Patents by Inventor Yasuo Kato

Yasuo Kato 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: 20190291430
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head manufacturing method comprising a step of forming a laminate, a step of connecting and a step of forming a protection film. The laminate includes electrodes and flow paths of liquid. The step of connecting is connecting terminals of a wiring substrate to terminals of the electrodes. The protection film is formed using atomic layer deposition, on a surface of the laminate defining the flow paths after connecting the terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Kakiuchi, Yasuo Kato
  • Publication number: 20190291433
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a communication plate having a plurality of descenders in respective communication with a plurality of nozzles, a pressure chamber plate being stacked on the communication plate and having a plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric element arranged in a position overlapping with the pressure chambers in a stacking direction, and a discharge common channel extending in an array direction and being in communication with the plurality of pressure chambers. The discharge common channel includes: a first discharge portion formed in the communication plate; and a second discharge portion formed in the pressure chamber plate and in communication with the first discharge portion, the second discharge portion reaching as high as to a surface of the pressure chambers at the side of the piezoelectric element along the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Yasuo Kato
  • Publication number: 20190283418
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a communication plate formed with a descender connected to a nozzle, a pressure chamber plate including a plurality of pressure chambers aligning in an array direction, a piezoelectric element, and a discharge common channel. The discharge common channel extends in the array direction, is connected to the plurality of pressure chambers, and has a first discharge portion and a second discharge portion. The discharge common channel is configured to discharge liquid toward one side in the array direction. The second discharge portion includes an expansion portion to expand beyond the first discharge portion in a width direction orthogonal to the stacking direction and to the array direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Yasuo Kato
  • Patent number: 10399337
    Abstract: A liquid jetting device includes a common liquid chamber having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and including an upstream portion and a downstream portion, a plurality of outflow holes are arranged along a direction, and a plurality of projections disposed between the first surface and the second surface transverse to the direction and disposed between the upstream portion and the downstream portion. The plurality of the projections define a plurality of the fluid flow paths therebetween from the upstream portion to the downstream portion. The fluid flow paths rejoin at the downstream portion. The plurality of projections are arranged along the direction. The plurality of projections are on an opposite side of a plane orthogonal to the second direction and extending through the outflow holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuo Kato
  • Publication number: 20190263116
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a channel substrate including a pressure chamber; a support substrate having a through hole; a piezoelectric element disposed between the channel substrate and the support substrate in a thickness direction of the channel substrate; a drive section disposed on a surface of the support substrate on a side opposite to the piezoelectric element; a trace passing through the through hole of the support substrate, extending on the support substrate toward the drive section, and connected to the piezoelectric element and the drive section; and a reservoir member including a channel communicating with the pressure chamber, and joined to the surface of the support substrate with adhesive. A protrusion or a recess is provided on the surface of the support substrate on the side opposite to the piezoelectric element at a position between the trace and the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichi Ito, Toru Kakiuchi, Yasuo Kato
  • Patent number: 10381194
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an area density calculation unit to calculate a pattern area density weighted using a dose modulation value, which has previously been input from an outside and in which an amount of correction of a dimension variation due to a proximity effect has been included, a fogging correction dose coefficient calculation unit to calculate a fogging correction dose coefficient for correcting a dimension variation due to a fogging effect by using the pattern area density weighted using the dose modulation value having been input from the outside, a dose calculation unit to calculates a dose of a charged particle beam by using the fogging correction dose coefficient and the dose modulation value, and a writing unit to write a pattern on a target object with the charged particle beam of the dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kato, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10369791
    Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet head including: first and second head chips each formed with two first nozzle arrays extending in a first direction, each of the first nozzle arrays including first nozzles corresponding to a first ink, second nozzles corresponding to a second ink, and third nozzles corresponding to a third ink; third and fourth head chips each formed with two third nozzle arrays extending in the first direction, each of the third nozzle arrays including fourth nozzles corresponding to the fourth ink. The first head chip to the fourth head chip are arranged in parallel in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kato, Kyohei Naito
  • Publication number: 20190237655
    Abstract: An actuator device includes: an actuator including piezoelectric elements arranged in a first direction and first contacts arranged in the first direction; a protector including a first wall opposed to the piezoelectric elements and a second wall coupled to the first wall and joined to a region of the actuator at which the first contacts are disposed; first connection terminals disposed on the first; and first through electrodes formed in the second wall to bring the first contacts and the first connection terminals into conduction with each other. A distance between two of the first through electrodes which respectively correspond to two of the piezoelectric elements which are adjacent to each other in the first direction is greater than a distance in the first direction between the two of the piezoelectric elements which are adjacent to each other in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru KAKIUCHI, Yasuo KATO, Rui WANG, Yuichi ITO
  • Patent number: 10297743
    Abstract: An actuator device includes: an actuator including piezoelectric elements arranged in a first direction and first contacts arranged in the first direction; a protector including a first wall opposed to the piezoelectric elements and a second wall coupled to the first wall and joined to a region of the actuator at which the first contacts are disposed; first connection terminals disposed on the first; and first through electrodes formed in the second wall to bring the first contacts and the first connection terminals into conduction with each other. A distance between two of the first through electrodes which respectively correspond to two of the piezoelectric elements which are adjacent to each other in the first direction is greater than a distance in the first direction between the two of the piezoelectric elements which are adjacent to each other in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Kakiuchi, Yasuo Kato, Rui Wang, Yuichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20190122857
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an area density calculation unit to calculate a pattern area density weighted using a dose modulation value, which has previously been input from an outside and in which an amount of correction of a dimension variation due to a proximity effect has been included, a fogging correction dose coefficient calculation unit to calculate a fogging correction dose coefficient for correcting a dimension variation due to a fogging effect by using the pattern area density weighted using the dose modulation value having been input from the outside, a dose calculation unit to calculates a dose of a charged particle beam by using the fogging correction dose coefficient and the dose modulation value, and a writing unit to write a pattern on a target object with the charged particle beam of the dose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kato, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10263166
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element; a light reflecting member having an Ag-containing layer on a surface thereof; and a protective film having a thickness of 1 nm to 300 nm and covering a surface of the light reflecting member, the protective film covering a surface of the light reflecting member, in which the Ag-containing layer has a thickness of 0.1 ?m to 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Sakamoto, Yoshiki Sato, Yasuo Kato
  • Patent number: 10248031
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a multiple charged particle beam lithography apparatus includes dose operation processing circuitry configured to, in a case that a pattern is written into a pattern writing region sufficiently larger than the setting region in a target object by using the multiple charged particle beams following the pattern writing sequence, operate an incident dose of a beam to each position intended inside the pattern writing region by continuously using repeatedly data of dose modulation value groups defined for a plurality of pixel regions of a same block among a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing a dose modulation map for each preset number of pixel regions without switching to data of dose modulation value groups of other blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kato, Ryoh Kawana
  • Publication number: 20190097107
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light emitting element having a pad electrode, and a metal member connected to the pad electrode via a wire. The wire has a layered structure including at least a core material containing copper as a main component, an intermediate layer containing palladium as a main component, and a surface layer containing silver as a main component. The intermediate layer is art raged between the core material and the surface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuo KATO, Yuichi HAMADA, Kensaku HAMADA, Takanori AKAISHI
  • Patent number: 10234356
    Abstract: An evaporation leakage checking system includes a pump, a pump passage unit, a tank passage unit, a specified passage unit, an atmosphere passage unit, a flow-passage area changing unit, an atmosphere valve unit, a pressure sensing unit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a calculating unit that calculates a leakage threshold, based on a first pressure, a first area, an Nth pressure, an Nth area, and a reference area that is predetermined, and a leakage checking unit that activates the pump, closes the atmosphere passage unit by changing the flow-passage area of the atmosphere passage unit by using the atmosphere valve unit, and checks the existence of the evaporation leakage based on the leakage threshold and a checking pressure that is the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor in a case where a communication between the tank passage unit and the pump passage unit is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kaneko, Yasuo Kato
  • Publication number: 20190067541
    Abstract: A lead frame includes a base material and two or more silver-containing layers. The base material is composed of a metal. The two or more silver-containing layers are stacked on the base material. The two or more silver-containing layers includes an uppermost silver-containing layer containing sulfur, and a lower silver-containing layer. The lower silver-containing layer contains no selenium or the lower silver-containing layer is composed substantially only of silver. A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes: preparing a lead frame; preparing a package including the lead frame; and mounting a light emitting element on the package. The lead frame is prepared by: providing a base material; forming an underlying metal on the base material by plating to form an underlayer; and forming two or more silver-containing stacked layers on the underlayer, the two or more silver-containing stacked layers including an uppermost silver-containing layer containing sulfur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Yasuo KATO
  • Patent number: 10199200
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an area density calculation unit to calculate a pattern area density weighted using a dose modulation value, which has previously been input from an outside and in which an amount of correction of a dimension variation due to a proximity effect has been included, a fogging correction dose coefficient calculation unit to calculate a fogging correction dose coefficient for correcting a dimension variation due to a fogging effect by using the pattern area density weighted using the dose modulation value having been input from the outside, a dose calculation unit to calculates a dose of a charged particle beam by using the fogging correction dose coefficient and the dose modulation value, and a writing unit to write a pattern on a target object with the charged particle beam of the dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kato, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10199199
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a drawing data creation method includes inputting correction-map-including drawing data having a correction map to a converter, the correction map including dose amount information for each mesh area obtained by dividing a drawing area on a target drawn by a charged particle beam drawing apparatus, the drawing area being divided in a mesh shape, converting dose amount information in a second mesh area adjacent to a first mesh area to a representation based on dose amount information in the first mesh area to compress data of the dose amount information in the second mesh area, and outputting compressed-correction-map-including drawing data having a compressed correction map to a controller, the compressed correction map including dose amount information in which data in each of the plurality of mesh areas has been compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Hara, Kenichi Yasui, Yasuo Kato
  • Patent number: 10164162
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; and a light reflective member adapted to reflect light emitted from the light emitting element, the light reflective member comprising a base metal made of a crystallized metal, an amorphous layer located over the base metal and made of an amorphous metal, and an Ag-containing layer located over the amorphous layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Kato
  • Publication number: 20180361743
    Abstract: A liquid ejection device is disclosed. One device includes a liquid supply member defining a liquid supply channel that is in communication with a common liquid chamber via an outlet of the liquid supply channel. The outlet and the common liquid chamber extend along a longitudinal direction respectively. The liquid supply member includes a plurality of ribs located within the liquid supply channel, the plurality of ribs are disposed side by side in the longitudinal direction. The plurality of ribs includes a first rib, a second rib and a third rib. A distance from the first rib to the third rib in the longitudinal direction is smaller than a distance from the first rib to the second rib in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Taisuke MIZUNO, Yasuo KATO, Takashi AIBA, Keita SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 10156208
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes a pressure sensor, a reference orifice, a pump, and a switching valve. The reference orifice is disposed in a first communication passage communicating a pressure passage receiving the pressure sensor, with a tank passage communicating with a fuel tank. The pump depressurizing or pressurizing the pressure passage includes an intake port and a discharge port, and one of which communicates with an atmospheric passage communicating with the atmosphere and the other one communicates with the pressure passage. The switching valve and switches between a state shutting off a communication of a second communication passage that leads to the pressure passage and passages other than the pressure passage and communicating the atmospheric passage with the tank passage and a state shutting off a communication of the atmospheric passage and passages other than the pump and the atmosphere and communicating the second communication passage with the tank passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoyuu Kishi, Yasuo Kato, Shigeru Hasegawa, Tomohiro Itoh, Makoto Kaneko, Kosei Takagi