Patents by Inventor Minoru Kobayashi

Minoru 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: 10306813
    Abstract: An apparatus with a motor drive device is provided with a support plate including an opening part for supporting the motor drive device. The support plate includes a first edge part around the opening part and a second edge part on the opposite side of the first edge part. The motor drive device includes a first recessed part formed on one end part in a predetermined direction, and a second recessed part formed on the other end part on the opposite side of the one end part. The first edge part is inserted into the first recessed part, and the second edge part is inserted to the second recessed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Tsutomu Shikagawa, Kiichi Inaba
  • Publication number: 20190070827
    Abstract: To allow a fiber reinforced laminate to have sufficient light shielding ability and to improve adherence at the interface in the laminate and durability needed for it used for a shutter blade. A fiber reinforced laminate of the present invention includes: a substrate; a black coating; and a fiber reinforced plastic layer, characterized in that the black coating is provided between the substrate and the fiber reinforced plastic layer and contains a binder resin, black particles and a filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: MUNETOSHI YOSHIKAWA, MIZUHO IGAWA, FUMIO SHIMADA, MINORU KOBAYASHI, KEITA HANAWA, JUNICHI ONOSAKA, NAOAKI MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190062473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polar group-containing olefin copolymer (A?) which is produced through polymerization using a transition metal catalyst, which has a weight-average molecular weight falling within a specific range and which contains a polar group-containing monomer within a specific range; a multinary polar olefin copolymer (A?) indispensably containing a polar monomer component that has a norbornene skeleton and a carboxyl group or an acid anhydride group and having three or more types of monomer units; and a resin composition (C) containing a specific amount of a polar group-containing olefin copolymer (A) and a specific amount of an olefin resin (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicants: JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION, JAPAN POLYPROPYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Abe, Minoru Kobayashi, Hideshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tetsuya Morioka, Naoshi Iwama
  • Publication number: 20190028100
    Abstract: Provided are a control switch mechanism, a trigger switch, and an electric tool, having vibration resistance and durability and capable of preventing malfunction. The control switch mechanism (20) includes an optical sensor (21) having a light emitting element (21a) and a light receiving element (21b), and a reflector (22) that increases or decreases an amount of light received by the light receiving element (21b). An increase and a decrease in output of an operation device are controlled along with an increase and decrease in amount of light received by the light receiving element (21b) due to relative movement between the optical sensor (21) and the reflector (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru KOBAYASHI, Yusaku YAMASAKI, Koji OMORI, Jeongho BAlK
  • Patent number: 9927297
    Abstract: An optical microscope capable of performing measurement with a high resolution and a spectrometry method are provided. A spectrometry device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a Y-scanning unit that scans a spot position of the light beam on the sample, a beam splitter that separates, among the light beam incident on the sample, outgoing light, the outgoing light being emitted with a different wavelength, a spectroscope that spatially disperses the outgoing light separated by the beam splitter according to the wavelength, a detector that detects the outgoing light dispersed by the spectroscope, and a pinhole array 30 disposed on an incoming side of the spectroscope, a plurality of pinholes being arranged in the pinhole array, the plurality of pinholes being adapted to allow outgoing light to pass therethrough to the spectroscope side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: NANOPHOTON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawata, Minoru Kobayashi, Taisuke Ota
  • Patent number: 9916944
    Abstract: A pair of open/close and current-passing movable contact pieces is supported on a movable contact terminal such that the pair is rotatable along with the reciprocation of an operating element. An open/close movable contact is mounted on the open/close movable contact piece and is rotatably biased by a spring member. A current-passing movable contact is mounted on the current-passing movable contact piece. By moving the operating element, a restriction imposed on a position of the operating element is released so that the open/close movable contact piece is rotated by a spring force of the spring member whereby the open/close movable contact is brought into pressure contact with an open/close fixed contact mounted on a fixed contact terminal. The current-passing movable contact piece is rotated by the operating element so that the current-passing movable contact is brought into pressure contact with a current-passing fixed contact mounted on the fixed contact terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Koyama, Minoru Kobayashi, Akihiro Hozumi
  • Patent number: 9890231
    Abstract: To provide an industrially useful ?-olefin•((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymer having both a high molecular weight and a high comonomer content, a catalyst component capable of realizing a production of two different kinds of ?-olefin•((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymers, and a production process using the catalyst. An ?-olefin•((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymer is produced by using a metal complex complexed with a ligand represented by the following formula (Y is phosphorus or arsenic) for a catalyst composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: Japan Polyethylene Corporation, Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Hideshi Uchino, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Toshiaki Egashira, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tetsuya Morioka
  • Publication number: 20170371037
    Abstract: In order to acquire echo sound information about a long-distance target, an active sonar comprises a fan beam transmitter, a fan beam receiver, a propagation path calculator, a path time calculator, and a horizontal distance calculator. The active sonar transmits a plurality of transmitted fan beams horizontally wide and vertically narrow, and the elevation angles of them are mutually deferent, and receives received fan beams vertically wide and horizontally narrow. The propagation path calculator calculates a propagation path of each of the transmitted fan beams based on the profile of medium and the elevation angle of the transmission. The path time calculator calculates a path time which is the time period from the transmission to the reception. The horizontal distance calculator calculates a horizontal distance from the active sonar to a generation source point of each echo sounds based on the propagation path and the path time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9815461
    Abstract: After determination of from which side, right or left, a second vehicle is approaching, a position of a collision point is determined, a position of a stop point is set from the determined collision point, and a warning is given at a position and timing of a warning point which is set to allow a first vehicle to stop before the set stop point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Takeshi Chiba, Masashi Manita, Yuki Sakai, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170313792
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a copolymer of ethylene and a polar group-containing olefin using as a catalyst a metal complex of group 10 elements having a structure represented by formula (C4) and (C5) (in the formula, “Men” represents a menthyl group and “Me” represents a methyl group). The method of the present invention makes it possible to produce a polar group-containing olefin polymer available for various applications, as being a high molecular weight body, which has been difficult to produce, and to produce the polymer in a molecular weight range such that the polymer has good moldability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, SHOWA DENKO K.K., JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko NOZAKI, Shingo ITO, Yusuke OTA, Yoshikuni OKUMURA, Junichi KURODA, Masafumi KOYANO, Minoru KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 9776500
    Abstract: A side covering body for a motorcycle includes an under-the-seat covering for covering a vertical gap between a seat and a vehicle body frame from an outer side and a rear covering disposed rearwardly of the under-the-seat covering. The under-the-seat covering has a front portion formed with a shroud portion that covers an outer side of a radiator and guides the incoming wind towards the radiator. The under-the-seat covering and the rear covering are connected together via a joint portion, while having respective outer side surfaces held substantially in flush with each other. The joint portion has an upper end positioned rearwardly of an intermediate portion of the seat with respect to a forward and rearward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Inagaki, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9627783
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure has a housing, a base housed in the housing, and a terminal unit having a pair of tab terminals disposed on the base, a pair of terminal portions disposed in the tab terminals in parallel, each of which is exposed from the housing and configured to be connected to an external terminal, and a terminal plate sandwiched between the pair of tab terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Koyama, Minoru Kobayashi, Akihiro Hozumi
  • Patent number: 9612373
    Abstract: A light blocking member (18) for application, to a microscope is provided. Although it is producible at a sufficiently low cost, it can sufficiently block ambient light, and does not require a special operation when a sample (16) is placed on a stage (2) or the sample is taken out from above the stage. The light blocking member (18) is formed from a soft polymer, has an inner peripheral surface which is cylindrical in at least an upper part thereof, and is held on an objective lens assembly by fitting the upper part onto the outer peripheral surface of the objective lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: NANOPHOTON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawata, Minoru Kobayashi, Naoyoshi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20170093055
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure has a housing, a base housed in the housing, and a terminal unit having a pair of tab terminals disposed on the base, a pair of terminal portions disposed in the tab terminals in parallel, each of which is exposed from the housing and configured to be connected to an external terminal, and a terminal plate sandwiched between the pair of tab terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Koyama, Minoru Kobayashi, Akihiro Hozumi
  • Patent number: D784873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Akira Takasu
  • Patent number: D792287
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D809433
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D832161
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D832166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Akira Takasu
  • Patent number: D843918
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Norikazu Matsumura