Patents by Inventor Nobutaka Kobayashi

Nobutaka 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: 11108214
    Abstract: A wavelength combining laser apparatus includes: a semiconductor laser emitting laser beams in an optical-axial direction perpendicular to a laser beam combining direction; a wavelength combining element combining the laser beams in the laser beam combining direction into a single laser beam; a cross-coupling reduction optical system having positive power in the laser beam combining direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the single laser beam output from the wavelength combining element; and a partially-reflective mirror reflecting the single laser beam having passed through the cross-coupling reduction optical system and also allowing the single laser beam to transmit through and exit the partially-reflective mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kobayashi, Tomotaka Katsura, Daiji Morita, Junichi Nishimae, Tomohiro Kyoto
  • Patent number: 10571708
    Abstract: A beam shaping device includes an SAC and an FAC. The SAC is placed between an LD bar and the FAC. A first incident surface and a first exit surface are formed in the SAC. The first incident surface includes a plurality of incident-side lens surfaces aligned in a slow axis direction X. The incident-side lens surfaces each have, in section orthogonal to a fast axis direction Y, a shape convexed toward the outside of the SAC and, in section orthogonal to the slow axis direction X, a shape concaved toward the inside of the SAC. The shape of the first incident surface and the shape of the first exit surface in section orthogonal to the slow axis direction X are concentric arcs having a point on an emission end surface of a light emitting layer as the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kobayashi, Chisako Oda, Daiji Morita, Junichi Nishimae
  • Publication number: 20200028332
    Abstract: A wavelength combining laser apparatus includes: a semiconductor laser emitting laser beams in an optical-axial direction perpendicular to a laser beam combining direction; a wavelength combining element combining the laser beams in the laser beam combining direction into a single laser beam; a cross-coupling reduction optical system having positive power in the laser beam combining direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the single laser beam output from the wavelength combining element; and a partially-reflective mirror reflecting the single laser beam having passed through the cross-coupling reduction optical system and also allowing the single laser beam to transmit through and exit the partially-reflective mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka KOBAYASHI, Tomotaka KATSURA, Daiji MORITA, Junichi NISHIMAE, Tomohiro KYOTO
  • Publication number: 20190265495
    Abstract: A beam shaping device includes an SAC and an FAC. The SAC is placed between an LD bar and the FAC. A first incident surface and a first exit surface are formed in the SAC. The first incident surface includes a plurality of incident-side lens surfaces aligned in a slow axis direction X. The incident-side lens surfaces each have, in section orthogonal to a fast axis direction Y, a shape convexed toward the outside of the SAC and, in section orthogonal to the slow axis direction X, a shape concaved toward the inside of the SAC. The shape of the first incident surface and the shape of the first exit surface in section orthogonal to the slow axis direction X are concentric arcs having a point on an emission end surface of a light emitting layer as the center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kobayashi, Chisako Oda, Daiji Morita, Junichi Nishimae
  • Publication number: 20190129074
    Abstract: An optical lens, which is to be used for forming a ring-shaped laser beam, includes: an incident surface; and an exit surface configured to face the incident surface, in which: the incident surface and the exit surface include a common optical axis, and are each perpendicular to the optical axis; the incident surface has a concave conical shape; and the exit surface has a convex shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chisako Oda, Nobutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10001261
    Abstract: A light source apparatus according to the present invention includes a phosphor wheel having a phosphor disposed in an annular shape on a disk-shaped base material, the phosphor serving to emit fluorescent light from excitation light, thereby forming an excitation light source having a predetermined color, and the phosphor having a discontinuous portion in a part of the annular shape, an excitation light source for emitting the excitation light with which a passage position of the circular phosphor is irradiated with respect to the phosphor wheel to be rotatively driven by the wheel motor, and a controller that controls light emission of the light source and the excitation light source synchronously with a position of the discontinuous portion with respect to an irradiation position of the excitation light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Yagyu, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Akihiro Yamada, Hiroshi Kida
  • Patent number: 9753213
    Abstract: A planar light source device 200 includes a light source 10 and a reflection member 30. The light source 10 emits a light beam 10a having directivity. The reflection member 30 has a box shape including a single bottom-plate part 30e, side-plate parts 30a, 30b, 30c and 30d connected to the bottom-plate part 30e, and an opening part 30f facing the bottom-plate part 30e. The box shape has inner surfaces which are reflection surfaces. The bottom-plate part 30e has a quadrilateral shape including two facing short sides and two facing long sides. The light beam 10a enters an inside of the box shape of the reflection member 30 through a side of the side-plate part 30a connected to the short side of the bottom-plate part 30e, travels in a direction of the long side of the bottom-plate part 30e while being reflected at the side-plate parts 30c and 30d connected to the long sides of the bottom-plate part 30e, and is emitted through the opening part 30f.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Rena Nishitani, Nami Nakano, Tomohiro Sasagawa, Nobutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160334695
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a light combining element for transmitting first excitation light and reflecting second excitation light; and a phosphor element for receiving the first excitation light and the second excitation light and emitting first fluorescence. An emission angle of the first excitation light emitted from the light combining element and a reflection angle of the second excitation light reflected by the light combining element are different from each other, so that a position at which the first excitation light passing through the light combining element reaches the phosphor element and a position at which the second excitation light reflected by the light combining element reaches the phosphor element are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMADA, Nobutaka KOBAYASHI, Shinji YAGYU
  • Patent number: 9329333
    Abstract: An irradiation device increasing the lighting depth and facilitating the assembling is provided. A transparent bar-shaped light guide having LEDs disposed near ends thereof includes a first prism group and a first reflector, and, a second prism group and a reflector which are provided so as to extend in a lengthwise direction and which diffuse and reflect light. The light guide includes a first light outgoing area emitting reflected light as primary light Lm, and a second light outgoing area emitting reflected light as secondary light Ls. The first light outgoing area includes a plane portion forming a flat surface. A plane mirror reflects the secondary light Ls in a direction overlapping the primary light Lm in a read area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Fujiuchi, Toshiaki Shoji, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Akio Masuda
  • Publication number: 20150301269
    Abstract: A planar light source device 200 includes a light source 10 and a reflection member 30. The light source 10 emits a light beam 10a having directivity. The reflection member 30 has a box shape including a single bottom-plate part 30e, side-plate parts 30a, 30b, 30c and 30d connected to the bottom-plate part 30e, and an opening part 30f facing the bottom-plate part 30e. The box shape has inner surfaces which are reflection surfaces. The bottom-plate part 30e has a quadrilateral shape including two facing short sides and two facing long sides. The light beam 10a enters an inside of the box shape of the reflection member 30 through a side of the side-plate part 30a connected to the short side of the bottom-plate part 30e, travels in a direction of the long side of the bottom-plate part 30e while being reflected at the side-plate parts 30c and 30d connected to the long sides of the bottom-plate part 30e, and is emitted through the opening part 30f.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rena NISHITANI, Nami NAKANO, Tomohiro SASAGAWA, Nobutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150160394
    Abstract: The planar light source device 200 includes a laser light source 7, a light guide rod 4, and a reflection unit 6. The laser light source 7 emits laser light 71. The light guide rod 4 having a rod shape has a light incident surface 41 at the end portion of rod shape in its longitudinal direction, and converts the laser light 71 entering through the light incident surface 41 into liner-shaped light. The reflection unit 6 has a box-like shape including a base plate 61, side plates 62, 63, 64, 65 being connected to the base plate 61, and an opening 66 facing the base plate 61, and the inner surfaces of base plate 61 and side plates 62, 63, 64, 65 configure reflection surfaces. The light guide rod 4 is disposed at a portion enclosed by the reflection surface of base plate 61 and the reflection surfaces of side plates 62, 63, 64, 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nami Nakano, Rena Nishitani, Tomohiro Sasagawa, Nobutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140355078
    Abstract: An irradiation device increasing the lighting depth and facilitating the assembling is provided. A transparent bar-shaped light guide having LEDs disposed near ends thereof includes a first prism group and a first reflector, and, a second prism group and a reflector which are provided so as to extend in a lengthwise direction and which diffuse and reflect light. The light guide includes a first light outgoing area emitting reflected light as primary light Lm, and a second light outgoing area emitting reflected light as secondary light Ls. The first light outgoing area includes a plane portion forming a flat surface. A plane mirror reflects the secondary light Ls in a direction overlapping the primary light Lm in a read area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Fujiuchi, Toshiaki Shoji, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Akio Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140296183
    Abstract: A novel amine compound represented by the following formula (I), which is superior in immunosuppressive action, rejection suppressive action and the like, and shows reduced side effects such as bradycardia and the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, or hydrates thereof, or solvate, as well as a pharmaceutical composition containing this compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. wherein R is a hydrogen atom or P(?O)(OH)2, X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Y is CH2CH2 or CH?CH, R1 is cyano or alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4 and substituted by a halogen atom(s), R2 is alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4 and optionally substituted by a hydroxyl group(s) or a halogen atom(s), R3 and R4 may be the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4, and n is 5-8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Masatoshi KIUCHI, Kaoru MARUKAWA, Nobutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8809304
    Abstract: A novel amine compound represented by the following formula (I), which is superior in immunosuppressive action, rejection suppressive action and the like, and shows reduced side effects such as bradycardia and the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, or hydrates thereof, or solvate, as well as a pharmaceutical composition containing this compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. wherein R is a hydrogen atom or P(?O)(OH)2, X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Y is CH2CH2 or CH?CH, R1 is cyano or alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4 and substituted by a halogen atom(s), R2 is alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4 and optionally substituted by a hydroxyl group(s) or a halogen atom(s), R3 and R4 may be the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4, and n is 5-8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kiuchi, Kaoru Marukawa, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Kunio Sugahara
  • Publication number: 20140198301
    Abstract: A light source apparatus according to the present invention includes a phosphor wheel having a phosphor disposed in an annular shape on a disk-shaped base material, the phosphor serving to emit fluorescent light from excitation light, thereby forming an excitation light source having a predetermined color, and the phosphor having a discontinuous portion in a part of the annular shape, an excitation light source for emitting the excitation light with which a passage position of the circular phosphor is irradiated with respect to the phosphor wheel to be rotatively driven by the wheel motor, and a controller that controls light emission of the light source and the excitation light source synchronously with a position of the discontinuous portion with respect to an irradiation position of the excitation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji YAGYU, Nobutaka KOBAYASHI, Akihiro YAMADA, Hiroshi KIDA
  • Publication number: 20090137530
    Abstract: A novel amine compound represented by the following formula (I), which is superior in immunosuppressive action, rejection suppressive action and the like, and shows reduced side effects such as bradycardia and the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, or hydrates thereof, or solvate, as well as a pharmaceutical composition containing this compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. wherein R is a hydrogen atom or P(?O)(OH)2, X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Y is CH2CH2 or CH?CH, R1 is cyano or alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4 and substituted by a halogen atom(s), R2 is alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4 and optionally substituted by a hydroxyl group(s) or a halogen atom(s), R3 and R4 may be the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or alkyl having a carbon number of 1 to 4, and n is 5-8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kiuchi, Kaoru Marukawa, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Kunio Sugahara
  • Patent number: 6984802
    Abstract: A laser material processing apparatus for processing a workpiece (22) in such a way as to separate one laser light (26) into two laser beams (26a, 26b) via first polarizer (25), one laser beam being passed via the mirrors (24), the other laser beam being scanned biaxially by a first galvano scanner (29), and conduct two laser beams (26a, 26b) to a second polarizer (27) for scanning via a second galvano scanner (30), wherein an optical path is constituted such that the laser beam (26b) transmitted through the first polarizer (25) is reflected by the second polarizer (27), and the laser beam (26a) reflected by the first polarizer (25) is transmitted through the second polarizer (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Kuroiwa, Kenichi Ijima, Nobutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050247682
    Abstract: In a laser machining apparatus for machining a workpiece (13), a laser (2) emitted from an oscillator (1) is dispersed into a first laser beam (7) that is passed through a first polarizing means (6) and is reflected, via a mirror (5), by a second polarizing means (9), and a second laser beam (8) that is reflected by the first polarizing means (6), is scanned bi-axially by a first galvano-scanner (11), and is passed through the second polarizing means (9); scanning by a second galvano-scanner (12) is carried out, and a third polarizing means (15) for polarizing angle adjustment, capable of angle adjustment, is disposed before the first polarizing means (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Tadashi Kuroiwa, Kenichi Ijima, Nobutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6926610
    Abstract: The objective is to prevent erroneous operation of an optical sensor while removing restrictions on the degree of freedom of design. In a handgun-shaped controller comprising a lens for focusing light that is incident on a muzzle and an optical sensor 18 for detecting the thus-focused light, a light-proof case 50 is provided to cover the lens and optical sensor in such a manner that external light other that from a muzzle is not incident thereon. The light-proof case covers the entire surface of the optical sensor and the portion of the board on which the optical sensor is mounted. Cut-out portions 54A and 54B for through-holes for signal terminals 19 are provided in a connection portion between parts 50A and 50B that form the light-proof case. A protuberant portion is provided on the connection portion of one part 50A and a fit portion thereof is provided in the connection of another part 50B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignees: Namco Ltd., Tamura Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kobayashi, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Nobuaki Arai
  • Publication number: 20050121613
    Abstract: A laser material processing method for processing a printed wiring board to form a blind hole, a groove or a through hole by applying a laser beam to an insulating layer of the printed wiring board includes a first step of processing the insulating layer at a predetermined energy density, a second step of hardening the insulating layer by applying a laser beam at a lower energy density than the predetermined energy density of the first step around a processed portion processed in the first step, and a third step of removing the residual smear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Kenji Ito, Shozui Takeno, Nobutaka Kobayashi