Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Ando
Yasuhiro Ando 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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Publication number: 20240248405Abstract: Provided is an exposure method and an exposure device for obtaining a photo-alignment film where the accuracy of an alignment pattern is high, and a method of manufacturing an optically-anisotropic layer. Provided is an exposure method in which linearly polarized light is focused in a ring shape with an optical member to expose a film including a compound having a photo-aligned group, the method including: an exposure step of relatively moving the film and the optical member in an optical axis direction of the optical member while rotating a polarization direction of the linearly polarized light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi ANDO, Takehiko HARASAWA, Satoshi NAGANO, Yasuhiro SEKIZAWA
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Publication number: 20240249339Abstract: To promote improvement in services related to purchase of a replacement for a personal property based on a body shape change of a user. An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a providing unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on a body shape of a user. The determination unit determines whether a change of the body shape is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold based on the information on the body shape of the user acquired by the acquisition unit. The providing unit, when the determination unit determines that the change of the body shape is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold, provides information for proposing purchase of a substitute of a personal property of the user, the personal property not fitting the body shape of the user due to the change.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Takuya UEDA, Kengo ONO, Yasuhiro MORITA, Fuminori ANDO
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Publication number: 20240249338Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit acquiring body shape information on a body shape of a first user, a second acquisition unit acquiring body shape information on a target user that is determined in advance as a user to whom information is to be provided by an information provider, a calculation unit calculating, based on comparison between the body shape information on the first user and statistical data of body shape information based on attribute information on the first user, a difference from a standard body shape that is based on the statistical data, and a providing unit providing information that is suitable for the first user among pieces of information of the information provider for which the body shape information on the target user includes the body shape information on the first user in accordance with the difference that is calculated by the calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Takuya UEDA, Kengo ONO, Yasuhiro MORITA, Fuminori ANDO
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Publication number: 20230296644Abstract: The present invention pertains to a surface analysis device (1) and provides a technology that can increase accuracy and quality of measurement and analysis even when a local deviation is generated in height information of a measurement result of a scanning probe microscope (SPM) (2), due to an atmospheric pressure change with respect to an airtight tank (10). The surface analysis device (1) is provided with: an airtight tank (10); a stage (6) that holds a sample (5) in the airtight tank (10); the SPM (2) that is fixed to a structure configuring the airtight tank (1) and that measures the surface of the sample (5); a sensor (4) that is disposed outside of the airtight tank (10) and that measures atmospheric pressure; and a computer system that analyzes the surface of the sample by using a first signal obtained through measurement by the SPM (2) and a second signal obtained through measurement by the sensor (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Ritsuo FUKAYA, Yasuhiro ANDO, Yoshihiro ISOZAKI
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Publication number: 20230260740Abstract: A stage device is disposed in a vacuum environment and moves a target placed on the stage device, the stage device including: a guide rail that is laid on a base; a carriage that moves along the guide rail; rolling elements that come into contact with the guide rail and the carriage and rotate along with the movement of the carriage; a table that is connected to a part of the carriage and moves along with the carriage; and a blocking cover that is provided to cover a normal direction of a guide surface of the guide rail and blocks foreign matter scattered from the guide rail, the carriage, or the rolling elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Motohiro TAKAHASHI, Masaki MIZUOCHI, Raifu YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro ANDO
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Publication number: 20230143197Abstract: A stage apparatus includes a lower stage that moves in a Y-axis direction, an upper stage that floats from the lower stage and moves at least in an X-axis direction orthogonal to the Y-axis direction, a heat exchanger that cools a Y table of the lower stage with a refrigerant, and a control device that controls an inclination of the lower stage with reference to the Y table cooled by the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Akira NISHIOKA, Motohiro TAKAHASHI, Masaki MIZUOCHI, Yasuhiro ANDO, Raifu YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 10393451Abstract: A heat exchanger having at least one of side plates embodying a polygonal aperture through the planar base thereof, located at a predetermined position, and at least two corresponding shear-apertures located at the interface between the planar base and a first wall and a second wall of the side plate, each adjacent to the base aperture, providing at least one flexing location to accommodate thermal expansion of the heat exchanger during thermal cycling.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2013Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Tylutki, Yasuhiro Ando, Brad Eklov, Keith Brandau, Steven Maloney, Alexander Taylor
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Publication number: 20140202670Abstract: A heat exchanger having at least one of side plates embodying a polygonal aperture through the planar base thereof, located at a predetermined position, and at least two corresponding shear-apertures located at the interface between the planar base and a first wall and a second wall of the side plate, each adjacent to the base aperture, providing at least one flexing location to accommodate thermal expansion of the heat exchanger during thermal cycling.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: DENSO INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Daniel Tylutki, Yasuhiro Ando, Brad Eklov, Keith Brandau, Steven Maloney, Alexander Taylor
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Publication number: 20060000587Abstract: A warp of a side plate in the lengthwise direction is reduced by means of a simple shape formed by pressing without increasing a press machine in size. A side plate, for a heat exchanger, to be arranged at the end of a core section 13 composed of tubes 11 and fins 12 has a long and narrow shape with a U-shaped section formed by a bottom section 21 and bent sections 22 and 23 formed by bending both ends of the bottom section 21 in the width direction, and a plurality of recesses 24 extending in the width direction are formed by pressing the bottom section 21 at predetermined intervals c.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2005Publication date: January 5, 2006Applicant: DENSO CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Ando, Terumi Nishida
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Patent number: 6758693Abstract: LAN device and tools can be connected only by optical fiber cables without providing a space for additional LAN devices and tools and changing an electric connector interface of the LAN devices and tools already established.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignees: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shuichiro Inagaki, Noboru Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Ando, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Mitsuaki Yanagibashi, Nobuo Ishimine, Katsumi Kaizu
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Publication number: 20030124903Abstract: LAN devices and tools can be connected by only optical fiber cables without providing a space for additional LAN devices and tools and changing an electric connector interface of the LAN devices and tools already established. Heat radiation produced in a connector can be effectively discharged and electromagnetic wave can be prevented from radiating to an exterior of the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Shuichiro Inagaki, Noboru Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Ando, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Mitsuaki Yanagibashi, Nobuo Ishimine, Katsumi Kaizu
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Patent number: 6557110Abstract: A channel-to-channel skew compensation apparatus is provided with N number of frame synchronization circuits 11 for generating frame signals to indicate data position of parallel data on a common time axis for each data transmission channel; a reference timing determination circuit 16 for determining a reference timing based on N frame signals output from the frame synchronization circuit 11; a skewing amount detection section 15 for generating N skewing amount signals according to the reference timing determined by the reference timing determination circuit 16; and a timing compensation section 13 for adjusting output timing of parallel data for each transmission channel according to the skewing amount signal generated by the skewing amount detection section 15.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Ando
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Patent number: 6491442Abstract: In an optical fiber connector (1), an outer member (2) holds a portion of an optical fiber (4A) remote from its connecting end which is connectable to a connecting end of a counterpart optical fiber. An aligning member (3) is held by the outer member so as to be movable along the optical fiber. The aligning member carries out positioning of the connecting end of the optical fiber. The aligning member is urged by a spring (5) in a direction to project from the outer member. When connecting the optical fiber to the counterpart optical fiber, the aligning member is moved in a direction opposite to the foregoing direction against an urging force applied by the spring so that the connecting end of the optical fiber is projected from the aligning member.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1999Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics IndustryInventors: Keiji Murakami, Makoto Yamashita, Jun Takeda, Yasuhiro Ando, Nobuo Sato, Mitsuo Usui, Kohsuke Katsura
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Patent number: 6408933Abstract: In a heat exchanger having a side plate for reinforcing a core portion, after an elastic support member for supporting the core portion is inserted between opposite walls of the side plate, a part of the opposite walls having a slit portion is plastically deformed at a position around the slit to form a protrusion. The protrusion protrudes toward the support member to be engaged with a recess of the elastic support member. Further, the silt is provided to penetrate through each opposite wall without being opened to an outer peripheral end of the side plate. Accordingly, the support member can be readily attached to the side plate, while it can prevent the side plate from being deformed in a brazing.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shokichi Fukuoka, Yoshiharu Kajikawa, Akio Hirano, Yasuaki Tsukagoshi, Atsushi Yazawa, Yasuhiro Ando, Fumiaki Nakamura, Hideo Harada, Shinichi Inagaki
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Patent number: 6399991Abstract: In the guard ring section, four regions, p+ diffusion region, n+ diffusion region, n+ diffusion region, and p+ diffusion region, are formed to surround a hard macro and disposed in the order of this from the inside, and the inside two regions are disposed in an n well, and the outside two regions are disposed in a p well. A potential VSS is applied in the innermost p+ diffusion region and the outermost p+ diffusion region, and a potential VDD is applied in the two n+ diffusion regions disposed between these p+ diffusion regions. As a result, capacitors are formed between the n well and the p+ diffusion region formed in the n well, and between the p well and the n+ diffusion region formed in the p well, and therefore noise from outside is shielded, power source noise is absorbed, and malfunctions of the macro cell are prevented.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Ando
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Publication number: 20020029355Abstract: A channel-to-channel skew compensation apparatus is provided with N number of frame synchronization circuits 11 for generating frame signals to indicate data position of parallel data on a common time axis for each data transmission channel; a reference timing determination circuit 16 for determining a reference timing based on N frame signals output from the frame synchronization circuit 11; a skewing amount detection section 15 for generating N skewing amount signals according to the reference timing determined by the reference timing determination circuit 16; and a timing compensation section 13 for adjusting output timing of parallel data for each transmission channel according to the skewing amount signal generated by the skewing amount detection section 15.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Ando
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Publication number: 20020003034Abstract: In a heat exchanger having a side plate for reinforcing a core portion, after an elastic support member for supporting the core portion is inserted between opposite walls of the side plate, a part of the opposite walls having a slit portion is plastically deformed at a position around the slit to form a protrusion. The protrusion protrudes toward the support member to be engaged with a recess of the elastic support member. Further, the silt is provided to penetrate through each opposite wall without being opened to an outer peripheral end of the side plate. Accordingly, the support member can be readily attached to the side plate, while it can prevent the side plate from being deformed in a brazing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Inventors: Shokichi Fukuoka, Yoshiharu Kajikawa, Akio Hirano, Yasuaki Tsukagoshi, Atsushi Yazawa, Yasuhiro Ando, Fumiaki Nakamura, Hideo Harada, Shinichi Inagaki
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Patent number: 6336192Abstract: A channel-to-channel skew compensation apparatus is provided with N number of frame synchronization circuits 11 for generating frame signals to indicate data position of parallel data on a common time axis for each data transmission channel; a reference timing determination circuit 16 for determining a reference timing based on N frame signals output from the frame synchronization circuit 11; a skewing amount detection section 15 for generating N skewing amount signals according to the reference timing determined by the reference timing determination circuit 16; and a timing compensation section 13 for adjusting output timing of parallel data for each transmission channel according to the skewing amount signal generated by the skewing amount detection section 15.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1999Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Ando
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Patent number: 6217375Abstract: A wiring harness arranging construction is provided to arrange a wiring harness in a position more toward a passenger compartment than a hinge and a weatherstrip. The construction includes a container casing 10 with a space 10p for accommodating a looped harness, an insertion opening 10f and a withdrawal opening 10g for the harness which are opposed to each other, and a harness fixing portion 10h projecting from the outer surface of the insertion opening 10f. After being inserted through the insertion opening 10f and wound around a windup spring 30 inside the casing 10, the wiring harness is withdrawn through the withdrawal opening 10g. The container casing 10 is secured to either one of a door and a body, and the wiring harness withdrawn from the container casing 10 is extended to the other of the door and the body and secured thereto by a clamp.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Nagai, Tetuya Funaki, Masahisa Suzuki, Yasuhiro Ando, Shinya Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6115296Abstract: In a semiconductor memory device composed of a set of SRAM cells connected in common to one another through a word line and a common connection line, a substrate potential generation circuit is connected to the word line to supply the SRAM cells through the common connection line with a substrate potential determined by a selected or a non-selected state of the word line. The substrate potential is equal to a ground potential in the selected state or is put into a negative potential in the non-selected state. The substrate potential is given to each of drive transistors included in each SRAM to reduce a leak current.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Ando