Patents by Inventor Kenji Kobayashi

Kenji 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: 11881417
    Abstract: First and second concentration measurements are provided in lines for first and second supply liquid lines. A dissolved concentration of gas in the second supply liquid is lower than that in the first supply liquid. In the first and second lines, first ends of branch lines are connected upstream of the concentration measurements. The second ends of the branch lines are connected to a mixing part. By mixing the first and second supply liquids, a processing liquid is generated. Respective flow rates in the branch lines are based on the first and second concentration measurements to set the dissolved concentration of the gas in the processing liquid. Thus, particles or the like can be removed from the processing liquid to be supplied to a substrate, and the dissolved concentration of the gas in the processing liquid can be set with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Shuichi Yasuda, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230405664
    Abstract: A rebar tying tool may be configured to tie rebars with a wire. The rebar tying tool may include: a first cutter; and a second cutter configured to cut the wire by moving relative to the first cutter. The second cutter may include: a cutting part configured to contact and cut the wire; a first connecting part connected to a first portion of the cutting part; and a second connecting part connected to a second portion of the cutting part, the second portion being different from the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki MURAI, Kenji KOBAYASHI, Yuta ASAKURA, DucThuan TRAN
  • Publication number: 20230406558
    Abstract: A rebar tying tool may be configured to tie rebars with a wire. The rebar tying tool may include: a contact member configured to contact the wire during a tying operation in which the rebar tying tool ties the rebars with the wire. The contact member may include: a base; and a surface layer covering at least a part of a surface of the base and configured to contact the wire during the tying operation. Hardness of the surface layer may be higher than hardness of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Natsumi NOTO, Kenji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230385633
    Abstract: A training data generation device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes classifying, based on a feature value, each of a first plural number of training data having a first attribute and each of a second plural number of training data having a second attribute; based on a comparison of a number of training data classified in a first group against a number of training data classified in a second group from among the first plurality of training data, selecting a third plurality of training data from training data classified in a third group and training data classified in a fourth group from among the second plurality of training data, the third group corresponding to the first group, the fourth group corresponding to the second group; and converting each of the third plurality of training data into a fourth plurality of training data having the first attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kenji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11810795
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. All treating units are each arranged such that a treatment chamber, a chemical piping space, and an exhaust chamber are located side by side along a transportation space, the chemical piping space is located on a first side of the treatment chamber, and the exhaust chamber faces the chemical piping space across the treatment chamber when seen from the transportation space. The exhaust chamber faces the chemical piping space across the treatment chamber, leading to prevention of obstruction of a passage for passing a pipe, configured to supply a chemical to a substrate held by a holding rotator, by an exhaust pipe. Moreover, a single type of treating units is enough for the substrate treating apparatus instead of two types of treating units currently used. This results in sharing of components by all the treating units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jun Sawashima, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230323205
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a substrate W is provided with a recess 95. The width of the recess 95 is smaller than the depth of the recess 95. An etching target which is at least one of a single crystal of silicon, a polysilicon and an amorphous silicon is exposed in at least a part of the upper part of a lateral surface 95s and in at least a part of the lower part of the lateral surface 95s. The etching target is etched by supplying an alkaline first etching liquid, in which an inert gas is dissolved, to the substrate W. The etching target is etched by supplying an alkaline second etching liquid, in which a dissolution gas is dissolved, and which has a dissolved oxygen concentration higher than that of the first etching liquid, to the substrate W before or after the first etching liquid is supplied to the substrate W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Sei NEGORO, Kenji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11774068
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; a wavelength conversion member disposed to face the plurality of light sources; and a diffusion member disposed between the wavelength conversion member and the plurality of light sources, and configured to uniformize distribution of traveling direction angle of incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Kenji Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Nishida
  • Publication number: 20230298895
    Abstract: In the present invention, an alkaline first etching liquid is fed to a substrate, whereby an etching target representing a silicon monocrystal and/or polysilicon is etched. An alkaline second etching liquid is fed to the substrate after or before the first etching liquid is fed to the substrate, whereby the etching target is etched, the second etching liquid containing a compound that inhibits contact between hydroxide ions and the etching target, the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the etching speed with respect to the (110) face, the (100) face, and the (111) face of silicon being smaller in the second etching liquid than in the first etching liquid, and the maximum value of the etching speed being smaller in the second etching liquid than in the first etching liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Sei NEGORO, Kenji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230287293
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition may be used for lubrication of a shock absorber, and may include a base oil (A), a polyalkyl (meth)acrylate (B) having a weight average molecular weight in a range of from 150,000 to 900,000, and an olefin copolymer (C) having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi SAKANOUE, Kenji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230290124
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores an image processing program for causing a computer to execute a process including: obtaining a plurality of images consecutively captured in a time series manner; calculating a probability that a type of an object present in each of the plurality of images is one type using a trained classification model; determining whether or not the probability that the type of the object is the one type periodically changes in consecutive images among the plurality of images; and in a case of determining that the probability periodically changes, saving one image within a period in which the probability that the type of the object is the one type periodically changes as training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji KOBAYASHI, Tsukasa MAKINO, Tomonori MASE, HARUYUKI ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230250357
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition may include a base oil (A), a zinc dithiophosphate (B) comprising a compound (B1) of formula (b-1), calcium sulfonate (C), and a seal sweller (D). In formula (b-1), R1 to R4 are each independently an alkyl group. However, at least one of R1 to R4 is a prescribed straight-chain alkyl group, and at least one of R1 to R4 is a prescribed branched chain alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi SAKANOUE, Kenji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230246055
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a first chip. The first chip includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first anode region and a first cathode region, and the second pixel includes a second anode region and a second cathode region. The first chip includes a first wiring layer. The first wiring layer includes a first anode electrode, a first anode via coupled to the first anode electrode and the first anode region, and a second anode via coupled to the first anode electrode and the second anode region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji KOBAYASHI, Toshifumi WAKANO, Yusuke OTAKE
  • Patent number: 11699716
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a first chip. The first chip includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first anode region and a first cathode region, and the second pixel includes a second anode region and a second cathode region. The first chip includes a first wiring layer. The first wiring layer includes a first anode electrode, a first anode via coupled to the first anode electrode and the first anode region, and a second anode via coupled to the first anode electrode and the second anode region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Toshifumi Wakano, Yusuke Otake
  • Patent number: 11683912
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a duct that guides air that has absorbed heat generated inside a cooling target and has been discharged, to the cooling target; a cooler that is provided in the duct and cools the air flowing inside the duct; and an adjusting mechanism that is located on a downstream side of the cooler, adjusts an amount of the air discharged from the duct into a room where the cooling target is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Koichi Todoroki, Nirmal Singh Rajput, Yoshinori Miyamoto, Masaki Chiba, Minoru Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11670517
    Abstract: An alkaline etchant containing a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, water, and an inhibitory substance for inhibiting contact between hydroxide ions generated from the quaternary ammonium hydroxide and objects P1 to P3 to be etched is prepared. The prepared etchant is supplied to a substrate in which the polysilicon-containing objects P1 to P3 to be etched and objects O1 to O3 not to be etched, which are different from the objects P1 to P3 to be etched, are exposed, thereby etching the objects P1 to P3 to be etched while preventing the objects O1 to O3 not to be etched from being etched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: Sei Negoro, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230153694
    Abstract: A computer calculates a ratio of a number of sets of data labeled as favorable and a number of sets of data labeled as unfavorable with respect to each of a plurality of types determined by values of a combination of a first attribute and a second attribute that are associated with the sets of data, with respect to each combination of a first type contained in the plurality of types and each of types other than the first type, based on the ratio, specifies candidate data to be changed from among a plurality of sets of data having values corresponding to the first type, based on the candidate data specified with respect to each of the combinations, selects first data from among the plurality of sets of data, and generates training data by changing a label of the first data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenji KOBAYASHI, Takao MOHRI, Yuri NAKAO
  • Patent number: 11613391
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a main handle configured to accommodate a staple; a staple driver supported by the main handle and configured to drive the staple; and a clincher arm rotatably attached to the main handle and including a clincher, the clincher being configured to clinch the staple driven by the staple driver. The staple driver includes: a driving portion that extends in a direction away from the main handle and is configured to drive the staple toward the clincher, and an attachment portion with which the driving portion is attached to the main handle, and the attachment portion extends in a longitudinal direction of the main handle from a side edge of the driving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Taguchi, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11610790
    Abstract: A supply flow passage branches into a plurality of upstream flow passages. The plurality of upstream flow passages include a branching upstream flow passage that branches into a plurality of downstream flow passages. A plurality of discharge ports are respectively disposed at a plurality of positions differing in distance from a rotational axis and discharge processing liquids, supplied via the plurality of upstream flow passages, toward an upper surface of a substrate held by a substrate holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Jun Sawashima, Yuta Nishimura, Akito Hatano, Motoyuki Shimai, Toyohide Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11565840
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a main handle configured to accommodate a staple; a staple driver supported by the main handle and configured to drive the staple; and a clincher arm rotatably attached to the main handle and including a clincher, the clincher being configured to clinch the staple driven by the staple driver. The staple driver includes: a driving portion that extends in a direction away from the main handle and is configured to drive the staple toward the clincher, and an attachment portion with which the driving portion is attached to the main handle, and the attachment portion extends in a longitudinal direction of the main handle from a side edge of the driving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Taguchi, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220403242
    Abstract: A silicon etching solution includes a mixed solution comprising a quaternary alkylammonium hydroxide and water and further comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1): R1O—(CmH2mO)n—R2 ??(1) wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, R2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, m is an integer of 2 to 6, and n is 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicants: Tokuyama Corporation, SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki SEIKE, Seiji TONO, Kenji KOBAYASHI, Sei NEGORO