Patents by Inventor Tomio Kobayashi

Tomio 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: 20240070937
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire three-dimensional thermographic image data by imaging a subject irradiated with infrared rays. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a plurality of items of projection data by imaging the subject with tomosynthesis. The processing circuitry is configured to execute reconstruction based on the plurality of items of projection data and the three-dimensional thermographic image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Daisuke SATO, Tomio MAEHAMA, Risa HAYASHI, Tamotsu INO, Katsunori KOJIMA, Yoshinori SAITO, Naoto WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20090141611
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium contains a recording layer that includes: a recording area on which a cavity is formed as a recording mark as a result of an increase in temperature around a focal point after absorbing a recording beam converged for recording of information in accordance with the wavelength of the recording beam and from which, when a predetermined reading beam is emitted for reproducing of the information, the information is reproduced based on the optically modulated reading beam; and a non-recording area provided adjacent to the recording area to prevent the heat around the focal point from dispersing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Takao Kudo, Kazuya Hayashibe, Yusuke Suzuki, Tomoki Kanesaka, Yoshihito Fukushima, Hiroshi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 7348056
    Abstract: The invention provides a fine particle dispersion composition that does not depend on a curing method and that has adaptability to the curing methods and versatility and can provide a highly transparent optical component, an optical component using the fine particle dispersion composition and a method of manufacturing the same, and an optical film laminate using the optical component, and also provides a polarization splitting device using the optical component. In order to achieve the above, there is provided an optical component, which is obtained by curing a fine particle dispersion composition, which comprises metal-oxide fine particles, an organic resin material adapted to cure by absorbing energy, one of a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether phosphoric acid-based surfactant and a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether carboxylic acid-based surfactant, each of which has a molecular weight of 500 or more, and an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Yoshihito Fukushima, Fumiko Kagawa, legal representative, Kazuhiko Morisawa, Hatsue Koishikawa, Masaki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 7306289
    Abstract: The invention provide the seating apparatus to be used on the chair of the horizontal sitting base plate in order to avoid the lower back pain. By sitting on the seating base plate tilted forward from 5 to 45 degree, the person can keep the angle between the spine and the thigh from 95 to 135 degree. As the seating apparatus is equipped with the knee front holder connected with the supporting part, which is connected with the seating base plate by the half fixed joint at an another end of the supporting part, the slip down of the body on the seating base plate is stopped by the knee front holder and the steady sitting is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Inventor: Tomio Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050163971
    Abstract: The invention provides a fine particle dispersion composition that does not depend on a curing method and that has adaptability to the curing methods and versatility and can provide a highly transparent optical component, an optical component using the fine particle dispersion composition and a method of manufacturing the same, and an optical film laminate using the optical component, and also provides a polarization splitting device using the optical component. In order to achieve the above, there is provided an optical component, which is obtained by curing a fine particle dispersion composition, which comprises metal-oxide fine particles, an organic resin material adapted to cure by absorbing energy, one of a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether phosphoric acid-based surfactant and a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether carboxylic acid-based surfactant, each of which has a molecular weight of 500 or more, and an organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Yoshihito Fukushima, Masaki Kagawa, Fumiko Kagawa, Kazuhiko Morisawa, Hatsue Koishikawa
  • Publication number: 20050127737
    Abstract: The invention provide the seating apparatus to be used on the chair of the horizontal sitting base plate in order to avoid the lower back pain. By sitting on the seating base plate tilted forward from 5 to 45 degree, the person can keep the angle between the spine and the thigh from 95 to 135 degree. As the seating apparatus is equipped with the knee front holder connected with the supporting part, which is connected with the seating base plate by the half fixed joint at an another end of the supporting part, the slip down of the body on the seating base plate is stopped by the knee front holder and the steady sitting is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventor: Tomio Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20040005482
    Abstract: A colorless antireflection film excellent in productivity and high in transparency, and an antireflection layer-affixed plastic substrate. An antireflection film and an antireflection layer-affixed plastic substrate having moisture-proofing and gas-barrier properties and being excellent in optical characteristics. An antireflection film comprising a hard coat layer formed on a substrate, and a transparent, high-refractive-index oxide layer and a transparent, low-refractive-index oxide layer alternately laminated on the hard coat layer. The transparent, high-refractive-index oxide layer is compose of a Nb2O5 layer formed by a reactive sputtering method. An antireflection film using a substrate consisting of an organic material, wherein an inorganic, moisture-proofing layer having a refractive index approximate to that of the organic material is formed in contact with one surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Shujiro Watanabe, Takashi Watanabe, Masaki Kagawa, Haruo Ishizaki, Sung-Kil Lee
  • Publication number: 20020158183
    Abstract: This invention offers the new molds assembly structure for a plastic art, which enables the both of the complicated design molding process and low material cost of the mold for mass-production by applying the inner silicone rubber portion and the outer plaster portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventor: Tomio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6284382
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antireflection film used to be stuck on the surface of a glass panel of a CRT, which can be inexpensively manufactured at a high productivity while satisfying all of requirements regarding its adhesive strength, reflectance characteristic, electric resistance and total light transmittance. The antireflection film is formed by stacking silicon oxide films and indium tin oxide films on a base film in multilevels, wherein the thickness of the uppermost silicon oxide film of the antireflection film is thicker than the indium tin oxide film directly under the uppermost silicon oxide film, and the lowermost silicon oxide film, positioned at the interface with the base film, of the antireflection film is a SiOx film where the value x is in a range of 0.5 to 1.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroichi Ishikawa, Barret Lippey, Tomio Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Oshima, Shinobu Mitsuhashi, Masataka Yamashita, Yoshiharu Honjo, Koichi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 5922787
    Abstract: A composition for forming an antifouling film or an optical component having such an antifouling film, for example, an anti-reflection filter, contains an alkoxysilane compound having a perfluoropolyether group indicated by the following general formula (1):R.sub.f (COR.sub.1 --R.sub.2 --Si(OR.sub.3).sub.3 }.sub.j (1)where, in the formula, R.sub.f indicates a perfluoropolyether group, R.sub.1 indicates a bivalent atom or group, R.sub.2 indicates an alkylene group, R.sub.3 indicates an alkyl group, and j is 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kondo, Hideaki Hanaoka, Tomio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5874801
    Abstract: A anti-reflection member provided with an antistatic function and an electromagnetic radiation shielding function and having a reflection preventing optical thin film excellent in adhesion with the hard coat layer.The anti-reflection member comprises a laminate composed of substrate, hard coat layer, and reflection preventing optical thin film having at least two layers, the first layer of the reflection preventing optical thin film provided in contact with the hard coat layer comprises a transparent conductive oxide film (for example, SnO.sub.2, ZnO, In.sub.2 O.sub.3, or ITO) formed by reactive physical vapor phase deposition, and the second layer of the reflection preventing optical thin film consists of a material (for example, SiO.sub.2 or MgF.sub.2) having a refractive index smaller than that of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Hideaki Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 5734532
    Abstract: A magneto-resistance effect type magnetic head having high output can be obtained as a reproduction head for a rotating drum type VTR by only providing a conventional rotary transformer with a rotor and a stator for supplying a bias current without a need for a special mechanism for transmitting a direct current. There is provided a magneto-resistance effect type magnetic head device to be mounted on a rotating drum having a bias conductor and a sense conductor, including a rotary transformer connected to the bias and sense conductors wherein an alternating current having a frequency lower than the frequency of a recording signal is applied to at least one of stator channels facing rotor channels of the rotary transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Hideo Suyama
  • Patent number: 5648886
    Abstract: A magneto-resistance effect type magnetic head having high output can be obtained as a reproduction head for a rotating drum type VTR by only providing a conventional rotary transformer with a rotor and a stator for supplying a bias current without a need for a special mechanism for transmitting a direct current. There is provided a magneto-resistance effect type magnetic head device to be mounted on a rotating drum having a bias conductor and a sense conductor, including a rotary transformer connected to the bias and sense conductors wherein an alternating current having a frequency lower than the frequency of a recording signal is applied to at least one of stator channels facing rotor channels of the rotary transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Hideo Suyama
  • Patent number: 5276575
    Abstract: Each of a pair of magnetic core halves includes a substrate and a thin magnetic metal film formed on the substrate. The substrate is notched with a winding groove. The pair of the magnetic core halves are integrally bonded to each other so that a gap filling film is formed between the facing surfaces of the thin magnetic metal films. The zero depth position of the magnetic gap which is determined by the length of the facing thin magnetic metal films is offset to a magnetic recording medium sliding surface of the magnetic head from the notching start position of the winding groove on the side of the magnetic gap. Hence, the shape of the thin magnetic metal film exposed on the magnetic recording medium sliding surface is maintained constant from the initial position to the depth zero position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Heikichi Sato, Hideaki Ojima, Akira Urai, Akira Murakami, Yoshito Ikeda, Mitsuaki Yokomizo, Toshiyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 4901178
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic head whereby the inclined surface is formed with a prescribed angle relative to the upper surface of the substrate in the vicinity of a slide contact surface thereof with a magnetic recording medium, the magnetic gap is formed on the magnetic film on the inclined surface, and the azimuth of the magnetic gap is set by the inclined surface.By forming grooves or protrusions on the substrate, the inclined surface by which the azimuth of the magnetic gap is set is defined. A coil conductor is formed on the flat portion of the upper surface of the substrate.With the thin film magnetic head presented by this invention, a double azimuth thin film magnetic head of a multi-channel thin film magnetic head can be easily provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Iwao Abe, Kazuo Kashiwa, Yukihiro Aizawa, Hiroyuki Suzukawa
  • Patent number: 4819113
    Abstract: A magnetic transducer head in which the magnetic core elements of ferromagnetic oxides are sliced obliquely across the junction surface of the core elements, ferromagnetic metal thin films are formed on the resulting inclined surfaces by employing a physical vapor deposition, and the core elements are placed with the respective ferromagnetic metal thin films abutting to each other for defining a magnetic gap therebetween, wherein the improvement consists in that said inclined surfaces with the ferromagnetic metal thin films formed thereon are inclined at a preset angle with the magnetic gap forming surface, in that non-magnetic films having high-hardness are interposed between the ferromagnetic oxide and the ferromagnetic metal thin films, and in that said ferromagnetic metal thin films and the oxide glass fillers are provided on the tape abutment surface by the intermediary of the non-magnetic film having high-hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kubota, Tatsuo Kumura, Junichi Saito, Tomio Kobayashi, Heikichi Sato
  • Patent number: 4788611
    Abstract: A magnetic transducer head wherein confronting surfaces of a pair of magnetic core parts comprised of a ferromagnetic oxide material are notched, and the notch defining surfaces have metallic ferromagnetic layers supported thereby. The method of physical vapor deposition as known per se is used for forming these layers. The transducer coupling gap of each magnetic head is defined by an aligned pair of pole piece layers formed from the deposited metallic ferromagnetic material. The pole piece layers are inclined at a preset angle with respect to the plane of the coupling gap, and have extensions formed of the deposited metallic ferromagnetic material presenting bend contours between the pole piece layers and the lateral sides of the core parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Shoichi Kano, Osamu Maniwa, Seiki Konno, Heikichi Sato
  • Patent number: 4755899
    Abstract: A magnetic transducer head comprising a first magnetic core element and a second magnetic core element, each of the first and second core elements comprising a magnetic ferrite block and a magnetic metal thin film integrated with the magnetic ferrite block. These core elements having a first planar surface and a second planar surface. The magnetic metal thin film being provided on the second planar surface and having an edge thereof facing to the first planar surface, and the second planar surface being slantly provided with respect to said first planar surface. These core elements being bonded together to form an operating magnetic gap between the edge of the magnetic metal thin film on the first core element and the edge of the magnetic metal thin film on the second core element. The magnetic metal thin film on the first core element or the magnetic thin film on the second core element is formed in one common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Heikichi Sato, Makoto Kubota, Shoichi Kano, Tatsuo Kumura, Kazushi Yamauchi, Yoshimi Takahashi, Junichi Saito
  • Patent number: 4683012
    Abstract: A magnetic thin film consisting essentially of Fe, Al and Si and further containing nitrogen has high magnetic permeability and high hardness without lowering the magnetic properties such as saturation magnetic flux density or coercive force.The magnetic thin film has an increased specific resistivity and a lowered eddy current loss in the high frequency region and is suitable for a core material of magnetic transducer heads used in a high frequency region.The magnetic thin film is prepared by, for example, physical vapor deposition or ion implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushi Yamauchi, Muneyuki Ogata, Tomio Kobayashi, Makoto Kubota, Tatsuo Kumura
  • Patent number: 4671828
    Abstract: A magnetic thin film consisting essentially of Fe, Al and Si and further containing oxygen has high magnetic permeability and high hardness without lowering the magnetic properties such as saturation magnetic flux density or coercive force.The magnetic thin film has an increased specific resistivity and a lowered eddy current loss in the high frequency region and is suitable for a core material of magnetic transducer heads used in a high frequency region.The magnetic thin film is prepared by, for example, physical vapor deposition or ion implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushi Yamauchi, Muneyuki Ogata, Tomio Kobayashi, Makoto Kubota, Tatsuo Kumura