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: 7730669
    Abstract: Elongate bases (10) for guiding a movable end (37) of a conductor path (30). Cross sections taken through the bases substantially normal to the elongation directions of the bases are substantially identical to one another and substantially constant along the elongation direction of the bases. Thus, the bases (10) can be obtained by cutting an elongated raw material to a specified length in conformity with a vehicle type, thereby enabling a cost reduction. Further, since the bases (10) are symmetrical with a moving path of the movable end (37) located therebetween, it is sufficient to prepare only one kind of elongated raw material. In this respect as well, costs can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Kida, Shigeru Suzuki, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100107077
    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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Hanawa, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100039437
    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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Akinori Sato
  • Publication number: 20100026043
    Abstract: An arranging structure spans a wire harness for a motor vehicle between a vehicle body and a slide member. The structure comprises: 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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Shima, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shigeki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20100004111
    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: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: KOA GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Mamoru Kitamura, Shinobu Kanamaru, Kenichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7636073
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light emitting element that emits light depending on an injected electric current; a driver that includes at least a first terminal and a second terminal, and controls the light emitting element based on a potential difference, applied between the first terminal and the second terminal, of a level higher than a predetermined threshold; a storage capacitor that serves to retain a potential on the first terminal of the driver; and a controller that changes the potential on the first terminal via the storage capacitor at writing of electric data current corresponding to a display in a black level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090140107
    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: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Murayama, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090121093
    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: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd
    Inventors: Shigeki Murayama, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090066682
    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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Takatoshi Tsujimura, Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 7358941
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a driver element that is supplied with a potential from a data line. The driver element controls a value of current passing through an electric light emitting element. Upon obtaining a threshold voltage, a conductive member connected to the electric light emitting element is made to be a floating state to cause the driver element to become on-state, variations in the potential of the conductive member caused by charges passing through the driver element to flow into the conductive member are detected by a threshold voltage detector to obtain the threshold voltage of the driver element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7358936
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a current-controlled light emitting; a transistor which controls a first current flowing through the current-controlled light emitting diode, based on a first voltage applied between the gate and the source of the transistor at a light emitting phase; a capacitor arranged between the gate and the source. The image display apparatus also includes a current determining unit which controls a second current flowing between the source and the drain, based on a third voltage applied thereto at the writing phase. The second voltage is written in the capacitor at a writing phase and depends on the second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shinya Ono
  • Publication number: 20080007547
    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: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Hasumi, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Keigo Kanoh
  • Patent number: 7281696
    Abstract: A mounting fitting (3, 5) is made of a metallic plate material, wherein a first mounting panel (7, 14) to be mounted on a casing (1) is defined on one surface, and a second mounting panel (8, 16) to be mounted on an inner panel (2) is defined on the opposite surface. A reinforcing edge (12, 18) is formed by bending at a peripheral edge portion of the mounting fitting (3, 5) such that an edge end thereof faces in the same direction. The reinforcing edge (12, 18) is continuous along the longitudinal direction thereof without any cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Kida, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7259737
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes a data line that supplies a voltage determined based on emission brightness, a first switching unit that controls writing of the voltage supplied from the data line, a driver element that controls a current flowing through a current-controlled light emitting element, an organic electro-luminescence element that emits light of brightness corresponding to current applied, a reference-voltage writing unit that supplies a predetermined reference voltage, and a threshold-voltage detecting unit that detects a threshold voltage of the driver element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Takatoshi Tsujimura, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7199768
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with a data writing section that includes a data line which supplies electric potential and a first switching section that controls writing of electric potential supplied, and a threshold voltage detecting section that includes a second switching section which controls conduction between a gate electrode and a drain electrode of the driver element and a current light emitting element which is a capacitor that supplies electric charge to the driver element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070046592
    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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 7184005
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a current-controlled light emitting diode emitting light with brightness corresponding to a current flowing therethrough; a wiring structure electrically connected to the current-controlled light emitting diode; and a potential controller controlling a potential of the wiring structure. The image display apparatus also includes a potential change assisting unit controlling electric conductivity between the potential controller and the wiring structure, to change a potential of the wiring structure after a light emitting phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 7170232
    Abstract: A display device includes a driver circuit that controls so that an electric charge accumulation and a voltage detection/supply start simultaneously for a pixel circuit in a first row in the matrix and a pixel circuit in a second row in a matrix and adjacent to the pixel circuit in the first row in one direction along a column, and that controls so that the electric charge accumulation and the voltage detection/supply end simultaneously for the pixel circuit in the first row and a pixel circuit in a third row and adjacent to the pixel circuit in the first row in another direction along the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignees: Kyocera Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kohichi Miwa, Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7122970
    Abstract: A method for testing an OLED substrate comprises: the first step of obtaining a first current value passing through a switching element group connected to a selection signal line; the second step of obtaining a second current value passing through a switching element group connected to a data signal line; and the third step of operating a current passing through each switching element including an OLED element from the current value for each pulse signal obtained by each of the steps 1 and 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Yoshinao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7102202
    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: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kobayashi, Takatoshi Tsujimura, Shinya Ono