Patents by Inventor Akihiro Kobayashi

Akihiro 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: 20240412978
    Abstract: A gas treatment method of performing a gas treatment on a substrate having a recess includes: disposing the substrate having the recess in a chamber; adjusting a pressure inside the chamber to a predetermined pressure by supplying a pressure adjustment gas into the chamber in an evacuated state to increase the pressure inside the chamber; and subsequently, performing the gas treatment on a side wall of the recess of the substrate by causing a treatment reaction by a process gas in the chamber, wherein the process gas causing the treatment reaction is used as at least a part of the pressure adjustment gas in the adjusting the pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Kimihiko DEMICHI, Tetsuro TAKAHASHI, Changhwan SEOK, Jun KOBAYASHI, Akihiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20240400499
    Abstract: A novel amino acid derivative is provided, wherein the amino acid derivative is expected to improve binding affinity of polypeptides comprising the derivative the rein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Haruaki KURASAKI, Naoki OKADA, Katsuma MATSUI, Masatoshi TAKUWA, Kyosuke UEDA, Masatoshi MATSUMOTO, Shunichi NAKANO, Yoshihide MIZUKOSHI, Atsushi YOSHIZAWA, Akihiro KUROO, Ayumu MATSUDA, Motoki MURAI, Masahiko KINEBUCHI, Tomoko ASHIZAWA, Kentarou FUKUMOTO, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Kouki MORIMOTO, Masami YAMADA, Douglas Robert CARY, Makoto JITSUOKA, Kotaro TOKUMOTO, Keiichi MASUYA
  • Publication number: 20240404557
    Abstract: An image capture device for recording HDR (high dynamic range) image data obtained through image capture performs control so as to, when encoding HDR image data obtained by capturing an image with an image sensor, divide part of the HDR image data corresponding to a coding area to be encoded into a plurality of divided HDR image data, encode each of the plurality of divided HDR image data by using encoding means, and record the plurality of divided HDR image data that are encoded on a recording medium in a predetermined recording format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Hidenobu Akiyoshi, Toru Kobayashi, Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 12157157
    Abstract: A pressing which a ram repeats an up-and-down motion for press working machine that performs a continuous operation in by a press die held by a die holding portion of a bolster and a die holding portion of the ram includes: a die positioning portion that positions the press die in a first direction being a moving direction of the ram; a position adjustment mechanism having a servomotor as a drive source and optionally changing a position where the press die is positioned by the die positioning portion; and a drive control unit driving, when position change data is given during the continuous operation, the servomotor such that the position where the press die is positioned by the die positioning portion is changed to a position corresponding to the position change data when reaction force of the press working not applied to the die positioning portion during continuous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ASAHI-SEIKI MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fujio Mori, Seiji Kobayashi, Akihiro Shiino, Katsuyuki Inoue, Ken Hibino
  • Publication number: 20240380133
    Abstract: A terminal is constructed to be connected to an attachment target by a bolt, and includes a first surface, a through hole, and an asperity portion. A material for the terminal is aluminum, etc. The terminal has a Vickers hardness equal to or higher than 80 HV. A ratio S1/S2 between a first area S1 and a second area S2 while the first surface and the attachment target are connected to each other by tightening of the bolt is equal to or lower than 0.8. The first area S1 is an area of a region where the first surface is in contact with the attachment target at a pressure equal to or higher than 25 MPa. The second area S2 is an area of an annular region around the bolt. The first area S1 is equal to or larger than 5 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei KOBAYASHI, Toru MAEDA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Masashi FUJIKI, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240369588
    Abstract: An ultrasonic cleaner includes: a cleaning tank having a recess that enables insertion of a dispensing nozzle to be cleaned; and an ultrasonic transducer having a piezoelectric element and a front mass, in which a lateral surface portion of the cleaning tank is provided with a through-hole having an opening on an outer wall surface of the cleaning tank and an inner wall surface of the recess, the front mass is inserted into the through-hole, and a tip portion of the front mass is disposed so as to emit ultrasonic waves from the side of the dispensing nozzle. Thus, it is possible to provide an ultrasonic cleaner that has a configuration suitable for mounting in a narrow space such as a conveyance rack, that generates small liquid-surface fluctuations, and that is capable of using strong ultrasonic waves to irradiate an outer peripheral portion of a nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yosuke HORIE, Akihiro NOJIMA, Ryou KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki TAKAYAMA, Kohei NONAKA
  • Patent number: 12135220
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of power transmission coils, a display layer, and a controller. The power transmission coils are arranged in a predetermined direction on a road and configured to transmit electric power in a non-contact manner to a power receiving coil mounted on a vehicle. The display layer is provided above the power transmission coils. The controller controls a display mode of the display layer so as to guide the vehicle in accordance with a traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ito, Akihiro Kusumoto, Takahiro Hirano, Ryunosuke Yamashita, Daiki Tajima, Katsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12134875
    Abstract: When an operation amount of an operation lever corresponding to a boom cylinder is equal to or smaller than an operation amount of an operation lever corresponding to an arm cylinder, an estimated velocity of the arm cylinder used for region limiting control is computed on the basis of a first condition defining, in advance, a relation between the operation amount of the operation lever and the estimated velocity of the arm cylinder. When the operation amount of the operation lever corresponding to the boom cylinder is larger than the operation amount of the operation lever corresponding to the arm cylinder, the estimated velocity of the arm cylinder used for the region limiting control is computed as a velocity higher than the estimated velocity of the arm cylinder computed on the basis of the first condition. The behavior of the work device can thereby be stabilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tarou Akita, Takahiro Kobayashi, Akihiro Narazaki, Masamichi Ito
  • Patent number: 12120274
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a drive source that drives an object; and a hardware processor that detects a fluctuation range of a load applied to the drive source by driving the object, and determines a state of the object on a basis of a detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hayashi, Yuji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Eguchi, Takeshi Tamada
  • Patent number: 12119575
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector and a connector mounting body capable of ensuring good workability at the time of manufacturing and connection reliability with a circuit board. A connector includes a connector housing and a flexible cable arranged in the connector housing and including conductive paths. The flexible cable includes terminal connecting portions to be connected to mating terminals on one end sides of the conductive paths and board connecting portions to be connected to a circuit board on the other end sides of the conductive paths. The connector includes a reinforcement plate for reinforcing a region of the flexible cable on the side of the terminal connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Nishitani, Kenji Makino, Takashi Natsume, Shunya Takeuchi, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12109799
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, and an illumination device. In a normal print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, in a state in which a distance between the platen and a predetermined position of the illumination device in the height direction is a first distance, and the ink is ejected onto an object to be printed placed on the platen and the light is irradiated onto the ejected ink. In a gloss print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in the main scanning direction, in a state in which the distance between the platen and the predetermined position in the height direction is a second distance larger than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Akihiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Nishimoto, Kosuke Nukui, Kenta Hasebe
  • Patent number: 12109800
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, a first lamp, and a second lamp. The first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, and the platen is moved from the second head toward the first head relatively with respect to the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp, repeatedly. The second head ejects the second ink onto the object to be printed placed on the platen while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction. The first lamp irradiates light onto the second ink on the object to be printed while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Nishimoto, Kosuke Nukui, Kenta Hasebe, Kengo Takeda
  • Publication number: 20240324896
    Abstract: A respiratory sensor includes: a light wave circuit including a light projecting unit that emits light toward exhaled air or inhaled air and a light receiving unit that receives the light emitted by the light projecting unit, and formed on a semiconductor wafer; and a detection unit that detects a state of the exhaled air or the inhaled air from the light received by the light receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoi Kobayashi, Akihiro Fujie, Hiroshi Otsuka, Shumpei Kameyama
  • Patent number: 12104228
    Abstract: The aluminum alloy in the cross-section of the surface layer region of the aluminum alloy plate contains a compound containing one or more elements selected from the group consisting of silicon, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, zinc, zirconium, and titanium, and aluminum. The number of fields of view containing the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 5 ?m or more out of 10 fields of view extracted from the cross-section is 3 or less. In the cross-section, the number density of the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.5 ?m or more and less than 5.0 ?m is 0.0010 per ?m2 or less, and the area ratio of the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.5 ?m or more is 0.1% or more and less than 1.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Kobayashi, Toru Maeda, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Masashi Fujiki, Akihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12107159
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, a conductive member, a semiconductor member, and an insulating member. The conductive member includes a conductive member end portion and a conductive member other-end portion. The conductive member end portion is between the first electrode and the conductive member other-end portion. The conductive member is electrically connected with one of the second electrode or the third electrode. The semiconductor member includes first to third semiconductor regions. The first semiconductor region includes first and second partial regions. The first partial region is between the first and second electrodes. The second semiconductor region is between the first partial region and the third semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region is electrically connected with the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Kobayashi, Tomoaki Inokuchi, Hiro Gangi, Hiroki Nemoto, Akihiro Goryu, Ryohei Gejo, Tsuyoshi Kachi, Tatsuya Nishiwaki
  • Publication number: 20240304287
    Abstract: A recommendation data generation apparatus (2000) acquires material specification information (10) representing a material specification of a material (60) and physical property information (20) representing a physical property of a product (70). The recommendation data generation apparatus (2000) generates a self-organizing map (30) by using the physical property information (20). Each node on the self-organizing map (30) is assigned a position in a map space and a physical property vector representing a physical property. The recommendation data generation apparatus (2000) assigns each node a specification vector representing the material specification by using the material specification information (10). The recommendation data generation apparatus (2000) acquires target information (80) representing a desired physical property, and detects a target node to which a physical property vector matching that physical property is assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Naoki KUWAMORI, Akihiro MUSA, Yuka Kazama, Yohei TAKIGAWA, Yoshihiko SATOU, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Gota KIKUGAWA, Tomonaga OKABE, Kazuhiko KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 12087325
    Abstract: An image capture device for recording HDR (high dynamic range) image data obtained through image capture performs control so as to, when encoding HDR image data obtained by capturing an image with an image sensor, divide part of the HDR image data corresponding to a coding area to be encoded into a plurality of divided HDR image data, encode each of the plurality of divided HDR image data by using encoding means, and record the plurality of divided HDR image data that are encoded on a recording medium in a predetermined recording format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenobu Akiyoshi, Toru Kobayashi, Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 12077030
    Abstract: A control device includes a controller that executes determining a connection between a first unit that has a boarding space which allows a user to board and is provided with a predetermined facility and that is provided with a first path through which a fluid used in the predetermined facility passes and a second unit that is configured to be separated from and connected to the first unit and that has a drive device of a vehicle that is formed by being connected to the first unit, and supplying the fluid in the first path to a second unit side to absorb heat generated from the drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinari Ogawa, Kohta Tarao, Shinya Kijima, Osamu Fukawatase, Koji Yasui, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitomi Nakatani, Kuniaki Jinnai, Nobuki Hayashi, Masahiro Nagano, Akihiro Ito
  • Patent number: 12066250
    Abstract: Provided is a method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell which enables a heat insulating block to be firmly fixed to a furnace wall but does not require much time and costs for making the heat insulating block, and which further offers good workability at a site. The method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell includes: inserting a beam of a fixture into a fold of an inorganic fiber aggregate mat that is folded up to form a heat insulating block; and fixing the fixture and a furnace shell to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: MAFTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Hata, Mitsuo Suzuki, Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Yusuke Kimura, Akihiro Yano, Masakuni Taguchi
  • Patent number: 12045056
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a first processing result including information for identifying the position of the mobile object and a second processing result including information for identifying the position of the mobile object. The first processing result is obtained by executing a first processing method on an image obtained by measuring at least surroundings of the mobile object by using a light receiving sensor installed on the mobile object. The second processing result is obtained by executing a second processing method different from the first processing method on an observation result obtained by observing the mobile object by using a light receiving sensor installed at a location at which it is possible to observe the mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Makoto Tomioka, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Akihiro Katayama, Masakazu Fujiki, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Daisuke Kotake, Shuichi Mikame, Tomoyuki Ueno, Chiyako Nakajima, Satomi Nagashima