Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Suzuki

Tomohiro Suzuki 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: 20140055108
    Abstract: A power supply device that includes a switch circuit to which an input voltage is supplied, a coil coupled between the switch circuit and an output terminal from which an output voltage is outputted. A voltage adding circuit adds a slope voltage to a reference voltage. A control unit compares a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage and the reference voltage and switches the switch circuit at a timing corresponding to a comparison result of the feedback voltage and the reference voltage. A slope adjustment circuit differentiates a current flowing in the coil and adjusts a slope amount of the slope based on a differentiation result of the current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Shinichiro SUGA, Kenta Ido, Tomohiro Suzuki, Hiroaki Sumiya, Katsuyuki Yasukouchi, Takahiro Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8593126
    Abstract: A power supply device that includes a switch circuit to which an input voltage is supplied, a coil coupled between the switch circuit and an output terminal from which an output voltage is outputted. A voltage adding circuit adds a slope voltage to a reference voltage. A control unit compares a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage and the reference voltage and switches the switch circuit at a timing corresponding to a comparison result of the feedback voltage and the reference voltage. A slope adjustment circuit differentiates a current flowing in the coil and adjusts a slope amount of the slope based on a differentiation result of the current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Shinichiro Suga, Kenta Ido, Tomohiro Suzuki, Hiroaki Sumiya, Katsuyuki Yasukouchi, Takahiro Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8535914
    Abstract: The present invention provides a combination of genes useful for information which can be used for the prediction of postoperative recurrence of gastric cancer and the acquisition of the information, a probe detecting these genes and a primer set for PCR, a method for detecting these genes using the primer and the primer set and a method for obtaining the information which can be used for the prediction of recurrence. Information useful for the prediction of postoperative recurrence can be obtained by determining the presence or absence of gastric cancer cells which show a possibility of postoperative recurrence in a sample such as an peritoneal wash collected from a patient by detecting a particular gene specific to gastric cancer cells or a gene product thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, President of National Cancer Center
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suzuki, Nobuko Yamamoto, Hiroki Sasaki, Kazuhiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20130234597
    Abstract: The plasma shield device (13) comprises a hollow structure (40) made of monocrystal body of silicon carbide and having an inside space (40a) and a first and second openings (40b,40c) which are opposed to each other across the inside space. During operation of the plasma generation apparatus, the internal space of the hollow structure forms a discharge zone in which the plasma is generated. Discharge gas is supplied to the internal space of the hollow structure through the first opening and the EUV radiation is mainly emitted through the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: LASERTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko KUSUNOSE, Kiwamu TAKEHISA, Tomohiro SUZUKI, Hiroki MIYAI
  • Patent number: 8440939
    Abstract: Disclosed is an annealing device that includes a processing chamber into which a wafer is received, a heating source having a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) for emitting a light toward the wafer, which faces the surface of the wafer, and a light transmissive member provided corresponding to the heating source, into which the light from the light emitting elements is transmitted. The heating source has the light emitting elements attached on a support toward the wafer. Each of the light emitting elements is individually covered with a lens layer made of a transparent resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Kasai, Tomohiro Suzuki, Sumi Tanaka, Masatake Yoneda, Hiroyuki Miyashita
  • Patent number: 8406394
    Abstract: An advertisement delivery system by a telephone service utilizing IP telephone communication technology. The system comprises at least a call control apparatus controlling calling between a sending side terminal provided with a reproduction device and a receiving side terminal, and an advertisement delivery apparatus delivering advertisement video information to the terminal. The call control apparatus comprises a monitoring function unit monitoring the “voice media state” and “video media state” of the terminal and a delivery connection function unit delivering the advertisement video information based on the results of monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Joji Furuya, Kazuyoshi Kondo, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130035626
    Abstract: A blood purification apparatus, during priming, has one end of the fluid infusing line L3 connected at the same location as the connected location of the fluid infusing line L3 during the blood purification treatment process. Determining whether either a pre-fluid infusion, where replenishment fluid is supplied to an arterial air trap chamber 5, or a post-fluid infusion, where the replenishment fluid is supplied to a venous air trap chamber 6, will be performed in the blood purification treatment process. The end of an arterial blood circuit 2 and the end of a venous blood circuit 3 are connected together to communicate fluid. In addition, a blood pump 4 is driven in normal rotation or in reverse rotation direction while the replenishment fluid is supplied from the fluid infusing line L3. The replenishment fluid is discharged from an overflow line 6a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventor: Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120325795
    Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a heat dissipating board formed of a metal; an insulating layer directly formed on the heat dissipating board; a plurality of wiring elements which are arranged on the insulating layer in a wiring pattern; and a plurality of LED elements provided on the wiring elements, respectively. The heating apparatus further includes metal wiring lines which electrically connect the adjacent LED elements to each other in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro SUZUKI, Kazuhiro OOYA, Masatake YONEDA
  • Publication number: 20120306465
    Abstract: A power supply device that includes a switch circuit to which an input voltage is supplied, a coil coupled between the switch circuit and an output terminal from which an output voltage is outputted. A voltage adding circuit adds a slope voltage to a reference voltage. A control unit compares a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage and the reference voltage and switches the switch circuit at a timing corresponding to a comparison result of the feedback voltage and the reference voltage. A slope adjustment circuit differentiates a current flowing in the coil and adjusts a slope amount of the slope based on a differentiation result of the current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinichiro SUGA, Kenta IDO, Tomohiro SUZUKI, Hiroaki SUMIYA, Katsuyuki YASUKOUCHI, Takahiro YOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20120279944
    Abstract: Provided is an annealing apparatus, which is free from a problem of reduced light energy efficiency resulted by the reduction of light emission amount due to a heat generation and capable of maintaining stable performance. The apparatus includes: a processing chamber 1 for accommodating a wafer W; heating sources 17a and 17b including LEDs 33 and facing the surface of the wafer W to irradiate light on the wafer W; light-transmitting members 18a and 18b arranged in alignment with the heating sources 17a and 17b to transmit the light emitted from the LEDs 33; cooling members 4a and 4b supporting the light-transmitting members 18a and 18b at opposite side to the processing chamber 1 to make direct contact with the heating sources 17a and 17b and made of a material of high thermal conductivity; and a cooling mechanism for cooling the cooling members 4a and 4b with a coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeru KASAI, Hiroyuki MIYASHITA, Masatake YONEDA, Tomohiro SUZUKI, Sumi TANAKA, Masamichi NOMURA, Miwa SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 8305940
    Abstract: A telephone service, particularly a telephone supplementary service communication system having an IP telephone control apparatus and an IP telephone terminal. A telephone supplementary service communication control system for the service communicate system is comprised of a specified voice terminal and a plurality of telephone supplementary service terminals registered to link with the same and including a communication control apparatus registering linking of the specified voice terminal and the plurality of telephone supplementary service terminals as a single virtual terminal and managing and controlling the running and termination of these linked terminals, wherein the communication control apparatus comprises a supplementary service starting unit monitoring the communication start state of the voice terminal and starting the supplementary service by the telephone supplementary service terminal linked with the voice terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suzuki, Joji Furuya, Kazuyoshi Kondo
  • Patent number: 8246900
    Abstract: Provided is an annealing apparatus, which is free from a problem of reduced light energy efficiency resulted by the reduction of light emission amount due to a heat generation and capable of maintaining stable performance. The apparatus includes: a processing chamber 1 for accommodating a wafer W; heating sources 17a and 17b including LEDs 33 and facing the surface of the wafer W to irradiate light on the wafer W; light-transmitting members 18a and 18b arranged in alignment with the heating sources 17a and 17b to transmit the light emitted from the LEDs 33; cooling members 4a and 4b supporting the light-transmitting members 18a and 18b at opposite side to the processing chamber 1 to make direct contact with the heating sources 17a and 17b and made of a material of high thermal conductivity; and a cooling mechanism for cooling the cooling members 4a and 4b with a coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Kasai, Hiroyuki Miyashita, Masatake Yoneda, Tomohiro Suzuki, Sumi Tanaka, Masamichi Nomura, Miwa Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120147405
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a first memory unit configured to store screen transition information in which a screen transition of applications is described in a hierarchical structure; a second memory unit configured to store conditional information in which UIs for previous screens and posterior screens are associated for each screen; a display unit configured to display the screen transition in the hierarchical form based on the screen transition information; and a customization control unit configured to control customization based on the conditional information corresponding to a screen to be customized and update the screen transition information when the screen transition displayed in the display unit is customized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8164033
    Abstract: A stage onto which is electrostatically attracted a substrate to be processed in a substrate processing apparatus, which enables the semiconductor device yield to be improved. A temperature measuring apparatus 200 measures a temperature of the substrate to be processed. A temperature control unit 400 carries out temperature adjustment on the substrate to be processed such as to become equal to a target temperature based on a preset parameter. A temperature control unit 400 controls the temperature of the substrate to be processed by controlling the temperature adjustment by the temperature control unit 400 based on a measured temperature measured by the temperature measuring apparatus 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Chishio Koshimizu, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8140836
    Abstract: If a defect flag stored in a CF 19 while a BIOS is being booted, an information processing device 10 boots a second program stored in an external device 31 connected to a connection section 21, and if the defect flag is not detected, the information processing device 10 confirms whether or not the first program is bootable. If the first program is confirmed to be bootable, the first program is booted and if not, the defect flag is set in the CF 19 and the power of the information processing apparatus 10 is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ogawa, Tomohiro Suzuki, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Fumikage Uchida, Munetoshi Eguchi, Hiroaki Yago
  • Patent number: 8107116
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a memory; a store control section to divide and store image data in plural vacant memory regions in the memory; and an image administrating information registering section to register each divided image data divided by the store control section by correlating position information of each divided image data in the image data before dividing the image data with storing position information of each divided image data indicating a storing memory region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Munetoshi Eguchi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Yuji Tamura, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Hiroyasu Nishimura, Tomoya Ogawa, Fumikage Uchida, Nao Moromizato, Masayuki Yasukaga
  • Patent number: 8080381
    Abstract: An infectious etiologic agent detection probe set which detects an infectious etiologic agent gene, includes a plurality of kinds of probes including oligonucleotide having base sequences selected from each of a plurality of groups selected from a first group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 1 to 14 and complementary sequences thereof, a second group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 15 to 24 and complementary sequences thereof, a third group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 25 to 36 and complementary sequences thereof, a fourth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 37 to 47 and complementary sequences thereof, a fifth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 48 to 57 and complementary sequences thereof, a sixth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 58 to 68 and complementary sequences thereof, a seventh group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 69 to 77 and complementary sequences thereof, an eighth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuko Yamamoto, Masaya Ogura, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Mamoru Tsukada, Hiroto Yoshii, Tomohiro Suzuki, Mie Ishii, Toshifumi Fukui
  • Patent number: 8078863
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: a first recording medium which stores a first program; a connection section which is capable of connecting to a second recording medium outside of the information processing apparatus; an instruction input section to input, while the information processing apparatus is in an activated state, an instruction for booting a second program stored in the second recording medium that is connected to the connection section on booting of the BIOS; and a controller which, performs a check when booting of a BIOS, if the second recording medium is connected and the instruction has been input while the information processing apparatus is in an activated state; in case when the second recording medium is connected and the instruction has been input is confirmed, the control section boots the second program; and in case when it is not confirmed, the control section boots the first program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yago, Tomohiro Suzuki, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tomoya Ogawa, Fumikage Uchida, Munetoshi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 8060781
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus which saves data in a volatile memory into a nonvolatile memory when power is off, the data processing apparatus including: a detecting circuit for outputting a momentary interruption detecting signal when a power source voltage is below a first threshold voltage, and a power failure detecting signal when the power source voltage is below a second threshold voltage that is lower than the first threshold voltage; and a control section adapted to start saving of the data in the volatile memory into the nonvolatile memory when the detecting circuit has output the momentary interruption detecting signal, continue save of the data, and carry out a predetermined shutdown processing when the detecting circuit has output the power failure detecting signal after the detecting circuit has output the momentary interruption detecting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tomohiro Suzuki, Yuji Tamura, Hiroyasu Nishimura, Tomoya Ogawa, Fumikage Uchida, Nao Moromizato, Munetoshi Eguchi, Kenji Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8041197
    Abstract: A heating apparatus for heating a target object W is provided with a plurality of heating light sources, including LED elements for applying heating light having a wavelength within a range from 360 to 520 nm to the object. Thus, a temperature of only the shallow surface of the object, such as a semiconductor wafer, is increased/reduced at a high speed in uniform temperature distribution, irrespective of the film type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Kasai, Tomohiro Suzuki