Patents by Inventor Takafumi Noguchi

Takafumi Noguchi 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: 11244839
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate chuck disposed in the process chamber, and a temperature controller. The substrate chuck is configured to receive a substrate, and includes a cooling channel through which a coolant flows. The temperature controller is configured to control a temperature of the coolant supplied to the cooling channel. The temperature controller includes a cooler configured to cool the coolant supplied to the cooling channel, a heater configured to heat the coolant supplied to the cooling channel, and a 3-way valve configured to regulate a first flow rate of the coolant passing through the cooler and a second flow rate of the coolant passing through the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheonkyu Lee, Siqing Lu, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20210155056
    Abstract: A tire includes a pattern portion on a surface of a sidewall portion. The pattern portion includes an outer pattern and an inner pattern. The outer pattern includes a plurality of outer ridges disposed concentrically around a first point on a tire circumferential line on an outer side in a tire radial direction and extending toward a second point, on the tire circumferential line, which is different from the first point. The inner pattern includes a plurality of inner ridges disposed concentrically around the second point on an inner side in the tire radial direction and extending toward the first point. Each of the outer ridges connects with one of the inner ridges on the tire circumferential line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi NOGUCHI, Yoshiaki KANEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210111044
    Abstract: A member includes a base material structure and a surface layer on the base material structure. The surface layer includes a particle that includes Y—O—F. The base material structure includes interface layers in contact with the surface layer. The interface layers of the base material structure include fluorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: CHANGHWAN KIM, Toshihiro Iizuka, Kenichi Nagayawa, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200376896
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion having outboard and inboard tread edges and provided with three main grooves to axially divide the tread portion into four land regions including a widest outboard middle land region, wherein first inclined grooves (16) extend across the entire width of the outboard middle land region; second inclined grooves (17) extend from a crown main groove and are terminated within the outboard middle land region; fourth inclined grooves (19) are connected to the second inclined grooves (17) and to the first inclined grooves on an outboard shoulder main groove side; and an angle of the first inclined groove (16) and an angle of the second inclined groove (17) with respect to the tire circumferential direction are gradually increases from the crown main groove toward the outboard tread edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Saki ARAKAWA, Hiroshi YAMAOKA, Kotaro TAHARA, Takafumi NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10807911
    Abstract: Provided is a concrete composition, including: blast furnace slag; at least any one of expansive additive and cement; and water, wherein a unit water content of the water is 130 kg/m3 or less; wherein a content of the cement is 22% by mass or less relative to the blast furnace slag, and wherein a slump flow value of the concrete composition is 40 cm or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: SUMITOMO MITSUI CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Taku Matsuda, Takafumi Noguchi, Manabu Kanematsu
  • Patent number: 10703880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plasticizer for a vinyl chloride resin including an ester compound (A1) represented by General Formula (1): (in the formula, L's each represent an aliphatic oxycarboxylic acid residue having 3 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic ester residue having 3 to 18 carbon atoms, R1's each represent an alkyl group having 6 to 18 carbon atoms, R2's each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a represents a repeating number of the L, provided that the total of the plural a's is from 1 to 10, and x is an integer of 2 to 4), in order to provide a plasticizer for a vinyl chloride which has excellent compatibility with vinyl chloride resins and with which a vinyl chloride resin composition capable of providing a molded article having excellent freeze resistance and heat resistance can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Noguchi, Akira Urabe, Akio Toyoda, Yoshiyuki Yaoita, Tetsurou Umemoto, Osamu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200176230
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate support chuck configured to support a substrate in the process chamber, the substrate support chuck including an upper cooling channel and a lower cooling channel that are symmetrically separated from each other, and a support chuck temperature controller configured to supply a first coolant to the upper cooling channel and to supply a second coolant to the lower cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Siqing Lu, Cheonkyu LEE, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200152499
    Abstract: A wafer stage includes an electrostatic chuck (ESC) plate, an upper supporting plate, a lower supporting plate and a temperature controller. The ESC plate includes a first surface that supports a wafer. The upper supporting plate is bonded to a second surface of the ESC plate opposite to the first surface. The lower supporting plate overlaps the upper supporting plate. The temperature controller is disposed between the upper supporting plate and the lower supporting plate. The ESC plate includes ceramics. The upper supporting plate includes a composite material of aluminum or aluminum alloy and ceramics or carbon. The ESC plate and the upper supporting plate are directly bonded to each other by a room temperature solid bonding process. Thus, the wafer stage has sufficient strength to withstand pressure differences between a vacuum and atmospheric pressure, improved temperature response by minimizing heat capacity, and prevents warpage of the ESC plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: KAZUYUKI TOMIZAWA, MASASHI KIKUCHI, MICHIO ISHIKAWA, TAKAFUMI NOGUCHI, KAZUHIRO YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20200115282
    Abstract: Provided is a concrete composition, including: blast furnace slag; at least any one of expansive additive and cement; and water, wherein a unit water content of the water is 130 kg/m3 or less; wherein a content of the cement is 22% by mass or less relative to the blast furnace slag, and wherein a slump flow value of the concrete composition is 40 cm or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicants: SUMITOMO MITSUI CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD., The University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Science Foundation
    Inventors: Taku Matsuda, Takafumi Noguchi, Manabu Kanematsu
  • Publication number: 20200066557
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate chuck disposed in the process chamber, and a temperature controller. The substrate chuck is configured to receive a substrate, and includes a cooling channel through which a coolant flows. The temperature controller is configured to control a temperature of the coolant supplied to the cooling channel. The temperature controller includes a cooler configured to cool the coolant supplied to the cooling channel, a heater configured to heat the coolant supplied to the cooling channel, and a 3-way valve configured to regulate a first flow rate of the coolant passing through the cooler and a second flow rate of the coolant passing through the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Cheonkyu LEE, Siqing LU, Takafumi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190359010
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a magnetic body provided in a tread portion, a magnetic sensor for detecting a magnetic flux density of a magnetic field formed by the magnetic body disposed at a radially inward position corresponding to the magnetic body, wherein a magnetic body is formed by dispersing powdery particles of a hard magnetic material in a polymeric material and is magnetized in one direction and is provided in the tread portion so that the magnetization direction and the tire radial direction coincide with each other; a method of tire wear measuring for measuring a wear state in the pneumatic tire; a tire wear measuring system for measuring a wear state in the pneumatic tire; and a sensor module installable inside the pneumatic tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicants: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroto Setokawa, Jun Ochi, Tokuo Nakamura, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10444303
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor including a first magneto resistive effect element located on a first surface of a substrate and having a sensitivity axis in a first direction that is one of in-plane directions of the first surface, a positioning soft magnetic body including a first most proximal portion of which a relative position with respect to the magneto resistive effect element is defined, and provided in a non-contact manner with respect to the first magneto resistive effect element, and a first soft magnetic body and a second soft magnetic body juxtaposed in the first direction and extending in a direction away from the first surface, and each of the first soft magnetic body and the second soft magnetic body is magnetically connected to the positioning soft magnetic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Obana, Hideto Ando, Yuki Imai, Kunio Yamanaka, Kyoko Hotta, Akira Miyatake, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Kenichiro Ikeda, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190246906
    Abstract: In an optical coherence tomography apparatus that generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image, an image generation unit includes a correction processing unit that calculates an attenuation related value related to attenuation of signal intensity of the interference light of three R, G, and B colors in a first depth region and corrects the signal intensity of a second depth region deeper than the first depth region according to the attenuation related value to calculate a correction signal for the interference light and generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image using the correction signals calculated for each of R, G, and B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Heijiro Hirayama, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10157679
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that can rapidly stabilize a control voltage for controlling an electric current source is provided. A semiconductor device includes a filter circuit that is provided between a control voltage generation circuit and an electric current source and removes noise of the control voltage. The filter circuit includes a first resistive element that is provided between the control voltage generation circuit and an output node that outputs the control voltage, a first capacitive element that is provided between the output node and a first voltage, a second capacitive element that is coupled between the output node and the first voltage via a first switch element. The second capacitive element is coupled between the first voltage and a second voltage when the first switch element is non-conductive. The second capacitive element is coupled with the first capacitive element through the output node when the first switch element is conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawae, Takafumi Noguchi, Atsuo Yoneyama
  • Publication number: 20180244894
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plasticizer for a vinyl chloride resin including an ester compound (A1) represented by General Formula (1): (in the formula, L's each represent an aliphatic oxycarboxylic acid residue having 3 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic ester residue having 3 to 18 carbon atoms, R1's each represent an alkyl group having 6 to 18 carbon atoms, R2's each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a represents a repeating number of the L, provided that the total of the plural a's is from 1 to 10, and x is an integer of 2 to 4), in order to provide a plasticizer for a vinyl chloride which has excellent compatibility with vinyl chloride resins and with which a vinyl chloride resin composition capable of providing a molded article having excellent freeze resistance and heat resistance can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Takafumi Noguchi, Akira Urabe, Akio Toyoda, Yoshiyuki Yaoita, Tetsurou Umemoto, Osamu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9939498
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a substrate, magnetoresistive effect elements arranged on a surface of the substrate, a first wiring line arranged on a surface of the substrate, an insulation layer configured to cover the magnetoresistive effect elements and the first wiring line, a soft magnetic body arranged on the insulation layer, and a second wiring line arranged on the insulation layer, wherein the magnetoresistive effect elements each extend in a first direction and are arranged while being separated from each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction in a case of viewing in plan the substrate, the soft magnetic body includes a first direction extension portion that extends in the first direction, and when viewed in plan, the first direction extension portion is arranged between the magnetoresistive effect elements, and the second wiring line is connected to the first wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Endo, Hideto Ando, Sumihito Morita, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20180090215
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that can rapidly stabilize a control voltage for controlling an electric current source is provided. A semiconductor device includes a filter circuit that is provided between a control voltage generation circuit and an electric current source and removes noise of the control voltage. The filter circuit includes a first resistive element that is provided between the control voltage generation circuit and an output node that outputs the control voltage, a first capacitive element that is provided between the output node and a first voltage, a second capacitive element that is coupled between the output node and the first voltage via a first switch element. The second capacitive element is coupled between the first voltage and a second voltage when the first switch element is non-conductive. The second capacitive element is coupled with the first capacitive element through the output node when the first switch element is conductive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAE, Takafumi NOGUCHI, Atsuo YONEYAMA
  • Patent number: 9837162
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that can rapidly stabilize a control voltage for controlling an electric current source is provided. A semiconductor device includes a filter circuit that is provided between a control voltage generation circuit and an electric current source and removes noise of the control voltage. The filter circuit includes a first resistive element that is provided between the control voltage generation circuit and an output node that outputs the control voltage, a first capacitive element that is provided between the output node and a first voltage, a second capacitive element that is coupled between the output node and the first voltage via a first switch element. The second capacitive element is coupled between the first voltage and a second voltage when the first switch element is non-conductive. The second capacitive element is coupled with the first capacitive element through the output node when the first switch element is conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawae, Takafumi Noguchi, Atsuo Yoneyama
  • Publication number: 20170276739
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor including a first magneto resistive effect element located on a first surface of a substrate and having a sensitivity axis in a first direction that is one of in-plane directions of the first surface, a positioning soft magnetic body including a first most proximal portion of which a relative position with respect to the magneto resistive effect element is defined, and provided in a non-contact manner with respect to the first magneto resistive effect element, and a first soft magnetic body and a second soft magnetic body juxtaposed in the first direction and extending in a direction away from the first surface, and each of the first soft magnetic body and the second soft magnetic body is magnetically connected to the positioning soft magnetic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Masayuki OBANA, Hideto ANDO, Yuki IMAI, Kunio YAMANAKA, Kyoko HOTTA, Akira MIYATAKE, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Kenichiro IKEDA, Takafumi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170178735
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that can rapidly stabilize a control voltage for controlling an electric current source is provided. A semiconductor device includes a filter circuit that is provided between a control voltage generation circuit and an electric current source and removes noise of the control voltage. The filter circuit includes a first resistive element that is provided between the control voltage generation circuit and an output node that outputs the control voltage, a first capacitive element that is provided between the output node and a first voltage, a second capacitive element that is coupled between the output node and the first voltage via a first switch element. The second capacitive element is coupled between the first voltage and a second voltage when the first switch element is non-conductive. The second capacitive element is coupled with the first capacitive element through the output node when the first switch element is conductive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAE, Takafumi NOGUCHI, Atsuo YONEYAMA