Patents by Inventor Kazumi Kobayashi
Kazumi 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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Publication number: 20230328346Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a camera module and an electronic device that can improve heat dissipation. A movable member has an image sensor on a front side and is movable in a direction along an imaging surface of the image sensor, the fixed member is fixed with a predetermined gap interposed between the fixed member and the movable member on a back side of the movable member, and at least one heat dissipating member is fixed to at least one of the fixed member and the movable member and is in contact with the other in the gap. The present disclosure is applicable to a camera module of a sensor-shift system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shunichiro SHIBAZAKI, Kozo HOSHINO, Shinichi YUZUKI, Tetsuya NAKAGAWA, Kiyohiro SAITO, Yuta SHISHIDO, Kazumi KOBAYASHI, Nobuyuki WATANABE, Masaki HOSHINO
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Publication number: 20220384379Abstract: A semiconductor device (1) according to the present disclosure includes a semiconductor chip (2), an interposer substrate (3), and a die-bonding material (4) formed in a partially opened annular shape in a plan view. The semiconductor chip (2) includes a region in which an integration density of an electronic circuit is high (23, 24, and 25) and a region in which the integration density is low (22). The semiconductor chip (2) is implemented on the interposer substrate (3). The die-bonding material (4) formed in a partially opened annular shape in a plan view is provided between the region in which the integration density is high (23, 24, and 25) in the semiconductor chip (2) and the interposer substrate (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: TAKESHI YOSHIDA, TSUTOMU NISHIDE, KAZUMI KOBAYASHI, YOSHIHIKO TOYOSHIMA, SUSUMU KOSHINAMI
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Patent number: 10915994Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a correction image, an image density detector to detect image densities of a plurality of areas in the correction image, and circuitry to correct an image formation condition of the image forming device based on detected image densities of the plurality of areas. The circuitry replaces a detected image density of an area of interest selected from the plurality of areas with an average value of detected image densities of two or more areas including adjacent areas adjacent to the area of interest and corrects the image formation condition of the image forming device based on the detected image densities of the plurality of areas after replacement when a difference between the detected image density of the area of interest and at least one of the detected image densities of the adjacent areas exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Yamamura, Makoto Yasuda, Kazumi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200294207Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a correction image, an image density detector to detect image densities of a plurality of areas in the correction image, and circuitry to correct an image formation condition of the image forming device based on detected image densities of the plurality of areas. The circuitry replaces a detected image density of an area of interest selected from the plurality of areas with an average value of detected image densities of two or more areas including adjacent areas adjacent to the area of interest and corrects the image formation condition of the image forming device based on the detected image densities of the plurality of areas after replacement when a difference between the detected image density of the area of interest and at least one of the detected image densities of the adjacent areas exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Hiroki YAMAMURA, Makoto YASUDA, Kazumi KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 10713762Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a correction image, an image density detector to detect image densities of a plurality of areas in the correction image, and circuitry to correct an image formation condition of the image forming device based on detected image densities of the plurality of areas. The circuitry replaces a detected image density of an area of interest selected from the plurality of areas with an average value of detected image densities of two or more areas including adjacent areas adjacent to the area of interest and corrects the image formation condition of the image forming device based on the detected image densities of the plurality of areas after replacement when a difference between the detected image density of the area of interest and at least one of the detected image densities of the adjacent areas exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Yamamura, Makoto Yasuda, Kazumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10612764Abstract: There is provided an illumination unit including a light emitting device with a coupling surface, the light emitting device including a terminal provided on the coupling surface, a holding member that houses the light emitting device, a wiring substrate that is provided separately from the coupling surface of the light emitting device and is electrically coupled with the terminal, and a heatsink that includes an adjacent part adjacent to the coupling surface of the light emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazumi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200074598Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a correction image, an image density detector to detect image densities of a plurality of areas in the correction image, and circuitry to correct an image formation condition of the image forming device based on detected image densities of the plurality of areas. The circuitry replaces a detected image density of an area of interest selected from the plurality of areas with an average value of detected image densities of two or more areas including adjacent areas adjacent to the area of interest and corrects the image formation condition of the image forming device based on the detected image densities of the plurality of areas after replacement when a difference between the detected image density of the area of interest and at least one of the detected image densities of the adjacent areas exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Hiroki YAMAMURA, Makoto YASUDA, Kazumi KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20190170340Abstract: There is provided an illumination unit including a light emitting device with a coupling surface, the light emitting device including a terminal provided on the coupling surface, a holding member that houses the light emitting device, a wiring substrate that is provided separately from the coupling surface of the light emitting device and is electrically coupled with the terminal, and a heatsink that includes an adjacent part adjacent to the coupling surface of the light emitting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventor: KAZUMI KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 10228120Abstract: There is provided an illumination unit including a light emitting device with a coupling surface, the light emitting device including a terminal provided on the coupling surface, a holding member that houses the light emitting device, a wiring substrate that is provided separately from the coupling surface of the light emitting device and is electrically coupled with the terminal, and a heatsink that includes an adjacent part adjacent to the coupling surface of the light emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kazumi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170082278Abstract: There is provided an illumination unit including a light emitting device with a coupling surface, the light emitting device including a terminal provided on the coupling surface, a holding member that houses the light emitting device, a wiring substrate that is provided separately from the coupling surface of the light emitting device and is electrically coupled with the terminal, and a heatsink that includes an adjacent part adjacent to the coupling surface of the light emitting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: KAZUMI KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9488931Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer; a developing device containing two-component developer and including a developer bearer, a development voltage source, and a toner concentration detector; a toner supply device to supply toner to the developing device; a transfer device; and a controller to keep a toner concentration in the developer in the developing device at a target toner concentration during image formation. The controller executes forced toner consumption in which the developing device supplies the toner to the latent image bearer the toner at a predetermined forced toner consumption timing, while inhibiting the toner supply device from supplying toner. When the toner concentration falls to a prescribed toner density lower than the target toner concentration, the controller completes the forced toner consumption and executes a post-consumption toner supply operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Yasuda, Jun Hitosugi, Takamasa Ozeki, Mutsuki Morinaga, Emiko Shiraishi, Wakana Itoh, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Takatsugu Komori, Kunio Hasegawa, Tadashi Kasai, Kazuaki Kamihara, Kazumi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kunii, Masaki Sukesako, Yuichi Aizawa, Masakazu Terao, Masayoshi Nakayama, Takuma Higa, Masahiro Katoh, Kohei Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20160147174Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer; a developing device containing two-component developer and including a developer bearer, a development voltage source, and a toner concentration detector; a toner supply device to supply toner to the developing device; a transfer device; and a controller to keep a toner concentration in the developer in the developing device at a target toner concentration during image formation. The controller executes forced toner consumption in which the developing device supplies the toner to the latent image bearer the toner at a predetermined forced toner consumption timing, while inhibiting the toner supply device from supplying toner. When the toner concentration falls to a prescribed toner density lower than the target toner concentration, the controller completes the forced toner consumption and executes a post-consumption toner supply operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Makoto YASUDA, Jun HITOSUGI, Takamasa OZEKI, Mutsuki MORINAGA, Emiko SHIRAISHI, Wakana ITOH, Hitoshi YAMAMOTO, Takatsugu KOMORI, Kunio HASEGAWA, Tadashi KASAI, Kazuaki KAMIHARA, Kazumi KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki KUNll, Masaki SUKESAKO, Yuichi AIZAWA, Masakazu TERAO, Masayoshi NAKAYAMA, Takuma HIGA, Masahiro KATOH, Kohei MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 9217525Abstract: in order to connect pressure pipes in a fluid-tight manner on-site without welding, a plurality of through holes (h1) are provided in a cylindrical sleeve (1a) at separate locations in the lengthwise direction, and with identical angular intervals around the circumference of the cylindrical sleeve without overlapping in the circumferential direction. Non-through holes (h2) in which screw threads have been formed are provided in pressure plates (P1, P2) at locations corresponding to the holes (h1). An insert (2a) has a pair of opposing annular faces (31, b2), and annular ring grooves (b11, b21) are formed respectively in the annular faces (b1,b2) to house O-rings (3). The insert (2a) is inserted into the sleeve (1a), after which the pressure pipes (P1, P2) are inserted, one from either side, into the interior of the sleeve (1a), and bolts (4) are inserted into the plurality of holes (h1) in the sleeve (1a), and screwed onto the screw threads of the pressure pipes (P1, P2).Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Inventors: Kazumi Kobayashi, Masato Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20140367964Abstract: In order to connect pressure piping while ensuring fluid-tightness without requiring welding at the installation site, the outer circumferential surface (4) of a flange joint (1) connects the face (2), on the side on which a pressure pipe (40) aligned on the center line (C) is inserted into a center hole (10), and the face (3), on the side another component is between the insertion-side face (2) and the other-component-connection face (3). The inner walls of vertical holes (6) are provided with a screw thread (6b), and between the face (2) and the face (3) these vertical holes run from the outer circumferential surface (4) to the inner circumferential surface (5) of the center hole (10) so as to intersect the horizontal holes (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventor: Kazumi KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 8696773Abstract: In a reforming apparatus, for use in a fuel cell, for reforming a raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich reformed gas, a reformer generates the reformed gas from the raw fuel. A shift reactor reduces carbon monoxide contained in the reformed gas through a shift reaction. A selective oxidation unit reduces the carbon monoxide contained in the reformed gas that has passed through the shift reactor by performing selective oxidation on the carbon monoxide. A reforming reaction tube houses linearly the reformer, the shift reactor and the selective oxidation unit in this order.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Akira Fuju, Masataka Kadowaki, Kazumi Kobayashi, Kazuaki Nakajima, Yasushi Sato, Ken Samura
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Publication number: 20130285374Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of connecting pressure piping in a fluid-tight manner on-site without requiring welding. A plurality of through holes (h1) are provided in a cylindrical sleeve (1a) at separate locations in the lengthwise direction, and with identical angular intervals and without overlapping in the circumferential direction. Non-through holes (h2) in which screw threads have been formed are provided in pressure piping (P1, P2) at locations corresponding to the holes (h1). An insert (2a) is provided with a pair of opposing annular faces (b1, b2), and annular ring grooves (b11, b21) are formed respectively in the annular faces (b1, b2) to house O-rings (3). The insert (2a) is inserted into the sleeve (1a), after which the pressure piping (P1, P2) are inserted one from either side into the interior of the sleeve (1a), bolts (4) are inserted into the plurality of holes (h1) in the sleeve (1a), and screwed onto the screw threads of the pressure piping (P1, P2).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Kazumi Kobayashi, Masato Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8485626Abstract: An image forming device includes: an endless transport belt in which a plurality of through holes are formed, the transport belt circulating to carry sheets; a recording head with a plurality of nozzles through which ink droplets are discharged, the nozzles being arranged in a width direction of the transport belt. The image forming device performs preliminary discharge of ink droplets in which the ink droplets discharged through the nozzles pass through the through holes. The image forming device further includes: a sensor that detects an element to be detected formed on the transport belt when the transport belt circulates; and a preliminary discharge control unit that controls timings of discharge of ink droplets through the nozzles in the preliminary discharge based on a plurality of results of detecting the elements to be detected given from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Shohgo Takeuchi, Manabu Izumikawa, Shiho Shimosaka, Atsushi Saitoh, Kazumi Kobayashi, Shingo Shiramura
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Patent number: 8382241Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head having nozzles to form an image by squirting droplets onto a recording medium, a transfer member transferring the recording medium and having holes which allows passage of droplets squirted by the recording head for non-printing discharge, an area detecting unit to detect a plurality of non-printing discharge areas that are areas between adjacent recording media, and a non-printing discharge instructing unit to cause the nozzles to perform non-printing discharge such that all the nozzles perform non-printing discharge at least once in the non-printing discharge areas.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Saitoh, Manabu Izumikawa, Kazumi Kobayashi, Shiho Shimosaka, Shingo Shiramura, Shohgo Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20120237839Abstract: In a reforming apparatus, for use in a fuel cell, for reforming a raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich reformed gas, a reformer generates the reformed gas from the raw fuel. A shift reactor reduces carbon monoxide contained in the reformed gas through a shift reaction. A selective oxidation unit reduces the carbon monoxide contained in the reformed gas that has passed through the shift reactor by performing selective oxidation on the carbon monoxide. A reforming reaction tube houses linearly the reformer, the shift reactor and the selective oxidation unit in this order.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicants: Nippon Oil Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira FUJU, Masataka Kadowaki, Kazumi Kobayashi, Kazuaki Nakajima, Yasushi Sato, Ken Samura
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Patent number: 8178062Abstract: In a reforming apparatus, for use in a fuel cell, for reforming a raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich reformed gas, a reformer generates the reformed gas from the raw fuel. A shift reactor reduces carbon monoxide contained in the reformed gas through a shift reaction. A selective oxidation unit reduces the carbon monoxide contained in the reformed gas that has passed through the shift reactor by performing selective oxidation on the carbon monoxide. A reforming reaction tube houses linearly the reformer, the shift reactor and the selective oxidation unit in this order. A combustion means produces combustion exhaust gas by combusting the raw fuel. An outer casing is placed around the reforming reaction tube, and the outer casing has a larger diameter than that of the reforming reaction tube. A heated flow passage through which the combustion exhaust gas passes to heat the reforming reaction tube is formed between the reforming reaction tube and the outer casing.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Akira Fuju, Masataka Kadowaki, Kazumi Kobayashi, Kazuaki Nakajima, Yasushi Sato, Ken Samura