Patents by Inventor Masaaki Kobayashi
Masaaki 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: 11955750Abstract: A joint connector includes the plurality of wires extending in an extending direction, a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts of the plurality of wires in the extending direction, a lower housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals, a busbar to be disposed in the lower housing, and an upper cover to be assembled with the lower housing. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, into which each of the plurality of tabs is inserted, and a wire connecting portion to be connected to each of the plurality of wires. The plurality of wires drawn out rearward in the extending direction from the lower housing include bent portions folded forward in the extending direction. The upper cover includes wire pressing portions for holding the plurality of wires folded forward in the extending direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hajime Kawase, Masaaki Tabata, Teruo Hara, Hajime Matsui
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Publication number: 20240105826Abstract: A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film provided on the semiconductor layer, a first electrode film provided on the first insulating film, a second electrode film provided on the first electrode film, and a first field plate electrode provided on the second electrode film. A lower end of the first field plate electrode is located on a second surface of the first electrode film, the second surface being in contact with the second electrode film, rather than a first surface of the first electrode film, the first surface being in contact with the first insulating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Masaaki ONOMURA, Toru SUGIYAMA, Akira YOSHIOKA, Hung HUNG, Hideki SEKIGUCHI, Tetsuya OHNO, Yasuhiro ISOBE
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Publication number: 20240105563Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a nitride semiconductor element, a first diode, and a second diode; the nitride semiconductor element includes a conductive mounting bed, a semiconductor substrate formed on the mounting bed, a first nitride semiconductor layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer, a first major electrode, a second major electrode, a first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode; the first diode includes a first anode electrode electrically connected to the mounting bed, and a first cathode electrode electrically connected to the first major electrode; and the second diode includes a second anode electrode electrically connected to the mounting bed, and a second cathode electrode electrically connected to the second major electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Toru SUGIYAMA, Akira YOSHIOKA, Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Hung HUNG, Yasuhiro ISOBE, Hideki SEKIGUCHI, Tetsuya OHNO, Masaaki ONOMURA
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Patent number: 11942737Abstract: A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a lower housing, an upper cover assembled with the lower housing, a plurality of terminals respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, and a busbar connected to the plurality of terminals. The busbar disposed in the lower housing includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals disposed in the lower housing includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being inserted into the tube portion, sandwiching portions extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich one of the plurality of wires, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portions, movable along the extending direction and including pressurizing portions configured to pressurize the sandwiching portions toward the wire with the one of the plurality of wires sandwiched by the sandwiching portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hajime Kawase, Masaaki Tabata, Teruo Hara, Hajime Matsui
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Publication number: 20240097671Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a first drive circuit including a second transistor, and a second drive circuit including a third transistor. The second transistor and the third transistor are connected in series; and a connection node of the second and third transistors is connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The first transistor, the second transistor, and the third transistor are normally-off MOS HEMTs formed in a first substrate that includes GaN. The first drive circuit charges a parasitic capacitance of the first transistor. The second drive circuit discharges the parasitic capacitance of the first transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Toru SUGIYAMA, Noriaki YOSHIKAWA, Yasuhiko KURIYAMA, Akira YOSHIOKA, Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Hung HUNG, Yasuhiro ISOBE, Tetsuya OHNO, Hideki SEKIGUCHI, Masaaki ONOMURA
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Patent number: 11926309Abstract: A motor control device which is an example of the present disclosure includes a hardware processor configured to: calculate damper torque on a basis of a difference between a crank angle and a motor angle; calculate, on a basis of the damper torque, reversed phase torque in reverse phase to the damper torque; calculate a correction amount for a phase of the reversed phase torque on a basis of a difference between a first value corresponding to a torsion angle between an input inertial member and an output inertial member and a second value corresponding to a torsion angle between an intermediate inertial member and the output inertial member; and output a motor torque command to be provided to a motor generator on a basis of the reversed phase torque a phase of which has been corrected in accordance with the correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Mizuguchi, Satoshi Kokubo, Masahiko Kobayashi, Tomoki Inagaki, Masaaki Tominaga
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Patent number: 11908144Abstract: A plurality of motion vectors are acquired from consecutive images. From the acquired plurality of motion vectors, a motion vector of interest and neighboring motion vectors neighboring the motion vector of interest are selected and a degree of similarity between two motion vectors is acquired. A value related to the total number of neighboring motion vectors having high degrees of similarity to the motion vector of interest is acquired as a degree of reliability.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11838631Abstract: An image processing device comprises a specification unit configured to specify, among a plurality of frames constituting a moving image, a section in the moving image of frames corresponding to a scene whose shake amount is larger, based on the plurality of frames, and an output unit configured to output information representing the section.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230206386Abstract: The disclosed technique facilitates confirmation of a perspective projection image generated from a partial image region corresponding to a predetermined angle of view of a wide-angle image. First, an image obtainment unit obtains an ultrawide-angle image. A region information obtainment unit obtains an optical axis direction and an angle of view of a virtual camera for defining an image for confirmation set for the ultrawide-angle image and obtains predetermined viewing angle information. An image conversion unit converts the obtained ultrawide-angle image into the perspective projection image as the image for confirmation based on the obtained optical axis direction and angle of view of the virtual camera. A region information drawing unit calculates a visual field region based on the viewing angle information on the angle of view of the virtual camera and superimposes and draws a rectangle indicating the calculated visual field region on the perspective projection image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventor: Masaaki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11628819Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a multi-cylinder engine, an exhaust gas control apparatus, an electric motor, an electricity storage device, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the electric motor so as to cover a driving power shortage resulting from execution of catalyst temperature raising control. The catalyst temperature raising control is control that involves stopping fuel supply to at least one of cylinders of the multi-cylinder engine and enriching air-fuel ratios for the other cylinders than the at least one cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Nose, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230112060Abstract: In a structure in which a cable is installed into a connector is provided. A back retainer is arranged in a compressed state between an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical portion, included in a connector body and extending in the axis line direction, and an outer circumferential surface of the cable. The back retainer includes a main annular portion which is configured such that a compression amount on the back retainer in the radial direction centered on the axis line direction gradually increases as the compression amount goes from one side toward the other side. The back retainer includes an engaging protrusion configured to prevent the back retainer from detaching from the cylindrical portion on an outer circumferential surface of the back retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shoichi MINAMI, Masaaki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11623634Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a multi-cylinder engine, an exhaust gas control apparatus including a catalyst for removing exhaust gas from the multi-cylinder engine, an electric motor, and a control device configured to execute catalyst temperature increase control for stopping fuel supply to at least one cylinder and making an air-fuel ratio in each of remaining cylinders rich in a case where a temperature increase of a catalyst is requested during a load operation of the multi-cylinder engine, execute control such that an electric motor supplements insufficient drive power due to the execution of the catalyst temperature increase control, and change the air-fuel ratio in at least one of the remaining cylinders to a lean side after a temperature of the exhaust gas control apparatus becomes equal to or higher than a determination threshold value during the execution of the catalyst temperature increase control.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Nose, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230079969Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a motion analysis unit configured to analyze a motion of an object in a moving image, a sound identification unit configured to identify detected sound by analyzing the detected sound while playing the moving image, and a control unit configured to perform processing corresponding to a combination of motion information including an analysis result of the motion of the object and sound identification information including an identification result of the sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventor: Masaaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11541872Abstract: A vehicle includes: a motive power generating device that includes a multi-cylinder engine and outputs driving power to a wheel; an exhaust gas control apparatus including a catalyst that removes harmful components of exhaust gas from the multi-cylinder engine; and a controller. The controller is configured to, upon request for raising the temperature of the catalyst during load operation of the multi-cylinder engine, execute catalyst temperature raising control that involves stopping fuel supply to at least one of cylinders and supplying fuel to the other cylinders than the at least one cylinder, and to control the motive power generating device so as to cover a driving power shortage resulting from execution of the catalyst temperature raising control.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Nose, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11518364Abstract: An engine unit includes: an engine that is able to independently inject fuel into cylinders; a cleaning device that cleans exhaust gas from the engine; and a control device that performs low-temperature starting control for increasing an amount of injected fuel when the engine is started at a low temperature. The control device performs temperature increase control for performing fuel cutoff for some cylinders of the engine and increasing an amount of fuel injected into other cylinders after an increase in an amount of fuel in the low-temperature starting control has reached a first predetermined amount when an increase in temperature of the cleaning device is requested while the low-temperature starting control is being performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Nose, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11491951Abstract: An occupant protection device including a seat belt including a shoulder belt and a lap belt, a locking tongue that is detachably joined to a buckle, that allows the seat belt to pass therethrough, and that is capable of switching between an unlock state in which the seat belt is allowed to move with the locking tongue being between the shoulder belt and the lap belt and a lock state in which movement thereof is restricted, a shoulder-belt puller that is capable of pulling the shoulder belt to apply a tensile force thereto, a side-collision detector that detects a side collision or a precursor thereof, and a control unit that changes a state of the locking tongue into the lock state and causes the shoulder-belt puller to pull the shoulder belt when the side-collision detector detects the side collision that occurs opposite an occupant or the precursor thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Chihiro Suzuki, Masaaki Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Nomura, Noriaki Saito, Takeru Shoji, Keiko Sonoda
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Publication number: 20220337752Abstract: An image processing device comprises a specification unit configured to specify, among a plurality of frames constituting a moving image, a section in the moving image of frames corresponding to a scene whose shake amount is larger, based on the plurality of frames, and an output unit configured to output information representing the section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventor: Masaaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20220316543Abstract: A friction member according to an embodiment is a friction material having a copper content of less than 5 wt %, the friction material including a titanic acid salt having a content of 1 wt % or more and 8 wt % or less, a cryolite powder having a content of 0.5 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less, and an iron oxide powder having a median diameter of 15 to 30 ?m (D50) and a content of 1 wt % or more and 10 wt % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shusuke SUZUKI, Naoki ODANI, Masaaki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11403736Abstract: An image processing apparatus to execute a noise reduction process on an image includes setting and calculation units. The setting unit sets a parameter for a pixel of interest in the image. The calculation unit calculates a pixel value of the pixel of interest by using the parameter. Where the pixel of interest is not a pixel in a corner portion where two different edges intersect, the calculation unit averages a plurality of pixels, thereby calculating the pixel value of the pixel of interest subjected to the noise reduction process. Where the pixel of interest is a pixel included in the corner portion, the averaging is not executed and the pixel value of the pixel of interest is calculating by treating the pixel value of the pixel of interest as it is as the pixel value of the pixel of interest subjected to the noise reduction process.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yohsuke Echizenya, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11371452Abstract: A vehicle includes a power generation device including a multi-cylinder engine, the power generation device being configured to output drive power to wheels, an exhaust gas control apparatus including a catalyst for removing exhaust gas from the multi-cylinder engine, and a control device configured to execute catalyst temperature increase control for stopping fuel supply to at least one cylinder and supplying fuel to remaining cylinders in a case where a temperature increase of the catalyst is requested during a load operation of the multi-cylinder engine, execute control such that the power generation device supplements insufficient drive power due to the execution of the catalyst temperature increase control, and change the cylinder, to which the fuel supply is stopped, according to a stop frequency of the fuel supply or an elapsed time from a start of the stop of the fuel supply during the execution of the catalyst temperature increase control.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Nose, Masaaki Kobayashi