Patents by Inventor Takashi Kitazawa
Takashi Kitazawa 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: 20110116207Abstract: A substrate mounting table of a substrate processing apparatus includes a base portion and a circular plate-shaped electrostatic chuck adhered to an upper surface of the base portion by an adhesive layer. The electrostatic chuck has a circular attracting surface to support a substrate. The substrate mounting table further includes an annular focus ring arranged around the electrostatic chuck to surround the substrate and to cover an outer peripheral portion of the upper surface of the base portion. The electrostatic chuck has a two-layer structure including an upper circular part and a lower circular part having a diameter larger than that of the upper circular part. An outer peripheral portion of the lower circular part and an outer peripheral portion of the adhesive layer adhering the lower circular part to the base portion are covered with the focus ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Tetsuji SATO, Takashi Kitazawa, Akihiro Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20100244210Abstract: Provided are: a lead frame enabling efficient manufacturing of multiple circuit devices; and a method for manufacturing a circuit device using the same. In the lead frame of the present invention, units are arranged and frame-shaped first and second supporters are provided around the units to mechanically support the units. Moreover, a half groove is provided in the first supporter at a portion on an extended line of a dividing line defined at a boundary between each adjacent two of the units. Furthermore, a penetration groove penetrating a part of the second supporter at a portion on an extended line of another dividing line is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd, Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Fukushima, Takashi Kitazawa
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Publication number: 20100244209Abstract: Provided are: a circuit device demonstrating an improved connection reliability while being mounted; and a method for manufacturing the same. The circuit device of the present invention includes: an island; leads arranged around the island, each lead having a lower surface and a side surface exposed to the outside; and a semiconductor element mounted on the island and electrically connected to the leads through thin metal wires. Furthermore, the exposed end portion of the lead is formed to spread toward the outside. By forming the lead in this manner, the area where the lead comes into contact with a brazing filler material is increased, thus improving the connection strength therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Fukushima, Takashi Kitazawa
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Patent number: 7589488Abstract: There is provided a motor control apparatus for setting, changing, resetting a control gain or a notch filter frequency Nf without using a parameter inputting apparatus, considerably reducing a procedure required in adjustment of the gain which has been needed from introducing the motor control apparatus until normal operation thereof, and capable of being simply dealt with even by an unskilled person. There is constructed a simple constitution including 2 pieces of rotary switches (1, 2) which are inexpensive and provided with small mounting areas as an input setting apparatus and 5 of LED (5) as a display apparatus, selecting a gain by a contact of the rotary switch, automatically setting a machine resonance filter frequency by detecting a generated vibration frequency, and only changing the rotary switch for temporarily releasing and resetting the control gain or the notch filter frequency Nf.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Takashi Kitazawa, Kazuhide Takao, Yasuyuki Takei
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Patent number: 7472581Abstract: A leak rate measuring method measures a leak rate of a vacuum apparatus including a vacuum chamber in which an object is accommodated to be processed, a first gas exhaust pump connected to the vacuum chamber via a first valve serving as a conductance variable valve, and a second valve connected to a downstream side of the first gas exhaust pump in a gas flowing direction. In the leak rate measuring method, there is provided a circulating path branched from a gas exhaust path between the first gas exhaust pump and the second valve and connected to the vacuum pump to communicate therewith. The pressure inside the vacuum chamber is monitored by circulating a gas into the vacuum chamber through the circulating path with first gas exhaust pump under the condition that the first valve is set at a predetermined conductance and the second valve is closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Takashi Kitazawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Tezuka
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Patent number: 7353841Abstract: Provided is a relative pressure control system has a simple configuration, but enables accurate regulation of a division ratio of an operation gas, and concurrently makes it possible to securely drain the operation gas from an operation gas pipeline in case of emergency. The system includes a plurality of air operated valves of a normally open type that are connected to an operation gas pipeline supplied with an operation gas; pressure sensors that are series connected to the respective air operated valves and that detect output pressures of the respective air operated valves; a controller that controls operation pressures of the respective air operated valves in accordance with the pressures detected by the pressure sensors; and a hard interlock solenoid valve that correlates the plurality of air operated valves to one another so that at least one of the plurality of air operated valves is normally opened.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignees: CKD Corporation, Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Tetsujiro Kono, Hiroki Doi, Minoru Ito, Hideki Nagaoka, Keiki Ito, Hiroki Endo, Tsuyoshi Shimazu, Jun Hirose, Osamu Katsumata, Kazuyuki Miura, Takashi Kitazawa
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Patent number: 7332803Abstract: A circuit device is provided comprising leads and electrical circuitry. The circuit device has a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, first leads electrically connected to the first semiconductor element or the second semiconductor element via fine metal wires and having an end thereof extending outwardly, second leads electrically connected via metal wires to both the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element to thus electrically connect the first and second semiconductor elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Kanto Sanyo Semiconductors Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Tsubonoya, Katsuhiko Shibusawa, Takashi Kitazawa
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Publication number: 20070229016Abstract: There is provided a motor control apparatus for setting, changing, resetting a control gain or a notch filter frequency Nf without using a parameter inputting apparatus, considerably reducing a procedure required in adjustment of the gain which has been needed from introducing the motor control apparatus until normal operation thereof, and capable of being simply dealt with even by an unskilled person. There is constructed a simple constitution including 2 pieces of rotary switches (1, 2) which are inexpensive and provided with small mounting areas as an input setting apparatus and 5 of LED (5) as a display apparatus, selecting a gain by a contact of the rotary switch, automatically setting a machine resonance filter frequency by detecting a generated vibration frequency, and only changing the rotary switch for temporarily releasing and resetting the control gain or the notch filter frequency Nf.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2005Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takashi Kitazawa, Kazuhide Takao, Yasuyuki Takei
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Patent number: 7201851Abstract: An etching processing apparatus 1 has a transfer chamber 2, a plurality of processing chambers 3 and 4, and a plurality of cassette chambers 7 and 8. Inside the transfer chamber 2, a transfer mechanism 14 is provided. A control device 17 pauses the operation of the vacuum pump 16 after closing an opening/closing valve 15 of a vacuum evacuating mechanism, which vacuum evacuates the transfer chamber 2 in which the transfer mechanism 14 is provided, when the operation of the transfer mechanism 14 is paused for a predetermined time or longer. Accordingly, conservation of energy becomes possible without causing decrease of productivity.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2005Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshihiko Kitoku, Shinji Niwa, Toshiki Hosaka, Takashi Kitazawa, Atsuo Sanda, Yoshitaka Sato
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Publication number: 20060207314Abstract: A leak rate measuring method measures a leak rate of a vacuum apparatus including a vacuum chamber in which an object is accommodated to be processed, a first gas exhaust pump connected to the vacuum chamber via a first valve serving as a conductance variable valve, and a second valve connected to a downstream side of the first gas exhaust pump in a gas flowing direction. In the leak rate measuring method, there is provided a circulating path branched from a gas exhaust path between the first gas exhaust pump and the second valve and connected to the vacuum pump to communicate therewith. The pressure inside the vacuum chamber is monitored by circulating a gas into the vacuum chamber through the circulating path with first gas exhaust pump under the condition that the first valve is set at a predetermined conductance and the second valve is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2006Publication date: September 21, 2006Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Takashi Kitazawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Tezuka
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Publication number: 20060097644Abstract: Provided is a relative pressure control system has a simple configuration, but enables accurate regulation of a division ratio of an operation gas, and concurrently makes it possible to securely drain the operation gas from an operation gas pipeline in case of emergency. The system includes a plurality of air operated valves of a normally open type that are connected to an operation gas pipeline supplied with an operation gas; pressure sensors that are series connected to the respective air operated valves and that detect output pressures of the respective air operated valves; a controller that controls operation pressures of the respective air operated valves in accordance with the pressures detected by the pressure sensors; and a hard-interlock solenoid valve that correlates the plurality of air operated valves to one another so that at least one of the plurality of air operated valves is normally opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2005Publication date: May 11, 2006Applicants: CKD CORPORATION, TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Tetsujiro Kono, Hiroki Doi, Minoru Ito, Hideki Nagaoka, Keiki Ito, Hiroki Endo, Tsuyoshi Shimazu, Jun Hirose, Osamu Katsumata, Kazuyuki Miura, Takashi Kitazawa
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Patent number: 7023153Abstract: It is an object of the invention to regulate a control gain without requiring a host controller. In the invention, a command pattern generating section (14) generates a basic operation pattern for operating a motor based on various parameters such as a movement distance Pd, a maximum speed Vx, an acceleration time Ta, a deceleration time Td, a waiting time T, a forward rotating repetition number n, a reverse rotating repetition number m and a forward and reverse rotating repetition number y which are input through a parameter input device (11), and repeats the basic operation pattern at a set number of times to set a continuous run pattern, and generates and outputs a position command for continuously operating the motor based on the continuous run pattern. Accordingly, it is possible to continuously generate a driving command for operating the motor without requiring a host controller (12), thereby regulating a control gain.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventor: Takashi Kitazawa
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Publication number: 20060032074Abstract: An etching processing apparatus 1 has a transfer chamber 2, a plurality of processing chambers 3 and 4, and a plurality of cassette chambers 7 and 8. Inside the transfer chamber 2, a transfer mechanism 14 is provided. A control device 17 pauses the operation of the vacuum pump 16 after closing an opening/closing valve 15 of a vacuum evacuating mechanism, which vacuum evacuates the transfer chamber 2 in which the transfer mechanism 14 is provided, when the operation of the transfer mechanism 14 is paused for a predetermined time or longer. Accordingly, conservation of energy becomes possible without causing decrease of productivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2005Publication date: February 16, 2006Applicants: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshihiko Kitoku, Shinji Niwa, Toshiki Hosaka, Takashi Kitazawa, Atsuo Sanda, Yoshitaka Sato
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Patent number: 6990747Abstract: An etching processing apparatus 1 has a transfer chamber 2, a plurality of processing chambers 3 and 4, and a plurality of cassette chambers 7 and 8. Inside the transfer chamber 2, a transfer mechanism 14 is provided. A control device 17 pauses the operation of the vacuum pump 16 after closing an opening/closing valve 15 of a vacuum evacuating mechanism, which vacuum evacuates the transfer chamber 2 in which the transfer mechanism 14 is provided, when the operation of the transfer mechanism 14 is paused for a predetermined time or longer. Accordingly, conservation of energy becomes possible without causing decrease of productivity.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2004Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshihiko Kitoku, Shinji Niwa, Toshiki Hosaka, Takashi Kitazawa, Atsuo Sanda, Yoshitaka Sato
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Publication number: 20050218847Abstract: It is an object of the invention to regulate a control gain without requiring a host controller. In the invention, a command pattern generating section (14) generates a basic operation pattern for operating a motor based on various parameters such as a movement distance Pd, a maximum speed Vx, an acceleration time Ta, a deceleration time Td, a waiting time T, a forward rotating repetition number n, a reverse rotating repetition number m and a forward and reverse rotating repetition number y which are input through a parameter input device (11), and repeats the basic operation pattern at a set number of times to set a continuous run pattern, and generates and outputs a position command for continuously operating the motor based on the continuous run pattern. Accordingly, it is possible to continuously generate a driving command for operating the motor without requiring a host controller (12), thereby regulating a control gain.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2003Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventor: Takashi Kitazawa
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Publication number: 20050167398Abstract: There is provided a vacuum processing apparatus and an exhausting apparatus of the vacuum processing apparatus according to which the auxiliary vacuum pump can be made smaller or eliminated, and hence energy-saving and space-saving can be achieved, and moreover the floor space occupied by the exhausting apparatus can be reduced, and hence the vacuum processing apparatus as a whole can be made smaller in size. A main vacuum pump has an intake port connected to a processing chamber in which an article to be processed is processed in a vacuum atmosphere, to exhaust the processing chamber to a vacuum state. An auxiliary vacuum pump is connected to a discharge port of the main vacuum pump to exhaust the main vacuum pump to a vacuum state. The main vacuum pump processing chamber to a vacuum state with a predetermined high back pressure value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventor: Takashi Kitazawa
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Publication number: 20050167049Abstract: There is provided a vacuum processing apparatus and an exhausting apparatus of the vacuum processing apparatus according to which the auxiliary vacuum pump can be made smaller or eliminated, and hence energy-saving and space-saving can be achieved, and moreover the floor space occupied by the exhausting apparatus can be reduced, and hence the vacuum processing apparatus as a whole can be made smaller in size. A main vacuum pump has an intake port connected to a processing chamber in which an article to be processed is processed in a vacuum atmosphere, to exhaust the processing chamber to a vacuum state. An auxiliary vacuum pump is connected to a discharge port of the main vacuum pump to exhaust the main vacuum pump to a vacuum state. The main vacuum pump is a high back pressure type pump that exhausts the processing chamber to a vacuum state with a predetermined high back pressure value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventor: Takashi Kitazawa
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Patent number: 6896764Abstract: There is provided a vacuum processing apparatus and an exhausting apparatus of the vacuum processing apparatus according to which the auxiliary vacuum pump can be made smaller or eliminated, and hence energy-saving and space-saving can be achieved, and moreover the floor space occupied by the exhausting apparatus can be reduced, and hence the vacuum processing apparatus as a whole can be made smaller in size. A main vacuum pump has an intake port connected to a processing chamber in which an article to be processed is processed in a vacuum atmosphere, to exhaust the processing chamber to a vacuum state. An auxiliary vacuum pump is connected to a discharge port of the main vacuum pump to exhaust the main vacuum pump to a vacuum state. The main vacuum pump is a high back pressure type pump that exhausts the processing chamber to a vacuum state with a predetermined high back pressure value.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Takashi Kitazawa
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Publication number: 20050040512Abstract: A circuit device is provided comprising leads and electrical circuitry. The circuit device has a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, first leads electrically connected to the first semiconductor element or the second semiconductor element via fine metal wires and having an end thereof extending outwardly, second leads electrically connected via metal wires to both the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element to thus electrically connect the first and second semiconductor elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Makoto Tsubonoya, Katsuhiko Shibusawa, Takashi Kitazawa
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Publication number: 20040255485Abstract: An etching processing apparatus 1 has a transfer chamber 2, a plurality of processing chambers 3 and 4, and a plurality of cassette chambers 7 and 8. Inside the transfer chamber 2, a transfer mechanism 14 is provided. A control device 17 pauses the operation of the vacuum pump 16 after closing an opening/closing valve 15 of a vacuum evacuating mechanism, which vacuum evacuates the transfer chamber 2 in which the transfer mechanism 14 is provided, when the operation of the transfer mechanism 14 is paused for a predetermined time or longer. Accordingly, conservation of energy becomes possible without causing decrease of productivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicants: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshihiko Kitoku, Shinji Niwa, Toshiki Hosaka, Takashi Kitazawa, Atsuo Sanda, Yoshitaka Sato