Patents by Inventor Yotaro FUKUOKA

Yotaro FUKUOKA 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: 20240071744
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a substrate cleaning apparatus includes a hydrophilization chamber connected to a polishing apparatus and that accommodates a substrate having a polished surface polished by the polishing apparatus; a support provided in the hydrophilization chamber; a liquid supply unit that supplies a cleaning liquid to the polished surface of the substrate to hydrophilize the polished surface; an imaging unit that captures an image of the polished surface supplied with the cleaning liquid; a determination unit that determines whether hydrophilization is achieved on a basis of the image; an adjustment unit that adjusts the supply of the cleaning solution by the liquid supply unit depending on a determination result obtained by the determination unit; and a cleaning chamber connected to the hydrophilization chamber and that cleans the polished surface hydrophilized by the cleaning liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Yotaro FUKUOKA
  • Patent number: 10422032
    Abstract: A film formation apparatus and a film-formed workpiece manufacturing method which are capable of forming a film with a uniform thickness on a workpiece like a three-dimensional object that includes a plurality of surfaces by a simple structure are provided. A film formation apparatus includes a target 21 that is a film formation material including a plane SU3, a power supply unit 3 applying power to the target 21, a rotating unit 4 rotating a workpiece W that is a film formation object around a rotation axis AX1, and a revolving unit 5 revolving the rotating unit 4 around a revolution axis AX2 separate from the rotation axis AX1 to repeatedly make the workpiece W to come close to and move apart from the target 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yotaro Fukuoka, Sosuke Yagi
  • Publication number: 20170183769
    Abstract: A film formation apparatus and a film-formed workpiece manufacturing method which are capable of forming a film with a uniform thickness on a workpiece like a three-dimensional object that includes a plurality of surfaces by a simple structure are provided. A film formation apparatus includes a target 21 that is a film formation material including a plane SU3, a power supply unit 3 applying power to the target 21, a rotating unit 4 rotating a workpiece W that is a film formation object around a rotation axis AX1, and a revolving unit 5 revolving the rotating unit 4 around a revolution axis AX2 separate from the rotation axis AX1 to repeatedly make the workpiece W to come close to and move apart from the target 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Yotaro FUKUOKA, Sosuke YAGI