Patents by Inventor Kazuto Kobayashi

Kazuto 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: 20100162843
    Abstract: To sufficiently secure the width dimension, strength and rigidity of the rack teeth 10, and to realize the light weight construction and the manufacturing method of the rack 8, the rack teeth 10 is formed by plastic working on one side surface in the radial direction of part in the axial direction of a rod unit 9 having a circular cross-sectional shape, and the curvature radius of the portion which is separated in the radial direction from the portion where the rack teeth 10 is formed, is made greater than that of the cross sectional shape of the outer surface of the axial remaining portion of the rod unit 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Yuki Mizushima, Kotaro Hirota, Akira Tsubouchi
  • Patent number: 7729341
    Abstract: A CPU of an IP telephone apparatus transmits, to an ENUM server, a message “Request the NAPTR record” corresponding to the destination terminal. The CPU also receives a message “Respond to the NAPTR information” in response to the message “Respond to the NAPTR record”. Further, the CPU automatically transmits, from a network I/F to the ENUM server, the request for the registration of information regarding the apparatus terminal when the switch is initially turned ON after the IP telephone apparatus is installed and connected to the IP network. The request for the registration is previously stored in a memory. The CPU also receives the message “Respond indicating completion of the registration” in response to the request for the registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Akira Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20100121093
    Abstract: There is provided a catalyst for dimethyl carbonate synthesis which has a high conversion rate under the supercritical condition of CO2 and can be handled easily. The catalyst for dimethyl carbonate is obtained by loading SO42? or PO43? on a carrier composed of a compound having a solid acid site, and is used to produce dimethyl carbonate from acetone dimethyl carbonate and CO2 in a supercritical state. The component having a solid acid site is preferably one or more of ZrO2, Al2O3, and TiO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Osora, Kazuto Kobayashi, Yoshio Seiki, Toshinobu Yasutake, Masaki Iijima, Akira Oguchi
  • Patent number: 7715367
    Abstract: An IP telephone system includes an IP telephone apparatus, a Web server and an ENUM server. The IP telephone apparatus is connected to an IP network. The Web server registers talk volume information corresponding to a telephone number assigned to the IP telephone apparatus. The ENUM server registers a NAPTR resource record in which a URI specifies link data related to the talk volume information registered in the Web server. In the IP telephone system, the IP telephone apparatus that has received a call transmits, to the ENUM server, a query for a NAPTR record corresponding to a targeted recipient phone number. The IP telephone apparatus then transmits, to the Web server, a request for the talk volume information corresponding to the targeted recipient phone number according to the returned NAPTR resource record, and adjusts the talk volume according to the returned talk volume information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: PANASONIC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiko Nishida, Kazuto Kobayashi, Akira Miyajima, Kentaro Tada, Kiyoshi Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20100101091
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of an outer ring (3) of a back-to-back arrangement double-row angular ball bearing from a raw material (10) comprising a upsetting (A to B), a backward extrusion process (C to D), a punching (D to E), a rolling (E to F) and a finishing, wherein an outer diameter of a first intermediate material (11a) produced by the upsetting is equal to or smaller than an inside diameter of an inner periphery large diameter portion (18) of the inner circumference of a die (13) used in the backward extrusion process and larger than an inside diameter of an inner periphery small portion (19) of the die (13), and in a condition with the first intermediate material (11a) sitting on the inner periphery inclined portion (20) of the die (13), the intermediate material (11a) is pushed toward a base of the die (13) by a punch (14), to thereby the middle metal material (29) with the highest cleanliness of the raw material (10) is exposed to the two outer ring raceways (2) of the outer ring (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroshi Koyama
  • Publication number: 20100058591
    Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a bearing ring member such as an outer ring comprising an installation portion on the outer peripheral surface and a double row of outer-ring raceways on the inner peripheral surface, in which a raw material is processed to obtain a final stage intermediate member through a first upsetting process, a forward-backward extrusion process, a second upsetting process, a burr removing process, and a punching process, wherein a movable die which leaves a stationary die in the final step is used in the second upsetting process, and the excess metal material is moved toward outside in the radial direction to a portion which become the installation section and a burr formation section, exposing a high pure metal material at least in a portion where the load of rolling bodies acts so as to ensure the rolling fatigue life of the both of outer-ring raceways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroshi Koyama, Yuu Yasuda
  • Patent number: 7674742
    Abstract: There is provided a catalyst for dimethyl carbonate synthesis which has a high conversion rate under the supercritical condition of CO2 and can be handled easily. The catalyst for dimethyl carbonate is obtained by loading SO42? or PO43? on a carrier composed of a compound having a solid acid site, and is used to produce dimethyl carbonate from acetone dimethyl carbonate and CO2 in a supercritical state. The component having a solid acid site is preferably one or more of ZrO2, Al2O3, and TiO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Osora, Kazuto Kobayashi, Yoshio Seiki, Toshinobu Yasutake, Masaki Iijima, Akira Oguchi
  • Publication number: 20100054651
    Abstract: A drawn cup needle roller bearing 30 having a seal ring comprises: a shell 31 having a raceway surface 31a on an inner circumferential face and also having inward flange portions 31b, 31c in both end portions; a cage 32 having a plurality of pockets 32a in a circumferential direction and worked by cutting; a plurality of needles 33 retained in the pockets 32a so that the needles freely rotate along the raceway surface 31a; and a seal ring 34, the shape of which is cylindrical, arranged inside the shell 31 between an end face 32b of the cage 32 and the inward flange portion 31b. The seal ring 34 composes a floating seal and is formed by press working. Due to the foregoing, an excellent dimensional accuracy can be provided and a quantity of lubricant passing through the bearing can be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kudou, Kazuto Kobayashi, Keiichi Horino, Kiyoshi Ootsuka, Isao Shintou
  • Patent number: 7653049
    Abstract: An IP telephone system includes IP telephone apparatuses and an ENUM server. The IP telephone apparatuses, connected to an IP network, perform a voice communication. The ENUM server stores NAPTR resource records containing file transfer protocols supported by the IP telephone apparatuses and returns the NAPTR resource records, responding to a query of the IP telephone apparatuses. In the IP telephone system, when receiving a voice communication instruction from a user of a source IP telephone apparatus the source IP telephone apparatus inquires the ENUM server for NAPTR resource records of a destination IP telephone apparatus. When receiving a file transfer instruction during a voice communication, the source IP telephone apparatus transfers a file to the destination IP telephone apparatus, using a file transfer protocol specified in the NAPTR resource records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Akira Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20100014512
    Abstract: An IP telephone number query system includes a terminal, a Web server, and an ENUM server. The terminal displays a call recipient profile hypertext markup language (html) that is assigned a HTML document file name. The Web server includes a phonebook searcher that has a plurality of call recipient profile htmls, and returns a selected call recipient profile html in response to a request from the terminal. The ENUM server has a database, a query issuer and a reversed query issuer. The database stores a plurality of NAPTR resource records in association with an ENUM domain name, each NAPTR resource record containing a URI that at least includes a telephone number and a HTML document file name. The query issuer searches the database in response to a query by an ENUM domain name and returns a NAPTR resource record corresponding to the ENUM domain name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto KOBAYASHI, Akira MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20100011582
    Abstract: This invention provided a manufacturing method to process a small-diameter step section 18 on an inside end section of a hub body 13a that comprises an outward facing flange 15 and a positioning cylinder 16 stably and with high precision. In this invention, an intermediate material 40 is pressed between a lower punch 36 and an upper punch 46 with an outer peripheral surface of the intermediate material 40 being held by a lower die 37 and an upper die 43, and then a part of the intermediate material 40 is pressed into the lower punch 36 such that the small-diameter step section 18 is formed by cold plastic working.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: NSK, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Yuu Yasuda, Kiyoshi Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 7620036
    Abstract: When a call recipient name is clicked on a search result screen of a phonebook search system, an ENUM server is notified of an html file name which displays the call recipient profile, which is personal data. The ENUM server extracts a URI corresponding to an IP telephone service for the call recipient from a NAPTR record based on the html file name, and transmits the URI to a source IP telephone apparatus. The source IP telephone apparatus then becomes able to place a call to a destination IP telephone apparatus, using the URI corresponding to the IP telephone service for the call recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Akira Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20090260467
    Abstract: When a punch is downwardly pressed, an inner circumferential surface of a first rack blank bites into a top surface of a second rack blank. A blank material upwardly flows due to a reaction force and is used to form rack teeth. Thus, a filling degree of the teeth with the material is enhanced. At the time when the forming of the rack teeth is finished, a gap is left between the inner circumferential surface of the first rack blank and the outer circumferential surface of the second rack blank. Thus, a die is not put into a sealed condition. Consequently, a forming load is small so that the lifetime of the die is lengthened. Also, the top surface of the second rack blank bites into a bore hole portion of the first rack blank so that the first rack blank and the second rack blank are joined together. Accordingly, the rigidity of the entire rack teeth is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Kotaro Hirota, Kiyoshi Ootsuka
  • Publication number: 20090263065
    Abstract: There is provided a bearing unit including one raceway ring 2 which is mounted on a vehicle body, the other raceway ring 4 which is disposed to face the one raceway ring 2 and is mounted on a wheel, and a plurality of rolling elements 6, 8 which are built in rollably between an outer ring raceway 2s and an inner ring raceway 4s which are formed continuously on facing surfaces of both the raceway rings 2, 4, respectively, along a circumferential direction, at least either of the raceway rings 2, 4 having a connecting flange 12a or a mounting flange 12a at which the raceway ring is mounted on the vehicle body or the wheel, wherein both the raceway rings 2, 4 are formed entirely through cold forging with no machining given to a surface of the flange 2a, 12a, while a quenching and tempering treatment by electromagnetic induction and grinding are given to at least the outer ring raceway 2s and the outer ring raceway 4s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Yuu Yasuda, Kiyoshi Ootsuka, Masato Nagano, Kenichi Nagai, Tatsuo Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 7605285
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for producing dimethyl carbonate, wherein carbon dioxide is recovered from combustion exhaust gas of a steam reformer 10 and a boiler; and some of the recovered carbon dioxide is used for methanol synthesis as a raw material for the steam reformer 10, and the remaining carbon dioxide is allowed to react with some of the yielded methanol to synthesize dimethyl carbonate. According to the present invention, CO2, which has conventionally been discharged, is returned to the steam reformer and is used effectively to produce DMC, and also devices for producing methanol and DMC can be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Osora, Yoshio Seiki, Masaki Iijima
  • Patent number: 7602767
    Abstract: Upon receiving, from a source IP terminal, a DNS packet that includes destination NAPTR query data with a keyword, an ENUM server compares the keyword with a keyword of a destination IP terminal stored in a keyword database. When the keywords are identical, the ENUM server generates a reply packet that includes NAPTR records, excluding the keyword, of the destination IP terminal registered in the NAPTR database. When the keywords are not identical, on the other hand, the ENUM server generates a reply packet indicating “No corresponding data.” Then, the ENUM server returns the generated reply packet to the source IP terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miyajima, Kazuto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7571543
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a retainer for a roller bearing made of a metal plate and has a tubular main portion, pockets formed in the main portion intermittently concerning a circumferential direction and capable of retaining rollers rollably, and an outwardly oriented flange-like collar portion. An annular intermediate material is formed by die cutting the metal plate, and after a second intermediate material is formed by forming through holes in the intermediate material intermittently, a portion of the second intermediate material excluding a radially outer end portion is plastically deformed into a tubular shape. The portion plastically deformed tubular shape is formed as the main portion, a portion corresponding to the radially outer end portion of the second intermediate material is formed as the collar portion or a collar portion element for forming the collar portion, and portions corresponding to the through holes are formed as the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Toshio Nakamura, Keiichi Horino, Yoshiro Ide
  • Patent number: 7521032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for removing mercury in exhaust gas, in which mercury is removed from exhaust gas of a boiler, characterized in that between a denitrification apparatus and a wet type desulfurization apparatus, an NH3 decomposition catalyst and a mercury oxidation catalyst are provided, and mercury having been oxidized into mercury chloride is removed by the wet type desulfurization apparatus. Also, it provides a method for removing mercury in exhaust gas, characterized in that the mercury removing method includes an NH3 decomposition process and a mercury oxidation process, which are provided between the denitrification process and a wet desulfurization process, and mercury having been oxidized into mercury chloride is removed in the wet desulfurization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Honjo, Kozo Iida, Susumu Okino, Kazuto Kobayashi, Kenichi Okada, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Shigeru Nojima, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Tsuyoshi Ohishi
  • Patent number: 7508819
    Abstract: An Internet telephone system that stores NAPTR resource records which include URIs corresponding to the phone numbers of individual terminals (Internet telephones), as well as IP addresses that correspond to those URIs. The system uses a server that stores a plurality of URIs corresponding to telephone numbers of terminals adjacent to a particular telephone, and uses a terminal that receives, from the sever, URI(s) and other information corresponding to an input telephone number, and places calls to destinations. In the Internet telephone system according to the present invention, the sever returns a plurality of URIs in response to requests, from the terminal, for URIs corresponding to a particular telephone number, and the terminal places a call to a destination corresponding to one of these URIs. When no connection is possible with the destination, a different URI is selected, and another call is placed to a destination corresponding to the different URI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Akira Miyajima
  • Patent number: D601662
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Fujikoki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Kobayashi, Takashi Mogi, Eiji Fukuda