Patents by Inventor Takahiro Kobayashi
Takahiro 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).
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Patent number: 11981136Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a plurality of head chips having a nozzle surface; a thermally conductive holder holding the plurality of head chips; a thermally conductive flow path structure provided with a flow path of a liquid supplied to the plurality of head chips; and a planar heater disposed between the holder and the flow path structure and along a direction parallel to the nozzle surface, in which the heater overlaps the plurality of head chips in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Kanegae, Katsuhiro Okubo, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
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Publication number: 20240154044Abstract: The present disclosure provides a Schottky barrier diode. The Schottky barrier diode includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type and having a region of the first conductivity type and an impurity region of the first conductivity type; a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a first external terminal electrically connected to the first electrode layer; and a second external terminal electrically connected to the second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a first base portion, a first extending portion and a second extending portion. The second electrode layer includes a second base portion and a third extending portion located between the first extending portion and the second extending portion in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: AIKO MIYAZAKI, TAKAHIRO ARAKAWA, TOMOYUKI KAWAKAMI, SATOSHI KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240151239Abstract: A multistage centrifugal compressor capable of maintaining and improving efficiency while having a static flow path with a reduced outer diameter is provided. Each of return flow paths is provided with a plurality of return vanes disposed in a circular cascade form centered on a center line of a rotational shaft. Each of the return vanes is disposed as a leading vane (8A) and a trailing vane (8B). The trailing vanes are offset toward the pressure surface side of the leading vanes in a circumferential direction and provided so as to guide a flow from the pressure surface side of the leading vanes to negative pressure surfaces of the trailing vanes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Kiyotaka HIRADATE, Kazuhiro TSUKAMOTO, Yuta MOCHIZUKI, Hiromi KOBAYASHI, Takahiro NISHIOKA
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Publication number: 20240144310Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Patent number: 11971679Abstract: A metal frame of an image forming apparatus includes a first support which includes a first metal plate and a second metal plate; a second support configured to support the image forming unit together with the first support; and a third support configured to connect the first support and the second support. The first metal plate includes a corner portion provided between a first portion and a second portion. The second metal plate includes a third portion, a fourth portion, and a fifth portion, wherein the fifth portion includes another corner portion located between a first stretched portion and a second stretched portion facing the corner portion of the first metal plate. A tip of the second stretched portion faces the fourth portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naruhiko Ito, Ryota Yasui, Takahiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20240133078Abstract: The resin composition for melt spinning of the present invention is a filament having a melt viscosity of 250 Pa·s or less at 200° C. and a shear rate of 0.1 s?1 and a tensile strength of 10 MPa or more. The filament can be produced by forming a molten liquid of a resin composition having a melt viscosity of 250 Pa·s or less at 200° C. and a shear rate of 0.1 s?1 into a filament shape to provide a formed material, and conveying and concurrently cooling the formed material. The present invention also provides a resin composition for melt spinning being a filament, and a method for producing fiber using a melt spinning apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Takahiro HIRANO, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Takehiko UEMATSU, Shohei NATSUI
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Patent number: 11957472Abstract: A brain measurement apparatus includes: a magnetoencephalograph including optically pumped magnetometers, magnetic sensors for measuring geomagnetic field at positions of the optically pumped magnetometers, magnetic sensors for measuring a fluctuating magnetic field at the positions of the optically pumped magnetometers, nulling coils for cancelling the geomagnetic field, and an active shield coil for cancelling the fluctuating magnetic field; an MRI apparatus including nulling coils for applying a static magnetic field and a gradient magnetic field, a transmission coil, and a receive coil; and a control device that, when measuring a brain's magnetic field, controls currents supplied to the nulling coils and the active shield coil based on measured values of the magnetic sensors and, when measuring an MR image, controls the static magnetic field and the gradient magnetic field by controlling currents supplied to the nulling coils and generates an MR image from an output of the receive coil.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., Kyoto UniversityInventors: Takahiro Moriya, Takenori Oida, Akinori Saito, Motohiro Suyama, Tetsuo Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11947184Abstract: A lens barrel includes: a variable-power optical system including a focus lens group; a focus actuator configured to move the focus lens group supported by a support forward or backward in a direction of the optical axis to change a shooting distance; and a moving unit configured to, in response to receiving a driving force for changing a zoom magnification, move a position of the focus lens group in the direction of the optical axis to a position corresponding to the changed zoom magnification. The moving unit is configured to move the focus lens group in the direction of the optical axis by the driving force such that a change in a shooting distance due to a change in the zoom magnification is within a predetermined tolerance when the focus lens group is at a position corresponding to the minimum shooting distance, at every zoom magnification.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Kobayashi, Tomoaki Kobayashi, Takahiro Nakayama
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Patent number: 11949248Abstract: To improve the optical power supply efficiency, a power-over-fiber system includes a power sourcing equipment including a semiconductor laser that oscillates with electric power to output feed light, a powered device including a photoelectric conversion element that converts the feed light into electric power, a plurality of optical fiber cables that transmit the feed light, a measurer that measures a distance from the power sourcing equipment to the powered device, and a control device that controls the power sourcing equipment to output the feed light after compensating for an amount of attenuation of the feed light according to a transmission distance on the basis of the distance from the power sourcing equipment to the powered device measured by the measurer.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20240105424Abstract: A first RF pulse signal includes a plurality of main cycles. Each main cycle includes first and second durations. The first duration includes a plurality of first sub cycles, and the second duration includes a plurality of second sub cycles. The first RF pulse signal has three or more different power levels in each of the plurality of first sub cycles and the plurality of second sub cycles. A second RF pulse signal including a plurality of main cycles. The second RF pulse signal has two or more different power levels in each of the plurality of first sub cycles and a zero power level in the second duration. A third RF pulse signal includes a plurality of main cycles. The third RF pulse signal has two or more different power levels in each of the plurality of first sub cycles and a zero power level in the second duration.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Takahiro TAKEUCHI, Masahiko TAKAHASHI, Ken KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11938728Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: head chips including a first-head-chip and a second-head-chip; a holder holding the head chips; and a heater along a direction parallel to a nozzle surface. The first-head-chip and the second-head-chip are disposed to be offset from each other in both a first-direction and a second-direction parallel to the nozzle surface and intersecting with each other. When a first-side is one of the four sides of a virtual rectangle circumscribing the aggregate of the head chips and a second-side and a third-side are coupled to both ends of the first-side, the first-head-chip is in contact with the first-side and the third-side and the second-head chip is in contact with the second-side. The heater overlaps the head chips. A first-region surrounded by the first-side, the second-side, the first-head-chip, and the second-head-chip includes a first-outside-part positioned outside the outer edge of the heater.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Kanegae, Katsuhiro Okubo, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
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Patent number: 11938732Abstract: A liquid ejecting head supported by a support body includes: a first head chip; a holder having a holding portion holding the first head chip and a flange portion; and a heater heating the holding portion, in which the holding portion has a heat receiving portion receiving heat from the heater, and a shortest path of heat transferred through the holder from the heat receiving portion to the flange portion is bent or curved at two or more points.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiro Okubo, Takahiro Kanegae, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
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Publication number: 20240094234Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Shinji AZUMA
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Patent number: 11932218Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a first-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a first braking force, a second-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a second braking force, an abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in an abnormal state, a pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in a pseudo abnormal state in which the first-braking-force control mechanism is suspected to be in the abnormal state, and a controller including a pseudo abnormal state controller configured to control the second-braking-force control mechanism in an operating state of the first-braking-force control mechanism so as to control the second braking force when the pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device detects that the first-braking-force control mechanism is in the pseudo abnormal state.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Yusuke Kamiya, Tatsushi Kobayashi, Shimpei Kodani
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Publication number: 20240088688Abstract: A storage battery management device according to one embodiment includes a hardware processor that causes a display device to display first remaining life information and second remaining life information. The first remaining life information indicates current remaining life of a storage battery system. The first remaining life information is calculated on the basis of a state of health (SOH) of each of multiple storage battery modules constituting the storage battery system. The second remaining life information indicates remaining life of the storage battery system and corresponds to a case where one or more of the multiple storage battery modules are replaced with one or more other storage battery modules. The second remaining life information is calculated on the basis of an SOH of each storage battery module not being replaced and an SOH of each of the one or more other storage battery modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto IDE, Mami MIZUTANI, Yukitaka MONDEN, Masako KIUCHI, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Takahiro KASE, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Yoshihisa SUMIDA
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Publication number: 20240079425Abstract: An image pickup module includes: a lens unit including a first principal surface and a second principal surface; an image pickup unit including a third principal surface and a fourth principal surface on which an external electrode is disposed; a wiring board including a hole and a bonding electrode disposed on a bottom surface of the hole; a solder that bonds the bonding electrode and the external electrode; a rigid member that defines a spacing between the fourth principal surface and the bottom surface; and a second resin disposed between the fourth principal surface and the bottom surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki ITO, Takatoshi IGARASHI, Keiichi KOBAYASHI, Takahiro SHIMOHATA
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Publication number: 20240077827Abstract: A coupling structure is provided in an imager forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and configured to couple a first member and a second member. The second member includes a sheet metal having an insulative layer on a surface of a metal layer. A first conductive portion is formed in the first member. A second conductive portion includes a projection formed by press working in the second member. A coupling portion couples the first member and the second member in a state in which at least a part of the first conductive portion and at least a part of the second conductive portion are contacted with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: TOSHIRO USUI, TAKAHIRO KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11923492Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a bagged electrode includes a conveying unit, a first bonding unit, a second bonding unit, and a separating unit. The conveying unit conveys an electrode in a manner interposed between a pair of long separator materials unwound from a pair of rolls. The first bonding unit bonds the pair of long separator materials outside the electrode along a conveyance direction without stopping conveyance of the electrode and the pair of long separator materials. The second bonding unit bonds the pair of long separator materials outside the electrode along a direction intersecting the conveyance direction without stopping conveyance of the electrode and the pair of long separator materials. The separating unit cuts the pair of long separator materials along the direction intersecting the conveyance direction to cut off the bagged electrode without stopping conveyance of the electrode and the pair of long separator materials.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuko Kobayashi, Misato Ishikawa, Shunsuke Hattori, Takamitsu Sunaoshi, Takahiro Kokubo
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Publication number: 20240070728Abstract: The information processing device determines whether or not to re-lease the first vehicle after returning from the lease. The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire, for the first vehicle, a evaluation result of a state according to a predetermined evaluation method, and output that the first vehicle is to be leased again when the evaluation result indicates that the first vehicle does not require repair, and output that the first vehicle is to be sold when the evaluation result indicates that the first vehicle needs repair.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki OKAWARA, Masafumi FUJIO, Koji TAKAHASHI, Sho KOBAYASHI, Takahiro ICHINOSE
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Publication number: 20240069106Abstract: A storage battery management device includes an acquisition unit, a selection unit, an estimation unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a battery characteristic and an operation condition of a storage battery device. The selection unit selects data values from a data value group of a data item in which variation in data value is caused out of data items included in the battery characteristic and the acquired operation condition. The estimation unit estimates, for each of the selected data values, a battery characteristic after operation corresponding to a case where the storage battery device is operated under the operation condition. The battery characteristic is estimated on the basis of the battery characteristic and the operation condition acquired by the acquisition unit. The display control unit displays the battery characteristic estimated by the estimation unit in a comparable state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yukitaka MONDEN, Makoto IDE, Masako KIUCHI, Mami MIZUTANI, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Takahiro KASE, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Yoshihisa SUMIDA