Patents by Inventor Toshio Matsubara
Toshio Matsubara 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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Patent number: 7598704Abstract: As the present invention is adapted to receive an image to be printed or to be saved from a portable device having the image by wireless communication, an image needs not to be passed via a memory card or by connector connection or the like. As the present invention is also adapted to automatically identify the other party's device to wirelessly communicate with and establish a channel, and further adapted to supply power to the other party's device without contact, it is advantageous that a battery of the portable device is not exhausted or the portable device is not disconnected even if the device communicates wirelessly for a long time.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Toshio Taniguchi, Toshio Matsubara
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Publication number: 20080283086Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus has a pressure-reducible reaction chamber, a substrate support provided in the reaction chamber, a gas inlet port provided in a wall portion of the reaction chamber to introduce a gas into the reaction chamber, a first plate provided between the substrate support and the gas inlet port in the reaction chamber and having a plurality of first holes for dispersing the gas introduced from the gas inlet port into the reaction chamber, and a second plate provided between the substrate support and the first plate in the reaction chamber in opposing relation to the first plate and having a plurality of second holes for further dispersing the gas dispersed by the first plate. The first and second plates can be moved relatively to each other such that a spacing between the first and second plates is variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshio Matsubara, Satoshi Ueda, Hiroyuki Satou, Hideto Uchijima
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Patent number: 7368398Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a reaction chamber with a structure allowing pressure reduction, a shower head for supplying a processing gas into the reaction chamber including a gas diffusion plate in which through holes are formed, and a substrate support for placing a substrate. Each ones of through holes provided in a peripheral region of the gas diffusion plate is formed so that an area of an inlet thereof is larger than an area of an outlet thereof. With use of the substrate processing apparatus, a processing gas can be supplied uniformly in the gas diffusion plate. Therefore, substrate processing such as film deposition and film etching can be uniformly performed.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Matsubara, Hiroyuki Satoh, Hideto Uchijima
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Patent number: 7316126Abstract: The present invention provides a high-efficiency absorption refrigerating machine which can recover heat from a heat source and can efficiently recover heat from an internal cycle. The absorption refrigerating machine includes an evaporator, an absorber (A), a condenser (C), a high-temperature regenerator (GH), a low-temperature regenerator (GL), a low-temperature solution heat exchanger (LX), and solution paths and refrigerant paths by which these units are connected. The absorption refrigerating machine further comprises two branch solution paths branched from a solution supply path through which a dilute solution is introduced from the absorption (A) to the high-temperature regenerator (GH). On one of the branch solution paths, there is disposed a drain heat exchanger (DX) operable to perform heat exchange between the dilute solution in the branch solution path and an exhaust heat source which has heated the high-temperature regenerator (GH).Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Ebara Refrigeration Equipment & Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Aoyama, Jun Murata, Norio Arai, Toshio Matsubara
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Publication number: 20060196222Abstract: The present invention provides a high-efficiency absorption refrigerating machine which can recover heat from a heat source and can efficiently recover heat from an internal cycle. The absorption refrigerating machine includes an evaporator, an absorber (A), a condenser (C), a high-temperature regenerator (GH), a low-temperature regenerator (GL), a low-temperature solution heat exchanger (LX), and solution paths and refrigerant paths by which these units are connected. The absorption refrigerating machine further comprises two branch solution paths branched from a solution supply path through which a dilute solution is introduced from the absorption (A) to the high-temperature regenerator (GH). On one of the branch solution paths, there is disposed a drain heat exchanger (DX) operable to perform heat exchange between the dilute solution in the branch solution path and an exhaust heat source which has heated the high-temperature regenerator (GH).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2004Publication date: September 7, 2006Inventors: Jun Aoyama, Jun Murata, Norio Arai, Toshio Matsubara
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Publication number: 20060158152Abstract: As the present invention is adapted to receive an image to be printed or to be saved from a portable device having the image by wireless communication, an image needs not to be passed via a memory card or by connector connection or the like. As the present invention is also adapted to automatically identify the other party's device to wirelessly communicate with and establish a channel, and further adapted to supply power to the other party's device without contact, it is advantageous that a battery of the portable device is not exhausted or the portable device is not disconnected even if the device communicates wirelessly for a long time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2006Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: Toshio Taniguchi, Toshio Matsubara
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Publication number: 20060146369Abstract: The present invention provides a printing apparatus and a method for a user to easily obtain an image print without accompanying information if the user needs no accompanying information even if the image is already embedded with various types of accompanying information such as date of taking the picture and the like. The printing apparatus comprises: a detecting section for detecting accompanying information accompanying an image; a trimming section for determining a trimming region which does not include the accompanying information and cutting an image included in the trimming region out from the region; and a printing section for printing the cut out image. The printing method comprises the steps of: detecting accompanying information which accompanies an image; determining a trimming region which does not include the accompanying information and cutting an image included in the trimming region out from the region; and printing the cut out image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2005Publication date: July 6, 2006Inventor: Toshio Matsubara
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Publication number: 20060086463Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a reaction chamber with a structure allowing pressure reduction, a shower head for supplying a processing gas into the reaction chamber including a gas diffusion plate in which through holes are formed, and a substrate support for placing a substrate. Each ones of through holes provided in a peripheral region of the gas diffusion plate is formed so that an area of an inlet thereof is larger than an area of an outlet thereof. With use of the substrate processing apparatus, a processing gas can be supplied uniformly in the gas diffusion plate. Therefore, substrate processing such as film deposition and film etching can be uniformly performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2005Publication date: April 27, 2006Inventors: Toshio Matsubara, Hiroyuki Satoh, Hideto Uchijima
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Publication number: 20060086318Abstract: In a gas diffusion plate, a plurality of through holes for passing a processing gas used in processing a substrate are provided. Each one of the through holes provided in a peripheral region of the gas diffusion plate is formed so that an area of an inlet thereof is larger than an area of an outlet thereof. With use of a substrate processing apparatus including the gas diffusion plate, a processing gas can be supplied uniformly in the gas diffusion plate. Accordingly, substrate processing such as film deposition and film etching can be uniformly performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2005Publication date: April 27, 2006Inventors: Toshio Matsubara, Hiroyuki Satoh, Hideto Uchijima
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Patent number: 6935417Abstract: The present invention relates to a solution heat exchanger used for performing heat exchange between a dilute solution and a concentrated solution in a solution passage of an absorption refrigerating machine. The solution heat exchanger (H) comprises a plate type heat exchanger, and a communication portion (R) communicating between a dilute solution passage and a concentrated solution passage for introducing a portion of a dilute solution into a concentrated solution is provided in the solution heat exchanger (H).Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1999Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Inoue, Toshio Matsubara, Shouji Tanaka, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Hiroki Nakamura, Tomoyuki Uchimura
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Publication number: 20050145170Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus has a pressure-reducible reaction chamber, a substrate support provided in the reaction chamber, a gas inlet port provided in a wall portion of the reaction chamber to introduce a gas into the reaction chamber, a first plate provided between the substrate support and the gas inlet port in the reaction chamber and having a plurality of first holes for dispersing the gas introduced from the gas inlet port into the reaction chamber, and a second plate provided between the substrate support and the first plate in the reaction chamber in opposing relation to the first plate and having a plurality of second holes for further dispersing the gas dispersed by the first plate. The first and second plates can be moved relatively to each other such that a spacing between the first and second plates is variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2004Publication date: July 7, 2005Inventors: Toshio Matsubara, Satoshi Ueda, Hiroyuki Satou, Hideto Uchijima
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Patent number: 6817406Abstract: The present invention relates to a plate heat exchanger for simultaneously exchanging heat between two sets of fluids having different temperatures. The plate heat exchanger comprises a heat exchange element (2) comprising two plates facing each other so as to form a inner sealed space as a passage for a first fluid, and a plate surface of the plate serves as a heat transfer surface, and a fluid flowing along an outer surface of the plate is a second fluid. The plate heat exchanger comprises a heat exchange element (2′) comprising two plates facing each other so as to form a inner sealed space as a passage for a third fluid, and a plate surface of the plate serves as a heat transfer surface, and a fluid flowing along an outer surface of the plate is a fourth fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Inoue, Toshio Matsubara
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Patent number: 6681844Abstract: The present invention relates to a plate type heat exchanger having a heat exchange element composed of two plates for exchanging heat between a fluid flowing inside the heat exchange element and a fluid flowing outside the heat exchange element. In the plate type heat exchanger, the two plates (1) have a plurality of depressions (8), and the depressions are brought into contact with and bonded to each other. Peripheral portions of the plates are sealed to form a space in which a fluid flows and constitute a heat exchange element (2) having opening portions (5, 6) at both ends thereof. The heat exchange elements (2) are piled on and bonded to each other so that the opening portions (5, 6) communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Inoue, Toshio Matsubara, Tomoyoshi Irie, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Tomoyuki Uchimura
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Patent number: 6564572Abstract: There is provided an absorption refrigerator comprising a liquid-film type plate heat exchanger structure,. which is improved in terms of installation while maintaining the height of the refrigerator at a practical level. In an absorption refrigerator utilizing a liquid-film type plate heat exchanger for an absorber (A), an evaporator (E), a regenerator (G) and a condenser (C), all the absorber, the evaporator, the regenerator and the condenser, each comprising the liquid-film type plate heat exchanger, are arranged in a horizontal direction. The evaporator, the absorber, the regenerator and the condenser are accommodated in a single can body (1), and the evaporator and the absorber, and the regenerator and the condenser are, respectively, accommodated in different chambers arranged in a lateral direction, which are divided by a partition wall (16) provided in the can body.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Uchimura, Toshio Matsubara, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Tomoyoshi Irie
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Patent number: 6442964Abstract: An absorption refrigerating machine according to the present invention has a system for flowing cooling water in parallel to an absorber and a condenser. The absorption refrigerating machine is constituted such that plate type heat exchangers H1, H3 are used in an absorber A and a condenser C, and the amounts of cooling water distributed to the absorber and the condenser are determined mainly based on fluid resistance of each of the plate type heat exchangers.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Inoue, Toshio Matsubara, Tomoyoshi Irie
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Patent number: 6123283Abstract: To provide an automatic winding machine wherein even if a yarn splicing operation is carried out during the reduction of yarn winding tension at the time of winding yarn splicing, the subsequent winding tension can be maintained at an appropriate value depending upon the amount of remaining yarn. In an automatic winding machine including a tension apparatus 2 that can adjust yarn winding tension by reducing it at a predetermined rate at the time of yarn splicing, a rapid tension reduction pattern used after a yarn splicing operation during tension reduction at the time of yarn splicing is different from a rapid tension reduction pattern used after the yarn splicing operation during normal winding.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeru Hayashi, Toshio Matsubara
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Patent number: 6009714Abstract: A controller for an absorption cold/hot water generating machine, in which a refrigerating cycle is formed by pipe-connecting an evaporator, an absorber, a solution heat exchanger, a low-temperature generator, a condenser, and a high-temperature generator, and the solution level in a header of the high-temperature generator is kept within a prescribed range by controlling the flow rate of the solution fed from the absorber to the high-temperature generator; wherein a solution pump for feeding a solution from the absorber to the high-temperature generator is inverter-driven, and there is provided pressure difference detecting means for detecting a difference in pressure between the high-temperature generator and the absorber; and wherein there is provided control means which controls the solution pump driving frequency of the inverter as a function of a pressure difference between the high-temperature generator and the absorber.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1998Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Syouji Tanaka, Takashi Kaneko, Naoyuki Inoue, Jun Murata, Teruwo Shiraishi, Toshio Matsubara, Nobutaka Matsuda, Motonao Kera
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Patent number: 5394514Abstract: A data processing apparatus having an interface means for fetching a signal from an external device outside the processing apparatus, a CPU connected to the interface means, a data bus, connected to the interface means and the CPU, for exchanging data therebetween, a ROM, connected to the data bus, for storing a character code, and a RAM, connected to the data bus, for storing and reading out the character code, is characterized in that bit image data corresponding to the character code is developed and stored in the RAM by means of the CPU, the data bus, the ROM, and the RAM, and is output to an external device.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1993Date of Patent: February 28, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Toshio Matsubara
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Patent number: 5381776Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for an engine, to which evaporated fuel in a canister is supplied, is used for feedback controlling an air-fuel ratio based on a feedback control value calculated according to the quantity of evaporated fuel supplied to the engine. A calculation is made, in a first range of engine operating conditions, of a difference of a first control value between the first control value determined during supplying of the evaporated fuel to the engine and the first control value determined during not supplying of the evaporated fuel to the engine in the first range. A second control value for a second range of engine operating conditions is established different from the first range based on a feedback control value for controlling an air-fuel ratio of fuel in the first range, a ratio of the quantity of intake air into the engine between the first and second ranges, and a ratio of the supplying quantity of the evaporated fuel into the engine between the first and second ranges.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1993Date of Patent: January 17, 1995Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Toshio Matsubara, Haruyuki Kato, Yuji Ota, Hideki Tominaga
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Patent number: 5236264Abstract: A linear bearing is constructed of a shaft having a cylindrical outer wall, an outer race having a cylindrical inner peripheral wall, a cylindrical retainer inserted for axial displacement within a toroidal space between the outer wall and the inner wall, and plural balls retained for rotation in the retainer and in contact with the outer wall and the inner wall. The balls are provided more densely at axially opposite end portions of the retainer.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1992Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Matsubara, Takeo Koyama, Magozo Hamamoto, Shoichiro Koike