Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kobayashi

Hiroki 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: 12046845
    Abstract: A terminal connected to the end of an electrical wire, including: a main body portion connected to a core wire of the electrical wire and a contacting portion connected to the front end of the main body portion having a portion with a U-shaped cross-section that connects to a mating terminal, wherein the contacting portion includes: an upper plate portion connected to the main body portion, a lower plate portion that is parallel with the upper plate portion, a side plate portion that connects one of either the left or right edges of the upper plate portion and the lower plate portion, a tip mating recessed portion demarcated on three sides by the upper plate portion, the lower plate portion, and the side plate portion, an inclined protruding piece that extends diagonally downward from the back end of the lower plate portion, and a middle plate portion that extends between the inclined protruding piece and the upper plate portion in the width direction of the contacting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Ayako Matsumoto, Kensuke Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240208738
    Abstract: An article supply device capable of supplying first and second type articles comprises a main body, an accommodation unit for accommodating articles, a supply unit for supplying articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, a lock unit which prevents articles from being supplied from the supply unit; and a detection unit capable of detecting the presence or absence of first type articles and the presence or absence of the second type articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, wherein the lock unit is turned into a lock state, on condition that the absence of the articles is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Hajime KONDO, Tatsushi IKARASHI, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Nobuo KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240212413
    Abstract: An article supply device capable of detecting the presence or absence of articles and supplying the articles, includes a main body, an accommodation unit for accommodating the articles, a supply unit for supplying the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, an up and down moving pin (detection unit) for detecting the presence or absence of the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, a transmission unit for transmitting a signal indicating the absence of articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, and a sold-out display unit for displaying the absence of the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit. The transmission unit and the sold-out display unit are configured to operate integrally based on a detection operation of the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Hajime KONDO, Tatsushi IKARASHI, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Nobuo KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240206753
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes: a light emitting unit including a light emitting element that emits light; a light receiving unit configured to receive the light passing through a living body and generate a detection signal; a temperature sensor configured to measure at least one of an environmental temperature and a body temperature of the living body and generate temperature data; and a controller configured to adjust a light emitting intensity of the light emitting element. The controller calculates a temperature change rate using the temperature data, and adjusts the light emitting intensity based on the temperature change rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Ayae SAWADO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12021326
    Abstract: It is aimed to reduce connection resistance between a female housing and a male housing without causing the settling of a resilient contact piece of a female terminal fitting. A female connector (F) includes a female housing (10) configured to accommodate female terminal fittings (20) and to be connected to a male housing (50), and a movable portion (31) displaceable between a terminal deforming position where resilient contact pieces (25) are resiliently deformed away from male terminal fittings (60) and a releasing position where the movable portion is disengaged from the resilient contact pieces (25). As the connection of the female housing (10) and the male housing (50) proceeds, a retainer-side slide-contact portion (32) slides in contact with male-side slide-contact portions (55) and the movable portion (31) is displaced from the releasing position to the terminal deforming position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Yutaka Kobayashi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Teruo Hara
  • Publication number: 20240180457
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes: a light emitting unit including a first light emitting element configured to emit red light, a second light emitting element configured to emit infrared light, and a third light emitting element configured to emit green light; a light receiving unit configured to receive the red light, the infrared light, and the green light emitted by the light emitting unit, and to generate a first light receiving signal based on the red light, a second light receiving signal based on the infrared light, and a third light receiving signal based on the green light; and a controller configured to measure a pulse wave. The controller operates the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit in a first mode of measuring the pulse wave using the third light receiving signal or in a second mode of measuring the pulse wave using the first light receiving signal or the second light receiving signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Ayae SAWADO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240170870
    Abstract: A surface mount connector 10 is attached on top of a circuit board 5 having the vertical direction as the board thickness direction. The surface mount connector 10 comprises a plurality of terminals 20 and a housing 30 accommodating the plurality of terminals 20 arranged in a row. Leads 23 that connect to the circuit board 5 are provided to the lower ends of the plurality of terminals 20, and each of the plurality of terminals 20 is supported so as to be able to move independently within the housing 30 in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Shinji NOZAKI
  • Patent number: 11987408
    Abstract: A component mounting system including: a component mounting device group in which a plurality of component mounting devices that mount components supplied to a board transported in from an upstream side by a tape feeder and transport out the board to a downstream side, and cut a carrier tape after supplying the components by a cutter device and discharge scraps of carrier tape, are installed on a floor surface while being arranged in a direction of conveying the board; a main conveyor that is installed along an arrangement direction of the plurality of component mounting devices in a region on the floor surface under the component mounting device group, and transports the scraps of carrier tape discharged from each of the plurality of component mounting devices; and a scraps storage that is installed outside the region and stores the scraps of carrier tape transported by the main conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Naoki Azuma, Chikara Takata, Yuzo Asano, Toru Chikuma, Hiroshi Satoh
  • Patent number: 11981136
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a plurality of head chips having a nozzle surface; a thermally conductive holder holding the plurality of head chips; a thermally conductive flow path structure provided with a flow path of a liquid supplied to the plurality of head chips; and a planar heater disposed between the holder and the flow path structure and along a direction parallel to the nozzle surface, in which the heater overlaps the plurality of head chips in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kanegae, Katsuhiro Okubo, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
  • Publication number: 20240154328
    Abstract: A housing includes a terminal fixing wall, through which the terminal is passed to be fixed, a bottom wall to be placed on the circuit board and an upper wall facing the bottom wall. The terminal includes a terminal connecting portion located inside the housing with the terminal fixed to the terminal fixing wall, an extending portion disposed from the terminal fixing wall to outside of the housing and extending toward the bottom wall along the terminal fixing wall and a board connecting portion extending in a region between the bottom wall of the housing and the circuit board on a tip of the extending portion and to be soldered to the conductive path of the circuit board. The upper wall includes an upper opening open in at least a part of a region corresponding to the board connecting portion in a direction intersecting the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11970622
    Abstract: Provided is an active-energy-ray-curable composition including: a polymerizable monomer having static surface tension of 40 mN/m or greater at 25 degrees C., a content of the polymerizable monomer being 15% by mass or less relative to total amount of the active-energy-ray-curable composition; an organic pigment serving as a colorant, the organic pigment being contained in 2% by mass or greater relative to total amount of the active-energy-ray-curable composition; and a dispersant having amine value of 5 mgKOH/g or greater but 35 mgKOH/g or less, amine value being greater than acid value of the dispersant, the dispersant being contained in 15% by mass or greater but 70% by mass or less relative to mass of the organic pigment, wherein the active-energy-ray-curable composition is substantially free of a surfactant, and wherein a water content in the active-energy-ray-curable composition is 500 ppm by mass or greater but 3,000 ppm by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11966237
    Abstract: A gimbal configured to stabilize a supported unit in a predetermined attitude includes an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration of the supported unit, a first calculator configured to calculate attitude information of the supported unit using the acceleration, a rotator including a rotor member rotatable relative to a stator member, an angle detecting sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of the rotator, and a second calculator configured to calculate a correction value for the angle information using the attitude information and the angle information of the rotator based on the rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON PRECISION INC.
    Inventors: Youhei Yamamoto, Hiroki Kobayashi, Seiyo Aizu
  • Patent number: 11955750
    Abstract: A joint connector includes the plurality of wires extending in an extending direction, a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts of the plurality of wires in the extending direction, a lower housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals, a busbar to be disposed in the lower housing, and an upper cover to be assembled with the lower housing. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, into which each of the plurality of tabs is inserted, and a wire connecting portion to be connected to each of the plurality of wires. The plurality of wires drawn out rearward in the extending direction from the lower housing include bent portions folded forward in the extending direction. The upper cover includes wire pressing portions for holding the plurality of wires folded forward in the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hajime Kawase, Masaaki Tabata, Teruo Hara, Hajime Matsui
  • Patent number: 11938732
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head supported by a support body includes: a first head chip; a holder having a holding portion holding the first head chip and a flange portion; and a heater heating the holding portion, in which the holding portion has a heat receiving portion receiving heat from the heater, and a shortest path of heat transferred through the holder from the heat receiving portion to the flange portion is bent or curved at two or more points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Okubo, Takahiro Kanegae, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
  • Patent number: 11938728
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: head chips including a first-head-chip and a second-head-chip; a holder holding the head chips; and a heater along a direction parallel to a nozzle surface. The first-head-chip and the second-head-chip are disposed to be offset from each other in both a first-direction and a second-direction parallel to the nozzle surface and intersecting with each other. When a first-side is one of the four sides of a virtual rectangle circumscribing the aggregate of the head chips and a second-side and a third-side are coupled to both ends of the first-side, the first-head-chip is in contact with the first-side and the third-side and the second-head chip is in contact with the second-side. The heater overlaps the head chips. A first-region surrounded by the first-side, the second-side, the first-head-chip, and the second-head-chip includes a first-outside-part positioned outside the outer edge of the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kanegae, Katsuhiro Okubo, Kentaro Murakami, Shingo Tomimatsu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Uezawa
  • Patent number: 11942737
    Abstract: A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a lower housing, an upper cover assembled with the lower housing, a plurality of terminals respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, and a busbar connected to the plurality of terminals. The busbar disposed in the lower housing includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals disposed in the lower housing includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being inserted into the tube portion, sandwiching portions extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich one of the plurality of wires, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portions, movable along the extending direction and including pressurizing portions configured to pressurize the sandwiching portions toward the wire with the one of the plurality of wires sandwiched by the sandwiching portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hajime Kawase, Masaaki Tabata, Teruo Hara, Hajime Matsui
  • Publication number: 20240086836
    Abstract: According to the present invention, article provision device information which relates to an article provision device satisfying a search condition of an administrator who administers an article provision device from which an article is provided and which includes stock information of the article to be provided from the article provision device is acquired; the article provision device information, in which the stock information in the article provision device information is shown as detailed information is presenting to an administrator terminal; the article provision device information which relates to the article provision device satisfying the search condition of the user and which includes the stock information of articles to be supplied from the article provision device is acquired, and the article provision device information in which the stock information of the article provision device is shown by the simple information different from the detailed information is presented to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hajime KONDO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240083600
    Abstract: An extensible boom is extended in an extension direction from a state of being rolled in a cylindrical form, the extension direction being one of short directions of the cylindrical form. Protruding portions and recessed portions are alternately formed at each of one end and another end in a long direction of the cylindrical form. The protruding portions at the one end are located opposite the recessed portions at the other end. The recessed portions at the one end are located opposite the protruding portions at the other end. When the extensible boom is extended along the extension direction, the protruding portions at the one end engage with the recessed portions at the other end, and the recessed portions at the one end engage with the protruding portions at the other end, such that a cylindrical shape is formed along the extension direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOYAMA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Kazunori TAKAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20240053139
    Abstract: A gauge carrier holds an optical fiber having a gauge portion provided in one axial part thereof. A center region has a predefined stiffness and holds the gauge portion. Length in the longitudinal direction of the gauge carrier is equal to or greater than length of the gauge portion. Two split regions each have a stiffness different from that of the center portion, total length of the split regions in the longitudinal direction of the gauge carrier is greater than the length of the center region in the longitudinal direction, one of the split regions is positioned in front of the center region and holds a part of the optical fiber that is in front of the gauge portion, and the other is positioned in back of the center region and holds a part of the optical fiber that is in the back of the gauge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori TAKAGAKI, Yohei ITO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya KOYAMA, Shigeru UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20240054450
    Abstract: In an article supply device managing method, arrangement information in a sales area and article information of each article supply device in the sales area is acquired from an article supply device database, which stores the arrangement information relating to a layout of the respective article supply devices arranged in the sales area and the article information relating to an article which can be supplied from each article supply device arranged in the sales area, and a layout image where an object image of each article supply device corresponding to the arrangement of the article supply devices in the predetermined sales area is arranged is displayed on a terminal a user operates, by using the article information and the arrangement information of each article supply devices in the predetermined sales area. The object image includes article information of the article supply device corresponding to the object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Hajime KONDO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI