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: 20190050098
    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: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke KOIKE, Michiharu MOTONISHI, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180224975
    Abstract: A capacitive sensor having a bending portion and a flat portion and bendable in the bending portion includes a plurality of first transparent electrodes, a plurality of second transparent electrodes, a coupling member, and a bridge wiring member. The first transparent electrodes are arranged in a first direction. The second transparent electrodes are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. The coupling member is provided integrally with either the first transparent electrodes or the second transparent electrodes. The bridge wiring member is provided separately from the first transparent electrodes or the second transparent electrodes, to which the coupling member is not provided, in a portion where the bridge wiring member crosses the coupling member. A direction in which the coupling member extends in the bending portion is different from a direction in which the coupling member extends in the flat portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Yusuke KOIKE, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180145728
    Abstract: A composite cable (4) houses a plurality of leaky coaxial cables having mutually different radiation characteristics. The leaky coaxial cable (2a, 2b) includes therein an inner conductor and an outer conductor, and has a plurality of leakage slots. The plurality of leakage slots have different slot periods relative to the axial direction or arranged in different slot patterns. The digital wireless communication device feeds a high-frequency signal from an end of the composite cable (4) and performs MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicants: ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL, FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi TSUKAMOTO, Takahiro MAEDA, Yafei HOU, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Fumio SUZUKI, Atsuhiko NIWA
  • Publication number: 20180067574
    Abstract: A multilayer structure includes a touch sensor and an optical functional layer, the touch sensor including a base member and a transparent electrode layer. The optical functional layer includes a phase-difference layer that gives a phase difference to transmitted light (a specific example of the phase-difference layer is a multilayer configuration formed of a 1/4? phase-difference layer and a 1/2? phase-difference layer), and a linear polarizing layer. The optical functional layer is positioned such that a surface thereof on the side on which the phase-difference layer is present faces the touch sensor. In the optical functional layer, the ratio of a retardation at a wavelength of 450 nm to a retardation at a wavelength of 590 nm is less than 0.763, and the slow axis of the base member extends in a direction parallel to the slow axis of the optical functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshifumi MASUMOTO, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Masayoshi TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160156716
    Abstract: Provided is an information management device including: a communication information obtaining unit configured to obtain communication information about a communication state in an internal network inside a building; and an update determination unit configured to determine a start of updating process by an information updating unit, based on the communication information obtained by the communication information obtaining unit, wherein the information updating unit obtains information from an external network outside the building and performs the updating process for storing the obtained information as local information into a storage device which is accessible, not via the external network, by a terminal device connected to the internal network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi MURAKAMI, Yoji OKADA, Yoshizo TANAKA, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Hirotsugu YAMAMOTO, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Kazuto YANO, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Tomohiro MIYASAKA, Mariko SEKIGUCHI, Yafei HOU
  • Patent number: 9252906
    Abstract: A transmitter of a communication system includes a spectrum dividing section which divides a transmission signal into a plurality of sub-spectra at a first sampling speed F1 and combines one or more low-speed intermediate composite signals from the divided sub-spectra, and a multiplexing section which multiplexes the intermediate composite signals at a second sampling speed F2 faster than the first sampling speed F1 (F2>F1) and distributes to a broadband. A receiver includes a demultiplexing section which extracts one or more low-speed intermediate composite signals from a reception signal at the second sampling speed F2, and a spectrum combining section which combines the intermediate composite signals at the first sampling speed F1 and extracts the sub-spectra to re-combines the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Abe, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9065612
    Abstract: In a wireless transmission system that transmits and receives a modulated signal between a transmitter and a receiver that are coupled through a wireless transmission path, the transmitter includes a spectrum division filter bank dividing the modulated signal and generating a plurality of sub-spectrum signals each of which is arranged at a predetermined frequency position, and subjects the plurality of sub-spectrum signals arranged in spectra to a direct spectrum division transmission, and the receiver includes a spectrum combination filter bank extracting the plurality of sub-spectrum signals from the received signals arranged in spectra and subjected to the direct spectrum division transmission to combine the sub-spectrum signals into an original modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiro Yamashita, Junichi Abe, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8817224
    Abstract: An input device is manufactured from a roll of a single-layer flexible transparent base sheet having a first surface and a second surface by forming a transparent electrode pattern and a wiring layer on the first surface. The transparent electrode pattern is disposed in a transparent input region, and the wiring layer extends from an end of the transparent electrode pattern into a decorative region surrounding the transparent input region. A decorative layer pattern is formed on the second surface in the decorative region, while conveying the transparent base sheet through a roll-to-roll processing. The transparent base sheet having the transparent electrode pattern and the decorative layer pattern is divided into individual units. A transparent panel having an operation surface is bonded to the second surface of each of the individual units with an optically clear adhesive layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Saito, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140211814
    Abstract: A transmitter of a communication system includes a spectrum dividing section which divides a transmission signal into a plurality of sub-spectra at a first sampling speed F1 and combines one or more low-speed intermediate composite signals from the divided sub-spectra, and a multiplexing section which multiplexes the intermediate composite signals at a second sampling speed F2 faster than the first sampling speed F1 (F2>F1) and distributes to a broadband. A receiver includes a demultiplexing section which extracts one or more low-speed intermediate composite signals from a reception signal at the second sampling speed F2, and a spectrum combining section which combines the intermediate composite signals at the first sampling speed F1 and extracts the sub-spectra to re-combines the transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Abe, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8743327
    Abstract: A touch panel (input device) includes a flexible transparent base; a transparent electrode formed on a first surface of the transparent base; a decorative layer formed on a second surface of the transparent base, the second surface being opposite the first surface; and a transparent panel (glass panel) bonded to the second surface of the transparent base, with an optical clear adhesive layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Saito, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140102633
    Abstract: An input device is manufactured from a roll of a single-layer flexible transparent base sheet having a first surface and a second surface by forming a transparent electrode pattern and a wiring layer on the first surface. The transparent electrode pattern is disposed in a transparent input region, and the wiring layer extends from an end of the transparent electrode pattern into a decorative region surrounding the transparent input region. A decorative layer pattern is formed on the second surface in the decorative region, while conveying the transparent base sheet through a roll-to-roll processing. The transparent base sheet having the transparent electrode pattern and the decorative layer pattern is divided into individual units. A transparent panel having an operation surface is bonded to the second surface of each of the individual units with an optically clear adhesive layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji SAITO, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8650007
    Abstract: When a manager uses an input device to input the inspected states of the degrees of soundness of a plurality of objects, a data receiving unit receives them as inspection data. A deterioration characteristic calculating unit calculates the average value of the deterioration characteristics of the objects based on data related to the degrees of soundness of the plurality of objects that is received by the data receiving unit. A heterogeneous parameter calculating unit calculates a heterogeneous parameter for each heterogeneous factor that cannot be observed or is difficult to observe, and causes a variation in the deterioration characteristics. A benchmarking unit evaluates the influence of the heterogeneous factors on the deterioration characteristics based on the heterogeneous parameters, and an output unit outputs the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: Kyoto University, Pasco Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kazuya Aoki
  • Patent number: 8643727
    Abstract: An electronic device having a clock portion for counting time and having the time on the clock portion set based on time information acquired from outside has a notification portion that communicates information of the time counted by the clock portion to an external device via a physical line. Alternatively, an electronic device has a first clock portion counting time and an acquisition portion that acquires, from an external device having a second clock portion for counting time and having the time on the second clock portion set based on time information acquired from outside, information of the time counted by the second clock portion via a physical line, and the time on the first clock portion is set based on the information acquired by the acquisition portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamori, Takafumi Hayashi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Masaaki Sugimori
  • Patent number: 8611204
    Abstract: A digital signal demultiplexing apparatus that can demultiplex and a digital signal multiplexing apparatus that can multiplex signals of channels having arbitrary frequency intervals and bandwidths are provided. The digital signal demultiplexing apparatus performs discrete Fourier transform on an input signal, output samples existing within frequency bands of each channel from samples of the frequency domain, add samples such that the number of samples of each channel become a power of two, and performs, on the samples of each channel, discrete inverse Fourier transform of a length the same as the number of the samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Masazumi Ueba
  • Patent number: 8538646
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicular automatic transmission is provided which can preferably execute backpressure control of accumulators and torque-up control so as to minimize the occurrence of interference between learning on these controls during a gearshift operation. With the control device for the vehicular automatic transmission including the accumulators (104, 106 and 108) operative to control a hydraulic pressure supplied to second and third clutches (C2 and C3) and a third brake (B3), the backpressure control is executed for controlling a backpressure of the accumulators (104, 106 and 108) during the gearshift operation while the torque-up control is executed for raising torque output from an engine (12). Completion of learning on the backpressure control is determined when no completion of learning on the backpressure control is determined, learning on the backpressure control is executed with no execution of the torque-up control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuro Shibata, Hideaki Otsubo, Toshiya Oishi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8508663
    Abstract: An electronic device has a plurality of wired-connection terminals, a selection portion that selects one of the plurality of wired-connection terminals for input of source data, and a transmission portion that wiredly transmits a command requesting a shift to a normal-operation mode to another electronic device having a power-save mode after switching of input by selection by the selection portion. The plurality of wired-connection terminals are all of an identical type for wired connection to another electronic device having a power-save mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamori, Takafumi Hayashi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Takahiro Shigetomi
  • Patent number: 8366286
    Abstract: A lower surface and an upper surface are provided in a detection panel 2. Lower electrode layers 11a and 11b, a lower wiring pattern 15, and a lower land portion 13 formed on the lower surface are covered with upper shielding layers 28a and 28c of the upper surface, and an upper electrode layer 21, an upper wiring pattern 25, and an upper land portion 23 formed in the upper surface are covered with lower shielding layers 19a and 19b of the lower surface. Therefore, an effect of a decorative area shielding light may be enhanced, and thus an electrical shielding effect may further be exhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Takashi Asakawa, Shinichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20120247937
    Abstract: A touch panel (input device) includes a flexible transparent base; a transparent electrode formed on a first surface of the transparent base; a decorative layer formed on a second surface of the transparent base, the second surface being opposite the first surface; and a transparent panel (glass panel) bonded to the second surface of the transparent base, with an optical clear adhesive layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji SAITO, Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20120170283
    Abstract: A lower surface and an upper surface are provided in a detection panel 2. Lower electrode layers 11a and 11b, a lower wiring pattern 15, and a lower land portion 13 formed on the lower surface are covered with upper shielding layers 28a and 28c of the upper surface, and an upper electrode layer 21, an upper wiring pattern 25, and an upper land portion 23 formed in the upper surface are covered with lower shielding layers 19a and 19b of the lower surface. Therefore, an effect of a decorative area shielding light may be enhanced, and thus an electrical shielding effect may further be exhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Takashi ASAKAWA, Shinichi HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8207586
    Abstract: A MEMS sensor includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a movable electrode portion and a fixed electrode portion which are arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein: conductive supporting portions of the movable electrode portion and the fixed electrode portion are, respectively, fixedly secured to a surface of the first substrate via a first insulating layer; a second insulating layer, a lead layer buried into the second insulating layer, and connection electrode portions that are electrically connected to the lead layer to be individually connected to the conductive supporting portions are provided on a surface of the second substrate; a metallic connection layer is formed on the surface of one of the respective conductive supporting portions; one of the respective connection electrode portions and the metallic connection layer are bonded together by eutectic bonding or diffusion bonding; and, at least each of the connection electrode portions has a thickness of about 4 ?
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Sato, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Uto, Katsuya Kikuiri, Kazuyoshi Takahashi, Jun Suzuki, Hideki Gochou, Toru Takahashi, Hisanobu Ohkawa