Patents by Inventor Yuichi Maekawa

Yuichi Maekawa 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).

  • Patent number: 11791125
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an aberration corrector includes a first electrode substrate provided with first passage holes through which multiple electron beams pass; a second electrode substrate disposed below the first electrode substrate and provided with second passage holes through which the multiple electron beams pass, first electrodes of four or more poles being disposed individually on each top surface region of top surface regions around some second passage holes among the second passage holes; and a third electrode substrate disposed below the second electrode substrate and provided with third passage holes through which the multiple electron beams pass, second electrodes of four or more poles being disposed individually on each of top surface region of top surface regions around some third passage holes corresponding to remaining second passage holes in which the first electrodes are not disposed, among the third passage holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Kazuhiko Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230091222
    Abstract: A multi-electron beam inspection apparatus includes first sample hold circuits, each configured to include a capacitor and a switch arranged for each of electrodes of each of a plurality of multipoles, and to hold, using the capacitor and the switch, a potential to be applied to the each of the electrodes, power sources configured to apply potentials to the plurality of first sample hold circuits, a control circuit configured to control the plurality of first sample hold circuits such that the plurality of potentials having been applied to the plurality of first sample hold circuits are held, in synchronization with swinging back of the collective beam deflection by the objective deflector, by a plurality of second sample hold circuits selected from the plurality of first sample hold circuits, and a detector configured to detect multiple secondary electron beams emitted because the substrate is irradiated with the multiple primary electron beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi MAEKAWA, Atsushi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220189728
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an aberration corrector includes a first electrode substrate provided with first passage holes through which multiple electron beams pass; a second electrode substrate disposed below the first electrode substrate and provided with second passage holes through which the multiple electron beams pass, first electrodes of four or more poles being disposed individually on each top surface region of top surface regions around some second passage holes among the second passage holes; and a third electrode substrate disposed below the second electrode substrate and provided with third passage holes through which the multiple electron beams pass, second electrodes of four or more poles being disposed individually on each of top surface region of top surface regions around some third passage holes corresponding to remaining second passage holes in which the first electrodes are not disposed, among the third passage holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi MAEKAWA, Kazuhiko INOUE
  • Patent number: 10724368
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided to measure fluid resistivity. The method includes driving a first winding at a first frequency to induce a first current in a fluid present in a flow line and then driving the first winding at a second frequency to induce a second current in the fluid present in the flow line. The method includes measuring the first and second currents and based on these results, determining a resistivity of the fluid. The apparatus includes an apparatus usable with a well that includes a flow line and a first winding to circumscribe the flow line. Also included is a transmitter to induce a number of currents in the flow line and a second winding to provide signals used to derive representations of excitation voltages and current magnitudes. The apparatus may further include an engine to determine a resistivity of the fluid in the flow line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Zhixiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20180171789
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided to measure fluid resistivity. The method includes driving a first winding at a first frequency to induce a first current in a fluid present in a flow line and then driving the first winding at a second frequency to induce a second current in the fluid present in the flow line. The method includes measuring the first and second currents and based on these results, determining a resistivity of the fluid. The apparatus includes an apparatus usable with a well that includes a flow line and a first winding to circumscribe the flow line. Also included is a transmitter to induce a number of currents in the flow line and a second winding to provide signals used to derive representations of excitation voltages and current magnitudes. The apparatus may further include an engine to determine a resistivity of the fluid in the flow line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Zhixiang Chen
  • Patent number: 9861098
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method which can readily design an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition having a desired release rate history and can produce the agricultural chemical-containing resin composition. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition, including: respectively selecting an acetamiprid content AcSA and a hydrophilic white carbon content CaSA in the composition relative to the total mass of acetamiprid, a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and hydrophilic white carbon, so as to satisfy the inequations of: 0.524×AcSA+1.422×CaSA?6.009?40% by mass, 5% by mass?AcSA?35% by mass, and CaSA?0.1% by mass; and mixing the acetamiprid, the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and the hydrophilic white carbon, so that the thus selected contents AcSA and CaSA can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Yamamura, Yuichi Maekawa, Masayuki Sukekawa
  • Patent number: 9569991
    Abstract: Checking failures in transistors including driving transistors, switching transistors, and sampling transistors before light emitting elements are formed in a display device. I-V characteristics including threshold voltage of the driving transistor 10C in one pixel circuit can be detected. In a pixel circuit, the sampling transistor 10A and switching transistor 10D are made conductive and the signal potential is given to the gate electrode of the driving transistor 10C from the signal line DTCm. At this time, the current which flows between the drain electrode and source electrode of driving transistor 10C flows through the switching transistor 10D and a reference potential line Vref_r to a test point, and is measured by a current measuring device connected to the test point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Koichi Miwa
  • Publication number: 20160334256
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method which can readily design an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition having a desired release rate history and can produce the agricultural chemical-containing resin composition. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition, including: respectively selecting an acetamiprid content AcSA and a hydrophilic white carbon content CaSA in the composition relative to the total mass of acetamiprid, a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and hydrophilic white carbon, so as to satisfy the inequations of: 0.524×AcSA+1.422×CaSA?6.009?40% by mass, 5% by mass?AcSA?35% by mass, and CaSA?0.1% by mass; and mixing the acetamiprid, the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and the hydrophilic white carbon, so that the thus selected contents AcSA and CaSA can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Satoru Yamamura, Yuichi Maekawa, Masayuki Sukekawa
  • Patent number: 9408382
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method which can readily design an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition having a desired release rate history and can produce the agricultural chemical-containing resin composition. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition, including: respectively selecting an acetamiprid content AcSA and a hydrophilic white carbon content CaSA in the composition relative to the total mass of acetamiprid, a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and hydrophilic white carbon, so as to satisfy the inequations of: 0.524×AcSA+1.422×CaSA?6.009?40% by mass, 5% by mass?AcSA?35% by mass, and CaSA?0.1% by mass; and mixing the acetamiprid, the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and the hydrophilic white carbon, so that the thus selected contents AcSA and CaSA can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Yamamura, Yuichi Maekawa, Masayuki Sukekawa
  • Publication number: 20140239961
    Abstract: Checking failures in transistors including driving transistors, switching transistors, and sampling transistors before light emitting elements are formed in a display device. I-V characteristics including threshold voltage of the driving transistor 10C in one pixel circuit can be detected. In a pixel circuit, the sampling transistor 10A and switching transistor 10D are made conductive and the signal potential is given to the gate electrode of the driving transistor 10C from the signal line DTCm. At this time, the current which flows between the drain electrode and source electrode of driving transistor 10C flows through the switching transistor 10D and a reference potential line Vref_r to a test point, and is measured by a current measuring device connected to the test point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Yuichi MAEKAWA, Koichi MIWA
  • Patent number: 8754882
    Abstract: Compensate for the variations of threshold voltage of a driving transistor. During the period of the reference signal voltage Vref being set to the signal line DTC, voltage between the gate and source of the driving transistor 10C is made equal to or greater than the threshold voltage of the driving transistor 10C, and the difference in voltage of the reference signal voltage Vref and the reference power supply voltage Vref_r is charged to the retentive capacitance 10B. At the same time, the voltage of the source of the said driving transistor 10C is set to the reference power supply voltage Vref_r to make the voltage applied to the light emitting element 10E equal to or lower than its threshold voltage, a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor 10C is held in the retentive capacitance 10B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Koichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 8629864
    Abstract: A display device in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix form, corresponding to intersections of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element having a first electrode connected to a first power supply and which emits light according to a current that flows; a driving transistor having a source electrode connected to a second power supply and which supplies a drain current to a second electrode of the light emitting element; a data storage capacitor having a first electrode connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a first switch which is switched ON during a pixel selection period so that data of a data line is written to the data storage capacitor, and wherein a potential of a second electrode of the data storage capacitor is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Miwa, Yuichi Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20130021228
    Abstract: [Problem to be solved] To achieve low power consumption. [Solution] The driving transistor T1 supplies driving current from the power supply VDD to the organic EL elements OLED. The source end of the driving transistor T1 connected to one end of the said organic EL elements OLED, the other end of the organic EL elements OLED is connected to the power supply potential Vss, and the mutual conductance per display unit area of the said organic EL elements of the said driving transistor is equal to or higher than 1×10?11 (A/V2/m2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: GLOBAL OLED TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Miwa, Yuichi Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20130016083
    Abstract: Compensate for the variations of threshold voltage of a driving transistor. During the period of the reference signal voltage Vref being set to the signal line DTC, voltage between the gate and source of the driving transistor IOC is made equal to or greater than the threshold voltage of the driving transistor IOC, and the difference in voltage of the reference signal voltage Vref and the reference power supply voltage VreCr is charged to the retentive capacitance IOB. At the same time, the voltage of the source of the said driving transistor IOC is set to the reference power supply voltage VreCr to make the voltage applied to the said light emitting elements equal to or lower than its threshold voltage. Subsequently, while maintaining the voltage applied to the said light emitting elements IOE equal to or lower than its threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: GLOBAL OLED TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Koichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 8253659
    Abstract: To efficiently compensate a threshold value of a driving transistor. In a state where a first switching transistor is non-conductive and a second switching transistor in conductive, a sampling transistor is made conductive and a reference voltage is supplied from a signal line to write a threshold voltage of a driving transistor to a first capacitance. After that, in a state where first and second switching transistors and are non-conductive, the sampling transistor is made conductive and a signal voltage from the signal line is written to the first capacitance. Further, after that the sampling transistor is put into a non-conductive state, and the first and second switching transistors are put in a conductive state, to drive the driving transistor and supply current to a light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Koichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 8173576
    Abstract: A method of producing a suspended agricultural chemical composition, includes the steps of: grinding an agricultural chemical active ingredient; mixing at least water, a polyalcohol, a mineral salt, and a surfactant to produce a solution; adding to the solution the ground agricultural chemical active ingredient and a suspension stabilizer, to produce a mixture; heating the mixture to 40 to 70° C. while stirring; cooling the heated mixture to 10 to 25° C.; and wet-milling the cooled mixture at 30° C. or below. Alternatively the method includes the steps of: grinding an agricultural chemical active ingredient; mixing at least water, a polyalcohol, a mineral salt, and a surfactant to produce a solution; adding to the solution the ground agricultural chemical active ingredient and a suspension stabilizer to produce a mixture; wet-milling the mixture; heating the wet-milled mixture to 40 to 70° C. while stirring; and cooling the heated mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Maekawa, Seizo Hashimoto, Roy C. Y. Chen
  • Patent number: 8097563
    Abstract: The present invention provides cyclohexanedione-based agricultural-chemical emulsion compositions where active ingredients of agricultural chemicals are emulsified and dispersed in spraying water, especially cyclohexanedione-based agricultural-chemical emulsion compositions where alkylphenol derivatives are not used in emulsifiers and emulsification stability and preservation stability of technical products are favorable. The cyclohexanedione-based agricultural-chemical/herbicidal emulsions where preservation stability of active ingredients of agricultural chemicals and emulsifiability are favorable are obtained by using an amine salt of alkylbenzenesulfonate with poor water solubility as an emulsifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Yoshii, Yuichi Maekawa, Ichiro Takabayashi, Akira Tohyama, Takashi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20110236452
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method which can readily design an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition having a desired release rate history and can produce the agricultural chemical-containing resin composition. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing an agricultural chemical-containing resin composition, including: respectively selecting an acetamiprid content AcSA and a hydrophilic white carbon content CaSA in the composition relative to the total mass of acetamiprid, a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and hydrophilic white carbon, so as to satisfy the inequations of: 0.524×AcSA+1.422×CaSA?6.009?40% by mass, 5% by mass?AcSA?35% by mass, and CaSA?0.1% by mass; and mixing the acetamiprid, the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or the styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer-mixed resin, and the hydrophilic white carbon, so that the thus selected contents AcSA and CaSA can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Yamamura, Yuichi Maekawa, Masayuki Sukekawa
  • Patent number: 7943803
    Abstract: A clathrate compound containing a polymolecular host compound as a host compound and an agricultural chemical active ingredient having a saturated solubility in water at 25° C. of not less than 500 ppm as a guest compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Natsuki Amanokura, Tetsuya Sahara, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yuichi Maekawa, Kiyoshi Katsuura, Yoshihiro Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20100277455
    Abstract: A display device in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix form, corresponding to intersections of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element having a first electrode connected to a first power supply and which emits light according to a current that flows; a driving transistor having a source electrode connected to a second power supply and which supplies a drain current to a second electrode of the light emitting element; a data storage capacitor having a first electrode connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a first switch which is switched ON during a pixel selection period so that data of a data line is written to the data storage capacitor, and wherein a potential of a second electrode of the data storage capacitor is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Global Oled Technology LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Miwa, Yuichi Maekawa