Patents by Inventor Kei Kobayashi
Kei 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).
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Publication number: 20240129849Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to effectively reduce power consumption of a roadside wireless communication apparatus. A determination means (21) determines whether a moving body exists on a roadway leading to an intersection. A control means (22) controls a transmission output of a wireless signal being output from a wireless communication apparatus (30), based on a lighting state of a traffic light installed at the intersection and a determination result of the determination means (21).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kosel KOBAYASHI, Kei YANAGISAWA, Kazuki OGATA, Jun TAKASAWA
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Publication number: 20240127350Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition means (11) for acquiring information based on a sensor that measures information regarding a road; a generation means (12) for generating information indicating an accident situation according to an insurer based on the information acquired by the acquisition means; and a transmission means (13) for transmitting the information indicating the accident situation generated by the generation means to an apparatus of the insurer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Hasegawa, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kazuki Ogata, Kei Yanagisawa, Kosei Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20240127595Abstract: A notification device according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: detect occurrence of an accident from a video captured by one or a plurality of cameras, analyze the video to derive detailed information regarding an analysis target person involved with the accident, determine a coping method for the analysis target person on the basis of the detailed information; and notify the notification target of the determined coping method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Tetsuro Hasegawa, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kei Yanagisawa, Kazuki Ogata
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Patent number: 11953825Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus that presses a fine pattern of an original plate against a photo-curable resin dropped onto a substrate, and transfers the fine pattern to the photo-curable resin by applying light, includes a dropping unit that drops the photo-curable resin onto a shot region obtained by dividing the substrate into a plurality of sections, an original plate supporting unit that stamps the original plate on the photo-curable resin on the substrate, the original plate being supported the fine pattern towards the substrate side, and a substrate supporting unit that supports the substrate and moves the substrate such that a position of a predetermined shot region of the substrate is a dropping position of the dropping unit or a stamping position of the original plate, in which the dropping unit is controlled such that the photo-curable resin is sequentially dropped onto the plurality of shot regions of the substrate, and the original plate supporting unit is controlled such thatType: GrantFiled: January 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Masayuki Hatano, Kei Kobayashi, Tetsuro Nakasugi
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Patent number: 11948515Abstract: A low-power display device is provided. The display device is provided with a plurality of display portions. A data driver circuit and an addition circuit are provided to have a region overlapping with the display portion. First analog data is output from the data driver circuit in the case where first digital data consisting of a first digital value is input to the data driver circuit, whereas second analog data is output from the data driver circuit in the case where second digital data consisting of a second digital value is input to the data driver circuit. The addition circuit generates analog data corresponding to digital data that has a high-order bit that is the first digital value and a low-order bit that is the second digital value, by adding the second analog data to the first analog data. An output terminal of the data driver circuit is directly connected to an input terminal of the addition circuit without through an amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kiyotaka Kimura, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Kei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20240103200Abstract: A photochromic composition contains, in a predetermined combination: one or more photochromic compounds represented by General Formula 1; and one or more selected from the group consisting of a photochromic compound represented by General Formula A, a photochromic compound represented by General Formula B, and a photochromic compound represented by General Formula C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hironori KAWAKAMI, Kei KOBAYASHI, Aoi MATSUE, Takuya SHIMADA, Teruo YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20240106257Abstract: A secondary battery system according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises: an electric load connected to a secondary battery; and a control device which, in an SOC-dV/dQ curve in which the dV/dQ that is the differential value of the change amount dV of the voltage V of the secondary battery with respect to the change amount dQ of the capacity Q of the secondary battery is plotted with respect to the charged state (SOC) expressed as a percentage of the capacity Q with respect to the fully charged capacity of the secondary battery, when at least one peak top SOC range including the peak top charge rate is set, and charging or discharging stops in the peak top SOC range, discharges the secondary battery by the electric load to avoid the peak top SOC range and ends charging or discharging of the secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Numada, Kei Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20240096110Abstract: A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates a goodness degree of a road surface photographing environment on a basis of the sensor data and control a transmission from the vehicle of a road surface photographed image on a basis of the goodness degree of the road surface photographing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki Ogata, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Natsumi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20240092366Abstract: An on-vehicle apparatus includes an abnormal section determination part that determines a road section having a road surface on which an abnormality is probably present, based on an output value of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, an image selection part that selects an image(s) including the determined road section from a plurality of images shot at predetermined time intervals by a camera mounted on the vehicle, and a transmission part that is able to transmit the selected image(s) to a predetermined server.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki Ogata, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Natsumi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20240091998Abstract: Provided is an after-cure type laminated film having a low reflectance. A laminated film comprising: a transparent support substrate, an uncured hard coat layer formed on at least one surface of the transparent support substrate, and an uncured optical interference layer formed on the uncured hard coat layer, wherein the uncured hard coat layer comprises an active energy ray-curable composition for forming a hard coat layer, the uncured optical interference layer comprises an active energy ray-curable composition for forming an optical interference layer, the transparent support substrate has a thickness of 50 ?m or more and 600 ?m or less, a stretch ratio of the laminated film at 160° C. is 50% or more, and the laminated film heat-treated at a temperature of 90° C. for 30 minutes has a minimum value RAH of a reflectance taken between wavelengths of 380 nm and 780 nm of 2% or less and measured from a side of the uncured optical interference layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jumpei TAKAHASHI, Takuma OKADA, Kei TAKIGAWA, Kazuhito KOBAYASHI, Takeki HOSOKAWA, Takamitsu WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240059959Abstract: A photochromic composition containing one or more compounds represented by General Formula A and one or more compounds represented by General Formula B. In General Formula A, R1, R2, B1, and B2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R3 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an electron-withdrawing group, provided that one or more of R3 to R6 represent an electron-withdrawing group. In General Formula B, R7 to R12, B3, and B4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R13 and R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an electron-donating group, provided that one or more of R13 and R14 represent an electron-donating group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hironori KAWAKAMI, Kei KOBAYASHI, Aoi MATSUE
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Publication number: 20240025468Abstract: A vehicle an instrument panel, a first actuator moving the instrument panel in a front-rear direction, a steering part provided in the instrument panel movable in the front-rear direction, a second actuator moving the steering part relatively with respect to the instrument panel, a microprocessor controlling the first actuator and the second actuator, and a memory previously storing a target instrument panel position and a target steering position in association with a driver. The microprocessor is configured to perform the controlling including determining whether the driver has started a driving operation, and when it is determined that the driver has started the driving operation, controlling the first actuator and the second actuator so that the instrument panel and the steering part are respectively located in the target instrument panel position and the target steering position stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Kei Kobayashi, Takashi Hirota, Tomoya Sato
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Publication number: 20230416218Abstract: Provided are a photochromic compound represented by General Formula 1, and the like. In General Formula 1, R100 to R111, and X1 and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and two or more substituents may be bonded to form a ring structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hironori KAWAKAMI, Kei KOBAYASHI, Aoi MATSUE
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Publication number: 20230399563Abstract: The photochromic compound is represented by the following general formula (1): wherein, X denotes an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom unsubstituted or substituted by a substituent selected from the following Y1 group: Y1 group: —R1, -A1(B1)l(A2)m(B2)nR2, -A3A4, -A5R3 R1 denotes a cyano group or the like, R2 denotes an alkyl group or the like, R3 denotes a halogen atom or the like, A1, A2, A3, and A5 each independently denote an alkylene group or the like, A4 denotes a naphthyl group which may be substituted, B1 and B2 each independently denote any one of the divalent groups selected from the following group: l, m, and n are each independently 0 or 1, provided that n is 0 if m is 0, Y2 denotes a hydrogen atom or the like, R denotes a hydrogen atom or the like, denotes a norbornylidene group or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Yuko ARAI, Kei KOBAYASHI, Yusuke NUSHI, B Mark HERON, Christopher D. GABBUTT, Orlando Delfim Carvalho Couto De AZEVEDO
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Patent number: 11835854Abstract: An imprint device includes a load port for receiving a substrate to be processed, a sensor that acquires information from the substrate about a film on the substrate, and a primer forming unit configured to receive the substrate from the load port. A controller is configured to select primer process conditions corresponding to the film information. The primer forming unit receives primer process conditions from the controller and forms a primer layer on the substrate over the film. The primer layer is formed according to the selected process conditions. An imprinting unit of the imprint device is configured to receive the substrate from the primer forming unit and perform imprint lithography on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kasumi Okabe, Hirokazu Kato, Kei Kobayashi, Daizo Muto
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Publication number: 20230359068Abstract: An optical article including one or more photochromic compounds selected from group consisting of compound represented by general formula 1 and compound represented by general formula 2. In general formula 1, R1 to R8, and B1 and B2 each represent hydrogen atom or substituent, and at least either of B1 and B2 represents monovalent group represented by general formula 3; in general formula 2, R9 to R16, and B3 and B4 each represent hydrogen atom or substituent, and at least either of B3 and B4 represents monovalent group represented by general formula 3; and in general formula 3, Ar1 represents aryl group or heteroaryl group, R18 represents hydrogen atom or substituent, Ar1 and R18 may be coupled to form ring structure via single bond or divalent linking group, and * represents bonding position to adjacent carbon atom.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hironori KAWAKAMI, Aoi MATSUE, Kei KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230340318Abstract: The photochromic compound is represented by General Formula 1 . R30 and R31 each independently represent a linear or branched alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms, which is unsubstituted or has one or more substituents; a cyclic alkyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms which is unsubstituted or has one or more substituents; or represents a group represented by - (R100) nR101 which is unsubstituted or has one or more substituents, R100 represents an alkyleneoxy group, R101 represents an alkyl group, n represents an integer of 1 or more, a total number of carbon atoms of n alkyleneoxy groups represented by R100 and alkyl groups represented by R101 is 2 or more, R32 to R35 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent other than an electron-attracting group, and R36, R37, B7 and B8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hironori KAWAKAMI, Kei KOBAYASHI, Aoi MATSUE, Takuya SHIMADA, Teruo YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230323197Abstract: Provided is a photochromic compound represented by the following General Formula 1. In General Formula 1, Az represents a monovalent azine ring group which is unsubstituted or has a substituent, L represents a divalent or higher linking group, D represents a photochromic dye structure, a and c each independently represent an integer of 1 or more, b represents 0 or an integer of 1 or more; and when there are a plurality of Az's in General Formula 1, the plurality of Az's may be the same as or different from each other, and when there are a plurality of L's in General Formula 1, the plurality of L's may be the same as or different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Hironori KAWAKAMI, Aoi MATSUE, Kei KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11769933Abstract: The present disclosure aims to suppress, in a winding type electrode body in which a negative electrode lead is bonded to a winding start side end of a negative electrode collector, electrode plate deformation in association with charge/discharge cycles. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a winding type electrode body (14). A negative electrode (12) includes a negative electrode lead (20a) bonded to a winding start side end of a negative electrode collector and is wound at least one turn from a winding-direction inner end so as not to face a positive electrode (11) with a separator (13) interposed therebetween. The negative electrode (12) includes an insulating tape (40) adhered to the negative electrode collector so as to straddle a surface of the negative electrode lead (20a) in a winding direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Mizawa, Junichi Sugaya, Tomomichi Ueda, Masahiro Nakamura, Kei Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11708029Abstract: A vehicle includes a front seat, a rear seat, and a mirror body. The front seat is arranged to face rearward in a travel direction. The rear seat is arranged, at a rearward side of the front seat, to face frontward in the travel direction. The mirror body is arranged at a rearward position of the rear seat and reflects a vehicle frontward side.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Kobayashi, Kotone Nakao, Mai Numazawa, Tomohiro Ito, Kazutaka Nakabe