyama, Toshiya Oda, Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180368811
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes at least one circuitry, and control circuitry. The at least one circuitry is used for an ultrasound scan. The control circuitry is configured to reset the at least one circuitry upon receipt of a stop instruction to stop the ultrasound scan and to stop supply of a clock to the at least one circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki NAKAUCHI, Yoshitaka WATANABE, Shigeru AKIYAMA, Taketoshi NAGAI, Jaeho CHOI, Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180219306
    Abstract: A quick connect terminal connector is provided which includes first and second terminals and a casing. The first terminal and the second terminal are mutually and electrically separated. The casing covers at least part of the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal and the second terminal respectively include an attachment part, a resilient connection part and a contact part. The attachment part is attached to the casing. The resilient connection part extends in the insertion direction of the wire from the attachment part. The contact part is located at the tip of the resilient connection part capable of contacting a conductive wire of a wire inserted between the first terminal and the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Tomonari KANEKO, Shigeru Akiyama, Toshiya Oda, Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9916242
    Abstract: A storage system includes control devices and a second processor. The second processor determines a number of abnormal batteries when an abnormality has occurred in a first battery. The second processor assigns a second cache currently assigned to a second control device associated with the first battery to a first control device when the number is smaller than a threshold. The second processor assigns a mirror cache currently assigned to the second control device to a third control device when the number is smaller than the threshold. The second processor instructs the first control device to control write to a first storage device associated with a first cache by using the first cache. Data of the first cache is mirrored to the mirror cache. The second processor instructs the first control device to control write to a second storage device associated with the second cache by using the second cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ogasawara, Hidetoshi Nishi, Shigeru Akiyama, Tsukasa Matsuda, Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Hidefumi Kobayashi, Satoshi Yazawa, Atsushi Igashira, Wataru Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20180039441
    Abstract: A storage control device configured to control a storage apparatus including a plurality of storage devices configured to store data redundantly, the storage control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive a read request that requires to read first data stored in the storage apparatus, determine whether, among the plurality of storage devices of the storage apparatus, a first storage device which stores the first data is under execution of garbage collection, and acquire the first data by accessing a second storage device different from the first storage device, among the plurality of storage devices, when the first storage device is under the execution of the garbage collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Koutarou NIMURA, Hiroyuki Ohshima, Marie Abe, Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Shigeru Akiyama, Tsukasa Matsuda