Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Ito

Tetsuo Ito 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: 20260155909
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a first wireless communication subsystem including a first wireless communication circuit; a second wireless communication subsystem including a second wireless communication circuit; and a control system that controls the first wireless communication subsystem and the second wireless communication subsystem. The first wireless communication subsystem, the second wireless communication subsystem, and the control system are configured as a single semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Naohisa HATANI, Hikaru TAMURA, Ryoichi BABA, Takashi OTSUKA, Yoichi KITAGISHI, Tetsuo ITO, Taku YOSHII, Atsushi FUJIMOTO, Fumihiro OSAKI, Masato ISHIMINE, Yasuhiro OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20260091597
    Abstract: An auxiliary member includes a sheet extending in a plane intersecting a first direction, a first support member extending in a second direction, a second support member extending in the second direction, and a third support member extending toward a single point in a third direction from both the first support member and the second support member. The first support member is disposed at an end of the sheet in a third specific direction. The second support member is disposed at an end of the sheet in a third opposite direction. The first, second, and third support members support the sheet and having a higher rigidity than the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Inventor: Tetsuo ITO
  • Publication number: 20260076130
    Abstract: A substrate processing system (10) includes a substrate processing apparatus (1) that supplies a processing fluid to substrates, a supplier (200) that guides a processing fluid to the substrate processing apparatus (1), and a heat collector (40) that collects heat from a drain liquid discharged from the substrate processing apparatus (1). The supplier (200) includes a heat controller (20) that controls the temperature of a processing fluid while circulating the processing fluid in the circulation passage (201), a supply passage (21) that guides a processing fluid from the heat controller (20) to the substrate processing apparatus (1), and a replenishment passage (22) that replenishes the heat controller (20) with a processing fluid. The heat collector (40) includes a heat pump (41) that collects heat from a drain liquid and gives heat to a processing fluid flowing in the replenishment passage (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Tetsuo ITO, Takaaki SEIWA, Tomohiro KUREBAYASHI, Naoto FUJITA
  • Patent number: 12226830
    Abstract: A composite magnetic material comprises spherical soft magnetic metal powder incorporated in the composite magnetic material in a dispersed manner, a flame retardant incorporated in the composite magnetic material in a dispersed manner; and a binder configured to bind the soft magnetic metal powder and the flame retardant. The composite magnetic material is formed and processed into a sheet shape. The composite magnetic material has a volume occupancy of the soft magnetic metal powder of 45 vol % or more and 68 vol % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ito, Masakazu Abe
  • Patent number: 11820126
    Abstract: A printer is provided with a mounting portion and an arm. A head is mounted on the mounting portion. The head discharges a liquid. The arm can move between a fixed position and a released position. In the fixed position, the arm fixes the head mounted on the mounting portion to the mounting portion in a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction. In the released state, the arm unfixes the head from the mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ito
  • Patent number: 11623837
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus, includes: a supply tray; a discharge tray; a conveyance guide; a reading sensor; a discharge unit, which includes a discharge opening to discharge the sheet conveyed by the conveyance guide to the discharge tray and is configured to move from a third position to a fourth as the document supported by the paper feed tray is decreased, the fourth position being higher than the third position; a first drive source, which generates a drive force; a first rotation body, which moves the movable plate by transmitting the drive force from the first drive source to the movable plate; and a second rotation body, which moves the discharge unit by transmitting the drive force from the first drive source to the discharge unit, wherein a diameter of the first rotation body and a diameter of the second rotation body are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ito
  • Publication number: 20230008287
    Abstract: A printer is provided with a mounting portion and an arm. A head is mounted on the mounting portion. The head discharges a liquid. The arm can move between a fixed position and a released position. In the fixed position, the arm fixes the head mounted on the mounting portion to the mounting portion in a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction. In the released state, the arm unfixes the head from the mounting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventor: Tetsuo ITO
  • Patent number: 11491798
    Abstract: A printer is provided with a mounting portion and an arm. A head is mounted on the mounting portion. The head discharges a liquid. The arm can move between a fixed position and a released position. In the fixed position, the arm fixes the head mounted on the mounting portion to the mounting portion in a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction. In the released state, the arm unfixes the head from the mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ito
  • Patent number: 11342201
    Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus, a transport robot which transports a substrate between an indexer part and a substrate processing part is installed in a substrate transport part. The transport fan filter unit is provided in an upper part of the substrate transport part. An exhaust port is provided in the substrate transport part. The circulation piping allows the exhaust port of the substrate transport part and the transport fan filter unit to communicate with each other. The exhaust pipe is connected to the circulation piping. The inert gas supply part supplies an inert gas to the circulation piping. The circulation fan filter unit is disposed downstream of a connecting portion of the circulation piping with the exhaust pipe to be parallel to a flow path of the circulation piping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ito, Noriyuki Kikumoto, Kazuki Inoue, Kunio Yamada
  • Patent number: 11315820
    Abstract: A substrate processing device is provided. A chamber has a side wall part and a top wall part and contains a substrate holding part. A first gas supply part is disposed in the top wall part and supplies a first gas toward a side on which the substrate holding part is positioned. A second gas supply part is contained in the chamber and supplies a second gas to an inside of the chamber. A control unit controls the first and second gas supply part. The second gas is a gas different from oxygen and an allotrope of oxygen. The second gas supply part has an air feeding port part which is positioned on an upward side of a holding position of a substrate by the substrate holding part in a vertical direction and is positioned on an outward side of the substrate holding part in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ito, Noriyuki Kikumoto, Kazuki Inoue, Kunio Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210370695
    Abstract: A printer is provided with a front linear guide rail, a front linear guide block, a rear linear guide rail, a rear linear guide block, and a carriage. The front linear guide rail extends in a first direction. The front linear guide block is configured to move along the front linear guide rail. The rear linear guide rail is provided in a second direction with respect to the front linear guide rail, and extends in the first direction. The rear linear guide block is configured to move along the rear linear guide rail. The carriage is fixed to the front linear guide block and the rear linear guide block. One of the front linear guide block and the rear linear guide block positions the carriage in the second direction, and the other positions the carriage in a third direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuo ITO
  • Publication number: 20210283932
    Abstract: A printer is provided with a mounting portion and an arm. A head is mounted on the mounting portion. The head discharges a liquid. The arm can move between a fixed position and a released position. In the fixed position, the arm fixes the head mounted on the mounting portion to the mounting portion in a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction. In the released state, the arm unfixes the head from the mounting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuo ITO
  • Patent number: 11092924
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drive unit disposed inside its housing, a support frame, a protrusion, and a support portion. The drive unit is configured to drive a conveyance unit for conveying a sheet toward an image forming unit. The support frame supports the drive unit. The protrusion has a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end is farther from the support frame than the proximal end is from the support frame. The support portion supports the proximal end of the protrusion. The drive unit further includes a torsion spring including a spiral portion engaged with the protrusion, and a first portion and a second portion each extending from the spiral portion. The first arm is pivotable about a pivot axis and includes a covering portion. The covering portion extends from the first arm and covers the distal end of the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ito
  • Patent number: 10865065
    Abstract: An image reading device includes: a supply tray including a movable plate which moves from a first position to a second position according to a decrease in the number of sheet to be supported by a supply tray; a discharge guide including a discharge opening for discharging the sheet conveyed by a conveyance guide to a discharge tray, and moves from a third position to a fourth position according to the decrease in the number of the sheets to be supported by the supply tray; a first drive source and a first drive train that transmits a drive force from the first drive source to a discharge roller. The discharge roller discharges a sheet through a discharge opening by receiving the drive force from the first drive source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ito, Takashi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20200384531
    Abstract: A composite magnetic material comprises spherical soft magnetic metal powder incorporated in the composite magnetic material in a dispersed manner, a flame retardant incorporated in the composite magnetic material in a dispersed manner; and a binder configured to bind the soft magnetic metal powder and the flame retardant. The composite magnetic material is formed and processed into a sheet shape. The composite magnetic material has a volume occupancy of the soft magnetic metal powder of 45 vol % or more and 68 vol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo ITO, Masakazu ABE
  • Publication number: 20200361736
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus, includes: a supply tray; a discharge tray; a conveyance guide; a reading sensor; a discharge unit, which includes a discharge opening to discharge the sheet conveyed by the conveyance guide to the discharge tray and is configured to move from a third position to a fourth as the document supported by the paper feed tray is decreased, the fourth position being higher than the third position; a first drive source, which generates a drive force; a first rotation body, which moves the movable plate by transmitting the drive force from the first drive source to the movable plate; and a second rotation body, which moves the discharge unit by transmitting the drive force from the first drive source to the discharge unit, wherein a diameter of the first rotation body and a diameter of the second rotation body are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ito
  • Publication number: 20200312679
    Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus, a transport robot which transports a substrate between an indexer part and a substrate processing part is installed in a substrate transport part. The transport fan filter unit is provided in an upper part of the substrate transport part. An exhaust port is provided in the substrate transport part. The circulation piping allows the exhaust port of the substrate transport part and the transport fan filter unit to communicate with each other. The exhaust pipe is connected to the circulation piping. The inert gas supply part supplies an inert gas to the circulation piping. The circulation fan filter unit is disposed downstream of a connecting portion of the circulation piping with the exhaust pipe to be parallel to a flow path of the circulation piping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo ITO, Noriyuki KIKUMOTO, Kazuki INOUE, Kunio YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200312697
    Abstract: A substrate processing device is provided. A chamber has a side wall part and a top wall part and contains a substrate holding part. A first gas supply part is disposed in the top wall part and supplies a first gas toward a side on which the substrate holding part is positioned. A second gas supply part is contained in the chamber and supplies a second gas to an inside of the chamber. A control unit controls the first and second gas supply part. The second gas is a gas different from oxygen and an allotrope of oxygen. The second gas supply part has an air feeding port part which is positioned on an upward side of a holding position of a substrate by the substrate holding part in a vertical direction and is positioned on an outward side of the substrate holding part in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo ITO, Noriyuki KIKUMOTO, Kazuki INOUE, Kunio YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10737896
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus, includes: a supply tray; a discharge tray; a conveyance guide; a reading sensor; a discharge unit, which includes a discharge opening to discharge the sheet conveyed by the conveyance guide to the discharge tray and is configured to move from a third position to a fourth as the document supported by the paper feed tray is decreased, the fourth position being higher than the third position; a first drive source, which generates a drive force; a first rotation body, which moves the movable plate by transmitting the drive force from the first drive source to the movable plate; and a second rotation body, which moves the discharge unit by transmitting the drive force from the first drive source to the discharge unit, wherein a diameter of the first rotation body and a diameter of the second rotation body are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ito
  • Publication number: 20200174418
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drive unit disposed inside its housing, a support frame, a protrusion, and a support portion. The drive unit is configured to drive a conveyance unit for conveying a sheet toward an image forming unit. The support frame supports the drive unit. The protrusion has a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end is farther from the support frame than the proximal end is from the support frame. The support portion supports the proximal end of the protrusion. The drive unit further includes a torsion spring including a spiral portion engaged with the protrusion, and a first portion and a second portion each extending from the spiral portion. The first arm is pivotable about a pivot axis and includes a covering portion. The covering portion extends from the first arm and covers the distal end of the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Tetsuo ITO