Patents by Inventor Hideaki Kobayashi

Hideaki Kobayashi 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: 20240149640
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit, a heat medium circuit, a vehicle-interior heat exchanger, a vehicle-exterior heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger disposed in series with respect to a flow of air generated by an air blower, a switching unit, a detection unit for detecting a degree of frost formation, and a control device. The operation mode includes a defrosting mode in which the heat medium in the high-temperature medium circuit is supplied to a defrosting target to be selected as either the first or second heat exchanger by the operation of the switching unit. The control device selects, as the defrosting target, the first heat exchanger in preference to the second heat exchanger when determined that both the first and the second heat exchangers need to be defrosted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TANABE, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Yasutaka AOKI, Tomoki HASE, Hideaki TATENOI, Masayuki SAKAI, Michiaki NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20240149660
    Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle may include a motor, a casing accommodating the motor, an electric pump unit attached to a lower part of the casing and configured to circulate heat medium within the casing and a filter unit attached to the lower part of the casing and configured to filter the heat medium. At least a part of the electric pump unit and at least a part of the filter unit each protrude outside the casing. Outside the casing, the filter unit is adjacent to the electric pump unit from a front in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Miyazono, Junya Kobayashi, Junichi Deguchi, Hironori Asaoka, Kei Ohta, Sho Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11978621
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment device includes: a pair of flow path plates, each of the pair of flow path plates including a flow path groove provided on a front surface of the each of the pair of flow path plates and at least a part of the front surface; a spacer member that includes a support surface projecting from the front surface, and connects the pair of flow path plates such that a back surface of one of the pair of flow path plates and a back surface of the other of the pair of flow path plate face each other; and a heat transfer plate that faces the flow path groove, and is supported by the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: KELK Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Hideaki Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 11961651
    Abstract: In a coil device, a first coil includes a common terminal side first coil conductor connected to a ground terminal, an intermediate first coil conductor, and an input/output terminal side first coil conductor connected to a first input/output terminal, and a second coil includes a common terminal side second coil conductor connected to the ground terminal, an intermediate second coil conductor, and an input/output terminal side second coil conductor connected to a second input/output terminal. The input/output terminal side first coil conductor is located between the intermediate second coil conductor and the input/output terminal side second coil conductor, and the input/output terminal side second coil conductor is located between the intermediate first coil conductor and the input/output terminal side first coil conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mikawa, Hideaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240116589
    Abstract: An operation pedal system that is installed in a straddle-type vehicle includes an operation pedal having an arm portion and a pedal portion, and a tread surface forming member that is attached to the pedal portion to form a first tread surface above the pedal portion that receives a stepping force when a stepping operation is performed on the operation pedal. In the operation pedal system, the tread surface forming member is separate from the operation pedal, and the tread surface forming member has a body portion having a tread surface forming surface forming the first tread surface on an upper surface, and an attachment mechanism provided on the body portion for detachably attaching the tread surface forming member to the pedal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayo YAMAMOTO, Koji KOBAYASHI, Hideaki FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11955353
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment device includes a flow path plate that includes a flow path groove, a heat transfer plate that faces the flow path groove, and a thermoelectric module plate that is connected to the heat transfer plate. A surface roughness of the flow path plate is 0.20 ?m or more and 0.25 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KELK Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Hideaki Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 11953708
    Abstract: A camera device includes a first filter configured to restrict a transverse wave component of incident light having light of a plurality of different wavelength bands generated based on birefringence in a car film from a vehicle to which the car film is adhered, a lens on which a vertical wave component of the incident light transmitted through the first filter is incident, a second filter configured to restrict a vertical wave component of the incident light in a visible region among the vertical wave component of the incident light imaged by the lens, and an imaging element configured to image the vehicle as a subject based on a vertical wave component of the incident light in a near-infrared region transmitted through the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamada, Jyouji Wada, Toshiyuki Sano, Akito Omata, Yuma Kobayashi, Naoaki Tomisaka
  • Patent number: 11935767
    Abstract: A temperature control device includes: a top plate that supports a substrate; a base plate connected to the top plate so as to form an internal space with the top plate; a thermoelectric module plate arranged in the internal space; a heat exchange plate that is arranged in the internal space and exchanges heat with the thermoelectric module plate; a first coupling member that couples the top plate and the base plate via the thermoelectric module plate and the heat exchange plate and is fixed to each of the top plate and the base plate; and a second coupling member that couples the top plate and the base plate via the thermoelectric module plate and the heat exchange plate, is fixed to the top plate, and is movable relative to the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Kelk Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Masato Horikoshi, Hideaki Ohkubo, Wataru Kiyosawa
  • Patent number: 11933974
    Abstract: An object is to provide an electronic device capable of recognizing a user's facial feature accurately. A glasses-type electronic device includes a first optical component, a second optical component, a frame, an imaging device, a feature extraction unit, and an emotion estimation unit. The frame is in contact with a side surface of the first optical component and a side surface of the second optical component. The imaging device is in contact with the frame and has a function of detecting part of a user's face. The feature extraction unit has a function of extracting a feature of the user's face from the detected part of the user's face. The emotion estimation unit has a function of estimating information on the user from the extracted feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Takayuki Ikeda, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Hideaki Shishido, Kiyotaka Kimura, Takashi Nakagawa, Kosei Nei, Kentaro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240016192
    Abstract: A cooked rice improver, which allows fat and oil to be easily emulsified immediately after being added, is excellent in the effect of releasing cooked rice, reduces breakage of rice grains and makes the graininess of rice excellent, suppresses aging of cooked rice, and allows cooked rice with improved richness and excellent flavor to be obtained. The cooked rice improver contains fat and oil, an ionic surfactant, and a polyhydric alcohol, wherein a content of the fat and oil is 8% by mass or more and 65% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the cooked rice improver, and a difference of L2 value?L1 value calculated at 20° C. according to the following definition is positive: L1 value: lightness value of cooked rice improver; L2 value: lightness value of emulsion obtained by adding 100 times by mass of fresh water to the cooked rice improver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Akifumi MIKAMI, Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Mayumi HIDAN, Wataru URUSHIBATA, Ryosuke HOSHINA, Kenta SUSAKI
  • Patent number: 11869701
    Abstract: A circuit element includes a multilayer body including insulating substrates, a first coil conductor inside the multilayer body, and first and second outer electrodes and a ground electrode on outer surfaces of the multilayer body. The first coil conductor includes a winding axis extending in a stacking direction of the insulating substrates, the first coil conductor is connected to the first outer electrode, the second outer electrode, or the ground electrode, and the second outer electrode extends along a side surface of the multilayer body. An additional capacitance is generated between the second outer electrode and the first coil conductor. The second outer electrode includes first and second portions with different widths in a layer direction of the insulating substrates and the width of the second portion is larger than the width of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kentaro Mikawa
  • Publication number: 20240000094
    Abstract: An emulsified composition, which allows fat and oil to be easily and uniformly dispersed in a food or drink product when added to the food or drink product, is provided. The present invention provides an emulsified composition for adding fat and oil to a food or drink product, wherein the emulsified composition contains fat and oil, an ionic surfactant, and a polyhydric alcohol, a content of the fat and oil is 5% by mass or more and 65% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the emulsified composition, a content of the ionic surfactant is 0.3% by mass or more and 6.0% by mass or less with respect to the total amount of the emulsified composition, the ionic surfactant contains at least lecithin and/or lysolecithin, the emulsified composition has a specific gravity of 1.0 or more at 20° C. and a viscosity of 60,000 mPa·s or less at 20° C., and a difference of L2 value-L1 value calculated by the following definition at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: KEWPIE CORPORATION, Kewpie Jyozo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Mayumi HIDAN, Akifumi MIKAMI
  • Patent number: 11843292
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress an outflow of varnish from a lower portion of a stator core by increasing a filling rate of varnish in a slot. Provided is a method for manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine. The stator has a coil and a stator core in which a slot that houses the coil is formed, and a resin member of which viscosity is low at a first temperature and the viscosity is high at a second temperature higher than the first temperature is filled in the slot from an injection side. The manufacturing method includes a first step of causing a temperature difference in the stator core such that the injection side becomes the first temperature and an opposite side of the injection side becomes the second temperature, and a second step of injecting the resin member from the injection side in a state in which the temperature difference is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Yoshio Ozeki, Daisuke Kitajima, Toshiyuki Takano
  • Patent number: 11831292
    Abstract: An LC composite component includes a multilayer body including insulating base members that are laminated and include insulating base members on which conductor patterns are provided. Capacitor conductor patterns are provided on insulating base members different from an insulating base member on which a coil conductor pattern is provided, and each include an extending portion overlapping with a line segment connecting a center of a first terminal and a center of a second terminal in a shortest distance as viewed in the lamination direction and projecting portions projecting in directions different from the direction of the line segment, and the projecting portions overlap with linear portions of the coil conductor pattern without overlapping with bent portions thereof as viewed in the lamination direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11387542
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes an antenna element, a switch with a common terminal that is electrically connected to the antenna element side, a first signal path provided between a first input/output terminal of the switch and a first communication circuit, and a second signal path provided between a second input/output terminal of the switch and a second communication circuit. The first signal path includes a radio-frequency circuit and a phase shifter, and the RF circuit has an impedance that is open or shorted in a second frequency band as seen from the antenna element side. In a state in which the first input/output terminal and the second input/output terminal are both electrically connected to the common terminal, the phase shifter provides a phase shift, and the impedance in the second frequency band of the first signal path as seen from the common terminal is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11375659
    Abstract: A lawn mower includes a cutter blade having flaps and a flap drive mechanism. The flap drive mechanism includes a flap drive source and an intermediate power transmission unit. The intermediate power transmission unit is provided on a power transmission path between the flap drive source and the flaps and provided coaxially with a blade rotation axis. An output axis of a motor is provided coaxially with a blade rotation axis and the intermediate power transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Ito, Hideaki Kobayashi, Koji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20220094248
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress an outflow of varnish from a lower portion of a stator core by increasing a filling rate of varnish in a slot. Provided is a method for manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine. The stator has a coil and a stator core in which a slot that houses the coil is formed, and a resin member of which viscosity is low at a first temperature and the viscosity is high at a second temperature higher than the first temperature is filled in the slot from an injection side. The manufacturing method includes a first step of causing a temperature difference in the stator core such that the injection side becomes the first temperature and an opposite side of the injection side becomes the second temperature, and a second step of injecting the resin member from the injection side in a state in which the temperature difference is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshio OZEKI, Daisuke KITAJIMA, Toshiyuki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220028597
    Abstract: A circuit element includes a multilayer body including insulating substrates, a first coil conductor inside the multilayer body, and first and second outer electrodes and a ground electrode on outer surfaces of the multilayer body. The first coil conductor includes a winding axis extending in a stacking direction of the insulating substrates, the first coil conductor is connected to the first outer electrode, the second outer electrode, or the ground electrode, and the second outer electrode extends along a side surface of the multilayer body. An additional capacitance is generated between the second outer electrode and the first coil conductor. The second outer electrode includes first and second portions with different widths in a layer direction of the insulating substrates and the width of the second portion is larger than the width of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Kentaro MIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210384787
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the reliability of a rotating electric machine. A stator of a rotating electric machine includes a stator core on which teeth and slots are provided on a cylindrical inner surface, a plurality of windings arranged inside the slot, and slot liners disposed between an inner wall of the slot and the plurality of windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu OKAMOTO, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Kenji NAKAYAMA, Toshiyuki TAKANO, Yoshio OZEKI, Hideaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210351757
    Abstract: An LC composite component includes a multilayer body including insulating base members that are laminated and include insulating base members on which conductor patterns are provided. Capacitor conductor patterns are provided on insulating base members different from an insulating base member on which a coil conductor pattern is provided, and each include an extending portion overlapping with a line segment connecting a center of a first terminal and a center of a second terminal in a shortest distance as viewed in the lamination direction and projecting portions projecting in directions different from the direction of the line segment, and the projecting portions overlap with linear portions of the coil conductor pattern without overlapping with bent portions thereof as viewed in the lamination direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Kenichi ISHIZUKA