Patents by Inventor Yasushi Kobayashi

Yasushi 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: 11938925
    Abstract: A vehicle movement assist system includes: an external environment sensor unmovably fixed to a vehicle; and a control device configured to acquire the position of an obstacle relative to the vehicle based on a result of detection performed by the external environment sensor and to execute an automatic moving process to autonomously move the vehicle. During execution of the automatic moving process, if the obstacle is detected in a recognition range set by the control device, the control device performs a notification to the driver and/or executes a process including deceleration or stopping of the vehicle. The control device is configured to change the recognition range in accordance with the travel state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Syoichi Kobayashi, Yasushi Shoda
  • Publication number: 20240011449
    Abstract: Provided is an injector control device which is capable of setting a preceding injection amount to a fuel injection amount that is less than a main injection amount, while suppressing situations where preceding injections executed prior to a main injection in multi-stage injection are eliminated. An injector control device 2 includes: an injection amount setting unit 211 that sets, as a total injection amount, a total of fuel injection amounts in multi-stage injection in a single cycle, and sets, as a preceding injection amount, a fuel injection amount in a preceding injection executed prior to a main injection in the multi-stage injection; an energization period setting unit 212 that sets an energization period of an injector 31 based on the fuel injection amounts set by the injection amount setting unit 211; and an injector driving unit 213 that controls driving of the injector 31 based on the energization period set by the energization period setting unit 212.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Shingo MATSUNOBU, Kiichi SUEHIRO, Naotaro NAGAI
  • Patent number: 11781501
    Abstract: To provide an engine head structure for “omission or shortening a fuel pipe that withstands a high pressure”, “simplification or omission of a support bracket for a fuel accumulator and/or a fuel injection device”, “reduction of the number of parts” by devising a fuel accumulator and a support structure therefor, and the like. An engine head structure has a support bracket for mounting a fuel accumulator including a joining portion with a fuel injection device on a cylinder head, is disposed on a side of the fuel injection device or between adjacent fuel injection devices. The support bracket includes a member having a mounting portion on which the fuel accumulator is placed and mounted, a mounting leg portion extending from the mounting portion and mounted on the cylinder head, and an aligning leg portion extending from the mounting portion for positioning the support bracket with respect to the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tamura, Kensuke Fujita, Hiroki Oso, Yasushi Kobayashi, Shingo Matsunobu, Mitsugu Okuda
  • Publication number: 20230008602
    Abstract: To provide an engine head structure for “omission or shortening a fuel pipe that withstands a high pressure”, “simplification or omission of a support bracket for a fuel accumulator and/or a fuel injection device”, “reduction of the number of parts” by devising a fuel accumulator and a support structure therefor, and the like. An engine head structure has a support bracket for mounting a fuel accumulator including a joining portion with a fuel injection device on a cylinder head, is disposed on a side of the fuel injection device or between adjacent fuel injection devices. The support bracket includes a member having a mounting portion on which the fuel accumulator is placed and mounted, a mounting leg portion extending from the mounting portion and mounted on the cylinder head, and an aligning leg portion extending from the mounting portion for positioning the support bracket with respect to the cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Akira TAMURA, Kensuke FUJITA, Hiroki OSO, Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Shingo MATSUNOBU, Mitsugu OKUDA
  • Patent number: 11475917
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens which is used so that more information can be accumulated in a large-capacity optical disk and which has a further enhanced numerical aperture NA. The objective lens is a single lens having the numerical aperture NA and a refractive index n, and is configured so as to satisfy: NA?0.91 and 1.61?n<1.72.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Komma, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Minami
  • Patent number: 11475918
    Abstract: A recording mark is formed on a recording medium by a predetermined recording signal, a playback signal of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is obtained, and an expected value signal of the playback signal based on the recording signal is generated. Based on an amplitude error between the playback signal and the expected value signal, and for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, a deviation amount of a mark shape of the recording mark from which the playback signal is obtained with respect to a mark shape of an ideal recording mark is calculated, and a mark shape of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is estimated. Based on the deviation amount of the mark shape of the recording mark, a correction amount is calculated for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, and a level of the recording signal is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Kohei Nakata, Yasumori Hino
  • Patent number: 11430479
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens which is used so that more information can be accumulated in a large-capacity optical disk and which has a further enhanced numerical aperture NA. The objective lens is a single lens having the numerical aperture NA and a refractive index n, and is configured so as to satisfy: NA?0.91 and 1.61?n<1.72.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Komma, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Minami
  • Patent number: 11295779
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical disk device capable of reproducing data recorded on a high linear density optical disk stably. The optical disk device according to the disclosure is characterized by being equipped with a recording expected waveform generation circuit which generates, at the time of recording, an expected waveform that is expected to be obtained at the time of decoding; and a recording pulse generation circuit which generates a recording pulse for driving a laser with power and a time width suitable for an amplitude value of the recording expected waveform for each sampling point of the recording expected waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220020394
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical disk device capable of reproducing data recorded on a high linear density optical disk stably. The optical disk device according to the disclosure is characterized by being equipped with a recording expected waveform generation circuit which generates, at the time of recording, an expected waveform that is expected to be obtained at the time of decoding; and a recording pulse generation circuit which generates a recording pulse for driving a laser with power and a time width suitable for an amplitude value of the recording expected waveform for each sampling point of the recording expected waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kohei NAKATA, Yasushi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220013144
    Abstract: A recording mark is formed on a recording medium by a predetermined recording signal, a playback signal of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is obtained, and an expected value signal of the playback signal based on the recording signal is generated. Based on an amplitude error between the playback signal and the expected value signal, and for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, a deviation amount of a mark shape of the recording mark from which the playback signal is obtained with respect to a mark shape of an ideal recording mark is calculated, and a mark shape of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is estimated. Based on the deviation amount of the mark shape of the recording mark, a correction amount is calculated for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, and a level of the recording signal is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Kohei NAKATA, Yasumori HINO
  • Publication number: 20210304793
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens which is used so that more information can be accumulated in a large-capacity optical disk and which has a further enhanced numerical aperture NA. The objective lens is a single lens having the numerical aperture NA and a refractive index n, and is configured so as to satisfy: NA?0.91 and 1.61?n<1.72.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki KOMMA, Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro MINAMI
  • Patent number: 11091033
    Abstract: The vehicle control apparatus is provided with a vehicle body speed deriving portion that derives a vehicle body speed of a vehicle, a wheel speed difference deriving portion that derives a wheel speed difference which is a deviation between the maximum wheel speed and the minimum wheel speed of the wheels of the vehicle, a request drive amount deriving portion that derives a request drive amount for the drive source of the vehicle, a torque suppressing device that suppresses torque of a driving wheel, a traction control portion that controls the torque suppressing device and suppresses an acceleration slip of the driving wheel based on the wheel speed difference or a combination of the wheel speed difference and at least one of the vehicle body speed and the request drive amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Nonaka, Jun Mizuno, Daisuke Kohara, Yuji Yoshii, Gen Inoue, Yasushi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Omine
  • Patent number: 10920650
    Abstract: There is provided a vertical multicylinder straight engine in which the temperature distribution of a plurality of cylinder barrels is made close to an even state. A cylinder jacket includes: a jacket inlet; a separated channel; a plurality of separated outlets; and heat dissipater channels for dissipating heat of the respective cylinder barrels to engine cooling water introduced through the separated outlets. The plurality of separated outlets include: a front-side separated outlet to a front-end barrel; a rear-side separated outlet to a rear-end barrel; and middle separated outlets to middle barrels between the front-end barrel and the rear-end barrel, and the jacket inlet is disposed so as to be contained within an entire middle barrel side area that is lateral to the middle barrels and has a front-rear length as long as a length from a front-most end to a rear-most end of the middle barrels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Ichikawa, Mutsuhisa Ishihara, Shinya Asada, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10589682
    Abstract: This invention relates to a view angle adjustment mechanism that causes a view element tilting section holding a view element to be supported by a tilting support section via a forcible fitting-type pivot to perform view angle adjustment. A pivot is assembled by forcible fitting between a pivot convex and a pivot concave. The pivot convex includes a spherical surface. The pivot concave includes a surface formed by arranging two conical surfaces so as to face in respective directions opposite to each other along a center axis X of the pivot concave. The spherical surface of the pivot convex is inscribed in the two conical surfaces of the pivot concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naomi Sugimura, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10483195
    Abstract: A resin board includes: a resin layer and a through electrode buried in the resin layer, wherein the through electrode has an electrode surface exposed from a front surface or a back surface of the resin layer and a lateral surface, and the electrode surface and the lateral surface form an obtuse angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Nakata, Yoshikatsu Ishizuki, Daijiro Ishibashi, Shinya Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10464487
    Abstract: This invention relates to a view angle adjustment mechanism that causes a view element tilting section holding a view element to be supported by a tilting support section via a plurality of concentric pivots having different diameters, to perform view angle adjustment. An inner pivot is assembled by forcible fitting using elasticity of either or both of a pivot convex and a pivot concave without screw fastening. An outer pivot includes a plurality of elastic pieces disposed at a plurality of positions in a circumferential direction of a curved surface of either or each of both of an outer-pivot convex surface and an outer-pivot concave surface. The outer pivot is assembled by the forcible fitting in the inner pivot. The assembly causes the plurality of elastic pieces to elastically abut on an opposed curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naomi Sugimura, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10246017
    Abstract: This invention relates to a view angle adjustment mechanism. A view element tilting section is tiltably supported by the tilting support section. Upon a motor being driven, a nut member rotates together with a gear member, the nut member rises/falls along a male thread member, whereby the view element tilting section is tilted. At a barrel of the nut member, a protrusion is formed. The protrusion is fitted in a groove of the gear member and causes the nut member to rotate together with the gear member. At the tilting support section, a protrusion abutment portion is formed. When the nut member moves in a direction in which the nut member comes off from the male thread member, the protrusion abutment portion abuts on the protrusion and thereby prevents movement of the nut member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naomi Sugimura, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10246759
    Abstract: Provided is a method of recovering rare-earth elements by performing slight pH adjustment of a leachate, which does not require such significant pH adjustment as in conventional methods, reduces cost and effort, and can efficiently recover rare-earth elements in a bauxite residue in a good yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd., The Jamaica Bauxite Institute Limited
    Inventors: Kaoru Sugita, Yasushi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Taguchi, Wilmon Wallen-Bryan, Worrell Lyew You, Parris A Lyew-Ayee
  • Publication number: 20190003368
    Abstract: There is provided a vertical multicylinder straight engine in which the temperature distribution of a plurality of cylinder barrels is made close to an even state. A cylinder jacket includes: a jacket inlet; a separated channel; a plurality of separated outlets; and heat dissipator channels for dissipating heat of the respective cylinder barrels to engine cooling water introduced through the separated outlets. The plurality of separated outlets include: a front-side separated outlet to a front-end barrel; a rear-side separated outlet to a rear-end barrel; and middle separated outlets to middle barrels between the front-end barrel and the rear-end barrel, and the jacket inlet is disposed so as to be contained within an entire middle barrel side area that is lateral to the middle barrels and has a front-rear length as long as a length from a front-most end to a rear-most end of the middle barrels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki ICHIKAWA, Mutsuhisa ISHIHARA, Shinya ASADA, Yasushi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180134156
    Abstract: The vehicle control apparatus is provided with a vehicle body speed deriving portion that derives a vehicle body speed of a vehicle, a wheel speed difference deriving portion that derives a wheel speed difference which is a deviation between the maximum wheel speed and the minimum wheel speed of the wheels of the vehicle, a request drive amount deriving portion that derives a request drive amount for the drive source of the vehicle, a torque suppressing device that suppresses torque of a driving wheel, a traction control portion that controls the torque suppressing device and suppresses an acceleration slip of the driving wheel based on the wheel speed difference or a combination of the wheel speed difference and at least one of the vehicle body speed and the request drive amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi NONAKA, Jun MIZUNO, Daisuke KOHARA, Yuji YOSHII, Gen INOUE, Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi OMINE