Patents by Inventor Takahiro Murata

Takahiro Murata 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).

  • Publication number: 20230113062
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an electron beam inspection apparatus includes an optical system irradiating a substrate with primary electron beams, a beam separator separating, from the primary electron beams, secondary electron beams emitted as a result of irradiating the substrate with the primary electron beams, a detector detecting the secondary electron beams separated, a movable stage on which the substrate is placed, a support base supporting the substrate on the stage, and an applying unit applying a first voltage to the substrate. The support base includes a plurality of support pins that support the substrate from below. The support pins each include a columnar insulator and a metal film disposed in the insulator. A second voltage is applied to the metal film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi ANDO, Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230113124
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to make a wiring member easy to bend in a suspension wiring module connecting a vehicle body-side device and a vehicle wheel-side device. This suspension wiring module comprises a suspension wiring member, which includes a transmission line main body and one or more covering layers covering the transmission line main body. At least one section of the suspension wiring member is a cabin-external section that is positioned outside of the cabin of the vehicle. In the cabin-external section, an arc-shaped groove is formed in an outer covering, which is the covering layer that is located furthest to the outside among the one or more covering layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Takahiro MURATA, Kenta KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230085407
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device that can be routed in a small space appropriately, and can have an improved flex resistance. A wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device includes: a first wiring member; and a second wiring member that has higher flex resistance than the first wiring member. The first wiring member has an outer path length that is greater than an outer path length of the second wiring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230078890
    Abstract: It is an object to make a wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device suited to routing in a small space, and improve its flex resistance. A wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device includes: a first wiring member; and a second wiring member, and at least part of an outer path portion of the first wiring member, and at least part of an outer path portion of the second wiring member are separated from each other outside a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 11538658
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a ? stage mechanism includes a fixed shaft; a plurality of bearings in which outer rings roll on an outer peripheral surface of the fixed shaft; a plurality of cylindrical members supported in a state of being inserted inside inner rings of the plurality of bearings; and a table that is arranged on the plurality of cylindrical members and moves in a rotational direction about a center of the fixed shaft by the plurality of bearings rolling on an outer peripheral surface of the fixed shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Murata, Toshikatsu Akiba, Yoshihiro Izumi
  • Publication number: 20220383444
    Abstract: Generation and storage of compressed z-planes in graphics processing is described. An example of a processor includes a rasterizer to generate a fragment of pixel data including blocks of pixel data; a depth pipeline to receive the fragment, the pipeline including a first and second depth test hardware, the first depth test hardware to perform a coarse depth test including determining minimum and maximum depths for each block; and a depth buffer, wherein the processor is to determine whether the fragment meets requirements that the fragment fully covers a tile of pixel data and passes a first depth test, and that each of the minimum and maximum depths of the fragment has a same sign and exponent, and, upon determining that the fragment meets the requirements, to generate a compressed depth plane utilizing the first depth test and update the depth buffer with the compressed depth plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Saikat Mandal, Karol Szerszen, Vasanth Ranganathan, Altug Koker, Michael Norris, Prasoonkumar Surti, Takahiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20220190569
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to keep a wire-shaped transmission member from being exposed to the outside. A connection structure for a housing member and a protective tube, the connection structure includes a wire-shaped transmission member, a housing member for housing a first portion which is a portion of the wire-shaped transmission member, a protective tube for covering a second portion which is another portion of the wire-shaped transmission member and an opposite-side housing member for housing a third portion that is on an opposite side to the first portion with the second portion interposed between the first portion and the third portion. The protective tube is formed to a length that reaches both the housing member and the opposite-side housing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki MORI, Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20220190570
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the size of a connection structure for a housing member for housing a portion of a wire-shaped transmission member and a protective tube for covering the wire-shaped transmission member. A connection structure for a housing member and a protective tube includes a wire-shaped transmission member, a housing member for housing a first portion which is a portion of the wire-shaped transmission member, and a protective tube for covering a second portion which is another portion of the wire-shaped transmission member. The housing member includes a housing body portion for housing the first portion and an extended portion that protrudes toward the second portion from the housing body portion, and an end portion of the protective tube covers the extended portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki MORI, Takahiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 11329422
    Abstract: A wire cover disclosed by this specification is for covering a plurality of wires pulled out from a housing, and includes a cover body into which the plurality of wires pulled out from the housing are introduced from front and from which the plurality of wires are drawn out in a rightward direction, and a guiding portion provided on an inner surface of the cover body and configured to guide small-diameter wires arranged to have shorter in-cover lengths, out of the plurality of wires, than a large-diameter wire on a left side arranged to have a longest in-cover length from a wire introduction position PI where the wire is introduced into the cover body to a wire draw-out position PO where the wire is drawn out from the cover body, out of the plurality of wires to an extra length accommodation space provided in the cover body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Komori, Takahiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20220076916
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a 8 stage mechanism includes a fixed shaft; a plurality of bearings in which outer rings roll on an outer peripheral surface of the fixed shaft; a plurality of cylindrical members supported in a state of being inserted inside inner rings of the plurality of bearings; and a table that is arranged on the plurality of cylindrical members and moves in a rotational direction about a center of the fixed shaft by the plurality of bearings rolling on an outer peripheral surface of the fixed shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro MURATA, Toshikatsu AKIBA, Yoshihiro IZUMI
  • Patent number: 11270866
    Abstract: An electron beam inspection apparatus includes a plurality of electrodes to surround an inspection substrate placed on a stage, a camera to measure, for each of the plurality of electrodes, a gap between a peripheral edge of the inspection substrate and an electrode of the plurality of electrodes, a retarding potential application circuit to apply a retarding potential to the inspection substrate, an electrode potential application circuit to apply, to each electrode, a corresponding potential of potentials each obtained by adding an offset potential, which is variable according to a measured gap, to the retarding potential to be applied to the inspection substrate, and an electron optical system to irradiate the inspection substrate with electron beams, in the state where the retarding potential has been applied to the inspection substrate and the corresponding potential of the potentials has been individually applied to each of the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ando, Takahiro Murata
  • Patent number: 11227704
    Abstract: A waterproof structure of a multicore cable includes: a multicore cable in which a power line and a signal line are surrounded by a sheath; a heat-shrinkable tube having a sheath covering portion that covers the sheath and an electric wire covering portion that is continuous with the sheath covering portion and covers the power line and the signal line led out from a front end of the sheath; a waterproof portion that is disposed in a gap between the electric wire covering portion and the power line and the signal line to prevent water from entering the gap between the electric wire covering portion and the power line and the signal line; and a protector that holds the heat-shrinkable tube therein and has a stopper located near a front end of the heat-shrinkable tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Komori, Takahiro Murata
  • Patent number: 11185293
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a gantry, a couch, a movable base, a screen, a reflecting plate, and a support body. The gantry has a bore formed therein and performs medical imaging. The couch is configured to move the table top along the central axis of the bore. The movable base is provided independently of the table top so as to be movable along the central axis of the bore. The screen is provided on the movable base. An image from a projector is projected on the screen. The reflecting plate reflects the image projected on the screen. The support body is provided on the movable base and supports the reflecting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Ueda, Hiromitsu Takamori, Takashi Sasaki, Aira Hotta, Takahiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20210313093
    Abstract: A waterproof structure of a multicore cable includes: a multicore cable in which a power line and a signal line are surrounded by a sheath; a heat-shrinkable tube having a sheath covering portion that covers the sheath and an electric wire covering portion that is continuous with the sheath covering portion and covers the power line and the signal line led out from a front end of the sheath; a waterproof portion that is disposed in a gap between the electric wire covering portion and the power line and the signal line to prevent water from entering the gap between the electric wire covering portion and the power line and the signal line; and a protector that holds the heat-shrinkable tube therein and has a stopper located near a front end of the heat-shrinkable tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu KOMORI, Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20210265774
    Abstract: An electric wire cover 20 for covering a plurality of electric wires W drawn from a housing 50, the electric wire cover 20 being configured so as to be equipped with: a cover body 22 into which a plurality of electric wires W drawn from the housing 50 are introduced through the front thereof, and from which the plurality of electric wires W are drawn out toward the right; and a guide part 30 which is provided on the inner surface of the cover body 22 and guides, into an excess-length storage space 37 provided inside the cover body 22, a small-diameter electric wire WS among the plurality of electric wires W which is positioned so as to have a shorter in-cover distance, which is the distance from the electric wire introduction position PI where the electric wires W are introduced into the cover body 22 to the electric wire departure position PO where the electric wires W are drawn out therefrom, than does a left large-diameter electric wire WL which is positioned so as to have the longest in-cover distance amo
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu KOMORI, Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20210167587
    Abstract: A hot melt block 20 that is assembled at a portion where an insulating sheath 16 of a cable 10 in which a plurality of electric wires 11 and 12 are collectively surrounded by the insulating sheath 16 is removed and the electric wires 11 and 12 are drawn out, and that is melted through heating. The hot melt block 20 includes: an insertion portion 21 that can be inserted between the electric wires 11 and 12 surrounded by the sheath 16; and a spacer 24 that is fixed to the insertion portion 21, and is disposed between the electric wires 11 and 12 at the portion where the electric wires are drawn out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu KOMORI, Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20210142978
    Abstract: An electron beam inspection apparatus includes a plurality of electrodes to surround an inspection substrate placed on a stage, a camera to measure, for each of the plurality of electrodes, a gap between a peripheral edge of the inspection substrate and an electrode of the plurality of electrodes, a retarding potential application circuit to apply a retarding potential to the inspection substrate, an electrode potential application circuit to apply, to each electrode, a corresponding potential of potentials each obtained by adding an offset potential, which is variable according to a measured gap, to the retarding potential to be applied to the inspection substrate, and an electron optical system to irradiate the inspection substrate with electron beams, in the state where the retarding potential has been applied to the inspection substrate and the corresponding potential of the potentials has been individually applied to each of the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi ANDO, Takahiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 10974668
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a first circuit group and a second circuit group. The first circuit group has one end connected to a first connector and another end connected to a second connector. The second circuit group has one end connected to the first connector and another end connected to a third connector. The second circuit group branches from the first circuit group at a position of the second connector or at a position of a connection target connected by the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Murata, Hirokazu Komori, Taiko Sato, Hiroyuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10831113
    Abstract: A stage mechanism includes a wedge with an inclined surface having a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal direction, a roller relatively rolling on the inclined surface of the wedge by relative horizontal movement of the wedge, a fine movement mechanism supporting the roller, going up and down in accordance with up and down movement of the roller which relatively rolls on the inclined surfaces by the relative horizontal movement of the wedge, and capable of going up and down more finely than the up and down movement of the roller, a table supported by the fine movement mechanism, and an elastic body connected to the table, restraining horizontal movement of the table, and applying an elastic force, in at least one of upward and downward directions, to the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Ito, Takahiro Murata, Toshikatsu Akiba
  • Patent number: 10821920
    Abstract: A wire harness is disposed across an interior area and an exterior area, and is connected to a connection target component in the exterior area. The wire harness includes: a water shut-off cable being disposed across a boundary between the interior area and the exterior area, and having inter-wire water shut-off property; and a non-water shut-off cable being connected to the water shut-off cable in the exterior area, and being connectable to the connection target component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Murata, Hirokazu Komori, Taiko Sato, Hiroyuki Ishikawa