Patents by Inventor Shinji Taniguchi

Shinji Taniguchi 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: 11742816
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a lower electrode, an air gap being interposed between the lower electrode and the substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode located on the piezoelectric film such that a resonance region where at least a part of the piezoelectric film is interposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode is formed and the resonance region overlaps with the air gap in plan view, wherein a surface facing the substrate across the air gap of the lower electrode in a center region of the resonance region is positioned lower than a surface closer to the piezoelectric film of the substrate in an outside of the air gap in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taisei Irieda, Tatsuya Aoki, Mitsuhiro Habuta, Satoshi Orito, Shinji Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230249985
    Abstract: The present invention is a water purifier cartridge to be attached to a container including a water storage portion having an opening at an upper portion thereof, and a lid that has an outlet for discharging water stored in the water storage portion and is configured to close the opening of the water storage portion, the cartridge including: a support including a circumferential wall portion formed in a cylindrical shape and a closing portion that closes one end portion in an axial direction of the circumferential wall portion and in which an air hole is formed, another end portion in the axial direction being open; and a filter member that is supported by the support so as to extend along the circumferential wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventor: Shinji TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11606844
    Abstract: An optical heating device includes: a chamber that accommodates a workpiece; a supporter that supports the workpiece in the chamber; a plurality of solid-state light sources emitting heating light toward a main surface of the workpiece; a plurality of reference light sources that emit reference light toward the main surface of the workpiece when power of the same power value is supplied to each of the reference light sources; a plurality of photodetectors that corresponds to the respective reference light sources, and that output signals in response to the intensity of the reference light that has been received; and a controller that executes a reference mode and a heating mode, the reference light sources and the corresponding photodetectors are arranged to face each other through the workpiece, and the photodetectors are configured to receive the reference light emitted from the reference light sources and transmitted through the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20220392787
    Abstract: An optical heating device includes a heating light source unit having a plurality of planar light source areas in each of which a light source is arranged, and a controller configured to control light output of the light source. The controller includes a storage section that stores temperature distribution characteristic information describing a relation between a relative ratio of the light output of each light source and temperature distribution on a main surface of a tabular test piece, when light from the heating light source unit is irradiated toward the tabular test piece; and an output controller that changes a ratio of the light output based on the temperature distribution characteristic information, in order to bring the temperature distribution of a main surface of an object to be heated obtained when the light is irradiated under a predetermined light output for distribution measurement closer to a desired temperature distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20220386417
    Abstract: An optical heating device includes: a chamber that accommodates a workpiece; a supporter that supports the workpiece in the chamber; a plurality of solid-state light sources emitting heating light toward a main surface of the workpiece; a plurality of reference light sources that emit reference light toward the main surface of the workpiece when power of the same power value is supplied to each of the reference light sources; a plurality of photodetectors that corresponds to the respective reference light sources, and that output signals in response to the intensity of the reference light that has been received; and a controller that executes a reference mode and a heating mode, the reference light sources and the corresponding photodetectors are arranged to face each other through the workpiece, and the photodetectors are configured to receive the reference light emitted from the reference light sources and transmitted through the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11469093
    Abstract: A ultraviolet irradiation apparatus includes: a first electrode block and a second electrode block located apart from each other in a first direction or located in an electrically-insulated state in the first direction; a recessed groove formed on a side surface of each of both the blocks; a first discharge lamp partially fitted into the recessed grooves formed in both the blocks and located across the both blocks; a power supply part for supplying electrical power to the first discharge lamp; a first current-carrying member electrically connecting the first electrode block and the power supply part; a second current-carrying member capable of electrically connecting the second electrode block and the power supply part at an electrical potential different from that of the first current-carrying member; and a light irradiation window for extracting ultraviolet light emitted from the first discharge lamp to outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Hideaki Yagyu, Manabu Mori
  • Publication number: 20220294420
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, one or more acoustic layers provided on the substrate, the one or more acoustic layers each being an air gap or an acoustic mirror, the acoustic mirror having a structure in which at least two layers having different acoustic characteristics are stacked, lower electrodes provided on the substrate, the lower electrodes sharing one acoustic layer of the one or more acoustic layers between the substrate and the lower electrodes, the lower electrodes being arranged to be separated from each other across a groove, an insulating film provided in the groove on the one acoustic layer, a piezoelectric film continuously provided on the lower electrodes and the groove, and an upper electrode continuously provided on the piezoelectric film to form resonators by sandwiching the piezoelectric film between the upper electrode and the lower electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinji TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220260421
    Abstract: A temperature measurement method comprises a step (A) of lighting a light source part to irradiate a substrate to be treated that is an object to be heated with light for heating, the light source part including a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements that emits light having a main emission wavelength range of 0.3 ?m or more and less than 0.5 ?m; a step (B) of turning off the light source part after the step (A); a step (C) of maintaining an unlit state of the light source part after the step (B); and a step (D) of measuring, during the step (C), a temperature of the substrate to be treated through observation of light emitted from the substrate to be treated using a thermometer having a sensitivity wavelength range different from the main emission wavelength range of light emitted from the light source part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro INOUE, Shinji TANIGUCHI, Takafumi MIZOJIRI
  • Publication number: 20220238394
    Abstract: A method includes a step (A) of causing the light source part to repeatedly switch between a light-on state and a substantially light-off state, a step (B) of measuring the temperature of the substrate to be treated by observing infrared light radiated from the substrate to be treated while the light source part is kept in the substantially light-off state in the step (A), and a step (C) of determining either of a level of electricity supplied to the light source part in a next round of the light-on state and a time for which the light source part is kept in the next round of the light-on state based on the temperature of the substrate to be treated measured in the step (B) and a predetermined target temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Takahiro Inoue, Takafumi Mizojiri
  • Patent number: 11306913
    Abstract: The present invention is a storage tank including: a tank; a tank main body that stores a liquid material; a cover body that covers an opening of the tank main body; a support body that is positioned opposite to the cover body; a seal body that is sandwiched by a flange provided at the opening end of the tank main body and the cover body; and tightening members that tighten the cover body and the support body, and is capable of, even when the thickness of the flange provided at the opening end of the tank main body is thin, attaching the cover body on the flange while maintaining a contact property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11228299
    Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film that is inserted between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, is located in an outer peripheral region within a resonance region where the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, is located in a region that is located outside the resonance region and surrounds the resonance region, is not located in a center region of the resonance region, and includes a first part, which is located in the resonance region and has a first film thickness, and a second part, which is located outside the resonance region and has a second film thickness, the first film thickness being less than the second film thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiansong Liu, Tokihiro Nishihara, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Shinji Taniguchi, Taisei Irieda
  • Publication number: 20220009797
    Abstract: A water purification cartridge includes a casing with a tubular shape that has an inflow portion for raw water to flow in and an outflow portion for purified water to flow out, and a filter member for filtering the raw water, the filter member being accommodating within the casing. The filter member is formed to have a cylindrical shape having a hollow portion, and has a first face and a second face at respective ends in an axial direction. The casing has a first cover portion, a second cover portion, and a side wall portion. The first cover portion covers the first face. The second cover covers the second face. The side wall portion covers an outer circumferential face of the filter member. In the first cover portion, a first contact portion is formed that annularly comes into contact with the first face and that press the filter member in the axial direction to elastically deform the filter member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji TANIGUCHI, Norihiro NAITO
  • Publication number: 20210335593
    Abstract: A ultraviolet irradiation apparatus includes: a first electrode block and a second electrode block located apart from each other in a first direction or located in an electrically-insulated state in the first direction; a recessed groove formed on a side surface of each of both the blocks; a first discharge lamp partially fitted into the recessed grooves formed in both the blocks and located across the both blocks; a power supply part for supplying electrical power to the first discharge lamp; a first current-carrying member electrically connecting the first electrode block and the power supply part; a second current-carrying member capable of electrically connecting the second electrode block and the power supply part at an electrical potential different from that of the first current-carrying member; and a light irradiation window for extracting ultraviolet light emitted from the first discharge lamp to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji TANIGUCHI, Hideaki YAGYU, Manabu MORI
  • Patent number: 11038486
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a first resonator that includes a first piezoelectric substance, and first lower and upper electrodes sandwiching the first piezoelectric substance in a direction of a c-axis orientation or a polarization axis of the first piezoelectric substance; and a second resonator that is located closer to a signal input terminal than the first resonator is, is connected in series to the first resonator, includes a second piezoelectric substance, and second lower and upper electrodes sandwiching the second piezoelectric substance so that an electrode in a direction of the c-axis orientation or a polarization axis of the second piezoelectric substance has an electric potential identical to an electric potential of an electrode of the first resonator in the direction of the c-axis orientation or the polarization axis of the first piezoelectric substance, and has an antiresonant frequency less than an antiresonant frequency of the first resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taisei Irieda, Yoshio Satoh, Tokihiro Nishihara, Shinji Taniguchi, Masumi Kida
  • Patent number: 10910547
    Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a piezoelectric film located on a substrate; lower and upper electrodes facing each other across a part of the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film located between the lower and upper electrodes, located in a part of an outer peripheral region within a resonance region where the lower and upper electrodes face each other across the piezoelectric film, and not located in a center region of the resonance region, a first width in the resonance region of the insertion film in a first region, where the upper electrode is extracted from the resonance region, being greater than a third width in the resonance region in a third region other than a second region, where the lower electrode is extracted from the resonance region, and the first region, a second width in the resonance region in a second region being the third width or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tokihiro Nishihara, Jiansong Liu, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Shinji Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10809185
    Abstract: An object is the provision of an optical measuring device that can be carried readily due to its reduced size and that can suppress the incidence of light other than detection light upon a light receiving unit and thus can obtain a measurement result with high accuracy. The optical measuring device includes a first light guiding path forming body having therein a first light guiding path formed by a through hole extending linearly for allowing measurement light from a light source to be incident on a measuring position in which a measurement sample is disposed, and a second light guiding path forming body having therein a second light guiding path formed by a through hole extending linearly for guiding detection light having exited from the measuring position to a light receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Kyosuke Yamane, Kenichi Sabatake, Naoki Goto
  • Publication number: 20200296459
    Abstract: An video display system having room in a generation time of a next frame to be generated on the basis of a gaze direction of the user is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Shinji Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10708652
    Abstract: An video display system having room in a generation time of a next frame to be generated on the basis of a gaze direction of the user is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FOVE, INC.
    Inventor: Shinji Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200212865
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a lower electrode, an air gap being interposed between the lower electrode and the substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode located on the piezoelectric film such that a resonance region where at least a part of the piezoelectric film is interposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode is formed and the resonance region overlaps with the air gap in plan view, wherein a surface facing the substrate across the air gap of the lower electrode in a center region of the resonance region is positioned lower than a surface closer to the piezoelectric film of the substrate in an outside of the air gap in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taisei IRIEDA, Tatsuya AOKI, Mitsuhiro HABUTA, Satoshi ORITO, Shinji TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10666226
    Abstract: A ladder-type filter includes: a first piezoelectric thin film resonator including a first lower electrode, a first piezoelectric film, a first upper electrode, and an insertion film inserted between the first lower and upper electrodes, the insertion film being located in an outer peripheral region of a first resonance region; a second piezoelectric thin film resonator including a second lower electrode, a second piezoelectric film, and a second upper electrode, the second piezoelectric thin film resonator having no insertion film between the second lower and upper electrodes in a second resonance region; a series resonator, at least one of the series resonator being a first resonator that is one of the first and second piezoelectric thin film resonators, and a parallel resonator, at least one of the parallel resonator being a second resonator that is another of the first and second piezoelectric thin film resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Hiroomi Kaneko, Hiroshi Kawakami, Shinji Taniguchi