Patents by Inventor Ken Kobayashi

Ken 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).

  • Patent number: 11972925
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a plasma processing chamber; a substrate support disposed in the plasma processing chamber and including a lower electrode; a source RF generator coupled to the plasma processing chamber and configured to generate a source RF signal including high states and low states in alternate manner; and a bias DC generator coupled to the lower electrode and configured to generate a bias DC signal including ON states and OFF states in alternate manner. Each ON state includes a plurality of cycles, each cycle including a first sequence of first pulses and a second sequence of second pulses, each first pulse having a first voltage level, and each second pulse having a second voltage level different from the first voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Bong seong Kim, Ken Kobayashi, Mitsunori Ohata, Yoon Ho Bae
  • Publication number: 20240131724
    Abstract: A robot capable of performing precise work is provided. The robot includes an actuator unit and an end effector provided at a tip of the actuator unit. The end effector includes a first sensor capable of detecting a pressure distribution in a contact region coming into contact with a workpiece, and a second sensor capable of detecting position information of the contact region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: KEI TSUKAMOTO, SATOKO NAGAKARI, YOSHIAKI SAKAKURA, KEN KOBAYASHI, TETSURO GOTO
  • Publication number: 20240135155
    Abstract: In a data processing device, a fixed-point position control unit determines, as first control. The fixed-point position control unit causes a detection calculation unit to perform calculation processing on processing target data at a processing point in time. The saturation rate control unit instructs, as second control to be repeated by the fixed-point position control unit, the fixed-point position control unit to move at least the fixed-point position as control to increase a lower limit saturation rate proportional to a magnitude of a counted lower limit counter value with respect to a result of the first control. The fixed-point position control unit performs, as the second control, a predetermined determination on the basis of the instruction from the saturation rate control unit and the metadata, determines the fixed-point position moved for each layer, and causes calculation processing to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saki HATTA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Yuya OMORI, Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo NITTA
  • Patent number: 11966550
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a sensor that includes a first sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of first detection units arranged two-dimensionally and a second sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of second detection units arranged two-dimensionally, the first sensor layer being provided on the second sensor layer, and a control unit that scans the plurality of first detection units and the plurality of second detection units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Ken Kobayashi, Kei Tsukamoto, Tomoko Katsuhara
  • Publication number: 20240125659
    Abstract: A stacked electrode is provided on a strain resistance film, wherein: the strain resistance film contains Cr and Al; the stacked electrode has a contact layer that overlaps the strain resistance film, a diffusion prevention layer that overlaps the contact layer, and a mounting layer that overlaps the diffusion prevention layer; and the diffusion prevention layer or the mounting layer covers the contact layer so that an end surface of the contact layer is not exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Ken UNNO, Tetsuya SASAHARA, Kohei NAWAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240119605
    Abstract: A calculation unit (22) sets each frame, of a moving image including a plurality of frames, as a target frame, calculates a motion vector with reference to a reference frame over an entirety of the target frames, and calculates an index indicating a magnitude of change between a key frame and the target frame, which is represented by using the motion vector, a judgement unit (25) judges whether or not the calculated index is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, a first detection unit (27) detects a region indicating an object from the target frame by using an object detection model in a case in which the index is equal to greater than the threshold value, a second detection unit (28) detects a region on the target frame, which is obtained by correcting a position of a region detected in the reference frame by using the motion vector in a case in which the index is less than the threshold value, and an output unit (30) outputs information of the region detected by the first detection unit
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Saki HATTA, Yuya OMORI, Shuhei YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240117474
    Abstract: A strain resistance film containing a composition represented by Cr100-x-y-zAlxNyOz, satisfying 5?x?50, 0.1?y?20, 0.1?z?17, and y+z?25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei NAWAOKA, Ken UNNO, Tetsuya SASAHARA, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Tetsuo HATA
  • Publication number: 20240114130
    Abstract: A video coding method is a video coding method for coding an image in units of blocks obtained by dividing an image, and in the method a computer performs processing for dividing the image into blocks, acquiring an intra-image prediction mode predicted for each block, and generating, by using a combination pattern based on the intra-image prediction mode of a plurality of blocks adjacent to at least any one block, determining whether or not the plurality of blocks are to be combined, and performing prediction for each combined block when it is determined that the plurality of blocks are to be combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo NITTA, Yuya OMORI
  • Publication number: 20240105424
    Abstract: A first RF pulse signal includes a plurality of main cycles. Each main cycle includes first and second durations. The first duration includes a plurality of first sub cycles, and the second duration includes a plurality of second sub cycles. The first RF pulse signal has three or more different power levels in each of the plurality of first sub cycles and the plurality of second sub cycles. A second RF pulse signal including a plurality of main cycles. The second RF pulse signal has two or more different power levels in each of the plurality of first sub cycles and a zero power level in the second duration. A third RF pulse signal includes a plurality of main cycles. The third RF pulse signal has two or more different power levels in each of the plurality of first sub cycles and a zero power level in the second duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro TAKEUCHI, Masahiko TAKAHASHI, Ken KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11918587
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of a cancer. Said compositions comprise a RAF inhibitor. Some embodiments comprise combination therapy featuring the RAF inhibitor with at least one oncology therapeutic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KINNATE BIOPHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Aleksandra Franovic, Eric Martin, Nichol L. G. Miller, Eric Murphy, Richard Thomas Williams, Ken Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240068891
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor member with a small risk of damage. A sensor member includes: a membrane; a protective film covering a part of the membrane; and an electrode portion connected to the membrane. The electrode portion 5 covers at least a part of the protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Ken UNNO, Tetsuya SASAHARA, Tetsuo HATA, Lucie OUEDRAOGO
  • Publication number: 20240068897
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor member capable of suitably preventing a problem such as the intrusion of moisture or the like through an interface between an electrode and a protective film. A sensor member includes: a protected portion provided on one surface of a metal base and including a detection portion; a protective film including a first protective film portion having a first thickness and a second protective film portion having a second thickness thicker than the first thickness and formed at an opening peripheral edge of an opening leading to the protected portion, and covering at least a part of the protected portion from above; and an electrode portion including a first electrode portion disposed in the opening and connected to the protected portion, and a second electrode portion connected to the first electrode portion at an outer peripheral edge of the first electrode portion and formed on the second protective film portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Ken UNNO, Tetsuya SASAHARA, Tetsuo HATA
  • Publication number: 20240061901
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores an output program for causing a computer to execute a process including: acquiring a plurality of solutions over a Pareto front; fitting a Bezier simplex to the plurality of solutions that has been acquired; calculating a gradient of the Bezier simplex at a plurality of data points over the Bezier simplex that has been fit; and for each of the plurality of data points that has been generated, outputting evaluation information on robustness of a solution corresponding to the data point based on the gradient that has been calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Ken KOBAYASHI, Yasunari HIKIMA, Yuhei UMEDA
  • Patent number: 11867580
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an exterior body; a pressure-sensitive sensor having a sensing face; and a support supporting the pressure-sensitive sensor such that inner faces the exterior body is opposed to the sensing face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Katsuhara, Akira Ebisui, Taizo Nishimura, Ken Kobayashi, Tetsuro Goto, Yoshiaki Sakakura, Kei Tsukamoto, Hayato Hasegawa, Manami Miyawaki
  • Publication number: 20230408355
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus and a robotic apparatus that can detect a distribution of a shearing force. A sensor apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor section, a separation layer, and a first viscoelastic body layer. The sensor section includes a first pressure sensor on a front side of the sensor section that faces and a second pressure sensor on a rear side of the sensor section, the sensor section detecting a force applied in an in-plane direction. The separation layer is between the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor, and is made of a viscoelastic material that is deformed by a load applied to the first pressure sensor. The first viscoelastic body layer is on a front surface of the first pressure sensor, and is made of a viscoelastic material that is deformable on the first pressure sensor in the in-plane direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken KOBAYASHI, Kei TSUKAMOTO, Yoshiaki SAKAKURA, Tetsuro GOTO, Akira EBISUI
  • Publication number: 20230381972
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control apparatus, a robot apparatus, a control method and a program for a robot apparatus that can detect and grip an end portion of a piece of cloth not spread. [Solving Means] A control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit, an operation command generation unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires an output of a first pressure distribution sensor arranged on a gripping surface of a first hand and an output of a second pressure distribution sensor arranged on a gripping surface of a second hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: TOSHIMITSU TSUBOI, SATOSHI SATO, KEN KOBAYASHI, FUMIKO SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20230360884
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a chamber; first and second matching circuits; a first RF generator generating a first RF pulsed signal including a plurality of first pulse cycles in which each cycle includes first, second, and third periods, and the first RF pulsed signal has first, second, and third power levels in first, second, and third periods, respectively; a second RF generator generating a second RF pulsed signal including a plurality of second pulse cycles in which each cycle includes fourth and fifth periods, and the second RF pulsed signal has fourth and fifth power levels in fourth and fifth periods, respectively; and a third RF generator generating a third RF pulsed signal including a plurality of third pulse cycles in which each cycle includes sixth and seventh periods, and the third RF pulsed signal has sixth and seventh power levels in sixth and seventh periods, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro TAKEUCHI, Ken KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230317462
    Abstract: A method of processing a substrate that includes: performing a cyclic plasma etch process including a plurality of cycles, each of the plurality of cycles including: etching a patterning layer including a polycrystalline semiconductor material to form or extend a recess by exposing the substrate to a first plasma, the substrate including an oxide layer, the patterning layer formed over the oxide layer, exposing the substrate to a second plasma, the second plasma including dihydrogen, and extending the recess by exposing the substrate to a third plasma, the second plasma being different from the first plasma and the third plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yun Han, Alok Ranjan, Tomoyuki Oishi, Shuhei Ogawa, Ken Kobayashi, Peter Biolsi
  • Patent number: 11756767
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a chamber; first and second matching circuits; a first RF generator generating a first RF pulsed signal including a plurality of first pulse cycles in which each cycle includes first, second, and third periods, and the first RF pulsed signal has first, second, and third power levels in first, second, and third periods, respectively; a second RF generator generating a second RF pulsed signal including a plurality of second pulse cycles in which each cycle includes fourth and fifth periods, and the second RF pulsed signal has fourth and fifth power levels in fourth and fifth periods, respectively; and a third RF generator generating a third RF pulsed signal including a plurality of third pulse cycles in which each cycle includes sixth and seventh periods, and the third RF pulsed signal has sixth and seventh power levels in sixth and seventh periods, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahiro Takeuchi, Ken Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230255977
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of a cancer. Said compositions comprise a RAF inhibitor. Some embodiments comprise combination therapy featuring the RAF inhibitor with at least one oncology therapeutic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Aleksandra FRANOVIC, Eric MARTIN, Nichol L. G. MILLER, Eric MURPHY, Richard Thomas WILLIAMS, Ken KOBAYASHI