Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Kobayashi

Nobuaki 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: 11919031
    Abstract: A coating device includes a head, a wiping mechanism, an arm, and a controller. The head includes a nozzle surface for discharging a coating material. The wiping mechanism wipes the nozzle surface. The arm holds the head. The controller controls movement of the head via the arm. The controller relatively moves the head with respect to the wiping mechanism to wipe the nozzle surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kobayashi, Daisuke Hozumi, Ryota Nagaike, Nobuaki Yamakuchi
  • Publication number: 20230146854
    Abstract: A device attachment structure includes a vehicle member having first and second threads, a device member including first and second through holes, first and second bushings respectively including first and second outer sleeves and first and second inner sleeves, and first and second fasteners. The device member includes a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface. The first through hole has a large-diameter space that opens in the first surface and to which the first outer sleeve is fitted and a small-diameter space that opens in the second surface and through which the first inner sleeve passes. The second through hole has a large-diameter space that opens in the second surface and to which the second outer sleeve is fitted and a small-diameter space that opens in the first surface and through which the second inner sleeve passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Nobuaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11613173
    Abstract: A cooling structure for a vehicle. The vehicle includes a motor. The cooling structure includes a gear case, an inverter, and a cooling flow path. The gear case has an outer face and an inner face, and contains a gear mechanism and an oil. The inverter is provided on the outer face of the gear case, and configured to be electrically coupled to the motor. The cooling flow path is provided between the inner face of the gear case and the inverter, and configured to allow a refrigerant to flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220275858
    Abstract: A vehicle cooling structure to be applied to a vehicle includes a gear case, an inverter, a step-down converter, and a cooling passage. The gear case is to house a gear mechanism and oil of the vehicle. The inverter is disposed on an outer surface of the gear case and to be electrically coupled to a motor of the vehicle. The step-down converter is disposed on the outer surface of the gear case and electrically coupled to the inverter. The cooling passage is formed between an inner surface of the gear case and the inverter, and between the inner surface and the step-down converter. The cooling passage is configured such that coolant flows therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventor: Nobuaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220089014
    Abstract: A cooling structure for a vehicle. The vehicle includes a motor. The cooling structure includes a gear case, an inverter, and a cooling flow path. The gear case has an outer face and an inner face, and contains a gear mechanism and an oil. The inverter is provided on the outer face of the gear case, and configured to be electrically coupled to the motor. The cooling flow path is provided between the inner face of the gear case and the inverter, and configured to allow a refrigerant to flow therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11220985
    Abstract: There is provided a hollow composite magnetic member obtained by partially reforming a hollow member which is formed of a ferromagnetic material containing Cr of 15 mass % or more and 18 mass % or less, in which the reformed portion includes an alloy containing Cr of 8 mass % or more and 18 mass % and Ni of 6.5 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less. Accordingly, a hollow composite magnetic member having a small width of the nonmagnetic portion and a fuel injection valve having the same can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Okamoto, Xudong Zhang, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Takahiro Saito, Akihiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10927803
    Abstract: In the present invention, two side-section side surfaces and each horizontal passage run along a fuel flow direction and have a linear section, and an end-section side surface formed between the two side-section side surfaces and forming an upstream-side end portion has a curved section connected to the side-section side surfaces and. When a fuel inlet and the horizontal passages are projected onto a plane perpendicular to a valve axial center, a projected line of the linear section of each of the horizontal passages extends to a place intersecting a projected line of the opening edge of the fuel inlet, and the upstream-side end portion of each of the horizontal passages extends toward the inside of the opening edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Saito, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Akihiro Yamazaki, Eiji Tamura
  • Patent number: 10907601
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat, a valve element, and a plurality of swirl fuel injection passages. The plurality of swirl fuel injection passages are divided into a first swirl fuel injection passage group that forms a first spray and a second swirl fuel injection passage group that forms a second spray that is oriented in a direction different from a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsuzawa, Kazuki Yoshimura, Eiji Ishii, Akihiro Yamazaki, Takahiro Saito, Nobuaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10883465
    Abstract: A solenoid pipe is formed of a ferromagnetic material containing 15-18 mass % of Cr, an electromagnetic coil, and a valve body. The pipe includes a reform portion, having a composition in which a component of the ferromagnetic material is mixed with a component of a Ni-containing material. A ratio, e/d, of a maximum deformation, e, of an outer circumferential surface side of the reform portion of the pipe with respect to a thickness, d, of the pipe near the reform portion is 0.5 or less, and a ratio, c/d, of a maximum deformation, c, of an inner circumferential surface side of the reform portion of the pipe with respect to the thickness, d, of the pipe is 0.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Okamoto, Xudong Zhang, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Takahiro Saito, Akihiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10883461
    Abstract: Electromagnetic solenoid has movable core having end surface that is formed between inner circumferential surface and outer circumferential surface of movable core; and fixed core having end surface that is formed between inner circumferential surface and outer circumferential surface of fixed core and faces the end surface of movable core. Ring-shaped protruding portion is formed at least either one of the end surface of the movable core or the end surface of the fixed core. Protruding portion is provided at a position that is shifted to a radially inner circumferential side of the end surface. A length between apex and inner circumferential edge of protruding portion is shorter than a length between the apex and an outer circumferential edge of protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamazaki, Takahiro Saito, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Akiyasu Miyamoto, Yoshihito Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 10876508
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection valve which can be easily processed and can realize sufficient atomization while suppressing spreading of spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsuzawa, Kazuki Yoshimura, Eiji Ishii, Akihiro Yamazaki, Takahiro Saito, Nobuaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200369869
    Abstract: An eraser includes: a base material including a plasticizer and at least one of a resin component or an elastomer component; and a porous foam made of a resin and impregnated with the resin base material, and the plasticizer has an SP value of 8.3 or more and 10 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SAKURA COLOR PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji TSUJIO, Hiroyoshi YAMAMOTO, Nobuaki KOBAYASHI, Takayuki KITAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10794348
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes: a valve seat member to which the valve seat is formed; a welding portion between the valve seat member and the cylindrical member, which is provided on the base end side of the stepped surface, the valve seat member being assembled to be press-fit in the cylindrical member so that a tip end side abutment pressure between an inner circumference surface of the cylindrical member, and a tip end side outer circumference surface portion of the valve seat member which is on the tip end side of the stepped surface is smaller than a base end side abutment pressure between the inner circumference surface of the cylindrical member, and a base end side outer circumference surface portion of the valve seat member which is on the base end side of the stepped surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Saito, Ryuta Kinoshita, Nobuaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10724485
    Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method of a hollow composite magnetic member having weakened magnetism in a portion of a ferromagnetic hollow member, the method includes: a step of forming a weak-magnetic area having weakened magnetism by melting and mixing a Ni-containing material and the hollow member by continuously supplying the Ni-containing material to a portion of the hollow member and heating the irradiation area having a line segment shape with the laser beam. Accordingly, since it is possible to prevent drop of a local portion of a hollow ferromagnetic pipe from being easily generated by a weak-magnetization treatment, to greatly reduce deformation generated by laser irradiation, and it becomes unnecessary to adjust the shielding gas pressure inside the pipe, the weak-magnetization treatment can be performed with higher efficiency and higher quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Xudong Zhang, Shinya Okamoto, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Takahiro Saito, Akihiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10704516
    Abstract: The present invention includes a valve seat and a valve body that cooperatively open/close a fuel passage, a movable element having the valve body provided at one end part thereof and a movable iron core 27a provided at the other end part thereof, a fixed iron core 25 which faces the movable iron core 27a and which attracts the movable iron core 27a by applying a magnetic attraction force thereto, and a cylindrical member that includes thereinside the fixed iron core 25 and the movable iron core 27a. The fixed iron core 25 includes a reduced-diameter part 25m on an outer circumferential surface at the side facing the movable iron core 27a, and the movable iron core 27a includes a reduced-diameter part 27am on an outer circumferential surface at the side facing the fixed iron core 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamazaki, Takahiro Saito, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Akiyasu Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20200182212
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection valve which can be easily processed and can realize sufficient atomization while suppressing spreading of spray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MATSUZAWA, Kazuki YOSHIMURA, Eiji ISHII, Akihiro YAMAZAKI, Takahiro SAITO, Nobuaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10662914
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel injection valve comprising: a fuel injection orifice provided in a downstream side of a valve seat which a valve body moves toward and away from; a swirl chamber having a swirl passage formed around the entry opening of the fuel injection orifice; and a transverse passage whose end is opened in an inner circumferential wall of the swirl chamber in order to provide a fuel into the swirl chamber, wherein a center of the entry opening is shifted from a first position where the velocity component in the swirl direction of the fuel can be maximized to a second position where the velocity component in the swirl direction is reduced, and where a velocity component in a center axis direction of the fuel injection orifice is enhanced. Thereby, it is possible to easily adjust a fuel injection amount and a spray angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Nagaoka, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Ryuta Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10634105
    Abstract: One passage for swirling is formed in an orifice plate fixed on a nozzle body. Two swirl chambers in which fuel is caused to swirl so that the fuel has swirling force are provided at an end of the one passage for swirling on the downstream side of the flow direction of fuel. Therefore, the collision between the swirling flow in the swirl chamber and the fuel flowing in the passage for swirling is mitigated, and the swirling flow can be smoothly produced to promote pulverization of sprays injected from fuel injection ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Yoshihito Yasukawa, Noriyuki Maekawa, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Takahiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20190376478
    Abstract: This fuel injection valve is provided with a needle having a valve body (27c) and a rod part (27b) of which one end is bonded by welding to the valve body (27c). A contact portion (81) between the rod part (27b) and the valve body (27c) is disposed nearer to a valve shaft center (27x) than is a weld-penetration portion (80) created by the weld-bonding of the rod part (27b) and the valve body (27c), and a non-welded portion (82) is provided between the contact portion (81) and the weld-penetration portion (80).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAZAKI, Takahiro SAITO, Nobuaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190257277
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes: a valve seat member to which the valve seat is formed; a welding portion between the valve seat member and the cylindrical member, which is provided on the base end side of the stepped surface, the valve seat member being assembled to be press-fit in the cylindrical member so that a tip end side abutment pressure between an inner circumference surface of the cylindrical member, and a tip end side outer circumference surface portion of the valve seat member which is on the tip end side of the stepped surface is smaller than a base end side abutment pressure between the inner circumference surface of the cylindrical member, and a base end side outer circumference surface portion of the valve seat member which is on the base end side of the stepped surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro SAITO, Ryuta KINOSHITA, Nobuaki KOBAYASHI