Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kobayashi

Hiroshi 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: 12291762
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cobalt-nickel-containing solution including: preparing a crude nickel hydroxide and/or a crude cobalt hydroxide as a starting material, the crude nickel or cobalt hydroxide containing cobalt and nickel and elements except the cobalt and nickel as impurities, the crude nickel hydroxide containing the nickel more than the cobalt, and the crude cobalt hydroxide containing the cobalt more than the nickel; a water-washing process for obtaining a post-water-washing crude hydroxide from the starting material; a leaching process for obtaining a post-leaching solution from the post-water-washing crude hydroxide; a neutralization process of subjecting the post-leaching solution to neutralization and solid-liquid-separation to remove the impurities as a post-neutralization residue containing one or more of iron, silicon, aluminum, and chromium, thereby obtaining a post-neutralization solution; and an extraction process of subjecting the post-neutralization solution to solvent extraction to ob
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Ohara, Shota Sanjo, Masatoshi Takano, Satoshi Asano, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yusuke Senba, Hiroto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12285895
    Abstract: An injection molding machine management system includes an injection molding machine, a first detecting section configured to detect at least one of a physical quantity of the injection molding machine and a physical quantity of a molded article, an on-premise server, and a Cloud server. The Cloud server includes a first storing section configured to store information concerning at least one of the physical quantity of the injection molding machine and the physical quantity of the molded article detected by the first detecting section and a virtual machine configured to generate a control rule for the injection molding machine based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Keiichi Enomoto, Hayato Kobayashi, Masahiro Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20250131710
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and building analysis systems are disclosed that analyze an overhead image to generate a building outline for a building associated with a property represented by the overhead image. The overhead image is included in imagery data obtained from an overhead imagery server based on a received request comprising a geographic location for the property. The building outline is then shifted or rotated. Segment(s) of the building outline are slid to match identified wall(s) of the building. The building outline is then modified based on property feature(s) detected based on an application of one or more trained machine learning classifiers to the overhead image. At least a portion of the overhead image is output with a graphical overlay comprising the building outline via a user interface in response to the received request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Julius Simonelli, Ilsoo Seong, Jason Janofsky, Nicholas Molyneux, David Tobias, David Lyman, Peter Tran, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12280346
    Abstract: A micromixer includes: a first channel plate where a first channel and a plurality of first branch channels are each formed by a non-through groove in a front surface, and a first confluence channel is formed by a non-through groove in a rear surface, and includes a first communication channel that communicates the first branch channels with the first confluence channel; a first lid plate that covers the front surface; a second channel plate where a second confluence channel is formed by a non-through groove in the front surface, and a second channel and a plurality of second branch each formed by a non-through groove in the rear surface, and includes a second communication channel that communicates the second branch channels with the second confluence channel; and a second lid plate that covers the rear surface of the second channel plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: CKD CORPORATION, Shimadzu Corporation, Shinwa Chemical Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nitta, Hiroshi Itafuji, Mitsuyoshi Ohsaki, Masahide Gunji, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Katsuya Okumura
  • Publication number: 20250122036
    Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a sheet placement unit to place a sheet, and an indicator indicating a predetermined position at which the sheet is to be set on the sheet placement unit. The indicator is movable between a first position at which the indicator is adjacent to or in contact with the sheet on the sheet placement unit and a second position farther than the first position from the sheet placement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUBO, Ryo KOBAYASHI, Ayumu HASHIMOTO, Shinya TAKAI, Takashi FUJII, Ryuichi SHIRANE, Takashi MUNAKATA, Makoto KURATA, Sakiko TOMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 12268536
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an X-ray limiter having four diaphragm blades; and a console on which four physical operating units that correspond to the four diaphragm blades are placed at four positions. When viewed from the side of the operator of the console, the four operating units are placed on the far side, the near side, the left side, and the right side. The far-side operating unit, the near-side operating unit, the left-side operating unit, and the right-side operating unit correspond to the upper diaphragm blade, the lower diaphragm blade, the left-side diaphragm blade, and the right-side diaphragm blade, respectively, with reference to an X-ray image displayed in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Keisuke Sugawara, Yosuke Kayukawa, Hiroshi Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20250101553
    Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a desired chemical composition and microstructure, an average sphere equivalent radius of alloy carbides in the ferrite is 0.5 nm or more and less than 5.0 nm, an average number density of the alloy carbides in the ferrite is 3.5×1016/cm3 or more, an E value that indicates periodicity of the microstructure is 10.7 or more, and an I value that indicates uniformity of the microstructure is 1.020 or more, a standard deviation of a Mn concentration is 0.60 mass % or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideto HIROSHIMA, Hiroshi SHUTO, Kazumasa TSUTSUI, Yukiko KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12253217
    Abstract: A casing for gas including a first channel section through which gas flows and a second channel section intersecting with the first channel section, the first channel section having an intersecting part that intersects with the second channel section, the intersecting part being formed to have a rounded quadrangular cross section and having a flat part, the second channel section intersecting with the first channel section to open at the flat part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamashita, Hiromitsu Kiyose, Yutaka Suzuki, Makoto Ninomiya, Masayoshi Okamoto, Ryo Miyoshi, Tomohei Kobayashi, Daiki Miyamoto, Daichi Kano
  • Publication number: 20250083003
    Abstract: A golf club includes a club shaft having a first end, a second end, and an inner peripheral surface defining an inner space of the club shaft, and a weight piece installed on a first end side of the club shaft. The weight piece includes an insertion portion located in the inner space, and an engagement portion located outside the club shaft to engage the first end. The insertion portion includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has an outer diameter smaller than the first inner diameter. The second portion includes a large diameter portion having an outer diameter larger than the first inner diameter in a state before being placed in the club shaft, and at least one rigidity-lowered portion that elastically deforms the second portion so that the outer diameter of the large diameter portion becomes smaller when receiving an external force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kota MAEDA, Hiroshi HASEGAWA, Akihiko KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12246869
    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: April 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Naoki Azuma, Chikara Takata, Yuzo Asano, Toru Chikuma, Hiroshi Satoh
  • Publication number: 20250080086
    Abstract: Provided is an active filter device capable of effectively reducing common mode noise and differential mode noise and optimizing filter characteristics. The active filter device includes an inverting amplifier circuit 37 that inverts and amplifies a common mode voltage and a differential amplifier circuit 64 that differentially amplifies a differential mode voltage, and an output voltage of the inverting amplifier circuit 37 is applied as a common mode compensation voltage to Y capacitors 21, 22, an output of the differential amplifier circuit 64 obtained by amplifying a voltage of a positive-side power supply line 11 is applied as a differential mode compensation voltage to a negative-side X capacitor 42, and an output of the differential amplifier circuit 64 obtained by amplifying a voltage of a negative-side power supply line 12 is applied as a differential mode compensation voltage to a positive-side X capacitor 41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Koji KOBAYASHI, Tatsuki KASHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250065389
    Abstract: A burring structural member resistant to fracture even if the burring structural part is bent back is provided. In the burring structural member of the present disclosure, a thickness T of the sheet-shaped part is 2.0 mm or more, a Charpy impact value vE(0) of the sheet-shaped part at 0° C. is 50 J/cm2 or more, a BCI value calculated by BCI=vE(0)/Lc based on the Charpy impact value vE(0) (J/cm2) and a maximum length Lc (?m) of a crack at the inside bend of the bent wall part of the burring structural parts is 2.5 or more, and a curvature radius R (mm) of the inside bend of the bent wall part is larger than R1 calculated by R1=25/BCI?1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke KOBAYASHI, Ryoma KATO, Hiroshi SHUTO
  • Publication number: 20250065272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a separation membrane in which a liquid-to-be-filtrated is subjected to filtration to obtain a filtrate, the method including: an accumulated amount calculation step of calculating an amount of constituent components of the liquid-to-be-filtrated accumulated on a surface and in pores of the separation membrane after setting an initial value; a chemical liquid cleaning effect calculation step of calculating a restoration degree of an accumulated amount of the constituent components or membrane filtration resistance in chemical liquid cleaning based on a result of accumulated amount calculation; and a chemical liquid cleaning condition determination step of determining a chemical liquid cleaning condition based on results obtained in the accumulated amount calculation step and the chemical liquid cleaning effect calculation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi HAMADA, Kazuki HAGAWA, Takumi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12237423
    Abstract: Transistors using nitride semiconductor layers as channels were experimentally manufactured. The nitride semiconductor layers were all formed through a sputtering method. A deposition temperature was set at less than 600° C., and a polycrystalline or amorphous InxGayAlzN layer was obtained. When composition expressed with a general expression InxGayAlzN (where x+y+z=1.0) falls within a range of 0.3?x?1.0 and 0?z<0.4, a transistor 1a exhibiting an ON/OFF ratio of 102 or higher can be obtained. That is, even a polycrystalline or amorphous film exhibits electric characteristics equal to those of a single crystal. Therefore, it is possible to provide a semiconductor device in which constraints to manufacturing conditions are drastically eliminated, and which includes an InGaAlN-based nitride semiconductor layer which is inexpensive and has excellent electric characteristics as a channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujioka, Atsushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12230441
    Abstract: A transport device and a transport method efficiently increase a thrust to suppress power consumption. The transport device has a first magnetic body on a side of a to-be-transported object, a magnetic circuit with a core consisting of a second magnetic body, and a winding wound around an outside of the core, and a drive circuit supplying a current to the winding of the magnetic circuit. The magnetic circuit has first and second magnetic circuits, and in a case where the first magnetic body is located on a side of the second magnetic circuit relative to a first predetermined position between the first magnetic circuit and the second magnetic circuit, the drive circuit supplies a current to a winding of the first magnetic circuit in such a manner to cause an electromagnetic repulsive force to be generated between the first magnetic body and the first magnetic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Hoshi, Yasuaki Aoyama, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Katsuhiro Kambara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kuniaki Onizawa
  • Publication number: 20250042073
    Abstract: To provide an injection mold capable of molding a member with reduced weld marks. An injection mold 1 includes: a ring-shaped gate through which a molten resin is poured into a cavity disposed at a center; and a plurality of runners that supply the molten resin supplied from a sprue to the gate, and the gate includes a first ring that has a plurality of gate inlets, each of which communicates with one of the plurality of runners, a second ring that has a slit-shaped gate outlet extending in a circumferential direction and communicating with the cavity, the second ring being disposed inside the first ring and having a thickness thinner than the first ring, and a step that is disposed between the first ring and the second ring and establishes communication between the first ring and the second ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAKOSHI, Tetsuro HOSAKA, Koshi SATO, Takahiro OI, Yo KOBAYASHI, Kazuhisa FUJIWARA, Hiroshi OTAGURO
  • Publication number: 20250033261
    Abstract: To provide an injection molding device capable of injection-molding a molded article in a tubular shape with a constant inner diameter by using a core with a simple structure with no draft angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAKOSHI, Tetsuro HOSAKA, Koshi SATO, Takahiro OI, Yo KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi OTAGURO, Kazuhisa FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20250024857
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing the reproducible seafood imitating product which can reproduce the flesh of the seafood better than before. A method for producing the seafood imitating product of the present invention is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Taichiro Kondo, Daisuke Kondo, Hiroshi Kondo, Akito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250024864
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing the reproducible seafood imitating product which can reproduce the flesh of the seafood better than before. A method for producing the seafood imitating product of the present invention is provided. The present invention is a method for producing the seafood imitating product including dietary fiber which comprises heat mixing dietary fiber, tapioca powder, thickener and water to obtain a flesh solution, solidifying the flesh solution to obtain a solidified body and freezing the solidified body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Taichiro Kondo, Daisuke Kondo, Hiroshi Kondo, Akito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250010996
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology capable of improving propulsion efficiency in a BLI propulsion technology. [Solving Means] An aircraft according to the present technology includes: a fuselage section; and a BLI propulsion section. The fuselage section has a cylindrical shape that is long in an axial direction and short in a width direction and a vertical direction, and includes a rear end portion on a rear side in the axial direction. The BLI propulsion section is a BLI propulsion section that is provided on a rear side of the fuselage section and includes an intake port, a center position of the intake port being offset from a center position of the rear end portion in at least one of the vertical direction or the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOBAYASHI, Yuzuru YOKOKAWA, Masayuki SUZUKI, Akira NISHIZAWA, Ryuji IIJIMA, Eiji SHIMA