Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Kaneko

Tomohiro Kaneko 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: 20250249614
    Abstract: A chuck table is configured to suction and hold a plate-shaped workpiece on a holder surface. The chuck table includes a base having a holder surface region on an upper surface thereof, a plurality of suction holes which are arranged in the holder surface region, formed through to a lower surface of the base, and connectable with a suction source, and an elastic member made of an elastomer having a predetermined thickness. The elastic member is arranged entirely in the holder surface region and forms the holder surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANEKO, Masanori MISAIZU, Hayato KIUCHI, Mana ERITATE, Shun UTAKA, Yuya TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12290898
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of grinding a first substrate in a combined substrate in which the first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other includes measuring a total thickness distribution of the combined substrate; measuring a thickness distribution of the first substrate; calculating a thickness distribution of the second substrate by subtracting the thickness distribution of the first substrate from the total thickness distribution of the combined substrate; deciding a relative inclination between a substrate holder configured to hold the combined substrate and a grinder configured to grind the combined substrate, based on the thickness distribution of the second substrate; and grinding the first substrate while holding the combined substrate at the inclination which is decided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Nobutaka Fukunaga, Tomohiro Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12194594
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes measuring a first thickness distribution of a first substrate in a first one of multiple combined substrates before being subjected to a finishing grinding; measuring a second thickness distribution of the first substrate in a second one of the multiple combined substrates before being subjected to the finishing grinding; deciding a relative inclination between a substrate holder configured to hold the second one of the multiple combined substrates and a grinder configured to perform the finishing grinding on the corresponding combined substrate, based on first difference data between the first thickness distribution and the second thickness distribution; and performing finishing grinding on the first substrate in the second one of the multiple combined substrates while holding the second one of the multiple combined substrates at the inclination which is decided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Nobutaka Fukunaga, Takeshi Matsumoto, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12191153
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a pair of first substrate chucks each configured to hold a substrate from below while allowing a first main surface of the substrate to face upwards; a pair of second substrate chucks each configured to hold the substrate from below while allowing a second main surface of the substrate opposite to the first main surface to face upwards; a rotary table which is configured to be rotated about a rotation axis; a first processing unit equipped with a first processing tool configured to process the first main surface of the substrate held by the first substrate chuck; and a second processing unit equipped with a second processing tool configured to process the second main surface of the substrate held by the second substrate chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Munehisa Kodama, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240331998
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of processing a substrate includes: grinding a first surface of the substrate; and grinding, after grinding the first surface, a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface. A first grinding mark extending from a center of the first surface toward an outer periphery thereof in a gently curved manner is formed when the first surface is ground, a second grinding mark extending from a center of the second surface toward an outer periphery thereof in a gently curved manner is formed when the second surface is ground, and a curving direction of the first grinding mark and a curving direction of the second grinding mark are opposite when viewed through from one of the first surface or the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Susumu HAYAKAWA, Kazuya IKEUE, Tomohiro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 12061092
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processing unit which creates a power-supply plan that ensures a first amount of electric power needed for the vehicle to arrive at the destination from the current location along a travel route. The travel route includes a specified section on which wireless power-supply equipment, among a plurality of power-supply equipment, is disposed. Using weather information including the specified section, the processing unit creates the power-supply plan in which a ratio of a second amount of electric power, which is supplied from the at least one wireless power-supply equipment to the vehicle, to the first amount of electric power is less in a first case in which deposition is determined to be present on the specified section than in a second case in which deposition is determined to be not present on the at least one specified section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Daiki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240227496
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling the spot air conditioning based on an estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Kotoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20240227832
    Abstract: A vehicle controller for a vehicle includes a processor to: detect a driving state of the vehicle; determine whether a predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state; determine, when determining that the predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state, whether a mood of a driver of the vehicle is elevated; and perform, when determining that the mood of the driver is elevated, vehicle control to settle the mood of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Kotoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240174216
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a mounting device, mounted on a moving body, acquiring position information of the moving body; and an information processing device receive and transmit information with the mounting device. Further, the mounting device inputs a captured image of an occupant to a learning model, outputs an estimation result of an emotion of the occupant, and, when determined the emotion of the occupant is a negative, transmits date and time information and the position information of the moving body at a time when the negative emotion is appeared to the information processing device, and the information processing device acquires and stores the date and time information and the position information from the movable body in a storage unit, and identifying a location or date and time when a specific rule occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANEKO, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Kotoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20240166224
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processer configured to estimate emotion of a driver based on biological information thereof; and determine an intervention amount of a driving assistance function based on the estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kotoru SATO, Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240149890
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; an in-vehicle sensor that detects whether there is a priority target among occupants in a vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device: determines whether there is a priority target among occupants in the vehicle based on a detection result of the in-vehicle sensor; acquires information on the priority target when determining that there is the priority target; estimates a feeling of the priority target based on the information that has been acquired by using the learned model; and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANEKO, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Kotoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20240140454
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; a monitoring device that monitors whether each of a plurality of occupants in a vehicle has grasped a behavior of the vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device determines whether there is an occupant who has not grasped a behavior of the vehicle among the plurality of occupants based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device, specifies a target occupant whose feeling is to be estimated from the plurality of occupants based on the determination result, estimates feeling of the target occupant who has been specified by using the learned model, and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Shigeki Nakayama, Kotoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240131895
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling the spot air conditioning based on an estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Kotoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20240132090
    Abstract: A vehicle controller for a vehicle includes a processor to: detect a driving state of the vehicle; determine whether a predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state; determine, when determining that the predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state, whether a mood of a driver of the vehicle is elevated; and perform, when determining that the mood of the driver is elevated, vehicle control to settle the mood of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Kotoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240046780
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor that acquires travel data of a target vehicle, determines whether the target vehicle obeys a traffic rule, and adjusts a usage form of the travel data in a case of determining that the target vehicle does not obey the traffic rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi OYAGI, Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Koji IDE, Tomohiro KANEKO, Yoshihisa SHINODA, Shigeki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240017375
    Abstract: A substrate processing system configured to process a combined substrate in which a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other includes a processing apparatus configured to grind the first substrate; a first thickness measuring apparatus configured to measure a thickness of the first substrate before being ground by the processing apparatus and a total thickness of the combined substrate including the first substrate; and a second thickness measuring apparatus configured to measure the thickness of the first substrate after being ground by the processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi TAMURA, Munehisa KODAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230410485
    Abstract: A machine learning device includes a processor which performs, when performing learning of a model with image data, the learning of the model while excluding the image data of an animal having a feature amount common with a feature amount of a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa SHINODA, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Koji IDE, Tomohiro KANEKO, Hiroshi OYAGI, Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230401871
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a vehicle that captures an image of a periphery by an in-vehicle camera; and an information processing device including a processor. Further, the processor stores acquired image data without performing privacy processing in a case where a predetermined specific event is occurred therein, and stores the acquired image data after performing the privacy processing in a case where the specific event is not occurred therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ito, Yuki Takahashi, Koji Ide, Hiroshi Oyagi, Yoshihisa Shinoda, Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230398658
    Abstract: A deburring unit removes burrs from a workpiece, the burrs being formed along kerfs cut by a cutting blade. The deburring unit includes a chuck table that holds the workpiece on a holding surface, an ultrasonic horn that emits ultrasonic waves from a lower surface, the lower surface facing an upper surface of the workpiece, a water film forming nozzle configured to form a water film such that the upper surface of the workpiece is covered in its entirety with the water film, and a controller. The controller is configured to cause the ultrasonic horn to come into contact at its lower surface with the water film formed by supply of water from the water film forming nozzle, such that ultrasonic vibrations propagate to the water film and remove the burrs formed in the kerfs of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaoming QIU, Fumiteru TASHINO, Tomohiro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11828609
    Abstract: A vehicle information DB holds information on whether or not a vehicle falls under a welfare vehicle provided with an assistance apparatus for a driver who has a lower limb impairment. A power feed facility DB holds position information of a power feed facility and information indicating whether the power feed facility falls under a contact type power feed facility or a wireless power feed facility. A processing apparatus creates a travel route such that a larger number of wireless power feed facilities are included along the travel route when the vehicle falls under the welfare vehicle than when the vehicle does not fall under the welfare vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Midori Sugiyama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hirotaka Saito