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Akihiro Yamada

Akihiro Yamada, Utsunomiya-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080212058PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a projection optical system which projects an image on a first object plane onto a second object plane, comprising a plurality of optical members inserted in turn from a side of the second object plane, said plurality of optical members being made of an isotropic crystal and including a first optical member and second optical member in each of which <1 1 1> crystal axes are oriented in a direction of an optical axis and a third optical member in which <1 0 0> crystal axes are oriented in the direction of the optical axis, wherein maximum angles 09-04-2008
20090027647EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD - The present invention provides an exposure apparatus comprising an illumination optical system configured to illuminate a reticle including a pellicle with light from a light source, a projection optical system configured to project a pattern of the reticle onto a substrate, an obtaining unit configured to obtain information on a thickness of the pellicle, an adjusting unit configured to adjust an illuminance on the substrate, and a control unit configured to control the adjusting unit based on the information on the thickness of the pellicle obtained by the obtaining unit.01-29-2009
20100214546PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A system includes a plurality of optical elements, a deformation unit configured to deform a deformable optical element satisfying a following conditional formula included in the plurality of optical elements by applying a force to the deformable optical element:08-26-2010

Patent applications by Akihiro Yamada, Utsunomiya-Shi JP

Akihiro Yamada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080304022Projection display - The invention provides a projection display that achieves continuous light amount control with ease and without causing unevenness of illumination of light applied to a light valve responsive to a video signal, thereby allowing constant image display with satisfactory contrast. The projection display of the invention includes a light valve (12-11-2008
20090161032POLARIZATION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION-TYPE LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A polarization optical system includes a first polarization plate, arranged at the light incident side of a liquid-crystal light valve, for transmitting first polarized light (s-polarized light) included in light incident on the liquid-crystal light valve from an illumination optical system and a second polarization plate, arranged at the light exit side of the liquid-crystal light valve, for transmitting second polarized light (p-polarized light), different from the first polarized light (s-polarized light), included in imaging light emitted from the liquid-crystal light valve to a projection optical system, in which the second polarization plate is configured in such a way that its light-incident face is concave toward the liquid-crystal light valve.06-25-2009
20100045944PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus includes a light valve, a light source for producing light directed to the light valve, an integrator lens disposed in an optical path extending from the light source to the light valve and including a first lens array and a second lens array, and a light amount adjustment mechanism disposed in the optical path between the first lens array and the second lens array. The light amount adjusting mechanism includes a pair of light shielding elements pivoting in the form of a pair of double doors. The pair of light shielding elements have an opening formed in a region of tip portions thereof which corresponds to lens cells in contact with the optical axis of the second lens array. A region of the opening corresponding to one lens cell in contact with the optical axis of the second lens array is of a triangular configuration.02-25-2010
20100165296Projection Display Apparatus - A projection display apparatus 07-01-2010

Patent applications by Akihiro Yamada, Tokyo JP

Akihiro Yamada, Nagoya JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080198412Data processing device and data processing method - There is provided a data processing device having a plurality of functions including at least a print function of forming an image on a recording medium and a facsimile function of transmitting facsimile data. The data processing device comprises: a connection unit to which a portable storage medium is detachably attached; a storage unit configured to store relationship information defining relationship between a data type and a function to be executed for data having the data type; a reading unit configured to read data from the portable storage medium attached to the connection unit; a judgment unit configured to judge a data type of the data read by the reading unit from the portable storage medium; and a function execution unit configured to execute one of the plurality of functions corresponding to the data type judged by the judgment unit.08-21-2008
20080204804Image processing device - An image scanning device to which an external storage is detachably connected. The image scanning device is provided with an image scanning unit configured to scan an image formed on an original document and generate data representing the scanned image, a data storing unit configured to store the data generated by the image scanning unit in the external storage connected to the image scanning device, a capacity presuming unit configured to presume a necessary capacity which should be available in the external storage for storing the data generated by the image scanning unit prior to storing the data, a comparing unit configured to detect a remaining capacity of the external storage and compare the remaining storage with the necessary capacity presumed by the capacity presuming unit, and a warning unit configured to issue warning if the remaining capacity is less than the necessary capacity.08-28-2008
20080259394Printing System and Printing Device - A printing device is provided with a first storage configured to store a time-designated first print job, a judging unit configured to judge whether to change the print time of the first print job to allow interruption of a second print job which is different from the first print job based on a predetermined condition is met and a printing unit configured to execute a printing operation based on judgment of the judging unit.10-23-2008
20080260396PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device is provided with a printing module, an amount detecting module which detects a remaining amount of the printing material, a first value determining module configured to determine, if the remaining amount of the printing material is equal to or less than a predetermined amount, a maximum value of a density range, within which a print density is to be set for printing, to be a smaller value than a maximum value of the density range for a case where the remaining amount of the printing material is larger than the predetermined amount, and a print density changing module configured to change the set print density to be equal to or less than the maximum value determined by the first value determining module if the set print density is greater than the maximum value determined by the density determining module.10-23-2008
20080304099Printing System and Printing Device - A printing device is configured to execute a plurality of time-designated print jobs. A request source of each of the plurality of time-designated print jobs is identified. If there exist at least one close job of which a designated execution time is within a predetermined period with respect to a designated execution time of a first reference job and of which the print request source is the same as that of the first reference job, the designated execution times of the first reference job and each of the at least one close job are changed to be close to a designated execution time of a second reference job. Then, a print process regarding the plurality of print jobs is executed when the current time coincides with each of the changed execution times of the plurality of time-designated print jobs.12-11-2008
20090086284Device, Method and Computer Readable Medium for Data Writing - There is provided a data writing device, comprising: a plurality of connection slots to which a plurality of external storage devices are detachably attachable; an acceptance unit configured to accept a writing command inputted to the data writing device through a user operation; and a write control unit configured to write data to a plurality of external storage devices attached to the plurality of connection slots in response to acceptance of the writing command by the acceptance unit.04-02-2009
20090135447Printing Device, Method and Computer Readable Medium for Print Process - There is provided a printing device comprising: a data receiving unit configured to receive data transmitted from an external computer via a network; a print unit configured to execute a print process based on the data received by the data receiving unit; a prohibition unit configured to accept a command for prohibiting execution of the print process; an analysis unit configured to analyze the data received by the data receiving unit; and an execution control unit configured such that if a command other than a print command is contained in the data received by the data receiving unit, the execution control unit executes the command other than the print command even in a state where execution of the print process is prohibited through the prohibition unit.05-28-2009
20100118340PRINTING SYSTEM AND SERVER THEREFOR - A printing system includes a server and a plurality of printing devices connected with the server via a network. A maximum number of printable sheets is set for each of the printing devices. Upon receipt of a print request, when determining that a remaining number of printable sheets is insufficient, a first printing device issues a transfer request to the server. In response to the transfer request, the server selects a second printing device that cedes at least part of the maximum number of printable sheets therefor, based on respective frequencies of printing operations of the printing devices other than the first printing device, and issues a transfer instruction to each of the first printing device and the second printing device, the transfer instruction causing the first and second printing devices to increase and decrease their maximum numbers of printable sheets, respectively.05-13-2010

Patent applications by Akihiro Yamada, Nagoya JP

Akihiro Yamada, Naka-Gun JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090132095CONTROL DEVICE FOR PLANT, CONTROL DEVICE FOR THERMAL POWER PLANT, AND GAS CONCENTRATION ESTIMATION DEVICE OF COAL-BURNING BOILER - A control device for a plant includes a manipulation signal generation section for generating the manipulation signal to the plant, a model adapted to simulate a characteristic of the plant, a learning section for generating an input signal of the model so that an output signal obtained by the model simulating the characteristic of the plant satisfies a predetermined target, a learning signal generation section for calculating a learning signal in accordance with a learning result in the learning section, a manipulation result evaluation section for calculating a first deviation as a deviation between a first measurement signal of the plant obtained as a result of application of a certain manipulation signal to the plant and a target value of the measurement signal, and a second deviation as a deviation between a second measurement signal of the plant obtained as a result of application of an updated manipulation signal to the plant and the target value, and a correction signal generation section for generating, when the second deviation calculated by the manipulation result evaluation section is greater than the first deviation, a correction signal of the manipulation signal to be generated by the manipulation signal generation section.05-21-2009
20100114457CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROL SUBJECT HAVING COMBUSTION UNIT AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PLANT HAVING BOILER - A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.05-06-2010

Patent applications by Akihiro Yamada, Naka-Gun JP

Akihiro Yamada, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090303371SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVE METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; and plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photoelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes.12-10-2009
20100025928MEDIUM DISCHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium discharging device includes a medium stacking portion, a medium discharge member and a moving mechanism. A medium having an image recorded thereon is to be stacked on the medium stacking portion. The medium discharge member discharges the medium to the medium stacking portion. The moving mechanism includes a separation member. Based on a discharge timing at which the medium is discharged from the medium discharge member, the separation member moves the medium discharge member between an advanced position at a downstream end in the medium conveyance direction and a retracted position that is located upstream of the advanced position in the medium conveyance direction, to separate from the medium discharge member a rear end of the discharged medium in the medium conveyance direction.02-04-2010

Patent applications by Akihiro Yamada, Kanagawa JP