Patents by Inventor Satoru Kobayashi

Satoru 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: 11977789
    Abstract: A display screen generation apparatus includes: an acquisition portion acquiring for each of a plurality of print products produced through a plurality of processes, progress of the processes; and a display portion generating a display screen that displays for each of the plurality of print products, the process waiting to be executed, the process being executed, the process already executed, and the process not intended to be executed in a distinguishable manner from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Minamihara, Kana Ogawa, Toshiaki Kimura, Yoshiki Katsuma, Yuto Fukuchi, Ayako Kobayashi, Satoru Ono, Yuichi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20240140735
    Abstract: The weight of a body-to-be-conveyed constituting a conveying device is reduced, and the friction force between the sliding surface of the body-to-be-conveyed and the conveyance path is reduced. A body-to-be-conveyed that is a component of a conveying device that uses electromagnetic force as thrust and can move in a horizontal direction includes a mover in which a bottom surface is arranged so that a predetermined gap is formed in a vertical direction with respect to the sliding surface thereof, in which the mover includes a permanent magnet and a cover, a gap facing surface of the permanent magnet facing the gap includes one magnetic pole, the cover is installed on a side of the permanent magnet opposite from the gap facing surface in the vertical direction, the horizontal outermost diameter of the cover is larger than the horizontal outermost diameter of the permanent magnet, and the cover is formed of a flat plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Ryosuke HOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11972930
    Abstract: A plasma reactor has a cylindrical microwave cavity overlying a workpiece processing chamber, a microwave source having a pair of microwave source outputs, and a pair of respective waveguides. The cavity has first and second input ports in a sidewall and space apart by an azimuthal angle. Each of the waveguides has a microwave input end coupled to a microwave source output and a microwave output end coupled to a respective one of the first and second input ports, a coupling aperture plate at the output end with a rectangular coupling aperture in the coupling aperture plate, and an iris plate between the coupling aperture plate and the microwave input end with a rectangular iris opening in the iris plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Hideo Sugai, Toan Tran, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky
  • Patent number: 11972546
    Abstract: When swinging of a camera does not follow a motion of a subject in following-photographing, the position of the subject deviates among a plurality of images, and thus there is a problem that the subject that is moving is blurred. An image processing apparatus includes: a standard region designation unit configured to designate a partial region in an image as a standard region; a standard region motion blur setting unit configured to set a motion blur in the standard region designated by the standard region designation unit as a predetermined motion blur; and a motion blur adjustment unit configured to adjust a motion blur in the standard region so that the motion blur becomes the predetermined motion blur and adjust a motion blur on a screen of a region different from the standard region in accordance with the adjusting of the motion blur in the standard region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240115652
    Abstract: There is provided a bioabsorbable peptide tissue occluding agent that can be applied to large mammals including humans, the peptide tissue occluding agent being obtained by artificial synthesis to avoid concerns of infection by viruses and the like. The tissue occluding agent contains a peptide, wherein the peptide is an amphiphilic peptide having 8-200 amino acid residues with the hydrophilic amino acids and hydrophobic amino acids alternately bonded, and is a self-assembling peptide exhibiting a ?-structure in aqueous solution in the presence of physiological pH and/or a cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kentaro Takamura, Satoshi Gojo, Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240094234
    Abstract: The present invention controls liquid shaking during transportation while maintaining high-precision with respect to the stopping position of a specimen at the time of device start-up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Shinji AZUMA
  • Patent number: 11933801
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transport device and a specimen analysis system including the transport device that reduce the pulsation of thrust for moving an object to be transported, reduce vibration of the object to be transported during transport, and realize stable transport. The transport device of the present invention includes a first electromagnet unit including a first tooth made of a magnetic body, a first core connected to the first tooth and made of a magnetic body, and a first winding formed around the first core; a second electromagnet unit including a second tooth installed adjacent to the first electromagnet unit and made of a magnetic body, a second core connected to the second tooth and made of a magnetic body, a second winding formed around the second core; and a magnetic coupling unit made of a magnetic body between the first tooth of the first electromagnet unit and the second tooth of the second electromagnet unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Ryosuke Hoshi, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Katsuhiro Kambara, Kuniaki Onizawa
  • Patent number: 11927904
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt of an endless shape including a substrate, wherein the substrate contains a polyimide resin and carbon nanotubes, wherein a content of the carbon nanotubes in the substrate is 15 vol % or less with respect to a total volume of the polyimide resin, wherein the substrate has a tensile strength of 200 MPa or more in each of a peripheral direction thereof and a direction perpendicular to the peripheral direction, and wherein the substrate has a thermal conductivity of 0.9 W/(m·K) or more in a thickness direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akeshi Asaka, Taiki Watanabe, Yuma Kobayashi, Hidetaka Kawamura, Satoru Nishiuma, Akihiro Taya, Ryunosuke Kawahara
  • Patent number: 11908662
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to apparatus and techniques for radio frequency (RF) phase control in a process chamber. A process volume is defined in the process chamber by a faceplate electrode and a support pedestal. A grounding bowl is disposed within the process chamber about the support pedestal opposite the process volume. The grounding bowl substantially fills a volume other than the process volume below the support pedestal. A phase tuner circuit is coupled to an RF mesh disposed in the support pedestal and the faceplate electrode. The tuner circuit adjusts a phase difference between a phase of the faceplate electrode and a phase of the RF mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaopu Li, Kallol Bera, Edward P. Hammond, IV, Jonghoon Baek, Amit Kumar Bansal, Jun Ma, Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230391096
    Abstract: A liquid accommodation body to be connected to a liquid ejection device for ejecting liquid, the liquid accommodation body including a container that has an inlet section with an inlet through which liquid is introduced and that contains the liquid; a cap that seals the inlet by covering the inlet section; and a lead out section that leads liquid to the liquid ejection device; wherein when the cap seals the inlet, the cap and the inlet section configure an atmospheric release path that enables the inlet to connect to atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Azusa NEI, Satoru KOBAYASHI, Jun SHIMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11801281
    Abstract: There is provided a bioabsorbable peptide tissue occluding agent that can be applied to large mammals including humans, the peptide tissue occluding agent being obtained by artificial synthesis to avoid concerns of infection by viruses and the like. The tissue occluding agent contains a peptide, wherein the peptide is an amphiphilic peptide having 8-200 amino acid residues with the hydrophilic amino acids and hydrophobic amino acids alternately bonded, and is a self-assembling peptide exhibiting a ?-structure in aqueous solution in the presence of physiological pH and/or a cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: 3-D Matrix, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Takamura, Satoshi Gojo, Satoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11787210
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a transport belt that configured to support and transport a medium, a liquid jetting unit configured to perform a printing operation by jetting a liquid to the medium, a storage tank that is an example of a cleaning liquid storage unit configured to store a cleaning liquid, a cleaning unit configured to perform a cleaning operation of the transporting belt using the cleaning liquid stored in the storage tank, a coagulation tank configured to store the cleaning liquid used for cleaning operation and to which a coagulating agent is added, and a separation unit configured to separate, from the cleaning liquid, a coagulated material produced by coagulation caused by adding the coagulating agent to the cleaning liquid. The cleaning liquid from which the coagulated material is separated by the separation unit is supplied to the storage tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Shigenori Nakagawa, Shin Komatsu, Yoshitaka Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20230312957
    Abstract: An aqueous ink containing a pigment (C.I. Pigment Yellow 101) and a resin dispersant for the pigment. The resin dispersant has a unit with an aromatic group and a unit with an anionic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: HIROHIKO YUASA, DAIJI OKAMURA, SATORU KOBAYASHI, SAKI TASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230308594
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to detect a saturated region in each of a plurality of images, correct at least one of colors and brightness in the saturated region and generate a plurality of saturation corrected images, generate a first combined image using the plurality of saturation corrected images, generate a second combined image using the plurality of images, and combine the first combined image and the second combined image to generate a third combined image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventor: SATORU KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230254578
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: acquire an image by image sensing processing; set a part of the image as a specific region, wherein a position of the specific region can be changed; and detect a motion of an object included in the specific region; and perform control to display an indicator based on the detected motion of the object in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the electronic device so that the indicator is superimposed and displayed at a position on the image based on the specific region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro WATANABE, Takeshi KIKKAWA, Satoru KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Akihiko SATO, Takeshi NAKATA
  • Patent number: 11722771
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first captured image obtained by first image capturing with a first image capturing parameter and motion information about an object in the first captured image, a setting unit configured to set a second image capturing parameter, an estimation unit configured to estimate motion blur of an object in a second captured image which is obtained in a case where second image capturing is performed with the second image capturing parameter, based on the motion information and the second image capturing parameter, and a notification unit configured to issue a notification of the motion blur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Nozomu Saito
  • Publication number: 20230241294
    Abstract: Methods and materials for mitigating biological tissue adhesion are described herein. One method for mitigating adhesion to a biological tissue includes administering an effective amount of a self-assembling peptide solution to the biological tissue, wherein the self-assembling peptide is between about 7 amino acids and 32 amino acids in length and the self-assembling peptide solution forms a hydrogel under physiological conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: 3-D Matrix, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Eun Seok Gil, Lisa Spirio
  • Publication number: 20230223281
    Abstract: A wafer chuck assembly includes a puck, a shaft and a base. The puck includes an electrically insulating material that defines a top surface of the puck; a plurality of electrodes are embedded within the electrically insulating material. The puck also includes an inner puck element that forms one or more channels for a heat exchange fluid, the inner puck element being in thermal communication with the electrically insulating material, and an electrically conductive plate disposed proximate to the inner puck element. The shaft includes an electrically conductive shaft housing that is electrically coupled with the plate, and a plurality of connectors, including electrical connectors for the electrodes. The base includes an electrically conductive base housing that is electrically coupled with the shaft housing, and an electrically insulating terminal block disposed within the base housing, the plurality of connectors passing through the terminal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Toan Q. Tran, Zilu Weng, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Satoru Kobayashi, Tae Seung Cho, Soonam Park, Son M. Phi, Shankar Venkataraman
  • Publication number: 20230196530
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines an area in a visible light image where an invisible light image is to be combined and combines the invisible light image with the visible light image based on a determination to generate a combined image. Before combining, the apparatus adjusts the invisible light image so that, in the combined image, a difference between tone information in an area where the invisible light image has been combined and the tone information in an area where the invisible light image has not been combined is equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: SATORU KOBAYASHI, AKANE KANZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230191806
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device performing printing by ejecting liquid onto a medium in a printing region, the liquid ejecting device including an ejecting unit including a first ejecting unit ejecting the liquid onto the medium, and a second ejecting unit ejecting a reaction liquid containing a coagulant for coagulating a component in the liquid, a transport unit configured to transport the medium, a jam detector configured to detect a jam of the medium, and a control unit configured to control the ejecting unit, and the transport unit, wherein when the jam is detected in the jam detector, the control unit causes the transportation of the medium by the transport unit to stop, and causes the liquid, the reaction liquid, or the liquid and the reaction liquid to be ejected in the printing region from the first ejecting unit, and the second ejecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Satoru KOBAYASHI