Patents by Inventor Shintaro Hayashi

Shintaro Hayashi 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: 10899179
    Abstract: A tire used for the motorcycle tire and tire set includes: a crossing groove and a non-crossing groove. A groove group of the crossing groove and the non-crossing groove is repeatedly provided in tire circumferential direction so that adjacent groove groups are symmetric with respect to a tire equatorial plane. First, second, and fifth groove portions extend toward one side in tire circumferential direction and third and fourth groove portions extend toward the other side in tire circumferential direction. A first bend portion is located in a shoulder region nearer the one tread edge, a second bend portion is located in a middle region nearer the one tread edge, and a third bend portion is located in a middle region nearer the other tread edge. Inclination angles of the second, fourth and fifth groove portions are each larger than an inclination angle of the first groove portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Hayashi, Yasufumi Tokitoh
  • Patent number: 10859249
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device for laser light including a laser light source that emits laser light having a predetermined wavelength; a first substrate that is light-transmissive; a second substrate that is light-transmissive; a phosphor layer provided between and in surface contact with the first substrate and the second substrate, the phosphor layer converting a wavelength of the laser light; and a gap-maintaining component located between the first substrate and the second substrate, the gap-maintaining component adjusting a thickness of the phosphor layer by maintaining a uniform distance between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the first substrate and the second substrate has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the phosphor layer. The gap-maintaining component is a plurality of thickness adjustment particles that are light-transmissive and have a shape having a substantially equal diameter, and the shape is one of wire-shaped, ring-shaped, and protruding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahito Yamana, Noboru Iizawa, Shintaro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakano
  • Patent number: 10818579
    Abstract: There is provided a lead frame. The lead frame includes: a die pad; a lead terminal that is separated from the die pad and disposed around the die pad; and a resin layer that is formed between the die pad and the lead terminal so as to fix the die pad and the lead terminal. The resin layer has an opening portion that exposes at least a lower surface of the lead terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Hayashi, Kentaro Kaneko, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Misaki Imai
  • Publication number: 20200309348
    Abstract: A wavelength converting member includes a first wavelength converting material and a second wavelength converting material. The emission wavelength of the second wavelength converting material is longer than the emission wavelength of the first wavelength converting material, and in the second wavelength converting material, the time from when excitation light stops to when fluorescence stops is an afterglow time, and the afterglow time is longer than the emission time of the first wavelength converting material and is 1 s or less. A light source device includes the wavelength converting member and a light source unit. A lighting device includes the wavelength converting member, a light source device, and a light guide disposed between the light source unit and the wavelength converting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yudai SHIBATA, Shintaro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200309349
    Abstract: A wavelength converter includes a base, a wavelength converting component that converts a wavelength of at least part of excitation light to emit converted light, and an optical filter disposed between the base and the wavelength converting component. The optical filter transmits or absorbs, out of the converted light including a wavelength range of from approximately 470 nm to approximately 750 nm, converted light of a predetermined wavelength included in the wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yudai SHIBATA, Shintaro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200256552
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device for laser light including a laser light source that emits laser light having a predetermined wavelength; a first substrate that is light-transmissive; a second substrate that is light-transmissive; a phosphor layer provided between and in surface contact with the first substrate and the second substrate, the phosphor layer converting a wavelength of the laser light; and a gap-maintaining component located between the first substrate and the second substrate, the gap-maintaining component adjusting a thickness of the phosphor layer by maintaining a uniform distance between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the first substrate and the second substrate has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the phosphor layer. The gap-maintaining component is a plurality of thickness adjustment particles that are light-transmissive and have a shape having a substantially equal diameter, and the shape is one of wire-shaped, ring-shaped, and protruding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Masahito YAMANA, Noboru IIZAWA, Shintaro HAYASHI, Yoshiyuki NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10696101
    Abstract: This pneumatic tire includes, on the tread surface, land portions defined by circumferential main grooves extending continuously in the tread circumferential direction and by tread edges. An intermediate land portion on one side in the tread width direction, adjacent to the tire equatorial plane side of the outermost circumferential main groove on the one side, is formed into blocks only by sipes extending in the tread width direction, an intermediate land portion on the other side in the tread width direction, adjacent to a tire equatorial plane side of an outermost circumferential main groove on the other side, is formed in a ribbed shape, and intermediate land portion lug grooves are formed in the intermediate land portion on the other side, with one end opening into the outermost circumferential main groove on the other side, and the other end terminating within the intermediate land portion on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10688830
    Abstract: This pneumatic tire has a tread part partitioned by four main grooves into a center land part, an outer intermediate land part, an inner intermediate land part, an outer shoulder land part, and an inner shoulder land part. The center land part is formed with center lug grooves in which the installation outer side is narrower than the installation inner side. The outer intermediate land part is wider than the inner intermediate land part, and the outer shoulder land part is wider than the inner shoulder land part. In the outer (inner) intermediate land part, outer (inner) intermediate first lug grooves which communicate with the main grooves on both sides, and outer (inner) intermediate second lug grooves which communicate only with the main groove on the outside (inside) in the tire width direction are alternatingly arranged in the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10677437
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device, etc., for laser light according to the present disclosure includes: a first substrate that is light-transmissive; a second substrate that is light-transmissive; and a phosphor layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and including a phosphor that converts the wavelength of incident laser light having a predetermined wavelength. The laser light has a laser irradiation power density of at least 0.03 W/mm2, and each of the first substrate and the second substrate has a thermal conductivity higher than the thermal conductivity of the phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahito Yamana, Noboru Iizawa, Shintaro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200171887
    Abstract: A tire comprises a buttress portion between a tread portion and a sidewall portion thereof, wherein a ridge line portion extending in a tire radial direction through at least one bending point on a surface of the buttress portion and a valley line portion extending parallel to the ridge line portion at a spacing from the ridge line portion in a tire circumferential direction and located inward from the surface of the buttress portion in a normal direction of the surface, the ridge line portion and the valley line portion alternately arranged in the tire circumferential direction, a total number of the ridge line portion and the valley line portion being three or more, and a slanting line portion connects the bending point of the ridge line portion and a bending point of the valley line portion on a same circumference, and an other slanting line portion connects the ridge line portion and the valley line portion in parallel with the slanting line portion at each of a position away from the slanting line portio
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Shintaro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200164693
    Abstract: A tire has, on a tread surface of the tire, five land portions, an installation direction of the tire to a vehicle is designated, intermediate land portions respectively have a communicating sipe 40, the communicating sipe is constituted by a first sipe 41 at a vehicle-installed outside and a second sipe 42 at a vehicle-installed inside, the first sipe and the second sipe have an intersection point P on the vehicle-installed outside of a center line in a tire width direction of the corresponding intermediate land portion, the distance between the intersection point and a land portion edge at the vehicle-installed inside is the largest in an innermost intermediate land portion of the intermediate land portions, and an angle ?1 of the first sipe to a tire circumferential direction is larger than an angle ?2 of the second sipe to the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200148009
    Abstract: Provided is a tire comprising, a shoulder land portion includes a width direction groove, the width direction groove comprises a first width direction groove portion that communicates with the circumferential groove, and a second width direction groove portion adjacent to and continuous with a tread ground contact edge side of the first width direction groove portion, the first width direction groove portion includes a narrowed groove portion in a region of at least a part of the first width direction groove portion in an extending direction of the first width direction groove portion, and respective groove widths of the circumferential groove, the first width direction groove portion and the second width direction groove portion satisfy a relational expression “the groove width of the circumferential groove>the groove width of the first width direction groove portion>the groove width of the second width direction groove portion”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200138281
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a laser light source that emits laser light, a wavelength converter that converts the laser light to converted light of a different wavelength, and a first light guide that mixes the converted light while guiding, and a second light guide that guides the converted light mixed by the first light guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yudai SHIBATA, Yoshiyuki TAKAHIRA, Shintaro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200144166
    Abstract: A lead frame includes: a lead portion; a plating layer that is provided on a connected area of the lead portion, the connected area being an area connected with a semiconductor element; a recessed portion that is provided around the plating layer on the lead portion; and an oxidized layer that is provided on a surface including the recessed portion of the lead portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Shintaro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20200098672
    Abstract: A lead frame includes a lead portion having a first surface and a second surface, a connecting bar that has a first surface and a second surface and to which the lead portion is connected, and a raised portion provided on the first surface of the connecting bar. The first surface of the connecting bar is positioned between the first and the second surfaces of the lead portion. The tip of the raised portion is positioned between the first surface of the lead portion and the first surface of the connecting bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Shintaro Hayashi, Hajime Koike, Konosuke Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200047558
    Abstract: A tire used for the motorcycle tire and tire set includes: a crossing groove and a non-crossing groove. A groove group of the crossing groove and the non-crossing groove is repeatedly provided in tire circumferential direction so that adjacent groove groups are symmetric with respect to a tire equatorial plane. First, second, and fifth groove portions extend toward one side in tire circumferential direction and third and fourth groove portions extend toward the other side in tire circumferential direction. A first bend portion is located in a shoulder region nearer the one tread edge, a second bend portion is located in a middle region nearer the one tread edge, and a third bend portion is located in a middle region nearer the other tread edge. Inclination angles of the second, fourth and fifth groove portions are each larger than an inclination angle of the first groove portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Hayashi, Yasufumi Tokitoh
  • Patent number: 10557997
    Abstract: A light source device and a method of manufacturing a light source device are provided. The light source device includes a base. A light-emitter is above the base. A cap is joined to the base to cover the light-emitter. The cap includes an opening in a position corresponding to the light-emitter. A first light guide is in communication with the opening for guiding, to outside of the cap, light emitted by the light-emitter. A first ferrule is provided around the first light guide. The first ferrule is joined to an edge of the opening in a state in which the first ferrule is in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitano, Shintaro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakano, Hideharu Kawachi
  • Patent number: D861588
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Nagamoto, Shintaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: D864093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Nagamoto, Shintaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: D876329
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shungo Fujita, Shintaro Hayashi