Patents by Inventor Koji Kobayashi
Koji 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).
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Patent number: 12160712Abstract: This air conditioning device for a vehicle comprises: a refrigeration cycle having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator through which refrigerant sequentially flows; a high-temperature heat medium circuit in which a high-temperature heat medium that has been heat-exchanged with the refrigerant in the condenser circulates; a low-temperature heat medium circuit in which a low-temperature heat medium that has been heat-exchanged with the refrigerant in the evaporator circulates; a connection line for connecting the high-temperature heat medium circuit and the low-temperature heat medium circuit; a plurality of heat exchangers outside the vehicle that allow introduction of the heat medium; and a switching unit capable of switching modes for each of the plurality of heat exchangers outside the vehicle, among a mode for connecting to the high-temperature heat medium circuit, a mode for connecting to the low-temperature heat medium circuit, and a mode for not connecting to either of the hType: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Hirotaka Tanabe, Tomoki Hase, Masahiro Ohta, Hideaki Tatenoi, Koji Nakado
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Patent number: 12144665Abstract: A radiography apparatus includes an upright imaging stand that is used for radiography on a subject, a camera as a detection sensor that immediately detects a state of the subject with respect to the upright imaging stand, a tablet terminal, and a reflective member. The tablet terminal displays a notification screen including an image output from the camera. The reflective member reflects the notification screen such that the subject facing the upright imaging stand visually recognizes the image.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Hisatsugu Horiuchi, Yuji Kai, Yuji Jibiki, Koji Taninai, Masataka Sugahara, Naoyuki Nishino, Takeyasu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12134975Abstract: A blade ring assembly including: a turbine blade ring extending in a circumferential direction about an axis; a component to be cooled, disposed on an inner circumferential side of the turbine blade ring; and an outer circumferential side component disposed on an outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring. The turbine blade ring has a cooling medium intake port leading from an outer circumferential surface to an inner circumferential surface of the turbine blade ring. The outer circumferential side component includes: a first wall portion which covers at least a portion of the cooling medium intake port from the outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring; and a second wall portion which extends from an end portion of the first wall portion on the axially downstream thereof toward the outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Kobayashi, Norihiko Nagai, Kazuharu Hirokawa, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoki Taketa, Takeshi Umehara, Koji Watanabe, Yoshio Fukui, Kenta Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240363657Abstract: More improvement of sensitivity is achieved by reducing crosstalk between pixels without deteriorating a light collection property. Provided is an imaging device including multiple pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit and planarly arranged in a matrix shape, a color filter provided on the photoelectric conversion unit for each of the pixels, and a wall-shaped structure portion that is formed between the adjoining color filters with an external shape of the wall-shaped structure portion defined by a first wall portion and is configured to separate the color filters from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi SAITO, Shigehiro IKEHARA, Yoshiyuki ISHII, Isaya KITAMURA, Koji WADA, Yuuki KOBAYASHI, Masanaga FUKASAWA, Atsushi KAWASHIMA, Kohei FUKUSHIMA, Yoichi NEGORO
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Publication number: 20240343684Abstract: Provided is an isocyanate production system 1 including a control device 10 that selects energy produced by a biomass boiler 134, biomass methanol or carbon recycle methanol used by a methanol cracking device 150, recycled oil or biomass oil used by a carbon monoxide generation device 160, and a compound derived from a biomass raw material used by a polyamine production device 140 so that an environmental load value of an isocyanate compound, which is derived from energy produced by a boiler group 130, methanol used by the methanol cracking device 150, oil used by the carbon monoxide generation device 160, and a polyamine compound raw material used by the polyamine production device 140, is a predetermined value or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Toshihiro TAKAI, Masaaki SASAKI, Koji MAEBA, Yasuyuki KURIHARA, Tatsuhiko KOBAYASHI, Kunihiro YAMADA, Tsubasa MORIOKA
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Publication number: 20240319285Abstract: A storage battery management device according to the present embodiment includes a processor functioning as an acquisition unit, a deterioration prediction unit, a calculation unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires parameters including charge/discharge power, a charge/discharge capacity, and SOC of the storage battery system of a storage battery system. The deterioration prediction unit predicts deterioration of the storage battery system on the basis of the acquired parameters. The calculation unit performs calculation relating to deterioration by multiple patterns with respect to one or more of parameters including the charge/discharge power, a C rate indicating a charging/discharging speed, etc., on the basis of a digital model and the predicted deterioration. The calculation unit specifies a pattern whose life extension effect is relatively high. The display control unit causes a display device to display the one or more parameters of the specified pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Koji SASAKI, Takahiro KASE, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Yoshihisa SUMIDA, Koji TOBA
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Publication number: 20240322719Abstract: According to an embodiment, a field winding interlayer short-circuit monitoring device comprises: an input unit configured to obtain field winding current values and field winding voltage values at a predetermined sampling cycle; a memory configured to store field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at an abnormal state and a normal state; and a field winding resistance calculator configured to calculate a field winding resistance value by dividing the field winding voltage value by the field winding current; an average value calculator configured to calculate an average resistance value and an average current value by averaging those obtained during a predetermined time interval; and an image data generator configured to generate image data to display a predetermined number of average value data along with the field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at the normal state and the abnormal state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi FUJITA, Yasuo KABATA, Toshio HIRANO, Yuichiro GUNJI, Masashi KOBAYASHI, Hirotada ENDO, Koji ANDO
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Publication number: 20240309770Abstract: A blade ring assembly including: a turbine blade ring extending in a circumferential direction about an axis; a component to be cooled, disposed on an inner circumferential side of the turbine blade ring; and an outer circumferential side component disposed on an outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring. The turbine blade ring has a cooling medium intake port leading from an outer circumferential surface to an inner circumferential surface of the turbine blade ring. The outer circumferential side component includes: a first wall portion which covers at least a portion of the cooling medium intake port from the outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring; and a second wall portion which extends from an end portion of the first wall portion on the axially downstream thereof toward the outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Norihiko Nagai, Kazuharu Hirokawa, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoki Taketa, Takeshi Umehara, Koji Watanabe, Yoshio Fukui, Kenta Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240299000Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an imaging table having an imaging surface; a compression member for putting a breast disposed on the imaging surface into a compressed state; an ultrasound unit that captures an ultrasound image of the breast put into the compressed state by the compression member, from an upper surface side of the compression member opposite to a contact surface with the breast; a first drive mechanism that moves the ultrasound unit between at least two states of an approach state in which the ultrasound unit approaches an upper surface, and a separation state in which the ultrasound unit is separated from the upper surface as compared to the approach state; and a second drive mechanism that moves the ultrasound unit put into the separation state by the first drive mechanism, in a plane direction of the upper surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hisatsugu HORIUCHI, Koji SHIMOMURA, Keiji TSUBOTA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Sayaka SAITO
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Publication number: 20240299001Abstract: A control apparatus including: at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire, in an order of time, for an ultrasound unit that captures an ultrasound image of a breast put into a compressed state by a compression member, is disposed on an upper surface side of the compression member opposite to a contact surface with the breast, and has an in-plane position in a plane direction of an upper surface and a height from the upper surface, which are changeable, height information indicating the height from the upper surface; determine whether or not the height indicated by the height information satisfies a predetermined condition; and specify, in a case in which an affirmative determination is made, a first position that is the in-plane position of the ultrasound unit in a predetermined period including a point in time at which the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hisatsugu HORIUCHI, Koji SHIMOMURA, Keiji TSUBOTA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Sayaka SAITO
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Publication number: 20240294181Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. Based on use history data of a driving assistance function including positions at which the driving assistance function has been used at respective vehicles, which is collected from plural vehicles and stored in the memory, and based on position information indicating planned travel positions at which a specific vehicle is going to travel, the processor aggregates use frequencies of the driving assistance function at the planned travel positions of the plural vehicles, and, based on the aggregated use frequencies, the processor outputs information that suggests use of the driving assistance function at the specific vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro MIURA, Motohiro KOJIMA, Kuka ISHIYAMA, Tadahiro NISHIKAWA, Koji AIKAWA, Yuji OTA, Yasuhiro ISHIGURO
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Publication number: 20240296693Abstract: A challenge is to provide an art to identify mice as individuals from captured images of one or more mice that are doing activity in a predetermined activity range. An image processing device includes an image acquisition unit, a part extraction unit, and an individual identification unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured video of a state in which one or more animals are doing activity in a predetermined activity range. The part extraction unit extracts multiple parts of the body of each of the one or more animals from each of unit images included in the video. The individual identification unit analyzes the parts extracted from the unit images by the part extraction unit in a time-series manner and identifies the one or more animals as individuals in each of the unit images on the basis of the analysis results. Thus, the challenge is solved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicants: REVAMP CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Takahisa MURATA, Koji KOBAYASHI, Seiji MATSUSHITA, Naoyuki SHIMIZU, Tomoyuki YUASA, Takashi MINATO
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Patent number: 12077030Abstract: A control device includes a controller that executes determining a connection between a first unit that has a boarding space which allows a user to board and is provided with a predetermined facility and that is provided with a first path through which a fluid used in the predetermined facility passes and a second unit that is configured to be separated from and connected to the first unit and that has a drive device of a vehicle that is formed by being connected to the first unit, and supplying the fluid in the first path to a second unit side to absorb heat generated from the drive device.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshinari Ogawa, Kohta Tarao, Shinya Kijima, Osamu Fukawatase, Koji Yasui, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitomi Nakatani, Kuniaki Jinnai, Nobuki Hayashi, Masahiro Nagano, Akihiro Ito
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Patent number: 12080896Abstract: A carbon catalyst has a carbon structure with a crystallite size Lc falling within 0.90 nm or more and 1.20 nm or less calculated through use of a Bragg angle of a diffraction peak fbroad at a diffraction angle 2? of 24.0°±4.0° obtained by separating a diffraction peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle 2? of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction using a CuK? ray, and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 97 ?mol/g or less, a total of a carbon monoxide desorption amount and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 647 ?mol/g or less, or a carbon monoxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 549 ?mol/g or less in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 25° C. to 1,200° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Tetsutaro Sato, Yuji Kubota, Takeaki Kishimoto, Kumi Narizuka, Koji Kamata, Yoshikazu Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20240278612Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a damping device configured to damp a vibration of a vehicle, a setting change unit configured to be able to change a setting of at least one of a damping force of the damping device and a height of the vehicle by a user selection signal indicating selection by a user, and a notification unit configured to use at least one selected from the group consisting of a sound, a vibration, and an appearance of the vehicle to notify that the setting is changed in accordance with the user selection signal from the setting change unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicants: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kota SUZUKI, Koji KOBAYASHI, Hideyasu TOSHIMITSU
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Publication number: 20240261676Abstract: The game system includes a first acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information about a vehicle, and a first transmission unit that transmits the vehicle information acquired by the first acquisition unit to a personal terminal brought into the vehicle. A vehicle-mounted device mounted on the vehicle; a second acquisition unit that acquires the vehicle information transmitted from the first transmission unit; and the vehicle information acquired by the second acquisition unit, on the personal terminal and the personal terminal including a control unit that controls the progress of the game by using it as a parameter of the game that is being executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motohiro KOJIMA, Koji Aikawa, Morihiko Yoshida, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Miura, Kuka Ishiyama, Hideki Kobayashi, Yuji Ota, Yasuhiro Ishiguro, Motoki Maekawa, Hiroshi Mizobata, Takashi Nonogawa
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Patent number: 12057743Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, there is provided an abnormality detection system of a rotary electrical machine. The system includes a plurality of magnetic flux sensors disposed at intervals on a back of a stator core in a circumferential direction or an axial direction, and configured to detect a magnetic flux, and an abnormality detection apparatus configured to detect an abnormality of the stator core from a predetermined event that appears in a composite signal or a differential signal obtained from signals respectively output from at least two magnetic flux sensors of the plurality of magnetic flux sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Norio Takahashi, Masafumi Fujita, Takahiro Sato, Takashi Ueda, Ken Nagakura, Masashi Kobayashi, Koji Ando
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Publication number: 20240254940Abstract: A diesel engine 30 includes an injector 4 that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel and an injector control device 2 that controls the driving by the injector 4. The injector control device 2 includes a charge voltage control circuit 22, a storage unit 25 that stores a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector 4, and an injector control circuit 24 that controls the driving by the injector 4 on the basis of each of a voltage supplied from the charge voltage control circuit 22 and the correction value stored in the storage unit 25. The correction value is set according to a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device 2 connected to a load when a current starts to flow in the load connected to the injector control device 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Hiroki OSO, Kiichi SUEHIRO, Yuki TAGASHIRA, Koji NAKAKITA
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Publication number: 20240247019Abstract: A method for producing a bipyridine derivative represented by the following formula (3) includes a step of obtaining a metal complex as an intermediate. In the formula (3), R13 to R20 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, the plurality of R13 to R20 may be the same or different, at least one of six Rs consisting of two R14s, two R15s, and two R16s represents a substituent, at least one of two R17s represents a hydrogen atom, any two substituents of R13 to R20 may be bonded to each other to form a ring, each of R17 to R20 may contain a halogen atom or a pyrrolyl group optionally having a substituent, and at least one of R14 to R16 contains a halogen atom or a pyrrolyl group optionally having a substituent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Kentaro MASE, Norifumi KOBAYASHI, Koji ISHIWATA
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Patent number: 12042325Abstract: The medical image processing apparatus includes a first processor, a second processor that executes image processing on a medical image in response to an instruction from the first processor, and a battery that supplies power to the first processor and the second processor. The second processor executes the image processing with a selected processing method among a plurality of processing methods that are different in amount of power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Makino, Akihito Bettoyashiki, Koji Taninai, Takeyasu Kobayashi