Patents by Inventor Shigeru Kato
Shigeru Kato 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: 20240142395Abstract: An analyzing method using an analyzer including a wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectrometer that has an analyzing element to analyze an X-ray emitted from a specimen and detects an X-ray of energy corresponding to a position of the analyzing element. The analyzing method includes acquiring a plurality of map data by repeatedly performing a mapping analysis while changing the position of the analyzing element, the mapping analysis being an analysis to detect an X-ray of specific energy with the position of the analyzing element fixed to acquire map data while scanning the specimen with an electron beam; and generating, based on the plurality of map data, a spectrum map in which a position on the specimen and an X-ray spectrum are associated with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: JEOL Ltd.Inventors: Koki Kato, Shinya Fujita, Takanori Murano, Shigeru Honda
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Publication number: 20240101764Abstract: An oil-bleeding silicone rubber composition which comprises 100 parts by mass of (A) an organopolysiloxane containing an alkenyl group, 0.2-20 parts by mass of (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing a hydrogen atom bonded to a silicon atom, (C) a catalyst based on a platinum-group metal, the amount of which is 0.5-500 ppm in terms of platinum-group metal amount (in mass) with respect to the total mass of the components (A) and (B), 1-10 parts by mass of (D) a specific phenyl-group-containing organopolysiloxane, 1-25 parts by mass of (E) a specific nonfunctional dimethylpolysiloxane, and (F) a specific benzotriazole derivative, the amount of which is 2-100 mol per mol of the platinum atoms contained in the component (C). The oil-bleeding silicone rubber composition gives cured objects having improved heat resistance, without containing any of conventional additives for improving heat resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuei HARA, Nobu KATO, Shigeru UBUKATA
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Publication number: 20240096377Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing, magnetic disks in the housing, and a printed circuit board attached to an outer surface of a bottom wall of the housing. The housing includes a base including a bottom wall and a side wall, and at least two base-side positioning portions provided on the bottom wall in a region overlapping the side wall. The printed circuit board includes at least two board-side positioning portions each engaged with the base-side positioning portion. One of the base-side positioning portion and the board-side positioning portion includes a pin extending substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall, and another includes a hole into which the pin is fitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi Minami, Shigeru Juman, Kouichi Toukairin, Yasuhiko Kato, Hirofumi Kuribara, Kenji Mizuochi
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Patent number: 10970537Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates a left-eye viewpoint image and a right-eye viewpoint image, detects one or more pairs that are each a pair of a partial image of the left-eye viewpoint image and a partial image of the right-eye viewpoint image that are similar to each other, performs, for each of the one or more pairs, image adjustment processing for adjusting the three-dimensionality of one of or both of the partial images of the left-eye and right-eye viewpoint images, displays the left-eye viewpoint image or the left-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a left eye, and displays the right-eye viewpoint image or the right-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a right eye.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Toyoda, Kazumi Ito, Masayuki Nakatsuka, Tatsuya Kino, Ryuhi Okubo, Shigeru Kato, Tetsuya Shirota, Kazuhiko Osa, Osamu Nonaka
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Publication number: 20200050850Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates a left-eye viewpoint image and a right-eye viewpoint image, detects one or more pairs that are each a pair of a partial image of the left-eye viewpoint image and a partial image of the right-eye viewpoint image that are similar to each other, performs, for each of the one or more pairs, image adjustment processing for adjusting the three-dimensionality of one of or both of the partial images of the left-eye and right-eye viewpoint images, displays the left-eye viewpoint image or the left-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a left eye, and displays the right-eye viewpoint image or the right-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a right eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya TOYODA, Kazumi ITO, Masayuki NAKATSUKA, Tatsuya KINO, Ryuhi OKUBO, Shigeru KATO, Tetsuya SHIROTA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
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Patent number: 10275882Abstract: An observation apparatus includes an imaging unit, a driving mechanism, an operation circuit and a control circuit. The imaging unit generates image data by imaging a target object. The driving mechanism moves the imaging unit to change an imaging position of the target object. The operation circuit calculates information on imaging conditions of the imaging unit based on an auxiliary information calculation image, which is image data of auxiliary information calculation light. The control circuit controls the imaging performed by the imaging unit, using the information on the imaging conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kato, Tsuyoshi Yaji, Osamu Nonaka
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Patent number: 10239211Abstract: A laminate is directly transferred from a first robot arm that carries the laminate from a bonding chamber to an overlapping chamber, to a second robot arm that carries out the laminate from the overlapping chamber to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kimihiro Nakada, Shigeru Kato
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Patent number: 10051190Abstract: An interchangeable lens includes an optical system which is variable in focal distance and in which a size of an image circle varies by the focal distance, the image circle being an effective image formation region of an optical image of a subject; a lens data storage unit which stores data indicating a correspondence between a value of the focal distance and a value of the size of the image circle; and a lens interface unit which sends data indicating the correspondence to the imaging apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Tetsuya Toyoda, Shigeru Kato, Masaaki Komiya
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Patent number: 10051256Abstract: An image observation apparatus 10 includes an imaging unit 30 that images a specimen K and obtains a magnified image of the specimen, a display 50 that displays an image, a condition determiner that determines whether a state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies a specific condition, and a controller that displays the magnified image obtained by the imaging unit on the display when the condition determiner determines the state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies the specific condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kato, Sumito Honda, Kensei Ito, Hiroshi Kodama, Osamu Nonaka
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Patent number: 9962915Abstract: A bonding method including an adhesive layer forming process in which a thermoplastic adhesive is applied to a substrate or a support plate and an adhesive layer is formed; a heating process in which the adhesive layer that is formed on the substrate or the support plate is heated; and a bonding process in which the substrate and the support plate are pressed against each other via the heated adhesive layer, thereby bonding the substrate and the support plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Miyanari, Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato, Takahiro Setaka, Shingo Ishida
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Publication number: 20180063503Abstract: An image observation apparatus 10 includes an imaging unit 30 that images a specimen K and obtains a magnified image of the specimen, a display 50 that displays an image, a condition determiner that determines whether a state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies a specific condition, and a controller that displays the magnified image obtained by the imaging unit on the display when the condition determiner determines the state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies the specific condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Shigeru KATO, Sumito HONDA, Kensei ITO, Hiroshi KODAMA, Osamu NONAKA
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Publication number: 20170278240Abstract: An observation apparatus includes an imaging unit, a driving mechanism, an operation circuit and a control circuit. The imaging unit generates image data by imaging a target object. The driving mechanism moves the imaging unit to change an imaging position of the target object. The operation circuit calculates information on imaging conditions of the imaging unit based on an auxiliary information calculation image, which is image data of auxiliary information calculation light. The control circuit controls the imaging performed by the imaging unit, using the information on the imaging conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Shigeru KATO, Tsuyoshi YAJI, Osamu NONAKA
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Patent number: 9682541Abstract: A bonding method which includes a pressing step of bonding a substrate and a support plate for supporting the substrate to each other through an adhesive layer and pressing the bonded substrate and support plate using a plate member; and, after the pressing step, a pressure adjusting step of placing the substrate and the support plate bonded to each other through the adhesive layer in an environment having higher pressure than pressure of an environment in which the pressing step is performed.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: TOKOY OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Imai, Atsushi Kubo, Takahiro Yoshioka, Kimihiro Nakada, Shigeru Kato, Yasumasa Iwata
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Patent number: 9548232Abstract: An attaching apparatus, a substrate and a support that can be uniformly attached through an adhesive layer. The attaching apparatus is equipped with a set plate and a press plate formed of ceramics. The set plate and the press plate have a flatness of 1.0 ?m or less when not pressed.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Katsuragawa, Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato
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Patent number: 9484238Abstract: An attachment method including an overlapping step of overlapping a support plate over a substrate under a reduced pressure environment; a temporary fixing step of temporarily fixing the support plate to the substrate; and an attaching step of attaching the support plate to the substrate under a reduced pressure environment. The method further includes, prior to the overlapping step, at least one of a first heating step in which heating is performed under an atmospheric pressure environment and a second heating step in which heating is performed under a reduced pressure environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato, Yasumasa Iwata, Yasushi Fujii
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Publication number: 20160158939Abstract: A laminate is directly transferred from a first robot arm that carries the laminate from a bonding chamber to an overlapping chamber, to a second robot arm that carries out the laminate from the overlapping chamber to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Kimihiro NAKADA, Shigeru KATO
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Patent number: 9337074Abstract: An attaching device configured to attach a substrate and a support via an adhesive layer is provided with support holding members. Holding tools of the support holding members are configured to hold the support with oblique surface parts (contact members) of the holding tools without coming into contact with a surface of the support, which is to be attached to the substrate. The attaching device attaches, to the substrate, the support of which the surface is held not to be contacted.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato, Shugo Tsushima, Junichi Katsuragawa, Satoshi Kobari, Akihiko Nakamura
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Publication number: 20160110157Abstract: A display element is turned off by stopping power supply when an image is displayed on a display section. When an image is displayed on the display section, the user observes the image with a head mount display mounted on the user. Because the display element cannot be visually recognized, problems do not occur even when the display element is turned off. Furthermore, because the display element is not required to be supplied with power supply, the service life of a battery is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeru KATO, Yuki YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9272494Abstract: A sticking apparatus including a pair of plate members sandwiching a laminate between the pair of plate members, and supporting members supporting the plate members. The supporting members supporting at least one of the plate members are located in a form of multiple dots or lines adjacent to each other at regular intervals on the plate member.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko Nakamura, Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato
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Publication number: 20160005635Abstract: An attachment method including an overlapping step of overlapping a support plate over a substrate under a reduced pressure environment; a temporary fixing step of temporarily fixing the support plate to the substrate; and an attaching step of attaching the support plate to the substrate under a reduced pressure environment. The method further includes, prior to the overlapping step, at least one of a first heating step in which heating is performed under an atmospheric pressure environment and a second heating step in which heating is performed under a reduced pressure environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato, Yasumasa Iwata, Yasushi Fujii