Patents by Inventor Hisao Kobayashi
Hisao 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).
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Patent number: 9239021Abstract: An internal combustion engine with a supercharger comprises an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders; an intake passage that supplies gas to the internal combustion engine; a turbocharger-type supercharger including a turbine portion having a plurality of exhaust gas introduction passages; and an exhaust passage including a plurality of connecting passages that connect the plurality of cylinders and the plurality of exhaust gas introduction passages, wherein exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine flows through the exhaust passage. The internal combustion engine comprises a bridge passage that connects two or more of the plurality of connecting passages to each other; a branch passage connected to the bridge passage; and a first opening and closing device provided into the bridge passage to open and close the bridge passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takahiro Moroi, Kenta Akimoto, Manabu Ishikawa, Hisao Kobayashi, Hiroshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20120159948Abstract: An internal combustion engine with a supercharger comprises an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders; an intake passage that supplies gas to the internal combustion engine; a turbocharger-type supercharger including a turbine portion having a plurality of exhaust gas introduction passages; and an exhaust passage including a plurality of connecting passages that connect the plurality of cylinders and the plurality of exhaust gas introduction passages, wherein exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine flows through the exhaust passage. The internal combustion engine comprises a bridge passage that connects two or more of the plurality of connecting passages to each other; a branch passage connected to the bridge passage; and a first opening and closing device provided into the bridge passage to open and close the bridge passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2009Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takahiro Moroi, Kenta Akimoto, Manabu Ishikawa, Hisao Kobayashi, Hiroshi Uchida
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Patent number: 8094233Abstract: A first video camera includes a lens barrel, a main frame, a first side panel, a second side panel, a first media insertion part, a viewfinder, a handle part, and a stay. The first media insertion part is fixed to the main frame. The viewfinder is disposed at the upper part of the media insertion part. The handle part protrudes from the viewfinder in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens barrel. The stay links the main frame and the handle part. The media insertion part is a separate member from the main frame, the first side panel, the second side panel, the viewfinder, and the handle part.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hideaki Matsuda, Hisao Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20090256945Abstract: A first video camera includes a lens barrel, a main frame, a first side panel, a second side panel, a first media insertion part, a viewfinder, a handle part, and a stay. The first media insertion part is fixed to the main frame. The viewfinder is disposed at the upper part of the media insertion part. The handle part protrudes from the viewfinder in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens barrel. The stay links the main frame and the handle part. The media insertion part is a separate member from the main frame, the first side panel, the second side panel, the viewfinder, and the handle part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventors: Hideaki MATSUDA, Hisao Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7595837Abstract: There is provided a grasp member joined to the top portion of an image pickup apparatus body including a lens barrel unit at the front end and a display unit at the rear end through leg portions. Here, the front one of the leg portions is joined to the image pickup apparatus body at an offset position to the left from an optical axis of light incident on the lens barrel unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2006Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hisao Kobayashi, Masakazu Okuda, Nobutaka Kanayama, Yoshiaki Akutagawa, Hidenori Tomita
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Patent number: 7380996Abstract: A camera platform for installing a camera in the inside of an automobile is designed in such a manner that even when a camera is rotated to capture rearward images, the camera does not interfere with a room mirror. Since the shaft of a rotation portion is divided into a rotation shaft and a ball shaft, an arm part of the camera platform is rotated without the necessity of rotating the camera main body in the vicinity of the room mirror, so that it becomes possible to carry out rearward image capturing operations. Moreover, since the rotation shaft of the arm part is designed to be offset from the camera attaching center line by 20 mm, it becomes possible to prevent a cable extending from above the camera from contacting with an arm attachment part of a mount, even when the camera is rotated.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takamitsu Kouchi, Kazumi Teratani, Hisao Kobayashi, Keiichi Teranishi
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Publication number: 20060232746Abstract: There is provided a grasp member joined to the top portion of an image pickup apparatus body including a lens barrel unit at the front end and a display unit at the rear end through leg portions. Here, the front one of the leg portions is joined to the image pickup apparatus body at an offset position to the left from an optical axis of light incident on the lens barrel unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisao Kobayashi, Masakazu Okuda, Nobutaka Kanayama, Yoshiaki Akutagawa, Hidenori Tomita
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Publication number: 20060110155Abstract: A camera platform for installing a camera in the inside of an automobile is designed in such a manner that even when a camera is rotated to capture rearward images, the camera does not interfere with a room mirror. Since the shaft of a rotation portion is divided into a rotation shaft and a ball shaft, an arm part of the camera platform is rotated without the necessity of rotating the camera main body in the vicinity of the room mirror, so that it becomes possible to carry out rearward image capturing operations. Moreover, since the rotation shaft of the arm part is designed to be offset from the camera attaching center line by 20 mm, it becomes possible to prevent a cable extending from above the camera from contacting with an arm attachment part of a mount, even when the camera is rotated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takamitsu Kouchi, Kazumi Teratani, Hisao Kobayashi, Keiichi Teranishi
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Patent number: 6878887Abstract: A variable output device is mounted on a mounting unit with the operating shaft displaceable. An operating unit for transmitting the operation of the user to the operating shaft is mounted on the operating shaft relatively movably along the direction of the axis of the operating shaft, on the one hand, and in an operatively interlocked fashion along the direction of displacement of the operating shaft, on the other hand. A holding member is arranged in opposed relation with the mounting unit with the variable output device interposed therebetween. An elasticity applier urges the operating unit away from the variable output device. The holding member is provided with an operating hole. The holding member is arranged at a position in opposed relation with the mounting unit with the variable output device and the operating unit interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2003Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Futoshi Amano, Takamitsu Kouchi, Hisao Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20040141101Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a casing having an opening; a display panel, which is housed inside of the casing and has an image display region facing to the opening; and a protecting panel for closing the opening. The protecting panel is retained in such a manner that a marginal portion of the protecting panel is held between the display panel and the casing via a resin foam.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Osu, Hisao Kobayashi, Kazumi Teratani, Shinya Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20040022534Abstract: A variable output device is mounted on a mounting unit with the operating shaft displaceable. An operating unit for transmitting the operation of the user to the operating shaft is mounted on the operating shaft relatively movably along the direction of the axis of the operating shaft, on the one hand, and in an operatively interlocked fashion along the direction of displacement of the operating shaft, on the other hand. A holding member is arranged in opposed relation with the mounting unit with the variable output device interposed therebetween. An elasticity applier urges the operating unit away from the variable output device. The holding member is provided with an operating hole. The holding member is arranged at a position in opposed relation with the mounting unit with the variable output device and the operating unit interposed therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Amano, Takamitsu Kouchi, Hisao Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5483289Abstract: A circuit and method of data slicing a television signal comprises: an extractor 2 for extracting a specific component from the television signal of analog form; a slicer 3 for slicing the specific component of the television signal produced by the extractor 2 and converting it to its digital form; a decoder 4 for decoding an output of the slicer 3 for display; an initial value storage 10 for storing an initial value of the slice level; slice level controllers 7 and 8 for varying the initial slice level at a predetermined rate; a signal detector 11 for examining whether or not the digitized specific component from the slicer 3 is a desired multiplex signal; a temporary slice level memory 13 for storing the upper and lower levels of the desired multiplex signal detected by the signal detector 11; a calculator 9 for calculating an optimum value of the slice level from the upper and lower levels of the multiplex signal stored in the temporary slice level memory 13; a slice level storage 6 for storing the optimumType: GrantFiled: December 22, 1993Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Urade, Hisao Kobayashi, Yukihiro Yagi, Katsuhiko Hashimoto, Sachiko Nishii
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Patent number: 5478223Abstract: An improved scroll type compressor is disclosed. A moveable scroll is eccentrically connected to a rotary shaft and opposed to a fixed scroll for forming a compression chamber. The moveable scroll performs an orbital movement about an axis of the rotary shaft without rotating about its own axis. With the orbital movement, the moveable scroll reduces the volume of the compression chamber and compresses coolant gas therein. A fixed wall is disposed adjacent to the moveable scroll on the opposite side from the fixed scroll. The fixed wall receives a reaction force of the compressed gas applied to the moveable scroll. First elements disposed between the fixed wall and the moveable scroll transmit the reaction force from the moveable scroll to the fixed wall. Second elements are disposed independently from the first elements between the fixed wall and the moveable scroll for determining the orbit of the moveable scroll.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1993Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Masao Iguchi, Izuru Shimizu, Tetsuo Yoshida, Hisao Kobayashi, Shinichi Sato, Yoshitami Kondo, Kazuo Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5458472Abstract: A mechanism for allowing the orbital movement of an orbiting scroll with respect to a fixed scroll in a scroll type compressor which prevents the orbiting scroll from rotating around its own axis is disclosed. The orbiting scroll is eccentrically attached to a rotary shaft supported by a housing that encases the fixed and orbiting scrolls. A compression chamber is defined by the interfitting between the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll. During the course of the orbiting scroll's rotation around the center axis line of a rotary shaft, the volume of a compression chamber decreases as the rotation progresses. Refrigerant gas in the compression chamber is compressed in this manner as the constant volume of gas within the compression chamber decreases in size according to the progression of the rotating spiral member. A balancing weight disposed on the eccentric shaft compensates for dynamic unbalancing generated as the orbiting scroll makes an orbital movement due to the rotation of the rotary shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1993Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Hisao Kobayashi, Izuru Shimizu, Kiyohiro Yamada, Tetsuhiko Fukanuma
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Patent number: 5429940Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing oxazopyrroloquinolines which comprises culturing microorganisms to produce pyrroloquinolinequinone and adding .alpha.-amino acids or monomethylamine to the resulting culture broth which contains the pyrroloquinolinequinone and from which cells of microorganisms are not separated, thereby to convert the pyrroloquinolinequinone to the corresponding oxazopyrroloquinolines. The thus obtained oxazopyrroloquinolines include novel compounds. The present invention further provides aldose reductase inhibitors, diabetic combined disease curing agents, immunopotentiating agents and liver disease inhibiting agents which contain as active ingredient these oxazopyrroloquinolines having excellent physiological activity.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1993Date of Patent: July 4, 1995Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical CompanyInventors: Teizi Urakami, Mitsunori Oda, Chieko Itoh, Hisao Kobayashi, Toshio Nagai, Kazuhiro Sugamura
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Patent number: 5364247Abstract: A scroll type compressor includes a fixed scroll having a fixed spiral element and a fixed end plate, and an orbiting scroll is revolvable without rotating itself in opposition to the fixed scroll. The orbiting scroll includes an orbiting spiral element and an orbiting end plate. A plurality of compression chambers, of which volumes are decreased in response to the revolution of the orbiting scroll, are defined between the scrolls. A discharge port opens to the discharge chambers. The thicknesses of initiating sections of the fixed and orbiting spiral elements are designed larger than those of remaining sections thereof. Sealing members having a spiral shape are slidably interposed between the fixed and orbiting end plates of the fixed and orbiting scrolls, and the initiating sections of the fixed and orbiting spiral elements are in opposition to the respective end plates.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1993Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Tetsuhiko Fukanuma, Hisao Kobayashi, Tetsuo Yoshida, Yoshitami Kondo
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Patent number: 5236930Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing oxazopyrroloquinolines which comprises culturing microorganisms to produce pyrroloquinolinequinone and adding .alpha.-amino acids or monomethylamine to the resulting culture broth which contains the pyrroloquinolinequinone and from which cells of microorganisms are not separated, thereby to convert the pyrroloquinolinequinone to the corresponding oxazopyrroloquinolines.The thus obtained oxazopyrroloquinolines include novel compounds.The present invention further provides aldose reductase inhibitors, diabetic combined disease curing agents, immunopotentiating agents and liver disease inhibiting agents which contain as active ingredient these oxazopyrroloquinolines having excellent physiological activity.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1992Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: Mitbushi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.Inventors: Teizi Urakami, Mitsunori Oda, Chieko Itoh, Hisao Kobayashi, Toshio Nagai, Kazuhiro Sugamura
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Patent number: 5151020Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a stationary scroll (1) and a movable scroll (2) rotating around the former in an orbital manner, while forming volume variable sealed spaces therebetween to compress a coolant gas. To reduce a wall thickness of the scroll, an outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) of the scroll (1,2) is defined by the modification of a basic involute curve (D.sup.+) by reducing a certain value B.theta..sup.n) from a length (L.sub.0) of the respective involute line of the basic involute curve, which value is increased as the involute angle (.theta.) is developed, and an inner wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.-) is generated from the outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) by first transferring the respective point (p.sub.3, 4) on the outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) in the normal direction to the outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) at the respective point (p.sub.3, 4) by a distance (r) equal to a radius of the orbital circle (R) to form an intermediate curve (E.sub.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1991Date of Patent: September 29, 1992Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Tatsushi Mori, Hisao Kobayashi, Yuji Izumi
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Patent number: 5032060Abstract: A continuously variable capacity swash plate type refrigerant compressor having a cylinder block defining therein a plurality of front and rear cylinder bores arranged around an axis of rotation of a drive shaft supported in the cylinder block, front and rear refrigerant suction chambers in front and rear housings attached to the ends of the cylinder block, an angularly inclined swash plate mounted on the drive shaft to be integrally rotated therewith and to be pivotable about a pivoting center to change an angle of inclination thereof, double-headed pistons reciprocated in the front and rear cylinder bores by the rotation of the swash plate in such a manner that the top dead center of the pistons in the rear cylinder bores is constantly set at a fixed position, front and rear suction passageways to suck the refrigerant before compression into the front and rear suction chambers, and a suction reducer for reducing a suction of the refrigerant gas by the rear suction passageway during the small capacity operatType: GrantFiled: October 22, 1990Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Hisao Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Eiki Abe, Yoshitami Kondo
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Patent number: 4890458Abstract: A closed refrigerating circuit for car air conditioning includes a compressor, a condenser, a refrigerant receiver, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. The expansion valve is provided with a constant pressure controlling mechanism for maintaining a pressure in the evaporator at a constant value. The compressor is provided with a continuously variable displacement mechanism for maintaining a superheating temperature of suction refrigerant at a constant value.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 1988Date of Patent: January 2, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Hisao Kobayashi, Katsunori Kawai, Masayuki Tanikawa, Hiroyuki Deguchi