Patents by Inventor Kentaro Kobayashi

Kentaro 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: 20250146927
    Abstract: A measurement instrument comprises a cylindrical cell that stores a measurement fluid, a light source that is arranged outside the cell and irradiates the measurement fluid with inspection light, a detector that is arranged outside the cell and detects transmitted light or scattered light generated from the measurement fluid, a cleaning mechanism that is arranged inside the cell and cleans an inner peripheral surface of the cell, and a drive mechanism that rotates the cell about a central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Issei KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro IRIE, Wataru KINOSHITA, Kentaro INOUE
  • Patent number: 12281755
    Abstract: A gas container includes: a tubular container body having an internal space for storing gas; a connector attached to an end portion of the container body in a shaft direction and having a communication passage for allowing the internal space to communicate with an outside of the container body; and a storage member disposed in the internal space to absorb and release gas. The storage member has one of a recess portion and a projection portion which are provided on a radial outer surface thereof and engage with each other. The container body has the other of the recess portion and the projection portion which are provided on a radial inner surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuhiro Kumagai, Kentaro Enomoto, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250112131
    Abstract: A lead frame has inner leads arranged in a first direction, and each inner lead includes a first main surface parallel to the first direction, an end surface connecting to the first main surface, a first side surface connecting to the first main surface and to the end surface, and a second side surface connected to the first main surface and to the first side surface. In a plan view perpendicular to the first main surface, an angle between a first imaginary straight line including a first line of intersection between the first main surface and the end surface, and a second imaginary straight line including a second line of intersection between the first main surface and the second side surface, is less than 90 degrees on a side of each inner lead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Konosuke KOBAYASHI, Kentaro KANEKO, Toru MARUYAMA, Kesayuki SONEHARA, Masato MURAMATSU, Takuya MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250102332
    Abstract: At a measuring device, a measurement gauge comprises a measurement fluid passage and a measurement connection port, a main body comprises a main body fluid passage and a main body connection port, and a connector comprises a connecting tube, a first end of which is inserted into an interior of the measurement connection port, and a second end of which is inserted into an interior of the main body connection port, an annular first elastic body which seals a region between an outside circumferential portion of the first end of the connecting tube and an inside circumferential portion of the measurement connection port, and an annular second elastic body which seals a region between an outside circumferential portion of the second end of the connecting tube and an inside circumferential portion of the main body connection port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Issei KOBAYASHI, Wataru KINOSHITA, Kentaro INOUE, Akihiro HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20250075090
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording method for recording an image on a recording medium using an aqueous ink and an aqueous reaction liquid containing a reactant. The reactant contains a cationic resin. The cationic resin contains, in a molecular weight distribution measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), a first cationic resin having a peak in a molecular weight range of 100,000 or more to 500,000 or less and a second cationic resin having a peak in a molecular weight range of 2,000 or more to less than 100,000. The mass ratio of the amount (% by mass) of the second cationic resin contained to the amount (% by mass) of the first cationic resin contained is 0.01 times or more to 8.0 times or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: ARIHIRO SAITO, TAKATOSHI TANAKA, SHINYA YUMOTO, TOSHIHIRO OMAGARI, ERI KOBAYASHI, KENTARO YOSHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 12198968
    Abstract: The electrostatic chuck includes an insulating substrate having a placement surface on which a suction target object is placed and an opposite surface provided on an opposite side to the placement surface; and a gas hole penetrating from the opposite surface to the placement surface. The gas hole has a first hole portion extending from the opposite surface toward the placement surface, a second hole portion extending from the placement surface toward the opposite surface, and a third hole portion provided between the first hole portion and the second hole portion and formed to communicate the first hole portion and the second hole portion each other. The first hole portion is provided not to overlap with the second hole portion in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kobayashi, Mizuki Watanabe, Kohei Yamaguchi, Atsuo Sato
  • Publication number: 20240390857
    Abstract: An operation method of a hollow fiber membrane module is described, the operation method including: a filtration step of performing cross-flow filtration by supplying a feed to an outer surface side of a hollow fiber membrane, in which in the filtration step, a ratio of a viscosity ?f of the feed to a viscosity ?p of a filtrate satisfies a relation of ?f/?p?1.5, and a flow rate ratio of a flow rate vp of the filtrate to a flow rate vf of the feed satisfies a relation of 0.02?vp/vf?0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kobayashi, Satoko Kanamori, Takashi Tachibana
  • Patent number: 12145105
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filtration device including: a flow rate control unit; a separation membrane module; a liquid flow rate detection unit detecting a liquid flow rate at a freely-selected part; and an external control unit controlling a state of the flow rate control unit, in which the external control unit includes: a target range setting step of setting a target flow rate range A; a control state recording step of recording a state S of the flow rate control unit when the liquid flow rate at the freely-selected part first enters within the target flow rate range A; a state setting step of setting the flow rate control unit to the state S; and a flow rate controlling step of controlling the liquid flow rate to be within the target flow rate range A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi Mori, Atsushi Kobayashi, Kentaro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240216871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollow fiber membrane in which the thickness L of a spherical structure layer is 60-500 ?m (inclusive), the spherical structure layer has a first surface and a second surface, the average diameter Da1 of the spherical structure in a region Sa1 10 ?m or less from the first surface and the average diameter db2 of the spherical structure in a region Sb2 10-20 ?m from the second surface satisfy the relational expression Da1>db2, and the spherical structure satisfies certain parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kobayashi, Kenta Iwai, Yoichiro Kozaki, Satoko Kanamori, Takashi Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20240085400
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for performing a test for prostate cancer. This method is for testing the possibility of having prostate cancer, the method comprising (1) measuring the amount or concentration of a biomarker in a body fluid sample collected from a subject, the biomarker being at least one member selected from the group consisting of dimethyl glutarate, 2,6-xylidine, 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropiophenone, 2,6-di(propan-2-yl) phenol, dimethyl succinate, acetophenone, 2-phenyl-2-propanol, and 3,5,5-trimetyl-2-cyclohexenone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AINO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Atsufumi OZOE, Kentaro KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiko TAKAHASHI, Kohei MATSUNAGA, Takaaki SATO, Yoichi MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 11908635
    Abstract: To reduce the occurrence of capacitor mounting failure on a circuit board in the solder reflow process, the capacitor element is housed in the bottomed cylindrical outer case and sealed with a sealing member the open end of the outer case, the lead terminal derived from the capacitor element is formed through the sealing member a capacitor body, a base having a bottom surface portion and a side wall formed so as to surround the outer periphery of the capacitor body with a through hole through which the lead terminal penetrates, a capacitor having a convex portion protruding toward the capacitor body from the inner surface of the side wall, the caulking portion formed by caulking the side surface of the outer case the convex portion is disposed, providing a gap portion between the caulking portion and the convex portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON CHEMI-CON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11848224
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes: a ceramic plate; an adsorption electrode that is built in the ceramic plate; and a plurality of connection pads that are built in the ceramic plate to be electrically connected to the adsorption electrode. The connection pads are arranged stepwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Koizumi, Kazunori Shimizu, Kentaro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230256394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollow fiber membrane module for outside-in cross-flow filtration including: a container having at least a raw water inlet, a raw water outlet, and a filtrate outlet; and a plurality of hollow fiber membranes housed in the container, in which in the plurality of hollow fiber membranes, an end portion on a raw water inlet side is sealed and an end portion on a filtrate outlet side is opened, and the plurality of hollow fiber membranes have a potting portion fixed by an adhesive at least in the end portion on the filtrate outlet side, and a pure water permeability K (m3/m2/hr/50 kPa) of the hollow fiber membranes and an inner diameter Di (?m) of the hollow fiber membranes satisfy the following requirements: 2.0?K?20.0; and 350?D1?600.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kobayashi, Yoichiro Kozaki, Satoko Kanamori, Atsushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11617991
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a separation membrane including an organic polymer resin, in which a volume V1 of fine pores having a pore diameter of 100 nm or more is 0.3 cm3/g or more and 0.5 cm3/g or less, a volume V2 of fine pores having a pore diameter of less than 100 nm is 0.02 cm3/g or more and less than 0.1 cm3/g, and a ratio V1/V2 of the fine pore volume V1 to the fine pore volume V2 is 3 or more and 60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kozaki, Masakazu Koiwa, Fumi Hojo, Satoko Kanamori, Kentaro Kobayashi, Masato Yanagibashi
  • Publication number: 20230030510
    Abstract: The electrostatic chuck includes an insulating substrate having a placement surface on which a suction target object is placed and an opposite surface provided on an opposite side to the placement surface; and a gas hole penetrating from the opposite surface to the placement surface. The gas hole has a first hole portion extending from the opposite surface toward the placement surface, a second hole portion extending from the placement surface toward the opposite surface, and a third hole portion provided between the first hole portion and the second hole portion and formed to communicate the first hole portion and the second hole portion each other. The first hole portion is provided not to overlap with the second hole portion in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kentaro Kobayashi, Mizuki Watanabe, Kohei Yamaguchi, Atsuo Sato
  • Publication number: 20220301917
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes: a ceramic plate; an adsorption electrode that is built in the ceramic plate; and a plurality of connection pads that are built in the ceramic plate to be electrically connected to the adsorption electrode. The connection pads are arranged stepwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Naoyuki Koizumi, Kazunori Shimizu, Kentaro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220266204
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a separation membrane including an organic polymer resin, in which a volume V1 of fine pores having a pore diameter of 100 nm or more is 0.3 cm3/g or more and 0.5 cm3/g or less, a volume V2 of fine pores having a pore diameter of less than 100 nm is 0.02 cm3/g or more and less than 0.1 cm3/g, and a ratio V1/V2 of the fine pore volume V1 to the fine pore volume V2 is 3 or more and 60 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoichiro KOZAKI, Masakazu KOIWA, Fumi HOJO, Satoko KANAMORI, Kentaro KOBAYASHI, Masato YANAGIBASHI
  • Publication number: 20220238283
    Abstract: To reduce the occurrence of capacitor mounting failure on a circuit board in the solder reflow process, the capacitor element is housed in the bottomed cylindrical outer case and sealed with a sealing member the open end of the outer case, the lead terminal derived from the capacitor element is formed through the sealing member a capacitor body, a base having a bottom surface portion and a side wall formed so as to surround the outer periphery of the capacitor body with a through hole through which the lead terminal penetrates, a capacitor having a convex portion protruding toward the capacitor body from the inner surface of the side wall, the caulking portion formed by caulking the side surface of the outer case the convex portion is disposed, providing a gap portion between the caulking portion and the convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Kentaro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220111335
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filtration device including: a flow rate control unit; a separation membrane module; a liquid flow rate detection unit detecting a liquid flow rate at a freely-selected part; and an external control unit controlling a state of the flow rate control unit, in which the external control unit includes: a target range setting step of setting a target flow rate range A; a control state recording step of recording a state S of the flow rate control unit when the liquid flow rate at the freely-selected part first enters within the target flow rate range A; a state setting step of setting the flow rate control unit to the state S; and a flow rate controlling step of controlling the liquid flow rate to be within the target flow rate range A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi Mori, Atsushi Kobayashi, Kentaro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220032234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating a membrane filtration unit including plural hollow fiber membrane modules connected to each other in parallel, the method including: a filtration step; a collection step; and a recovery step, in which a relation of n1?n2>n3 is satisfied, where n1 is the number of the hollow fiber membrane modules simultaneously used in executing the filtration step, n2 is the number of the hollow fiber membrane modules simultaneously used in executing the collection step, and n3 is the number of the hollow fiber membrane modules simultaneously used in executing the recovery step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kobayashi, Atsushi Kobayashi