Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kobayashi

Hiroki 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: 20220371338
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a plurality of head chips having nozzles; a holder holding the plurality of head chips; and a planar heater disposed on the holder and heating the holder, in which the heater includes an outer peripheral region along an outer edge of the holder and a middle region positioned inside the outer peripheral region in a plan view, and a heat generation amount per unit time of the outer peripheral region is larger than a heat generation amount per unit time of the middle region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Haruhisa UEZAWA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Katsuhiro OKUBO, Kentaro MURAKAMI, Takahiro KANEGAE, Shingo TOMIMATSU
  • Patent number: 11505778
    Abstract: A control device performs control of a culture condition in production of an organic compound by a fermentation method. The control device executes processing a plurality of times to acquire culture data, to calculate, using the acquired culture data, a plurality of candidates for a culture condition set in advance, and a linear model set in advance that outputs a production amount of an organic compound at a future time, the production amount at the future time for each of the candidates, to determine an optimum candidate out of the candidates using the calculated production amount at the future time for each of the candidates and a target production amount of the organic compound at the future time set in advance, and to change the culture condition to the determined candidate. The linear model and the target production amount are set for each time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Shimodaira, Hiroki Kobayashi, Takahiro Terawaki, Yasuhiro Kusunose
  • Publication number: 20220368056
    Abstract: A joint connector 10 for electrically connecting a plurality of wires 11 includes a housing 29 and a joint terminal 12 to be disposed in the housing 29. The joint terminal 12 includes a plurality of branch portions 20 arranged along an arrangement direction, a plurality of wire connecting portions 17 respectively continuous with the plurality of branch portions 20 and to be connected to the plurality of wires 11, and a coupling portion 19 for electrically connecting the plurality of branch portions 20 by coupling the plurality of branch portions 20. The coupling portion 19 is in the form of a plate extending in the arrangement direction and is bent. The coupling portion 19 is engaged with the housing 29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Hajime KAWASE, Masaaki TABATA, Teruo HARA, Hajime MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20220305827
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head including head chips each including a nozzle plate, a holder that is formed of resin, holds the head chips, and includes a flow path for supplying the liquid to each of the head chips, a holder cover that is formed of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than a thermal conductivity of the holder and houses the head chips and the holder, and a fixing plate that is formed of metal and to which the holder cover and the head chips are fixed, a carriage on which the liquid ejecting head is mounted, and a heater that is mounted on the carriage and heats the liquid inside each of the head chips via the holder cover and the fixing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shingo TOMIMATSU, Masahiko SATO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Osamu YAGI, Kenta ONO
  • Publication number: 20220305785
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: head chips including a first-head-chip and a second-head-chip; a holder holding the head chips; and a heater along a direction parallel to a nozzle surface. The first-head-chip and the second-head-chip are disposed to be offset from each other in both a first-direction and a second-direction parallel to the nozzle surface and intersecting with each other. When a first-side is one of the four sides of a virtual rectangle circumscribing the aggregate of the head chips and a second-side and a third-side are coupled to both ends of the first-side, the first-head-chip is in contact with the first-side and the third-side and the second-head chip is in contact with the second-side. The heater overlaps the head chips. A first-region surrounded by the first-side, the second-side, the first-head-chip, and the second-head-chip includes a first-outside-part positioned outside the outer edge of the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro KANEGAE, Katsuhiro OKUBO, Kentaro MURAKAMI, Shingo TOMIMATSU, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Haruhisa UEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220305788
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a plurality of head chips having a nozzle surface; a thermally conductive holder holding the plurality of head chips; a thermally conductive flow path structure provided with a flow path of a liquid supplied to the plurality of head chips; and a planar heater disposed between the holder and the flow path structure and along a direction parallel to the nozzle surface, in which the heater overlaps the plurality of head chips in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro KANEGAE, Katsuhiro OKUBO, Kentaro MURAKAMI, Shingo TOMIMATSU, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Haruhisa UEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220305787
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head supported by a support body includes: a first head chip; a holder having a holding portion holding the first head chip and a flange portion; and a heater heating the holding portion, in which the holding portion has a heat receiving portion receiving heat from the heater, and a shortest path of heat transferred through the holder from the heat receiving portion to the flange portion is bent or curved at two or more points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Okubo, Takahiro Kanegae, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
  • Publication number: 20220308601
    Abstract: A gimbal configured to stabilize a supported unit in a predetermined attitude includes an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration of the supported unit, a first calculator configured to calculate attitude information of the supported unit using the acceleration, a rotator including a rotor member rotatable relative to a stator member, an angle detecting sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of the rotator, and a second calculator configured to calculate a correction value for the angle information using the attitude information and the angle information of the rotator based on the rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Youhei YAMAMOTO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Seiyo AIZU
  • Publication number: 20220278488
    Abstract: It is aimed to reduce connection resistance between a female housing and a male housing without causing the settling of a resilient contact piece of a female terminal fitting. A female connector (F) includes a female housing (10) configured to accommodate female terminal fittings (20) and to be connected to a male housing (50), and a movable portion (31) displaceable between a terminal deforming position where resilient contact pieces (25) are resiliently deformed away from male terminal fittings (60) and a releasing position where the movable portion is disengaged from the resilient contact pieces (25). As the connection of the female housing (10) and the male housing (50) proceeds, a retainer-side slide-contact portion (32) slides in contact with male-side slide-contact portions (55) and the movable portion (31) is displaced from the releasing position to the terminal deforming position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya MIYAMURA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Teruo HARA
  • Publication number: 20220271473
    Abstract: The present invention reduces cost. A female side connector (F) is provided with: a female side housing (30) fitted to a male side housing (10); a lock function part (57) that is provided to the female side housing (30) and that locks, in a fitted manner, the female side housing (30) and the male side housing (10) by locking the male side housing (10); and a releasing member (63) that is a component separate from the female side housing (30) and that is attachable to and detachable from the female side housing (30), wherein the releasing member (63) can cause the lock function part (57) to be displaced so as to be released and separated from the male side housing (10) in a state where the releasing member is attached to the female side housing (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya MIYAMURA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Teruo HARA
  • Patent number: 11401432
    Abstract: A curable composition contains a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator containing pheylbis(2,4,6-trimethyl benzoyl)phosphine oxide and diphenyl(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide in a mass ratio of pheylbis(2,4,6-trimethyl benzoyl)phosphine oxide:diphenyl(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide from 1:6 to 1:160, wherein supernatant obtained after the curable composition is centrifuged for 30 minutes at 70,000 rotation per minute has an absorbance of 0.02 or less at a wavelength of 700 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroki Kobayashi, Shin Hasegawa, Yuuki Matsushita, Yukiko Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20220237553
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an article supply device capable of substantially eliminating inconveniences caused by a sold-out state. [Solution] An article supply device 100 comprises: an article supply means (an article supply unit 108, etc.) capable of supplying articles AR in an article storage unit 102 by applying a supply operation to a supply operation unit 103; and a sold-out state signal transmission means (a sold-out state detection unit 152, etc.) capable of transmitting a sold-out state signal once the article storage unit 102 has run out of the articles AR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Hajime KONDO, Nobuo KUROKAWA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Kenichi MINAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11394136
    Abstract: A female terminal 12 includes a terminal body 15 and a slider 16. The terminal body 15 includes an upper connecting piece 18A and a lower connecting piece 18B connected to a core wire 13 of an electric wire 11. The slider 16 is movable in a front-rear direction relative to the terminal body 15. The slider 16 includes an upper abutting portion 25A and a lower abutting portion 25B. The upper connecting piece 18A includes an upper protrusion 51A that abuts against the upper abutting portion 25A. The lower connecting piece 18B includes a lower protrusion 51B that abuts against the lower abutting portion 25B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunya Takeuchi, Masaaki Tabata, Teruo Hara, Hiroki Kobayashi, Takeshi Misaiji, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220224044
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal connected to a front end portion of an electric wire and a housing in which the terminal is arranged. The housing includes a base portion and cover members. The electric wire extending rearward from a portion of the housing that has the terminal therein is disposed on the base portion. The cover members that are movable between a position in which the cover members cover the base portion and a position in which the cover members are away from the base portion. The cover members include a wire pressing portion that presses the electric wire disposed on the base portion toward the base portion when the cover members are in the position in which the cover members cover the base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruo HARA, Masaaki TABATA, Hajime KAWASE, Hajime MATSUI, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Kenji MAKINO, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI, Takeshi AMAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11370932
    Abstract: A curable composition contains a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a fluorescent whitener comprising a benzoxazole derivative, wherein the proportion of the fluorescent whitener is from 0.10 to 0.3 percent by mass and the proportion of the polymerization initiator is from 5 to 15 percent by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kojima, Takayuki Shimizu, Shin Hasegawa, Hiroki Kobayashi, Yuuki Matsushita, Yukiko Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20220197520
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a controller for writing data to the non-volatile memory and reading data from the non-volatile memory, and a power supply circuit. The power supply circuit includes a capacitor. The power supply circuit supplies power to the non-volatile memory and the controller from an external power supply and supplies power to the non-volatile memory and the controller from the capacitor if the external power supply is interrupted. The controller controls the power supply circuit to charge the capacitor when current consumption of the non-volatile memory is less than some first current level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220190533
    Abstract: A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, a busbar to be connected to the plurality of terminals, and a housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals and the busbar inside. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs and a coupling portion coupling the plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being insertable into the tube portion, a sandwiching portion extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich the wire, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portion and movable along the extending direction. The sliding portion includes a pressurizing portion configured to pressurize the sandwiching portion toward the wire with the wire sandwiched by the sandwiching portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Hajime KAWASE, Masaaki TABATA, Teruo HARA, Hajime MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20220187323
    Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a reagent that can reduce deposition of fouling in the reaction cell, by using an existing reaction cell, without affecting the composition of the reagent, in an immunoassay method using a reagent containing latex particles; and to provide an immunoassay method using the reagent. Provided is an immunoassay reagent including a latex particle, wherein the latex particle contains a halogen atom. Also provided is an immunoassay method including contacting a latex particle with a sample to be measured in a reaction cell, wherein the latex particle contains a halogen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mieko OTA, Yuuya INABA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220190534
    Abstract: A joint connector 10 for connecting a plurality of electric wires 11 is provided with: a lower housing 30; an upper cover 60 assembled onto the lower housing 30; a plurality of terminals 12 respectively connected to front ends of the plurality of electric wires 11 in an extending direction thereof; and a busbar 50 connected to the plurality of terminals 12. The busbar 50 disposed on the lower housing 30 has a plurality of tabs 52. Each of the plurality of terminals 12 disposed on the lower housing 30 includes: a tube portion 17 into which a corresponding one of the plurality of tabs 52 is inserted; pinching portions 18A, 18B extending in the extending direction and pinching one of the plurality of electric wires 11; and a slide portion 16 disposed on the outside of the pinching portions 18A, 18B and moveable along the extending direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Hajime KAWASE, Masaaki TABATA, Teruo HARA, Hajime MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20220181799
    Abstract: A terminal 12 to be connected to a front end part of a wire 11 in an extending direction is provided with a terminal body 15 including a wire connecting portion 20 to be connected to the wire 11, and a shell to be externally fit to the wire connecting portion 20. The wire connecting portion 20 includes a sandwiching portion 18A, 18B extending in the extending direction of the wire 11 and configured to sandwich the wire 11. The shell includes a resilient pressurizing portion for resiliently pressurizing the sandwiching portion 18A, 18B toward the wire 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Shunya TAKEUCHI, Masaaki TABATA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI