Patents by Inventor Shinobu KINOSHITA

Shinobu KINOSHITA 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: 11742228
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of processing a substrate using a gas supplied to a chamber includes: (a) setting a threshold value of a pressure of the gas, which is a control target in a flow rate controller configured to measure the pressure of the gas supplied to the chamber and control a flow rate of the gas; (b) supplying the gas into the chamber; (c) measuring the pressure of the gas by the flow rate controller; (d) stopping the supply of the gas into of the chamber; (e) calculating a time when the pressure of the gas measured in (c) becomes equal to or higher than the threshold value; and (f) calculating a total flow rate of the gas supplied into the chamber based on the pressure of the gas measured in (c) and the time calculated in (e).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Risako Matsuda, Shinobu Kinoshita, Manabu Oie, Keita Shouji
  • Publication number: 20210287922
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of processing a substrate using a gas supplied to a chamber includes: (a) setting a threshold value of a pressure of the gas, which is a control target in a flow rate controller configured to measure the pressure of the gas supplied to the chamber and control a flow rate of the gas; (b) supplying the gas into the chamber; (c) measuring the pressure of the gas by the flow rate controller; (d) stopping the supply of the gas into of the chamber; (e) calculating a time when the pressure of the gas measured in (c) becomes equal to or higher than the threshold value; and (f) calculating a total flow rate of the gas supplied into the chamber based on the pressure of the gas measured in (c) and the time calculated in (e).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Risako MATSUDA, Shinobu KINOSHITA, Manabu OIE, Keita SHOUJI
  • Patent number: 10748779
    Abstract: Provided is a substrate processing method including: referring to a memory unit in which an estimated model of sensor data generated from sensor data input to or output from each of the processing chamber when processing first test substrates are processed in the processing chambers under a same processing condition; adjusting an apparatus parameter of each of the processing chambers such that a deviation of the sensor data from an ideal sensor value is within an allowable range; loading product substrates continuously into the processing chambers without specifying a loading destination processing chamber; and, when the product substrate is loaded into a processing chamber of the processing chambers, adjusting the sensor data input to or output from the processing chamber into which the product substrate has been loaded based on the apparatus parameter of the processing chamber that has been adjusted in the adjusting; and processing the product substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki Mochizuki, Shinobu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20200231924
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate for test use that is preferable for use in a test such as a culture test, and a method for manufacturing the substrate for test use. The substrate for test use, in which a solution retaining part for retaining water or an aqueous solution, is formed at a surface of a substrate of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The solution retaining part is a concave part having a hydrophilic surface layer. The surface layer has a maximum thickness of 1 ?m or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicants: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM AND RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinobu KINOSHITA, Takashi IDE, Tomoko OYAMA, Mitsumasa TAGUCHI, Bin Jeremiah Duenas BARBA
  • Patent number: 10464312
    Abstract: An electron-beam-curing resin or a photocurable resin not containing a photopolymerization initiator is cured by photoirradiation under an atmosphere equal to or lower than predetermined oxygen concentration for not causing oxygen inhibition to polymerization of photocurable resin or electron beam-curable resin, an ultraviolet ray in wavelength region corresponding to a light absorption characteristic of the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin is irradiated on the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin to polymerize the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin. After an ultraviolet ray is irradiated on the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin to polymerize at least a surface layer, an electron beam is irradiated on the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin to polymerize a deep part, and the entire photocurable resin or the entire electron beam-curable resin is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinobu Kinoshita, Ryoji Fujimori
  • Publication number: 20190198335
    Abstract: Provided is a substrate processing method including: referring to a memory unit in which an estimated model of sensor data generated from sensor data input to or output from each of the processing chamber when processing first test substrates are processed in the processing chambers under a same processing condition; adjusting an apparatus parameter of each of the processing chambers such that a deviation of the sensor data from an ideal sensor value is within an allowable range; loading product substrates continuously into the processing chambers without specifying a loading destination processing chamber; and, when the product substrate is loaded into a processing chamber of the processing chambers, adjusting the sensor data input to or output from the processing chamber into which the product substrate has been loaded based on the apparatus parameter of the processing chamber that has been adjusted in the adjusting; and processing the product substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroaki MOCHIZUKI, Shinobu KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20190039372
    Abstract: To cure, with light irradiation, photocurable resin or electron beam-curable resin not containing a photopolymerization initiator. Under an atmosphere equal to or lower than predetermined oxygen concentration for not causing oxygen inhibition to polymerization of photocurable resin or electron beam-curable resin, an ultraviolet ray in wavelength region corresponding to a light absorption characteristic of the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin is irradiated on the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin to polymerize the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin. After an ultraviolet ray is irradiated on the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin to polymerize at least a surface layer, an electron beam is irradiated on the photocurable resin or the electron beam-curable resin to polymerize a deep part, and the entire photocurable resin or the entire electron beam-curable resin is cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinobu KINOSHITA, Ryoji FUJIMORI