Patents by Inventor Kan Kobayashi

Kan 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: 20240042665
    Abstract: An injection molding condition generation system improves the quality of injection molding. The injection molding condition generation system acquires a material property value of a resin material and an injection molding condition using the first resin material based on a target value of a quality parameter related to a quality of a molded article, the first material property value, and a predetermined relational expression. The predetermined relational expression indicates a relation among the material property value of the resin material, a plurality of injection molding conditions input to an injection molding machine, and a quality parameter related to the quality of the molded article molded by the injection molding machine based on the material property value and the injection molding conditions, and is generated based on data accumulated in the memory in association with the material property value of the resin material, the injection molding conditions, and the quality parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke YAGI, Ryotaro SHIMADA, Kan KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11433730
    Abstract: An air suspension apparatus includes a compressor configured to compress air, a tank configured to store the air, a tank-side suction conduit configured to supply the compressed air in this tank to an intake side of the compressor, a tank conduit connecting a discharge side of the compressor and the tank, an air suspension connected to the discharge side of the compressor via an air drier, an intake electromagnetic valve provided in the tank-side suction conduit, a return electromagnetic valve provided in the tank conduit, and a discharge conduit provided so as to branch off from between the discharge side of the compressor and the air drier and configured to be connected to an atmosphere by opening a discharge electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kawai, Hiroshi Sakai, Kan Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11319943
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor capable of achieving a reduction in overall size and an improvement in vehicle mountability by using a linear motor. The compressor 1 comprises a linear motor 2 having a reciprocating mover 6, a compression unit 9 having a piston 11 connected to the mover 6 at one end side of the linear motor 2 so as to reciprocate and a cylinder 10 slidably accommodating the piston 11 to form a compression chamber 10B, and an air dryer 17 connected to a cylinder head 14 of the compression chamber 10B of the compression unit 9 and filled therein with a desiccant 17C. The air dryer 17 is disposed along the axis in the movement direction of the mover 6 the piston 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kawai, Tsutomu Ito, Kan Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11264884
    Abstract: A vehicle linear motor includes: a tubular casing; a pair of armatures placed and fixed in the casing; a mover formed in a flat plate shape and placed to face the pair of armatures and to be movable in the casing; and a support member configured to slidably support the mover such that the mover moves in a longitudinal direction of the mover. The mover formed in the flat plate shape includes a plurality of magnets that are arranged at intervals in the longitudinal direction. Each of the pair of armatures has a magnetic pole that is arranged to move the mover relative to the armatures in the longitudinal direction. The casing is mounted on a vehicle such that the longitudinal direction is a horizontal direction, and the mover and the armatures are placed to face each other in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kawai, Kan Kobayashi, Hiroshi Chikuma, Aya Mizukoshi
  • Publication number: 20220032718
    Abstract: An air suspension apparatus includes a compressor configured to compress air, a tank configured to store the air, a tank-side suction conduit configured to supply the compressed air in this tank to an intake side of the compressor, a tank conduit connecting a discharge side of the compressor and the tank, an air suspension connected to the discharge side of the compressor via an air drier, an intake electromagnetic valve provided in the tank-side suction conduit, a return electromagnetic valve provided in the tank conduit, and a discharge conduit provided so as to branch off from between the discharge side of the compressor and the air drier and configured to be connected to an atmosphere by opening a discharge electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshinori KAWAI, Hiroshi SAKAI, Kan KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11211858
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a linear motor and a compressor which are effective against a non-fixed structure in which end portions of a resonant spring are not fixed and are capable of restraining loads in an up-down direction and a left-right direction which act on a slider. A linear motor includes a slider (2) which is driven in a first direction, a resonance spring (400) which is capable of vibrating in the first direction, and a permanent magnet (210) which is provided at the slider (2) and is magnetized in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The linear motor includes a bearing (480) that is movable against both forces of a force in the second direction and a force in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and an elastic-body support member (450) which connects the resonant spring (400) and the bearing (480) to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Koyama, Shuhei Nagata, Naoyuki Oohata, Kan Kobayashi, Yoshinori Kawai
  • Patent number: 11015593
    Abstract: An in-vehicle compression device includes: a compressor including a cylinder and a piston that is slidably provided inside the cylinder and defines a compression chamber; a linear motor including a movable element reciprocatably connected to the piston; and a controller configured to control driving of the linear motor. The in-vehicle compression device is configured to supply a working fluid compressed in the compression chamber to a pressure device provided in a vehicle. The controller is configured to variably adjust a stroke of the piston according to a state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ito, Yoshinori Kawai, Kan Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10967697
    Abstract: An air suspension system capable of raising both the vehicle front wheel side and the vehicle rear wheel side by using a single tank. The air suspension system (1) includes a front wheel-side air suspension (2) and a rear wheel-side air suspension (7) which are interposed between a vehicle body and associated axles to perform vehicle height adjustment in response to supply and discharge of air, a compressor (17) for compressing air, and a tank (27) for storing air compressed by the compressor. When the vehicle height is to be raised by the air suspensions, the front wheel-side air suspension is supplied with compressed air from the tank, and the rear wheel-side air suspension is supplied with compressed air from the tank after the compressed air has been pressurized by the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Yoshida, Kan Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10918991
    Abstract: An air suspension system includes an air suspension, a compressor, a dryer apparatus, and so forth. The dryer apparatus includes a dryer case, an inner cylinder, a first inlet port, a first outlet port, a first desiccant, an outer cylinder, a second inlet port, a second outlet port, a second other-end side filter, a second desiccant, and so forth. The first desiccant comprises a molecular sieve, for example, which exhibits high water adsorption performance at high temperature. On the other hand, the second desiccant comprises silica gel, for example, which exhibits high water adsorption performance at low temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kawai, Tsutomu Ito, Kan Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10875376
    Abstract: An air suspension system includes air suspensions (1, 2) performing vehicle height adjustment in response to supply and discharge of air, a compressor (3) compressing air, a tank (4) storing compressed air, a first passage (6) connecting between the delivery side of the compressor and the tank, and a second passage (7) connecting between the delivery side of the compressor and the air suspensions. A first dryer (10) is provided in the middle of the first passage to dry air flowing through the first passage. A second dryer (11) is provided in the middle of the second passage to dry air flowing through the second passage. Thus, compressed air generated from ambient air sucked in by the compressor can be dried by the second dryer and supplied directly into the air chambers of the air suspensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ito, Kan Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10800223
    Abstract: An air suspension system includes a tank, a tank-side open/close valve, an air suspension-side open/close valve, a system portion, and the like. The system portion includes a compressor, an air drier, and a first passage and a second passage provided between the tank-side open/close valve and the air suspension-side open/close valve in parallel, a discharge valve, a tank-side control valve, an air suspension-side control valve, and the like. Due to this configuration, the air suspension system regenerates the air drier by opening the discharge valve to thus cause the air in the second passage to flow from an opposite side toward one side of the air drier when no power is supplied to the tank-side control valve and the air suspension-side control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kan Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10766330
    Abstract: In an air suspension system, starting of a compressor is facilitated in a condition in which there exists a pressure difference. There is provided an air suspension system in which air compressed by a compressor is supplied to a plurality of air chambers provided between a vehicle body side and a wheel side and configured to perform vehicle height adjustment in accordance with the supply and discharge of air. The compressor has a needle connected to a piston and extending in a moving direction of the piston, and an armature reciprocating the needle in the moving direction of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Seto, Masaki Koyama, Shuhei Nagata, Takashi Ogawa, Yosuke Tanabe, Takahiro Suzuki, Kan Kobayashi, Naofumi Harada, Yoshinori Kawai, Tomoyuki Ri
  • Publication number: 20190356207
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a linear motor and a compressor which are effective against a non-fixed structure in which end portions of a resonant spring are not fixed and are capable of restraining loads in an up-down direction and a left-right direction which act on a slider. A linear motor includes a slider (2) which is driven in a first direction, a resonance spring (400) which is capable of vibrating in the first direction, and a permanent magnet (210) which is provided at the slider (2) and is magnetized in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The linear motor includes a bearing (480) that is movable against both forces of a force in the second direction and a force in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and an elastic-body support member (450) which connects the resonant spring (400) and the bearing (480) to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki KOYAMA, Shuhei NAGATA, Naoyuki OOHATA, Kan KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20190275854
    Abstract: An air suspension system includes a tank, a tank-side open/close valve, an air suspension-side open/close valve, a system portion, and the like. The system portion includes a compressor, an air drier, and a first passage and a second passage provided between the tank-side open/close valve and the air suspension-side open/close valve in parallel, a discharge valve, a tank-side control valve, an air suspension-side control valve, and the like. Due to this configuration, the air suspension system regenerates the air drier by opening the discharge valve to thus cause the air in the second passage to flow from an opposite side toward one side of the air drier when no power is supplied to the tank-side control valve and the air suspension-side control valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Kan KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190263212
    Abstract: An air suspension system includes air suspensions (1, 2) performing vehicle height adjustment in response to supply and discharge of air, a compressor (3) compressing air, a tank (4) storing compressed air, a first passage (6) connecting between the delivery side of the compressor and the tank, and a second passage (7) connecting between the delivery side of the compressor and the air suspensions. A first dryer (10) is provided in the middle of the first passage to dry air flowing through the first passage. A second dryer (11) is provided in the middle of the second passage to dry air flowing through the second passage. Thus, compressed air generated from ambient air sucked in by the compressor can be dried by the second dryer and supplied directly into the air chambers of the air suspensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Tsutomu ITO, Kan KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190201840
    Abstract: An air suspension system includes an air suspension, a compressor, a dryer apparatus, and so forth. The dryer apparatus includes a dryer case, an inner cylinder, a first inlet port, a first outlet port, a first desiccant, an outer cylinder, a second inlet port, a second outlet port, a second other-end side filter, a second desiccant, and so forth. The first desiccant comprises a molecular sieve, for example, which exhibits high water adsorption performance at high temperature. On the other hand, the second desiccant comprises silica gel, for example, which exhibits high water adsorption performance at low temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshinori KAWAI, Tsutomu ITO, Kan KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190149029
    Abstract: A vehicle linear motor includes: a tubular casing; a pair of armatures placed and fixed in the casing; a mover formed in a flat plate shape and placed to face the pair of armatures and to be movable in the casing; and a support member configured to slidably support the mover such that the mover moves in a longitudinal direction of the mover. The mover formed in the flat plate shape includes a plurality of magnets that are arranged at intervals in the longitudinal direction. Each of the pair of armatures has a magnetic pole that is arranged to move the mover relative to the armatures in the longitudinal direction. The casing is mounted on a vehicle such that the longitudinal direction is a horizontal direction, and the mover and the armatures are placed to face each other in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshinori KAWAI, Kan KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi CHIKUMA, Aya MIZUKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190100069
    Abstract: An air suspension system capable of raising both the vehicle front wheel side and the vehicle rear wheel side by using a single tank. The air suspension system (1) includes a front wheel-side air suspension (2) and a rear wheel-side air suspension (7) which are interposed between a vehicle body and associated axles to perform vehicle height adjustment in response to supply and discharge of air, a compressor (17) for compressing air, and a tank (27) for storing air compressed by the compressor. When the vehicle height is to be raised by the air suspensions, the front wheel-side air suspension is supplied with compressed air from the tank, and the rear wheel-side air suspension is supplied with compressed air from the tank after the compressed air has been pressurized by the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki YOSHIDA, Kan KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190100070
    Abstract: Provided is a closed type air suspension apparatus requiring no complicated control and capable of simplifying the overall structure. The air suspension apparatus includes a tank storing air, a return valve returning compressed air in an air suspension to the tank, a discharge valve discharging compressed air in the tank to the outside through an intake-discharge port when the compressed air between the intake side of a compressor body and the tank reaches a first value or more, and an intake valve opening when the pressure of the air between the intake side of the compressor body and the tank is at a second value less than the first value, thereby allowing the atmosphere (air) to be taken in from the intake-discharge port. The compressor body of a compressor compresses air including the compressed air in the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Tsutomu ITO, Kan KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190085841
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle compression device that allows a compressor to be operated at a low current, and operated with low noise and low vibration according to a state of a vehicle. The in-vehicle compression device includes: a compressor including a cylinder and a piston that is slidably provided inside the cylinder and defines a compression chamber; a linear motor including a movable element reciprocatably connected to the piston; and a controller configured to control driving of the linear motor. The in-vehicle compression device is configured to supply a working fluid compressed in the compression chamber to a pressure device provided in a vehicle. The controller is configured to variably adjust a stroke of the piston according to a state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Tsutomu ITO, Yoshinori KAWAI, Kan KOBAYASHI