Patents by Inventor Koji Kobayashi

Koji 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: 20240072558
    Abstract: A storage battery management device according to one embodiment includes a hardware processor functioning as an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires, as current operation state data of a storage battery system including a plurality of storage batteries, charge/discharge power, a cell voltage, a charge/discharge current, and a temperature of a battery board of the storage battery system. The calculation unit calculates, by using a digital model for simulating operation of the storage battery system, a chargeable/dischargeable capacity, a State of Charge (SOC) level change amount, and an SOC maintainable charge/discharge amount being a charge/discharge amount maintaining an SOC level within a predetermined range. The display control unit causes a display unit to display the chargeable/dischargeable capacity, the SOC level change amount, and the SOC maintainable charge/discharge amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SASAKI, Takahiro KASE, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Yoshihisa SUMIDA, Koji TOBA
  • Publication number: 20240059144
    Abstract: A travel control device for controlling traveling of a straddle-type vehicle includes a control device, a vehicle speed detector configured to detect a traveling speed of the vehicle, and a vibration detector configured to detect a detection target vibration which is a vibration in a yaw direction or roll direction of the vehicle and has a frequency within a reference frequency range. The control device includes a deceleration device configured to perform a deceleration control to decelerate the traveling speed if the traveling speed exceeds a control start reference speed and an amplitude of the detection target vibration exceeds a control start reference amplitude and a deceleration stop device configured to stop the deceleration control if the traveling speed becomes equal to or less than a target limited speed after the deceleration control is started by the deceleration device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromi DEGUCHI, Shoji YANAGIDA, Koji KOBAYASHI, Takuya OKAMURA, Hirotoshi MOCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240046493
    Abstract: A challenge is to provide an art to identify mice as individuals from captured images of one or more mice that are doing activity in a predetermined activity range. An image processing device includes an image acquisition unit, a part extraction unit, and an individual identification unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured video of a state in which one or more animals are doing activity in a predetermined activity range. An outline detection unit extracts the outlines of the bodies of the one or more animals from each of multiple unit images included in the video. The individual identification unit analyzes the multiple outlines detected from each of the multiple unit images by the outline detection unit, in a time-series manner and identifies the one or more animals as individuals in each of the unit images on the basis of the analysis results. Thus, the challenge is solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: REVAMP CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Takahisa MURATA, Koji KOBAYASHI, Seiji MATSUSHITA, Naoyuki SHIMIZU, Tomoyuki YUASA, Takashi MINATO
  • Patent number: 11883563
    Abstract: A resin composition for a medical device to be subjected to gas low-temperature sterilization includes a resin and an ion exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kobayashi, Takayuki Kondo, Rieko Niino, Masaya Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20240014758
    Abstract: A power conversion device is provided which is capable of balancing impedance relatively easily and suppressing noise caused by a common mode current when a three-phase AC output is applied to drive a motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: SANDEN CORPORATION, KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kohei TAKADA, Koji KOBAYASHI, Tohlu MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230402905
    Abstract: There is provided an inverter-integrated electric compressor which makes it possible to effectively suppress noise caused by a common mode current while achieving a size reduction. The inverter-integrated electric compressor includes an inverter device 3 which has upper and lower arm switching elements 13 and 16 and applies a three-phase AC output to a motor M. The inverter-integrated electric compressor injuries a control board which controls the switching of the upper and lower arm switching elements 13 and 16, and a bus bar assembly 22 provided to establish wiring among a battery 24, the control board, the upper and lower arm switching elements 13 to 18, and the motor M. A normal mode coil 40, a three-phase common mode coil 41, a ferrite core 42, reflux capacitors 43 and 44, and a snubber circuit 52 are arranged in the bus bar assembly 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei TAKADA, Koji KOBAYASHI, Atsuhiro TADENUMA
  • Patent number: 11773477
    Abstract: A deposition mask includes: a mask body having two or more first through-holes; and a support disposed on the mask body and having a second through-hole located at a position overlapped with the first through-holes in a plan view. The mask body has a first surface located on an opposite side of a side of the support, and a second surface located on the side of the support. An outermost circumference first through-hole, which is located on an outermost circumference in a plan view of the two or more first through-holes located at the position overlapped with the second through-hole in a plan view, includes a first point which is a center of the outermost circumference first through-hole in a plan view; the second through-hole includes a second point on an outline of the second through-hole, the second point being nearest to the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Uchida, Koji Kobayashi, Hiromitsu Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20230307199
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation body including a front knob and a rear knob arranged side by side in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, the operation body being rotatable about a shaft in a vertical direction of the vehicle. The switch device is configured to be mounted on the vehicle. The front knob is disposed at a lower position than the rear knob.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichiro SATO, Koji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230290589
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operating knob to receive an operation for a device to be controlled, a first detection electrode portion that is attached to the operating knob and detects a first operation position on the operating knob based on capacitance, a second detection electrode portion that is attached to the operating knob at a distance from the first detection electrode portion and detects a second operation position on the operating knob based on capacitance, a control unit to control the device to be controlled in accordance with the operation position detected by the first detection electrode portion and the second detection electrode portion, and a water droplet adhesion suppressing portion to suppress water droplet adhesion between the first detection electrode portion and the second detection electrode portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichiro SATO, Koji KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori TAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11712853
    Abstract: A data output apparatus includes first circuitry configured to acquire predetermined information used for a three-dimensional fabrication; and second circuitry configured to output quality information for a three-dimensional object fabricated during the three-dimensional fabrication based on the predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kobayashi, Hanae Itabashi
  • Publication number: 20230134976
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing method capable of intuitively recognizing the three-dimensional shape of an organ by limiting the inspection range to the vicinity of the diagnostic target organ in image diagnosis. Given binary three-dimensional data representing an object in three-dimensional space, the image processing method partitions the object into individual segments with boundaries on narrow parts of the object's shape. A series of organs with no numerical differences in the boundaries on the image data can be segmented into individual organs at geometrically constricted locations because the connected organs can be identified by their shape. As a result, it is possible to examine a limited area specific to the target organ during image diagnosis, and to perform the examination while viewing the intuitive 3D shape of the organ during image interpretation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Koji Kobayashi, Koichi ITO, Takafumi AOKI
  • Patent number: 11610575
    Abstract: An acoustic lens contains a base material composed of a diorganopolysiloxane or a silicone rubber compound utilizing a diorganopolysiloxane as a main component, and plate-like inorganic compound particles dispersed in the base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kondo, Koji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11453899
    Abstract: A method produces a protein using a filamentous fungus, in which decrease in dissolved oxygen saturation during culture of the filamentous fungus can be suppressed even when the culture is scaled up. The method of producing a protein includes culturing a fungus belonging to the genus Trichoderma whose BXL1 gene was disrupted, using a biomass containing cellulose and xylan as an inducer. The use of the BXL1 gene-disrupted fungus belonging to the genus Trichoderma enables suppression of the decrease in dissolved oxygen saturation even when xylose and cellulose are used as inducers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kobayashi, Shingo Hiramatsu, Katsushige Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220301792
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation knob unit integrally including an operation knob, a detection part to detect proximity to or contact with the operation knob, a conduction part electrically connected to the detection part, a first control unit that is electrically connected to the detection part via the conduction part, determines proximity to or contact with the operation knob based on a first output signal outputted from the detection part and outputs a determination result as a second output signal, and a sub-substrate that is attached to the operation knob and includes the first control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Akito ISHIHARA, Yuichiro SATO, Koji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11351899
    Abstract: Provided is an armrest capable of preventing the outer layer of a side surface of an armrest body from being rolled up by the cover of a rotating mechanism or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220033317
    Abstract: There is provided an aluminum/ceramic bonding substrate having a ceramic substrate, an aluminum plate of an aluminum alloy which is bonded directly to one side of the ceramic substrate, an aluminum base plate of the aluminum alloy which is bonded directly to the other side of the ceramic substrate, and a plate-shaped reinforcing member which has a higher strength than that of the aluminum base plate and which is arranged in the aluminum base plate to be bonded directly to the aluminum base plate, wherein the aluminum alloy contains 0.01 to 0.2% by weight of magnesium, 0.01 to 0.1% by weight of silicon, and the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicants: DOWA METALTECH CO, LTD., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kobayashi, Takuma Tsubota, Hideyo Osanai, Daisuke Oya
  • Publication number: 20210380027
    Abstract: Provided is an armrest capable of preventing the outer layer of a side surface of an armrest body from being rolled up by the cover of a rotating mechanism or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Tachi-S Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210308950
    Abstract: A data output apparatus includes first circuitry configured to acquire predetermined information used for a three-dimensional fabrication; and second circuitry configured to output quality information for a three-dimensional object fabricated during the three-dimensional fabrication based on the predetermined information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji KOBAYASHI, Hanae ITABASHI
  • Publication number: 20210313864
    Abstract: There is provided an electric compressor capable of achieving an effective and stable noise reduction effect by making a ground pattern of a control device conductive to a housing at a short distance. An electric compressor 1 is configured so that a control board 17 and an HV filter board 18 of a control device 4 are accommodated in an accommodating section 9 configured in a housing 3, and the accommodating section 9 is closed by a cover member constituting a part of the housing 3. Ground patterns 26 to 28 configured on the control board 17 and the HV filter board 18 are made conductive to the cover member or a side wall 3A of the accommodating section 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dongyuan ZHANG, Koji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10927389
    Abstract: A method of producing a chemical product by continuous fermentation utilizes a separation membrane under conditions at a pH of not more than 3.5, wherein yeast having vanillin resistance is used to enable efficient production of a chemical product without leaving a large amount of fermentation feedstock unused, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kobayashi, Kenji Sawai, Katsushige Yamada