Patents by Inventor Yukio Kaneko

Yukio Kaneko 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: 20120306497
    Abstract: There is provided a technique for improving quality of images obtained with an MRI apparatus by using the geometric structures of the conventional RF transmission coil and RF reception coil and without increasing burden on patients or MRI technicians. A conductor loop of an RF reception coil disposed between a subject and an RF transmission coil is used also as a loop for magnetic field adjustment in order to shield or enhance a rotating magnetic field B1 generated by the RF transmission coil. Further, the conductor loop operated as a conductor loop for magnetic field adjustment among the conductor loops constituting the RF reception coil is driven so that inhomogeneity of the rotating magnetic field B1 is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Yukio Kaneko, Hideta Habara, Yoshihisa Soutome, Yosuke Otake, Hisaaki Ochi, Yoshitaka Bito
  • Patent number: 8198894
    Abstract: An RF coil for MR Imaging that can change a resonance frequency easily and instantaneously in response to a nuclide to be imaged without exchange and adjustment and that also causes only small lowering of sensitivity. The RF coil has a sub coil for changing a resonance frequency of the transmitting/receiving RF coil for transmitting and receiving an MR signal between itself and a nuclide that is an object to be imaged. The sub coil is equipped with a switch, and at the time of switching-on, shifts the resonance frequency of the RF coil by changing an inductance value of the RF coil in a noncontact manner using inductance coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Kaneko, Hideta Habara, Yoshihisa Soutome, Yosuke Otake, Yoshitaka Bito
  • Publication number: 20110267062
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for maintaining a function for effectively blocking common mode noise with a simple configuration, even in the case where unbalance occurs in characteristic impedance of a coaxial cable in an MRI apparatus, and improving the performance of an RF coil. In a circuit where a balun is established by parallel connection with the coaxial cable, multiple serial resonance circuits having different resonance frequencies are connected in parallel. A value of each constitutional element of each of the serial resonance circuits is adjusted in such a manner that the frequency for blocking the common mode noise of the entire balun falls into a range between the resonance frequencies of these serial resonance circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Otake, Yoshihisa Soutome, Yukio Kaneko, Yoshitaka Bito, Hisaaki Ochi, Koji Hirata
  • Publication number: 20110218265
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyimide foam made of an aromatic polyimide composed of a tetracarboxylic acid component, which is composed of 0 to 90% by mole of a 3,3?,4,4?-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid component and 100 to 10% by mole of a 3,3?,4,4?-benzophenone tetracarboxylic acid component and/or a 2,3,3?,4?-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid component, and a diamine component, which is composed of 50 to 97% by mole of m-phenylenediamine and 50 to 3% by mole of 4,4?-methylenedianiline. The polyimide foam can be produced easily, has uniform and fine cells, and has the mechanical properties required for practical use as a foam, such as flexibility that prevents the foam from cracking easily even when deformed and excellent cushioning properties, as well as heat resistance that can resist use at high temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Kaneko, Hiroaki Yamaguchi, Masafumi Kohda
  • Publication number: 20110204890
    Abstract: Manufacture cost and maintenance cost of RF coils of MRI devices are reduced without any limitation concerning size of the coils. By constituting an antenna device for magnetic resonance imaging devices with a cylindrical outer conductor, a looped ribbon-shaped conductor disposed inside the cylindrical outer conductor along the cylindrical surface, and a feed point for transmission and/or reception between the cylindrical conductor and the ribbon-shaped conductor, and disposing the ribbon-shaped conductor so that length thereof can be readily adjusted, there is provided an antenna device for magnetic resonance imaging devices that generates a magnetic field component perpendicular to the central axis of the cylinder at a desired resonance frequency and shows sensitivity without using capacitors and without being imposed any limitation concerning size in the diametral direction of the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideta Habara, Yoshitaka Bito, Hisaaki Ochi, Yoshihisa Soutome, Yukio Kaneko, Masayoshi Dohata
  • Publication number: 20100270548
    Abstract: A semiconductor element includes a substrate including gallium oxide and having a predetermined plane direction, and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, in which, the semiconductor element is in chip form and further includes a first end face formed along a cleaved surface of the substrate and a second end face formed perpendicular to the first end face, wherein the first end face has a stronger cleavage property than the second end face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Yuhei Ikemoto, Koji Hirata, Kazuo Aoki, Yukio Kaneko, Takekazu Ujiie
  • Publication number: 20100113738
    Abstract: A molding material for fuel parts (particularly a molding material for fuel parts of automobiles), ensuring excellent fuel barrier property against not only gasoline fuel, but also an alcohol mixed fuel, is provided. A molding material for fuel parts and a fuel part, comprising a polyamide containing an oxamide bond unit represented by —NH—R—NHC(?O)C(?O)—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Kouichiro Kurachi, Yukio Kaneko, Masato Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20100038652
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlxInyGa(1?X?Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7629615
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7608472
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090251145
    Abstract: An RF coil for MR Imaging that can change a resonance frequency easily and instantaneously in response to a nuclide to be imaged without exchange and adjustment and that also causes only small lowering of sensitivity. The RF coil has a sub coil for changing a resonance frequency of the transmitting/receiving RF coil for transmitting and receiving an MR signal between itself and a nuclide that is an object to be imaged. The sub coil is equipped with a switch, and at the time of switching-on, shifts the resonance frequency of the RF coil by changing an inductance value of the RF coil in a noncontact manner using inductance coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Yukio KANEKO, Hideta HABARA, Yoshihisa SOUTOME, Yosuke OTAKE, Yoshitaka BITO
  • Patent number: 7597370
    Abstract: A carrying unit is capable of changing the holding force of a carried object, suppressing the deformation amount of a carried object held by suction and dropping the carried object quickly at a predetermined place. A carrying unit has a workpiece holding face opposing a carried object and a carrying head equipped with a concave portion having an air guide face gently continued from a bottom face to a work holding face. A cylindrical nozzle, which forms a slit for discharging air between the carrying head and the bottom face in order to discharge positive pressure air toward the air guide face from that slit, is mounted on the carrying head such that it projects from the bottom face. A central portion of the cylindrical nozzle serves as a vertical nozzle having a vertical hole, which is open substantially in a vertical direction with respect to the carried object for supplying positive pressure or negative pressure air to the carried object, and a flat portion perpendicular to the vertical hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tanae, Yukio Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7563402
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to strip off a stamper stuck on a resin layer for groove formation during the manufacture of an optical disc from the resin layer without imparting damage or the like to the stamper. The present invention achieves this object by having the steps of bringing about a state in which the stamper protrudes from a substrate by a predetermined width, rotating the substrate with the back surface of the disc-shaped substrate attracted and held, elevating rollers capable of rolling relative to a contacting surface contacting with the protruding portion simultaneously with the rotation, and continuously applying a force working in a direction to separate the protruding portion from the substrate in the circumferential direction of the stamper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Kaneko, Yoshimi Yodokawa, Takeshi Umega, Mamoru Usami, Tsuyoshi Komaki
  • Publication number: 20080237607
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7348555
    Abstract: An electron beam irradiation apparatus includes a turn-transfer mechanism; a turn irradiation chamber; an electron beam irradiation section; a replacement room configured to bring a target into and out of the turn irradiation chamber; an outer irradiation target holding table configured to form a part of the replacement room, and including an X-ray shielding mechanism, an airtightness maintaining mechanism, a target holding mechanism; an inner irradiation target holding table configured to form a part of the replacement room, and including an X-ray shielding mechanism, an airtightness maintaining mechanism, and a target holding mechanism, the inner irradiation target holding table being supported by the turn-transfer mechanism; a turning mechanism configured to drive the turn-transfer mechanism; and an elevator mechanism configured to move the turn-transfer mechanism, which supports the inner irradiation target holding table, up and down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Usami, Kazushi Tanaka, Yukio Kaneko, Naoyuki Echigo, Hiroshi Tominaga, Akihiko Kizaki, Kunihiko Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20080070337
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7319249
    Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1?X?Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Koha Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 7282726
    Abstract: An electron beam irradiation apparatus includes a turn-transfer mechanism; a turn-transfer chamber; an electron beam irradiation section; a replacement room configured to bring a target into and out of the turn-transfer chamber; an outer irradiation target holding table configured to form a part of the replacement room, and including an X-ray shielding mechanism, an airtightness maintaining mechanism, and a target holding mechanism; an inner irradiation target holding table, configured to form a part of the replacement room, and including an X-ray shielding mechanism, an airtightness maintaining mechanism, and a target holding mechanism, the inner irradiation target holding table being supported by the turn-transfer mechanism; a turning mechanism configured to turn the turn-transfer mechanism and an elevator mechanism configured to move the turn-transfer mechanism up and down; and a rotation mechanism disposed at the electron beam irradiation section and configured to rotate the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Usami, Kazushi Tanaka, Yukio Kaneko, Naoyuki Echigo, Akihiko Kizaki, Hiroshi Tominaga, Kunihiko Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20070134833
    Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor element which has a substrate formed of gallium oxide and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate. The method has: a first dividing step that the substrate with the semiconductor layer formed thereon is divided into a strip bar along a first cleaved surface of the substrate; and a second dividing step that the strip bar is divided in a direction perpendicular to the first cleaved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicants: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., KOHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhei Ikemoto, Koji Hirata, Kazuo Aoki, Yukio Kaneko, Takekazu Ujiie
  • Publication number: 20070129523
    Abstract: A crystalline polyester polyol is obtained by polycondensation of a dicarboxylic acid component comprising (1) 85 to 99 mol % of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid and (2) 15 to 1 mol % of an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid of HOOC—(CH2)n—COOH wherein n is 8 to 10 with (3) an aliphatic diol component of HO—(CH2)m—OH wherein m is 11 to 20, and a hot-melt adhesive is derived from the crystalline polyester polyol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Ichihashi, Yukio Kaneko