Patents by Inventor Yoshinao Kobayashi

Yoshinao 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: 8753657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibacterial resin composition derived from a master batch, an antibacterial fiber, an antibacterial film, and a producing method of an antibacterial resin composition therefrom, comprising a polyethylene terephthalate resin as the component (A), and a polybutylene terephthalate resin as the component (B), an antibacterial glass which elutes silver ions as a component (C), which is characterized by having a composition formulated below (A) a polyethylene terephthalate resin: 100 pbw (B) a polybutylene terephthalate resin: 0.5 to 25 pbw (C) an antibacterial glass: 0.1 to 10 pbw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Koa Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140113494
    Abstract: A battery wiring module is configured to be attached to a battery group including a plurality of batteries each having electrode terminals including a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal and configured to connect the electrode terminals. The battery wiring module includes a plurality of connection units connected to each other in a battery arrangement direction in which the batteries are arranged. Each of the connection units includes a bus bar and a bus bar housing. The bus bar is configured to connect one of the electrode terminals of one of the batteries and one of the electrode terminals of another one of the batteries. The bus bar housing houses the bus bar. The bus bar has a pair of terminal through holes configured to receive the electrode terminals and each of the terminal through holes is formed in a shape elongated in the battery arrangement direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Kinoshita, Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Hiroki Hirai, Katsunori Hamana, Tomofumi Tsuji, Mitsuhiro Akasaka, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Masaru Shitamichi, Daiki Hirano
  • Patent number: 8610733
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses a phenomenon in which an oblique line appears on a display screen when the scanning line direction of a moving image is changed in an image memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Akinori Sato
  • Publication number: 20130309553
    Abstract: Each of connection units integrally includes a cover via a hinge, and the cover covers an accommodation portion in which a connecting member is arranged. The connection unit includes a unit stopper and a unit stopper receiver that is fitted to the unit stopper that is formed on an adjacent connection unit. The cover includes a cover stopper and a cover stopper receiver that is fitted to the cover stopper formed on the cover of the adjacent connection unit. The connection units are connected to each other by fitting of the unit stoppers and the unit stopper receivers and fitting of the cover stoppers and the cover stopper receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Kinoshita, Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Kensaku Takata, Hiroki Hirai, Katsunori Hamana, Tomofumi Tsuji, Mitsuhiro Akasaka, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Masaru Shitamichi, Daiki Hirano
  • Patent number: 8587566
    Abstract: A driver for driving a display panel having a light emitting element includes a plurality of control pads, each of which is electrically connected to a control line of the display panel; and a plurality of power source pads, each of which is electrically connected to a power source line of the display panel and is larger in area than the control pad. The control pads and the power source pads are arranged in line and an order of arrangement of the control pads and the power source pads is symmetrical with respect to a direction of pad arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Kohichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 8581485
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a light emitting device; a drive transistor electrically connected to the light emitting device; and a capacitor electrically connected to the drive transistor. A ratio of an area occupied by the drive transistor per one pixel to an area of the one pixel is equal to or more than 0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 8514155
    Abstract: A display unit has an organic light emitting diode (OLED) 21 provided in correspondence with each of pixels and capable of emitting light by itself, a drive transistor 22 for driving the OLED 21, a twig transistor 23 which is formed so as to have a portion of an electrode of the drive transistor 22 independently formed, and which is used to detect a threshold voltage (Vth) of the drive transistor 22, a compensating capacitor 28 in which the threshold voltage (Vth) detected by the twig transistor 23 is written, a signal capacitor 27 in which a signal voltage to be supplied to the drive transistor 22 is written, a first transistor 24 provided between a data line and the signal capacitor 27, a second transistor 25 provided between the signal capacitor 27 and the compensating capacitor 28, and a third transistor 26 provided between a gate electrode and another electrode of the twig transistor 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Takatoshi Tsujimura, Shinya Ono
  • Publication number: 20130002637
    Abstract: A pixel circuit has a light emitting element and a driver electrically connected to the light emitting element. A reverse bias voltage is applied to the driver to reduce a shift amount of a threshold voltage of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Taro HASUMI, Yoshinao KOBAYASHI, Keigo KANOH
  • Publication number: 20120321689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibacterial resin composition derived from a master batch, an antibacterial fiber, an antibacterial film, and a producing method of an antibacterial resin composition therefrom, comprising a polyethylene terephthalate resin as the component (A), and a polybutylene terephthalate resin as the component (B), an antibacterial glass which elutes silver ions as a component (C), which is characterized by having a composition formulated below. (A) a polyethylene terephthalate resin: 100 pbw (B) a polybutylene terephthalate resin: 0.5 to 25 pbw (C) an antibacterial glass: 0.1 to 10 pbw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: KOA GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8289244
    Abstract: A pixel circuit has a light emitting element and a driver electrically connected to the light emitting element. A reverse bias voltage is applied to the driver to reduce a shift amount of a threshold voltage of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Hasumi, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Keigo Kanoh
  • Patent number: 8281243
    Abstract: The present invention provides a worker with information about work to be paid attention when the work is displayed in the moving image data. Work content for each of steps of the work to be carried out on a product is stored as moving image data in a storage unit. In response to a desired step being selected on a display device, the moving image data corresponding to the selected step is read from the storage unit. Playback of the moving image data is started on the display device. When starting the playback of the moving image data, a time bar where a progress of the playback of the moving image data is indicated by a slider. Attention work is predetermined within the step of the work. An occurrence timing of the attention work is displayed corresponding to the time bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Hanawa, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120015018
    Abstract: There is provided a mixed antibacterial glass which stably controls the silver ion elution amount from the antibacterial glass into the drain water in an air conditioning system, thereby effectively preventing the occurrence of microorganisms in the drain water. The mixed antibacterial glass achieves antibacterial effect by releasing silver ions, and contains an antibacterial glass which shows alkalinity when dissolved, and another antibacterial glass which shows acidity when dissolved, the silver ion elution amounts from the antibacterial glasses showing alkalinity or acidity being within certain ranges as measured under certain conditions, the compounding amount of the antibacterial glass showing alkalinity being from 10 to 100 parts by weight with reference to 100 parts by weight of the antibacterial glass showing acidity, and the total silver ion elution amount being within a certain range as measured under certain conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Takashi Fushimi, Noriyuki Nishiyama, Satoshi Niigawa
  • Patent number: 8070212
    Abstract: An arranging structure spans a wire harness for a motor vehicle between a vehicle body and a slide member. The structure includes a corrugated tube for sheathing the wire harness; a protector made of a resin material, the protector holding opposite ends of the corrugated tube in a longitudinal direction and threading the wire harness; and a rotary member integrated with the protector or coupled to the protector as a different element from the protector, the rotary member being rotatably supported on supporting members provided on the vehicle body and the slide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Shima, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shigeki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20110285333
    Abstract: A motor drive unit includes a position detection section configured to detect a rotor position by detecting a zero cross of a counter electromotive voltage during a de-energizing period to output a position detection signal, a current waveform generation section configured to generate, based on a torque command signal and the position detection signal, a current waveform which is to flow through the motor and includes the de-energizing period, an energizing control section configured to generate a control signal for controlling energizing of each of motor coils, and perform switching of an energizing phase of the motor based on the position detection signal, and a drive section configured to supply a current to each of the motor coils according to the control by the energizing control section, and the current waveform generation section changes a start timing of the de-energizing period according to a given control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshinao KOBAYASHI, Taishi Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 8034732
    Abstract: An antimicrobial glass is provided which can release a predetermined amount of silver ion rapidly for a long period of time and can provide a predetermined antimicrobial treatment repeatedly to a matter to be antibacterialized during or after washing and which is excellent in discoloration prevention effect and discriminativity, and a method for producing the same is also provided. A tabular antimicrobial glass capable of exerting an antimicrobial effect by releasing silver ions, wherein the maximum diameter (t1) is adjusted within the range of 3 to 30 mm and which contains an inorganic coloring agent as a compounded component, wherein the addition amount of the inorganic coloring agent is adjusted to a value within the range of 0.001 to 0.5% by weight to the total amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Koa Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Mamoru Kitamura, Shinobu Kanamaru, Kenichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7944416
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a light emitting device; a drive transistor that has a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. One of the source and drain electrodes are electrically connected to one end of the light emitting device. Each pixel also includes a first switching transistor that electrically connects the gate electrode and the one electrode according to a scan signal, and a capacitor that has first and second electrodes. The first electrode is electrically connected to the gate electrode. The apparatus also includes a data line connected to the second electrode; a data line drive circuit that supplies a brightness potential and a reference potential for the brightness potential to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 7861508
    Abstract: A device for supporting a cable between a vehicle body and a movable member movably connected to the vehicle body is provided with a guide member including a first opening communicating with a hollow portion of a frame body and used for the insertion of the cable, a second opening spaced apart by a specified angle from the first opening, communicating with the hollow portion and used for the insertion of the cable, and a three-dimensional arcuate surface on the outer surface of the frame body; and a supporting member for rotatably holding the arcuate surface of the guide member. The supporting member is fixed to the vehicle body and/or movable member. The cable is inserted from the first opening of the guide member to the second opening through the hollow portion, so that the guide member can follow angular changes of the cable in vertical, transverse and oblique directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Murayama, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100253609
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a light emitting device; a drive transistor electrically connected to the light emitting device; and a capacitor electrically connected to the drive transistor. A ratio of an area occupied by the drive transistor per one pixel to an area of the one pixel is equal to or more than 0.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 7804027
    Abstract: A device for supporting a cable between a vehicle body and a movable member movably connected to the vehicle body is provided with a guide including a frame having a three-dimensional outer surface and a supporting member for rotatably tightly holding the arcuate surface of the guide, the support being fixed to the vehicle body and/or the movable member. The frame of the guide includes a first opening and a second opening communicating with a hollow portion thereof and used for insertion of the cable, a tube projecting from the peripheral edge of the first opening and a rotational angle restriction projecting from the outer surface of the frame while being spaced apart by a required angle from the tube. The support includes a contact engageable with the rotational angle restriction, and at least one of facing surfaces of the contact and the rotational angle restriction is an inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Murayama, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100171733
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a technology capable of stabilizing light-emitting luminance of an image display device. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an image display device includes a pixel circuit including a light-emitting element, a recognizing portion which recognizes a predicted value of a parameter on driving of the pixel circuit based on image data, and an obtaining portion which obtains an actually-measured value of the parameter while causing the light-emitting element to emit light in accordance with the image data. This image display device further includes a comparing portion which compares the predicted value and the actually-measured value with each other, and a control portion which controls a power supply voltage applied to the pixel circuit in accordance with a comparison result of the comparing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventor: Yoshinao Kobayashi