Patents by Inventor Yutaka MITA
Yutaka MITA 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: 20240083173Abstract: Provided are a liquid ejection apparatus, an imprint apparatus, and an ejection method capable of obtaining a favorable ejection state. To this end, in the course of use of an ejection material, a water head difference (reference height) between an ejection port face and a liquid surface of a hydraulic fluid 35 in a sub tank 26 is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventor: YUTAKA MITA
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Patent number: 11745409Abstract: A storage device stores an ejection cartridge including an accommodating container that accommodates an ejection material, and an ejection head that includes an ejection port for ejecting the ejection material accommodated in the accommodating container. The storage device includes a mount on which the ejection cartridge is mounted, and includes a pressure regulating tank configured to control a pressure of an inside of the accommodating container of the ejection cartridge fixed to the mount with its ejection port not enclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yoshimasa Araki, Yutaka Mita, Noriyasu Hasegawa, Yuichi Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11573487Abstract: An imprint apparatus that molds an imprint material on a substrate with a mold, the imprint apparatus including a applying device that includes a discharge surface in which a discharge opening is formed, the applying device applying the imprint material to the substrate through the discharge opening, and a measuring device that measures the position of the discharge opening by having the measuring device measure a position of an uneven structure formed in a protruded shape or a recessed shape with respect to a direction perpendicular to the discharge surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yutaka Mita
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Patent number: 10894420Abstract: An ejection material is injected into a container through a pipe. Thereafter, the pipe is blocked at a blocked part and then the pipe is cut off. The pipe is cut off such that the blocked part is included in a portion of the pipe connected to the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Mita, Tsuyoshi Arai
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Publication number: 20200338806Abstract: A storage device stores an ejection cartridge including an accommodating container that accommodates an ejection material, and an ejection head that includes an ejection port for ejecting the ejection material accommodated in the accommodating container. The storage device includes a mount on which the ejection cartridge is mounted, and includes a pressure regulating tank configured to control a pressure of an inside of the accommodating container of the ejection cartridge fixed to the mount with its ejection port not enclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yoshimasa Araki, Yutaka Mita, Noriyasu Hasegawa, Yuichi Iwasaki
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Patent number: 10518546Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus comprises a head including a discharge port surface, a first reservoir that stores the liquid to be supplied to the head, a flexible member, separating an inner space of the first reservoir into a first chamber that stores the liquid and a second chamber that stores an operation liquid, a second reservoir communicating with the second chamber, the second reservoir storing the operation liquid to be supplied to the second chamber, the second reservoir being disposed in such a manner that a liquid surface of the operation liquid stored in the second reservoir is positioned below the discharge port surface, and an adjustment unit that performs adjustment in such a manner that a position of the liquid surface of the operation liquid in the second reservoir falls within a predetermined range in a state where the second reservoir is opened to atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshimasa Araki, Yuichi Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yutaka Mita, Tohru Ishibashi
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Patent number: 10513125Abstract: A fluid containing member includes a first containing chamber that contains a first fluid, and a second containing chamber that contains a second fluid. The first containing chamber and the second containing chamber are separated from each other by a first separation film on a side of the first containing chamber and a second separation film on a side of the second containing chamber. The first separation film and the second separation film are partly connected to each other or partly contact each other so as to move together in accordance with a change in an internal pressure of the first containing chamber or an internal pressure of the second containing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yutaka Mita, Yoshimasa Araki, Noriyasu Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20190315128Abstract: An ejection material is injected into a container through a pipe. Thereafter, the pipe is blocked at a blocked part and then the pipe is cut off. The pipe is cut off such that the blocked part is included in a portion of the pipe connected to the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Yutaka Mita, Tsuyoshi Arai
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Patent number: 10421283Abstract: There is provided an ejection material receiving unit capable of increasing the filling amount of ejection material with as little enlargement of the container itself as possible and an ejection material ejecting apparatus including the unit. Therefore, an ejection material receiving unit includes: a first receiving space capable of receiving ejection material; a second receiving space capable of receiving liquid; and a flexible member separating the first receiving space and the second receiving space, and is characterized in that the flexible member has a concave part which takes a concave shape in a state where the first receiving space is not filled with the ejection material and the second receiving space is not filled with the liquid, and the concave shape is a shape dented toward the second receiving space from the first receiving space, and is also a shape conforming to a wall forming the second receiving space.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa Araki, Yutaka Mita, Masahiro Kuri, Noriyasu Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi Arai
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Patent number: 10406731Abstract: Provided is an application device capable of extracting an imprinting material in which impurities are mixed from a container of the application device and supplying new imprinting material to the container of the application device. An application device according to the present disclosure is used to supply an imprinting material to a substrate in an imprinting apparatus that forms a pattern on the imprinting material on the substrate by using a mold. The application device includes a container unit that contains the imprinting material, and an ejecting unit that is provided on the container unit and that ejects the imprinting material contained in the container unit toward the substrate. The application device is detachably attachable to the imprinting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Arai, Yoshikazu Miyajima, Yutaka Mita, Akio Saito
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Patent number: 10384451Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharge apparatus, including: a head having an discharge port surface in which an discharge port array is provided, the discharge port array including a plurality of discharge ports which discharges liquid and is arranged along a first direction; a suction port performing a suction operation for the discharge port surface; and a control unit causing the suction port to move in a second direction intersecting the first direction under a state in which the suction port is spaced away from the discharge port surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tohru Ishibashi, Yuichi Takahashi, Yoshimasa Araki, Yutaka Mita, Tsuyoshi Arai
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Patent number: 10254643Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which forms a pattern on an imprint material on a shot region on a substrate by using a mold, the apparatus comprising a supply unit having a plurality of discharge outlets each of which is configured to discharge the imprint material, and configured to supply the imprint material to the substrate, and a control unit configured to control the supply unit so as to supply the imprint material from the plurality of discharge outlets onto the shot region, wherein the control unit determines discharge outlets to be used to supply the imprint material to the shot region among the plurality of discharge outlets based on discharge history information indicating a history of discharge of the imprint material from each of the plurality of discharge outlets.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Mita, Tsuyoshi Arai
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Patent number: 10245835Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus, including: a head having a discharging port surface on which discharging ports are formed, and configured to perform a discharging operation for discharging liquid through the discharging ports; a suction port configured to perform a suction operation for the discharging port surface; a pressure changing unit configured to change a pressure in the head; and a control unit configured to perform the suction operation under a state in which the pressure changing unit has changed the pressure in the head in a positive pressure direction with respect to a pressure that is set during the discharging operation and the suction port is spaced away from the discharging port surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kensuke Tone, Tohru Ishibashi, Yoshimasa Araki, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yutaka Mita, Yuichi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190070857Abstract: There is provided an ejection material receiving unit capable of increasing the filling amount of ejection material with as little enlargement of the container itself as possible and an ejection material ejecting apparatus including the unit. Therefore, an ejection material receiving unit includes: a first receiving space capable of receiving ejection material; a second receiving space capable of receiving liquid; and a flexible member separating the first receiving space and the second receiving space, and is characterized in that the flexible member has a concave part which takes a concave shape in a state where the first receiving space is not filled with the ejection material and the second receiving space is not filled with the liquid, and the concave shape is a shape dented toward the second receiving space from the first receiving space, and is also a shape conforming to a wall forming the second receiving space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Yoshimasa Araki, Yutaka Mita, Masahiro Kuri, Noriyasu Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi Arai
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Publication number: 20190057881Abstract: An imprint apparatus that molds an imprint material on a substrate with a mold, the imprint apparatus including a applying device that includes a discharge surface in which a discharge opening is formed, the applying device applying the imprint material to the substrate through the discharge opening, and a measuring device that measures the position of the discharge opening by having the measuring device measure a position of an uneven structure formed in a protruded shape or a recessed shape with respect to a direction perpendicular to the discharge surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yutaka Mita
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Publication number: 20190016145Abstract: A fluid containing member includes a first containing chamber that contains a first fluid, and a second containing chamber that contains a second fluid. The first containing chamber and the second containing chamber are separated from each other by a first separation film on a side of the first containing chamber and a second separation film on a side of the second containing chamber. The first separation film and the second separation film are partly connected to each other or partly contact each other so as to move together in accordance with a change in an internal pressure of the first containing chamber or an internal pressure of the second containing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yutaka Mita, Yoshimasa Araki, Noriyasu Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20180297247Abstract: Provided is an application device capable of extracting an imprinting material in which impurities are mixed from a container of the application device and supplying new imprinting material to the container of the application device. An application device according to the present disclosure is used to supply an imprinting material to a substrate in an imprinting apparatus that forms a pattern on the imprinting material on the substrate by using a mold. The application device includes a container unit that contains the imprinting material, and an ejecting unit that is provided on the container unit and that ejects the imprinting material contained in the container unit toward the substrate. The application device is detachably attachable to the imprinting apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Tsuyoshi Arai, Yoshikazu Miyajima, Yutaka Mita, Akio Saito
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Patent number: 10093103Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a container divided into a first chamber and a second chamber by a dividing member, the first chamber including a discharge outlet that discharges a liquid and configured to contain the liquid, the second chamber configured to contain a fluid; a tank configured to store the fluid; a connecting portion that provides fluid communication between the tank and the second chamber; a measurement unit configured to measure an amount of the fluid supplied from the tank to the second chamber; and a controller configured to obtain an amount of the liquid contained in the first chamber based on a measurement result from the measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa Araki, Koichi Kitakami, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yutaka Mita
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Patent number: 10067420Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which forms a pattern on a substrate, the apparatus including a supply unit including a discharge outlet which discharges the imprint material and configured to supply the imprint material onto the substrate via the discharge outlet, and a generation unit configured to generate ions by irradiating, with soft X-rays, a second space away from a first space between the mold and the substrate, wherein the discharge outlet and the generation unit are arranged to sandwich a side face of the mold, and a charge is removed in the first space by supplying the ions generated in the second space to the first space.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Arai, Yutaka Mita
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Patent number: 10022900Abstract: Provided is an application device capable of extracting an imprinting material in which impurities are mixed from a container of the application device and supplying new imprinting material to the container of the application device. An application device according to the present disclosure is used to supply an imprinting material to a substrate in an imprinting apparatus that forms a pattern on the imprinting material on the substrate by using a mold. The application device includes a container unit that contains the imprinting material, and an ejecting unit that is provided on the container unit and that ejects the imprinting material contained in the container unit toward the substrate. The application device is detachably attachable to the imprinting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Arai, Yoshikazu Miyajima, Yutaka Mita, Akio Saito