Patents by Inventor Yoshiteru Fukuda
Yoshiteru Fukuda 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: 20240024773Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable program executed by a computer of a game device, at least one computer being configured to perform operations comprising obtaining data for determining a message to be shown while a game is running and performing conveyance processing for generating and providing a first image including a plurality of messages indicating game information of the game based on the obtained data such that the plurality of messages are sequentially shown. When the conveyance processing is terminated and the game processing is started, the second image further including a plurality of messages indicating the game information of the game based on the obtained data is generated and provided such that the plurality of messages are automatically sequentially shown.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Yoshiteru FUKUDA, Seita INOUE, Yosuke MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210229135Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes an air supply configured to supply air into a place where a substrate is located; and a rectifying member, having multiple through holes, configured to rectify the air supplied from the air supply. The rectifying member includes a base; and a charge diffusion layer formed on a surface of the base. Electric charges attached to a surface of the rectifying member are diffused along the charge diffusion layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Tadashi Iino, Yoshiteru Fukuda
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Patent number: 10867814Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid processing method of drying a substrate held horizontally after supplying deionized water to the substrate. The liquid processing method includes: supplying the deionized water to a front surface of the substrate; supplying a first solvent to the front surface of the substrate after supplying the deionized water; supplying a water-repellent agent to the front surface of the substrate to impart water-repellency to the front surface of the substrate; supplying a second solvent to the front surface of the substrate to which water-repellency is imparted; and removing the second solvent from the front surface of the substrate. A specific gravity of the first solvent is smaller than a specific gravity of the water-repellent agent, and a specific gravity of the second solvent is larger than the specific gravity of the water-repellent agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yosuke Kawabuchi, Kouzou Tachibana, Mitsunori Nakamori, Kotaro Ooishi, Keisuke Egashira, Koji Tanaka, Hiroaki Inadomi, Masami Yamashita, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Koji Yamashita, Yu Tsurifune, Takuro Masuzumi
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Patent number: 10664131Abstract: An exemplary information-processing device includes: a first display control unit that controls a display unit to display plural items of application information; a first selecting unit that selects one item of application information from among the plurality of items of application information; a second display control unit that controls the display unit to display related information corresponding to the selected item of application information; a second selecting unit that selects a retail version application program or a trial version application program corresponding to the selected item of application information, based on an input by a user; a downloading unit that downloads the selected application program; a third display control unit that controls the display unit to display information for prompting a user to select whether the retail version application program is downloaded after the trial version application program is executed.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Nakaya, Yukari Marumo, Yasumasa Nakai, Yosuke Fujino, Yoshiteru Fukuda
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Patent number: 10589174Abstract: In an example system according to the present embodiment, on a display, a map image is displayed and superimposed on a game image of a game space as viewed from a virtual camera provided behind a player character. When a user changes the orientation of a controller, the line-of-sight direction of the virtual camera is changed, and at the same time, the position of a cursor on the map image is changed. When the user presses down a predetermined button, a bullet is fired toward the center of a screen. When the user presses down another button, the player character moves to a location indicated by the cursor.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiteru Fukuda
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Publication number: 20180104591Abstract: In an example system according to the present embodiment, on a display, a map image is displayed and superimposed on a game image of a game space as viewed from a virtual camera provided behind a player character. When a user changes the orientation of a controller, the line-of-sight direction of the virtual camera is changed, and at the same time, the position of a cursor on the map image is changed. When the user presses down a predetermined button, a bullet is fired toward the center of a screen. When the user presses down another button, the player character moves to a location indicated by the cursor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventor: Yoshiteru FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20170236729Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid processing method of drying a substrate held horizontally after supplying deionized water to the substrate. The liquid processing method includes: supplying the deionized water to a front surface of the substrate; supplying a first solvent to the front surface of the substrate after supplying the deionized water; supplying a water-repellent agent to the front surface of the substrate to impart water-repellency to the front surface of the substrate; supplying a second solvent to the front surface of the substrate to which water-repellency is imparted; and removing the second solvent from the front surface of the substrate. A specific gravity of the first solvent is smaller than a specific gravity of the water-repellent agent, and a specific gravity of the second solvent is larger than the specific gravity of the water-repellent agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Yosuke Kawabuchi, Kouzou Tachibana, Mitsunori Nakamori, Kotaro Ooishi, Keisuke Egashira, Koji Tanaka, Hiroaki Inadomi, Masami Yamashita, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Koji Yamashita, Yu Tsurifune, Takuro Masuzumi
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Patent number: 9687743Abstract: A first information processing apparatus executes an application, and generates control data in accordance with a state of an execution of the application. The control data is transmitted to a second information processing apparatus. Video data is stored in advance in the second information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus receives the control data transmitted from the first information processing apparatus, determines a video to be reproduced based on the control data, and reproduces the video based on the video data.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Osawa, Satoshi Kira, Shinya Saito, Kenta Tanaka, Jumpei Horita, Kozo Makino, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Masayuki Kuwajima, Takashi Yoshimi
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Patent number: 9555323Abstract: An exemplary information-processing device includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive plural categories for each of which a search condition is set, from a configuration device via a network; a first display control unit configured to control a display unit to display the received plural categories; a selecting unit configured to select one category from among the received plural categories; a transmitting unit configured to transmit to a search device a search condition that is set for the selected category; a second receiving unit configured to receive from the search device via the network a search result obtained using the transmitted search condition; and a second display control unit configured to control the display unit to display a content corresponding to the selected category, based on the received search result.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunihiko Mizuno, Yasumasa Nakai, Yoko Ota, Yoshiteru Fukuda
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Patent number: 9093222Abstract: Provided is a dye adsorption unit including a processing tank of which the upper surface is opened, in order to perform a batch dye adsorption process for a predetermined number of substrates. The dye adsorption unit further includes, as a moving system around the processing tank, a boat capable of going in and out of the processing tank from the upper opening, a boat transport unit that serves for the boat to go in and out of the processing tank, and a top cover for detachably closing the upper opening. Further, the dye adsorption unit includes a dye solution supply unit for supplying the dye solution into the processing tank, and a flow control unit for controlling the flow of the dye solution in the processing tank during the dye adsorption processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Goro Furutani, Takashi Terada, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Norio Wada
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Patent number: 8697187Abstract: Resist coating treatments for application of a resist solution to removal of a resist film on a wafer edge portion. A laser irradiation unit applies a laser light in a resist coating unit. At the time of resist coating treatment, the resist solution is discharged onto a central portion of the rotated wafer from a resist solution supply nozzle to form a resist film on the wafer. Thereafter, the laser irradiation unit moves to an outer peripheral portion of the wafer and applies the laser light onto the resist film on the outer peripheral portion to dry the resist film on the outer peripheral portion. The application of laser light is continued, and the solvent supply nozzle moves to a position above the edge portion and supplies solvent to the resist film on the edge portion. The solvent dissolves and removes the resist film on the edge portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Yoshiteru Fukuda, Tomohiro Iseki, Takayuki Ishii
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Publication number: 20130323934Abstract: [Problem] To significantly reduce processing time of a step of adsorbing dye in a porous semiconductor layer on a substrate surface. [Solution] A flow of a dye solution is formed in a gap between solution guide surface (92L, 92R) of a nozzle (20) and a substrate (G) during the treatment, and a porous semiconductor layer of a treated surface of the substrate is subject to dye adsorption treatment in this flow of the dye solution. Furthermore, impact pressure from slit-like discharge openings (88L, 88R) and pressure of turbulent flow in groove-like uneven sections (92L, 92R) act in the vertical direction in addition to the flow of the dye solution. Thus, aggregation and association of the dye are hardly caused on a surface part of the porous semiconductor layer of the treated surface of the substrate, the dye efficiently penetrates deeply into the porous semiconductor layer, and the dye adsorption into the porous semiconductor layer proceeds at high speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Norio Wada, Takashi Terada, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Goro Furutani
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Publication number: 20130316485Abstract: [Problem] To significantly reduce the processing time of a step in which a coloring matter is adsorbed onto a porous semiconductor layer formed on the surface to be treated of a substrate. [Solution] A dye adsorption unit (20) includes a processing tank (30) of which the upper surface is opened, in order to perform a batch dye adsorption process for a predetermined number of substrates (G). The dye adsorption unit (20) further includes, as a moving system around the processing tank (30), a boat (32) capable of going in and out of the processing tank (30) from the upper opening, a boat transport unit (34) that serves for the boat (32) to go in and out of the processing tank (30), and a top cover (36) for detachably closing the upper opening. Further, the dye adsorption unit (20) includes a dye solution supply unit for supplying the dye solution into the processing tank (30), and a flow control unit for controlling the flow of the dye solution in the processing tank during the dye adsorption processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2011Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Goro Furutani, Takashi Terada, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Norio Wada
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Patent number: 8138456Abstract: In the present invention, a plurality of suction ports are provided in a heating plate of a heat processing apparatus. The suction ports are provided at a central portion, an intermediate portion, and a peripheral portion of a substrate mounting surface of the heating plate, respectively. The warped state of the substrate before heat-processed is measured, so that when the substrate warps protruding downward, the suction start timing via a suction port corresponding to the outer peripheral portion of the substrate is set to be relatively early as compared to the suction start timings via the other suction ports, and when the substrate warps protruding upward, the suction start timing via the suction port corresponding to the central portion of the substrate is set to be relatively early as compared to the suction start timings via the other suction ports.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Yoshiteru Fukuda, Kenichi Shigetomi, Shouken Moro
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Patent number: 7976896Abstract: A spin chuck rotatably holds a semiconductor wafer, while resist is dropped on a surface of the semiconductor wafer through a resist application nozzle and thus applied thereon, and before the resist applied on the wafer dries, a cleaning liquid is supplied through a bevel cleaning nozzle to a portion of the wafer located at a peripheral portion thereof in a vicinity of a beveled portion to remove the resist adhering to the beveled portion. Thereafter, a film of the resist that is formed on the surface of the wafer is dried.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Yoshiteru Fukuda, Nobuhiro Ogata, Takayuki Ishii, Keiji Tanouchi
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Publication number: 20110033626Abstract: Resist coating treatments for application of a resist solution to removal of a resist film on a wafer edge portion. A laser irradiation unit applies a laser light in a resist coating unit. At the time of resist coating treatment, the resist solution is discharged onto a central portion of the rotated wafer from a resist solution supply nozzle to form a resist film on the wafer. Thereafter, the laser irradiation unit moves to an outer peripheral portion of the wafer and applies the laser light onto the resist film on the outer peripheral portion to dry the resist film on the outer peripheral portion. The application of laser light is continued, and the solvent supply nozzle moves to a position above the edge portion and supplies solvent to the resist film on the edge portion. The solvent dissolves and removes the resist film on the edge portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yoshiteru FUKUDA, Tomohiro Iseki, Takayuki Ishii
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Publication number: 20110013879Abstract: A first information processing apparatus executes an application, and generates control data in accordance with a state of an execution of the application. The control data is transmitted to a second information processing apparatus. Video data is stored in advance in the second information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus receives the control data transmitted from the first information processing apparatus, determines a video to be reproduced based on the control data, and reproduces the video based on the video data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru OSAWA, Satoshi Kira, Shinya Saito, Kenta Tanaka, Jumpei Horita, Kozo Makino, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Masayuki Kuwajima, Takashi Yoshimi
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Patent number: 7832352Abstract: To perform a series of resist coating treatments from application of a resist solution to removal of a resist film on a wafer edge portion in a shorter time. A laser irradiation unit for applying a laser light is provided in a resist coating unit. At the time of resist coating treatment, the resist solution is discharged onto a central portion of the rotated wafer from a resist solution supply nozzle to form a resist film on the wafer. Thereafter, the laser irradiation unit moves to an outer peripheral portion of the wafer and applies the laser light onto the resist film on the outer peripheral portion to dry the resist film on the outer peripheral portion. After the resist film on the outer peripheral portion dries, the application of laser light is continued, and the solvent supply nozzle moves to a position above the edge portion of the wafer and supplies the solvent to the resist film on the edge portion of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Yoshiteru Fukuda, Tomohiro Iseki, Takayuki Ishii
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Patent number: 7485188Abstract: A coating process method in which a coating liquid is discharged onto the surface of a target substrate to be processed while rotating the target substrate so as to expand the coating liquid radially outward on the target substrate and, thus, to form a coated film comprises the step of detecting that the actual discharging of a coating liquid from a coating liquid discharging nozzle is started, and the step of controlling based on a signal of the detection at least one of the driving timing of a pump for allowing the coating liquid to be discharged from the coating liquid discharging nozzle, the operation timing of a valve mounted to a pipe for supplying the coating liquid into the coating liquid discharging nozzle, and the rotation starting or stopping timing of the target substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Takashi Takekuma, Yasuyuki Kometani, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Junya Minamida
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Patent number: 7479190Abstract: In the present invention, a plurality of solvent supply nozzles for solvents having different solubility parameters are provided in a coating treatment apparatus. For a solvent supply nozzle for use at the time of edge rinse, a solvent supply nozzle is selected that discharges a removal solvent having a solubility parameter different by a set value or more from that of a coating solvent contained in a coating solution. During coating treatment, the coating solution is discharged from a coating solution supply nozzle onto the central portion of a rotated substrate to form a solution film having a predetermined film thickness. Immediately after the formation, edge rinse is started with the coating solution on the substrate not dry yet, in which the removal solvent is supplied to the peripheral portion of the substrate from the selected solvent supply nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Yoshiteru Fukuda, Tomohiro Iseki, Takayuki Ishii