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).

  • Photovoltaic device
    Publication number: 20050092359
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device is provided which device comprises at least a semiconductor layer formed on a transparent electrically conductive substrate, an electrolyte layer, and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is composed of a substrate and an electrically conductive carbon layer formed thereon. The photovoltaic device which is excellent in performance and can be easily produced is provided due to the use of the counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Souichi Uchida, Masaaki Kobayashi, Yoshinori Nishikitani
  • Fiber channel connection storage controller
    Patent number: 6877073
    Abstract: N_Port_Name information capable of distinctly identifying a host computer has seen set in a microprocessor 42 of a storage controller 40 prior to start-up of host computers 10, 20, 30; upon startup of the host computers 10, 20, 30, when the storage controller 40 receives a frame issued, then the microprocessor 42 operates to perform comparison for determining whether the N_Port_Name information stored in the frame has been already set in the microprocessor 42 and registered to the N_Port_Name list within a control table maintained. When such comparison results in match, then continue execution of processing based on the frame instruction; if comparison results in failure of match, then reject any request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akemi Sanada, Toshio Nakano, Hidehiko Iwasaki, Masahiko Sato, Kenji Muraoka, Kenichi Takamoto, Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Video signal processing apparatus video signal processing method program and recording medium
    Publication number: 20050069297
    Abstract: A first moving image information volume compression encoder which compression-encodes a video signal from a camera part as a moving image, a second still image information volume compression encoder which compression-encodes the input video signal as a still image, and recording means which records, in memory means, both a first compression signal obtained by the first compression encoder and a second compression signal obtained by the second compression encoder. The compression encoders shoot based on shutters respectively which are independent of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Masaaki Kobayashi, Toyohiko Matsuta, Masaaki Nakayama, Mitsuru Yasukata
  • Vehicular brake system component
    Publication number: 20050061379
    Abstract: A vehicular brake system component is used in a brake system of a vehicle. The brake system component includes a sealable bonded component having a metal member and an elastic rubber member bonded to each other and located so as to touch a brake fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Applicants: NHK Spring Co., Ltd., ADVICS CO., LTD., Kokoku Intech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Mori, Koichiro Yamada, Hiroshi Mizukami, Chiharu Umetu, Kenichi Suzuki, Juichi Shibatani, Masaaki Kobayashi, Yutaka Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Takahara, Tatsumi Ohishi
  • Electrolytic capacitor
    Patent number: 6870728
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor with a further lowered impedance is provided. In the electrolytic capacitor in accordance with the present invention, respective currents directed opposite from each other flow through anode and cathode vias extending along the thickness of a substrate. The anode vias are lopsidedly located in a marginal area of an anode electrode pattern, and thus are disposed significantly close to the cathode vias formed in a cathode electrode pattern disposed close to the anode electrode pattern. The cathode vias are lopsidedly located in a marginal area of the cathode electrode pattern, and thus are disposed significantly close to the anode vias. Since the anode and cathode vias are formed close to each other as such, this electrolytic capacitor achieves a lower ESL, thereby attaining an impedance lower than that of a conventional electrolytic capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Chris T. Burket, Yumiko Yoshihara, Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Exhaust gas purification system for internal combustion engine
    Publication number: 20050050881
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine can quickly recover the exhaust gas purification ability of an exhaust gas purification device by increasing opportunities to release the SOx occluded in the exhaust gas purification device. In the exhaust gas purification system having the exhaust gas purification device having the property of occluding the SOx in the exhaust gas emitted from the internal combustion engine and collecting particulate matter contained in the exhaust gas, when the load of the internal combustion engine falls within a load range in which SOx poisoning recovery control can be executed, during the time when the particulate matter is oxidized and removed by collection ability regeneration control (S105), the collection ability regeneration control is interrupted and the SOx poisoning recovery control is executed (S106, S107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toshioka, Masaaki Kobayashi, Hisashi Ohki, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Kotaro Hayashi
  • Exhaust gas purifying device and method for internal combustion engine
    Publication number: 20040261401
    Abstract: Removal of fine particles by oxidation or/and sulfur poisoning recovery control may be required when an internal combustion engine has been in an extremely low load state for a predetermined period or more. In this case, the engine speed of the internal combustion engine (1) is adjusted to a range where the temperature of a filter (20) can be raised by heat-up control. The heat-up control is then executed by a filter temperature control means to raise the temperature of the filter (20) to a predetermined value. When the filter (20) reaches the predetermined temperature by means of low-temperature combustion, post-injection, VIGOM-injection, addition of 10 fuel to an exhaust system and the like, removal of fine particles by oxidation or/and sulfur poisoning recovery control for eliminating sulfur poisoning of a NOx absorbent are conducted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Hisashi Ohkl, Masaaki Kobayashi, Naofumi Magarida, Daisuke Shibata, Shinobu Ishiyama, Akihiko Negami
  • Disk array unit
    Patent number: 6826005
    Abstract: A disk array unit connected to a host unit to give information thereto and receive information therefrom. The disk unit includes a plurality of disk units for storing information transmitted from the host unit and a management information recording device, formed by utilizing information storage areas in the disk units, for causing information relating to a logical unit for storing information from the host unit to correspond to information relating to the units. The invention further includes a control unit, when there is no access from the host unit to the logical unit for a predetermined time, for determining the disk units corresponding to the logical unit based on information recorded in the management information recording device and performing power saving of power supply for the disk units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hakamata, Kenichi Takamoto, Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Packet transmitter
    Patent number: 6826181
    Abstract: There is disclosed a packet transmission apparatus for transmitting in a packet form a transmission unit including a data string arranged so as to divide predetermined data into a plurality of blocks, each block having a fixed length, block information for specifying the block type being added to each block. A DIF data processing circuit generates a transmission header having a new identifier by deleting predetermined redundancy information from the block information belonging to the plurality of blocks based on inputted data string, and then, generates a transmission unit having the generated transmission header. Next, a transmission terminal unit transmits the generated transmission unit by way of a transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Higashida, Yoshihiro Morioka, Masakazu Nishino, Satoshi Ohyama, Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Electrochromic device
    Patent number: 6816298
    Abstract: An electrochromic element comprises an ion conduction layer between two conducting substrates, at least one of which is transparent. The ion conduction layer contains an organic compounds, which has both a structure exhibiting a cathodic electrochromic characteristic and a structure exhibiting an anodic electrochromic characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nishikitani, Keizo Iaki, Masaaki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Imafuku, Masaki Minami, Takaya Kubo
  • Antiglare mirror apparatus in a vehicle compartment
    Patent number: 6814451
    Abstract: In an antiglare mirror apparatus mounted inside a vehicle compartment a mirror member is an electrochromic element comprising an antiglare material including an electrochromic layer, a light transmission electrode material and a light reflective electrode material where the light transmission electrode material and the light reflective electrode material are positioned on both sides of the antiglare material and a control circuit controls a drive-electric energy to the electrochromic element based upon a driving electric signal of a signal generator wherein the mirror member is detachably mounted to a facility in a vehicle compartment so that a holder holds the mirror member and the mirror member covers a pre-mounted inner mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Nippn Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nishikitani, Masaaki Kobayashi, Keizo Ikai, Tsuyoshi Asano
  • Vehicle occupant restraint system and method
    Patent number: 6811182
    Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint system includes a first restraint apparatus to restrain an occupant in a first direction such as the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and a second restraint apparatus to restrain the occupant in a second direction such as the lateral direction. A control unit triggers the first restraint apparatus upon a collision tending to throw the occupant in the first direction. Thereafter, the control unit sets a delay time in accordance with a condition representing the amount of movement of the occupant in the second direction, and triggers the second restraint apparatus at a timing delayed by the delay time with respect to the first trigger action of triggering the first restraint apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyasaka
  • Method of image coding, image coding apparatus, and recording medium including image coding program
    Patent number: 6801664
    Abstract: A continuous-tone image data is converted to a bi-level image data by halftoning conversion, then the bi-level image data i.e. binary image data is compressed by compressing means including predictive coding and image data compressing. These operations are done in a image coding apparatus. In this apparatus, when the continuous-tone image is converted into bi-level image data in halftoning so that predictions of predictive coding become strong. As a result, halftoning conversion is performed within a scope of binary image-coding-rules. This permits to produce a binary data easy to compress. Compressing a binary data in a low distortion quality and at a high compression rate is achievable through a method of image coding, and by an image coding apparatus of the present invention. Also a recording medium including a program carrying out this method is obtainable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kobayashi, Seiichiro Hiratsuka
  • Measuring device
    Patent number: 6799142
    Abstract: A measuring device, comprising a program for operating the measuring device, a copying program for rewriting the program or for copying the program, a rewritable first storage means for storing the program, a signal input/output means, and a second storage means for storing the copying program, wherein the program stored in the first storage means is rewritten by a new program inputted through the signal input/output means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Miyao, Masaaki Kobayashi, Masaki Takanashi
  • Apparatus for measuring sizes of articles
    Publication number: 20040184042
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring sizes of articles including a light projecting device for projecting light toward an article placed on a stationary transparent plate from one side of the plate, a photo-sensor device arranged on the other side of the plate and having plural photo-detectors arranged in array in Y direction to receive light projected from said light projecting device and impinging upon the photo-sensor device without being interrupted by the article, a driving device for reciprocally moving said light projecting device and photo-sensor device relative to the article in X direction perpendicular to the Y direction, and a shifting device for shifting said photo-sensor device in the Y direction between first and second positions which are mutually separated by a half of a photo-detector array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventor: Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Fiber channel connection storage controller
    Publication number: 20040168033
    Abstract: N_Port_Name information capable of distinctly identifying a host computer has seen set in a microprocessor 42 of a storage controller 40 prior to start-up of host computers 10, 20, 30; upon startup of the host computers 10, 20, 30, when the storage controller 40 receives a frame issued, then the microprocessor 42 operates to perform comparison for determining whether the N_Port_Name information stored in the frame has been already set in the microprocessor 42 and registered to the N_Port_Name list within a control table maintained. When such comparison results in match, then continue execution of processing based on the frame instruction; if comparison results in failure of match, then reject any request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventors: Akemi Sanada, Toshio Nakano, Hidehiko Iwasaki, Masahiko Sato, Kenji Muraoka, Kenichi Takamoto, Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Exhaust emission control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine
    Publication number: 20040123585
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is capable of suppressing a nasty smell due to the hydrogen sulfide generated upon recovery from SOx poisoning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamaguchi, Hisashi Ohki, Masaaki Kobayashi, Daisuke Shibata
  • Fiber channel connection storage controller
    Patent number: 6742090
    Abstract: N_Port_Name information capable of distinctly identifying a host computer has seen set in a microprocessor 42 of a storage controller 40 prior to start-up of host computers 10, 20, 30; upon startup of the host computers 10, 20, 30, when the storage controller 40 receives a frame issued, then the microprocessor 42 operates to perform comparison for determining whether the N_Port_Name information stored in the frame has been already set in the microprocessor 42 and registered to the N_Port_Name list within a control table maintained. When such comparison results in match, then continue execution of processing based on the frame instruction; if comparison results in failure of match, then reject any request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akemi Sanada, Toshio Nakano, Hidehiko Iwasaki, Masahiko Sato, Kenji Muraoka, Kenichi Takamoto, Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 6731497
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is manufactured by repeating a plurality of times a first step of immersing a substrate made of a valve metal whose surface is roughened and which is formed with an insulating oxide film in an ethylene dioxythiophene solution and a second step of bringing the substrate into contact with an oxidizing agent solution containing quadrivalent cerium salt at a concentration of 1% to 7% by weight so that the cumulative total time during which the second step is performed is shorter than five minutes, thereby forming a solid high molecular polymer electrolyte layer on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yumiko Yokouchi, Masaaki Kobayashi
  • Method for preventing unauthorized access to storage volumes
    Patent number: 6728844
    Abstract: N_Port_Name information capable of distinctly identifying a host computer has seen set in a microprocessor 42 of a storage controller 40 prior to start-up of host computers 10, 20, 30; upon startup of the host computers 10, 20, 30, when the storage controller 40 receives a frame issued, then the microprocessor 42 operates to perform comparison for determining whether the N_Port_Name information stored in the frame has been already set in the microprocessor 42 and registered to the N_Port_Name list within a control table maintained. When such comparison results in match, then continue execution of processing based on the frame instruction; if comparison results in failure of match, then reject any request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akemi Sanada, Toshio Nakano, Hidehiko Iwasaki, Masahiko Sato, Kenji Muraoka, Kenichi Takamoto, Masaaki Kobayashi