Patents by Inventor Hideaki Kobayashi

Hideaki 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: 20240365574
    Abstract: An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and at least including a photoelectric conversion layer; and a first semiconductor layer provided between the second electrode and the organic layer and having an electron affinity of 4.5 eV or more and 6.0 eV or less, the first semiconductor layer including a first carbon-containing compound and a second carbon-containing compound, the first carbon-containing compound having an electron affinity greater than 4.8 eV or an electron affinity greater than a work function of the second electrode, the second carbon-containing compound having an ionization potential greater than 5.5 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: YOSUKE SAITO, MASATO KANNO, SHINNOSUKE HATTORI, HAJIME KOBAYASHI, TAKEO TSUKAMOTO, YUSHIRO NAKAGOME, CHIAKI TAKAHASHI, MIKA INABA, YOSUKE SUDA, KEI FUKUHARA, HIDEAKI MOGI
  • Patent number: 12131940
    Abstract: A temperature control device includes: a top plate that supports a substrate; a base plate connected to the top plate so as to form an internal space with the top plate; a thermoelectric module plate arranged in the internal space; a heat exchange plate that is arranged in the internal space and exchanges heat with the thermoelectric module plate; and a sealing member that comes into contact with each of the top plate and the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: KELK Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Masato Horikoshi, Hideaki Ohkubo, Wataru Kiyosawa
  • Patent number: 12113758
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention determines whether a message to be transmitted from an information processing apparatus include at least one attached file, when the message is transmitted from the information processing apparatus to one or more destinations via a network. When the communication control apparatus has determined that the message to be transmitted includes said at least one attached file, the communication control apparatus acquires approval of transmission of said at least one attached file from an approver, and transmits the message including said at least one attached file to said one or more destinations, on condition that approval of transmission of said at least one attached file has been received from the approver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NTT Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Takada, Hideaki Akabori, Tsunechika Kishida, Yoshihiko Kobayashi, Masataka Suzuki, Tohru Minakuchi
  • Publication number: 20240331409
    Abstract: A generation method by a controller, the generation method includes: acquiring a vehicle interior video from an in-vehicle camera and a vehicle exterior video from an out-vehicle camera; executing a motion analysis of feature points of at least one of a face, an eye, or a hand of a driver based on the vehicle interior video; and generating video data displaying a frame of view of the driver and motion information of the driver superimposed on the vehicle exterior video based on the motion analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Chiharu KATAOKA, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Hideaki MIYAZAKI, Osamu KUKIMOTO, Mayu HATANO
  • Patent number: 12089459
    Abstract: A display apparatus with low power consumption and high image quality is provided. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting element, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. Preferably, one electrode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the first transistor; the one electrode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to one electrode of the first capacitor; a gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor; the gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the second capacitor; the other electrode of the second capacitor is electrically connected to the other electrode of the first capacitor; and the other electrode of the second capacitor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Kobayashi, Hideaki Shishido, Takayuki Ikeda, Shuichi Katsui
  • Publication number: 20240293567
    Abstract: Desired is development of novel CDN derivatives having STING agonist activity; and a therapeutic agents and/or therapeutic methods using the novel CDN derivatives for diseases associated with STING agonist activity. Further desired is development of a therapeutic agents and/or therapeutic methods capable of delivering the novel CDN derivatives specifically to targeted cells and organs for diseases associated with STING agonist activity. The present invention provides novel CDN derivatives having potent STING agonist activity, and antibody-CDN derivative conjugates including the novel CDN derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshifumi TSUDA, Toshiki TABUCHI, Hideaki WATANABE, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Masayuki ISHIZAKI, Kyoko HARA, Teiji WADA, Masami ARAI
  • Publication number: 20240294053
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle air conditioning system and a vehicle air conditioning method that increase heating performance while recovering exhaust heat from onboard equipment. The vehicle air conditioning system comprises: a refrigerant circuit; a heat medium circuit including a high-temperature medium circuit and a low-temperature medium circuit; an interior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between a heat medium and air; an exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the heat medium and outside air; an exhaust heat recovery circuit; and a switching part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TANABE, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Tomoki HASE, Yasutaka AOKI, Hideaki TATENOI
  • Publication number: 20240284951
    Abstract: An acid liquid seasoning includes at least acetic acid, an edible oil and fat, and water, and at least a part of the acid liquid seasoning includes an emulsified phase. In the acid liquid seasoning, the content of the acetic acid is 0.1% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less with respect to the total amount of an aqueous phase, the content of the edible oil and fat is 10% by mass or more with respect to the total amount of the acid liquid seasoning, the edible oil and fat includes unroasted sesame oil, and the ratio of the content of the unroasted sesame oil in the acid liquid seasoning to the content of the acetic acid in the aqueous phase is 0.1 or more and 10 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Riho IWAMI, Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Hidehiko YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12056778
    Abstract: The confidentiality of data is maintained in a case where analysis of an operation state of a facility is entrusted to the outside. An embodiment of the present invention is configured to chronologically store log data in a first storage medium, and store attribute information indicating a relevance between a type of a failure expected to occur in a facility and each of a plurality of data users; The embodiment is further configured to select, at the occurrence of a failure in the facility, a data user who has a relevance to a type of the failure from among the plurality of data users based on the attribute information, selectively read log data relating to an operation state of the facility in which the failure has occurred, and transmits the read log data to the selected data user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Takada, Hideaki Akabori, Tsunechika Kishida, Yoshihiko Kobayashi, Masataka Suzuki, Tohru Minakuchi
  • Publication number: 20240254350
    Abstract: Provided is an ink including a solvent, a resin, and thickening particles. The ink has a viscosity of 3.00×103 mPa·s or more and 2.50×104 mPa·s or less at 25° C. at a shear rate of 1 s?1, and a viscosity of 130 mPa·s or less at 25° C. at a shear rate of 5,000 s?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Atsufumi HANAZAWA, Tomohiro INOUE, Michihiko NAMBA, Takashi TAMAI, Ryo KAWAMURA, Satoyuki SEKIGUCHI, Shunsuke KOBAYASHI, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Hideaki NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 12045507
    Abstract: Each storage controller comprises a first storage unit, an interface unit, and a processing unit which sends, to the interface unit, a parameter which instructs n-fold write of writing data in each of n-number of (n is a natural number of 2 or more) other storage controllers. When the interface unit receives the parameter, the interface unit executes each processing of acquiring the data from the first storage unit and storing the data in the second storage unit, generating n-number of requests of writing the data in each of n-number of the other storage controllers, storing each of the generated requests in n-number of the queues corresponding to each of n-number of the other storage controllers, and processing each request stored in each queue and transferring the data stored in the second storage unit to each of n-number of the other storage controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaro Kobayashi, Katsuya Tanaka, Hideaki Fukuda, Yoshikazu Murayama
  • Patent number: 11961651
    Abstract: In a coil device, a first coil includes a common terminal side first coil conductor connected to a ground terminal, an intermediate first coil conductor, and an input/output terminal side first coil conductor connected to a first input/output terminal, and a second coil includes a common terminal side second coil conductor connected to the ground terminal, an intermediate second coil conductor, and an input/output terminal side second coil conductor connected to a second input/output terminal. The input/output terminal side first coil conductor is located between the intermediate second coil conductor and the input/output terminal side second coil conductor, and the input/output terminal side second coil conductor is located between the intermediate first coil conductor and the input/output terminal side first coil conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mikawa, Hideaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240016192
    Abstract: A cooked rice improver, which allows fat and oil to be easily emulsified immediately after being added, is excellent in the effect of releasing cooked rice, reduces breakage of rice grains and makes the graininess of rice excellent, suppresses aging of cooked rice, and allows cooked rice with improved richness and excellent flavor to be obtained. The cooked rice improver contains fat and oil, an ionic surfactant, and a polyhydric alcohol, wherein a content of the fat and oil is 8% by mass or more and 65% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the cooked rice improver, and a difference of L2 value?L1 value calculated at 20° C. according to the following definition is positive: L1 value: lightness value of cooked rice improver; L2 value: lightness value of emulsion obtained by adding 100 times by mass of fresh water to the cooked rice improver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Akifumi MIKAMI, Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Mayumi HIDAN, Wataru URUSHIBATA, Ryosuke HOSHINA, Kenta SUSAKI
  • Patent number: 11869701
    Abstract: A circuit element includes a multilayer body including insulating substrates, a first coil conductor inside the multilayer body, and first and second outer electrodes and a ground electrode on outer surfaces of the multilayer body. The first coil conductor includes a winding axis extending in a stacking direction of the insulating substrates, the first coil conductor is connected to the first outer electrode, the second outer electrode, or the ground electrode, and the second outer electrode extends along a side surface of the multilayer body. An additional capacitance is generated between the second outer electrode and the first coil conductor. The second outer electrode includes first and second portions with different widths in a layer direction of the insulating substrates and the width of the second portion is larger than the width of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kentaro Mikawa
  • Publication number: 20240000094
    Abstract: An emulsified composition, which allows fat and oil to be easily and uniformly dispersed in a food or drink product when added to the food or drink product, is provided. The present invention provides an emulsified composition for adding fat and oil to a food or drink product, wherein the emulsified composition contains fat and oil, an ionic surfactant, and a polyhydric alcohol, a content of the fat and oil is 5% by mass or more and 65% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the emulsified composition, a content of the ionic surfactant is 0.3% by mass or more and 6.0% by mass or less with respect to the total amount of the emulsified composition, the ionic surfactant contains at least lecithin and/or lysolecithin, the emulsified composition has a specific gravity of 1.0 or more at 20° C. and a viscosity of 60,000 mPa·s or less at 20° C., and a difference of L2 value-L1 value calculated by the following definition at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: KEWPIE CORPORATION, Kewpie Jyozo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Mayumi HIDAN, Akifumi MIKAMI
  • Patent number: 11843292
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress an outflow of varnish from a lower portion of a stator core by increasing a filling rate of varnish in a slot. Provided is a method for manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine. The stator has a coil and a stator core in which a slot that houses the coil is formed, and a resin member of which viscosity is low at a first temperature and the viscosity is high at a second temperature higher than the first temperature is filled in the slot from an injection side. The manufacturing method includes a first step of causing a temperature difference in the stator core such that the injection side becomes the first temperature and an opposite side of the injection side becomes the second temperature, and a second step of injecting the resin member from the injection side in a state in which the temperature difference is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Yoshio Ozeki, Daisuke Kitajima, Toshiyuki Takano
  • Patent number: 11831292
    Abstract: An LC composite component includes a multilayer body including insulating base members that are laminated and include insulating base members on which conductor patterns are provided. Capacitor conductor patterns are provided on insulating base members different from an insulating base member on which a coil conductor pattern is provided, and each include an extending portion overlapping with a line segment connecting a center of a first terminal and a center of a second terminal in a shortest distance as viewed in the lamination direction and projecting portions projecting in directions different from the direction of the line segment, and the projecting portions overlap with linear portions of the coil conductor pattern without overlapping with bent portions thereof as viewed in the lamination direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11387542
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes an antenna element, a switch with a common terminal that is electrically connected to the antenna element side, a first signal path provided between a first input/output terminal of the switch and a first communication circuit, and a second signal path provided between a second input/output terminal of the switch and a second communication circuit. The first signal path includes a radio-frequency circuit and a phase shifter, and the RF circuit has an impedance that is open or shorted in a second frequency band as seen from the antenna element side. In a state in which the first input/output terminal and the second input/output terminal are both electrically connected to the common terminal, the phase shifter provides a phase shift, and the impedance in the second frequency band of the first signal path as seen from the common terminal is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11375659
    Abstract: A lawn mower includes a cutter blade having flaps and a flap drive mechanism. The flap drive mechanism includes a flap drive source and an intermediate power transmission unit. The intermediate power transmission unit is provided on a power transmission path between the flap drive source and the flaps and provided coaxially with a blade rotation axis. An output axis of a motor is provided coaxially with a blade rotation axis and the intermediate power transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Ito, Hideaki Kobayashi, Koji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20220094248
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress an outflow of varnish from a lower portion of a stator core by increasing a filling rate of varnish in a slot. Provided is a method for manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine. The stator has a coil and a stator core in which a slot that houses the coil is formed, and a resin member of which viscosity is low at a first temperature and the viscosity is high at a second temperature higher than the first temperature is filled in the slot from an injection side. The manufacturing method includes a first step of causing a temperature difference in the stator core such that the injection side becomes the first temperature and an opposite side of the injection side becomes the second temperature, and a second step of injecting the resin member from the injection side in a state in which the temperature difference is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshio OZEKI, Daisuke KITAJIMA, Toshiyuki TAKANO