Patents by Inventor Hisashi Kobayashi

Hisashi 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: 20200148124
    Abstract: An object is to expand the capacity of storage of a luggage box and thereby to increase the efficiency of component transportation. A tray for vehicle storage space is formed from a fiber board that includes a bottom portion, side portions and flat portions extended from the side portions and that has a thickness of 2 to 6 mm, a total weight of 450 to 1000 g/m2, and a tensile strength of 850 to 2150 N/25.4 mm. The fiber board has linear first cuts provided on a surface side to divide boundaries between the side portions and the flat portions, linear second cuts provided on a rear face side to divide boundaries between the bottom portion and the side portions, linear third cuts provided on the surface side to fold back the side portions, and linear third cuts provided on the rear face side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Hisashi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200116429
    Abstract: Thermochemical regeneration is enhanced by injecting fuel gas to entrain recycled flue gas that passes out of a regenerator to form a mixture that is impelled into the other regenerator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200109853
    Abstract: Operation of a thermochemical regenerator to generate soot or to increase the amount of soot generated improves the performance of a furnace with which the thermochemical regenerator is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Kuang-Tsai Wu, Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10611976
    Abstract: Operation of a thermochemical regenerator at a controlled ratio of recycled flue gas to reforming fuel provides formation of fuel species that permit a higher flame temperature upon combustion of the resulting combustible mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hisashi Kobayashi, Kuang-Tsai Wu
  • Patent number: 10590346
    Abstract: Efficiency of a thermochemical regeneration combustion system is enhanced by incorporation of gaseous products from pyrolysis of fuel such as biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10533743
    Abstract: Operation of a thermochemical regenerator to generate soot or to increase the amount of soot generated improves the performance of a furnace with which the thermochemical regenerator is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuang-Tsai Wu, Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190390909
    Abstract: Employing furnace combustion gases for both thermochemical regeneration and heating of regenerators to preheat oxidant for the furnace provides synergistic efficiencies and other advantages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventor: Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190337832
    Abstract: A combustion method in which heated flue gas heats a regenerator through which a mixture of fuel and flue gas is then passed to undergo endothermic reactions that produce syngas which is fed into a furnace together with a motive gas stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Arthur W. Francis, JR., Hisashi Kobayashi, Kuang-Tsai Wu
  • Publication number: 20190337043
    Abstract: A fin according to the present disclosure is a corrugated fin formed of a metal plate by bending into a corrugated shape, and the corrugated fin includes peak portions extending in a first direction, valley portions extending in the first direction, and inclined portions connecting the peak portions and the valley portions adjacent to each other. The peak portions and the valley portions are alternately arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a thickness of the metal plate at each apex of the peak portions and the valley portions is larger than a thickness of the inclined portions of the metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kenichi KACHI, Hisashi KOBAYASHI, Sachi ONAGA, Kazuhiro MITSUKAWA, Yoshinori SAKIMOTO, Taichi ASANO, Kazutaka SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10458712
    Abstract: Employing furnace combustion gases for both thermochemical regeneration and heating of regenerators to preheat oxidant for the furnace provides synergistic efficiencies and other advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190316040
    Abstract: Efficiency of a thermochemical regeneration combustion system is enhanced by incorporation of gaseous products from pyrolysis of fuel such as biomass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10392284
    Abstract: A combustion method in which heated flue gas heats a regenerator through which a mixture of fuel and flue gas is then passed to undergo endothermic reactions that produce syngas which is fed into a furnace together with a motive gas stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Arthur W. Francis, Jr., Hisashi Kobayashi, Kuang-Tsai Wu
  • Patent number: 10273178
    Abstract: A glassmelting furnace is provided in which the burners are elevated above the glassmelt surface and are oriented at an angle upwards relative to the glassmelt surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Osemwengie Uyi Iyoha, Hisashi Kobayashi, Euan J. Evenson
  • Publication number: 20190037113
    Abstract: A camera housing is provided which prevents dust and mist from adhering to a camera lens and which makes it possible to secure clear imaging despite continuous use. The camera housing comprises a front portion provided at a position opposite of the lens surface of an internally provided camera lens, a rear portion provided at a position opposite of the front portion, and another side portion. The front portion has an opening, and the rear portion and/or side portion has an air ejection port. The diameter of the inscribed circle of the opening is 0.9 time or less the diameter of the inscribed circle of the front portion, and the area of the air ejection port is 0.1 time or more the area of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Irie, Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10184659
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combustion method in which heated flue gas heats a regenerator through which a mixture of fuel and flue gas containing NOx is passed to undergo endothermic reactions that produce syngas and destroy NOx.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Kuang-Tsai Wu, Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10158162
    Abstract: An automotive glass antenna includes (a) a defogger having first and second bus bars; (b) a first L-shape auxiliary element connected to a lower end of the first bus bar; (c) a second L-shape auxiliary element connected to an upper end of the second bus bar; (d) a feed point provided at a position near an upper portion of the first bus bar or a lower portion of the second bus bar; and (e) a main element that includes a main vertical element extending along an outside of the first or second bus bar to achieve a capacitive coupling therewith and a main horizontal element extending from the feed point in a substantially horizontal direction. This antenna is capable of receiving FM radio broadcast waves with high gain, even if it is installed in a limited blank space around the defogger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hisashi Kobayashi, Takayuki Suzuki, Akifumi Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20180346365
    Abstract: The efficiency and output of glass furnace operation employing thermochemical regeneration is improved by controlling operation conditions over the feeding zone to reduce the difference between the temperature at the furnace crown within, and outside of, the feeding zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10112860
    Abstract: Operation of a thermochemical regenerator combustion system in which fuel is fed with furnace flue gas into the regenerators to reduce the oxygen content and optionally to establish a reducing atmosphere in both cycles in which the regenerators operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hisashi Kobayashi, Kuang-Tsai Wu
  • Publication number: 20180283789
    Abstract: A thermochemical regenerator system is operated without encountering accumulation of unwanted solids on the interior surfaces of the passages through which flue gas passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Hisashi Kobayashi, Kuang-Tsai Wu
  • Patent number: 10059615
    Abstract: Gaseous combustion products from a glassmelting furnace after being passed through a regenerator are used to heat glassmaking feed material and pyrolyze organic material on the feed material. Gaseous pyrolysis products and the combustion products are combined with reforming fuel and passed through a regenerator heated in a previous cycle to form syngas which is fed into the furnace and combusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Kobayashi