Patents by Inventor Yohei Sano

Yohei Sano 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: 20180335768
    Abstract: A production control system includes a plurality of processing machines configured to successively process a plurality of workpieces conveyed on a production line, and a system server connected to the plurality of processing machines, in which the system server acquires an operating status associated with a time from each of the plurality of processing machines, associates the acquired operating statuses with the plurality of workpieces successively arriving at the processing machines, and thereby identifies each of the plurality of workpieces conveyed on the production line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohei SANO
  • Publication number: 20180164689
    Abstract: A thermal treatment apparatus that performs a thermal treatment on a metal-containing film formed on a substrate, includes: a treatment chamber that houses the substrate; a thermal treatment plate that is provided inside the treatment chamber and mounts the substrate thereon; and a moisture supply unit that supplies moisture to the metal-containing film, wherein at the time of the thermal treatment, moisture is supplied to the metal-containing film of the substrate on the thermal treatment plate and an atmosphere in the treatment chamber is exhausted from a central portion of the treatment chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Yohei SANO, Shinichiro KAWAKAMI, Masashi ENOMOTO, Takahiro SHIOZAWA, Keisuke YOSHIDA, Tomoya ONITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20140083614
    Abstract: The gas supply unit includes first gas flow paths having an upstream side communicated with a common first gas supply hole and diverged on the way to have a downstream side, and second gas flow paths having an upstream side communicated with a common second gas supply hole and diverged on the way to have a downstream side. A flow path length and a flow path diameter of each of the diverged first gas flow paths and the diverged second gas flow paths are set such that periods of time for gas flowing from the first gas supply hole to the respective first gas ejecting holes are matched with each other, and periods of time for gas flowing from the second gas supply hole to the respective second gas ejecting holes are matched with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Masashi Itonaga, Yohei Sano