Patents by Inventor Takashi Kobayashi

Takashi 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: 20220353405
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises an image sensor including a first pixel group and a second pixel group, and capable of actuating the pixel groups with the same or different shooting conditions; a controller that switches between a first actuation control of actuating the first and second pixel groups with the same shooting conditions and a second actuation control of actuating the first and second pixel groups with different shooting conditions; a detector that detects flicker based on a signal read out from the image sensor; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the detector can detect flicker based on a signal read out from the image sensor by the second actuation control. If the determination unit determines affirmative, the controller controls to actuate the second pixel group with the shooting conditions for flicker detection in the second actuation control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: Takashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220341979
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a n EMI calculation program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes inputting circuit information of a first circuit to a machine learning model; acquiring an EMI value at a certain frequency of the first circuit; selecting, based on an impedance characteristic of the first circuit and the EMI value at the certain frequency, first EMI information from a plurality of pieces of EMI information in each of which an impedance characteristic of each of a plurality of circuits is associated with EMI values at a plurality of frequencies of each of the plurality of circuits; and acquiring an EMI value at another frequency different from the certain frequency of the first circuit based on the EMI value at the certain frequency and the first EMI information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shohei YAMANE, Yoichi KOCHIBE, Hiroaki YAMADA, Takashi YAMAZAKI, Takashi KOBAYASHI, Masatoshi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220342070
    Abstract: A lighting device includes: a light-emitting element having multiple first light-emitting sections and multiple second light-emitting sections; a first optical member that causes multiple pieces of first light outputted from the multiple first light-emitting sections and multiple pieces of second light outputted from the multiple second light-emitting sections to be substantially collimated, and outputs the multiple pieces of first light and the multiple pieces of second light; and a second optical member that shapes beam shapes of the multiple pieces of first light, beam shapes of the multiple pieces of second light, or both the beam shapes of the multiple pieces of first light and the multiple pieces of second light, and outputs the multiple pieces of first light and the multiple pieces of second light in a manner that the beam shapes are different between the multiple pieces of first light and the multiple pieces of second light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi KOBAYASHI, Motoi KIMURA, Tatsuya OIWA, Jialun XU
  • Publication number: 20220314636
    Abstract: A printing apparatus configured to perform printing by a combination of transport of a printing medium by a transport unit and main scanning for discharging ink in association with movement of a scanning unit, wherein the control unit is configured to calculate, a one-time transport amount by the transport unit for each nozzle row at each of the nozzle row positions, the one-time transport amount being a complementary transport amount at which non-discharge of ink by the defective nozzle is complementable by discharge of ink by the normal nozzle, based on a relationship between the main scanning before the transport and the main scanning after the transport, determine a common transport amount to the nozzle rows at the respective nozzle row positions based on the complementary transport amount for each nozzle row, and perform the printing the determined common transport amount as the one-time transport amount by the transport unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Takashi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11446751
    Abstract: A soldering system includes a temperature measurement device that measures a temperature distribution of a surface of a substrate. The soldering system also includes a driver that drives the soldering system based on a control parameter obtained from the temperature distribution measured by the temperature measurement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Masayoshi Tamura, Nobuyasu Kitagawa, Tsuyoshi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11447841
    Abstract: To provide a high-strength steel sheet with excellent ductility and hole expansion formability, a yield ratio of less than 68%, and a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more, by having a predetermined chemical composition and a microstructure where ferrite is 35% or more and 80% or less and martensite is 5% or more and 25% or less in area ratio, retained austenite is 8% or more in volume fraction, the average grain size of ferrite, martensite and retained austenite is 6.0 ?m or less, 3.0 ?m or less and 3.0 ?m or less respectively, the average aspect ratio of crystal grain of ferrite, martensite and retained austenite is each more than 2.0 and 15.0 or less, and the value obtained by dividing the Mn content (mass %) in retained austenite by the Mn content (mass %) in ferrite is 2.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Takako Yamashita, Masayasu Ueno, Yuki Toji, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa
  • Patent number: 11447840
    Abstract: To provide a high-strength steel sheet with excellent ductility and hole expansion formability, a yield ratio of less than 68%, and a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, by having a predetermined chemical composition and a microstructure where ferrite is 15% or more and 55% or less and martensite is 15% or more and 30% or less in area ratio, retained austenite is 12% or more in volume fraction, the average grain size of ferrite, martensite and retained austenite is 4.0 ?m or less, 2.0 ?m or less and 2.0 ?m or less respectively, the average aspect ratio of crystal grain of ferrite, martensite and retained austenite is each more than 2.0 and 15.0 or less, and the value obtained by dividing the Mn content (mass %) in retained austenite by the Mn content (mass %) in ferrite is 2.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Takako Yamashita, Masayasu Ueno, Yuki Toji, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa
  • Publication number: 20220285909
    Abstract: The present technique reduces the wiring inductance between a semiconductor laser and a laser driver in a semiconductor laser driving apparatus. A semiconductor laser driving apparatus includes a substrate, a laser driver, and a semiconductor laser. The substrate incorporates the laser driver. The semiconductor laser has at least one light emitting point. The semiconductor laser is mounted on one surface of the substrate in such a manner that an electrode of the light emitting point and a pattern of the substrate are connected to each other via a bump. Connection wiring electrically connects the laser driver and the semiconductor laser to each other with a wiring inductance of 0.5 nanohenries or less. A sealing portion seals a connection terminal portion of the semiconductor laser for the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoi KIMURA, Hirohisa YASUKAWA, Nobuaki KAJI, Takashi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11434542
    Abstract: A high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet has a composition containing, on a percent by mass basis, C: 0.10% or more and less than 0.20%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.25% to 0.65%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.0065% or less, Cr: 0.05% to 0.50%, and B: 0.0005% to 0.005%, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, the high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet having a microstructure containing ferrite and cementite, in which the percentage of the number of cementite grains having an equivalent circular diameter of 0.1 ?m or less is 12% or less based on the total number of cementite grains, the amount of Cr dissolved in the steel sheet is 0.03% to 0.50%, and the high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet has a hardness of 73 or less in terms of HRB and a total elongation of 37% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Miyamoto, Takashi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Sakurai, Takeshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20220272251
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a driving control unit configured to control driving of an image sensor, and a flicker detection unit configured to detect flicker, which is a periodic change in a light amount of an object, based on a signal output from the image sensor, wherein the driving control unit is configured to, if the image sensor outputs a flicker detection signal to be used in detecting the flicker, control the driving of the image sensor at n different frame rates, n being a natural number greater than or equal to 3, wherein a least common multiple of the n frame rates used in detecting the flicker is not same as any of the n frame rates, and wherein the flicker detection unit is configured to detect the flicker based on the flicker detection signal obtained at each of the n frame rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Takuya Shintani
  • Publication number: 20220272250
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a first shutter speed based on a reciprocal of a light amount change frequency of detected flicker and a selection unit configured to select a second shutter speed as a candidate in capturing an image of the object with reduced effect of the flicker. If a third shutter speed is set in advance, the determination unit determines a closer one of shutter speeds to the third shutter speed than the others as the first shutter speed, wherein the shutter speeds being integer multiples of a shutter speed that is the reciprocal of the light amount change frequency of the flicker detected. The selection unit selects one of settable shutter speeds of the image capturing apparatus as the second shutter speed, wherein the one has a smaller difference from the first shutter speed than the others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya Shintani, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11420247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing of 1780 MPa or more, excellent delayed fracture resistance, and high cross tensile strength after resistance spot welding by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 8 ?m or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and at least 10 cementite grains having a grain size of 0.05 ?m or more are present on average per 200 ?m2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member, and such that at least 10 Ti-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.10 ?m are present on average per 100 ?m2 of the cross section parallel to the thickness direction of the member in a range of 100 ?m in the thickness direction from a surface of the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Seiji Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20220260684
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a light-emitting element that has a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser structure and is suitable for a long-distance light irradiation, and a ranging apparatus. [Solving Means] A light-emitting element according to the present technology includes a plurality of light emitters, a first electrode terminal, and a second electrode terminal. The plurality of light emitters is a plurality of light emitters one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally arranged in a direction that is vertical to an optical axis corresponding to light that exits each of the plurality of light emitters, each of the plurality of light emitters being a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser element, each of the plurality of light emitters including a first electrode and a second electrode, each of the plurality of light emitters emitting the light due to current flowing from the first electrode to the second electrode. The first electrode terminal is electrically connected to the first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: TAKASHI KOBAYASHI, KAZUYA WAKABAYASHI, MOTOI KIMURA, TATSUYA OIWA
  • Patent number: 11408044
    Abstract: There is provided a high-strength steel sheet and a method for producing the same. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a steel microstructure including, by area fraction, 75.0% or more tempered martensite, 1.0% or more and 20.0% or less fresh martensite, and 5.0% or more and 20.0% or less retained austenite. A hardness ratio of the fresh martensite to the tempered martensite is 1.5 or more and 3.0 or less, the ratio of the maximum KAM value in the tempered martensite in the vicinity of the heterophase interface between the tempered martensite and the fresh martensite to the average KAM value in the tempered martensite is 1.5 or more and 30.0 or less, and the average of ratios of grain sizes of prior austenite grains in the rolling direction to those in the thickness direction is 2.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Minami, Fusae Shiimori, Shinjiro Kaneko, Takashi Kobayashi, Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11408058
    Abstract: There is provided a high-strength steel sheet and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure including, in terms of area percentage, 20.0% or more and 60.0% or less ferrite, 40.0% or more and 80.0% or less of a hard phase composed of bainitic ferrite, tempered martensite, fresh martensite, and retained austenite, 35.0% or more and 55.0% or less bainitic ferrite with respect to the entire hard phase, 20.0% or more and 40.0% or less tempered martensite with respect to the entire hard phase, 3.0% or more and 15.0% or less fresh martensite with respect to the entire hard phase, and 5.0% or more and 20.0% or less retained austenite with respect to the entire hard phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Minami, Takashi Kobayashi, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11401569
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength (TS) of 750 MPa or more and excellent in ductility and stretch flangeability, in which the steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and a microstructure containing, in area ratio, ferrite: 50% to 90%, quenched martensite: 1% to 8%, tempered martensite: 3% to 40%, and retained austenite: 6% to 15%, the quenched martensite has an average grain size of 2.5 ?m or less, the quenched martensite has an average circularity index of 0.50 or more, the circularity index being defined as 4 ?M/D2, where D is a perimeter of the quenched martensite and M is an area of the quenched martensite, and the steel sheet has a ratio of an area ratio of the quenched martensite fM to a total area ratio of the quenched martensite and the tempered martensite fM+TM, fM/fM+TM, of 50% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seigo Tsuchihashi, Hidekazu Minami, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11385764
    Abstract: This blow molding device is provided with: a display device configured to display on a setting screen information for setting control conditions for a plurality of objects to be controlled; and a display control device configured to control a display state of the setting screen. The display control device is configured to: cause a main display unit to display the information for setting the control conditions, as required; and cause a sub-display unit to constantly display status information which makes it possible to know operational states of the objects to be controlled, and a display switching icon for causing the main display unit to display operating icons of the objects to be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikako Takeuchi, Takashi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Hidaka
  • Patent number: 11377709
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing, excellent delayed fracture resistance, and high tensile shear stress after resistance spot welding by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that at least 20 Nb-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.10 ?m are present on average per 100 ?m2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member, a prior austenite average grain size is 8 ?m or less, an average aspect ratio of prior austenite grains is 2.5 or less, and a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and such that a standard deviation of Vickers hardness measured every 200 ?m on a surface of the member is 40 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Takashima, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Seiji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11368626
    Abstract: A display control apparatus, in which a user can easily recognize “taste of bokeh” of a captured image before the image is recorded, is disclosed. The display control apparatus controls so as to display, together with a first item that indicates either one of a setting value of an F-number or a T-number, a second item that indicates information that relates to an F-number and an amount of variance of a T-number that correspond to a current setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Mashimo, Takashi Kobayashi, Takashi Seki
  • Patent number: 11359267
    Abstract: Provided are a high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet with excellent formability and hardenability and a method for manufacturing the same. The high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet has a composition containing, on a mass basis, C: 0.10% to 0.33%, Si: 0.15% to 0.35%, Mn: 0.5% to 0.9%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol. Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.0065% or less, and Cr: 0.90% to 1.5%, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, has a microstructure containing ferrite and cementite, a cementite density being 0.25 grains/?m2 or less, and has a hardness of 110 HV to 160 HV and a total elongation of 40% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Sakurai, Takashi Kobayashi, Shunsuke Toyoda