Patents by Inventor Masahide Kobayashi

Masahide 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: 11976020
    Abstract: A method for producing a (meth)acrylic acid amide compound, the method including: adding at least one selected from the group consisting of an amino group-containing compound and a neutralization salt of the amino group-containing compound to a mixture including (meth)acrylic acid halide and an organic solvent immiscible with water to allow the (meth)acrylic acid halide and at least one selected from the group consisting of the amino group-containing compound and the neutralization salt of the amino group-containing compound to react with each other, to produce the (meth)acrylic acid amide compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Morita, Masahide Kobayashi, Takenori Suenaga, Soh Noguchi, Takashi Okada
  • Publication number: 20240141098
    Abstract: A polylactic acid resin composition contains a polyactic acid resin satisfying: (1) the polylactic acid resin has a melt viscosity of 2,000 to 40,000 Pa·s at 190 degrees C.; and (2) the polylactic acid resin has a region of a weight average molecular weight Mw of 1,000 or less of 10 or less percent and a region of a weight average molecular weight Mw of 500,000 or more of 20 or more percent in a region of a weight average molecular weight Mw of 100 or more of a molecular weight distribution as measured by gel permeation chromatography, wherein the polylactic acid resin accounts for 90 or more percent of the polylactic acid resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Taichi Nemoto, Atsushi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230357457
    Abstract: A hydrogenated petroleum resin that is a hydrogenation product of a C9 petroleum resin, in which a ratio (M2/M1) of a total number (M2) of hydrogen atoms bound to an aromatic ring in the hydrogenated petroleum resin to a total number (M1) of hydrogen atoms in the hydrogenated petroleum resin is 0.15 to 0.45.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS Corporation
    Inventors: Naho UEDA, Naoko URUSHIZAKO, Masahide KOBAYASHI, Shotaro UCHIZAWA, Hideaki WAKABAYASHI, Yoichi AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230296207
    Abstract: A gas container includes a tubular container main body formed by a plurality of pieces which include a first dome piece and a second dome piece and are disposed separately in an axial direction, the tubular container main body having an internal space configured to store a gas, a first mouthpiece attached to the first dome piece, a second mouthpiece attached to the second dome piece, a storage member configured to store and release a gas, and a tubular accommodation member disposed in the internal space and having an accommodation space accommodating the storage member. A method for assembling a gas container includes a first step of assembling and fixing the accommodation member to the first mouthpiece attached to the first dome piece, and temporarily assembling the accommodation member to the second mouthpiece attached to the second dome piece, and a second step of connecting the pieces to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takuhiro KUMAGAI, Masahide KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230296208
    Abstract: A gas container includes: a tubular container body having an internal space for storing gas; a connector attached to an end portion of the container body in a shaft direction and having a communication passage for allowing the internal space to communicate with an outside of the container body; and a storage member disposed in the internal space to absorb and release gas. The storage member has one of a recess portion and a projection portion which are provided on a radial outer surface thereof and engage with each other. The container body has the other of the recess portion and the projection portion which are provided on a radial inner surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takuhiro KUMAGAI, Kentaro ENOMOTO, Masahide KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11734928
    Abstract: Provided is an information providing method in which a terminal apparatus including an imaging unit and a display unit displays, on the display unit, an image of a vehicle interior captured by the imaging unit. A plurality of devices are installed in the vehicle interior and classified into a plurality of types. The information providing method includes an image acquisition step of acquiring the image of the vehicle interior captured by the imaging unit, and a display step of displaying the image on the display unit, and in a case where at least one of the plurality of devices is included in the image, displaying a graphic corresponding to the device in a superimposed manner on the device and also displaying information indicating a type to which the device belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Daisuke Yamaoka, Yoshiaki Nedachi
  • Patent number: 11694377
    Abstract: An editing device acquires a first image in which an occupant of a vehicle has been imaged in association with a time point in a time series and a second image in which scenery around the vehicle has been imaged in association with a time point in a time series, acquires first index information indicating feelings of the occupant when the first image has been captured on the basis of the first image, and extracts the first image and the second image from first images of the time series and second images of the time series on the basis of the first index information and the time point associated with the first image based on the first index information to generate a library including the extracted images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Aoki, Hisashi Murayama, Koichi Kono, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230135413
    Abstract: Provided is a curable water-based composition including water, a polymerizable compound (A), and a polymerization initiator (C). The polymerizable compound (A) contains an acrylamide compound (A1) represented by General formula (A1) below. In the General formula (A1), X represents an alkylene group containing from 1 through 6 carbon atoms, and Y represents a group represented by General formula (A1a) below or General formula (A1b) below, In the General formula (A1a), R1 represents an alkyl group containing from 1 through 10 carbon atoms, and * represents a bonding site with X, In the General formula (A1b), R1 represents an alkyl group containing from 1 through 10 carbon atoms, and * represents a bonding site with X.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahide KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230126192
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a petroleum resin using a tube-type reactor, the method producing a petroleum resin that exhibits good properties as an adhesive component for a hot-melt adhesive which has a narrow molecular weight distribution and a high softening point, and which exhibits good adhesive capability and also has little insoluble matter. A method of producing a petroleum resin by using a raw material containing at least a cyclopentadiene-based component (A) and a styrene-indene-based aromatic component (B) so as to carry out a thermal polymerization reaction of the raw material, the method comprising: a first polymerization reaction step of thermally polymerizing the raw material using a loop reactor; and a second polymerization reaction step of thermally polymerizing a polymerization reaction product obtained in the first polymerization reaction step using a plug flow reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS Corporation
    Inventors: Masahide KOBAYASHI, Masao OZAWA, Toshinori KUGA
  • Publication number: 20230077371
    Abstract: A curable composition contains a polymerizable compound (A), a hydrogen abstracting polymerization initiator (B) represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, a photodegradable polymerization initiator (C), and a hydrogen donor (D), wherein the proportion of the hydrogen abstracting polymerization initiator (B) to the entire of the curable composition is from 0.1 to 10 percent by mass and the proportion of the hydrogen donor (D) to the entire of the hydrogen abstracting polymerization initiator (B) is from 30 to 100 percent by mass, where A represents a phenylene group, a naphthylene group, or a biphenylene group, R1 and R2 each, independently represent linear or branched alkyl groups having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R3 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or a linear or branched alkoxy group having 2 to 9 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahide KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230018944
    Abstract: An active energy ray curing composition can be applied to cured matter of a first active energy ray curing composition. The active energy ray curing composition contains a second active energy ray curing composition containing a monofunctional monomer, a polyfunctional monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator. The proportion of the polyfunctional monomer to the second active energy ray composition is 60 percent by mass or more. The proportion of the polyfunctional monomer modified with the same number of an oxyalkylene group as the number of functional groups of the polyfunctional monomer is 90 percent by mass of the polyfunctional monomer, and the proportion of a tri- or higher polyfunctional monomer is 50 percent by mass or more to the modified polyfunctional monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Soh NOGUCHI, Takashi Okada, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11529302
    Abstract: Provided is a composition including: an acrylamide compound represented by general formula (1) below; urethane (meth)acrylate having a SI value of 3 or less in a skin sensitization test; and a polymerization initiator having a molecular weight of 800 or greater, where in general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group containing 1 through 6 carbon atoms, X represents an alkylene group containing 1 through 6 carbon atoms, and Y represents any one selected from the group consisting of general formula (2) below and general formula (3) below, where in general formula (2), R2 represents an alkyl group containing 1 through 10 carbon atoms, and * represents a binding site with X above, where in general formula (3), R2 represents an alkyl group containing 1 through 10 carbon atoms, and * represents a binding site with X above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takenori Suenaga, Masahide Kobayashi, Mitsunobu Morita, Takashi Okada, Soh Noguchi, Tatsuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11479622
    Abstract: An active energy ray curable composition contains an acrylamide compound A1 represented by the following Chemical formula 1 or the following Chemical formula 2; a multi-functional polymerizable compound B1 having an SI value of 3 or less in a skin sensitivity test; a polymerization initiator C1 having no maximum absorption peak in a wavelength range of from 365 to 405 nm; and a hydrogen donor D,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Mitsunobu Morita, Takashi Okada, Takenori Suenaga, Soh Noguchi, Tatsuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220259338
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a first discharging device configured to discharge a first active energy curing composition (1) containing a first (meth)acrylic amide compound (A) having a (meth)acrylic group and a first polymerization initiator (C) to a medium, a first exposing device configured to expose the first active energy curing composition (1) applied to the medium to first active energy, and a second discharging device configured to discharge an ink (2) containing a coloring material, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water to the first active energy curing composition (1) exposed to the first active energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahide KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220129676
    Abstract: Provided is an information providing method in which a terminal apparatus including an imaging unit and a display unit displays, on the display unit, an image of a vehicle interior captured by the imaging unit. A plurality of devices are installed in the vehicle interior and classified into a plurality of types. The information providing method includes an image acquisition step of acquiring the image of the vehicle interior captured by the imaging unit, and a display step of displaying the image on the display unit, and in a case where at least one of the plurality of devices is included in the image, displaying a graphic corresponding to the device in a superimposed manner on the device and also displaying information indicating a type to which the device belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Masahide KOBAYASHI (deceased), Daisuke YAMAOKA, Yoshiaki NEDACHI
  • Publication number: 20220044460
    Abstract: An editing device acquires a first image in which an occupant of a vehicle has been imaged in association with a time point in a time series and a second image in which scenery around the vehicle has been imaged in association with a time point in a time series, acquires first index information indicating feelings of the occupant when the first image has been captured on the basis of the first image, and extracts the first image and the second image from first images of the time series and second images of the time series on the basis of the first index information and the time point associated with the first image based on the first index information to generate a library including the extracted images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Aoki, Hisashi Murayama, Koichi Kono, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220044337
    Abstract: A management device that is configured to manage a robot device, the management device comprising: a memory configured to store instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: acquire identification information for identifying the user and time information on a time at which a vehicle having a user therein is scheduled to arrive at an arrival point, wherein the arrival point is point at which the vehicle is scheduled to arrive and the user is scheduled to exit; and provide the robot device with instruction information including the identification information for causing the robot device to guide the user from the arrival point to a destination of the user on the basis of the acquired time information and the acquired identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Naokatsu Sato, Yoshitaka Mimura, Koji Kawabe, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11208516
    Abstract: Provided is a composition including an acrylamide compound having a molecular weight of 150 or greater but 250 or less (A1), and a monomer having a cyclic structure represented by General Formula (3) below, or General Formula (4) below, or both (A2), where, in General Formulae (3) and (4), L is a single bond or a straight chain or branched alkylene group that has from 1 through 10 carbon atoms and may include an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, or a sulfur atom; A is a cyclic structure that has from 2 through 10 carbon atoms and may include an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, or a sulfur atom; R6 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and R7 and R8 are each a straight chain or branched alkyl group having from 1 through 10 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Mitsunobu Morita, Takenori Suenaga, Soh Noguchi, Takashi Okada, Tatsuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210355075
    Abstract: A method for producing a (meth)acrylic acid amide compound, the method including: adding at least one selected from the group consisting of an amino group-containing compound and a neutralization salt of the amino group-containing compound to a mixture including (meth)acrylic acid halide and an organic solvent immiscible with water to allow the (meth)acrylic acid halide and at least one selected from the group consisting of the amino group-containing compound and the neutralization salt of the amino group-containing compound to react with each other, to produce the (meth)acrylic acid amide compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu MORITA, Masahide Kobayashi, Takenori Suenaga, Soh Noguchi, Takashi Okada
  • Publication number: 20210309771
    Abstract: Provided is a composition including: an acrylamide compound (A1) having a molecular weight of 150 or greater but 250 or less; and a multifunctional polymerizable compound (A2), wherein a content of the multifunctional polymerizable compound (A2) is 15% by mass or greater but 35% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Tatsuki YAMAGUCHI, Masahide KOBAYASHI, Mitsunobu MORITA, Takashi OKADA, Soh NOGUCHI, Takenori SUENAGA