Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Kiyoshi 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: 20240326777
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a generator, a drive motor, and a filter that collects particulate matter in exhaust gas of the engine. The generator is driven by the engine to generate power. The drive motor is driven with the power generated by the generator. A method for controlling the vehicle includes performing motoring by driving the engine in an operation stop state with the generator, thereby performing fuel cut of the engine and consuming power; prohibiting fuel cut of the engine based on a temperature of the filter; and when a discharge request is made while the fuel cut of the engine is prohibited, performing a power consumption operation in which a negative engine torque is generated in the engine by driving the engine with the generator while performing combustion in the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hoshi, Yoshihiko Misao, Hirofumi Miyauchi, Azusa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12084039
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a generator, a drive motor, and a filter that collects particulate matter in exhaust gas of the engine, in which the generator is driven by the engine to generate power, and the drive motor is driven with the power generated by the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hoshi, Yoshihiko Misao, Hirofumi Miyauchi, Azusa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12077148
    Abstract: A control method for a hybrid vehicle is provided. The hybrid vehicle includes: a power generator that charges a battery using power of an engine; an electric motor that drives a driving wheel by electric power of the battery; a particulate filter that collects particulate matters contained in exhaust gas from the engine. In the control method, electric power is supplied from the battery to the power generator to perform a motoring operation of rotating the engine by the power generator to supply air to the particulate filter when particulate matters of a first predetermined amount or more are accumulated in the particulate filter. And motoring operation is prohibited even if the particulate filter is accumulated with particulate matters of the first predetermined amount or more when a predetermined first condition that a driver does not intend a motoring operation is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hoshi, Kenichi Gotou, Azusa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12080152
    Abstract: A projection processing device comprises a processor control unit that acquires, in response to acceptance of input information, projection position information associated with the input information, and instructs a projector to emit light or project an image enabling a user to identify a position based on the acquired projection position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Oda, Hiroshi Saito, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 12072069
    Abstract: A white light source and method of use thereof, wherein control of daily rhythm and pleasant lighting can be realized. Amounts of stimulation light emitted from a white light source to the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) and visual cells of the L cone and M cone, are defined as a melanopic irradiance, an L-cone opic irradiance, and an M-cone opic irradiance, respectively; a ratio of the amounts of the stimulation light is expressed by formula (1); and A is the ratio corresponding to the emission spectrum of the white light source, and B is the ratio corresponding to the radiation spectrum of a black body having the same color temperature as the white light source, an amount of stimulation light emitted to the ipRGC is quantitatively changed by changing the emission intensity of the white light source satisfying formula (2). Melanopic irradiance/(L-cone opic irradiance+M-cone opic irradiance)??(1) 0.88?A/B?1.11??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Yamakawa, Kumpei Kobayashi, Ryoji Tsuda, Noriaki Yagi, Kiyoshi Inoue, Kyung Hee Ye
  • Publication number: 20240270229
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a generator, a drive motor, and a filter that collects particulate matter in exhaust gas of the engine, in which the generator is driven by the engine to generate power, and the drive motor is driven with the power generated by the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hoshi, Yoshihiko Misao, Hirofumi Miyauchi, Azusa Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240250401
    Abstract: A wireless module includes: a first substrate including an antenna that transmits and receives high-frequency signals in a millimeter-wave band, a first high-temperature element that supplies high-frequency signals to the antenna being mounted on the first substrate; and a housing including a cover and a case combined with each other and housing the first substrate, the first substrate is in contact with the cover in an opposing direction in which the case and the cover oppose each other, the case includes a first heat dissipation part protruding toward the first high-temperature element, a first heat dissipation sheet is provided between the first heat dissipation part and the first high-temperature element in the opposing direction, and the cover and the first heat dissipation part compress the first heat dissipation sheet and the first substrate in the opposing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Shigematsu, Masao Mori, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Yuki Suto
  • Publication number: 20240250405
    Abstract: A wireless module includes a first board having an antenna, the antenna transmitting and receiving a high frequency signal in a millimeter wave band, a second board handling a baseband signal with a lower frequency than the high frequency signal, and a housing including a cover and a case combined with each other and accommodating the first board and the second board, in which a passage portion that allows electromagnetic waves transmitted and received by the antenna to pass through is provided in the cover, and the first board is fixed to the cover while being in contact with the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Shigematsu, Masao Mori, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Yuki Suto
  • Patent number: 12044717
    Abstract: This method for analysis processing by using measured impedance spectrum data includes: a step for determining whether to reset the maximum value and/or the minimum value of logarithmic relaxation time corresponding to a measured logarithmic frequency on the basis of the measured impedance spectrum data; a step for setting the number of equal-interval divisions within the range of the logarithmic relaxation time set in the determination step; and a step for analyzing parameters R?, T, L, and Rl for the range of the set logarithmic relaxation time so as to satisfy a prescribed expression (A) by applying a regularized least-squares method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11881887
    Abstract: A frequency converter up-converts a transmission signal in an intermediate frequency hand into a signal in a wireless frequency hand as a USB or an LSR of a local oscillation signal using the local oscillation signal. When PMhigh?1/2×IFwid?RFtx?PMhigh?1/2×CHwid, the frequency converter is configured to satisfy ?LO=PMhigh?1/2×Fwid?IFcent and IFtx=RFtx??LO. Alternatively, when PMlow+1/2×IFwid?RFtx?PMlow+1/2×CHwid, the frequency converter is configured to satisfy ?LO=PMlow+1/2×IFwid+IFcent and IFtx=?LO?RFtx.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Yo Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11764468
    Abstract: A phased array antenna includes an antenna array substrate having a plurality of antenna elements. At least two beamformers are coupled to the plurality of antenna elements. At least two filters support different frequency bands and are respectively coupled to the at least two beamformers. A frequency converter is coupled to the at least two filters, the frequency converter including one intermediate frequency (IF) port and at least two radio frequency (RF) ports. The one IF port of the frequency converter is configured to support the at least two beamformers via the at least two RF ports. A first beamformer of the at least two beamformers is coupled to a first filter of the at least two filters to form a first beam in a direction different than a second beamformer of the first two beamformers coupled to a second filter of the at least two filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, FUJIKURA LTD
    Inventors: Alberto Valdes Garcia, Arun Paidimarri, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Jean-Olivier Plouchart, Xiaoxiong Gu, Christian Wilhelmus Baks, Yo Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Yoshiharu Fujisaku, Ning Guan
  • Publication number: 20230282976
    Abstract: A phased array antenna (1) includes: a plurality of antenna elements (11a to 11d); a plurality of signal paths (R11 and R12) that are connected to each of the antenna elements; a storage unit (M) configured to store a set values of at least one of amplitudes or phases of a signal passed through at least one predefined reference path among the plurality of signal paths with regard to at least one of the antenna elements, and an amplitude and phase control unit (22 or 26) configured to control at least one of the amplitude or the phase of the signal passed through the reference path connected to the antenna element by using the set value stored in the storage unit, and configured to control amplitude or phase of signal passed through the signal path other than the reference path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicants: Fujikura Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Ken Sakuma, Mark Yeck, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Paidimarri Arun
  • Publication number: 20230074376
    Abstract: A phased array antenna includes an antenna array substrate having a plurality of antenna elements. At least two beamformers are coupled to the plurality of antenna elements. At least two filters support different frequency bands and are respectively coupled to the at least two beamformers. A frequency converter is coupled to the at least two filters, the frequency converter including one intermediate frequency (IF) port and at least two radio frequency (RF) ports. The one IF port of the frequency converter is configured to support the at least two beamformers via the at least two RF ports. A first beamformer of the at least two beamformers is coupled to a first filter of the at least two filters to form a first beam in a direction different than a second beamformer of the first two beamformers coupled to a second filter of the at least two filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Alberto Valdes Garcia, Arun Paidimarri, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Jean-Olivier Plouchart, Xiaoxiong Gu, Christian Wilhelmus Baks, Yo Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Yoshiharu Fujisaku, Ning Guan
  • Patent number: 11284520
    Abstract: An input device includes a sensor unit, an optical layer superimposed on the sensor unit, and a flexible wiring substrate having a connection region held between the optical layer and support base member. The flexible wiring substrate has a flexible base member on which an electrode layer is provided and a wiring end that is an end of the electrode layer and is conductive with the terminal part with a conductive joining member. The wiring end is set back from an end of the flexible base member, so that the flexible base member has a protruding part protruding toward the sensing region. Since the input device has, on the sensing region side relative to a front end of the protruding part, a part into which the conductive joining member does not stick out, an air bubble region between the sensor unit and the optical layer can be narrowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michiharu Motonishi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210293867
    Abstract: This method for analysis processing by using measured impedance spectrum data includes: a step for determining whether to reset the maximum value and/or the minimum value of logarithmic relaxation time corresponding to a measured logarithmic frequency on the basis of the measured impedance spectrum data; a step for setting the number of equal-interval divisions within the range of the logarithmic relaxation time set in the determination step; and a step for analyzing parameters R?, T, L, and Rl for the range of the set logarithmic relaxation time so as to satisfy a prescribed expression (A) by applying a regularized least-squares method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventor: Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200333937
    Abstract: An input device includes a support base member, a sensor unit having a plurality of electrode units (first electrodes and second electrodes) provided on the support base member, an extension extending outward from the support base member, a lead wire provided along a first principal surface of the extension and electrically conductive with the plurality of electrode units, and a flexible wiring substrate having a connection terminal electrically conductive with the lead wire in a principal surface and disposed facing the first principal surface of the extension. The extension has a bend allowance section that allows bending between an extension end and a connection base connected to the support base member. The lead wire is electrically conductive with the connection terminal at the extension-end side of the extension relative to the bend allowance section. A cover is provided entirely over the lead wire located at the bend allowance section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Michiharu MOTONISHI, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Yusuke KOIKE
  • Patent number: 10809832
    Abstract: A sensor base material and a photic base material such as a polarizing plate are stacked together. An opening is formed in the photic base material. Although the joining part of a flexible wiring board is joined to the sensor base material, a large portion of an opposing edge facing a display and input region, the opposing edge being part of the joining part, is positioned in the opening, so bubbles along the opposing edge are less likely to be generated, making the display quality of the display and input region less likely to be affected. In addition, since the both-side substrate ends of the joining part are sandwiched between the sensor base material and the photic base material, the joining part is less likely to be deformed, making it easy to prevent damage to the sensor base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Michiharu Motonishi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10686515
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless stations. Each of at least two of the plurality of wireless stations includes, a first antenna transmitting a radio wave in a first frequency band, a second antenna transmitting a radio wave in a second frequency band lower in frequency than the first frequency band, a first transceiver transmitting and receiving a main signal in the first frequency band, and a second transceiver transmitting and receiving a control signal in the second frequency band. At least one of the at least two wireless stations includes, a variable beam antenna making a beam direction variable as the first antenna, a wide angle antenna having a radiation range equal to or wider than a variable range of the beam direction as the second antenna, and a controller controlling the beam direction of the variable beam antenna according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Ning Guan
  • Patent number: 10649561
    Abstract: A multilayer structure includes a touch sensor and an optical functional layer formed thereon. The optical functional layer includes a phase-difference layer and a linear polarization layer formed thereon on a side opposite to the touch sensor. The phase-difference layer which gives a phase difference to transmitted light has a laminated structure including a 1/4? phase-difference layer and a 1/2? phase-difference layer. The multilayer structure has first and second retardations at wavelengths of 450 nm and 590 nm, respectively, while the optical functional layer has third and fourth retardations at wavelengths of 450 nm and 590 nm, respectively. A first ratio of the first retardation to the second retardation is smaller than 0.763 and greater than a second ratio of the third retardation to the fourth retardation. A slow axis of the base member extends in a direction parallel to a synthesized slow axis of the optical functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Masumoto, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Masayoshi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20200073497
    Abstract: An input device includes a sensor unit, an optical layer superimposed on the sensor unit, and a flexible wiring substrate having a connection region held between the optical layer and support base member. The flexible wiring substrate has a flexible base member on which an electrode layer is provided and a wiring end that is an end of the electrode layer and is conductive with the terminal part with a conductive joining member. The wiring end is set back from an end of the flexible base member, so that the flexible base member has a protruding part protruding toward the sensing region. Since the input device has, on the sensing region side relative to a front end of the protruding part, a part into which the conductive joining member does not stick out, an air bubble region between the sensor unit and the optical layer can be narrowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Michiharu MOTONISHI, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI