Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Kobayashi

Nobuhiro 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: 20240144310
    Abstract: A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11914682
    Abstract: When a hash expected value, which is an expected value of a hash value of activation software, is stored in a storing unit (111), a security calculation unit (110) compares the hash value of the activation software with the hash expected value. A main calculation unit (109) activates the activation software when the hash value and the hash expected value match, and stops a process when both do not match. The main calculation unit (109) performs signature verification for the activation software when the hash expected value is not stored in the storing unit (111), and stores in the storing unit (111) as the hash value expected value, the hash value of the activation software as well as activates the activation software when the signature verification is successful. The main calculation unit (109) stops a process when the signature verification is not successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruyoshi Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230274888
    Abstract: A film capacitor includes a stack including at least one dielectric film and a plurality of metal films, the at least one dielectric film including a polyarylate film, wherein each of the at least one of dielectric film and each of the plurality of metal films are alternately stacked in a stacking direction, each of the plurality of metal films deposited on each of the at least one dielectric film by vapor deposition, cover films on two first side surfaces, the two first side surfaces facing each other in a first direction, the first direction orthogonal to the stacking direction, the cover films containing a polyester hot-melt resin, and metal-sprayed electrodes on two second side surfaces, the two second side surfaces facing each other in a second direction, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction and orthogonal to the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki IMAGAWA, Naoki KIKUCHI, Yuki SENOO, Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11702492
    Abstract: The present invention provides a methacrylic resin composition comprising 100 parts by mass of a methacrylic resin comprising 50 to 97% by mass of a methacrylic acid ester monomer unit (A), 3 to 30% by mass of a structural unit (B) having a ring structure in the backbone, and 0 to 20% by mass of an additional vinyl monomer unit (C) copolymerizable with a methacrylic acid ester monomer, and 0.001 to 0.2 parts by mass of a compound (D) having a predetermined structure, the methacrylic resin composition satisfying the following conditions (I) and (II): (I): a weight-average molecular weight of the methacrylic resin composition as measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is 65,000 to 300,000, and (II): a mass ratio between the component (D) and the structural unit (B) having a ring structure in the backbone is 25?(B)/(D)?1000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Fumiki Murakami
  • Patent number: 11665165
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to obtain a whitelist generator with which the accuracy of data relating to the specifications of normal communication serving as an automatic generation source can be guaranteed, whereby the accuracy of a generated whitelist can be guaranteed over an entire whitelist generation flow. The whitelist generator is applied to a system formed from a plurality of devices, the plurality of devices being configured to exchange data with each other, in order to generate a whitelist used for whitelisting intrusion detection, and includes a model verification unit that verifies, on the basis of an input model, at least one of whether or not normal communication in the system has been modeled correctly and whether or not the model is logically consistent, and a model conversion unit that converts the verified model into a whitelist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Shimizu, Teruyoshi Yamaguchi, Tsunato Nakai, Takeshi Ueda, Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Benoit Boyer
  • Publication number: 20230147797
    Abstract: Provided is a method for recycling a water-absorbing resin which contains absorbed liquid, with consideration for a resource aspect and an energy aspect. The method for recycling a water-absorbing resin which contains absorbed liquid includes: discharging the absorbed liquid from the water-absorbing resin which contains the absorbed liquid; and recovering a water-absorbing power of the water-absorbing resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuki KIMURA, Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11522685
    Abstract: A key management apparatus receives a key request including a first device identification information and a second device identification information, encrypts a common key using the first device identification information to generate a first encrypted common key, encrypts the common key using the second device identification information to generate a second encrypted common key, and transmits a key response including the first encrypted common key and the second encrypted common key. A first device receives the key response, decrypts the first encrypted common key using the first device identification information to obtain the common key, and transmits the second encrypted common key. A second device receives the second encrypted common key and decrypts the second encrypted common key using the second device identification information to obtain the common key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Tanji, Makoto Itoi, Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Teruyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11089033
    Abstract: A state detection section (105) detects states of a plurality of controllers (300, 400) included in a communication system (600). An attack determination section (103) selects, from among a plurality of whitelists (110) each of which is associated with a combination of states, a whitelist (110) associated with the combination of the states of the plurality of controllers (300, 400) detected by the state detection section (105). The attack determination section (103) detects an attack on the communication system (600) by using the selected whitelist (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunato Nakai, Teruyoshi Yamaguchi, Koichi Shimizu, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210238326
    Abstract: The present invention provides a methacrylic resin composition comprising 100 parts by mass of a methacrylic resin comprising 50 to 97% by mass of a methacrylic acid ester monomer unit (A), 3 to 30% by mass of a structural unit (B) having a ring structure in the backbone, and 0 to 20% by mass of an additional vinyl monomer unit (C) copolymerizable with a methacrylic acid ester monomer, and 0.001 to 0.2 parts by mass of a compound (D) having a predetermined structure, the methacrylic resin composition satisfying the following conditions (I) and (II): (I): a weight-average molecular weight of the methacrylic resin composition as measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is 65,000 to 300,000, and (II): a mass ratio between the component (D) and the structural unit (B) having a ring structure in the backbone is 25?(B)/(D)?1000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI, Fumiki MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11070577
    Abstract: An allowed communication list conversion unit (123) assigns one or more flags to request communication and response communication, between which a correspondence relationship is described in a detection rule, and describes, in an allowed communication list, details of a flag operation specifying a value to be set to the flag and a flag condition for determining whether the value to be set is set in the flag, in association with each other. A determination unit (103) sets the value after determining that communication data on the request communication is normal, determines whether the value is set in the flag based on the flag condition when determining whether communication data on the response communication to the request communication is normal, and determines that the communication data on the response communication is normal when the value is set, to thereby reset the flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruyoshi Yamaguchi, Tsunato Nakai, Koichi Shimizu, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11057401
    Abstract: A state detection section (105) detects states of a plurality of controllers (300, 400) included in a communication system (600). An attack determination section (103) selects, from among a plurality of whitelists (110) each of which is associated with a combination of states, a whitelist (110) associated with the combination of the states of the plurality of controllers (300, 400) detected by the state detection section (105). The attack determination section (103) detects an attack on the communication system (600) by using the selected whitelist (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunato Nakai, Teruyoshi Yamaguchi, Koichi Shimizu, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210192014
    Abstract: When a hash expected value, which is an expected value of a hash value of activation software, is stored in a storing unit (111), a security calculation unit (110) compares the hash value of the activation software with the hash expected value. A main calculation unit (109) activates the activation software when the hash value and the hash expected value match, and stops a process when both do not match. The main calculation unit (109) performs signature verification for the activation software when the hash expected value is not stored in the storing unit (111), and stores in the storing unit (111) as the hash value expected value, the hash value of the activation software as well as activates the activation software when the signature verification is successful. The main calculation unit (109) stops a process when the signature verification is not successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Teruyoshi YAMAGUCHI, Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210111874
    Abstract: A key management apparatus receives a key request including a first device identification information and a second device identification information, encrypts a common key using the first device identification information to generate a first encrypted common key, encrypts the common key using the second device identification information to generate a second encrypted common key, and transmits a key response including the first encrypted common key and the second encrypted common key. A first device receives the key response, decrypts the first encrypted common key using the first device identification information to obtain the common key, and transmits the second encrypted common key. A second device receives the second encrypted common key and decrypts the second encrypted common key using the second device identification information to obtain the common key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi TANJI, Makoto ITOI, Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI, Teruyoshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210112062
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to obtain a whitelist generator with which the accuracy of data relating to the specifications of normal communication serving as an automatic generation source can be guaranteed, whereby the accuracy of a generated whitelist can be guaranteed over an entire whitelist generation flow. The whitelist generator is applied to a system formed from a plurality of devices, the plurality of devices being configured to exchange data with each other, in order to generate a whitelist used for whitelisting intrusion detection, and includes a model verification unit that verifies, on the basis of an input model, at least one of whether or not normal communication in the system has been modeled correctly and whether or not the model is logically consistent, and a model conversion unit that converts the verified model into a whitelist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi SHIMIZU, Teruyoshi YAMAGUCHI, Tsunato NAKAI, Takeshi UEDA, Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI, Benoit BOYER
  • Publication number: 20210006570
    Abstract: A state detection section (105) detects states of a plurality of controllers (300, 400) included in a communication system (600). An attack determination section (103) selects, from among a plurality of whitelists (110) each of which is associated with a combination of states, a whitelist (110) associated with the combination of the states of the plurality of controllers (300, 400) detected by the state detection section (105). The attack determination section (103) detects an attack on the communication system (600) by using the selected whitelist (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunato NAKAI, Teruyoshi YAMAGUCHI, Koichi SHIMIZU, Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10841087
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a security device which performs processes such as authentication or cryptography, for example a security device for securely holding a key used in a cryptographic process, and a security method therefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Fukuda, Takeshi Yoneda, Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Daisuke Suzuki, Manabu Misawa, Koichi Shimizu, Takeshi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10826915
    Abstract: In the present invention, unauthorized access from outside a facility to a device disposed inside the facility is detected by effectively using the output from a mirror port of a network switch. A gateway device has: a monitored data acquisition unit for saving in a monitored data storage unit, as monitored data, packet data that is outputted from a mirror port of a switch, the packet data being outputted from a device being monitored; an unauthorized access detection unit for detecting unauthorized access by determining whether the monitored data is abnormal on the basis of a comparison between the monitored data and assessment rules; and an unauthorized access notification unit for notifying a server of a monitoring center, which is connected to an external network via an external communication unit, that unauthorized access has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Kawasaki, Hiroyasu Tabata, Teruyoshi Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200314130
    Abstract: In an attack detection device, a white list storage unit correlates and stores, for each system state, a white list defining system information permitted in the system state. A state estimation unit estimates a current system state of a control system on the basis of communication data communicated between a server device and equipment. An attack determination unit acquires the white list corresponding to the current system state from the white list storage unit, and determines whether or not an attack has been detected, on the basis of the acquired white list and the system information in the current system state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsunato NAKAI, Teruyoshi YAMAGUCHI, Koichi SHIMIZU, Nobuhiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10628140
    Abstract: A block-diagram acquisition unit acquires a block diagram that defines by connection among a plurality of blocks, a data processing procedure to be reflected in a program code. An inconsistency inspection unit inspects whether there is an inconsistency in the data processing procedure defined in the block diagram by tracing the connection among blocks in the block diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ueda, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10597524
    Abstract: Provided are a methacrylic resin composition and a film containing a methacrylic resin that includes: 50 mass % to 97 mass % of a methacrylic acid ester monomer unit (A); 3 mass % to 30 mass % of a structural unit (B) having a cyclic structure-containing main chain; and 0 mass % to 20 mass % of another vinyl monomer unit (C) that is copolymerizable with a methacrylic acid ester monomer. The methacrylic resin satisfies the following conditions (1) and (2): (1) the methacrylic resin has a weight average molecular weight of 65,000 to 300,000 as measured by GPC; and (2) the total content of specific components is 0.01 mass % to 0.40 mass % as determined by GC/MS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki Murakami, Yutaka Tada, Yumika Kurihara, Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Masami Yonemura