Patents by Inventor Kunihiko Hayashi

Kunihiko Hayashi 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: 20090014248
    Abstract: An oil pan separator 132 is disposed so as to divide a space within an oil pan 130 into a first chamber 30a and a second chamber 30b. The oil pan separator 132 has a protrusion 132b formed at a low position in such a manner that a portion of the first chamber 30a protrudes into the second chamber 30b. A protrusion upper-plate 132b1, which serves as an upper end portion of the protrusion 132b, is provided with an oil feed valve 138, which is a one-way valve, for allowing substantially only outflow of oil from the first chamber 30a to the second chamber 30b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Yamashita, Hideo Kobayashi, Katuhiko Arisawa, Kenichi Yamada, Kunihiko Hayashi, Taiithi Mori
  • Patent number: 7471431
    Abstract: A hologram device records information of an interference fringe of signal light and reference light onto a hologram recording medium and reproduces the recorded information by emitting the reference light onto a recording area of the hologram recording medium. The hologram device includes a recording/reproducing controller performing a recording operation of the information concurrently with a reproducing operation of previously-recorded information, and an error detector detecting an error in the previously-recorded information reproduced concurrently with the recording operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Nobuhiro Kihara, Muneyasu Maeda
  • Publication number: 20080239922
    Abstract: An optical disc apparatus that records recording marks in a plurality of mark layers by irradiating predetermined light onto a disc-like volume type recording medium on the basis of information to be recorded is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a first focus position adjusting means for adjusting the position of a focus on which a first light beam focuses within the volume type recording medium, in the direction of an optical axis of the first light beam; a second focus position adjusting means for adjusting the position of a focus on which a second light beam focuses within the volume type recording medium, in the direction of an optical axis of the second light beam; a focus control means for controlling the first focus position adjusting means and the second focus position adjusting means; and a recording control means for forming the recording marks at the positions of respective focuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goro FUJITA, Kimihiro Saito, Toshihiro Horigome, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20080210491
    Abstract: An oil pan is provided with an oil pan separator that partitions a first chamber that communicates with a moving part inside a cylinder block and a second chamber outside the first chamber. A communicating hole is provided to a bottom panel of the oil pan separator. The communicating hole is shielded from a strainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiichi Mori, Hideo Kobayashi, Katuhiko Arisawa, Kenichi Yamada, Yoshio Yamashita, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20080215858
    Abstract: A processor for sequentially executing a plurality of programs using a plurality of register value groups stored in a memory that correspond one-to-one with the programs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuya Furukawa, Tetsuya Tanaka, Nobuo Higaki, Kunihiko Hayashi, Hiroshi Kadota, Tokuzo Kiyohara, Kozo Kimura, Hideshi Nishida, Kazushi Kurata, Shigeki Fujii, Toshio Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20080209162
    Abstract: A processor for sequentially executing a plurality of programs using a plurality of register value groups stored in a memory that correspond one-to-one with the programs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuya Furukawa, Tetsuya Tanaka, Nobuo Higaki, Kunihiko Hayashi, Hiroshi Kadota, Tokuzo Kiyohara, Kozo Kimura, Hideshi Nishida, Kazushi Kurata, Shigeki Fujii, Toshio Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20080209192
    Abstract: A processor for sequentially executing a plurality of programs using a plurality of register value groups stored in a memory that correspond one-to-one with the programs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuya Furukawa, Tetsuya Tanaka, Nobuo Higaki, Kunihiko Hayashi, Hiroshi Kadota, Tokuzo Kiyohara, Kozo Kimura, Hideshi Nishida, Kazushi Kurata, Shigeki Fujii, Toshio Sugimura
  • Patent number: 7418704
    Abstract: Provided is a program execution apparatus that appropriately determines an execution sequence of tasks each given a target completion time before which execution of the task is to be completed, and executes the tasks according to the determined execution sequence. For each task a plurality of types of priorities having a hierarchical relationship among them are set. The apparatus includes: a storing unit that stores an identifier of each task that is already in existence, at a memory position therein determined based upon a plurality of types of priorities set for each task; a receiving unit that receives an identifier of a new task, and a plurality of types of priorities set for the new task; and a writing unit that writes the received identifier at a memory position in the storing unit determined based upon the received plurality of types of priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7386707
    Abstract: A processor for sequentially executing a plurality of programs using a plurality of register value groups stored in a memory that correspond one-to-one with the programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Kurata, Tetsuya Tanaka, Nobuo Higaki, Kunihiko Hayashi, Hiroshi Kadota, Tokuzo Kiyohara, Kozo Kimura, Hideshi Nishida, Kazuya Furukawa, Shigeki Fujii, Toshio Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20080101349
    Abstract: A module execution device includes: a module execution section for executing at least one of a control module and a controlled module generated by execution of the control module; inter-module communication sections of a plurality of types for performing inter-module communication between the control module and the controlled module; and an inter-module communication section selection section for selecting one of the inter-module communication sections which is to be used for the inter-module communication. The module execution device is configured so that at least one of the control module and the controlled module instructs the inter-module communication section selection section to select said one of the inter-module communication sections based on inter-module communication control information given from the outside of the control module or the controlled module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Masakazu Kanda, Masaaki Tsujino, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20080088897
    Abstract: A hologram reconstructing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: unnecessary light removing means for causing the imaging means to receive necessary light only included in the reconstruction light; driving means for operating the hologram recording medium or a reconstruction light optical system; light detecting means for detecting the state that reconstruction light is projected to the unnecessary light removing means of the light cut by the unnecessary light removing means; and control means for obtaining the displacement of the hologram recording medium based on the information on a specific part of the projection state information detected by the light detecting means and controlling the driving means to cancel the displacement and move the hologram recording medium or the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Nobuhiro Kihara, Hisayuki Yamatsu, Norihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20080083586
    Abstract: An oil temperature sensor is externally mounted on a side plate of an oil pan cover that constitutes an external cover for an oil pan apparatus. The oil temperature sensor can output a signal in accordance with the oil temperature prevailing near a thermostat valve apparatus in a second chamber. If the second chamber oil temperature rises immediately after startup of an engine, a CPU judges that an open valve failure has occurred, that is, the thermostat valve apparatus is stuck open. If the oil temperature of the second chamber is not raised when an adequate amount of time has elapsed after the end of a warm-up operation, the CPU judges that a closed valve failure has occurred, that is, the thermostat valve apparatus is stuck closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Katuhiko Arisawa, Yoshio Yamashita, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20080066982
    Abstract: A dual-chamber oil pan includes an oil pan provided below an engine block, an oil pan separator that is provided within the oil pan and defines a first chamber communicating with the engine block, and a second chamber provided around the first chamber, and a suction port disposed within the first chamber. The first chamber includes a large-capacity portion including a bottom portion of the oil pan separator, and a small-capacity portion located above and integrally formed with the large-capacity portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Katuhiko Arisawa, Yoshio Yamashita, Kunihiko Hayashi, Tametoshi Mizuta
  • Patent number: 7345835
    Abstract: A lens barrel is provided which has a compact inner lens mechanism and is able to be manufactured in a small size at low cost. In the lens barrel according to the present invention, a number of shafts can be reduced by making a guiding shaft to be a common guiding shaft. In addition, a guiding shaft is formed only within a moving range of a zoom movable member, and a coil unit is disposed in a space positioned behind the guiding shaft, hence the whole lens barrel can be made compact. On the other hand, since the guiding shaft and a guiding shaft are formed separately, a sleeve section of the zoom movable member and a sleeve section of a focus movable member are made to have sufficient lengths, and also a sufficient length for sliding the respective movable members can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20070295289
    Abstract: An engine cooling apparatus includes a coolant inlet of a block water jacket formed in a cylinder block, wherein coolant is introduced into the block water jacket through the coolant inlet, a flow-directing plate that is disposed in the block water jacket at a position downstream of the coolant inlet, and that directs the coolant, which has been introduced into the block water jacket through the coolant inlet, toward a head water jacket and a control portion that controls inflow of the coolant from the head water jacket into the block water jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Hideo Kobayashi, Katuhiko Arisawa, Kenichi Yamada, Yoshio Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20070146546
    Abstract: A display control selection section receives a plurality of display control requirements for screen display and selects and outputs to an input timing control section a display control requirement capable of being processed within a single screen non-display interval out of the received display control requirements. The input timing control section outputs the display control requirement selected by the display control selection section to a display processor when the screen non-display interval comes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kozaki, Kensuke Odani, Kengo Nishimura, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20070118838
    Abstract: A task execution controller includes a task group judging unit and a priority control unit. The task group judging unit judges whether a first task and a second task belong to a same group, upon a request from the second task to access a resource that is shared among the plurality of task groups and is currently accessed by the first task. If the first and second tasks are judged to belong to the same group, the priority control unit (a) compares priorities of the first and second tasks and causes the first task to inherit the priority of the second task if the priority of the second task is higher. If the first and second tasks are judged to belong to different groups, the priority control unit raises a priority of the first task by a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Masaaki Tsujino, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20070109444
    Abstract: In synchronization of a conventional AV system, when a stream as the master stops, a system clock cannot be corrected for synchronization. Since the correction is consistently performed even when an error is small, overhead of correction is large. On the other hand, when an error is large, sharp correction causes a feeling that something wrong. In the present invention, when the stream as the master stops, previously registering the degree of priority regarding the master, consideration of a corrected period or a previous error for the system clock, or transmitting a stream containing information regarding the master can allow for other process to serves as the master. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a method for synchronization with maintaining correction of the system clock. When a corrected error is large, gradual correction or reference can provide a system with normal feeling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Uchida, Kengo Nishimura, Akihiro Miyazaki, Jyunichi Nakahashi, Kunihiko Hayashi, Satoshi Ikawa
  • Patent number: 7216480
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control system for a vehicle including a primary engine and a secondary engine having a displacement smaller than that of the primary engine is provided with an exhaust passage having a junction portion at which exhaust gas discharged from the primary engine and exhaust gas discharged from the secondary engine join together, and an exhaust emission purifying device that purifies the exhaust gas joined at the junction portion in the exhaust passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7205214
    Abstract: A method of selectively transferring devices arrayed on a first substrate to a second substrate on which an adhesive resin layer is previously formed is provided. The method includes steps of selectively heating the adhesive resin layer on the second substrate by laser irradiation from the back surface side of the second substrate, and curing the selectively heated portions of the adhesive resin layer, thereby adhesively bonding those to be transferred of the devices to the second substrate. At this time, portions, corresponding to the devices, of the adhesive layer are heated directly or indirectly via the devices or wiring portions by laser irradiation from the back surface side of the substrate. The heated portions of the adhesive resin layer selectively exhibit the adhesive forces. The heated portions of the adhesive layer are then cured, so that only the devices to be transferred are selectively transferred to the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Toshiaki Iwafuchi, Hisashi Ohba