Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Hiroyuki 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: 20230299472
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radome 1 for vehicle-mounted radar devices including a base body 2 having an electromagnetic wave permeable substrate 3 and a heater wire 41 laminated on an inner surface side of the substrate 3 and wired in a surface direction of the substrate 3, in which linear portions 411 of the heater wire 41 are arranged side by side at intervals in the surface direction of the substrate 3 in an electromagnetic wave irradiation region R of the substrate 3, and a surface occupancy ratio of the linear portions 411 of the heater wire 41 in the electromagnetic wave irradiation region R of the substrate 3 is set to 1% or more and 24% or less. It is possible to exhibit a practical snow-melting function as a radome for vehicle-mounted radar devices while suppressing attenuation of electromagnetic waves irradiated by a vehicle-mounted radar device within an allowable range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SANKEI GIKEN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamasa Enomoto, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Ryuho Ikemasu, Shinpei Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230294697
    Abstract: When accelerating a vehicle toward a set speed after the vehicle travels on a curved road at a vehicle speed equal to or lower than a speed limit based on the curved road, a driving support method and a driving support device accelerate the vehicle by a first acceleration in a case of acquiring a curve information related to the curved road, and accelerate the vehicle by a second acceleration smaller than the first acceleration in a case of not acquiring the curve information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ashizawa, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230298955
    Abstract: A region of a sealing part is effectively utilized. -A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a substrate, a sealing part, and a cavity region. The substrate included in this semiconductor device is disposed adjacent to a bottom surface of the semiconductor element. The sealing part included in this semiconductor device is formed in a shape that covers an upper surface that is a surface facing the bottom surface of the semiconductor element, and seals the semiconductor element. The cavity region included in this semiconductor device is a region disposed in the sealing part and formed with a cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigekazu ISHII, Bernadette ELLIOTT-BOWMAN, Christopher WRIGHT, Timothy BEARD, Matthew LAWRENSON, Hirotaka KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230294046
    Abstract: A membrane treatment apparatus (1) comprising: a plurality of flat membrane elements (2) which are immersed in a liquid to be treated, disposed side by side in the first direction so that membrane surfaces face each other; a supporting member (8) for holding the flat membrane element (2) provided at an end part of the flat membrane element on a first side in the second direction; and an aeration means (10) provided below the flat membrane element (2); wherein a lower edge of the flat membrane element (2) is formed to extend upward from the first side to a second side in the second direction, or to extend upward and horizontally from the first side to the second side in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKAWA, Yoichi OKUMURA, Hiroki TOMITA, Jun MAEDA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230291089
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radome structure for vehicle-mounted radar devices, in which a planar heating element 2 is laminated and fixed onto a substrate 1 of the radome, a local recess 3 is provided so as to protrude from the substrate 1, a connecting body 4 for electrically connecting an electrode of a heater wire 21 of the planar heating element 2 to a power supply line 5 to the planar heating element 2 is accommodated in the recess 3, and the recess 3 is filled with an insulating resin 6 so as to embed and seal the connecting body 4. It is possible to simplify a connection structure and a waterproof structure of a connecting portion for electrically connecting the heater wire and the power supply line of the radome, and reduce the manufacturing cost of the radome structure having a snow melting function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SANKEI GIKEN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Ryuho Ikemasu, Shinpei Yamamoto, Hisashi Hamachi
  • Publication number: 20230272872
    Abstract: An expansion joint of the present disclosure includes: a first flange disposed outside a pipe; a second flange disposed outside the pipe and is disposed away from the first flange in an axial direction of the joint; a main bellows connected to the first and second flanges and in which a flow passage of a fluid is formed; and a balancing device connected to the first and second flanges outside the main bellows and applies a thrust force opposite to a thrust force, applied to the first and second flanges in the axial direction by the main bellows, to the first and second flanges, wherein the balancing device includes a fluid supply unit, an elastic portion connected to the fluid supply unit and is allowed to expand and contract in the axial direction, and a connection portion connecting the elastic portion to the first and second flanges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230272796
    Abstract: A geared compressor includes a drive gear, a first intermediate gear, a second intermediate gear, a first impeller and a second impeller connected to a first driven gear, and a third impeller and a fourth impeller connected to a second driven gear. When viewed from an axial direction, a drive axis of the drive gear is disposed below a first intermediate axis of the first intermediate gear, a second intermediate axis of the second intermediate gear, a first driven axis of the first driven gear, and a second driven axis of the second driven gear in a vertical direction. The first impeller has a larger outer diameter than the second impeller, the third impeller, and the fourth impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230273229
    Abstract: Provided is a sample transport device, a sample analysis system, and a sample pretreatment device which have high positional accuracy when stopping a sample and can adjust a minute position when stopping the sample. A sample transport device (1a) according to the present invention includes: a sample provided with a permanent magnet (10); a transport path through which the sample is to be transported via the permanent magnet (10); a plurality of coils provided on a surface of the transport path opposite to a surface on which the sample is to be transported; and a drive circuit that causes a current to flow through the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki AOYAMA, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230272598
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: an engine; a hydraulic pump that is driven by the engine; hydraulic cylinders that are extended and contracted by pressurized fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump; a work device that is moved according to the extension/contraction operations of the hydraulic cylinders; a travel device that is driven independently of the work device; an electrically driven motor that is driven by electric power generated by the engine to operate the travel device; and a controller that controls the hydraulic cylinders and the electrically driven motor. The controller controls the output power of the hydraulic pump and the output power of the electrically driven motor by changing the distribution ratios of a first torque consumed by the work device and a second torque consumed by the travel device among torques output by the engine, on the basis of a reaction force received by the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Masatoshi YOSHIMURA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Noritaka ITOU, Satoshi SEKINO, Katsuhiko TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230270014
    Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric laminate including, in the following order, a lower electrode layer and a piezoelectric film containing a Pb-containing perovskite-type oxide, in which the piezoelectric film contains an oxygen atom 18O having a mass number of 18 in oxygen as a constituent element in excess of a natural abundance ratio. There are also provided a piezoelectric laminate, a piezoelectric element, and a manufacturing method for a piezoelectric laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiko MOCHIZUKI, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Akihiro MUKAIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230255116
    Abstract: A piezoelectric laminate and a piezoelectric element, including on a substrate in the following order, a lower electrode layer, and a piezoelectric film, in which a region of the lower electrode layer, the region being in contact with the piezoelectric film, is constituted of a metal layer, where a (111) plane of the metal layer has an inclination of 1° or more with respect to a surface of the substrate, and the piezoelectric film contains a perovskite-type oxide containing Pb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Kenichi UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20230244078
    Abstract: An optical member includes a base material having a front surface, and an antireflection film provided on the front surface of the base material and including a resin portion and a deformed fiber bound to the resin portion, wherein the antireflection film includes a protruding portion including the deformed fiber, on a surface of the resin portion that is on an opposite side of a side of the base material, wherein the front surface of the base material includes a protrusion portion, and wherein the protruding portion is provided above the protrusion portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: JUMPEI HAYASHI, HIROAKI KOBAYASHI, MASANORI ABE, MASAAKI NAKABAYASHI, HIROYUKI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230238911
    Abstract: A motor control system includes a three-phase motor winding; and a thermistor that measures a temperature of any one or two of coils of the three-phase motor winding, the motor control system including a coil temperature estimation unit that calculates an estimated temperature of each of the three-phase coils based on a value of a current flowing through the three-phase motor winding. The motor is controlled based on the estimated temperature of the three-phase motor winding when a difference between the estimated temperatures of the three-phase motor winding is larger than a predetermined value. The motor is controlled based on a measured value of the thermistor when the difference between the estimated temperatures of the three-phase motor winding is equal to or less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji KOBAYASHI, Yasuyuki SAITO, Takayuki NITTA, Yoshinori AOSHIMA, Hiroyuki TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230230986
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging element according to the present disclosure includes a first light receiving pixel, a second light receiving pixel, and a metal layer. The first light receiving pixel receives visible light. The second light receiving pixel receives infrared light. The metal layer is provided to face at least one of a photoelectric conversion unit of the first light receiving pixel and a photoelectric conversion unit of the second light receiving pixel on an opposite side of a light incident side, and contains tungsten as a main component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki MASUDA, Kazuyoshi YAMASHITA, Shinichiro KURIHARA, Syogo KUROGI, Yusuke UESAKA, Toshiki SAKAMOTO, Hiroyuki KAWANO, Masatoshi IWAMOTO, Takashi TERADA, Sintaro NAKAJIKI, Shinta KOBAYASHI, Chihiro ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230214714
    Abstract: A future state of a separation membrane is inferred to perform a stable membrane filtration operation. A learning model generation device (1) includes: an input data acquisition section (21) configured to acquire input data derived from operation data that is measured during a membrane filtration operation, the operation data including a membrane filtration pressure and a diffused air volume; and a learning section (13) configured to generate a learning model (31) for inferring the state of the separation membrane, by means of machine learning using the acquired input data as an input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Nobukazu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230211964
    Abstract: Provided are a transport device and an analysis system in which a stability of transport at a time of restart is further enhanced while achieving cost reduction by a position-sensorless configuration. A transport device includes: a plurality of coils 25a, 25b configured to generate a thrust to transport a transport container 20; a drive circuit 50 configured to apply a voltage to each of the plurality of coils 25a, 25b; and a calculation unit 40 configured to estimate a position of the transport container 20 based on current information when voltage pulses 80, 81 are applied to the coils 25a, 25b. When a power supply of the device is activated, the calculation unit 40 applies a voltage pulse 80 in a positive direction and a voltage pulse 81 in a negative direction to the target coils 25a, 25b so as to detect the position of the transport container 20 from the current information of current flowing through the coils 25a, 25b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230212381
    Abstract: A resin composition comprises: a modified vinyl alcohol-based polymer (A) containing from 1 to 20 mol % of a structural unit represented by a formula (1) below; and a layered inorganic compound (B). Such a resin composition is excellent in water vapor barrier properties, recyclability, and productivity during coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Konishi, Akihisa Watajima, Makoto Adachi
  • Publication number: 20230202558
    Abstract: The automatic steering control that changes the traveling direction of the vehicle according to the road information on the travel path to the own vehicle that is automatically driven on the travel path, based on the steering force of the driver's operation of the steering wheel detected by the steering force detector and the lateral deviation of the own vehicle detected by the lateral deviation calculator in the direction perpendicular to the travel direction on the travel path, compared to when the lateral deviation is small corresponding to the magnitude of the lateral deviation, when the lateral deviation is large, the automatic steering control amount acting on the steering force is controlled so that the automatic steering control amount acting on the steering force of the steering wheel operation by the driver becomes larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Michihiro OGATA, Kenta TOMINAGA, Masaya ENDO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11685740
    Abstract: Provided are a novel compound having an antagonistic activity for the P2X7 receptor, and a pharmaceutical composition having an antagonistic activity for the P2X7 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Masuda, Shuichi Sugiyama, Toru Yamada, Eiichi Kojima, Tomoyuki Ogawa, Naotake Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kai
  • Publication number: 20230192022
    Abstract: PROBLEM To provide an airbag device capable of efficiently retaining an airbag cushion in stowed form. RESOLUTION MEANS An airbag device 100 is provided with a bag-shaped airbag cushion 112 in a prescribed rolled or folded stowed form, and a cover member 114 for covering an outer periphery of the airbag cushion 112 in stowed form formed of a ductile fabric material containing a plurality of polymer fibers. The cover member 114 has a hard portion 124 in a state in which at least a portion of the plurality of polymer fibers are melted together, and a soft portion 126 that bends more readily than the hard portion 124 in which the percentage of the plurality of polymer fibers that are melted is at least lower than that of the hard portion 124. The airbag device 100 is characterized by a state in which the cover member 114 is bent along the soft portion 126, covering at least a portion of the outer periphery of the airbag cushion 112 in stowed form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Tsutomu SAKURAI, Hiroyuki SHIMA