Patents by Inventor Masafumi Kobayashi
Masafumi 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: 10249183Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (roadside relay device 2) configured to generate a traffic index used for traffic signal control. This device includes: a storage unit 24 configured to store therein area information on a coordinate system, the area information forming a predetermined area on a road; a communication unit 21 configured to receive probe information S5 including a vehicle position and temporal information of a traveling vehicle 5; and a control unit 23 configured to generate the traffic index on the basis of the area information and the probe information S5.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigeki Umehara, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Masafumi Kobayashi, Osamu Hattori
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Patent number: 10044437Abstract: Downlink is achieved by point-to-multipoint communication. There is provided a radio communication system 1 that provides information to a mobile terminal 3 via a radio communication device 2 that performs radio communication with the mobile terminal 3. The mobile terminal 3 is capable of receiving first downlink information that has been transmitted by point-to-multipoint radio communication receivable by a plurality of the mobile terminals 3, and capable of receiving second downlink information that has been transmitted by point-to-point communication. The mobile terminal 3 is capable of transmitting uplink information by point-to-point radio communication. The first downlink information and the second downlink information are formed such that information to be used in the mobile terminal 3 is obtained when the mobile terminal 3 performs information processing by using both the first downlink information and the second downlink information.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Toya, Masafumi Kobayashi, Hideaki Shiranaga, Hirofumi Urayama, Shohei Ogawa, Shotaro Abe
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Patent number: 9923976Abstract: A control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: when detecting a new access from a communication device, based on session information including times of past accesses, compute a time period of a difference between a first time at which the new access is detected and a second time of a last access among the past accesses, and when the time period exceeds a given time interval, determine whether a session established with the communication device is valid for the new access in accordance with another time period over which the communication device is in locked state from the second time to the first time, the locked state not accepting an operation by a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masafumi Kobayashi, Naruhito Takiguchi, Yasuhito Honda, Keisuke Yoshida, Kazushi Sasaki, Namiko Goto
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Publication number: 20180025630Abstract: A roadside communication device having a data relay function includes a receiving unit that receives mobile object data whose generator is a mobile object; a relay unit capable of relaying the mobile object data, the relaying involving a thinning process of an amount of data; and a transmitting unit that transmits thinning information about an execution status of the thinning process to an external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Shigeki UMEHARA, Masafumi KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170352263Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (roadside relay device 2) configured to generate a traffic index used for traffic signal control. This device includes: a storage unit 24 configured to store therein area information on a coordinate system, the area information forming a predetermined area on a road; a communication unit 21 configured to receive probe information S5 including a vehicle position and temporal information of a traveling vehicle 5; and a control unit 23 configured to generate the traffic index on the basis of the area information and the probe information S5.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigeki UMEHARA, Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Masafumi KOBAYASHI, Osamu HATTORI
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Publication number: 20170345297Abstract: A roadside communication device having a data relay function includes a communication unit that receives mobile object data whose generator is a mobile object; a determining unit that determines whether to perform a thinning process of an amount of the mobile object data received by the communication unit, based on a predetermined determination condition; and a relay unit that relays the mobile object data with the thinning process when a result of the determination by the determining unit is positive, and relays the mobile object data without the thinning process when the result of the determination by the determining unit is negative.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigeki UMEHARA, Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Masafumi KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20160088094Abstract: A control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: when detecting a new access from a communication device, based on session information including times of past accesses, compute a time period of a difference between a first time at which the new access is detected and a second time of a last access among the past accesses, and when the time period exceeds a given time interval, determine whether a session established with the communication device is valid for the new access in accordance with another time period over which the communication device is in locked state from the second time to the first time, the locked state not accepting an operation by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masafumi KOBAYASHI, Naruhito TAKIGUCHI, Yasuhito HONDA, Keisuke YOSHIDA, Kazushi Sasaki, Namiko GOTO
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Publication number: 20140308897Abstract: Downlink is achieved by point-to-multipoint communication. There is provided a radio communication system 1 that provides information to a mobile terminal 3 via a radio communication device 2 that performs radio communication with the mobile terminal 3. The mobile terminal 3 is capable of receiving first downlink information that has been transmitted by point-to-multipoint radio communication receivable by a plurality of the mobile terminals 3, and capable of receiving second downlink information that has been transmitted by point-to-point communication. The mobile terminal 3 is capable of transmitting uplink information by point-to-point radio communication. The first downlink information and the second downlink information are formed such that information to be used in the mobile terminal 3 is obtained when the mobile terminal 3 performs information processing by using both the first downlink information and the second downlink information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Toya, Masafumi Kobayashi, Hideaki Shiranaga, Hirofumi Urayama, Shohei Ogawa, Shotaro Abe
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Patent number: 8856906Abstract: A plurality of authentication servers belonging to different domains are connected to achieve a Single Sign-On using two cookies in two management systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2008Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Osamu Hariya, Takayoshi Kurita, Hiroshi Maeyama, Masafumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8698651Abstract: Provided is a traffic signal control system that can operate in a flexible and sophisticated manner by, after selecting a pattern of a traffic signal control parameter corresponding to the current time using a first pattern switching table that is used in a time-controlled pattern selection scheme, selecting again a pattern using an additional second pattern switching table, where a call condition for selecting a set pattern is set in the second pattern switching table, and by selecting the pattern set in the second pattern switching table in place of the pattern selected in the first pattern switching table if a calculated travel time matches the call condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeki Nishimura, Katsuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20120179828Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a processor to executes a procedure, the procedure including storing, in the memory of the apparatus, identification information for identifying a session used for first access made to the server apparatus, until a certain length of time elapses from access time of the first access, obtaining the time information which indicates access time of an access made to another server apparatus, and when time information, which indicates access time of second access made to the another server apparatus after the first access by using the same session as the session used for the first access, is obtained by the obtaining until the certain length of time elapses from access time of the first access, controlling the memory to store the identification information until the certain length of time further elapses from the access time indicated by the obtained time information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masafumi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Katayama, Hiroshi Maeyama
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Publication number: 20120112928Abstract: Provided is a traffic signal control system that can operate in a flexible and sophisticated manner by, after selecting a pattern of a traffic signal control parameter corresponding to the current time using a first pattern switching table that is used in a time-controlled pattern selection scheme, selecting again a pattern using an additional second pattern switching table, where a call condition for selecting a set pattern is set in the second pattern switching table, and by selecting the pattern set in the second pattern switching table in place of the pattern selected in the first pattern switching table if a calculated travel time matches the call condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeki Nishimura, Katsuyuki Suyuki, Masafumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8097368Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte comprises a non-aqueous solvent and lithium salt as an electrolyte, and wherein the non-aqueous solvent contains chain fluorinated carboxylic acid ester represented by the formula CH3COOCH2CH3-xFx (wherein x is 2 or 3) and a film forming chemical decomposed in the range of +1.0 to 3.0 V based on an equilibrium potential between metal lithium and lithium ion.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanobu Chiga, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Ryo Mogi, Osamu Omae, Masafumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7816172Abstract: An organic thin-film transistor having a higher carrier-mobility, a method of fabricating the organic thin-film transistor and an organic thin-film device including the organic thin-film transistor are provided. In an organic thin-film transistor having an organic semiconductor layer, the organic semiconductor layer contains a fluorinated acene compound which is represented by a formula of C4n+2F2n+4, wherein n is an integer of 2 or greater. The fluorinated acene compound is preferably tetradecafluoropentacene or dodecafluoronaphthacene.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youji Inoue, Shizuo Tokito, Masafumi Kobayashi, Yuan Gao
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Patent number: 7727664Abstract: A production method for a fuel cell including an electrolyte, an anode which is provided on one of both sides of the electrolyte, a cathode which is provided on the other side of the electrolyte, and separators one of which is provided on an outer side of the anode and the other of which is provided on an outer side of the cathode. This production method includes a first process in which the anode and the cathode each of which includes at least a catalyst and an ion-exchange resin are produced; and a second process in which the electrolyte is provided between the anode and the cathode before being formed into a thin-film electrolyte. With this production method, contact resistance can be reduced without increasing the number of production processes.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takumi Taniguchi, Masafumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7666540Abstract: The voltage application unit first applies voltages (+,+,0,?,?,0) respectively to the electrostatic delivery electrodes 37 belonging to the phase ‘a’, the phase ‘b’, the phase ‘c’, the phase ‘d’, the phase ‘e’, and the phase ‘f’, and then successively applies voltages (0,+,+,0,?,?), voltages (?,0,+,+,0,?), voltages (?,?,0,+,+,0), voltages (0,?,?,0,+,+), and voltages (+,0,?,?,0,+). The voltage application unit repeats this cycle multiple times to apply the voltages to the phase ‘a’ through the phase ‘f’. The water droplets flocculated in the oxidizing gas conduits 36 are charged by electrostatic induction and travel in the direction from the inlet to the outlet of the oxidizing gas conduits 36 while being repelled or attracted by the electrostatic delivery electrodes 37 in the vicinity of the water droplets in the course of the positive-negative variation of the voltage in the cycle.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruyuki Nakanishi, Keiichi Nakata, Masafumi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20100035162Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte comprises a non-aqueous solvent and lithium salt as an electrolyte, and wherein the non-aqueous solvent contains chain fluorinated carboxylic acid ester represented by the formula CH3COOCH2CH3-xFx (wherein x is 2 or 3) and a film forming chemical decomposed in the range of +1.0 to 3.0 V based on an equilibrium potential between metal lithium and lithium ion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., KANTO DENKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanobu Chiga, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Ryo Mogi, Osamu Omae, Masafumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7439407Abstract: Fluorinated pentacene derivatives, for example, the novel compounds tetradecafluoropentacene, 5,6,7,12,13,14-hexafluoropentacene, 5,7,12,14-tetrafluoropentacene, and 6,13-difluoropentacene, and intermediates therefor are provided. And a method of producing fluorinated pentacene derivatives and intermediates therefor is also provided. Pentacene derivatives fluorinated at desired positions of the pentacene skeleton are obtained by introducing the oxo group, hydroxyl group, or alkoxyl group into the pentacene skeleton followed by fluorination with sulfur tetrafluoride and partial defluorination using a reducing agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Kanto Denta Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi Kobayashi, Osamu Omae, Kimitaka Ohkubo, Yuan Gao
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Publication number: 20080244719Abstract: A plurality of authentication servers belonging to different domains are connected to achieve a Single Sign-On using two cookies in two management systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Osamu Hariya, Takayoshi Kurita, Hiroshi Maeyama, Masafumi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080128948Abstract: A production method for a fuel cell including an electrolyte, an anode which is provided on one of both sides of the electrolyte, a cathode which is provided on the other side of the electrolyte, and separators one of which is provided on an outer side of the anode and the other of which is provided on an outer side of the cathode. This production method includes a first process in which the anode and the cathode each of which includes at least a catalyst and an ion-exchange resin are produced; and a second process in which the electrolyte is provided between the anode and the cathode before being formed into a thin-film electrolyte. With this production method, contact resistance can be reduced without increasing the number of production processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takumi Taniguchi, Masafumi Kobayashi