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).

  • Patent number: 11506404
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a heating unit, an air-heating expansion valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, an air-cooling expansion valve, an indoor evaporator, and a cooler-unit expansion valve, a cooler unit, and a refrigerant circuit switching unit. In a heating series cooler-unit mode, refrigerant is circulated in order of the heating unit, the air-heating expansion valve, the outdoor heat exchanger, the cooler-unit expansion valve, and the cooler unit. In a heating parallel cooler-unit mode, refrigerant is circulated in order of the heating unit, the air-heating expansion valve, and the outdoor heat exchanger, and refrigerant is circulated in order of the heating unit, the cooler-unit expansion valve, and the cooler unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ito, Kengo Sugimura, Yuichi Kami, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11505223
    Abstract: A train position detection apparatus is configured to detect a position of a train by receiving positioning radio waves from satellites through a reception antenna. The train position detection apparatus includes: a memory that stores therein in advance a railway design standard of a railway track on which the train travels; and one or more hardware processors that detect a position of the train by self-contained navigation based on an input signal from a self-contained navigation sensor. When a result of the train position detection based on the positioning radio waves does not satisfy the railway design standard, the one or more hardware processors correct the result of the train position detection based on the positioning radio waves with a result of the position detection by self-contained navigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Hideaki Nameki, Naoto Seto, Yushi Kamo, Susu Jiang, Yohei Hattori
  • Publication number: 20220351875
    Abstract: A covered electrical wire comprises a conductor and an insulating covering layer provided outside the conductor, the conductor being a stranded wire composed of a plurality of copper alloy wires composed of a copper alloy and twisted together, and having a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, the copper alloy containing Fe in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less, P in an amount of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less, and one or more elements selected from Ni, Al, Cr and Co in an amount of 0.01% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less in total, with a balance being Cu and impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei SAKAMOTO, Akiko INOUE, Tetsuya KUWABARA, Yusuke OSHIMA, Minoru NAKAMOTO, Kazuhiro NANJO, Taichiro NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro NAKAI, Yasuyuki OTSUKA, Fumitoshi IMASATO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220345054
    Abstract: An electrostatic adsorption member includes a dielectric member having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and formed with a through-hole penetrating from the first surface to the second surface, and a porous body provided in the through-hole and having a third surface flush with the first surface. The through-hole has a first opening apart from the first surface by a first distance in a first direction perpendicular to the first surface, and a second opening apart from the first surface by a second distance larger than the first distance in the first direction. In a plan view from the first direction, at least a portion of the first opening is inside the second opening, and the porous body has a first portion located inside the first opening, and a second portion connected to the first portion and located outside the first opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Naoyuki Koizumi, Akihiko Tateiwa
  • Patent number: 11471835
    Abstract: A management device for a water treatment facility includes: a transmembrane pressure difference prediction unit configured to predict a general trend in a transmembrane pressure difference in a water treatment system based on an operation information, the operation information being related to the water treatment system including a membrane separation device installed therein; a chemical solution cleaning planning unit configured to devise such a chemical solution cleaning plan that chemical solution cleaning is performed before a period when a value of the transmembrane pressure difference predicted reaches a specified value; and a chemical solution order placement information generation unit configured to generate chemical solution order placement information based on the and the cleaning chemical solution stock information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Nobukazu Suzuki, Kouji Miyagawa, Yasuhiro Kaneshina
  • Patent number: 11462416
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma processing method for plasma etching an etching target film formed on a sample. The method includes a protective film forming step of selectively forming a protective film on an upper portion of a pattern formed on the sample and adjusting a width of the formed protective film such that a distribution of the width of the formed protective film in a surface of the sample becomes a desired distribution, and a step of plasma etching the etching target film after the protective film forming step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miyako Matsui, Kenichi Kuwahara, Tatehito Usui, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220306405
    Abstract: Provided is a transport device in which reliability is increased by suppressing deterioration of the transport surface and transport efficiency is increased by suppressing electrical current loss. A transport device 1 comprising a transported body having either a permanent magnet 10 or a magnetic body, and an electromagnet unit in which coils 21 are wound around teeth 25 comprising magnetic bodies, and having recesses on surfaces of the teeth 25 facing the transported body. Specifically, the surfaces of the teeth 25 facing the transported body have at least two surfaces (first facing surface 22, second facing surface 23, etc.) which have different distances to the transported body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220287919
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a photocurable composition having a high curing depth. [Solution] To provide a photocurable composition of the present disclosure comprises (A) polymerizable monomer, (B) photosensitizer, (C) photoacid generator, and (D) photopolymerization accelerator, wherein, the photocurable composition comprises (D-1) amine compound represented by formula (1) as the (D) photopolymerization accelerator. (In the formula (1), R1 is a substituent represented by formula (2), and R2 and R3 are substituents represented by formula (2) or substituents selected from —OH group, —O— group, —S— group, —NH—C(O)—NH— group, —C(O)—O— group, —OC(O)— group, —OC(O)—NH— group, —NH—C(O)—O— group, halogen, an organic group which may have an alkoxysilyl group, an aromatic ring which may have a substituent and an alicyclic heterocycle which may have a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Kenzo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Daisuke HARA, Shunsuke MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20220274792
    Abstract: A conveying device conveys a container including a magnetic body to a target position along a conveyance path and includes a conveyance surface configured by arranging a plurality of magnetic poles including a core and a coil, and including a conveyance path, a drive unit supplying a current to the coil, and a position detection unit estimating the position of the container. The position detection unit excites a first magnetic pole to detect the position of the container and applies a voltage to at least one second magnetic pole that is peripheral in a predetermined range from the first magnetic pole and is different from the first magnetic pole in a direction in which the polarity becomes opposite to the exciting current of the first magnetic pole, and a process of estimating the position of the container based on the current value of the first magnetic pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11414746
    Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a base material support mechanism configured to rotate a base material supported by the base material support mechanism about a first axis, and a first cathode portion on which a target in a cylindrical shape containing a film forming material is mounted and configured to rotate the target about a second axis, in a chamber. The second axis is disposed at a position skewed with respect to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Demura, Takamasa Horie, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220252628
    Abstract: A conveying device detects an abnormality due to a change in the surface state of the conveying plane. The conveying device has a conveying plane for conveying thereabove a conveying container equipped with a magnetic body, a position detection unit for detecting the position of the conveying container above the conveying plane, a magnetic pole disposed below the conveying plane and equipped with a core and a coil, a drive unit for applying a voltage to the magnetic pole, and a calculation unit for controlling the drive unit. The calculation unit calculates the conveying speed of the conveying container on the basis of the position of the conveying container above the conveying plane and the time at which the conveying container passes through the position, and detects the surface state of the conveying plane on the basis of the calculated conveying speed of the conveying container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Satoru KANEKO, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220252627
    Abstract: The invention provides a conveyance device having a smaller loss of a winding than that of a related art while increasing thrust for conveying a body to be conveyed, and a specimen analysis system and a specimen pretreatment device including the same. A conveyance device 1 includes: a permanent magnet 10 provided on the side of a specimen rack 111; teeth 22 formed of a second magnetic body; and a winding 21 wound around the side of an outer periphery of the teeth 22, wherein a cross-sectional area of a cross section of a part of the teeth facing the permanent magnet 10 is larger than that of other parts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroshi WATANABE, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220238267
    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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke HOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220212844
    Abstract: A hinge cap formed by an injection-molding comprises an inner lid capable of being attached to a container body, a hinge, and an outer lid that is connected to the inner lid by the hinge to open and close the cap. The inner lid includes a claw portion. The outer lid includes a tubular outer wall portion and a plurality of convex portions as undercut portions and a plurality of concave portions. One convex portion and a concave portion adjacent to the one convex portion form an engaging portion capable of being engaged with the claw portion. An adjacent convex portion adjacent to the engaging portion and a concave portion adjacent to the adjacent convex portion form a mold pressing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro SAITO, Hiroaki TAKASHIMA, Naoya KITADA, Rei NISHIMURA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11380458
    Abstract: A covered electrical wire comprises a conductor and an insulating covering layer provided outside the conductor, the conductor being a stranded wire composed of a plurality of copper alloy wires composed of a copper alloy and twisted together, and has a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, the copper alloy containing Ni, or Ni and Fe in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less in total, and P in an amount of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less, with a balance being Cu and impurities, in the copper alloy, a ratio of precipitation of P to solid solution of P being 1.1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Akiko Inoue, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Yusuke Oshima, Minoru Nakamoto, Kazuhiro Nanjo, Taichiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Nakai, Kazuhiro Goto, Ryo Toyoshima, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Fumitoshi Imasato, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11378684
    Abstract: Provided is a radar device including: a transmission circuit that transmits a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal which have frequencies different from each other; a reception circuit that receives the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal which are reflected by one or a plurality of objects as a first reception signal and a second reception signal, a processor, and a memory that stores a command group executable by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Namiki, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Eisuke Otani
  • Publication number: 20220163632
    Abstract: A radome for on-board radar devices 1 is provided with heater wires 3 wired in parallel so as to be separated from each other in a plane direction of an electromagnetic-wave-transmitting base member. A line pitch d of the heater wires 3 arranged in parallel in an electromagnetic-wave transmission region R of the base member is set to 0.2 to 2.5 times a wavelength of electromagnetic waves of the radar of an on-board radar device. A surface occupancy rate of the heater wires 3 arranged in parallel in the electromagnetic-wave transmission region R of the base member is set to be greater than 10% to 35%. The present invention provides a radome for on-board radar devices with which it is possible to obtain an electromagnetic-wave transmission property required of a radome, and to melt snow satisfactorily with a high heater performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SANKEI GIKEN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Shinpei Yamamoto, Makoto Takakusaki, Ryuho Ikemasu
  • Publication number: 20220153045
    Abstract: A first ink storage unit, a second ink storage unit, a discharging head configured to discharge the ink, a carriage configured to move the discharging head and the second ink storage unit in a first direction and a second direction, a tube that couples the first ink storage unit and the second ink storage unit, and a case provided with a first opening portion located vertically above a home position and a second opening portion located vertically above a first printing position, and including a beam located between the first opening portion and the second opening portion, are provided. The beam is an edge of the second opening portion, and when the carriage is located at the home position, the first ink storage unit and the second ink storage unit are located in the same direction with respect to the beam and the tube is supported by the beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Koki FUKASAWA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Tomosuke GOMI
  • Patent number: 11334286
    Abstract: A memory system includes first, second, third, and fourth nonvolatile memory, a memory controller configured to modulate write data for the first and second memory into a first time slot of a data signal according to an allocation scheme, and modulate write data for the third and fourth memory into a second time slot of the data signal according to the allocation scheme, a first bridge circuit configured according to the allocation scheme to extract first write data from the first time slot, a second bridge circuit configured according to the allocation scheme to extract second write data from the first time slot, a third bridge circuit configured according to the allocation scheme to extract third write data from the second time slot, and a fourth bridge circuit configured according to the allocation scheme to extract fourth write data from the second time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Jun Deguchi, Junji Wadatsumi, Takashi Toi
  • Publication number: 20220144556
    Abstract: The invention provides a conveying device having a conveying performance higher than that of the related art, a sample analysis system and sample pretreatment device with the conveying device and a method for conveying a conveyance object. A conveying device 1 includes a permanent magnet 10 which is provided on a sample rack 111 side, magnetic poles 25 each of which includes a core 22 made of a second magnetic body and a winding 21 wound around an outer periphery of the core 22, drive circuits 50 each of which supplies a current to the winding 21 of the magnetic pole 25, and current command calculation units 55 each of which controls a value of the current to be supplied to the winding 21 from the drive circuit 50. The current command calculation unit 55 makes the currents to be supplied to the windings 21 vary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA