Patents by Inventor Toru Kodama

Toru Kodama 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: 20090005630
    Abstract: A treatment method includes heating a treatment target object under reduced pressure in a hermetic zone to vaporize a component of the treatment target object, and opening a hermetic door and inserting a tube from a side of a treatment system for the vaporized component adjoining the hermetic zone with the hermetic door therebetween such that the tube shields the hermetic door from the hermetic zone to introduce the component vaporized from the treatment target object to the treatment system side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: HOEI SHOKAI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YOKOYAMA, Toru Kodama, Yasuo Mishima, Katuo Takamiya, Tsuyoshi Abe, Hitoshi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7396504
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a sealed type container body (50) capable of storing molten metal; a flow passage (57) capable of flowing the molten metal, the passage is formed extended to an outside of the container, and the passage is formed towards an upper portion (57b) from an opening (57a) provided at a position on an inner and near a bottom portion (50a) of the container body (50); and means (101, 0313) for controlling the pressure in the container body. This makes it possible to provide a container or the like requiring no replacement of parts such as a stoke and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Kodama, Tsuyoshi Abe, Hiroshi Mizuno, Kazunori Suzuki, Kouji Iyoda, Kenji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7381383
    Abstract: A treatment apparatus of the present invention includes a hermetic door 115b and a retort 115c as an interface for taking out a gaseous emission containing vaporized substances from an object to be treated which is being heated in a reduced pressure state in a second hermetic chamber 103 while maintaining conditions in the second hermetic chamber. When the retort 115c is inserted into a first opening 103b of the second hermetic chamber, the hermetic door 115b in an open state is shielded from the second hermetic chamber 103, whereby condensation of the gaseous emission at the hermetic door is prevented. Accordingly, condensates can be taken out while conditions such as temperature and pressure in the hermetic chamber are maintained without the treatment apparatus being stopped. The productivity of treatment is greatly improved by continuous operation of such a treatment apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Yokoyama, Toru Kodama, Yasuo Mishima, Katuo Takamiya, Tsuyoshi Abe, Hitoshi Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20040089987
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a sealed type container body (50) capable of storing molten metal; a flow passage (57) capable of flowing the molten metal, the passage is formed extended to an outside of the container, and the passage is formed towards an upper portion (57b) from an opening (57a) provided at a position on an inner and near a bottom portion (50a) of the container body (50); and means (101, 0313) for controlling the pressure in the container body. This makes it possible to provide a container or the like requiring no replacement of parts such as a stoke and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Toru Kodama, Tsuyoshi Abe, Hiroshi Mizuno, Kazunori Suzuki, Kouji Iyoda, Kenji Noguchi
  • Patent number: D460091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mizuno, Toru Kodama, Tsuyoshi Abe
  • Patent number: D551421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Kodama, Hitoshi Mizuno, Takeo Imanaka
  • Patent number: D551422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Kodama, Hitoshi Mizuno, Takeo Imanaka
  • Patent number: D551423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Kodama, Hitoshi Mizuno, Takeo Imanaka