Patents by Inventor Koichi Kobayashi

Koichi 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).

  • Patent number: 7161872
    Abstract: A fish depth monitor is a device that can display first water depth data that indicates the location of terminal tackle that is engaged on fishing line reeled out from a spool, and second water depth data that indicates the location of the bottom of a fishing location transmitted from a fish finder, and includes a case, first and second reception portions, a display unit, and a control unit. The first and second reception portions receive the first water depth data from an electric driven reel and the second water depth data from the fish finder. The control unit graphically displays the received first and second water depth data in positions that correspond to the water depth on the display unit. It is possible to intuitively determine the positional relationship between the location of the terminal tackle and the location of the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kuriyama, Yuzo Kawabe, Hirokazu Hirayama, Kazuhito Yamamoto, Masakazu Nomura, Hiroyasu Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukuda, Hiroyuki Hamato, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7134422
    Abstract: In an air intake assembly, a portion of an inner peripheral wall of an intake funnel pipe is provided as a pivotally movable blocking body, so that when unthrottled, an inner wall surface of the blocking body is flush with the inner peripheral wall of the funnel pipe. The blocking body has a substantially trianglular outline shape, the apex of which is positioned on top when viewed along the axis of the support shaft. The support shaft is positioned at the apex of the blocking body, and allows pivotal movement of the blocking body, on the downstream side thereof, to allow adjustment of the rate of air flow through the funnel pipe. The blocking body within the funnel pipe of an air intake assembly allows a smooth flow of air therepast when actuated to throttle the air intake channel, and does not obstruct the air intake channel when inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yanagibashi, Koichi Kobayashi, Junji Higashiyama, Tetsuya Kudo
  • Publication number: 20060230710
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishiwatari, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi, Koichi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20060217291
    Abstract: There is provided a radiosensitizer containing an iron compound, more specifically, a radiosensitizer containing an iron compound selected from an inorganoiron compound, such as iron chloride, iron oxide, iron hydroxide, and iron sulfate; and an organoiron compound, such as saccharated ferric oxide, iron citrate, iron gluconate, chondroitin sulfate/iron colloid, cideferron, ferrotrenine, iron fumarate, iron pyrophosphate, a porphyrin-iron complex, and an albumin incorporating porphyrin-iron complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Ichiro Hirotsu, Yuki Ohkawa, Hisashi Yamamoto, Makoto Sato, Koichi Kobayashi, Hirohisa Horinouchi
  • Publication number: 20060188933
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid encoding the amino acid sequence of murine IRAK-M; expression vectors comprising nucleic acid encoding IRAK-M and host cells comprising them are disclosed. IRAK-M is induced upon toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation and negatively regulates TLR signaling. Methods for identifying antagonists and agonists of IRAK-M are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: Yale University
    Inventors: Richard Flavell, Koichi Kobayashi, Ruslan Medzhitov
  • Publication number: 20060167586
    Abstract: An object is to provide a medicine supply apparatus capable of reducing a time required for charging medicines without causing any trouble during counting of the medicines, the apparatus comprises: a discharge drum which discharges the medicines from a tablet case; a medicine detecting sensor which detects the medicines discharged from the tablet case, and a control device, and this control device controls a rotating motor for rotating the discharge drum to discharge the medicines from the tablet case, counts the discharged medicines based on a detecting operation of the medicine detecting sensor, and changes a discharge speed of the medicine by the discharge drum depending on a type of medicine in the tablet case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kobayashi, Manabu Haraguchi, Akinori Hatsuno, Toshitake Maruyama, Tetsuo Sakural
  • Publication number: 20060163271
    Abstract: An object of a medicine supply apparatus which fills medicine bottles with medicines from a plurality of tablet cases is to improve a medicine filling performance and remove restrictions on the apparatus, and the apparatus comprises: a plurality of tablet cases which contain the medicines and into which the medicines can be thrown from above; a case storage section in which the respective tablet cases are juxtaposed in one stage on a plane and whose top is openably closed; and a filling device which is disposed under this case storage section and which fills the medicine bottle with the medicine dropping from each tablet case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akinorl Hatsuno, Atsuo Inamura, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takashi Mori, Koichi Kobayashi, Manabu Haraguchi, Masayoshi Ogura, Toshitake Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7073543
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a medicine feeding apparatus in which it is possible to prevent a medicine from being broken by well absorbing and reducing a kinetic energy at a time of discharging the medicine even in the case that a downsizing and a densification are promoted for making a discharge speed of the medicine higher, and it is possible to efficiently guide the medicine to an outlet portion of a hopper. Further, the medicine feeding apparatus is provided with a main body, a plurality of tablet cases receiving medicines, a chute received in the main body and through which the medicine discharged from the tablet case comes down, a hopper received in the main body, provided in correspondence to a lower side of the chute and collecting the medicines, and a filling apparatus received in the main body and filling the medicines collected by the hopper in a drug packing paper or a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kobayashi, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 7073947
    Abstract: An oil retaining bearing that supports a shaft of a motor is engaged in a pocket of a casing for the motor. A bearing holder comprises a boss and an outer brim welded on the casing which surrounds the pocket, thereby preventing the oil retaining bearing from coming out of the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Igarashi Electric Works Inc.
    Inventor: Koichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20060143184
    Abstract: A cellular phone (portable terminal) and a DVD recorder (data processing apparatus) have a BT communication function. The DVD recorder is linked to the cellular phone by radio communication within a given range to acquire identification information proper to the cellular phone. The DVD recorder sets a data-store destination corresponding to the cellular phone, based on the identification information and holds data transferred from the cellular phone in the data-store destination. Data of the cellular phone with a small memory capacity can be transferred without any troublesome linking operation, and the transferred data can be stored and managed in correspondence with the cellular phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Koichi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Unno
  • Publication number: 20060091595
    Abstract: A stabilizer bushing including a rubber elastic body; a bracket and a medial plate embedded in a medial portion of the rubber elastic body in an axis-perpendicular direction so as to extend over substantially an entire axial length of the rubber elastic body so that the rubber elastic body is divided by the medial plate into an inner rubber layer and an outer rubber layer having a smaller spring constant than the inner rubber layer. The stabilizer bushing is composed of two circumferential segmented parts wherein the bracket and medial plate are integrally vulcanization bonded to the segmented parts, which segmented parts are assembled together sandwiching a stabilizer bar in the axis-perpendicular direction and subjected to compression in the axis-perpendicular direction so that an inside face of an through-hole is subjected to bonding to the outer circumferential surface of a stabilizer bar with an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Hayashi, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7007116
    Abstract: Data received by a Bluetooth wireless unit is buffered on a DRAM. At this time, a CPU (which operates on the basis of a description of HDD startup control program calculates the data transfer rate of the Bluetooth wireless unit and the free area size of a buffer area on the DRAM, and also calculates the remaining time until the buffer data on the DRAM becomes full of data, on the basis of these values. When the calculated remaining time has reached a required startup time of an HDD indicated by remaining time determination data A stored in a flash memory, the CPU starts up the HDD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Odakura, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6961238
    Abstract: A disk device comprises an HDD, dampers, PCB, and case that houses the HDD, dampers and PCB. The connection direction of the connector of the HDD differs from that of the connector of the PCB by an angle of 90°. A flat cable connecting the connectors is angled at two positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiromu Aketagawa, Hiroshi Sawabe, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050221565
    Abstract: A ferroelectric memory element has a memory cell array including memory cells arranged in a matrix configuration, each of the memory cells having a lower electrode, an upper electrode arranged in a direction intersecting the lower electrode, and a ferroelectric layer disposed at least in an intersecting area between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, wherein a hydrogen barrier film and a hydrogen barrier film are arranged at least below the memory cell array, and a bottom hydrogen barrier film is arranged below the memory cell array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tamura, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050222116
    Abstract: A highly safe oxygen infusion for effectively increasing an oxygen partial pressure in a hypoxic region of tumor tissues, which comprises a dispersion of an albumin clathrate compound enclosing a porphyrin metal complex, dispersed in a physiologically permissible aqueous media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Eishun Tsuchida, Koichi Kobayashi, Teruyuki Komatsu, Hirohisa Horinouchi, Masumi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050213242
    Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic disk apparatus comprising a memory storing data received from an external apparatus via an interface, a magnetic head for writing to the magnetic disk the data stored in the memory, a falling detection unit for detecting falling of the magnetic disk apparatus, an acceleration detection unit for detecting acceleration applied to the magnetic disk apparatus, a reception interruption unit for, when the falling detection unit detects the falling, interrupting the sending/receiving operation of the data and command at the interface, interrupting the writing operation of the magnetic head to the magnetic disk, and escape the magnetic head from the magnetic disk, and a reception restoring unit for, after the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit lowers under a predetermined value, overwriting to the magnetic disk the data stored in the memory using the magnetic head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masao Fujiki, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6948635
    Abstract: The present invention intends to let the medicine fall regularly, by eliminating the static electricity charged on the medicine in the medicine case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050162976
    Abstract: A fish depth monitor is a device that can display first water depth data that indicates the location of terminal tackle that is engaged on fishing line reeled out from a spool, and second water depth data that indicates the location of the bottom of a fishing location transmitted from a fish finder, and includes a case, first and second reception portions, a display unit, and a control unit. The first and second reception portions receive the first water depth data from an electric driven reel and the second water depth data from the fish finder. The control unit graphically displays the received first and second water depth data in positions that correspond to the water depth on the display unit. It is possible to intuitively determine the positional relationship between the location of the terminal tackle and the location of the bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicant: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kuriyama, Yuzo Kawabe, Hirokazu Hirayama, Kazuhito Yamamoto, Masakazu Nomura, Hiroyasu Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukuda, Hiroyuki Hamato, Koichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6908076
    Abstract: An upper mount in a suspension system of an automotive vehicle, including a metal housing, a cylindrical body accommodated in the housing, and an outer metal sleeve bonded to the outer circumferential surface of the elastic body and fitted in the housing, wherein the elastic body has an annular sealing lip integrally formed of a rubber material and located radially outwardly of a central opening formed through an upper wall portion of the housing such that the sealing lip is held in pressing contact with an inner surface of the upward wall portion or a cylindrical wall portion of the housing, for preventing a flow of an aqueous component such as water from the central opening to the outer metal sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Hayashi, Koichi Kobayashi, Michiharu Hikosaka, Yorikazu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20050122010
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a medicine feeding apparatus in which a usability is improved by automatically executing a fine adjustment of a horizontal position and a vertical position of a door panel in correspondence to an operating of taking a drawer in and out without necessity of executing a troublesome mount fine adjusting work of a door panel. In a medicine feeding apparatus provided with a main body, drawers attached to the main body so as to be freely drawn, and a plurality of tablet cases detachably attached to the drawers and receiving medicines, a door panel of the drawer is rotatably held and is finely adjusted to a proper position in correspondence to an operation of taking the drawer in and out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC BIOMEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kobayashi, Takashi Mori, Hideyuki Takahashi